MacKenzie Scott
Jeff Bezos’s ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott, walked away with $38 billion after the divorce.
What did she do with the money?
She gave away $14 billion in 4 years.
She’s been giving it away faster than anyone in history.
MacKenzie Scott could have played the billionaire game: hedge funds, private jets, philanthropy galas.
Instead, she rewrote the rulebook.
Since 2019, she’s given away more than $14 billion to over 1,600 organizations.
No strings. No naming rights. No 200-page grant proposals. Just trust.
Community colleges. Food banks. Racial justice groups. Women’s shelters.
The kinds of organizations that don’t usually get billionaires on the phone.
Her model is radical in its simplicity:
– Give big
– Give fast
– Step out of the spotlight
She doesn’t announce where she’s going next.
She doesn’t sit on panels.
She doesn’t even run a foundation.
She signs a check, walks away, and in a world where philanthropy is often theater, that’s the part that hits hardest.
MacKenzie Scott is proving you can change lives at scale without turning it into a performance.
The quietest billionaire in America might be the one making the loudest impact.
Crystal Skulls
Reverse Osmosis Water Breeds Fungus & Cancer?
My research career began over 30 years ago, when I made a series of observations regarding the type of water used to irrigate farms, orchards and greenhouses. I discovered three vital principles: 1) soil absolutely requires mineralized water in order to be healthy; 2) the water itself must contain a natural energy profile, or “structure”; 3) healthy soil contains a wide variety of micro-organisms which proper water (and the avoidance of chemical farming practices) allows to flourish.
I worked as an agricultural consultant to farmers and greenhouses. One day a new client called me in to handle a total disaster: They had installed a brand-new, large-scale reverse osmosis filter system in their greenhouse and had started using its water to irrigate the seedlings. Very soon their crops were being destroyed by black fungus. They’d never seen anything like it.
I ran some experiments comparing regular, from-the-tap water, reverse osmosis water, and Ideal Earth Water filtered water with a non-chemical water conditioner. In every test, the plants watered with reverse osmosis water either died from fungus infection, or were stunted and slow to develop. The plants watered with regular tap water had no fungus issues, but weren’t impressive. The plants watered with Ideal Earth Water (which removed toxins but left the healthy minerals in the water), did much better than the plants watered with tap water, grew faster and more perfectly formed.
My client dumped their expensive but horrible reverse osmosis filter system and replaced it with proper filtration and had no further problems.
Then I started to apply my observations about reverse osmosis water to people. Many people I knew were complaining of ill health, very often had Candida (yeast) infections, various digestive disorders, or even cancer. In nearly all cases, I discovered that they had been drinking reverse osmosis water from a home filter or in the form of bottled water (most of which is “purified” using reverse osmosis). I put all of the data together and realized that reverse osmosis water didn’t just promote fungus overgrowth in plants, but also in humans!
What is the cancer connection? Well, a fungus overgrowth in the body releases a flood of toxins into the blood and tissues. Recent research conducted by the Weizmann Institute of Science and the University of California, San Diego has revealed that cancerous tumors tend to be loaded with fungus!
It’s fairly well known among natural-health practitioners that an acidic condition in the body will lead to poor health. Instead of being neutral to slightly alkaline the way water should be, reverse osmosis water is acidic. You are literally drinking acid when you consume it. Loss of minerals from tissues and bones is one result. But this connection with fungus and cancer is an observation which few others have made until recently.
Water from a bubbling mountain spring contains both minerals and a natural structure. It’s neutral to slightly alkaline in nearly all cases. And it does not promote the growth of fungus.
I designed Ideal Earth Water™ filter systems to remove the arsenic, fluoride, pesticides and other contaminants down to NON-DETECTABLE LEVELS, while leaving the healthy, alkaline minerals untouched. Now IS the time to secure your long-term health!
We now have available ZERO-PERCENT interest financing on all Ideal Earth Water filters.
Call me for a no-cost consultation about water and the best solutions for your needs and to secure 24-month zero-interest financing.
Yours in health,
Winston Kao
Natural Health Researcher,
Inventor & Educator
1-727-447-2344
The Lycurgus Cup
The colorful secret of a 1,600-year-old Roman chalice at the British Museum is the key to a supersensitive new technology that might help diagnose human disease or pinpoint biohazards at security checkpoints.
The glass chalice, known as the Lycurgus Cup because it bears a scene involving King Lycurgus of Thrace, appears jade green when lit from the front but blood-red when lit from behind—a property that puzzled scientists for decades after the museum acquired the cup in the 1950s. The mystery wasn’t solved until 1990, when researchers in England scrutinized broken fragments under a microscope and discovered that the Roman artisans were nanotechnology pioneers: They’d impregnated the glass with particles of silver and gold, ground down until they were as small as 50 nanometers in diameter, less than one-thousandth the size of a grain of table salt. The exact mixture of the precious metals suggests the Romans knew what they were doing—“an amazing feat,” says one of the researchers, archaeologist Ian Freestone of University College London.
Finish reading: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/this-1600-year-old-goblet-shows-that-the-romans-were-nanotechnology-pioneers-787224/
When The Cam Hits You
RSV Shots Linked to Over 200 Safety Signals — Serious Neurological, Cardiac, and Pregnancy Harms Identified
A new peer-reviewed pharmacovigilance study just published in Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics analyzed nearly 18,000 adverse event reports tied to the three FDA-approved RSV vaccines — Pfizer’s Abrysvo, GSK’s Arexvy, and Moderna’s mRESVIA.
The findings are alarming: Pfizer’s vaccine generated 103 positive safety signals, including fetal death, hemorrhage in pregnancy, and preterm birth, while GSK’s vaccine generated 91 signals, including paralysis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, and mini-strokes. Both carried strong signals for immune destruction (thrombocytopenia) and serious neurological damage — in some cases appearing over 200× more likely compared to other vaccines.
Researchers used standard pharmacovigilance methods (Reporting Odds Ratios and Bayesian algorithms) to compare how often certain events were reported after RSV vaccination versus all other vaccines in the system.
And while both Pfizer’s and GSK’s vaccines generated thousands of signals, Moderna’s mRNA RSV shot had too few reports (just 35 cases) to allow for meaningful analysis. That doesn’t mean it’s safe — only that there isn’t enough post-market data yet to detect patterns.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petermcculloughmd/p/breaking-rsv-shots-linked-to-over
There’s a Million Ways To Help
The call came during second period—calm, but with an edge. “Can you come down to Room 12? One of the eighth graders is refusing to remove his cap.”
When I got to my office, there he was. Jaden. Usually soft-spoken, respectful. But today… he sat curled in the chair like he wanted to vanish. Cap pulled low. He muttered so quietly I almost missed it: “They laughed at me.”
He told me kids in the cafeteria had made fun of his botched haircut. He slowly lifted his cap. His hair was butchered—lines jagged, patches bald. I could’ve written him up. But rules aren’t always what kids need.
I stood and walked over to my cabinet and pulled out my old barber kit. Before I became a principal, I cut hair to pay for college. “Let me help, yeah?” I asked.
He nodded. I draped a towel over his shoulders and started shaping him up. As the first smooth line buzzed into place, he exhaled—like someone finally let him breathe again. And then he started talking. About how laughter hurts worse when it follows you all the way home.
As I adjusted the angle for a final fade, I noticed something. Scars. Tiny, raised lines etched into the back of his scalp. I froze for half a second. “These… from something recent?” I asked softly.
He didn’t answer right away. Then he whispered: “That’s where they hit me. Last year. When we were still at our old place.”
I turned the clippers off. “Who’s ‘they’?” I asked.
He didn’t look at me. And then he said something that made my blood run cold, “My mom’s ex-boyfriend,” he whispered, his voice so small it was almost swallowed by the quiet hum of the office. “He… he used to get mad. At her. At me. He’d throw things. The last time, it was a coffee mug.”
The clippers in my hand suddenly felt impossibly heavy. The botched haircut, the hat, the fear—it wasn’t just about shame. It was about hiding. It was about survival.
“Jaden,” I said, my voice steady despite the rage coiling in my gut. “Is he still around? Is your mom okay?”
He finally looked at me in the mirror, his eyes wide and haunted. “We left. A few months ago. We have a new apartment now. It’s supposed to be better.” He paused. “But he found us.”
My blood ran cold. “When, Jaden?”
“Last night,” he choked out, a single tear tracing a path through the tiny clipped hairs on his cheek. “He was waiting outside. He told my mom he was sorry. He said he’d changed. She… she let him in.”
The haircut. It wasn’t his cousin. It was him. A clumsy, cruel attempt at an apology, or worse, a mark of ownership.
I put the clippers down. The haircut was over. My real job was just beginning.
“Okay,” I said, my voice leaving no room for argument. I put my hands on his shoulders, turning him to face me. “Here is what’s going to happen. You are not going home on that bus today. You are going to stay right here with me. We’re going to call your mom, and we’re going to call some people who can help. People who make sure men like that go away and never come back. Do you understand?”
He just nodded, a wave of relief so profound it seemed to uncurl his hunched shoulders.
For the next two hours, my office became a command center. I called Child Protective Services. I called the police. I spoke to Jaden’s mother, who sobbed on the phone, admitting she was terrified but didn’t know what to do.
When she arrived at the school, she wasn’t alone. A police officer and a social worker were with her. They had a plan. An emergency protective order. A new place to go, a shelter with security, where he couldn’t find them.
As Jaden got ready to leave with his mom, he stopped at my office door. His hair was perfect—a sharp, clean fade. But more than that, his eyes were clear. The fear was still there, but it wasn’t hiding anymore.
“Thank you,” he whispered.
“You’re a good kid, Jaden,” I said, my voice thick. “You deserve to feel safe.”
He reached up and touched the back of his head, where the scars were now hidden beneath the clean lines of his new haircut. “You know,” he said, a small, hesitant smile on his face. “You’re a pretty good barber.”
I just smiled back. “I’m a better principal.”
That day, I broke a school rule. But I had followed a much more important one. I had listened. I had seen a child who was hiding, and instead of punishing him for the hat, I had asked him why he needed it. Sometimes, the most important thing a kid needs isn’t a lesson. It’s a safe harbor. And a decent haircut.
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Hang In There Dreamers
6 Exercises That Will Fix 97% Of Your Problems
These exercises are some I have added to my regime.
Wall Angels
Supine Leg Circles
Bodyweight Good Morning
Shoulder Tap Plank
Bodyweight Stepup
Deadbug