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I want to take another look at Data Centers because POTUS Trump and others indicated they are a vital security and economic concern. I am starting with this video because he has an excellent easily understandable explanation of the SCAM the City of London Financiers have been playing on the USA.

ROUGH PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT:

The economy, the real physical economy that enabled hardworking people like you to really thrive 30 years ago. Well, that’s gone. It’s been systematically eliminated. This all really started because of an owl. The spotted owl. Just look behind me. That closed mill means nothing to you right now. But I’m going to show you where your money is disappearing to and how that closed mill is the very reason you can’t get ahead anymore. Here’s the simple loop.

The timber industry used to create revenue for the government. That revenue paid for the government to operate. When the industry was destroyed, the revenue stopped. The government spending increased at the same time. And they printed money to fill the black hole of the new spending. Printing that money cut the value of dollars in your bank account, which made everything you buy cost more. You didn’t change. The system did. Now, you may understand the basics of inflation, but what you may not understand is that someone got rich and is still getting rich off of that very system. And I’m going to show you who that is so that you never let it happen to you again.

When this mill was running, it produced physical wealth. And that wealth paid the taxes that you now have to pay. And it funded a reality where a single inome family could do just fine. But in the 1990s, elites in the highrises decided they couldn’t control independent producers. So they used emotion to stop them. But here’s what you need to understand. The money didn’t just disappear. It went to someone. It went to someone sitting in a boardroom in a high-rise. It was an engineered transfer of wealth from you to a global elite. We’re going to call him Arthur. Arthur is a high-powered lawyer for a massive environmental NGO, which we’ll call the Evergreen Defense Fund. Arthur realized he could weaponize the Endangered Species Act, to make money for himself. So, he stirred up anger in the public over a perceived injustice to a cute little owl. Then he used that same injustice to file thousands of lawsuits to stop the logging on public land under laws like Equal Access to Justice Act.

When Arthur’s NGO sues the federal government and wins, the government is legally required to pay Arthur’s attorney fees with your tax dollars. Arthur got rich from donations and then got paid from your taxes to get even richer. Arthur didn’t save the environment. He stopped the flow of real wealth that paid to keep our public lands and our wild places open and well kept. So, every time you feel the sting of inflation at the grocery store, just remember that you’re paying Arthur’s bonus. Now, to really wrap your mind around this, let’s go through an economic example to show you how the money flows from you to Arthur.

Before Arthur’s lawsuits, federal law required that 25% of all timber revenue from timber sales on federal land to go directly back into the local counties. In a prime timber county in the 1980s, that meant 20 to 30 million a year of pure debt-free cash pouring straight into your public schools and county road departments. On top of that, the logging companies maintained thousands of miles of mountain roads entirely for free just so they could run their trucks. The Forest Service budget was green, filled with cash from an American made product that went directly to consumers all over the country. Remember, there’s two silos that always have to be filled. The local county budget, then there’s the Forest Service itself. If the Forest Service decided to sell standing timber for $10 million, a timber company would come along and pay it. 7.5 million of that would go directly into the Forest Service budget to help keep our campgrounds clean and our trail heads open and pay the people who take care of our Forest Service. 2.5 million of that went directly into our counties to fill their budget to take care of our school funding, keep our roads graded and maintained. When Arthur used a spotted owl to shut down the woods, that $30 million vanished overnight. The free road maintenance stopped, but the county still had to keep the schools open. So the federal government stepped in with bailout programs like secure rural schools, which is SRS, and PILT, which is payment in lie of taxes. And they replaced real physical timber wealth with your tax dollars and printed money. And the bleeding didn’t stop there. When these mills closed, hundreds of men lost their jobs. The local cafe went out of business because no one was buying lunch. But worst of all, the mill was the largest single taxpayer in the county. With them gone, who makes up the difference to fix the crumbling schools? You do. Government spending overall skyrocketed. Not only did they lose revenue, but they literally created a county welfare program that caused us to pay even more.

Arthur flipped the system upside down.

He got rich and all the hardworking people in the West are still paying the bills. Sadly, all of those people who held up a spotted owl sign or screamed in the face of a logger are paying, too. All of us paid to make Arthur rich. Whether you gave money to Evergreen Defense Fund or fought against it, we all lost. Add in the hundreds of millions that the government has to spend fighting Arthur and the millions that we pay him when he wins. It’s a massive black hole of spending, entirely funded by raising your taxes and printing more money. Bankrupting the American West wasn’t enough for Arthur because what he left behind was not a pristine wilderness. It was a ticking time bomb…

6:30: The people who engineered this transfer of wealth are relying on your ignorance. They want you to think that the economy is just very complicated so you don’t realize that you’re being robbed…

[Description of old decayed forests, forest too thick to feed wild life and massive out of control fires.]

16:51: When a mega fire breaks out now, the government has to fight it. The federal fire suppression budget was a fraction of what it is today. Now it is a multi-billion dollar black hole on top of all the other expenses. Who pays for the fleets of helicopters? Who pays for the thousands of firefighters? You do, of course. Your tax dollars are drained to fight a fire that never should have happened.

And Arthur, his lungs are perfectly fine. He’s sitting in a high-rise with hospital-grade air filtration. Arthur sells you the cure to the disease that he created. Your kids get to breathe in toxic ash every summer. And more of your tax dollars go up in smoke for fire suppression. While Arthur and his buddies each bought another vacation home. Arthur burned the system down. He bankrupted the counties and he scorched the timber. But he’s just a lawyer. He doesn’t want to actually own anything. But what he did was create a county system that is desperate enough to sell. And that’s when the vultures come in from Wall Street. You thought that was it? That was all the money and power and rights that they were going to strip from you. Well, if that’s the case, you don’t understand how the world works because there’s always someone left to pick up the scraps. To understand who’s taking from you now, you have to understand the concept of a mob boss takeover. How does a mob boss takeover work? Well, the first guy comes in to a perfectly healthy business and he breaks the kneecaps of the owner and then he drives away every one of the customers and makes it impossible for them to come back until that owner is literally in debt up to his eyeballs. Cannot make a dime. That’s when the second guy comes in and offers him pennies on the dollar for his business. Now, Arthur and his lawsuits are the first guy.

They have really driven everybody to the edge of insolvency. They have siphoned out a whole bunch of the industry. Anything that’s real economy has been removed, which opens the door for the second guy, the one who’s going to make the offer to make it all right. We’re going to call that second guy Eleanor. Eleanor works for a firm called Green Rock and they’re rolling out a new product. They’re going to buy the ecosystem services off the land that is now on the edge of bankruptcy in the name of protecting the environment and saving the ecosystem. They’re going to take the one thing you have left. Your access.

Do you understand what they’re doing here?

Arthur burned it down. Eleanor is buying it up for Wall Street. The trees and wildlife are no longer nature. They’re now a highly regulated financial asset. and Eleanor can’t afford to have you or your children hiking, recreating, or hunting on her asset. Arthur burned the system down. He bankrupted our counties and then he handed you an inflation bill. And now Eleanor is coming in to buy up the resources, what’s left on the dirt, to lock you out of the American West forever. If you want to understand the real mechanisms behind natural assets, nature credits, and the ecological services that they’re selling off the land, and how it’s going to really affect you and your children.

You need to learn the playbook. Go to the link in the description and join the high lonesome society. Now you know the reason you can’t go forward. It’s not about the spotted owl. It’s not about saving the timber. Every time you earn a dollar, it’s being taken from the back end. It’s all about extracting money from you to them. And they’re not going to stop there. The more we give, the more they take. And now you know about Arthur. You need to look out for Eleanor.

Until next time, I’m Trinity Vandenaker. God bless.

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This video starts at 2:30 minutes with a speech by POTUS Trump. It is about Data center companies pledging to build electric generation and promises no rate increase. In some communities the rate have gone DOWN and now they have NO PROPERTY TAXES! Critical comment on foreign Propaganda.

11 minutes — They have also agreed to invest heavily in communities where data centers are built ,supporting job training and local services.

11:40 — Other countries are trying to get us to slow down.

Badlands Media Special Coverage: 7/23/26 – Trump Expands Ratepayer Protection Pledge at EPA

POTUS Trump mentions foreign propaganda. Is this an example?

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China has spent roughly $100 million on influence operations inside the United States, DOJ records show — spanning state-run propaganda networks, corporate lobbying and efforts to shape American policy at every level.

The spending includes $66.8 million funneled to CGTN America, Beijing’s flagship English-language media operation, between February and November 2025 alone. Dozens of American lobbyists have signed new contracts with Chinese-owned companies, including firms the Pentagon has designated as Chinese military companies. Tencent alone has spent over $10 million on lobbying since 2025.

And that’s just what’s on the books. Campus groups linked to the Chinese government and organizations under China’s United Front Work Department — a global network of CCP loyalists — don’t file disclosures at all.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chinas-influence-machine-federal-records-expose-beijings-push-sway-america

President Trump Expands Historic Ratepayer Protection Pledge to Protect American Ratepayers, Lower Electricity Prices – epa.gov

This article covers parts of the President’s speech.

President Trump’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge Will Now Cover 80 Percent of All Power Delivered to American Homes and Businesses

President Trump first announced the Ratepayer Protection Pledge in his State of the Union address on February 24, 2026.  On March 4, 2026, seven leading AI companies and hyperscalers — Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI — signed the Ratepayer Protection Pledge at the White House. Companies that sign the pledge are committing to build, bring, or buy all of the energy needed to power their facilities and to pay the full cost of that energy and its supporting infrastructure, no matter what. Ratepayer Protection Pledge extends those obligations across the full chain of parties whose decisions determine what a family pays each month: the electric utilities that set rates, the developers that build the facilities, and the States that regulate both.   

“The United States never settles for second, and we don’t under this administration… we live by the motto ‘America First,” said President Donald. J Trump. “Thanks in part to this incredible [AI] technology boom, investments are pouring into the United States from all over the world.”  

“The global race for AI is underway, and America must win it — but not by asking working families to pay for it,” said EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. “Communities that welcome these facilities deserve every fact in front of them and every protection behind them. That is what the Trump EPA has delivered, and that is what Ratepayer Protection Pledge builds on. Our Team at EPA is honored to host President Trump, Secretary Wright, and many other distinguished guests, for today’s important announcement.” ….

EPA has advanced this work by making the rules of the road public and accessible before a shovel goes in the ground. In December 2025, EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation launched the Clean Air Act Resources for Data Centers webpage, giving developers, local communities, and Tribes a single location for the regulatory information, permitting guidance, and air quality modeling tools relevant to these facilities. In May 2026, EPA launched the Permitting Authority Map, a public interactive tool that allows anyone to select a location and identify which agency — EPA, State, territorial, Tribal, or local — issues each environmental permit. EPA also published reuse considerations and a Redevelopment Mapper to help communities and developers evaluate Brownfield and Superfund sites for industrial reuse. Together these resources advance two pillars of Administrator Zeldin’s Powering the Great American Comeback initiative: making America the AI capital of the world, and permitting reform through cooperative federalism. 

A facility that generates its own power, returns what it does not use to the grid, hires from the community it joins, and stands ready to keep the lights on when the system is under strain gives back to its community. The States and localities welcoming these facilities are building new generation their regions did not have before, putting their own residents to work, and ensuring that the infrastructure of the next century is built here at home — by American workers, powered by American energy. 

I also want to add a Tweet by Barbara Boyd of Promethean Action. In a recent Question and Answer session she mentioned she lives in Virginia and that you can not drive a mile without tripping over an AI Data Center. She said nothing about noise or any other problems.

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Barbara M Boyd @BarbaraMBoyd Jul 18

I know this will set some of my friends hair on fire but Sacks is right and I don’t want my nieces and nephews to be speaking Chinese. When you walk across Hoover Dam do you think about how many men died there constructing it. There were lots but they signed up for it because it was such a grand undertaking to provide both water and electricity to an entire area of our country for generations.

David Sacks @DavidSacks Jul 17

This is concerning. For the first time, a Chinese model Kimi K3 has taken #1 on the Frontend Code Arena and is scoring at or near the frontier on other benchmarks. Meanwhile America is tying itself in knots: politicians and bureaucrats are banning new data centers, piling on state regulations, and pushing for new federal agencies to pre-approve frontier models. This is how you lose the AI race. The rest of the world won’t play by our rules if we bog ourselves down. Permissionless innovation is how America won the internet and became the technological envy of the world. We can do it again with AI — while addressing risks in a targeted way — or we’ll watch our lead evaporate

1:42 The RAM chip shortage story

2:15 Who shut the memory lines down

3:13 The hyperscale data centre narrative

4:07 The collapse has already happened

5:11 Seven companies propping up the market

6:16 The alchemy engine and rehypothecation

6:55 Manufacturing a key dependency

8:36 Gödel, Goebbels and the chipset proof

9:46 Why the hyperscaler future isn’t coming

11:06 Hydraulic despotism and the debt

12:09 The TLDR: holding the general price level

13:08 What gold bugs and Bitcoiners miss

Generally I like Rich and his guests but this one has me doing suspicious cat. However there are a lot of interesting nuggets so I am bringing it to the QTree for discussion.The lead speaker is

EM Burlingame – 蒲 奕 言

The Chinese characters seem to indicate the last emperor of China.

Much of this is over my head but we do have these data points. We are already aware of ‘Managed Decline’ and the off shoring of our manufacturing, mining and REAL wealth producing industries. Some of us are aware of the gambling casino called the derivatives market — 81 Abstract notes “Some market analysts estimate the derivatives market at · more than 10 times the size of the total world gross domestic product, or GDP.”

EM Burlingame who starts off the following discussion, thinks the City of London’s Ponsi scheme has already collapsed and AI and data centers are the next Green-Swindle like wind turbines, that they are being used to drain the last wealth from targeted countries. I do not have the expertise to have an opinion on the information presented. However Burlingame mentioned physics when he talked. He also mentions Oracle being valued really low. That makes me thing of Game Stop and the Wall Street Apes. He says the flock cameras are not connected to anything but there are the cops caught stalking women.

There is also this Qtree discussion about the ‘new’ physics LINK:

Last night you [Wolf] posted a tweet with:

 …Physicists are rewriting the 200-year-old mathematics of heat and work, placing daily thermodynamics on a rigorous footing traditionally used for quantum fields…

a pioneering effort by physicist Bryan Roberts at the London School of Economics and Political Science 

Fabian LSE???

Boy does that stink of Psy-op. Smells like the Global Warming scientific diversion, especially when you are talking thermo and cooling and Quantum Computers.

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Wolf responded:

YES!!! “nEt ZeR0 is QuANtuM!” LOL.

Thank you for taking a look at that. Yes, it sounds like they’re trying to spin science in a direction that might be more useful to their plans. At the very least, they are clearly trying to fertilize a “you cannot understand this science but you must respect it” position – one that is against “money follows science follows truth” – and into the much more dangerous realm of “science follows money controlling truth” which has created this phony “carbon economy” that was about to enslave all of humanity.

They may even be reacting directly to Trump’s highly Americanized “quantum” stuff by spinning this guy’s work into media focus right now.

“More work is needed” – yes – BY US.

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ROUGH PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT:

Chapter 1: There is no RAM shortage

EM Burlingame:

My sense is that the financialist step seven collapse has already happened and the only thing that is preventing us from collapse, [a] sudden implosion is the illusion of the future value of technologies. For all intents and purposes, there are seven high technology companies that are propping up the markets. And over 80% of the companies in the exchanges are debt companies that only exist anymore because they can borrow money against their stock valuations. So what you do is you find a key dependency upon which all things are dependent. You create an artificial scarcity in it.

If we were having a real chip shortage, we would not be expanding the drone warfare in Russia. Every one of those drones gets blown up, blows up chips that you don’t get back. There is no RAM shortage. If there was an actual RAM shortage, we could deal with it in very short order.

Chapter 5: The hyperscale data centre narrative

3:14: Over in Idaho there’s some things happening but part of this is a story about this massive push for hyperscaler AI data centers. Another one of those narratives that’s out there that’s not real. It’s mostly been like the hypers scale data center threat is already in the past because we’re going to get to distributed workloads and a variety of other things that just don’t really matter. So a lot of this is just narrative control and that’s the way Dexter White and I have been seeing it. He’s been following the story a lot more closely than I have. I would say actually, at some point in the future if you really want to talk that kind of stuff, you might want to hit up Dexter because he’s written about it for the newsletter a couple times and it’s a focus of his. And he’s been following it very closely…

Chapter 7: Seven companies propping up the market

5:12 So let me just say for people who don’t know FANGS is Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Nvidia, Google, and there’s more. There’s Tesla and those kind of companies. So yeah, so terribly sorry, you know, there is for all intents and purposes, seven high technology companies that are propping up the markets and over 80% of the companies in the exchanges are dead companies that only exist anymore because they can borrow money against their stock valuations. And this is very well demonstrated.

Maverick of Wall Street does a great job. I haven’t listened to him in a while, but he does a great job modeling this stuff. So you have an illusion of an economy going all the way back to 2008, 2012 area. We have the illusion of an economy that is sustained by two things. Government spending. So inflation of government debt and inflation of stock valuations of these high-tech companies….

Chapter 11: Why the hyperscaler future isn’t coming

10:00 …We have vastly unused capacity right now in all of our computing personal AI. Personal AI is on your phone correct? I worked on how do you do distributed, I don’t understand hyper scale future. All these data centers, all these massive data centers. That was my first funded company. It was building out data centers. That’s what I did in the banking industry etc before. This hyper scale massive data center build-out future isn’t going to happen and it isn’t necessary. We’re not giving up that future productivity capability by getting rid of that. Tom’s exactly right. What’s going to wind up happening is it’s all already moving into here. [Points at phone] We will do the compute, the storage, the process and everything. And oh, by the way, you don’t need RAM here because you do what’s called a system on a chip and it’s edged right into this, the chip itself.

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Burlingame then gets technical. You can go to his Substack and see the steps.

The Financialist Kill Chain: A Predatory Blueprint

The Financialist Kill Chain is a calculated strategy of exploitation:

1. Infiltration and Influence: Financialists embed themselves in a nation’s leadership and economic systems.
2. Debt Entrapment: Countries are enticed into unsustainable loans with punishing terms.
3. Asset Identification: Valuable resources—oil, infrastructure, or industries—are marked for takeover.
4. Economic Destabilization: Markets are manipulated to deepen crises and erode resistance.
5. Debt-for-Asset Swaps: Assets are surrendered in exchange for debt relief, stripping national wealth.
6. Extraction and Exploitation: Wealth is funneled offshore to enrich the Financialists.
7. Abandonment and Collapse: The nation is discarded, its economy a hollowed-out shell.

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Chapter 13: The TLDR: holding the general price level

12:30 Tom Luongo:

So, yes, all what Em just said is a thing here... I’ve been saying this for a while because I mean, it’s a great note. What you said was great. I just want to make sure that the layman audience [understands] because Rich looks confused

…Which is the following. We have a general price level that we need to maintain in order to maintain credit markets around the world. Okay. that general price level, that inflation, all the deflationists need to get it out of their heads. We’re not going to have a 90% stock market crash. No one wants that. No one wants the the societal collapse that goes along with a 90% correction. Our enemies do, but we’re not going to allow it….

Chapter 15: The Austrian structure of production

13:35 – The point being is that the general price level of credit based assets, assets that derive their value from the credit markets, that’s the mortgage industry, the meaning your home price, that is your insurance, your life insurance, your homeowners insurance, your cars value, all of this stuff, all of those credit based assets that are at the long end of the structure of production, meaning the 20th or 30th order good, not the first order good like crude oil. Crude oil is a first order good. The basic refined oil is second and tertiary order goods. You know, plastics are a fourth order good. Pharmaceuticals are a fifth order good. Blah blah blah blah blah. Houses are a 40th order good. They’re at the far end of the structure of production if you were doing this from an Austrian perspective. Therefore, they’re also the most interest rate sensitive. Okay?

So in order to maintain the general price level while you convert the economy from 90% fraud, let’s just pick a number, it’s probably 90%, let’s call it 50% fraud, to 20% fraud, which is a massive paradigm shift. Yes, you’re trying to do that and maintain the general price level to maintain the general level of civilization.

14:52 EM Burlingame: Yes. Okay. without also giving your enemy an entry point with which to destroy and buy up all your real assets at 5 cents on the dollar.

Tom Luongo: Step number seven, which is what they’ve done to Argentina, you know, & everybody else.

So this is what we, Ian and I have both identified as what the general plan is. It’s what Trump has articulated. It’s what Bessant has articulated. It’s what others have articulated that’s what they’re going to do. And they’re willing, in the case of Donald Trump, to drop bombs on people who are the enemies to that plan. And they happen to be named things like the IRGC, Hezbollah, soon to be the Cuban Communists if necessary, the Sinaloa cartel, this one, that one, all of those people. And what we like to put under the big rubric of City of London. Okay. Now with all that said that is the framework for the war. Here’s one for you. My friend Matt Dyn.. who’s a bond trader and is watching all of this with the same eye that we are is noticing that oracles 10 year debt is trading at 6.1% and rising.

Chapter 17: Oracle’s debt and the junk bond signal

👉 We talked about this on episode 252 of the gold and guns podcast. Matt and I went through all this and he brought up Oracle’s debt and I’m like you do realize that JNK which is the junk bond ETF only pays 6.7. Now when junk bonds are trading 50 basis points higher than tier one capital company like Oracle at the core of the data center and database story, you have a problem in that market, not in the junk bond market, but in the AI market. Meaning the market is beginning to figure out that the future that EM just said is not going to happen. It’s we’re starting to see market signs of it. That’s the point, that’s why I’m bringing up.

17:00 EM Burlingame: Absolutely, Tom. Absolutely. So very much to your point, in the tech sphere, if we look at the very same articulation you did about oil, tier one, two or three, tier five product, layer, whatever you want to call it, Igen value mode. Oracle is one, two. You can’t run any of these other things without Oracle, You just can’t. So, it was chosen. It was chosen, He [Larry Ellison] was a made man….

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There is a lot more that is quite interesting but I will leave it at that. Tomorrow I will do a look at POTUS Trump’s national security strategy which includes science.

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Again this is going to be very rough since I do not have time to do any editing, however I wanted to look at AI Data Centers since I have run into a massive anti-AI campaign. Many of the wild stories I am hearing sound like a Chinese (or British) Disinfo-op.

I view AI like I do nuclear. It can be a blessing (power stations) or a curse (bombs.) However there is no putting the genie back into the box so we need to harness it for good.

https://post.substack.com/p/against-claudefishing

I find this a balanced approach to AI. H/T barkerjim(@barkerjim): “Building trust in the AI age”

From President Trump.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116924979201330474

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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

One of the biggest Driving Forces in the Future for Jobs, are Data Centers. They are big, strong, bold, and Money Machines for the State in which they are built. Governor Kathy Hochul, for political reasons, has terminated all Data Centers being built, or to be built, in New York State. These Companies are now being sought in Alabama, Florida, Texas, Arizona, and many other States. Both the Taxes and the Jobs amount to LIQUID GOLD! New York State has made a terrible decision. All of this Income, and other Benefits, will be going to Red States, and some Blue, where Data Centers are sought as Cash Cows, with Lower Taxes and Record Setting Jobs. They must pay for their own Water and Power, and any leftover goes back to the State and local Community. Data Centers are tremendous WINS for the States and Communities that are lucky enough to get them. New York should change its Policy, IMMEDIATELY. The Radical Left Dumocrats must not be allowed to cause us to lose Data Centers, AI, and all of this incredible new Technology, to China, and other countries!

President DONALD J. TRUMP

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116938511106455297

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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

Newly declassified documents show that over a period of years starting during the 2020 election cycle, the People’s Republic of China carried out what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history — resulting in China’s illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files.

That information includes names, addresses, phone numbers, political party preferences, and other sensitive data that would be needed to register to vote, and engage in other nefarious activities.

This data loss presents an unprecedented election security nightmare. The intelligence even shows that China assigned a data exploitation unit specifically to this new project.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/election-integrity

This is important because 220 million voter files is pretty much the entire US voting base. According to Brave AI “..the U.S. Census Bureau estimates about 168 million registered voters, while the U.S. Election Assistance Commission reports more than 209 million active registrations on state rolls…”

Why do I bring up these stolen voter rolls? Because China is now using AI to analyse them and no doubt using other stolen data to build a profile of every American voter.

From Badlands:
China Preps Massive AI Buildout Plan, Framed as Part of a US-China Technological Arms Race

China is preparing a roughly 2 trillion yuan ($295 billion) investment over the next five years to build a nationwide network of interconnected data centers and computing hubs.

The effort is designed to rapidly scale domestic AI infrastructure, support the development of frontier AI models, and position China to lead in a technology widely viewed as strategically decisive for economic productivity, surveillance, military applications, and industrial competitiveness through the 2030s.

The plan prioritizes Chinese suppliers—including Huawei—for at least 80 percent of core technology, notably AI chips, explicitly aiming to displace foreign providers such as Nvidia and AMD and accelerate the maturation of domestic alternatives.

This data-center push forms a central element of Beijing’s broader “Six Networks” infrastructure mobilization, which integrates computing capacity with power, water, and other foundational systems under state direction and financing.

It represents an aggressive, centrally coordinated response to U.S. advantages in AI hardware and hyperscale investment, seeking to lock in long-term technological self-reliance and shift the global balance in advanced compute resources.

Burning Bright: Beijing’s move to mobilize roughly 2 trillion yuan — nearly $300 billion — over the next five years for a nationwide network of interconnected AI data centers is being sold, predictably as the opening barrage of the next great power contest.

The plan, we’re told sits inside a larger ‘Six Networks’ mobilization that fuses computing power with electricity, water, communications and logistics, while on the American side, the hyperscalers are answering with their own staggering numbers, with Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft alone guiding toward $600–700 billion in combined capex for 2026, much of it pouring into data-center and AI infrastructure, even as power constraints seem readily apparent.

The surface-level narrative suggests an arms race between Washington and Beijing for frontier models and the industrial base that will deploy them, and yet, I believe this apparent contradiction actually ratifies the Sovereign Alliance between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, with each leader deliberately leaning into the rivalry narrative because it supplies the other with the precise Narrative Shielding required to accelerate down a path whose true destination is not model supremacy, but the build-out of the infrastructure of the Golden Age itself.

What the Collective Mind can presently grasp — and what capital markets can price in — is ‘AI versus AI.’

But the deeper architecture requires energy abundance at sovereign scale and the physical rails that will carry human extension and augmentation into the next civilizational epoch, with the current generation of models is simply the rudimentary, investable endpoint that justifies pouring sovereign and private capital into that larger paradigm.

Trump’s AI Action Plan and related executive orders (most of them from 2025) are framing the effort in national security terms while simultaneously advancing the nuclear and permitting reforms that make AI-scale power possible.

Xi’s parallel national push is doing the same in keeping with China’s own sovereignty doctrine.

Both are executing Warp Speed buildouts.

In other words, the models are the justification layer; the energy and computing mesh is the actual payload.

Again, an AI infrastructure sprint demands one resource above every other: abundant, reliable and ultimately decentralized power.

That is also the non-negotiable precondition of the Age of Abundance the Sovereign Alliance has been telegraphing for years — replete with a nuclear renaissance, gargantuan data centers and the on-shoring of critical manufacturing, all set against the backdrop of the broader disentanglement from scarcity-based control systems narratives like the Iran War and the collapse of the Green New Deal in the West are facilitating.

The ‘AI Arms Race’ between the world’s two largest economies therefore functions simultaneously as both Narrative Shielding and as a Translation Layer.

I am not so sure I agree with Burning Bright. I do not trust China AT ALL!

And to go along with it in the same Badlands substack:

DOE Releases Finalized Fusion Science and Technology Roadmap to Accelerate Commercial Fusion Power

The U.S. Department of Energy has released its finalized Fusion Science and Technology Roadmap, a comprehensive national strategy to accelerate the development and commercialization of fusion energy.

The plan targets the deployment of fusion pilot plants and commercial fusion power in the mid-2030s through coordinated efforts across science, technology, infrastructure, workforce development, and commercialization.

The roadmap was developed with input from more than 800 scientists and engineers from over 15 private companies, 10 national laboratories, and 70 universities.

It is organized around three core pillars: building critical infrastructure to close materials and technology gaps; driving innovation through advanced research, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence; and expanding the domestic fusion ecosystem via public-private partnerships, supply chain strengthening, workforce growth, and commercialization pathways.

It will be implemented through DOE’s newly established Office of Fusion and aligns with the department’s Genesis Mission.

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Doug in Exile: Ladies and gentlemen, this is the brilliant lady who got her urgent message to Trump. Katherine Herridge is the one who did the investigative reporting that exposed China, but not just exposing China and their involvement in the election, how they’re using AI. They’re using high technology to massively affect our elections. This has very long-reaching repercussions going forward. Here’s Katherine Herridge, watch this.

Katherine Herridge: China is one of the biggest collectors of data on the planet. So, if you take that 220 million voter rolls and you combine it with something called the SF86, those are the security clearance applications that were compromised back in 2015, 22 million files, and then you combine it with all of the health information that’s been hacked, you can really build this kind of digital composite of an individual, and you can use that for you know, voter registration fraud, you can use that for identity theft, and significantly, you can also use it to recruit American citizens to your efforts. So, it’s not just about the collection of the data around the vote.

Doug in Exile: It’s espionage. That is huge, guys. This is terrifying. I’m going to show you First of all, don’t be scared, cuz the answer is, of course, America has to beat China on the AI war, which now you can see how it affects our elections. You want us to have powerful AI. Here’s Dave Sachs, watch this. Dave Sachs is kind of making the logical conclusion out of the stuff. He says, “This is concerning. For the first time, a Chinese model, the Kimi K3, has taken number one on the front-end code arena and is scoring at or near the frontier on other benchmarks.” So, I’ll just translate this for you. It is the smartest compute in the world, the smartest AI in the world. That makes it the most effective, most aggressive is now China, the number one list. I’ll show you the list in just a minute. Let me finish this up.

Meanwhile, America is tying itself in knots. Politicians and bureaucrats are banning new data centers. You guys have heard this. You can’t let these data centers in, it’s ruining our water, our farmland, not in my neighborhood. China’s the one funding all of that sentiment to get you to think that it’s dangerous. Piling on state regulations, pushing for new federal agencies to pre-approve frontier models. This is how you lose the AI race. The rest of the world won’t play by our rules if we bog ourselves down. Permissionless innovation is how America won the internet and became the technological envy of the world. We can do it again with AI while addressing risks in a targeted way, or we’ll watch our lead evaporate. And remember guys, the only way you can fight Chinese AI with all of your social security, all of your login codes for your email, credit card information, the dossier they build about you, the only way you can fight it is with a more powerful AI generated in America to defend us. AI beats their AI, but right now they’re winning.

Here’s big news, Kimi K3 is now number one in the front-end code arena with 1679 points, surpassing Claude Fable 5. So, look, all this is, it shows the arena here. Number one AI in the world is this Kimmy K3. This is the Chinese one. Next one down, Claude Fable 5. These are like owned by Microsoft, Google, you know, Chat GTP and all those. Here’s Chat GTP 5.6, GLM, Claude Opus, and then here’s Grok owned by Elon Musk down here. Number six, in the amount of compute they can actually do. And I’ve used most of these programs. I do a ton of AI I work. It’s how I was able to beat the internet on all the Mitch McConnell stuff.

Now, I’m just going to show you one more time. This is the I have the link in the description if you guys want to do your own research on these documents that were released. You’re going to go here to the whitehouse.gov. There’ll be a link down there. And like you go down here to this is vulnerabilities in electronic voting and ballot counting systems. And you can go down here and you can download these files in a zipped-up folder. And you can look at the PDFs that were released by Trump yourself. Let’s keep going.

Here’s Liz Harrington. According to the CIA in 2020, Venezuela created virtual machines to replicate legitimate voting machine results, then substitute manipulated data while making votes appear to originate from legitimate machines. This sounds exactly like what happened in Fulton County in 2020. So, now do you see how manipulating data can affect our elections? And it’s too bad we didn’t have better AI. Here’s a guy who actually sits on the board of of AI and making the case why our elections have to be secured by better technology. Watch this.

” I don’t think the president left any gray area or area for interpretation. This was about getting the save act passed. It was the last thing he said. But let me just address some of what you said, Brian. It is a different era now than it was in 18 or in 20. This is massively different. I sit on the advisory board of two quantum cybersecurity companies and know something about this. AI and the threat of hacking using modern AI technology has made all of our systems, both public and private, more vulnerable than they have ever been. We know, it’s been proven both by our own intelligence agencies as well as the private sector, that China has been data farming, harvesting data, both public and private, from the United States, from US citizens. Data they cannot even access yet until their cyber techniques enable them to do so. It is a different threat today than it was in 2020, in 2018, and that’s part of why the president was so forward-looking. We didn’t hear the moaning and complaining and kvetching, if you will, to use a very New York term, about what happened in the past. This was raising alarms about what could happen in the future. The threat is different. The threat is very real.

Doug in Exile: Well, and a big way around this really would be voter ID. On paper really would resolve a lot of this. But wait, there’s more. Remember the Democrat Party is trying to convince you the opposite of what this guy just said. They’re trying to convince you that your elections are secure because they want them to be insecure. This is Chris Krebs from 2020. He said former United States Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, he said the 2020 election was the most secure in American history. There was no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised. We now know, through this evidence, that’s a lie. Here’s John Solomon on the big breakthrough. He was the big one who really figured this out, that on our presidential daily briefs, Trump, all the information about China was hidden from Trump.

John Solomon: Well, listen, I talked to the intelligence chiefs in the last few days as we got prepared for this. It’s very important to understand, the president said this tonight, every intelligence chief vetted this speech. They made sure it was accurate. They told me they had never had been briefed on the size of the breaches, the 230 million Americans, the 220 million Americans whose data was stolen, that they considered a security breach. How many times have you on your network ever reported that five countries are capable of hacking our election machines? When is the last time you reported that Venezuela actually succeeded in breaching a machine which has implications for our future security? You haven’t because it was never made public. It has not been made to Congress, has not been told to the president in the past. We checked the presidential daily briefs. Our president was kept from this information. Now we have a chance to fix a glass chin of election security, make the ’26 election more secure.

Doug in Exile: Yeah, this is future-minded stuff, gang. Now here’s Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen talking about what he’s going to do.

Mark Wayne Mullen: I’ll be giving remarks on DHS’s efforts to support election security in the Indian Treaty Room at the EEOB at 11:00 Eastern time today. And then finally, we’re going to wrap up with Catherine Herridge who started this whole show. Big picture, China and the Communist Party collects massive amounts of data buying, stealing, or hacking to exploit vulnerabilities. President Trump said tonight the CCP’s operations obtained 220 million voter records. This is a security breach. This can be used for fraudulent voter registration, identity theft, targeting US citizens for recruitment by China.

Doug in Exile: Now you guys know the AI tech angle that no one else, no other channel is covering, so I hope you’ll reward us with a subscribe to get more of this kind of need-to-know information. If you want to know more about this information, then make sure that you check out this video on the unexpected twist that Mark Wayne Mullen reveals about the media working with China.

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Promethian Action’s Section on Data Centers.

ROUGH TRANSCRIPT I tried to get the speakers correct but I did not have time to go back and check on either of these videos.

PLEASE READ! I think this is the best discussion of AI that I have seen.

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Adam: Thank you, Susan. Thank you, Barbara. And thank you, Susan Hogan, for joining us every week. I’m sure you’re getting our newsletter already. Thank you. , I’m jumping around in the super chats here. I want to take this one on data centers and flock cameras because this is coming up. So, thank you Eevee Funk. And I’m going to take this one here from number eight from our email newsletters. So, Eevee says, “Data Center Trump’s post, people not happy. very unpopular with both sides here in the here in Georgia. Georgia power [is] using eminent domain, seizing land, increasing costs, sucking up all the power, water, environment, and noise. Can you all provide some clarity?

And I’m going to pull this one from Streamyard … Ann says, “Americans do not want the data centers or flock cameras. Why does Trump not do anything to protect our freedom to move about the country without surveillance? This looks bad for him and all these tech companies and other billionaires belong to the group that means to control our country and our world. People are losing hope in Trump.”

Well, not everyone. “He needs to stand up and make this right and get rid of the surveillance data centers and tracking cameras are every move. And don’t let big tech control our country.” Thank you for your questions and concern and thank you Eevee Funk. Barbara and Susan your thoughts on this very popular issue at the moment.

Barbara Boyd: Well flock cameras will be litigated in court. I’m sure that’s what’s going to happen. Because to the extent that you have criminal cases based on the ability to see someone going somewhere to do something bad most certainly the lawyers for that criminal are going to be raising that on fourth amendment grounds. These are local decisions. And the police power in our country except for federal crimes actually exists with the state and that’s something people don’t take into account.

They assume the president can just do something on a national basis and overrule a state’s decision in the area of criminal justice or something else. That’s not so easy to do. We gave the states a whole lot of power for these particular situations. The same thing is true in terms of the architecture, I’ll put it, of the data centers. How eminent domain functions. How your electric bills are charged. The regulatory aspect of that primarily rests with the states. I live in the data center capital of the world uh Virginia, you can’t go an inch here without seeing a data center. Something that used to be pure country, 5 years ago is now data center, data center, data center, data center.

There’s a couple of myths out there. One is they’re not using a whole lot of water. Two, the way that Trump is talking about it, he wants them to actually be built, with their own power sources, i.e. They’ve got to set up their own electrical plant to get the permitting for this on a large basis, not on a state basis, but on a federal basis. Whether he can override what a state is deciding in terms of how they’re going to do this around the enforcement of eminent domain and other things, that’s again a legal question which he’s going to have to look pretty hard at. But his idea of doing this is to have the data centers actually build their own electrical inputs and take it off the grid because he says if we do this on a national basis, the grid isn’t even capable of handling it. That’s the result of of complete lack of infrastructure which has gone on for years and years and years. [Thanks to the Global Warming Psy Op. meant to hamstring the USA. – GC] So I understand that this is a big issue.

I think the key issue, the most critical issue which I think the president is fixated on is how is this going to all impact jobs? You know, what is the shift going to be in terms of jobs? Obviously, people who went to school and were told to learn to code as their future are probably going to be driven out of jobs in what was called by Obama the knowledge economy. That was the whole paradigm which we had during the Obama administration. People were laid off in manufacturing. We killed everything sent everything that was building something overseas to be built. And essentially what’s now happening is all the people who are were engaged in writing software or engaged in other [parts of] the knowledge economy so-called are being directly challenged by AI, because AI can in some respects do that a little bit better in that particular area of the economy.

So the question then becomes what are the jobs of the future? And that’s really depends on how we’re envisioning the future economy. And I look at all of this stuff as basically a kind of a way of generating fear in the population so that they get blinded to the real problem which is how does this actually impact the workforce of the future and what should my kid be doing now to assure that he makes a living. That’s the real challenge of the transition we’re going through. It’s a huge transition. People compare it to the industrial revolution. Those of us who are optimists also look at that and see that each of these major economic revolutions actually end up creating more jobs and more creativity if we actually navigate it the right way. So that’s how I’d answer this relatively complex field between state power under the constitution and federal power and how these things are actually going on right now.

Susan Kokinda: Yeah. Let me address another aspect of this because there’s an implicit assumption well it’s explicit I think in in the other question that we had, [That] data center equals surveillance state therefore all data centers mean we’re going to fascism. Well honestly to me that’s like saying this is a gun you can use it to shoot your wife therefore all guns will be used to shoot your wife. it’s just not the way that it works. Data centers [like] any technology can be used for good or ill.

The question is what what is the direction of your country? What is the intention of your president? You know, and the idea that because Donald Trump thinks that we need to have data centers so that we don’t fall behind China, which is a very real issue, means that he supports a complete surveillance state right out of 1984. It is just a it’s just a lazy argument.

I mean, people really have to sort of take a beat and put themselves in the real world because what the essence of psychological warfare again is in this sort of one-dimensional world where this equals that, therefore, if you’re for this, you are that, and your hair catches on fire. Rather than what is the world we’re actually living in? We’re living in a world where artificial intelligence is not going to be put back in the genie bottle. And as this president and JD Vance and many other people have made very clear, imagine a world in which China is way ahead of us in artificial intelligence. Think of that in terms of our defense. Think of that in terms of cyber attacks on our economy. Think of that in terms of the more positive side, you know, which is your ability to produce more, which you can if used properly. [If] you use artificial intelligence for advanced machine tooling, you still have a trained machine toolist who has to know how to use that. And by the way, those trained machine toolists make a quarter of a million dollars, right? Using AI to be more productive, to have greater dominion over nature. Now, is there a layer of the population of the people in that business who probably have a very different idea in terms of what to use AI for in terms of the surveillance state? Of course, there is. But, you know, and someone in the in the chat said, “Well, why doesn’t Trump express his concerns on this?” He has. [laughter] You’re just not, paying attention to what he’s saying. you’re paying attention to the explosion on the internet.

He’s made clear you can’t have data centers if they’re going to suck off local power. He’s made clear there are dangers and challenges in terms of AI, which is why he’s got whole sections of his administration working on this to make sure that there are the proper guard rails where it can actually be used in a way that benefits the country as opposed to not. Now, in terms of data centers, and again, these are direct local decisions. No, I don’t think it makes any sense to put one in some suburban area’s backyard, like here in Michigan, we have lots of brownfield sites, old industrial sites, which probably cost a little bit to clean up, which is maybe why some of your AI companies don’t want to do that. But, you could put through zoning kinds of things. you’re going to build one of these things, you got to provide your own power and you build it in a brownfield site, not in some suburban backyard or completely destroying the entire rural area of a county. But those discussions, to the extent that the federal government is involved in those discussions, they’re taking place to the extent that the state governments are in charge. [So] you better pay attention to your midterm elections and make sure that you have serious people who are getting elected to your legislatures your governor’s offices and so on so that they can make serious decisions not we’re banning all data centers forever and ever, in which case we’re all going to be speaking Chinese probably in a generation.

But how do we actually manage this important new technology in a way that does not hurt your population but still benefits the needs of the nation?

100:05 Adam: Thank you Barbara. Thank you Susan. . I have a few things to say on this because I am a computer native person. I think first off everyone says people don’t want data centers. Well, you know, people’s habits don’t really support that idea at all. The fact is that people are just spending more and more time on these devices.

There’s your data center.

Anything connected to the internet means data center. And we’re only increasing the amount of internet connected devices we have in the world. And that means we simply need more data centers. I’m always talk about Boston Dynamics, but I want to bring up Boston Dynamics again because again, first off, it’s an American company that’s 100% American ingenuity, but also they have really cool tech demos, probably the best robotic tech overall in the world right now. I know there are other players doing different things but let me just play this because all the data center infrastructure is also going to be supporting this which is literally robotics, and is about to be hitting society like a huge wave. Let me just play this one here for the spot robot.

[GO TO AROUND 101:00 for some really cool robot videos… I WANT ONE! -GC]

Don’t. All right. And one more really short clip here. [snorts] >> [applause] >> I mean, look at that first one. Isn’t that better than some poor Amazon or UPS driver having to sweat their balls off? [laughter] You know, it was 117 degrees real feel here yesterday in Michigan and there’s poor people out there delivering crap to people’s doors.

Yeah, you see the people just throwing boxes or Amazon packages across the thing. [laughter] Um, so thank you uh Ebie, thank you very much for sending

Liberty Bell says and I’m with her. It would nice to have a robot that cleans windows and scrub floors. Amen, [laughter]

Guys. That’s coming soon. So right now the work is being done on the dexterity of the hands. I could pull up other tech demos. So you have these companies that like have done all the tendons like the the arm works like on a tendon system like your fingers and the dexterity of these things are wild. So yeah, this is all coming very soon and it all has to be powered by data centers….

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This is a compilation of the research I have done for myself, Pgroup and any others with breathing problems. Given the Supreme Court decisions and other stuff, it is going to be a lot shorter than my normal articles.

Just for fun: 15 STRANGE AND RARE BIRDS YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN! (and boy are they weird.)

I saw a video on a concoction for improving lung health. LINK

At the bottom of the link is a list of 20 references.

Product (That I have not tried. I am researching it first.)

LungExpand Pro: Review the Unique Lung Clearing Breathing Solution for Healthy Respiratory System

Ingredients:

Umckaloabo Extract

Science Direct — Chapter: Umckaloabo/South African Geranium ()

…The elucidated mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of umckaloabo in bronchitis include immunomodulatory and cytoprotective effects, inhibition of interactions between pathogens and host cells, and an increase of ciliary beat frequency in the respiratory tract. By similar mechanisms umckaloabo appears effective for the common cold.

Clinical research indicates that umckaloabo, alone or in combination formulas, may be beneficial for reactive airways, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, upper respiratory infections, pharyngitis, acute sinusitis, acute bronchitis, and immune function.

Hedera helix

Bioactive phenolics fraction of Hedera helix L. (Common Ivy Leaf) standardized extract ameliorates LPS-induced acute lung injury in the mouse model through the inhibition of proinflammatory cytokines and oxidative stress

A double blind, placebo-controlled, randomized cross-over study was carried out on 30 children suffering from partial or uncontrolled mild persistent allergic asthma. Patients either received ivy leaves dry extract for four weeks in addition to their inhaled corticosteroid therapy or placebo, followed by a wash-out phase before switching to the other treatment. There was a significant improvement of MEF(75-25), MEF25 and VC after treatment with ivy leaves dry extract (MEF(75-25) change in the mean 0.115 l/s, p=0.044; MEF25 change in the mean 0.086 l/s, p=0.041; VC change in the mean 0.052 l, p=0.044), but not after treatment with placebo.

Pharmacological and therapeutic activities of Hedera helix- A review

Abstract:

The phytochemical analysis of Hedera helix revealed that the plant contained unsaturated sterols, oils, tannins, phenolic compounds, terpenoids, glycosides, alkaloids, flavonoids, carbohydrates, reducing sugars, saponins, vitamins and minerals. The pharmacological studies showed that Hedera helix possessed respiratory, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, immunological, anticancer, antimutagenic, antimicrobial, anti-parasitic, gastrointestinal, and antithrombin activity. The current review discussed the chemical constituents, pharmacological and therapeutic importance of Hedera helix.

Hedera

Hedera helix. (100 mg/kg, once daily for one week) on lung histopathology was evaluated in a murine model of chronic asthma in mice sensitized with ovalbumin.

Mullein extract

Mullein Extract for Respiratory Health: Reviews, Studies, and Dosage Tips

According to studies of mullein’s pharmacological and chemical aspects, mullein contains various chemical constituents like saponins, iridoid and phenylethanoid glycosides, flavonoids, vitamin C and minerals [2]. 

Mullein provides:

• Saponins that contribute to its expectorant properties by loosening phlegm.
• Mucilage that soothes irritated tissues both in the throat and lungs.
• Flavonoids that provide antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects.
• Glycosides that help relax smooth muscle tissue in the respiratory system.
• Antimicrobial compounds that help with many lung infections.

A number of pharmacological activities such as anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anticancer, antimicrobial, antiviral, antihepatotoxic and anti-hyperlipidemic activity have been ascribed to mullein. The plant is used to treat tuberculosis, earache and bronchitis [2].

Sources:

[1] – https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/10/7/618, Searching for Scientific Explanations for the Uses of Spanish Folk Medicine: A Review on the Case of Mullein (Verbascum, Scrophulariaceae)

[2] – https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0102695X13701261, ​​Common mullein, pharmacological and chemical aspects

[3] – https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308991417_Assessing_the_Effectiveness_of_Mullein_on_Respiratory_Conditions_Such_as_Asthma Assessing the Effectiveness of Mullein on Respiratory Conditions Such as Asthma

[4] – https://www.icliniq.com/articles/cancer/mullein-for-lung-cancer Mullein for Lung Cancer – All You Need to Know

Coltsfoot

Coltsfoot | Encyclopedia Of Herbology (I did not know there was such a source online)

Coltsfoot combines a soothing expectorant effect with an antispasmodic action. There are useful levels of zinc in the leaves. This mineral has been shown to have marked anti-inflammatory effects.

A review of the ethnobotanical value, phytochemistry, pharmacology, toxicity and quality control of Tussilago farfara L. (coltsfoot)

Abstract

Ethnopharmacological relevance

Tussilago farfara L. (commonly called coltsfoot), known as a vital folk medicine, have long been used to treat various respiratory disorders and consumed as a vegetable in many parts of the world since ancient times…

Coltsfoot has diverse uses in local and traditional medicine, but similarities have been noticed, specifically for relieving inflammatory conditions, respiratory and infectious diseases in humans. Regarding its pharmacological activities, many traditional uses of coltsfoot are supported by modern in vitro or in vivo pharmacological studies such as anti-inflammatory activities, neuro-protective activity, anti-diabetic, anti-oxidant activity. Quantitative analysis (e.g. GC-MS, UHPLC-MRM^HR) indicated the presence of a rich (>150) pool of chemicals, including sesquiterpenes, phenolic acids, flavonoids, chromones, pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) and others from its leaves and buds. In addition, adverse events have resulted from a collection of the wrong plant which contains PAs that became the subject of public concern attributed to their highly toxic.

Conclusions

So far, remarkable progress has been witnessed in phytochemistry and pharmacology of coltsfoot. Thus, some traditional uses have been well supported and clarified by modern pharmacological studies. Discovery of therapeutic natural products and novel structures in plants for future clinical and experimental studies are still a growing interest. Furthermore, well-designed studies in vitro particularly in vivo are required to establish links between the traditional uses and bioactivities, as well as ensure safety before clinical use. In addition, the good botanical identification of coltsfoot and content of morphologically close species is a precondition for quality supervision and control. Moreover, strict quality control measures are required in the studies investigating any aspect of the pharmacology and chemistry of coltsfoot….

4.1. Use for infection

Yakammaoto (射干麻黄汤), as a classic formula of traditional Chinese medicines, is used in the treatment of asthma, flu-like symptoms and cough with wheezing in the throat in China and Japan and is a formulation comprising nine various herbs as follows: Ephedra sinica, Pinellia ternate, Zingiber officinale, Tussilago farfara, Aster tataricus, Ziziphus jujube, Belamcanda chinensis, Asarum sieboldii, and Schisandra chinensis….

Globally, the world is scrambling to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Recently, a paper report on lung cleansing and detoxifying decoction (LCDD) widely was used in treating COVID-19 patients in China. LCDD is based on four formulae described in the classic TCMs text treatise on cold pathogenic and Miscellaneous Diseases by Zhang Zhongjing (AD 150–219) (Weng, 2020). Further investigated the buds of coltsfoot mechanism in LCDD mechanism against COVID-19 by network pharmacology and molecular docking. The resulted indicated that 14 compounds in coltsfoot may combined with SARS-CoV-2 3CL hydrolase and ACE2, thereby acting on many targets to regulate multiple signaling pathways, thus exerting the therapeutic effect on COVID-19 (Jian-xin et al., 2020)…

6. Pharmacology

There are some biological activities in the extracts or compounds of coltsfoot. Anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, antiviral and anti-cancer are similar with traditional uses. In addition, many new biological activities have been discovered in modern research, such as anti-diabetic, neuro-protective activities, immunostimulating activities, anti-oxidant activity and cardiovascular. These biological activities are described in the table (Table 4, Table 5, Table 6, Table 7 ) and briefly described in below…

Serratiopeptidase

Serrapeptase is also known as serratiopeptidase. I take it and nattokinase daily and my lung health has improved.

Effect of the proteolytic enzyme serrapeptase in patients with chronic airway disease.

Abstract

Objectives: The proteolytic enzyme serrapeptase (SER) is widely used in clinical practice in Japan. We investigated the effect of SER on sputum properties and symptoms in patients with chronic airway diseases.

Methods: This study was an open-labelled trial with a non-treatment control group. Patients were randomly assigned to oral treatment with (n = 15) and without (n = 14) SER 30 mg/day for 4 weeks. Patients collected sputum samples for about 4 h in the morning on the day the trial began and 4 weeks later. We measured the amount of sputum by weighing. Part of each sputum sample was weighed and then completely dried and reweighed. The percentage solid component, viscosity and elasticity of the sputum were measured. Mucociliary transportability index was measured using ciliated bovine trachea ex vivo. Sputum smears were also prepared to count sputum neutrophils. Patients’ symptoms were assessed by a questionnaire that used a visual analogue scale.

Results: After 4 weeks of SER treatment, sputum weight in the morning, percentage solid component, viscosity and elasticity of sputum, sputum neutrophil count, frequency of coughing and frequency of expectoration significantly decreased. The mean mucociliary transportability index increased from 13.3 +/- 1.8 to 24.4 +/- 2.5 (P = 0.0103).

Conclusions: SER may exert a beneficial effect on mucus clearance by reducing neutrophil numbers and altering the viscoelasticity of sputum in patients with chronic airway diseases.

Serrapeptase: Further Reading | Vitacure

Serrapeptase side effects and potential risks are few. No serious or adverse side effects have been reported from taking Serrapeptase; however, there are a few potential cautions. A very small number of isolated cases of gastrointestinal irritation mostly in patients with gastrointestinal ulcers have been reported with use. A smaller population described in medical literature, developed pneumonia. Although rare, it was theorized that removing scar tissue from the lungs (as Serrapeptase does) can increase the chance of infection due to airborne pathogens (52), this is mostly in elderly individuals with compromised lung function. For this reason Serrapeptase is not recommended for those people with advanced lung cancers or those that smoke. Discontinue smoking if beginning Serrapeptase, and consult your doctor if you are taking blood thinners as Serrapeptase can also enhance or amplify their effectiveness. In addition, always consult a physician before replacing prescriptions with natural supplements…

Serrapeptase for Mucus Build-up

In addition to being able to digest and break down dead tissues, Serrapeptase also has the ability to reduce the elasticity and thickness of nasal mucus as well as lower the number of neutrophils in mucus samples (24). Also, some studies have shown that patients have found Serrapeptase to be highly beneficial in cutting down the thickness of mucus and reducing recurring coughing compared to many of the common treatment methods (15). Similarly, patients with respiratory issues have also benefited from using Serrapeptase merely because it prevents the increased production of mucus and makes the mucus less thick.

Serrapeptase, unlike most medications, does not completely impede the product of mucus. Instead, it works on the elasticity and thickness of the mucus….

Letter writen by Dr. Hans Nieper featured in April 1997 issue of Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients.

I informed you some years ago that Serrapeptase is apparently active in the cleaning of coronary arteries from occluding layers. The results are so spectacular that even Tom Valentine reported on this progress in the US (DC) press after speaking to several parties here.

Serrapeptase is an enzyme produced by serratia bacteria living in silkworms. With this enzyme the worms melt a hole out of the cocoon. Unlike other enzymes in the field of biology, Serrapeptase dissolves ‘dead’ tissue, but not the silk and apparently also fibrinoid layers in the arteries which chemically could be compared to silk.​

A special problem in today’s civilized society is occluding processes in the carotid arteries of the neck. Very often we see patients where surgeons were reluctant to operate or to apply drill or laser technology to such occluded carotids. The reason for this is the potential risk that surgical debris will be pushed into the smaller cerebral vessels.

We have, therefore, started to apply Serrapeptase treatment to cases of severe narrowings of the carotid arteries, mostly in patients showing severe symptoms due to the narrowing, including amaurosis fugax (intermittent blindness). The therapeutic results are excellent, certainly lifesaving. It is, however, mandatory that the therapy be conducted for a very long time. The first reliable results can be expected after 6-8 months. Even up to 18 months after the onset of Serrapeptase therapy, patients have still displayed improvement.

I have also found Serrapeptase to be an extraordinary substance for safely removing fibrous blockages from coronary arteries, particularly the carotid arteries found in the neck, which supply blood to the brain….

Healthline — Serrapeptase: Benefits, Side Effects, and Dosage

Common ones include chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, pulmonary fibrosis, and pulmonary hypertension..

Serrapeptase may increase the clearance of mucus and reduce inflammation in the lungs in people with chronic respiratory diseases (CRD).

CRDs are diseases of the airways and other structures of the lungs. Common ones include chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, pulmonary fibrosis, and pulmonary hypertension — a type of high blood pressure that affects the vessels in your lungs. While CRDs are incurable, various treatments can help dilate the air passages or increase mucus clearance, improving quality of life. In one 4-week studyTrusted Source, 29 people with chronic bronchitis were randomly assigned to receive 30 mg of serrapeptase or a placebo daily.

Bronchitis is one type of COPD that leads to coughing and difficulty breathing due to the overproduction of mucus. People who were given serrapeptase had less mucus production compared to the placebo group and were better able to clear the mucus from their lungs. A 2021 studyTrusted Source also showed symptom improvement in subjects with pulmonary fibrosis who took serrapeptase. However, further studies are needed to support these findings.

Serratiopeptidase: A systematic review of the existing evidence

Pharmacodynamics
Serratiopeptidase is thought to work in three ways.

1. Anti-inflammatory: serratiopeptidase reduces swelling by the process of decreasing the amount of fluid in the tissues, thinning the fluid, and by facilitating the drainage of fluid. In addition, its enzyme activity dissolves dead tissue surrounding the injured area so that healing is accelerated.5,6 It may also act by modifying cell-surface adhesion molecules that guide inflammatory cells to their target site of inflammation. These adhesion molecules play an important role in the development of arthritis and other autoimmune diseases.6
2. Analgesic: it may help alleviate pain by inhibiting the release of pain-inducing amines like bradykinin from inflamed tissues.1
3. Fibrinolytic/caseinolytic: it may be beneficial in atherosclerotic disease as it acts by breaking down fibrin and other dead or damaged tissue without harming living tissue. This could enable the dissolution of blood clots, and atherosclerotic plaques.22

Effects of Systemic Enzyme Supplements on Symptoms and Quality of Life in Patients with Pulmonary Fibrosis—A Pilot Study

5. Conclusions

The present study suggests that the oral supplements Serracor-NK and Serra Rx improve symptoms, the ability to perform activities of daily living, and mental and physical well-being, thus enhancing overall quality of life in patients with pulmonary fibrosis. While there is no drug to cure IPF, these supplements can help to alleviate symptoms and improve quality of life in PF patients. This study was performed as a proof of concept. Further assessment in randomized, placebo-controlled trials with larger populations and for longer durations are warranted.

Living with Pulmonary Fibrosis

…Though doctors in the United States are only recently becoming aware of the benefits of added enzymes, doctors in Europe and Asia have been administering enzymes for decades.

Among the best enzymes for removal of scar tissue are serrapeptase and nattokinase. Chymotypsin and pancreatin are considered to be especially valuable against cancer tumors, especially pancreatic cancer tumors.

An especially powerful enzyme is serrapeptase, which is a proteolytic enzyme derived from a species of bacteria originally found in the intestines of silkworms. The bacteria Serratia mercesans E1 produces Serrapeptase, an enzyme that enables the silkworm to dissolve its silken cocoon and emerge after metamorphosis. Serratia is produced by fermented cultures. Studies have shown that serrapeptase reduces scar tissue, improves tissue healing and significantly reduces inflammation.

Serrapeptase also has the unique ability to digest non-living tissue that is a by-product of the healing response without harming living tissue. Serrapeptase is used to dissolve non-living tissues to include: scar tissue, fibrosis, blood clots, cysts and arterial plaque. It is also used as an anti-inflammatory agent against Sinusitis and for thinning mucous secretion and as an agent against varicose veins and fibrocystic breasts. It is believed that serrapeptase can play a key role in dissolving the outer protective layers of cancer cells and tumors to enable the immune system and other cancer fighters to better attack the cancer…

Vitamin D3 and Peppermint are the other ingredients.

Since none of these can be patented the scientific studies are going to be scarce.

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This is a compilation of the research I have done for Hubby. His legs are getting weaker and weaker and he now has trouble getting out of a chair or walking without a cane.

Since I switched to Firefox I have been inundated with ads. One is by a Dr Gundry who sells high priced supplements. One is Muscle Defense from ApexLabs. I am not interested in the supplement but he did have interesting information.

It seems as we get older, our bodies no longer use proteins to make muscle. Or at least not as easily. So here is what I have found.

First Question: Is there actually the problem Gundry stated?

Anabolic Resistance of Muscle Protein Turnover Comes in Various Shapes and Sizes

Abstract

Anabolic resistance is defined by a blunted stimulation of muscle protein synthesis rates (MPS) to common anabolic stimuli in skeletal muscle tissue such as dietary protein and exercise. Generally, MPS is the target of most exercise and feeding interventions as muscle protein breakdown rates seem to be less responsive to these stimuli. Ultimately, the blunted responsiveness of MPS to dietary protein and exercise underpins the loss of the amount and quality of skeletal muscle mass leading to decrements in physical performance in these populations. The increase of both habitual physical activity (including structured exercise that targets general fitness characteristics) and protein dense food ingestion are frontline strategies utilized to support muscle mass, performance, and health. In this paper, we discuss anabolic resistance as a common denominator underpinning muscle mass loss with aging, obesity, and other disease states. Namely, we discuss the fact that anabolic resistance exists as a dimmer switch, capable of varying from higher to lower levels of resistance, to the main anabolic stimuli of feeding and exercise depending on the population. Moreover, we review the evidence on whether increased physical activity and targeted exercise can be leveraged to restore the sensitivity of skeletal muscle tissue to dietary amino acids regardless of the population.

Protein Requirements and Recommendations for Older People: A Review

Abstract

Declines in skeletal muscle mass and strength are major contributors to increased mortality, morbidity and reduced quality of life in older people. Recommended Dietary Allowances/Intakes have failed to adequately consider the protein requirements of the elderly with respect to function. The aim of this paper was to review definitions of optimal protein status and the evidence base for optimal dietary protein. Current recommended protein intakes for older people do not account for the compensatory loss of muscle mass that occurs on lower protein intakes. Older people have lower rates of protein synthesis and whole-body proteolysis in response to an anabolic stimulus (food or resistance exercise). Recommendations for the level of adequate dietary intake of protein for older people should be informed by evidence derived from functional outcomes. Randomized controlled trials report a clear benefit of increased dietary protein on lean mass gain and leg strength, particularly when combined with resistance exercise. There is good consistent evidence (level III-2 to IV) that consumption of 1.0 to 1.3 g/kg/day dietary protein combined with twice-weekly progressive resistance exercise reduces age-related muscle mass loss. Older people appear to require 1.0 to 1.3 g/kg/day dietary protein to optimize physical function, particularly whilst undertaking resistance exercise recommendations.

Evidence-Based Recommendations for Optimal Dietary Protein Intake in Older People: A Position Paper From the PROT-AGE Study Group

Abstract

New evidence shows that older adults need more dietary protein than do younger adults to support good health, promote recovery from illness, and maintain functionality. Older people need to make up for age-related changes in protein metabolism, such as high splanchnic extraction and declining anabolic responses to ingested protein. They also need more protein to offset inflammatory and catabolic conditions associated with chronic and acute diseases that occur commonly with aging. With the goal of developing updated, evidence-based recommendations for optimal protein intake by older people, the European Union Geriatric Medicine Society (EUGMS), in cooperation with other scientific organizations, appointed an international study group to review dietary protein needs with aging (PROT-AGE Study Group). To help older people (>65 years) maintain and regain lean body mass and function, the PROT-AGE study group recommends average daily intake at least in the range of 1.0 to 1.2 g protein per kilogram of body weight per day. Both endurance- and resistance-type exercises are recommended at individualized levels that are safe and tolerated, and higher protein intake (ie, ≥1.2 g/kg body weight/d) is advised for those who are exercising and otherwise active. Most older adults who have acute or chronic diseases need even more dietary protein (ie, 1.2–1.5 g/kg body weight/d). Older people with severe kidney disease (ie, estimated GFR <30 mL/min/1.73m2), but who are not on dialysis, are an exception to this rule; these individuals may need to limit protein intake. Protein quality, timing of ingestion, and intake of other nutritional supplements may be relevant, but evidence is not yet sufficient to support specific recommendations. Older people are vulnerable to losses in physical function capacity, and such losses predict loss of independence, falls, and even mortality. Thus, future studies aimed at pinpointing optimal protein intake in specific populations of older people need to include measures of physical function.

So yes there is evidence of the problem.

Gundry said he found the KEY protein that ‘unlocks’ the repair and rebuild signal. An amino acid named leucine. Well he is sort of correct but there is a lot more to it. I found an excellent paper and have provided excerpts at the end of this article. It is a very long paper. Before I found that paper I found other information of interest.

Before I go any further into Amino acids and muscle building, I want to point out something that I think the researchers are missing. A Qtreeper handed this information to us.

Exposing The Great Acid Reflux Scam — Why Stomach Acid Is Critical For Health — A Midwestern Doctor

This is the important part for this article.

Why Stomach Acid Is Essential for Your Health

Subtle distortions frequently occur in science, creating a false conception of reality that conveniently allows a profitable industry to exist. For example, stomach acid is largely viewed as unnecessary and thus frequently possible to justify eliminating with acid suppressing medications. In reality, it has numerous vital functions:

Protein Digestion: Amino acids, the building blocks of the body, are obtained from protein. Without sufficient acid, proteins can’t be properly digested, leading to significant nutritional deficiencies, impaired energy levels, mood or cognitive function, and food sensitivities from undigested foreign proteins entering the bloodstream…

Since GERD [Gastroesophageal reflux disease] is so common, that suggests there is also a widespread deficiency in stomach (hydrochloric) acid. Presently, I believe a few factors are responsible:

Aging: Stomach acid production decreases with age, particularly after 60. This decline is linked to various health issues, making amino acid and B-12 supplementation crucial for older adults. The increasing prevalence of GERD with age suggests that doctors often misattribute symptoms to excess acid rather than considering a deficiency…

If the proteins are not being digested, then the amino acids will not be available for muscle building.

How to Get 2.5 gr of Leucine

The Importance of Leucine

Leucine is one of the three branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) essential for muscle protein synthesis. Unlike other amino acids, the body cannot produce leucine, so getting it from your diet is vital. Understanding the leucine content in foods can help you make informed dietary choices to support your fitness and health objectives.

One reason many people refer to 30 g of protein as the minimum amount per meal is that that’s the amount typically required to get 2.5 g of leucine from most foods. Professor Don Layman’s research emphasises leucine for muscle growth, showing that older adults require at least 2.5 g of leucine to activate muscle protein synthesis, which is vital for muscle building and repair. 

With less than this, the protein you eat is used only to maintain your vital organs, which are a higher priority than your muscles.  While leucine is required to activate muscle protein synthesis, you need all the essential amino acids to build and repair your body, so it’s not as simple as supplementing with leucine. 

How Much Leucine and BCAAs Do You Need?

This article has references to several papers.

….In order to get the most from your time in the weights room, you might want to start thinking about adding more Branched-chain Amino Acids (BCAAs) and Leucine to your diet. But what are they? What will they do for you? Do you even need them? Here’s everything you need to know…

Nine of these are essential for humans to consume in our diets as they can’t be created from other amino acids, and these are known as Essential Amino Acids (EAAs). Three of these are categorised as Branched-chain Amino Acids – so-called because of their structure – and these are leucine, isoleucine and valine.

Different protein-rich foods vary in their protein quality, and you can read more about this in our Guide to Protein Quality, Digestion and Absorption.

3 Amino Acids That Promote Muscle Growth (and the Foods You’ll Find Them In)

…Our bodies need 20 amino acids overall to develop and function, but the nine essential amino acids we get from our food are histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine. Foods that contain adequate levels of these amino acids and can be easily digested and absorbed are considered “complete proteins.” They typically come from animal sources, so you can get a good dose of them from a juicy steak or pan-seared salmon…

Many plant proteins are considered incomplete, with a handful of exceptions such as tofu and edamame…

Leucine, isoleucine, and valine are the three branched-chain amino acids, and they’re your best friends when trying to build muscle. 

Leucine is the most powerful amino acid for muscle growth because it’s thought to stimulate the actual muscle protein synthesis process, but isoleucine and valine also play important supporting roles along the way…

1. Leucine

Leucine acts as a sort of “green light” to muscle growth. It triggers muscle protein synthesis “by signaling to pathways that other amino acids are available to start the muscle repair process post-exercise,” explains Samuel, adding that you need at least 2–3 grams of leucine to stimulate the process. 

Research also illustrates leucine’s role in promoting muscle growth and metabolic health. A small 2020 study published in the journal Nutrients, for example,found that leucine helped moderately reduce muscle damage in young men after a short bout of resistance exercise. This amino acid also helps heal wounds and balance blood sugar levels, according to the Cleveland Clinic.

2. Isoleucine

Isoleucine also contributes to muscle protein synthesis, playing a vital but not quite as influential role as leucine. It appears to increase muscle mass by promoting myogenesis, the process by which we actually form muscle tissue, according to a 2021 study in mice published in Food & Function.

BCAAs, especially isoleucine, also help increase the uptake of glucose into cells, according to Samuel. Because glucose is your body’s main fuel source, isoleucine may indirectly help boost your energy (although more research is needed). And the more energy you have, the harder you can hit your muscle-building workouts.

3. Valine

Valine acts as a complement to the other two BCAAs: It’s used to make glucose in the body and helps improve muscle protein synthesis when paired with leucine and adequate levels of other amino acids, Samuel says.

Plus, a 2023 study published in Bioscience, Biotechnology, & Biochemistry indicates that valine improves mitochondrial function, aka the body’s ability to generate energy from the food we eat…

Leucine: The Amino Acid That Matters Most for Muscle

“Originally it was thought that all three BCAAs play a direct role in muscle building,” says Paul Falcone, principal scientist at BODi. “But research indicates that much of the effect of branched-chain amino acids is really driven by leucine.”

That’s because leucine is key in the process of muscle protein synthesis, which enables muscle hypertrophy (growth).

Leucine has the ability to directly signal mTOR, one of the major nutrient sensor molecules and master regulators in the body that’s known for anabolic (growth) signaling. This helps make muscles absorb protein, which is key for their preservation and growth.

In this way, leucine is both a building block at a construction site and the contractor directing the process, Falcone says. Because it plays this dual role, it’s the most important amino acid for muscle building.

According to the USDA FoodData Central, some of the foods that contain the most leucine per serving include:

• Chicken
• Beef
• Pork
• Tuna
• Milk
• Cheese

“The amount of leucine that you have in protein is important,” Falcone says. “But leucine is not going to be effective on its own. It’s effective in the right amount, as a part of an essential amino acid blend or protein supplement. The leucine content of your protein is a major driver of its effect on muscle building.”

According to a 2017 position stand by the International Society of Sports Nutrition, your protein supplement should contain 700 to 3,000 mg of leucine per serving, in addition to a balanced array of essential amino acids.

What is Leucine? | Leucine Benefits, Dosage and Sources

Leucine dosage and when to take

Most research supports that between 20-40mg/kg body weight per day is adequate for supporting ideal levels of leucine in the body. One study showed that the timing of leucine supplementation did not make a difference (unlike BCAAs, which are recommended before or during a workout).^2,4 Keeping a consistent intake of leucine is key, especially for the effects it can have for preventing muscle breakdown on rest days.

Leucine Food Sources

Food	Leucine content (g per 100g)
Beef	2.9
Chicken breast	2.7
Tuna	2.4
Seeds	2.4
Pork	2.2
Nuts	1.5
Tofu	1.4
Eggs	1.1

I am including the following because it has alternate food sources and other info.

Top Foods High in Leucine — WebMD

Recommended Daily Amounts of Essential Amino Acids
Amino Acid	Recommended Daily Allowance
Histidine	14 milligrams
Isoleucine	19 milligrams
Leucine	42 milligrams
Lysine	38 milligrams
Methionine	19 milligrams
Phenylalanine	33 milligrams
Threonine	20 milligrams
Tryptophan	5 milligrams
Valine	24 milligrams

There are many dietary sources for leucine and other BCAAs. Consider these healthy sources of amino acids: 

Salmon

Get your amino acids from salmon, and you’ll also get omega-3 fatty acids. There are some health concerns about farmed salmon. Choose wild-caught or limit your servings per month.

Chickpeas

These nutritional superstars contain 7 grams of protein and 6 grams of fiber in just half a cup, and they are high in iron, too. Enjoy them as hummus or add them to soups, stews, curries, and salads.

Brown rice

Try brown rice instead of white. It has a nutty taste and a slightly chewy texture that many people enjoy.

Eggs

Even the American Heart Association says that an egg a day is okay. You’ll get 6 grams of protein in one egg. 

Soybeans

This versatile legume is available in a variety of forms, including tofu, tempeh, edamame, and roasted soybeans. Today, texturized soy protein is readily available in supermarkets. It can substitute meat in many dishes.

Nuts

Almonds, Brazil nuts, and cashews are good sources of essential amino acids. So are peanuts, although they are technically legumes instead of nuts.

Beef

Beef is one of the best sources of amino acids. To reduce your intake of fats and cholesterol, choose a lean cut or try grass-fed beef.

Protein Requirements and Recommendations for Older People: A Review

Abstract

Declines in skeletal muscle mass and strength are major contributors to increased mortality, morbidity and reduced quality of life in older people. Recommended Dietary Allowances/Intakes have failed to adequately consider the protein requirements of the elderly with respect to function. The aim of this paper was to review definitions of optimal protein status and the evidence base for optimal dietary protein. Current recommended protein intakes for older people do not account for the compensatory loss of muscle mass that occurs on lower protein intakes. Older people have lower rates of protein synthesis and whole-body proteolysis in response to an anabolic stimulus (food or resistance exercise). Recommendations for the level of adequate dietary intake of protein for older people should be informed by evidence derived from functional outcomes. Randomized controlled trials report a clear benefit of increased dietary protein on lean mass gain and leg strength, particularly when combined with resistance exercise. There is good consistent evidence (level III-2 to IV) that consumption of 1.0 to 1.3 g/kg/day dietary protein combined with twice-weekly progressive resistance exercise reduces age-related muscle mass loss. Older people appear to require 1.0 to 1.3 g/kg/day dietary protein to optimize physical function, particularly whilst undertaking resistance exercise recommendations.

And finally the LONG paper I mentioned at the beginning.

Anabolic Resistance in the Pathogenesis of Sarcopenia in the Elderly: Role of Nutrition and Exercise in Young and Old People

The term “sarcopenia” (from the Greek words “sarx”, i.e., flesh, and “penia”, i.e., loss) was first proposed by Rosenberg in 1989 to describe the age-related loss of muscle mass [1]. Later, this term referred to the decrease in muscle mass and/or strength with ageing.

Abstract

The development of sarcopenia in the elderly is associated with many potential factors and/or processes that impair the renovation and maintenance of skeletal muscle mass and strength as ageing progresses. Among them, a defect by skeletal muscle to respond to anabolic stimuli is to be considered. Common anabolic stimuli/signals in skeletal muscle are hormones (insulin, growth hormones, IGF-1, androgens, and β-agonists such epinephrine), substrates (amino acids such as protein precursors on top, but also glucose and fat, as source of energy), metabolites (such as β-agonists and HMB), various biochemical/intracellular mediators), physical exercise, neurogenic and immune-modulating factors, etc. Each of them may exhibit a reduced effect upon skeletal muscle in ageing. In this article, we overview the role of anabolic signals on muscle metabolism, as well as currently available evidence of resistance, at the skeletal muscle level, to anabolic factors, from both in vitro and in vivo studies. Some indications on how to augment the effects of anabolic signals on skeletal muscle are provided.

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2.1. The Molecular Mechanisms behind Muscles Growth in Young Subjects: Exercise, Nutrients, and Hormones

Muscle growth, or muscle hypertrophy, is a complex process regulated by several molecular pathways. The primary pathways that promote muscle growth in response to exercise, nutrients, and growth signals include the IGF-1/PI3K (phosphoinositide 3-kinase)/Akt/mTOR pathway and hormones like testosterone and GH (Figure 1).

The IGF-1/PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway is a vital signaling cascade in muscle growth that involves various interconnected mechanisms. Its activation increases protein synthesis, reduces protein degradation, and improves cell growth. The molecular mechanisms and interactions within this pathway are still being studied in human muscle physiology. When activated, mTOR promotes muscle hypertrophy by stimulating protein synthesis and cell growth [13]. The mTOR kinase is the main regulator of muscle protein synthesis and responds to the availability of nutrients, particularly amino acids and growth factors. Indeed, resistance exercise and nutrient intake, especially leucine-rich amino acids, activate the mTOR pathway essential for exercise-induced muscle protein synthesis and are, thus, necessary for increasing muscle protein synthesis following resistance exercise in young men…

The timing of exercise and protein intake also affect Akt activation and subsequent muscle protein synthesis. While exercise alone did not increase Akt and mTOR phosphorylation, protein ingestion afterward did so in a dose-dependent manner. As a matter of fact, Akt activation is a complex process influenced by exercise, nutrition, and specific amino acids, and further research is being conducted to fully understand its role in muscle growth and adaptation [18].

The upstream controller in this axis is the insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), which is crucial in promoting growth and anabolic processes in skeletal muscles [13]. IGF-1 is a key growth factor that regulates both anabolic and catabolic pathways in skeletal muscle…

Testosterone is one of the most potent naturally secreted androgenic-anabolic hormones, and its biological effects include promoting muscle growth. In muscle, testosterone stimulates protein synthesis (anabolic effect) and inhibits protein degradation (anti-catabolic effect) [25,26,27,28,29]. Testosterone plays a crucial role in muscle growth in response to exercise and nutrition. Various studies have shed light on this topic. Vingren et al. (2010) explored the physiological aspects of testosterone in resistance exercise and training, highlighting its upstream regulatory elements [28]. They found that testosterone enhances muscle protein synthesis, stimulates satellite cell activation and proliferation, and modulates anabolic signaling pathways such as mTOR and IGF-1. These findings suggest that testosterone plays a key role in mediating the anabolic response to resistance exercise…

2.2.1. Effects of Proteins and Amino Acids

…Leucine is particularly important as a key metabolic regulator of MPS through its activation of the mTOR pathway, and it acutely enhances skeletal MPS both in vitro [45,47,48,49,50] (also above) and in vivo [51]. In addition to the protein or the amino acids, other variables or factors, such as the coexistence of exercise, the pattern and/or the timing of nutrient administration, the age of subjects, the presence of comorbidities, etc., are important. Most reports have investigated the combined effect of protein and exercise…

Leucine, isoleucine, and valine, i.e., the branched-chain amino acids (BCAA), account for about one-third of all amino acid residues in muscle protein, and have been extensively studied regarding their direct regulatory role (due to leucine) on protein synthesis (see also above). Nevertheless, the demonstration of a clear-cut effect of BCAA alone, on skeletal muscle hypertrophy (i.e., a long-term effect) in humans is not sound. In a meta-analysis, leucine supplementation was reported to increase the muscle protein fractional synthesis rate, however, without changing either body lean mass or leg lean mass [61]. The effect of another amino acid, glutamine (non-essential), on skeletal muscle in humans, is yet uncertain and/or unwarranted…

The structure/form of nutrient intake (free AA vs. intact protein) with respect to the timing of administration (either before, or 1 to 3 h after, exercise) on the stimulation of skeletal muscle protein accretion is relevant too. While net amino acid uptake by skeletal muscle (measured by means of femoral arteriovenous sampling) was greater when free essential amino acids plus carbohydrates were ingested before, rather than after, resistance exercise [84], the ingestion of intact whey protein was similar irrespective of the administration time [85].

2.2.3. Effect of Other Substrates

Protein synthesis is an energy-requiring process [86]; therefore, energy-providing substrates such as glucose and fat may affect protein turnover too. The activities of the cellular pathways controlling protein turnover are bio-energetically expensive and therefore depend on intracellular energy availability (i.e., macronutrient intake) [87].

Glucose

Glucose increased muscle protein synthesis in vitro [88]. Testing glucose-induced or derived substrates separately, tissue ATP decreased during incubation with lactate, and lactate + pyruvate supported protein synthesis better than pyruvate or glucose. The data on the effects in humans of either glucose or fat on protein metabolism, specifically on skeletal muscle, are scarce, complex, and not univocal [42]. Enteral glucose administration did not affect either duodenal mucosal protein FSR or the activities of mucosal proteases [89]. An oral glucose load, and the simultaneous glucose-induced stimulation of insulin secretion, did not alter the rate of whole-body protein synthesis or breakdown [90]. Similarly, glucose ingestion added to a protein dose that maximally stimulated MPS, despite greater insulin increments, did not show either additive or synergistic effects on either the stimulation of MPS or the inhibition of muscle protein breakdown [91]. The co-ingestion of carbohydrates with protein did not further augment the post-exercise stimulation of muscle protein synthesis…

Lipids and Ketones

The effects of either lipid or ketone infusion/administration in humans are complex. Lipid infusion in humans did not affect proteolysis [96]. In contrast, medium-chain fatty acid infusion apparently increased leucine oxidation and, therefore, net protein catabolism [97]. Thus, the effects on whole-body protein degradation may depend on the fatty acid length [98]. The increase in FFA decreased basal muscle protein synthesis, but not the anabolic effect of leucine [99]. When associated with dietary protein ingestion, neither acute nor short-term dietary fat overload impaired skeletal MPS in overweight/obese men in the post-prandial phase, thus excluding a role by dietary accumulation of intramuscular lipids on the anabolic response to meal ingestion [100]. The infusion of 3OHButyrate decreased both whole body and forearm protein turnover (measured by phenylalanine/tyrosine tracers), as well as phenylalanine catabolism, in post-absorptive conditions, whereas it did not modify the insulin-induced effects following an euglycemic clamp [96]. In another study, 3OHButyrate infusion did not change whole-body leucine turnover, decreased leucine oxidation, and increased the non-oxidative portion of leucine disposal, while muscle PS increased, demonstrating an anabolic effect of 3OHButyrate at this level [101].

[There is a whole lot more info. And then they get into us old folks. — GC]

3.2. Anabolic Resistance in Ageing: Human Studies

Elderly subjects exhibit many abnormalities in protein metabolism in respect to younger subjects, here concisely summarized:

1. An increased splanchnic “trapping” of the ingested substrates, henceforth reducing amino acid delivery to peripheral tissues, such as skeletal muscle. Google AI — Aging and Clinical States: In older adults or those with certain metabolic conditions, splanchnic uptake can become hyperactive (a process called splanchnic sequestration). This means too many amino acids get trapped in the gut/liver, leaving less available for the muscles. This contributes to age-related muscle loss (sarcopenia)
2. A decreased amino acid utilization by muscle, and/or the requirement for a greater AA load/delivery to stimulate appropriately PS in muscle, compatible with an anabolic-resistant state. In other words, the skeletal muscle in ageing might be less sensitive to lower (normal) levels of amino acids than that in young adults, and may thus require more protein to acutely stimulate muscle protein synthesis above rest, to achieve the required accretion of muscle proteins.
3. A decrease in energy production otherwise required to sustain the energy-expensive PS.
4. Altered protein digestion.
5. A decrease in transluminal AA transport.
6. An intestinal microbiota different from that of younger people.

Any of the above-listed potential factors could explain why elderly people would require, and/or are recommended to assume, at least ≈ 50% more protein than either young or mature subjects [66]. In the following sections, we report the literature data on protein turnover in ageing, both in basal and “post-absorptive” conditions, and following nutrition, exercise, and response to hormones.

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However, at variance with these earlier reports, more recent studies consistently failed to confirm the earlier findings of decreased basal muscle protein synthesis in elderly subjects, showing little or no differences between young and old adults…

It should, however, be recognized that basal muscle protein turnover could particularly be altered in frail, elderly subjects, being potentially associated also with a chronic, subtle, systemic inflammatory state and/or other co-morbidities [198,199]. Indeed, inflammatory mediators, such as cytokines, particularly TNFα, may impair skeletal muscle protein FSR, by interfering with the phosphorylation of the mammalian target of the rapamycin (mTOR) pathway [150], critically involved in the regulation of mRNA translation, muscle protein synthesis, and growth [200]. Therefore, it is currently accepted that basal skeletal muscle protein turnover is near-normal in healthy elderly subjects. In contrast, a different, complex picture can emerge when studying the response in ageing of skeletal muscle protein turnover to anabolic stimuli, such as substrates (i.e., mixed meals, protein, amino acid mixtures, other metabolites), exercise, anabolic hormones, or their combinations.

Elderly subjects exhibit some peculiarities in the handling of oral feeding. Using the essential amino acid leucine as a tracer, a greater first-pass splanchnic uptake of ingested amino acid(s) was reported in the elderly rather than in young people, suggesting that a lower proportion of ingested amino acid reached the peripheral circulation [195]. Such a greater splanchnic extraction could limit the amino-acid-mediated stimulation of muscle protein synthesis in peripheral tissues such as skeletal muscle. Consequently, sustaining splanchnic vs. muscle protein synthesis could indicate a “metabolic priority” during recovery from metabolic stress in healthy elderly persons. Such a mechanism might become more relevant in older individuals suffering from chronic diseases and/or subjected to poly-medications [201]. However, in contrast with the above report, it was also reported that oral amino acids stimulated muscle protein anabolism in the elderly, despite the higher first-pass splanchnic extraction [202].

A protein pulse rather than a spread (or continued) oral feeding stimulated the best protein accretion in the elderly [203]…

Generally speaking, dietary protein supplementation can augment the gains in skeletal muscle mass and strength mediated by resistance exercise… Verdijk et al. compared the increment(s) in skeletal muscle mass and strength following 3 months of resistance exercise training, with or without protein ingestion, either prior to or immediately after each exercise session in elderly males who habitually consumed about 1.0 g protein/kg per day [210]. They concluded that timed protein supplementation prior to and after each exercise bout did not further increase skeletal muscle hypertrophy…

No impairment of muscle protein synthesis to protein intake was detected in elderly subjects after ingestion of large amounts of carbohydrates and proteins [211], or of either moderate (≈115 g) [212] or large (≈300 g) amounts of beef [213]. By comparing sarcopenic (≈80 y) and healthy (≈70 y) older men, the ingestion of ≈20 g of a leucine-enriched whey protein load, increased muscle protein synthesis rates to the same extent in both groups [214].

In older adults, following the ingestion of mixed meals containing combinations of animal (beef) and vegetal proteins, the whole-body anabolic response linearly increased with increasing protein intake, primarily due to the suppression of protein breakdown. Notably, muscle protein synthesis (i.e., one factor contributing to the net protein accretion, or balance, together with the suppression of protein degradation) was further stimulated by a protein dose (70 g) above that previously considered as “optimal” in the elderly (≈35 g/kg BW) [215], yet attaining the same maximal response as that of young subjects. However, at the 40 g dose, the stimulation of muscle protein synthesis in the elderly was lower than that observed in the young volunteers, therefore compatible with anabolic resistance in the former group at a “lower” (i.e., 40 g) mixed protein dose (see also below). The above-reported protein dose(s) stimulating MPS in older subjects were, however, greater than the 20 g high-quality, whey protein dose that produced the maximal effect on MPS in young people, either exercising or not [72]. The muscle protein synthetic response to the combined ingestion of protein and carbohydrate (i.e., an additional energy source) was not impaired in healthy older men [216]. Similarly, the co-ingestion of carbohydrates with protein and free leucine stimulated muscle protein synthesis to the same extent in young and elderly lean men [217]…

A ten-day administration of a supplement containing fast-digestive proteins (soluble milk proteins compared to casein alone) could overcome muscle anabolic resistance in the elderly [205]. Furthermore, oral EAA ingestion exhibited a retarded albeit still sustained response of MPS in the elderly as compared to young subjects [58].

In older men, skeletal muscle was also less responsive to the anabolic effects of leucine in the postprandial phase than in the young controls [219]. Also, a higher proportion of leucine within an essential amino acid mixture was required for the optimal stimulation of muscle protein synthesis in the elderly, rather than in young subjects…

3.2.6. Deleterious Effects of Bed Rest in the Elderly

A condition opposite to exercise is bed rest, an undesired situation very common in hospitalized older subjects, as well as in those old persons in whom, for a variety of factors, physical activity is restrained and/or abolished, either voluntarily or not [156,225,226,227]. In older adults, bed rest significantly restrained the EAA-induced increase in MPS, through a reduction in mTORC1 signaling and amino acid transport [228]. EAA supplementation above RDA may help to preserve muscle function in the elderly during inactivity

3.2.7. Effect of the Inflammatory State

Acute and chronic inflammation retain undesired effects on skeletal muscle mass and protein metabolism. Thus, age-associated inflammation (either subtle or overt) may negatively affect the anabolic sensitivity of skeletal muscle in the elderly. Toth et al. reported a strong relationship exists between MPS and circulating concentrations of several markers of immune activation [199]. At the mechanistic level, cytokines, in particularly, TNF-α, may impair MPS by blunting the phosphorylation of proteins in the mammalian target of the rapamycin (mTOR) intracellular signaling pathway…

3.3.1. The Effect of Complex Nutritional Supplements

Although natural foods rich in high-quality protein (dairy products, meat, and egg) can adequately stimulate protein anabolism as efficiently as that of protein-rich supplements and/or of specifically designed amino acid mixtures, the advantage of using specific nutritional supplements remains questionable…

3.3.2. Specific Effects of Leucine Addition

The addition of leucine to other nutritional products may be a valid supplement to be used in the elderly, although with somehow limited effects [240]. Older subjects consuming a leucine supplement showed a greater increase in MPS rates from baseline than the controls, but not in lean body mass or muscle function [61]. In a recent study in older men (74 y), co-ingestion of 2.5 g leucine with 20 g casein resulted in a 22% higher muscle protein synthetic rate compared with ingestion of casein alone [241].

The leucine effect seems to be dose-dependent. Leucine added as a supplement (3–5 g) to either whey protein or EAA solutions in either younger or older men, showed comparable increments in skeletal muscle myofibrillar protein synthesis (MyoPS), at variance with no sustained stimulation observed in control subjects receiving only 1.8 g leucine [242,243]. However, the leucine effect in skeletal muscle of aged people might be impaired, as mTORC1 activation is defective, and sensitivity and responsiveness of muscle protein synthesis to amino acids decreased [50]. Conversely, the basal activation of mTOR seems to be higher. A combined effect of age-related impairment of muscle signaling and insufficient availability/delivery of nutrients and growth factors to the muscle might contribute to sarcopenia. Thus, whether ageing per se affects mTORC1 signaling is yet uncertain, because of the common association between poor protein assumption, reduced/absent physical activity, and concurrent diseases. In studies in which habitual protein intake exceeded 1.0–1.1 g/kg/day, and included a moderate/high proportion of dairy protein, prolonged leucine supplementation (2.5 g daily for six months) did not increase muscle mass or strength in healthy type 2 diabetic older adult

3.3.3. Exercise Strategies

The primary target(s) of sarcopenia prevention/amelioration is the reduction in the risk of falls and fractures and the maintenance of independence in everyday tasks. The interventions applied to attain these targets look very similar to those aimed at the amelioration of general health status with ageing, such as improvements in muscle mass and strength, bone density, cardiovascular fitness, maximal oxygen consumption, endurance, and energy metabolism, in addition to the reduction in insulin resistance and the associated risk of diabetes mellitus, coronary heart disease, hypertension, and obesity [245]. In other words, the benefits of regular exercise translate into an improvement in the quality of life of elderly populations. Practicing regular exercise is a prerequisite to attain and maintain these benefits over time. In order to attain these key objectives, much attention has to be devoted to the implementation of specific exercise programs, aiming at increasing the awareness of their safety, required constancy, and compliance.

Following regular training, older subjects can increase muscle strength as much as that of younger control subjects, even by threefold, over a few months. This result is initially accomplished by neural adaptation(s) and greater muscle fiber recruitment, while more prolonged resistance training leads to an increase in muscle mass/size too, (partially) restoring the loss of the cross-sectional area of type II muscle fibers occurring with ageing [246]. Resistance training contributes to improvement in the functional capacity of the levels of physical activity and allows participation in daily living activities to be maintained, thus being motivationally efficient too. Specific protocols for the implementation of exercise to combat sarcopenia in ageing, in the old [247], as well as the oldest-old (80–85 y) [248] and the physically frail [249], have been proposed.

Both resistance/strength/weight exercise and endurance/aerobic training of skeletal muscles may be useful in the prevention and treatment of sarcopenia. Strenght training can positively affect the neuromuscular system, and increase hormone concentrations and the MPS rate [250]; however, from a recent meta-analysis, the benefit of combining dietary supplements and exercise is not so straightforward among different populations [251].

Exercise training has been consistently shown to be highly effective in slowing down and possibly preventing the insurgence of sarcopenia in older people, counteracting the loss of muscle mass, and strength, and an increase in intramuscular fat infiltrations. While stressing the importance of a personalized approach, general physical activity guidelines suggest that a combination of aerobic exercise, progressive resistance training, and balance training might be the ideal intervention for a sarcopenic population. Of note in a mixed training involving aerobic, strength, and balance exercises was effective in improving or preserving motoneuronal health and neuromuscular junction (NMJ) stability, together with muscle mass, strength, and functionality in an old, sarcopenic population [252]. These sarcopenic subjects were trained three times per week for 2 years with a mix of aerobic, strength, and balance exercises matched with nutritional advice [252]. The same group of researchers followed older dancers for 6 months, reporting a major stability in neuromuscular junctions and a superior functional performance despite no differences in muscle size…

New exercise technologies, and supplementation by antioxidants, vitamin D, eicosapentaenoic acid, or ursolic acid, as well as activation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ coactivator-1α (PGC-1α), may be considered too…

A number of reports have also investigated the optimal daily distribution of food protein, as well as the timing of the administration with respect to exercise performance (see also above).

In regard to food protein distribution over the three main daily meals, it was reported that non-frail elderly subjects consume dietary proteins more evenly than pre-frail and frail subjects, thus suggesting that the daily protein load should be consumed as ≈30 g protein (in a representative 75 kg subject) at each of the three daily mealtimes [264]. Conversely, in a subsequent randomized-controlled trial, the pattern of meal-protein intake (i.e., even vs. not even) over the day did not affect lean body mass, muscle strength, or other functional outcomes, as well as whole-body protein kinetics and MPS over 8 weeks in older adults [265].

With respect to the timing of food protein food administration with exercise (i.e., before, at the beginning, i.e., at t = 0′, or after exercise performance), in the only published study in the elderly, the early intake of a protein supplement immediately before (at t = 0′) each bout of resistance-type exercise in a 12-week intervention study in the elderly sustained skeletal muscle hypertrophy, as opposed to having no effect with the supplement intake taken 2 h after exercise [266]. Notably, protein ingestion in the evening/night before sleep increased Muscle Protein Synthesis throughout the night in healthy older men [267].

A list and the quantities of common foods providing ≈ 30 g of protein are reported in Table 4. (data compiled from ref. [268]) The quantities of animal foods are lower than those of vegetal foods (except for soybeans and quinoa), because of their balanced content of essential amino acids. The reported quantities are only indicative, because most of these foods have not been specifically tested in controlled studies of stimulation of skeletal MPS with exercise in the elderly.

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I am going to start with Jeff Childer’s June 3^rd article.

☕️ BUGS ☙ Wednesday, June 3, 2026 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

Last week, Keven Warsh was sworn in by Justice Clarence Thomas as our newest Fed Chair…. Yesterday, Warsh placed his first two hires on the chessboard. Their credentials provide what we might call a ‘signal’… Paul Winfree is one of the “Project 2025” authors, which is bad enough, but he also wrote the chapter on the Federal Reserve…

..Bill Pulte is uniquely positioned to watch money move around the world, and to connect those flows to the people and groups behind them.

As FHFA director and chairman of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Bill already oversees institutions that touch or guarantee a large share of U.S. mortgages, giving him access (directly or via agency tools such as anti‑fraud analytics) to extraordinarily detailed, often nonpublic financial and property data on elites and institutions.

Layer on top of that his new ODNI role, which coordinates foreign‑intelligence collection and analysis, including programs that sometimes sweep in the communications and financial dealings of U.S. citizens talking to foreigners, and suddenly the same hard‑charging operator willing to wield mortgage records against the Administration’s political enemies can, in principle, cross‑reference housing, credit, and ownership patterns with intelligence‑grade information about foreign contacts, shell structures, and illicit funding streams.

There’s a lot of potential there. But more, if an administration seeks leverage on powerful actors who thought their finances were opaque or hidden safely offshore, putting a fiercely loyal bulldog at the junction of Fannie/Freddie’s data firehose and ODNI’s surveillance and analysis capabilities is about as close as you can get to a purpose‑built leverage machine. I’m not saying that’s what’s happening. I’m just saying…

Jeff has zeroed in on a major chess move by POTUS Trump and there are a lot more dots that connect to that hypothesis.

Now let’s step back in time.

A nurse, Liz Harris, who refused the Clot Shot, ran for office in AZ and was elected to the state legislature. She invited Jacqueline Breger, a forensic investigator for Attorney John Thaler, to testify at a legislative hearing in February 2023. Breger presented allegations of election fraud, cartel bribes, and money laundering via land deeds. The Arizona House of Representatives responded by expelling Harris in a bipartisan vote after the hearing, as the committee determined she had engaged in “disorderly behavior” and violated the chamber’s rules.

Sure smells like they were running scared to me.

Corrupted By Drug Cartel Money Laundering Scheme And Election Theft | Frank Speech the Home of Free Speech

The use of land/houses to launder money is not unknown.

The Professor’s Record – David K. Clements (Attorney)

People that follow me know that I am regularly a cautionary check against hopium.
The strength of Thaler’s investigation is not rooted in theory, equations, or statistical deviations, but rather thousands of documented falsified transactions…

My intuition was informed by a drug trafficking organization I helped dismantle. During my office’s investigation, we located bogus deeds of trust, that facilitated money laundering in sham real estate deals. This led to racketeering convictions of organization members. Our team went on to secure six 1st degree murder convictions of the crime organization that were tying up loose ends that threatened the organization.

The investigative work of John Thaler that I’ve reviewed over the past 24 hours is textbook in its approach to exposing racketeering, and of crucial importance.

The fact that his work led him directly to election corruption and bribes is not shocking. His account needs to be shared to everyone.

At 36:30 in the following video Gregg Phillips mentions some of the NGOs have off-shoots that are into real estate and funnel money back and forth. Gregg says, If what Thaler says is true, it is one of the most explosive stories in history. From: https://rumble.com/v2bbfa0-live-1205p-a-conversation-with-john-h-thaler-and-jacqueline-s.-fine-breger.html

pgroup2, in response to my April comment on this said

We found evidence of exactly what is described here:

we located bogus deeds of trust, that facilitated money laundering in sham real estate deals.

So a method for laundering major amounts of money has been IDed and tied to election fraud.

Next we have Maduro being snatched and the possibility he is a cooperating witness. SEE:

KMAG DAILY THREAD 20260107 & VENEZUELA

Let’s remember where Venezuela is. It borders the Caribbean. What else is in the Caribbean? The origin point for the infamous system of offshore banking established directly by the British. Back in 1960, the largest banking houses in London, working in partnership with the government and the ex-checker, established 14 completely separate secret jurisdictions. These are the offshore banking centers that now hold between 50 and 75 trillion dollars with all 50 of the world’s largest banks operating within them. These offshore centers exist outside the control of sovereign governments. They’re secret, they’re unregulated, and they facilitate illegal activity. What we once had, a legitimate regulated banking system, has been transformed into a criminal enterprise.

Interestingly, the Russians have known this for years and have been more vociferous about it than any Western government. In a 2014 speech, Viktor Ivanov, then Russia’s top drug enforcement official, laid it out clearly in a Moscow conference. He said,

“This allows us to confidently assert that narco money is the foundation of the modern financial system. It is not surprising that during the first peak of the financial crisis of 2008 2009, Antonio Costa from the UN announced that the top banks in the world dumped in around $352 billion of narco dollars to use for interbank borrowing to address the critical shortage of liquidity. And he goes on to make clear that the global financial system needs drug money to survive. The very existence of the global financial bubble, he said, is based on precisely this opportunity for banks to attract liquid narco money. In fact,this garbage fertilizes the present economic system…

…Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant recently commented that 50% of his job involves issues of national security.

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48 minutes Josh: ..Now you were talking about Scavino? Every journey has an end? … Hold on because this is important. So Scavino, by the way Trump shows the three phases and the last phase is the last one the completion right? So now you have Dan Scavino. “Every journey has an end.” Well this is really, really interesting .. [Discus relevant Q posts]. That’s contextual reference frame that it correlates directly to what you’re just talking about. And then what do you have? You have the White House posting on the same day that the DOW [Dept of War] CTO posted “Trust in Trump. Sit back and relax. It’ll all work out in the end. It always does. President Donald J. Trump.” So, another trust in Trump. Now, I didn’t look at the time stamp of this one. I can check it out [on the Q board] real quick. .. [ __ ] “Now, here comes the pain….

Cuz you said that the quote that Scavino put up was from Endgame, right? Or Enders Game. The one that I put, “part of the journey is the end”, which is the back half of that quote…

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https://twitter.com/Savedangel61/status/1111049557620768769
He thought that was part of the plan (end game)?
Hence why [] drafted the recommendation letter to fire?
https://twitter.com/Comey/status/1109930531389472768
“So many questions.”
HAS FULL CONTROL?
These people are stupid.
Indictment(s) coming?
Q

.. And it’s from Endgame. “He thought that was part of the plan. (Endgame)? So many questions. who has full control? These people are stupid. Indictment(s) coming.”

52 minutes Josh: ….I want to get into something else that happened today. So, we got the Q. So, something big is about to happen. Now, isn’t it interesting that today Trump nominated his new director of national intelligence?

Alpha: And you know, he did it on the same day that BB formally declared the new director for Mossad….

53 minutes Josh: Now why Bill Pulte? Why? Why did Donald Trump put the trust fund Bill Pulte as director of national intelligence? It’s actually very simple.

Number one, Bill Pulte is a Trump loyalist through and through. The guy won’t cross Trump.

Number two is he tells Trump everything that’s going on. He’s very good at delivering Trump’s orders. In other words, Trump basically has someone in the DNI that he knows is 100% absolute loyal to him.

Why is that important? Because you have Devin Nunes who is in a senior consulting position directly at ODNI who’s basically going to be guiding Pulte through everything that comes about from DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s declassification and investigations that she’s leading. Pulte is simply pointing a finger. Do this, do this, do this. Devin Nunes is controlling it and Trump is controlling it. This is actually highly strategic of Donald Trump to do this.

It scares the living shit out of the DC freaking panicans.

[Think refusal to renew their beloved FISA all of a sudden and threatening to pass a law preventing Bill Pulte taking the position. So yes some are freaking out. — GC]

Now, I want people to understand that there are people in the Senate, so when DNI Tulsi Gabbard resigned and said that she’s coming out on the 30th, what happens then is John Thune and various different Senate leaders, they go and meet with Donald Trump and they say, “Hey, this is who we we would want to go in as director of national intelligence. This is who we’re suggesting.” This is how it works in DC.” And typically 85% of the time, the president would go with those recommendations because you’re going to guarantee Senate approval.

Tom Cotton was one of the lead people that was being proposed by the Senate, by the way, so APEC right there.

….

Double check of Info:

SEE: https://www.opensecrets.org/profiles/tom-cotton/us_congress/organizations?mpid=1140206

American Israel Public Affairs Cmte — $838,347
Goldman Sachs ————————— $103,500
Blackstone Group ————————- $41,200
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher ————— $37,400
Stephens Inc ——————————- $37,308
Walmart Inc ——————————- $22,241
Brownstein, Hyatt et al —————— $21,250
Andreessen Horowitz ——————– $21,000
Pfizer Inc ——————————— $19,500

But I want to add something that I think is MUCH MORE TO THE POINT. You will see why later.

See: https://www.opensecrets.org/profiles/tom-cotton/us_congress/summary?cycle=2020&mpid=1140206

Real Estate developers & subdividers — $180,085

Tom Cotton Got Big Campaign Cash From a Donor profiting off Russia’s War on Ukraine – Business Insider

Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas — one of the Republican Party’s more hawkish members — received tens of thousands of dollars in campaign cash from a hedge fund investor who’s reportedly made millions of dollars from commodity speculations that have paid off since Russia invaded Ukraine, according to federal campaign finance records.

Federal Election Committee records show that Soroban Capital Partners LP founder Eric Mandelblatt and his wife, Danielle Mandelblatt, last year spread $43,000 in political contributions between political action committees that support Cotton…

………..

53 minutes Josh: Well, guess what? Trump rug pulled them with Pulte. Now, why Pulte?

Pulte is already in a Senate confirmed position. So, he can get Senate confirmation. [Maybe -GC] DNI is a little bit different. He’s got to go through the Senate Intelligence Committee, but I’m pretty sure Pulte is going to get it. He’s already been Senate confirmed. So they know they can get the votes for him. But also, I think that this might be an interim rug pull. I don’t think that this is going to be Donald Trump’s final selection. He’s just going to be the interim.

You got to remember because you had the acting DNI after Tulsi Gabbard, was supposed to be the assistant DNI, Lucas, who by the way is a deep stater. He’s a holdover. And I think that a lot of people got to Trump’s ear and said, “You need to get rid of this And that’s why Bill Pulte is going in there as acting, but we will see if that comes about. I think that there’s going to be a rug pull down the road. I would say after July 4th and Trump will move Pulte out. I think that that was just to get Tom Cotton and the other Senate guys out of the running and Trump has a plan. I think it’s going to be Devin Nunez at the end of the day.

[I disagree, Pulte has a major job to do connecting Mortgage Fraud to the Drug Cartels. –GC]

56 minutes Alpha: I do think you’re right. I think Trump is going to run with a lot of acting positions until he gets his new House and Senate in January. And when that new House and Senate in January swears in, then it’s break glass time. He’s going to have a super majority and he’s going to appoint everyone that is going to make jaws drop in all these different positions and that’s going to be the A team. I think what he’s doing right now is he’s going to roll with some of these acting positions for a while.

57 minutes Josh: So, there’s also something else here and I think that this is very interesting… So I’m going to pull this up. I want to take people through my thinking here.

Josh pulls up a Trump Truth Post at 57:28:

… during this period he will remain director of the federal housing finance agency. That’s interesting.

Now here’s something interesting. The federal housing finance agencies already went after Adam Schiff. They went after Leticia James. Why? Because they’re the ones that investigate all the mortgage fraud claims, right?

Did you see what else Donald Trump did today? He signed an executive order. [Executive Order 14406 The critical phrase “…it has long been the policy of the United States to adopt tailored measures to safeguard our financial system from illicit use and promote safe and sound lending and other practices by financial institutions. My Administration will not tolerate national security and public safety risks caused by illicit cross-border financial activity…” GC] Let me pull this up. [A truth post]

May 19, 2026 Restoring Integrity to America’s Financial System

SECURING AMERICA’S FINANCIAL SYSTEM: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to protect America’s financial system from illicit activity, strengthen customer identification requirements for financial institutions, and address the credit risks posed by extending financial services to non-work authorized illegal aliens.

[Josh reads part of the Truth]

Illegal Immigrants and Foreign Fraudster steal BILLIONS every year from the American taxpayer. As part of my administration’s historic effort to end FRAUD and reverse MASS ILLEGAL IMIGRATION, I recently signed a powerful new Executive Order which will be led by the Treasury Department to stop Banks, Credit Cards, and Financial Institutions from being used to facilitate Human Trafficking or Human Smuggling, Drug Trafficking, Illegal Immigration, and the Criminal Cartels who orchestrate the activities. Access to our nation’s financial systems must be limited to those who have a legal right to be here and who are engaged in lawful and legitimate commerce. Bank accounts being used to enable illegal immigration or to store the welfare received by illegal aliens will be shut down….

Josh: Then he says, “My executive order will also allow us to stop billions in leaving our country in a matter of criminal activity.” But there’s a part here I want to point out.

Those engaged in lawful or legitimate commerce are the only ones who can use it. Then he says bank accounts being used to enable illegal immigration or to store the welfare received by illegal aliens will be shut down. You remember we talked about citizens on paper only. How the Democrats were basically creating employee agencies through Congress funded at $5 million. They had 20 employees but there’s actually two people that work there. They were actually collecting paychecks that were going through bank accounts. Well, what else are we finding out? A lot of this stuff with illegal immigrants. Think about how it works on the illegal immigrant side. All you have to do is have an illegal immigrant come in and open up a bank account or someone say that they’re an illegal immigrant and guess what happens now? They are put into the system and they can have benefits deposited, SNAP, welfare, so forth. Well, this is what he’s talking about because that is nothing more than an operation by the left, by the socialists to basically collect taxpayer dollars without ever actually being somebody meeting the benefit criterias. So, SNAP, Medicaid, and welfare fraud is massive. So, keep this in mind because he [Trump] just signed an executive order. Basically, if a bank goes out there and does business with one of these fictitious, fake people or an illegal immigrant, they are now going to come under federal scrutiny and they’re going to be investigated.

Now, remember the senior Act Blue executive in Texas was just tried for mortgage fraud. 65 million dollar worth of loans on one mortgage [ home worth] $300,000. Now, here’s the thing. How are they able to do that? They were able to do that because this is the kickback mechanism that they do. This is why Leticia James has multiple primary residences. Adam Schiff has multiple primary residences.

This is why all of the Arizona Senate and Congress are real estate brokers buying up and fixing and flipping houses out there because what they’ll do is they’ll buy a house for $250,000. They’ll put $50,000 into it and then the cartels will come out there through ancillary business organizations and give them $4 million cash for the house and they clear that money outright. This is how they have been basically getting paid off for all these transactions. Well, now you have the one man who’s going to be the acting director of national intelligence as well as the head of the housing finance office who can investigate all the mortgage fraud and everything like that. But now he’s the director of national intelligence as well. So now he has a back-end view of the classified aspects of all this operation, how it works with the cartels, with the NGOS. Do you understand what I’m saying?

1 hour 2 minutes Alpha: I think I’m picking up on something. You at least made me think of a strategy that Trump’s pulling out. Yeah, with Tulsi Gabbard as DNI working the RICO aspect of the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax and all that other stuff. With that position, you now have access to certain clearances. She’s got everything that she needs. So now she moves into an advisory role. She gets put on the sidelines.

Now the next RICO case that’s being worked on is all the mortgage fraud and everything that’s going on. So now you bring him [Pulte] in, make him the acting head of DNI. Now he gets those security clearances. He gets the access of it. And then down the line, til we see the next person that gets put into the DNI who’s working the next [RICO case] is Trump strategically putting these people in as these heads of positions to give them clearance and access to things to complete the respective investigations that they’re doing. That’s F..King GENIUS!

1 hour 3 minutes Josh: Well, not only that, but think about Bill Pulte. He could only deal with the American side of it. He doesn’t have all the information. He doesn’t know why these people are committing mortgage fraud or how that mortgage fraud is operating on a grander scale. But now as a Director of National Intelligence, he’s going to see the movement of cartels and foreign intelligence agencies and foreign militaries and how they’re moving the money around from various different banks. And how those are funding ancillary and shell corporations that then flow in to these mortgage companies and buy these houses up. And he’s going to be like, “OH!” This is to take down their [the globalist’s] massive funding mechanism.”

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There are plenty of other financial tracks showing illegal activity, but I think this is the specific money laundering method that scares the crap out of the politicians who are on the take.