May 15, 2025 3-5pm ET
Friday on The Robert Scott Bell Show:
Hour 1
Return of the Next Pandemic Script Yaffa Shir-Raz argues that the recent media attention around the MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak follows a familiar “next pandemic” script shaped by fear, uncertainty, internationalmonitoring, and cruise-ship imagery reminiscent of early COVID coverage. The article emphasizes that hantavirus is not epidemiologically comparable to SARS-CoV-2 because it is typically transmitted from rodents to humans and is not readily spread through airborne human-to-human transmission. Yet the story quickly became framed in ways that evoked pandemic anxiety, arriving just as the World Health Organization faced another delay in negotiations over the PABS annex of the Pandemic Agreement. Shir-Raz connects the timing of the outbreak narrative to broader disputes over WHO authority, global pandemic governance, pathogen access, genetic sequence data, technology transfer, and emergency-response systems. The larger concern is that limited outbreaks can be used to reinforce permanent emergency infrastructure, expand centralized authority, and accelerate vaccine and medical countermeasure platforms under the banner of preparedness.
Special Guest Dr. Leonardo Faedo
Dr. Leonardo Faedo is an Agronomist and Sociologist (PhD dual-award) from Brazil, working at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) at Coventry University in the United Kingdom, where he conducts multidisciplinary research in three main areas:
- Environmental Practices, Agroecology and Health;
- Agroecological Farming Innovation;
- Biodiversity, Ecology and Society.
Since 2013, his work has focused on Nature-Based strategies for food systems, including the use of biofertilizers, plant extracts, biodynamic and homeopathic preparations. His work bridges agricultural sciences, ecology, and systems thinking to advance sustainable pathways in global food systems.
Today’s Homeopathic Hit is Doryphora decemlineata, the Colorado Potato-bug.
Boericke places the center of this remedy’s action in the urinary organs, especially where urethral inflammation, difficult urination, gleet, burning sensations, and severe pain during urination are present.
Its picture also includes trembling of the extremities, prostration, swelling of the body, and pain in the back and loins.
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Hour 2
This Isn’t Rebellion. It’s Survival. Michael Boldin’s Path to Liberty episode revisits one of the most important but often overlooked documents of the American Revolution: the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 6, 1775. Boldin frames the Revolutionary generation as facing two brutal choices: “unconditional submission” or “resistance by force.” Less than three months after Lexington and Concord, figures such as Thomas Jefferson and John Dickinson helped explain why the colonies believed they were not rebelling for rebellion’s sake, but fighting back against arbitrary power and a government that had left them no peaceful option. The episode connects that forgotten document to founding principles, natural rights, self-defense, gun control, and the broader constitutional tradition of resisting centralized abuse of power.
This Isn’t Anti-American. It’s a Right and a Duty. Michael Boldin’s Path to Liberty episode argues that the Declaration of Independence does not merely describe apast revolution, but lays out a continuing framework for resisting abusive power. The episode focuses on the phrase “alter or abolish,” emphasizing that the founders believed people have both the right and, under certain conditions, the duty to resist governments that violate natural rights and abandon their legitimate purpose. Boldin pushes back against the modern establishment claim that resistance to centralized power is “anti-American,” arguing instead that the founders placed resistance to tyranny at the very heart of the American political tradition. The episode draws from founding-era sources including the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, Cato’s Letters, Samuel Adams, John Locke, Thomas Paine, and others to show that self-preservation, liberty, and the creation of “new guards” for future security were not radical departures from American principles, but core expressions of them.
Compliance Isn’t Safety. It’s Surrender. Michael Boldin’s Path to Liberty episode argues that American independence was built on the principle that obedience to arbitrary power is not peace or safety, but surrender. The episode focuses on the revolutionary understanding that laws made outside constitutional limits are not legitimate law and should not be treated as such. Boldin connects this idea to the foundation of the American Revolution, showing how colonial resistance grew from a long tradition of rejecting unauthorized power, unconstitutional acts, and imposed compliance. Drawing from figures and writings including Oliver Ellsworth, Algernon Sidney, Patrick Henry, James Otis, John Dickinson, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Samuel Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Benjamin Franklin, Cato’s Letters, and Thomas Paine, the episode frames non-compliance as a core American principle when government exceeds lawful authority.
Socialists Are Reaping a Bountiful Political Harvest while They Create Havoc William L. Anderson argues that socialist and progressive candidates are gainingpolitical momentum in the U.S. not because their policies produce better economic or social outcomes, but because economic instability creates fertile ground for promises of free services, redistribution, and government intervention. The article points to the rise of figures such as Graham Platner in Maine, Zohran Mamdani in New York City, Katie Wilson in Seattle, Bernie Sanders, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as evidence that the Democratic Party is moving further left. Anderson contends that progressive nonprofits, advocacy networks, unions, and ideological organizations are increasingly shaping candidate selection, policy priorities, and legislative agendas. He argues that the economic disorder caused by Federal Reserve manipulation, government intervention, inflation, debt, and housing distortions has helped fuel public appetite for socialist answers, even though those answers, in his view, worsen the underlying problems.
The Cost of Money: Coinage, Fiat Power, and the Quiet Corruption of Value Justin M. Ptak argues that the rising cost of producing U.S. coins, especially the penny and nickel, reveals a deeper problem with fiat money and the modern monetary system. The article notes that the penny has cost 3.69 cents to produce and the nickel costs 13.78 cents, creating a basic contradiction where the government spends more to make money than the money is worth. Ptak uses this as a symbol of how fiat currency has become detached from intrinsic value, market discipline, and real production costs. He contrasts today’s coinage with earlier monetary systems based on silver and gold, where material value imposed limits on debasement and monetary manipulation. The article argues that the Federal Reserve and modern fiat policy allow these contradictions to persist because monetary expansion can absorb inefficiency instead of forcing correction.
Question of The Day!
Hi Super D, I had heard RSB talk with a gentleman who has a book named Clear Minds or something like that . I do not remember his name. I believe the episode I had heard them talk was in the last two months (I have no clue what his name is… ) Sorry I do not have more info. I hope i have given enough info to you to be able to find him. I do believe the man wore glasses and may have a shaved head(?).
Thank you
Susan
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