5 September 2026 | ZEROGeoengineering.com | “Indeed, warfare now includes the technological ability to induce, enhance or direct cyclonic events, earthquakes, draught and flooding, including the use of polymerised aerosol viral agents and radioactive particulates carried through global weather systems.” The above quote by Matt Andersson, former executive adviser, aerospace & defence, Booz Allen Hamilton, Chicago, was written in the Guardian in 2012, regarding the weaponization of weather. When the article was written 14 years ago, Andersson said that China, Israel, Russia, and the US already possessed the technology for use in military and black operations. Booz Allen Hamilton received contracts in 2026 for the U.S. “Golden Dome” missile defense program along with systems engineering and integration of next-generation space-based missile warning and surveillance systems. Close public scrutiny to reign in military programs, dual-use systems, and atmospheric experimentation is urgently needed in order to protect our atmosphere and All Life on Earth. “Few in the civil sector fully understand that geoengineering is primarily a military science and has nothing to do with either cooling the planet or lowering carbon emissions. While seemingly fantastical, weather has been weaponized. At least four countries – the US, Russia, China and Israel – possess the technology and organisation to regularly alter weather and geologic events for various military and black operations, which are tied to secondary objectives, including demographic, energy and agricultural resource management.”
4 September 2026| ZEROGeoengineering.com | The following June 3, 2026 article discusses how the atmosphere is increasingly becoming a domain of geopolitical and strategic competition. A dangerous “governance gap” is recognized where many are becoming “passive recipients of decisions made elsewhere, including interventions that could reshape regional weather systems, agriculture, or water security without their consent.” Understanding geoengineering as dual-use technology, the author acknowledges potential military applications and weaponizing of the weather: “The most dangerous aspect of weather warfare is its ambiguity: because hurricanes, droughts, and floods occur naturally, proving deliberate manipulation would be exceptionally difficult, creating plausible deniability and potentially lowering the threshold for covert confrontation.“ Published over two months before the catastrophic flooding in Tibet and Nepal on August 26, 2026, the article cites China’s expanding weather modification programs in the Tibetan plateau as an example of increasing tensions in strategically important regions. The Geopolitics of Geo-Engineering: Weather Warfare vs. Climate Security “In an international system already shaped by rivalry over energy, trade, cyberspace, and outer space, the atmosphere may become the next domain of strategic contestation.” “The Geopolitics of Geo-Engineering: Weather Warfare vs. Climate Security” – Zero Geoengineering
Ending with a bit of comic relief from MellowKat, a clever parody using AI, jabbing at the turncoats and new wave of geoengineering influencers who are blaming the public for too much air travel instead of pointing the collective middle finger at the poisoners in-chief (reminding us of the cow fart and SUV scam where everything that’s wrong with our environment is our own damn fault!) Stop flying, stop eating meat, stop driving, stop breathing, damn plebs!
The best content I know comes from this substack. I can’t recommend it highly enough.
“Capital Has Outsourced Its Reproduction to the State’s Monopoly on Violence”
“How to Explain It to a Six-Year-Old
Imagine a candy shop. The government has made a rule that says everyone has to buy candy from this one shop. No other candy shop is allowed to open. If anyone tries to open a different one, the police close it down.
The candy costs a lot, and some of the candy makes children sick. The candy shop owner went to the government one day and said something like this: if my candy makes children sick, do not make me pay for the doctor. That is not fair to me. It will be too expensive. If you make me pay, I will stop selling candy. So the government made another rule.
If a child gets sick from the candy, the government pays for the doctor. But the government does not have any money of its own. It takes the money from everyone’s parents. The candy shop keeps all the money it makes from the candy. The parents pay for the candy. Then the parents pay for the doctor. The candy shop pays for neither.
This has been going on for a very long time. Longer than your parents have been alive. Longer than your grandparents have been alive. It started even longer ago than that, in a place called Venice, when knights still fought with swords. From Venice it moved to a city called Amsterdam. Then it moved to England, more than three hundred years ago, when a small group of very rich people convinced the king to let them make the money for the whole country, and then to let the king pay them interest to borrow that same money back. When the arrangement worked well for the rich people, it moved again, across another ocean to America. It stopped being about money and started being about ships, and then about oil, and then about wars, and now about medicine. The names of the things kept changing. The rule did not. One shop is allowed. Everyone must buy. Everyone must pay when the shop’s things cause harm. And the shop is never made to answer for what it sold.
Your parents were told this was normal. Their parents were told this was normal. Their grandparents were told the same thing. It is not normal. It is very old, and it has never been taken apart. It has only been moved from one thing to another. From money to ships to medicine. When you grow up, some of the shops will still be there, still selling things everyone has to buy, still not paying for what they sold. You will remember this: the rule that seems normal is not normal. It was made a long time ago by people who knew exactly what they were doing.”
A rant with educational links, ending with a test, so this is bound to be a super popular post! 😆
Recently I’ve been looking into air filters, because I’ve been told they can help alleviate allergies and because I’m dismayed at the amount of dust that accumulates so quickly in our home at all times of the year. I was in a state of sticker shock when I learned that these popular products sell for many hundreds of dollars plus the required regular replacement of pricey filters, not to mention the extra electricity costs of running them continually.
To equip our little cottage with these we’d need at least 3, plus the regular upkeep of their filters.
These are products that were unheard of until about the last decade or so. According to some of the glowing comments in the reviews, they are nessessary for many because of their sensitivity to all the ‘wildfire smoke.’ Wildfire smoke is another thing that was not on the mass public radar except in a relatively few locations, whereas now it seems the entire globe is concerned with it.
If not wildfire smoke it’s Saharan dust, or pollen, or dander that’s the supposed culprit of the filthy air. So very many reasons, which seem entirely plausible, except for the odd fact that they are somehow new problems for huge numbers of us.
The disgusting air in our living room when the light was at a perfect angle to capture it.
Why has air pollution, both indoor and outdoor, become such a huge problem, even in rural areas? Air pollution used to be a city problem.
Once upon a time folks moved to the country for clean air.
Is it the ‘conspiracy theory’ called Smart dust? Fallout from Geoengineering? Because I simply cannot buy those other assumptions, because, logic!
Fresh air!
Could it be black carbon dust, used in weather modification since the 70s at least, according to this document.
On many occassions I’ve done Dane Wigington ‘Flashlight Test’.
I’ve done it at least once in every season and it different weather conditions, like on ‘spray days’ vs none.
While the Flashlight Test will not work everywhere because of light pollution, it is very simple. Go outside to a dark spot and beam a strong flashlight into the air. That is what I filmed, just a few nights ago, very few bugs were attracted to the light, but the swirling filth is clearly visible in the beam.
It can’t possibly be linked to Geoengineering, because that’s still only a proposal, according to official sources and academia.
From this document from 2010 we learn the public has been completely misled for a minimum of two decades, becuase the government has stated Geoengineering is already happening, it is international in scope, there will be public debates over the years, which has certainly not happened, and the testing will intensify.
Rather than outrage, the poor, disease-ridden masses should equip their homes with thousands of dollers in new equipment, forever.
“Rarely acknowledged in the debate on global climate change, the world’s weather can now be modified as part of a new generation of sophisticated electromagnetic weapons. Both the US and Russia have developed capabilities to manipulate the climate for military use.
Environmental modification techniques have been applied by the US military for more than half a century. US mathematician John von Neumann, in liaison with the US Department of Defense, started his research on weather modification in the late 1940s at the height of the Cold War and foresaw ‘forms of climatic warfare as yet unimagined’.”
Is it really about pollen and dander and wildfires on the other side of the world? Or, might we be breathing several decades worth of chemical fallout from experiments done against our will and our knowledge?
Did you know that creating drought is technically easier than creating rain?
Try the flashlight test chez vous! Who else can see the air filth? What do you make of it? Are you satisfied with just buying the latest tech to protect yourself and ‘trusting the science.’
Persian lilac is my favorite of its very many common names. In fact, seeing how popular it is globally, I’m really surprised it took me SO much effort to identify it.
Located in an abandoned lot among several Mimosa trees and lots of very prickly bramble
‘Free, or noble tree’ –I like that one, too. I noticed it on an abandoned lot behind a relatively new grocery store in town. It was so striking, with its dark trunk, high, feathery and deep green foliage with druping yellow fruits. I pulled over in the late summer Texas heat, during extreme drought, walked through some crispy grass and aggressive bramble to reach it, and I was sure I’d never seen one before.
Though not at all surprised by the fact that, once identified, I saw it’s another of those ‘highly controversial’ medicinals.
Melia azedarach, popularly known as the chinaberry tree, Pride of India, bead-tree, Cape lilac is a species of deciduous tree in the mahogany family, Meliaceae. The plant is native to China, Japan, the Indian sub-continent, south-eastern Asia and large parts of northern and eastern Australia. Cape-lilac, Chinaberry, Indian lilac, Persian lilac, Sichuan pagoda tree, Texas umbrella-tree, bead tree, chinaberry-tree, margosa tree, pride of India, syringa berrytree, tulip-cedar, umbrella-cedar, umbrella-tree, white cedar, Bastard Cedar, Bakain, Drek, Deikna, China Tree, Maha Neem, Bakain, Bakarja, Bakayan, Betain, Deikna, Drek and Azad-darakht are the few synonyms for the tree Melia azedarach. It is an ornamental tree with multiple uses. It possesses significant medicinal properties but these are not much appreciated in India by the people and are neglected in favor of the more well-known Neem.
The genus name Melia is derived from μελία (melía), the Greek word used by Theophrastus (c. 371 – c. 287 BC) for Fraxinus ornus, which has similar leaves. The species azedarach is from the French ‘azédarac’ which in turn is from the Persian ‘āzād dirakht’ meaning ‘free- or noble tree’. Melia azedarach should not be confused with the Azadirachta trees, which are in the same family, but a different genus. This tree’s fruit is poisonous to humans. Once the fruit is ingested in quantity (so a few too many of this tree’s berries), depending on its toxicity, the person eating it may die after about 24 hours of ingesting the fruits. Its flowers are a respiratory irritant and its leaves, bark, flowers and sometimes fruit are poisonous.
While I do credit the Master Gardener who informed me of the name, which was essential to doing further research, it’s unfortunate our learned experts are so myopic. She also repeated the common mantra of so many of our unfairly demonized plants–it’s toxic, it’s invasive, it’s dangerous.
She said the berries are really sharp and children and pets can hurt themselves when stepping on them. She did not say what I later learned, that folks around the world make jewelry with them
Chinaberry necklaces, a popular ‘Indian’ and ‘folk’ craft
It is also an ancient medicinal with many healing properties.
Historical records of Melia azedarach date back centuries in Sanskrit manuscripts like Kalpa-raksha (16th century), where it was referred to as “Bakayantra.” Ayurvedic sages documented its bitter fruit as “kaya-hara,” implying body-cleansing qualities. In medieval South India, the Tamil Siddhars praised chinaberry oil for its ability to relieve arthritic pain; some palm-leaf notes from 14th-century Kerala mention powdered berries mixed in ghee for parasitic infestations. In Persia, around the 10th century under Avicenna’s influence, Persian lilac extracts were recommended to promote healthy digestion and as a mild vermifuge. Chinese herbalists of the Ming dynasty classified jin chen (Chinese for Chinaberry) among top measles remedies, attributing antipyretic and anti-inflammatory properties to its root bark. Over time, European colonists introduced Melia azedarach to the Americas and Africa; by the 19th century, American settlers used it in decoctions against intestinal worms, calling it “Southern chinaberry.” Doubts arose in late 1800s European herbal compendiums about its safety due to reports of livestock toxicity—hence many modern traditions prefer leaf extracts to avoid seed hazards. Despite that, rural communities in Brazil and Mexico continue using controlled doses of the fruit internally for dysentery and topically as poultices on insect bites. Usage shifted after Pasteur’s germ theory: 20th-century Ayurvedic scholars began exploring its antibacterial potential rather than purely digestive effects. Today you can still find village healers in Maharashtra making chakra pestanas—herb-laden fomentations with boiled chinaberry leaves to treat rheumatism.
As popular as it is I was twice given misidentifications by AI
Therapeutic Effects and Health Benefits
Melia azedarach is credited with a spectrum of health benefits—each anchored in tradition and backed by varying degrees of research:
Anti-parasitic: Ethnobotanical surveys (Kashmir, 2018) report village healers using fruit decoctions against intestinal worms. Modern rodent data confirm significant anthelmintic effect with minimal adverse reactions when dosage is controlled.
Anti-inflammatory: Triterpenoids in leaf extracts have reduced paw edema in rat models (Indian J. Pharmacol., 2017). Real-life application: I once prepared chinaberry leaf poultice for a friend’s sprained ankle—noticed marked reduction in swelling after two applications.
Antimicrobial: In vitro studies against Staphylococcus aureus and E. coli show up to 70% inhibition (Phytotherapy Res., 2019). Topical ointments featuring chinaberry bark oil have been used for minor wound care in Marathi folk medicine.
Digestive support: Bitter principles enhance gastric secretion. Anecdotal accounts from Maharashtra cite a pinch of powdered dried berries in warm water relieving occasional bloating and gas.
Analgesic: Leaf-infused oil used in traditional massages to ease rheumatic pain. Clinical pilot (2020) noted a 45% pain score reduction in volunteers applying 2% chinaberry oil twice daily.
Antioxidant: Flavonoid-rich extracts demonstrate free-radical scavenging in DPPH assays, suggesting potential in adjunctive therapy for oxidative stress-related disorders.
Despite these promising applications, it’s critical to note that effective benefits rely on proper preparation. In raw or high-dose forms, seeds can be mildly toxic (contained saponins). Documented case reports (J. Med. Toxicol., 2013) detail nausea and dizziness after overconsumption of fruit tincture. Hence, therapeutic use demands precision in extraction and dosing.
Apparently the ‘toxic’ part is the only part some scholars and experts read before claiming it illegal, which it is in Texas.
And of course that it is supposedly ‘invasive’. A little ridiculous since I’ve been here 20 years and it’s the first one I’ve seen. Since asking around locally I’ve found another one, which the owner really likes and has been attempting to propagate more.
‘Invasive’ is now at the top of my list of Corporate-State nonsense words used to intimidate and control populations for the sake of industrial preferences–usually agricultural and phamaceutical.
And just for fun, I’ll share my ‘crazy conspiracy theory’ notion here for the first time. I believe this region was once under the rule of the Persian Empire and that ‘native’ is another nonsense word, these supposed invasive species brought by Europeans is a false history used to cover up the truth that our ‘Native Americans’ were in fact actual Indians, and like the Indians there presence here predates European colonization.
Chinaberry is on the Texas Dept. of Agriculture’s list of Invasive Plants which are illegal to sell, distribute or import into Texas.
Chinaberry is most invasive in riparian zones or disturbed sites. The tree can form a monoculture, outcompeting native vegetation due to its high relative resistance to insects and pathogens. The tree grows rapidly from several root sprouts and can create dense thickets that crowd out native plant species. The tree’s leaf litter raises the nitrogen level and pH in the soil, which can prevent germination and growth of native plants. Chemicals in leaves inhibit insects’ digestion. All parts of the plant, especially the fruit, are poisonous to humans, some livestock and mammals, including cats, dogs and horses. Cattle and some birds can eat the berries without harm.
I’ve also read it has been interplanted with crops as a pest deterrant, or trap crop, but I’m still researching that angle. It seems the bias against this tree in the south-east U.S. is tainting our academic research and we must look to the scientific research of other countries to learn more about the many uses of this beautiful tree.
“If you don’t read the news you’re uninformed, if you read the news you’re misinformed.” Mark Twain
The same can be said for labels. While our “health freedom” advocates go after the most obvious chemical concoctions, or suffle around useless info about calories and so-called vitamins, folks who really do care about their health are getting duped by seemingly healthy foods.
I believe we all know that counting calories is a fool’s errand. But for those who might still not get it, here’s a 2nd grade level demonstration.
This is what 400 calories looks like. Same number. Two completely different outcomes. pic.twitter.com/vGikDBvjGn
Now let’s get to the graduate level. Enzymes and cultures and rennet, are they all the same? The modern cheesemakers would like you to believe they are, but they are certainly not.
My issue is with the deception, just to be clear, that is always my issue. If folks choose, with proper information and informed consent, to consume chemicals and lab-made food, I have no problem with that. As the kids like to say, “You do you!”
But this is not what’s happening. These foods are being forced on consumers under an illusion of choice. We are not even privvy to proper food labeling and cheese is a prime example.
Most cheeses sold today will have the same ingredient list as I do when making a 100% natural cheese: milk, culture, rennet, salt. Looks simple enough, but it is far more complex than that.
Pasteurized milk or raw milk? Natural cultures or lab-produced cultures? Animal rennet or the ‘new’ so-called vegetarian rennet?
all cheeses are not created equal!
Already we enter deceptive marketing practices on the topic of rennet, because most folks don’t know what it is or how it is acquired in nature.
So the manufacturers of vegetarian rennet are relying on consumer ignorance rather than informed consent.
I claim this because they are insinuating, by appealling to vegetarians, that it is more humane than animal rennet. When it comes to the modern abhorent feed lots and poor treatment of animals ina factory-farm setting I suppose they could be correct.
But in traditional dairy farm protocol this is completely false. Hubby jokingly calls it “male privilege” because the practice is, only females are raised to maturity. Boys are sold, castrated or not, or raised separately to be slaughtered for meat after a couple years in the field.
Natural rennet is acquired by extracting the abomasum of the young ruminant animal’s stomach, which we have done here on the wee homestead, if you want to check it out.
For the average farm this is not an issue, as there are plenty of males which can be slaughtered for this purpose. Not that it takes more than one, because it will last a VERY long time, as is proven in “3rd world” dairy operations still today. This is a process called ‘backslopping’ where a rennet-culture solution are reused for an entire season, similar to how sourdough starters are “grown” and reused.
But when it comes to huge dairy operations with fancy equipment and many rotating employees and assembly-line production this doesn’t work. It’s not consistent and reliable enough, there are too many variables in such a living product and as the old adage goes, too many hands spoil the broth.
For the giant manufacturers these lab-created cultures and vegetarian rennet are a necessity–for them, not for the consumer. However, their aim is to make it appear as if they are doing it for “consumer choice”. Even as the consumer has no choice!
Vegetarian rennet is now the norm, used in the vast majority of cheeses sold in the US. The same goes for the added starter cultures and “enzymes” used for flavoring and consistency, all produced in a lab. As they are showing images of happy cows on lush green fields and quaint farmhouses on their labels and websites, this image is as deceptive and manufactured as those ingredients.
While conscientious consumers rightly raise concerns over animal welfare and antibiotics in their milk, they’ve barely scratched the surface of the issue. Even the “organic” label here is deliberately deceptive.
Rather than be honest with consumers, instead we get gaslit. We are suddenly dealing with “allergies” and “intolerences” where none existed before. We are informed we must take special “enzymes” if we insist on eating dairy foods. We are directed to the new dairy-free products made by the same manufacturers and also produced in a lab.
And when we try to do our due diligence to understand what is in our food and why it now causes us health problems, as I have, we are given the runaround.
I’ve been on the runaround track for a week now by the Customer Service department of the popular brand Swiss Colony, a major seller of cheeses and meats. They are clearly trying to run me down by being avoidant and evasive about a very basic question–what’s in your cheese?
After reading all the information on their website and getting no answers, I contacted them directly. Yes, they use “vegetarian” rennet, which I already knew from their Q&A section.
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My initial inquiry:
Hello, please inform me of the complete ingredient list for your Baby Swiss Cheese, meaning the specific types of cultures and enymes being used, and if possible, the manufacturers’ names for those and as well as your vegetarian rennet. thank you,
Their reply:
Thank you for contacting Customer Service.
We have forwarded your inquiry to the proper department and will reply with an answer as soon as we receive the information.
We appreciate the opportunity to be of service.
Then, the next day:
Our Baby Swiss uses vegetable rennet. Please see below for the requested list of ingredients.
So, the obvious assumption here is, if you have allergies to this product, it’s because you have milk allergies. Then you get their list of solutions to your problem, links to all their “alternatives”.
Dairy-Free, Vegan Mozzarella Cheese That Melts Perfectly, Plant-Based, 7 oz 6-PACK, Lactose Free Cheese with No Allergens, Non Dairy Cheese.
Never Better Foods Plant-Based Shredded Cheddar & Mozzarella Cheese Blend, 6 Pack (6 x 7 oz Bags), Dairy-Free, Vegan, and Allergen-Free, Ideal for Cooking, Melting, and Meal Prep
Empasta Vegan Cheeze Sauce – Dairy-Free, Gluten-Free, Nut-Free, Soy-Free – Creamy, Easy Melt, Low-Calorie Cheese Sauce Alternative for Dips, Pasta, Nachos, Burgers, Veggies & More – 12oz sustainable jar (Smoked)
Clearly they did not answer my direct questions, so I tried again. And again. And again. And I’m still waiting for my answers.
I will return with their answer, if I get any, in the next post, along with a more upscale brand, to demonstrate more money doesn’t always mean a more natural product.
It was too much news last time for one post, and I didn’t care to skimp on the cheese bragging, especially!
But then I got sent off on a cheese tangent when trying to simply explain why most commercially-produced cheese on grocery store shelves should not even be called real cheese anymore.
In fact, maybe even some of these fabulous-looking cheeses from traditional French fromageries like I used to love to frequent might also make the fake food list. I sincerely hope not, but France, like all of ‘the West’ are increasingly subjected to the same chemical onslought as we are in the US.
Making cheese is the best thing I’ve ever done. In my life, without exception. Thanks to it, I have uncovered some of the rarest, most simple, deepest and most common of universal life lessons.
No offense to Handy Hubby, marrying him is definitely a close second. 😆
I’ve heard similar magnanimous claims recounted only through such trials and tribulations as come through miracles such as child birth and motherhood. But I have not been a mother.
Don’t cry for me though, because I found cheese!
From it I’ve delved into the practicalities–the art, the craft–of the most delicious hobby I can imagine. I have also been either introduced, or expanded my knowledge on topics as diverse as vaccines, germ theory, pleomorphism, alchemy, modern chemistry, even math–some things which I rejected with ease or sometimes ferocity–which now claim me, my mind and passions and preoccupations, like one conquered, lured and pushed, exposed and protected, by some ultimate wisdom.
Anyone who knew me in my younger years would be surprised, I’m sure, as my sister was, that I would willingly and repeatedly entangle my brain with math and science. Not that either is entirely necessary for traditional cheesemaking.
Every cheese pictured here, and plenty more that are not, I’ve made with the same 4 ingredients: locally-sourced raw milk, our own animal rennet, clabber and salt.
From David Asher’s fantastic tome, Milk Into Cheese: The Foundations of Natural Cheesemaking Using Traditional Concepts, Tools, and Techniques
Most commercial producers of cheese believe that packaged starters are the only option for cheese’s proper production; that milk is deficient in the appropriate microbes and rich in dangerous ones; and that they are incapable of realizing the work that is normally done by trained microbiologists. DVIs (Direct Vat Innoculants–freeze-dried starters) are considered the only acceptable way to safely make cheese, and the most convenient option for producers, big or small.
He’s too polite and wise to say the industry has been completely captured, but I do believe he’d agree with me on that!
Industrial starters are by and large produced by multinational corporations. Danisco, the most prolific starter producer, is based in Denmark and is a subsidiary of DuPont. This corporation and others like it profit off cheesemakers’ demand for a product that they do not truly need.
Industrial starters are monocultures of microorganisms that have no precedent in nature and need perfectly sterile environments in order to function correctly. They are out of touch with the reality of cheese, which needs dozens if not hundreds of species of microbes to evolve according to their safest and most flavorful pathways.
The deception on the foundational level, resting on disproven science from the early 1900s, is bad enough. But the consumer sees none of that, instead being swept up in extremely dubious marketing practices that call these starters natural and necessary.
And that’s even before we delve into the mass manufacturing of “vegetarian rennet” –that is the lab-derived coagulant now used by the vast majority of cheesemakers large and small around the West and perhaps the world, which also also claims to be natural.
Four ingredients. Just think about that for a moment, please! That is all it takes to delight, and/or to disgust, in a thousand different ways.
Labeling, on cheeses as on GMOs, is simply another way to con the consumer. The process is as important as the ingredients and changing the meaning of words is par for the course. More on that next post as I delve into the “Nutrition” label of a popular cheese brand.
Fermentation and the art of putrefaction is the process. Technically putrefaction is the wrong word, though it does sort of work!
Affinage is the correct term for the fine craft of cheese maturation. According to AI the difference is:
“Putrefaction refers to the decomposition of organic matter, which can negatively affect cheese quality, while affinage is the controlled aging process that enhances the flavor and texture of cheese. Proper affinage prevents undesirable putrefaction by managing environmental conditions and microbial activity during cheese maturation.”
So it’s basically desirable putrefaction. It’s like the difference between a weed and an herb, it depends on whose garden it is.
But still, think about that! Like aging fine wines and wiskeys, even hot sauces, this is proper fermentation, where territory REALLY matters. Where some old-school crafters even insist no one else can touch their concoctions or they’re immediately spoiled. True story!
It’s POD taken to an extreme unknown even to our own extreme-loving culture.
POD, or DO (designation of origin) is to the cheese world what Provenance is to the art world. It is, literally, about ‘savoir faire’ (know-how) –being able to trace the work, the process, back to its source.
Perhaps so that industry can try to capture a piece of that magic? Individual and smallscale crafters in the market are not allowed the same right to privacy as the Big Food manufacturers, who routinely get to claim “proprietary” status whenever they care not to divulge their special little secrets.
Aging cheese, affinage, is an art, craft, indeed a profession, so ancient it predates our recorded history. It has nothing at all to do with commercial pasteurization, or chemically-adulterated cheeses, which has absolutely compromised the craft. Which has been further compromised by a negligence of public health standards and an indifference to territory and creating a GloboGlob culture that is so synthetic it now considers consuming chemicals as food ‘natural’.
And if you are among the great many who are allergic, they don’t tell you it’s because they’ve completely adulterated the ingredients, the process, and even the meaning of words, oh no, they tell you ‘plant-based cheese’ is the next great thing they’re creating just for you!
The new ‘art’ eh? I think not. But time will tell.
Our tastes tell us a much bigger story than our grocery stores care to oblige. And the ever-increasing health consequences and debilitating diseases point to our palates and our plates, which should take their rightful place at the top of that pyramid of problems.
Cheese is full of life and how each cheese is treated determines its outcome. Kind of like children too. It is not a source of disease, though like rearing anything, it can be a source of dis-ease!
I also feel such a drive to protect these precious processes. The downright bastardization of what’s considered natural in these times is only escalating toward greater absurdity. “Natural” and “only possible to manufacture in a lab setting” should not be synonomous!
If that makes me a food snob, I am pleased to claim the title! We’ll need an army of Queen Food Snobs to push back against this crazy.
“Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.”
~ Edward Abbey
What Anarchy Is:
I tire of constantly having to explain what anarchy is and what it is not. I tire of having to explain our language to those who seem never to have the time or inclination to study and learn it on their own, and without prejudice. Words mean things, and cannot be arbitrarily changed, or altered to suit a mood, an agenda, or be used improperly in order to create out of thin air, a State or political narrative, or to advance any particular agenda. To begin my comments, I will clarify that the word anarchy simply means no rule – no rulers, and therefore, no master or government; period.
If one is to go to most any modern dictionary, or look at dictionary synonyms, the list is common. The synonyms used to describe anarchy are: chaos, confusion, disorder, lawlessness, nihilism, rebellion, riot, turmoil, disorganization, insurrection, mutiny, revolution, tumult, mobocracy, mob rule, non-government, reign of terror, and unrest. Only one of these terms is correct; all the others are false, and have been intentionally manufactured to change the true meaning of anarchy. Non-government (no government) is the only correct synonym used, but all other descriptions are what most any would not only find if searching for the meaning of anarchy, but what they would also believe. Of course, few would search out the true meaning by going to the Greek root system of our language, and of course, that is by design as well. Why else do ‘public’ (government controlled ) schools (government indoctrination training centers) exist?
The refreshing article coincided with an ‘interesting’ new documentary on my long-time favorite conspiracy theory–the weather.
Climate Trails, which can be streamed for the price of a Starbuck’s latte, on Amazon.
What got me to find this latest gem is that I was curious and went looking for the first ‘chemtrail’ whistleblower I’d found, round about 2014. She had been threatened and forced out of the Air Force in 2010 and I’d been really moved by her story.
USAF Environmental Specialist and Air Force ‘chemtrail’ whistleblower interviewed in 2014, threatened and forced out in 2010.
Kristen Meghan
It also includes the courageous activist, Kathryn Saari, who I wrote about a year or so ago, called MellowKat on her Substack.
A very ‘interesting’ documentary, and by that I mean curious. Perhaps meant to create cognitive dissonance by simultaneous clips of a cursing Anarchist with a well-meaning Kentucky politician, both trying to address the geoengineered atmosphere. Perhaps with the ultimate ‘come together against this evil’ intention.
Of course we all already know the UK admitd it’s going to dim the sun, and Bill Gates can’t wait to make more billions poisoning more populations in more ways.
I learned that 32 states now have some legislation in the works against weather modification/geoengineering and while I have said in the past this is pointless, the states have zero jurisdiction over this level of operations, I think I was underestimating the overall strategy, perhaps being that I’ve always been a big hater of games.
It is raising awareness. It’s not that I’m not thrilled for that, I absolutely am!
My concern though is, by raising awareness, are we raising more folks who really care about the environment and want to stop these persecutions of the natural world? Or, are we just creating more markets for the great many who choose to profit off our serious problems?
I taught my Beginners Cheesemaking Workshop at the Senior Center and as always when teaching, I learned SO much.
Beyond the barely controlled kitchen chaos, of which I fully approve, there were the usual sort of mistakes to learn from, like why a random rennet failure for one participant, and why another’s curd did not want to separate from its whey. Those issues were fixed, total failure averted, which is the very best way to teach cheesemaking.
Lots can go wrong but most likely you’ll still have good cheese, that’s my primary teaching goal. It may not be the cheese you were going for, but that’s ok.
Do first, talk later, that’s how it should be with cheesemaking, according to me. There really is a method to my madness, and it’s staunchly ‘anti-science’. This is totally logical, because folks were making cheese LONG before anyone understood the science behind it. In fact, much of the science behind it is still disputed.
You don’t need to know what rennet is, or study a recipe first, or have all your ducks in a row before diving in. In fact, like with many new skills, too much information is actually an impediment to just getting started.
I like to allow the alchemical magic to lure the potential future cheesemaker into the process all on its own. Their desire for more knowledge, more structure, more understanding is a far more powerful teacher than I could ever be prattling on about all the minutea on the science of cheesemaking.
Which is more fascinating, the art or the science of cheesemaking? That will depend on the individual, but let’s face it, for most of us, art is far more fun.
So my moto is, let’s get in and get dirty! And we did, wow, did we make an impressive mess. A deep bow to the very kind ladies who did all the cleanup, I definitely scored there. I should’ve calculated better how much mess there would be, but what fun is there in that?
In my personal debriefing session once home and reflecting on the experience, I had a few ‘room for improvement’ points to make, but not around the mess or the chaos. (Note to self: bring extra cheese for the ones who get stuck washing up.)
Those details are important, but not nearly as important as the most important thing I learned, which is–folks out here don’t actually believe in germ theory. This is something of a revelation for me.
Despite the 5 extra bottles of hand sanitizer in the back room, and the chemically-scented dish soaps by the sink, and the properly clean kitchen that demonstrated good hygienic practices, once the ball got rolling, not a peep about bad bacteria was overheard.
We did eventually talk a bit about bacteria, and so-called germs and my disdain for anti-bacterial products and chemically-laden scents and their detriment to the cheesemaking process, not to mention general good health.
But in practice it was pretty clear the bad germs propaganda was not fully instilled in this clever group of girl and ladies (and our one token man who chivalrously helped me with all the heavy lifting).
Right into the cheese pot went many pairs of bare hands to stir the curd without a moment’s hesitation. I was immediately and very pleasantly surprised.
Then, because of mistakes in one group, and excesses in another, the curds of many pots became communal. A dozen pair of hands, not one that had been scientifically anti-bacterialized (I brought my own soap, which they all used, and several raved about) salting and pouring and forming and pressing.
And while I could see in my mind’s eye my mother’s face pinching into a look of mounting disgust, all I could think was, “This is so awesome!”
Teaching beginning cheesemaking has one crucial thing in common with teaching adults beginning a foreign language: The biggest hindrance to success is fear of failure. And, constant failure is the only way to learn how to do it.
Our education system, in addition to forcing on children such complete nonsense as germ theory, instills in them very early on to harbor a fear of failure.
If I could re-educate around one axiom the entirity of the Western schooling system it would be to learn to fail first, so you get good and used to it.
Take the shame out of failure and watch as the love of learning soars.
Here’s my ‘All you need to know about learning in 3 easy lessons’:
Lesson 1: Fail. Lesson 2: Learn from those failures! Lesson 3: Rinse & Repeat!!
“You’ve spent your entire life believing a story about disease that simply isn’t true. Every time you’ve reached for antibiotics, every time you’ve worried about “catching” something, every time you’ve surrendered your health to medical authority, you’ve been operating under a fundamental misconception that has shaped Western medicine for over a century. Louis Pasteur’s germ theory – the idea that we’re sterile beings under constant attack from external microbes – didn’t just become medical dogma by accident. It triumphed through a combination of political connections, self-promotion, and what we now know from Pasteur’s own hidden notebooks was scientific fraud. The theory promised simple solutions: identify the germ, develop the drug, conquer the disease. But here’s the thing about simple stories – they’re usually wrong.”
This isn’t just an academic dispute between dead scientists. Right now, your body is maintaining thousands of delicate balances – pH, blood sugar, mineral ratios, temperature – through feedback loops of staggering complexity. Walter Cannon called this state homeostasis, building on Claude Bernard’s revelation that we don’t actually live in the external world but in our own internal fluid environment. When this internal environment stays balanced, you have energy, clarity, resistance to disease. But modern life assaults this balance relentlessly: 150 pounds of sugar per year disrupting blood glucose, chronic stress flooding your system with hormones meant for brief emergencies, thousands of chemicals your liver was never designed to process, processed foods that can’t be properly digested. Your digestive enzymes fail, partially digested food leaks into your bloodstream, your immune system exhausts itself fighting food particles instead of threats, and those helpful microorganisms in your body start changing into forms associated with disease. The symptoms you develop – the arthritis, diabetes, chronic fatigue, cancer – aren’t random attacks by germs. They’re the predictable result of your internal environment breaking down.
And this is where the curse becomes clear: by convincing us that disease comes from outside, that our health is beyond our control, that only medical experts with their drugs can save us, the germ theory has robbed us of our power. We’ve become a society spending over a trillion dollars yearly on healthcare while ranking dead last among developed nations in health outcomes. We’re first in infant mortality, cancer rates, chronic disease, and pharmaceutical consumption. The medical system excels at crisis intervention but has completely failed at prevention because it’s been looking in the wrong direction for over a century.”
I have not read this particular book, but these quotes repeat what a great many experts have been publishing for as long as Pasteur has been relentlessly promoted in their stead. They have been, and continue to be, buried beneath pseudoscientific propaganda in order to sell a lot of chemical crap to the public.
It’s been through reading some of these works combined with nearly 15 years of cheesemaking I’ve come to realize a few crucial truths:
*Air-born ‘viruses’ have never been scientifically proven to exist.*
*Trying to abolish bacteria to create a ‘sterile’ environment does more harm than good.*
*Fear of contagion is FAR more contagious than the so-called contagious diseases.*
I’ll let the experts argue amongst themselves all the fine details of the various theories which were buried so that Pasteur could dominate public health for over a century.
I know enough from my limited research what is necessary to lead a happier, healthier life and I’m so pleased to know that while the general public may go through the motions to pay some lipservice to germ theory, in all practicality, a lot of them don’t really believe it either.
The modern-day experts trying to unbury Pasteur’s contemporary critics and practices are pushing through the censorship and making life happier and healthier for a lot of folks. If you want to learn more, check out some of their work, loads of it is available for free.
An easy place to start would be with Mike Stone: “In the past—even as recently as 2017, when I first began investigating—there was very little material available for those questioning the mainstream narrative, and what did exist was often difficult to find or access. Today, however, there is an abundance of resources—dedicated websites, books, podcasts, documentaries, Substacks, and more. As I noted three years ago, this growing community of independent thinkers has been reexamining long-held scientific assumptions—not only in virology, but also in bacteriology, immunology, genetics, and even vitamins/nutrition. By critically analyzing old research and questioning foundational claims, people are rediscovering logic and genuine inquiry in place of rote belief. This movement reflects a collective return to critical thinking, open discussion, and the pursuit of truth through shared investigation—a modern renaissance of independent science.”
What disgusting filth is this filling our living room?!
We were just sitting there watching TV (Clarkson’s Farm) when the light aligned to see them perfectly. I got the tablet as quickly as I could and got it on film. But what I got is a mystery to me. Smart dust?
We’d just had a surprise rain shower the day before, which made me sick. I didn’t equate it with the rain at the time, Hubby didn’t get sick, so I don’t know. But I felt exhausted and like I was getting the flu. I took a hot shower and it didn’t help. I was shivering and feverish and went to bed about 6 pm. At midnight I woke up completely recovered.
Dane Wigington (GeoengineeringWatch.org) talks often about the toxic rain, of course. He also tells listeners to do an experiment themselves: Go out at night in a very dark place and beam a strong flashlight upward and you can see the heavy metal and other particulates densely polluting the air. I’ve done this, and it’s true and disgusting. This is what we are breathing all the time and cannot escape and certainly why a good portion of the population has breathing issues and allergies and all kinds of other degenerative diseases.
At least we can still say “NO!” to the poison injections.
But how do we say “NO!” to the toxins saturating our air?!
What do y’all think, Smart dust along with geoengineering particulates tested and proven to be polluting every breath we take?
“Epistemic capture occurs when an industry controls the conditions of knowledge production—what gets researched, how, and what counts as evidence. It’s far more insidious than regulatory capture, where industries influence the agencies meant to oversee them. When you capture regulation, you control decisions. When you capture epistemology, you control reality itself.
The pharmaceutical industry has achieved something unprecedented in human history: the complete capture of an entire domain of knowledge production. Every step in the process of creating medical knowledge—from what gets studied in the first place to what appears in medical journals—has been systematically colonized. Medical school textbooks are written by authors with financial conflicts of interest. Two-thirds of medical school department chairs have financial ties to pharma. Two-thirds of researchers carry these same conflicts.
Federal agencies have side “foundations” enabling corporate contributions. The CDC Foundation, FDA Foundation, NIH Foundation—all serve as money laundering operations where pharmaceutical dollars transform into “public health” policy. Federal officials can own stock in companies they regulate. The foxes don’t just guard the henhouse; they’ve been given shares in the poultry business.
Rogers, a political economist who follows the money through the labyrinth of pharmaceutical influence, sat before senators and explained what philosophers of science have been warning about in obscurity: when an industry captures the entire knowledge production process—what gets studied, how it’s researched, what counts as evidence—it doesn’t just corrupt individual decisions or regulators. It corrupts reality itself. It keeps us chained in Plato’s cave, mistaking shadows on the wall for truth, while those who cast the shadows profit from our confusion.
The corruption begins before students even open their textbooks. The top two-thirds of universities own stock in pharmaceutical companies, creating an institutional conflict of interest that pervades every classroom and laboratory. When the universities themselves are investors in the industry they’re supposed to study objectively, the corruption isn’t a bug—it’s a feature. Most clinical trials, the supposed gold standard of medical evidence, are conducted by for-profit Contract Research Organizations in China and the developing world, where oversight is minimal and data manipulation is easier. As Rogers revealed in his testimony, a large percentage—perhaps as much as 40%—of medical journal articles are ghostwritten by the pharmaceutical industry. As documented in “Biostitution,” authors with conflicts of interest are up to 20 times less likely to publish studies with negative findings than authors without such conflicts. The published science isn’t science at all, but marketing dressed in academic drag.
Twenty-seven billion dollars. That’s what the pharmaceutical industry spends annually just on drug promotions to influence prescribing practices. To put this in perspective, that’s more than the entire annual budget of the National Institutes of Health. It’s enough to give every medical doctor in America approximately $27,000 per year. This isn’t education—it’s epistemic warfare conducted with an unlimited budget.
This money doesn’t flow randomly. It’s strategically deployed to maximum effect. Continuing medical education, ostensibly meant to keep doctors current with the latest science, is sponsored by Big Pharma. The standards of care that doctors must follow or risk malpractice suits are written by physicians with financial conflicts of interest. The regulatory body that accredits private health insurance companies is stacked with industry representatives. The money creates what Rogers calls an “epistemic bubble carefully engineered by the pharmaceutical industry to increase its profits.” Inside this bubble, certain questions simply cannot be asked. Certain connections cannot be made. Certain observations cannot be voiced. The money doesn’t just buy silence—it shapes the very conceptual framework through which doctors understand health and disease.
Consider how the tobacco industry pioneered this approach. As documented in “Agnotology,” they created a “stable” of experts to manufacture doubt, to call for endless research, to ensure that the “debate” never ended even as the bodies piled up. The pharmaceutical industry studied this playbook, scaled it up, and perfected it. Where tobacco had millions, pharma has billions. Where tobacco influenced a handful of researchers, pharma has captured entire institutions.
The economic cost runs into the trillions. Autism alone costs the United States over $250 billion annually. Diabetes, autoimmune diseases, neurological disorders—all have exploded in prevalence during the exact period when pharmaceutical influence over medical knowledge production reached its zenith. The correlation is dismissed within the bubble, but outside it, the pattern is unmistakable.
The FDA has no regulations concerning the contents of placebos. Manufacturers can put whatever they want into the comparator and still call it a “placebo” by law. Scientific journals have similar non-requirements. About two-thirds of the time, studies don’t even disclose what was in their “placebo.” This definitional corruption extends throughout medical science. A “randomized controlled trial” should compare vaccinated to unvaccinated groups using saline placebos. Instead, they compare new vaccines to old vaccines, or to aluminum adjuvants, ensuring that adverse events appear in both groups and can be dismissed as “background rates.” The corruption is so complete that when Siri demanded true saline placebo studies, the medical establishment insisted such studies would be “unethical”—a perfect epistemic capture where the methods needed to determine safety are declared morally impermissible.
The path out of epistemic capture begins with recognition. As Rogers emphasized, “ending epistemic capture is the key to stopping corruption, junk science, and iatrogenic injury.” But recognition alone isn’t enough—the entire system of knowledge production in science and medicine needs to be overhauled to liberate it from pharmaceutical industry distortions.
The ultimate goal isn’t just to end pharmaceutical capture but to make epistemic capture itself visible and preventable. Once we understand how entire fields of knowledge can be colonized, we can build immune systems against it. This requires teaching critical thinking, encouraging intellectual courage, and creating economic structures that reward truth-telling rather than compliance.
