the capillaries they traverse (typically 5–10 µm (Micrometers or one millionth of a meter), with a mean of ~5–6 µm in many vascular beds).

Despite this size mismatch, RBCs flow through capillaries without obstruction due to their high deformability.  Key dynamics include:

Deformation Shapes: RBCs change from their resting biconcave disc shape to elongated forms such as parachute, slipper, or bullet-like shapes to squeeze through narrow lumens.

 Minimum Diameter: RBCs can pass through tubes as narrow as 2.8–3.5 µm by reducing their volume (losing water) or adopting a "hot dog" shape without rupturing their membrane.

 Surface Area Constraint: While RBCs can significantly change volume, their surface area is largely immutable, limiting the extent of their deformation before potential rupture.

 Evolutionary Function: The slight size excess ensures that RBCs remain in contact with the capillary wall during flow, which minimizes diffusion limitations and optimizes oxygen transfer to tissues.

  Filtration Effect: Narrow capillaries act as a filter, often excluding older, less deformable RBCs, which are then removed by the spleen. This ensures that only the most functional cells reach the deepest tissues.

  Cell Age: Older RBCs have stiffer membranes and higher cytoplasmic viscosity, resulting in slower recovery times compared to younger cells.

 Metabolic State: While the recoil itself is passive, long-term maintenance of the cytoskeleton's elasticity requires ATP. Depleted ATP levels (as in stored blood) can lead to irreversible shape changes over time, though acute recovery from a single capillary pass remains largely functional.

(NOW THE IMPORTANT POINT OF THIS IS THAT CHOLESTEROL COATS EVERY RED BLOOD CELL  

SO IT CAN GET THROUGH THE CAPILLARIES. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE SUFFICIENT CHOLESTEROL

YOU WILL DIE.)

The above is from the Brave Browser AI.

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 Largest Foreign Holders of U.S. Treasuries Japan sitting there at #1 with roughly $1.2 Trillion worth

WOW! The Trump Department of Labor Inspector General just went NICK SHIRLEY mode, personally showing up to a building where companies are allegedly FRAUDULENTY using H-1B visas

 "Just this building ALONE has 500+ H1Bs!"

 "The doors are SHUT, lights are off, doesn't seem like anybody's been here for a WHILE." 

 "We are on the ground in Texas. We are in a building here with 2 stories, probably a couple of dozen offices, tech companies, and we've been knocking on the doors."

 "It's very hard to believe that these visas — that are supposed to be issued for unique uses by companies who need them to stay in business here in the United States of America!"

 "People that are working with H1B visas are being paid between 30% and 35% less than an American worker!"

 ROOT OUT THE H-1B FRAUD! Gut the system!

 https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/h-1b-visas-should-be-shut-down-until-the-fraud-is-eradicated-we-have-a-domestic-workforce-in-need-of-jobs/

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All Of Iran's Weapons Today Are Domestic, Missile Production Exceeds Usage: IRGC Official

Claims that the country still has approximately 950 industrial towns where defense production is actively underway...

 https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/all-irans-weapons-today-are-domestic-missile-production-exceeds-usage-irgc-official

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Palantir, Flock, & Data Centers: The Battle Dividing The Right

“Law and order” or “don’t tread on me”... which way western man?

 (THE ELITE ARE BUILDING DIGITAL PRISONS FOR US. THE PLAN

IS TO ELIMINATE US.)

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/palantir-flock-data-centers-battle-dividing-right

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Dowd: US Disabilities Hit An All-Time High Of 37 Million In July: UP 23% Since Feb 2021

The signal no one wants to see...

  Authored by Ed Dowd via Beyond The Narrative,

The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data is out, and the number of Americans ages 16 and over reporting a disability has hit a new all-time high of roughly 37 million. As of July 2026, the Current Population Survey series sits at 37,029,000. That's not a rounding error or a seasonal blip. It's the continuation of a trend that broke higher more than five years ago and has refused to mean-revert.

This is the Current Population Survey, the same monthly household survey that produces the unemployment rate and labor-force participation numbers. Roughly 60,000 households are contacted each month. Six simple questions are asked about serious difficulty hearing, seeing, concentrating/remembering/making decisions, walking or climbing stairs, dressing or bathing, and doing errands alone. Any "yes" classifies the person as having a disability for statistical purposes.

  The conclusion from the data is straightforward. The timing, the magnitude, the concentration among the previously healthy working age population, and the failure of alternative explanations all point to the COVID vaccine campaign as one of the primary driver of the excess disability.

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/dowd-us-disabilities-hit-all-time-high-37-million-july-23-feb-2021

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 Watch: UK PM Wants Every Area In Britain To House Migrants

Telling Channel-crossers they'll be housed in leafy villages is the ultimate pull factor...

 https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-uk-pm-wants-every-area-britain-house-migrants

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'Safe Space': New Taxpayer-Funded Berlin Pool For 'Blacks Only' On Fridays

Taxpayers are funding anti-White racism and discrimination in Berlin, which is a pattern seen across Germany time after time...

 https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/safe-space-new-taxpayer-funded-berlin-pool-blacks-only-fridays

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The Ceuta Crisis And The Emerging European Divide

We are seeing the emergence of a kind of Islamo-Marxist movement, a fusion of radical socialist social ideals with a Sharia-based reinterpretation of society – as long as it is directed against the bourgeois West and the civilizational achievements of old Europe...

 https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ceuta-crisis-and-emerging-european-divide

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"BlackDiamonds Are Forever": How To Profit From The China-Driven Germanium Squeeze

Piper Sandler initiated coverage of LightPath Technologies with an "Overweight" rating and a 12-month price target of $15, citing the defense supplier's proprietary BlackDiamond infrared glass, which completely "circumvents" the need for Germanium amid "significant cost increases and scarcity stemming from recent Chinese export controls."

  Clarke Jeffries, vice president and senior equity research analyst at Piper Sandler, specializes in industrial software and defense technology. In a note titled "BlackDiamonds Are Forever," Jeffries outlined the core value proposition underpinning LightPath's investment thesis:

Central to LightPath's value proposition is the exclusive license to BlackDiamond, a synthetic glass that circumvents significant cost increases & scarcity from recent Chinese export controls on germanium.

With an exclusive license, and now competing at cost parity (or below) to Germanium, we believe LightPath is poised to capture meaningful share in of IR and Multi-Spectral optics market as the technical advantages of the BlackDiamond technology scale to large diameter optics and have the opportunity to be designed into large upcoming defense programs.

The urgent need for the US to seek alternatives to Germanium, whether through BlackDiamond or new supply lines, comes after China curbed exports of the rare earth metal, sending prices soaring to 14-year highs. This has unleashed a germanium squeeze, given that China accounts for about 91% of primary germanium production and controls more than 90% of global refining capacity, according to S&P Global data.

Beijing introduced export-licensing requirements in August 2023 before banning shipments to the U.S. in late 2024. Although China suspended that blanket ban through November 2026, exporters still require government licenses, while restrictions on sales to U.S. military users and for military applications remain in place.

 https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/blackdiamonds-are-forever-how-profit-china-driven-germanium-squeeze

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Explosive New Lawsuit Challenges MI Sec of State Jocelyn Benson’s Order For Clerks to Defy Federal and State Law and Delete Election Records in Just 7 Days—What Is She Trying To Hide?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/breaking-explosive-new-lawsuit-challenges-mi-sec-state/

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 Coach Stephanie White Runs to Check on Dijonai Carrington After She Assaults Sophie Cunningham and Bloodies Her Mouth!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/damning-video-coach-stephanie-white-runs-check-dijonai/

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Woman Who Has Been in US Since 1989 and Cannot Speak a Lick of English Holds Press Conference Demanding Citizenship – Dan Bovino Weighs In

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/woman-who-has-been-us-since-1989-cannot/

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Somali Daycare Owner with Long List of State Violations Wins DFL Primary for Minnesota House

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/somali-daycare-owner-long-list-state-violations-wins/

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AIPAC Preparing To Spend MASSIVE Sum On Midterm Election

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jgjhA3qV_w

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Weapons Maker Was Paid $533M in Taxpayer Funds to Produce Shells. It Made None.

 A robot was on fire. Again.

It was the summer of 2024, and the cutting-edge robots inside General Dynamics’ sweltering artillery factory near Dallas were catching fire with startling regularity, according to four former workers there. This wasn’t ideal, as the plant was supposed to be churning out urgently needed artillery shells for Ukraine. The robots, giant metal arms with clamps for hands, would end up drenched in oil, which would then — no surprise — combust as they moved steel blocks heated to 1,800 degrees into and out of a machine that periodically erupted columns of fire. One blaze that summer melted a robot’s cables, putting it out of commission for a week.

Only weeks earlier, defense officials and executives had touted the factory’s innovative new machinery, imported from Turkey, at a gala opening ceremony. But employees were already used to spectacular mishaps, fiery and otherwise. “After the second, third, fourth time, it just became almost normal,” one former worker said. “It got to the point where I was not surprised by anything that happened there.”

 https://truthout.org/articles/weapons-maker-was-paid-533m-in-taxpayer-funds-to-produce-shells-it-made-none/?

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 Anna exposes Trump and Netanyahu

Fermenting Lemons And The Benefits Therefrom

Citric Acid Is NOT What You May Think It Is

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Largest Foreign Holders of U.S. Treasuries Japan sitting there at #1 with roughly $1.2 Trillion worth

Japan's 2-Year Yield hits 1.64% for the first time since 1995

 https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/japan-sitting-there-at-1-with-roughly-1-2-trillion-worth/

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 US printed nearly 40 percent more dollars in about two years during COVID, M2 money supply jumped from around 15.5 trillion to over 21 trillion.

 That expansion drove asset prices and everyday costs higher.

Homes food insurance and borrowing costs all reset up.

30 year mortgage rates sit around 6.7 percent near the 7 percent level.

One post notes Biden era saw high illegal immigration numbers around 11 million encounters.

AI projected to displace about 15 million US jobs over time per Goldman Sachs.

 https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/us-printed-nearly-40-percent-more-dollars-in-about-two-years-during-covid-m2-money-supply-jumped-from-around-15-5-trillion-to-over-21-trillion/

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 H-1B visas should be SHUT down until the FRAUD is eradicated. We have a DOMESTIC workforce in need of JOBS.