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Lulu Manus's avatar

War criminal Trump running Gaza? What a joke.

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don dunne's avatar

The problem with old fashion warriors whether they be young or old when they make a mistake today it can have bad and sometimes lethal conciquences. Take Pete blowing up drug boats on their way to make a delivery.

Let's assume and I am sure that many will think this would be impossible, the drug boat is two miles off the coast of Miami and hidden under the drugs on board is a 6.8 kilo nuclear bomb.

Peter does his thing and there goes Miami.

Do you think Pete and the Donald will get the Nobel Peace Prize ?

Sorry , I hope I didn't spoil your day.

Good luck America have a great day my friends.

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Selina Sweet's avatar

So how do we create blowback on the crappitization of Social Security services?

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Josh Mitteldorf's avatar

Ralph, over 50 years you' ve gotten almost everything right, but you've been deceived by the "science" of vaccines. There's a heavy commercial influence on the "science" of vaccines -- and why not? Vaccines are fabulously profitable. They are free of manufacturer's liability when they injure people. They are mandated by schools and some employers. They are given to everyone -- sick and healthy alike. They are heavily subsidized by govt and by insurers.

The COVID vaccines were far and away the most damaging in all history -- 50x the rate of deaths compared to the next worst vaccine, according to VAERS. The mRNA shots were not vaccines according to any definition before 2020, and they were not tested for long-term benefit nor for long-term harms.

Maybe you could have Brian Hooker on your show to offer a counter-narrativee.

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Ryan Featherston's avatar

+Joshua Mitteldorf You sound like a Christian Nationalist.

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TomL's avatar

As others here have said and as the "Ralph Nader" substack has hosted in prior programs, there are giant issues behind all of the Big Pharma programs. Kennedy may be the only loose cannon ultimately questioning the Trump agenda on issues of the health of Americans. Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer was on display this week in the criminal Trump administration thanked for token drug price reductions. There are a number of rigorous high IQ substacks that skeptically question everything that is going on with the Trump crooks realizing that Trump burns through everyone in the end, and any reforms or serious people at HHS will be fired if they stand up to Trump's selling out, based on his vanity, fragile ego, and non-existent history of positive change.

On Youtube I try to follow "Legal AF" to stay updated on Trump's criminality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvfZlEnjN6o

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JVirchow's avatar

Interesting. You do know that Hotez was involved with the Wuhan lab where they were doing gain of function work on deadly viruses--a lab that had Chinese military ties and a record of biosafety issues--making viruses that were more transmissible and potentially more deadly.

In 2017, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded Hotez a $6.1 million grant to develop a vaccine for SARS. The grant description included research to address concerns over accidental lab release of a virus, among other potential threats. A sub-grant to WIV collaborators: A scientific paper shows that Hotez's grant underwrote research on chimeric (combined) coronaviruses, and the funding was passed on to researchers who collaborated with WIV scientist Zhengli Shi. This project created a recombinant virus called "rWIV1-SHC014S," which combined elements of different SARS-related coronaviruses. Conflict of interest allegations: The controversy centers on whether Hotez and his institutions should have disclosed this indirect funding, especially while Hotez publicly dismissed the lab-leak theory as a fringe conspiracy. For instance, Jeffrey Sachs, who chaired the Lancet COVID-19 Commission where Hotez served, stated that Hotez "strongly rejected" the lab-leak possibility but never disclosed his grant's connection to the kind of research that could have led to such an event.

So maybe this sort of research and potential lab leaks or use as a weapon should be included in a category of major threats along with their other list--a little convenient for them to forget gain of function work in dodgy labs as an existential threat since a potential lab leaked virus may have killed 20 million people. And scientists with ego and lack of accountability like Hotez could end up killing millions of us..

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David Gardiner's avatar

The human species has become pandemic. Earth has many options for correcting this imbalance, and we are accelerating the process.

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SH's avatar

I am a subscriber to the lab-leak theory for a number of reasons, but I was not aware of any significant Hotez connections - The main connection I am familiar with is the one with EcoHealth Alliance headed by Peter Daszak -

https://www.science.org/content/article/federal-officials-suspend-funding-ecohealth-alliance-nonprofit-entangled-covid-19

I would like to see the reference to the scientific paper you speak of re Hotez's grant to add to my collection, including similar work done at UNC by Ralph Baric

They were fooling around with a SARS related virus - genetically engineering chimeras and apparently using humanized mice in a BSL2-3 lab. The funding was granted by NIH (Fauci headed) - a "late" report indicated that what they were producing was significantly more transmissive - at which point the experiment was supposed to stop, but it didn't.

(The other "theory", that it was of zoonotic origin, has yet to produce the zoonotic source) ...

I am no fan of Fauci's for a number of reasons - the above being one, he defends GOF research, though he denies the grant was for such - but even more because in the very early phases of the pandemic he said the general public should not be wearing masks, when in fact that is the one thing - masks of the proper material, well fitted (N95s), that could have prevented a good deal of infection/transmission (which the vaccines do not), therefore illness and death - more masks, fewer ventilators.

I do believe that genetic engineering along with nukes, climate change, and AI qualify as the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse - all the product of our insatiable technophilia - producing technology we cannot control ...

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Ryan Featherston's avatar

I think you've been watching the Andromeda Strain one too many times.

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spinbackwards's avatar

I wanna live in a world where flags are lowered for Jane Goodall.

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Antisandman's avatar

Steve asked about the discrepancy in deaths from Covid (14%) vs population (4%). Dr. Mann deflected the question by talking about current "anti-science" policies. He did not answer the question. The pandemic and deaths were from 2020-2024 not 2025. Ralph talked about corporate malfeasance that led to many deaths, but did not consider that corporate malfeasance from Pfizer and Moderna aided by the CDC and WHO might have led to many unnecessary deaths. The critical thinking of science requires that all be tested separately. Richard Feynman, the person that showed the world what caused the Challenger disaster, said with his typical dry humor, that "Sience is the belief in the ignorance of experts." RFK Jr. used real world statistics to bolster his position. Mann did not. View worldometer coronavirus.info to see how the universally deadly Covid-19 was not.

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Antisandman's avatar

It is called in debates argumentum ad hominem. The same fallacy that Dr. Mann used. Instead of addressing the issue, attack the person.

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Richard Bartholomew's avatar

John Larson's approach of simply "increasing the cap" is not going to save Social Security. You need to tax billionaires whose main income is not from wages and salaries, but from unearned income sources. Social Security is not fair to individuals whose only income is earned income at the level of the max cap. The expected old-age pension return on their OASDI taxes is at the lowest rate because they have to support the OASDI benefits for lower income families. Taxes on non-earned income should be used to pay for these benefits.

Both John Larson and Martin O'Malley should be aware what Thomas Paine and Robert M. Ball proposed using the estate or inheritance tax to support an old-age pension for the poor. Their proposals are on the ssa.gov website. Republican Randy Feenstra of Iowa, who is on the Social Security Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee, is certainly aware. He is the primary sponsor of the Death Tax Act of 2025.

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Ron McGuire's avatar

Ralph, I was concerned when you and Michael Mann opined that maybe we should prohibit anonymity on the internet. Of course bad actors abuse anonymity to spread lies and hate. But internet anonymity also allows workers and whistle blowers to post their political views and to expose copany abuses without employers or potential employers knowing who is doing it. We need internet spaces where Amazon workers can talk about abuses on the job without the company knowing who is disgruntled or who is in favor of a union. Immigrants can ask for advice in a chat room without exposing themselves to ice. Internet anonymity protects free speech of the least powerful and most vulnerable members of society. We need to keep the option of folks posting anonymously. .

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TCL's avatar

Hi,

Thanks so much for another fascinating show with guests that restore my faith in humanity.

Can you ask Ralph to weigh in on this bill supported by Tim Kaine and Hill Cassidy which appears to privatize SS?

https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-cassidy-outlines-plan-to-save-social-security-in-op-ed/

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Don Harris's avatar

Ralph said we need to take over the Democratic party. Because the Democratic party is controlled by the big money interests this must mean that we need to stop Democratic candidates from taking big money.

Because both the Democrats and Republicans are controlled by big money and the big money interests have no interest in passing any legislation to stop politicians from taking big money we cannot stop the Democrats from taking big money with legislation.

Such legislation will not be passed until the big money legislators have first been replaced by small donor legislators.

The problem has to solved before legislation to solve the problem can be passed.

Citizens can demand small donor candidates and enforce that demand with our votes. Citizens can work together to demand this of all parties and candidates on this issue that over 80% of citizens agree on of wanting the big money out of politics (including a majority of Republican voters).

If there are no small donor candidates on the 2026 primary or general election ballots citizens can use a write in vote to register a vote against the big money candidates on the ballot and to create and demonstrate demand for small donor candidates in future elections.

They can sign up on a website stating the purpose of casting the write in votes. They can also pledge to donate to small donor candidates.

Just 6-7% of the 150 million voters investing just 100 dollars in contributions would total 1 billion dollars and could be just the tip of the iceberg.

Then by 2028 or 2030 we can elect small donor candidates taking over both the Democratic and Republican parties.

We can also deal with the press being controlled by the big money interests by forming a co-op for news by starting a non-profit media conglomerate selling shares for 100 dollars each (maximum ten shares per person).

These shares could only be sold for 100 dollars as the purpose of owning the shares is for ordinary citizens to control the media conglomerate and not to make money on the value of the shares.

Once again just 6-7% of voters investing 100 dollars would total 1 billion dollars and be just the tip of the iceberg.

Until we solve the problem of big money controlling our political process and media nothing else will be accomplished as big money controlling our political process and media is the major obstacle to getting anything else done.

Please Ralph, organize the 1% of voters you keep talking about to get these things started now for the 2026 election instead of repeating the same mistakes that have not worked for the last fifty years.

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Josh Mitteldorf's avatar

Whoever removed Featherston's comments from this page, thank you! He showed all the signs of being a paid shill of the Pharma industry, attacking with ad hominems because he knows that once we get into the science he hasn't a leg to stand on.

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Amy Harlib's avatar

Michael Mann and Peter Hotez - UGH! Two of the worst among the psycho criminal ruling class who have no credibility when one understands the real world outside of their lies and psyops!

Anyone with 2 brain cells would know that 'NET ZERO' is an utterly insane off the charts idiocy, an absolute mathematical, physical, statistical and practical impossibility that can never be achieved or exist in reality!

Electricity has to come from somewhere, and the only reliable sources are coal, oil and gas (nukes don't cut it, the radioactive waste is too poisonous).

The 'CLIMATE CHAOS' fraud is the excuse and propaganda misdirection justifying attacks on farming and food, concealing a profoundly inimical globalist genocidal enslavement scheme.

Do you want to live in the squalor and drudgery and misery of the pre-industrial age? HELL NO!

HANDS OFF MY GAS STOVE! I LOVE MY GAS STOVE! Ever try to cook on an electric stove - absolute nightmare!

Can't say this often enough! CLIMATE CHANGE IS AN EVEN WORSE FRAUD THAN THE PLANSCAMDEMIC! SO-CALLED GREEN TECH IS A GIGANTIC SCAM! MINING AND MANUFACTURING 'GREEN' PRODUCTS NEEDS COAL, GAS AND OIL AND MINING RARE MINERALS IS MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY TOXIC AND DESTRUCTIVE THAN LEGACY PRODUCTS. SCREW YOUR DAMNED GREEN GRIFT AGENDA! climateviewer.com

All life everywhere is being assaulted by THE TECHNOCRATIC OMNIWAR! RESIST! DO NOT CONSENT TO ALL THINGS DIGITAL, 'SMART', AI, 5G, NO CASH - ALL OF IT! dhughes.substack.com Technocrat ruling class psychos get a sadistic thrill from their powers over life and death and hurting all who stand in their way and they need the resources worldwide to build their digital total slavery control grids (herd survivors into 15 minute city digital prisons)!

AI is designed to be anti-human/anti-life programmed by technocrat control freak psychos - garbage in = garbage out. Everyone got along just fine without all these absurd and downright satanic electronic gadgets that did not exist until recently. NOBODY NEEDS THIS AI CRAP!

It's always since the dawn of history, been about using knowledge for power and control by the psycho portion of the human population that learned how to manipulate 'normies' to obey them in their power-mad power trips.

In these modern times, this evil has become TECHNOCRACY, the vilest threat to the existence of all life on earth since forever!

EW! GROSS! HELL NO! technocracy.news

They can stick their f*cking damned NANO, Digital IDs, AI, jabs and chips up their asses where the sun don't shine!

CREATIVITY! ARTISTRY! IMAGINATION! SPIRITUALITY! HUMOR! LOVING KINDNESS! These are the best ways to fight THEM!

I also have a landline, a wired laptop and a wired monitor screen, and I never had or will have those infernal mobile devices designed to enslave you. I also use cash as much as possible, no cash is TOTAL SLAVERY.

How to fight back against this TOTAL SLAVERY!

RESIST! DO NOT COMPLY! DITCH THE DAMNED 'SMART' PHONES AND THE DAMNED QR CODES AND GO BACK TO LANDLINES OR FLIP PHONES AND USE CASH AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE! INSIST ON CASH! CBDC IS TOTAL SLAVERY!

It is heartbreaking to witness the holocausts happening and so many fellow citizens are brainwashed/bamboozled by the propaganda media, they are oblivious!

MISTAKES WERE NOT MADE! THEY can't get rid of the 'useless eaters' fast enough!

Peddling pure poison! Folks have to wake up to reality: health comes from organic diet, daily exercise and clean living and never from a needle or a pill except in dire, rare traumatic injuries.

It was NEVER about health! The Powers That Should Not Be were ALWAYS about they want you DEAD or a SLAVE! This is a painful truth to accept but we the people must wake up and fight back! And toxic injections/pills were/are a huge part of their arsenal!

This horrifying Congress Critters, Gates, Governor 'Gruesome Newscum', 'Lone Scum', Soros, 'Benedict' Biden and Harris and even Trump, Vance, and 'Ramaswampy' et al are blatant fully owned and operated puppets of their globalist technocrat parasite masters same as other numerous 'PUBLIC SERPENTS' infesting by design from above, the bureaucratic apparatus.

Can't say this often enough! The Military/Industrial Complex and the Biowarfare/industrial Complex, WEF agenda and the evils assaulting humanity are from one and the same source - it is the 99% against the diabolical GREED of the 0.01% who should not be in charge of anything!

The monsters in human skin suits who rule the world get a sadistic vampiric thrill and boost from perpetrating the vilest most demonic crimes against the most vulnerable (babies and small children) and then corrupting the system to get away with it scot free! We the People must stop them, there are a lot more of us than them!

Please check out this substack! ponerology.substack.com

JAB INJURIES: GROSS CALAMARI BLOOD CLOTS/AUTISM TSUNAMI/SADS/TURBO CANCER/BIZARRE TERMINAL ILLNESSES: More tragic victims of the ruling parasite genocidal enslavement agenda, sacrificed on the altar of psychopathic greed and hatred of humanity.

And BIG pHARMa is an arsenal making permanently sickly addicted slaves dependent on their products - the complete opposite of actual health.

Can't say this often enough!

SCREW THE HYPOCHONDRIA GERMAPHOBIC FEAR HYSTERIA! DO NOT CONSENT! Avian flu is for the birds! RESIST!

KEEP FIGHTING! All the perps who pushed this greatest crime against humanity, all the way down to the local level, must get their comeuppances!

Proudly ANTI-VAXX! Reiterating for the sake of newbies and to support this post.

Ban all vaccine jabs! There has never been a 'safe and effective' vaccine since Edward Jenner's fraud over 200 years ago as per 'Dissolving Illusions' by Suzanne Humphries and 'Turtles All the Way Down' by Anonymous. Health can never come from a needle or pills, but from healthy eating, healthy exercise and healthy living! virustruth.net

Divide and rule! Agents provocateurs anyone, FALSE FLAGS, propaganda social engineering psyops? Keeping us proles at each others' throats while the globalist technocrat predators laugh all the way to the BIS and The Bank of Rothschild's!

BURN BACK BETTER!

PSYCHOPATHS! MEGALOMANIACS!

Bless and thank you for doing what you do.

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