Mosquito Self-Defense: Protecting Your Family from the Silent Swarm

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPHAs summer winds down most are going to miss the sun and fun but no one will miss mosquito season which can last well into the fall.🦟 The Silent Swarm: Mosquito-Borne Illness in the United StatesThe Unseen ThreatMost Americans think of mosquitoes as a nuisance — an itchy annoyance at summer barbecues, a reason to stay inside at dusk. That complacency is dangerous. The United States is not immune to serious mosquito-borne disease, and the risk is growing year over year as climate patterns shift, travel increases, and public health infrastructure strains under competing priorities.  While solar bug zappers have become popular, the mosquitos seem to avoid these blue lights.🩸 West Nile Virus: The Established InvaderWest Nile virus arrived in New York City in 1999 and has since becomethe leading mosquito-borne disease in the continental United States. It’s endemic now — meaning it’s here to stay, cycling between birds and mosquitoes, with humans as accidental hosts.The clinical picture is stark. About 80% of infected people show no symptoms. That’s the good news. The other 20% develop West Nile fever with headaches, body aches, joint pain, vomiting, and rash. Roughly 1 in 150 developneuroinvasive disease— encephalitis or meningitis that can cause permanent neurological damage, paralysis, or death.The CDC has recorded tens of thousands of cases since 1999, but those numbers dramatically undercount reality because most mild cases are never tested or reported. Neuroinvasive cases are the tip of the iceberg, and even those are substantial — hundreds per year, concentrated in states like California, Texas, Arizona, and the Midwest.🟡 Dengue: The Expanding FrontierDengue was once considered a disease of the developing world. That’s no longer true.Locally acquired dengue transmission is now documented in Florida, Texas, Hawaii, and Arizona.Most cases are travel related.Dengue’s nickname — “breakbone fever” — tells you everything you need to know about what it feels like. Severe muscle and joint pain, high fever, and a characteristic rash. The real danger comes with a second infection from a different serotype, which dramatically increases the risk ofdengue hemorrhagic fever, without treatment, a life-threatening condition where blood vessels leak, platelets crash, and organ failure can follow.Aedes aegyptiandAedes albopictus, the primary vectors, are now established across much of the southern and eastern United States. The mosquitoes have colonized the territory. The virus is following close behind.🩸The Forgotten American ScourgeMalaria was not always a tropical disease — for centuries it was endemic across the American South and as far north as the Great Lakes, withPlasmodium vivaxandPlasmodium falciparumboth circulating widely. The disease shaped settlement patterns, agricultural productivity, and even military campaigns; more Union soldiers died of malaria than Confederate bullets during the Civil War. The CDC was founded in 1946 specifically as the Office of Malaria Control in War Areas, and the agency’s first and most consequential achievement was the systematic elimination of malaria from the United States through aggressive drainage, insecticide application, and surveillance — a feat completed by 1951. Today, roughly 2,000 cases are reported annually, almost all imported, but withAnophelesmosquitoes still present across half the country and climate conditions growing more favorable, locally acquired transmission has already reappeared in Florida and Texas.⚠ Yellow Fever: The Sleeping GiantYellow fever shaped America more than most textbooks admit — stalling construction of the Panama Canal, ravaging Philadelphia in 1793 and forcing the federal government to flee, decimating New Orleans repeatedly, and ultimately driving the mosquito-control infrastructure that made the modern South habitable.Yellow fever hasn’t established itself in the continental US in the modern era, but the conditions are increasingly favorable. The sameAedes aegyptimosquito that transmits dengue also carries yellow fever. Urban outbreaks in South America and Africa demonstrate what happens when the virus reaches densely populated areas with the right vector — it moves fast and kills efficiently.Yellow fever’s severe form causes jaundice (hence the name), internal bleeding, and multi-organ failure. The case fatality rate without treatment in severe cases can reach 50%. A vaccine exists, but it’s a live attenuated vaccine with its own serious risks, includingyellow fever vaccine-associated viscerotropic disease, which essentially mimics the disease it’s supposed to prevent.  It should be avoided in immunocompromised persons.🦟 Other Players in the SwarmZika virusgrabbed headlines in 2015-2016 for purportedly causing microcephaly in infants born to infected mothers.Aedesmosquitoes capable of transmitting it remain widespread across the southern US, and sporadic cases continue.Chikungunyacauses debilitating joint pain that can persist for months or years. It’s not typically fatal, but the chronic arthritis-like symptoms can destroy quality of life. Outbreaks in the Caribbean and Latin America mean imported cases are constant, and local transmission is a matter of when, not if, in areas with established vector populations.Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE)is rare but terrifying — a 30% fatality rate with inadequate treatment, and many survivors have permanent brain damage. It pops up periodically in the Northeast, Great Lakes, and Gulf Coast states.St. Louis EncephalitisandLa Crosse Encephalitisround out the list of neuroinvasive threats circulating within US borders.🧥 The First Line of Defense: Physical BarriersBefore any discussion of repellents, the single most effective and under-discussed strategy isphysical coverage. Long sleeves and long pants, particularly when treated or worn during peak mosquito activity hours (dusk to dawn), create a barrier no mosquito can penetrate.This isn’t complicated. Skin that isn’t exposed is skin that can’t be bitten. Light-colored, loose-fitting clothing is more effective than dark, tight garments — mosquitoes can bite through spandex but struggle with woven cotton or linen. Tucking pants into socks and shirts into pants eliminates entry points. A wide-brimmed hat protects the neck and ears.The pushback is predictable: “It’s too hot.” But lightweight, breathable fabrics designed for sun protection exist for exactly this reason. Cultures that have lived with mosquito-borne disease for centuries — across Africa, Asia, and Latin America — understood this long before DEET was synthesized in a lab. Physical barriers work. They work every time. They have no side effects, no toxicity concerns, and no need for reapplication.🌿 Botanical Bug Defense: Nature’s Chemistry Done RightThe Wellness Company’sBotanical Bug Defenserepresents a fundamentally different approach to repellency — one that works with natural compounds rather than synthetic neurotoxins.The formulation is built around four key botanical ingredients, each with documented evidence for insect repellency:Cedarwood Oil’sprimary active compounds, cedrol and thujopsene, function as potent insect neurotoxins that disrupt octopamine receptor signaling in arthropods while leaving mammalian systems unaffected. Multiple studies have demonstrated cedarwood's fumigant and contact toxicity against mosquitoes, ticks, and other biting insects, with protection attributed to both repellency and direct mortality.  Cedarwood's multifaceted mode of action — repellent, larvicidal, and adulticidal — makes it a valuable synergistic component in blended formulations where it extends the efficacy window of shorter-duration oils. is the heavyweight of natural repellents.Citronella oilis well-known but often underestimated. The key is concentration and formulation — properly emulsified citronella masks the carbon dioxide, lactic acid, and other human-emitted chemical signals that mosquitoes use to locate targets. It’s not about killing insects; it’s about making you invisible to their sensory apparatus.Peppermintoil earns its place in natural repellent formulations through its high menthol content and complementary volatile compounds — primarily menthone and limonene — which disrupt the olfactory receptors mosquitoes use to locate human targets. Multiple studies have demonstrated peppermint oil's repellency againstAedes,Culex, andAnophelesspecies, with larvicidal activity adding a secondary layer of protection. The oil's rapid evaporation limits standalone duration, but in blended formulations it contributes a sharp initial barrier while cooling the skin and deterring insects through a mechanism distinct from the heavier, longer-lasting botanical oils it's paired with.Lemongrass oilcontains citral and geraniol, compounds shown in laboratory and field studies to repelAedes,Culex, andAnophelesspecies — the three genera responsible for virtually all mosquito-borne disease transmission. Geraniol in particular has demonstrated repellency comparable to DEET in some head-to-head comparisons at similar concentrations.The combination matters. Individual botanicals tend to have shorter protection windows than synthetic alternatives, butsynergistic blending— multiple compounds targeting different olfactory receptors in the mosquito — can extend efficacy beyond what any single ingredient achieves alone.☠ The Chemical Alternative: What You’re Actually Putting on Your SkinDEET (N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide) has been the gold standard of insect repellents since the 1940s. It works. Nobody disputes that. What’s less discussed ishowit works and what the trade-offs are.DEET is not merely a repellent in the conventional sense — it functions as a neurotoxin that disrupts the insect’s olfactory and nervous systems. The mechanism involves inhibition of acetylcholinesterase, the same enzyme targeted by organophosphate pesticides and nerve agents.Severe adverse reactions — including encephalopathy and seizures — have been documented, particularly in children. The EPA’s own incident reports include hundreds of seizure-related adverse events. DEET is readily absorbed through the skin, with studies showing 10-15% systemic absorption within hours of application. It crosses the placenta. It’s detectable in breast milk.Picaridin and IR3535 are often marketed as safer alternatives, but they’re still synthetic molecules with far less long-term safety data than anyone should be comfortable with. The precautionary principle — if you don’t need to expose yourself to a synthetic neuroactive compound, don’t — seems to have been abandoned in the name of convenience.Permethrin, used for treating clothing, is a pyrethroid insecticide that is directly neurotoxic. The argument that it’s safe because it binds tightly to fabric ignores the reality of skin transfer, inhalation during application, and environmental persistence.🛡 A Sensible Hierarchy of ProtectionThe rational approach to mosquito-borne disease isn’t either/or — it’s layered defense:Physical barriers first— long sleeves, long pants, mosquito nets in high-risk sleeping environmentsEnvironmental control— eliminate standing water where mosquitoes breedTiming— avoid peak biting hours when possibleBotanical repellentson exposed skin — effective protection without systemic neurotoxin exposureSynthetic repellentsreserved for extreme-risk scenarios — deep jungle, known active outbreaks, regions with high malaria or yellow fever transmission where the risk-benefit calculation shiftsFor the vast majority of Americans — backyard barbecues, hiking trips, evening walks — botanical formulations like The Wellness Company’sBotanical Bug Defenserepresent the rational middle ground: effective protection without the documented risks of DEET and its synthetic cousins.🧠 The Bottom LineMosquito-borne illness in the United States is not a theoretical concern. West Nile is endemic. Dengue is establishing local transmission. Zika, chikungunya, and EEE are distant threats. Yellow fever is one introduction event away from urban outbreaks in cities with establishedAedespopulations.The question isn’t whether to protect yourself — it’s how to do it intelligently. Long sleeves cost nothing and work perfectly. Botanical repellents with documented efficacy offer meaningful protection without the neurotoxic baggage of chemical repellents.FOCAL POINTS (Courageous Discourse™) is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.📝Please subscribe toFOCAL POINTSas a paying ($5 monthly) or founder member so we can continue to bring you the truth.AlterAImay be used to assist in searches, synthesis, and review.Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPHChief Scientific Officer, The Wellness Companywww.twc.health/focalpoints

Summary: Practical, non-toxic strategies against West Nile, dengue, and the diseases they don't warn you about


BREAKING: FDA Approves New Pfizer and Moderna XFG mRNA COVID Shots Based on Data From Just 8–10 Mice

byNicolas Hulscher, MPHThe FDA hasapproved PfizerandModerna’snew 2026–2027 XFG-adapted mRNA COVID-19 vaccines even though the XFG-specific evidencepublicly presented to regulatorswas preclinical animal data involving just 8–10 mice per group.The reach of these dangerous approvals is sweeping: Pfizer can now be given to every American age 65 and older and to “high-risk” individuals as young as 5, while Moderna extends all the way down to “high-risk” infants just 6 months old.The human safety and immunogenicity studies of the new formulations had not even begun when FDA granted approval.Pfizer’s new COMIRNATY formulation was approved onAugust 27, 2026, while its prospective human study of the 2026–2027 formula is scheduled to beginAugust 31—four days later.Moderna’s new SPIKEVAX formulation was also approved onAugust 27, but its Phase 3b/4 human study of the 2026–2027 SPIKEVAX and MNEXSPIKE formulations is not scheduled to begin untilNovember 16—nearly three months after approval.FDA’s own 2026 vaccine-selection materials distinguish between human data from earlier/current COVID vaccines and animal immunogenicity data for the new candidate vaccines.Pfizer’s FDA presentationshows the XFG candidate was tested in10 mice per group.Moderna’s FDA presentationshows its key XFG experiment used8 mice per group.The approval letters reveal another troubling development: FDA also releasedboth manufacturers from previously required placebo-controlled postmarketing studies, citing operational and feasibility problems. Pfizer’s abandoned study would have investigated circulating spike antigen and post-vaccination symptoms, while Moderna’s would have evaluated safety of variant-containing formulations.Rather than requiring new human data before approval, FDA relied in part on human safety and immunogenicity data from previous COVID-19 vaccine formulations and extrapolated that evidence to the newly updated XFG products, while the XFG-specific evidence itself remained preclinical.This reliance on older-formulation data is especially concerning given themillions of deaths, injuries, and disabilities, along with demonstratedcardiotoxicity,neurotoxicity,carcinogenicity,body-wide biodistribution, andyears-long persistence.This is extremely worrisome and needs to be reversed immediately.Nicolas Hulscher, MPHEpidemiologist and Foundation Administrator, McCullough FoundationSupport our mission:mcculloughfnd.orgPlease consider following both theMcCullough Foundationandmy personal accountonX(formerly Twitter) for further content.Subscribe now

Summary: The new formulations were approved before their human safety and immunogenicity studies even began.


BILL GATES WARNS OF AI BIOTERRORISM JUST WEEKS AFTER HE FUNDED THE FIRST-EVER CREATION OF 16 SYNTHETIC VIRUSES USING AI

byNicolas Hulscher, MPHBill Gates is now publicly warning that artificial intelligence has become powerful enough to create dangerous viruses and enable bioterrorism.“AIs are now capable of causing bioterrorism risk,” Gates said on CNN, adding that we need to monitor whether people are “creating a dangerous virus.”But just weeks earlier, Gates Foundation-funded researcherspublished a study inSciencedescribing theFIRST-EVER creation of 16 synthetic viruses using AI.The mad scientists used artificial intelligence to design bacteriophages that do not exist in nature. The synthetic viruses were then manufactured, shown to self-replicate inside bacteria, kill their bacterial hosts, and produce new viral particles.The lead author who carried out much of the experimental work was financially supported by the Gates Foundation.So Bill Gates is now warning the world about the very capability his own foundation helped fund into existence:AI systems being used to design functional synthetic viruses.You cannot make this up.Nicolas Hulscher, MPHEpidemiologist and Foundation Administrator, McCullough FoundationSupport our mission:mcculloughfnd.orgPlease consider following both theMcCullough Foundationandmy personal accountonX(formerly Twitter) for further content.FOCAL POINTS (Courageous Discourse™) is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a paid subscriber.

Summary: Bill Gates is now warning the world about the very capability his own foundation helped fund into existence.


The Green Ritual: How Matcha Is Powering a Healthier Return to Campus

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPHFor millions of young people, August means the return to college campuses and time to settle into academic routines.  There are about 15.3 million undergraduate students and roughly 3.5 million graduate students in the United States.🍂 The Season of ReturnThere’s a particular excitement to late August—the kind that settles over driveways and dormitory steps, over suitcases zipped too full and anxious parents brimming with pride. Kids scatter back to campus. And in the scramble to rebuild a routine from scratch, one thing has quietly become the anchor of the whole endeavor:matcha in place of coffee.It used to be a specialty drink, the province of tea snobs and wellness blogs. Now? Walk any quad during the first week of classes and you’ll see it everywhere—whisked into oat milk, shaken over ice, balanced on the edge of a lecture-hall desk. Matcha has become theritualof the returning student: something to stir, something to hold, something that turns the mechanical act of “getting back into it” into a small daily ceremony.🌿 Why Matcha WonThe appeal isn’t mysterious. Students are waking up earlier, moving faster, and staring at screens longer than any generation before them. They want energy without the jitter, focus without the crash, and a drink thatdoessomething instead of just filling a cup.That’s where the science gets genuinely interesting—and wherePique Life’s Sun Goddess Matchaseparates itself from the crowd.🍵 Sun Goddess Matcha: The BreakdownSun Goddessis100% organic and ceremonial-grade, which matters more than the label lets on. Ceremonial grade means young, shade-grown leaves, stone-ground into a powder so fine it dissolves into something smooth, sweet, and almost creamy—packed with beneficial ingredients.💚 EGCG — Firm & BrightenEGCG, the star polyphenol in green tea, is the headline act here. Beyond its reputation as an antioxidant, EGCGfirms and brightens skin—which, for a student suddenly sleeping less and eating erratically, is exactly the kind of invisible support that shows up in the mirror within a couple weeks.🍬 Catechins — The Craving KillersEGCG belongs to the broader catechin family, and together they helpcurb sugar and hunger cravings. That 3 p.m. vending-machine collapse? The late-night pastry run? Catechins act as a gentle brake on the blood-sugar rollercoaster that drives those impulses.🌱 Chlorophyll — Clarity From WithinThat vivid green isn’t decoration.Chlorophyll, abundant in shade-grown ceremonial matcha, givesSun Goddessits color and supportsskin clarityfrom the inside out. It’s the quiet workhorse of clear, even-toned skin.⚡ Caffeine — Metabolism, Not Just WakefulnessMatcha’s caffeine arrives bound to its plant matrix, releasing slower than coffee’s sharp spike. Beyond the smooth energy, caffeine here supportslipid metabolism—meaning the body’s fat-burning machinery keeps ticking even when the only workout is sprinting between classes.🧘 L-Theanine — The CounterweightThis is matcha’s secret weapon.L-theaninepromotescalm and balanceby guiding the brain toward relaxed alertness—focus without anxiety, presence without the buzz. For a 20-year-old staring down three papers and a group project, that equilibrium is worth more than any energy drink.📦 What You’re Actually GettingDetail SpecGrade100% Organic, CeremonialTotal Weight56g per cartonServings28 per carton.  That’s a month of daily ritual in one carton. And for students whose budgets are already stretched thin by textbooks and takeout, this is perfect as a gift from parents who want to see their kids do the best they can.🎁 Try It YourselfYou can find Pique Life’sSun Goddess Matcharight here:👉Pique Life Sun Goddess MatchaAnd don’t forget to use promo codeDRPETERat checkout.🎒 The Real PointHere’s what I actually think when I watch the matcha mugs multiply each September: this generation, for all its screen-addled chaos, has quietly rediscovered something older than any of them. The idea thathowyou start your day matters. That a whisk and a bowl and two minutes of stirring can be a kind of meditation. That you don’t need to mainline espresso to feel alive.Sun Goddess Matchais a healthy tool—one that brings EGCG, catechins, chlorophyll, caffeine, and L-theanine to the same cup, in a form the body actually recognizes and processes naturally during a busy day on campus.FOCAL POINTS (Courageous Discourse™) is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.📝Please subscribe to FOCAL POINTS as a paying ($5 monthly) or founder member so we can continue to bring you the truth.AlterAImay be used to assist in searches, synthesis, and review.Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPHPresident, McCullough FoundationFOCAL POINTS has partnered withPiqueto promote your optimal health. To learn more about Pique products and get 20% off and free gifts today,https://www.piquelife.com/DRPETER

Summary: Pique Life’s Sun Goddess Matcha perfect for dorm life and peak academic performance


The Great Misdirection Trick of Partisan Politics

In the 1995 film,The Usual Suspects, what appears to be a hapless man named Roger “Verbal” Kint memorably paraphrases the French poet Charles Baudelaire with the remark:The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn’t exist.It seems to me that the second greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the American people that they should place their faith and hope in one of the two political parties.For many years I have observed people with strong “Republican” identities and people with strong “Democrat” identities fulminate about the folly of the other party. The former watch Fox; the latter watch CNN; both are equally persuaded by the propaganda they are served.My personal sympathies and biases have always strongly tilted Republican. My paternal grandfather, who knew some of LBJ’s cronies, once told me that LBJ was “the most corrupt man who ever walked the earth.” Conversely, my maternal grandfather knew George H.W. Bush and thought he was a swell guy. In my twenties I also noticed that people who identify themselves as Democrats tend to be far more given tovirtue signaling, which I have long perceived to be a dangerous form of self-deception and self-congratulation.I was therefore, initially, a strong supporter of George W. Bush. My support began to attenuate rapidly after September 1, 2001. I was in Manhattan on that infamous day and was badly traumatized by it. Looking back, I believe my political awakening about the evil of both political parties began then. I now believe that the two major American parties should be understood as belonging to the same monstrous structure—as complementary halves of a single system.Like yin and yang, they are opposed in rhetoric and personnel, but in practice they are as co-dependent as Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald after they became severe alcoholics and started quarreling all the time.Each political party supplies the other with anenemy, arationale for mobilization, and aready explanationwhen outcomes disappoint. Together they form the visible face of a national government whose scope and liabilities have grown under administrations of both labels.This face may be understood as that of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. People who have strong partisan political identities see their party as the kindly and humane Dr. Jekyll and the other as Mr. Hyde, not realizing that they are the same.While the two parties constantly point the finger at each other,spending, regulation, and debthave risen across decades regardless of which coalition held the presidency or Congress.Wars, thenational security state,entitlements, andemergency authoritieshave been advanced, modified, or merely continued by both. Even when differences are real, they they operate inside a shared institutional logic of concentrated benefits, diffuse costs, logrolling, and political reward for delivering visible programs while deferring their fiscal consequences. The result is an entity that becomes steadily larger and more indebted even as the parties trade office.While the monster grows like a cancer, the public is served—through their preferred propaganda organs—with a partisan blame mechanism. Persistent problems—structural deficits, the growth of unfunded liabilities, regulatory accumulation, infrastructure decay—are routinely attributed to the other party’s unique vice, incompetence, or capture.When Democrats hold power, Republicans point to spending and bureaucracy; when Republicans hold power, Democrats point to tax cuts, wars, or corporate favoritism. Each side can produce examples that support its case. The mechanism works because it is psychologically efficient, converting complex outcomes into asimple story of villainy versus virtue. Voters are thereby equipped withan identityanda targetwithout having to examine the incentives that operate on both coalitions once they areinside government.Divide-and-conquerfollows from this arrangement. Energy that could be marshaled into the broader project of rejecting the entire game is instead absorbed by inter-party combat. Polarization is not an accidental byproduct; it is the system’s most essential function.A public sorted into hostile camps is less likely to form a durable coalition around taming the beast. These camps have been rigorously trained to view each other with mutual suspicion and contempt.The parties do not need to conspire for this effect, which naturally emerges from ordinary electoral incentive. Primary electorates reward differentiation; media markets rewardconflict and tribalism, and incumbents of both parties benefit from a government that continues to distribute resources.In my business of trying to communicate in the public forum,tribalismis especially operative. I once played golf with a major Silicon Valley investor who happened to be a fan of this newsletter, and he offered me the following counsel.The key to building a major media channel is to build a tribe and then constantly excite its outrage and flatter its identity. It seems to me that you and McCullough haven’t figured this out, and you have a rare talent for offending all tribes.What can I say? The truth hurts everyone, and every major lesson in life is learned through pain.The point of this essay is not to claim that both parties areidentical, but that their differences are secondary to the theirmutual captureby the military-industrial complex, Wall Street, the bio-pharmaceutical complex, and the intelligence agencies.Partisan political differences coexist with a deeper continuity in the size and indebtedness of the state, while the partisan narrative of exclusive blame helps stabilize that continuity.Yin and yang do not cancel each other; they complete a cycle. In this cycle, the government entity grows, the debt accumulates, and the public is offered a contest over which half of the whole is at fault.As I recently pointed out in a video shot overlooking the Capitol building, the fuel that feeds Leviathan, enabling him to grow to ever large and more terrifying dimensions, consists of an unending train of “crises” and “emergencies.” If you’ve not yet watched the video, you may find it interesting.Subscribe nowShare

Summary: Republicans and Democrats are the yin and yang of the same monstrous Leviathan that devours the American people.


Bill Gates Warns of AI Bioterrorism as the Vaccine–Alpha-Gal Link Emerges

byNicolas Hulscher, MPHI joined Rob Finnerty on Newsmax to discuss two major stories: new evidence pointing tovaccines as a possible contributorto the dramatic rise in Alpha-Gal Syndrome, andBill Gates warning about AI-driven bioterrorismjust weeks after Gates-funded research helped produce the first functional viruses designed using artificial intelligence.Ournew comprehensive review of Alpha-Gal Syndrome (AGS)identified vaccination as a risk factor. More than 90% of American children receive vaccines containing bovine-derived gelatin before entering school, resulting in injection of approximately 54 mg of alpha-gal-bearing gelatin through commonly administered childhood vaccines (MMR and chickenpox).The second major topic wasBill Gates’ recent warningthat increasingly powerful AI could create a bioterrorism risk.However, Just weeks earlier, aGates-funded paper published inSciencereported the first-ever creation of 16 functional viruses designed using artificial intelligence. The lead researcher received Gates Foundation funding, and the AI-designed bacteriophages were capable of infecting bacteria, replicating, and producing new viral particles.Bill Gates is warning the world about the very capability his own foundation funded into existence.As I told Rob:“It’s absolutely absurd, and you can’t even make it up.”Nicolas Hulscher, MPHEpidemiologist and Foundation Administrator, McCullough FoundationSupport our mission:mcculloughfnd.orgPlease consider following both theMcCullough Foundationandmy personal accountonX(formerly Twitter) for further content.Subscribe now

Summary: Nicolas Hulscher joins Rob Finnerty on NEWSMAX to discuss Bill Gates’ contradictory AI bioterrorism warning and new evidence implicating vaccines as a risk factor for Alpha-Gal Syndrome.


BREAKING: BioNTech mRNA Cancer “Vaccine” Trial TERMINATED Over Alarming Mortality Signal

byNicolas Hulscher, MPHBioNTech hasabruptly terminateda Phase 2 trial of its experimental personalized mRNA cancer “vaccine” after an independent safety board identified an alarmingimbalance in overall survival between the treatment groups.The trial, known asBNT122-01 (NCT04486378), enrolled approximately 327 patients with surgically resected high-risk Stage II or Stage III colorectal cancer who remained positive for circulating tumor DNA. Participants were randomized to receive BioNTech’s individualized mRNA cancer immunotherapy, autogene cevumeran (BNT122/RO7198457), or watchful waiting.Patients in the mRNA arm underwent anaggressive hyper-dosing regimen of up to 15 intravenous infusions over roughly one year—six weekly doses across the first six treatment weeks, two more at two-week intervals over the following month, followed by seven additional doses every six weeks for the remainder of the year.The independent Data Safety Monitoring Board has now reported a“numerical imbalance in overall survival between treatment arms”and concluded that continuing the study was unlikely to change its efficacy outcome. Itrecommended that treatment be stopped and the entire clinical trial terminated. BioNTech surprisingly accepted the recommendation.In lay terms, overall survival measures how long patients remain alive after entering the trial. An imbalance therefore represents a mortality signal between the groups. BioNTech has not yet disclosed the number of deaths in each arm, the mortality rates, hazard ratio, causes of death, or which treatment group experienced poorer survival.Perhaps even more concerning, the trial had alreadycrossed a prespecified futility boundary in October 2025, indicating that the accumulating results were unlikely to demonstrate the intended efficacy. BioNTech nevertheless continued the study.As the vaccine cartel races to push mRNA technology into an ever-expanding list of diseases, this trial marks yet another major failure of the platform—this time in cancer patients, where the stakes could not be higher. It’s time to END the unchecked expansion of mRNA technology and protect innocent civilians from further death and disability.Nicolas Hulscher, MPHEpidemiologist and Foundation Administrator, McCullough FoundationSupport our mission:mcculloughfnd.orgPlease consider following both theMcCullough Foundationandmy personal accountonX(formerly Twitter) for further content.Subscribe now

Summary: The independent Data Safety Monitoring Board flagged an overall-survival imbalance after cancer patients received an aggressive hyper-dosing regimen of up to 15 IV mRNA doses.


Friday Funnies: Off to the Races!

OK - today is a little abbreviated!  We are off to the Brownstone conference!  Wish you all could be here, and I hope to meet a few of you from the comments section (Thomas, please introduce yourself - I believe I read that you are coming)!JGMMalone News is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Thanks for reading Malone News! This post is public so feel free to share it.Share

Summary: OK - today is a little abbreviated!


Prayers needed for Cara

This is going to be short today because we are in a hotel in Stanton, Virginia, trying to get ready for the Brownstone Conference titled “Real Food, Real Health” being held at Joel Salatin’s Polyface farm.First off, we all know that most animals don’t live as long as humans.  Which means for those of us with animals, eventually we are faced with hard choices and loss.  It is a part of life that never gets easy. This week is one of those weeks.On Thursday evening, Stacey, our farm manager, alerted us that Caranja, our 20-year-old foundation mare who has a foal by her side, had nostrils flared and was acting like she wanted to go down. Caranja  was imported in utero and who has been with us since she was a two-year-old - she is a beloved part of our farm.Now Stacey, has a sixth sense about horses and when they are in distress, so even though those symptoms may seem mild, Dr. Chris was immediately called.Chris was here within minutes, as we are very lucky in that he lives just down the road.  Yes, she had colic. Colic is a general term for abdominal pain in a horse, usually caused by a problem in the digestive tract, ranging from mild gas or cramping to a life-threatening intestinal blockage or twist. Colic is a horseman’s nightmare and the cause of most deaths in horses, as they can’t vomit and they have a very “primitive” digestive tract.  The intestine is, for lack of a more precise term, a great big jumble that can easily twist.  If a bit of intestine twists, a horse will be in extreme pain and unless it either untwists or surgery is performed, the horse will die.Caranja is Robert’s girl. She and he have a special relationship going back many years, when he used to ride her. He even used her in historical re-enactment shows.National Andalusian Show, 2015But now, she has been a broodmare for many years, and this year, she delivered yet another buckskin, a beautiful little filly, who we have named Xassandra (Casi).Chris is an old-fashioned, single-practice equine vet - out in rural Virginia.  He has seen and done it all, and we trust him completely.  Although Caranja’s vital signs were good, her large intestine was enlarged.  She needed to go to the equine hospital ASAP.The hospital was called; they didn’t have room for the two-month-old filly, so she had to be left behind.  I rushed Cara to the hospital.  After an ultrasound, the vet said she had a 50/50 chance of recovery, and it would take 24-72 hours to resolve itself one way or another.Robert and I had already decided that we didn’t want her to undergo abdominal surgery, which is a grueling procedure and often ends up in a painful death afterward.  Cara is older, we don’t want to put her through that.Casi, the filly, did ok that night.  The other mares took her in, but she wandered around quite a bit calling for mama.In the morning, the hospital agreed to let the foal come, as Cara had made it through the night.So, in all the chaos, we packed our overnight bags and are here at Polyface.Somehow Kitty ended up going go…Last night, we attended a lovely reception at the hotel, and this morning, we are just about to head out to the conference.We are now waiting anxiously for news on our beautiful black mare, who has been part of our family for many, many years.Cara, peeking into our house in Georgia, 2009We can phone in to the hospital at 8:30 for an update.Prayers needed for our old girl and her two-month-old filly.Malone News is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Thanks for reading Malone News! This post is public so feel free to share it.Share


Real Food, Real Health

Robert Malone, sitting next to his friends Brooke and Ann Miller at Polyface Farms.Note to Readers:Our foundation brood mare “Caranja” and her filly foal are back from the hospital and at stall rest with occasional pasture walkabouts.  Thanks to all concerned for your prayers and good wishes.Due to popular demand, I have deferred today’s essay to post the text of the speech that I gave yesterday at the Brownstone/Polyface retreat. The speech covered ideas developed more completely in our new book, “Homesteading for Health”, available onAmazonand wherever good books are sold.Thanks for reading Malone News! This post is public so feel free to share it.ShareReal Food, Real HealthRobert W. Malone, MD, MSBrownstone Institute at Polyface FarmThe hardy chickenA year ago, at this retreat, on this ground, Jill and I walked this farm with Joel. Some of you may remember walking with us. We got into a conversation about chickens.Jill was complaining. She has a right to. Most laying hens today have a short productive life. They being laying at about twenty weeks, they produce well for two or three years, and then they are done. They are also inbred and fragile. They pick up respiratory disease easily, including H5N1, and other bird species and even some chicken breeds handle that better than our commercial layers do.Joel listened to all this and then told us what he does about it. He breeds what he calls a hardy chicken. The method is not complicated. He takes his oldest, healthiest hens, the ones still laying well late in life, and he breeds them to his oldest, healthiest roosters.Think about what that costs him. You cannot breed at twenty weeks. You wait. You wait through the whole productive life of the bird, and only then do you find out which ones deserve to be parents. Years of waiting for one generation of selection.What he gets on the other end is a bird a homesteader can keep for five or six productive years instead of three. That is not just a better chicken. That is a more resilient farm.I have thought about that conversation for a year, because it is the whole argument I want to make to you this morning in one anecdote. Industrial agriculture spent seventy years optimizing for the wrong variable. The correction is patience and biology. And it is available to you now, on your ground, without asking anyone’s permission.The argumentHere is what I want to walk through.Depleted soil produces less nutritious food. Less nutritious food, run through industrial processing, produces inflammatory disease in the people who eat it. Both ends of that chain can be repaired by your household, and faster than most people believe.I will take that in three pieces. What happened to the soil. What that does to a body. And what your family can actually do about it.What happened to the soilStart with a study that nobody in the nutrition establishment wanted.In 2004 Donald Davis and his colleagues at the University of Texas compared the mineral and vitamin content of forty-three garden crops. Broccoli, spinach, carrots, ordinary things. They used USDA’s own data from 1950 and USDA’s own data from 1999. Same crops, same agency, fifty years apart.Nearly every nutrient they examined had declined. Calcium, phosphorus, iron, riboflavin, vitamin C. The drops ran from 6 to 38 percent depending on the crop.Consider the spinach number for a second. A 38 percent reduction in iron means your grandmother got more nutrients out of one serving than you get out of two.Rattan Lal put a number on the global scale of it in 2005. Potassium deficits across 90 percent of the world’s harvested area. Phosphorus across 85 percent. Nitrogen across 59 percent. More than half the cropland on this planet is mining its own fertility, taking more out each season than goes back in.Now, although I was originally a carpenter and a farm hand, I am now a scientist and a physician, and I want to be fair to the other side, because there is a real objection here.A Canadian researcher named Robin Marles published a systematic review in 2017 arguing that these historical comparisons are unreliable. Analytical methods changed between 1950 and 1999. Crop varieties changed. Samples came from different regions and different laboratories. His conclusion was that claims of soil depletion driving nutritional decline are unfounded.He is right about the methods. Comparing a 1950 assay to a 1999 assay is not clean science.But he is measuring the wrong thing. Total mineral content in soil is not the same as biological availability to a plant. A field can test perfectly adequate for zinc on paper and still fail to deliver zinc, because the fungal networks that shuttle micronutrients into roots have been suppressed.That is not a hypothesis. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi have partnered with plant roots for more than four hundred million years. They colonize the root and extend hyphae out into the soil, sometimes multiplying a plant’s effective root area by a hundred. In exchange for sugars from the plant, they deliver phosphorus, zinc, selenium, and iodine that the roots could never reach on their own.Deep tillage shreds those networks. Heavy phosphorus fertilization suppresses them. Pesticides reduce microbial diversity. Monoculture starves the whole community of the botanical diversity it feeds on.So as a consequence, you end up with soil that still grows a crop but has lost its biological intelligence.The evidence that fixing it worksThe strongest evidence comes from David Montgomery and colleagues at the University of Washington, published in PeerJ in 2022.They found paired farms across this country. Same crops. Same soil type. Fields side by side. One managed conventionally, one managed regeneratively for five to ten years with no till, cover crops, and diverse rotation.In one wheat comparison in Oregon, the cover cropped grain came in with 41 percent more boron, 48 percent more calcium, 56 percent more zinc, and four times the molybdenum of the conventional field immediately next door.Here is the part that matters most. Those nutrient differences did not track with total soil mineral levels. They tracked with soil health scores. Organic matter, microbial activity, aggregate structure. The regenerative soils were not chemically richer at a gross level. The fungi and the microbes had gone back to work making them richer at a micro and nano level.How long it takesEvery farmer asks me the same question, and most speakers dodge it. So here is the honest answer.In the first six to twelve months, microbial activity rebounds and earthworm populations climb. Your soil smells earthier. It crumbles instead of clodding. Those are not cosmetic changes.Over one to three years, labile carbon builds and early mycorrhizal networks establish. Water infiltration improves, and your cover crops come up more vigorously each season.The five-to-ten-year window is where the payoff shows up in the food. That is the range where Montgomery documented measurable improvement in crop micronutrient density.Past ten to twenty years, topsoil deepens. The University of Washington farm study measured topsoil thickness increasing fourfold over twenty years on ground that had been a garbage dump.I owe you the bad news with it. Yields dip in the transition, usually for one to three years, while soil biology reorganizes and weed pressure rises. Rodale’s Farming Systems Trial found organic yields back to conventional levels within three to five years. Insect pressure also goes up, and you (or your chickens) will manage that issue for as long as you farm.The asymmetry is what should motivate you. Degradation under intensive conventional management runs somewhere between a hundred and a thousand times faster than passive recovery. Land does not heal on its own at any speed worth waiting for. It heals when somebody decides to heal it.What that food does inside a bodyNow let me put on the other hat. My medical doctor side.We talk about obesity as a weight problem. It is more accurate to call it a chronic low grade inflammatory disease.White adipose tissue is not inert storage. It is an active endocrine and immune organ. It responds to hormonal signals, and it manufactures cytokines that reach every system in your body. As that tissue expands it becomes dysregulated and inflamed, and that inflammation drives insulin resistance and impaired glucose metabolism.The relationship runs both directions. Metabolic dysfunction promotes inflammation, and inflammation further wrecks metabolic control. Patients get caught in that loop and are then told to eat less and move more.Adipose tissue also produces leptin, which is supposed to tell your brain you have enough stored energy and can stop eating. In obesity many people become leptin resistant. Levels are high and the brain no longer listens. Hunger persists. Then we call this signaling biochemistry a failure of willpower.There is more. Visceral fat drives testosterone down in men, partly through inflammatory signaling and partly through increased conversion of testosterone to estrogen. It is often reversible with abdominal fat loss.And this compounds with age. The literature calls it inflammaging. Low grade systemic inflammation climbing year over year, associated with cardiovascular disease, neurodegeneration, frailty, and joint degeneration.Walk through any airport and you can watch it. Altered gait, visible discomfort, limited mobility. Pain limits movement, less movement raises inflammation, and inflammation worsens the pain.The food that feeds itThe observational literature linking ultra-processed food to bad outcomes is large, and I will not rely on it, because you can always argue confounding.The controlled feeding trials are harder to dismiss. Match the macronutrients. Vary only the degree of processing. The people on the ultra-processed diet eat more calories and gain more weight. The structure of the food, not just its nutrient composition, is changing appetite regulation.Take breakfast cereal, since it sits in most American kitchens.Children’s cereals average about 34 percent sugar by weight. Some run 50 to 56 percent. A child eating one bowl a day consumes roughly ten pounds of sugar a year from that one habit.Much of it arrives as high fructose corn syrup, enzymatically converted to be sweeter and more palatable. The oils are extracted with high heat and hexane, then degummed, bleached, and deodorized. The preservatives include BHT, which the International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies as a possible human carcinogen. The dyes include Red 40 and Yellow 5, restricted or warning labeled in parts of Europe over behavioral effects in children.Americans bought thirteen billion dollars of that in 2024.We took the bran and germ out of the grain, then fortified the starch with synthetic vitamins and printed heart healthy on the box.Why this happenedThis was not an accident of the market. It was policy.Earl Butz ran USDA under Nixon and Ford. His key policy phrase was get big or get out. Federal policy restructured around scale, specialization, and volume. Price supports gave way to payments tied to production, and those payments favored large operations.It worked exactly as designed. Production rose, food got cheap, and the diversified family farm lost the economic ground it needed to survive.When Jill and I bought our place in Madison County, we bought the end of that story. Productive farm land used for dairy and hogs, then monoculture hay, then depletion, then abandonment. Collapsed buildings and compacted clay.The people before us did not fail for lack of effort or skill. They failed because the economics of twentieth century farm policy left an operation that size no room to stand. I did not fully understand that when I signed. I understand it now.2022I want to tell you what changed for us, and I want to be careful about what it proves.In 2022 Jill and I were both in poor metabolic health. Technically obese. I was dealing with cardiac arrhythmia, chronic digestive problems, and the aftermath of COVID illness and vaccine injury. Jill was managing nerve damage from a trimalleolar fracture and recovering from facial reconstruction after a horse injury.We had been vegetarians for more than thirty years. We were certain we ate well. Our blood work said otherwise.My physician, Brooke Miller, looked at those numbers and was blunt with me. Eat meat. Prioritize protein. Get rid of the processed carbohydrate that had colonized our diet over three decades.We spent a month reading before we changed anything. Then we changed everything. Our own eggs, grass fed meat, raw milk from our Jersey herd, garden vegetables, organic grain we mill ourselves. No seed oils, no added sugar, no refined flour, no processed food. We added intermittent fasting and cut total calories.We each lost fifty pounds inside a year. Years later, neither of us has put it back. The arthritic symptoms that had been closing in on both of us largely resolved. My digestive trouble is gone.Two people is not a study. Our experience proves nothing at a population level, and I will not pretend otherwise.I tell you because I want to be concrete about what it feels like when the food comes off your own ground. The farm did not just supply ingredients. It supplied the framework. You stop eating passively.What this does not fixI also want to be honest about the limits, because overclaiming is how movements lose credibility.Homesteading does not fix the subsidy structures that reward commodity monoculture. It does not compel EPA to finish a glyphosate risk assessment that takes independent science seriously. It does not reduce the political weight of agribusiness lobbying in Washington. It does not rebuild the large animal veterinary infrastructure we let collapse over fifty years, and it does not undo the regulatory capture that makes it harder every year for a small farm to sell directly to its neighbors.Those are political problems. They need political work, and anyone who tells you a garden solves them is grifting, and you are the mark.What it does resolveWhat homesteading resolves is your household’s exposure to the worst of what that system produces.Grow vegetables in living soil without chemical inputs and you are eating measurably more nutrient dense food than the supermarket sells. Keep your own hens and your eggs are nutritionally superior to anything in a grocery case. Keep a dairy animal on good pasture and what you drink is a biologically different product than the commodity that has been homogenized, pasteurized, and hauled across a continent.It resolves one more thing that does not appear in any assay. Agency.The modern food system runs on consumer ignorance. It works best when nobody asks what is in the bag or what was sprayed on it. The morning you start growing your own food, that ignorance stops being available to you. You know what went into your soil. You know what your animals ate.And every version of this counts. The person in an apartment who trades cereal for eggs and grows herbs on a windowsill has moved the needle. The suburban family with a raised bed and three chickens has moved it further. The family that finds five acres and builds living soil has moved it further still. None of them had to wait for anyone else, or for Washington DC, to solve the larger problem first.Jill and I started with working her father’s lemon and avocado farm, and then two chickens named Henny and Penny in married student housing in La Jolla. Our son Zach is forty-two now and he still remembers those hens. Every farm since grew out of that.CloseHealth is not merely biochemical. It is cultural. Food is not merely fuel. It is sovereignty. Farming is not merely an industry. It is an inheritance.Freedom is not secured in distant institutions. It is practiced at home.Plant something. Raise something. Cook something. Know where it came from.Cultivate your garden. The rest will follow.Jill received this Facebook DM from Haris Lender, one of the many friends we met at this year’s Polyface retreat.“On December 31, 2021, Dr. Robert Malone appeared on the Joe Rogan experience. For those of you that don’t know, he helped to develop the MRNA platform and DOESN’T support the Cvid vax. Let that sink in.Immediately afterwards Neil  (f**k the man/gov) Young decided that he was sticking with the Gov and if Joe Rogan wasn’t taken off Spotify for having Dr. Robert Malone on his show for speaking the truth about the Cvd Quacksenes…  he would leave.So much for free speech eh?Spotify stuck with Joe. Good choice IMHO.Right afterwards I made a post. I mocked Neil who I have always loved… but was disappointed in his behavior.My post:“Hey hey … my my… Neil Young’s off Spotify!”That was the beginning of the cancellation of ME.I got a lot of flack for that.Lost a lot of friends and FB followers and my life has never quite been the same.Of course not nearly as bad as for Dr. Robert Malone, who I still stand by, for speaking the truth. Six years later, I finally feel it has all been a blessing for waking me up and making me a stronger person.He is one of my many heros in the long battle for Cvd truthers. Dr. Malone’s wife Jill is also quite the force to be reckoned with and somehow we have become FB friendly. Thanks for your support Jill!Being here in Staunton, VA at the Brownstone organization medical freedom conference with all of these phenomenal Doctors, Scientists and medical freedom fighters is incredibly exciting. Our Government should never have the right to mandate an experimental Quacksene. Period!Thank you Dr. Malone for fighting for us and even though it has been a challenging journey…  the future sure does look bright!So here we are almost six years after the post that ended my life as I know it and this time I’m gonna say:“Hey hey my my… it’s Robert and Jill Malone… and me oh my!”Today was a good day.”Malone News is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Jeffrey TuckerJoel Salatin, a national treasure

Summary: Robert W. Malone, MD, MS Brownstone Institute at Polyface Farm


Four Epochs of Mankind’s Controversial History with Vaccines

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPHPlease enjoy this long format state presentation given on August 21 at the Advent Mission Institute Camp 365 in Berrien Springs, Michigan.  I reconnected with church leaders who suffered severe professional reprisal for their presentation to congregations of the “crisis of conscience” we all faced with mandated genetic vaccines for COVID-19 in 2021.I present four periods of time in our beautifully written book by first author John Leake—Vaccines:  Mythology, Ideology, and Reality:I.  The Great Prelude:  Smallpox VaccinationII.  Experimentation and DevelopmentIII.  The Modern Vaccination EraIV.  The Bioweapons EraYes, this describes starting in 2004, we entered a whole new phase of biotechnology applied to biowarfare where pathogens of pandemic potential are created in biolabs and vaccines are developed as military countermeasures.  That’s how we all became caught up in history that has certainly taken a dark turn.  Please enjoy the show.Thanks for reading FOCAL POINTS (Courageous Discourse™)! This post is public so feel free to share it.Share📝Please subscribe to FOCAL POINTS as a paying ($5 monthly) or founder member so we can continue to bring you the truth.AlterAImay be used to assist in searches, synthesis, and review.Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPHPresident,McCullough Foundation

Summary: Dr McCullough presents the timeline at Advent Mission Institute 365


The US Proxy War in Russia is Escalating & Imperiling the World

In spring of 2008, I was living in Vienna, Austria and carefully followed the reporting on the NATO Bucharest Summit from April 2-4. For readers who don’t remember this momentous occasion: it was during this summit that the NATO issued a declaration stating that Georgia and Ukraine would eventually become NATO members.What most people don’t remember about this summit was that the Bush administration pushed forthe immediate grantingof a Membership Action Plan (MAP) to Ukraine and Georgia. Fortunately, German Chancellor Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy successfully blocked this initiative but nevertheless appeased President Bush by agreeing to the vague promise that both nations "will become members of NATO.”Russian President Putin, who attended the summit, stated in his address that NATO’s expansion into Ukraine and Georgia was “direct threat to Russian security.” A the time it occurred to me that US policy wonkswelcomedthis unequivocal statement by Putin—on the record at a NATO summit—because with this statement, Putin publicly stated his red line, the crossing of which would force his hand to take military action.Make no mistake: The horrible people who run US foreign policywantedPutin to take military action in Ukraine because they believed it would lead to an Afghan style quagmire for Russia in Ukraine. As I tell this story in my new book,Mind Viruses: America’s Irrational Obsessions:They apparently reasoned that, with the Ukrainian army equipped with sophisticated US weaponry and targeting assistance, the Russian army would suffer the same kind of humiliating defeat it had suffered in Afghanistan at the hands of the US-armed Mujahideen, who succeeded in getting the Soviet Army to withdrawal from in the country in February 1989. Hillary Clinton explicitly made this comparison in a February 28, 2022, MSNBC interview in which she said:Remember, the Russians invaded Afghanistan back in 1980. It didn’t end well for the Russians . . . but the fact is, that a very motivated, and then funded, and armed insurgency basically drove the Russians out of Afghanistan.Later in the interview, Clinton conceded that arming the Afghan Mujahideen had produced unintended consequences like the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. The actions of these groups resulted in the US government sending the American military to Afghanistan and occupying the country for twenty years. After getting thousands of American servicemen killed and maimed and spending $2.3 trillion, the US government made its own chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan on August 30, 2021, leaving the countrybackin the hands of the Taliban that was supposed to have been vanquished twenty years earlier.It didn’t seem to bother Clinton that an Afghan-style quagmire in Ukraine would likely kill hundreds of thousands of people and inflict great suffering on the Ukrainian people, just as the Afghan people had suffered during the Soviet Afghan War. Implied in Clinton’s statement was her apparent assumption that the Ukrainian people view the Russian people as enemies. In fact, most Ukrainians and Russians have long had close and affectionate relations, and many have extended family members in both countries. For decades, ordinary Ukrainians have—because of the country’s location, history, and rich natural resources—been caught in the middle of oligarchies in Kiev and Moscow who have much in common but also frequently squabble over natural gas deals. Washington, London, and Brussels have sought to bring Ukraine into the western sphere of influence. Most disturbing to Moscow has been the aggressive foreign policy clique in Washington that has aspired to make Ukraine a forward operating base against Russia in the same way it aspired to make Iraq a forward operating base against Syria and Iran.I have seen ZERO evidence that an Austrian-style neutrality deal would not have worked for Ukraine and averted this senseless war. Here is former NATO Secretary General and US stooge Jens Stoltenberg stating that Russia’s neutrality proposal in the autumn of 2021 was rejected out of hand.As with all of Washington’s wars since 2001, the US proxy war against Russia in Ukraine has been a catastrophic failure, though it has certainly enriched the US military-industrial complex, the oligarchs who run Ukraine, and their US political cronies.Currently I am seeing an increasingly number of indications that this war is escalating, with growing risk of direct clashes between Russian and NATO forces and even Russian strikes on munitions factories in Germany and Great Britain.To be sure, President Putin knows what I already intuited in 2008—namely, the horrible people who run US foreign policy and their German puppet, Chancellor Friedrich Merz—wantRussia to strike western targets so that it will trigger general war in Europe.For some time it has been said that the US foreign policy clique running the proxy war have demonstrated a remarkably cold-blooded willingness “to fight till the lastUkrainianman,” and I know a young Ukrainian man who was recently abducted and sent to front line with minimal training. At the moment, I am not sure if he is still alive.Even more disturbing was the August 24, 2026statementof retired Lieutenant GeneralKeith Kellogg, who previously served as the US Special Envoy for Ukraine, in which he declared that the government in Kiev should expand military conscription to include women.Here it is important to understand that Ukraine’s oligarchs and their children are not fighting the war. As wasreportedin the French newspaperLe Mondein 2023, many oligarchs have left Ukraine and retreated to their villas in the South of France.Especially fascinating and disturbing to me is that most Americans seem to have no idea this is going on. It reminds me of carefree members of the Austro-Hungarian aristocracy in the summer of 1914, who had no idea that the reckless machinations of the Austrian court against the Kingdom of Serbia would, just four years later, result in the total destruction of the Austrian Habsburg state and empire that had existed for over 600 years.Many of my friends in Vienna come from families lost ALL their ancestral property in Bohemia, Moravia, Hungary, and other parts of the empire. Some of their great grandparents retreated to their apartments in Vienna and burned family heirloom furniture in the winter of 1918-1919 to keep warm because their coal supply from Bohemia and Moravia (now the Czech and Slovak Republics) was cut off.Unlike the Russian people—who suffered catastrophic death and suffering in the wake of Napoleon’s 1812 invasion and Hitler’s 1941 invasion—the American people alive today have little to no awareness of the horrors of war.My great grandmother, who died almost forty years ago, once told my mother that no a single day went by that she didn’t feel the pain of losing her only son Bobby, who was killed in combat at the age of eighteen, fighting the Germans near Florence, Italy in 1944.The dreadful old men who run this country seem to have no empathy for a mother’s pain—neither that of the mothers of Ukraine and Russia, nor of the mothers of ordinary Americans. I am increasingly drawn to the conclusion that the US government—in its reckless conduct in both domestic and foreign policy domains—is essentially a satanic entity.This entity—whoever in hell is running it—doesn’t seem to understand that escalation can result in all kinds of unpredictable and undesirable outcomes. Such was theme of the darkly satiric Cold War song “99 Luftballons” by the German band NENA, in which the appearance of 99 hot air balloons on the horizon is mistaken for an attack, thereby triggering an escalation that leads to World War III and the end of the world.The song may have been inspired by the so-called “Battle of Los Angeles” on February 25, 1942, when an errant weather balloon over Los Angeles triggered an air raid alert and blackout. This, in turn, triggered a massive anti-aircraft barrage of approximately 1,400 shells fired into the sky over Los Angeles at perceived enemy aircraft, even though none was clearly detected and identified. Five people died during the incident from stress-related heart attacks and traffic accidents caused by the panic. Later, the Army declared the incident to have been the result of “war nerves and imagination.”Songwriter Carlo Karges wrote “99 Luftballon” in 1982. About a year later, on September 26, 1983, when Soviet Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov, stationed near Moscow, prevented a potential nuclear exchange by identifying a satellite warning system of incoming US ICBMs as more likely a system malfunction. Rather than following protocol to report the attack immediately, Petrov made the gut decision to classify the alert as a false alarm. His hunch was later confirmed to be a satellite malfunction that misinterpreted cloud reflections as missiles. For trusting his intuition and making his bold decision to err on the side of caution, Petrov was known as “the man who saved the world.”Petrov was born in 1939 and lived through many of the most dangerous years of the 20th century before dying in 2017. As we head up the escalation ladder with Russia, I hope there are still men like him managing Russia’s nuclear weapons systems.Subscribe nowShareMany Americans seem to think that this sort of thing—on a much wider and more catastrophic scale—couldn’t

Summary: The reckless gamble with the existence of the American people and the peoples of Western Europe appears to be getting more dangerous by the day.


The Great Cherry Tree Massacre That Wasn’t

Another manufactured Washington outrage, this time over cherry trees.Headlines and social media posts are breathlessly claiming that the Trump administration is cutting down Washington’s iconic cherry trees.There is, as usual, considerably more to the story.According to the Department of the Interior, the current work at East Potomac Golf Links isselective tree removal involving hazardous trees, invasive species, and trees that are declining or dying and cannot be restored to good health.TheWashington Postwent to the site and reported that many of the stumps it examined were hollow or showed obvious signs of decay. Reporters also watched a large tree being removed that showed clear evidence of deterioration.Both mainstream and progressive media began screaming that healthy trees were removed to make way for a golf course, and this included at least one cherry tree. To be clear, there is no evidence that crews simply marched through East Potomac cutting down dozens of healthy cherry treesBy the weekend, social media had dispensed with even the limited caution shown by the press. “OMFG. HE DID IT,” read one viral X post. “Trump cut down 60 TREES… Including Cherry trees!!!” Democratic Congressman Don Beyer announced that Trump was “taking an axe” to East Potomac Park, “including historic cherry trees.” On Bluesky, the qualification disappeared altogether: “Trump cuts down the oldest cherry blossoms in DC for his golf course.” Another declared, “He has ruined our city.”There was just one rather inconvenient problem with this rapidly spreading story.That isn’t what the Department of the Interior says happened.And even theWashington Postreported seeing substantial evidence of decay among the trees that had been removed.Perhaps some healthy trees were removed. If so, let’s see the arborist records and establish it. But social media didn’t wait for that evidence. Within hours, “trees were removed” had become “Trump cut down 60 trees,” which became “Trump cut down the cherry trees,” which became“Trump cuts down the oldest cherry blossoms in DC for his golf course.”And apparently everyone had forgotten that just two years earlier, the federal government deliberately removed158 cherry trees from the Tidal Basin, including living trees, for a construction project.That happened under Joe Biden.Strangely, I don’t remember the Great Cherry Tree Massacre of 2024.In 2024, under the Biden administration, the National Park Service approved the removal of 158 of Washington’s famous cherry trees around the Tidal Basin.And no, those 158 trees were not all dead or dying.They were removed to make way for reconstruction of the deteriorating Tidal Basin and West Potomac Park seawalls. NPS acknowledged the removals openly and said the project had been designed to minimize the number of trees lost. Replacement trees were planned afterward.Flowering cherry trees are relatively short-lived.Yoshino cherries, which dominate Washington’s famous plantings, generally live only about 30 to 40 years, although some survive much longer. Most of Washington’s cherries today are replacements planted over many decades, including hundreds propagated directly from the original 1912 trees. Yet critics are treating the removal of old, declining trees as though someone were chopping down the original gift from Japan. They aren’t. The historic cherry-tree lineage has been deliberately preserved for generations.That removal included the beloved little cherry tree known as“Stumpy.”Stumpy was still alive and flowering, although NPS arborists said it was badly stressed and in a “mortality spiral.” To be clear, Stumpy” was not one of the original 1912 cherry trees.So let’s get the standard straight.Biden administration removes 158 cherry trees, including living trees, for a federal construction project: necessary infrastructure work.Trump administration removes hazardous, invasive, declining and dying trees from a federal golf course: national scandal.The claim that the administration is simply destroying Washington’s healthy cherry trees is not supported by the evidence currently available.What is clear is that lawfare is once again being deployed by the D.C. politburo to obstruct the Trump administration.Sometimes a dying tree is just a dying tree.By: JGMIf you value journalism that waits for the evidencebefore joining the outrage mob, please consider becoming a paid subscriber.This work takes time. And sometimes it is as simple as discovering that the latest national scandal is, in fact, a bunch of old trees being cut down.Independent journalism only remains independent if readers support it.Subscribe nowAnd sometimes, apparently, somebody has to debunk the progressive notion of a Great Cherry Tree Massacre and actually write out the facts.Enjoy the rest of this glorious day of God!

Summary: “I can not lie”


Sunday Strip: My Pill Ain’t on “The List”

My vote for the biggest scam of them all: Property taxes.The government tells you that we have a “right” to own property.You buy the land.You pay off the mortgage.You hold the deed.Congratulations. You own it!Just stop paying the government its annual fee and see whoreallyowns it.How absolute is private property ownership if the government can impose a perpetual annual charge for continuing to possess property you already own, and ultimately seize and sell that property if you fail to pay?My pill isn’t on there.My white pill would be to make sovereignty real again and end property taxes.A free people should be able to own property that the government cannot control through taxation.And, of course, the elderly are especially vulnerable to the government’s whims. Retirement usually means living on a fixed and limited income, even as inflation and property taxes continue to rise.The DSA portion of the democrat party believes in redistributing wealth, which is a charming way of saying they’ve already made plans for your money and land.Beyond the usual property taxes, sales taxes, real estate taxes, federal income taxes, state taxes, school taxes, local bonds, social Security tax, Medicare tax, gasoline taxes, vehicle registration/taxes, excise taxes, utility taxes, telecommunications taxes, hotel and restaurant taxes, capital-gains taxes, dividend taxes, estate/inheritance taxes in some circumstances, unemployment/payroll taxes, assorted licenses, fees and assessments… and… Did I miss any?We earn the money. They tax it. We spend the money. They tax it. We invest the money. They tax it. We own a home. They tax it. And after we finally pay off the land, we keep paying the government every year for permission to keep it.The DSA calls whatever you have left unfinished businessFour years after this video was released, it is still terrifyingly true.Thanks for reading Malone News! This post is public so feel free to share it.ShareThe 2010 home improvement award goes to this new entry in the doorbell buzzer category.By: JGMMalone News is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

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Tick Bites, Vaccines, and the Meat Allergy Epidemic

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPHMore and more Americans are developing alpha-gal syndrome after a tick bite.  Steve Gruber asked Dr. McCullough on DayBreak about this emerging meat allergy and what is behind the epidemic.🎙 Dr. Peter McCullough on Alpha-Gal Syndrome — Steve Gruber Show SummaryThe InterviewDr. Peter McCullough, Chief Scientific Officer at The Wellness Company, joined Steve Gruber onReal America’s Voiceto discuss a new study from the McCullough Foundation and Wellness Company team examining risk factors behind the dramatic rise ofalpha-gal syndrome (AGS)— an acquired meat allergy that can produce delayed anaphylaxis, urticaria, and angioedema hours after eating mammalian products.🔬 The Hulscher et al. PaperMcCullough referenced the newly released paper:Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, James A. Thorp, MD, Drew Pinsky, MD, Peter Gillooly, MSc, Harvey Risch, MD, PhD, Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, & Kelly Victory, MD. (2026).Risk Factors, Pathogenesis, and Management of Alpha-Gal Syndrome.Zenodo.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22003548The paper advances two non-exclusive hypotheses about how vaccine-derived alpha-gal — present in mammalian gelatin used as a stabilizer — could contribute to AGS:Direct induction: Repeated parenteral exposure to alpha-gal-bearing gelatin with aluminum adjuvant directly drives IgE class switchingPrime-boost: Gelatin-containing vaccines expand the alpha-gal-specific memory B-cell pool, after which a tick bite delivers a potent adjuvant signal that boosts the response to clinically relevant IgE titersMcCullough emphasized that the average tick bite victim is about 35 years old, has taken many childhood vaccines like most Americans, and then gets a tick bite that triggers the allergy. The paper notes that alpha-gal IgE is now detectable in24% of adultsin high-burden states, with suspected cases rising roughly 100-fold over the past decade.💊 Two TWC Products MentionedHistacalm— A botanical combination (quercetin, luteolin, apigenin, pine bark extract, and butterbur) that stabilizes mast cells and basophils from releasing histamine. McCullough described it as calming the allergic response so that meat can be gradually reintroduced — a desensitization approach — allowing patients to “go on with their lives after this tick bite.” The paper details how these five constituents target distinct nodes of the effector cascade: degranulation, Th2 cytokine production, leukotriene synthesis, H1 signaling, and oxidative amplification.Bug Defense— A safe botanical insect repellent. McCullough’s practical advice was straightforward: “No tick bite, no alpha-gal syndrome.” He recommended wearing long sleeves and pants in the woods (particularly applicable to Gruber’s Michigan audience) and using Bug Defense as a preventative. The ticks don’t like it, and prevention remains the single most impactful measure available.🦠 Broader ContextMcCullough and Gruber also touched on:Vaccine hesitancybeing driven by Anthony Fauci’s legacy, not by voices like RFK Jr. or McCullough — with the rate of unvaccinated children rising from ~2.5% several years ago to ~4.2%Gain-of-function researchon ticks and mosquitoes, with McCullough calling for the entire industry to be shut down, noting the line of thinking that Lyme disease may have originated from a research lab in Lyme, ConnecticutTheconflict of interestinherent in government-funded vaccine research, given the government’s co-ownership of the Moderna patentThe need forindependent researchthrough organizations like the McCullough Foundation and Wellness Company, free from the constraints of government RFAs and industry biasFOCAL POINTS (Courageous Discourse™) is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.📝Please subscribe toFOCAL POINTSas a paying ($5 monthly) or founder member so we can continue to bring you the truth.AlterAImay be used to assist in searches, synthesis, and review.Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPHChief Scientific Officer, The Wellness Companywww.twc.health/focalpoints

Summary: McCullough Foundation & The Wellness Company paper proposes two-pronged pathogenesis of alpha-gal syndrome, while TWC's Bug Defense and Histacalm offer practical solutions for prevention and recovery


How the Vaccine Cartel Is Making False Claims about Shingles Vaccination Reducing Heart and Neurodegenerative Disease

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPHWhen I took the shingles vaccine several years ago, my arm blew up like a red balloon and I had pain and fever—that is inflammation big-time.  It has been learned that both cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases have deterministic elements of chronic inflammation.  In other words, inflammation is not good for the heart or the brain—and that includes systemic inflammation from vaccines.🧠 The “Shingles Vaccine Miracle:” When Observational Studies Become MarketingTwo new studies published inNature Medicineand theAnnals of Internal Medicineare making headlines with a seductive claim: the recombinant shingles vaccine may slash your risk of heart disease and dementia. TheCorsi-Zuelli paperreports a 9% reduction in cardiovascular events. TheHayes paper, published inAnnals, claims a 25% reduction in dementia risk.  From an epidemiological perspective these are tiny effect sizes.It’s a beautiful story. Get your jab, protect your heart, save your brain. Who wouldn’t want that?The problem is that the story is almost certainly false. And the reasons it’s false reveal everything wrong with how the vaccine establishment manufactures evidence when it needs to move product.Read more

Summary: Non-randomized, healthy-vaccinee bias, unadjudicated billing codes, effect sizes too tiny to outrun random variation, conflicts of interest buried in fine print — the shoddy science of vaccinology