By Matthew Ehret

Chapter excerpt from Ehret’s new book Revenge of the Mystery Cults

The parallel growth of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel as children of mysterious establishment families enmeshed in the elite corridors of Apartheid South Africa and earlier fascist movements before and during World War 2 is noteworthy, but not evidence that either man is a part of a broader conspiracy.

However, the parallels don’t end with their family roots or connections to the Apartheid South African elite.

As both men ascended to the higher echelons of Silicon Valley culture in the 1990s, their lives continued to cross pollinate and advance the same transhumanist programs between 1998 through to the present day.

While Elon co-founded Zip2 as his first technology startup in 1995 (essentially selling digital phone books to various companies), Thiel’s entry into tech start ups also began around that time with his launching of a software company named Confinity in 1998.

Before that, Thiel had begun to make a name for himself as an innovative Straussian in Stanford University, where he founded the libertarian Stanford Review in 1987, serving as its editor-in-chief until his 1992 graduation.[1]

The Stanford Review received patronage from non-other than former Trotskyite and early Straussian Irving Kristol who led in the formation of the neoconservative movement during the Cold War and that movement’s acquisition of political power in the USA in 2000. The era of the ‘New Crusaders’ that launched forever wars abroad after 9/11 and a vast surveillance dragnet within the USA were all Straussians.[2]

This fact will become extra important later in this chapter.

After working as a derivatives trader at Credit Suisse in 1993 and then a securities lawyer for the CIA-affiliated law firm Sullivan and Cromwell,[3] Thiel co-founded Thiel Capital Management in 1996 followed soon thereafter by his first digital payments company named Confinitity in 1998 where his life would begin to merge with that of Elon.

Although Elon Musk has made much noise proclaiming his having cut ties with his abusive father Errol Musk upon leaving South Africa for Canada at the age of 17, according to his own words, his father provided $20,000 of the original investment that got his startup company Zip2 online in 1997.^[4]

This is but one of many data points indicating that a thick veneer of false narrative has been carefully built up around the persona of Musk as a self-made libertarian genius who worked his way to becoming the richest man on earth from the status of a poor student living on crackers.

While Elon has stated that it was hard work, and personal resilience mixed with fortunate scholarships that paid his way through school, it is known that Elon actually co-owned an entire frat house in Pennsylvania where he was studying for his Bachelor of Arts.

While co-owning this frat house, Elon created a scandal by transforming it into a nightclub, and despite having done so illegally, appears to have never suffered any legal issues by campus or municipal authorities.[5]

Despite the fact that Zip2 was little more than a digital yellow pages, Compaq decided that it was a worthwhile investment and poured $341 million to purchase the start up in 1999 which netted Elon $22 million.

With this money, Elon was able to co-found X.com with Greg Koury as a boutique company that would specialize in online payments outside of conventional banking channels.

Within months of founding X.com, the company merged with another digital payments company called ‘Confinity’ that had been founded by Peter Thiel a year earlier. This new company quickly received a rebranded image under the new name of ‘Paypal’.

In 2002, Paypal was purchased by Ebay for $1.5 billion, scoring a $175 million for Elon, and $55 million for Thiel.

At this point, both Elon and Thiel were given patronage and direct support by leading directors of the CIA’s official venture capital firm In-Q-Tel.[6]

With his new-found wealth, Peter Thiel established a new private surveillance agency named Palantir in 2004 which drew its name from the all-seeing indestructible crystal balls used in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings which granted its users the power to literally see and hear everything in the world.

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In-Q-Tel became the first official financial backer of Thiel’s Palantir in 2004 providing the original $2 million funding to launch the new tech surveillance firm. [8]

The CIA’s interest in Palantir at this period was not so much due to American security as it was due to the failure of an earlier project dubbed ‘Total Information Awareness’.

The Rise and Re-branding of Total Information Awareness

In the wake of September 11, 2001, the newly emergent neoconservative social engineers introduced a ‘solution’ to the problem of international terrorism in the form of the first iteration of a vast surveillance dragnet dubbed ‘Total Information Awareness’ (TIA) featuring a logo with a pyramid and the eye of Horus.

The program proposed to manage a total surveillance state and even began innovating predictive policing algorithms. This new science of control would attempt to monitor and measure every citizen’s actions, electronic communications and even proposed to predict where future crimes would occur using probability theory.

The founders of the project called it the “Manhattan Project for counter-terrorism”.

Although the Orwellian branding resulted in significant public backlash, the program was not shut down but merely rebranded to ‘Terrorism Information Awareness’ in 2004. This new Manhattan Project also continued and pioneered the science of biometric identification, facial recognition, and other technologies useful only under the conditions of dictatorship. Among the rebranding was included the creation of a civilian agency named Palantir.

The architect of TIA was the same Admiral John Poindexter who had overseen the Iran-Contra scandal with General Oliver North in the 1980s, and who (with North) had already promoted an off-the-books intelligence apparatus directed by the CIA which could be sold to the population as a ‘civilian’ contractor as far back as 1986.

The surveillance/database infrastructure then developed during the 1980s to satisfy this need was named ‘MAINCORE’ and the purpose was to keep track of all information of ‘potential disruptive individuals’ to be arrested “in time of panic” or “national crisis”. Later on, MAINCORE spawned such surveillance programs as GENOA, Genysis and PRISM.

Despite being sentenced to five years in prison for his role overseeing Iran Contra, Poindexter’s career did not suffer terribly, as his sentence was commuted to several months, and the neocon spent the next two decades working as a defense contractor, DARPA analyst and architect of TIA.

Thiels’ biographer Max Chafkin explains^[9] that just before Palantir was created, John Poindexter and then-CIA director George Tenet were introduced to both Thiel and fellow Palantir creator Alex Karp by none other than leading neoconservative strategist and leading Straussian, Richard Perle. Among Palantir’s military intelligence clients are found the CIA, FBI, NSA, CDC, Marine Corps, Air Force, Special Operations Command, and Westpoint[10]. But that’s not all.

The London Guardian wrote that “Palantir does not just provide the Pentagon with a machine for global surveillance and the data efficient fighting of war. It runs Wall Street too”.[11]

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It is here that Thiel celebrates the need for the cut-throat world of espionage and power projection of a world empire enforced by the military and political influence of the USA when he writes:

“Instead of the United Nations, filled with interminable and inconclusive parliamentary debates that resemble Shakespearean tales told by idiots, we should consider Echelon, the secret coordination of the world’s intelligence services, as the decisive path to a truly global pax Americana.”

The Echelon Project referred to by Thiel is the largest global surveillance program managed by the Five Eyes and created in the 1960s as a military intelligence surveillance program. Echelon would have been the principal agency interfacing with and directing the operations of Palantir at the time of Thiel’s writing.

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Elon Musk, X and Tesla 2.0

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Like Thiel’s Palantir, SpaceX and its Starlink subsidiary would soon become a dominant contractor to the US military industrial complex under a civilian veneer.

Also, like Thiel, the CIA’s In-Q-Tel was also on hand for the launching of SpaceX as Michael Griffin, the President of In-Q-Tel accompanied Musk to Russia in order to negotiate a purchase of several ICBM rockets in 2002. Despite the fact that the Russians refused Musk’s offers, it is acknowledged that this trip was the origin for SpaceX itself.

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Between 2005-2009, Griffin was a favorite among the Straussians managing post-9/11 USA and was appointed to become the Administrator of NASA where he directly oversaw the agency’s embrace of the ‘New Space Movement’. This new ‘movement’ posited that all space research and engineering should only be managed by private billionaires who were to replace agencies such as NASA which had formerly been tied to the sovereign nation state.

Among the most important of these ‘New Space Movement’ pioneers that received the first wave of NASA contracts were Elon Musk’s SpaceX, and Griffin’s former employer Orbital Sciences. Soon Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin private space company (founded in 2000) would also receive lucrative government contracts under Griffin’s lead.

The growth of Elon Musk’s contracts with both NASA as well as with the Pentagon and CIA managing the largest array of space-based surveillance and increasingly an infrastructure for space-based weaponry under the veil of ‘civilian ownership’ parallels Thiel’s operations in many ways.

Not only has Elon’s operations served as a cover for a myriad of military intelligence companies controlling ‘cutting edge’ patents that are permitted into the public domain, but Elon’s involvement with Thiel since the late 1990s and his involvement with the Jeffrey Epstein-funded Behaviorist Economics takeover of the USA plays a major role in reviving his grandfather’s ambitions for a Global Technate managed by elite social engineers.

Silicon Valley Billionaires Merge with Behaviorists

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Rather than suppose that societal control had to be of a simply top-down OR bottom-up nature, these ‘Third Way’ behaviorists rationalized that the APPEARANCE of personal choice could be protected satisfying libertarian proclivities for personal freedom on the one side, while the ACTUAL top-down controls for an elite network of social engineers could be held firmly intact outside of the influence of the animalistic masses.

In other words, the ‘Third Way’ was merely a modified re-hashing of Strauss’ interpretation of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave which posited that societal equilibrium could only be maintained if the vast majority of the population were kept locked within a cave believing that their perception of shadows cast by a managerial elite was the only reality that existed.

The leading behaviorist economists gathered around the Edge Foundation, and which served as Technocratic managers of the ‘Good Plutocrats’ such as Bezos, Musk and Thiel were explicitly attempting to revive the theories of John Locke and Behaviorist Psychiatrist B.F. Skinner in 21^st century garb.

Recapitulating the X as the Behaviorist Secret Sauce

John Locke’s ‘X’, and Strauss’s Noble Lie studied by Thiel were directly shaped by the view that human beings must never be permitted to participate in serious discussions of the realm of higher ideas shaping reality.

Instead, humans could be allowed to have opinions shaped by perceptions (forever ungrounded in actual ‘knowledge’ of course) and the freedom to pursue lusts based on those perceptions.

These opinions and lusts would create the basis of a system of ‘scientific controls’ or a ‘hedonistic calculus’ outlined by Jeremy Bentham (following Locke) for an elite class which Locke believed himself to be a member.

And only this elite governing class would be permitted to control the influences shaping the lusts and perceptions of the masses which formed their convictions.

As Thiel also outlined in his Straussian Moment essay of 2007; All systems dominated by an elite class of human gods from ancient times through the rise of the British Empire required two simultaneous sets of doctrines and governing myths in order to function. One set for the masses would serve as an exoteric structure of beliefs, values, moralities and traditions which would define the boundaries of the masses and another darker esoteric set of beliefs, moralities values and traditions for those assigned to control society.

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Via https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/elon-musk-and-peter-thiel-two-sides

Source: ilovethaki.gr

Jeremy Kuzmarov

Heralded as a hero in Western media, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has allowed foreign private interests to steal his country’s best land

In early November, Barbara Bonte, a Belgian member of the European Union (EU) parliament, raised concern about the sell-off of Ukrainian land on a massive scale to U.S. private equity firms along with some Saudi agro-industrial and investment businesses.

Bonte wrote to the EU parliament that, “according to several disquieting reports, mainly U.S. but also Saudi agro-industrial and investment businesses are purchasing Ukrainian farmland on a massive scale. Cargill, ADM, BlackRock, Oaktree Capital Management and Bunge Limited, for instance, have reportedly gained control over much of Ukraine’s farmland.”

Bonte then posed two questions to the EU parliament as follows:

“1. What is the Commission’s assessment of the impact of this sell-off of European farmland to multinationals serving only U.S. interests on EU strategic food-supply dependence? How does the Commission intend to address that impact?”

“2. This strongly suggests that the United States is seeking to recoup its military support for Ukraine, and ensure a geopolitical presence there in a post-war scenario through control over Ukrainian farmland and the profits it generates. How does the Commission intend to prevent the United States from cherry-picking in Ukraine and Europe from being left to deal with just the handicaps?”

Bonte’s questions are significant ones that point to a hidden, underlying motive to the war in Ukraine and U.S. and European support for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The bonanza offered to foreign investors resembles past wars where young people were sacrificed on the altar of corporate profits.

War and Theft

A detailed analysis of the land grab in Ukraine by Western corporations was provided in a 2023 report by the Oakland Institute^[1] entitled “War and Theft: The Takeover of Ukraine’s Agricultural Land.”

Written by Frédéric Mousseau, a food security consultant, and Eve Devillers, a Ph.D. candidate at Cornell University, the report starts by emphasizing Ukraine’s function as a “breadbasket of Europe” with its 33 million acres of arable land and “large swaths of the most fertile farmland in the world.”

In 2021, Zelensky initiated a land reform program as part of the structural adjustment program begun under the auspices of Western financial institutions that enabled U.S.-based corporations to take over Ukraine’s land.^[2]

The structural adjustment program had been opposed by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who was overthrown in the 2014 U.S.-backed Maidan coup.

After Zelensky’s “land reform” was initiated, about five million hectares—the size of two Crimeas—were outright “stolen” by private interests.

The thieves included Goldman Sachs, a Wall Street investment firm well represented in the Biden administration, which in April 2022 bought NN Investment Partners Holding N.V., a Netherlands-based company that is a major shareholder in Ukraine’s biggest landowner, Kernel Holding S.A, and in Astarta, another large landowner in Ukraine.^[3]

Vanguard Group Inc., which gave $45,473 to Kamala Harris in the 2024 election and $98,551 to Joe Biden in 2020, was another Wall Street firm that bought up Ukrainian land cheaply.^[4]

Some large U.S. pension funds, foundations and university endowments are invested in Ukrainian land through NCH Capital—a U.S.-based private equity fund headquartered at Rockefeller Plaza in New York, which is the fifth largest landholder in Ukraine with its possession of 290,749 hectares.^[5]

NCH Capital currently faces accusations of unlawful land acquisition, tax evasion, and illicit financial activity. In 2015, its founder and CEO, George Rohr, was part of the high-level meetings involving Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko and U.S. Commerce secretary Penny Pritzker that led Ukraine to agree to the structural adjustment program of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as a condition for two $1 billion loan guarantees from the Obama administration.^[6]

Investors in NCH Capital include Dow Chemical, notorious manufacturer of napalm and Agent Orange, as well as other war profiteers like Honeywell and Lockheed Martin, along with Harvard University, the University of Michigan and Wellesley College endowments.

Open Secrets.com reports that NCH Capital has given the most money to Democratic Party candidates who have been fervent champions of U.S. intervention in Ukraine and billion-dollar military and financial aid packages there.

In 2024, NCH Capital gave $5,000 to Jimmy Panetta, a Democratic representative from California’s 19^th congressional district encompassing Santa Cruz, Monterey and San José, who is a former U.S. Navy intelligence officer and the son of former CIA Director Leon Panetta (who delivered a keynote address at this year’s Democratic Party Convention in Chicago).^[7]

Not surprisingly, Jimmy Panetta has been a champion of “robust aid to Ukraine in Congress,” as a profile in The San Luis Obispo Tribune put it, helping to pass a national security package that included $61 billion in security aid for Ukraine and support for the sale of seized Russian assets.^[8]

In August 2024, Panetta traveled to Ukraine to meet with Zelensky. He subsequently issued a statement praising him and claiming that it was “heartening to see and hear firsthand how American support, especially our work in Congress to pass legislation for supplemental funding, is properly being used on the battlefield.”

NCH and other firms investing in Ukrainian agriculture are indebted to Western financial institutions, in particular the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC)—the private sector arm of the World Bank.

The Oakland Institute report compares the generous financing of multinational corporations and local oligarchs with the inability of Ukrainian small farmers to access loans and their being displaced from their land and plunged into poverty. Some have migrated to the U.S. to seek farm work in the U.S. Midwest, sending remittances back home.^[9]

Mousseau and Devillers wrote that “the Partial Credit Guarantee Fund established by the World Bank to support small farmers is only US$5.4 million, a negligible amount compared to the billions channeled to large agribusinesses.”

Mousseau and Devillers further emphasized that the billions in Western aid provided to Ukraine have been “conditioned to a drastic structural adjustment program, which includes austerity measures, cuts in social safety nets, and the privatization of key sectors of the economy.”^[10]

A central condition [of Western aid] was “the creation of a land market, put into law in 2020 under President Zelensky, despite opposition from a majority of Ukrainians fearing that it will exacerbate corruption in the agricultural sector and reinforce its control by powerful interests”—which indeed it has.^[11]

Mousseau and Devillers suggest that international financial institutions, by supporting large agribusinesses, are “in effect subsidizing [with the concentration of land] an industrial model of agriculture based on the intensive use of synthetic inputs, fossil fuels, and large-scale monocropping—long shown to be environmentally and socially destructive.

By contrast, small-scale farmers in Ukraine being driven off their land, “demonstrate resilience and a great potential for leading the expansion of a different production model based on agro-ecology, environmental sustainability, and the production of healthy food.”

At the end, “War and Theft” makes clear there are post-reconstruction plans for further land privatization that will benefit the same corporate investors who are already making a huge profit in Ukraine.

This is happening as an overwhelming number of Ukrainians want to suspend the land privatization laws enforced by the Zelensky government, whose image in the West is a phony one.

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Via https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/12/19/u-s-corporate-land-grab-in-ukraine-underlies-war-with-russia/

Paul Rosenberg

Whether or not they can express it clearly, or even face it directly, more or less all adults noticed that medicine was used as a weapon during the Covid fiasco.

Today I’m going to address this, because we’ve been losing science and we’ve been losing medicine; that is flatly unacceptable.

#1: Science is not consensus. Tens, hundreds or even millions of people, all draped in lab coats and saying the same thing, does NOT make it so. In fact, it matters not at all. It’s nothing but theater, and it’s anti-science.

All science is, really, is a process of testing ideas; it is not an organization, it is not based upon authority (it’s inherently anti-authority), and it is very certainly not allied with power. All that matters in science are verifiable results.

#2: Medicine stands apart from, and above, politics. Medicine is the application of science to the furtherance of human health. Politics is the use of persuasion and power to rule masses of humans. These are fully separate disciplines. To place politics over medicine is to subjugate and degrade medicine: it’s a path backwards into darkness.

I’ll leave details on this point to working medical practitioners, who can provide them with greater specificity than I can… provided they’re not too frightened to do so.

#3: Peer review no longer means much. Again I won’t go into great detail, but peer review has been captured by academic hierarchies and very often separated from science proper. It has become a tool of institutional power, wielded by academics who have sold out science for the favors of power and politics.

At one time peer review referred to the honest replication of experiments. That time is largely past.

#4: Medicine and science have nothing to do with social pressure. Once medicine and science are mixed with social pressure, they are no longer science or medicine. At that point they are instruments of manipulation and thuggery, nothing more.

#5: If you don’t read multiple scientific papers, especially from rebels and cast-outs, you simply don’t know. You can pretend you know, of course, and that agents of monopoly will support you in your charade, but you won’t actually know.

If you want to really know, you’ll have to find the scientific papers that address your question… and you’ll need papers that are rejected by experts and authorities. If you don’t, all you’ll have are pre-censored conclusions, the underlying facts of which may or may not be reliable.

At this point, if you don’t include “conspiracy theory” research, you may be stuck with Orwell’s Ministry of Truth. That’s tragic, but it’s also largely true.

The Problem Is Not Mental Weakness

The problem underlying all of this is not a lack of intellectual strength, but a lack of emotional strength. It’s not that people are stupid, it’s that they haven’t the strength to defy authority:

• Having been trained in submission to authority, to then speak against an authority is terrifying. And so people find ways to ignore truth (which has no backing but itself) and to sanctify authority, which is backed by everything from shame to guns.
• The fear of appearing stupid – of being publicly exposed as stupid – can be overwhelming. And with “important” people tearing up anyone not in lockstep with them, defiance seems too expensive.
• Power being wrong calls too much into question. If the high and mighty can be publicly wrong, and can lie about it both repeatedly and adamantly, what else can be called into question? And if everything can be questioned, one must face the world alone.
• Disobeying power or breaking with a group can lead to severe applications of social pain, as, again, it did during the Covid disaster.

None of these things have any connection to truth, only to power, intimidation and social penalties. And all of those are anti-science, no matter how much they may masquerade as science.

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Via https://freemansperspective.com/the-weaponization-of-medicine/#more-11301

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Peter Sweden

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One of the largest dairy producers in Norway has now STOPPED giving their cows the methane suppressant Bovaer.

This is a major development.

The two largest dairy producers in Norway, Tine and Q-Meieriene began using Bovaer already in 2023 to make their cows fart less and reduce climate emissions.

They began to sell this as ”climate milk” in the stores. However, this was not popular at all with consumers. So guess what happened?

The dairy producer Tine stopped selling their climate milk, and instead just put it together with the normal milk without telling anyone. So people are now getting milk from cows being fed a TOXIC chemical without even knowing.

Read all about this chemical in my in-depth article here. The truth will shock you. Studies have found that this chemical is suspected of damaging fertility and the unborn child.

In high enough doses, the ovaries of cows began to shrink when given this chemical. Doesn’t sound very safe and effective to me.

But the good news is that the other big dairy producer in Norway, Q-Meieriene have announced that they are completely stopping the use of Bovaer in their cows after consumers boycotted this ”climate milk”.

”Demand for Q climate milk has not been high enough to continue production…since the Q climate milk is no longer for sale, we phased out the use of methane suppresants in cow feed and are putting this project on pause” said the chief of the company.

It is clear – People do not want this milk. Yet the mainstream media has been pushing hard, trying to tell us that is is completely safe and effective.

Well, guess what. You have to follow the money. Bill Gates has invested over $5 million into the company that is producing Bovaer.

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Via https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/peter-sweden-big-win-dairy-producer-stops-using/

Dr Eddy Betterman

• BT corn contains a toxic genetic trait that causes insect stomachs to explode, potentially leading to leaky gut syndrome in humans.
• The cure for leaky gut lies in avoiding toxins that destroy the gut lining, emphasizing the need to stop consuming genetically modified foods.
• A study by MDVIP and Ipsos revealed that two-thirds of American adults suffer from digestive symptoms, highlighting the lack of awareness about gut health importance.
• Leaky gut syndrome results from compromised intestinal lining, allowing toxins to enter the bloodstream and trigger chronic inflammation.
• Genetically modified organisms like BT corn and GM soy are linked to exacerbating leaky gut, emphasizing the importance of choosing organic foods to protect gut health.

This article aims to shed light on the critical issue of gut health and the impact of genetically modified foods on leaky gut syndrome. It emphasizes the importance of informed dietary choices and the potential health risks associated with consuming GMOs.

Did you know that BT corn contains a toxic genetic trait that was inserted into its seeds in a laboratory that makes bugs’ stomachs explode when they eat it? This creates holes or permeations in the stomach lining of those insects. Does this directly translate to the massive uptick of cases of humans suffering from leaky gut syndrome?

The only known cure for leaky gut, according to the medical community, is to treat the underlying condition. If that condition is a direct result of consuming toxins that destroy the lining of the gut, well then, there is the solution, which is even better than just “treating the condition” with medications. That means humans should entirely STOP eating genetically modified foods that literally breed a toxic microbiome in the gut.

In a recent study conducted by MDVIP and Ipsos, alarming statistics have emerged regarding the state of gut health among Americans. It revealed that a staggering two-thirds of adults in the United States suffer from digestive symptoms such as gas, bloating, and abdominal pain. Despite the prevalence of these issues, most individuals remain unaware of the critical importance of gut health and how to address it. Also, most Americans consume genetically engineered products on a regular basis, and even in every meal and snack.

Here are some key points to understand about the dangers of consuming BT (GMO) corn:

• Corn rootworms cost the corn industry approximately $1 billion per year.
• Biotechnology companies have claimed success in controlling corn rootworms by inserting toxic bacterial genes (Bt genes) into corn plants.
• The Bt genes make genetically modified corn plants toxic to insects and animals, including humans.
• The biotechnology industry has asserted for three decades that GMO technology provides increased yield for corn farmers and is safe for humans, which is criticized as false.
• Agri-chemical corporations like DuPont, Monsanto, Bayer, Dow Chemical, and Syngenta are accused of prioritizing profits over safety.
• Scientists involved in creating Bt corn are acknowledging the evolving resistance of corn rootworms to the inserted genes, leading to challenges in pest control.

The gut health crisis is exploding so it’s more important than ever for consumers to understand leaky gut syndrome

According to the survey, 61% of respondents reported experiencing gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms in the past week. The most common symptoms reported were heartburn/reflux, abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhea, and constipation. These symptoms, while seemingly common, can indicate a deeper underlying issue – leaky gut syndrome.

Leaky gut syndrome, also known as increased intestinal lining permeability, occurs when the tight junctions in the intestinal lining become compromised. This allows undigested food particles and toxins to leak into the bloodstream, triggering a cascade of health problems. Toxins entering the bloodstream can lead to chronic inflammation, affecting vital organs like the liver, kidneys, and pancreas.

Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) like BT corn and GM soy have been implicated in exacerbating leaky gut syndrome. These GMOs, commonly found in processed foods, contain toxins that can disrupt the delicate balance of the gut microbiome. Glyphosate, a chemical herbicide used in GMO farming, has been linked to damaging vital organs and promoting leaky gut.

Addressing the issue of leaky gut syndrome and its association with GMOs is crucial for maintaining overall health and well-being. Dopamine, a neurotransmitter that plays a key role in mood regulation, can be affected by the consumption of GMOs. By reducing or eliminating the intake of GMOs, individuals can support their gut health and potentially alleviate symptoms associated with leaky gut syndrome.

As awareness grows about the detrimental effects of GMOs on gut health, it becomes imperative for individuals to make informed dietary choices. Opting for organic foods free from toxic herbicides and pesticides, like glyphosate, can help protect the gut microbiome and reduce the risk of leaky gut syndrome.

In conclusion, the link between genetically modified foods and gut health cannot be ignored. By prioritizing the health of our gut microbiome and reducing exposure to harmful toxins found in GMOs, individuals can take proactive steps towards improving their overall well-being. It’s time to listen to what our gut is telling us and make conscious decisions to support a healthier future.

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Via https://dreddymd.com/2024/12/23/gmo-crops-main-reason-explosion-leaky-gut-syndrome/</

Julianne Geiger

The future of data centers is about to make a huge draw on the power grid. According to a DOE-backed report from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, U.S. data center energy use could nearly triple by 2028, eating up as much as 12% of the country’s electricity. Why? Blame AI and its insatiable hunger for powerful chips and energy-guzzling cooling systems.

Currently, data centers are responsible for a modest 4% of U.S. power demand. But with AI servers becoming the star of the show, the power draw has already doubled since 2017. The GPU chips that are needed to run complex machine learning algorithms are pushing the limits of what the grid can handle. And then there is the heat they generate, causing cooling systems to work overtime.

The report warns that this growth could strain electrical grids, spike energy prices, and raise a few eyebrows about the climate impact. Researchers are calling for better transparency around energy use and efficiency improvements, but Big Tech isn’t exactly eager to spill the tea on their proprietary power habits.

And don’t count on renewables to ride to the rescue just yet. A study last month highlighted that scaling up solar and wind power isn’t happening fast enough to keep up with this demand surge. Plus, when the sun doesn’t shine or the wind doesn’t blow, the grid still needs fossil fuels to back it up.

If this trend keeps up, AI’s energy footprint might rival entire industries. So, while your chatbot’s witty replies might feel magical, powering that magic is no small feat. Unless the industry gets serious about efficiency, the real cost of our AI-powered future could be a blackout waiting to happen.

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Via https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Data-Centers-Are-Eating-the-Grid-Alive.html

Tom Renz

Did you know that the omnibus CR funding bill that GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson put forward would have enshrined a number of aspects of the WHO Treaty into law in America? Did you know it expanded COVID lockdown law to other diseases? Did you know it reiterated and strengthened laws that provide legal immunity for vaccine manufacturers? I’m guessing you didn’t because almost no one did but all these things are true and Congressional leadership seems hell bent on bringing it back. While a full evaluation of everything this nightmare does let me offer a few examples of the shadiness as a means of explanation.

Hundreds of pages of this continuing resolution spending bill were dedicated to health policy. Why? The purpose of the bill is to keep the government funded – temporarily – until an actual budget could be passed (I know – ha ha). Regardless of the likelihood of Congress doing their job and passing a budget, the Republican led House ought to want to pass something minimalistic so that the next Congress and incoming Trump administration can fight for their agenda more fully. Instead, we have major critical provisions everywhere.

While the focus here is on the corrupt health policies included in the bill, it should be noted that there is also a related provision of the bill that would have supported the State Department Global Engagement Center (GEC). The GEC worked with numerous NGOs from other nations to promote censorship during COVID and, in light of the major focus on health policy in this bill, it appears that the continued support for the GEC is likely to be based on a desire to continue to censor information on health.

That censorship has been incredibly severe and it seems like this provision is timed to provide legal cover for censorship activities related to the upcoming plandemics that Peter Hotez referenced recently in an interview.

In the shadow of this nightmarish backdrop – Congress drops this bill. The bill was written in a way designed to hide its true purpose. This is particularly true in terms of its expansion of COVID lockdown laws. For example, here is a portion of page 724 of the bill:

Lines 9-15 really look innocuous and make almost no sense… at least until you look at what they mean in context. These lines reference other law and changes a few words so let’s look at what they change. Here’s the law as it is written today:

As you can see the law that is being changed is in reference to creating a “National Health Security Strategy” and a “public health workforce.” This section of law was created specifically to put people in place to deal the the “COVID emergency”. The new bill changes about 7 words but completely changes the law. With the changes, the newly updated law would read:

(3) PUBLIC HEALTH WORKFORCE

The National Health Security Strategy shall include a national strategy for establishing, maintaining, and sustaining an effective and prepared public health workforce, including defining the functions, capabilities, and gaps in such workforce (including gaps in the environmental health and animal health workforces, as applicable), describing the status of such workforce, identifying strategies to recruit, retain, and protect such workforce from workplace exposures during public health emergencies, and identifying current capabilities to meet the requirements of section 300hh-2 of this title.

This means that instead of letting an old COVID policy expire, we are now creating and funding a permanent “public health workforce” to deal with “public health emergencies.” We were told repeatedly that COVID was a once in a century plandemic so why do we need a permanent workforce to deal with this sort of thing?

A similar example can be found on pages 740 and 741. Here we see 42 USC 247d-7e being amended in a way that makes very little sense.

Here’s the original section of law:

(D) Supporting innovation

To carry out the purpose described in paragraph (2)(D), the Secretary may award contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements, or enter into other transactions, such as prize payments, to promote—

(i) innovation in technologies that may assist countermeasure and product advanced research and development, including to improve manufacturing capacities and capabilities for medical countermeasures;

(ii) research on and development of research tools and other devices and technologies; and

(iii) research and development of medical countermeasures for priority virus families that have significant potential to cause a pandemic, including such countermeasures that take either pathogen-specific or pathogen-agnostic approaches, and platform technologies to improve the development and manufacture of such medical countermeasures; and”;

(iv) research to promote strategic initiatives, such as rapid diagnostics, broad spectrum antimicrobials, vaccine-manufacturing technologies, dose-sparing technologies, efficacy-increasing technologies, platform technologies, technologies to administer countermeasures, and technologies to improve storage and transportation of countermeasures.

This addition of section iii is significant. While a bit vague, the section appears to authorize research very broadly. It could also easily be read to allow gain of function work on about any virus family out there as long as it was being done to “create a cure.” The language about pathogen specific or agnostic approaches allows for additional research on platforms/gene therapies – like mRNA, DNA, etc. It also broadly authorizes research into “platform technologies” that may include transhumanist concepts such as nano-tech. None of this is required under the law but the Secretary may offer such awards. This might all be fine with Bobby Kennedy at the helm but if we have another crooked clown at HHS like we have now you can bet that the loosely written nature of this section would be leveraged.

In my mind, before such broad discretion is provided to the executive branch to basically research anything and everything, using any means necessary to find cures to any potential disease perhaps we ought to consider the ethical failures of the last 4 years. Why would Congress authorize the Secretary to fund risky research in a CR funding bill? This was clearly meant to be unnoticed.

Ultimately this bill was a disaster and appears to have been shelved. That said, the fact that Mike Johnson would put forth a bill that does so much damage to our freedom should be terrifying. This bill would open the door to the WHO treaty being implemented in the next emergency, limit Kennedy’s ability to deal with many issues related to healthcare, and expand COVID lockdown powers.

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Via https://joehoft.com/tom-renz-the-omnibus-cr-funding-bill-the-who-treaty-in-disguise/