Playing Poker,
We don't yet know what John Ratcliffe flew to Moscow for in a C-17 cargo plane, but it was accomplished in 2 hours of meetings that did not include Putin or Lavrov, so nothing "official", though Putin signed 3 Secret Decrees right after Ratcliffe left. Russia has elections to the Duma and other offices in about 3 weeks. The US has midterm elections November 3. Putin and Trump could both really use some good press about now. The world needs oil, gas and fertilizer. One might be guardedly hopeful.
CIA Director Ratcliffe Met With Senior Russian intelligence officials, Not Putin
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov Says Meeting Focused On Repairing Bilateral US-Russia Relations In "Deep Crisis" https://www.zerohedge.com/
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov Says Meeting Focused On Repairing Bilateral US-Russia Relations In "Deep Crisis" https://www.zerohedge.com/
Simplicius, CIA Director’s Mystery Moscow Trip Sparks Wild Speculations
..WSJ theorizes that the visit may have something to do with the US’s intelligence that Russia is preparing for some large-scale new campaign...
..Russian RVoenkor channel reports that Ukrainian sources believe the meeting is in response to some “significant secret operation” that Russia is preparing.....What could such an operation be? Well, for one there continue to be strong rumors of a major Russian operation to be potentially launched into the Chernigov region of northern Ukraine, bordering Kiev...
..The more likely reason could be the CIA is simply attempting to save Ukraine, which is now both floundering and foundering beneath a wave of Russian strikes which are destroying the last vestiges of its economy. It’s the reason that this past week the US and Ukraine reportedly developed another in a long line of desperate plans to cajole Russia into a ceasefire.....A “Vatican official” reportedly arrived in Moscow to deliver the message and urge Putin to stop the war. Putin had just stated yesterday that he continues to receive “exotic and unacceptable” offers from the US about prematurely ending the conflict...
..That’s not to mention that Putin was said to have signed three “secret decrees” after the CIA head’s visit... Testing this in the White Sea with NATO spy planes circling: Russia’s doomsday submarine sets sail for the first time
Khabarovsk is the first of three submarines of a new class designed to carry Poseidon autonomous, long-range nuclear torpedoes. Its design is based on the hull of the Borei-class submarine... Vladimir Putin announced in 2018 that Russian engineers were developing a nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed, unmanned vehicle designed to travel across the Atlantic or Pacific and strike coastal targets in the United States.
The Poseidon is a second-strike weapon, aimed at taking out the enemy after the initial phase of a nuclear war, involving an exchange of warheads. For that reason, it has been called a doomsday weapon. The Barents Observer first reported on the existence of the weapon in 2016. Khabarovsk was launched on 1 November 2025. https://www.arctictoday.com/russias-doomsday-submarine-sets-sail-for-the-first-time/ Yeah, maybe that was part of it, but Trump said it wasn't: US Officials Reveal Reason For CIA Chief's Surprise Moscow Visit
Ukraine used 6 Storm Shadow cruise missiles to attack civilians shopping in Donetsk City yesterday. Russia warns it could target UK in response to Kyiv firing British missiles
The warning, delivered by Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova at a news briefing in Moscow, is the strongest direct one to date from Russia to Britain. “We have repeatedly warned that any British military installations and equipment in Ukraine and beyond its borders could be targeted in response to Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory carried out using British weapons,” she said.
“We propose that the British leadership once again carefully analyse the situation and immediately, in the most resolute and unequivocal manner, abandon the hostile, aggressive line,” she added.
The warning came a day after Moscow accused Ukraine of firing British Storm Shadow missiles to attack a shopping centre in the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk, an attack Russian officials said wounded civilians, including children. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/27/russia-warns-it-could-target-uk-in-response-to-kyiv-firing-british-missiles
"Same as it ever was..." Tehran's condition for resuming dialogue is US compliance with Islamabad agreement
According to the source, the Pakistani side is actively working to communicate this stance to the United States https://tass.com/world/2177531 Haaretz, Report: U.S. to Hold Off Iran Strikes Until After U.S. Midterms
Earlier on Tuesday, The New York Times reported that the U.S. State Department is preparing to return diplomats to embassies in the Middle East that were evacuated before and during the war with Iran https://archive.ph/GTIUw#selection-743.0-747.202 Agreed upon details: Iran says Hormuz transit route with Oman will be 7 miles wide
Strait of Hormuz will reopen only after end to war, lifting of blockade and resolution of Yemen’s status, says Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem GharibabadiAccording to Gharibabadi, activating the joint route agreed with Oman would also mean closing the southern passage. He said the two countries had agreed to begin technical negotiations on an alternative to the historical route.
Gharibabadi said Iran considered the strait a matter of national security and had the right to take measures it deemed necessary to protect its interests.
The official also said Iran did not trust Washington and that any return to diplomacy would require the United States to first fulfill its commitments under the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/iran-says-hormuz-transit-route-with-oman-will-be-7-miles-wide/4037519
Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-08-27
Meanwhile the IRGC put a $300bn price tag on reopening Hormuz while a third tanker in three nights was hit, and the Kremlin concluded peace talks are dead hours after the CIA director left Moscow empty-handed...
..AI credit: $1.16tn of signed-but-unstarted leases, and Oracle guaranteeing its own landlord - Five companies have signed roughly $1.16tn of data-centre leases that have not commenced - none of it on any balance sheet under ASC 842 until the tenant takes control. Microsoft $329.1bn, Meta $279bn (pre-July deals), Oracle $260bn, Amazon $137.2bn, Alphabet $85.2bn (shanaka86)...
..Credit investors are now more worried about Nvidia as the "central bank of AI" than about the earnings (zerohedge)...
..Hormuz: a tanker a night, five transits a day, and Trump counting 22 ships - One oil tanker struck every night for three consecutive nights (MenchOsint); the Aug 25 victim was Kuwaiti-owned (MenchOsint). UKMTO issued warning 121-26 (UK_MTO) and a vessel caught fire after an unknown projectile hit (chigrl).
Against that, Trump: 22 ships through Hormuz last night, 10 million barrels out (zerohedge). Kpler counted five.
All five crossings used the unilateral route Iran designated (chigrl). Five tankers moved through the Iran-designated corridor this morning...
Against that, Trump: 22 ships through Hormuz last night, 10 million barrels out (zerohedge). Kpler counted five.
All five crossings used the unilateral route Iran designated (chigrl). Five tankers moved through the Iran-designated corridor this morning...
..Rubio has told counterparts the US is not expected to initiate new strikes "for the time being" (zerohedge). Last US strikes were 30 July - nearly a month (biral_r).
Qatar's LNG exports are down 96% six months into the war (chigrl). Japan is now planning to fund pipelines that bypass the strait entirely (chigrl).
Pezeshkian and Putin are set to sign a $25bn nuclear construction deal in Kyrgyzstan next week (IranObserver0, Mark4XX). Qatar's PM flew to Tehran to de-escalate (NodeWire, MenchOsint)...
Qatar's LNG exports are down 96% six months into the war (chigrl). Japan is now planning to fund pipelines that bypass the strait entirely (chigrl).
Pezeshkian and Putin are set to sign a $25bn nuclear construction deal in Kyrgyzstan next week (IranObserver0, Mark4XX). Qatar's PM flew to Tehran to de-escalate (NodeWire, MenchOsint)...
..Russia-Ukraine: nine S-400s bait nine Patriot interceptors; Gerasimov claims 4km from Slavyansk - Overnight strike of ~22-26 missiles across Kyiv, Odesa Oblast, Kremenchuk, Kryvyi Rih and Zaporizhzhia (MilitarySummary, AMK_Mapping_). Hits confirmed on the Kremenchuk oil refinery with cluster-warhead Iskanders (AMK_Mapping_) and the Lelyaki 110kV substation.
The pattern matters more than the damage: Russia fired 9 cheap modified S-400s at Kyiv and drew 9 PAC-3 interceptors from a package delivered this week, without spending a single Iskander. A larger Iskander/Zircon attack is expected in days, against depleted stocks (AMK_Mapping_)...
The pattern matters more than the damage: Russia fired 9 cheap modified S-400s at Kyiv and drew 9 PAC-3 interceptors from a package delivered this week, without spending a single Iskander. A larger Iskander/Zircon attack is expected in days, against depleted stocks (AMK_Mapping_)...
..Energy and food: SPR at 1982 levels, diesel at a record seasonal low, wheat at a 3-year high - EIA: crude +95k vs +1.58mm expected, gasoline -2.536mm, distillates -2.288mm, and the SPR drained another 3.7mb to 290mb, the lowest since 1982 (zerohedge). Cushing still on tank bottoms, distillates at 25-year lows (Mark4XX).
US diesel inventory is at its lowest seasonal level in history (Barchart). Europe is importing Mexican ultra-low-sulfur diesel for the first time in seven years - ~300k barrels to Spain this month (chigrl)...
US diesel inventory is at its lowest seasonal level in history (Barchart). Europe is importing Mexican ultra-low-sulfur diesel for the first time in seven years - ~300k barrels to Spain this month (chigrl)...
..Natural gas has overtaken oil as the biggest inflation concern for European bond traders; winter contracts cost more than twice a year ago while Brent sits 30% below its war peak (chigrl).
Wheat at a 3-year high with JPMorgan and HSBC warning of a global food shock (Barchart, zerohedge). 70% of surveyed US farmers say they can't afford all the fertilizer they need; farm diesel +46% since late February; US wheat production lowest since 1970/71 (RockBtmEntries)...
Wheat at a 3-year high with JPMorgan and HSBC warning of a global food shock (Barchart, zerohedge). 70% of surveyed US farmers say they can't afford all the fertilizer they need; farm diesel +46% since late February; US wheat production lowest since 1970/71 (RockBtmEntries)...
..Chinese hackers breached NASA, the Federal Reserve, DOJ and the Senate, per the FBI (zerohedge, profitsplusid).
Stanford payroll study, revised this month: employment for 22-25 year olds in the most AI-exposed occupations now sits 19% below where it would be tracking less-exposed peers, up from 15% a year ago. It shows in headcount, not pay - the jobs are simply never posted (itsharmanjot). https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-08-27
The CIA director flew a C-17 into Moscow, spent hours there, and left for Riga - the first unannounced trip by a sitting CIA chief since Burns warned Putin in November 2021, and nobody on either side will say what it was about.
Stanford payroll study, revised this month: employment for 22-25 year olds in the most AI-exposed occupations now sits 19% below where it would be tracking less-exposed peers, up from 15% a year ago. It shows in headcount, not pay - the jobs are simply never posted (itsharmanjot). https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-08-27
Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-08-26
Meanwhile Bessent's "Operation Economic Outcast" went into reverse inside 24 hours: Washington is now reportedly offering to cancel the whole thing if Iran reopens Hormuz, while Oman and Iran quietly announced their own temporary corridor. Copper printed an all-time high, and NVDA reports today after seven straight red sessions. https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-08-26
Israeli Security Chief Ben Gvir’s Murder Spree against Palestinian Civilians- “30 to 40 Every Night”
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir (Jewish Power Party) objected to the winding down of the Israeli military campaign in Gaza, and advocated targeted assassinations of Palestinian civilians. He said, “It’s no secret, I disagree with the prime minister. I think targeted assassinations should be carried out in Gaza, taking down 30 to 40 every night. Not just those who pose an immediate threat — there are people there who are not worthy of life. They shouldn’t live. They’re not even people.” https://scheerpost.com/2026/08/24/israeli-security-chief-ben-gvirs-murder-spree-against-palestinian-civilians-30-to-40-every-night/
Jewish Voice For Peace: Genocide defenders trying to hide their AIPAC connections
Abdul El-Sayed’s landmark win in the Michigan Democratic Senate race this month was perhaps the biggest in a tide of pro-Palestine progressive victories in primary elections this summer. El-Sayed defeated more than $60 million in outside spending for his AIPAC-backed opponent, with more than $30 million spent by AIPAC directly — the most money the pro-genocide PAC has ever spent on a single race.
It’s difficult to overstate the importance of the general election looming in November for the Michigan Senate seat. It’s a showdown between JVP Action-endorsed El-Sayed, who successfully connected working class needs to ending U.S. support for Israel’s genocide to win his upset victory, and Trump-endorsed former Republican Congressman Mike Rogers, a staunch defender of Israel’s war crimes...
..The race between El-Sayed and Rogers is shaping up to be a national referendum on affordability and US support for genocide in Palestine. So it is inevitable AIPAC would return to spend even more outrageously.
But in this critical race, the warmongering Mike Rogers just asked AIPAC… to hide its support for his campaign. A day after Rogers met with AIPAC chair Michael Tuchin, the group canceled a ready-to-release video ad targeting El-Sayed. Rogers’ campaign reportedly proposed that instead of publicly supporting him under their own name, AIPAC should direct its donors to channel their money through a pro-Rogers super PAC. Or perhaps quietly hire an AIPAC political strategist directly to the campaign. Clearly, Rogers isn’t actually rejecting support from AIPAC. https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2026/08/27/genocide-defenders-trying-to-hide-their-aipac-connections/
Abdul El-Sayed’s landmark win in the Michigan Democratic Senate race this month was perhaps the biggest in a tide of pro-Palestine progressive victories in primary elections this summer. El-Sayed defeated more than $60 million in outside spending for his AIPAC-backed opponent, with more than $30 million spent by AIPAC directly — the most money the pro-genocide PAC has ever spent on a single race.
It’s difficult to overstate the importance of the general election looming in November for the Michigan Senate seat. It’s a showdown between JVP Action-endorsed El-Sayed, who successfully connected working class needs to ending U.S. support for Israel’s genocide to win his upset victory, and Trump-endorsed former Republican Congressman Mike Rogers, a staunch defender of Israel’s war crimes...
..The race between El-Sayed and Rogers is shaping up to be a national referendum on affordability and US support for genocide in Palestine. So it is inevitable AIPAC would return to spend even more outrageously.
But in this critical race, the warmongering Mike Rogers just asked AIPAC… to hide its support for his campaign. A day after Rogers met with AIPAC chair Michael Tuchin, the group canceled a ready-to-release video ad targeting El-Sayed. Rogers’ campaign reportedly proposed that instead of publicly supporting him under their own name, AIPAC should direct its donors to channel their money through a pro-Rogers super PAC. Or perhaps quietly hire an AIPAC political strategist directly to the campaign. Clearly, Rogers isn’t actually rejecting support from AIPAC. https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2026/08/27/genocide-defenders-trying-to-hide-their-aipac-connections/
On two occasions over this past week, Netanyahu's bodyguards have drawn long guns on Israeli civilians, behavior that telegraphs a sense of intense, even mortal, personal embattlement. Netanyahu does not just fear an Iranian assassination plot – he fears Israel's own citizens https://archive.ph/IpZSm#selection-785.0-795.276
3 days without water kills you: Hamas: Destruction of Sheikh Radwan water plant violates ceasefire, advances displacement plan https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/08/24/368902/
US Rep. Gregory Meeks, the ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on Tuesday urged President Donald Trump to intervene against the Israeli government’s plans to advance settlement construction in the E1 area of the occupied West Bank.
Meeks said he was “extremely concerned” over a decision by the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to open tenders for more than 1,200 housing units under the E1 settlement plan. "International law is clear that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are illegal." https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-lawmaker-urges-trump-to-halt-israeli-settlement-plans-in-west-bank/4037518
Meeks said he was “extremely concerned” over a decision by the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to open tenders for more than 1,200 housing units under the E1 settlement plan. "International law is clear that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are illegal." https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-lawmaker-urges-trump-to-halt-israeli-settlement-plans-in-west-bank/4037518
Xi stressed that the Palestinian question is at the core of the Middle East issue and that efforts to resolve it should be guided by four principles, according to a statement by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning on US social media company X.
“We must uphold political settlement, adhere to the two-State solution as the right direction, work for the resumption of peace talks between Palestine and Israel, and realize the early establishment of an independent State of Palestine,” Xi said.
“We must uphold the principle of Palestinians governing Palestine. Palestine is the homeland of all Palestinians. The principle of Palestinians governing Palestine should be followed in advancing the governance of the West Bank and postwar reconstruction of Gaza,” Mao cited Xi as saying. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/china-s-xi-says-2-state-solution-right-direction-urges-resumption-of-palestine-israel-peace-talks/4036138
“We must uphold political settlement, adhere to the two-State solution as the right direction, work for the resumption of peace talks between Palestine and Israel, and realize the early establishment of an independent State of Palestine,” Xi said.
“We must uphold the principle of Palestinians governing Palestine. Palestine is the homeland of all Palestinians. The principle of Palestinians governing Palestine should be followed in advancing the governance of the West Bank and postwar reconstruction of Gaza,” Mao cited Xi as saying. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/china-s-xi-says-2-state-solution-right-direction-urges-resumption-of-palestine-israel-peace-talks/4036138
Martin Armstrong, China and Egypt Unite
China and Egypt had their second joint air force exercise, “Eagles of Civilization 2026,” running from mid-August into early September. The exercises include air combat tactics, air superiority operations, combat search and rescue, and force employment. This follows their first joint air exercise in 2025, so this is no longer some ceremonial visit between two countries posing for photographs. China is establishing a military relationship with Egypt at the same time that the economic relationship between the two nations is expanding rapidly.....Egypt is particularly important because of the Suez Canal. You cannot look at this merely as China conducting another military exercise in Africa. Egypt sits at the intersection of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East while controlling one of the most important commercial waterways in the world. China understands geography. The Suez Canal is critical to the movement of Chinese goods into Europe, and Beijing has spent years developing its economic presence around the canal...
Now military cooperation is following the economic relationship. The first Eagles of Civilization exercise in 2025 was unprecedented. Conducting it again in 2026 demonstrates that both sides want this relationship to continue. Beijing says the exercises are intended to increase mutual trust and deepen military cooperation. Egypt gains access to another major military power while reducing its dependence upon any single foreign supplier or security relationship. https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/world-trade/china-and-egypt-unite/
..China is attempting to establish commercial infrastructure along the arteries of world trade. Once companies, factories, ports, financing, and supply chains become interconnected, political influence follows.
The financial relationship is also moving in a direction Washington should be paying attention to. Egypt and China have signed agreements promoting greater use of the yuan, including connecting financial institutions operating around the Suez economic zone with China’s Cross-Border Interbank Payment System. Egypt has also issued Panda bonds in China. China is playing the long game. Now military cooperation is following the economic relationship. The first Eagles of Civilization exercise in 2025 was unprecedented. Conducting it again in 2026 demonstrates that both sides want this relationship to continue. Beijing says the exercises are intended to increase mutual trust and deepen military cooperation. Egypt gains access to another major military power while reducing its dependence upon any single foreign supplier or security relationship. https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/world-trade/china-and-egypt-unite/
Israel militarily invaded and occupied the UN Facility in East Jerusalem. UNRWA Press Statement on Kalandia Training Centre in occupied East Jerusalem https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/official-statements/unrwa-press-statement-kalandia-training-centre-occupied-east-jerusalem
Loïc Wacquant and Murray Rothbard come from completely different worlds. Wacquant, in Punishing the Poor (2009), analyzes how modern states manage marginalized populations through policing and incarceration. Rothbard, in The Ethics of Liberty (1982), argues that the state is a monopoly of coercion and that real justice means restitution to victims rather than punishment imposed by the government. At first glance, they seem to have nothing in common. Yet, when you look closely at what each says about crime and punishment, they describe remarkably similar institutional dynamics: a penal system that does not exist to deliver justice but to maintain political power, control vulnerable communities, and satisfy the public's desire for punishment. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/penal-leviathan-what-wacquant-and-rothbard-reveal-about-modern-punishment
Trump Close To 'Massive' Deal For Seizing Stake In Venezuela's Vast Oil Fields https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/trump-close-massive-deal-seizing-stake-venezuelas-vast-oil-fields
Meta Settles With US States For $16.7 Billion Over Social Media Harms To Children
We just got a promotion to buy 2 for the price of 1 sodas: Soda Purchases Slumped 13% After SNAP Sugary Drink Restrictions https://www.zerohedge.com/political/soda-purchases-slumped-13-after-snap-sugary-drink-restrictions
Dolly Parton once gave $1 million to help develop the Moderna COVID vaccine at Vanderbilt: ‘I’m kind of addicted to the feeling of giving’
Pennsylvania reports two measles-related deaths, sparking controversy over information transparency. Local officials claim the state is stonewalling.
Former CDC Scientist Whose Studies Were Used to ‘Debunk’ Vaccine-Autism Link Will Plead Guilty
Poul Thorsen, 65, is finalizing a plea deal with prosecutors relating to charges stemming from a 2011 federal indictment charging him with wire fraud and money laundering. Thorsen’s research was used to dismiss over 5,000 claims filed by the parents of children with autism who were injured by vaccines. An assistant U.S. district attorney confirmed that prosecutors are working with Thorsen on a plea deal, but declined to comment for The Defender on details of the deal. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/poul-thorsen-former-cdc-scientist-studies-debunk-vaccine-autism-link-plead-guilty/
SARS-CoV-2 spike was engineered as part of a chimeric construct.
Available documents and literature connect Ralph Baric’s reverse-genetics platform - used for prior spike swaps such as SHC014 on SARS backbones and explicitly tasked in the 2018 DEFUSE proposal with EcoHealth Alliance’s Peter Daszak and WIV’s Shi Zhengli for inserting human-specific furin cleavage sites at the S1/S2 junction of SARS-related bat CoVs - as the technical core capable of producing such a chimera. https://jessicar.substack.com/p/connecting-the-sars-cov-2covid-19
CDC V-Safe Data Reveals 185,285 People Reported Long-Term Health Problems After COVID-19 “Vaccination”
Nearly half reported disability, hospitalization, or severe adverse events at least three months after COVID-19 vaccination—and the CDC never adequately investigated. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-cdc-v-safe-data-reveals
Meta Platforms has reached a $16.7 billion settlement to resolve a landmark claim brought by several states that the company designed Instagram and Facebook to addict children, improperly collected children's personal data, and misled consumers about their safety.
The deal was in a Wednesday court filing in California after a lawsuit was brought by 29 states - with attorneys for Colorado, California, New Jersey and Kentucky - leading the group. The states argued that features like infinite scroll were purposely engineered to keep young users hooked, that Meta misled the public about the safety of its platforms for adolescents, and that the company improperly collected and monetized children's personal data in violation of federal law.
As part of the settlement, Meta must implement daily usage limits and 'nighttime blocks' for teenagers who use the company's apps like Facebook and Instagram, as well as "enhanced age assurance measures" that would prevent children from using them, and also providing parents with additional tools. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/meta-settles-us-states-17-billion-over-social-media-harms-children
The deal was in a Wednesday court filing in California after a lawsuit was brought by 29 states - with attorneys for Colorado, California, New Jersey and Kentucky - leading the group. The states argued that features like infinite scroll were purposely engineered to keep young users hooked, that Meta misled the public about the safety of its platforms for adolescents, and that the company improperly collected and monetized children's personal data in violation of federal law.
As part of the settlement, Meta must implement daily usage limits and 'nighttime blocks' for teenagers who use the company's apps like Facebook and Instagram, as well as "enhanced age assurance measures" that would prevent children from using them, and also providing parents with additional tools. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/meta-settles-us-states-17-billion-over-social-media-harms-children
Economic Philosophy for our historical moment, by Fabio Vighi, The Ghost in the Machine - Value and the Economist’s Blindness https://fabiovighi.substack.com/p/the-ghost-in-the-machine
Tamiflu, like previous anti-influenza medicines, works well on the first day of symptoms, helps a little the second day, and does no good after that. For the elderly and hospitalized, it may hasten death: Alex Berenson, URGENT: Tamiflu kills - Twenty years too late, a study finds very bad news about the widely used flu medicine. Too bad the legacy media is burying the story, along with patients. https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-tamiflu-kills
"Turbo-Cancer": Country music legend Dolly Parton dies at 80 after 'brief battle with cancer' https://abcnews.com/GMA/Culture/dolly-parton-country-music-legend-cultural-icon-dead/story?id=95381474
The Vanderbilt University Medical Center, based in her home state of Tennessee, was working with pharmaceutical giant Moderna—which went on to develop one of the most widely used vaccinations. Parton later said she was surprised to learn about the connection, but was happy to also become an unlikely face of vaccine confidence among skeptics.
“It was a big shock,” she told PEOPLE at the time. “Everybody was calling congratulating me, and I was saying, ‘Well, for what?’ And then of course my fans took it and ran with it: ‘I’m getting the Dolly vaccine! I’m getting the Dolly juice!’ I guess they thought if Dolly got it, it might be pretty safe.”
Overall, more than 250 million people globally received the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, while COVID vaccinations as a whole are estimated to have saved at least 14 million lives in the first year of their rollout alone. But Parton was quick to downplay her role, maintaining that her contribution was minimal.
“I got more credit than I deserved,” she added. “I was just trying to put my money where my heart is.” Parton’s net worth was estimated at $450 million at the time of her passing. https://fortune.com/2026/08/26/dolly-parton-rags-to-riches-philanthropy-one-million-dollars-to-moderna-covid-vaccine-development/
BILL GATES WARNS OF AI BIOTERRORISM JUST WEEKS AFTER HE FUNDED THE FIRST-EVER CREATION OF 16 SYNTHETIC VIRUSES USING AI
Bill Gates is now warning the world about the very capability his own foundation helped fund into existence. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/bill-gates-warns-of-ai-bioterrorism
“It was a big shock,” she told PEOPLE at the time. “Everybody was calling congratulating me, and I was saying, ‘Well, for what?’ And then of course my fans took it and ran with it: ‘I’m getting the Dolly vaccine! I’m getting the Dolly juice!’ I guess they thought if Dolly got it, it might be pretty safe.”
Overall, more than 250 million people globally received the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, while COVID vaccinations as a whole are estimated to have saved at least 14 million lives in the first year of their rollout alone. But Parton was quick to downplay her role, maintaining that her contribution was minimal.
“I got more credit than I deserved,” she added. “I was just trying to put my money where my heart is.” Parton’s net worth was estimated at $450 million at the time of her passing. https://fortune.com/2026/08/26/dolly-parton-rags-to-riches-philanthropy-one-million-dollars-to-moderna-covid-vaccine-development/
Video of Dolly Parton getting her first Moderna vaccine injection, "a dose of her own medicine": https://rense.com/general98/Parton_Vax_video.mp4
Bill Gates is now warning the world about the very capability his own foundation helped fund into existence. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/bill-gates-warns-of-ai-bioterrorism
Makin' stuff up: RFK Jr. Raises Possibility Pennsylvania’s Reported “Measles Deaths” Were Fabricated
Lancaster County’s coroner reports ZERO measles deaths despite Pennsylvania publicly announcing two “measles-associated” deaths. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/rfk-jr-raises-possibility-pennsylvanias Following Tuesday's press conference, Lancaster County Commissioner Josh Parsons released a statement on social media claiming that the state had not provided county officials with information about the deaths.
"The coroner's office indicates it currently has ZERO reported cases where measles is the immediate cause of death," Parsons wrote. "They have one case where a person died WITH measles, but not FROM measles. Measles was definitely NOT the cause of death in that case." https://www.fox43.com/article/news/health/measles-deaths-in-lancaster-county-spark-debate-over-terminology-transparency/521-2431e99d-c8b1-40a9-9486-71f521604417
"The coroner's office indicates it currently has ZERO reported cases where measles is the immediate cause of death," Parsons wrote. "They have one case where a person died WITH measles, but not FROM measles. Measles was definitely NOT the cause of death in that case." https://www.fox43.com/article/news/health/measles-deaths-in-lancaster-county-spark-debate-over-terminology-transparency/521-2431e99d-c8b1-40a9-9486-71f521604417
Poul Thorsen, 65, is finalizing a plea deal with prosecutors relating to charges stemming from a 2011 federal indictment charging him with wire fraud and money laundering. Thorsen’s research was used to dismiss over 5,000 claims filed by the parents of children with autism who were injured by vaccines. An assistant U.S. district attorney confirmed that prosecutors are working with Thorsen on a plea deal, but declined to comment for The Defender on details of the deal. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/poul-thorsen-former-cdc-scientist-studies-debunk-vaccine-autism-link-plead-guilty/
Jessica Rose Ph.D. really presents the genetic engineering and documentary details of the total criminal enterprise completely coherently. Best Yet!
Connecting the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 dots - Who was involved and why did they do it?Available documents and literature connect Ralph Baric’s reverse-genetics platform - used for prior spike swaps such as SHC014 on SARS backbones and explicitly tasked in the 2018 DEFUSE proposal with EcoHealth Alliance’s Peter Daszak and WIV’s Shi Zhengli for inserting human-specific furin cleavage sites at the S1/S2 junction of SARS-related bat CoVs - as the technical core capable of producing such a chimera. https://jessicar.substack.com/p/connecting-the-sars-cov-2covid-19
Nearly half reported disability, hospitalization, or severe adverse events at least three months after COVID-19 vaccination—and the CDC never adequately investigated. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-cdc-v-safe-data-reveals
Atty. John Klar, Why MAHA Supports the GRACE Act – and the Senate and House Should, Too
Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. Greg Steube have introduced the GRACE Act, new legislation with teeth. It will require public schools to offer families religious exemptions from vaccine mandates for children. Under the Act, K-12 schools that refuse to grant vaccine exemptions for students on the basis of their religion will not receive educational funding from the government. https://www.themahareport.com/p/why-maha-supports-the-grace-act-and
Climate Physicist Anastassia Makarieva, co-originator of the Biotic-Pump Model, camps in the Siberian wilderness: Summer as a Miracle - Personal Reflections on How Nature Heals, and on Seals and Foxes https://bioticregulation.substack.com/p/summer-as-a-miracle
Cancer-Free (pictured with a little red-oak I planted a few years ago)
