💉 This won’t surprise you, but the other vaccine vial dropped last week when Reuters quietly ran a financial story headlined, “BioNTech Hit with NIH Notice of Default Over COVID-19 Vaccine Royalties.”
> What’s new about this sordid story is it was the last bit of confirmation of the original root source of the mRNA tech: every bit of it was excreted by that massive government health agency, the wellspring of mRNA, the National Institutes of Health. The article showed, as we’d long presumed, that neither Pfizer nor BioNTech were smart enough to whip up a brand-new vaccine technology and turn it into a covid vaccine in just a few weeks.
It was always a government project.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/just-culturally-wednesday-april-3
"Let me give you a number that should end every argument about national security. 417 kilograms.
That's roughly how much rare earth material goes into a single F-35. A Virginia-class submarine needs about ten times that.
Now ask the question nobody in Washington wants to answer out loud: who controls the supply? The chokehold, metal by metal.
NdPr. Neodymium-praseodymium oxide is the heart of the super-magnet.
China controls about 90% of rare earth processing and 93% of magnet manufacturing. America has exactly one rare earth mine, Mountain Pass.
And Beijing has shown the leash. Export controls in April 2025. A harsher second wave in October 2025. That sec
https://mailchi.mp/wealthresearchgroup/brics-chokehold-intensifies-russia-china-and-greenland-critical