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A Green Beret Doctor Runs for Texas Governor Retired Green Beret and whistleblower Dr. Pete Chambers—fierce critic of COVID mandates—is running for Texas governor to restore truth, freedom, and medical integrity. By William F. Marshall

https://amgreatness.com/2025/07/09/a-green-beret-doctor-runs-for-texas-governor/

What a breath of fresh air. Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Pete Chambers is throwing his hat in the ring to seek the governorship of Texas.

Pete is a true patriot and has led a fascinating life. I got to know him years ago in the course of my work examining issues surrounding the COVID virus and COVID “vaccines.” During my professional research, I got to know many of the doctors who recognized very early on the great dangers posed by the experimental mRNA-based injections, which the federal government falsely touted as a “vaccine” for the COVID virus, despite the injections operating on completely different principles from traditional vaccines. Pete was one of those skeptical doctors.

Pete first joined the Army as an enlisted man in 1983. He then left the service with an honorable discharge to attend college and then medical school. He completed his residency in primary care and worked as an emergency room physician while also serving as a SWAT team physician and sheriff’s deputy. After the attacks of 9/11, Pete rejoined the Army and graduated from the Special Forces Qualification Course.

Pete would be deployed to multiple combat zones as a Green Beret officer and Special Forces flight surgeon. He is the recipient of the Purple Heart for injuries sustained in combat, and is a disabled veteran.

Pete worked as a military liaison to Texas Governor Gregg Abbott’s COVID Task Force in his final two stateside deployments (in 2020) before becoming the Task Force Surgeon in 2021 assigned to Operation Lone Star on the South Texas border—a joint Texas military-law enforcement operation to stop the flood of illegal aliens, human smuggling, and drug trafficking coming across the Southwest border.

It was in his capacity as the surgeon assigned to care for the thousands of military personnel taking part in Operation Lone Star that Pete began to ruffle feathers. He recognized from decades of treating diseases among military personnel in foreign countries that early treatment of the COVID virus was key.

New synthetic molecule targets and kills breast and pancreatic cancers in as few as three doses

https://www.aol.com/lifestyle/synthetic-molecule-targets-kills-breast-000700149.html

Scientists have developed a new molecule that can deliver powerful immune-activating treatment directly to cancer cells, marking an important advancement in cancer therapy. Traditionally, one major obstacle in fighting cancer is overcoming the tumor’s ability to suppress the body’s immune response.

Now, researchers at Stanford University have created an innovative treatment capable of turning immunologically inactive tumors into targets the immune system can attack.

A Novel Approach to Immunotherapy

Current cancer treatments often involve injecting immune-activating substances directly into tumors. However, not all cancers are easily reachable. To overcome this challenge, the Stanford team combined two crucial elements into a single synthetic molecule, PIP-CpG. One part of the molecule, PIP, identifies and binds specifically to integrins—proteins commonly found on cancer cells. The other part, CpG, acts as an immunostimulant by activating Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9).

Idit Sagiv-Barfi  and Ronald Levy  pioneered a potential cancer therapy by injecting two immune-boosting agents directly into solid tumors. 

When administered intravenously, the innovative PIP-CpG molecule efficiently reaches multiple cancer sites throughout the body. By directly targeting tumor sites, this treatment ensures that the immune-stimulating drug accumulates precisely where it’s needed most.

Effective Tumor Targeting and Immune Activation

The research team tested this therapy in mice suffering from aggressive breast cancer. After receiving just three doses, six out of nine mice survived significantly longer than untreated mice. Even more promisingly, three of these mice appeared completely cured, showing no tumor recurrence over several months. Impressively, a single dose was sufficient for complete tumor elimination in half of the tested mice.

Jennifer Cochran, PhD, Shriram Chair of the Department of Bioengineering at Stanford, was enthusiastic about these remarkable results. “We essentially cured some animals with just a few injections,” she said. “It was pretty astonishing.”

When researchers examined the treated tumors, they observed a drastic transformation. Previously dominated by cells suppressing immune activity, the tumors became filled with activated immune cells, including CD8+ T cells, CD4+ T cells, and B cells. This shift mirrors the results usually seen only with direct tumor injections.

Overcoming Limitations of Previous Therapies

After Missile Strike, Weizmann Lab Publishes Breathrough Leukemia Research By Tziona Gerson

https://unitedwithisrael.org/after-missile-strike-weizmann-lab-publishes-breathrough-leukemia-research/

A simple blood test procedure could screen for leukemia non-invasively, well before symptoms begin to express, revolutionizing the ability of the medical community to effectively target and treat the disease.

During the Iranian missile attacks that rocked Israel in the second half of June, few stories captured the resilience of the Israeli spirit like the one that occurred at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot.

On June 15, Weizmann labs took a direct hit from Iranian ballistic missiles, obliterating years, and in some cases, lifetimes worth of irreplaceable scientific research.

While luckily there were no casualties, the hit was a significant loss to an institution dedicated to expanding the scope of human knowledge.

Notably, the Cancer Research Unit was severely impacted, with entire labs destroyed.

Yet despite the mayhem, a joint project led by Professors Liran Shlush and Amos Tanay published a startling breakthrough in leukemia diagnostics, which could fundamentally change the means of diagnosis and treatment of this infamously pernicious form of cancer.

Breakthrough in the bloodstream

Leukemia, or cancer of the blood, is an aggressive cancer that originates in bone marrow and causes rapid proliferation of malformed blood cells.

These cells compromise the body’s ability to fight infection and circulate oxygen.

Current screenings for leukemia require a bone marrow biopsy, a painful procedure to extract bone marrow and test for leukemic cells.

RFK Jr. Axes ALL Funding For Bill Gates’ Global ‘Vaccine Alliance’ Benjamin Bartee

https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2025/06/27/rfk-jr-axes-all-funding-for-bill-gates-global-vaccine-alliance-n4941219

Whereas the general modus operandi in legacy media is to smear RFK Jr. as an “anti-vaxxer” within the first sentence, the Washington Post courteously waited until the second paragraph to label RFK Jr. a “vaccine misinformation” spreader on its way to condemning him for cutting federal funding to Bill Gates’ global “vaccine alliance,” GAVI.

Via Washington Post (emphasis added):

The United States will halt its contributions to Gavi, the global alliance that works to expand access to vaccines for children in some of the world’s poorest countries, said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Wednesday — a move that public health experts said would have deadly consequences.

Kennedy, who has a history of spreading vaccine misinformation, announced the decision in video remarks made to a Gavi summit in Brussels, during which he accused the group of neglecting “the key issue of vaccine safety.”…

In his remarks, Kennedy cited a study linking the DTP vaccine — for diphtheria,a highly contagious bacterial infection that kills 5 to 10 percent of those affected, as well as tetanus and pertussis — to increased child mortality. Kennedy also said Gavi should “consider the best science available,” and “re-earn the public trust.”

The Bezos paper didn’t actually cite or quote the DTP study referenced by Kennedy, so I went and found it.

What This Muslim Doctor Did to a Jewish Congressman Wasn’t Quite in Line with the Hippocratic Oath Robert Spencer

https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/06/23/what-this-muslim-doctor-did-to-a-jewish-congressman-wasnt-quite-in-line-with-the-hippocratic-oath-n4941089

The classic version of the Hippocratic Oath has doctors swearing: “I will comport myself and use my knowledge in a godly manner.” Dr. Feras Hamdan, “a family medicine physician in Cleveland” who is “affiliated with medical facilities such as Cleveland Clinic and Ashtabula County Medical Center,” didn’t exactly comport himself in a godly manner in an incident involving Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio), but of course, that depends on which God one is looking to serve. 

CNN reported Friday that Hamdan was “arrested after Miller filed and signed a complaint with police for aggravated menacing, as well as requested a protective order against him, according to police in Rocky River, a suburb of Cleveland.” Miller, who is Jewish, called 911 on Thursday morning and said: “I’m on the freeway. I have somebody who has cut me off, who is flipping me off, who is showing me a Palestinian flag, and is yelling to kill me.” This was Rep. Miller’s introduction to the respected Dr. Hamdan, who also screamed, “Death to Israel.”

Miller added: “I’m a little shaken at the moment because I got death threats.” He recounted: “I was just driving to work and I was cut off by a man in a Tesla who held up a Palestinian flag to me and then rolled down his window and said that ‘I’m going to cut your throat and your daughter’s.’ And he said ‘you’re a dirty Jew. I’m going to f**king kill you all, and I know who you are and where you live.’” 

Miller later said: “I have a weapon on me. I’m glad I didn’t use it. But, I mean, what is going to happen? This guy just said he is going to kill me. And said he is going to kill my daughter who is almost two years old. And he cut me off and clearly was trying to hurt me.” 

“What is going to happen?” is a good question. Feras Hamdan, MD’s practice is now listed on Google as “permanently closed,” but there is no public indication yet that Hamdan’s license to practice medicine has been suspended, or even if there is any inquiry underway that could lead to such a suspension.

Hamdan’s case is similar to that of another Muslim physician in Ohio, Lara Kollab, a former doctor of osteopathic medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. Kollab said on X, which was Twitter back then, that she would “purposely give all the yahood [Jews] the wrong meds.” In another tweet, she wrote: “Studying for my med micro final, came across this. Clearly, I pay attention in class and write very useful notes.” Accompanying that tweet was a handwritten note that read: “People who support Israel should have their immune cells killed so they can see how it feels to not be able to defend yourself from foreign invaders.”

Sally Satel This Program Is a Lifeline for the Severely Mentally Ill Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics serve as a one-stop shop for people with psychotic conditions.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/mental-illness-certified-community-behavioral-health-clinics-funding-grants

The Department of Justice is brainstorming ways to clear homeless encampments and increase involuntary hospitalization, focusing on people with serious mental illness. Fortunately, the federal government already has a resource for people with such conditions: Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics. CCBHCs serve as one-stop shops for people with serious mental illness, providing coordinated physical and specialty behavioral health services. As part of their congressional mandate, the clinics turn no one away, regardless of ability to pay. 

But according to an April 10 document leaked to the media, the White House was considering defunding grants for the CCBHC program. This would have eliminated a crucial lifeline for the seriously mentally ill. 

CCBHCs have been a bipartisan effort. In 2014, Congress and President Obama established the clinics under an eight-state Medicaid demonstration project that launched three years later. In 2020, Congress and President Trump adopted the CARES Act, which expanded the demonstration and provided grant funding for additional CCBHCs. Today, nearly 500 CCBHCs serve 3 million patients across 46 states.

Ask Your Doctor if Jihad Is Right for You American medicine has an antisemitism problem, driven by foreign-trained doctors importing the Jew-hatred of their native countries by Jay P. Greene and Ian Kingsbury

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/american-medicine-antisemitism-foreign-trained-doctors

Medicine has a serious antisemitism problem. It especially has a problem among doctors, and a lot of that problem is concentrated among doctors educated overseas.

We identified a set of over 700 people from all walks of life profiled by the organization Stop Antisemitism for displaying flagrant hostility toward Jews and Israel. We found that health professionals were more than 2.5 times more likely to be found among antisemites than their share of the workforce. Doctors were almost 26 times overrepresented in the list of antisemites relative to their prevalence in the workforce. And half of those Jew-hating doctors received their medical degrees abroad.

The fact that Jew-hatred has found a perch among highly educated doctors and other health professionals runs counter to the conventional explanations for antisemitism. According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and other legacy Jewish organizations, antisemitism is born of ignorance which must be fought through education. As ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt frames the issue, antisemitism intersects with “ignorance and conspiratorial thinking … Ultimately, any strategy for protecting the Jewish community must include education at its core—we can’t fight hate without changing hearts and minds.”

Both the past and present put the lie to Greenblatt’s hypothesis. Campus Hamasniks at Columbia and Harvard are radical and morally depraved, but they aren’t uneducated. Nor were the architects of the Holocaust, inheritors of a German cultural tradition that was arguably unmatched in its yearning for modernity.

The challenge posed by foreign-trained doctors is that they arrive in the U.S. after having largely completed their moral formation, sometimes in political systems that explicitly promote antisemitism.

Medicaid: End It, Don’t Mend It

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/05/19/medicaid-end-it-dont-mend-it/

As soon as Republicans mentioned cutting spending on Medicaid as part of their “reconciliation” bill, the usual suspects started rolling out their standard talking points. They’re cutting health care for the poor to pay for tax cuts for the rich! Millions will lose coverage! The disabled will suffer! Oh, the humanity!

Well, if the GOP is going to be accused of destroying Medicaid when all they are proposing is a minor haircut, why not go all out and scrap this hopelessly flawed, fraud-riddled, budget-busting disaster of a program and start over from scratch?

First, let’s dispense with the claim of “devastating” cuts to Medicaid. The House reconciliation bill would reduce Medicaid spending by $625 billion. That might sound like a lot, but it’s stretched out over 10 years, at a time when Medicaid is on track to spend $8.6 trillion. Medicaid spending will still go up every year under the House bill, just a tiny bit more slowly.

What Republicans should really be talking about is giving Medicaid the USAID treatment. Shut it down and start over from scratch.

Let’s line up the reasons.

It was sold on a lie. The original claim made in the mid-1960s was that the federal government and the states would split the cost of Medicaid. But that happened only once: in the program’s first year. Ever since, the federal share has grown while the states’ shares have shrunk. By 2005, states were paying only 42% of Medicaid’s bills. In 2022, the state share dipped below 30%.

Over the past 60 years, states have pressured federal lawmakers to make a multitude of exceptions to the 50-50 split, which lawmakers were only too happy to provide because there is no cap on federal Medicaid spending.

Stephen Eide Marijuana and the Mentally Ill Legalization is pushing community mental health to the brink.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/marijuana-legalization-weed-mental-illness-health

America’s ongoing marijuana-legalization experiment will have many consequences. That goes especially for the seriously mentally ill, a sliver of the adult population but overrepresented among the ranks of compulsive pot users. Treating schizophrenia and bipolar disorder is never easy; even when treatment is available, the seriously mentally ill often fail to comply. A schizophrenic who spends most of his days in a dark room smoking weed is not a clinically promising case.

Modern mental-health systems are community-based and thus shaped by community norms. Decades ago, clouds of pot smoke were not often encountered on city streets. Now that they’re ubiquitous, a seriously mentally ill individual may be inclined to wonder what’s so objectionable about an activity that normal Americans do daily, in public and even during working hours.

The issue is only partly whether pot causes mental illness. A large body of research studies, involving tens of thousands of people, has suggested, with impressive replicability, that heavy cannabis use increases the risk of developing mental illness. Legalization proponents reject this, contending that, while the rate of marijuana consumption has soared over recent decades, the rate of serious mental illness seems to have stayed flat.

But this debate has eclipsed interest in the effect of continued cannabis use on those already mentally ill. What can be done about that? For scores of clinicians and families of the mentally ill across the nation, it’s the more pressing question.

In recent years, countless family memoirs and nonfiction accounts of mental illness have extensively chronicled the descent into madness. This literature often highlights marijuana more than any other intoxicating substance. Pot plays a notable role in several recent book-length treatments of mental illness, including Randye Kaye’s Ben Behind His Voices (2011), Patrick and Henry Cockburn’s Henry’s Demons (2011), Paul Gionfriddo’s Losing Tim (2014), Mindy Greiling’s Fix What You Can (2020), Miriam Feldman’s He Came in With It (2020), Meg Kissinger’s While You Were Out (2023), and Jonathan Rosen’s The Best Minds (2023).

Trump’s NIH Chief Lets Loose on Fauci, Vaccines and Covid Cover-Ups Story by Tim Röhn •

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/trump-s-nih-chief-lets-loose-on-fauci-vaccines-and-covid-cover-ups/ar-AA1EKMUX

Jay Bhattacharya is no longer on the fringe.

When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, the then-Stanford professor was one of the loudest critics of lockdowns, school closures and what he called “utopian” public health planning, and he was often dismissed by mainstream public health officials.

Five years later and Bhattacharya is now the director of the National Institutes of Health, one of the most powerful figures in public health and biomedical research in the U.S. and across the globe. He oversees a budget in the tens of billions and helps determine who gets funded — and whose ideas get left behind.

“The first and most important thing,” he says in a new interview with POLITICO Magazine, “is that dissenting voices need to be heard and allowed.”

In a wide-ranging conversation, Bhattacharya laid out his vision for American science under President Donald Trump and discussed the ongoing fallout from the pandemic. In particular:

He praises the pardon of Anthony Fauci even as he effectively accuses the former public health official of engaging in a Covid cover-up.
He endorses the creation of an independent commission to assess the pandemic response.
He rejects the continued recommendation of mRNA vaccines for healthy young people — and says he himself has received just two doses, both in 2021.
He explains why he thinks it’s unlikely vaccines cause autism — but that he won’t prejudge the issue.
 He waves off the notion that Europe would be able to poach American scientists amid Trump’s war on elite universities. “France is a nice place to visit,” he scoffs.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.HHh