KRZYSZTOF SZCZAWINSKI: The muezzin call is not a "call for prayer". It is a declaration of territorial sovereignty – if not a battle cry… The "street prayers" are not acts of peace. They are acts of possession – if not acts of aggression…

The muezzin call is not a "call for prayer". It is a declaration of territorial sovereignty – if not a battle cry…

The "street prayers" are not acts of peace. They are acts of possession – if not acts of aggression…

Five times a day. Amplified. Inescapable. Designed to be… https://t.co/MhVaFopzmk pic.twitter.com/ag5eP1aYGP

— Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 (@Kristof_Poland) August 10, 2026

The muezzin call is not a "call for prayer". It is a declaration of territorial sovereignty – if not a battle cry… The "street prayers" are not acts of peace. They are acts of possession – if not acts of aggression… Five times a day. Amplified. Inescapable. Designed to be heard by everyone within range – believer and non-believer alike. It is an announcement: we are here, this is our space, this sound now belongs to this territory. The volume is not incidental. It is the point. When hundreds of men kneel in formation, blocking the street, stopping traffic, occupying the public space – this is not devotion that happens to inconvenience others. This is the deliberate occupation of shared space as a statement of priority. We are here. This street is ours. Your traffic, your commerce, your life – these wait. In any other context this would be recognized immediately for what it is. If a political movement blocked streets, amplified its anthem five times daily, and organized mass public displays of solidarity in formation – we would call it what it is: a show of force. The religious framing does not change the mechanism. It changes the immunity from criticism. Koneczny understood this. Civilizations do not coexist on the same territory. They compete for it. The competition is not always military. It is demographic, cultural, acoustic. It is the call that is heard whether you consent to hear it. It is the street that is blocked whether you consent to wait. It is the public space that is occupied whether you consent to yield it. The West has confused tolerance with surrender. Tolerance means you may practice your faith. It does not mean your faith may occupy my street, amplify itself into my home, and claim my public space as its own.

The confusion of these two things is not an accident. It is a strategy – and it has been working. 

SAMA HOOLE: He had learned the method from Inuit hunters in Greenland in 1888 and he simply copied them: eat the fresh kill, eat the fat first, do not cook the life out of it.

1893: Fridtjof Nansen sails a ship into the Arctic pack ice and deliberately lets it freeze solid, because he has worked out that the ice itself is a current and intends to ride it across the top of the world.

The Fram locks in on 22 September and the drift begins.

1895: the… pic.twitter.com/5DM1nlL0b2

— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) August 10, 2026

1893: Fridtjof Nansen sails a ship into the Arctic pack ice and deliberately lets it freeze solid, because he has worked out that the ice itself is a current and intends to ride it across the top of the world. The Fram locks in on 22 September and the drift begins. 1895: the drift is not going to reach the Pole. So on 14 March, Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen step off the ship with dogs, sledges and two kayaks and set out to walk there. On 8 April they turn back at 86°14′ north. Further than any human being has ever been, and not far enough. Behind them the ship has gone, ahead of them there is no land for hundreds of miles, and the provisions are finite. They walk south for four months across shifting ice and open water. On 6 August they reach an island, the first ground either man has stood on in two years. Then the food runs out entirely, and that is where the story actually starts. They build a hut. Stone walls, a driftwood ridge pole, a roof of walrus hides. They move in on 26 August 1895 and they do not leave until 19 May 1896. Two men, one greasy sleeping bag, nine months of Arctic winter. They live on polar bear and walrus. That is the whole diet. Bear meat fried in walrus blubber, bear broth, blubber burned in a lamp to cook the next lot. No flour. No vegetables. No fruit. No supplements. Nothing green enters that hut for the better part of a year. They should have been dead by Christmas. Every naval authority in Europe in 1895 knows what happens to men in the far north with no fresh vegetables. Scurvy is the thing that empties ships. It killed more sailors than every enemy combined, and the entire Royal Navy's provisioning doctrine is built on stopping it. They walk out of that hut in May with their teeth in their heads. On 17 June 1896 they meet Frederick Jackson on Northbrook Island, and Jackson does not recognise the man in front of him. Nansen is filthy, black with soot and blubber grease, hair to his shoulders. He is also, after nine months on nothing but bear and fat, in good health. Now sit with the timing. Vitamin C did not exist as a concept. Nobody isolated it until 1928. Nansen could not have told you why he was fine, because the word had not been invented yet. He had learned the method from Inuit hunters in Greenland in 1888 and he simply copied them: eat the fresh kill, eat the fat first, do not cook the life out of it. The knowledge was available. Every Arctic people on earth had it. Nansen brought it home in his own body and published it, and Europe carried on believing that men need plants or they rot. Sixteen years later Scott's men would die on the way back from the Pole, hauling their own sledges, eating from tins. Modern polar expeditions still run on fat. Nobody crossing an ice cap is eating salad. The bodies of the men who do it are fuelled the way Nansen's was, because the alternative does not work and everybody in that field knows it. We accept it as true at 86 degrees north and dispute it in a kitchen in Cheshire. Nansen died in 1930, at 68, with a Nobel Peace Prize on the shelf for feeding starving people after a war.

He spent nine months proving what a human being can run on, and the profession that should have been most interested filed it under exploration. 

NICK PLUMB: [H-1B] program is not actually about highly skilled workers - it’s all about who can fill out the paperwork correctly.

I may have found the most offensive and unnecessary use-case for the H-1B visa, so I went to review their Public Access Files.

SPOILER ALERT:

There were no files to review.

This program is not actually about highly skilled workers - it’s all about who can fill out the… pic.twitter.com/3JsEfBwGMt

— Nick Plumb (@PlumbNick) August 8, 2026

H-1B Verification System.  Click "Start Investigation" to search a company in your area.

DR. ANTHONY CHAFFEE: your ferritin will raise and will go up. So that can actually be a marker not of just high iron but of inflammation.

2:13.  The body has a really good reason to put iron into ferritin.  What do you think about that?

2:18.  Yes, the iron levels of ferritin levels there are different ways of testing iron, multiple different ways of testing iron and iron's binding capacity.  You know how you store because you can actually sequester iron in your bone marrow and things like that try to hide it away for different reasons.  And then have it bring it out and ferritin, of course, can change dramatically depending on what you're doing.  Ferritin is actually quite useful as an acute phase reactant meaning that if you have a lot of inflammation in your body like an infection or some sort of autoimmune issue or similar, that your ferritin will raise and will go up.  So that can actually be a marker not of just high iron but of inflammation.  

3:14.  It's not something that you should look at solely to consider your iron levels because there are a lot of things that affect your fairing 10 levels and so you need to get a complete iron profile and panel to see exactly what's going on to see if you're sequestering it or you just don't have enough and if you have too much or whatever but if iron overloaded that shows up in different ways people with hemochromatosis like halves specific problems that you can test for you can see clinically in doing carnivore tendon not have those issues even if they're iron is sort of slightly high or elevated or more elevated than they have been or maybe they're ferritin is up or something like that they don't actually display the clinical issues some may have an issue but I don't work with hemochromatosis myself.

ANDREW BOSTOM: "The Muslim religion allows for few accidents." Alfred Hitchcock knew Islam!

"The Muslim religion allows for few accidents" #AlfredHitchcock knew Islam!   https://t.co/Xo1ABFO0Qa

— Andrew Bostom, MD, MS (@andrewbostom) August 9, 2026

The Man Who Knew Too Much, 1956.  Doris Day, Jimmy Stewart, 

An American family – Dr. Ben McKenna, his wife, popular singer Jo Conway, and their son Hank – are vacationing in French Morocco. Traveling from Casablanca to Marrakesh, they meet Frenchman Louis Bernard. He seems friendly, but Jo is suspicious of his many questions and evasive answers. 

Bernard offers to take the McKennas to dinner, but cancels when a suspicious-looking man knocks at the McKennas' hotel-room door. At a restaurant, the McKennas meet friendly English couple Lucy and Edward Drayton. The McKennas are surprised to see Bernard arrive and sit elsewhere, apparently ignoring them.

Check it out.