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  ‘Expresso Vaccines’ and Lessons from the American Chestnut Tree Why a vaccine designed in two days faced less regulatory scrutiny than a venerable nut tree that sustained life for centuries Dr. Mathew Maavak A tree that once fed multitudes now faces a decade of federal red tape before a single seed can touch wild soil, while a brand-new genetic vaccine, cooked up in 48 hours and injected into billions, sailed through approval in under a year. One restores a vanished forest, the other rewrote human cells on a planetary scale. Both are genetic modifications, yet one is treated as a potential ecological threat while the other is hailed as a modern miracle. Welcome to the “expresso lane” of modern biotechnology, where speed, risk, and scrutiny depend entirely on whose veins are on the line. Reign of the Chestnut King In the ancient forests of Appalachia, the American Chestnut (Castanea dentata) once towered as the unmatched monarch. Stretching from the southern ridges to southern Can...

  All the World's a Hoax: Crisis Actors 'R Us Who writes these scripts? Donald Jeffries We have just seen another of these seemingly endless mass casualty events. This one happened at Bondi Beach, Australia. These events occur so fast and furiously that they are forgotten even more quickly than other, non-mass casualty widely reported events. Some people actually still believe that they are real, organic incidents. The Bondi Beach event, which has no known association with our gracefully aging Barbie Doll attorney general, very conveniently involved a father and son Muslim duo, who allegedly killed sixteen (that number may grow) at a Jewish festival. This was a tragically fortuitous thing for the embattled Zionist community, which between the genocide in Gaza and the ridiculous official explanation in the Charlie Kirk assassination, had taken quite a hit in public support. But the typically coded headlines about “Australia’s deadliest shooting in decades” just don’t pack the em...