The Little Company That Could

Poor Moderna. It was a start-up company with billions in capital, but it couldn't make money, because it's star technology had a problem....

"Founded in 2012, Moderna reached unicorn status — a $1 billion valuation — in just two years, faster than Uber, Dropbox, and Lyft, according to CB Insights. The company’s premise: Using custom-built strands of messenger RNA, known as mRNA, it aims to turn the body’s cells into ad hoc drug factories, compelling them to produce the proteins needed to treat a wide variety of diseases. But mRNA is a tricky technology. Several major pharmaceutical companies have tried and abandoned the idea, struggling to get mRNA into cells without triggering nasty side effects."

They kept trying, like the little engine that could, focusing on one disease, but...

" It never proved safe enough to test in humans, according to several former Moderna employees and collaborators who worked closely on the project. Unable to press forward with that technology, Moderna has had to focus instead on developing a handful of vaccines, turning to a less lucrative field that might not justify the company’s nearly $5 billion valuation."

The reason they turned to vaccines is that vaccines are only given once, so the toxic effects don't add up the way that meds for chronic illnesses do. But vaccines aren't as profitable.

"The indefinite delay on the Crigler-Najjar project signals persistent and troubling safety concerns for any mRNA treatment that needs to be delivered in multiple doses, covering almost everything that isn’t a vaccine, former employees and collaborators said."

Oh dear, what was going to happen to poor Moderna!

"“[The technology] would have to be a miraculous, Hail Mary sort of save for them to get to where they need to be on their timelines,” one former employee said. “Either [Bancel] is extremely confident that it’s going to work, or he’s getting kind of jittery that with a lack of progress he needs to put something out there.....

In order to protect mRNA molecules from the body’s natural defenses, drug developers must wrap them in a protective casing. For Moderna, that meant putting its Crigler-Najjar therapy in nanoparticles made of lipids. And for its chemists, those nanoparticles created a daunting challenge: Dose too little, and you don’t get enough enzyme to affect the disease; dose too much, and the drug is too toxic for patients."

The Hail Mary wasn't coming through research and development. They needed something else, something hyped and mandated. Whatever could that be?

The CEO, Stéphane Bancel, thought it would come by 2017, but he had to wait another 4 years for the company-saving miracle to manifest.

“I’m sure that five years from now we’ll look at 2017 as the inflection point that Moderna went for a liftoff,"Bancel said. “We have a chance to transform medicine, and we won’t quit until we are done and we have impacted patients.”

And they did. They have impacted patients in ways the patients never expected, and no doubt would not have wanted, but the important thing is that those pesky safety signals are no longer a problem for profits.

Oh. They weren't. But now a new sheriff is in town. Uh, oh!

https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/10/moderna-trouble-mrna/

Put Up Or Shut Down

Wow. Trump has finally admitted that Operation Warp Speed, sold to him using his famous dislike for regulations, may not have been the great triumph Pfizer has been telling him it is.

Now he is demanding that Pfizer release the study results to the world!

This is big. Pfizer no longer has CDC and the FDA running cover for them, going to court to say that they can't release any research data for 75 years.

No wonder the media and their slurpers are going so nuts.

Actually "following the science", which involves doing studies, compiling data, and then releasing it publicly, is NOT what the drug companies like to do.

It interferes with profits. So they get their politicians and regulatory agencies and media to demand secrecy.

They demand non-accountability, which they got in 1986 and 2005, from Congress, and cover-ups, which they continuously receive from their bought-off employees in Congress and the media.

But now a new sheriff is in town, and the Mighty Wurlitzer is playing at a deafening pitch. If you listen with acumen, you can discern the panic.

They are counting on the slurpers to nod along without understanding, singing the tune by rote, and attacking those of us who are intelligent enough to learn from history not to believe the words of known liars.

There is a fight going on, a fight between the established Church Of Perpetual Ignorance, and the new Galileos, who prefer to live by reason and evidence. Just like before, the Church is all-powerful, and the reasonable are vulnerable to their vindictiveness.

Check out the barrage of vitriol directed at RFK, Jr., if you want a taste of the nasty attacks the new Church is capable of launching.

As we know, the propaganda machine of the Empire works far better than the military-industrial part or medical-industrial part.

The thing is though, both bloated behemoths have gotten complacent after years of taxpayers dishing out money without any accountability. Life is sweet when you're making 6 figures without producing a product that works, let along one that is safe to use.

And then some uppity lawyer comes along and threatens the gravy train?

The horror!

Opening Up A Teenage Pipeline

3 years ago the US made sure that Germany could not change its mind about boycotting Russian gas, so it blew up the pipelines, just to make sure.

I know that the collective Biden regime was pushing really hard to get Ukraine to start sending its teenagers to battle. I don't know about Trump. I haven't heard the kind of whining from his people that we heard from Biden's.

But for some reason Zelensky, who caved to every other pressure, refused to send the kids to war. This infuriated the Americans and their EU vassals.

So what is up with the sudden opening of the borders to Ukie male teenagers?

Is this Zelensky's way of making sure that the TCC can't grab them up? A kind of Nordstream teenaged pipeline to safety?

Or are they allowing kids that were in hiding to come out and flee to the EU, where the Nazi-descendant leaders are increasingly open about their proclivities and plans? Let the kids run to safety, and then it turns out that the nice sheriff is working with the bad guys to kidnap them?

I guess we'll see.

Europe Issues Calls For More War

Dec. 2021: Russia proposes peace treaties between Russia and the US and NATO.

They point out that only mutual security is sustainable. Unilateral security, for instance NATO swallowing up more and more countries on Russia's borders, is not sustainable, is a direct threat, and will not be tolerated.

Feb. 2022: After being ignored by the US and NATO, with further provocations in Ukraine, Russia launches the SMO, with the goals of

1: Protecting the people of the Donbass from the US/NATO-backed Kiev regime, and its million man army.

2: Demilitarizing and Denazifying Ukraine.

3: Ukraine going back to its post-Soviet neutral status.

August, 2025: Zelensky and selected clown puppets of the EU show up in Washington, DC, saying that they are in pursuit of "peace''. How'd they do?

All of them pledge to continue arming the Kiev regime against the people of the Donbass, who they claim are Ukrainians, but who need to die.

All of them want to increase the size of Kiev's military.

All of them insist that only Ukraine can have "security", except for Starmer, who added that the talks were not just about Ukraine but “the security of Europe and the United Kingdom as well".

No one talked about mutual security that includes Russia.

Rutte and Merz called for a "ceasefire", meaning Russia, of course, since we already know that Ukraine doesn't honor ceasefires.

Macron called for boots on the ground.

Ursula der Lyer insisted that the children Russia took from the war zone be returned to the child traffickers headquartered in Kiev.

Melania Trump, a model who came from Slovenia in the height of the post-Soviet eastern European trafficking, added her voice (via a letter) to the "give us the children" call.

OK, the EU let it be known that they are opposed to Russia's calls for peace, mutual security, protection of the Donbass, and stopping the encroachment of NATO.

But what about the denazification part?

That part was left to Finland's Stubb, who said " “We found a solution in 1944, and I’m sure that we’ll be able to find a solution in 2025", a direct reference to Finland's joining Nazi Germany in the fight against Russia during that other time Europe tried to conquer Russia. >{?Stubb didn't mention the siege of Leningrad, which killed a million Russians, including Putin's older brother, but all the EU poodles have participated in the 18 sanctions packages, which were loudly declared to be aimed at starving and immiserating Russians into submission, so I guess he felt that was already covered.

All in all, it was a big bust. Europe apparently is congenitally unable to live peacefully with their neighbors, which we already knew if we know anything about European history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiCujvbUVYs

Mutual Security Concerns Still Ignored 3 Years Later

In Dec. 2021, Russia presented peace treaty proposals to NATO and the US, pointing out that the encroachment of NATO towards Russia, (breaking the promise made in 1990), was a security threat to Russia.

They pointed out that previous treaties recognized that the only lasting security was mutual security, where all parties were equally assured.

The NATO/US version of "I will arm myself to the teeth with weapons pointed at you and that way I feel secure" is obviously not fair, or to put in current terms, equitable, to the country the weapons are pointed at.

The US and NATO ignored Russia's proposals, moved more Kiev troops to the Donbass, talked about giving Ukraine nuclear weapons, and increased the shelling of the citizens in Donbass.

Putin told the west that if they ignored Russia's security needs, and increased the threats, then Russia would respond with military-technical reciprocal solutions.

What? What the hell did that mean?

Oh, we found out.

Now, in the kind of impudent reversal of the truth that nazis love, the west is blathering on and on about "security guarantees".

But only for Ukraine. No security for Russia.

And what they clearly mean by "security guarantees" is not a treaty with mutual respect and agreements, it is the US and the EU poodles promising to put their troops into Ukraine to attack Russia.

What part of "We are not going to put up with your marching to our borders and threatening us" do they not understand?

Are they really that stupid or do they just think we are?

Who's The Greatest Of Them All?

The story of the farmer who warns a man not to go into a field, but the man draws himself up arrogantly, flashes a badge, and announces that he can go anywhere he wants. Then, as he marches into the field, a big bull starts to chase him, and as he runs the farmer comes to the fence and yells "Show him your badge. Show him your badge!".........may apply here.

The US insists that it is the Biggest Baddest Mofo in the world, and it brags about its GDP and military as proof.

As Russia steadily liberates cities and towns in Donetsk who have been occupied and terrorized by the Kiev regime for the last 10 years, the Trump team has suddenly decided they want to negotiate.

Putin will show up in Alaska on Friday, and Trump will bloviate about the power and wonder of the United States of America, and how we can kick anybody's ass.

Then Putin can point to the Donbass and say "Show them your GDP. Show them your GDP!"

Squatter's Rights

Yesterday, the US signed a deal with Armenia giving them a 99 year lease over a strip of strategic land, the Zangezur Corridor.

Well, wasn't that special of Armenia to do? I wonder how much of a bribe Pashinyan got for that stupendous piece of treachery.

Then the US announced that they would be meeting Putin in Alaska.

Alaska? Why would Putin come to the US?

Oh, that's right. I remembered that the US didn't actually buy Alaska, it leased it for 99 years. That lease was up in 1967, but apparently the Soviets didn't want to go to war over it, so the US still squats there.

So technically, Putin and Trump are meeting on Russian soil.

Heads up, Armenia! Do you really think that the US will move into the Zangezur Corridor, build military bases, set up mining operations, set up a puppet government and then leave in 99 years? Do you really think that the US won't say that they bought the land, they didn't lease it?

Oh, Armenia. How naive can you be?