President Trump announces “Project Freedom,” directing the U.S. Navy to escort neutral-country ships through the Strait of Hormuz starting Monday and warning that interference will be attacked, while noting positive U.S.-Iran discussions and framing the move as a test of whether Iran’s negotiators control the IRGC.
The episode argues Trump is using oil and gas to rebuild the U.S. economy and to displace London’s oil-pricing power, citing April 20 Presidential Determinations under the Defense Production Act, a National Energy Dominance Council led by Doug Burgum and Chris Wright, and rising U.S. production (EIA March 2026: ~24 million bpd) driving lower prices, a manufacturing revival, and a shrinking trade deficit.
It contrasts this with post-1971 “petrodollar” strategy, OPEC shocks, “controlled disintegration,” and Iran-related destabilization, and claims modern media propaganda—from Lippmann to Operation Mockingbird to recent censorship networks—drives anti-Trump narratives.
Sleep isn’t downtime for your brain. It’s a flush cycle.
During sleep, the spaces between brain cells expand ~60%. CSF flows through and washes out metabolic waste, including β-amyloid, the peptide that aggregates in Alzheimer’s. Clearance is ~2x faster than during wake.
Mechanism characterized by Nedergaard’s lab in 2013 (Xie et al., Science). Called the glymphatic system. The brain has no conventional lymphatics. This is the workaround.
It is my recollection that danger signals from vax recipients showed up even sooner than early March 2021. Without doubt, the claim that the covid vax is ‘Safe & Effective’ was a blatant lie. Based on this alone, the FDA, CDC and entire medical & pharmaceutical industry should not be trusted again until there has been a very thorough cleaning up of all of these institutions. Covid and the covid vax is but a fraction of the overall institutional health problem in USA. It’s all fixable and even fairly obvious, and some progress is being made, but there is still a very long way to go. At a bare minimum citizens should demand health freedom guarantees, so the bottom line at least rests with us and not some jackass on a schoolboard, government agency, doctor’s office or hospital. ABN
…human language is a tool for communicating our thoughts, but is separate and distinct from thought itself. Evelina Fedorenko, a neuroscientist at MIT and lead author of the paper laying out the empirical evidence for this claim, was kind enough to let me interview her. Her basic argument is that we know language must be separate from thought because (a) people who lose language ability can still think and reason, and (b) different parts of the brain activate when we engage in different types of thought, and often the “language part” remains idle when we’re thinking. In my view, this evidence deals a serious blow to the hopes of achieving “artificial general intelligence” through the scaling of large-language models since, after all, they are language tools (it’s in the name).
Enter now stage left Dr. Paul Cisek, a neuroscientist at the University of Montreal, to throw some gasoline on that fire. Cisek first came across my radar last year when a pithy observation he made about LLMs started making the rounds on social media. You can read his full comment here, but to summarize:
We know that humans in general can falsely impute intelligence and agency to complex events that take place in the world, as we’ve seen humans do this in the past when interacting with a chatbot such as ELIZA, or claiming the gods make volcanoes explode.
But although modern-day LLMs are complex, researchers know quite a bit about how they function, through pattern-matching and use of mathematical theories (among other things).
Thus, although the public may be inclined to attribute sentience and agency to LLMs, scientists should know better. Cisek: “We are like a bunch of professional magicians, who know where all of the little strings and compartments are, and who know how we just redirected the audience’s attention to slip the card in our pocket…but then we are standing around backstage wondering, ‘Maybe there really is magic?’”
There isn’t any magic. But a big challenge we face is that the companies that produce LLMs are willfully trying to convince us otherwise, and are working to take advantage of the human impulse to ascribe agency to these tools.
Cisek’s main claims as I understand them:
The simple model of the mind as an information processor that takes input and produces output is mistaken.
We should instead see minds as control systems that guide behavior as part of a continuous process, like a circuit.
Over hundreds of millions of years, biological evolution has expanded the range and depth of behaviors that our minds can control.
I have taken several excerpts from the essay above to provide a sense of the overall discussion. It’s an interesting read, not very long, not hard to follow. Well-worth reading. ABN
Health insurers and organizations literally bribe pediatricians to give your baby 25 vaccine doses before 3 years of age.
For example, pediatricians in the 3-million-person Health Net network receive a $2,500 bonus for each baby receiving 25 vaccine doses by 2.5 years of age.
A paralegal at my firm quickly found 27 additional examples of insurers and providers from across the country offering such bribes. See list below.
It is amazing that even pediatricians need to be bribed to inject these products.
How do you think this affects how pediatricians treat parents during “well-check” visits?
UPDATE: A typical rebuttal of the claim that health insurers are bribing doctors to vax as many children as possible is that insurers are acting in the children’s best interest; and this is solidly proved because mass vaxxing is also in the insurers best interest. The claim is that by vaccinating as many children as they can, insurers are keeping them healthy while also saving money themselves as insurers will be required to pay fewer claims for healthier children. This rebuttal is completely false and based on a misunderstanding of how insurance works. Insurers make more money the sicker their customers are. Here’s why that is so. Under Obamacare, insurers are given 20% of covered medical expenses to manage their part of the system. In any one year, insurers do try to minimize their payouts. And this is where the misunderstanding or deliberate fraud in the rebuttal lies. In any one year, insurers always minimize payouts on established policies. But over more than one year, insurers always make more money the more medical costs go up. Under Obamacare 20% of $100 dollars of medical expenses is $20. If costs go up 10x, 20% of $1,000 is $200. The amount of work for insurers to manage those costs is the same. So, it is always in insurers’ best interests for medical costs go up over the years and not down. ABN
The discovery could reshape how we study psychedelic compounds in nature and medicine
At West Virginia University (WVU), Corinne Hazel, an undergraduate major in environmental microbiology, examined morning glory plants for signs of protective chemicals. She wasn’t looking for new drugs or anything psychedelic. But nestled in the folds of a tiny seed coat was a hint of white fuzz.
That fuzz turned out to be a fungus that scientists had been seeking since the 1930s. And this included Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who first synthesized LSD.
Hofmann offered the world LSD in the late 1930s by modifying a compound called lysergic acid, which he extracted from the ergot fungus Claviceps purpurea. That fungus grows on rye and other grains and is well-known for producing ergot alkaloids, a group of chemicals that can be toxic or medicinal depending on the dose.
Hofmann and others searched the plants for a fungus related to Claviceps purpurea, the rye-dwelling microbe that produces ergot alkaloids, a group of potent compounds with powerful biological effects. But for decades, that fungus remained a phantom.
Hazel found it almost by accident.
“We had a ton of plants lying around and they had these tiny little seed coats,” she said. “We noticed a little bit of fuzz in the seed coat. That was our fungus.”
With Panaccione’s guidance, Hazel extracted DNA from the fuzz and sent it for sequencing. The results confirmed what generations of chemists and botanists had only suspected: the morning glory harbored a previously unknown species of ergot-producing fungus.
“Sequencing a genome is a significant thing,” Panaccione said. “It’s amazing for a student.”
Newborns come into the world with LOW vitamin K on purpose — it’s not a flaw.
Cord blood is loaded with stem cells meant to repair the stress of birth, and thin blood lets those stem cells travel exactly where they’re needed.
Then nature delivers the perfect dose: colostrum — rich in natural vitamin K, given orally, slow and gentle.
Instead, we cut the cord early (stealing up to 30% of baby’s blood volume) and inject synthetic vitamin K packed with polysorbate 80, propylene glycol, benzyl alcohol, and sometimes aluminum… straight into an immune system that’s barely online.
Why are we “fixing” a system that was perfectly designed?
Think about it before you consent. Nature already had the plan.
A former top scientist from Harvard University has defected to China – giving the country an edge in the global race to develop the world’s first AI super-soldier.
Charles Lieber, the former chair of Harvard’s chemistry department, has resurfaced as the founding director of Shenzhen’s Institute for Brain Research Advanced Interfaces and Neurotechnologies, also known as i-BRAIN.
Lieber was convicted in 2021 of lying to the feds about his ties to China and retired from Harvard in 2023.
Scientists in the military wing of the Chinese Communist Party have been working on brain-computer interfaces — Lieber is one of the world’s leading researchers in the field — to boost mental agility and situational awareness to engineer super soldiers.
The Ivy League scientist was convicted in 2021 of lying to the feds about his ties to the Thousand Talents Program, a Chinese state scheme to poach foreign researchers. He was promised $750,000 a year to set up a research lab in China while he was at Harvard, and hid funds he received from the Internal Revenue Service.
Students at NYC’s New School voted to strip funding for its campus Hillel chapter, declaring Hillel is “not in good standing,” citing its connection to the Israeli Defense Forces through student trips to Israel..
In a 38-page report, the student government alleged Hillel’s participation in programs that send students to volunteer on military bases in Israel makes the entire student body complicit through fees taken from tuition to fund all student groups.
“To continue to fund Hillel at the New School would mean that your student fees would be used to support violations of international law,” the statement says. “Our shared values require us to enforce our policies until Hillel agrees to affirm and abide by international law.”
Luna appeared on the Pod Force One podcast with New York Post columnist Miranda Devine on Wednesday and theorized that former President Joe Biden‘s administration orchestrated the Butler rally assassination attempt on the president.
‘I think what is interesting about the initial investigation is A, it was done under Biden, period,’ Luna began.
The lawmaker went on to criticize the FBI for being unable to ‘locate who actually owned that bag of cocaine that was found in the White House‘ and then ‘also destroying the evidence.’
‘Specifically, what was interesting about the Butler assassination [attempt] and I’ve said this before, I think that was intentional negligence,’ she continued.
‘I was one of the individuals to actually ask questions of the former Secret Service Director [Kimberly Cheatle]. We actually had whistleblowers from within the Secret Service that came out, that stated that, you know, they were basically not present or told to stand down at the actual – there was a group of snipers that were actually met that day, that was coordinated by the local law enforcement, and they just so happened to not show up.’
Luna went on to say that the area that was ‘left open’ was ‘literally the perfect location to take a shot and, basically, assassinate someone.’
This could be the start of something big. Could be her simply saying the obvious, but let’s hope it is an opening move in a strategy to expose a plot they already have evidence for. If Trump and his administration has real power, and are not totally controlled by secret malefactors, this may lead to uncovering much more. Moves against Comey may also signal more is coming before the midterms. ABN
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