Today’s issue is mainly about health and wellness, two subjects I’ve been researching and writing about for 30 years. You’ll notice that I’m changing the format a bit by publishing my Journal notes just as I first wrote them… warts and all. My thinking is that this will allow me to share more of what I’ve been doing and thinking – but briefly.
“Earning, Learning, Sharing, and Caring”
I’m still working 12+ hours a day, but I’m also napping for about a half-hour at least twice and sometimes three times.
I don’t mind the napping per se. I quite enjoy it. But I don’t like the reason: I’m finding that every three or four hours I am besieged with a serious bout of brain fog, which makes it impossible for me to work, thus forcing me to lie down and rest. This is not a symptom of age. In every other metric of aging, I’m at least 10 years younger than my age would otherwise suggest. I’m convinced that my brain fog bouts are the result of protein spikes from COVID-19 shots. I was hoping they would go away, but they are increasing. I’m going to investigate the various vaccine “cleanses” that have been advertised to see if that can help. (Friday, September 19, 2025)
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I had a good meeting with WMB and PF yesterday about my idea for a new non-profit project. It would be a foundation whose mission would be to teach entrepreneurship and wealth building secrets to people who had no education in accumulating wealth and no experience in starting businesses.
I have accumulated a truckload of educational materials that could serve as the foundation’s core curriculum. Between the two dozen books I’ve published, the 17 that are half done, the 2,000+ essays, speeches, interviews on business, finance, entrepreneurship, and wealth building, we have a library of valuable information. It would be a shame to leave all that monetizable material sitting in drawers and on shelves gathering dust.
PF asked me why I wanted to start yet another big project at this time in my life. I admitted that I wasn’t sure, but the prospect of doing it was exciting, and I had a gut feeling that doing it as a non-profit was the way to go. It would make it clear that its purpose was education, not profit. And that would give it credibility. And that would make it easier to market. Plus, if it had a sensible, achievable mission, like we have with Fun Limón, it’s quite possible it would live on long after I’m gone. When I said that, I realized the answer to PF’s question. I see it as a legacy – something of me that might endure. Oh, well, we’ll see how that goes. (Saturday, September 20, 2025)
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SM tells me that the Legacy stock portfolio, which he and several other stock-expert friends put together for me in 2016, has done well since inception. Over the last nine years, it has grown into several approaches – the very conservative collection of stocks we assembled first, followed by several others that included industry-dominating, low-risk stocks that have boosted performance above the core collection.
That was good to hear. I designed the portfolio to keep pace with the market’s long-term ROI, but with less risk. The fact that it’s done better than that makes my heart happy and trips the marketing lobe of my brain to think about how we can make money selling that fact. Then the part of my brain that contains my conscience says, “Past performance doesn’t predict future performance.”
I mentioned, in the August 13 issue, that I made a bundle on a small investment I made in three cryptos several years ago. My Japanese readers want to know which crypto coins they should buy now. The problem is that I did not buy those coins as an investment. Or as a long-term store of value. I bought them even though I had (and still have) the view that cryptocurrencies have a dim future. They have been great for a handful of speculators who got in on the right side of hundreds of trades in the past year, but I don’t know enough about trading or the market for trading cryptos to take a chance with them now. “If you wrote a report on cryptos, it would sell,” SM advised me. I told him I’d think about it. And I will. (Monday, September 22, 2025)
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Add one more “pleasure” to my theory about The Sustainable Pleasures in Life. My original concept was that there were three such pleasures – working on something you value, learning something you think is worth learning, and sharing the products of the work you do and the knowledge you acquire. Last night, I was thinking of the trick of using rhyme to make commercial phrases more memorable. And that gave me earning instead of working, which gave me earning,learning, and sharing. I couldn’t think of a rhyming substitute for sharing, but when I came to caring, I realized that, too, is a sustainable pleasure. As in the pleasure you get from selfless love – i.e., the way most people love their children… most of the time. So now I have four sustainable pleasures: Earning, Learning, Sharing, and Caring. Is that too much? (Tuesday, September 23, 2025)
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Another busy week, but mostly enjoyable and reasonably productive days. Saturday evening was a great start, with a trip to the Florida Museum of Art for an opening of an exhibit of Latin American art, which was edifying and hilariously pretentious. [Note to self: Write about that.] Next was my weekly meeting with Number Two Son to go over my and my family’s investments, followed by a meeting with Dominick, my principal broker, a meeting with the CFO of A, my largest client, a half-dozen business meetings, a board meeting for my museum of Central American art, a meet-up with a former mentee turned multimillionaire, a call with AL about our mutual interest in bad movies… and lots more that I can’t remember. (Wednesday, September 24, 2025)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Britain Is Turning into Somalia
In this video, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author of Infidel, tells the story of her journey from Somalia to the West, exposing the deep cultural divides between Somali clans and Western societies. She talks clearly and courageously about welfare exploitation, the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, clan loyalty, the impact of migration on Western values, and the growing safety concerns for women in Europe.
Trump Takes Aim at Big Pharma
Trump made front-page news again with his announcement that acetaminophen – the primary active ingredient in Tylenol – is dangerous for pregnant women and that the FDA would be issuing a notice of the risks. Also that evidence supporting RFK Jr.’s longtime concerns about the dangers of vaccines would be released. As usual, his remarks were not formally scripted but extemporaneously delivered with the help of what looked like an index card with scribbled notes. This was evident when he attempted to pronounce acetaminophen, a stumble that, by the time anyone reads this, will no doubt have been broadcast all over the Free World.
Unsurprisingly, the food and drug industry media (which includes most of the mainstream conservative channels and streaming services) dumped on Trump’s remarks. There were lots of charges of misinformation and irresponsibility, but nothing I could take seriously since they were all purposely misleading statements meant to maintain the public’s naïve belief in the safety of what Americans put into their bodies.
I spent some time trying to dig up the actual facts from reports on actual scientific studies that observed basic scientific protocols, such as controlling for variables and observing meaningful test specifications. And I found, once again, that Google had buried them even deeper so that I could not find some studies that only weeks before I had not only read but taken notes on. Chat GPT was even less reliable, coupling up press releases that said nothing, explained nothing, and blamed no one.
There were some new postings, but, not surprisingly, they were all pro-pharmaceutical pieces published by non-profit institutions that were themselves supported by Big Pharma.
When RFK Jr. was first nominated for his post, I wrote that he was probably liberal public enemy number one – even above Trump and Musk. So far, he’s been able to work without a serious attempt on his life. But he should have protection 24/7.
Just the Facts
Did you know that the Food/Drug-Industrial Complex is larger than the entirety of the US military and sends considerably more billions to the coffers of our elected representatives than the Military-Industrial Complex?
Japan Vaccine Study Revisited: What the Official Data Revealed
Speaking of fake news manufactured by Big Pharma, here’s an update on the Japanese study on the dangers of the COVID-19 vaccines. In researching this story, I came upon a “report” from the “Public Health Communications Collaborative” (PHCC) that said “there is no evidence of any investigation into COVID-19 vaccines by the Japanese government” and that “there isn’t any evidence of widespread deaths caused by the vaccines.” Since that statement was an outright lie, as there by now dozens of studies and millions of reports to the contrary, I wondered what this PHCC group was. It turns out to be a non-profit funded in 2020 (interesting!) that apparently gets a lot of its funding from Big Pharma and has been accused of being a Big Pharma shill.
Last week, Japan’s independent citizen coalition, United Citizens for Stopping mRNA Vaccines, released a report on a study they conducted covering more than 21 million Japanese citizens, obtained through FOIA requests. (I didn’t know that Japan had an FOIA protocol. Good for them!)
Professor Yasufumi Murakami, a scientist at Tokyo Science University, said that the study suggests that as many as 610,000 Japanese died from the COVID vaccines.
As I said when I first reported this, the numbers matched rising excess mortality figures during the period studied. The data showed that those who received multiple doses faced earlier, steeper death spikes. The study itself is long and boring, but I’m pretty confident I was able to grok its conclusion – that the COVID vaccines cause delayed, cumulative damage, destroying immune systems, causing heart issues, and triggering organ failures.
In Japan, as in the US, this report had little effect on the government, as health authorities continued to advocate for mRNA vaccines, including the “reiteron” (replicon) shots, which have been reported to have even higher adverse reactions and death rates.
But the Japanese public, like the American public, has lost faith in their government’s position on the vaccines. Since last October, vaccine uptake has tanked: Fewer than 10,000 doses of the new vaccines have been administered. Over 100,000 Japanese citizens have petitioned for an immediate halt to all mRNA vaccination programs.
Meanwhile, the pharmaceutical industry – led by companies like Meiji Seika Pharma – has launched lawsuits against critics, including Congressman Kazuhiro Haraguchi after he developed lymphoma and had spike proteins found in his tissues post-vaccination. The authorities are actively suppressing dissent and preventing transparency, effectively burying the full extent of the damage.
I’ve implied it many times. Now I’m going to be blunt. The dangers of COVID – the virus – were greatly exaggerated by Big Pharma, most governments, and the mainstream media. To make matters worse, the dangers of the vaccines were greatly discounted or flatly denied by the same group of miscreants.
I believe that in several years, after the dust settles and the perpetrators of the lies have moved on to other campaigns, the COVID fiasco will go down as the greatest mass medical experiment in history.
Every week that passes, new evidence of the lethality of the COVID vaccines is published by a reputable scientific organization. And almost immediately thereafter, some shill with a degree hired by Big Pharma pops up in the media outlets, disputing the findings and repeating the lie that the vaccines were and are perfectly safe.
Why I Do What I Do…
“You have been a tremendous source of inspiration to me over the years, and I am deeply appreciative of you, your work, and most of all for your ethos of sharing. Countless marketers (myself included) have been able to forge careers built on the ideas and principles you conceptualized and popularized through your books, blog, and businesses. I don’t think there’s an interview, book, or video of yours on the internet I haven’t tried to absorb through repeat viewing.” – DG
“I’ve been using your metaphors to inspire people. You once said writing to a new subscriber is like going on a first date. I said that today to a wonderful trader who struggles with writing. She came away inspired and proceeded to write the best free write up I’ve seen out of her. This is at Options Pit, a small but growing publisher with great traders. I just got a position as editorial director and have used more than one of your metaphors to describe good writing to them. Thank you for telling those stories and teaching those lessons.” – CD
Name two things that are eminently predictable about this.
Hint: No, this isn’t the same “What Is This?” that I published in the Sept. 22 issue. This one is photos of the chancellors of the American Academy of Poets.
Answer: But, yes, it’s basically the same thing. There is only one White man in the group, and he is “gender fluid.”
Comedians vs. Hecklers
I don’t do comedy, so I rarely have to deal with hecklers. But I should probably study this just in case.