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NIH Director Gives More Details on New Government Medical Journal

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will start a new journal that will help change the culture of science, the agency’s director said in a newly released interview.

“The NIH can stand up and will stand up a journal where these replication results can be published and made searchable in an easy way,” Dr. Jay Bhattacharya said in a four-hour podcast interview with Andrew Huberman, a professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, released on June 9.

Bhattacharya said he envisions people being able to see summaries of similar papers that looked at the same questions.

“A scientific journal put out by the NIH, a high-profile journal will then make publishing replication work a high-profile scientific, high-prestige scientific activity,” he added later.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in May that federal scientists would likely be told to stop publishing in medical journals and, if that happened, the NIH would launch journals that would publish the scientists’ research.

Kennedy said that the existing journals have problems such as not publishing all of the data that underpins studies, while Bhattacharya said the journals will not publish replication research. Both officials have said they want the government to devote resources to replication, with Kennedy estimating that 20 percent of the NIH budget be designated for that purpose.

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Vaccine Advisory Committee Dismissed By HHS Had Close Ties To Big Pharma, Donated To Democrats

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) just dismissed every voting member from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), a group made up entirely of Biden appointees, many of whom have seemingly major conflicts of interest because of ties to large pharmaceutical corporations and histories of donating to Democrats.

ACIP, an arm of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has a history of rubber-stamping everything it comes across, with some members even voting in favor of major changes like recommending that children ages 5 to 11 receive a coronavirus “vaccine” booster shot without any data to support that intervention.

Other members have taken consulting fees and related payments from Big Pharma, donated to far-left Democrats, and appear to look uncritically at any item regarding vaccines.

“Today we are prioritizing the restoration of public trust above any specific pro- or anti-vaccine agenda,” Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a press release. “The public must know that unbiased science — evaluated through a transparent process and insulated from conflicts of interest — guides the recommendations of our health agencies.”

“A clean sweep is necessary to reestablish public confidence in vaccine science,” he continued. “ACIP’s new members will prioritize public health and evidence-based medicine. The Committee will no longer function as a rubber stamp for industry profit-taking agendas. The entire world once looked to American health regulators for guidance, inspiration, scientific impartiality, and unimpeachable integrity. Public trust has eroded. Only through radical transparency and gold standard science, will we earn it back.”

HHS plans to rebuild the advisory committee from scratch.

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LA riots take ominous new turn as mystery donor drops off wartime face shields for protesters

The Los Angeles riots took an ominous turn on Monday night as a mystery donor was seen dropping off tactical war-time face shields for protesters in a sign that the chaos is nowhere near over.

The mystery donor was caught on camera passing our gas masks and riot shields to protesters in the streets as the National Guard was stationed nearby. 

The chaos began on Friday when anti-ICE protesters seized on a handful of police raids across the city, taking to the streets to burn cars and march against what they say are unfair deportations.

Local business owners are outraged as destructive looters continue to target downtown stores as the protests rage on. 

President Donald Trump is deploying another 2,000 National Guard troops, along with 700 Marines, to LA today after Monday marked a fourth day of destructive protests.

California has filed a lawsuit over the use of National Guard troops following the first deployment, telling reporters that Trump had ‘trampled’ the state’s sovereignty. 

Trump claims the city would have been ‘completely obliterated’ if he had not deployed the Guard.

Additional protests against immigration raids have now erupted in several other cities including San Francisco and Santa Ana, California, and Dallas and Austin, Texas.

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Vaxxed Army pilot facing separation from military after denied promotion over COVID vaccine mandate

Avaccinated Army pilot, who was reprimanded after his initial hesitation to receive the COVID-19 shot, is still being denied promotion and could be separated from the military in September.

Chief Warrant Officer 3 Brandon Budge in the 7th Infantry Division’s 16th Combat Aviation Brigade, who has served in the military for over 20 years, may be forced out of the Army for adverse actions in his file that prevented him from receiving promotions. 

The brigade to which he belongs was formed in battle in January 1968 and first activated at Marble Mountain, Danang in the northernmost part of South Vietnam. The unit uses the moniker “Raptors” and consists of approximately 2,500 soldiers, and is the largest Aviation Brigade in the Army.

Wants to continue his service

Budge is now asking the Army Board for Correction of Military Records to remove the adverse actions from his record so that he may receive his promotion and remain in the service.

While Budge never said he wouldn’t get the COVID vaccine, he was initially hesitant to receive it, asking questions about the lawfulness of the mandate, inquiring about religious accommodation requests, and hoping to wait until at least 90 days had passed since he contracted the virus before getting the shot, Budge’s attorney, R. Davis Younts, previously told Just the News in October 2022.

Budge came down with COVID in March 2021 and was supposed to deploy to South Korea that September. However, if he wasn’t vaccinated, he was told, he would have to be quarantined for two weeks. His wife was pregnant at the time with their seventh child, so he wanted to avoid quarantining so he wouldn’t miss the birth of their son. 

The adverse actions affecting his continued service are centered on claims his records were falsified without his knowledge to show that he had received the COVID vaccine before he actually got the shot.

Towards the end of summer 2021, Budge went to a clinic for another matter, but the medic, thinking she was helping him, falsified his record without his knowledge to show that he received the COVID vaccine, Younts said. Budge got the shot soon after and learned that his records showed he had already received it.

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THE GREAT HOAX IN THE SKY: AARO Report Shows Many UFO Conspiracy Theories Were Disseminated by the Pentagon To Disguise Secret Weapons Programs

The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) was created by the United States Department of Defense in 2022 to investigate the countless UFO sightings and conspiracy theories with access to classified Government documents and top personnel.

In 2024, the AARO produced an in-depth report about the phenomenon, showing that many of the most disseminated UFO theories — including the one about aliens being kept at Area 51 in Nevada — were fueled by the Pentagon.

This was done, according to the report, to provide cover for secret weapons programs.

The report was initially reviewed by the Wall Street Journal and is making the rounds throughout the MSM.

An incident reported by the AARO tells how, in the 1980s, an Air Force colonel visited a Nevada bar near the infamous Area 51 and gave the owner fabricated photos of flying saucers near the secret government base.

The New York Post reported:

“The incident renewed local fervor over UFOs, with the now-retired colonel confessing to Pentagon investigators that he was on an official mission to spread disinformation and hide the true purpose of the site, where the government was testing the first-ever stealth warplane, the F-117 Nighthawk.”

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Dozens of lawmakers scrutinized for scoring FREE luxury trip to Italy’s Lake Como estimated to cost thousands

Nestled in the shadow of the Italian Alps lies a pristine vacation destination favored  by the world’s richest – and increasingly visited by U.S. lawmakers and their spouses for free.

The splendid retreat of Lake Como has been featured in blockbusters like James Bond, Star Wars and the Ocean’s 11 franchises. 

It is also now one of the most popular destinations for members of Congress to get a free trip, according to a NOTUS report.

The nonprofit Aspen Institute has sent nearly 50 lawmakers to the Italian retreat since 2023, the outlet found, making it the fifth most-visited foreign country for congressional trips this year. 

The Aspen Institute bills this paid-for luxury trip as an educational experience for lawmakers to work across the aisle on critical issues in a relaxed setting. 

There are perks, too, like lawmaker’s ability to bring a spouse or companion. The trips’ average cost ranges between $10,000 and $15,000 for members bringing a guest, but the lawmakers need not worry as that is covered by the Aspen Institute. 

The nonprofit foots the bill for business-class flights, meals, and lodging at an exclusive villa, according to the program’s invitation.  

Democrats and Republicans will receive lessons about food insecurity, climate change and artificial intelligence at the Bellagio Center – a villa owned by the Rockefeller Foundation.

Congressional spouses and guests are free to visit the historic towns that dot the lake’s coastline to experience the local splendors and try staples like pasta and gelato. 

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California scientists sound alarm on role of pesticides in raising resistance to antifungal drugs

The proliferation of new fungicides in the U.S. agricultural sector may be raising resistance to critical antifungal medications in humans and animals, infectious disease experts are warning. 

Although antifungal pesticides have become vital to combatting the spread of crop disease, the ongoing development of new such fungicides may be leaving people more vulnerable to severe infections, according to new commentary published in the New England Journal of Medicine. 

“Antimicrobial resistant pathogens are a constant reminder for us to use agents judiciously,” lead author George Thompson, a professor of medicine at the University of California, Davis, said in a statement.

“We have learned that the widespread use of antibiotics for livestock resulted in the rapid development of resistance to antibacterials,” Thompson continued. “We have similar concerns regarding the use of antifungals in the environment.”

In the past few decades, fungi that cause severe infections in humans — such as the difficult-to-treat Candida auris — have undergone a rapid increase, the scientists noted.

Yet because there are relatively few antifungals available to eradicate such microbes from the body, Thompson stressed that “preventing resistance is of paramount importance.”

In the U.S. today, the researchers found that there are about 75,000 hospitalizations and 9 million outpatient visits linked to fungal diseases every year, with direct annual costs amount to $6.7 billion to $7.5 billion.

At the same time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that fungi cause between 10 percent to 20 percent of crop loss, at a cost of $100 billion to $200 billion annually, according to the report.

However, scientists have now become increasingly aware that antifungal pesticides and antifungal drugs share some of the same mechanisms. The authors therefore warned that the promulgation of these chemicals “may select for resistant fungi in the environment, which can then endanger human health.”

The development of antifungal medications, meanwhile, is a difficult task due to the metabolic similarities shared by human and fungal cells, as well as the surge in antifungal resistance, the authors explained.

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Bill to Audit U.S. Gold Reserves Introduced in Congress

In a small step toward ensuring transparency and protecting U.S. economic stability, legislation to fully audit U.S. gold reserves was introduced in Congress last week.

H.R. 3795, titled the Gold Reserve Transparency Act of 2025, is sponsored by U.S. Representative Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and co-sponsored by Representatives Warren Davidson (R-Ohio), Addison McDowell (R-N.C.), and Troy Nehls (R-Texas). According to a press release by Massie’s congressional office, the bill would require “the Comptroller General to conduct and publicly release a full audit of gold reserves held by the United States. The Comptroller General’s audit will include gold held in ‘deep storage’ locations such as Fort Knox, Kentucky.”

The press release continues:

The Gold Reserve Transparency Act of 2025 further requires the Comptroller General to conduct subsequent audits of the nation’s gold reserves every five years. In addition, the Comptroller General is instructed to report on the sufficiency of measures currently in place to ensure the physical safety of the gold reserves, to provide a full accounting of encumbrances against the gold reserves, and to document any sales, purchases, disbursements, or receipts over the past 50 years that have affected the gold reserves.

In a post on X, Massie stated:

In February, President Trump said he wanted to go to Fort Knox to “make sure the gold is there.” This bill provides the full disclosure President Trump seeks.

A full audit of U.S. gold reserves — as well as of the Federal Reserve — is long overdue. In a 2015 article titled “Has the Federal Reserve Sold the Gold at Fort Knox?” The New American reported on indications that the U.S. mint could not account for U.S. gold reserves and that the Federal Reserve secretly misused them, amid calls at the time to conduct an audit. The article reported:

There are many who claim that the Federal Reserve doesn’t want a proper audit because the gold is not there, at least not all of it. Some groups believe that as part of its effort to manipulate the economy, the Federal Reserve has sold the gold.

Not until 10 years later did this issue gain widespread attention, after Elon Musk and U.S. Senators Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) highlighted the lack of transparency at Fort Knox.

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UK: Mainstream Beliefs Meet the Terror Watchlist

By now, if you believe Britain has taken leave of its senses, you’re not alone. The government has decided that worrying about immigration or caring about British culture might make you a terrorist.

This gem of bureaucratic genius comes courtesy of the “Prevent” program, that once well-meaning initiative designed to stop actual terrorism, like bomb plots and people with a fondness for Kalashnikovs, now apparently more concerned with sniffing out your aunt’s Facebook posts about British bulldogs and Yorkshire pudding.

Prevent, for those lucky enough not to be familiar, is the UK’s flagship anti-extremism strategy. It was born in the post-9/11 panic and was originally tasked with steering vulnerable individuals away from radicalization.

What started as a good-faith attempt to stop kids from being lured into jihadist cults has since mutated into something far less noble: a state-sponsored snooping operation that now treats the phrase “too much immigration” like it’s a secret handshake for neo-Nazis.

The smoking gun is a government-hosted training module advising public sector workers, nurses, teachers, librarians, and probably the guy who does your recycling collection, that “cultural nationalism” should be seen as a potential marker for extreme right-wing terrorism.

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Politicians and Bankers Are Crooks

One of the great things about the Internet Age is the opportunity to discover the words and ideas of people who don’t have publishing contracts or university tenures.  Usually written anonymously or under online handles, there is genius lurking everywhere (even in the comment sections of these articles).

One such jewel caught my eye recently: “Imagine a government operated so poorly they had to import an entire nation of new voters because they lost the citizen vote.”  Another argued, “If your country has enough money to give to other countries, your taxes are too high.”  If our celebrity intellectuals were as pithy as some of the unknown writers who drop pearls across the Internet, critical thinking skills would return to America in no time.

Both those observations above masterfully capture our predicament, don’t they?  Now that the USAID scandal has pierced the public’s consciousness, people from all walks of life are admitting that the U.S. government is little more than a money laundering operation for political and financial elites.  Congress creates spending bills that award trillions of dollars to bureaucratic agencies, “non-governmental” organizations, and foreign governments.  Agency employees take their cut, promise fidelity to the federal Leviathan, and allocate the rest to well-connected private businesses and third parties.  The NGOs take their cut, bribe voters and special interest groups, and advocate on behalf of the government and wealthy political donors.  Foreign governments take their cut, hand over their countries’ natural resources to multinational conglomerates, and start or manage wars that benefit the military-industrial complex.  

Spending bills include funds for NPR, PBS, and countless other state-funded propaganda organs — both inside and outside of the U.S. — so that an army of liars exists to parrot the federal government’s preferred “narratives.”  These “narratives” are monetized to enrich corporate firms and further empower central banks.  Endless stories about “climate change” justify new carbon taxes, central bank digital currencies, and the nationalization of entire industries.  Endless stories about why Americans should fight and die for a corrupt Ukrainian dictatorship justify new defense spending.  Endless stories about emerging pandemics justify lockdowns, censorship, and billions more for Big Pharma’s gene-altering “vaccines.”  At every step of the way, the Federal Reserve is ready to leverage its power over the U.S. government by conjuring new money with its magic wand that can be used to pay for all these boondoggles, unwinnable wars, and expensive misadventures.

In turn, the companies, banks, and financial elites who most benefit from the U.S. government’s money tree never forget to tip the politicians who allow the great American money laundering operation to continue.  Whereas the rest of us go to prison for profiting from insider trading, politicians (and their families and friends) get obscenely wealthy.  They invest in defense stocks before starting wars, invest in pharmaceutical stocks before releasing Wuhan bioweapons into the world, and invest in “green energy” companies before passing laws that subsidize solar panels, wind farms, and electric vehicles.  Politicians start family foundations that attract a remarkable array of “charitable” donors from the very industries that those politicians regulate, as well as from a slew of prominent foreign officials currying favor with the United States.  When those politicians run for re-election, they find that the same multinational corporations that benefit from the federal government’s regulatory and spending priorities are first in line to write new campaign checks.  

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