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They send energy &#8212; and that energy can be redirected.]]></description><link>https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/military-tech-just-solved-a-problem</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/military-tech-just-solved-a-problem</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[The Vigilant Fox]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:00:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207829359/be3c990075c1ebb751ff22709aebe70b.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://signalrelief.com/pulse" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I6al!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd0b92e8c-8f74-4f45-bf00-5f3386d31eb4_1280x720.jpeg 424w, 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No downtime.</strong> Just real comfort so you can get back to living. If discomfort has been holding you back, it&#8217;s time to try something different.</p><p>Stick around &#8212; we&#8217;ll tell you how to get your own Signal Relief patch and feel the difference risk-free.</p><p>Joining us now is the owner of Signal Relief, Mike Hammond.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;65963c45-a617-4072-82e2-53b7fbc5fa34&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>A five-foot antenna and an 80-pound backpack. That&#8217;s what one man on every deployed Navy SEAL team had to haul out of a plane in 2012, and if that antenna broke on the jump, the team couldn&#8217;t communicate back.</p><p>Mike Hammond wasn&#8217;t trying to build a wellness product. He was a serial entrepreneur fresh off a company exit when a friend from business school asked him to invest in a military antenna project out of Utah. The mission: shrink that five-foot rig into something a soldier could actually carry.</p><p>They did it. In Mike&#8217;s words, &#8220;they basically shrunk that five foot antenna down to the size of a credit card by shifting it to work on electrical microcurrents instead of magnetic fields.&#8221;</p><p>Then came the part that matters for you: your body runs on those same microcurrents. It&#8217;s the current keeping your heart beating while you read this. And when something hurts, your nerves fire that same energy up to your brain.</p><p>The patch is, quite literally, an antenna for it. Mike explains: &#8220;when your nerves create that energy that goes up to your neural pathway to the brain, when it hits our patch, <strong>it&#8217;s easier for that energy to go into the patch instead of up to the brain</strong>.&#8221;</p><p>You can feel it happening. Put it on and the patch gets warm. &#8220;Well, that&#8217;s your energy going into the patch. That&#8217;s why it warms up.&#8221;</p><p>No drugs enter your body. Nothing shocks your nerves like a TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation) unit. And after five clinical trials, Mike says the results keep repeating: &#8220;it&#8217;s going to work on <strong>85% of people</strong>, most are going to have results <strong>within 15 minutes</strong> and the average decrease is going to be <strong>over 60%</strong>.&#8221;</p><p>He adds: &#8220;It&#8217;s actually floored our doctors how similar every single trial&#8217;s been, even with different types of elements.&#8221;</p><p>And the track record at scale, according to Mike: &#8220;we&#8217;ve sold <strong>over 800,000</strong> of these in the last few years and <strong>we haven&#8217;t had anyone call us with side effects</strong> because we&#8217;re not putting anything into the body.&#8221;</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;0b46feb3-1d73-477b-96a0-1186de87bc71&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad</strong>: Tired of chronic discomfort slowing you down? Back, knees, shoulders, that time of the month. You don&#8217;t have to keep reaching for pills or messy creams.</p><p><strong><a href="https://signalrelief.com/pulse">Signal Relief</a></strong> is a reusable, drug-free patch with patented micro-antenna technology. When your body fires those frantic signals to your brain, the patch quietly intercepts them, so you feel relief, often in just minutes.</p><p>Clinically tested, lasts up to a full year, and backed by a <strong>45-day money-back guarantee</strong>.</p><p><strong>You&#8217;ve got nothing to lose but the ache.</strong></p><p>&#128073; <strong><a href="https://signalrelief.com/pulse">SignalRelief.com/pulse</a></strong>. 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Thank you for supporting our sponsors.</span></em></p><div><hr></div><p>More than 80 women with endometriosis tested the patch through the Endometriosis Society, a national group thousands of women belong to that&#8217;s run by physicians. The doctors came back with a number they had never seen before: <strong>a 40% decrease</strong> in what these women live with month after month, working for 85% of them.</p><p>If you plan your calendar around the worst days of the month, or love someone who does, you already know why that number matters.</p><p>Mike admits his first reaction was disappointment. He&#8217;s not a doctor, and 40% sounded low next to the over 60% his other trials kept producing. One of the physicians who runs the group set him straight: &#8220;You don&#8217;t understand. <strong>We have never seen anything give that much relief</strong> for these women who are dealing with this problem.&#8221;</p><p>That trial grew out of Jovi, the brand Mike built with his sister and her best friend Susie after testing the tech during her monthly cycle. Same technology, designed for women.</p><p>Mike is careful about what he claims. The patch isn&#8217;t a medical device and he isn&#8217;t telling anyone to stop what their doctor prescribes. His position is narrower and, frankly, harder to argue with: &#8220;for chronic discomfort, <strong>this is just a game changer</strong>.&#8221;</p><p>The bigger point both he and Maria land on is about what we keep putting into our bodies. Count the bottles on your kitchen counter right now. Chronic disease is climbing, and every pill is one more input. A drug-free, non-invasive option flips the order of operations: try the thing with nothing in it first. As Maria puts it, &#8220;Everyone should have one in their medical cabinet.&#8221; For families stocking up and preparing for uncertain times, it belongs in the war chest next to everything else.</p><p>It&#8217;s easy to make claims, though. So Mike brought pictures.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;9f3f90ee-2784-47f3-ae1a-3eb6ed9895e6&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>Forty minutes.</strong> That&#8217;s how long it took, in thermography images Mike showed on screen, for the heat signature of a back injury to visibly drain away after a patch went on.</p><p>The scans came from the company&#8217;s studies after a Canadian doctor suggested thermography, which shows where an injury sits and how hot it runs. Picture the spot you knead at the end of a long day, made visible on camera. In the first image, the injured back glows white, the hottest reading on the scale. Second image, 40 minutes after applying the patch: &#8220;<strong>All that inflammation left their back.</strong>&#8221; Third image, three days later, the area keeps cooling.</p><p>A second set of scans showed a neck injury. The patch went on the neck, and the back cleared up too.</p><p>Mike&#8217;s takeaway is that when the energy driving discomfort leaves the body, the inflammation goes with it. He isn&#8217;t just selling that claim, he&#8217;s living on it: &#8220;I wear this every day because it literally is like <strong>I&#8217;m 20 years younger now</strong>.&#8221;</p><p>And because each patch is reusable and lasts about a year at roughly $150 before discounts, Maria runs the math on air: spread it out and you&#8217;re at around <strong>30 to 40 cents a day</strong>. Less than the loose change in your cupholder.</p><p>But the thermal scans aren&#8217;t why Mike keeps doing this. An email on his desk is.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;d84c5281-1bcc-4a87-b4a0-723a54bc0f3f&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>A little girl went <strong>seven years without a single minute of relief</strong>. Her mother wrote to Mike about it a couple of years ago. &#8220;It&#8217;s one of the ones I&#8217;ve just kept on my desk,&#8221; he says.</p><p>Her daughter was eight, a competitive dancer and tumbler, when her feet and lower legs started hurting. Then it got worse. She quit dance. A podiatrist sent her to an orthopedic surgeon, who sent her to a vascular specialist, who sent her to a rheumatologist. In the mother&#8217;s words: &#8220;After five years of doctors, MRIs, physical therapy, wearing special boots, compression socks, months of physical therapy, <strong>it was determined there was nothing that could help her</strong>.&#8221;</p><p>She turned down birthday parties. Her friends once left her in the middle of the mall because she couldn&#8217;t walk any farther.</p><p>Then her mom saw a neighbor on Facebook talking about cramps, clicked a link to the Jovi patch, and ordered a set for something it was never marketed for. She put one on her daughter&#8217;s leg, and within seconds the girl was sobbing. Not from hurt. &#8220;<strong>Mom, it&#8217;s gone. It&#8217;s completely gone.</strong>&#8221;</p><p>The mother wrote: &#8220;This sweet girl has <strong>not had even one minute of relief in seven years, and it&#8217;s gone in an instant</strong>.&#8221; The girl jumped around the kitchen. She now wears a patch on both legs every day. The email closes: &#8220;<strong>you forever changed my daughter&#8217;s life</strong>.&#8221;</p><p>Mike, a father of six, reads it and is quick with the disclaimer: &#8220;We are not treating disease, and we&#8217;re not saying we&#8217;re the answer for any of these problems.&#8221; This is a wellness product for discomfort. But stories like that one are why he calls this the most rewarding company he&#8217;s ever run. &#8220;There&#8217;s enough suffering in this world,&#8221; he says. </p><p>He knows exactly how it sounds, too. &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of snake oil. <strong>That&#8217;s why we give you 45 days.</strong>&#8221; Try it, and if it doesn&#8217;t work, you can send it back.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;916f693d-9734-49d3-98a0-3f736a9da881&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong><span>#ad</span></strong><span>: </span>The first move against discomfort doesn&#8217;t have to be a pill.</p><p><a href="https://signalrelief.com/pulse">Signal Relief</a> is the reusable, Made-in-the-USA patch with patented micro-antenna technology that works with your body&#8217;s own electrical signals, quieting the noise before it reaches your brain. In clinical testing, it worked for <strong>85% of people</strong>, most felt a difference <strong>within 15 minutes</strong>, and one patch lasts <strong>up to a full year</strong>.</p><p>Back, knees, shoulders, that time of the month. <strong>No drugs. No wires. 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The good news: the solution is easier than you think.]]></description><link>https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/technocracy-bootcamp-how-you-can</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/technocracy-bootcamp-how-you-can</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[The Vigilant Fox]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:38:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207445749/8c4f5cb82f4c1f667faa87435e54625f.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://privacyacademy.com/pulse" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1SJY!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd0b1e8c8-d927-40b5-a351-196b5b1296bd_1280x720.jpeg 424w, 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It&#8217;s about technocracy rising: <strong>centralized digital IDs linked to your finances, health records, travel, speech, and purchases</strong>. One login to rule them all. One system that can be turned off with the flick of a switch. Privacy is being erased by design. <strong>Your data is the new oil, and you are the product</strong>. The question isn&#8217;t whether this ecosystem is coming. It&#8217;s already here in pieces. <br><br>The real question is: will you remain defenseless &#8212; or will you arm yourself with knowledge, tools, and parallel systems before the net closes? Because once your life is fully digital and fully permissioned&#8230; freedom becomes a revocable privilege. The age of technocratic control is accelerating. And awareness is the first line of defense.</p><p>That&#8217;s why our friends at <strong><a href="https://privacyacademy.com/pulse">Privacy Academy </a></strong>are hosting an intensive <strong><a href="https://privacyacademy.com/pulse">privacy bootcamp</a></strong>, and Daily Pulse viewers get it at half price. The solution is easier than you think.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;e91f1d24-ffde-483e-adce-f18f5635123e&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>The real political divide isn&#8217;t left versus right. </p><p>Fresh off a presentation at G. 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Manpower. Glenn calls it the bottleneck of every communist system in history: <strong>enforcement requires bodies</strong>. &#8220;Do they only want to arrest 30 people a day? No, they don&#8217;t. They want to arrest everybody that they possibly can, but they have manpower issues.&#8221;</p><p>AI solves that problem. Connect artificial intelligence to a digital ID and a central bank digital currency, and enforcement no longer needs a single officer. It just needs a database query.</p><p>&#8220;You give someone a thumbs up. Instantaneous, $200 fine. You do it again, $300 fine.&#8221;</p><p>No arrest. No courtroom. No recourse. The penalty lands the moment you tap the screen. <strong>&#8220;They&#8217;re gonna train us like a dog,&#8221;</strong> Glenn says. The goal isn&#8217;t punishment. It&#8217;s the pause before you post.</p><p>That pause already exists. Independent media figures openly tell audiences <strong>&#8220;I can&#8217;t talk about this on YouTube,&#8221;</strong> steering followers elsewhere to hear the forbidden version. Speech has already been sorted into permissible spaces and priced accordingly. &#8220;You&#8217;re already being trained.&#8221;</p><p>Online child safety laws are the delivery mechanism. <strong>&#8220;The online child safety laws is nothing more than an online digital ID that tracks you everywhere,&#8221;</strong> Glenn says, and stopping them is his main mission right now.</p><p>It&#8217;s already reaching the phone in your pocket. Glenn points to Apple in England, where users who don&#8217;t verify themselves with biometrics on their iPhone or iPad get locked out of the internet. No government mandate forced it. Apple did that on its own.</p><p><strong>&#8220;They&#8217;re rewiring the Internet so the device will verify us biometrically and then it will rubber stamp us on every website that we go to.&#8221;</strong></p><p>Think about what dies in that world. &#8220;There&#8217;s no such thing as whistleblowers anymore. There&#8217;s no sources for journalism.&#8221; <strong>No private conversation, anywhere, ever.</strong></p><p>Surely the courts would stop something like that, right?</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;996aeac7-286e-49dd-b765-40475c353c5f&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Age verification is already the law in Texas, and this month the Supreme Court let it stay that way.</p><p>SB 2420, signed by Governor Abbott, was set to take effect on January 1. A federal judge blocked it days beforehand, ruling it likely violated the First Amendment, though Maria points out the wording wasn&#8217;t as strong as it should have been. Texas appealed.</p><p>The state&#8217;s argument is the part that should stop you cold: <strong>online speech isn&#8217;t really free speech at all. It&#8217;s commercial speech, and commercial speech can be restricted.</strong></p><p>In June, the Fifth Circuit lifted the block and the law started running. The challengers went to the Supreme Court and asked the justices to freeze it. On July 6, the court refused, in a brief unsigned order with no dissents noted.</p><p>Glenn&#8217;s read: &#8220;They don&#8217;t want to see that case.&#8221;</p><p>So in Texas, the app store now checks your age before you download anything. Every user. The weather app included.</p><p>Read the fine print and it gets even worse. The justices didn&#8217;t rule the law constitutional. They just declined to pause it while the fight continues, which means the verification machinery runs on your phone for months regardless of how the case ends. The next round hits the Fifth Circuit in early August.</p><p>These laws keep passing because of the name on the box. Pick a group nobody can argue against, hand that group supremacy over the individual, and the fight is over before it starts. &#8220;What kind of heartless monster doesn&#8217;t want to protect the kids online?&#8221; Glenn says. &#8220;Well, we do want to protect kids online, but that&#8217;s not what this bill does.&#8221;</p><p>It isn&#8217;t uniform, though. A Louisiana judge struck down age verification outright, Maria notes, calling it a First Amendment violation in far stronger terms. The precedent isn&#8217;t sealed.</p><p>Nobody is coming to seal it in your favor either. <strong>&#8220;Your political guy is not going to save you. Your political party is not going to save you. It comes down to we the people,&#8221;</strong> Glenn says.</p><p>So he offers a fix, borrowed from Griffin, and it&#8217;s deliberately unglamorous: red pill campuses in every county, built to <strong>find principled people and get them to run for local office.</strong></p><p>Local is the whole point. The Constitution hands power to the states and to the people themselves, and that&#8217;s the level where age checks, child safety bills, and ID mandates actually get written.</p><p>Right now those seats go uncontested. Power seekers run for office because they want to regulate other people. Good people don&#8217;t run, because they just want to be left alone.</p><p>That sounds like a job for an organized movement with a leader at the front. It isn&#8217;t.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;d18d9d99-9ae7-422b-9f5c-b944f5141875&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>There wouldn&#8217;t be a headquarters to raid, because &#8220;we don&#8217;t have to have a central leader or anything like that,&#8221; Glenn says. </p><p>The counter to all of this is two principles that need no upkeep: <strong>rights are inherent, and the government has no authority to take them away. You are innocent until proven guilty.</strong></p><p>Digital ID inverts both. Prove who you are, prove your age, prove your intent, and then you may proceed. That&#8217;s guilt as the default setting.</p><p>Which is why Glenn thinks the whole project is more fragile than it looks. What they&#8217;re building has to be sophisticated, he argues, &#8220;because it&#8217;s a whole ball of lies.&#8221; A story that big needs maintaining forever. A principle needs nothing. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s how we win.&#8221;</p><p>The lie shows in the people selling it. <strong>Even Klaus Schwab found out he was being spied on</strong>, Maria notes. This is the same man who told the public that &#8220;if you have nothing to hide, you won&#8217;t have a problem with the tech knowing everything about you.&#8221; Put his own privacy on the line, and he turns individualist overnight.</p><p>The people building the glass house have no intention of living in it.</p><p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t even think of a movie that is really as dystopian as what the world that they want to create,&#8221; Glenn says, and his summary runs seven words: <strong>&#8220;There will be no liberty left for the individual.&#8221;</strong> Ownership itself is being quietly rewired in law, he warns, pointing to The Great Taking.</p><p>Here&#8217;s what that looks like on an ordinary Tuesday. Every page you visit, every video you linger on, every comment you read, timed by your scroll, feeds a profile. Maria calls it &#8220;a digital twin of you that is then going to be used against you.&#8221; The twin carries a score, and the score decides whether you get the job, the apartment, the mortgage.</p><p>Spend too long on the wrong video? Money deducted, instantly. Maybe your landlord gets a notification that you&#8217;ve been viewing unapproved content.</p><p>Maria isn&#8217;t guessing at how that feels. She was debanked for saying things the government didn&#8217;t like, and she describes the weight of it as living with a debt that never clears: knowing there&#8217;s something you need to do, and knowing you can&#8217;t, because it&#8217;s always hanging over you.</p><p>It doesn&#8217;t stop at your own front door either. Under communism, a relative of hers had her children baptized in secret, in the middle of the night, by two grandmothers, because she couldn&#8217;t risk telling her own family. That&#8217;s the real product of a scored society. Not fear of the state. Fear of each other.</p><p>And the chilling part is that <strong>none of this needs new technology</strong>. The mechanisms already exist. The only missing piece is your consent, which happens to be the one piece you still control. And that&#8217;s where <a href="https://privacyacademy.com/pulse">Privacy Academy</a> comes in.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;35927bf7-6997-44bd-b483-5d8cdcde234c&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: The surveillance grid isn&#8217;t coming. It&#8217;s already here&#8212;and people are finally fighting back.</strong></p><p>The system tracks every page you visit. Every video you linger on. Every comment you stop to read. Every dollar you spend, connected back to your name.</p><p>And here&#8217;s the detail that tells you everything: Even Klaus Schwab was being spied on.</p><p>The people building the glass house refuse to live in it. But this beast has a weakness.</p><p>It requires your data. Every account you secure, every leak you close, and every system you exit makes the surveillance grid weaker&#8212;and makes you harder to track, profile, and score.</p><p>That&#8217;s what the <a href="https://privacyacademy.com/pulse">Privacy Academy Bootcamp</a> is designed to help you do.</p><p>Over three intensive live sessions, spread across three weeks, Glenn and his team walk you step by step through securing your email, passwords, credit cards, and other critical parts of your digital life.</p><p>No technical background is required. You won&#8217;t be left alone with a self-paced course or a list of confusing instructions. You can ask questions in real time and make the changes while experts guide you through them.</p><p><strong>Daily Pulse viewers receive 50% off the entire bootcamp.</strong></p><p>A replay option is also available, giving you permanent access to the sessions so you can revisit every step whenever needed.</p><p><strong>&#128073; Register here: <a href="https://privacyacademy.com/pulse">PrivacyAcademy.com/Pulse</a></strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;e56de646-aed5-4687-8208-0e933016e92f&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://privacyacademy.com/pulse&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Claim Your Spot at 50% Off!&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://privacyacademy.com/pulse"><span>Claim Your Spot at 50% Off!</span></a></p><div><hr></div><p>We want to thank <a href="https://privacyacademy.com/pulse">Glenn Meder</a> for joining us today&#8212;and more importantly, we want to thank you for watching and doing your duty to be informed when so many others choose not to.</p><p>Follow us <span>(</span><a href="https://x.com/zeeemedia">@ZeeeMedia</a><span> and </span><a href="https://x.com/VigilantFox">@VigilantFox</a><span>)</span> for stories that matter&#8212;stories the media doesn&#8217;t want you to see.</p><p>We&#8217;ll be back with another show on Monday. 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He believes the U.S. military spent the decade before COVID building each piece in advance: predict the sequence, manufacture the countermeasure, compress the timeline, and construct the animal-origin story.</p><p>His theory raises a brutal question: What happens when that same machinery is connected to AI, digital ID, and the bank account your family depends on?</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;5db6854f-5f37-4dfd-9d57-4bc436b0095e&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>The COVID origin debate is usually presented as a choice between two explanations: the virus jumped naturally from an animal, or it escaped from a biolab. Jon Fleetwood argues both stories begin with the same assumption&#8212;that the underlying physical virus had already been conclusively established.</p><p><strong>&#8220;Is there a third option?&#8221;</strong></p><p>His theory begins with the genetic sequence released in early 2020. Fleetwood said he found that &#8220;no US agency, including the military, verified the SARS COV2 sequence before China handed it to the world.&#8221;</p><p>Yet that sequence became the foundation for almost everything that followed.</p><p>PCR tests searched for pieces of it.</p><p>Variants were calculated from it.</p><p>Vaccines were designed around it.</p><p>Then government officials seized on the soaring &#8220;COVID-19 case&#8221; numbers to destroy businesses, isolate families, strip people of their livelihoods, and make access to a paycheck conditional on accepting a medical procedure.</p><p>The sequence did not remain on a computer screen. It determined what millions of people were told to put into their bodies&#8212;and what would happen to them if they refused.</p><p>Fleetwood isn&#8217;t claiming that viruses do not exist. His question is narrower: <strong>&#8220;What if all they had was a genetic sequence?&#8221;</strong></p><p>Under his theory, that sequence becomes the master key to the entire pandemic machine. Once it is accepted, laboratories know what to target, testing companies know what to detect, drugmakers know what to manufacture, and public-health agencies know which numbers to present as proof of an emergency.</p><p>The sequence produces the test. The test produces the case count. The case count creates the emergency&#8212;and the emergency unlocks powers that would otherwise be unthinkable.</p><p><strong>&#8220;The government response was the problem.&#8221;</strong></p><p>To the public, that response appeared almost overnight in 2020. Fleetwood says the machinery that made it possible had been assembled piece by piece since at least 2010.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;88ba6f09-0e40-4957-8430-2d0ef0c4bea9&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: Health insurance in America is broken</strong><span>.</span></p><p>Over 200,000 Americans go bankrupt because of medical bills every year&#8212;and many of them already had insurance. On average, 20% of claims are denied, leaving families stuck paying massive out-of-pocket costs after spending thousands on premiums.</p><p>But there&#8217;s an alternative.</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse">CrowdHealth</a><span> is a community-powered model that has helped members fund over 40,000 medical bills at a fraction of the cost of traditional insurance.</span></strong></p><p><strong>So far, 30,000+ members have been helped, saving an estimated $73 million in medical costs.</strong></p><p>CrowdHealth isn&#8217;t insurance. 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Thank you for supporting our sponsors.</span></em></p><div><hr></div><p>A decade before COVID, DARPA launched a program called PROPHECY designed to predict viral threats before they appeared.</p><p><strong>&#8220;Let&#8217;s make a genetic sequence for a virus that doesn&#8217;t exist yet.&#8221;</strong></p><p>PROPHECY&#8217;s stated purpose was to predict how viruses might evolve and develop treatments &#8220;in advance of need.&#8221; Under the conventional explanation, it was an effort to prepare for an outbreak before it reached the public.</p><p>Fleetwood sees something more foundational: a system capable of mapping the genetic sequence of a future threat before that threat has emerged.</p><p><strong>PROPHECY predicts the sequence.</strong></p><p><strong>ADEPT turns it into a product.</strong></p><p>Beginning in 2011, ADEPT invested in gene-encoded medical countermeasures from a digital sequence alone, including DNA and RNA technologies. Moderna was among the companies contracted through the program.</p><p>At that point, the equence is no longer simply information used to identify a potential threat. It can become the blueprint for a pharmaceutical product intended for millions of people.</p><p>P3 then dramatically accelerated the process.</p><p>Fleetwood described its purpose directly: <strong>&#8220;P3 was all about shortening the time frame between when you have a genetic sequence for a virus and creating the mRNA countermeasure for it, shortening it to 60 days.&#8221;</strong></p><p>The traditional process moved step by step: identify the pathogen, study it, test a treatment, establish manufacturing capacity, and then begin production. P3 compressed those stages so development and manufacturing could begin almost simultaneously.</p><p>A digital sequence could arrive, a medical product could be designed from it, and production could begin before the public understood exactly what had been identified&#8212;or whether it had been independently verified. Fleetwood notes that P3 was designed for situations where only electronic viral sequence information may be available.</p><p>Under his theory, the sequence alone could be enough to set the response in motion.</p><p>But before the public would accept the tests, the emergency, and the resulting vaccine, the system still needed one final element: a convincing story explaining where the threat came from.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;f9d24869-ba3e-4b6c-98e9-9fe2f26ab4ff&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>PREEMPT supplied the animal-origin layer.</p><p>Launched in 2018, the DARPA program searches animal reservoirs, sequences potential threats, and uses machine learning to predict which viruses could cross into humans. Its official purpose is to stop a spillover before it begins.</p><p>Fleetwood sees another capability within the same system: <strong>&#8220;How do we construct the animal origin layer?&#8221;</strong></p><p>A genetic sequence on its own is only data. Link it to bat samples, mutation models, animal surveillance, and an evolutionary tree, and it can be presented to the public as a new virus emerging naturally from the wild.</p><p>The DEFUSE proposal makes Fleetwood&#8217;s theory even more concrete. Submitted by EcoHealth Alliance under PREEMPT in 2018, it proposed bat sampling, spike sequencing, receptor-binding experiments, chimeric coronavirus construction, humanized-mouse testing, and machine-learning research involving SARS-related coronaviruses.</p><p>The proposal described three features later associated with SARS-CoV-2 before the pandemic began. </p><p>Operation Warp Speed then completed the system by supplying mass production and deployment. The federal government poured money into pharmaceutical development and manufacturing while stages that once happened one after another were allowed to run at the same time.</p><p><strong>PROPHECY predicts the sequence, ADEPT converts it into a product, P3 compresses the timeline, PREEMPT builds the origin story around it, and Warp Speed delivers the product to millions of people.</strong></p><p>&#8220;All they had was a sequence.&#8221;</p><p>That is the theory in its simplest form.</p><p>The sequence determines the PCR target. The test generates the case count. The case count creates the emergency. And the emergency clears the way for powers and products the public would never accept under ordinary conditions.</p><p>Once that machinery exists, it does not need to be built again. The next threat can have a different name, different symptoms, and a different animal host.</p><p>It only needs a new sequence&#8212;and institutions powerful enough to turn it into reality.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;0129672a-3924-4aee-be04-7c9ed2889c8f&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong><span>#ad: Want protection from surveillance, hacking, and even electromagnetic threats?</span></strong></p><p><a href="https://escapezone.com/pulse/">Escape Zone</a><span>&#8217;s elite Faraday bags block GPS, Bluetooth, RFID skimming, and EMF&#8212;perfect for phones, laptops, wallets, and more.</span></p><p>Their premium ballistic backpack even combines Faraday shielding with Kevlar armor, giving you the upper hand in an unpredictable world.</p><p>Want to shield your body, too? 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If you make a purchase through them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps keep our work independent. Thank you for your support.</span></em></p><div><hr></div><p>The next pandemic may already be visible in government budgets, vaccine-development programs, and the rapid expansion of AI-powered biofoundries.</p><p>Biological data can now be processed by computer systems, used to predict a future threat, and converted into a countermeasure before an outbreak is even declared. Maria warned that once this machinery is connected to digital identity, refusing that countermeasure could carry consequences far beyond health care.</p><p><strong>&#8220;Once a digital ID is in place and you don&#8217;t comply with your preemptive vaccine to prevent the next pandemic that was created in silico, your bank account gets shut off.&#8221;</strong></p><p><strong>&#8220;You can&#8217;t pay your rent or your mortgage or your electricity, you can&#8217;t buy food for your children.&#8221;</strong></p><p>The question is whether the institutions building this system would ever willingly stop expanding it.</p><p>&#8220;I think there&#8217;s too much money in it,&#8221; Fleetwood said.</p><p>Every new threat creates new budgets, research grants, pharmaceutical contracts, and surveillance programs. Government agencies grow. Universities and laboratories receive more funding. Drugmakers are paid to develop the next countermeasure. And the machinery continues expanding with little serious public scrutiny.</p><p>Fleetwood believes the clearest clue about the next target is where that money is already flowing.</p><p>Again and again, it points to influenza.</p><p>He cited billions of dollars committed to influenza and bird flu preparedness, continued gain-of-function and reverse-genetics research, repeated warnings from prominent health officials, and government-backed efforts to produce a universal influenza vaccine.</p><p>The pattern also survives changes in political power. Related programs continued under both the Biden and Trump administrations, which Fleetwood sees as evidence that the agenda is institutional&#8212;not partisan.</p><p><strong>&#8220;This spans multiple administrations. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m so confident.&#8221;</strong></p><p>Federal gain-of-function restrictions also focused heavily on two categories: coronaviruses and influenza. The world has already lived through the coronavirus event.</p><p><strong>&#8220;That just leaves the influenza one next.&#8221;</strong></p><p>Fleetwood does not claim to know the exact date. But when asked when another pandemic might arrive, he offered a rough window.</p><p><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;d say maybe somewhere around 2030.&#8221;</strong></p><p>That prediction is not based on one warning, one grant, or one vaccine program. It is based on years of research, legislation, government spending, and pharmaceutical development all moving in the same direction.</p><p><strong>Follow the science being funded. Follow the products being built. Follow the money.</strong></p><p>They all lead back to influenza.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;9ce4df0a-e8f8-42b2-91a7-7fe5071377ab&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: </strong><span>Unless you have explicitly told your financial advisor to pull your money out of tech, you are fully invested in the AI bubble right now.</span></p><p>Nobody asked for your permission. Nobody had to.</p><p>Your 401(k) is on autopilot, and autopilot means the biggest names on Wall Street get to use your retirement to fund their AI bets. Larry Fink&#8217;s BlackRock alone manages $12 trillion of money just like yours.</p><p>If it pays off, they take the fees. 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Built and led by a healthcare professional turned citizen journalist.</div></a><form class="embedded-publication-subscribe" method="GET" action="https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?"><input type="hidden" name="source" value="publication-embed"><input type="hidden" name="autoSubmit" value="true"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email..."><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Streetlight is Watching: What NEMA Nodes Mean for Everyday Americans | Daily Pulse ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Your local streetlight may know more about you than your own phone.]]></description><link>https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/the-streetlight-is-watching-what</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/the-streetlight-is-watching-what</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[The Vigilant Fox]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:45:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/206923192/f32c420c6bce7507a363c133a193d482.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You've heard of Flock cameras, but have you heard of NEMA nodes? Those unassuming little plugs on virtually every streetlight in America, silently turning your city's lighting grid into an always-on, AI-powered surveillance mesh that <strong>knows exactly where you sleep, drive, and walk... every single night.</strong><br><br>What started as 'smart energy saving' has morphed into the backbone of a nationwide tracking system &#8212; powering cameras, sensors, and data fusion that governments and tech giants can tap into with a few clicks. No warrants needed when the infrastructure is already watching.<br><br>Tonight, we pull back the socket on NEMA nodes: how they fit into the bigger surveillance grid, and why <strong>your local streetlight might know more about you than your own phone.</strong></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;32a111e0-0a68-477c-85f1-5e160ab3041a&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Flock cameras became a household name for a reason. The license plate reader network has been tied to documented cases of police officers misusing it to stalk women, and researchers have demonstrated how easily the systems can be hacked and abused, with reports suggesting predators have exploited that weakness.</p><p>But while public attention stayed on the cameras, a quieter buildout was happening overhead. Modern LED streetlights across America are being fitted with NEMA control nodes, small modules mounted on top of the fixture. In their simplest form, these are just photocells that turn the light on at dusk and off at dawn. But the newer generation are smart lighting controllers that let a municipality or utility monitor the light, dim it remotely, detect failures, and manage energy use.</p><p>The concern being raised is what else they can carry. <strong>Modern nodes can include wireless communication</strong>, and while the node itself generally does not contain a camera, many are being installed with the ability to add camera capabilities later. The infrastructure goes in first. The sensors come after.</p><p>The scale is already significant. <strong>In Washington D.C. alone, roughly 75,000 streetlights have reportedly been upgraded with advanced Internet of Things capable nodes.</strong> Much of this buildout accelerated during the COVID lockdowns, when infrastructure went up across cities while residents were told to stay home, and most of it went unnoticed.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;4d24eec4-fe07-420a-8c9b-4c651bbcc038&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: Want to upgrade your health?</strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://rncstore.com/pulse">Richardson Nutritional Center</a></strong><span> has offered trusted, top-quality natural supplements for decades&#8212;supporting healing and wellness with everything from vitamins to therapeutic seeds.</span></p><p><span>Shop now at </span><strong><a href="https://rncstore.com/pulse">RNCstore.com</a></strong><span> and use code </span><strong>PULSE</strong><span> for 10% off sitewide!</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://rncstore.com/pulse" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png" width="1200" height="250" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:250,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:596465,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https://rncstore.com/pulse&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.vigilantfox.com/i/168661677?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://rncstore.com/pulse&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;See What RNCStore.com Has to Offer&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://rncstore.com/pulse"><span>See What RNCStore.com Has to Offer</span></a></p><p><em><strong>DISCLOSURE</strong><span>: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase through them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps keep our work independent. Thank you for your support.</span></em></p><div><hr></div><p>On paper, the pitch is energy efficiency and maintenance. A networked light can report outages, measure consumption, and flag failures in real time. Few people would object to that.</p><p>The alarm bells start with everything else on the spec sheet. Modern smart lighting platforms can support mesh radio networking, 4G and 5G cellular, GPS location, and remote firmware updates, which means <strong>the capabilities of a node can be changed after installation without anyone on the street knowing</strong>.</p><p>Then there is the traffic and mobility category: vehicle counting, pedestrian counting, bicycle counting, speed estimation, parking occupancy detection, and adaptive lighting based on activity. Whatever the stated purpose, <strong>these are functions that monitor human movement</strong>.</p><p>Smart poles can also support optional add-ons, including CCTV cameras, automatic license plate recognition, gunshot detection microphones, acoustic event detection, public address speakers, and flashing emergency lights. Critics point out that when researchers dug into Flock systems, claims emerged that voice data was being captured beyond what municipalities were told, and while nothing similar has been confirmed for streetlight nodes, the hardware pathway exists.</p><p>Environmental sensing rounds out the package: air quality, CO2, temperature, humidity, rain, wind, and flood monitoring. Useful data for a city. But also, <strong>useful data for councils already floating the idea of taxing or restricting behavior based on carbon readings</strong>.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;c8333b91-90d2-441c-8930-71e2b87627d0&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>These nodes are not limited to designated smart cities. The rollout is happening across the country and overseas, in Europe, Asia, Australia, and Canada, though the full Internet of Things functionality is more common inside smart city programs.</p><p>The industry&#8217;s own roadmap makes the direction clear. Lighting sector publications describe a two-node architecture becoming the blueprint for next generation city lighting: a NEMA socket on top of the fixture and a Zhaga Book 18 connector on the side. The NEMA socket powers the photocell or lighting controller. The Zhaga connector hosts small Internet of Things sensors that transfer environmental and behavioral data.</p><p>The key selling point is plug and play compatibility. Sensors can be swapped or added at any time across an entire community&#8217;s lighting grid, and the hardware is built to last a decade or more. In practical terms, <strong>a city that installs these sockets today is installing the mounting points for whatever sensors arrive tomorrow.</strong></p><p>That is the heart of the objection. A single streetlight with a node on it may do nothing more than dim itself at midnight. But the network being built underneath it is upgradeable by design, deployed largely without public discussion, and nobody voted on it. The worry extends further into what privacy researchers call digital twin integration, virtual models of cities and, some warn, eventually of the people in them, <strong>used to simulate and shape outcomes no resident ever consented to.</strong></p><p>There is precedent for how far planners are willing to go. Smart city planning documents in Newcastle, Australia openly described street furniture that monitors human behavior. <strong>A park bench assessing the mood of the person sitting on it is no longer a science fiction pitch.</strong> It is happening in real-time.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;41b5522f-3dc0-4ac4-ab45-9f00e537859e&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: Health insurance in America is broken</strong><span>.</span></p><p>Over 200,000 Americans go bankrupt because of medical bills every year&#8212;and many of them already had insurance. 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Thank you for supporting our sponsors.</span></em></p><div><hr></div><p>The standards bodies shaping this technology describe the end state in their own words. The International Electrotechnical Commission, which influences the global standards behind Zhaga connectors, states on its own smart cities page that technology together with data are the foundation of a smart city, that the Internet of Things enables ongoing data collection, and that artificial intelligence makes real time analysis of that data possible, with individual systems like telecommunications, transportation, and security horizontally interconnected.</p><p>Strip away the language of optimization and information sharing, and the picture is <strong>a city where AI continuously analyzes data from every connected device</strong>. The same IEC publishes work on biodigital convergence, human augmentation, and reverse engineering of living systems, some of it carrying the Sustainable Development Goals branding, which many see as <strong>one more thread connecting this infrastructure to the broader Agenda 2030 governance vision.</strong></p><p>The reliability problem makes this harder to wave away. AI systems remain demonstrably error prone, and safety researchers have documented models behaving deceptively in testing scenarios, prompting prominent voices in the field to call for a slowdown. Meanwhile, real world failures are already producing casualties. Automatic license plate readers have misidentified vehicles, and people hundreds of miles from a scene have been detained and forced to prove their innocence over a machine&#8217;s mistake.</p><p>There is also a dual use worry. The concern being raised is that data pouring from surveillance networks could feed downstream systems, including the biotechnology facilities known as biofoundries, where AI models assess disease and pandemic risk. Nothing establishes that streetlight nodes specifically feed such pipelines. </p><p>The warning is about the ecosystem: <strong>interconnected databases, controlled by institutions that have burned public trust before, capable of generating whatever threat narrative their models are tuned to find.</strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;d363672e-5caa-4201-aa0e-1711d8d4db6b&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Follow the networking layer and a familiar pattern emerges. Cisco does not manufacture NEMA nodes, but many smart streetlight deployments run on Cisco mesh, cellular, and gateway infrastructure, and Cisco partners with major lighting vendors like Signify and Acuity to fold streetlights into its broader smart city offerings.</p><p><strong>Cisco&#8217;s military footprint is publicly documented.</strong> Its own materials describe agreements signed with the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps in 2022 for software support and network services, and separate reports describe large Department of Defense networking contracts, including management of Internet of Things sensors on military networks and a $1.2 billion DISA software deal.</p><p>The Palantir thread is thinner but real. A Cisco engineering leader has publicly discussed using Palantir&#8217;s Apollo platform to deploy software to government customers, and a business database entry indicates Cisco selected Palantir&#8217;s AIP platform in 2023. None of that proves the companies are merged or that streetlight data flows into government fusion systems. But for a public already uneasy about Palantir&#8217;s reach, the questions write themselves. <strong>Who ultimately receives the data these nodes collect, and under what authority?</strong></p><p>The encouraging part of the story is that pressure works. The LAPD, one of the first major departments to contract with Flock, declined to renew its contract after intense public pushback. The cameras may still be recording for now, since the department never owned them, and the promised privacy improvements deserve skepticism. But a major city police force stepping back from a flagship surveillance vendor is proof that awareness translates into results.</p><p>That is the practical takeaway. 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And two reassuring words&#8212;&#8220;natural flavors&#8221;&#8212;are concealing a disturbing story the food industry hoped you would never uncover.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;3b871b6f-8755-46c4-ad6b-fbf3dd6a624e&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>HEK293 is a human cell line originally derived in the early 1970s from kidney tissue taken from a single fetus, believed to have come from an aborted pregnancy.</p><p>The cells are used as laboratory tools, not food ingredients.</p><p>Researchers can engineer them to express human taste receptors. When a chemical compound activates one of those receptors, the cells produce a measurable signal showing whether a person may perceive it as sweet, bitter, salty, or cooling.</p><p>That allows laboratories to screen thousands of potential flavor compounds without putting each one through a human tasting panel.</p><p>Senomyx, a biotechnology company that developed flavor enhancers and taste modulators, described this process in its patents. The patents shown in the report identify HEK293 as a preferred cell line for assays designed to find compounds that produce or modify sweet taste.</p><p>The cells remain in the laboratory.</p><p>&#8220;The cells themselves were not added to food products,&#8221; Maria explained. Senomyx maintained that no fetal cells or tissue entered finished consumer products.</p><p>That distinction answers what a food physically contains.</p><p><strong>It does not settle whether the process used to develop it is ethically acceptable.</strong></p><p>Supporters argue that HEK293 has been reproduced in laboratories for decades and is now far removed from the original abortion. They point to its value in medical and scientific research, especially when no suitable alternative exists.</p><p>Maria rejects that calculation.</p><p><strong>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter how many years it&#8217;s been since that point, that child was still murdered.&#8221;</strong></p><p>For people who share that conviction, the question is not simply whether fetal material remains in a soda, cereal, vaccine, or medication.</p><p>It is whether that product was created using knowledge obtained through a cell line they believe should never have existed.</p><p>The dispute does not end with the final ingredient list.</p><p>It begins inside the research process&#8212;and the next problem is where that process disappears.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;2382413f-50d8-4ebe-a7b0-8ce59b17be00&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: Health insurance in America is broken</strong><span>.</span></p><p>Over 200,000 Americans go bankrupt because of medical bills every year&#8212;and many of them already had insurance. 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Thank you for supporting our sponsors.</span></em></p><div><hr></div><p>&#8220;Natural flavors&#8221; can describe a proprietary mixture without identifying the company that created it, the compounds inside it, or how those compounds were developed.</p><p>Large food brands often buy complete flavor systems from specialized suppliers rather than create every formula in-house. Those suppliers can increase sweetness, block bitterness, strengthen saltiness, or preserve a familiar taste after sugar and sodium are reduced.</p><p>The consumer sees none of that work.</p><p><strong>&#8220;Flavor compounds developed using these systems do not require individual labeling,&#8221;</strong> Maria said while reading from the material examined in the report.</p><p>A bottle may list sugar, water, citric acid, salt, and natural flavors.</p><p>It generally does not identify the flavor house, the screening platform, or the laboratory methods used before the formula reached the manufacturer.</p><p>Senomyx was acquired by Firmenich in 2018. Firmenich later became part of dsm-firmenich, one of the largest flavor and fragrance companies in the world. The report also identifies Givaudan and International Flavors &amp; Fragrances as major players in taste and aroma development.</p><p>Their names do not appear beside the cereal, sports drink, bottled coffee, or snack someone grabs on the way out the door.</p><p>None of this proves that every supplier uses HEK293 for every flavor. It does not prove that every product listing natural flavors was developed with a fetal-derived cell line.</p><p><strong>It proves that the package alone cannot tell you.</strong></p><p>A shopper avoiding artificial sweeteners can read the label.</p><p>A shopper avoiding peanuts gets an allergen warning.</p><p>A shopper who objects to fetal-derived cell lines being used during research has no comparable disclosure.</p><p><strong>&#8220;Natural flavors&#8221; tells the consumer what category an ingredient belongs to while concealing much of the path that created it.</strong></p><p>That leaves the question in the hands of the companies themselves&#8212;and their answers are where the language starts getting careful.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;7febd283-85c8-4a6a-a3e8-c3b7abb5dab6&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad<span>: Want protection from surveillance, hacking, and even electromagnetic threats?</span></strong></p><p><a href="https://escapezone.com/pulse/">Escape Zone</a><span>&#8217;s elite Faraday bags block GPS, Bluetooth, RFID skimming, and EMF&#8212;perfect for phones, laptops, wallets, and more.</span></p><p>Their premium ballistic backpack even combines Faraday shielding with Kevlar armor, giving you the upper hand in an unpredictable world.</p><p>Want to shield your body, too? 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If you make a purchase through them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps keep our work independent. Thank you for your support.</span></em></p><div><hr></div><p>Major food companies have repeatedly denied putting fetal cells or fetal tissue into their products.</p><p>That is not the question being asked.</p><p>PepsiCo stated in 2022:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;At one time PepsiCo did have a relationship with Senomyx exploring the development of new sweeteners and flavor enhancers. PepsiCo&#8217;s commercial relationship with Senomyx has ended and we do not use any Senomyx ingredients in our products. PepsiCo absolutely does not conduct or fund research that utilizes any human tissue or cell lines derived from embryos or fetuses.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>The statement addresses PepsiCo&#8217;s former relationship with Senomyx. It also says PepsiCo itself does not conduct or fund research involving fetal-derived cell lines.</p><p>It does not explicitly say that every outside flavor supplier is contractually prohibited from using HEK293 while developing compounds for PepsiCo.</p><p>That omission is not evidence that such research occurs.</p><p>It is the question the statement leaves unanswered.</p><p><strong>A company can truthfully say that its finished products contain no fetal cells while saying nothing about the laboratory methods used earlier in the development process.</strong></p><p>Lawmakers in several states have tried to close that gap.</p><p>An Oklahoma bill introduced in 2012 would have prohibited companies from knowingly selling food that contained aborted human fetuses or that &#8220;used aborted human fetuses in the research or development of any of the ingredients.&#8221;</p><p>The bill did not stop at what was physically inside the package.</p><p>It targeted how the ingredients were created.</p><p>It did not pass.</p><p>Texas lawmakers later proposed conspicuous labels for food, medical, and cosmetic products containing fetal tissue or developed through research involving fetal tissue.</p><p><strong>That effort also failed.</strong></p><p>An Idaho proposal debated in 2026 sought labels for products containing or developed using human fetal tissue.</p><p><strong>It died in committee.</strong></p><p>These bills matter because they recognize a distinction the public debate often misses:</p><ul><li><p>What is inside the product.</p></li><li><p>What was used to develop it.</p></li></ul><p>The controversy is not limited to the claim that fetal cells are being mixed directly into food. The legislative language repeatedly reaches back into the research process.</p><p>No federal label currently tells a shopper whether a flavor compound was discovered using a fetal-derived cell line.</p><p>Without that disclosure, the question lands back in the shopper&#8217;s hands.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;223cd83d-81d7-4784-856b-3f58a3abac84&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Natural flavors appear in nearly every aisle of the average grocery store.</p><p>They are found in chips, crackers, cookies, soda, sports drinks, cereal, soup, frozen meals, candy, yogurt, protein shakes, bread, and even pet food.</p><p>The report names familiar products that commonly list natural flavors. Their inclusion does not prove that each one was developed using HEK293.</p><p>Maria makes that limitation explicit.</p><p>&#8220;Ultimately, as we said, we can&#8217;t be certain that all of those foods contain HEK293 in the R and D or lab testing phases,&#8221; she said.</p><p>&#8220;We also can&#8217;t assert that every time a food says natural flavours, artificial flavours, etc. on the label that this involves HEK293.&#8221;</p><p>That caveat is essential.</p><p>Fetal-derived cell lines have been used in taste-receptor research. Large flavor houses supply many of the world&#8217;s biggest processed-food companies. The methods used to develop their proprietary formulas are not ordinarily disclosed on consumer labels.</p><p>What the report does not establish is which current products, if any, contain compounds screened through HEK293.</p><p>That is why the most useful question for a manufacturer must be precise:</p><blockquote><p><strong>Do your flavor suppliers use HEK293 or any other fetal-derived cell line while researching, screening, or developing compounds for your products?</strong></p></blockquote><p>Asking whether the finished food &#8220;contains aborted fetal tissue&#8221; allows a company to issue a direct&#8212;and potentially accurate&#8212;denial.</p><p>Asking about the supplier&#8217;s laboratory process requires a different answer.</p><p>Consumers do not have to wait for every corporation to provide one.</p><p>Foods with shorter ingredient lists generally require fewer proprietary formulas and fewer hidden suppliers. Meat, eggs, vegetables, fruit, rice, beans, and other basic foods do not depend on elaborate systems designed to imitate sweetness, suppress bitterness, or make heavily processed food taste fresh.</p><p>Some cleaner alternatives even cost less than the branded products they replace.</p><p>Food companies could also offer consumers a clear guarantee: that neither they nor their suppliers use fetal-derived cell lines at any stage of research or development.</p><p>The goal is not to claim certainty where certainty does not exist.</p><p>It is to demand enough information for people to make choices consistent with their health, values, and conscience.</p><p>The answer is not to panic.</p><p>It is learning to look past the reassuring label, examine what is actually underneath, and <strong>direct your purchases toward companies that align with your values and commit to transparent, ethical practices</strong>.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;329d4d7e-da8a-4c1c-92e9-51b338ff6fc6&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: </strong><span>Unless you have explicitly told your financial advisor to pull your money out of tech, you are fully invested in the AI bubble right now.</span></p><p>Nobody asked for your permission. 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Built and led by a healthcare professional turned citizen journalist.</div></a><form class="embedded-publication-subscribe" method="GET" action="https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?"><input type="hidden" name="source" value="publication-embed"><input type="hidden" name="autoSubmit" value="true"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email..."><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD FIRST: Peer-Reviewed Paper on "White Clots" | Daily Pulse ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The strange &#8220;white clot&#8221; phenomenon just entered the peer-reviewed literature, and the findings raise disturbing questions that health authorities can no longer ignore.]]></description><link>https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/world-first-peer-reviewed-paper-on</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/world-first-peer-reviewed-paper-on</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[The Vigilant Fox]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:17:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/206143551/236871c0c74ec3f028e55fc880656d24.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For several years now, embalmers in multiple countries have reported unusual white fibrous structures being found inside the deceased. </p><p>The reports began appearing after the COVID injection rollout. Yet despite the public concern, there has been little visible effort from major health authorities to explain what these structures are, how common they may be, or what they could mean for the living.</p><p>Now, two peer-reviewed papers have pushed the issue into a more serious category. One documented survey <a href="https://ijirms.in/index.php/ijirms/article/view/2201">reports</a> from embalmers across multiple countries. The other analyzed the material itself and <a href="https://ijirms.in/index.php/ijirms/article/view/2202">reported</a> evidence consistent with amyloid-like, misfolded protein structures using Raman spectroscopy and other testing methods.</p><p>The unsettling part is not only that these structures may exist. It is that the question has been sitting in plain view for years while the institutions with the power, funding, and equipment to investigate it have largely stayed silent.</p><p>For this special report, we are joined by journalist Wayne Crouch, alongside U.S. embalmer Richard Hirschman, Major Tom Haviland, and organic chemist Greg Harrison. Together, they bring a rare mix of frontline embalming observations, multi-year survey work, investigative persistence, and analytical chemistry to one of the strangest unresolved questions of the post-COVID era.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;1ff5fdb3-3ef1-4f38-8a2d-d60eecdaff69&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>The first major issue was the magnitude of the problem being ignored.</p><p>The embalmer survey paper did not treat the white fibrous clot phenomenon as a one-off claim from a single funeral home or a small group of activists. It gathered multi-year responses from embalmers in five countries, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand.</p><p>Across four years of surveys, 808 embalmers reportedly took part. Of those, 608 said they had seen the white fibrous structures. That&#8217;s more than 75% of respondents.</p><p>Even more striking was the reported frequency. These were not described as rare findings showing up once in a while under unusual circumstances. The average reported occurrence was around 23% of corpses.</p><p>That number is the kind of figure that should immediately trigger serious follow-up. Even if the exact cause remains disputed, even if some findings require further confirmation, even if additional controls are needed, the claim being raised is too large to ignore. When experienced embalmers say they began seeing something unfamiliar in bodies after 2021, the responsible response is not silence. It is investigation.</p><p>The timing also mattered. Some embalmers reported seeing unusual clotting in 2020, during the COVID era but before the vaccine rollout. However, the larger reported increase appeared in 2021, after the rollout began.</p><p>That distinction is important because it keeps the question broader than a single theory. The issue being raised is not only whether the injections played a role, but whether spike protein exposure from infection, injection, or both may be connected to abnormal clotting and protein misfolding.</p><p>At this stage, the survey did not prove causation. But it did document a pattern that many embalmers said they had not seen during decades of prior work.</p><p>And that is exactly why the matter should not be left to online debate alone.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;1cfb5bb4-59f8-42aa-859e-483b26b0c8d4&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: </strong><span>Unless you have explicitly told your financial advisor to pull your money out of tech, you are fully invested in the AI bubble right now.</span></p><p>Nobody asked for your permission. Nobody had to.</p><p>Your 401(k) is on autopilot, and autopilot means the biggest names on Wall Street get to use your retirement to fund their AI bets. Larry Fink&#8217;s BlackRock alone manages $12 trillion of money just like yours.</p><p>If it pays off, they take the fees. 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We may earn a small commission when you shop through our sponsors. Thank you for your support.</em></p><div><hr></div><p>The second major issue was the testing, which was inconsistent and often unreliable, undermining confidence in the overall process.</p><p>Raman spectroscopy became central because it can detect molecular signatures based on how chemical structures vibrate when exposed to laser light. In plain English, different molecular structures give off different signals. When proteins begin forming certain misfolded shapes, the method can help identify patterns consistent with amyloid-like beta sheet formation.</p><p>The paper did not claim that the material was a fully formed amyloid in the most rigid textbook sense. The finding was more cautious and more specific: the samples appeared to show precursor-stage amyloid-like misfolded protein structures.</p><p>That may sound technical, but the implication is simple. A normal clot forms through a process the body knows how to manage. Fibrinogen converts to fibrin, a clot forms, and the body has mechanisms to break it down. But when proteins misfold into beta sheet-like structures, they can become far more persistent and difficult to clear.</p><p>The samples tested were not all identical. Some appeared more gelatinous. Others appeared tougher, drier, and more rubbery. That raised the possibility of progression, with one form potentially moving toward a harder, more structured state.</p><p>The testing also tried to avoid the obvious problem of sample contamination. Multiple scans were taken across the material rather than relying on a single hot spot. The reported result was that the amyloid-like signal appeared throughout the samples, not just in one isolated area.</p><p>That matters because it moves the question beyond what the material looked like. The concern was no longer just that embalmers were pulling out strange white structures. The concern was that the material itself appeared to carry chemical signatures associated with misfolded protein organization.</p><p>If that finding is confirmed by larger institutions with better equipment and broader sample access, it would raise serious questions about what is happening inside the vascular system and why these structures are reportedly still being seen years later.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;3565d7c3-9675-4ea6-9d53-f7a8779ec187&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>The third major issue was whether these structures were simply messy clumps or something more organized.</p><p>A random tangle of degraded material would point in one direction. A self-assembled, ordered protein structure points somewhere much more concerning.</p><p>The analysis raised the possibility that these proteins had reorganized into a rigid, scaffold-like architecture. In other words, they did not appear merely broken down. They appeared arranged.</p><p>That is one of the defining concerns with amyloid-like material. As misfolded proteins become more organized, they can form structures that are increasingly stable, durable, and resistant to normal breakdown.</p><p>The paper also raised the possibility of Waltz sequence signatures. Waltz algorithms are used in computational biology to identify short amino acid sequences with amyloid-forming potential. The significance here is that certain prior research has identified amyloid-prone regions in SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.</p><p>That does not prove the source of the material. It does not prove whether the signal came from infection, injection-driven spike production, or another mechanism. But it does make the next stage of testing more important.</p><p>If spike-related signatures are confirmed inside these structures, the implications become much harder to dismiss.</p><p>Another key point was the apparent involvement of fibrinogen, a major blood plasma protein involved in clotting. The concern being raised is that a normal clotting pathway may be getting pushed into an abnormal direction, producing a more persistent rubbery polymer-like material rather than a standard clot the body can dissolve.</p><p>That would also help explain why ordinary clot-busting approaches may not work well on these structures. Normal clots and abnormal protein scaffolds are not the same problem.</p><p>And if the body struggles to break this material down, it becomes far bigger than what embalmers find after death.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;f1c78995-df03-4638-905e-213a6fc2ae0e&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: Health insurance in America is broken</strong><span>.</span></p><p>Over 200,000 Americans go bankrupt because of medical bills every year&#8212;and many of them already had insurance. 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Thank you for supporting our sponsors.</span></em></p><div><hr></div><p>The chemistry of the material raised another red flag.</p><p>The testing reportedly found elevated sulfur and phosphorus signatures, along with abnormal amino acid patterns. These elements can contribute to cross-linking within protein structures, helping create something far more rigid and resistant than a typical blood clot.</p><p>That aligns with what embalmers and clinicians have described: material that is tough, elastic, and difficult to break apart using conventional methods.</p><p>The amino acid profile added further concern. The samples reportedly showed unusually high levels of proline, an amino acid known to influence how proteins fold. In normal clotting, amino acid distributions follow predictable patterns. Here, the pattern appeared inconsistent with standard clot composition.</p><p>Taken together, these findings suggested that the material was not simply degraded blood or postmortem artifact. Instead, it pointed toward a structurally altered protein formation that behaves differently from anything typically encountered in routine embalming or pathology.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;4a820b10-b2fd-4f21-9f15-629bbfd8d0b4&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>The broader implications are the most disturbing of all.</p><p>If the material is bloodborne and systemic, risk becomes the central concern. For funeral professionals, direct handling remains the most immediate issue, making standard precautions&#8212;gloves, masks, and proper sterilization&#8212;essential.</p><p>Beyond that, the uncertainty remains. There is no established evidence proving casual contagiousness. There is also no clear evidence proving how, whether, or under what conditions this material could be passed between people. Because the issue involves blood and possibly bodily fluids, critics warn that blood contact, sexual intimacy, transfusion safety, and pregnancy-related questions deserve serious investigation rather than casual reassurance.</p><p>Pregnancy-related concerns are especially sensitive. Reports involving fetal loss and clotting abnormalities in infants have been raised, not as proof, but as signals that demand urgent study&#8212;particularly given existing research into spike protein and placental health.</p><p>Then there are the long-term disease implications.</p><p>Amyloid-like structures are linked to conditions such as Alzheimer&#8217;s, Parkinson&#8217;s, and other degenerative diseases. This does not establish causation, but if misfolded proteins are circulating in the bloodstream, the concern cannot be ignored.</p><p>The vascular implications are just as serious. Abnormal clotting in major organs could relate to outcomes like stroke, heart attack, or pulmonary embolism. While causation remains unproven, reported overlaps with clotting-related data raise important questions.</p><p>There is also evidence suggesting some of these structures may form before death, including observations consistent with blood flow-related clotting patterns. If confirmed, the implications would be significant.</p><p>Ultimately, the issue returns to institutional response. Why have major health agencies, research institutions, and blood banks not conducted large-scale, independent testing?</p><p>The demand is simple: collect samples, run rigorous analyses, publish the findings, and provide clear answers.</p><p>Calls for formal hearings reflect growing frustration. Senator Ron Johnson has already held hearings on COVID vaccine injuries, myocarditis, and cancer concerns. A hearing on white fibrous clots would force the issue into the open.</p><p>Key questions remain unanswered:</p><ul><li><p>What are these structures?</p></li><li><p>How common are they?</p></li><li><p>Do they form before death?</p></li><li><p>Are they linked to infection, injection, spike protein exposure, or something else?</p></li><li><p>Can they be found in living patients?</p></li><li><p>Are blood banks screening for amyloid microclotting?</p></li><li><p>What guidance should be given to professionals and the public?</p></li></ul><p>As long as these questions remain unresolved, public trust will continue to erode. 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It's not.]]></description><link>https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/exclusive-republicans-aggressively</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/exclusive-republicans-aggressively</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[The Vigilant Fox]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:30:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/205683402/8495b6ade782212adae4a0c535c5302f.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We hope you all had a great Fourth of July celebrating the 250th anniversary of the greatest nation on Earth, the country that brought forth the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. That&#8217;s exactly why this broadcast matters tonight.</p><p>Because right now, as we speak, <strong>multiple states are signing in Australia and UK-style Digital ID legislation</strong>. You won&#8217;t find the words &#8220;Digital ID&#8221; anywhere in these bills. That&#8217;s by design. Naming it would tell you what&#8217;s really happening. But the agenda is identical to the dystopian systems already rolling out across the West, in countries where free speech no longer exists.</p><p>The World Economic Forum has said it plainly. <strong>Digital ID will be required for every facet of life</strong>. Justice and law. Innovation, meaning you can&#8217;t build without one. The economy, meaning you can&#8217;t earn without one. Society itself, meaning you can&#8217;t take part in any of it without one.</p><p>Understand what that does. It links your identity to everything you say and do online just so you can speak, do business, and eventually even open the internet at all. That&#8217;s not a safety feature. <strong>It&#8217;s a social credit system like China&#8217;s, only worse.</strong></p><p>So they don&#8217;t sell it that way. <strong>They sell it as protecting children.</strong> Age verification. Age assurance. Safety online. But if you&#8217;ve been paying attention, you already know the truth. This was never about the kids. It&#8217;s about building a system where everything you do, say, and even look at online is logged, scored, and used against you.</p><p>Here&#8217;s the part they&#8217;re counting on you to miss. Judges in both Louisiana and Texas have already ruled, correctly, that these age verification laws violate the First Amendment. It should be over. It isn&#8217;t. Across the country, states are forcing this anti-constitutional agenda through anyway, and <strong>in most cases it&#8217;s Republicans leading the charge</strong>. At the federal level, it gets even scarier, and we&#8217;ll take you through all of it tonight.</p><p>But start with Texas. A judge struck down the Texas App Store Accountability Act as a First Amendment violation. Ken Paxton appealed. Yes, <strong>Ken Paxton seemingly wants every Texan to be in a dystopian Digital ID prison</strong>.<br><br>The good news? A few people are still fighting for what this country actually stands for. One of them is Representative <a href="https://x.com/brianeharrison">Brian Harrison</a>, who joins us to discuss which states are at risk right now.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;f98d3a2e-ae7d-43f5-9085-17449b9e91ae&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Texas is now arguing in federal court that what you say on social media is &#8220;commercial speech,&#8221; a category the courts have long treated as less protected under the First Amendment. If that argument wins, the government gets far more room to regulate who can speak online and under what conditions.</p><p>Harrison sees exactly what&#8217;s at stake. <strong>&#8220;The First Amendment is critically important, and I will oppose, and I&#8217;m going to continue to oppose, anything that that looks like it&#8217;s going to impede the First Amendment freedoms of the hundreds of thousands of Texans that I am honored to represent,&#8221;</strong> he said, noting that the founders protected speech precisely because unpopular speech is the kind that needs protecting.</p><p>And the &#8220;commercial speech&#8221; framing collapses on contact with how people actually use these platforms. Social media is where Americans contact their representatives, organize politically, and challenge official narratives. It is the town square, and Harrison is living proof of what happens there.</p><p>&#8220;If it were not for social media platforms like X, there&#8217;s no chance I would have been able to force through, you know, even probably half of the conservative policies that I&#8217;ve been able to force through in the Texas government,&#8221; he admitted, describing a legislature &#8220;run by a rather liberal coalition of fake Republicans and Democrats.&#8221;</p><p>His method has been simple: bypass the establishment media, go &#8220;around the power broker elite in the Texas government by going directly to the people.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s those types of tools in 2026 that are empowering the citizenry to stand up against tyrannical big government progressive Marxist initiatives by those in power,&#8221; he said.</p><p>That is the citizen engagement these laws put at risk. 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If you make a purchase through them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps keep our work independent. Thank you for your support.</span></em></p><div><hr></div><p>The entire sales pitch for SB2420 is child safety. The bill itself never mentions it.</p><p>&#8220;If you did a word search in SB 2420, there&#8217;s not one single reference to, you know, adult content or pornography,&#8221; Harrison revealed. Texas already has a separate law dealing with age restrictions on adult content. This one does something else entirely.</p><p><strong>&#8220;There is almost no limit to the amount of tyranny that can be imposed by a government when they&#8217;re doing it under the auspices of, quote, protecting the children,&#8221;</strong> he warned.</p><p>And the law isn&#8217;t even scoped to children. &#8220;This law is so broad in the way that it&#8217;s written, it would quite literally, and does, apply to adults, including adults who have no children,&#8221; he explained. Then he made it concrete:</p><p>&#8220;If you are an adult in the state of Texas and you want to download an app to study the Bible, okay, or to download a calculator, you have to somehow digitally authenticate yourself.&#8221;</p><p>Imagine, he said, walking past a newsstand and needing to &#8220;get through a government censor to be able to put in a quarter and get a newspaper.&#8221; That&#8217;s the mechanism this law builds, just moved onto your phone.</p><p>&#8220;That&#8217;s the gloss. That&#8217;s the veneer,&#8221; Harrison said of the child-safety framing. &#8220;It is a digital ID style, big government, progressive piece of legislation.&#8221;</p><p>He also shattered the idea that this is a conservative project. The bill &#8220;was championed by the most liberal progressive members of the Texas government, including the radical extremist Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate himself, James Talarico,&#8221; yet Republican attorneys general are now lining up to defend it in court.</p><p>Harrison&#8217;s answer is not to wait on litigation. He is filing legislation to repeal SB2420 outright, and he wants it done now: &#8220;Let&#8217;s have a special session right now so we can protect Texans from digital IDs and CCP-style social credit scores in 2026.&#8221;</p><p>There&#8217;s just one problem. The man who can call that session is the same man who let the bill become law.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;c2c198d3-d0f1-4f93-815b-ccaa30712d5d&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: Health insurance in America is broken</strong><span>.</span></p><p>Over 200,000 Americans go bankrupt because of medical bills every year&#8212;and many of them already had insurance. 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Thank you for supporting our sponsors.</span></em></p><div><hr></div><p>Governor Abbott had the chance to stop this. &#8220;Unfortunately Governor Abbott chose not to veto this bill,&#8221; Harrison said. &#8220;If, if I had been governor, this bill would have been vetoed.&#8221;</p><p>Instead, Texans got a law marketed as parental empowerment that does the opposite. &#8220;These bills take tools away from the parent and, in fact, are in many ways replacing the parent with big government,&#8221; Harrison argued, calling it Orwellian to claim a government mandate empowers anyone.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not gonna sit idly by and watch the state of Texas, where we&#8217;re supposed to cherish liberty and freedom, go down the road towards totalitarianism, towards nanny statism, and towards a surveillance state. And a police state,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And that&#8217;s before you even get to the privacy risks that are innate in legislation like this.&#8221;</p><p>The precedent question is what keeps this from being a Texas story. A Louisiana judge already delivered a clear-cut ruling that these laws violate the First Amendment. If Texas wins its &#8220;commercial speech&#8221; argument on appeal, that clarity is gone, and every state gets a roadmap.</p><p>Harrison thinks the stakes are even higher than that. <strong>&#8220;Texas, I believe, is the crown jewel in the left&#8217;s plan to destroy our country,&#8221;</strong> he said. &#8220;If we lose liberty here in the Lone Star State... we may never get another conservative in the White House ever again.&#8221; He described the fight as one for &#8220;nothing short or nothing less than the future of Western civilization.&#8221;</p><p>His message to his own party was blunt: &#8220;Stop being cowards. Stop accepting the conventional wisdom of the mainstream media that you need to do just as little as possible, say as little as possible, and hope the fact that we&#8217;re just not Democrats will get you reelected.&#8221;</p><p>He would know something about standing alone. &#8220;I was the only Republican in the entire Texas government that had the courage to stand up for my constituents,&#8221; he said of the SB2420 vote. A father of four kids under eleven, he rejected the false trade at the heart of the bill: &#8220;There&#8217;s nobody that wants to protect kids more than I do. But you know what I&#8217;m not willing to do? Forfeit my rights, my freedoms, my liberties, our Constitution.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;As government grows, liberty shrinks,&#8221; he said.</p><p>And government is growing this exact program in statehouses from Salt Lake City to Sacramento.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;53502da3-2769-4715-93e8-5c63fc64d372&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>This isn&#8217;t contained to Texas. A search last week turned up &#8220;something like over 80 bills in total that could be related to digital ID in some way,&#8221; across statehouses from Utah to California to Alabama, plus federal versions in both chambers of Congress. The party sponsoring them changes. The architecture doesn&#8217;t.</p><p>And the one man who could have drawn a line has gone silent. President Trump &#8220;previously during the campaign trail said that we should have a digital Bill of Rights,&#8221; Maria noted, &#8220;and nothing of the sort has materialized. In fact, it&#8217;s gone in the complete extreme opposite direction where we now have federal digital ID being brought in.&#8221;</p><p>The reason free speech is the whole ballgame here is that it&#8217;s the reason America exists as it does. It&#8217;s why people flee tyrannical governments to get here. And it is exactly what these laws chip away at, one &#8220;age signal&#8221; at a time.</p><p>We already know where the road ends, because it&#8217;s happening in the countries that walked it first. In the UK, police show up at your door over an offensive post. That&#8217;s the model being imported.</p><p>But the real danger isn&#8217;t the knock on the door. It&#8217;s what happens once your identity is welded to everything you do online.</p><p><strong>&#8220;Imagine if a digital ID is in place where all of a sudden your bank account gets switched off because you said something offensive online,&#8221;</strong> Maria warned. Then the credit score. Then, as the WEF has openly described, a system that decides what you can rent, &#8220;what jobs are good for you,&#8221; and what your future looks like, all scored against the digital dossier that a digital ID quietly builds on you.</p><p>That is the finished product. Not a safety feature for kids. 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I wish I was making this up.]]></description><link>https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/exclusive-the-poisoning-of-america</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/exclusive-the-poisoning-of-america</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[The Vigilant Fox]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:41:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/204949664/68049037950d490b059c4835add5e663.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Supreme Court just ruled that glyphosate companies are allowed to poison our population, and nobody can ever hold them accountable for it.</p><p>And that&#8217;s not even the worst news this week.</p><p>There&#8217;s also a new bill called the &#8220;Save Our Bacon Act&#8221; &#8212; which has nothing to do with bacon. It would wipe out 1,000 state laws and <strong>hand control of our food supply to monopolies in China and Brazil.</strong><br><br>Meanwhile, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and Apollo have all frozen withdrawals from their private credit funds. Why? Because debt is how they&#8217;re funding AI, and the bubble is cracking.<br><br>The good news: <strong>every one of these fights is still winnable.</strong></p><p><a href="https://x.com/TheVinoMom">Tiffany Cianci</a> joins us to explain how...</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;9952c295-aac6-46fc-8d36-493fefd87567&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>A farmer got cancer, sued Monsanto, and won $1.25 million. Monsanto appealed. The farmer won again. So Monsanto took it to the Supreme Court and argued it should be immune from being held responsible at all. This week, the Court agreed.</p><p>The legal hook was a federal pesticide law called FIFRA. The Court found that FIFRA supersedes states&#8217; rights, even though, as Cianci pointed out, &#8220;there is no, no direct language in FIFRA that gives it the right to supersede states&#8217; rights.&#8221;</p><p>Then she got to who was sitting on the bench. According to Cianci, <strong>Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Elena Kagan have both previously worked on cases for Bayer Monsanto,</strong> and neither recused themselves. The attorney arguing for the company, Sarah Harris, was Thomas&#8217;s former clerk.</p><p>And Harris&#8217;s r&#233;sum&#233; gets stranger. Cianci described how Harris left her roughly $2 million Bayer Monsanto salary for just four months last year to work for the federal government, long enough to write the brief the United States would submit in support of the company, and then returned to the firm representing Bayer Monsanto.</p><p>&#8220;This was the most incestuous ruling I&#8217;ve seen come out of the Supreme Court in a very, very, very long time,&#8221; Cianci said. &#8220;Without those two attorneys, it would have been a different outcome.&#8221;</p><p>The practical result: <strong>no state can now tell its citizens they have the right to sue when a carcinogenic chemical ends up on their crops, in their food, or in their water.</strong></p><p>The ruling can&#8217;t be appealed. But Congress can override it in a single sentence, and that fight starts in the next two weeks.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;03fcb7ad-3c22-4ac6-8a0e-681d31e5c3bd&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: Want to upgrade your health?</strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://rncstore.com/pulse">Richardson Nutritional Center</a></strong><span> has offered trusted, top-quality natural supplements for decades&#8212;supporting healing and wellness with everything from vitamins to therapeutic seeds.</span></p><p><span>Shop now at </span><strong><a href="https://rncstore.com/pulse">RNCstore.com</a></strong><span> and use code </span><strong>PULSE</strong><span> for 10% off sitewide!</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://rncstore.com/pulse" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png" width="1200" height="250" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:250,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:596465,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https://rncstore.com/pulse&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.vigilantfox.com/i/168661677?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://rncstore.com/pulse&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;See What RNCStore.com Has to Offer&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://rncstore.com/pulse"><span>See What RNCStore.com Has to Offer</span></a></p><p><em><strong>DISCLOSURE</strong><span>: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase through them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps keep our work independent. Thank you for your support.</span></em></p><div><hr></div><p>Bacon is fine. The Save Our Bacon Act isn&#8217;t about bacon at all.</p><p>What SOBA actually does, Cianci explained, is strip states of the right to regulate agriculture, <strong>erasing roughly 1,000 laws across Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, and the rest of the country that set limits on chemicals in food, water, and farm runoff.</strong></p><p>The real target is California&#8217;s Prop 12, a law written and passed by voters themselves, twice. It ended gestational confinement for pigs, the practice of pinning pregnant sows on their sides under metal bars, where they developed bedsores and had to be pumped full of antibiotics and chemical interventions.</p><p>&#8220;Chemicals out, antibiotics out, pigs can stand up,&#8221; Cianci said. Because California is the fourth-largest economy in the world, producers changed practice nationwide. Pork prices didn&#8217;t skyrocket. The law survived two Supreme Court challenges because it was the will of the people.</p><p>So who wants it gone? Cianci named the two companies she says wrote the bill: Smithfield, which is Chinese-owned and controls America&#8217;s pork supply, and JBS, the Brazilian meatpacking monopoly that dominates U.S. beef. Zeee raised long-running concerns that mRNA has been making its way into meat through JBS, warning about what it means to hand protections to international conglomerates that &#8220;you can&#8217;t regulate... like you can homegrown.&#8221;</p><p>The bill&#8217;s path forward runs through Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa, who Cianci says plans to attach SOBA as an amendment to the farm bill within two weeks. Ernst is retiring, will need a job, and the largest donors in her state are the two companies behind the bill.</p><p>Cianci&#8217;s ask is simple. Two calls, two demands. No on SOBA. And yes on Senator Cory Booker&#8217;s one-sentence amendment: <strong>&#8220;FIFRA does not supersede state laws.&#8221;</strong> That single line would codify what the Supreme Court just erased.</p><p>But calls only fix the symptom. The disease is who&#8217;s holding the pen when these bills get written.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;60bcf6cf-a09e-4961-bc3d-efdabf352c44&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: Health insurance in America is broken</strong><span>.</span></p><p>Over 200,000 Americans go bankrupt because of medical bills every year&#8212;and many of them already had insurance. On average, 20% of claims are denied, leaving families stuck paying massive out-of-pocket costs after spending thousands on premiums.</p><p>But there&#8217;s an alternative.</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse">CrowdHealth</a><span> is a community-powered model that has helped members fund over 40,000 medical bills at a fraction of the cost of traditional insurance.</span></strong></p><p><strong>So far, 30,000+ members have been helped, saving an estimated $73 million in medical costs.</strong></p><p>CrowdHealth isn&#8217;t insurance. It&#8217;s a way to step outside the broken system and take control of your healthcare.</p><p>Get started today for $99 per member per month for the first three months.</p><p><span>Go to </span><strong><a href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse">joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse</a></strong><span> and use code PULSE.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1dQF!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9b2fa17-f058-497e-8643-00e2dc309b0d_1200x250.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1dQF!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9b2fa17-f058-497e-8643-00e2dc309b0d_1200x250.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1dQF!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9b2fa17-f058-497e-8643-00e2dc309b0d_1200x250.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1dQF!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9b2fa17-f058-497e-8643-00e2dc309b0d_1200x250.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1dQF!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9b2fa17-f058-497e-8643-00e2dc309b0d_1200x250.png" width="1200" height="250" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b9b2fa17-f058-497e-8643-00e2dc309b0d_1200x250.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:250,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:254574,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.vigilantfox.com/i/190039463?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9b2fa17-f058-497e-8643-00e2dc309b0d_1200x250.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1dQF!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9b2fa17-f058-497e-8643-00e2dc309b0d_1200x250.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1dQF!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9b2fa17-f058-497e-8643-00e2dc309b0d_1200x250.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1dQF!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9b2fa17-f058-497e-8643-00e2dc309b0d_1200x250.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1dQF!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9b2fa17-f058-497e-8643-00e2dc309b0d_1200x250.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Get Started Today!&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse"><span>Get Started Today!</span></a></p><p><em><strong>DISCLOSURE:</strong><span> This ad was paid for by CrowdHealth. Thank you for supporting our sponsors.</span></em></p><div><hr></div><p>The SOBA amendment was co-sponsored by Senator Roger Marshall of the Ag Committee. When the text came out showing it would strip thousands of state laws, it emerged he had never read it.</p><p><strong>&#8220;His donors wrote this bill and gave it to him, and he didn&#8217;t read it when he co-sponsored it,&#8221;</strong> Cianci said. Then constituents started calling his office. Within a week, he asked for his name to be stripped off the bill. &#8220;This works. We are in a midterm year and this works.&#8221;</p><p>That&#8217;s the pattern Cianci kept returning to: <strong>pressure works, because the money only wins when nobody&#8217;s watching.</strong> Booker&#8217;s Pesticide Injury Accountability Act, a one-paragraph bill saying Americans can sue a chemical company that injures them, has sat in the Senate for six months without a single Republican co-sponsor. Representative Luna is now introducing a companion bill in the House.</p><p>And it&#8217;s not just Congress being bought. Cianci described how the administration told RFK Jr. to go after everything but big oil, then planted agrochemical and meatpacking lobbyists in every agency he needed, &#8220;which really looks like <strong>this administration rented MAHA voters when it was convenient and abandoned them when it was time to actually put up or shut up.&#8221;</strong></p><p>The structural fix she&#8217;s watching: laws out of Maine and Hawaii, now headed to the Supreme Court, capping corporate donations to political PACs at $5,000 a year. Citizens United never ruled on whether corporations, which are created by state law, have a right to spend at all. In the 26 referendum states, voters can put that question on a ballot themselves. <strong>&#8220;One paragraph and it ends for them right now.&#8221;</strong></p><p>And she likes the odds. On states&#8217; rights questions, with justices like Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch in play, <strong>&#8220;We&#8217;re seeing a lot of interesting coalitions forming.&#8221;</strong></p><p>So what happens when the people win anyway, when both parties actually pass one of those bills over the money&#8217;s objections? This week gave the answer.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;e1b1de99-08fe-4a5c-8605-ef2eb9cc8e98&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>The Road to Homeownership bill, banning private equity from buying up homes, passed both houses overwhelmingly. Left and right, together.</p><p><strong>Trump refused to sign it.</strong></p><p>He canceled the signing at the last second, saying Congress should pass the SAVE Act first. The homes stay on the market for the funds, not the families. And those same funds are now trapped in a much bigger problem, one where the collateral is your retirement.</p><p>JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and Apollo have halted withdrawals from their private credit funds. That&#8217;s not a headline about billionaires. It&#8217;s a warning about where the money to replace theirs is going to come from.</p><p>Here&#8217;s the chain Cianci laid out. <strong>There are 5,581 speculative data centers being built across America, grabbing land and the water rights underneath it, at a cost measured in trillions.</strong> Banks wouldn&#8217;t fund it all, so the buildout ran through private credit, money borrowed from JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley, on 20-year repayment schedules for chips that have to be replaced every two to three years.</p><p><strong>&#8220;There is not a single AI company on Earth that is profitable right now because they have no profit model that makes any sense at all,&#8221;</strong> Cianci argued, claiming Anthropic loses $15,900 a month on every $100 corporate subscription.</p><p>When investors did the math, the run started. Blue Owl halted withdrawals after data center deals collapsed. Then Blackstone, the largest private equity firm in the world, halted withdrawals and liquidated $400 million to shore up its fund. Then BlackRock. Then Apollo and KKR. Now Morgan Stanley&#8217;s flagship, after runs of 17% and then 23%.</p><p>Which brings us to the three companies racing to IPO: SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic. SpaceX, by Cianci&#8217;s numbers, brought in $18 billion last year, spent $23.9 billion, and IPO&#8217;d at a $2 trillion valuation anyway. As for the other two: <strong>&#8220;They both have run out of money. And I don&#8217;t mean kind of run out of money. I mean there is no money left.&#8221;</strong></p><p>So where does the cash come from? Cianci pointed to Trump&#8217;s October executive order opening 401(k)s to private credit, private equity, and crypto. From that same order, she says, came a Department of Labor rule that would give fund managers immunity when those bets go bad, and an SEC rule, effective May 26, granting any IPO valued over $1 trillion immediate access to index funds.</p><p>Index funds are where nearly every 401(k), Roth, and pension lives. Since the dot-com crash wiped out hundreds of thousands of retirements, companies had to prove 25 years&#8217; worth of discipline: deliver returns first, get index access second. Cianci says that protection is now gone, along with the public float requirement, meaning insiders could sell 95% of their stock at bargain prices before your fund buys at the top. Historically, IPO buyers lose 17 to 21% in the first 18 months.</p><p>She even cited Larry Fink saying the quiet part out loud, telling investors he isn&#8217;t worried about paying for the data centers because pensions and retirement accounts will do it.</p><p>And the lens gets wider still. China, Cianci noted, is running the same AI race with about 500 data centers. America is building 5,581. <strong>&#8220;The only reason you would need this is to monitor and surveil every American all day, every day.&#8221;</strong></p><p>Her action item is concrete: email your fund manager, in writing, and remove permission to participate in any index fund that includes these new IPOs. Self-manage if you can.</p><p>Her final warning doubles as the thesis of the entire episode: <strong>&#8220;It is worse than people think. It is more important than people know.&#8221;</strong></p><p>The insiders already know it. That&#8217;s why the withdrawal windows are frozen, why the rules got rewritten in the fine print, and why the risk has been quietly relabeled with your name on it. The one decision still in your hands is where your savings sit when the music stops.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;0f46e687-4f38-438a-8e76-009a4cbbf5f9&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: </strong><span>Unless you have explicitly told your financial advisor to pull your money out of tech, you are fully invested in the AI bubble right now.</span></p><p>Nobody asked for your permission. Nobody had to.</p><p>Your 401(k) is on autopilot, and autopilot means the biggest names on Wall Street get to use your retirement to fund their AI bets. Larry Fink&#8217;s BlackRock alone manages $12 trillion of money just like yours.</p><p>If it pays off, they take the fees. If it pops, you hold the bag.</p><p>But there&#8217;s a way to opt out of the AI bubble, and Genesis Gold shows you how.</p><p><span>They put together a </span><strong><a href="http://dailypulsegold.com/">free guide</a></strong><span> with the whole picture. How exposed your retirement really is. What happens after the crash. And how to get your hard-earned money out before the bomb goes off.</span></p><p><span>Get it now at </span><strong><a href="http://dailypulsegold.com/">DailyPulseGold.com</a></strong><span>. 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We may earn a small commission when you shop through our sponsors. Thank you for your support.</em></p><div><hr></div><p>We want to thank <a href="https://x.com/TheVinoMom">Tiffany Cianci</a> for joining us today&#8212;and more importantly, we want to thank you for watching and doing your duty to be informed when so many others choose not to.</p><p>Follow us <span>(</span><a href="https://x.com/zeeemedia">@ZeeeMedia</a><span> and </span><a href="https://x.com/VigilantFox">@VigilantFox</a><span>)</span> for stories that matter&#8212;stories the media doesn&#8217;t want you to see.</p><p>We&#8217;ll be back with another show on Monday. 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It blinked.</p><p><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tech-stock-selloff-ai-profits-nasdaq-nvidia-alphabet-spacex/">The Nasdaq dropped more than 2% in a single session &#8212; its second straight day of losses.</a></p><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/06/23/nx-s1-5867633/ai-selloff-tech-stocks-bubble-nasdaq">Micron, one of the hottest chip stocks on the planet, cratered 13% in a day.</a></p><p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/tech-sell-off-markets-spacex-alphabet-nasdaq100-stocks-rcna351331">SpaceX&#8217;s total valuation shed nearly a trillion dollars from its peak</a>. We hope you didn&#8217;t chase that one at the top.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8vxr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34b0f498-30aa-406b-b92a-700ab44e5c8e_1954x1034.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8vxr!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34b0f498-30aa-406b-b92a-700ab44e5c8e_1954x1034.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8vxr!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34b0f498-30aa-406b-b92a-700ab44e5c8e_1954x1034.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8vxr!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34b0f498-30aa-406b-b92a-700ab44e5c8e_1954x1034.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8vxr!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34b0f498-30aa-406b-b92a-700ab44e5c8e_1954x1034.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8vxr!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34b0f498-30aa-406b-b92a-700ab44e5c8e_1954x1034.png" width="1456" height="770" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/34b0f498-30aa-406b-b92a-700ab44e5c8e_1954x1034.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:770,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8vxr!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34b0f498-30aa-406b-b92a-700ab44e5c8e_1954x1034.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8vxr!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34b0f498-30aa-406b-b92a-700ab44e5c8e_1954x1034.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8vxr!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34b0f498-30aa-406b-b92a-700ab44e5c8e_1954x1034.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8vxr!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34b0f498-30aa-406b-b92a-700ab44e5c8e_1954x1034.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>While this is all happening, the story they&#8217;re selling you is &#8220;volatility.&#8221; A short roadblock. &#8220;Buy the dip.&#8221;</p><p>But deeper down, there is something the Jim Cramers of the world are not saying out loud.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mDKq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01ed3823-a38f-4602-918c-ecf730a8f553_250x301.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mDKq!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01ed3823-a38f-4602-918c-ecf730a8f553_250x301.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mDKq!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01ed3823-a38f-4602-918c-ecf730a8f553_250x301.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mDKq!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01ed3823-a38f-4602-918c-ecf730a8f553_250x301.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mDKq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01ed3823-a38f-4602-918c-ecf730a8f553_250x301.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mDKq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01ed3823-a38f-4602-918c-ecf730a8f553_250x301.jpeg" width="250" height="301" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/01ed3823-a38f-4602-918c-ecf730a8f553_250x301.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:301,&quot;width&quot;:250,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mDKq!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01ed3823-a38f-4602-918c-ecf730a8f553_250x301.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mDKq!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01ed3823-a38f-4602-918c-ecf730a8f553_250x301.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mDKq!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01ed3823-a38f-4602-918c-ecf730a8f553_250x301.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mDKq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01ed3823-a38f-4602-918c-ecf730a8f553_250x301.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Jim Cramer. Image: Wikipedia.</figcaption></figure></div><p><a href="https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/jun/26/global-tech-stocks-chipmakers-sell-off-weighing-on/">Two of China&#8217;s biggest hedge funds just called the AI boom a giant bubble.</a> Even <a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/06/23/nx-s1-5867633/ai-selloff-tech-stocks-bubble-nasdaq">Mainstream outlets are </a>echoing those concerns.</p><p>OpenAI is burning cash faster than they can raise it. <a href="https://www.mitrade.com/au/insights/stock-analysis/us-stocks/beincrypto-SPCX-202606261043">It just signaled it may delay going public until 2027</a> because it&#8217;s not sure regular investors will even show up.</p><p>So if the smart money&#8217;s nervous&#8230; and the companies are bleeding&#8230; where&#8217;s the money supposed to come from to keep this whole thing standing?</p><p>One man already answered that question. And you need to hear exactly what he said.</p><p><a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/blackrock-ceo-savings-data-centers/">His name is Larry Fink. He runs BlackRock, the largest money manager on the face of the Earth</a>. When BlackRock talks about where money is going to come from, they&#8217;re not guessing. They&#8217;re describing the plan.</p><p><a href="https://moneywise.com/investing/retirement/larry-fink-pensions-savings-ai-data-centers">Fink said building out America&#8217;s AI infrastructure will take $10,000,000,000,000.00 over the next decade.</a> Ten trillion.</p><p>Where will it all come from? These are his words, not mine: <a href="https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/blackrock-ceo-americans-savings-pension-finance/">&#8220;savings accounts&#8230; pension accounts&#8230; insurance companies&#8230; on and on and on.&#8221;</a></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;ad17025f-0d6d-432d-a442-17ef4495590a&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>&#8220;Savings accounts.&#8221; &#8220;Pension accounts.&#8221; That&#8217;s not Wall Street&#8217;s money he&#8217;s talking about. <em><strong>That&#8217;s yours</strong>.</em> Your retirement. Your 401(k). The pension you spent thirty years earning.</p><p>The trillions to prop up this AI bet are going to come out of <em>your</em> nest egg. And nobody slid a contract across the table. Nobody asked your permission.</p><p><a href="https://www.superreview.com.au/regulator-warns-super-funds-ai-risks-are-accelerating/">In Australia, they&#8217;re already further down this road </a>than we are. If you&#8217;re investing in the stock market, you&#8217;re investing in tech stocks. There&#8217;s just not a lot of choice around that.</p><p>Whether this all works or not, giant investment firms like BlackRock still collect their fees.</p><p>And if this all crumbles, it&#8217;s not their money that vanishes. <em><strong>It&#8217;s yours.</strong></em></p><p>To break all of this down, we&#8217;re joined now by <a href="http://dailypulsegold.com/">Bill Armour</a> of Genesis Gold Group.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;7002400e-82bb-4659-b26e-f08ef00f0893&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>The head of BlackRock just told you where the money for AI is coming from: your retirement.</p><p>That&#8217;s what makes Larry Fink&#8217;s comment so dangerous. He didn&#8217;t talk in riddles &#8212; he named it out loud: savings accounts, pension accounts, insurance. Bill&#8217;s read: every so often the people running the system &#8220;almost take the mask off,&#8221; and &#8220;that&#8217;s what happened here.&#8221; Maria said what you&#8217;re already thinking: &#8220;wait a minute&#8230; you mean my money?&#8221;</p><p>Yes. Your money. And here&#8217;s the part nobody tells you: you&#8217;re already in the AI bet. You never bought Nvidia. You never touched Micron. You never placed a single trade. The person managing your 401(k) did it for you.</p><p>Here&#8217;s how. The rules were quietly loosened right before all this, opening the door for your retirement to pour into companies that lose money by the billions. OpenAI and Anthropic run at a loss on borrowed cash; as Maria put it, &#8220;the whole industry is built on debt.&#8221; Your nest egg is the fuel.</p><p>Think you&#8217;re clear because you don&#8217;t own tech stocks? In Bill&#8217;s words, &#8220;you may not have chosen this AI trade directly, but your retirement account manager, etc., probably has.&#8221; That &#8220;safe&#8221; index fund, the target-date fund you never open &#8212; they&#8217;re stuffed with the same five giants: Microsoft, Nvidia, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta. When the label says &#8220;diversified,&#8221; Bill&#8217;s question is the one that matters: &#8220;diversified into what?&#8221; Ten holdings that rise and crash together aren&#8217;t ten bets. They&#8217;re one bet, ten times over.</p><p>Pensions are worse, because people assume they can&#8217;t be touched. They can. They chase the same returns, which is how the risk gets &#8220;quietly embedded&#8230; in the things that every, every consumer purchases.&#8221;</p><p>Citing Ed Dowd, Maria noted that &#8220;45% of the S&amp;P 500 is AI or AI adjacent&#8221; &#8212; nearly half the index you think of as safe. And when it turns, Bill warns, &#8220;regular people become the exit liquidity for the biggest speculative bet in history.&#8221; You&#8217;re who&#8217;s left holding it when the smart money runs.</p><p>So what actually happens to your account when this pops?</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;f3bed173-c83e-4561-8788-ef32a4f852b8&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: </strong>Unless you have explicitly told your financial advisor to pull your money out of tech, you are fully invested in the AI bubble right now.</p><p>Nobody asked for your permission. Nobody had to.</p><p>Your 401(k) is on autopilot, and autopilot means the biggest names on Wall Street get to use your retirement to fund their AI bets. Larry Fink&#8217;s BlackRock alone manages $12 trillion of money just like yours.</p><p>If it pays off, they take the fees. If it pops, you hold the bag.</p><p>But there&#8217;s a way to opt out of the AI bubble, and Genesis Gold shows you how.</p><p>They put together a <strong><a href="http://DailyPulseGold.com">free guide</a></strong> with the whole picture. How exposed your retirement really is. What happens after the crash. And how to get your hard-earned money out before the bomb goes off.</p><p>Get it now at <strong><a href="http://DailyPulseGold.com">DailyPulseGold.com</a></strong>. 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We may earn a small commission when you shop through our sponsors. Thank you for your support.</em></p><div><hr></div><p>Strip AI out of the economy and the recession is already here. </p><p>Bill&#8217;s math: &#8220;97 or so percent of all GDP growth in this country is from AI capital expenditures&#8221; &#8212; companies shoveling cash into their own AI divisions. Take that away and growth flatlines. His bottom line: &#8220;We would be in a full-blown recession right now if not for the AI sort of spending.&#8221;</p><p>So the whole economy rides on one assumption: that the spending turns into profit. If it doesn&#8217;t, companies stop spending, GDP stalls, and share prices &#8220;drop precipitously.&#8221; The recession just shows up late.</p><p>Here&#8217;s who eats it &#8212; and it&#8217;s not the people who built this. In 2008, Wall Street protected itself and Washington made sure &#8220;they get their golden parachutes.&#8221; The bill rolled downhill. Same script now: &#8220;the average everyday American is the one that&#8217;s going to take the hit,&#8221; gutted in the accounts he was quietly signed up for as the hedge funds cash out and move on.</p><p>Then the second punch. The Fed steps in to stop the bleeding &#8212; printing money, the 2008 playbook &#8212; and the dollars in your wallet buy less. Your account shrinks and your paycheck weakens at the same time. Bill calls it what it is: &#8220;a two-pronged approach to attacking your savings.&#8221;</p><p>Anyone shrugging this off, he says, is &#8220;being naive, if not something beyond that.&#8221;</p><p>But a crisis this convenient never arrives without the fix already prepared.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;81b175c5-b115-4406-a42e-07905218558b&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>When it crashes, Bill argues, the &#8220;solution&#8221; is already written &#8212; and it costs you control of your own money.</p><p>First, the bailout. He calls a government rescue of the AI giants &#8220;a foregone conclusion&#8221; &#8212; the 2008 bank rescue run back for companies now branded national security. Can&#8217;t let China win, so we can&#8217;t let them fail. And these are the same firms, he notes, bankrolling &#8220;just about every major politician&#8217;s run.&#8221; Who covers it? You do. Washington papers over the losses by printing new money &#8212; and Bill puts it flatly: &#8220;all they&#8217;re doing effectively is stealing from the American public.&#8221;</p><p>Then, the pitch. A wiped-out public, he warns, is an easy sell for a system offering &#8220;a little more control.&#8221; The pattern he traces: &#8220;an event, in this case a crash, creates fear, fear creates dependence, and then dependence creates acceptance.&#8221; The product on offer is a central bank digital currency, rolled out &#8220;under the guise of safety or efficiency.&#8221; He points straight at the COVID playbook: &#8220;don&#8217;t do any research, just trust us.&#8221;</p><p>Maria says the wiring is already going in. She counted &#8220;80 bills right now across all of the states that are all digital ID related,&#8221; plus age-verification laws she reads as the on-ramp. What makes it work, Bill adds, is AI that watches everyone at once and can &#8220;scan everything you do in every way, shape, or form.&#8221;</p><p>Add it up and you get money that can be programmed &#8212; money that, in Maria&#8217;s words, can be &#8220;tracked, frozen, or switched off.&#8221; Picture your card declined at the checkout not because you&#8217;re broke, but because someone flipped a switch. Whether or not it lands that way, their warning is one line: the crash isn&#8217;t the end of the story. It&#8217;s the excuse.</p><p>That&#8217;s the trap. The one thing still in your hands is how to stay out of it.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;7b9ca2a0-5f10-420e-8fdc-1b2b15770742&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Here&#8217;s what changes everything: you don&#8217;t have to be in this bet. </p><p>Sitting in the market as-is, Bill says, is &#8220;a passive choice if you&#8217;re staying where you&#8217;re at, but not one that you have to continue making.&#8221; You can walk out the moment you decide to.</p><p>His alternative is the oldest one there is. Gold and silver have thousands of years of value behind them; AI, he notes, is &#8220;purely speculative&#8221; &#8212; a few years old, with no idea what it finally produces. Gold, meanwhile, &#8220;has held its value through every currency change.&#8221; Silver has a twist: it&#8217;s the metal they need to build the AI everyone&#8217;s chasing. If AI booms, silver climbs because the data centers eat it up. If AI busts, gold does what gold always does. Heads or tails, you&#8217;re covered.</p><p>Then Maria adds the part people skip: this isn&#8217;t only about money. Leave your retirement where it sits and you&#8217;re &#8220;funding with your retirement a surveillance state&#8221; &#8212; paying, out of your own paycheck, to build the grid they&#8217;d use to track you. For a lot of people, that lands harder than any chart.</p><p>The one thing in the way is usually a person: your broker. Most won&#8217;t offer physical metal &#8212; they keep you in paper they control, and they&#8217;ll push back. People tell Bill they&#8217;re scared to even bring it up because their advisor will be upset. His answer: &#8220;it&#8217;s not their money. This is your money.&#8221; And: &#8220;I think people need to take a hands-on approach to their finances and be empowered.&#8221;</p><p>Which is where a lot of people are right now &#8212; done with the bet, unsure of step one. Step one is simpler than you&#8217;d expect.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;10d6e24f-385f-406d-bcfb-81f31fdf60f6&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad:</strong> Let me ask you something uncomfortable.</p><p>Have you ever hesitated to tell your financial advisor what you actually want to do with your own money?</p><p>Maybe you&#8217;ve already bought a little gold and silver. But your IRA? Your 401(k)? Those accounts are still on autopilot. And right now, autopilot means loaded up on AI stocks at the most concentrated valuations in market history.</p><p>So why haven&#8217;t you brought it up?</p><p>Here&#8217;s what Bill at Genesis Gold Group hears all the time: <em><strong>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to tell Bob. Bob&#8217;s going to get upset.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p>Think about what that sentence actually means. People afraid to tell their broker what they think they should do... <em><strong>with their own money.</strong></em></p><p>How backwards is that?</p><p>It&#8217;s not Bob&#8217;s retirement. It&#8217;s not Bob&#8217;s savings. And Bob pushes back because fund managers don&#8217;t sell physical gold and silver. They sell paper assets. The ones they control. The ones they collect fees on. Of course, they want to keep your money in-house.</p><p>Nobody is responsible for stewarding your money except you. Not your broker. Not your fund manager. You.</p><p>That&#8217;s what Genesis Gold Group&#8217;s philosophy is built on: you being in control of your own money. They&#8217;re not there to talk you into anything. They&#8217;re there to empower you to make your own decision about physical gold and silver, including inside your IRA or 401(k).</p><p>So here&#8217;s the first step: Go to <strong><a href="http://dailypulsegold.com">dailypulsegold.com</a></strong> and get the free guide.</p><p>It covers what&#8217;s really at stake, from the AI bubble to the coming digital ID system, and exactly how physical gold and silver work inside a retirement account.</p><p><strong><a href="http://Dailypulsegold.com.">Read it.</a></strong> Then have a conversation with Bill and ask him anything. Have the conversation Bob doesn&#8217;t want you to have.</p><p>It&#8217;s your money. Act like it. <strong><a href="http://Dailypulsegold.com.">Dailypulsegold.com.</a></strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;ddc81c5d-c19e-4827-950b-74a0cd1abd19&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><em>DISCLOSURE: This ad was paid for by Genesis Gold Group. We may earn a small commission when you shop through our sponsors. Thank you for your support.</em></p><div><hr></div><p>We want to thank <a href="http://dailypulsegold.com/">Bill Armour</a> for joining us today&#8212;and more importantly, we want to thank you for watching and doing your duty to be informed when so many others choose not to.</p><p>Follow us <span>(</span><a href="https://x.com/zeeemedia">@ZeeeMedia</a><span> and </span><a href="https://x.com/VigilantFox">@VigilantFox</a><span>)</span> for stories that matter&#8212;stories the media doesn&#8217;t want you to see.</p><p>We&#8217;ll be back with another show on Friday. 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Ed Dowd explains who put it there, and where the smart money is quietly heading.]]></description><link>https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/fake-economy-the-ai-bubble-holding</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/fake-economy-the-ai-bubble-holding</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[The Vigilant Fox]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:02:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/204187660/768f56cdee5995838a9d7f9c3e89bb33.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pull up your 401(k).</p><p>If it&#8217;s in an S&amp;P 500 fund, almost half of it is now riding on one bet: that AI pays off before the bill comes due.</p><p><strong><a href="https://x.com/DowdEdward">Ed Dowd</a> says it won&#8217;t.</strong></p><p>The economist and former Wall Street fund manager lays out the math. 45% of the index is AI or AI-adjacent. The whole thing is built on borrowed money. And the people who manage your retirement already wired your savings in, without asking you.</p><p>From the outside it looks fine. Market&#8217;s up. Headlines say the economy&#8217;s healthy.</p><p>Meanwhile, the people who read credit markets for a living are quietly moving to cash.</p><p>So what happens to your account when the bet everyone&#8217;s leaning on turns out to be the bubble?</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;6c4a2d06-033e-4dcb-8a6a-2f9c3bb62d31&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>The jobs numbers everyone is celebrating are fake, and the government&#8217;s own data proves it.</p><p>Maria called it &#8220;a completely fake economy,&#8221; and Dowd didn&#8217;t really push back. &#8220;Fake is an interesting word,&#8221; he said, before laying out the evidence.</p><p>There&#8217;s a report most people never hear about, the Quarterly Census of Earnings and Wages, that quietly corrects the jobs picture about nine months after the headline number everyone reacts to. When the honest 2024 figures landed, they missed the estimate by eight standard deviations, a gap so far outside normal it shouldn&#8217;t be possible. <strong>A huge share of the jobs the country was cheering were never actually there.</strong></p><p>&#8220;The numbers prove themselves out over time.&#8221; </p><p>Your cousin got laid off and the company blamed AI. Dowd says that&#8217;s just cover. Those firms were bloated and bleeding cash into their own AI spending, and they needed a reason to cut. AI is the alibi, not the killer.</p><p>And the tech itself? He&#8217;s not impressed. It was handed out cheap to get everyone hooked, the price climbed, and corporate America looked at the invoice and balked. An MIT study he cited found most corporate AI pilots delivered no return at all.</p><p><strong>&#8220;AI is a great technology, but it&#8217;s been overhyped,&#8221;</strong> he said. <strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s a commodity.&#8221;</strong></p><p>That&#8217;s exactly right. 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So who's left holding the bag when the hype finally meets the spreadsheet?</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;de5c7099-666a-4087-8fc1-fba927f721cd&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: Want to upgrade your health?</strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://rncstore.com/pulse">Richardson Nutritional Center</a></strong><span> has offered trusted, top-quality natural supplements for decades&#8212;supporting healing and wellness with everything from vitamins to therapeutic seeds.</span></p><p><span>Shop now at </span><strong><a href="https://rncstore.com/pulse">RNCstore.com</a></strong><span> and use code </span><strong>PULSE</strong><span> for 10% off sitewide!</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://rncstore.com/pulse" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png" width="1200" height="250" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:250,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:596465,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https://rncstore.com/pulse&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.vigilantfox.com/i/168661677?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://rncstore.com/pulse&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;See What RNCStore.com Has to Offer&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://rncstore.com/pulse"><span>See What RNCStore.com Has to Offer</span></a></p><p><em><strong>DISCLOSURE</strong><span>: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase through them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps keep our work independent. Thank you for your support.</span></em></p><div><hr></div><p>The cash funding the AI boom isn't coming from billionaires. It's the money in your retirement account.</p><p>When BlackRock's Larry Fink said pensions would have to help fund the AI revolution, Dowd's reply was that Fink is late. "It's already occurred." Pension funds, insurers, private credit, all of it has already been poured in. <strong>Your 401(k), your IRA, the index fund your employer picked for you,</strong> <strong>all wired in before anyone asked.</strong> You're a participant who never got a vote.</p><p>Worried about the SpaceX IPO swallowing your fund? You don&#8217;t have to be. Yes, NASDAQ bent its rules to fast-track it. But the S&amp;P held the line, and SpaceX has floated only about 5% of its shares. Too small to take up much room. If it gets cut in half, your fund barely feels it.</p><p>&#8220;So SpaceX isn&#8217;t the problem,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s just a symptom.&#8221;</p><p>We&#8217;ve seen this before. <strong>Bubbles are &#8220;a feature of capitalism, not a bug.&#8221;</strong> The dot-com boom built the cheap broadband that later ran your iPhone, but the companies that built it went bankrupt first and sold for pennies. The dreamers lost. The suppliers won.</p><p>&#8220;Who made the most money in the Gold Rush in California?&#8221; Dowd asked. &#8220;It was the pick and shovel guys.&#8221;</p><p>Today the pick-and-shovel guys are the chip makers. Dowd says Micron, a plain memory company, went from $60 billion to $1.1 trillion in about a year on a supply crunch. Not on profit. On debt, on the hope AI starts paying before the lenders want their money.</p><p>And lenders always want their money. What happens when they stop believing?</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;43707830-b2ad-471d-8f83-27b30cf9f239&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad</strong><span>: Want protection from surveillance, hacking, and even electromagnetic threats?</span></p><p><a href="https://escapezone.com/pulse/">Escape Zone</a><span>&#8217;s elite Faraday bags block GPS, Bluetooth, RFID skimming, and EMF&#8212;perfect for phones, laptops, wallets, and more.</span></p><p>Their premium ballistic backpack even combines Faraday shielding with Kevlar armor, giving you the upper hand in an unpredictable world.</p><p>Want to shield your body, too? 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If you make a purchase through them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps keep our work independent. Thank you for your support.</span></em></p><div><hr></div><p>A $2-to-$3 trillion slice of finance you&#8217;ve never heard of just froze, and Dowd says it's &#8220;the new subprime,&#8221; the same kind of hidden risk that blew up in 2008.</p><p>It&#8217;s called private credit. Regulators told banks to stop making risky loans, so the risky lending moved into private funds where nobody can see it. You put money in thinking you can pull it out. You can&#8217;t. Withdrawals get &#8220;gated&#8221; the second too many people ask.</p><p><strong>&#8220;Private credit, unfortunately, is frozen,&#8221;</strong> he said.</p><p>It cracked open in late 2025 when lenders like First Brands and Tricolor Auto collapsed, some with fraud attached. Investors finally read the books and stopped writing checks. Dowd isn&#8217;t a lone voice here. He pointed to PIMCO&#8217;s chief investment officer, who warned <strong>&#8220;the credit default cycle has begun and it&#8217;ll be worse than people think.&#8221;</strong></p><p>This reaches your street. Less credit, more defaults, a squeeze on the real economy. Housing&#8217;s already locked up. &#8220;Home prices need to contract 30% before people can really afford them,&#8221; Dowd said. <strong>Your kid can&#8217;t buy a house at today&#8217;s prices</strong>.</p><p>Then the war stacked on top. The oil shock pushed gas prices up, and the fertilizer disruption hasn&#8217;t reached the shelf yet. Both he and Maria expect it in food prices well into 2027.</p><p>People already feel it. Maria sees it firsthand: &#8220;I&#8217;m talking to people who say that they can&#8217;t afford tomatoes.&#8221;</p><p>Two economies now. The one on the ticker, and the one at your checkout line. How long can they stay this far apart?</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;9ec7b10e-d17d-4d5a-ab1f-202ad9f461d3&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>The COVID-19 reckoning everyone was promised got quietly buried, and Dowd's done waiting for anyone in power to dig it back up.</p><p><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m deeply disappointed in everything COVID and COVID vaccine related from this administration,&#8221;</strong> he said. He calls Trump &#8220;Mr. Operation Warp Speed&#8221; and notes &#8220;he&#8217;s never admitted that the vax caused any harms.&#8221; He points to a cancer-search-index spike he traces back to spring 2021, and to Senator Ron Johnson&#8217;s finding that the FDA hid safety signals.</p><p>It reaches your kitchen all the same. The new mRNA flu shots are headed for the pharmacy counter you pass on every grocery run. Dowd is worried enough that he told his own son, <strong>&#8220;don&#8217;t take the flu shot,&#8221; &#8220;you can&#8217;t take any shots anymore.&#8221;</strong></p><p>His answer to all of it isn&#8217;t panic. It&#8217;s to exit. &#8220;Taking our own health into our own hands, opting out of the system.&#8221; Stop waiting for the people in charge, he says, because the deep state is &#8220;embedded like ticks.&#8221; He goes further, pointing to Catherine Austin Fitts and her warning that <strong>the AI buildout is really &#8220;the control grid, the slave system,&#8221;</strong> and to his own fear that if the bubble pops and the government buys the wreckage cheap, that theory stops sounding crazy.</p><p>He&#8217;s launching a Substack to keep swinging, fittingly named <a href="https://eddowdbeyondthenarrative.substack.com/">Beyond the Narrative</a>.</p><p>The smart money is already moving to safety. What are you waiting for?</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;144d88f6-ee50-4701-8a94-7413fce4a730&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: Health insurance in America is broken</strong><span>.</span></p><p>Over 200,000 Americans go bankrupt because of medical bills every year&#8212;and many of them already had insurance. On average, 20% of claims are denied, leaving families stuck paying massive out-of-pocket costs after spending thousands on premiums.</p><p>But there&#8217;s an alternative.</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse">CrowdHealth</a><span> is a community-powered model that has helped members fund over 40,000 medical bills at a fraction of the cost of traditional insurance.</span></strong></p><p><strong>So far, 30,000+ members have been helped, saving an estimated $73 million in medical costs.</strong></p><p>CrowdHealth isn&#8217;t insurance. 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The answer is hidden in a 2009 law, and it's exactly why families are walking away from insurance entirely.]]></description><link>https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/health-insurers-turned-loan-sharks</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/health-insurers-turned-loan-sharks</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[The Vigilant Fox]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:36:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/203604627/8527c1627d643bc169c64bc886b57ea7.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>NOTE: Thank you for supporting this sponsored interview, which keeps this website running to bring you uncensored news.</em></p><p>You may have missed this news recently - the health insurance system in America is so broken, that the Trump administration is quietly rewriting the Affordable Care Act and buried deep in a monstrous 1,000+ page document is a ploy to let health insurance companies start lending money to patients to pay for their medical care. <br><br>That's right: if you get hit with a devastating diagnosis or an unexpected emergency, your "insurance" company won't just pay the bill... they'll offer you a loan instead. So you can go deeper into debt to the very same industry that's already failing you.<br><br>Let me say that again. You pay health insurance so that you'll be insured in a time of a health crisis. Already, health insurers are denying nearly 20% of claims and out of pocket expenses keep rising. So instead of them paying your bill, which is what you pay the insurance for, they'll now be incentivized to deny even more bills or raise out of pocket expenses in order to cash in on the interest they'll be collecting.<br><br>A third of American households are already drowning in medical debt &#8212; and now insurers get to pile on even more, with interest. While these companies rake in billions in profits, everyday people will be trapped paying back loans for the care they thought was "covered." This isn't fixing healthcare.<br><br>This is turning your health insurer into your loan shark &#8212; and making an already predatory, dysfunctional system even more financially crushing for ordinary Americans. Classic "you get sick, you go broke" American healthcare &#8212; now with extra debt servitude.<br><br>On the plus side, there is a company that is providing a solution to this problem. <strong><a href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse">CrowdHealth</a></strong>, a member focused health care company is saving Americans tens of thousands of dollars, and in May of this year 100% of medical bills were funded. <br>No loans needed. No exorbitant premiums. No crazy out of pocket expenses. A model that is actually working, is not throwing Americans into bankruptcy because of an unexpected health event, is saving people money, and getting them the health care they need. </p><p>Andy Schoonover from CrowdHealth joins us now to discuss.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;0214bcf7-4fee-497f-8768-a8b246634016&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>A billionaire recently mused that the ultra-wealthy get the top doctors, the best lawyers, the elite tutors, and wondered aloud what it would take to give every American that kind of access. Andy&#8217;s answer is that it already exists, just not the way Reid Hoffman imagines it.</p><p>Inside <strong><a href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse">CrowdHealth</a></strong>, your income doesn&#8217;t decide your doctor. <strong>&#8220;Whether you&#8217;re making $30,000 a year or $3 million a year, you have access to the same doctors.&#8221;</strong> Members up and down the economic ladder have walked into Mayo, MD Anderson, Stanford, Cleveland Clinic.</p><p>The real threat to that access isn&#8217;t money. It&#8217;s bureaucracy. As government plans expand, the best doctors are quietly heading for the exits. Mayo Clinic recently dropped a slate of Medicare Advantage plans rather than swallow the government&#8217;s reimbursement rates. Andy&#8217;s read on the pattern is blunt: &#8220;Free markets tend to exit stage left and the government bureaucracy enters as the main character.&#8221;</p><p>His prediction is that within a decade the top doctors stop taking insurance entirely. CrowdHealth&#8217;s bet is that members who already pay doctors directly are built for exactly that world.</p><p>But cash-pay only matters if the money actually arrives when you&#8217;re the one in the hospital bed. So how does a crowd of strangers guarantee your bill gets paid?</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;5468ddc6-f263-4373-8d32-606bc12b591a&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: Health insurance in America is broken</strong><span>.</span></p><p>Over 200,000 Americans go bankrupt because of medical bills every year&#8212;and many of them already had insurance. On average, 20% of claims are denied, leaving families stuck paying massive out-of-pocket costs after spending thousands on premiums.</p><p>But there&#8217;s an alternative.</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse">CrowdHealth</a> is a community-powered model that has helped members fund over 40,000 medical bills at a fraction of the cost of traditional insurance.</strong></p><p><strong>So far, 30,000+ members have been helped, saving an estimated $73 million in medical costs.</strong></p><p>CrowdHealth isn&#8217;t insurance. It&#8217;s a way to step outside the broken system and take control of your healthcare.</p><p>Get started today for $99 per member per month for the first three months.</p><p><span>Go to </span><strong><a href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse">joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse</a></strong><span> and use code PULSE.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1dQF!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9b2fa17-f058-497e-8643-00e2dc309b0d_1200x250.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1dQF!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9b2fa17-f058-497e-8643-00e2dc309b0d_1200x250.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1dQF!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9b2fa17-f058-497e-8643-00e2dc309b0d_1200x250.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1dQF!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9b2fa17-f058-497e-8643-00e2dc309b0d_1200x250.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1dQF!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9b2fa17-f058-497e-8643-00e2dc309b0d_1200x250.png" width="1200" height="250" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b9b2fa17-f058-497e-8643-00e2dc309b0d_1200x250.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:250,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:254574,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.vigilantfox.com/i/190039463?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9b2fa17-f058-497e-8643-00e2dc309b0d_1200x250.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1dQF!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9b2fa17-f058-497e-8643-00e2dc309b0d_1200x250.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1dQF!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9b2fa17-f058-497e-8643-00e2dc309b0d_1200x250.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1dQF!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9b2fa17-f058-497e-8643-00e2dc309b0d_1200x250.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1dQF!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9b2fa17-f058-497e-8643-00e2dc309b0d_1200x250.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Get Started Today!&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse"><span>Get Started Today!</span></a></p><p><em><strong>DISCLOSURE:</strong><span> This ad was paid for by CrowdHealth. Thank you for supporting our sponsors.</span></em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong>The people who sell you healthcare and the people who supposedly pay for it both want your bills to go up</strong>. That isn&#8217;t dysfunction. That&#8217;s the design.</p><p>Hospitals wanting higher prices is obvious. The twist is the insurer. Under the 2009 health law, an insurer&#8217;s profit is capped as a slice of what it collects from you. When your profit is limited to a percentage of the premium, there&#8217;s only one way to grow it: collect a bigger premium. <strong>Higher healthcare prices are what justify higher premiums.</strong> So the company you&#8217;re counting on to fight the bill is quietly rooting for it to climb.</p><p>&#8220;They actually want the prices of healthcare to go up.&#8221; </p><p><strong>&#8220;There is no incentive for them to see the prices of healthcare go down because that impacts their profit.&#8221;</strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse">CrowdHealth</a></strong> runs on a flat monthly fee, which means it only makes money by keeping you happy enough to stay. The whole machine is pointed the other direction.</p><p>The clearest proof of what the broken version costs isn&#8217;t a statistic. It&#8217;s a man who was told to go home and die.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;997233e7-70b7-45ff-827c-dcc212932db3&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>A man with stage 4 cancer was about to be moved to palliative care, end-of-life care, because his doctor wouldn&#8217;t run the tests that might change the plan. The reason wasn&#8217;t medicine. By the time insurance approved the scans, the doctor figured, it would already be too late to act on them.</p><p><strong>So the patient said he&#8217;d pay cash. The scans happened. The treatment changed. &#8220;Now here we are. The guy is cancer-free.&#8221;</strong></p><p>&#8220;I think people are losing their lives over it, candidly.&#8221;</p><p>The financial version of that story plays out hundreds of thousands of times a year. <strong>&#8220;Somewhere around 200,000 to 250,000 families that have health insurance go bankrupt every year due to a medical expense.&#8221;</strong> These are insured families. The coverage was supposed to be the thing that prevented this.</p><p>Which is what makes the government&#8217;s new fix so revealing. Instead of forcing insurers to pay, the plan lets you borrow. <strong>The system is broken enough that the official answer to &#8220;my insurance won&#8217;t cover this&#8221; is now &#8220;here&#8217;s a loan.&#8221;</strong></p><p>Andy knows the trap personally. He started the company after that same system handed him an $8,000 bill for ear tubes his daughter needed to keep her hearing, then refused to pay it. <strong>Most families don&#8217;t have $8,000 sitting in an account.</strong> </p><p>His answer is to pull the money out of the insurer&#8217;s hands and put it back in yours. Once you see how that works, the bigger picture snaps into focus.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;267545b4-3f62-4a4e-90ab-748eb78095bf&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>The real disruption here isn&#8217;t cheaper bills. It&#8217;s who the leftover money belongs to.</p><p>Each month, members are asked to cover the community&#8217;s actual needs, capped but rarely maxed. The ceiling for a family of four is $420. This month the ask is $225. What&#8217;s left doesn&#8217;t disappear into a corporate balance sheet. </p><p><strong>&#8220;In our system, you get to keep that money and you can do with it whatever you want.&#8221;</strong> </p><p>In the insurance world, that same gap is the company&#8217;s profit.</p><p>As the community grows, it accumulates the two things the rest of the system keeps hidden: <strong>real prices and real outcomes</strong>. <strong><a href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse">CrowdHealth</a></strong> members learn which surgeon charges a fair price and which one quietly runs up the bill. They can even find out &#8220;if your OB has done 5 times the number of C-sections as this other OB,&#8221; the kind of thing worth knowing before you choose who delivers your baby.</p><p>Multiply that across enough people and, for once, the pressure runs the other way. As Maria put it, the model is <strong>&#8220;forcing doctors and specialists to be fair in their pricing.&#8221;</strong> </p><p>The system spent decades teaching Americans they have no power here. This is the first model in a long time built to hand some of it back.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;99a2dddf-cd29-4c53-9262-e9f15109abf5&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: There is a serious problem with health insurance in America.</strong></p><p>Every year, more than 200,000 Americans are pushed into bankruptcy by medical bills, and plenty of them were insured the whole time. On average, 20% of claims get denied, leaving families to cover huge out-of-pocket costs even after pouring thousands into premiums.</p><p>But there&#8217;s a better option.</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse">CrowdHealth</a> is a community-powered model that has helped members fund over 40,000 medical bills at a fraction of the cost of traditional insurance.</strong></p><p><strong>So far, 30,000+ members have been helped, saving an estimated $73 million in medical costs.</strong></p><p>CrowdHealth isn&#8217;t insurance. It&#8217;s a way to step outside the broken system and take back control of your healthcare.</p><p>Get started today for $99 per member per month for your first three months.</p><p>Head to <a href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse">joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse</a> and use code PULSE.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;9cdfb6ac-3bfc-44d7-bd00-b1c8dc18c436&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Get Started Today!&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse"><span>Get Started Today!</span></a></p><p><em><strong>DISCLOSURE:</strong> This ad was paid for by CrowdHealth. Thank you for supporting our sponsors.</em></p><div><hr></div><p>We want to thank <a href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse">Andy Schoonover</a> for joining us today&#8212;and more importantly, we want to thank you for watching and doing your duty to be informed when so many others choose not to.</p><p>Follow us <span>(</span><a href="https://x.com/zeeemedia">@ZeeeMedia</a><span> and </span><a href="https://x.com/VigilantFox">@VigilantFox</a><span>) </span>for stories that matter&#8212;stories the media doesn&#8217;t want you to see.</p><p>We&#8217;ll be back with another show on Monday. See you then.</p><h3><strong>Watch the full interview:</strong></h3><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;b55c40ed-be29-4f4e-9c33-4fecafc8aa16&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/health-insurers-turned-loan-sharks?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/health-insurers-turned-loan-sharks?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><div class="embedded-publication-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:975571,&quot;embedding_publication_id&quot;:null,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;The Vigilant Fox&quot;,&quot;logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yavp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0757593a-0033-41d3-a857-9f5d0d408224_588x588.png&quot;,&quot;base_url&quot;:&quot;https://www.vigilantfox.com&quot;,&quot;hero_text&quot;:&quot;Stories the mainstream buries. 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Banned during COVID. Built and led by a healthcare professional turned citizen journalist.</div></a><form class="embedded-publication-subscribe" method="GET" action="https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?"><input type="hidden" name="source" value="publication-embed"><input type="hidden" name="autoSubmit" value="true"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email..."><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[EXCLUSIVE: There's a Score Attached to Your Name Online, and You're Not Allowed to See It | Daily Pulse]]></title><description><![CDATA[It rates you, ranks you, and decides who gets to see you &#8212; no appeal, no human to call, no way to even know it's happening. Now, one journalist is suing to drag the whole machine into the light.]]></description><link>https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/exclusive-theres-a-score-attached</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/exclusive-theres-a-score-attached</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[The Vigilant Fox]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:21:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/202867114/e0958737437b2e9c8b21ae12aa92be55.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Something is deciding what you're allowed to see online &#8212; and it isn't you.</strong></p><p>You follow an account because you trust it. Then the posts stop arriving, the view count slides a little lower every day, and searching the person&#8217;s own name doesn&#8217;t even surface them. Most people assume the creator faded. <a href="https://sarahwestall.com/">Sarah Westall</a> says they were filtered &#8212; quietly, deliberately, by a system you were never meant to notice.</p><p>Westall is a journalist with more than 1,500 episodes and over 100 million downloads, and she&#8217;s now suing Google in an antitrust case with one goal: force into open court the actual mechanism behind the shadow banning, and the hand that operates it. </p><p>What she&#8217;s describing doesn&#8217;t stop at journalists. It reaches small businesses, political candidates, and the comment you left this morning that went nowhere for reasons no one will explain.</p><p><strong>You&#8217;re being told to trust systems that are quietly working against you.</strong> </p><p>What Sarah found about how the censorship actually works is the part nobody was supposed to see.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;f4b8e5a0-11e4-4b0d-9009-bce5181258b2&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>On October 15, 2020, a wave of takedowns hit independent media all at once. Sarah calls it <strong>&#8220;the day the internet died.&#8221;</strong> A group of them &#8212; she counts around 15 &#8212; sued Google after the purge, and their combined reach wasn&#8217;t fringe. &#8220;We had more views than mainstream media did on cable,&#8221; she says. &#8220;We were a powerhouse and they had to take us down.&#8221;</p><p>With the big independent voices gone, the platforms gave the mainstream outlets time to move back in and seed their own players across the internet &#8212; quietly reshaping what shows up in front of you today.</p><p>The suppression doesn&#8217;t care how good the work is. <strong>&#8220;No matter how good our journalism is, no matter how much we are truthful, They suppress us &#8216;cause it&#8217;s not the narrative they want out there.</strong>&#8221;</p><p>Two legal shifts turned that instinct into a system. Sarah points to the 2012 update to the <strong>Smith-Mundt Act,</strong> which she says lifted the old wall against the government aiming domestic messaging at its own citizens. Pair that with <strong>Section 230</strong>, the shield that protects big tech from liability for what it filters, and you get a machine that can push an approved message and bury anyone countering it &#8212; at the same time.</p><p><strong>&#8220;Now you have the ability to do propaganda and the ability to censor those who are counteracting that propaganda.&#8221;</strong></p><p>But knowing a machine exists and proving how it runs are two different fights. The second one is where Sarah says the real evidence is hiding.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;9070db50-6eb2-4e2f-be1b-7d9c2c9ae272&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: </strong><span>The biggest financial threat facing most Americans isn&#8217;t a stock market crash.</span></p><p>It&#8217;s waking up one day to find your savings trapped inside a digital financial system you don&#8217;t control.</p><p><span>That&#8217;s why Genesis Gold Group created a </span><strong>free Digital Dollar Defense and AI Survival Bundle</strong><span>. Learn why more Americans are moving a portion of their retirement savings into physical gold and silver, and what a future digital dollar could mean for your privacy, freedom, and financial security.</span></p><p><strong><a href="http://dailypulsegold.com/">Get your free copies at DailyPulseGold.com.</a></strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;16dce604-7226-48d4-b1ea-39d84904df66&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>There&#8217;s a score attached to your name, and you can&#8217;t see it or argue with it.</strong></p><p>Sarah describes a widely used &#8220;Bias Fact Checker&#8221; that rates journalists for trustworthiness and feeds that rating into browsers, AI systems, libraries, and universities. <strong>&#8220;There&#8217;s nobody you can talk to.&#8221;</strong> No appeal. No human on the other end.</p><p>What it flagged in her case is the tell. The article it scored her on was built almost entirely from direct quotes by DARPA&#8217;s own scientists, accurately laying out what the program actually does. The other two items it judged her on, she says, weren&#8217;t even hers &#8212; one was someone else&#8217;s website, the other an article she didn&#8217;t write. Accurate reporting, marked as misinformation, then wired into the tools that decide who stays visible.</p><p>This is the quiet part of censorship. It isn&#8217;t a dramatic ban you can point to. It&#8217;s a filter applied before anyone gets to choose &#8212; <strong>scoring not just journalists but &#8220;everyday people that comment wrong,&#8221; until their reach simply flatlines.</strong></p><p>And the stakes aren&#8217;t hypothetical. Sarah points to the recent release of documents by Tulsi Gabbard that she says show the U.S. government had funded biolabs overseas &#8212; the same claim platforms once worked overtime to suppress. <strong>&#8220;It came out that it was true all along.</strong>&#8221; The reporting that got throttled was the reporting that turned out to be right.</p><p>That&#8217;s the system keeping you quiet. Destroying you on purpose is the next level &#8212; and Sarah was about to find out how it feels.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;aa9b6f2a-01b8-4882-9942-6adacbb5dade&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>While Sarah couldn&#8217;t get her own channel reinstated, copies of her were thriving.</p><p>She describes <strong>four fake &#8220;Sarah Westall&#8221; channels built to look like hers</strong> &#8212; two of them monetized, reposting her content and earning money off it. Her real channel stayed down as &#8220;dangerous.&#8221; <strong>The fakes stayed up and got paid.</strong></p><p>After her attorneys sent formal letters to Google, she says the search results didn&#8217;t get cleaned up &#8212; they got worse. Obscure smear videos she&#8217;d never seen climbed to the front page, alongside content from a fringe channel that spliced her name next to graphic, <strong>degrading material engineered to make a serious journalist look like anything but.</strong></p><p>At first she wondered if it was just her &#8212; <strong>&#8220;Am I imagining this?</strong>&#8221; So she had people across the country pull it up on their own phones. Friends in California, Texas, South Carolina were all seeing the same smear on the same front page, every time. It was not a glitch. It was a campaign.</p><p>The point of it all, she believes, was the message itself: <strong>&#8220;We can do whatever we want to you and there&#8217;s nothing anybody can ever do to us.&#8221;</strong> And the legal letters didn&#8217;t slow it down &#8212; &#8220;they escalated it.&#8221;</p><p>That&#8217;s the moment the lawsuit stopped being about her. <strong>&#8220;If they can do this to me, they can do it to anyone.&#8221;</strong> Decide to smear someone, and the same machinery does the rest.</p><p>Which raises the question a lot of people figured was settled the moment Elon Musk took over Twitter and Trump won back the White House &#8212; wasn&#8217;t the censorship supposed to be over?</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;083c3214-40fd-460a-b254-2da7cc4da29a&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: </strong><span>What good is health insurance if it doesn&#8217;t pay your medical bills?</span><br><br><strong><span>Thousands of Americans are leaving the traditional insurance system and joining CrowdHealth</span></strong><span>, where members help fund each other&#8217;s healthcare costs.</span><br><br><span>More than 28,000 members have already used it, with a </span><strong><span>99.9% funding success rate</span></strong><span>.</span><br><br><span>Get started today for just $99 per month for your first three months at </span><strong><a href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse">https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse</a></strong><span>.</span><br><br><span>Use promo code </span><strong><a href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse">PULSE</a></strong><span> to claim this limited-time deal.</span></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;4eddf895-89d2-4066-a456-ab5705a9cb0e&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>The change in leadership didn&#8217;t end the censorship. In some ways it just rebranded it.</strong></p><p>The promised &#8220;digital Bill of Rights&#8221; never arrived, and bills for digital ID and age verification are now moving at both the federal and state level &#8212; several of them pushed by Trump allies.</p><p>The X takeover fits the same template. To a lot of users it looked like free speech came back. What Sarah and Maria describe is a swap &#8212; the old mainstream press replaced by paid influencer networks that are <strong>&#8220;much cheaper than the mainstream media, much easier to buy and compromise.&#8221;</strong> </p><p>Sarah puts it in historical terms. &#8220;They come in when they wanna take power, they take over the media. First thing they do is take over the media.&#8221; New tech, she says, just makes the old playbook more efficient.</p><p><strong>This is why nothing ever seems to actually change.</strong> Maria points to the SAVE Act &#8212; a voting bill that was part of Trump's own agenda, then blocked by Republicans, with Trump saying nothing against the ones who killed it. She also referenced a recent Epstein hearing where witnesses came to testify and the very Republicans who'd spent years vowing to expose the files didn't show. The conclusion is one plenty of readers have quietly reached on their own: &#8220;<strong>Everything is theater and nothing of serious substance that helps the people is achieved most of the time.&#8221;</strong></p><p>Underneath all of it sits one collapsing asset &#8212; trust. When the courts stop working, when people stop believing their vote matters, when a connected few look untouchable, institutions don&#8217;t just lose an argument. They lose their authority. </p><p>However, Sarah believes the public can win again. <strong>&#8220;We won COVID, we really did, in the hearts and minds of people.&#8221;</strong> But the next round won&#8217;t be fought over cat memes. The same players are now sitting on AI tools &#8220;far more advanced&#8221; than anything the public gets to touch &#8212; and the grotesque caricature search engines built of her is a small preview of what synthetic media could build of anyone.</p><p><strong>The machine that decides what you see is about to get far more powerful.</strong> That&#8217;s exactly why her case is bigger than her &#8212; it may be the last real chance to drag it into open court before it&#8217;s too entrenched to stop.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;7e942ebc-57df-4d69-8d26-38d328f73a71&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Sarah&#8217;s case could force Google to open the black box and show the world exactly how it decides who vanishes.</p><p>That&#8217;s what this lawsuit is really chasing &#8212; not a settlement, but the truth, under oath. <strong>Discovery would drag the whole machine into the ligh</strong>t: sworn testimony, internal documents, the actual code and policies behind who gets buried and who gets boosted. The thing they&#8217;ve spent years pretending doesn&#8217;t exist.</p><p>Which is exactly why they&#8217;re fighting so hard to keep it from ever getting there. Google is already trying to move the case out of DC to California, with a motion to dismiss lined up behind it. <strong>&#8220;They&#8217;re gonna throw every single wrench at us they possibly can.&#8221;</strong></p><p>If there were nothing under the hood, they&#8217;d open it.</p><p>As Sherri Tenpenny told Sarah: <strong>&#8220;you&#8217;re fighting for the country, you shouldn&#8217;t have to pay for it yourself.&#8221;</strong></p><p>Support the mission at <strong><a href="https://sarahwestall.com/lawsuit/">sarahwestall.com/lawsuit</a></strong>, or through her campaign on <strong><a href="https://www.givesendgo.com/EndGovCoercion">GiveSendGo</a></strong>. Then send it to every person whose feed went quiet and never knew why.</p><p>Because the lesson here is clear: <strong>the systems you&#8217;re told to trust can flip a switch on you. They&#8217;ve done it to her voice. And your money is wired to the very same switch.</strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;5ee65416-a01e-4cac-a287-c1383470ee7d&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>We want to thank <a href="https://sarahwestall.com/">Sarah Westall</a> for joining us today&#8212;and more importantly, we want to thank you for watching and doing your duty to be informed when so many others choose not to.</p><p>Follow us <span>(</span><a href="https://x.com/zeeemedia">@ZeeeMedia</a><span> and </span><a href="https://x.com/VigilantFox">@VigilantFox</a><span>) </span>for stories that matter&#8212;stories the media doesn&#8217;t want you to see.</p><p>We&#8217;ll be back with another show tomorrow. 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Built and led by a healthcare professional turned citizen journalist.</div></a><form class="embedded-publication-subscribe" method="GET" action="https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?"><input type="hidden" name="source" value="publication-embed"><input type="hidden" name="autoSubmit" value="true"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email..."><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[EXCLUSIVE: Secret Leak Suggests Elites Are Planning a New War | Daily Pulse]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Strait of Hormuz reopened &#8212; but Michael Yon says the real war is just starting, and it's headed for your gas tank, your grocery bill, and your front door.]]></description><link>https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/exclusive-secret-leak-suggests-elites</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/exclusive-secret-leak-suggests-elites</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[The Vigilant Fox]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:20:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/203117173/07c33612e1c1f79572625ca00811e605.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While many are celebrating peace, perhaps they&#8217;ve forgotten what the Strait of Hormuz being closed for that long actually does. </p><p>The fertilizer. The hit to food supplies worldwide, to food prices, to gas prices &#8212; none of it is slated to return to normal any time soon. </p><p>And by the way: there are parties to this conflict who don&#8217;t agree with the MoU, so it remains to be seen what happens on that front.<br><br>But war correspondent <a href="https://michaelyon.substack.com/">Michael Yon</a> says one thing is certain &#8212; <strong>this was always about routes and resources, and war is not going away</strong>.<br><br>He joins us now to discuss.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;8e25d0ec-6640-4227-b3c2-637d5ac9227e&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Yon doesn&#8217;t hedge. The U.S.&#8211;Iran deal everyone&#8217;s celebrating? &#8220;Just ephemeral static. That&#8217;s jamming signal. That&#8217;s just a waste of time.&#8221; Flat out: &#8220;<strong>there&#8217;s not going to be any peace</strong>.&#8221;</p><p>Why so sure? He grew up hunting alligators. Tie a dog to a tree by the water in Florida and the gator takes it &#8212; every time, no matter the dog&#8217;s size. It&#8217;s just what gators do. Some spots on the map are the same: <strong>the violence is built into the location, not the players.</strong></p><p>Every war, he says, comes down to three things: <strong>routes, resources, and ideology</strong> &#8212; and ideology is just people, the top resource there is. &#8220;The number one resource in the world is human resources.&#8221; Control the people, and you get the rest.</p><p>That&#8217;s what the Middle East is. The Strait of Hormuz, the Suez, the canals still on the drawing board &#8212; <strong>these are doorways for the world&#8217;s oil and goods</strong>. Whoever owns the doorway sets the toll, and that toll lands on your gas tank and your grocery bill. He calls the region &#8220;Panama on steroids&#8221; &#8212; a chokepoint sitting on a treasure chest.</p><p>So it&#8217;s a &#8220;standing war&#8221; &#8212; permanent to the place, like the wave that always sits where a river meets the sea. Clear out everyone living there today, drop in total strangers, and they&#8217;ll fight over the same dirt. &#8220;We&#8217;re the same bears fighting over the same caves and the same rivers.&#8221;</p><p>Which is why the names in the news don&#8217;t matter. &#8220;Trump doesn&#8217;t matter, Netanyahu doesn&#8217;t matter.&#8221; The war runs anyway &#8212; &#8220;with or without Israel, with or without Saudi Arabia, with or without Iran.&#8221;</p><p>If the peace deal is the decoy, what&#8217;s the real target?</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;fa737bb3-c987-41b9-a05b-56eddf594ed5&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: </strong><span data-color="rgb(54, 55, 55)" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">What good is health insurance if it doesn&#8217;t pay your medical bills?</span><br><br><strong><span data-color="rgb(54, 55, 55)" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">Thousands of Americans are leaving the traditional insurance system and joining CrowdHealth</span></strong><span data-color="rgb(54, 55, 55)" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">, where members help fund each other&#8217;s healthcare costs.</span><br><br><span data-color="rgb(54, 55, 55)" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">More than 28,000 members have already used it, with a </span><strong><span data-color="rgb(54, 55, 55)" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">99.9% funding success rate</span></strong><span data-color="rgb(54, 55, 55)" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">.</span><br><br><span data-color="rgb(54, 55, 55)" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">Get started today for just $99 per month for your first three months at </span><strong><a href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse">https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse</a></strong><span data-color="rgb(54, 55, 55)" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">.</span><br><br><span data-color="rgb(54, 55, 55)" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">Use promo code </span><strong><a href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse">PULSE</a></strong><span data-color="rgb(54, 55, 55)" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55);"> to claim this limited-time deal.</span></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;3cec4582-4a13-432a-a9bc-ba1ae113f841&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>The real goal isn&#8217;t oil. It&#8217;s depopulation.</strong></p><p>Energy is a side effect. Debt is a side effect. Depopulation is the thing underneath.</p><p>The obvious objection &#8212; why would elites kill off their own taxpayers? <strong>Because they don&#8217;t need your taxes. &#8220;Taxes are about control.&#8221;</strong> They print the money; the tax bill just tells you how to behave. So the &#8220;wrecking their own tax base&#8221; logic doesn&#8217;t apply.</p><p>And he&#8217;s not guessing. &#8220;They say it, they write it, they do it.&#8221; The fertilizer plants that keep catching fire. The food supply shrinking. Said out loud, then done.</p><p>Maria ties it to her team&#8217;s <a href="https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/exclusive-the-data-center-and-smart">data-center report</a>. Those giant server farms going up in farm country aren&#8217;t neutral &#8212; they drain the water, power, and land out from under rural towns until people can&#8217;t afford to stay, and they drift into the &#8220;smart cities&#8221; where every move is tracked live. </p><p>Yon goes one step past that. The server farms aren&#8217;t just watching you. &#8220;Those data centers are about targeting.&#8221; </p><p><strong>&#8220;They&#8217;re going to kill everybody.&#8221;</strong> Drones, jabs, whatever&#8217;s on hand &#8212; and he means it literally.</p><p>Sound too big to be real? This month, a leak named the people behind it.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;9c667594-ae9f-4280-989c-37b817a11115&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>A data breach last week put faces on the people planning it.</p><p><strong>The leak exposed a private society of 200-plus global elites</strong> &#8212; reportedly Elon Musk and Jared Kushner among them &#8212; with its own matchmaking app and off-the-record retreats. The agenda, as Maria reads it: <strong>panels on building cults, on prepping for a coming global war, on battlefield tech and bringing back nukes</strong>. </p><p>Is a larger war really coming? According to Yon,  absolutely. <strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s clearly in the pipeline. I mean, we&#8217;re in it.&#8221;</strong></p><p>He spent years studying cults &#8212; even lived inside one in California to learn how they run. <strong>&#8220;Nobody ever sees the cult that they&#8217;re in.&#8221;</strong> You can spot everyone else&#8217;s. Never your own.</p><p>Then he aims that lens at the place most of us trust without thinking: the delivery room. Hospitals push every mother to give birth on-site, he says, because the placenta and umbilical cord are worth a fortune &#8212; stem cells and other products. They clamp that cord early and harvest it while it&#8217;s still feeding your newborn. His word for it: <strong>&#8220;straight up cannibalism.&#8221;</strong></p><p>So who&#8217;s the cult &#8212; the Amish, or the system selling your baby&#8217;s body parts?</p><p>That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re up against. <strong>The real question is how you get out before the doors close around you.</strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;8d40f42d-d9c4-4146-9dd3-8ffb44bdb88d&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad:</strong><span> You can&#8217;t stop them from building the grid &#8212; but you can decide when you&#8217;re on it.</span></p><p><span>Escape Zone makes premium Faraday bags that put you back in control: your phone, your cards, your laptop, detectable only when </span><em>you</em><span> say so. EMPs, tracking, skimming, identity theft &#8212; blocked. From crossbody bags to ballistic Kevlar backpacks to EMF beanies and blankets, this is preparedness for the world we actually live in.</span></p><p><strong><a href="http://escapezone.com/pulse">Protect yourself and the people you love at escapezone.com/pulse.</a></strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;c40f9b38-c92a-4f40-b46b-533f74e56271&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>So how do you get out before the grid closes? <strong>By being hard to track &#8212; and that starts in your wallet.</strong></p><p>Pay cash, not card. Every swipe is a log entry. Catherine Austin Fitz hammers this on her Solari Report, and Yon backs it. Fight the data centers coming to your county &#8212; kill those, you kill the surveillance grid at the source. <strong>Grow some of your own food.</strong> Get hard to herd.</p><p>&#8220;But they&#8217;ll never let you live off-grid.&#8221; Maybe not. But you should try anyway &#8212; the alternative is moving into a smart city to be managed. Yon doesn&#8217;t soften the risk: <strong>they &#8220;will obviously come to kill us.&#8221;</strong> That&#8217;s the reason to start now, not the reason to fold.</p><p>And understand how they see you &#8212; not as a citizen, but the way Yuval Harari talks about most people: <strong>&#8220;useless eaters.&#8221;</strong> Run every nudge toward dependence through that lens and it stops looking like convenience.</p><p>What&#8217;s the war actually about? Not debt, not even energy. <strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s about ruling the world. It&#8217;s about living forever.&#8221;</strong> The oldest game there is, in new clothes.</p><p>Maria caps it in one line:</p><p><strong>&#8220;Good luck with that, guys, because you ain&#8217;t God.&#8221;</strong></p><p>Peace is theater. The fires keep coming. How hard you are to control is the one thing still in your hands.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;668d2d70-3721-456c-84ba-12347ce41ec9&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: </strong><span>The biggest financial threat facing most Americans isn&#8217;t a stock market crash.</span></p><p>It&#8217;s waking up one day to find your savings trapped inside a digital financial system you don&#8217;t control.</p><p><span>That&#8217;s why Genesis Gold Group created a </span><strong>free Digital Dollar Defense and AI Survival Bundle</strong><span>. Learn why more Americans are moving a portion of their retirement savings into physical gold and silver, and what a future digital dollar could mean for your privacy, freedom, and financial security.</span></p><p><strong><a href="http://dailypulsegold.com/">Get your free copies at DailyPulseGold.com.</a></strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;b6929e6b-1960-43d7-8910-f5a33bbe08ef&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>We want to thank <a href="https://x.com/Michael_Yon">Michael Yon</a> for joining us today&#8212;and more importantly, we want to thank you for watching and doing your duty to be informed when so many others choose not to.</p><p>Follow us <span data-color="rgb(54, 55, 55)" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">(</span><a href="https://x.com/zeeemedia">@ZeeeMedia</a><span data-color="rgb(54, 55, 55)" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55);"> and </span><a href="https://x.com/VigilantFox">@VigilantFox</a><span data-color="rgb(54, 55, 55)" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">) </span>for stories that matter&#8212;stories the media doesn&#8217;t want you to see.</p><p>We&#8217;ll be back with another show tomorrow. 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Once you understand why, the whole war starts to make sense.]]></description><link>https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/wars-ai-and-the-great-reset-from</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/wars-ai-and-the-great-reset-from</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[The Vigilant Fox]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:18:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/202480183/8e4056ac90fc370738da45241fe53b01.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The world is being told the war ends this weekend.<br><br><a href="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/">Martin Armstrong</a> says that&#8217;s not the story we should be focused on.<br><br>The real story isn't oil prices. It's a debt bomb hiding behind them, and most people have no idea it's already lit...</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;70c84989-ad9d-4670-be71-31a237c6c5e9&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>The press is selling this as a win for Iran and a spike at the pump. That framing misses the part that actually matters.</p><p>Iran&#8217;s real leverage isn&#8217;t the price of a barrel. It&#8217;s what happens to the people who can&#8217;t sell one. &#8220;<strong>If they cannot sell oil, they cannot pay their debts</strong>,&#8221; Armstrong explains, and the Gulf states are not the cash machines most people imagine. </p><p>When oil collapsed during COVID, they borrowed to survive, and now they carry the same crushing debt loads as everyone else. Choke off the sales and the dominoes start: &#8220;if they can&#8217;t sell oil, <strong>they default on their sovereign debts</strong>.&#8221; Then comes the part nobody is pricing in. &#8220;<strong>That sets in motion a</strong> <strong>banking crisis.</strong>&#8221;</p><p>That&#8217;s the threat sitting underneath the headlines. Not expensive gas. A cascade.</p><p>And Iran, in Armstrong&#8217;s opinion, knows exactly what it&#8217;s holding. &#8220;<strong>Iran is one of the more highly educated countries</strong>,&#8221; he says. &#8220;<strong>They&#8217;re not stupid. This is not Venezuela</strong>.&#8221; He points to the strikes on Dubai, where his firm keeps offices, as the tell. More drones and missiles went at Dubai than at Israel, and they landed near a $30 billion AI facility shared by the likes of Amazon and OpenAI. The damage was limited, but the effect wasn&#8217;t. <strong>The banking system there went down for a week</strong>. His own staff couldn&#8217;t get paid.</p><p>The board, Armstrong notes, is bigger than the Strait of Hormuz. He sums up the whole strategy in four words: &#8220;<strong>they&#8217;re playing 3D chess</strong>.&#8221; Hit the refineries, freeze the payments, and you don&#8217;t just raise prices. You threaten the debt that holds the whole arrangement together.</p><p>So if Iran is the one thinking three moves ahead, the question is if anyone on our side is thinking at all.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;8530c7f9-5415-462b-98d5-57f7ee72d010&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: </strong><span data-color="rgb(54, 55, 55)" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">What good is health insurance if it doesn&#8217;t pay your medical bills?</span><br><br><strong><span data-color="rgb(54, 55, 55)" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">Thousands of Americans are leaving the traditional insurance system and joining CrowdHealth</span></strong><span data-color="rgb(54, 55, 55)" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">, where members help fund each other&#8217;s healthcare costs.</span><br><br><span data-color="rgb(54, 55, 55)" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">More than 28,000 members have already used it, with a </span><strong><span data-color="rgb(54, 55, 55)" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">99.9% funding success rate</span></strong><span data-color="rgb(54, 55, 55)" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">.</span><br><br><span data-color="rgb(54, 55, 55)" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">Get started today for just $99 per month for your first three months at </span><strong><a href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse">https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse</a></strong><span data-color="rgb(54, 55, 55)" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">.</span><br><br><span data-color="rgb(54, 55, 55)" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">Use promo code </span><strong><a href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse">PULSE</a></strong><span data-color="rgb(54, 55, 55)" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55);"> to claim this limited-time deal.</span></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;15226f70-22a3-4743-9178-59f7f20487d2&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>There are two people standing between the world and a ceasefire, and in Armstrong&#8217;s telling they aren&#8217;t acting in anyone&#8217;s interest but their own. </p><p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve got two, what I would honestly say are<strong> lunatics</strong>,&#8221; he says. &#8220;It&#8217;s <strong>Netanyahu</strong> in Israel and<strong> Zelensky</strong> in Ukraine.&#8221; His verdict on both: &#8220;<strong>Neither one is interested in any kind of a peace deal</strong>.&#8221;</p><p>Behind them sits a class of operators who don&#8217;t care which flag they march under. Armstrong has known the neocon world up close for decades, going back to the men who built it, and he says the pattern never changes. &#8220;<strong>They&#8217;ll go to any party who&#8217;s ever going to do war. That&#8217;s all they want</strong>.&#8221; </p><p>The proof writes itself in real time, in the politicians who hated Trump while there was peace and adored him the moment the bombs fell, then turned on him again when he started talking about ending it.</p><p>The strategy driving the latest round has already failed once. Decapitate the leadership, the thinking goes, cut the head off the snake, and the body dies. Iran watched that movie and rewrote the ending. They decentralized into four tiers, so that taking out the Ayatollah changes nothing. The snake didn&#8217;t die. Taiwan, Armstrong notes, is now studying the same playbook.</p><p>Which raises a question the war planners never seem able to answer. <strong>You kill the leader of a country of tens of millions of newly radicalized people, and then what?</strong> </p><p>There is no plan. There never is. As Armstrong puts it, &#8220;all they have is one objective,&#8221; and &#8220;<strong>They can&#8217;t think beyond the end of their nose</strong>.&#8221; He calls it the exact opposite of Sun Tzu, who taught that if you don&#8217;t know your enemy you lose. The neocon version refuses to talk to the enemy at all, because talking might accidentally produce peace.</p><p>And that, he argues, is the actual danger to the country. Not Iran. The people in our own capital who keep lighting matches: &#8220;<strong>they are the real threat to national security because they can start World War III</strong>.&#8221;</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;32980d45-49e5-4768-a5b4-6f8b40fb6731&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Strip away the geopolitics and you reach the engine running all of it: a sovereign debt crisis that the people in charge have known about for decades and chosen to ignore. </p><p>&#8220;<strong>I&#8217;ve been in meetings for 30 years warning them about this</strong>,&#8221; Armstrong says. Their answer was always the same shrug, because &#8220;<strong>all they do is borrow money year after year with no intention of paying anything off</strong>.&#8221; </p><p>This year, the interest alone hits $1 trillion.</p><p>He knows the breaking point because history keeps it on a timer: &#8220;<strong>the default comes, when you can&#8217;t sell the new debt to pay off the old</strong>.&#8221; That&#8217;s when it all comes crashing down, every time.</p><p>The escape hatch they&#8217;ve quietly built is the <strong>stablecoin</strong>. The Fed has admitted publicly it won&#8217;t do a central bank digital currency, because peeking into your account would require a search warrant under the Fourth Amendment. So instead the banks issue private digital money backed by US debt, which conveniently creates a brand-new buyer for the debt nobody else wants. Armstrong&#8217;s history is exact: <strong>it&#8217;s the same scheme Abraham Lincoln used to fund the Civil War</strong>, banks printing money backed by the union&#8217;s debt. &#8220;Nothing different.&#8221;</p><p>Now layer the AI mania on top, and here&#8217;s where Armstrong breaks with the panic on both sides. He runs what he calls the oldest AI system in existence, a 40-year track record, a machine that writes more than 1,500 reports a day. He believes the technology is real and that it raises productivity. What he flatly rejects is the fantasy being sold to investors and feared by everyone else.</p><p><strong>AI is not about to wake up, replace human genius, or cure disease</strong>. As Armstrong puts it, &#8220;they&#8217;re great at research,&#8221; but &#8220;They cannot come up with original research.&#8221; It takes a human to do the one thing the machine can&#8217;t. &#8220;It takes human nature, curiosity, to give it something to try.&#8221; IBM poured roughly a billion dollars into Watson to cure cancer. &#8220;They sold it for scrap. It didn&#8217;t work.&#8221;</p><p>His point cuts at the religion underneath Silicon Valley, the belief that the brain is just a supercomputer with no soul, that you can shake enough data together and it will come alive. He&#8217;s spent years trying to mimic the brain and doesn&#8217;t buy it. Even his two French Bulldogs, identical in structure, have completely different personalities. Something more is going on than the programmers admit.</p><p>And that&#8217;s why the grandest version of the dream collapses. As a productivity tool, AI works. As a control grid for the entire population, Armstrong&#8217;s verdict is blunt: &#8220;<strong>it&#8217;s gonna fail</strong>.&#8221;</p><p>The harder question is what the people building that grid do when it starts slipping through their fingers.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;d7b2b532-fa54-49d8-a0fd-e04f446758bf&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: </strong>The biggest financial threat facing most Americans isn&#8217;t a stock market crash.</p><p>It&#8217;s waking up one day to find your savings trapped inside a digital financial system you don&#8217;t control.</p><p>That&#8217;s why Genesis Gold Group created a <strong>free Digital Dollar Defense and AI Survival Bundle</strong>. Learn why more Americans are moving a portion of their retirement savings into physical gold and silver, and what a future digital dollar could mean for your privacy, freedom, and financial security.</p><p><strong><a href="http://dailypulsegold.com/">Get your free copies at DailyPulseGold.com.</a></strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;10218c79-851f-4ed9-8d84-718977ddfbb2&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>The Great Reset isn&#8217;t an original idea. It&#8217;s a hijacking. </p><p>&#8220;<strong>Klaus Schwab and his Great Reset was our 2032</strong>. <strong>He&#8217;s just trying to push it in his direction</strong>,&#8221; Armstrong says, the same turning point his model has flagged for years, repackaged to steer the world toward &#8220;you own nothing and be happy.&#8221; </p><p>The trouble is that the people who actually lived under that arrangement in Russia and Eastern Europe were not, in fact, happy.</p><p>What his model projects instead is a cycle as old as government itself. Every few hundred years people stand up and overthrow whoever is ruling them. Last time it was monarchy, and the founders, taken in by what Armstrong calls the ancient fake news of Cicero, reached for a republic. He considers that a mistake. </p><p>&#8220;<strong>Republics are the most corrupt form of government, period</strong>,&#8221; he says, because the people are never actually asked. Nobody put the Iran war to a vote. Nobody asked an 18-year-old too young to drink whether he wanted to be handed a rifle in Vietnam. In Europe it&#8217;s worse, where the commission that writes the rules never stands for election at all.</p><p>So what does World War III actually look like on this timeline? Not the world wars your grandparents knew. &#8220;<strong>It&#8217;s more like brushfires</strong>,&#8221; Armstrong says, flare-ups everywhere at once: China and Taiwan, the two Koreas, India and Pakistan, the Middle East, and a Europe quietly desperate for a war it can&#8217;t win. </p><p>He lays out the ambition his sources described years ago, that Macron&#8217;s circle dreamed of taking Russia for its &#8220;$75 trillion in assets,&#8221; rising &#8220;like the Roman Empire&#8221; while America and Canada returned to being &#8220;the subservient colonies they should have remained.&#8221; People called it delusional until the head of NATO said much the same thing out loud.</p><p>The same instinct shows up at home, in the small surveillance creep most people barely register. <strong>New cars now carry a camera pointed at your face while you drive.</strong> That single detail is enough for Armstrong: &#8220;<strong>I will never buy a new car again</strong>.&#8221; It&#8217;s all about control, and the reason is the debt crisis bearing down on a system that can&#8217;t survive honesty.</p><p>But the pressure runs the other way too. The wars, Armstrong believes, are what finally get the average person off the couch. People can&#8217;t be forced to drink; they have to see it for themselves, and more of them are seeing it every day, even the ones who can&#8217;t name what&#8217;s wrong. As he puts it, &#8220;<strong>everybody knows this is just not right</strong>.&#8221;</p><p>The goal isn&#8217;t to predict doom, it&#8217;s to be ready for it: &#8220;<strong>fighting within the system while we prepare outside of it.</strong>&#8221; Stay involved, stay informed, and build the kind of independence that means you never have to stand in a government line to survive.</p><p>Which is exactly where this leaves the rest of us.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;4d594493-3a73-4b54-bf1e-d03478389777&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: </strong><span>In case you missed it, even the mainstream media is now acknowledging that AI is becoming a powerful tool for surveillance and control.</span></p><p>The question is: <strong>what can you actually do about it?</strong></p><p><span>Our friends at </span><strong><a href="http://privacyacademy.com/Pulse">Privacy Academy</a></strong><span> are hosting a </span><strong><span>free webinar on June 18 (tomorrow) at 7 PM Central</span></strong><span> that will show you practical steps to reclaim your privacy, reduce how much data companies collect on you, and make it harder for governments and corporations to track your digital life.</span></p><p>No fearmongering. Just actionable tools you can start using right away.</p><p><strong><a href="http://privacyacademy.com/Pulse">Register free at PrivacyAcademy.com/Pulse.</a></strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;d3fd7a32-ee64-4e11-ab20-06a44e3c14aa&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>We want to thank <a href="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/">Martin Armstrong</a> for joining us today&#8212;and more importantly, we want to thank you for watching and doing your duty to be informed when so many others choose not to.</p><p>Follow us (<a href="https://x.com/zeeemedia">@ZeeeMedia</a> and <a href="https://x.com/VigilantFox">@VigilantFox</a>) for stories that matter&#8212;stories the media doesn&#8217;t want you to see.</p><p>We&#8217;ll be back with another show on Friday. See you then.</p><h3>Watch the full episode:</h3><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;d1430ac4-013b-4fd7-b773-c276c536a1a8&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/wars-ai-and-the-great-reset-from?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/wars-ai-and-the-great-reset-from?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><div class="embedded-publication-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:975571,&quot;embedding_publication_id&quot;:null,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;The Vigilant Fox&quot;,&quot;logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yavp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0757593a-0033-41d3-a857-9f5d0d408224_588x588.png&quot;,&quot;base_url&quot;:&quot;https://www.vigilantfox.com&quot;,&quot;hero_text&quot;:&quot;Stories the mainstream buries. Banned during COVID. Built and led by a healthcare professional turned citizen journalist.&quot;,&quot;author_name&quot;:&quot;The Vigilant Fox&quot;,&quot;show_subscribe&quot;:true,&quot;logo_bg_color&quot;:&quot;#f5f5f5&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="EmbeddedPublicationToDOMWithSubscribe"><div class="embedded-publication show-subscribe"><a class="embedded-publication-link-part" native="true" href="https://www.vigilantfox.com?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_campaign=publication_embed&amp;utm_medium=web"><img class="embedded-publication-logo" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yavp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0757593a-0033-41d3-a857-9f5d0d408224_588x588.png" width="56" height="56" style="background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);"><span class="embedded-publication-name">The Vigilant Fox</span><div class="embedded-publication-hero-text">Stories the mainstream buries. Banned during COVID. Built and led by a healthcare professional turned citizen journalist.</div></a><form class="embedded-publication-subscribe" method="GET" action="https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?"><input type="hidden" name="source" value="publication-embed"><input type="hidden" name="autoSubmit" value="true"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email..."><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[RED ALERT: This Is the Trojan Horse for Digital ID]]></title><description><![CDATA[They told you it was about protecting children. Millions will focus on the ban. Less than 1% will focus on what the ban makes possible. And that's exactly why you should pay attention.]]></description><link>https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/red-alert-this-is-the-trojan-horse</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/red-alert-this-is-the-trojan-horse</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[The Vigilant Fox]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:48:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/202202092/63cf3146980065d4ddeb5c7c4947f2ba.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>STORY #1</strong> - <strong>The UK is moving to ban social media for under-16s, but critics say the real goal is something far bigger, an age-verification system that could tie internet access to digital identity.</strong></p><p>What&#8217;s being marketed as child protection is really a digital ID framework quietly being built into everyday online life.</p><p>Under the proposal, users could be <strong>required to verify their age through digital IDs</strong>, facial recognition, passports, or other approved methods before accessing major platforms. Opponents warn that once online activity is linked to real-world identity, anonymity disappears and monitoring becomes far easier.</p><p><strong>The biggest question isn&#8217;t what happens in the UK. It&#8217;s what happens when governments around the world decide to copy it.</strong></p><p>Watch Maria's report before this spreads to your country.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;1d3c5944-c9dc-4f7a-a550-068bbc2d841f&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: </strong>In case you missed it, even the mainstream media is now acknowledging that AI is becoming a powerful tool for surveillance and control.</p><p>The question is: what can you actually do about it?</p><p>Our friends at <strong><a href="http://privacyacademy.com/Pulse">Privacy Academy</a></strong> are hosting a free webinar on June 18 at 7 PM Central that will show you practical steps to reclaim your privacy, reduce how much data companies collect on you, and make it harder for governments and corporations to track your digital life.</p><p>No fearmongering. Just actionable tools you can start using right away.</p><p><strong><a href="http://privacyacademy.com/Pulse">Register free at PrivacyAcademy.com/Pulse.</a></strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;650e40c1-8346-4282-a6f7-cf1e23534b05&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>STORY #2 </strong>- <strong>JD Vance just confirmed that a $300 billion reconstruction fund for Iran is on the table as part of a potential peace framework.</strong></p><p>After years of hearing that Iran is the world&#8217;s leading state sponsor of terror, critics are stunned that hundreds of billions of dollars could now be tied to a deal with the regime.</p><p>Vance said Gulf countries could fund the package if Iran dismantles its nuclear program, gives up its enriched stockpile, and submits to inspections.</p><p>Critics are already asking the obvious question: <strong>who makes sure that money doesn&#8217;t flow to Hezbollah or other Iranian proxies?</strong></p><p>Because if a $300 billion reconstruction fund becomes reality, the debate won&#8217;t just be about peace.</p><p>It will be about whether the people making these promises can be trusted to enforce them.</p><p>Maria's full report breaks down the bigger picture.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;e0c1712d-90df-4829-854b-1587daeaa51f&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: </strong>The biggest financial threat facing most Americans isn&#8217;t a stock market crash.</p><p>It&#8217;s waking up one day to find your savings trapped inside a digital financial system you don&#8217;t control.</p><p>That&#8217;s why Genesis Gold Group created a free Digital Dollar Defense and AI Survival Bundle. Learn why more Americans are moving a portion of their retirement savings into physical gold and silver, and what a future digital dollar could mean for your privacy, freedom, and financial security.</p><p><strong><a href="http://dailypulsegold.com/">Get your free copies at DailyPulseGold.com.</a></strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;f9f04a03-a24a-4ca2-ad1a-7d8eccad37e5&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>STORY #3</strong> - <strong>An Ontario man repeatedly cried out &#8220;Help me&#8221; during a government-approved euthanasia procedure after the drugs failed to work as intended, exposing a disturbing reality many people never expected to witness.</strong></p><p>What was marketed as a peaceful, dignified death became a nightmare, leaving a family to watch their father&#8217;s final moments descend into chaos.</p><p>The man remained conscious and visibly distressed after sedation failed, repeatedly calling for help until additional drugs finally rendered him unconscious. His final moments, witnesses say, were marked not by peace, but by repeated pleas for help.</p><p>The case is fueling outrage because it <strong>wasn&#8217;t an isolated incident</strong>. Another Canadian patient resumed breathing after being declared dead, while a Belgian euthanasia case ended with allegations that a woman was suffocated after the lethal injection failed.</p><p>Opponents argue these cases expose a side of MAiD hidden from the public, one where procedures don&#8217;t go according to plan and families are left with traumatic final memories.</p><p>If a man can spend his final moments crying &#8220;Help me&#8221; in front of witnesses, <strong>what happens in the cases the public never hears about?</strong></p><p>Maria's explosive report reveals why so many people believe this is just the tip of the iceberg.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;9c4153b9-a1d9-4439-b406-14e5d870f317&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: </strong>What good is health insurance if it doesn&#8217;t pay your medical bills?<br><br>Thousands of Americans are leaving the traditional insurance system and joining CrowdHealth, where members help fund each other&#8217;s healthcare costs.<br><br>More than 28,000 members have already used it, with a 99.9% funding success rate.<br><br>Get started today for just $99 per month for your first three months at <strong><a href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse">https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse</a></strong>.<br><br>Use promo code <strong><a href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse">PULSE</a></strong> to claim this limited-time deal.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;09771654-c1f9-43ac-b7a8-30aa8fce1b12&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Thanks for tuning in. </p><p>We have received an overwhelming response on our recent <a href="https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/exclusive-the-data-center-and-smart">deep dive into the data center and smart city connection</a>. People are sharing with us that this is the type of reporting they want to see more of. So, we're changing it up. From this week, we'll be starting a new format where we will be bringing you the Daily Pulse on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays consisting of more deep-dives, investigative reporting, interviews and guests, focusing on the topics that matter most. <br><br>We want to ensure our viewers are getting the very best of our independent reporting. We will also be bringing you <a href="https://rumble.com/user/ZeeeMedia">Zeee Media content</a> outside of the <a href="https://www.vigilantfox.com/s/daily-pulse">Daily Pulse Show</a>.<br><br>We are committed together to bringing you the truth and that commitment is never going to change. If you appreciate our truly independent reporting the number one thing to do is to follow us on Rumble. Zeee Media is the channel where you need to go. 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We'll see you then.</p><h3><strong>Watch the full episode below:</strong></h3><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;7017631a-6179-4b52-afff-4d8c864aa535&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/red-alert-this-is-the-trojan-horse?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/red-alert-this-is-the-trojan-horse?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><div class="embedded-publication-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:975571,&quot;embedding_publication_id&quot;:null,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;The Vigilant Fox&quot;,&quot;logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yavp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0757593a-0033-41d3-a857-9f5d0d408224_588x588.png&quot;,&quot;base_url&quot;:&quot;https://www.vigilantfox.com&quot;,&quot;hero_text&quot;:&quot;Stories the mainstream buries. Banned during COVID. Built and led by a healthcare professional turned citizen journalist.&quot;,&quot;author_name&quot;:&quot;The Vigilant Fox&quot;,&quot;show_subscribe&quot;:true,&quot;logo_bg_color&quot;:&quot;#f5f5f5&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="EmbeddedPublicationToDOMWithSubscribe"><div class="embedded-publication show-subscribe"><a class="embedded-publication-link-part" native="true" href="https://www.vigilantfox.com?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_campaign=publication_embed&amp;utm_medium=web"><img class="embedded-publication-logo" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yavp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0757593a-0033-41d3-a857-9f5d0d408224_588x588.png" width="56" height="56" style="background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);"><span class="embedded-publication-name">The Vigilant Fox</span><div class="embedded-publication-hero-text">Stories the mainstream buries. Banned during COVID. Built and led by a healthcare professional turned citizen journalist.</div></a><form class="embedded-publication-subscribe" method="GET" action="https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?"><input type="hidden" name="source" value="publication-embed"><input type="hidden" name="autoSubmit" value="true"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email..."><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[EXCLUSIVE: The Data Center & Smart City Connection | Daily Pulse]]></title><description><![CDATA[The question isn&#8217;t where they&#8217;re building data centers anymore. It&#8217;s why they&#8217;re building where they&#8217;re building. Tonight, we think we can answer that question.]]></description><link>https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/exclusive-the-data-center-and-smart</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/exclusive-the-data-center-and-smart</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[The Vigilant Fox]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:04:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/201768523/20196d6faeb2de935de5a4153efff157.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We took Erin Brockovich&#8217;s map of every data center in America. Then we laid the nation&#8217;s aquifers on top of it.</p><p>We noticed they&#8217;re not building data centers where the land is cheap. <strong>They&#8217;re building them where the water is.</strong></p><p>Farmers near these facilities say their livestock have stopped falling pregnant. Residents say the humming never stops.</p><p>And the projects arrive under NDAs, so most towns don&#8217;t know until the ground is already broken.</p><p>The question isn&#8217;t where they&#8217;re building anymore. It&#8217;s why they&#8217;re building where they&#8217;re building. Tonight, we think we can answer that question.</p><p>We&#8217;ve been covering the data center issue in great detail on this broadcast, and for good reason. It&#8217;s a serious problem in America and worldwide, and it&#8217;s one that is uniting people from all sides of the political aisle because, guess what, whether you are a conservative or a liberal, you have human rights that enable you to have access to basic survival needs like water, which was given to us by God, not by the state or Big Tech, by the way.</p><p>Erin Brockovich joined the data center fight recently.<strong> <a href="http://brockovichdatacenter.com/">She launched a site</a></strong> including a map that shows data centers either completed, under construction, planned, or community reported, likely due to all those pesky NDAs in place stopping us from knowing they&#8217;re coming to our area. But the public isn&#8217;t stupid.</p><p>So Maria thought she&#8217;d do something a little bit different. She created a series of maps using Erin Brockovich&#8217;s data center data, then superimposed aquifer maps onto those maps, then superimposed smart city locations onto those maps. What Maria found was pretty mind-blowing and, she says, lends credence to her theory that those in charge are purposely making rural areas unlivable for the purpose of pushing people into smart cities, where they will be under constant surveillance and on a short leash.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;c3f93262-7c7d-4928-97dd-962704bce218&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>The main reason for this continued investigation is because data centers are destroying rural communities by siphoning natural resources, contaminating and consuming water for surrounding communities, driving up power costs, creating noise and light pollution, destroying habitats, wildlife, animal health, human health, and impacting fertility, as discussed in one of the show&#8217;s recent reports.</p><p>The list goes on. For many, it&#8217;s making it impossible to continue living in the rural communities they fled to during COVID because they could see the playbook coming down the pipeline. But if you live in the city, these developments are going to impact you too, possibly in ways you can&#8217;t even begin to imagine yet.</p><p>Maria&#8217;s theory, what she calls a common-sense one, is that there is a direct correlation between data centers and the AI control grid. Furthermore, she believes there is a direct correlation between data centers and smart cities.</p><p>Before presenting the evidence, we want to walk you through key information on Erin Brockovich&#8217;s website, <strong><a href="http://BrockovichDataCenter.com">BrockovichDataCenter.com</a></strong>.</p><p>The key concerns include energy consumption, water usage, e-waste, location risks, scalability and efficiency, and noise. Anecdotal evidence suggests the noise itself may be impacting fertility, with farmers near data centers reporting that their livestock are no longer falling pregnant or giving birth.</p><p><strong><a href="http://brockovichdatacenter.com/">The website also highlights:</a></strong></p><p>&#8226; 15+ moratoria and pauses passed at the local, county, or state level.</p><p>&#8226; 66% voter approval for Port Washington&#8217;s nation-first referendum.</p><p>&#8226; 4 council members ousted in Festus, Missouri, after a data center vote.</p><p>&#8226; 19% of community submissions mentioning NDAs, secret deals, meetings, or no public voice.</p><p>&#8226; 25+ projects canceled due to local opposition in 2025 alone.</p><p>&#8226; 69 active moratoriums across U.S. jurisdictions as of April 2026.</p><p>&#8226;$156 billion in investment stalled by community opposition since 2025.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;9af1a276-1625-4a0b-b8c8-24a69d0460da&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>This is where things start to look overwhelming.</p><p>According to the data center map, there are currently 33 operational data centers, 67 under construction, and 39 proposed.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;4b8851a4-f567-48e6-9ccc-0a0fdcc3d5ac&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>The bigger issue is that many projects are hidden behind NDAs, forcing communities to rely on reports of suspected data centers. There are now more than 5,000 community reports across the country.</p><p><strong><a href="https://brockovichdatacenter.com/">Here&#8217;s the still image for anyone who wants to take a closer look.</a></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dAhG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7b2c0011-ad8c-4813-958d-1a37077ea844_2134x2056.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dAhG!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7b2c0011-ad8c-4813-958d-1a37077ea844_2134x2056.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dAhG!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7b2c0011-ad8c-4813-958d-1a37077ea844_2134x2056.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dAhG!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7b2c0011-ad8c-4813-958d-1a37077ea844_2134x2056.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dAhG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7b2c0011-ad8c-4813-958d-1a37077ea844_2134x2056.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dAhG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7b2c0011-ad8c-4813-958d-1a37077ea844_2134x2056.png" width="1456" height="1403" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7b2c0011-ad8c-4813-958d-1a37077ea844_2134x2056.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1403,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dAhG!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7b2c0011-ad8c-4813-958d-1a37077ea844_2134x2056.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dAhG!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7b2c0011-ad8c-4813-958d-1a37077ea844_2134x2056.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dAhG!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7b2c0011-ad8c-4813-958d-1a37077ea844_2134x2056.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dAhG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7b2c0011-ad8c-4813-958d-1a37077ea844_2134x2056.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>#ad:</strong> You can't stop them from building the grid &#8212; but you can decide when you're on it.</p><p>Escape Zone makes premium Faraday bags that put you back in control: your phone, your cards, your laptop, detectable only when <em>you</em> say so. EMPs, tracking, skimming, identity theft &#8212; blocked. From crossbody bags to ballistic Kevlar backpacks to EMF beanies and blankets, this is preparedness for the world we actually live in.</p><p><strong><a href="http://escapezone.com/pulse">Protect yourself and the people you love at escapezone.com/pulse.</a></strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;f03d1cbe-e136-4e6e-91dd-153abdca03ad&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Shifting gears, let&#8217;s take a closer look at the Global Covenant of Mayors, which describes itself as the largest global alliance for city climate leadership.</p><p>The organization recently released a report in conjunction with Arup. Maria notes that Arup also worked with C40 Cities on a report titled The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5&#176;C World.</p><p>That report outlines a vision for smart cities by 2030 that includes no meat consumption, no dairy consumption, only three new clothing purchases per person per year, zero private vehicle ownership, and one short-haul return flight approximately every three years.</p><p>After connecting the dots, Maria believes Arup, C40 Cities, and the Global Covenant of Mayors are interconnected organizations involved in advancing smart city initiatives and encouraging greater population concentration within those cities.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;527a95b1-34bd-40a3-acc0-5e37fb775414&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>To investigate further, we downloaded data showing confirmed smart city locations in the United States from the Global Covenant of Mayors and overlaid it with Erin Brockovich&#8217;s confirmed and community-reported data center locations.</p><p>Texas was the first state we examined.</p><p>And we superimposed aquifer maps onto the Texas data.</p><p>What we found was revealing. Hyperscale data centers appear to be concentrated in areas with healthier aquifers, while areas with struggling aquifers show little to no smart city or data center activity.</p><p>She then examined Georgia and Virginia and identified what appeared to be clusters or triangulations of data centers surrounding smart city locations.</p><p>Texas displayed the same pattern. Major hyperscale data centers are being developed in places such as Odessa, the Panhandle, and Wichita Falls, locations that are outside major smart city zones.</p><p>She emphasizes that hyperscale facilities also exist near smart cities, but argues that the pattern of placing many of them in already resource-strained rural regions suggests there may be another purpose behind their location.</p><p>This leads to Maria&#8217;s theory:</p><p>She argues that hyperscale data centers are being built in rural areas outside planned smart cities, even though smart cities appear to have their own clustered data infrastructure.</p><p>These rural facilities consume water, increase electricity costs, create light and noise pollution, and gradually make rural communities less livable. As resources become scarcer, residents may be pushed toward urban areas where those resources are prioritized.</p><p>We then turned our attention to the triangulation pattern seen around smart cities.</p><p>To explain it, Maria introduces the concept of edge data centers.</p><p>Edge data centers are smaller facilities located at the edge of a network. They often handle simple processing tasks while larger hyperscale facilities handle more complex workloads.</p><p>Maria thinks it&#8217;s not a stretch to assume that these edge facilities may be operating alongside hyperscale facilities outside smart city networks.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;6c7db21a-8125-4f31-adc5-658bd6823d1e&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: </strong>Here's a number that should make you angry: 200,000 Americans go bankrupt every year from medical bills &#8212; <em>with</em> insurance.</p><p>You play by their rules, pay their premiums, and they deny your claim anyway. CrowdHealth is the opt-out. It's not insurance &#8212; it's a community of over 28,000 members funding each other's bills directly, with a 99.9% success rate and $56 million saved.</p><p>Take your power back for just $99 a month for your first three months at <strong><a href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse">joincrowdhealth.com/pulse</a></strong>, code <strong><a href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse">PULSE</a></strong>.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;b5fd7f97-a9f9-4e3f-8245-87973a15a847&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Smart cities rely on enormous networks of IoT sensors, cameras, traffic systems, smart grids, autonomous vehicles, and AI-driven services.</p><p>These systems generate vast amounts of data that require near-instant processing.</p><p>Processing information locally at the edge rather than sending it to distant facilities enables low-latency responses. While this can be used for public safety and energy management, it could also facilitate real-time surveillance of people&#8217;s movements, transactions, and communications.</p><p>She says the triangulation pattern creates a distributed mesh network. Multiple edge data centers surrounding a city provide redundancy, geographic coverage, fault tolerance, and minimal network delays.</p><p>Smart cities generate enormous volumes of data and that centralized hyperscale facilities alone may not be sufficient, which could explain the clusters surrounding smart city locations.</p><p>Maria says she has good reason to believe that hyperscale data centers are being deliberately placed in rural areas such as the Texas Panhandle, Odessa, and Wichita Falls to draw on aquifers, power grids, and land resources.</p><p>She believes the result is a transfer of resources away from rural populations and toward AI systems and urban technology infrastructure.</p><p>Rural communities are left with higher bills, noise, and depleted water resources, while cities receive the benefits of smart infrastructure.</p><p>Maria further argues that data center triangulation around smart cities serves not only low-latency computing needs but also creates the framework for extensive digital monitoring and control.</p><p>In Maria&#8217;s view, distant hyperscale facilities handle large-scale AI training and monitoring, while edge nodes positioned around cities could eventually support real-time citizen tracking, social credit scoring, and behavior modification.</p><p>Smart city infrastructure is designed to lock residents into tightly managed urban environments featuring digital IDs, programmable digital currencies, monitoring systems, and resource rationing.</p><p>Rural areas, she argues, are being weakened in ways that make those controlled environments increasingly attractive or necessary.</p><p>Maria also contends that hyperscale data centers are part of a broader centralized AI infrastructure serving global elites and transhumanist goals. She argues that rural power and water resources are being siphoned away to &#8220;train the beast,&#8221; while smart city systems eventually become the enforcement mechanism.</p><p>Flooding rural areas with data centers increases costs, harms agriculture and tourism, and contributes to what she describes as engineered rural depopulation. This simultaneously clears land for future projects and weakens resistance from rural populations.</p><p>Placing facilities over stressed aquifers weaponizes water scarcity by increasing dependence on centralized smart grid and smart water systems.</p><p>Ultimately, Maria believes the long-term objective is to make everything outside smart cities increasingly difficult to inhabit.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5urM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbb9920e7-4a2f-4fdd-b15b-d3f3916ca8c3_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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However, she believes such efforts may be attempted.</p><p>Technological change is occurring so quickly that many experts already warn some data centers could be obsolete by the time they are completed.</p><p>Many facilities may be difficult or impossible to retrofit, and she raises a further question: what happens when the water they depend on eventually runs out?</p><p>Many communities could be left with abandoned infrastructure and depleted resources as companies move on to new locations.</p><p>All in all, the situation is an unsustainable and parasitic model that offers little benefit to ordinary people.</p><p>That is why we remain so committed to raising awareness. And we encourage viewers to share the report, educate their communities, and become involved locally.</p><p>Many county officials  do not understand the broader implications of these projects and instead focus on promises of jobs and economic development.</p><p>Local victories are possible, and many communities are already successfully pushing back.</p><p>But the effort will require all hands on deck.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;e50761bd-da24-4ffc-b4df-f6a7ae6943d7&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad:</strong> You just saw the map. Thousands of data centers spreading town by town, draining the water, spiking the bills &#8212; and every single one of them runs on the same fuel: <em>your data</em>.</p><p>Your searches, your purchases, your movements. You can't unplug their servers, but you can starve them of what they feed on. Our friends at Privacy Academy are hosting a free webinar Thursday, June 18 at 7pm Central to teach you exactly how to exit the surveillance grid, step by step. It costs nothing but an hour of your time.</p><p>Register at <strong><a href="http://privacyacademy.com/pulse">privacyacademy.com/pulse</a></strong> &#8212; and become the part of the map they can't track.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;20629784-495c-4a26-b055-aa4c592fbca0&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><div><hr></div><p>Thanks for joining us today for this special report.</p><p>Follow us (<a href="https://x.com/zeeemedia">@ZeeeMedia</a> and <a href="https://x.com/VigilantFox">@VigilantFox</a>) for stories that matter&#8212;stories the media doesn&#8217;t want you to see.</p><p>We&#8217;ll be back with another show on Monday. See you then.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;033a9650-53da-486b-8e57-603b433d82cb&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[MSM Finally Admits It: AI Is a “Weapon” Used Against You]]></title><description><![CDATA[The &#8220;conspiracy theorists&#8221; were right again.]]></description><link>https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/msm-finally-admits-it-ai-is-a-weapon</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/msm-finally-admits-it-ai-is-a-weapon</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[The Vigilant Fox]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:03:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/201667148/2e3e1ab84e839d73d50c112f357e549d.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>NOTE: Thank you for supporting this sponsored interview, which keeps this website running to bring you uncensored news.</em></p><p>In a rare and stark admission, a Fox News guest just said out loud what the &#8220;conspiracy theorists&#8221; have been screaming into the shadowbanned void for years:</p><p>The AI Big Tech and Big Government have is distinctly separate from the AI the public gets access to, because the AI they have is a weapons system that will be used against us.</p><p>Take a listen.<strong> (See clip below)</strong></p><p>The only question that remains now is, if it&#8217;s being admitted on Fox News at this point, is it already too late to protect ourselves against it? For many people, it is. But not for those listening to this broadcast.<br><br>You see, we consider that we have a fairly sound understanding of where this is all heading, we&#8217;ve been reporting on it for years. You are talking about not just a social credit system, but something far more sinister, far more pervasive, the type of system that will deny you access to basic needs like food, power, even water, based on your behavior.</p><p>And you need not take our word for it; there are countless speeches at the World Economic Forum telling you they will do just that.<br><br>So what can we do about it? One of the key things is to cut off the machines food source at its knees. Your data is what the beast needs to grow.</p><p>Every single person can take action to end the incessant spying on every inch of their lives today, and they can learn how for free.</p><p><strong><a href="http://privacyacademy.com/pulse">Glenn and Eric Meder</a></strong> join us today to discuss.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;074f1ea6-e1ba-41ee-bd2e-544bd0e328d4&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>You've driven past one this week and probably never noticed it. 100,000 Flock cameras now line America's roads &#8212; and thousands more go up every month.</p><p>They don&#8217;t just film traffic. They read faces. They carry microphones. Once the system knows who you are, everything it captures gets attached to your profile &#8212; where you went, when, how often.</p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s like the Truman show, but if it was 1984,&#8221; Eric said.</p><p>Want proof? Go to <strong><a href="http://deflock.me">deflock.me</a></strong> and pull up your own city. The map is stunning.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yg1r!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec588498-4719-4fcd-a279-97b60dc3d71b_2490x1430.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yg1r!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec588498-4719-4fcd-a279-97b60dc3d71b_2490x1430.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yg1r!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec588498-4719-4fcd-a279-97b60dc3d71b_2490x1430.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yg1r!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec588498-4719-4fcd-a279-97b60dc3d71b_2490x1430.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yg1r!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec588498-4719-4fcd-a279-97b60dc3d71b_2490x1430.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yg1r!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec588498-4719-4fcd-a279-97b60dc3d71b_2490x1430.png" width="1456" height="836" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ec588498-4719-4fcd-a279-97b60dc3d71b_2490x1430.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:836,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:3217948,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.vigilantfox.com/i/201667148?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec588498-4719-4fcd-a279-97b60dc3d71b_2490x1430.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yg1r!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec588498-4719-4fcd-a279-97b60dc3d71b_2490x1430.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yg1r!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec588498-4719-4fcd-a279-97b60dc3d71b_2490x1430.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yg1r!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec588498-4719-4fcd-a279-97b60dc3d71b_2490x1430.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Yg1r!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec588498-4719-4fcd-a279-97b60dc3d71b_2490x1430.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>What makes this even more concerning is that people have hacked these cameras on video. So it&#8217;s not just the government watching you. It&#8217;s potentially anyone.</p><p>You&#8217;re being spied on constantly. And the home tech is the biggest spy of them all.</p><p>Your Alexa, your smart TV, your phone &#8212; every one is a microphone you paid for. The WEF was publishing articles back in 2017 about how a single camera lets a computer understand you &#8220;on a very deep level.&#8221;</p><p>Smart city plans in Australia include &#8220;street furniture&#8221; that monitors public sentiment &#8212; AI reading your mood, 24/7. Feel the wrong way in the wrong place, and you get flagged.</p><p>Flagged by whom, for what? That&#8217;s where it gets dark.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;bb8cd8a8-f7aa-4072-a2f1-4b29c571efdb&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Every tyrant in history wanted this system. They just didn&#8217;t have the tools.</p><p>&#8220;<strong>The tyrants throughout history would love, would have always loved to have the technology that they have now</strong>,&#8221; Glenn said. His method for predicting the future: <strong>ask what a psychopath would do with this power.</strong> Then watch it happen.</p><p>It&#8217;s happening. AI pricing already charges you more based on what it knows about you. WEF figures have floated AI deciding what job you can hold and what home you can rent. Harari said it himself: AI gives tyrants power the old ones could only dream of.</p><p>Then came the bombshell we mentioned from the top of the show: the Wall Street Journal&#8217;s Holman Jenkins confirming the elite AI models are withheld because they&#8217;re &#8220;weapons&#8221; &#8212; while AI companies admit the U.S. Department of War uses their models for surveillance and military operations.</p><p>Eric described where things are headed: &#8220;We&#8217;re moving towards a permission-based society and not a right-based society.&#8221;</p><p>First, a carbon score to &#8220;save the planet.&#8221; Then more scores stack on scores until everything in your life requires permission. Faster than you&#8217;d think, &#8220;<strong>people like us will be toast</strong>.&#8221;</p><p>Maria spoke with activists fighting data centers. The infrastructure has been planned for 15+ years &#8212; and the centers keep landing in rural areas already short on water and power.</p><p>Her theory: <strong>make the countryside unlivable, then proceed to herd people into the smart cities built to watch them.</strong></p><p>But here's the weak point: all of this data harvesting runs on your consent. You might just never have realized you gave it up.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;37461ebc-eb14-4e09-988a-da1e8e9f42c3&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>You give Walgreens your phone number for a nickel off. They sell that data for billions. <strong>The government is one of the buyers.</strong></p><p>Why? &#8220;The ultimate goal is to weaponize your data against you,&#8221; Glenn said.</p><p>Those Flock cameras? They also log the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth coming off your phone as you drive past &#8212; tying your physical movements to everything you do online. One file. All of you.</p><p>And the plan doesn&#8217;t stop at your devices. The Internet of Things becomes the Internet of Bodies. The WEF has openly discussed monitoring dreams.</p><p>&#8220;Goal number one is to be a system of surveillance and control, and they&#8217;re all linked together,&#8221; Eric said. <strong>Convenience is the bait</strong>. Whereas dissent is the biggest threat to all of this.</p><p>Here&#8217;s the evidence: A risk profile could be built to profile you simply from what you said during a conversation you had with your grandma.</p><p>Data center protesters already labeled &#8220;anti-tech extremists&#8221; &#8212; one step from domestic terrorist.</p><p>Eric confirmed that lists, not so different from the communist watch lists in the 50s, are being built to hone in on who the &#8220;extremists&#8221; are.</p><p>His blunt warning: &#8220;<strong>You have to take action before those lists can be used against you. Because once that happens, there&#8217;s nothing left you can do</strong>.&#8221;</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;98e915e5-8e52-4bc9-b65d-f93ee427cc90&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>The window is open. Here&#8217;s how to use it.</p><p><strong>Step one </strong>costs nothing: &#8220;<strong>Get dumb. Get your house dumb</strong>.&#8221;</p><p>Your smart home is a surveillance node you built yourself. Kill the Alexa. Ditch the smart fridge. Your home should be the one place on earth you can speak freely &#8212; right now it isn&#8217;t.</p><p><strong>Step two: </strong>your car. Glenn won&#8217;t drive anything newer than about 2012. &#8220;New cars are total surveillance.&#8221; They listen, watch, track, and can be shut off remotely.</p><p>And Eric called the next move before it happens: kill switches are going in now, so expect old cars to be banned or restricted within a year or two. They want controllable cars. &#8220;Once you see it, you can&#8217;t unsee it&#8221; &#8212; see the agenda once and you can predict every move.</p><p>Fight the local battles.</p><p>But the real leverage is starvation. <strong>Every piece of data you stop handing over is food the beast doesn&#8217;t eat.</strong></p><p>That&#8217;s exactly why <strong><a href="http://privacyacademy.com/pulse">Glenn and Eric teach for free.</a></strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;0391ed6e-d261-4d7c-b57d-1d4fd3c29033&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><div><hr></div><p>Remember this: the people building these systems say their best models are too dangerous to release. They don&#8217;t trust their own creation in your hands &#8212; but they&#8217;ll happily aim it at you.</p><p>But the machine has one dependency. <strong>Your data</strong>. And you control the supply.</p><p>That&#8217;s why <strong><a href="http://privacyacademy.com/pulse">Glenn and Eric Meder of Privacy Academy</a></strong> are hosting a <strong><a href="http://privacyacademy.com/pulse">free live webinar </a></strong>exposing the globally coordinated attack on liberty and privacy.</p><p>They&#8217;ll cover the Flock camera network, what AI companies are really doing behind the scenes, and the digital ID laws resurfacing in the UK and across US states.</p><p>No tech skills required. The class hands you simple first steps that immediately cut off large amounts of your data &#8212; including how to stop your browser and search engine from watching you.</p><p>One of their members is around 70 years old and now runs password managers, hardware keys, email aliases, and credit card aliases. If she can do it, can you.</p><p><strong><a href="http://privacyacademy.com/pulse">The class airs Thursday, June 18 at 7:00 PM Central</a></strong> &#8212; open worldwide. 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href="https://x.com/zeeemedia">@ZeeeMedia</a> and <a href="https://x.com/VigilantFox">@VigilantFox</a>) for stories that matter&#8212;stories the media doesn&#8217;t want you to see.</p><p>We&#8217;ll be back with another show tomorrow. See you then.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;e768aae3-44ca-42fb-ad4b-1c70b3361dcd&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[First AI “Super Vaccine” Arrives: Researchers Now Want More | Daily Pulse]]></title><description><![CDATA[This makes the COVID jab look like child&#8217;s play. And chances are, they&#8217;ll try to mandate it.]]></description><link>https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/first-ai-super-vaccine-arrives-researchers</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/first-ai-super-vaccine-arrives-researchers</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[The Vigilant Fox]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:12:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/201526129/2b2c0d81a04be83f7ad71e19d393b48b.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Story #1 - UK government officials are now drafting a law that would jail tech executives for up to FIVE YEARS if they refuse to build scanners that inspect EVERY photo, video, and message on your phone.</strong></p><p>Think about that.</p><p>The claim is keeping children &#8220;safe.&#8221; But beneath the surface, this has all the hallmarks of a cover story for expanding surveillance.</p><p>The proposal would force Apple, Google, and other tech giants to make it impossible for a child to send, receive, view, or share a single nude image, with executives who refuse facing up to five years in prison.</p><p>The children are the headline; surveillance is the product.</p><p>The new technology to accomplish this is called &#8220;client-side scanning.&#8221; Watch the video below to see how it works.</p><p>This threat to jail Big Tech CEOs seems to be a bit of a farce because, let&#8217;s be honest, government and Big Tech are best friends.</p><p>The threat of prison simply gives Big Tech an excuse to say, &#8220;Well, we have to comply. We have no choice.&#8221;</p><p>Meanwhile, Microsoft and Apple themselves are reportedly among the companies that helped develop the technology behind client-side scanning.</p><p>It&#8217;s one big club, and we ain&#8217;t in it.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;95f74766-b76e-45fb-8415-ea22a5ce901b&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: </strong>In case you missed it, even the mainstream media is now acknowledging that AI is becoming a powerful tool for surveillance and control.</p><p>The question is: what can you actually do about it?</p><p>Our friends at <strong><a href="http://PrivacyAcademy.com/Pulse">Privacy Academy</a></strong> are hosting a free webinar on June 18 at 7 PM Central that will show you practical steps to reclaim your privacy, reduce how much data companies collect on you, and make it harder for governments and corporations to track your digital life.</p><p>No fearmongering. Just actionable tools you can start using right away.</p><p><strong><a href="http://PrivacyAcademy.com/Pulse">Register free at PrivacyAcademy.com/Pulse.</a></strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;a120b287-47bf-4d60-ba07-8dcb23d58871&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Story #2 - Researchers are now pushing an AI-powered &#8220;super-vaccine&#8221; designed to &#8220;prevent pandemics.&#8221;</strong></p><p>This makes the COVID jab look like child&#8217;s play. And chances are, they&#8217;ll try to mandate it.</p><p>The first &#8220;super-vaccine&#8221; has already been created and was tested in humans by researchers at the University of Cambridge.</p><p>The team fed AI systems genetic sequences from multiple coronaviruses gathered through ongoing surveillance programs.</p><p>The algorithm then assembled a &#8220;super-antigen&#8221; intended to train the immune system to recognize entire virus families rather than individual strains that constantly mutate.</p><p>The problem is that this approach is flawed from the outset because these surveillance systems already depend on fraudulent testing methods such as PCR.</p><p>And once a digital ID system is in place, refusing a pandemic-prevention vaccine could come with real-world consequences. No shot, no access. No compliance, no participation.</p><p>Watch @zeeemedia&#8217;s report for the full details. I just hope we&#8217;re ready for what&#8217;s coming.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;00fa2bfb-74cc-4e5e-806c-7be202096ff5&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: </strong>How much of your personal information is traveling through the air right now?</p><p>Your phone, credit cards, car key fob, Bluetooth devices, and GPS signals can all be tracked, scanned, or intercepted.</p><p>That&#8217;s why thousands of people use <strong><a href="http://escapezone.com/pulse">Escape Zone&#8217;s Faraday bags and backpacks</a></strong>. They help block tracking, signal interception, key fob theft, card skimming, and unwanted device connections.</p><p>Whether you&#8217;re protecting your phone, laptop, vehicle, or family, Escape Zone gives you more control over your privacy and security.</p><p><strong><a href="http://escapezone.com/pulse">Visit escapezone.com/pulse and start protecting what matters most.</a></strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;a1afe02a-68fb-4c5f-93c5-c1e602a4b53a&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Story #3 - Ivermectin is the wonder drug that keeps on giving: It&#8217;s now showing promise against the New World screwworm in both cattle AND HUMANS.</strong></p><p>Multiple field trials and case reports have found that ivermectin can kill the larvae responsible for these devastating infestations.</p><p>In one human case series, physicians treated six patients suffering from severe oral infestations. After receiving ivermectin, the remaining larvae died and became significantly easier to remove. All six patients recovered without major complications.</p><p>Another report described two patients with New World screwworm infestations around the eye socket. The larvae had burrowed deep into surrounding tissue, creating a serious risk of progressive tissue destruction. After treatment with ivermectin and wound debridement, the larvae died, could be removed more effectively, and further damage was brought under control.</p><p>The findings mirror what veterinarians have observed for years in livestock, where ivermectin has been used to combat parasitic infestations that threaten animal health and agricultural production.</p><p>Once again, ivermectin appears to be doing exactly what it was designed to do: kill parasites.</p><p>&#8220;Horse paste&#8221; wins again.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;276b4de1-d43f-40b5-9fb6-fe8dc2de2891&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/ivermectin-kills-new-world-screwworms">For the full details, read @NicHulscher&#8217;s report:</a></strong></p><div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:201208105,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/ivermectin-kills-new-world-screwworms&quot;,&quot;publication_id&quot;:1119676,&quot;embedding_publication_id&quot;:null,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;FOCAL POINTS (Courageous Discourse&#8482;)&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Wjme!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8ad6fde-1c2c-4074-bf83-0b73c20adcfa_1098x1098.png&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Ivermectin Effective Against New World Screwworms Larval Stages (L1, L2, L3)&quot;,&quot;truncated_body_text&quot;:&quot;by Nicolas Hulscher, MPH&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-08T21:34:37.367Z&quot;,&quot;like_count&quot;:360,&quot;comment_count&quot;:37,&quot;bylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:155554982,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Nicolas Hulscher, MPH&quot;,&quot;handle&quot;:&quot;nichulscher&quot;,&quot;previous_name&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3525813b-b6b7-4c84-8533-746ad20a564e_1084x1123.jpeg&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Epidemiologist at the McCullough Foundation.&quot;,&quot;profile_set_up_at&quot;:&quot;2024-10-27T22:59:06.288Z&quot;,&quot;reader_installed_at&quot;:&quot;2024-10-27T22:55:59.020Z&quot;,&quot;publicationUsers&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:3329180,&quot;user_id&quot;:155554982,&quot;publication_id&quot;:1119676,&quot;role&quot;:&quot;admin&quot;,&quot;public&quot;:true,&quot;is_primary&quot;:false,&quot;publication&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:1119676,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;FOCAL POINTS (Courageous Discourse&#8482;)&quot;,&quot;subdomain&quot;:&quot;petermcculloughmd&quot;,&quot;custom_domain&quot;:&quot;www.thefocalpoints.com&quot;,&quot;custom_domain_optional&quot;:false,&quot;hero_text&quot;:&quot;Investigative scholarship and reporting of public policy, health, justice, and current affairs. 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Learn why more Americans are moving a portion of their retirement savings into physical gold and silver, and what a future digital dollar could mean for your privacy, freedom, and financial security.</p><p><strong><a href="http://DailyPulseGold.com">Get your free copies at DailyPulseGold.com.</a></strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;55ca25a0-7633-4eb4-970f-f8a306f136b4&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><div><hr></div><p>Thanks for tuning in. Follow us (<a href="https://x.com/zeeemedia">@ZeeeMedia</a> and <a href="https://x.com/VigilantFox">@VigilantFox</a>) for stories that matter&#8212;stories the media doesn&#8217;t want you to see.</p><p>We&#8217;ll be back with another show tomorrow. See you then.</p><h3><strong>Watch the full episode below:</strong></h3><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;fc3a937e-07cd-4b07-b4fc-6d4cb85a34da&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attempted Beheading Sparks Outrage Across Ireland | Daily Pulse]]></title><description><![CDATA[This one is infuriating.]]></description><link>https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/attempted-beheading-sparks-outrage</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/attempted-beheading-sparks-outrage</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[The Vigilant Fox]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:04:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/201362925/a4714cc6ad6ca7319b142bd18b914751.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Story #1 - Canada is now on the verge of classifying some Bible passages as &#8220;hate speech.&#8221;</strong></p><p>A new law just passed, and if sharing your faith offends the wrong person, you could face up to 2 years in prison.</p><p>Canadian politicians voted to strip away a good-faith religious text protection that existed in law.</p><p>This means that anything said by a Christian&#8212;whether in a church service, while reading the Bible, sharing their faith on YouTube, or even in a private conversation&#8212;could be scrutinized, investigated, and potentially punished if some cog in the machine decides it is hateful.</p><p>They haven&#8217;t defined which Bible passages could be targeted. But even if they did, this is the government inserting itself into matters of faith and potentially paving the way for Christianity to be treated as a criminal offense.</p><p>That&#8217;s where this is headed.</p><p>Joining us to discuss is citizen journalist and content creator Tajana Cekic (<a href="https://x.com/TruthSeek01011">@TruthSeek01011</a>).</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;8459a439-5aca-4fc1-91bb-b9dc6ac82d04&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad:</strong> While most Americans chase stocks at record highs, central banks are buying gold at a pace not seen in decades.</p><p>If you&#8217;re concerned about inflation, market crashes, AI-driven disruption, or the rise of a digital dollar, Genesis Gold Group has created a free Digital Dollar Defense &amp; AI Survival Bundle to help you understand what&#8217;s coming and how some Americans are preparing.</p><p>Get your free copy at <strong><a href="http://DailyPulseGold.com">DailyPulseGold.com</a></strong>.</p><p>That&#8217;s <strong><a href="http://DailyPulseGold.com">DailyPulseGold.com</a></strong>.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;9b1299d5-ec86-4b70-be80-1b4bc38fca91&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Story #2 - People in the UK and Ireland have now reached their boiling point after an attempted beheading in Belfast was linked to a Sudanese asylum seeker.</strong></p><p>The victim suffered &#8220;significant injuries&#8221; to his face, neck, and back before brave bystanders rushed in and stopped the attack.</p><p>The suspect, a man in his 30s, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.</p><p>PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher said the suspect is believed to have traveled from Sudan to Paris, and then from Paris to Dublin, on unknown dates, before taking a bus to Belfast in February 2023.</p><p>He immediately claimed asylum and was granted leave to remain in the UK in September 2023, Mr Boutcher said.</p><p>Less than three years later, that same &#8220;asylum seeker&#8221; is now behind bars under suspicion of attempted murder.</p><p>For the full story, listen to @zeeemedia&#8217;s detailed report. This one is infuriating.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;84cedfa0-0e75-4802-a11a-2d3edd2e76e6&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: </strong>The biggest banks on Wall Street are racing into Bitcoin.</p><p>Morgan Stanley. Goldman Sachs. Public companies are buying it. Retirement accounts are adding it. And the forces driving demand&#8212;inflation, government debt, and declining trust in the financial system&#8212;aren&#8217;t going away.</p><p>If you&#8217;ve considered Bitcoin but don&#8217;t know where to start, Block Trust IRA makes it simple. Their team helps you set up a Bitcoin IRA, handle the paperwork, and navigate the process from start to finish.</p><p>No setup fees. No monthly fees. Just 0.14% trading fees.</p><p>They&#8217;ve already processed more than $300 million in IRA transactions and secure client assets with institutional-grade custody, insurance, and offline storage.</p><p>To learn more, visit <strong><a href="http://DailyPulseCrypto.com">DailyPulseCrypto.com</a></strong>.</p><p>That&#8217;s <strong><a href="http://DailyPulseCrypto.com">DailyPulseCrypto.com</a></strong>.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;b0884191-dad5-4cde-b446-2fd25dc76049&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Story #3 - A 34-year-old software engineer just started what could become a new trend in the age of AI.</strong></p><p>Erin Maus asked for a religious exemption from using AI, and her large tech employer AGREED to accommodate her.</p><p>Maus said she submitted the request in April, citing environmental and ethical objections to AI that conflict with her religious beliefs. She also consulted an employment lawyer and her local minister to help make her case.</p><p>According to an email obtained by Business Insider, the accommodation was approved in mid-May.</p><p>Maus&#8217; exemption comes as a growing number of employers require and track workers&#8217; AI usage. The technology has also drawn concern from Pope Leo XIV, who warned last month that AI could undermine human dignity and displace workers if left unchecked in a more than 42,000-word encyclical.</p><p>Legal experts say Maus may be one of the first of many employees who seek religious exemptions from AI requirements in the workplace.</p><p>Watch Maria Zeee&#8217;s full report on this fascinating development.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;9b2907e1-4411-4526-b13b-b8a787ae0dc2&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: </strong>What good is health insurance if it doesn&#8217;t pay your medical bills?<br><br>Thousands of Americans are leaving the traditional insurance system and joining CrowdHealth, where members help fund each other&#8217;s healthcare costs.<br><br>More than 28,000 members have already used it, with a 99.9% funding success rate.<br><br>Get started today for just $99 per month for your first three months at <strong><a href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse">https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse</a></strong>.<br><br>Use promo code <strong><a href="https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/pulse">PULSE</a></strong> to claim this limited-time deal.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;e8214dd1-ad0b-4c04-a850-77489e96e282&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><div><hr></div><p>Thanks for tuning in. Follow us (<a href="https://x.com/zeeemedia">@ZeeeMedia</a> and <a href="https://x.com/VigilantFox">@VigilantFox</a>) for stories that matter&#8212;stories the media doesn&#8217;t want you to see.</p><p>We&#8217;ll be back with another show tomorrow. See you then.</p><h3><strong><a href="https://rumble.com/v7b1v4k-attempted-beheading-fuels-immigration-unrest-daily-pulse-ep-268.html?e9s=src_v1_cmd%2Csrc_v1_upp_a">Watch the full episode below:</a></strong></h3><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;a6ae85a4-6b72-4cc4-9d34-3e04aa8bf6b0&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans Are Stopping AI Data Centers. Here’s How. | Daily Pulse]]></title><description><![CDATA[If a data center is being proposed in your area&#8212;or could be soon&#8212;this is the playbook you need.]]></description><link>https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/americans-are-stopping-ai-data-centers</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/americans-are-stopping-ai-data-centers</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[The Vigilant Fox]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:23:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/200814767/61bef4963839a8f1697368c79ed61d88.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some communities are stopping massive AI data centers in their tracks.</p><p>Others are getting steamrolled.</p><p>The difference often comes down to a handful of specific tactics <strong>most people don&#8217;t know about</strong> <strong>until it&#8217;s too late.</strong></p><p><a href="https://x.com/KristenMeghan">Kristen Meghan</a> and <a href="https://x.com/Tammy_K_Clark">Tammy Clark</a> have spent months helping communities fight back. From permit filings and noise ordinances to environmental pressure points that can derail projects before construction even begins, they break down the strategies that are actually working.</p><p>If a data center is being proposed in your area&#8212;or could be soon&#8212;<strong>this is the playbook you need.</strong></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.vigilantfox.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;4d089810-d6d5-4d8e-9c5d-4e5da94ce3fa&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>For many people, the scariest part of this issue aren&#8217;t the data centers themselves.</p><p>The scariest part is the growing suspicion that these decisions were made <strong>years before</strong> anyone even heard about the project.</p><p>At first, most people view these developments as a natural byproduct of the AI boom. A company needs more computing power, finds a piece of land, builds a facility, and moves on. It makes sense. </p><p>But the deeper you look, the harder that explanation is to accept.</p><p><strong>The same pattern keeps appearing across the country:</strong> rural farmland, small towns, communities with limited zoning protections, and areas already facing pressure on their water supplies.</p><p>And wherever these projects appear, enormous supporting infrastructure seems to arrive right alongside them. New transmission corridors. Massive substations. Utility expansions that look far larger than what many residents expect a single facility would require.</p><p>For Tammy Clark, that raises a different question entirely.</p><p>Not whether data centers are coming. <strong>But how developments this large could possibly move from concept to construction so quickly.</strong></p><p>Tammy works in environmental safety and knows how long projects of this scale typically take to plan. Schools, stadiums, utility upgrades, and community developments often spend <strong>years in planning</strong> before construction ever begins. Things like engineering studies, permitting, environmental reviews, land acquisition, and utility coordination don&#8217;t happen overnight.</p><p>From her perspective, many of the projects now emerging across the country look less like sudden responses to AI demand and more like <strong>plans that have been quietly advancing for years.</strong></p><p>That realization becomes even harder to ignore in places like Kansas, where residents have begun noticing infrastructure appearing on a scale that seems designed for something <strong>much larger</strong> than ordinary growth.</p><p>Some communities find themselves surrounded by new transmission lines and substations. Others begin asking why some of the most water-intensive facilities in the world are being directed toward areas already dependent on stressed aquifers and wells.</p><p>Eventually, the concern grows beyond water, power, or even data centers themselves.</p><p>Many residents begin wondering whether the facilities are only the most visible part of <strong>a much larger plan</strong> already reshaping rural America.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;0289a3eb-1c8f-4e41-9484-dd4b3b3d1550&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: Health insurance in America is broken</strong>.</p><p>Over 200,000 Americans go bankrupt because of medical bills every year&#8212;and many of them already had insurance. 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Thank you for supporting our sponsors.</em></p><div><hr></div><p>For communities facing billion-dollar corporations, one of the <strong>biggest misconceptions</strong> is that the outcome has already been decided.</p><p>Residents are often told the same thing: the permits are moving forward, the approvals are coming, and there&#8217;s nothing anyone can do to stop it.</p><p><strong>But recent battles suggest otherwise.</strong></p><p>Again and again, communities that were told the decision had already been made discovered they <strong>still had leverage.</strong></p><p>Festus, Missouri is one of the clearest examples. After residents accused local officials of pushing through approval of a massive AI data center without properly hearing public concerns, voter turnout exploded. <strong>Incumbents who supported the project were swept out of office,</strong> and the backlash continued long after election day.</p><p>Tammy also pointed to examples where public opposition translated into real political consequences. In one Michigan community, <strong>voters recalled every member of the local governing board</strong> following a controversial approval battle.</p><p>The lesson isn&#8217;t that every community will win.</p><p>It&#8217;s that these projects are not nearly as inevitable as many people have been led to believe.</p><p>Developers may have enormous financial resources, but they&#8217;re often highly sensitive to public scrutiny. Negative press, organized opposition, legal challenges, and growing public awareness can quickly transform what looks like a routine approval into a public-relations problem.</p><p>Once residents understand that, the question changes.</p><p>It&#8217;s no longer whether they can fight back.</p><p><strong>It&#8217;s how.</strong></p><p>And for many communities, that realization is where the real fight begins.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;bd01124d-9822-4756-ba2e-065070d982fc&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>The most effective fights are not built on outrage alone.</p><p><strong>They&#8217;re built on details.</strong></p><p>By the time most residents hear a data center is coming, developers may already have lawyers, consultants, engineers, utility companies, and political allies lined up behind the project. That&#8217;s why Kristen and Tammy keep returning to the same point: The most successful communities aren&#8217;t winning because they&#8217;re angry. <strong>They&#8217;re winning because they&#8217;re prepared.</strong></p><p>The goal is not to complain after a project is approved.</p><p><strong>The goal is to force difficult questions before approval ever happens.</strong></p><p>One of the biggest pressure points is <strong>tonal noise.</strong></p><p>This isn&#8217;t ordinary noise pollution. It&#8217;s not traffic, construction, or the occasional hum of nearby equipment. It&#8217;s <strong>a constant low-frequency sound</strong> generated by fans, substations, transformers, power lines, servers, and other infrastructure that can operate around the clock.</p><p>The concern is not simply that it&#8217;s annoying.</p><p>The concern is that <strong>it never stops.</strong></p><p>Residents may be exposed to it day and night, with no break, no work-rest cycle, and no real escape inside their own homes. Kristen warns that this kind of constant exposure can disrupt sleep, raise stress levels, and affect both people and animals.</p><p>That is why local ordinances matter.</p><p>Most noise rules are written around traditional sound levels. But if a community updates its ordinances to <strong>specifically address tonal noise</strong>, developers may be forced to redesign projects, adopt different technology, or walk away entirely.</p><p><strong>Water</strong> is another major pressure point.</p><p>Tammy says residents shouldn&#8217;t accept vague promises about &#8220;closed-loop&#8221; systems without asking exactly what those systems require. If glycol-based cooling is being used, she argues, that still involves water. Maybe less water than traditional systems, but still water.</p><p>That matters when these projects are being proposed in areas already dependent on wells, aquifers, rivers, lakes, or strained municipal supplies.</p><p>The practical strategy is simple. Ask the questions developers hope nobody asks.</p><ul><li><p><strong>Will the facility use local water?</strong></p></li><li><p><strong>What cooling technology will be required?</strong></p></li><li><p><strong>Will tonal noise be measured and regulated?</strong></p></li><li><p><strong>Who pays when the facility is abandoned?</strong></p></li></ul><p>Tammy says communities should also require developers to place millions of dollars upfront into escrow for decommissioning, deconstruction, and remediation. Otherwise, if the technology changes or the facility is abandoned years later, <strong>residents could be left with the mess and the bill.</strong></p><p>The larger lesson is clear.</p><p>If communities make the project cheap, easy, and politically quiet, developers move forward.</p><p>But if residents <strong>demand</strong> real safeguards on noise, water, health impacts, and long-term cleanup costs, the project can become far less attractive.</p><p>And in some cases, that may be enough to make developers go somewhere else.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;d232192d-9994-42da-aba4-7435d467d15b&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad: Want to upgrade your health?</strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://rncstore.com/pulse">Richardson Nutritional Center</a></strong> has offered trusted, top-quality natural supplements for decades&#8212;supporting healing and wellness with everything from vitamins to therapeutic seeds.</p><p>Shop now at <strong><a href="https://rncstore.com/pulse">RNCstore.com</a></strong> and use code <strong>PULSE</strong> for 10% off sitewide!</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://rncstore.com/pulse" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png" width="1200" height="250" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:250,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:596465,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https://rncstore.com/pulse&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.vigilantfox.com/i/168661677?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AvZe!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96cbc003-c477-419a-9b9e-bf1d079db3e8_1200x250.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://rncstore.com/pulse&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;See What RNCStore.com Has to Offer&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://rncstore.com/pulse"><span>See What RNCStore.com Has to Offer</span></a></p><p><em><strong>DISCLOSURE</strong>: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase through them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps keep our work independent. Thank you for your support.</em></p><div><hr></div><p>One of the biggest misconceptions about the growing opposition to data centers is that residents are somehow against technology itself.</p><p>Kristen rejects that idea.</p><p>The concern isn&#8217;t that data centers exist.</p><p>It&#8217;s how they&#8217;re being built, where they&#8217;re being built, and who is expected to live with the consequences.</p><p>Across the country, the same questions keep surfacing. Why are some of the largest and most resource-intensive facilities in the world being directed toward rural communities already facing pressure on their water supplies? Why are residents often left scrambling to understand projects that appear to have been years in the making? And <strong>why do so many people feel like they&#8217;re being presented with a decision that has effectively already been made?</strong></p><p>Those concerns deepen once communities begin looking beyond the initial sales pitch.</p><p>Some residents have reported water quality issues, including instances of water turning brown. Others have raised concerns about light pollution from facilities operating twenty-four hours a day.</p><p>But the worries don&#8217;t stop there.</p><p>Communities are often promised economic benefits. What receives far less attention, Tammy argues, is the possibility of rising electricity costs, declining property values, and broader economic consequences that may not become obvious until years later.</p><p>For families who choose rural communities because of open land, quiet surroundings, and a particular way of life, these projects can represent far more than another construction proposal.</p><p>They can change the character of a place.</p><p>And when enough changes happen at once, some residents begin to leave.</p><p>The effects don&#8217;t stop with individual homeowners. Lower property values can mean lower tax revenues. Lower revenues can affect schools, public services, local governments, and the long-term financial health of an entire community.</p><p>That&#8217;s why so many of these battles become about more than a single project.</p><p>At their core, they&#8217;re fights over who gets to shape the future of a community and whether residents still have meaningful input before irreversible decisions are made.</p><p>For Kristen and Tammy, the answer is neither blind acceptance nor blanket opposition.</p><p><strong>It&#8217;s vigilance.</strong></p><p>Pay attention to county agendas. Read meeting minutes. Watch permit filings. Know what is being discussed before approvals are finalized.</p><p>Because once construction begins, many of the most important decisions have already been made.</p><p>And communities don&#8217;t have to accept every proposal placed in front of them.</p><p>As Kristen put it, <strong>&#8220;We outnumber these people, and we can just say no. It&#8217;s how we say no that matters.&#8221;</strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;28082e35-dd75-481a-b936-0f2dc9681b79&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>#ad</strong>: Want protection from surveillance, hacking, and even electromagnetic threats?</p><p><a href="https://escapezone.com/pulse/">Escape Zone</a>&#8217;s elite Faraday bags block GPS, Bluetooth, RFID skimming, and EMF&#8212;perfect for phones, laptops, wallets, and more.</p><p>Their premium ballistic backpack even combines Faraday shielding with Kevlar armor, giving you the upper hand in an unpredictable world.</p><p>Want to shield your body, too? 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