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At Unscrew the News, we are curious about the world. We try to bring the truth in local and international dealings. MSM has lied to us long enough. We bring stories and interviews that you will never see or hear on the big networks. We like to comment on the world with a good portion of sarcasm. unscrewthenews.substack.com

  1. Aug 31

    7:11 Aug 30 26 | Ep# 307 | Marco Pfeiffer |"Middle Class Financial Advice Is Designed to Keep You in the Middle Class."

    Unscrew The News Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Marco Pfeiffer grew up lower middle class in Germany and heard the same things you heard in Canada. Money doesn’t grow on trees. A penny saved is a penny earned. He came to the United States at 26 for what was supposed to be a two-year posting — a line on the resume, a chance to learn real English. He stayed. Within ten years, with no American work history and a shaky command of the language, he was Chief Financial Officer of a $150-million company, working sixty, eighty, ninety hours a week. He had the title he’d wanted his whole life. And, in his own words, corporate had killed his spirit. Then in 2016 he lost the job. Two or three months out of work, on a salary well above average, he discovered something that rattled him: he was completely dependent on that paycheque. He owned one rental house at the time — a place he used to live in and decided to rent out rather than sell. An accidental landlord. That was the hinge. He went back to work in finance, but from that point on he bought every rental property he could and learned how to scale. By 2020 he owned 25 single-family homes generating $400 to $500 a month each at roughly a 10% cash-on-cash return. That replaced the CFO salary. He walked away from a career he’d poured tens of thousands of hours into and never looked back. The advice that’s supposed to keep you there Marco’s central claim is one worth sitting with: Middle class financial advice is designed to keep you in the middle class. Not accidentally. By design. As he put it on the show — the system is not broken, the system works exactly as it is designed. Consider what you were taught. Save. Live within your means. Get out of debt. Pay the house off early. There’s nothing wrong with living within your means, Marco says, and he isn’t preaching recklessness. But nobody ever taught you that debt comes in two kinds. Bad debt sits on things that lose value — your car, your credit card. Pay those off fast. Good debt sits on appreciating assets that cash flow, ideally enough to cover the debt itself. So why does a billionaire take out a mortgage? Because long-term fixed debt is a bet against your own currency. Your $2,000 payment ten years from now isn’t $2,000 today. Inflation shreds your purchasing power — and it shreds the real value of your debt right alongside it. That’s how Washington carries forty trillion dollars without the roof falling in. Forty trillion isn’t what it was thirty years ago. Tell someone in 1996 that number and they’d have told you to get off the crack pipe. Which brings us to the friendly little chart your bank hands you at signing. Make one or two extra payments a year and you’ll clear that thirty-year mortgage in twenty-two. How thoughtful. Marco’s response: do you really believe they’re telling you that because they want less of your interest? The middle class is a tax trap Here’s the part that stings for anyone on a T-4. When you get paid, the money is gone before you see it. Say the cheque is $10,000 and the rate is forty percent. You see $6,000, and you build your entire life around $6,000 — the car you can’t afford, the mortgage you can’t carry, the restaurants you don’t go to. The other four thousand never existed as far as your daily life is concerned. Marco pays tax on what’s left at the end of the year. You pay tax before you’re allowed to live. Same country, same rules, entirely different game. There’s a saying in the States he’s fond of: there are two tax codes, one for the educated and one for the uneducated, and both of them are legal. None of this is taught in school. Not how the tax code works, not how to keep more of what you earn, not how compounding works, not how to open a chequing account. You learn plenty of other things. Marco’s read: the foundation of the whole arrangement is to keep us financially and economically illiterate, because people on the hamster wheel don’t leave the hamster wheel. Nineteen forty-three If you want a single date that explains the modern taxpayer, it’s 1943. Before that, an American who earned $10,000 was handed $10,000 and then wrote a cheque to the government. People hated it — visibly, viscerally, every single year. So during the war a senator had a glorious idea: take it out of the paycheque so they never see it. Temporary, of course. Wartime measure. Three or four generations later we don’t merely tolerate it. We can’t imagine any other arrangement. And when a portion comes back the following spring, we say thank you — for the return of our own money. The same trick, Marco notes, that took the dollar off gold for a few months. Fifty-odd years and counting. And it’s worth remembering what came before all of it. For roughly 140 years — until 1913 — the United States had no income tax at all. It went from a handful of colonies to one of the most prosperous nations on earth funded by tariffs and by bonds that citizens chose to buy when they agreed the bridge was worth building. Marco is a free-market man and no great fan of tariffs. But he’ll say this much: used properly, with no income tax on the other side of the ledger, it is not a bad way to run a country. Which is precisely the argument we’re making in Alberta. Let the resources and the businesses fund the roads, the schools and the hospitals. Keep a small consumption tax on what people actually use. Keep government to the few things government is for. That’s not a fantasy. That’s a description of North America for most of its history. The Canadian problem — and the way around it Marco is straight with us, and I appreciate it: what he did in the US is close to impossible to replicate here. We don’t have thirty-year fixed mortgages. Our access to credit is tighter. And the ratio that matters — rent to home value — simply doesn’t work. He can buy a solid $200,000 house in Mississippi or Alabama and rent it for $2,000 a month. Try that on a $700,000 Calgary property renting at $2,000. You aren’t even covering the mortgage. He’ll say it plainly: Calgary is a fine real estate market and a poor rental market. So his philosophy is this — go where your money is treated best. Americans in New York and California do exactly the same thing, investing in states where the numbers work. Can a Canadian do it? He’s already helped Canadians, a Brit and an Australian do it. You won’t get the best rate and you’ll put more down. After two or three deals, the terms improve because the lenders know you. And he doesn’t use banks at all — he uses private lenders, which in the US is a multi-billion-dollar industry of institutions that simply aren’t banks. He hasn’t taken a bank loan in about eight years. His view of the banks, on why you’d hand them your savings in the first place: whatever you give them, they lend out ten or twelve times over. Why a house beats a screen One last thing, and it’s the part I liked best. Real estate isn’t fashionable right now. Everyone wants the stock that’s up twenty percent. Marco owns stocks and trades them, so this isn’t purism. But take a run-down house that’s an eyesore on the street, renovate it, and hand a family a home they’re happy in — you have built something. It’s hard to tell that story about a click on a screen. Shares used to come with a certificate you put in the safe and were proud of. Now it’s numbers and clicks and nothing to hold. Same reason I keep telling you to get some silver. If the machines go dark tomorrow, a hundred Maple Leafs in your hand is a different feeling than a balance you can’t reach. Tangible. Dirt, or metal, or a roof over a family. He’s coming to Alberta Marco already had a ticket to the Vancouver conference this format grew out of — small world. He’s never been to Alberta, he wants to come, and he says he feels strongly about our cause. So the invitation is open and public now: come north and teach Canadians how to put their money where it’s welcome. Find Marco: LinkedIn — search Marco Pfeiffer, and send him a message. He answers, he coaches people who ask, and he doesn’t advertise it. This episode’s sponsor: NuggetStacker. I’m not your investment advisor — but get some gold and silver and protect your family’s wealth. Link and discount code at unscrewthenews.com. Free delivery in Canada on orders over $600. Coming up: Capitalism & Morality, Calgary, September 11 and 12. Great speakers, real conversation about freedom in the West. Use UTN10 for 10% off your ticket. Share this out. Get more eyeballs on this information. The shadowbans only work on people who stay quiet. Let’s stay sane together. Keep your head on a swivel. — Bruce This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit unscrewthenews.substack.com/subscribe

  2. Aug 27

    7:11 Aug 26 26 Ep# 306 | Nicolas Hulscher MPH | "It may be the worst risk-benefit profile in history."

    Unscrew The News Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. There’s a particular kind of number that stops you. Nicolas Hulscher gave me one this week. His team at the McCullough Foundation took the FDA’s own briefing document — the one prepared for the officials who voted to approve the new mRNA flu shot — and ran the risk-benefit calculation the FDA didn’t run. To prevent one hospitalization from influenza, two people had to die of unexplained causes. Around four thousand had to suffer an adverse event. About three hundred had to suffer a disabling grade 3 reaction, the kind that stops you from carrying on with your day. That’s not an activist’s estimate. That’s their data, arranged the way any honest regulator would have arranged it. The risk ratio for unexplained deaths came out at 2.55 — two and a half times more death with the mRNA product than with the traditional flu shot. And that ratio appears nowhere in the FDA’s document. Hulscher’s word for the omission was fraudulent. He was careful about it. He said they were supposed to do that comparison, as far as he’s aware, and they didn’t. They approved it anyway. I asked him the only question that matters here. How? How does an agency that exists to protect the public sign off on that? His answer was blunt: they’re captured. Particularly by Moderna. He said someone must have given those officials large sums of money, because he can’t find another explanation. One of the key people involved in the approval has spent his entire career working on gene therapy injections. We’ve all watched the revolving door for years now. You work at the FDA, then you work at Pfizer, then you’re back. I asked whether that’s still a regular occurrence. “Very regular,” he said. “Very, very regular.” Can they be unbiased? “They can’t be. It’s impossible, literally.” The industry that doesn’t want to cure you We opened on cancer, and I’m glad we did, because it sets up everything else. Calgary spent something close to a billion dollars on a new cancer institute. Beautiful building. And the treatments inside it are the same treatments we’ve been running for decades — chemotherapy and radiation, at over a hundred thousand dollars per patient per year, with results that don’t justify the price. Hulscher’s point isn’t that no one is trying. It’s that the only things that get approved are the things somebody can own. Patentable biologics. Gene therapies. Immunotherapies. Anything you can’t put a fence around never makes it out of the lab. He gave me an example I hadn’t heard. Health Canada approved a clinical trial for dandelion root in cancer. The animal work was startling — implant mice with human tumours, give them dandelion root, and the tumours don’t grow. Human trials were supposed to follow. They never happened. It “mysteriously never happened,” as he put it. Meanwhile cancer remains the second leading cause of death in the world and the rates keep climbing. Whatever we’re doing isn’t working. It is, however, generating large profits. And now Moderna is out on a media tour promoting an mRNA cancer shot for melanoma, without publishing data. Same platform. Same lipid nanoparticles that travel to every organ system. Except instead of telling your cells to make spike protein, this one tells them to make tumour neoantigens — mutated tumour proteins — which then get expressed on your heart muscle cells and your neurons and flagged for destruction by your own immune system. They gave people the shot that produced turbo cancer. Now they’re selling the shot that’s supposed to fix it. Sixty-four million mosquitoes We changed gears to something I hadn’t expected to be talking about in 2026. Google — the company that opened with “don’t be evil” as a mission statement — has filed an experimental use permit with the EPA to release tens of millions of Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes into the wild in California and Florida. Hulscher’s figure was 64 million. He called it one of the largest open-air biological experiments in American history. The stated purpose is suppressing mosquito-borne illness. In Florida there have been roughly five West Nile cases. Hulscher isn’t sure what’s being suppressed. What he is sure of is the ecology. Birds, bats, frogs and fish eat mosquitoes. Knock out the mosquitoes and you knock out their food source, and that cascades. He’s also sure of the business model, and this is the part worth sitting with. Google already did a smaller release in Fresno. It worked — the population dropped. Then they stopped, and the mosquitoes came roaring back within a season. Which means the product isn’t mosquito suppression. The product is a subscription. Contracts with municipalities and states, renewed every year, forever, because the moment you stop paying, the problem returns. That’s the end goal: a release program in every state. Gates has been at this longer. He funds Oxitec, which released millions of GM mosquitoes in the Florida Keys. He funds the World Mosquito Program, which has put billions of bacteria-infected mosquitoes into the environment worldwide. The difference now is that a web browsing company is doing it on U.S. soil. Where the viruses went Remember hantavirus? Ebola? H5N1? Hantavirus is done. Dead-end outbreak, over months ago, and Hulscher says he predicted it would be a dead end shortly after it started. Secretary Kennedy later confirmed it. The fear campaign was intense and it was for nothing. Ebola is still being pushed as the worst outbreak ever. What doesn’t get said is that it isn’t going to become a pandemic. Ebola spreads through infected bodily fluids. It spreads in the Congo because the infrastructure isn’t there and people share rooms and treatment is limited. There have been thirty or forty Ebola outbreaks in thirty years, most of them in the Congo. This is not new. So why run the cycle? Because fear is the funding mechanism. The more fear, the more support for developing vaccines, and the more likely people are to take them when they arrive. Then Hulscher dropped the detail that made the whole thing click. They began developing mRNA Ebola shots for the Bundibugyo strain a few months before that outbreak was declared. You can’t make that up. Create the fear, sell the fix. We’ve watched this play run so many times it should be embarrassing to still be describing it. The good news, and he offered it himself: not as many people are buying it. A large number have woken up. We’re in a better position than we were five or six years ago. The house of cards Last item, and it’s a big one. The researcher whose name sits on the study regulators and the American Academy of Pediatrics have used for two decades to say vaccines don’t cause autism is expected to plead guilty to money laundering and wire fraud. He’s accused of stealing more than a million dollars in CDC grant money — money earmarked for autism and genetic disorder research. He was indicted over a decade ago and spent years as a fugitive. He was on HHS’s most wanted list. Germany extradited him back to the U.S. and he’s been in federal custody since. I asked Hulscher the obvious question. Does the fraud touch the science? He was careful. He can’t prove statistical manipulation. But he said if the man was stealing at that scale through grant fraud, it wouldn’t surprise him if the same hands were using statistical tricks or falsifying data to produce the result they wanted. His position: it needs to be investigated, and every paper carrying his name should now be in question — including the one in the New England Journal of Medicine. Is it the card that pulls down the house, or is he a patsy so everyone else can say the mess has been cleaned up? Hulscher doesn’t think they’ll be able to use him as an exit. But he might. They may try. And on Fauci — the DOJ is talking about indictments. Hulscher’s read is that contempt of Congress is the easiest charge to land, since Rand Paul’s committee already voted to hold him in contempt and the criminal referral is submitted. Beyond that, prosecution requests have gone to fifty state attorneys general. There are people online organizing a GoFundMe for his legal defence. He was the highest paid employee in the United States government. I think he’ll manage. What’s next Hulscher’s team is finishing a comprehensive paper on mRNA injections and cancer. They’ve identified 35 separate mechanisms by which these shots can induce or accelerate cancer, and they take apart the new mRNA cancer vaccines and explain why they’ll be hazardous and why they’ll fail. Watch for it. This man has taken more incoming than most people could stand and he keeps publishing. If you want to follow his work directly, it’s at nicolashulscher.com. Get this episode in front of somebody who still thinks the agencies are on their side. Capitalism & Morality Calgary 2026 — September 11 and 12 at the Croatian Cultural Centre. VIP dinner Friday evening, full program Saturday. Use UTN10 for 10% off your tickets. Let’s stay sane together. Keep your head on a swivel. — Bruce This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit unscrewthenews.substack.com/subscribe

  3. Aug 17

    7:11 Aug 16 26 Ep# 305 | Peyman Askari | "Your Federal Government Can't Just Pass a Law to Amend the Constitution — But That's What They Did"

    Unscrew The News Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I bumped him. That’s the first thing I owe him publicly. I had a paper calendar mix-up, got Mitch Sylvestre on Saturday, and moved Peyman Askari to Sunday. He took it well. Said he’d been bored either way. That’s a good sport. Peyman was born in Iran in 1983, three years into the war with Iraq. He tells the story of his mother having to call her brother to come and sit in the house so it was protected, while his father was out somewhere trying to make money, and bombs were landing outside. That’s the childhood. Then Canada — West Vancouver, a computer science degree, a PhD in computational neuroscience, a software company. Then 2020, and like a lot of us, he stopped being able to look away. He volunteered with the National Citizens Inquiry. He interviewed Canadians. And in 2025 he put his name on a ballot in West Vancouver–Sunshine Coast–Sea to Sky. Now he’s in Florida, and he’s helping other people leave. That’s the part that stuck with me. He’s not moving Bay Street bankers. He said doctors, lawyers, law enforcement — he’s helped an RCMP officer — border security, military. People who are supposed to believe in the thing. He said they’ve lost faith in the Canadian project. He mentioned Armed Forces veterans who told him that if the Americans ever came across, the flag’s going on the porch and they’re not fighting. I don’t like hearing that. I’m not leaving. But I’m not going to pretend I’ve never looked at the exits either. The most useful twenty minutes of the conversation was on the Clarity Act, and I’d encourage you to go back and listen to it twice. Here in Alberta we spent the winter gathering signatures. When it came time to turn them in, a judge stayed the whole thing — the count, the transfer of the information to the government, all of it — on the argument that First Nations needed to be consulted. On a citizen-led petition, which has nothing to do with the government. Peyman’s read is blunt. Quebec’s question went to the Supreme Court, the Court kicked it to Parliament, and Parliament wrote itself a law about when and how a province may leave. His objection is that a federal statute cannot amend the constitution, and that’s effectively what was attempted. And then the duty to consult inside that act — his position is that it was never written as a permission slip you go and collect before you’re allowed to hold a vote. It’s a thing you settle on the way out the door. Whatever you make of that, it is a real argument, and it’s one you almost never hear made in plain language on Canadian television. Which is roughly why this show exists. He also thinks the attack on the movement was surgical rather than clumsy. First through the courts, because a judge’s signature gives the whole thing the appearance of legitimacy. Then through the calendar — because a question stacked on a question, with a referendum window that can’t sit too close to an election, pushes the whole exercise down the road. “They’re trying to tire you guys out,” he said. Cool your jets. Lose steam. I told him I’ve noticed something else. The movement has deliberately avoided having a single leader, so there’s no one target. But look back at it and they’ve gone after whoever happened to be standing at the front on any given week. Jeff Rath. David Parker. Mitch Sylvestre. Whoever shows up next. And Peyman put the flip side of it on us, which I think is fair. He brought up David Parker’s line about the school library — ask a room who’s worried about what their kids are reading and every hand goes up, ask who ran for trustee and the room goes quiet. Peyman’s version of that is harsher: a lot of people’s patriotism runs about a week, then they vote for half an hour, then they go back to Netflix, and the politician does the math and realizes nobody’s watching. Except that this time a lot of people did step up, and they got crushed for it. Lich. Barber. The Coutts Four. Helen Grus. He called them sacrificed, and said we weren’t organized enough to help them. There’s more in the episode than I can fit here. Bill C-9 and what the Justice Centre is apparently already hearing about. What happened to British Columbia and why he insists it’s the Lower Mainland and not the province. A BC Nurses Union funding arrangement where the money went up and the ratio went the wrong way. His view of Mark Carney, which is unprintable in places and which I mostly share. And the three things a Quebec delegation reportedly brought to Alberta when this started: line up governments abroad who’ll recognize you, get an agreement with the First Nations because otherwise it gets torpedoed, and make sure you have a Premier who’s actually on board. One of those three is looking shakier than the others heading into November. October 19 is the referendum. November 6 is the UCP AGM. The last one was spicy. This one’s going to be spicier. Before you go — August 29, 1:00 p.m., the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton. Alberta Prosperity Project campaign kickoff. Bring your kids, bring your dog, bring your neighbour. Pack the grounds. And September 11 and 12, Capitalism & Morality here in Calgary at the Croatian Cultural Centre. VIP dinner Friday, full program Saturday. I’m on the media panel and I’ll have the merch table. Code UTN10 takes 10% off. Thanks as always to NuggetStacker — gold and silver, 1-866-644-2121, free delivery anywhere in Canada on orders over $600. Not investment advice. But I own some. Share this one out. Get some more eyeballs on it. We’ve got to wake them up. Stay sane. Keep your head on a swivel. — Bruce Larineco - Remineralizing Gum This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit unscrewthenews.substack.com/subscribe

  4. Aug 16

    7:11 Aug 15 26 Ep# 304 | Mitch Silvestre | "There Are Questions the People Should Not Be Allowed to Ask"

    Unscrew The News Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Mitch Sylvestre doesn’t sleep much, and after fifty-three minutes with him you understand why. The CEO of the Alberta Prosperity Project joins Bruce Scholl with two weeks to go before the campaign kickoff — August 29, one o’clock, on the steps of the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton. Buses are running from across the province at about sixty dollars return. The last gathering drew 17,800 people by drone count, in winter coats. This one is in August, and Mitch wants tens of thousands. His argument for showing up is blunt and it cuts both ways: a big crowd encourages our own side and sends a message to the other one. A thin crowd sends the opposite message, and the other side gets to point at it. Then there’s the document. A draft Alberta Constitution — five years in the making, started in 2021 by the Black Hats out of Medicine Hat, the same people behind the Alberta Bill of Rights. It goes live on the APP website Monday or Tuesday, with a feedback link built into the first pages. Mitch is emphatic that it is a discussion paper and nothing more. Elected judges. Term limits. MLAs with little power and most questions put directly to the people. A living document that’s hard to change but not impossible. He walks through the three-day constitutional weekend APP hosted in Edmonton — Bruce Pardy, Eva Chipiuk, Dennis Modry, Keith Wilson, and the Black Hats in one room, with Mitch in the corner taking notes. Pardy’s premise, that government begins with zero authority and only receives what it is explicitly handed, got the lawyers out of their chairs. Mitch loved it. He also asked Pardy whether he could stand at a town hall and promise it would work, and got told no. He’s honest about that, and about the unresolved treaty questions underneath it. From there it opens up. The 1982 patriation that Albertans had no say in, and the transfer of power from Parliament to the judiciary. A Citizens’ Initiative petition that was supposed to trigger a vote and instead triggered a vote about having a vote. A judge who said, in effect, that some questions the people should not be allowed to ask. Danielle Smith, who APP actively recruited and who Mitch — a UCP constituency association chair, CA chair of the year, the party’s biggest fundraiser last year — now says is governing for a minority of her own base. A nomination race where the scrutineers counted 53 more ballots than signatures and the incumbent lost by one, and when he took it to the party he was told to take them to court. There’s a new Wild Rose Women initiative aimed squarely at a gap in the movement, Bill C-9 and the Mennonite Church presenting on it at the rally, digital ID dressed up as child protection, and the story of a small-town retailer who got shut down in January of the COVID years, read the essential services list, discovered bike repair was on it, and reopened. Mitch’s closing case is arithmetic. There are a lot of us and a few of them. They print the money, they control the media, they make the rules — and none of it works unless we listen. October 19 is the vote. August 29 is the start. Get on a bus, get the Constitution, and get involved: albertaprosperityproject.com * Rally: Saturday, August 29, 1:00 PM — Alberta Legislature, Edmonton. Campaign kickoff. * Buses: From across Alberta, ~$60 round trip. Book at albertaprosperityproject.com * Referendum: October 19, 2026 * Draft Constitution: Digital release Monday or Tuesday at albertaprosperityproject.com — includes a feedback link. Discussion paper, not a final document. * Wild Rose Women: New APP initiative, launched this week. Pins available. UnscrewtheNews.com Theme music by fullmetalpatriot.com BYRNA less-lethal call Roger : 403 466 2602 Buy Gold and Silver Here: https://nuggetstacker.com/?ref_cca=unscrew_the_news https://www.snootspray.com/UTN Use this link for 30% off! resistancecoffee.com EVENT — Capitalism & Morality Calgary, Sept 11 & 12, Croatian Cultural Centre. 10% off with UTN10. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit unscrewthenews.substack.com/subscribe

  5. Aug 14

    7:11 Aug 14 26 Ep#303 | Dr. Judith Curry | $1.2 Billion To Check A Box!

    Unscrew The News Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Dr. Judith Curry came back on the show this week, and I didn’t waste her time with the philosophy. I brought numbers. The $600 million question. In May, Ottawa and Alberta each committed up to $600 million toward carbon capture between 2030 and 2040, with Alberta’s industrial carbon price climbing to $130 a tonne by 2040. Curry does climate risk work for energy clients. I asked her if she’d put her own money in. No. Worth developing the technology and keeping it in your back pocket, she said, but big engineered carbon capture won’t change the climate in any way. It’ll help bureaucrats check a box. There are no ancillary benefits — it’s a sunk cost with unintended environmental consequences waiting at scale. She also pointed out something that should embarrass Ottawa: the environmental activists don’t like it either, because it lets the petroleum companies off the hook. Her read is that it’s something cooked up by politicians and oil companies who want business as usual with a politically palatable wrapper. The emissions cap. First compliance period 2030-2032, roughly 27% below 2026 attributed emissions. What does that do to global temperature by 2100? Pretty much nothing. Even taking the climate models at face value, one estimate had the US hitting net zero by 2050 and moving planetary warming by a few hundredths of a degree. Canada’s number would be smaller still. Can Canada change the climate at all? There’s nothing Canada can do — with one grim exception she raised herself. Clear-cutting the entire boreal forest would genuinely shift the carbon balance and the planetary albedo. Somebody actually floated that, on the theory that snow cover reflects more sunlight than trees. Her verdict: absolutely no sense. The grid at minus 35. We talked about net zero electricity mandates in a jurisdiction that runs weeks below minus 35. She walked through Texas, where the gas infrastructure froze, the wind wasn’t blowing, and they came very close to very big trouble. Canada’s pipelines are hardened for cold. American ones aren’t, which is why the US still leans on coal for peak demand. Her point: you can’t get rid of the coal until you harden the gas. People look for shortcuts and get caught short exactly when they need power most. Your insurance bill. I asked what insurers are actually pricing. She isn’t seeing global warming in it. Her clients are asking about El Niño next spring and which regions to watch for tornadoes. What’s driving Canadian premiums, in her view, is fire — and building more expensive things in more exposed places. She pointed at California, where the state capped increases, the insurers left, and people were uninsured when the big fires came. Jasper. Fuel load management failures conceded by Parks Canada and the Canadian Forest Service. The RAPTAC rappel program cut. Lookout towers gone. New water bombers arriving in 2031. I asked how much of Canadian wildfire loss is climate and how much is management. Natural variability plays a part — El Niño and La Niña years differ, and there are multidecadal regimes. The human-caused global warming component, she said, is negligible to non-existent. The management piece is the part you can actually impact. And blaming fires on global warming gives people an out from investing in figuring it out. Attribution studies. Those papers that appear within days of a heat wave announcing it was made X times more likely — science or press release? Press release. She named the UK group led by Friederike Otto and their stated goal of building evidence for lawsuits against fossil fuel companies. Her words: voodoo science, very weakly supported. And carbon itself. Carbon is necessary for life. Carbon dioxide is greening the planet — over 80% of the land surface is greener than it was decades ago. It probably contributes some percentage of observed warming; she won’t pretend to know how much. But the argument that warming is dangerous has never been made thoroughly, and it is most definitely not dangerous for Canada. We’d probably do better a little warmer. Which is the part nobody in Ottawa will say out loud. Most of this country is uninhabited because it’s too cold. Dr. Judith Curry held faculty positions at Colorado, Penn State and Purdue, chaired the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech, and retired as professor emerita in 2017 over politicized bias in climate science. She runs the Climate Forecast Applications Network and is on X at @CurryJA. Watch the full conversation on YouTube or Rumble. Share it out — get more eyeballs on this information. One month out: Capitalism & Morality Calgary, September 11-12. Croatian Cultural Centre. I’m on the media panel — How to Beat Regime Media — and I’ll have a UTN merch table set up, so come find me. Roughly 26 speakers, including Frances Widdowson, Amy Eileen Hamm, Nadine Wellwood and James Ostrowski. VIP dinner Friday evening at 6:00 with Tamara Lich as guest of honour. Main program Saturday, check-in 8:00 am. Saturday night there’s a screening of Silencing Detective Grus with Helen Grus there in person. Tickets: capitalismandmorality.com — use UTN10 for 10% off. Price steps up September 1, so don’t sit on it. This episode is brought to you by Snoot! Spray. Drug-free chlorine dioxide nasal cleanser. No steroids, no antihistamines, no neti pot on the bathroom counter. It rinses out what you’ve been breathing in — and if you live anywhere downwind of a Canadian summer, you know exactly what that is. Let’s stay sane together. Keep your head on a swivel. — Bruce This is a public episode. 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  6. Aug 13

    7:11 Aug 12 26 Ep# 302 | Michelle Worton | "You Can't Treat What You Refuse To Acknowledge"

    There is a sentence about halfway through this conversation that I have not been able to put down. Unscrew The News Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Michelle Worton is describing what it takes to get a doctor to believe her. Not to treat her — just to believe her. And she says: “Every doctor’s appointment I go to, I feel like it’s a court case. I’m just presenting a court case. Please believe me. Please believe me.” She is a twenty-year healthcare professional. She sat on her own regulatory college’s board. She built the first independent dental hygiene clinic in northern British Columbia from the ground up in 2015 — the first one north of Kelowna and west of Edmonton. She knows how to read her own labs and her own imaging. And she still has to go into every appointment like a defendant. Here is how she got there. By November of 2021 the emails were arriving from Bonnie Henry. Michelle was sitting at the college board table when mandatory vaccination came across the agenda. She had already been asked for her vaccine status by members of the public and by her own patients before they’d confirm an appointment. Her employees were being asked too. She was being called irresponsible. She raised her concerns at the board table — the product wasn’t stopping transmission, vaccinated people were still getting COVID — and the direction came back that it was an order from the Provincial Health Officer. The order itself described the unvaccinated as a public health hazard. She and one other hygienist resigned from that board. Within an hour of the first dose: racing heart, blood pressure irregularity, chest tightness, shortness of breath. Within forty-eight hours of the second: her life, in her words, changed forever. Neurological symptoms, vision changes, tinnitus, vertigo, loss of temperature regulation, loss of bladder function, a short hospitalization. She went to a doctor and described her symptoms and was told it was menopause. She was 42. She had no pre-existing conditions. She backcountry skied with a sixty-pound pack and coached her kids’ soccer. Five years later she is bedbound most of the time. She has permanent vision loss. She reports eighty to ninety percent sensory loss in all four limbs — she can’t feel her feet on the ground and can’t tell when her fingers are touching. She describes pins, needles, burning and electric zaps through her entire body every minute of every day, for five years. The part I keep coming back to is the geography. She took her Canadian imaging to the United States. A leading neurosurgeon looked at it and told her she had brain compression. Canada had looked at the same imaging and told her migraines. She had brain surgery in the States. By the time she got there she had lost sight in her right eye. The surgery alone was just under $148,000. All in, with the three-month follow-up, roughly $205,000. A later American visit ran about $30,000. She sold her dental practice. Her community in Fort St. John and people across Canada crowdfunded the rest. In 2024 she went back to the US and got the full diagnostic picture in thirty-six hours, because somebody ran the right tests. She came home with a treatment plan and was told it isn’t British Columbia policy to work with international doctors. The treatments exist here. She describes them as heavily gatekept. She was denied the last one on the list in mid-July of this year. And then there’s the program. Michelle applied to VISP. Two of the three medical experts on the panel agreed there was a temporal relationship between her injections and her conditions. She was rejected anyway. She has been in appeals since September 2024. When the program was pulled from Oxaro and handed to the Public Health Agency of Canada, her accepted appeal was transferred to the new program — and she had to wait for letters in the mail and then argue, again, from a hospital bed, why an appeal that had already been accepted should be considered. Five years in, she says the new federal portal still doesn’t work. Part of why she can’t get a Canadian doctor to write it down, she says, is what happens to the ones who do. She points at Dr. Charles Hoffe — the Lytton family physician the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC issued a citation against in February 2022 over his public statements, and didn’t drop until February 2025. Three years of process. Her American records say COVID vaccine injury in plain language. In Canada, she says, good luck getting a doctor to put that on paper. She explains the mechanism plainly, and it’s the coldest thing in the hour: if a condition wasn’t reported during the clinical trial, there’s no established causation. No causation, no support. Some people injured in the trials themselves, she says, were treated at the NIH — and their outcomes never made it into the trial data. CANrise19 came out of that. She co-founded it with Julie Woods, who is also injured, after the two of them turned out to have been treated at the same American medical institute. Registered nonprofit, July 2024. Free membership, no barriers. Formal support groups running eight to ten weeks, confidential, camera optional — you can show up in bed and cry for the hour and nobody will judge you, because everyone in the room has been there. A private list of doctors willing to listen, which they will never publish, to protect the doctors. Around two thousand people and growing. They’re waiting on charitable status so they can build a medical care fund modelled on React19’s, which has issued $1.8 million for private care in the States. CANrise19 is the Canadian member of the COVID Vaccine Injury Alliance — twenty-plus organizations worldwide, Australia, Scotland, the UK, Denmark. She also told me something about censorship I hadn’t heard put that way. She only found the peer-reviewed literature on post-vaccine syndrome after she got a VPN — in an American medical office, filling out intake forms. Papers published in 2021 that she had never once seen from inside Canada. For years she thought she was the only one. She’ll be in Ottawa. Michelle is testifying at the Allison Inquiry, September 8 to 11, in a parliamentary committee room. Roughly 800 Canadians have applied to tell their stories; about 40 will get to do it in person. For most of them it will be the first time anyone with lawmaking power has been required to sit and listen. She was blunt about the cost of getting there: many of them do not know what their lives will look like next year. She is grateful, on the record, to Dean Allison, and to Shawn Buckley and Teresa Buckley for carrying it. One last thing she said, and I’m going to leave it here, because I’ve been chewing on it since we stopped recording: “Many of us are called anti-vaxxers. That’s insulting. I wouldn’t be in this situation if that was the case. No one wants to be in this situation. This isn’t a career choice.” There is a gaping wound in this country and it is five years old. Acknowledgement would go a long way. The Allison Inquiry press conference is tomorrow — August 13, 10:00 a.m. Eastern — at allisoninquiry.com/live. The inquiry itself runs September 8–11 in Ottawa. You can still register to submit your story at allisoninquiry.com. September 9 in Ottawa — CANrise19 and Rainey Media are screening the documentary Why Can’t We Talk About This? at Capital City Church. Michelle and Julie will both be there. Injured Canadians and anyone who wants to understand this are invited. CANrise19 — canrise19.com. Free membership, support groups, and a story registry. If you’re injured, you are not alone and you are not crazy. Sponsor — NuggetStacker. Protect your family’s wealth with gold and silver. I’m not your investment advisor, but I do think every family should hold some. Free shipping across Canada on orders over $600. Use the link at unscrewthenews.com for a discount. Sponsor — Snoot Spray. A shower for your nose. QR code is in the top left corner of the video, or snootspray.com/UTN for 30% off, which helps with the shipping from the States. Coming up — Capitalism & Morality Calgary, September 11 (VIP dinner) and September 12 (full-day program), Croatian Cultural Centre. Speakers include Frances Widdowson, Amy Eileen Hamm, Tamara Lich and Nadine Wellwood. Prices go up September 1. 10% off with code UTN10. I’ll be there on the media panel and selling merch — come say hello. The views expressed by guests on Unscrew the News are their own. Nothing in this episode is medical advice — talk to a physician about your own health decisions. Share this out. Get more eyeballs on it. We’ve got to wake Canadians up. Stay sane. Keep your head on a swivel. — Bruce This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit unscrewthenews.substack.com/subscribe

  7. Aug 11

    7:11 Aug 10 26 Ep# 301 | Nicolas Hulscher MPH, They Told Him He'd Never Have a Career. He Did It Anyway

    Nicolas Hulscher was a graduate student at the University of Michigan School of Public Health when he emailed every professor in the department looking for an internship sponsor. Every one of them said no, or said nothing at all. So he emailed Dr. Peter McCullough instead — and got a response in five minutes, with a research project attached. Unscrew The News Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. That project became a systematic review of autopsy findings in deaths following COVID-19 vaccination. He tells us he was warned by faculty that continuing the work would end his career before it started. He continued anyway. He joins me from the McCullough Foundation in Dallas for a wide-ranging conversation about what happened next — and about the research he’s put out since. What we cover: * The internship nobody would sponsor. How a cold email to Peter McCullough turned into a published systematic review, and what it was like presenting that work inside one of America’s most prominent public health schools. * Retracted, then republished. Hulscher says the paper became the most-accessed research article in the world before Forensic Science International pulled it — a retraction he argues violated COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) guidelines. He describes resubmitting it, passing peer review a second time, and seeing it published in Science, Public Health Policy and the Law. He also walks through the fact-check pieces and profiles written about him since. * The Fauci hearing. His read on the Senate testimony, the repeated invocations of the Fifth Amendment, the questioning around early-treatment suppression and gain-of-function funding — and his concern that a single prosecution becomes a way to close the books on everyone else. * The mRNA flu shot. The FDA has approved Moderna’s mRNA influenza product for adults over 50. Hulscher says he went through the FDA briefing documents and argues the reaction data and the absence of a placebo-controlled arm should have stopped it. We talk about what that means for the promise of placebo-controlled trials for new vaccines. * RFK Jr. vs. the machine. Is the Health Secretary being overruled, or is he going along? Hulscher gives his honest read. * Why he says the problem is the platform, not the payload. His explanation of lipid nanoparticle biodistribution, spike protein persistence, and why he frames much of the resulting injury as autoimmune in character. * AI-designed pathogens. A story he broke days before we recorded: researchers used AI sequence-generation models to design 16 synthetic bacteriophages not found in nature — and produced viable, replicating organisms. Hulscher went looking at the funding and found the Gates Foundation. His argument is that the threshold has now been crossed, and the capability doesn’t stay in friendly hands. * The sun. We close on something near to my heart: the modern fear of sunlight. Hulscher makes the case for full-spectrum exposure, vitamin D, and mitochondrial function — and points to research he says shows sunscreen users facing higher rates of major skin cancers, plus benzene contamination found in a fifth of products tested. Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, is an epidemiologist and administrator at the McCullough Foundation. He holds a Master of Public Health in epidemiology from the University of Michigan and has contributed to more than thirty published studies. Find him at nicolashulscher.com, on X at @NicHulscher, and at thefocalpoints.com. The views expressed by guests on Unscrew the News are their own. Nothing in this episode is medical advice — talk to a physician about your own health decisions. Share this out. Get more eyeballs on it. Let’s stay sane together. — Bruce Scholl This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit unscrewthenews.substack.com/subscribe

  8. Aug 10

    7:11 Aug 9 26 Ep# 300 | Fergus Hodgson | "How Often Is It Possible To Build A Free Nation?"

    Unscrew The News Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Three hundred episodes. I wanted to mark it with something that looks forward rather than back, so I called Fergus Hodgson. Fergus runs Econ Americas out of Colorado. He is a week away from moving to Calgary for a month to put the finishing touches on Capitalism & Morality — September 11 and 12 at the Croatian Cultural Centre — and he says something early on that reframes the whole conversation. He didn’t arrive at this from theory. Jason Lavigne took him on a speaking tour around Alberta at the start of the year, and by the end of it he’d stopped thinking of the place as his mother’s hometown. “This is my tribe. These are my people.” He is not building an event about independence. He is building an event about the people who would have to hold it together afterward. Nation and state The distinction he draws is old and most of us have stopped using it. A nation is a people — shared values, shared character, a way of living. A state is a government. Ideally the two line up. His argument is that in Canada they never have. Quebec is a nation stuck inside somebody else’s state. So, he says, is Alberta. Which leads to the line I keep coming back to: he has little interest in a province breaking off and then resurrecting Ottawa on the prairies. “What’s the point?” If a free Alberta is going to mean anything, the people have to be free first, and the government follows from that rather than the other way round. So the event is only partly political. Yes, there’s a secession panel — Darcy Gerow leads it, last slot of the day, which Fergus cheerfully calls the spiciest. But there’s also Lorraine Moller, a four-time Olympian, on the psychological resilience that makes athletes succeed. There’s Steve Cooksey, who bills himself as the Diabetes Warrior, on what he calls unplugging from the medical cartel. Fergus doesn’t want a room full of people waiting for an election to save them. Who’s coming The names alone are worth the ticket. Tamara Lich is guest of honour at the Friday VIP dinner. James Ostrowski — a dozen books, a new one out this week — gives the lunchtime keynote, Why Gun Rights Come First, and Fergus makes the point that Alberta is already one of the most armed places in the world, so nobody is importing an ideology here. Michael Wagner, who has written about Alberta independence for years. Corey Morgan. Bruce Pardy. Drew Barnes and Rick Strankman on a panel about winning at retail politics. Phil Hart, the Idaho state senator, on the freedom caucus model — and Fergus’s pitch that the UCP needs one of its own, a bloc of MLAs who won’t be intimidated. Mailyn Salabarría comes up from Cheyenne. She grew up in Cuba and got out, and she’s speaking on what Fergus calls microstates and she calls free cities — the argument that Monaco, Liechtenstein, Singapore point the way, and that decentralizing to Edmonton isn’t decentralizing far enough. There’s a panel on thriving as a thought criminal: Frances Widdowson moderating, with Amy Eileen Hamm, Lorraine Moller and Nadine Wellwood. Frances and I don’t agree on everything. I’ll be honoured to be in the room with her anyway. And it isn’t all ideas. Brett Oland, CEO of Bow Valley Credit Union — the event’s gold sponsor — is on a panel about the economic opportunity in an Alberta that stands up on its own. Fergus is blunt that he wants entrepreneurs and investors in that room, not just philosophers. And on the Saturday evening, Helen Grus comes out from Ottawa in person for a screening of Silencing Detective Grus, with a Q&A after. I’m on the media panel — How To Beat Regime Media. The parts that will get him called names Fergus doesn’t hedge, and I’m not going to pretend he does. He talks about a “natural aristocracy” leaving Canada for the United States — roughly a million Canadian-born people down there against roughly a quarter million American-born up here, by his figures — and he ties Alberta’s prosperity to a demographic shift he plainly doesn’t welcome. He says the same thing about Colorado, that the cowboy spirit he remembers a generation ago has been covered over. He knows what he’ll be called for saying it. His answer, more or less, is that he’s past caring, and that he doesn’t blame people who are more careful. He’s also on record that he had nothing to do with the Alberta white paper. He’s been living in the States, and the people running it didn’t want any appearance of American influence. He doesn’t blame them for that either. The practical bit Roughly 25 speakers, most talks capped at ten minutes with questions after — Fergus is running it like a fire hose on purpose, with an exhibit hall and a bar so you can step out when you need to. Buffet lunch, light breakfast items, drink ticket included. Business casual; he wants the room to look like what it’s trying to build. VIP dinner is Friday September 11 at 6:00 pm. The main event is Saturday September 12 — check-in opens at 8:00 am, program starts at 8:30. Tickets are at capitalismandmorality.com. Regular is $200 right now, $225 after August 13, $250 after September 1. VIP $500 includes the Friday dinner with the speakers. Use UTN10 for 10% off. I’ll be there selling merch. Come say hello. Sponsor — NuggetStacker. Protect your family’s wealth with gold and silver; a subscription lets you set it and forget it. Free shipping across Canada on orders over $600. Questions: 1-866-644-2121. Use the link at unscrewthenews.com for a discount. Also coming up — the Allison Inquiry, Ottawa, September 8–11. Four days of testimony from injured Canadians in a parliamentary committee room. Write your MP and ask them to be in the room. Stay sane. Keep your head on a swivel. — Bruce This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit unscrewthenews.substack.com/subscribe

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