The Woman Who Said “No” and Saved a Generation ​In 1960, a 46-year-old pharmacologist named Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey started her first day at the FDA. Within five weeks, she was handed an application that seemed like a "formality." ​The drug was Kevadon (Thalidomide). It was already a massive success in Europe, marketed as a "wonder drug" for pregnant women suffering from morning sickness. Most expected her to sign off immediately. ​But Frances felt something wasn't right. ​She noticed the clinical data was vague. There was almost no evidence showing how the drug affected a developing fetus. While the pharmaceutical company, Richardson-Merrell, pressured her to rush the approval, she stood her ground. ​The Pressure Was Suffocating ​For 19 months, the company relentlessly hounded her. They: ​Visited her office over 50 times. ​Called her "unreasonable" and "stubborn." ​Complained to her supervisors, trying to go over her head. ​Had doctors write letters demanding she release the drug. ​Can you imagine the weight on her shoulders? A new employee standing up to a corporate giant and an entire industry. But her mantra was simple: "Show me the data." ​A Devastating Discovery ​By November 1961, the world’s worst fears came true. In Germany and Australia, babies were being born with Phocomelia—severe limb malformations. Some were born with flipper-like hands attached to their shoulders; others had no limbs at all. ​Thousands of babies were born with these deformities, and thousands more were stillborn. Thalidomide was the cause. ​The Silent Hero ​Because Dr. Kelsey refused to be bullied, the damage in the United States was largely contained. She didn't just do her job; she protected the future. ​On August 7, 1962, President John F. Kennedy awarded her the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service. She was only the second woman to ever receive it. ​We often talk about "changing the world." Dr. Kelsey changed it with one word: No. ​Sometimes, being "stubborn" is the most heroic thing you can be. ​What do you think of Dr. Kelsey's story? Does it inspire you to stand firm in your convictions, even when the world is pushing back?

Schokkende Connectie: Hoe een Simpele Duitse Boer de Nederlandse Koninklijke Familie Koppelde aan het Nazi-Wapenimperium Een boer uit de 17e eeuw uit het Duitse Bergisches Land is opgedoken als de verrassende schakel die Koning Willem-Alexander en Koningin Máxima verbindt met het beruchte Krupp-wapenimperium dat twee wereldoorlogen mee hielp aanwakkeren. Via Pieter Halbach (1634-1686) loopt een directe bloedlijn rechtstreeks naar het hart van het Duitse militair-industriële complex. De nakomelingen van Halbach stegen razendsnel op door de rangen in de 19e eeuw. Eén tak, via de familie Von Bohlen und Halbach, leidde tot Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (1870-1950). Hij huwde Bertha Krupp en nam de controle over het machtige staal- en wapensconcern Friedrich Krupp AG in Essen. Het bedrijf werd de drijvende kracht achter de Duitse oorlogsindustrie. Tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog produceerde Krupp de beruchte Big Bertha-kanonnen die Belgische en Franse forten verpulverden, superkanonnen die Parijs bestookten, en talloze U-boten. Na de nederlaag begon Gustav in het geheim met herbewapening, en bereidde hij het bedrijf voor op het volgende conflict. Toen Hitler aan de macht kwam, omarmde de familie het regime volledig. Krupp produceerde tanks, de gevreesde 88mm-kanonnen, pantservoertuigen en miljoenen granaten. Tienduizenden dwangarbeiders en concentratiekampgevangenen werden gedwongen te werken onder verschrikkelijke omstandigheden voor de nazi-oorlogsmasjinerie. Krupp werd het ultieme symbool van de sinistere alliantie tussen grootbedrijf en het Derde Rijk. Hier komt de Nederlandse koninklijke familie in beeld. Via dezelfde Halbach-lijn was Prins Bernhard van Lippe-Biesterfeld — echtgenoot van Koningin Juliana en grootvader van Koning Willem-Alexander — direct verwant aan de Krupp-dynastie. Bernhard, die later ontkende lid te zijn geweest van de NSDAP, groeide op in kringen waar deze industriële elite floreerde. Bovendien delen Koning Willem-Alexander en Koningin Máxima zelf een bloedband via diezelfde Pieter Halbach. Ze zijn daarom extreem verre familieleden (verre neven en nichten). Deze connectie werd openbaar in september 1999, rond de tijd dat hun relatie werd aangekondigd. In het legendarische Hotel Adlon in Berlijn, de favoriete ontmoetingsplaats van de nazi-elite, hoge officieren en industriëlen, werden deals gesloten en weelderige feesten gehouden terwijl Krupp-tanks klaarstonden voor de volgende verovering. Terwijl het Nederlandse volk later leed onder de Duitse bezetting, bleek de schoonzoon van Koningin Wilhelmina verbonden te zijn, via verre voorouders, met precies dat militair-industriële complex. Een gewone boer uit 1686 wiens nakomelingen zich over de eeuwen verspreidden: één tak naar Argentinië (en uiteindelijk naar Máxima via de Bonorino-Halbach-lijn), de andere naar het Krupp-imperium en, via Bernhard, naar het Huis van Oranje. Een opmerkelijk sterke maar huiveringwekkende genealogische connectie die laat zien hoe een enkele familieband twee wereldoorlogen, het Nederlandse koningshuis en het donkerste hoofdstuk van de Europese geschiedenis kan verweven. Prins Bernhard (1911-2004) was lid van de Duitse nazipartij (NSDAP) vóór de Tweede Wereldoorlog, een feit dat hij tot zijn dood ontkende maar dat werd bevestigd door een in 2023 gevonden lidmaatschapskaart in zijn eigen archief. Hoewel hij lid was, beschouwen historici hem eerder als een opportunist dan een overtuigd nazi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKT-c9cgBS0 Bronnen: 1. Telegraaf 18 September 1999 – “Willem-Alexander en Maxima hebben zelfde stamvader”: https://krant.telegraaf.nl/krant/archief/19990918/teksten/bin.willemalexander.html… 2. Genealogie van Willem-Alexander en Halbach-lijn: https://heinbruins.nl/ancestors-of-willem-alexander-king-of-the-netherlands… 3. Ancestry van Willem-Alexander inclusief Mathilde Halbach: https://unofficialroyalty.com/ancestors-of-king-willem-alexander-of-the-netherlands/… 4. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach en Krupp-geschiedenis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Krupp_von_Bohlen_und_Halbach… 5. Thyssenkrupp officiële geschiedenis over Gustav en Bertha Krupp: https://thyssenkrupp.com/en/company/history/the-founding-families/gustav-krupp-von-bohlen-und-halbach-and-bertha-krupp-von-bohlen-und-halbach.html… 6. USHMM over Gustav Krupp en Nazi-samenwerking: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/gustav-krupp-von-bohlen-und-halbach… 7. Ancestry van prins Bernhard inclusief Halbach via Wartensleben: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Bernhard_of_Lippe-Biesterfeld… 8. Máxima’s voorouders inclusief Bonorino-Halbach: http://wargs.com/royal/maxima.html… 9. Hotel Adlon tijdens Nazi-periode:

The Rise and Fall of Babylon: History's Greatest City (2300 - 480 BC) Ancient Babylon history — from a tiny town on the Euphrates River to the greatest city of the ancient world. In this history documentary, we trace the rise and fall of the Babylonian empire across nearly two thousand years of Mesopotamia's most dramatic chapter. Using historically grounded visuals and cinematic storytelling, this film explores: How a nomadic Amorite tribe seized an unremarkable town and turned it into the capital of an empire How Hammurabi forgave all debts on his first day as king — and then wrote laws that protected women, children, and slaves millennia before Europe Why Babylonian women could divorce their husbands, win in court, and remarry — in the nineteenth century BCE How Hammurabi played rival kingdoms against each other for thirty years before launching his conquest of all Mesopotamia Why the Assyrian king Sennacherib burned Babylon to the ground, flooded its ruins, and carried away its gods — and how his own sons murdered him for it How a Chaldean rebel named Nabopolassar rose from the ashes, crushed the Assyrian empire, and founded a new dynasty What Nebuchadnezzar built on top of the destruction — walls wider than the Great Wall of China, the cobalt-blue Ishtar Gate, the ziggurat Etemenanki that inspired the Tower of Babel, and the Hanging Gardens that may never have existed How Babylon became the first city in history to reach two hundred thousand people — when Rome was still a village Why the Persian conquest and the theft of one statue marked the beginning of the end And how the Babylon we know from ruins is not the Babylon that became a legend — but a city built on top of its ghost This is not a summary. It is a reconstruction of a civilization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-uVKIstl7M

Ik wed dat ze dit tegenwoordig niet meer op onze scholen onderwijzen… Bijschrift van de gravure uit 1816 Kapitein Croker ontzet en geschokt in Algiers, bij het aanschouwen van de vreselijke ellende van de christelijke slaven, geketend en in boeien, die na dwangarbeid als ongelovigen met grote zwepen naar huis worden gedreven. Dappere Britse zeelieden en mariniers, onder bevel van helden zoals Lord Exmouth, bombardeerden in 1816 de islamitische Barbarijse piratenburcht Algiers. Ze vernietigden de kapersvloot, verpletterden de macht van de tiran en bevrijdden meer dan 3000 tot slaaf gemaakte christelijke Europeanen — mannen, vrouwen en kinderen — die veel te lang onvoorstelbare wreedheden hadden ondergaan aan de handen van moslimpiraten. Dit was Groot-Brittannië dat fier opkwam voor vrijheid, gerechtigheid en menselijkheid tegenover barbarij. En hier is de trots die Aussies hoog kunnen houden: het was dezelfde gedurfde Britse geest — dezelfde mensen die onze geweldige natie bouwden als een vrij land — die de aanval leidde om de wereldwijde slavenhandel te beëindigen. Terwijl een groot deel van de wereld de andere kant op keek, vochten onze voorouders om de ketenen te verbreken, niet alleen voor henzelf, maar voor iedereen die leed. Wij Australiërs erven een magnifieke geschiedenis en erfenis van moed, eerlijkheid en moreel leiderschap. Een nalatenschap die is gesmeed door hen die de zeeën bevoeren, kolonies bouwden op principes van vrijheid, en zich verzetten tegen tirannie waar die ook zijn kop opstak.Laat linkse leugens onze geschiedenis niet herschrijven of verkleinen. Wees trots op wie we zijn en waar we vandaan komen — Australië: geboren uit vrijheidsstrijders, niet uit onderdrukkers. Sta fier voor ons echte verhaal!

Epstein-Dutroux International child rape Network Besides being connected to Jeffrey Epstein Robert De Niro is on the client list of Axel Vervoordt. Axel has designed multiple properties for De Niro. Axel Vervoordt has been named as a co-conspirator of Marc Dutroux who raped children as young as six years old and lived next to the castle where snuff films of children were made. Jeffrey Epstein was sent Axel Vervoordt’s webpage in 2012: https://www.justice.gov/age-verify?destination=/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA02025694.pdf Moreover, Axel is mentioned in the Podesta emails, hangs with Marina Abramovic, and James Alefantis tagged him in a 2017 Instagram post. It all connects from Jeffrey Epstein to Marc Dutroux! Here’s what the #Dutroux Dossiers say about Axel Vervoordt: “*) Count Yann de Meeûs d'Argenteuil (gave a list in 1999 of people he accused of being involved in the trafficking of children and drugs; committed suicide a year later); According to X1, children were tortured and killed in the gatekeeper's apartment on a domain owned by Philippe de Caters. Among them was Katrien de Cuyper. Axel Vervoordt is-was his neighbor at the time. However, the X-Files book already briefly mentioned this fact, before Count Yann's list became known. *) Extra in 2016: Good friend of the Rockefeller-backed performance artist Marina Abramovic at the time she became a centerpiece in the Pizzagate affair over her so-called "Spirit Cooking" sessions, a mix of mock Satanic (including child sacrifice) and cannibalistic "art" displays Very well respected art dealer. Began his career as an art and antiques dealer in the late 1960s, when he meticulously renovated a narrow street with sixteen of the oldest houses in Antwerp. In 1986, his company moved to a castle in the woods of 's-Gravenwezel, a small village just north-east of Antwerp. This estate is right next to the Castle Kattenhof, which was pointed out by Regina Louf as the place where she was forced into torturing and killing of what seems to have been Katrien De Cuyper. His client base consists of extremely rich businessmen from all over Europe and the United States. Friend and decorator of the Belgian royal family. Sting, Bill Gates, and Madonna are among his clients, supposedly just as the Rothschilds, Saudi royals, Otto von Habsburg, and Hans Melchers (of the Dutch Melchemie who was involved in selling chemicals to Iraq in the 1980s). According to Michel van Rijn, Vervoordt not only exhibited art looted by the Nazis from the Adolphe Schloss collection in his booth at the fair in Maastricht, he seems to have also been a paedophile. June 2001, Michel van Rijn: "Axel Vervoordt, dealer in Schloss Art, has been accused by his house guest, Amy Page [US art journalist], of fucking and raping young boys. During a visit to my house in Rome, Amy told me that Axel's favourite boys were aged between 6 and 12. Now that I have evidence from Amy on tape telling me about Axel's hobby, I guess you don't want to be seen dead in the company of such a predacious paedophile, unless of course you share the same hobby as this low-life. If it wasn’t for the work of alert and hard-hitting investigative journalist, Jan Portein [Kleintje Muurkrant], these serious allegations might have faded into oblivion." Van Rijn: "The Vervoordts' comment: "We heard on Tuesday of the murder story in the castle for the first time. Sir, we’re bent over laughing." Meanwhile the detectives are already in the castle looking for comparisons to the X1 story. The resident continues, "Our castle appears regularly in the news because we hold open houses. Thousands of people could describe this place. This castle has appeared in numerous publications. The press have covered it in dozens of stories. Maybe a mythomaniac like X1 used it to locate one of her stories in our castle." ... Our Comment: We don't see what's so funny about the Dutroux case!" Source for above quotation: https://recherchenetzwerksatanismus.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/dutroux_wieiswie.pdf

To power its green transition, the EU is burning millions of tons of wood pellets every year, shipped in from the US and Canada. Europe is cutting down forests halfway around the world, grinding them into pellets and shipping them across the Atlantic to burn in its power stations. Unsurprisingly, the total emissions here are higher than simply burning coal, according to studies by the EU's own scientific advisors. But countries like the UK, Denmark and the Netherlands do it anyway, because it technically counts as zero carbon emissions. Carbon Loophole: Why Is Wood Burning Counted as Green Energy? "Ecologists say that the claims of carbon neutrality, which are accepted by the European Union and the British government, do not stand up to scrutiny" #klimaat #zwendel #groenbedrog

The term 'checkmate' has one of the clearest linguistic trails in the history of games. It originates in classical Persian, where 'shāh māt' meant “the king is helpless” or “the king is defeated.” This phrasing reflected the strategic heart of early Persian chess (chatrang), which focused on cornering the king rather than capturing every piece. When the game spread across the Islamic world after the 7th century, the phrase was adopted into Arabic as 'shāh māta', preserving both the sound and the meaning. As chess moved westward through Moorish Spain and Mediterranean trade routes, the term entered medieval European languages almost unchanged. Early Latin manuscripts on chess refer to 'scaccus mat', while Old French texts use 'eschec mat', both direct descendants of the Persian original. These linguistic borrowings show how faithfully European players preserved the terminology of the cultures that transmitted the game to them. The phrase eventually settled into Middle English as “checkmate,” with “check” itself coming from 'shāh', the Persian word for “king.” This linguistic journey mirrors the broader cultural transmission of chess. Originating in India, refined in Persia, and expanded by the Arab world, the game carried with it a vocabulary that revealed its intellectual lineage. Checkmate’ is one of the clearest surviving markers of that heritage, showing that the modern global game still speaks, quite literally, in the language of its Persian past. #schaak #schaakmat

The greatest country of the world What do Brooklyn, Harlem, and Wall Street have in common? They all trace back to a tiny European country: the Netherlands. Discover how the Dutch Golden Age helped build New York, quietly funded the American Revolution, and introduced ideas like the stock market, corporations, and religious freedom. Why was Britain so afraid of a Dutch-American alliance that it started a war to stop it? This is the forgotten story of how the Netherlands shaped, and once terrified, America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8LJMcvbV88

The entire history of Amsterdam (recreated using AI) Step into the 17th century with The entire history of Amsterdam (recreated using AI). While the rest of Europe was trapped in the Middle Ages, a small, marshy corner of the Low Countries was coding a new kind of power into existence. This video uses advanced AI to visualize how Amsterdam became the world's first "operating system"—a city where ledgers and ink were mightier than swords. Explore the birth of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, the rise of the VOC (the world’s first corporation), and the engineering genius behind the iconic Canal Ring. We decode the hidden systems of the Dutch Golden Age, from the silent authority of bureaucratic ledgers in Dam Square to the gritty labor of the Jordaan district. Witness how the Dutch turned physical risk into tradable commodities and engineered a reality where information could finally outrun an army. Is the modern global city a soul or a machine? Join our community of curious minds as we explore the mechanics of history. #AmsterdamHistory #DutchGoldenAge #AIHistory #GlobalTrade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SiNTrCCUyI

Museums of Amsterdam — Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xElnTAsJYAY&t=10s