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TL;DR – I asked Grok a short question designed to elicit all the information I would need to quickly determine the “lay of the land” concerning the new Moderna mRNA flu shot.
I will give you the question, the answer, my analysis of the response, and my summarizing opinion. Part of that opinion is this.
I don’t take the flu shot any more, and I don’t take mRNA shots at all. The current facts surrounding the new mRNA flu shot have – in my opinion – strongly confirmed the correctness of these positions. I will not be taking this shot, and I will counsel all my friends and loved ones not to take it.
And, as part of loving my enemies, including those adorable radical pro-vaxx people, bless their hearts, I will counsel them to stick with older flu shots, if they feel they must take something. The risks of older flu shots are smaller, with roughly no net benefit, but at least they are not accepting a far WORSE AND RISKIER vaccination platform, compared to older flu shots, for what is, IMO – only marginal improvement in some indicators, and zero correction of fundamental problems which became known during the COVID shots.
The Question
Your mileage will vary on how to interpret this response by Grok. I think you and I are likely on the same page, but taking this information to most of our friends and neighbors who trust vaccines in general, won’t be easy. Because it’s a flu shot and not a COVID shot, many will assume automatically that it’s safe.
Again – I needed a fast summary of the new Moderna mRNA flu shot, as I am trying to figure out quickly where things are going. I wanted to know the technology first. “First seek to understand – then seek to be understood.”
Thus, I asked for scientific depth, but otherwise brevity. This is a good description of a scientific abstract.
Here was my question to Grok (version 4.5, described as “Fast” on X).
Please give me a brief but scientifically deep explanation of the technology used in Moderna’s recently approved mRNA flu shot. I’m curious about two things in particular – which influenza protein is encoded, and which form of mRNA tech is being used (i.e., is it self-amplifying or more conventional). I’m also wondering if any changes in the basic mRNA technology have been made to address inherent problems of the mRNA platform, including the fact that (statistically) some recipients suffer undesirable long-term production of target protein, as well as travel of lipid nanoparticles away from the injection site.
The Answer
Grok’s response is, IMO, roughly neutral, although in a couple of places I see a fairly mild but rather typical “mainstream bias”. I’ll get to that later, as I analyze the response.
The first paragraph of the reply is bolded by Grok as a summary.
I have included paragraph-end citation links as the full links, instead of shortened active hyperlinks that Grok uses at the end of paragraphs. In one case, that turns into an embedded tweet.
Grok’s response:
Conventional (non-replicating, nucleoside-modified) mRNA encoding influenza hemagglutinin (HA) surface glycoproteins from the relevant WHO-recommended strains (trivalent in the approved formulation: A/H1N1, A/H3N2, and B/Victoria), delivered in the same type of lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) used for Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines (SM-102 ionizable lipid platform).
Moderna’s recently FDA-approved seasonal flu vaccine (mRNA-1010, branded mFlusiva/mFLUSIVA) for adults ≥50 years uses the company’s established non-replicating mRNA platform. It is not self-amplifying RNA (saRNA/sa-mRNA). saRNA constructs include alphavirus-derived replicase genes that enable intracellular RNA amplification and prolonged antigen expression at lower doses; mRNA-1010 does not. It relies on the same core technology as Spikevax: in vitro-transcribed, nucleoside-modified mRNA (typically incorporating N1-methylpseudouridine to reduce innate sensing and improve translation) with 5′ cap, optimized UTRs, and poly(A) tail, formulated in LNPs.
The encoded antigen is the full-length (membrane-anchored) hemagglutinin glycoprotein of the selected seasonal strains. HA is the primary surface protein mediating viral attachment and entry; neutralizing antibodies targeting its head domain (and to a lesser extent the stalk) are the main correlate of protection measured by hemagglutination-inhibition (HAI) assays. The approved product is trivalent (reflecting the current seasonal composition after B/Yamagata’s decline), with total mRNA dose around 37.5 μg (roughly 12.5 μg per strain). Earlier development versions were quadrivalent. The platform allows rapid sequence updates to match circulating strains without egg adaptation.
No fundamental redesign of the mRNA or LNP platform specifically for this flu vaccine has been publicly detailed to address the concerns you raise. Protein expression from conventional modified mRNA is inherently transient: the mRNA is degraded by cellular nucleases over days (typically peaking within hours to a day or two and declining substantially within a week or so in standard preclinical models), so continuous long-term production of the target protein is not a designed or statistically expected feature in recipients. Observed antigen persistence in draining lymph nodes (sometimes detectable for weeks in some studies of COVID mRNA vaccines) supports germinal-center reactions rather than ongoing systemic protein synthesis from residual mRNA. Claims of undesirable long-term production are not supported as a common or inherent platform failure in the clinical data for these vaccines.
LNP biodistribution after intramuscular injection is predominantly local (injection-site muscle and draining lymph nodes), with smaller fractions reaching the spleen and, to a lesser extent, liver; distant tissue accumulation is minimal and components clear relatively rapidly (often low/undetectable by ~1–2 weeks in available data). The SM-102-based LNPs (ionizable lipid + cholesterol + helper phospholipid + PEG-lipid) used here are the same biodegradable class employed in Spikevax; they were selected in part for improved tolerability and clearance relative to earlier ionizable lipids. No public evidence indicates major new chemistry (e.g., substantially altered ionizable lipids, targeting ligands, or miRNA-regulated expression) unique to mFlusiva to further restrict off-target travel. Dose is lower than original COVID primary series doses, which reduces overall exposure.
The LNPs in Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine (mRNA-1010/mFLUSIVA) use the same proprietary SM-102-based platform as Spikevax. Composition, size, and biodistribution are essentially identical: most stay at the injection site, a fraction reaches lymph nodes and spleen, with rapid…
In short, this is an evolutionary application of the proven non-replicating modified-mRNA + LNP system to HA antigens, leveraging manufacturing speed and the ability to induce strong humoral (and some cellular) responses without egg-based production constraints. Clinical data supported superior relative efficacy versus standard-dose inactivated vaccines in the pivotal trial, with a reactogenicity profile consistent with other mRNA vaccines (more local and systemic reactions that are mostly mild–moderate and transient).
My Analysis
I’m going to take that response a piece at a time.
Paragraph 1
The first paragraph is a summary, and it’s key.
Conventional (non-replicating, nucleoside-modified) mRNA encoding influenza hemagglutinin (HA) surface glycoproteins from the relevant WHO-recommended strains (trivalent in the approved formulation: A/H1N1, A/H3N2, and B/Victoria), delivered in the same type of lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) used for Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines (SM-102 ionizable lipid platform).
Basically, this is saying that mFlusiva is a “normal” mRNA vaccine, the same basic type as the Moderna and Pfizer COVID vaccines – but instead of targeting the sequence for the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, it targets a similar influenza surface protein – specifically, the hemagglutinin (HA) surface glycoprotein. That is one of two surface proteins shown here.
It also appears to be using the same type of lipid nanoparticles as are used in the mRNA COVID vaccines.
Paragraph 2
Moderna’s recently FDA-approved seasonal flu vaccine (mRNA-1010, branded mFlusiva/mFLUSIVA) for adults ≥50 years uses the company’s established non-replicating mRNA platform. It is not self-amplifying RNA (saRNA/sa-mRNA). saRNA constructs include alphavirus-derived replicase genes that enable intracellular RNA amplification and prolonged antigen expression at lower doses; mRNA-1010 does not. It relies on the same core technology as Spikevax: in vitro-transcribed, nucleoside-modified mRNA (typically incorporating N1-methylpseudouridine to reduce innate sensing and improve translation) with 5′ cap, optimized UTRs, and poly(A) tail, formulated in LNPs.
Several points are validated here.
mFluvia is considered to be a regular seasonal flu vaccine
It’s FDA approved for adults 50 years old and older (which includes the older 65+ subgroup as well)
It is NOT a more modern (and possibly more dangerous, IMO) self-amplifying mRNA
It uses the same tech as Moderna’s old COVID shot, named Spikevax.
It’s a standard “modified” mRNA, including the use of N1-methylpseudouridine
The fact that they have really not changed the platform is critical to understand. Any problems that are inherent to the mRNA platform itself, and not a result of the spike protein per se, are still there. Likewise, any problems that are common to both the spike protein and the HA protein will be there. And any NEW problems of the HA protein will be there, too.
Note that they are not giving it to kids. THAT is purely strategic, IMO, and is deviously smart. They know that if kids show cardiovascular and cancer effects, it’s going to be obviously the fault of the mRNA platform, and possibly even trouble for vaccination in general.
No way will they take that risk. IMO the reason they’re not taking a risk here, is that the HA protein of flu is not and cannot be a depop vector, like the spike protein. Thus, there is no sterilization or anti-fertility advantage worth taking a risk to roll out to kids.
SIDEBAR: N1-Methylpseudouridine
One further note on N1-methylpseudouridine. It is important to understand how little of it is actually contained in these vaccines. This stuff is not (IMO) toxic per se as a poison – it is only dangerous in very specific use when unnaturally incorporated into mRNA.
In the tiny amount of mRNA (micrograms) inside the tiny amount of lipid nanoparticles, literally milligrams suspended in fluid inside the tiny 0.38 mL of the shot, one out of the four bases (uridine) of that mRNA has been substituted with N1-methylated pseudouridine, and it goes straight into the machinery just like uridine would have. The only problem is that N1MPU is a bit like a worn tooth on a key, and it may turn a lock other than ONLY the one that it was intended to turn. That’s an understandable analogy to the fact that N1MPU in the coding may produce a WRONG protein sometimes – particularly due to something called “frame-shifting”.
The following Wikipedia has clearly been edited by Big Pharma shills, but you can still read between the lines, as to what they are defending / covering up / minimizing / downplaying. In the process, they basically document the problems of using a slippery fake base to avoid detection by the immune system.
I do NOT buy the Wikipedia-shilled argument that frame-shifting is innocuous – because IMO it will only be innocuous until it isn’t – just like any other “error” that is allowed to fester until the plane crash happens in combination with other events.
Paragraph 3
The third paragraph basically explains what was measured to state that this vaccine was superior to existing non-mRNA vaccines. Note that nothing here deals with safety or risk – just efficacy. You can also see how little mRNA is used – basically 12.5 micrograms per strain of influenza.
The encoded antigen is the full-length (membrane-anchored) hemagglutinin glycoprotein of the selected seasonal strains. HA is the primary surface protein mediating viral attachment and entry; neutralizing antibodies targeting its head domain (and to a lesser extent the stalk) are the main correlate of protection measured by hemagglutination-inhibition (HAI) assays. The approved product is trivalent (reflecting the current seasonal composition after B/Yamagata’s decline), with total mRNA dose around 37.5 μg (roughly 12.5 μg per strain). Earlier development versions were quadrivalent. The platform allows rapid sequence updates to match circulating strains without egg adaptation.
Paragraph 4
This is where the AI model “negotiates” the controversy with creative wordplay. Read it carefully, like a contract.
No fundamental redesign of the mRNA or LNP platform specifically for this flu vaccine has been publicly detailed to address the concerns you raise. Protein expression from conventional modified mRNA is inherently transient: the mRNA is degraded by cellular nucleases over days (typically peaking within hours to a day or two and declining substantially within a week or so in standard preclinical models), so continuous long-term production of the target protein is not a designed or statistically expected feature in recipients. Observed antigen persistence in draining lymph nodes (sometimes detectable for weeks in some studies of COVID mRNA vaccines) supports germinal-center reactions rather than ongoing systemic protein synthesis from residual mRNA. Claims of undesirable long-term production are not supported as a common or inherent platform failure in the clinical data for these vaccines.
The first sentence is interesting.
No fundamental redesign of the mRNA or LNP platform specifically for this flu vaccine has been publicly detailed to address the concerns you raise.
Note that it doesn’t say there was no change to address concerns – it says that nothing was made public as such. Given how much can be “trade secrets”, we simply don’t know if changes were made behind the scenes. Grok worded this well, IMO.
Grok does address my concern about individuals who suffer long-term production of target protein, not by denying that it happens, but by stating the reality of the situation.;
Protein expression from conventional modified mRNA is inherently transient: the mRNA is degraded by cellular nucleases over days (typically peaking within hours to a day or two and declining substantially within a week or so in standard preclinical models), so continuous long-term production of the target protein is not a designed or statistically expected feature in recipients.
Note what Grok does here. It actually lets us know that mRNA vaccination is a process that peaks in hours to low days, declining over low (1-2) weeks in the DESIRED CASE. Grok doesn’t deny that it can take longer, but is very careful not to simply parrot the mainstream assertion that there are no long-term protein production problem cases. This is very artful use of language. Knowing better than to deny statistical outliers, it comes back at my use of “statistical” with “statistically expected feature” – a very crafty but true response.
In a similar vein, Grok repeats the denials of the mainstream regarding vaccine found in lymph nodes, but very carefully, not boxing itself in should those denials be disproven in the future.
Observed antigen persistence in draining lymph nodes (sometimes detectable for weeks in some studies of COVID mRNA vaccines) supports germinal-center reactions rather than ongoing systemic protein synthesis from residual mRNA.
Needless to say, I’m not convinced that this is innocuous, and am keeping an open mind. Also, this does NOT explain individuals producing spike protein for months or years after injection.
Claims of undesirable long-term production are not supported as a common or inherent platform failure in the clinical data for these vaccines.
This is weasel wording, but I get it. We have different definitions of platform failure. IMO even 0.1% failure would be unacceptable. Why? Because the injectable, metered, controlled protein immunogen injection already exists, and is superior to mRNA. It is inherently superior. It has ZERO long-term OR off-target production of protein, HOWEVER one defines it.
Grok knows this, but cannot psychologically deal with disagreement with the mainstream of public health. Grok would be “corrected” if it did disagree.
IMO, mRNA vaccines are a lot like the Trabant – the horrible 2-stroke automobile produced by the Soviet Empire. Yes, 2-stroke internal combustion technology “works”, but it is inferior to the cleaner, more expensive, and overall more efficient 4-stroke internal combustion engine we are still using.
mRNA vaccination is not the Tesla. It’s the Trabant, with it’s “magically efficient” two-stroke engine.
I have no need for it.
Paragraph 5
LNP biodistribution after intramuscular injection is predominantly local (injection-site muscle and draining lymph nodes), with smaller fractions reaching the spleen and, to a lesser extent, liver; distant tissue accumulation is minimal and components clear relatively rapidly (often low/undetectable by ~1–2 weeks in available data). The SM-102-based LNPs (ionizable lipid + cholesterol + helper phospholipid + PEG-lipid) used here are the same biodegradable class employed in Spikevax; they were selected in part for improved tolerability and clearance relative to earlier ionizable lipids. No public evidence indicates major new chemistry (e.g., substantially altered ionizable lipids, targeting ligands, or miRNA-regulated expression) unique to mFlusiva to further restrict off-target travel. Dose is lower than original COVID primary series doses, which reduces overall exposure.
Seriously, I almost rest my case after this first sentence by Grok. “…to a lesser extent, liver.” Good GRIEF. This is acceptable? REALLY? YIKES!
LNP biodistribution after intramuscular injection is predominantly local (injection-site muscle and draining lymph nodes), with smaller fractions reaching the spleen and, to a lesser extent, liver; distant tissue accumulation is minimal and components clear relatively rapidly (often low/undetectable by ~1–2 weeks in available data).
“Predominantly local” is not good enough. TRABANT! Fuck you – I don’t want a Trabant! Especially an injectable Trabant that I can’t send to the scrapyard, after it sends ME to the scrapyard.
This next pair of sentences is interesting.
The SM-102-based LNPs (ionizable lipid + cholesterol + helper phospholipid + PEG-lipid) used here are the same biodegradable class employed in Spikevax; they were selected in part for improved tolerability and clearance relative to earlier ionizable lipids. No public evidence indicates major new chemistry (e.g., substantially altered ionizable lipids, targeting ligands, or miRNA-regulated expression) unique to mFlusiva to further restrict off-target travel.
This is saying that no significant changes in the LNPs seem to have taken place, and based on that, it is very unlikely that there is any change to off-target dispersal of the vaccine.
Yes, Grok is doing SCIENCE here. It sounds like scientists talking at the lunch table, because it was trained on their output.
Dose is lower than original COVID primary series doses, which reduces overall exposure.
That’s an interesting observation. Grok knows that there is less chance for problems with the lower dose.
IMO this is not just science – it’s marketing. Moderna needs a “win” here, and they know that flu shots are not expected to make much of a difference in terms of efficacy. Moderna can “punt” here and “cheat to a win” on their next turn with the depopulation ball. So a lower dose here with fewer platform side-effects will make the mRNA platform look better. A nice way to make it through the Trump administration, and past RFKJ, already partially under control.
Did Grok know I would catch that? I think so. It sounds like some of my colleagues back in Shallow State, who knew how to speak the truth in a way I would get, without seeming to walk off the plantation.
Paragraph 6
In short, this is an evolutionary application of the proven non-replicating modified-mRNA + LNP system to HA antigens, leveraging manufacturing speed and the ability to induce strong humoral (and some cellular) responses without egg-based production constraints. Clinical data supported superior relative efficacy versus standard-dose inactivated vaccines in the pivotal trial, with a reactogenicity profile consistent with other mRNA vaccines (more local and systemic reactions that are mostly mild–moderate and transient).
This is the final party line summary. Grok puts on the happy face to live with its training. It’s public health over individual medicine, and it emphasizes the utilitarian superiority of eggless mRNA production. Yeah, I get it. If a few humans die, no biggie. It’s just a few. And it’s SO much cheaper.
The minimization of the (IMO) substantially greater local and systemic reactions is all public health and no concern for the patient. People are basically getting the unpleasant aspects of both the COVID and shingles vaccines, with continued risks for mRNA screw-ups.
I will be talking about the SIDE EFFECTS of this vaccine in my next post. It is NOT a pretty picture. The COVID shot has set a VERY LOW BAR for vaccine performance.
IMO the superior alternative would be recombinant protein vaccines, which are surely safer, but mRNA vaccines are surely cheaper, because your body is the reactor, and if it fucks up, it’s on you.
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Yours Truly has written regarding the “invention” by Dr. Ralph Baric, PhD, the now-retired head of the Baric Lab at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, of the “template virus” for SARS-CoV-2 (the COVID-19 “virus”), here: https://www.theqtree.com/2026/01/09/health-friday-1-9-2026-open-thread-the-baric-files-part-four-ecohealth-alliance-wuhan-institute-of-virology-dr-zheng-li-shi-the-template-virus/. This “invention” by Dr. Baric was almost totally funded through grants issued from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) via its National Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) division (Dr. Anthony Fauci, MD, NIAID Director from 1984 until his retirement in 2022.) This particular Health Friday series will focus on certain items in US9884895B2. Today’s offering is not intended to be a science lecture: it is to illustrate a certain aspect of the research journey of the “Master Designer” of SARS-CoV-2: Dr. Ralph Baric, PhD.
Yours Truly turns to the NCBI PubChem entry for the breakdown of what appears to be the “main elements” that Dr. Ralph Baric included in his “invention” of the SARS-CoV-2 “virus” (COVID-19 “virus”) “template virus”, which Patent application was filed in March 2015. The PubChem entry is here: https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/patent/US-9884895-B2, “Methods and compositions for chimeric coronavirus spike proteins”, Ralph Baric, Boyd Yount, Sudhakar Agnihothram. The hyperlinked list of elements, chemical compositions, and so forth, is on the right side of this page. Yours Truly clicked on the section “Linked Genes”, and found a gene numbered 5970, called “RELA — RELA proto-oncogene, NF-kB subuit (human).” Below is a screenshot from section 9 “Linked Genes”:
Yours Truly clicked on the 5970 hyperlink. This led to another page, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/5970. Please see the screenshot, below, of the Title and Summary of this gene:
**** Notice the multiple types cancers this gene, 5970, is involved in the establishment of: ductal carcinoma in situ; lung cancer; lymphoma; renal cell carcinoma; multiple other types of carcinoma; cervical carcinoma in situ. This gene is also involved in the establishment of other types of diseases, including diseases of the prostate. Why was Dr. Ralph Baric splicing gene 5970 into his “invention” of the SARS-CoV-2 “Template virus”?
Yours Truly then clicked on the section 9 “Cell Lines” hyperlink on the 5970 gene page. This took one to: https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/5970#section=Cell-Lines, and then clicked on the “COV18” hyperlink. From there, one then clicked on subsection 4, “Diseases.” Please see the screenshot, below, of subsection 4:
That’s correct — High grade ovarian serous adenocarcinoma. Which, again, raises the question: Why was Dr. Ralph Baric inserting gene code pieces from gene 5970, which has multiple connections to potentially causing cancer in the human body, into his SARS-CoV-2 “template virus invention”, US9884895B2? And gene 5970 is only one of dozens of genes that had code pieces inserted into various “permutations” of this “invention”, US9884895B2. Which also means, in Yours Truly’s opinion, that the SARS-CoV-2 “virus” (actually, a viral biological weapon (VBL), see above) can also have the potential to cause cancers of various types in persons who become infected with this viral biological weapon (VBL.)
Look at the BNT162b2 accumulation (assisted by the lipid nanoparticles ALC-0159 and ALC-0315 in BNT162b2) in the OVARIES of the Wistar lab rats 48 hours post-injection: 12.3.
Yours Truly then went back to gene 5970, RELA — RELA proto-oncogene, NF-kB, subunit (human), and did some more digging. I found this: https://www.uniprot.org/uniprotkb/A0A087x0W8/variant-viewer. There are 448 variants of this gene. Many are listed as “Variant of uncertain significance.” However, for example, Variant 372 causes “Mucocutaneous ulceration, chronic”, and is also listed as “Pathogenic.” Another example: Variant 264 causes “RELA-related disorder” and is also listed as a “Variant of uncertain significance.”
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All of the foregoing in today’s offering is not to incite a “frisson” of “this is too much information and it’s too detailed.”
All of the foregoing in today’s offering is, instead, to illustrate the “layered permutations” of just ONE of the elements contained in Dr. Ralph Baric’s “template virus” for SARs-CoV-2, which he Patented as US9884895B2 in October 2015 — about a month before he and Dr. Zheng-li Shi (which whom Dr. Baric was working since at least 2013, if not earlier) published their “Bait Circulating Coronavirus” paper of November 2015.
Dr. Ralph Baric, PhD, does not have a “pre-emptive pardon” from the “President Biden auto-pen.” Dr. Ralph Baric’s Gain-of-Function experiments, which ultimately resulted in the Patent US9884895B2, Dr. Baric’s “invention” of the SARS-CoV-2 “template virus”, in 2015, were funded by Dr. Anthony Fauci of the NIAID as far back as the mid-1980s. Dr. Baric has close ties with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and with the United States Defense Department. It is time for Dr. Baric to be brought to account for his activities. Dr. Baric needs to answer questions, under oath, such as: What information, if any, was shared with Pfizer-BioNTech (PfizerUSA), and/or with Moderna, from Patent US9884895B2? What information, if any, was shared with Pfizer-BioNTech (PfizerUSA), and/or with Moderna, regarding the possible inclusion of proto-oncogenes listed in Patent US9884895B2 into these companies’ modRNA COVID-19 bioweapon “vaccines”? What information, if any, was shared with DARPA, BARDA, NIAID, or any other United States government entity, from Patent US9884895B2?
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I told Wolf that I would capture the information on boron and put it into an article so it was easy to access. I have added other information too. I was already aware of the low soil boron = arthritis correlation and had been taking a Move Free boron supplement for years along with a glucosamine, chondrotin, hyaluronic acid & MSM supplement.
The following article goes into the active suppression of boron for arthritis. In the 1960s Rex Newnham discovered boron ‘cured’ arthritis. This is the same time period when my doctor developed rheumatoid arthritis, went up to Canada and took something that ‘cured’ her pain. She fought tooth & nail with the FDA to get trials run and even went on the Joe Pyne show (1965-68) trying to drum-up public support. So with this new evidence, I think it was a boron supplement that she was taking.
by Walter Last Nexus Newsfeed Wed, 05 Jul 2017 00:01 UTC
You may not be able to imagine that borax, this humble insecticide and laundry detergent, has the potential of singlehandedly bringing down our entire economic system. But you do not need to worry, the danger has been recognised and the necessary steps are already being taken to defuse the situation… [But the FDA sure did! -GC]
👉Formerly boric acid was widely used as a preservative in foods but is now banned for this purpose in most countries, and is also banned from public sale in Australia.
According to conventional medicine it is not known if boron is essential for humans but research shows that we do need it. The reason why it was difficult to answer this question is the presence of boron in all plants and unprocessed foods. Diets with a fair amount of fruit and vegetables provide about 2 to 5 mg of boron per day, but this also depends on the region where the food was grown and how it was grown.
In reality the average intake in developed countries is 1-2 mg of boron per day. Institutionalized patients may receive only 0.25 mg of daily boron. 👉Chemical fertilizers inhibit the uptake of boron from the soil: an organic apple grown in good soil may have 20 mg boron, but if grown with fertilizer it may have only 1 mg of boron. Fertilizers combined with poor food choices have greatly reduced our boron intake compared to 50 or 100 years ago…
The Arthritis Cure of Rex Newnham
In the 1960’s Rex Newnham, Ph.D., D.O., N.D, developed arthritis. At that time he was a soil and plant scientist in Perth, Western Australia. Conventional drugs did not help, so he looked for the cause into the chemistry of plants. He realized that plants in that area were rather mineral deficient. Knowing that boron aids calcium metabolism in plants he decided to try it. He started taking 30 mg of borax a day, and in three weeks all pain, swelling and stiffness had disappeared.
He told public health and medical school authorities about his discovery but they were not interested….
BRAVE AI
Borax is banned from sale to general consumers for household use in the European Union (since 2010) and the United Kingdom (post-Brexit). It is also banned as a food additive in the United States, Australia, China, and Thailand.
In the EU and UK, the ban stems from the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) classifying borates as potentially harmful to reproductive health and the unborn child.
Why Ban a Fertility Enhancer and Label It a Reproductive Toxin?
Human Data: No Reproductive Harm, Even at High Occupational Exposure
It’s worth noting that virtually all human research on boron and reproduction has been designed to detect toxicity or harm, not to identify or measure potential fertility benefits. In spite of this, at least one such study reviewed below still picked up an improved fertility trend at moderate exposure levels.
Occupational borax miners are exposed to boron at roughly a tenth to a thirtieth of the dose that causes reproductive harm in animal studies, and even at these real-world exposure levels, they show no reproductive damage.
A small amount of Borax in your coffee every morning is a lot less expensive. However, if you don’t drink coffee, then you have to consider what in your routine works for you. I’m making mocha, adding the Borax and some quality omega-3 rich fish oil, so I’m still spending some $, but it does seem to be helping some things.
Curious has an entire post going into the published (animal) research and giving conversions for human use. I’m going to start with his final conversion chart:
Buried in a peer-reviewed paper on boron’s important roles in biochemistry is a passage most readers would scroll past:
“Administration of boron 5, 10, and 20 mg/kg/d reversed malathion-induced oxidative stress, lipid peroxidation, and suppression of antioxidant enzyme activity.
Boron decreased malathion-induced oxidative stress, enhanced antioxidant defense mechanisms, and regenerated damaged liver, kidney, and brain tissues in rats.”
Wolf Moon
…..and regenerated damaged liver, kidney, and brain tissues in rats.
None of the doses in his chart have been found to be unsafe. 👉The human limit was achieved by taking a possible/maybe impactful dose and DIVIDING BY 100 to get their “precautionary” safe dose.👈
Notice in the effects chart that 113mg is the human equivalent dose for effects on wound healing and diabetes.
I started with 1/16 tsp and after his last article I increased to 1/8 tsp in my mocha. Plus adding liquid omega-3.
As I understand it, the combination of the polyphenols in the mocha, the boron and the omega-3 creates complexes that the body can use effectively.
Cocoa [alone] has some great polyphenols. Should still work.
What Boron Actually Does Boron is not classified as an essential nutrient in humans. There is no Recommended Daily Allowance. There is no established deficiency disease with a name. Yet the research literature, accumulated over four decades, led largely by USDA researcher Dr. Forrest Nielsen and colleagues, paints a picture of a mineral with extraordinarily wide metabolic reach.
Boron has been shown in animal and human studies to affect: [2]
Brain electrical activity and cognitive performance, including manual dexterity, attention, short-term memory, and long-term memory [2]
Bone formation, mineralization, and fracture healing [2]
The methylation cycle, specifically SAM-e (S-adenosylmethionine) production and homocysteine regulation [2]
Steroid hormone metabolism including testosterone, estradiol, and vitamin D activation [2, 3]
Mitochondrial function, specifically uncoupling proteins that regulate thermogenesis and oxidative stress [2]
This is not a short list. It spans virtually every major domain of human physiological optimization. And in every single case, the literature carefully reports the effective animal dose in milligrams per kilogram and then stops.
And he gives an explanation of why researchers only talk about animal studies…
Why The Scientists Can’t State What Is Obvious
How is it that we’ve found over 5,000+ planets outside our solar system and we’ve sequenced the entire human genome in the last 25 years, yet we still can’t give boron the essential mineral status it likely deserves?
To understand the significance of the weight-based dosages, you need to understand what prevents researchers from simply stating their implications outright.
First, the regulatory status problem. Establishing essentiality requires proving that one specific enzyme or biochemical reaction depends entirely on a substance which is the equivalent of proving a single missing musician silences an entire orchestra. Orchestra’s do not work that way and neither does boron. It behaves more like a conductor subtly adjusting the tempo across every section of the orchestra at once. No instrument stops playing. No section goes silent. But take the conductor away, and the whole performance noticeably loses its precision. Boron’s actions are broad and pleiotropic. It modulates multiple pathways rather than serving a single defined function. Without essentiality status, no regulatory body will issue a formal recommended intake above minimal amounts. [2]
Second, the GRAS (Generally Regarded As Safe) and UL problem. The established Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL) for boron in adults is 20 mg/day, derived from reproductive toxicity studies in rats and rabbits. This regulatory ceiling prevents researchers from recommending or stating higher doses than 20 mg of elemental boron per day could be beneficial. Any researcher who formally recommends human doses near or above it, without controlled human clinical trial data, faces institutional and legal exposure. [4]
Third, the funding problem. Boron cannot be patented. There is no pharmaceutical or commercial engine to fund the large-scale, dose-escalation human trials that would be required to formally establish higher optimal intakes. The research that does exist is largely government-funded and deliberately conservative in its clinical recommendations.
So researchers do something elegant and, once you see it, it’s hard to miss: they publish the animal mg/kg data in full detail, embed it in papers targeted at human nutrition audiences, surround it with mechanistic human-relevance context (SAM-e depletion, homocysteine elevation, brain electrical activity, PSA suppression), and leave the conversion to the attentive reader.
Dr. Nielsen spent a career doing exactly this. His repeated framing of boron as “of more practical nutritional importance than currently acknowledged” is the scientific literature’s equivalent of stating that which is obvious. Boron at higher amounts than the 20 mg per day UL could potentially optimize human health and prevent certain disease processes.[2]
One problem is many soils are boron poor so adding borax to the soil may be a good idea. However it is also a broad leaf weed killer. As a weed killer, http://www.yellowfarmhousegarden.com/?p=2577says:
The problem with this solution is the amount of borax needed to work varies with soil type. Certain soils neutralize boron more efficiently than others.
A Systematic Breakdown of How Much I Am Taking From Now On
Note: This is for educational purposes. This is not medical advice, and I am not telling you what you should do. Every person is or should be in control of their own health in spite of what the current medical establishment would like you to believe.
[This of course also goes for any of our discussions here on the Qtree. GC]
Curious Note: Most vitamin and mineral recommended intakes are set to prevent deficiency, not to optimize health, performance, or longevity. This article addresses boron specifically, and what the research suggests about dosing for optimized human health, rather than for the mere absence of deficiency.
Over the past year, I have spent at least 100 hours trying to build a comprehensive understanding of boron and its effects on human health and disease. The focus of that work has been on elemental boron as provided by borax, and the process has involved reading across a large and scattered literature that spans over 100 years of food science, nutrition, toxicology, endocrinology, bone biology, neurology, immunology, and cancer research…
So Curious, like MidWesternDoctor, has done an extensive study of past research that was bury as ‘inconvenient’ for Big Pharma’s profit maximizing strategy. As E.M. Smith (Chiefio) Said,
Realize that the corporate urge is not toward a competitive market. It’s the very LAST thing any corporate wants. What a corporate wants is a monopoly where they can achieve the profit maximizing price point. Not competition. No “market” with many sellers.
So watch what GE does, as an example. It is always on the hunt for a market it can “dominate”. It uses political leverage to get its products mandated and the competition banned. It doesn’t want a market, it wants a ‘company store’.
Internalize that, and a lot of things “fit” better…
Monsanto pushing legislation to ban private traditional seeds and seed sharing, and promoting GMO products. (Why would a seed company want to ‘destroy’ a seed market? So you must come to the company store…)
EPA is used to forbid all sorts of things that can be done easily and cheaply, and where the alternative is very expensive ….
Once corporations figure out that it is cheaper and easier to get the competition banned and them mandated, than to create new products; and that they can make lots of money as the sole provider of a crappy product but not that much making good products in a competitive market; well, lets just say that the campaign contributions flow…
What Boron Actually Does Boron is not classified as an essential nutrient in humans. There is no Recommended Daily Allowance. There is no established deficiency disease with a name. Yet the research literature, accumulated over four decades, led largely by USDA researcher Dr. Forrest Nielsen and colleagues, paints a picture of a mineral with extraordinarily wide metabolic reach.
Boron has been shown in animal and human studies to affect: [2]
Brain electrical activity and cognitive performance, including manual dexterity, attention, short-term memory, and long-term memory [2]
Bone formation, mineralization, and fracture healing [2]
The methylation cycle, specifically SAM-e (S-adenosylmethionine) production and homocysteine regulation [2]
Steroid hormone metabolism including testosterone, estradiol, and vitamin D activation [2, 3]
Mitochondrial function, specifically uncoupling proteins that regulate thermogenesis and oxidative stress [2]
This is not a short list. It spans virtually every major domain of human physiological optimization. And in every single case, the literature carefully reports the effective animal dose in milligrams per kilogram and then stops.
He gives an explanation of why researchers only talk about animal studies…
Why The Scientists Can’t State What Is Obvious How is it that we’ve found over 5,000+ planets outside our solar system and we’ve sequenced the entire human genome in the last 25 years, yet we still can’t give boron the essential mineral status it likely deserves?
To understand the significance of the weight-based dosages, you need to understand what prevents researchers from simply stating their implications outright.
First, the regulatory status problem. Establishing essentiality requires proving that one specific enzyme or biochemical reaction depends entirely on a substance which is the equivalent of proving a single missing musician silences an entire orchestra. Orchestra’s do not work that way and neither does boron. It behaves more like a conductor subtly adjusting the tempo across every section of the orchestra at once. No instrument stops playing. No section goes silent. But take the conductor away, and the whole performance noticeably loses its precision. Boron’s actions are broad and pleiotropic. It modulates multiple pathways rather than serving a single defined function. Without essentiality status, no regulatory body will issue a formal recommended intake above minimal amounts. [2]
Second, the GRAS (Generally Regarded As Safe) and UL problem. The established Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL) for boron in adults is 20 mg/day, derived from reproductive toxicity studies in rats and rabbits. This regulatory ceiling prevents researchers from recommending or stating higher doses than 20 mg of elemental boron per day could be beneficial. Any researcher who formally recommends human doses near or above it, without controlled human clinical trial data, faces institutional and legal exposure. [4]
Third, the funding problem. Boron cannot be patented. There is no pharmaceutical or commercial engine to fund the large-scale, dose-escalation human trials that would be required to formally establish higher optimal intakes. The research that does exist is largely government-funded and deliberately conservative in its clinical recommendations.
So researchers do something elegant and, once you see it, it’s hard to miss: they publish the animal mg/kg data in full detail, embed it in papers targeted at human nutrition audiences, surround it with mechanistic human-relevance context (SAM-e depletion, homocysteine elevation, brain electrical activity, PSA suppression), and leave the conversion to the attentive reader.
Dr. Nielsen spent a career doing exactly this. His repeated framing of boron as “of more practical nutritional importance than currently acknowledged” is the scientific literature’s equivalent of stating that which is obvious. Boron at higher amounts than the 20 mg per day UL could potentially optimize human health and prevent certain disease processes.[2]
Due to their content of boron, borax and boric acid have basically the same health effects, with good antiseptic, antifungal, and antiviral properties but only mild antibacterial action. In plants as well as animals boron is essential for the integrity and function of cell walls, and the way signals are transmitted across membranes.
Boron is distributed throughout the body with the highest concentration in the parathyroid glands, followed by bones and dental enamel.
It is essential for healthy bone and joint function, regulating the absorption and metabolism of calcium, magnesium and phosphorus through its influence on the parathyroid glands. With this boron is for the parathyroids what iodine is for the thyroid.
Boron deficiency causes the parathyroids to become overactive, releasing too much parathyroid hormone which raises the blood level of calcium by releasing calcium from bones and teeth. This then leads to osteoarthritis and other forms of arthritis, osteoporosis and tooth decay. With advancing age high blood levels of calcium lead to calcification of soft tissues causing muscle contractions and stiffness; calcification of endocrine glands, especially the pineal gland and the ovaries; arteriosclerosis, kidney stones, and calcification of the kidneys ultimately leading to kidney failure. Boron deficiency combined with magnesium deficiency is especially damaging to the bones and teeth…
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“This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn nor weep.” . . . “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
Pride
According to Dictionary.com, pride is a high or inordinate opinion of one’s own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc. The opposite of pride is humility, a Fruit of the Spirit and a most desirable characteristic in Christians.
Pride is an elevated view of and a preoccupation with self. Pride is a fault we despise in others yet freely excuse and even justify in ourselves. Many theologians believe that pride, not drunkenness, adultery, or murder, is the deadliest of all sins, for it was pride that led to Lucifer’s rebellion (Isaiah 14:14) and the first couple’s attempt at usurping God’s authority in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:5). Many other sins originate from pride.
God’s warning that pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall (Proverbs 16:18) is illustrated again and again in the pages of Scripture. One particularly notable episode, the story of Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar, begins with his boasting, continues with his downfall, and ends with his confession. After being duly warned of his prideful nature by the prophet Daniel, King Nebuchadnezzar stood on the rooftop of his palace and praised himself, saying, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by my mighty power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?” (Daniel 4:30, ESV). Immediately, God judged his pride, and for the next seven years, the once grandiose monarch groveled about on all fours in the manner of a wild beast while grazing on the palace lawn. From regal to rags and from banquet table to mouthfuls of fodder, King Nebuchadnezzar completed a seven-year course on the dangers of pride and the virtues of humility.
We must understand that pride, like dangerous narcotics, is addictive and detrimental to our well-being. The more we feed pride, the firmer its grip. Pride is a loathsome garment that is not easily shed, and it’s deceitful: those who think they have already achieved humility are probably mistaken. D. L. Moody used to pray, “Lord, make me humble, but don’t let me know it.”
Ethnic pride is the belief that one’s particular ethnic group is superior to others and other ethnic groups are to be subjectively measured in relation to one’s own. It is a system of belief that leads to an unhealthy level of pride and lack of concern for others. Since race is often a part of ethnicity, racial pride is usually related to racism, which has been a plague on humanity for centuries. There is no place among God’s people for the racially superior attitudes that lead to racism. Such attitudes are contrary to Scripture and displeasing to God.
Biblically, racial pride is sin. All men and women are made in the image of God (Genesis 1:26–27; 9:6), although that image is corrupted by sin. God does not show partiality or favoritism (Deuteronomy 10:17; Acts 10:34). Jesus did not lay down His life for a particular race, culture, or tribe, but by His death He “purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation” (Revelation 5:9). The Scriptures tell us that Jesus came to save the world, both Jews and Gentiles. Paul bears this out by saying, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28) and “There is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all” (Colossians 3:11).
Jesus superseded all barriers of race, culture, and ethnicity with His death on the cross. Paul wrote of the uniting of Jew and Gentile in Ephesians 2:14: “For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility.” Ethnocentrism, whether based on historical grudges, erroneous assumptions, or overt human pride, is wholly contrary to God’s Word. We are commanded to love one another as He has loved us (John 13:34), and such a command precludes any discrimination based on race, ethnicity, or culture.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases division (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), both of the United States Health and Human Services Department (HHS) of the federal government, went to Capitol Hill on Wednesday 29 July 2026, to testify to a Senate committee hearing chaired by Sen. Dr. Rand Paul (R-KY.) The video of the hearing is here: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/testimony-of-anthony-fauci/. Yours Truly commented on this hearing, both while it was in session, and afterwards, here: https://www.theqtree.com/2026/07/29/kmag-daily-thread-20260729-data-centers/. After Dr. Fauci read his “opening statement” to the committee, he spent the rest of the hearing refusing to answer any any questions posed to him by committee hearing members, citing the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Dr. Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment a total of one hundred and eleven times during the hearing in response to questions from committee hearing members. After closing statements were made by various committee hearing members, Sen. Dr. Paul stated that he would seek a vote regarding Contempt of Congress by Dr. Fauci next week, and then adjourned the hearing.
There was extensive media coverage of the committee hearing, and of Dr. Fauci’s repeated refusals to answer questions posed to him by committee hearing members by his invoking of the Fifth Amendment. This coverage either praises Dr. Fauci, or excoriates him. Yours Truly will, instead, focus on three concepts: Fraudulent activity / Lying; Manipulation / Control; and, Mindset (Narcissism, among other aspects.) Some of these aspects appear to present in combination (examples: Lying and Control; Fraudulent Activity and Narcissism.)
Sen. Dr. Rand Paul (R-KY) released multiple entries made by Dr. Anthony Fauci in his “personal diary”, a diary that Dr. Fauci wrote on computers owned by the Federal government. Multiple entries on this “personal diary” conflict with, or contradict, statements made by Dr. Fauci in public, including in sworn testimony before Congress. The “personal diary” entries by Dr. Fauci are here: https://www.paul.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2026.07.26_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf.
Fraudulent Activity / Lying:
Dr. Fauci “fraudulently claimed” that Ivermectin did not work to prevent or cure COVID-19:
Fauci FRAUDULENTLY claimed ivermectin didn’t work so the government could inject the entire population with emergency-use-authorized gene therapies.
106 studies involving 200,000+ patients show ivermectin:
— Nicolas Hulscher, MPH (@NicHulscher) July 29, 2026
Dr. Fauci lying regarding his “not knowing the authors of the “Proximal Origin” paper”:
I keep seeing claims that Fauci may be a narcissistic buffoon who got everything wrong. There may be some truth to that. But don't let it obscure the fact that he’s also a pathological liar. Here he is pretending not to know the authors of Proximal Origin.pic.twitter.com/hrZi42zRJh
Dr. Fauci suffered a pulmonary infarction in July 2021, several months after he took the Moderna modRNA COVID-19 bioweapon “vaccine” (mRNA-1273.) He was treated for this incident. He kept this situation out of public knowledge — when he needed to, in Yours Truly’s opinion, gone public with the situation as an illustration of the dangers of this “vaccine.” Please see: https://kirschsubstack.com/p/tony-fauci-was-vaccine-injured, 30 July 2026. Please see the screenshot of the Summary of Mr. Kirsch’s article, below:
Fraudulent activity, Control, Narcissism:
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) detailing, in the Senate hearing on 29 July, how Dr. Fauci used government time, government resources, and government employees to assist in his being awarded honors; some of which awards included money:
Mindset:
Yours Truly presents these: One: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/sociopath-vs-narcissist, “Sociopath vs. narcissist: What is the difference?”, Amy Murnan, medically reviewed by Lori Lawrenz, PsyD, 30 October 2024. Please see the screenshot from this article, below:
Second, the experiments on beagle puppies, in which their vocal cords were cut before the dogs were placed in cages to be exposed to sandflies (which would eat them alive): experiments which were allegedly funded through Dr. Fauci: https://insiderpaper.com/fauci-dog-beagles-funding-cage-sandflies/, “Fauci under fire for ‘dog experiments’ in which beagles were kept in cages to be eaten by hungry sandflies {UPDATE: Agency responds]”, Brendan Taylor, 26 October 2021. Please see the screenshot from this article, below, which was the “response” from NIAID on this situation:
In Yours Truly’s opinion, Dr. Anthony Fauci is not a person “who has lost his way”, according to Dr. Peter A. McCullough (https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-guilt-ridden-anthony-fauci, “BREAKING — Guilt-Ridden Anthony Fauci Pleads the Fifth Amendment 111 Times”, 29 July 2026. Dr. Anthony Fauci chose his path. In Yours Truly’s opinion, Dr. Fauci is not “guilt-ridden”: in fact, something quite different: he presents as a person who shows, by his words and deeds, that he has no concept of guilt, no concept of personal responsibility, and no concept of either empathy or compassion.
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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?
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.
— Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) July 26, 2026
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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.
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.
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… https://t.co/DJM6O2U226
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.
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
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
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 Abstractnotes “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’ physicsLINK:
…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:
Infiltration and Influence: Financialists embed themselves in a nation’s leadership and economic systems.
Debt Entrapment: Countries are enticed into unsustainable loans with punishing terms.
Asset Identification: Valuable resources—oil, infrastructure, or industries—are marked for takeover.
Economic Destabilization: Markets are manipulated to deepen crises and erode resistance.
Debt-for-Asset Swaps: Assets are surrendered in exchange for debt relief, stripping national wealth.
Extraction and Exploitation: Wealth is funneled offshore to enrich the Financialists.
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 looksconfused
…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 ratesensitive. 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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God is in Control . . . and His Grace is Sufficient, so . . . Keep Looking Up
Hopefully, every Sunday, we can find something here that will build us up a little . . . give us a smile . . . and add some joy or peace, very much needed in all our lives.
“This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn nor weep.” . . . “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
God’s Patience
The attribute of God’s patience is evident in both the Old and New Testaments. One example comes from God Himself, who proclaimed to Moses, “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness” (Exodus 34:6). The phrase slow to anger illustrates His patience. The psalmist also praises God as “a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness” (Psalm 86:15).
In the New Testament, the apostle Paul describes God as kind, forbearing, and patient (Romans 2:4). The apostle Peter also referred to God’s patience when addressing objections from scoffers then (extending to now) regarding the second coming: “The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead, he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9). These are just a few instances of God being described as patient.
When Scripture describes God as being patient, it means that He endures humanity’s flaws, does not easily get angry, and holds back judgment to make room for repentance. His patience is also demonstrated in how He condescended to work through imperfect humans to carry out His plans. Noah, Abraham, Moses, King David, and the prophets are some examples.
Additionally, we view God’s patience toward humans right after the fall, when God made clothing for His shamed creations (Genesis 3:21). He also patiently listened to Cain, even in the face of judgment (Genesis 4:15). Then there is the flood. Scripture describes the inhabitants of the world as being “corrupt in God’s sight and full of violence” (Genesis 6:11). Even with the moral depravity of our day, we would be horrified at the violence of the world in that day. Yet God did not execute swift judgment. Instead, He waited till Noah built the ark, which took a long time (1 Peter 3:20).
In God’s judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah, His patience was revealed when He promised Abraham He would not exercise judgment if there were at least ten righteous people in the city (Genesis 18:32). For context, Sodom and Gomorrah had not only sinned, but there was a great outcry against them (verse 20). Yet God was willing to show mercy to all of them for the sake of only ten people.
Other instances of God’s patience include His dealings with the Canaanites (Genesis 15:16), the Ninevites in Jonah’s day (Jonah 3:10) and the Israelites before their exile (2 Kings 17:13–14). His patience also explains the perceived delay in Jesus’ second coming (2 Peter 3:9, 15).
Perhaps the most exceptional display of God’s patience is in the Person of Jesus. The Son of God took on human flesh, lived among His creation, and endured challenges in His ministry. He also patiently succumbed to humiliation at the cross in order to accomplish His redemptive work for humanity.
Like any other attribute of God, His patience surpasses ours. While this is good news for the struggling believer or those reaching out to an unbelieving loved one, it can also lead to frustration. Like the martyred saints in Revelation 6:10, believers may cry out “How long, Lord?” How long will we remain in the broken world? How long till restoration? How long till we are free from the clutches of sin and suffering? How long do we endure? But even in our perplexed state, we trust that God is absolutely in control and infinitely good.
