I want to thank John Campbell for hosting me on his show.With the explosive revelations from the Fauci diary, the Bolus Theory stands as a bridge of clarity between the medical freedom movement and the pro-vax world. Its core logic is self-standing, reproducible, and points to immense positive implications for the health of humanity—and significant economic consequences. Only by accepting reality, by accepting the truth, can this bridge be built rapidly.Despite the robustness of the Bolus Theory and six years of personal sacrifice, the topic is still largely ignored by the medical freedom movement, by public health and new and old media. John is the only one who has repeatedly agreed to interview me, and I am eternally grateful to him.From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank all the generous souls who have supported me and my family these past six years, and who still do. I want to pay tribute and apologize to my wife, Mascha, who has not only supported me during this journey but also suffered terribly from my withdrawal and the economic consequences of my choice to try to help you all. Without your help, I will need to scale back my focus to save and support my family, as we have exceeded the limits of what is humanly acceptable. As a man who has reached the limit of self-sacrifice for the community, I humbly demand your help. Help me help humanity. Help me save my family.I hope you will support my family and my work by subscribing for a fee, becoming a founding member, or donating via PayPal. If you think you can offer me a well-paid job for what I do best—solve complex problems— or if you know someone who could, don’t hesitate to reach out. And don’t hesitate to actively push for the recognition of the Bolus Theory by the media, new and old, or to point my work to people who can support my work, one way or another. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.Enjoy the conversation. Don’t hesitate to ask questions in the comments.Love,Marcmarc.girardot@icloud.com on PayPalConsider becoming a paid subscriber or a founding member.

Congressman Chuck Edwards’ decision to withdraw from November’s congressional election came as no surprise after the House Ethics committee called for his censure. Folks in the mountainous 11th Congressional District must be wondering what it is going to take to elect a traditional, morally sound, responsible North Carolinian. Madison Cawthorn won the seat in the 2020 election but it didn’t take long for voters to realize their mistake. His antics alienated even his own party: trying to smuggle a gun through airport security, driving with a revoked license, photos of him wearing women’s lingerie and boasting he had been invited to an orgy. His outrageous behavior was equaled only by his ineffectiveness. No bill he introduced was ever passed and when floodwaters left thousands without power in August 2021, Cawthorn responded with silence. Voters threw him out in 2022 and elected Chuck Edwards. Edwards, a former McDonalds franchisee, had served in the North Carolina Senate before declaring to run for congress, saying it was time for a grown-up to serve. He was endorsed by Senator Thom Tillis. Even though he lost 12 of the 15 counties in the district in the primary election, he won by capturing Buncombe County with a large enough margin to win the nomination. Hurricane Helene’s arrival in 2024, Edwards’ unquestionable support for Trump and lackluster fund raising had already made the district competitive in 26. And Edwards staged a town hall meeting in Asheville in March of 2025 that resulted in boos and frequent interruptions, questioning his inability to get more federal disaster funds for Helene, federal budget cuts and Trump’s policies. He had to be escorted from the meeting. In Washington, there had been rumors about inappropriate conduct by Edwards. The bi-partisan House Ethics Committee initiated an investigation in April of this year. Following an intensive investigation, they found Edwards “fostered a hostile work environment and engaged in sexual harassment” through “persistent and unprofessional and inappropriate conduct” relating to two female staffers. For Republicans in the 11th district this felt like Deja vu. When Senator Dan Bishop urged Edwards to drop out of the race, the die was cast. Edwards is nothing if not a realist and decided to withdraw from running and serve out his term. The Democratic nominee for November’s election is Jamie Ager, an Asheville native, fourth generation farmer and co-founder of Hickory Nut Gap Farm, a down-to-earth operation that features pasture-fed meats in cooperation with other like-minded environmentally dedicated producers. This election is beginning to feel like a Field of Dreams movie playing out in Western Carolina. Central casting could not have chosen a better opponent to represent Democrats. It was already considered a highly competitive election before Edwards dropped out. It’s been more than a decade since retired quarterback Democrat Heath Shuler represented the heavily Democratic Buncombe County in Washington. Shuler chose not to run again in 2013, following the legislature’s dramatic gerrymandering of his district, including Asheville into a district heavily stacked with Republicans. Could this be the year a Democrat wins? Republicans have a problem. If polls are accurate Trump’s popularity, even among conservatives, is low and falling. Would whoever replaces Edwards as the Republican candidate even want a Trump endorsement or would they fare better without it? More importantly, could they keep Trump out of the affair even if they wanted to? The GOP has less than three months to figure out how they can win against someone reminiscent of Kevin Costner. Morality and traditional values still matter. North Carolina voters will reinforce this in November. Tom Campbell is a Hall of Fame North Carolina broadcaster and columnist who has covered North Carolina public policy issues since 1965. Contact him at tomcamp@ncspin.com

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At Ayden High School back in the 60s, there was a “practice house” where students taking Home Economics could learn and practice the skills a homemaker would need. We learned how to set a proper table. How to fold a napkin. How to make a bed. We also learned first aid. When Tom’s dad was moving into long term care, I knew how to transfer him onto a stretcher by using a beach towel. I told someone recently that I could make a bound buttonhole even now if push came to shove. We learned how to budget for meals and how to make much out of little. We learned the processes of canning and freezing. We already have two cases of fig preserves finished, and as soon as pears fall, we will make preserves using them. I have a picture of myself in an evening gown I made for my senior prom. I won the Betty Crocker Award for excellence in home economics. They don’t even teach the course anymore. The skills learned as a teenager have held me in good stead for all my 80 years. I have pulled ingredients out of the pantry this morning to make homemade granola. I make homemade yogurt in my Instant Pot. It is comforting to know that even in this time of rising prices and supply challenges, I am not afraid because I know how to carry on a good life, even if we are reduced to little. Nobody in America should go hungry. Everybody needs food and shelter. When an administration is skewed to enrich the wealthy and leave the least and lost out, without options and without hope, we have lost our humanity. There is nothing good and right about cutting food stamp subsidies to millions of people. There is even less good in denying our children a future with hope. We got to this place because some of us were grieved that we were not finding the abundance we thought should be ours. So, we elected a billionaire who doesn’t give a damn about including all of us in a bounteous future. But there are things we can do. We had a friend who converted her front yard into a garden. She had vegetables for her family and plenty to share. Churches and nursing homes in our area have community gardens in the large plots of land that surround them. Watching plants grow brings joy where the hurting places are. Food to keep and food to share. We do Backpack Buddies bags for schoolchildren to take home for their weekend meals. There are ways to bring the loaves and fishes of Christ to neighbors. City dwellers can find a little land or a large pot and plant a seed. We have tomatoes and cucumbers in our back yard. What a gift sunshine, rain, and a little fertilizer make. Stories of the Great Depression teach us that substitutions can be found for most ingredients. Deprivation is the seedbed of innovation. Any of us who cook know that a big pot filled with the bounty of the land will feed the world. Employment of our life skills will hold us in good stead until the tides turn. Perhaps generosity can be sown among us again. We are called to serve and love our neighbors. In John, Jesus says, I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger. Lib Campbell is a retired Methodist pastor, retreat leader, columnist, and host of the blogsite Avirtualchurch.com. She can be contacted at libcam05@gmail.com.

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Despite my impressive title, City & State has not found it proper to provide me with a chauffeur – a phenomenon in New York City government that Sahalie Donaldson got the green light to cover this week, drawing great stories out of current and former city leaders who got cars and drivers. So instead, when I traveled to Syracuse this past week, I took Amtrak, and then the Greyhound to Buffalo when storm debris cancelled my second train, and then flew home. It was my own version of “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” – a movie that Tim Clark, commissioner of the Buffalo Niagara Film Office, proudly informed me was filmed partially in Western New York. City & State’s office is in Manhattan, but we want to keep living up to our name, God forbid we become known as City & Downstate. So this upstate swing was a great way to meet with a bunch of players in Onondaga and Erie counties and hear what they’re thinking about politics and policy. And I had a great guide in City & State New York Advisory Board member and de facto upstate ambassador Jack O’Donnell. The trip will inspire some City & State stories – and maybe even a ghost story. I was tickled to stay at the Richardson Hotel, which was once the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane, and has been dubbed one of America’s most haunted hotels. In a city known for its architecture, the hotel is an absolute gem, a sprawling, gorgeous complex that also happens to have an eerie, dark and empty ballroom if one climbs the grand staircase alone to the top floor late at night. The chill down my spine had me running to call my chauffeur … but my chauffeur never existed. ]]>

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Artist Biography by Steve Huey He may not be a household name, but die-hard blues fans know Little Milton as a superb all-around electric bluesman -- a soulful singer, an evocative guitarist, an accomplished songwriter, and a skillful bandleader. He's often compared to the legendary B.B. King -- as well as Bobby "Blue" Bland -- for the way his signature style combines soul, blues, and R&B, a mixture that helped make him one of the biggest-selling bluesmen of the '60s (even if he's not as well-remembered as King). As time progressed, his music grew more and more orchestrated, with strings and horns galore. He maintained a steadily active recording career all the way from his 1953 debut on Sam Phillips' legendary Sun label, with his stunning longevity including notable stints at Chess (where he found his greatest commercial success), Stax, and Malaco. James Milton Campbell was born September 7, 1934, in the small Delta town of Inverness, MS, and grew up in Greenville. (He would later legally drop the "James" after learning of a half-brother with the same name.) His father Big Milton, a farmer, was a local blues musician, and Milton also grew up listening to the Grand Ole Opry radio program. At age 12, he began playing the guitar and saved up money from odd jobs to buy his own instrument from a mail-order catalog. By 15, he was performing for pay in local clubs and bars, influenced chiefly by T-Bone Walker but also by proto-rock & roll jump blues shouters. He made a substantial impression on other area musicians, even getting a chance to back Sonny Boy Williamson II, and caught the attention of R&B great Ike Turner, who was doubling as a talent scout for Sam Phillips at Sun. Turner introduced the still-teenaged Little Milton to Phillips, who signed him to a contract in 1953. With Turner's band backing him, Milton's Sun sides tried a little bit of everything -- he hadn't developed a signature style as of yet, but he did have a boundless youthful energy that made these early recordings some of his most exciting and rewarding. Unfortunately, none of them were hits, and Milton's association with Sun was over by the end of 1954. He set about forming his own band, which waxed one single for the small Meteor label in 1957, before picking up and moving to St. Louis in 1958. In St. Louis, Milton befriended DJ Bob Lyons, who helped him record a demo in a bid to land a deal on Mercury. The label passed, and the two set up their own label, christened Bobbin. Little Milton's Bobbin singles finally started to attract some more widespread attention, particularly "I'm a Lonely Man," which sold 60,000 copies despite being the very first release on a small label. As head of A&R, Milton brought artists like Albert King and Fontella Bass into the Bobbin fold, and with such a high roster caliber, the label soon struck a distribution arrangement with the legendary Chess Records. Milton himself switched over to the Chess subsidiary Checker in 1961, and it was there that he would settle on his trademark soul-inflected, B.B. King-influenced style. Initially a moderate success, Milton had his big breakthrough with 1965's "We're Gonna Make It," which hit number one on the R&B charts thanks to its resonance with the civil rights movement. "We're Gonna Make It" kicked off a successful string of R&B chart singles that occasionally reached the Top Ten, highlighted by "Who's Cheating Who?," "Grits Ain't Groceries," "If Walls Could Talk," "Baby I Love You," and "Feel So Bad," among others. The death of Leonard Chess in 1969 threw his label into disarray, and Little Milton eventually left Checker in 1971 and signed with the Memphis-based soul label Stax (also the home of his former protégé Albert King). At Stax, Milton began expanding his studio sound, adding bigger horn and string sections and spotlighting his soulful vocals more than traditional blues. Further hits followed in songs like "Annie Mae's Cafe," "Little Bluebird," "That's What Love Will Make You Do," and "Walkin' the Back Streets and Cryin'," but generally not with the same magnitude of old. Stax went bankrupt in 1975, upon which point Little Milton moved to the TK/Glades label, which was better known for its funk and disco acts. His recordings there were full-blown crossover affairs, which made "Friend of Mine" a minor success, but that label soon went out of business as well. Milton spent some time in limbo; he recorded one album for MCA in 1983 called Age Ain't Nothin' But a Number, and the following year found a home with Malaco, which sustained the careers of quite a few old-school Southern soul and blues artists. During his tenure at Malaco, Milton debuted the song that would become his latter-day anthem, the bar band staple "The Blues Is Alright," which was also widely popular with European blues fans. Milton recorded frequently and steadily for Malaco, issuing 13 albums under their aegis by the end of the millennium. In 1988, he won the W.C. Handy Award for Blues Entertainer of the Year, and was also inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. /////// Biografía del artista por Steve Huey Puede que no sea un nombre muy conocido, pero los fanáticos del blues conocen al pequeño Milton como un magnífico bluesista eléctrico, un cantante lleno de sentimiento, un guitarrista evocador, un compositor consumado y un hábil director de banda. A menudo se le compara con el legendario B.B. King - así como con Bobby "Blue" Bland - por la forma en que su estilo característico combina el soul, el blues y el R&B, una mezcla que ayudó a convertirlo en uno de los bluesmen más vendidos de los años 60 (aunque no sea tan recordado como King). Con el paso del tiempo, su música creció más y más orquestada, con cuerdas y trompetas en abundancia. Mantuvo una carrera discográfica constantemente activa desde su debut en 1953 con el legendario sello Sun de Sam Phillips, con una longevidad asombrosa que incluyó periodos notables en Chess (donde encontró su mayor éxito comercial), Stax y Malaco. James Milton Campbell nació el 7 de septiembre de 1934 en la pequeña ciudad del Delta de Inverness, MS, y creció en Greenville. (Más tarde dejaría legalmente el "James" después de enterarse de un medio hermano con el mismo nombre). Su padre Big Milton, un granjero, era un músico de blues local, y Milton también creció escuchando el programa de radio Grand Ole Opry. A los 12 años, empezó a tocar la guitarra y ahorró dinero de trabajos ocasionales para comprar su propio instrumento de un catálogo de venta por correo. A los 15 años, actuaba de forma remunerada en clubes y bares locales, influenciado principalmente por T-Bone Walker pero también por gritones de proto-rock & roll jump blues. Causó una gran impresión en otros músicos de la zona, incluso tuvo la oportunidad de apoyar a Sonny Boy Williamson II, y llamó la atención del gran Ike Turner del R&B, que estaba haciendo de cazatalentos para Sam Phillips en el Sun. Turner presentó a Phillips al todavía adolescente Little Milton, quien le firmó un contrato en 1953. Con el apoyo de la banda de Turner, los equipos de Milton en el Sun probaron un poco de todo - todavía no había desarrollado un estilo propio, pero tenía una energía juvenil sin límites que hizo de estas primeras grabaciones unas de las más emocionantes y gratificantes. Desafortunadamente, ninguna de ellas fue un éxito, y la asociación de Milton con Sun terminó a finales de 1954. Empezó a formar su propia banda, que grabó un single para la pequeña discográfica Meteor en 1957, antes de recogerlo y mudarse a St. Louis en 1958. En St. Louis, Milton se hizo amigo del DJ Bob Lyons, quien le ayudó a grabar una demo en un intento de conseguir un trato en Mercury. El sello pasó, y los dos crearon su propio sello, bautizado como Bobbin. Los sencillos de Bobbin de Little Milton finalmente comenzaron a atraer una mayor atención, en particular "I'm a Lonely Man", que vendió 60.000 copias a pesar de ser el primer lanzamiento en un sello pequeño. Como director de A&R, Milton incorporó a artistas como Albert King y Fontella Bass al grupo Bobbin, y con una lista de tan alto calibre, el sello pronto llegó a un acuerdo de distribución con la legendaria Chess Records. El propio Milton se pasó a la filial de Chess, Checker, en 1961, y fue allí donde se asentó en su estilo característico de influencia soul, B.B. King. Inicialmente un éxito moderado, Milton tuvo su gran avance con "We're Gonna Make It" de 1965, que alcanzó el número uno en las listas de R&B gracias a su resonancia con el movimiento de derechos civiles. "We're Gonna Make It" dio inicio a una exitosa serie de sencillos de las listas de R&B que ocasionalmente llegaron al Top Ten, destacando "Who's Cheating Who?", "Grits Ain't Groceries", "If Walls Could Talk", "Baby I Love You" y "Feel So Bad", entre otros. La muerte de Leonard Chess en 1969 desbarató su sello, y el pequeño Milton dejó finalmente Checker en 1971 y firmó con el sello de soul Stax, con sede en Memphis (también el hogar de su antiguo protegido Albert King). En Stax, Milton comenzó a expandir su sonido de estudio, añadiendo secciones de cuerdas y trompetas más grandes y destacando su voz soul más que el blues tradicional. Siguieron otros éxitos en canciones como "Annie Mae's Cafe", "Little Bluebird", "That's What Love Will Make You Do" y "Walkin' the Back Streets and Cryin'", pero generalmente no con la misma magnitud de antaño. Stax quebró en 1975, momento en el que Little Milton pasó a la discográfica TK/Glades, más conocida por sus actuaciones de funk y disco. Sus grabaciones allí fueron un auténtico crossover, lo que hizo de "Friend of Mine" un éxito menor, pero esa discográfica pronto quebró también. Milton pasó algún tiempo en el limbo; grabó un álbum para MCA en 1983 llamado Age Ain't Nothin' But a Number, y al año siguiente encontró un hogar con Malaco, que sostuvo las carreras de bastantes artistas de soul y blues de la vieja escuela sureña. Durante su estancia en Malaco, Milton debutó con la canción que se convertiría en su himno de los últimos días, la banda de bar "The Blues Is Alright", que también fue muy popular entre los fans europeos del blues. Milton grabó con frecuencia y de forma constante para Malaco, publicando 13 álbumes bajo su égida a finales del milenio. En 1988, ganó el premio W.C. Handy al Artista de Blues del Año, y también fue admitido en el Salón de la Fama del Blues. LEER ENTRADA COMPLETA / READ MORE ...

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A decade into her work as Bronx district attorney, Darcel Clark is on a mission to reduce youth violence in the Bronx. She says she just needs the support and funding to get it done. The borough, newly split into Bronx North and Bronx South patrol boroughs by the New York City Police Department, has experienced an 12.5% decrease in major crime, compared to the first seven months of last year. Clark attributes that to the deployment of 200 more officers to the borough at the beginning of the summer. The state, meanwhile, has dedicated funding for community safety-led initiatives, including a $3 million grant for at-risk young people in the South Bronx, she said. But despite the fact that violence intervention is up and shootings are down, Clark still has a long to-do list. Among those items: reforming the Raise the Age law and having her first meeting with New York City Deputy Mayor for Community Safety Renita Francois – a meeting Clark said is set for next Monday. City & State spoke with Clark about the Bronx’s crime trends, the push to close Rikers Island and her vision for crime “prevention, intervention, prosecution and reentry.” This interview has been edited for length and clarity. There has been a reduction in crime in New York City and the Bronx overall, what do you think has contributed to that this year? I think that there’s just really been a greater concentration on looking at the crime in the Bronx and making sure that we’re getting the resources that we need to bring us to the point where we are. First, more policing. You know that there has been a split between north and south (patrol boroughs) of the Bronx now, so we receive more police officers. I think the police department has been helpful with us in really concentrating on the key areas where we are seeing the highest incidence of crime, and putting more police presence there. And more police presence didn’t necessarily equate to more arrests, but it was a situation where now less crime will happen because the police are there and people will think twice about doing a crime in front of the police. (There’s) also more resources from the police and my office – and investment in the community because we need that as well. Because it’s not all about arrests. The DA and the police should be the last resort, not the first resort. But because of the failures of so many areas and agencies and the disinvestment, everybody looks to me and the police to solve all the problems. What prevention have you been able to do in the last decade in the Bronx to lower recidivism rates? Well, the first thing is that you have to know who the crime drivers are. It’s a small group of individuals that are causing the crime. So we now concentrate on looking at those crime drivers, and dealing with them in the cases that we present, or the diversion that we may offer in order to keep them from offending in the first place. And if they do offend and reoffend, what we can do to stop them from being recidivists. So we have a Crime Strategies Bureau now, which we started 10 years ago, and they really help us with the data to look at who the people are, where they’re committing the crimes, what crimes there are, and really how to best navigate how to lower the crime rate in those areas by removing those individuals from the community because they’re the ones that are causing the most harm. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani did not end up increasing the NYPD officer headcount. Do you think decisions like that end up hurting the Bronx in the future? It could. But look, as long as they have police, the NYPD could deploy them wherever they want. I know that there has been a focus on deploying more police here in this county. So if they have to take them from somewhere else, they will, in order to pay attention to the crime that is happening in the Bronx. I mean, I can’t stand up or talk about the NYPD’s budget because it’s way more than mine. That’s between the mayor and the police department. I just know that when I need the help, that I can rely on the NYPD to help me get the resources that I need. Has Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch been helpful when you’ve requested more resources? Yeah, she’s taken the lead in making sure that the Bronx North and South (patrol boroughs) happen. She has a particular focus on looking at the Bronx because she sees the high numbers and incidents of crimes happening here. She’s also a data person, laser focused on putting the resources where they’re needed most in order to bring the crime down. You’ve previously spoken about reforming the Raise the Age law, which sets the minimum age a child can be prosecuted as an adult to 18. What do you think about that now? The way the law is written, the one issue I have a problem with is the gun one because that’s where I’m having the biggest problem. (Editor’s note: That part of the law allows people as young as 16 to be tried in criminal court if they’re charged with displaying a gun.) For them to say the only way that I can retain the case is once they display the gun, that’s too late. Adults, if they possess (a gun), and we have probable cause to arrest them, then they’re charged with possession. I think that possession of a gun by a young person should be held to the same standard. As long as I have probable cause, I should be able to maintain those cases because what is happening is that if we wait until they pull it out, that means they’re going to shoot it, or somebody sees them pulling out and they’re going to get shot. Then it becomes more than just a gun case. The other part is that millions of dollars were supposed to be allocated to communities and courts and otherwise in order to fund the Raise the Age law, but New York City was exempt from that. So therefore, we have never seen any of that money. So the resources never came here. So that’s why we're going to keep having an uptick in crime. Now, of course, this was raised last year in last year’s budget, and I think the state has changed that and allocated some funds. So I hope that those funds will now be used to bring the resource coordinators, the programs, all the things that we need to finance what will helpfully help us to keep these kids from getting in trouble in the first place. What difference do you think it’ll make in the community to have Rikers Island possibly closed and the Bronx have its own jail? This administration seems very clear that they want to continue with the closure of Rikers. Of course, it was supposed to happen in 2027, and we know that’s next year, so it’s not going to happen. A community-based jail makes sense, but the numbers that we have in Rikers right now, if all the community-based jails were built, they wouldn’t have room for the people that we have in Rikers right now. … You know, families could be closer to them. The lawyers could get to them. The only problem that I have is that the other community-based jails are at the courthouse, and it’s only in the Bronx that it’s not at the courthouse. So to me, they might as well stay on Rikers Island because it’s going to be the same thing. They’re not as connected. You are up for reelection in 2027. Are you going to go for a fourth round? Yeah. I have unfinished business and I think my reputation and the work that I’ve achieved, for the people in the Bronx, they seem to be happy with the way that I’m handling things. Again, my focus is prevention, intervention, prosecution and reentry. We have to do more to prevent the crimes from happening. That means investment in community. I use my voice for that each and every day … That’s why I believe in building these intervention programs. ]]>

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