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Cancer survival rates in Ireland have improved substantially over the past 30 years. The new @IrishCancerReg report shows that the approach of national strategic frameworks since the late 1990s are providing better detection, treatment, and outcomes. Very welcome progress. https://t.co/nn2vrkFJpX #CancerSurvivor #IrelandHealth #CancerAwareness #IE

From Powerlessness to Collective Madness The world has gone crazy, but there is a pattern behind it. More people seem to be losing their grip on reality, swept up in ideological movements that demand conformity and punish dissent. This progression begins with powerlessness, continues with possession, and ends in resentment disguised as justice. The first stage is the breakdown of what can be called the power process. Human beings need to set goals, work toward them, and achieve them in order to feel whole. Once, daily life revolved around hunting, farming, building, and creating. Today, survival and progress are often managed by vast systems and institutions. As a result, many people feel alienated and powerless. They turn to movements for a sense of purpose, drawing progress not from their personal lives, but from the causes they embrace. Carl Jung described what happens next. Inside a movement, individuals can become possessed by collective identities. Those who refuse the difficult task of becoming themselves may dissolve into the group mind. This is why ideologies such as communism, nationalism, feminism, socialism, and environmentalism can exert such power: they offer ready-made identities and moral clarity. Individuals gradually stop thinking for themselves and become mouthpieces for the collective identity that has seized them. Nietzsche revealed the final stage: resentment. In *Thus Spoke Zarathustra*, he described the “tarantulas”—moral preachers who spin ideological webs in the name of justice. They claim to champion the weak, but their motivation may be envy and revenge, cloaked in noble language. Their goal is not always to uplift, but to tear down the strong. When the world seems to have gone mad, the pattern is clear: people lose the power process in their own lives, surrender themselves to ideologies, and then act out their resentment as justice. The cure is not another movement, but the difficult task of reclaiming individuality in an age of collective madness.

1975 was not an unavoidable tragedy. It was a political decision. South Vietnam was fighting for survival against a communist North armed and supplied by the Soviet Union and China. And Washington walked away. The Democratic-controlled Congress cut South Vietnam’s military https://t.co/ZvZyFVVjUU #VietnamWar #PoliticalDecision #HistoryMatters #VN #RU #CN #US

Check out Polyphony Arts & Words’ August story! A story about a poor teacher, a powerful local strongman, and a single dead tree becomes a larger meditation on poverty, power, morality, politics, and the compromises of survival. Writer of the month Hiranmoy Gangopadhyay’s literary journey from the coalfields of Bengal into the contradictions of contemporary India. Would you like to submit your translated stories or poetries for publication? Language: English. Submission e-mail: [email protected] https://polyphony26.substack.com/p/crosshatch-game?r=7ak8i&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

The Pathology of Masculinity and Femininity Without Cultural Restraint Both sexes have evolutionary roles: men developed strength for protection, provision, and competition; women developed beauty and selectiveness for pair-bonding and survival. Culture channels these drives—family structure, dating norms, fatherhood, shame, religion—guiding strength toward building and beauty toward commitment. Remove the norms and the drives seek new avenues. For men, the open channel becomes force: aggression and risk can detach from responsibility, yielding robbery, assault, gang violence, and predation. The shadow side of masculinity is strength used to take rather than protect. For women, the channel shifts to extraction through simulated intimacy: monetized desire via platforms and influencer economies can turn closeness into leverage, often without the pair-bonding or family life it was built to support. The masculine ideal is protector and disciplined provider; its pathology is thug or criminal. The feminine ideal is nurturer and guardian of commitment; its pathology is the seller of simulated intimacy and extractor of attention. Both are corruptions of genuine virtues. Three accelerants intensified these patterns: stigma’s collapse, technology’s scalability of desire, and weakened communities and absent fathers. The root cause is the breakdown of family norms. Men are less destructive when bonded and mentored; women are less exploitative when raised to value enduring commitment. Consequences mirror each other: unchecked male pathology produces violence; unchecked female pathology produces mistrust, loneliness, and demographic decline. Both arise when culture denies that masculine and feminine virtues must be shaped and channeled rather than suppressed.

Canadians responded to Trump’s first round of tariffs a year and a half ago with a grass-roots effort to bruise US, boycotting alcohol, vegetables and cross-border travel. Now a patriotic, survivalist and defiant mood has settled over much of Canada https://t.co/UbuvTj2mjK #Canada #TrumpTariffs #BoycottUSA #CA #US

The caricature prepper planning to outlast the End alone with toilet paper and guns was of course wrong, since disaster survival is very much a community thing. The same applies to GCRs: there is no place that can smugly ignore the rest of the world, we need the global community. #DisasterPreparedness #CommunitySurvival #GlobalCooperation #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.

Extreme weather in the Pacific makes accurate information a matter of survival. 📻🌀 @UNESCO is helping newsrooms in Papua New Guinea, Samoa and Vanuatu strengthen disaster resilience and climate reporting. See the impact: https://t.co/sx7fmM877c https://t.co/pEIp9sPd5o #ExtremeWeather #DisasterResilience #ClimateReporting #PG #WS #VU

What a harrowing story: a Ukrainian soldier is trapped for half a year in a no-man’s-land reeking of death, watching his comrade slowly die from a treatable wound (bullet lodged in his knee). The occasional friendly drone drops food, medicine, water, batteries, wet wipes, and #UkraineWar #HumanStory #Survival #UA

За мен новината е историческа и намирам, че не е достатъчно отразена. На 19 август 2026 г. Moderna и Merck (MSD) обявиха резултатите от мащабно клинично изпитване във фаза 3: Персонализираната mRNA ваксина срещу меланом (intismeran / mRNA-4157) в комбинация с Keytruda значително намалява риска от връщане и разпространение на рака. Това е първата mRNA противоракова ваксина, която успешно преминава късна фаза на клинични изпитвания. В проучването участваха над 1100 пациенти с висок риск за меланом (стадий IIB–IV), при които туморът е бил напълно отстранен хирургично. Комбинацията ваксина + Keytruda значително удължава времето без рецидив (recurrence-free survival) и намалява риска от поява на далечни метастази в сравнение само с Keytruda. Ваксината е напълно персонализирана - създава се специално за всеки пациент въз основа на уникалните мутации на неговия тумор. Използва се същата mRNA технология, която познаваме от ваксините срещу COVID-19. Това не е просто пореден „пробив в лабораторията“. Това е реална стъпка към нова ера в онкологията. Резултатите вече се наричат „landmark“ (исторически) от водещи онколози. Компаниите планират да подадат документи за одобрение от регулаторите в близките месеци. Ако всичко върви добре, хиляди пациенти могат да се възползват още през 2027 г. Понякога истински революции идват тихо, но променят живота на хиляди хора. #mRNAvaccine #oncology #cancerresearch

The court in The Hague is handling the case of Anne Romke van der H., a 33-year-old man who was in a severe psychosis and can now receive involuntary commitment with treatment for preparing an attack on Princesses Amalia and Alexia, during which he thought in a psychotic state that he had a secret relationship with them and had purchased survival gear for this purpose. (translated)

"Palestinian pragmatism, no matter how authentic or painfully earned, remains powerless against an occupier whose political survival depends on perpetual war, and for whom no Palestinian compromise is ever enough." https://t.co/ruJQjrEKHi #Palestine #ConflictResolution #PoliticalStruggle #PS #IL

And above it all: dignity. Bread — and roses too. These candidates aren't promising bare survival through the next crisis. They're promising an economy where everyone can live. That's why "affordability" is resonating with people where "the economy is fine" does not. 9/ #DignityForAll #Affordability #EconomicJustice #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

Which is why these campaigns go after billionaires and profiteering, not just prices. Lawrence: "only organized people can beat organized money." The NYC winners ran on taxing extreme wealth. Concentrated wealth is a survival question for democracy. 8/ #WealthInequality #TaxTheRich #Democracy #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

Taiwan isn’t just running civil defence drills. It’s rehearsing survival. Weapons production is being relocated. Civilian factories are preparing to support the military. Even mobile networks are being deliberately slowed to test how people would communicate if China cut #Taiwan #Survival #Military准备 #TW #CN