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Bill Gates Quietly Donated $50 Million to Harris

After decades of steering clear of direct political donations, Bill Gates, one of the wealthiest individuals in the world, is quietly backing Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential bid. According to a New York Times report, Gates recently made a $50 million contribution to Future Forward USA Action, a nonprofit group backing Harris. This move, which Gates has kept private, marks a significant shift in his long-standing official political neutrality and could have major implications for the r...

Orange Fries With That?

Trump says he spent some time over the weekend working at a McDonalds to establish that he has worked at McDonalds longer than Kamala Harris – whose claims that she worked at McDonalds cannot be verified. Which strongly suggests she did not. McDonalds is a major corporation and they keep records of such things. Also, such things can usually be corroborated by friends and family who would know whether the person did – or didn’t.

I did, when I was in high school back in the ’80s. Anyone who wanted...

Three Ways the Next President Should Tackle Big Pharma

Soon, we will either have elected the first female US President; or we will have re-elected a man written off by the Establishment. If the latter, this President will re-enter the White House with lawyer and Big Pharma critic Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. overseeing the Transition. Either winner will lead a nation awake to the dangers of the pharmaceutical complex. We have learned that the checks and balances we had assumed ensure that only safe drugs get approved do not exist.

From readers of RFK, Jr....

VA Data Shows Covid Boosters Increased Risk of Hospitalization and Flu Shots Don’t Work

Executive summary

In my earlier article, VA study published in JAMA shows that COVID *and* flu shots don’t reduce your risk of hospitalization, I showed how you could analyze the VA hospitalization data for COVID vs. flu, and by using each disease as a control for the other disease, show that neither vaccine worked. It uses a very simple principle: if a vaccine works, the vaccinated should be hospitalized at a lower rate than the rate they’d be hospitalized for an unrelated respiratory virus.

To...

Doom Psychology Gripping the Nation

“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.” – George Eliot

I might be mistaken, but I’ve been noticing behavior and observing economic and financial data which leads me to believe a shadow of doom enveloping the nation and the world is causing excessive risk taking behavior. I’m no psychologist, but I have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express. The examples of doom behavior are numerous.

On the way to the grocery store yesterday ...

Artificial Intelligence and Coronamania Cheerleading

Many people hail Artificial Intelligence as a revolutionary technology. Since no one I know will discuss with me the Covid lockdowns and injections, I asked the AI Copilot chatbot a series of questions about these measures.

I’ve read that many Pharma sales reps are former college cheerleaders. This cohort tends to be young and physically attractive—connoting vitality and bestowing an overall halo effect—enthusiastic and prone to simplistic partisanism. “Yay for our team/drug! We’re/it’s the best...

Americans Should Be Far More Wary of War

My younger brother recently went on a fishing trip with a group of guys, including a retired Navy Seal who told the group about his adventures abroad. My brother related these stories to me, and they reminded me of decorated Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler’s reflections in his book War is a Racket:

I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In sh...

Soul Suicide in the Ballot Box as Palestinians Are Butchered

It’s been a long time but worth remembering, if you can, that when the Twin Towers and Building 7 at the World Trade Center collapsed on September 11, 2001, the whole world watched in horror.  The events of that day were repeated on television over and over and over again, to the point where they became afterimages lodged in people’s minds.

As a result, although the buildings were not brought down by the impact of planes (no plane hit Building 7) but by explosives planted in the buildings (see t...

Haiti: Why Open Borders Don’t Work in the Developing World

Earlier this month, the regime of the Dominican Republic (DR) announced new efforts to deport 10,000 Haitians “per week.” The DR reportedly expelled 67,000 Haitians in the first half of the year, as part of a stated plan by the administration of Dominican President Luis Abinader to curtail an ongoing surge of foreign nationals arriving from Haiti.

This is only the latest part of an ongoing campaign against the flood of Haitian foreign nationals which has grown sizably since the 2010 Haitian eart...

Seventeen Moments in Spring

Seventeen Moments in Spring is a Soviet era miniseries (12 episodes) that aired on consecutive days on Russian TV in August 1973. It tells the story of Stierlitz, a Soviet spy embedded in Germany since 1927, working as a high-ranking member of the SS military intelligence. In February 1945 the Soviets became concerned that the Germans would make a separate peace with the western allies, allowing the Germans to concentrate their remaining forces against them. Stierlitz is given the task of findin...