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of what his true motives are, all that, and that's valid. Those are valid criticisms. But in terms of a strategy I think it was very good for Bill Gates to try to reframe himself as a person who's doing the things that are even too hard for the government to do. So there's my idea. If you say billionaires, if you live in California, we need you to step up and make it cheaper to do health care, ch…

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ecause the fraud still exists. So his suggestion for auditing is that first of all you have to severely use the DOJ to severely punish anybody who got caught with fraud. So you've got some disincentive for fraud. That of course I think we all agree with. But then he says that there should be a federal internal audit system where private citizens would get a bounty. They'd be bounty hunters who find fraud and earn rewards equal to a percentage of the grift identified. Now he calls it grift. I don't know if that means only illegal stuff or just stuff people are getting away with. But I like where that's going.

So my idea was that we need to have a federal standard for audits and that we do not currently have a good idea how to do it. Somebody said, and they were right, that the auditors also would be criminals because it would be so easy to buy off an auditor. So if you just had a standard audit system they would either be incompetent or bribed or they'd be in on the plot. And I agree with that. Over time the auditors would be blackmailed or bought off. But if your audit system involves these citizen bounty hunters, presumably people who are capable and well trained to do that sort of thing, they would just be working for the money. And if they could make more money by turning people in than they could make by being in on the graft, well now you've got a system.

So there are lots of questions and details about that but I like where that's heading because if you don't have what I would call a free market approach to make sure that the audits are doing what they should be doing, the audit will be a waste of time. And that's what we see right now. Our current auditing systems largely don't work. Case in point there's a new story that says that billions of dollars that we send to Israel as weapons after October 7th have not been accounted for. So apparently the auditing system, they should have tracked weapons and armaments, same thing that we gave to Israel, we were only able to track some percentage of it. Now that does not mean that that stuff was stolen or ended up in the wrong hands. What it does mean is we don't know. It could have been stolen. It could have ended up in the wrong hands. We don't know because once again although there was tracking the tracking was inadequate. And so we don't know.

Now I do think that Israel would be highly incentivized to make sure those weapons got used by the IDF in exactly the way we wanted but we don't know. And if you take any auto system that is blind and there's a lot of money involved and you just wait, that guarantees corruption. Lots of money involved, lots of time involved, and nobody's watching. 100 percent chance that ends up in sub-criminal behavior.

Well here's some maybe good news. There's a new study according to the Brighter Side News that Alzheimer's can be not only stopped but reversed with a very common supplement. Now this common supplement called NAD+ is not something you can buy over the counter. And if it were ever made available, oh wait I'm sorry that's wrong. The NAD+ is apparently something that people have in them. And when the NAD+ is at the right level they don't get Alzheimer's. But the recent discovery is if you could boost their NAD+ because older people lose it. So if you could just boost them back to a normal level that not only do they not get worse in the Alzheimer's but it could actually correct it. You could actually cure it.

So they've shown this in mice but they've also shown it in samples of human brains. Now if they had not shown this true in a sample of a human brain I would not be excited because mouse studies, there's a million mouse studies that never turn out to work for humans, but it's already a chemical that's in your b

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ody. So that's good news. They know for sure that the people with Alzheimer's have less of it and they know exactly why that would cause the Alzheimer's and they know that it can be increased by adding this thing called a compound called P73-A20. So some lab has developed this. So it would be easy to develop the compound developed in Piper labs but because it's a drug it would have to go through a…

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