We subscribe to Epoch Times, the paper newspaper. Even so, I immediately delete almost all of their emails, as they stack up and are mostly about Trump, and are mostly unread by me. They contain a lot of tease headlines, as in “shocking” news and court rulings and such. I regard Trump as a false leader, put in place to prevent the rise of a real one, not that I see any on the horizon. I was shocked to find out the guy is 78 years old – Reagan’s age was an issue when he was elected – he was 70 at the time. Biden was 78, now 82. What are we, the geriatric republic? (Asked the 74-year-old.)
But then I realize that at that level they don’t count votes. It’s all a dog and pony show. Trump might go to jail, we are told, perhaps creating an insurrection, another January 6, if you will. If sentenced he might have to move to Santa Catarina.
I dropped my subscription to Epoch Times maybe a year ago, and then my wife said she enjoyed it. I called them to reinstate the subscription, and they said it had never been cancelled. I regard that as an excellent customer retention program.
Often enough ET will run a story that resonates with me, such as Climate Change being a hoax – this week they had no less than three stories that grabbed:
They Are Closing Up the Internet
Jeffrey A. Tucker writes about how Google, still the most widely used search engine, has deliberately (he says in the last 24 months) changed its results to what the elites want us to know versus based on use of various websites.
I have never trusted Google, or Bing, or Yahoo. I currently use Brave, but its search engine is appended by Google, and so is worthless. People talk without thinking about how we all know the Chinese Internet is censored. I’ve always known that ours is too. Heavily. That did not just come about in the last 24 months.
Here’s what I do, and you can most likely improve on it:
I use Brave as my web browser. It does a very good job of filtering out ads. Popups are a rarity. Often as I read an article I have to jump over gray areas – these are ads that have been blocked.
Miles Mathis not too long ago changed his email address to Yandex, a Russian-based service. He then backed away, saying it was as untrustworthy as Protonmail, which I use and like. (I don’t have a lot of secrets.) I switched over to the Yandex browser, and found that my desktop computer lit up like a 4th of July fireworks show. Everything is allowed to intrude! I went back to Brave.
However, I found that the Yandex search engine works very well. I have tested it for controversial topics, and compared its results to Google. You can do the same for yourself. Usually Yandex will give honest results, while Google will land the same results on back pages, if at all.
Terrain Theory Versus Germ Theory – A Fresh Look at an Old Principle
I was quite surprised to see this article, written by Emma Tekstra. It’s not quite as strong as I would make it. There is no mention of Antoine Béchamp or Louis Pasteur or the Rockefeller takeover of allopathic medicine or how most doctors today are deeply brainwashed.
But in general, she does a good job of laying out the basics: If your fish are sick in their fish tank, change the water and feed them well and back to health. She does write about how most vaccines came along long after the terrain had so improved that many diseases were already wiped out.
For myself, I understand that antibiotics are both overused and very useful. I recently had a crowned tooth that had leaked, and consequently got infected. I willingly took amoxicillin. That fixed the infection. I don’t know how terrain theory would have helped me, as by the time I discovered the problem, root canal was the only viable alternative.
But in general I avoid doctors. I do not vaccinate. I take no drugs save an occasional sleeping pill. Temazepam. I have recently starting taking vitamin D. It may be just my imagination, but it seems to help with mental clarity and, perhaps, joint pain. (I have had a lot of joint pain since building a staircase on our hillside outside.) And I am healthy. I don’t get colds, certainly not the flu. We live in a house on a wooded property at 7,900 feet. That entails a great deal of hard labor to plow in the winter, cut, gather, chainsaw and split firewood. Things routinely break down and have to be fixed.
That’s our terrain. We are in good health as a result.
Why Don’t We Create Beautiful Art Anymore?
I know a little more about this subject than the author, Walker Larson, having read The Cultural Cold Wars, by Frances Stonor Saunders, a 1999 book detailing how the world of art was destroyed by, again, the Rockefellers, who gave us MOMA, the Museum of Modern Art. But kudos to Larson, who has noticed that art used to be far more meaningful than today, and done by people with far more talent. (The same can be said of architecture.) I gather, as with music, part of the purpose of destruction of art was to prevent powerful expressions of beauty, harmony, and also dissent.
Larson talks about Dada, which is as I see it a mere perversion of the notion that art should beautifully express feelings and ideas. Guernica was a town allegedly bombed by the Germans and Italians in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. Hundreds of civilians were killed. The above painting is Pablo Picasso’s representation of of that event. It does nothing for me, reaches me in no way, emotional or ascetically. It is as if Picasso set out to deprive the event of any context. He made no inferences of barbarity, guilt, or atrocity. I do not like it. I almost typed there “It stinks.”
It stinks.
The above painting is by Albrecht Altdorfer in 1529, reprinted in Larson’s story in full color. It concerns The Battle of Alexander at Issus. Obviously a reproduction on a computer screen (I know most of you use iPads or iPhones) does it no justice, but stop and let your eyes drift about. Altdorfer obviously invested a good part of his life with this creation, which I would love to read about in more depth. The point is that art can have beauty, meaning and poignance, but modern art has robbed it of all of that.
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I’ve been watching a TV series by the above name, one that has garnered 27 awards in many categories along with countless nominations. It falls under the genre “Dramedy” in that it is acted seriously with the comedy arising from the characters and their peccadillos. Frankly, I have enjoyed it immensely, and am now halfway through season two.
However, the last episode I watched had the character Ava Daniels (played by Hannah Einbinder), in what seemed like a throwaway line, complaining that she had read a 500-page description of how the Great Barrier Reef is being destroyed by climate change, and will soon disappear.
Last night I sat down to watch it some more, and could not do so. Ava’s wandering into the Climate Change hoax spoiled it for me. I lost my willing suspension of disbelief. Why does this happen? I do not know, but speculate that orders are sent out to writers of all entertainment of all kinds to include Climate Change lies in their scripts. The propaganda is so pervasive that we cannot escape it. It is no accident that that clunky line, interjected into an otherwise excellent script performed by an excellent cast, hit us between the eyes. It spoiled Hacks for me.
The GBR, by the way, is doing just fine. If you doubt me, read this.
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Steve McIntyre still at it
Steve is the proprietor of ClimateAudit.org, and has written sparingly but in great depth over the years. In the piece titled Reconstructing the Esper Reconstruction, he reviews the latest version of Michael Mann’s discredited Hockey Stick, Esper et al (2024), this time replicated by Jan Esper and others and reprinted in the once-credible science journal Nature.
The McIntyre piece is complicated. Know that going in if you venture there. Yes, I fail to grasp much of it, but force myself to read these things. I can, for your benefit, jump to the conclusion, which I thought quite funny:
And, at the end of the day, Esper et al (2024) is best described as climate pornography. In the premier modern journal for climate pornography: Nature. And while climate partisans (and scientists) pretend to read the articles and the fine print, in reality, they, like Penthouse readers in the 1980s, are only interested in the centerfold. In the present case, an air brushed hockey stick diagram. A diagram that raises the same question that Penthouse readers asked back in the day: real or fake?
I have read tons on this and other climate-related subjects, and I have the same problem as I do with remembering names at a party – I have a vague recollection of faces, and that’s about it. My knowledge of climate is speckled with a firm grasp of some matters, and vague recollections of others. But foremost for me is this: Climate “Scientists” are not that, and are not scientific in their method. They are propagandists, knowingly, perhaps unwittingly. But propagandists nonetheless.
Piece of Mindful 
Hey Mark, I noticed your comment about taking Vitamin D and I thought I would share this:
https://chemtrails.substack.com/p/vitamin-d-is-rat-poison-the-fraudulent
This colorful author has a whole series on synthetic vitamins and supplements that is quite eye opening. Hint: Big Pharma with no oversight whatsoever.
Anyway, I thought I would share if you (or anyone else) is interested.
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The dose is the key factor when it comes to the potential toxicity of any substance, including vitamin D. While large, prolonged doses or single humongous doses such as are found in some rat poisons are definitely harmful and potentially deadly, the typical supplemental range for humans is generally considered safe under the guidance of a healthcare provider.
sarc Of course, we are not supposed to trust healthcare providers any more, are we? Mark took his life in his hands in order to visit that dentist, and is lucky to have escaped with only a humongous bill. /sarc
Noting the extremely high concentrations or quantities of vitamin D used in rodent poisons is not in itself evidence that any vitamin D supplementation whatsoever is “poisonous.” Although how much is poisonous is something it would be useful to know.
The median lethal dose (LD50) for vitamin D is approx. 37 mg per 1 kg of body weight.
1 microgram of vitamin D is equal to 40 IU, so a 5,000 IU dose of the good vitamin contains 125 micrograms.
1 mg = 1,000 micrograms, so 5,000 IU = 0.125 mg.
The LD50 for an 80kg human is 37 mg x 80 = 2960 mg or approx. 3 g.
2960 mg divided by 0.125 mg = 23,680 or approx. 4,000 5,000 IU tabs of Vitamin D.
I don’t claim my math on this is accurate, but obviously, Mark would do well not to eat those Vitamin D soft-gels as if they were M&Ms.
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I’ve completely stopped taking any supplements or vitamins, not convinced they do anything except probably poison you. I feel better the more I get away from all supplements and packaged foods. I’m trying to eliminate anything and everything that comes in a wrapper. The only foods that are modestly healthy you can find in modern life are eggs, butter, beef, and probably some game and wild fish. Anyone pushing supplements is a shill.
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Supplements have saved my life and my health. I’m as convinced of it as I’m convinced Dr. Marvin Monroe’s voice is annoying.
They cured my depression and anxiety, my psoriasis and dandruff, and helped restore my ability to read small print.
But more than anything else, they give me the same sort of psychological security that I expect a flu or Covid jab gives a vaccine enthusiast.
I admit that. There is a placebo effect at work with supplements, and that effect won’t work if you don’t “believe” in them.
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All I know is that after a couple of days of Vitamin D my knees felt better. I did not expect anything from it. I could be wrong.
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“not convinced” isn’t much of an argument, is it? It is rather an opinion.
Human biochemistry is extremely complicated and under-researched issue. At the same time, our food supply is so much worse then before, meaning that it delivers much less needed nutrients in comparison to the same food items from our past.
We could argue why this is so, but not about its meaning – in general, with average food intake, an ordinary Jane/Joe does not consume enough basic ingredients which would allow the synthesis of adequate volume for the most crucial chemical components our body needs daily. Than take into account all the poisons consumed while being ignorant either with food, water or air – and you are close to an inner chemical catastrophe.
The real problem with minerals and so called vitamins is that we don’t completely understand the inner workings of a healthy human body. We usually take one single ingredient, for example ascorbic acid aka Vit C, and believe that it will work its magic on its own. Well, it’s not that simple, unfortunately. Just think about it in a most simplistic way – first you need some water, than you swallow it with saliva, until it comes to stomach full of our own acid and enzymes, before it continues to intestines and finally reaches blood stream – I have just counted at least 5 “chemical” stations where everything you consume gets broken down into most simple forms – and that’s what our body works with.
If one of these isn’t properly functioning, you’re in big trouble since the intake of available nutrients is already compromised by default. And how would one know any of it, by the way? We usually only see the symptoms, while focus should be on permanent absence of the symptoms.
Since you’re accusing anybody in favour of micro balancing improper diet with additives as shills, I wonder if you’ve reached that knowledge we’ve all somehow missed. Instead of being a smartass, why don’t you simply share it here and teach us how to live long and prosperous.
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Arrrrggghhh! WordPress shite!!!
I just wanted to “Like” the comment. Nope… cleared the Brave Shields, Logged in to my WordPress account and reloaded the PoM site a half-dozen times – still won’t accept the click on the “Like” star.
Anyway, MiniMe has it stated soundly: very complex. ________________________________
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Be patient … I am moving to Substack, but right now am like a kid on a bike with training wheels. I tried yesterday to publish this piece there but it would not go. It keeps waiting for me to publish my first article even as I republished the piece below about Michael Mann and drew three comments. Petra tells me I probably have more than one account there and need to close one or the other. No time today. I am technically clunky. I need help from a teenager.
Anyway, Dave, not for my sake as I will wade through it and get up and running, but I think for you as well, given your writing chops and general intellectual curiosity, Substack might open up a whole new world, devoid of censorship as far as I can tell. I could be wrong and you probably are already there anyway.
https://substack.com/@tokarski
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A big issue with supplements is the fact they contain “isolates”. So there is some kind of purification or fractionation involved, which often involves treatment with multiple chemicals. Then its mill crushed or heavily processed. I find it hard to believe humans need all these rare compounds found in plants, we can recycle everything from animal sources by scavenging pathways. We don’t need wonder compounds,
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Moreover, are you assaying what you’re taking? If not you have no idea what it is, and I would not trust the label or manufacturer. I remember taking fish oil capsules for a while and getting the nastiest afterburps. Who knows what’s in those capsules, probably fish parts swept off the floor and squeezed with some hydraulic oil for good measure.
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More often then not (at least in the jewunited states of europe here) there is toxic stuff in supplements. Eg. Titandioxid … as Farbstoff (colouring?) for what do pills that u swallow need colour? Only a lil example. Plus when we got so many hoaxes I would not be surprised if the “official” vitamis story is also false. Just like viruses or even DNA(?)
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So Mini-me, where’s your buddy Macro-me? And how come he can’t come over here and comment? What’s his issue? Its not like he has a real job anyhow. Plus he barely got a bachelors degree, and paints about as well as I did when I was 7 so I don’t know why that dude is worshipped like the second coming. Anyhow, tell him when he writes scientific papers to try referencing somebody every once in a while, unless he’s straight plagiarizing by ripping off peoples idea working in a patent office like Saint Einstein the fellow Mason.
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My buddy, Macro-me? It was very clear to me who you’re talking about from the intro…but I have to disappoint you. My real buddies are all living off the web, none of them named MM.
The referencing issue is unfortunately quite common on the web – almost nobody references properly or even not at all. I do miss it since these references give me a chance to dive deeper into any subject.
For all the ideas and critiques, you can send him an email directly, he has it published on his website.
By the way, he unknowingly gave you an excellent opportunity to revolutionize understanding of human biochemistry. If you’re wondering how that is so, try incorporating his charge theory into the cell chemistry, which is a subject he’s avoiding ever since he came up with the Unification theory. That would make a real difference, who cares about some dusty portraits hanging on the wall.
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Thanks for being a good sport. I’ll reply later to as MM’s contributions to chemistry, i like his atomic model the most. I even use it in my head to do chemistry, whether or not it’s 100% real it’s a better model than the standard covalent/ionic bond ideas between electrons circling around. I”m out!
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I didn’t realize this would cause such a dustup! I will reply longer after work. Much of my knowledge is based on my Italian grandfather and great grandfather who lived to 95 and 99 with no pills or supplements.
Also I did not mean to say Mark was a shill – as he mentioned he is taking Vitamin D (I used to until last year). Mark is the anti-shill, he never endorses anything, for the record as someone who has read this entire blog. I meant the Alex Jones, Mike Adams types, and types that talk about AJ and MA. I’m out!
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That is the point the author is making – all of these supplements are a scam and worse, most likely are harmful. In reading the comments below, I’m not sure how many folks actually read the article I posted, but they should!
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I looked up the ingredients on the Vitamin D I am taking: Cholecalcferol (from Lanolin), extra virgin olive oil, softgel capsule (bovine gelatin (BSE-free), and safflower oil.
The cholecalcferol was the only ingredient mentioned in the long list provided by the article linked by Darin B. Honestly, I am not too worried about being poisoned. And, my knees are feeling better and I am more … oh god, more … what’s the word … oh yeah, clearheaded.
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Well if it works for you then good for you. The poisoning part – I think it’s too easy to become a hypochondriac with chemicals and poisons, especially once you dump germ theory! I’ll call it a chemo-chondriac, and I am guilty myself as a chemist of worrying too much about it.
For example, the chemtrails stuff, I doubt its very toxic. If it were whole cities would be dead by now. However, fluoride I believe it is quite bad – I had a lot of tooth decay which started when I moved Boston for 25 years, and which completely stopped when I moved out of the city and started drinking well water. I had no idea about the fluoride issue, and it makes sense it would slowly destroy your teeth. Hydrofluoric acid is known as one of the few substances that can etch glass.
My thesis was in enzymatic control mechanisms for the de novo pyrimidine (CTP, TTP, UTP) synthetic pathway, which are half the building blocks of DNA and RNA. From experience I know it is extremely difficult to map out entire metabolic pathways. What is known is quite narrow, and there is surprising amount of redundancy and overlap in biological systems, which partly explains why living things are so “robust”. I would caution listening to anyone who tries to suggest they understand these interlocking pathways and mechanisms. Just a single enzyme can have extremely complex control mechanisms, and few have been well characterized.
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I recently reached the conclusion that climate change is the new nuke hoax. I.e. they will never pull the trigger (well there is no trigger or button for the nuke hoax, which is the point). Climate change is a just a total fear mongering campaign to create a massive hoaxed part of the economy, to chisel 5-10% of everyone’s income for “climate change” amelioration, as they chiseled 5-10% of everyone’s income (just a guess) for “security” during the cold war, and up to today! Of course there is no massive climate change caused by humans. I was listening to college radio today where they replayed a broadcast from September 6, 1983 in Boston, where it was 90 degrees! I remember the summers in the 1980s were incredibly hot, nothing like what we experience now, I would estimate 5 degrees warmer, with very hot temperatures through September.
And the reason they can never go full carbon zero is all trucking and the service economy, which relies on trucks (electricians, plumbers, carpenters, etc.) would stop, because those vehicles cannot be powered by electricity. It will just squeeze the working class and middle class as much as possible (while these suckers still believe in climate change – to the masses I say please wake up! we ask for no money! Cui bono?) and the white liberals trapped in amber since September 10, 2001.
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It is not “carbon” but rather CO2, a life-giving fertilizer. The reason they targeted it is because in so doing they could demonize fossil fuels, our lifeblood. These are misanthropes. They are all about. They think it would be a better world if we followed Rousseau’s noble savages, who somehow had better lives than we do now.
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If you want a good supplement, just eat organ meats like liver, giblets, pigs blood etc. Chock full of goodies for your deficiencies.
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The Epoch Times is affiliated with Falun Gong.
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Yeah, they are open about that. If I knew what Falun Gong was, I might be concerned. As it is, I don’t read much of it, only occasionally when they do some good articles.
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Falun Gong is some whacky controlled opposition group that stages a bunch of shows in America pretending to represent traditional Chinese culture, when it’s just the official opposition of “communist China”. Just another clown car group amongst the 3 ring circus of clowns pretending to represent communism, fascism, and democracy under the one world government big top.
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OK. I find it easy to ignore most of Epoch Times as it is Trump, Trump, Trump. Between him and Biden we have as much choice as between Gore and Bush in 2000 or JFK and Nixon in 1960. It never changes. Trump and Hillary in 2016. I could go on.
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So I want to explain how the category of “Vitamins” came about. I surmise the name is Vital-minerals, or vial substances, made by living organisms, or substances possessing special properties, that are non-mineral, or inorganic based in content. Meaning vitamins are mainly if not exclusively enzyme co-factors. Co-factors are “small” molecules that are essential to enzyme function, that bind in the active site portion, are distinct and not covalently connected to the core polypeptide chain that makes up the majority of the protein structure, and which would survive protein denaturation and proteolysis. I.e. semi-indestructible materials like NAD, that can be recycled easily, and hence are not necessarily synthesized by the host organism, since these substances are plentiful in nature. However, enzymes tend to be conserved across species, so plant based “vitamins” or enzyme co-factors tend to be quite different than human co-factors. Which brings us to organ meat. When a cat or dog eats a carcass, they go for the organs first, especially the liver, which is chock-a-block with these “vitamins”. This is really all you need aside from pure water, a source of amino acids, and some essential lipids found in things like butter and fish oil.
Proof positive is my great grandfather, who lived to be 99 and was in very good health his entire life, aside from an ulcer he had in middle age. To “cure” it he ate only curdled milk for 10 years – this was in the day when you could get raw milk, so I don’t think it would be wise to try this now – where he left the milk next to the window overnight and would let it curdle and eat it the next day. The only other things he ate much of later in life were oats, eggs and beans.
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<blockquote>We subscribe to Epoch Times, the paper newspaper.</blockquote>
<blockquote>I’ve been watching a TV series ….</blockquote>
<blockquote>The propaganda is so pervasive….</blockquote>
<blockquote>Last night I sat down to watch it some more,</blockquote>
<blockquote>we cannot escape it.</blockquote>
total utter moron confirmed, QED
no surprise
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nuff said.
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Thanks very much for the kind words, I try. Even though I am often sarcastic, as this previous post was, I am also serious about what I write. I’ve worked within the belly of the beast long enough to know most of what’s going on, not that I’m proud of that, but I can confirm what many suspect to be true but aren’t sure – that allopathic medicine is 100% about profit and managing the herd to be dumb, permanently medicated, and then bled like the golden calf on expensive worthless cancer meds at the very end.
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Don’t ever change, Gaia. I dislike you just the way you are.
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