Sunday, February 8, 2026

PETER SCHWEIZER: So they know what you're saying, they know what you're communicating. They also know who your families are back home.

Now if you're a student from China in the United States, you are expected to have and communicate the only app that you were supposed to have on your phone for communication is WeChat and the government monitors that.  So they know what you're saying, they know what you're communicating.  They also know who your families are back home.  So even if you have no interest in damaging the United States, no interest in stealing secrets, if you were working in a sensitive Lab at Yale or Brigham Young or UCLA, and government wants you to steal on their behalf, they will pressure you.  They will say that your family is at risk, and you will be forced to comply.  Those are just the realities that exist for students, and to pretend that that reality does not exist and to pretend that this is not a problem caused by the Chinese government, I think it's just being naive.  

So how do you deal with that? You're not going to be able to get the Chinese government not to pressure students.  You're not going to be able to get them to study comparative lit instead of chemical engineering.  So I think you have to look at curtailing the numbers because they are stealing us blind.  

MARC LANDERS: Cannabis users' brains look YOUNGER! People who used cannabis showed better scores on various thinking tests (multiple areas of cognition / mental performance).

SAMA HOOLE: This is the first time the U.S. government issues dietary advice to the entire population. There's no precedent. No framework for how to proceed. They're making it up as they go.

1977: Senator George McGovern, 1922-2012, chairs the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs. They're investigating dietary causes of chronic disease. The political pressure for action is immense. The committee hears testimony from multiple researchers. The testimony is divided. Some support dietary fat restriction. Others say the evidence is insufficient for population-wide advice. Dr. Pete Ahrens, one of the era's leading lipid researchers, explicitly warns against premature guidelines. Ahrens testifies: "This is a gamble. We are not certain about the effects of dietary change. We should wait for better evidence before making recommendations that will affect the entire population." The committee ignores him. They feel political pressure to do something. Heart disease is killing thousands. The public demands answers. Saying "we need more research" isn't politically viable. McGovern later admits in interviews that they knew the science was uncertain but felt compelled to act. In 1977, they publish "Dietary Goals for the United States" recommending Americans reduce saturated fat, increase carbohydrates, and replace animal fats with vegetable oils. This is the first time the U.S. government issues dietary advice to the entire population. There's no precedent. No framework for how to proceed. They're making it up as they go. The American Medical Association opposes the guidelines. They issue a statement saying the evidence doesn't support population-wide dietary change. The AMA argues for individualized advice rather than universal recommendations. Food industry lobbying intensifies. Beef producers oppose fat restriction. Dairy farmers fight against recommendations to limit butter and whole milk. Grain producers support increased carbohydrate consumption. Everyone sees how this affects their markets. The final guidelines reflect political compromise more than scientific consensus. They're softened slightly compared to drafts to appease meat and dairy lobbies. But the core message remains: eat less fat, more carbs. These guidelines become institutional policy. USDA adopts them. The American Heart Association endorses them. Medical schools begin teaching them. Within five years, they're established dogma. The gamble Ahrens warned about was never framed as a gamble to the public. Guidelines were presented as settled science. Nobody mentioned uncertainty. Nobody disclosed the divided expert opinion. Nobody admitted this was experimental policy affecting 200 million Americans. By the 1980s-90s, the outcomes are visible. Obesity rises. Diabetes increases. Heart disease rates don't improve. The guidelines clearly aren't working as predicted. But rather than revisit the original gamble, committees double down. If outcomes are bad, obviously people aren't following advice closely enough. The solution is more stringent fat restriction and louder public health messaging. McGovern's retrospective acknowledgment that they gambled is telling. He knew at the time that the science was uncertain. He chose to issue guidelines anyway because political circumstances demanded it. This established a precedent: nutritional guidelines could be based on incomplete evidence if political pressure was sufficient. Later committees would follow this model. Advice would be issued before evidence was definitive. Course correction would be avoided to preserve institutional credibility. The McGovern guidelines weren't the careful result of overwhelming scientific evidence. They were a political response to public anxiety, shaped by industry lobbying, issued despite scientific uncertainty, and never revised despite failing outcomes.

Your dietary guidelines began as an admitted gamble by politicians who felt pressured to do something even when scientists said the evidence was insufficient. The gamble failed. Nobody acknowledged it. And you're still following advice from 1977. 

JEFFREY SMITH: "Glyphosate was NEVER meant to come in contact with our food. It was patented to strip the minerals off the walls of pipes."

I don't even like any bread, tortilla, corn or flour, come into contact with my beef or carnitas for this very reason.  Not only is glyphosate a powerful chelator, draining us of valuable minerals but it's a pesticide.  Hello.  

Jeffrey M. Smith is described by Wikipedia as a consumer activist.  Looks like he stopped posting at Twitter back in 2016.

Saturday, February 7, 2026

ANDREW KAUFMAN, MD: Stores like Home Depot are contracting with Flock to install cameras in their parking lots. HOAs are bringing them in. Nursing homes. Gated communities. Private property that you pass through every day without thinking twice.

Flock cameras aren’t just watching the street, they’re watching you. Stores like Home Depot are contracting with Flock to install cameras in their parking lots. HOAs are bringing them in. Nursing homes. Gated communities. Private property that you pass through every day without thinking twice. That means your license plate can be photographed multiple times a day, logged, stored, and cross-referenced — not because you committed a crime, but because you existed in public.
And suddenly all those new data centers popping up everywhere start to make a lot more sense.
Think about it. Cities are signing contracts. Private corporations are signing contracts. Entire neighborhoods are signing contracts. That’s an explosion of data being collected, processed, and stored — constantly.
People will say, “Relax, it’s just license plates.” For now. How long until it’s biometrics? How long until it’s facial recognition? How long until it’s movement tracking, behavioral profiling, predictive policing?
Every system starts small. Every surveillance program begins with “safety” and “convenience.” And every time, the public is told not to worry — right up until the infrastructure is already in place. This isn’t about catching criminals. It’s about normalizing surveillance. This is a clip from my True Health Report podcast with Hakeem Anwar. Click below to watch right now.

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