Month: May 2021

2021·05·08 Joe Biden Didn’t Win Daily Thread

His Fraudulency

Joe Biteme, properly styled His Fraudulency, continues to infest the White House, we haven’t heard much from the person who should have been declared the victor, and hopium is still being dispensed even as our military appears to have joined the political establishment in knuckling under to the fraud.

One can hope that all is not as it seems.

I’d love to feast on that crow.

Justice Must Be Done.

The prior election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system.

Nothing else matters at this point. Talking about trying again in 2022 or 2024 is hopeless otherwise. Which is not to say one must never talk about this, but rather that one must account for this in ones planning; if fixing the fraud is not part of the plan, you have no plan.

Lawyer Appeasement Section

OK now for the fine print.

This is the WQTH Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Poltical correctness, but civility is a requirement. There are Important Guidelines,  here, with an addendum on 20191110.

We have a new board – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation.

And remember Wheatie’s Rules:

1. No food fights
2. No running with scissors.
3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns.
5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded.
5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty.
6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy.
7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire.
8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.

(Hmm a few extras seem to have crept in.)

Spot Prices.

Kitco Ask. Last week:

Gold $1768.60
Silver $25.97
Platinum $1205.00
Palladium $2996.00
Rhodium $29,000.00

This week, markets closed as of 3PM MT.

Gold $1831.70
Silver $27.54
Platinum $1257.00
Palladium $2980.00
Rhodium $27,400.00

That is a big breakout for gold on the upside. It went up fifty dollars just since Wednesday. Platinum hasn’t done too badly either! It went up over $30 on Wednesday.

(Be advised that if you want to go buy some gold, you will have to pay at least $200 over these spot prices. They represent “paper” gold, not “physical” gold, a lump you can hold in your hand. Incidentally, if you do have a lump of some size, doesn’t it give you a nice warm feeling to heft it?)

Update: More info on Valcambi Combo Bars

Somebody asked me about the Valcambi combo bars for gold, silver and other precious metals. These are the ones that can readily be broken up into smaller pieces. I was at the Denver Coin Expo yesterday/Friday, and asked someone who had Valcambi bullion at his table if the bars were worth less broken apart, and he said yes, they are worth less.

Still, it might be worth holding a couple of them (and not breaking them apart) in case there’s a fiat money apocalypse. If that happens, you’ll have bigger problems than worrying about how much fiat you’ll get for a 1 gram bar as opposed to the full, 20 (or more) block chocolate bar, and it might be a good way to subdivide your gold holdings when you absolutely need to. Or, you can use silver for “small” change…but even there, it might make sense someday to be able to break down an ounce of silver.

Velocity and Momentum
(Part II of a Long Series)

Introduction

The general outline of this story is to start off by putting you “in touch” with the state of physics at the beginning of 1895. Physicists were feeling pretty confident that they understood most everything. Sure there were a few loose ends, but they were just loose ends.

1895 marks the year when people began tugging at the loose ends and things unraveled a bit. In the next three years, three major discoveries made it plain there was still a lot to learn at the fundamental level.

Once I’m there I will concentrate on a very, very small object…that ties in with stars, arguably the biggest objects there are (galaxies are basically collections of stars). And we would never have seen this but for those discoveries in the 1890s.

It’s such a long story I decided to break it down into pieces, and this is the second of those pieces.

And here is the caveat: I will be explaining, at first, what the scientific consensus was in 1895. So much of what I have to say is out of date, and I know it…but going past it would be a spoiler. So I’d appreciate not being “corrected” in the comments when I say things like “mass is conserved.” I know that that isn’t considered true any more, but the point is in 1895 we didn’t know that. I will get there in due time. (On the other hand, if I do misrepresent the state of understanding as it was in 1895, I do want to know it.)

Also, to avoid getting bogged down in Spockian numbers specified to nine decimal places, I’m going to round a lot of things off. I used 9.8 kg m/s2 last time for a number that’s actually closer to 9.80665, for instance, similarly for the number 32.

A couple of Go Backs

Remembering my previous post on mass, one might wonder, “why bother with this sort of thing? Why should people investigate such things?”

We live in an orderly universe. This is a good thing. It gives us confidence that when we set the groceries on the counter, they won’t jump up and bite us. (Not even Darwin’s live food groceries.) It also means that when we drop a car battery on our feet, we know it!

The point of science, when it is being properly done, is to increase our understanding of this world we are in.

All that work on forces and masses and weight was at its core an exercise in breaking down phenomena we see every day into different effects and studying one of them. We removed friction and gravity from the picture and analyzed what was left. Then we took up gravity. What we didn’t get to was showing that friction is itself a force.

With that kind of understanding, you can predict what will happen in an environment where gravity is different, e.g., on the moon and in orbit. At first you won’t be used to it, but then you do get used to it. There are plenty of stories of astronauts who adapt so well to “microgravity” (i.e., the lack of any sort of sensation of “down”) and free fall that they will come home, put the toothpaste on the toothbrush, and drop the toothpaste tube, because they’re used to just letting it go and having it stay there until they’re ready to put things away. They’re applying Newton’s first law (objects at rest will stay at rest) since it is pretty much unmodified in orbit, no need to worry about gravity pulling things to the floor.

Another Go Back. Last time I rather casually used the concept of acceleration, without really going into it much. I assumed some knowledge that many might not have.

You can think of acceleration as change in speed, the faster the change, the greater the acceleration. And it can be a decrease as well as an increase; to a physicist it’s still an acceleration, albeit one which is in the reverse direction to the motion.

I know, too, I said things like “meters per second per second” a lot. That wasn’t a stammer. That’s truly how you measure acceleration. Think about a sports car, able to go from zero to 60 miles an hour in four seconds. That means, on average, every second of that four seconds, the car’s speed increases by 15 miles per hour. So it accelerates at 15 miles per hour every second, which is to say at 15 miles per hour per second. That can even be written as 15 miles / hour / second (the “per” functioning as a division). Or even, 15 miles • 1/hour • 1/sec.

Yes, when physicists do math, they will multiply and divide by units, not just the numbers. They can be divided and multiplied, and even follow the rules of cancelation. (Chemists often have to convert from one unit to another, like calories to Joules, so they really do this sort of thing a lot.)

Notice there are two time units (hours and seconds) in the denominator. It’s kind of funny that they don’t match. You could convert the hours into seconds, like this: Use the fact that there are 3600 seconds in an hour and do the following: 15 miles • 1/hour • 1/sec • 1 hour/3600 sec.

That last term is simply 1 hour divided by 3600 seconds, which is 1. You can multiply by 1 without changing anything. But now that it’s there, the two hours, one in the numerator and the other in the denominator, cancel

Do that cancellation and you have 15 miles • 1/hour • 1/sec • 1 hour/3600sec, and you can re-arrange to get 15/3600 • miles/sec/sec or 1/240 miles per second per second or 0.004167 miles / sec2. You could then move on to convert miles to meters (1609 meters is one mile, roughly), and that works out to be 6.7 m/s2, and it turns out that car is accelerating about 2/3 as much as gravity accelerates a falling object.

You may have noticed I seem to prefer metric, and that’s because just about every bit of my technical education was in metric; I’m used to it. When I got exposed to the occasional rocketry done in pounds force and pounds mass, it was like trying to use stone knives and bearskins (and you needed to know when you had to multiply or divide by that 32). Obviously it works (we put men on the moon after all), but it just seems cumbersome to me.

(And a note for the fussy, you’ll notice I’ve sometimes spelled out a unit, e.g., “second” and sometimes abbreviate it “sec” or “s.” That last one, just a plain s, is the “official” metric abbreviation for second. Likewise meters, m, and kilograms, kg. But sometimes I spell things out too, as a reminder.)

But the notion of acceleration (however you measure it) is itself depends on speed…actually, it is dependent on velocity.

Velocity

So my second “go back” actually leads us into today’s topics. Let’s flesh out velocity.

Velocity is both how fast something is moving, and in what direction. So it’s actually a more complex concept than the one we talked about last time, mass. The distinction between mass and weight was probably odd to many, but at least mass can be expressed as a number. Velocity? You need a number (your speed), and a direction. (Or maybe you can get by with a bit less…stay with me.)

Direction is easy on a straight highway. You’re either going forward or backward. Since there’s only two choices, and they are opposite of each other, it’s natural to consider the forward direction positive and the backward direction negative. So driving 60 mph in fourth gear is +60 mi/hr, but switching to reverse (after first stopping, since we don’t want your engine to leap through your hood in an ugly mess), and going fairly fast in reverse might get you -10 mi/hr. The local constabulary, using a radar gun, will measure your speed and may depending on circumstances pull you over to inform you how fast you were going and how much you will have to pay for that.

You can even add and subtract your velocities, just like you do with masses. The usual example here is a railroad car moving along on tracks, also nice and tidy and one-dimensional. If the train is moving at 60 mi/hr and a pitcher is in a cattle car, playing catch with someone, and he throws the ball forward at 60 mi/hr, someone standing on the side of the tracks will see the ball moving at 120 mi/hr, because the speed of the train and the ball add together. If he and the catcher switch places, he’s now throwing the ball at -60 mi/hr and the ball is now stationary as far as the guy by the side of the tracks is concerned: +60 mi/hr plus -60 mi/hr = zero.

OK, I’ve used a very limited situation to make a couple of points, but it’s not very interesting in the real world. What about two or even three dimensions?

I’m going to do what everyone else does when explaining velocity in two dimensions: I’m going to use a pool table as my example. It’s the best choice I can think of, and I guess that was the best they could come up with too.

Let’s say the pool table points north-south along its length. A ball is moving directly north at 1 m/s. Another ball is moving directly east at 1 m/s. They have the same speed, but different velocities, because the direction of motion is different.

Figure 2-1
Two balls moving at one meter per second so they have the same speed,
but they are moving in different directions so they have different velocities.

Now let’s consider a different ball, a red one moving at 1 m/s exactly to the north east. If you think about it, that ball is moving north at a certain rate, and at the same time it’s moving east at a certain rate. Or to put it another way, how fast would a ball (let’s make this one pale blue) moving straight east have to move so that it’s always directly south of the diagonally-moving ball? And how fast would a (purple this time) ball moving straight north have to move so that it’s always directly west of the diagonally-moving ball?

Figure 2-2
How fast does the purple ball have to move so it’s always exactly west of the red ball, which is moving diagonally?
Similarly, how about the turquoise ball? How fast must it move on the horizontal line to stay exactly south of that red ball?

You can do this visually by drawing a diagram like this, then measuring the vertical and horizontal lines. You should get about .7 the length of the diagonal line. Since that diagonal line is 1 m/s, the horizontal and vertical lines should be .7 m/s. (The exact number is actually 1, divided by the square root of 2. That can be derived from the Pythagorean Theorem. To six places, it’s 0.707107, but you will never be able to measure quite that accurately off a drawing you made on a piece of paper.)

You can do this with any velocity, big or small, in any direction. You can break it down into a north-south component and an east-west component.

So any velocity on the pool table can be expressed with numbers, but by writing two numbers, not one. Our diagonal moving ball has a velocity of [ 0.707 north, 0.707 east ] meters per second.

That pair of numbers is enough to do the job of a speed and a direction.

The Vector

And this is what is called a vector in its mathematical form.

You can also represent a vector by picking a scale (1 inch equals 1 m/sec, for instance), and drawing an arrow with the appropriate length, pointed in the appropriate direction. We’ve already done that. You can’t compute things this way but it sure does help you visualize it. And you can get estimates by measuring off the diagram if you’re careful drawing it.

Vectors are considered equal if they have the same length (mathematicians call this the “magnitude” of the vector) and the same direction. There’s no notion built into a vector of “where it starts” and “where it ends.” We can move them around for convenience, especially on those diagrams, just so long as we don’t stretch them or rotate them.

Figure 2-3
Vectors are equal to each other if they have the same length and distance, they are not equal to each other if they are of different lengths (“magnitudes”) even if they’re in the same direction, nor are they equal to each other if they have the same magnitude but different directions.

If you think back to last time, I talked about force, mass and acceleration. F = ma. But it turns out the force is a vector. When you push on something, you’re pushing in a certain direction. Likewise, acceleration is a vector too, you’re speeding up in a certain direction. It’s customary to write vectors in bold face (or if on a blackboard, by drawing a line with a little arrowhead over the letter). So it’s actually F = ma.

Mass was not written in bold, because it takes a single number to express it; it doesn’t have direction. (Weight does. Why?) Such plain-old-number quantities are called scalars in distinction to vectors.

Returning to our current topic, velocity is abbreviated v, bold because it’s a vector. So in our diagonally moving ball example, v = [ 0.707 north, 0.707 east ] m/s.

When you take a vector and express it like this, you’ve broken it down into its north and east components. It actually doesn’t matter which two directions you use, so long as they’re perpendicular, but for now let’s stick with north and east.

Even a total distance moved can be a vector. The total distance is equal to the elapsed time, t, times the speed or velocity (depending on whether you want just the distance, or the distance and direction). d = vt.

What happens when you multiply a vector by a scalar, as shown here? What you do on a diagram, is make the arrow that much longer or shorter. Mathematically, you go to each component of the vector and multiply each one by the scalar. In the case of the diagonal moving ball, you have:

d = 5s [0.707, 0.707]m/s = [3.535, 3.535]m. This is how far the ball has gone, relative to where you first started watching it five seconds before. (And it would go right off the pool table, too, if not for the bumpers. More on that later.)

Mathematicians like to do things as generically as possible. So they will write vectors in terms of x and y, rather than north and south. That means they’re not really wedded to any particular orientation. Remember I said it didn’t matter which directions you used, so long as they were at right angles to each other. For convenience when they draw diagrams, the x direction is to the right, and the y direction is upward, the y axis being 90 degrees counterclockwise from the x axis.

You can do more to vectors than just multiply them by a scalar. They can be added together, provided they’re in the same units. (No fair adding speed to force!) This also means they can be subtracted.

Of course when dealing with pure mathematics (as opposed to mathematics applied to physics), generally units are not a concern. Like in the following example.

On a diagram, take your first vector, whatever it is, and then put your second vector so that its tail is right at the head of the first vector. Then draw a new vector from the tail of the first vector to the head of the second vector. That’s the sum of the two vectors. Mathematically, you add each individual element. So [ 3, 4 ] + [ -1, 6 ] = [ 3-1, 4+6 ] = [2, 10].

Figure 2-4
Vector addition. The two black vectors add up to the red one; vectors must be placed “head to tail” to add them pictorially.

Conservation of Velocity?

So now let’s go back to the pool table, make the scenario slightly more complicated and see what we can use this whiz-bang vector thing to figure out.

This is pool, after all, balls are supposed to hit other balls. So, if we have a cue ball moving along in the x direction at, say, 1 m/s…or more rigorously [ 1.0, 0.0 ] m/s, and it hits another billiard ball head on, what happens? Well, the cue ball hits the other ball. Then the cue ball stops, and the second ball continues on along the x direction, also at 1 meters per second.

Figure 2-5
Two billiard balls, head on collision between a moving and a standing ball.

It’s as if the velocity transferred from the cue ball to the other ball, perfectly. So, is it possible we’re on the track of another conservation law, conservation of velocity?

Let’s do a little more investigation. For starters, consider a glancing blow. Let’s have the cue ball moving at 1 m/s in the x direction (ahem) v = [1.0, 0] m/s, and hit the other ball quite a bit off from head on, as shown below.

Figure 2-6
Billiard balls, an off center collision. This time both balls move after the collision.

You’ve seen this happen often enough, you know the cue ball will, in this case, continue moving, up and to the right. And the second ball will move down and to the right. And perhaps one of the two balls moves at a steeper angle than the other. That doesn’t look very much like velocity was conserved, does it? A motion in the x direction turns into two sort-of-diagonal motions?

But actually, when you look at it a bit closer, it looks good. As you can see, we’ve broken the two vectors into their x and y components.

We started with the cue ball moving at [1, 0]m/s, and the other ball (not) moving at [0, 0]m/s. Afterwards, the cue ball is moving at [0.750, 0.433]m/s and the other ball is moving at [0.250, -0.433]m/s.

If velocity is conserved, the sum of the velocities before must equal the sum of the velocities afterwards. These are vectors, and I already told you how to add vectors. So let’s do some addition:

Before: Cue ball [1, 0]m/s + Other ball [0, 0]m/s = [1, 0]m/s.

After: [0.750, 0.433]m/sec + [0.250, -0.433] = [1, 0] m/s.

So it does look like velocity is conserved. Yes, here I could have just made up the numbers to make it work out, but the fact of the matter is in real life, these billiard ball examples really do work out like this.

(And, since I did contrive this scenario, the direction of the cue ball is 30 degrees “up” from the x axis, and its speed is 0.866 m/s. The other ball is moving “down” at a 60 degree angle, at a speed of 0.5 m/s. Those who took some trigonometry might remember there’s something special about 30 and 60 degree angles and the square root of 3, divided by 2.)

A pool player will have played so many games of pool that he knows this behavior in his gut; he knows exactly where to hit the other ball with the cue ball to get the angle he wants, to send that other ball into the corner pocket.

But if it’s a conservation law, it has to hold all of the time, not just in billiards scenarios. And this one doesn’t hold all of the time in billiards, much less in the “real world.”

Nope, No Conservation of Velocity

What happens when a ball hits the bumper? If it hits the bumper head on at 1 m/s, it bounces back at 1 m/s, in the opposite direction. In other words, whatever the vector was before, it’s now a vector in the opposite direction. That’s not conservation!! (And the pool player knows this one too, of course.)

Also, not quite within the realm of billiards, what if the balls are of different weights…er, masses? You already know from your own personal life what will happen. Hit a pool ball with a cannonball and the pool ball will go rocketing away, much faster than the cannonball was moving, and the cannon ball will slow down the tiniest but not stop moving. Reverse the process, hitting the cannonball with the cue ball, and it will barely budge, but the cue ball will bounce back the way it came.

If you want to mess with a pool player, randomize the masses of the balls. Because normally all of the balls have exactly the same mass, at least as close as the manufacturer can make it. In real life very few objects have the same masses. As soon as the masses are different the tidy behavior we illustrated above goes right out the window and the player can’t predict what will happen.

So if you do some experimenting, it seems like what might be getting conserved is not velocity, but something that is the product of mass times velocity. You have to add the mass times velocity, before and after, and that will be conserved. A heavy object will move less under the same impetus from some other object, than a light one would. If mass goes up, velocity goes down to compensate, and vice versa.

Momentum

That product of mass times velocity is known as momentum. And it’s a scalar times a vector, so it’s a vector, too. And for some reason, they chose to symbolize it with p. (They didn’t use m because m is mass, but why did they pick p instead of q or u or…?). p = mv. And if m is in kilograms, and velocity is in meters per second, we can define the momentum as being in kilogram meters per second, kg•m/sec. That way we can avoid the use of a fudge factor, since the units are already consistent with each other. There is, unfortunately, no named unit of momentum like there is with force (the Newton), so “kilogram meter per second” it is.

OK, that takes care of the unequal masses behaving oddly, but what about a ball rebounding off one of the bumpers?

Actually, what’s happening there is that the ball is striking a much more massive object–the pool table. And the pool table is firmly fixed to the entire planet, if nothing else by friction.

So the entire Earth, it turns out, is reacting to that ball hitting the bumper, and picking up motion in that direction, but the earth is so massive that the motion is very, very small. In fact, in order to make the ball rebound, the momentum of the ball is changing by twice its prior value. If the mass of the ball is b, and it was moving at 1 m/s in the x direction before, its momentum was [ b, 0 ]kg•m/s before, and afterwards its moving in the opposite direction with a momentum of [ -b, 0 ]kg•m/s. Net change in momentum is [ -2b, 0 ]kg•m/s. The earth has to make up this change by gaining [ 2b, 0] kg•m/s. But the earth’s mass is much, much, much more than b, so the velocity imparted by the ball to the earth is microscopic. If one goes up the other has to come down to compensate.

One could complain that since we can’t measure the earth’s “rebound” in this case, maybe it isn’t rebounding. But the absence of evidence (i.e., the failure to be able to measure it) isn’t the same as the evidence of absence (i.e., evidence the earth doesn’t actually rebound when the ball hits the bumper). If we had a way of measuring the earth’s rebound that was sensitive enough to show what we expect based on theory, and it didn’t show that change, then we’d have evidence that momentum isn’t conserved. But if we know our measuring is inaccurate enough that we can’t see it even if it’s there, then not seeing it doesn’t mean anything, one way or the other.

Conservation of Momentum

Since this is a part of the story of where physics was in 1895, I’ll put it out, here, that as of that time, no exception was known. Every time we could measure things, momentum was conserved. It was considered a solid part of physics.

Because a vector consists of two components, and the addition rules keep the two components separately, you could treat the conservation of momentum as if it were two separate laws, conservation of momentum in the x direction, and conservation of momentum in the y direction. No one actually does this, but from a bookkeeping standpoint it’s definitely twice as much time with the ledger as conservation of mass is.

And, Oh By The Way…vectors can be three dimensional, too! It’s then a triple number, and the new axis is the z axis, perpendicular to both the x and y axes. The three edges of a cube that meet at the corner are a good representation of this.

Rockets and Guns

Now for an application. How does a rocket work? It works entirely through momentum. Let’s say the rocket’s mass is a thousand kilograms (one metric ton or “tonne”), including the fuel it has on board. And let’s furthermore imagine that it’s out in space somewhere.

A rocket engine works by shooting matter–burnt rocket fuel, to be specific–out the nozzle at very high velocity.

So if the rocket burns one kilogram of fuel plus oxidizer, and shoots the combustion product out the nozzle at 4000 m/s, what happens?

Let’s do this in one dimension for simplicity. The direction the rocket is pointed is positive. And we’re moving along with it, so it looks stationary to us. The rocket, including the fuel, has a momentum of zero.

The momentum of the rocket fuel after it has been burned is 1kg • -4000m/sec. (Negative because the rocket is blowing the exhaust out behind it, the nose points in the positive direction, the nozzle points in the negative direction.

If momentum is conserved, the rocket must now also have a momentumm, this time of +4000 kg•m/s. The rocket has a mass of 1000 kg, so that works out to the rocket now moving at 4 m/s in the forward direction.

So if we want another 4 m/s, burn another kilogram of fuel and oxidizer, right?

Good logic, but there’s a complication here. Because the rocket burned 1 kg of its own mass to get to this point, and now it masses 999 kg, So another kilogram of fuel, adding 2000 kg•m/s to the rocket’s momentum, will actually add slighly more than 4 m/s, precisely 4000/999 m/s, in fact.

For that matter, if you think about it, the mass of the rocket was declining while we did that first burn, so we must have gained a tiny bit more than 4 m/s even the first time around.

That’s quite true, actually, and the real formula for how much velocity a rocket gains by burning some amount of fuel is a bit more complex. But the takeaway is that even in following the other formula, the rocket and its burnt fuel are abiding by the conservation of momentum; in fact it relies on it to operate.

(If you’ve ever heard astronauts, or NASA types, talking about “delta vee”, that’s a reference to the total change in velocity given how much fuel is left, or alternatively, they’re talking about the total change in velocity for a specific maneuver, because that will be equivalent to a cost in fuel for that rocket, with its current mass.)

How about firing a gun? It’s sort of the flip side of a rocket. With a rocket the goal is to make the big thing move, and flinging the fuel out as fast as possible is a means to that end. With a gun, the goal is to make the little thing (the bullet) move, and the gun kicking in the opposite direction is the price paid.

Why does the muzzle flip up on a handgun? Shouldn’t it go straight back, instead of up? It would, except that the line of the barrel does not go through the gun’s center of mass, so there’s a bit of torque there, that causes the whole gun to rotate. If you grip it solidly enough, it kicks your arm up too. Tense up your arm and the entire weight of your body resists the torque and you don’t move much. (Torque, by the way, is another concept that beginning physics studies…)

These particular scenarios are also vivid illustrations of Newton’s third law: for every action, there is an equal but opposite reaction.

This is actually just another way of stating the conservation of momentum. And the first person to put forward the observation that momentum seemed to be conserved was John Wallis in 1671. Newton put forward his three laws in 1687.

Vector fun.

OK, here’s another application of stuff we’ve learned today. You have two identical cannonballs. You drop one. (Hopefully not on your foot.) At the same instant, the other is fired out of a cannon, perfectly horizontally. (Hopefully at a deserving target.) Oh, and you do your drop at the same height as the cannon’s muzzle.

If you’re on perfectly flat ground, which cannonball hits the ground first?

They hit at the same time.

Look at it from a vector standpoint. X is the direction the cannon fires. Y is straight up.

The dropped cannonball starts the experiment with v=[0,0]m/s. The fired cannonball, on the other hand, starts out with v=[200, 0]m/s. I just made that x number up; it doesn’t matter what it is as you’ll see in a moment. (Well, you’ll see it if if I did my job right, today.)

The force of gravity imparts an acceleration of –9.8 m/s2 in the y direction, i.e., straight down.

This acceleration can only affect the y component of the velocity vectors, since it’s purely in that direction. And in the y direction, both cannonballs are stationary and in the same place when the experiment starts.

Thus, they both have the same fall, and they will both hit at the same time. It doesn’t matter how fast one of them is moving sideways! And in fact they don’t even need to be the same weight.

I’ve seen demos of this principle done where steel ball bearings are used, in a special little gizmo that drops one the same time a spring shoots the other one out horizontally. You only hear one clack as both balls hit at the same time.

Can’t get the drift.

Last time around, I highlighted what was, in 1895, a standing mystery. Gravitation seemed to work, except they couldn’t figure out what was going on with Mercury’s orbit about the sun. A similar problem with Uranus had led to the discovery of Neptune, so it seemed as if there must be some planet closer to the sun than Mercury, lost in the Sun’s glare, perturbing its orbit. Despite the best efforts of astronomers, that planet (already pre-named Vulcan) had never been found.

This time I’m going to highlight a different little issue.

I mentioned before that velocities were additive, right? A ball thrown by a pitcher on board a moving train ends up moving, relative to the outside observer, faster or slower than the pitcher threw it, by the speed of the train, depending on the direction of the throw.

Can we do this with other things? Sound, for instance, travels at a specific speed (one which varies depending on temperature, humidity, pressure, whether His Fraudulency is on or off his meds, and a host of other factors, but still, a speed that will remain constant until one of these factors changes). Trains have a nice source of sound on them, the whistle (or today the horn). So how fast is the sound travelling in front of the train, and how fast is it travelling behind the train? Measurements from the ground show that they are travelling at the same speed, not different speeds. (They also show that in front of the train the pitch is higher, but that effect is a different rabbit hole. Some other time, perhaps. No, some other time, definitely.) What’s going on here?

It turns out that sound is a wave that travels through a medium, air. It’s going to move at a certain speed relative to the air.

The train is moving, the air is not (unless it’s Wyoming). Thus the sound wave travels the same speed in all direction from the train’s whistle (horn), as seen from someone on the ground on a breezeless day. If some bored passenger on the train were to measure the speed of sound (assuming they’d let him climb around on top of the train in the first place), he’d see the sound move slower, relative to the train, when measured from in front of the whistle, at a normal speed to the side of the whistle, and faster behind the whistle. He could even figure out how fast the train was going by taking the difference between his “in back of” reading and his “in front of” reading and dividing by two. If he were really ignorant of how trains move, he could even prove it wasn’t moving sideways, but rather forward, this way.

Looking at light, we had originally thought it was instantaneous, it was so doggone fast. But then…well, remember Jupiter’s moons from last time? We could predict their motions once we knew Newton’s law of gravitation, actually we could do so from Kepler’s laws of planetary motion, known earlier. (We didn’t even really need to know the mass or distance to Jupiter to be able to do that.) Well, there was one little anomaly. We could predict the motions all right, but the motions were about eight minutes and twenty seconds early when we were closest to Jupiter, and eight minutes and twenty seconds late when we were farthest from Jupiter.

A little thought and someone realized, that the difference was due to the speed of light not being infinite. What we see now going on around Jupiter actually happened at some time in the past, when the light left Jupiter. It then took some amount of time for the light to get here.

The eight minutes and twenty seconds, really in total a 16 minutes and 40 seconds difference, reflect the amount of time it took light to span the entire width of the earth’s orbit about the sun, because it has to cover that much additional distance when we are farther away, versus closer, to Jupiter. (This works out to about a thousand seconds, by the way, a neat coincidence.)

We didn’t know how big the earth’s orbit was, and wouldn’t until the 1760s. Before that we just knew however big it was, light took a thousand seconds to cross it, you could even call it a distance of one thousand light seconds. But once we discovered that the earth’s orbital diameter is roughly 300,000,000 kilometers, we now knew light moved at about 300,000 kilometers per second (186,000 miles per second). This was another product of all that work measuring the solar system that I totally forgot about when writing that article (which is OK, because it fits better here anyway).

Light was, and is, believed to be a wave. So, presumably it goes through a medium, just like sound does. But it must be an otherwise intangible medium, or planet earth would be suffering drag plowing through it. Only light could “feel” that medium. We knew it had to be there, and so we gave it a name: It was the ether.

We might not be able to feel the ether, but we sure as heck ought to be able to measure the Earth’s velocity through it, the same way as the man on the train: by measuring the speed of light in different directions here on Earth.

Measuring the speed of light in a laboratory was difficult to do accurately in the mid 1800s, but we could be much more precise by comparing two different beams of light in two different directions, and seeing what the difference in their speed is.

Michelson and Morley tried this in 1887. They found no difference in the speed of light no matter which way they measured.

Well, it’s possible that at that point in our orbit, we just happened to be stationary with respect to the ether. But that couldn’t be true a couple of months later, because the earth would at the very least be orbiting in a different direction, so they kept trying.

Others have tried too, with much better equipment.

No difference. Ever. No one has ever “got the drift.”

What’s going on here? Well, that, like Vulcan, was a mystery as 1895 dawned.

Obligatory PSAs and Reminders

China is Lower than Whale Shit

Remember Hong Kong!!!

Whoever ends up in the cell next to his, tell him I said “Hi.”

中国是个混蛋 !!!
Zhōngguò shì gè hùndàn !!!
China is asshoe !!!

China is in the White House

Since Wednesday, January 20 at Noon EST, the bought-and-paid for His Fraudulency Joseph Biden has been in the White House. It’s as good as having China in the Oval Office.

Joe Biden is Asshoe

China is in the White House, because Joe Biden is in the White House, and Joe Biden is identically equal to China. China is Asshoe. Therefore, Joe Biden is Asshoe.

But of course the much more important thing to realize:

Joe Biden Didn’t Win

乔*拜登没赢 !!!
Qiáo Bài dēng méi yíng !!!
Joe Biden didn’t win !!!

Dear KAG: 2021-05-07

Another Friday, and time to gather at Wolf’s Pub. Welcome, and sit back for the smackdown! I’ve had it with the liberals. Enough is enough. We are long past niceties.

Our drink special today is a dose of Liquid Liberty, aka Hard Cider. Americans were cider drinkers from before we became the United States of America. The Founding Fathers were drinkers and fermenters of hard cider. It was pretty much the drink of choice for a long while, until ale and beer slowly supplanted hard cider, and it fell on hard times. The Revolution, birthed partly in the many taverns of the colonies, was fueled on alcohol, according to this article.

John Adams for instance, enjoyed his hard cider:

“It’s tough to say, but John Adams may have been the biggest drinker of the Sons of Liberty. He began every day with a draft of hard cider before breakfast. He drank three glasses of Madeira, a wine fortified with rum, every night before bed. During the bad old days under British taxation, Adams wrote to his wife, “I am getting nothing that I can drink, and I believe I shall be sick from this cause alone.” He died at 90. Of old age.”

A bar tab at the time of the Constitutional Convention included eight bottles of hard cider, among an astonishing amount of other alcohol:

“It is impossible for Americans to accept the extent to which the Colonial period—including our most sacred political events—was suffused with alcohol. Protestant churches had wine with communion, the standard beverage at meals was beer or cider, and alcohol was served even at political gatherings. Booze was served at meetings of the Virginian and other state legislatures and, most of all, at the Constitutional Convention.

Indeed, we still have available the bar tab from a 1787 farewell party in Philadelphia for George Washington just days before the framers signed off on the Constitution. According to the bill preserved from the evening, the 55 attendees drank 54 bottles of Madeira, 60 bottles of claret, eight of whiskey, 22 of porter, eight of hard cider, 12 of beer, and seven bowls of alcoholic punch.”

Speaking of George Washington, from an article about the history of hard cider in America:

“George Washington won his election into the House of Burgesses in 1758 after serving up 144 gallons of hard cider and other beverages to voters.”

Keep on reading that article for some fun information about the “hard cider candidate” for president in the 1800s. He won. Ahem.

I had no idea that hard cider was served at the Battle of Concord. Yep.

Here’s a quirky and fun video on how to make hard cider:

Here’s a lovely article on drinking hard cider for Passover (it’s gluten free), with some info on the Founding Fathers. Gives some nice suggestions for cider choices today.

And check out Cider Scene for a history lesson on the Way Back history of hard cider.

Today, hard cider has made a big comeback. Funny how things come round at just the right time. Angry Orchard is probably one of the best known hard ciders today, but then it’s owned by the Boston Beer Company, which also owns Sam Adams. Here’s a page of ciders for your perusal.

There are many local breweries that also make hard cider. You should check out your own area. You might find a delicious cider made locally.

Head over to the bar for a nice selection of hard ciders. Then we can get down to brass tacks.

HOUSE RULES

We’re supposed to be civil…with each other. Wolf’s rules are simple and finite:

If the American Revolutionaries can keep it together drinking hard cider during a battle then we can, too.

The Utree is for the knockdown stuff and to reconvene in case of emergency. On to the business.

An Open Letter to Liberals

Dear Liberal Friends (or not),

This letter has been rolling around in my head for awhile now, and I guess it’s time to let you know how I really feel about your politics. I’ve been quiet around you. I don’t share much because I know how it will cause division, and you’ve already caused enough division in our country. But I guess we are well past that now. I have seen how you treat others who are more open with their support of the Trumpian America First agenda.

You’re downright mean, nasty, uncivil, immoral and bullying. You are Anti-American. You are Un-American.

I want to address the hollowed out bubble you have lived in for many years. Some of you went to Ivy League schools. You got great jobs, met all the right people and settled in the typical enclaves of the elites. You live, work, shop, and educate your kids in these places where the people of color you see are often as educated and wealthy as you are. Have you noticed there’s no shortage of minorities in all sectors of our institutions? Surely, you see that. I mean, it’s right in front of your faces.

The hospitals in your area have lots of minority nurses and doctors. And yes, some of the more mundane jobs are done by minorities, like the landscapers, grocery clerks, and pool cleaners, and those who wipe the bottoms of the old people in nursing homes.

But somehow, you don’t see that plenty of white people are doing those mundane jobs, too. To you they are invisible. Just the color of their skin makes them not worthy of your paternal attention because…white privilege.

You’ve been convinced to feel guilty about your wealth and societal privileges. To feel better about it, you denigrate the great masses of working- and middle-class white people, who you call rednecks, racists, bigots, homophobic, ignorant and downright stupid.

You believe the traditional American values of patriotism, adherence to the Constitution, religious values and egalitarian tendencies are passé. You are a firm believer that the people in your economic and social class are the ones best suited to rule this great nation.

Pardon me, but YOUR ignorance is stunning. If only you would hear what Stephen Balch is saying:

“What’s more, because our elites’ mentality derives from Cloud-Cuckoo Land, they can’t deliver good governance, protective diplomacy, or material prosperity.”

Toward a National Liberation Movement

If only you were somehow compelled to get to know the regular working-class and middle-class individuals that fill the everyday lives of MOST Americans. I wonder if you would be surprised to know that we all get along just fine.

Our communities have been integrated for decades. We have intermarried and raised kids together. Few think a thing about it. We appreciate each other’s diverse cultures. We work together, worship together and hob nob with each other.

Yes, there are Spanish-language masses on Sundays (that liberal dioceses have added), and there are Baptist churches that cater almost exclusively to blacks, but that is a choice we are all free to make. Are there still racist people? You bet. And they are as likely to be people of color as whites.

Your group of people has been very busy bringing back racial division. It’s you and your fellow Democrat/Socialists who are the racists and always have been. How terrible, and what an indictment of your political ideology. You have made everything about race, just when America was on the verge of making nothing about race.

The strategies of the politicians you favor have divided our national house like no other. You sit back in your wealthy enclave, protected from the outcome of these racist and divisive policies. Do you really think that you are improving the lot of anyone?

The liberal policies of the Great Society created an underclass of minorities (with TRILLIONS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS), the descendants of which populate sections of our largest cities. Fatherless, directionless, these lost populations have turned to drugs and gangs and trafficking. It is this group of people who have most been harmed by liberals such as yourselves.

And your planners have been whipping up anger and despair in order to effect a revolution against the people who have done more to make America a prosperous and free nation—the plumbers and soldiers, and teachers and machinists, the waitresses and small business owners, the office workers and homemakers (people of all stripes). In short, the people who support an America First agenda, the Deplorables. A name with which your High Priestess, Hillary Clinton, baptized us.

THE BIG LIE

In order to consolidate your power as elite rulers, New World Order citizens, you have given up even the pretense of a traditional morality. You know Joe Biden didn’t win. But the ends justifies the means to those destined to rule, eh?

Well, let me tell you something. You have lost any claim to a moral authority, let alone the authority to rule over us. And we aren’t going to give up our right to have an equal share in the governance of this great nation. You are not our betters. In fact, your nihilistic death-cult politics has put you far beneath the Average Joe.

You are the ones who are touting post-birth abortions, the mutilation of gender-confused kids, the eugenic fantasies of the academics amongst you. You are the ones who give the masses depraved entertainment that glorifies violence and hedonistic sex, and then point fingers at the mess society has become.

You have the money to mitigate the problems your politics and policies cause on a personal level (your kids are a mess, by the way.) The rest of us are left having to deal with the carnage on the ground with little resources to fix things.

For all your education and connections, you don’t know much at all. I consider you the useful tools in this revolution to overturn our Constitution and usher in a tyrannical world government. History tells us the useful tools always get consumed in the end.

However, the Deplorables will win and you will be saved. But I know you won’t be grateful. You’ll go to your graves lamenting the loss of authority and power of your tribe. The wokeness of the ruling class is a laughable testimony to your gullibility. Mark Twain once said, “All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.”

My liberal friends, you have had hidden from you this valuable knowledge:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Your whole political identity is based on the lie that education, money, and position confer intrinsic worth. And that the higher you are in the Ivory Tower (of Babel), the more godlike you become.

I am no longer astonished at your blindness. It’s all been written about before in that Book you either willfully misinterpret or reject outright.

God have mercy on you all. You’re going to need it.

Most Sincerely,

One of 85 Million Deplorables

Dear KAG: 20210506 Daily Open Thread

So, back when I was a junior in high school, a cousin got married. After the wedding, in the dark gloom of the reception venue where those who were not gyrating on the dance floor were seated, I was talking to yet another cousin about where I wanted to go to college and what I wanted to do with my life, and he told me, “Tell your mom that you want to go to the University of California at Berkeley and major in psychology.”

Now, to be plain about the way things were at the time (and to an extent still are), my mother has not had the best experience with trained psychologists, mostly in the social setting, and so when my family piled into the van later that evening, and I said, “Hey Mom, T told me to tell you that I should go to the University of California at Berkeley and major in psychology,” I got a lecture on what a joke psychology was right after my mother laughed at her nephew trying to get a rise out of her through me.

Well….

As it happens, in the end, I ended up majoring in communications, which is not lab psychology, but applied psychology along with strategery to get humans to behave a certain way. That’s what happens when marketing takes place in the form of advertising and propaganda. The practitioners use the levers of fear, desire, and social acceptance (itself a mixture of fear and desire) to influence behavior and buying habits.

In the year of COVID, we’ve seen how applied psychology works. Even down to the whole thing being chalked up to a conspiracy theory.

Yucki, one of our participants, brought this excellent video to the group on Wednesday.

The video itself is a narration, to an extent, of passages from a book from the 1960s titled The Rape of the Mind by Joost Meerloo. Meerloo writes of how totalitarian governments use fear in incremental steps to get the people to give up freedoms in the name of the common good, and for what is perceived to be self preservation.

And so, the people who are tied to social media and their devices like a lifeline are in the tank for what is turning out to be lambs willingly going to the slaughter.

Barkerjim brings us a terrifying article from the Salk Institute about the entire mess.

An explosive new study by researchers at the prestigious Salk Institute casts doubt on the current crop of gene-based vaccines that may pose a grave risk to public health. The article, which is titled “The novel coronavirus’ spike protein plays additional key role in illness”, shows that SARS-CoV-2’s “distinctive ‘spike’ protein”..”damages cells, confirming COVID-19 as a primarily vascular disease.” While the paper focuses strictly on Covid-related issues, it unavoidably raises questions about the new vaccines that contain billions of spike proteins that could greatly increase the chances of severe illness or death. Here’s an excerpt from the article dated April 30, 2021:

“In the new study, the researchers created a “pseudovirus” that was surrounded by SARS-CoV-2 classic crown of spike proteins, but did not contain any actual virus. Exposure to this pseudovirus resulted in damage to the lungs and arteries of an animal model—proving that the spike protein alone was enough to cause disease. Tissue samples showed inflammation in endothelial cells lining the pulmonary artery walls. (Note– “Vascular endothelial cells line the entire circulatory system, from the heart to the smallest capillaries.”)

The team then replicated this process in the lab, exposing healthy endothelial cells (which line arteries) to the spike protein. They showed that the spike protein damaged the cells by binding ACE2. This binding disrupted ACE2’s molecular signaling to mitochondria (organelles that generate energy for cells), causing the mitochondria to become damaged and fragmented.

Previous studies have shown a similar effect when cells were exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but this is the first study to show that the damage occurs when cells are exposed to the spike protein on its own.” (“The novel coronavirus’ spike protein plays additional key role in illness”, Salk.edu)

The new research paper is the equivalent of a hydrogen bomb. It changes everything by confirming what vaccine critics have been theorizing for months but were unable to prove.

It seems that the response to COVID is far more destructive than the disease itself.

And that being the case, the people’s reaction to the marketing campaign in the end is going to be one HUGE buffalo jump.

By the way, the audit continues in Arizona and in Michigan. Real data has not been released even if there are reports of what has been found. The actual counts are being held close to the vest at this point.

But, really, Joe Biden didn’t win, and all this waiting for a shoe to drop (at this point we’d take a sock or a jock strap) is by definition one of those step down fear blinkering episodes as described in the video above, only, in this case, the MAGA faithful are trying not to descend into the pit of despair.

And a reminder of what we all need to avoid if we don’t want a fatty liver.

https://youtu.be/TSP0e5rXUl8

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ACTS 15:7-21

7And after there had been much debate, Peter rose and said to them, “Brethren, you know that in the early days God made choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe. 8And God who knows the heart bore witness to them, giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us; 9and he made no distinction between us and them, but cleansed their hearts by faith. 10Now therefore why do you make trial of God by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? 11But we believe that we shall be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will.” 12And all the assembly kept silence; and they listened to Barnabas and Paul as they related what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles. 13After they finished speaking, James replied, “Brethren, listen to me. 14Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. 15And with this the words of the prophets agree, as it is written, 16`After this I will return, and I will rebuild the dwelling of David, which has fallen; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will set it up, 17that the rest of men may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name, 18says the Lord, who has made these things known from of old.’ 19Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, 20but should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from unchastity and from what is strangled and from blood. 21For from early generations Moses has had in every city those who preach him, for he is read every sabbath in the synagogues.”

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Who says dogs aren’t man’s best friend?

Dear KAG: 20210505 Open Thread

Okay, so at least one of the accounts out there that regularly pushes out hope for the masses more or less told us to listen to this AGAIN, and listen carefully. This extracting humanity from the bonds that enslave us is not going to be as easy as waving a magic wand.

And just a reminder that the mainstream media is reading from the same script, even on the evening news.

https://twitter.com/222_watcher/status/1389653094712025088

And, apparently, a woman cannot be a new anchor these days without perfectly straightened hair.

Where was I? Oh, yeah.

It’s almost as if the printing press phenomenon was happening all over again…although, the MSM sorts may not make that connection since they don’t even remember that compliance is how the Third Reich was able to do the harm they did.

Someday, we’re going to look back on all of this and….

No, we’re not going to laugh. It’s entirely too tragic.

In the meantime, there are indications that the Biden people and a number of states are going to be aggressive in the effort to shoot up all Americans whether we like it or not. There’s also rumblings that the Pfizer shot may be available for 12 year olds as early as next week.

Let us all pray that something breaks between now and then.

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JOHN 15:1-8

1“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 2Every branch of mine that bears no fruit, he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3You are already made clean by the word which I have spoken to you. 4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 6If a man does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned. 7If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you. 8By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples.

As always, prayers for the fight against that which seeks to enslave us are welcome.

Please include: President Donald Trump, the Q team, our soldiers in the field, special forces, tactical units, first responders and those working behind the scenes…and any and all people with family members in the hospital, COVID or not.

Y’all, this is one of his best of late. IMO, of course.

Keeping COVID Shot Transfer Out Of Your Life

Our dear boss, Wolf, has been busy putting together scientific primers on just what it is the various shots and inoculations marketed to be preventative of severe symptoms of COVID do, but what hasn’t been addressed for those of us who chose not to be shot up with whatever is in the syringes is how we AVOID all the transfer that seems to be going on from the “vaccinated” to the unwitting victim who is not.

This post is about collecting that information and stashing it someplace convenient. A topic on the QTree Forum has also been started for storage.

The most simple way to avoid being vaccinated without consent is, of course, to stay away from those who have been shot up. In close contact, the virtue signalers will self identify, and evasive action can be taken. It seems that one has to be close enough for bodily fluid to be exchanged, so no hugs and kisses, and anything else of that sort. Also, there is a theory that toilet flush plumes are a way for transfer to occur, so it’s best to avoid public restrooms, and toss a Clorox tab in the tank at home so long as septic systems allow it.

Doing all of that is great and all, but how can we be pro-active in other ways to stop the spread and avoid being one of the unwillingly shot up.

This was posted over at Marica’s:

NebraskaFilly
May 4, 2021 at 8:30 am

There is a method to reverse it – this was posted here at some point:

EXCERPT: “My friend’s brother, who has been working for the “Alliance” and Pentagon, was in a conference call with doctors (not the vax pushing doctors of course), and he relayed this info to me.

For anyone who has gotten the quackccine, the nanoparticles can be detoxed from your body.

You need to get a tens unit, set it at 150 hz, use it for an hour a day, for 30 days, while eating clean…alot of fruit and veggies, no crap food of course, 8000 mg vitamin C daily, 10,000 IU of D, and zinc, and vitamin A.

The 150 Hz frequency will start destroying all the nano particles. The supplements help the body get rid of the debris and heal.

For Those Who Got The Jab

What is a TENS unit?

What is a Tens Unit?

TENS stands for (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation). which are predominately used for nerve related pain conditions (acute and chronic conditions). TENS machines works by sending stimulating pulses across the surface of the skin and along the nerve strands.

The stimulating pulses help prevent pain signals from reaching the brain. Tens devices also help stimulate your body to produce higher levels of its own natural painkillers, called “Endorphins”.
We also encourage you to read about How a Tens Unit Works.

Basically, it’s a device to send electronic pulses across the nerves for pain relief, but in this case will also help strip the nanoparticles out of the body with the help of clean eating, and vitamins.

So, what is clean eating?

Clean eating is in essence a diet — just a way of eating. But it is also a way of living that lends itself to improving one’s health and well-being.

Clean eating involves a few key principles that align with basic principles of healthy eating:

Eat more real foods. Sound familiar? One of the tenets of the Mayo Clinic Diet is eating more real foods and fewer processed or refined foods. Convenience food is OK, sometimes even necessary, just make sure that what’s in that can or package is the real thing with few other ingredients.

Eat for nourishment. Eat regular, balanced meals and healthy snacks that are nourishing and not too rushed. Eat at home more often and prepare food in healthy ways. Pack food to eat away from home when on the road, at work or at activities. When you do eat out, choose wisely.

There are many resources online to help with clean eating if one needs more information.

If the participants here come across any pertinent information, please share it as we are all in the same boat.

Boondocksaint posted this over at Marica’s. It was put forth by General Flynn.

https://bestnewshere.com/the-covid-vaxxed-must-be-quarantined-expert-consensus/

FTA:

Experts believe that transmission from the vaxxed to the unvaxxed is airborne. Doctors are seeing sterilization, miscarriages and other strange bleeding and clotting in women, men and children exposed to the Covid vaxxed. Transmission is occurring without direct physical contact, therefore the expert consensus now is that the vaxxed should be quarantined immediately. They should at least be wearing a yellow badge out in public so the unvaxxed can identify them and steer clear.

Another important point made by the medical panel is that the vaxxed are not “shedding” as we earlier thought. Shedding is a common phenomenon which usually happens after vaccination but these are not vaccines. Covid shots are a form of gene therapy however the “therapy” part has been inverted because the messenger RNA technology is not programmed for healing but for cell destruction. Therefore, we are dealing not with “shedding” but with bioweapons transmission, the panel makes clear.

Pfizer whistleblower Dr. Michael Yeadon has warned us about the looming extermination of the human race. He estimates those who were injected in Big Pharma’s Biotech experiment have one or maybe two years maximum, to live. He informs us that each additional Covid shot reduces the life expectancy even more. I pointed this out in a previous article after industry insider Dr. Geert Vaden Bossche issued a world public health emergency warning and called for an immediate halt to the Biotech experiment.
You have only to look at the latest Adverse Events and Deaths reported to VAERS to know that death and injury from the Covid shots are far worse than the Corona virus, which is no more deadly than the seasonal Influenza flu.

Vaccination vs Transfection

A normal vaccine injects a pathogen into your blood stream to evoke an immune response whereby your body produces antibodies to the disease. Never has a vaccine inserted anything directly into human cells before.

The Covid shots are raping the human being by a process known as biohacking. Messenger RNA (mRNA) and adenoviruses are being directly deposited into your cells for genetic reprogramming using a lipid-nanotechnology delivery system. None of these Biotechnologies have ever been tested on humans before and now they are being used worldwide without Informed Consent of the ingredients or Adverse Reactions.

Synthetic and foreign RNA is being fused to your tissue through the use of semiconducting Hydrogels and literally changing forever what it means to be human. This process of genetically modifying the human race and creating a new species of hybrid humans, is called transfection not vaccination. Big Pharma, mainstream media, government and leading health authorities are lying to us because this is not vaccination.
Worse yet is that the cells of the Covid vaxxed are being programmed to produce the synthetic spike protein of the pathogen they were injected with. So their bodies are now pathogen creators and they are transmitting the disease to others. It’s unclear whether this pathogen production ever stops. Production of this disease by your own cells, causes the immune system to produce antibodies to the spike protein. This triggers the body of the vaxxed to attack itself.

Do you understand what you have an immune system for? Your immune system is there to identify pathogens and attack them so they don’t harm you. How on God’s green Earth could injecting a pathogen into your cells and programming your cells through genetic engineering, to produce that synthetic pathogen in the form of a spike protein, be a good thing?

We are just discovering that Big Pharma only needed to inject part of the population with their bioweapons experiment in order to sterilize the rest of the population and exterminate the majority, potentially.

Unfortunately, it may well be too late. This post is just a start. Any information that pertains to cleaning the gunk out is welcome.

Dear KAG: 20210504 Open Thread

Cover image: Chapel at St. Louis Priory School, used as St. Anselm Parish, Gyo Obata, Architect. (This is a soprano’s room if there ever was one even if Priory is an all-boys school. And, from personal experience, the organ is usually out of tune.)

Guess what, people! It’s Star Wars Day! May the Fourth be with you!

Are we there yet?

https://youtu.be/KuKqcfO31is

Man, I hope so.

In the meantime, we’re stuck in a really bad movie that just cannot be made any better in an editing room.

https://twitter.com/4_04_Not_Found/status/1389306103675199489

And we’re being told to keep our eyes on Arizona.

Sort of like this, I guess.

If all goes according to Hoyle and the tea leaf readers, fireworks may be in the offing.

In the meantime, here’s some inspiration from last year’s Fourth of July when We the People of Los Angels gave the people who like to be in charge a big old bird.

Just a reminder:

Of course, this does not mean committing felonies, but standing up to the forces that want to tear this nation – and humanity apart. The very people XVII told us will be destroyed by the time this movie comes to an end are currently roaming the halls of power…supposedly. It’s a sickening sight.

And now for some mood music:

And for music nerds who get just what 5/4 is all about:

Yes, even this has been turned into a Church song.

Everything but Paul Desmond on the sax.

Your weekly reminder to take the pledge:

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”

And now for the nitty gritty of the Q Tree 5 minute, stand up, Tuesday morning meeting version of the Daily Thread.

Ahem.

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JOHN 14:27-31

27Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. 28You heard me say to you, `I go away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I go to the Father; for the Father is greater than I. 29And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place, you may believe. 30I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me; 31but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go hence.

As always, prayers for the fight against that which seeks to enslave us are welcome. Via con Dios.

No New Bioweapon Under The Sun

OK – we’re going to have some fun here – but stick with me, and you could learn A LOT.

Cue the music! Borrowed from Wheatie!

Previous posts helped put both the SPIKE PROTEIN DISEASE and the SPIKE PROTEIN VACCINE into deep perspective.

We were seeing that the SOLUTION was a significant part of the PROBLEM, and that CDC was engaged in LYING, BLAME-SHIFTING, and HIDDEN AGENDAS.

And now the SCIENCE is coming out, and we were RIGHT.

We’re WINNING.

Another post discussed how – for whatever reasons are quietly embedded upon the length of the full spike protein and fragments thereof, chimeric or not – we are also now cursed with what appears to be, to some [currently socially tolerable] extent, an abortion virus and abortion vaccines.

Trust me – THAT is a trumpet that BRINGS DOWN WALLS.

We may even have a scientifically sound explanation for the craziest reports of vaccine side effects in the close but unvaccinated – namely, hormonal activities that are operating at the low microgram level.

Oxytocin – abortion dose = 10-30 IU = 16-50 mcg

Let me explain how that works. Think “DUST”.

I can tell you all about the potency of carfentanil. ONE BREATH of inhaled dust containing a tiny amount of it knocked me out like a roundhouse to the left jaw. If that ENTIRE DUST had been carfentanil, I would have been DEAD. But there was a fraction – a tiny fraction – of that tiny grain you see right there, that got into my lungs, riding on OTHER DUST, and I was OUT LIKE A LIGHT.

NOW you understand the POWER of the spike protein.

Yes, there is SO MUCH that they HIDE FROM US to maintain POWER OVER US.

However, now I want to put ALL of this virology technology into DEEP PERSPECTIVE.

“Black goo” biological agent in the movie Prometheus, part of the “Alien” franchise.

What I am going to tell you is almost certain to shock you – both about the disease and about the vaccine. It shocked me. That’s why I figured I had to explain this to people.

And what’s even WEIRDER – this is not totally about the disease or the vaccines, but also about their CONTEXT, which forces you to SEE them both differently and more CLEARLY.

A while back, I was just browsing the “edutainment” about viruses on the internet, when I was led down an interesting rabbit hole of viruses in entomology. You know – INSECTS. I read something on Wikipedia which bothered me, so I set it aside. It all seemed FAR too familiar. It surely impacted all this crap we’re going through now – I just wasn’t sure how. Later I came back and read it again.

Now, I understand. It’s actually rather beautiful. But – well – it’s interesting.

The greatest point being – THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN.

The great irony of the idea “nothing new under the sun” is the self-referential part – the idea that EVEN this little bit of wisdom is with certainty not even attributable to its first alleged “author”, who HIMSELF surely understood the great irony of his saying it, and that others might attribute it to him, someday.

Nothing new under the sun. This bit of Solomonian passed-on wisdom about the curation rather than creation of wisdom is far truer than I realized. Let’s EXPAND just a bit.

The idea that this universe is as old as it appears to be, and that in all that time, Einstein was the first person (using the term rather broadly) to discover the logic of how speed actually works, strikes me as a violation of Solomon’s logic about “first discovery” being rare as hen’s teeth.

Likewise, Solomon’s logic goes further and tells me that “hen’s teeth” undoubtedly happened a lot more often than, when in its earthly rarity, it happened “here and almost now”, but seemingly only roughly once.

Rarity being somewhat relative, with distance providing a deceptive but effective cover for number and frequency, all of them together being a control of wisdom over knowledge.

Yet even these seeming corollaries of the idea of “nothing new under the sun” are just repeats of the idea with some frill on the edges enlightened for our benefit.

“…it is curiosity that gives meaning and savour to life.”

LIFE. Seems to be part of the design. No?

Have I BOTHERED you yet?

Maybe even a bit of trepidation – or even FEAR?

Good. THAT has happened before. “Nothing new under the sun.”

You can never go wrong with Solomon.

The Last Time Gene Therapy Was Reinvented

I keep trying to tell people – DNA is very smart. We are slowly learning how to talk to it. Sometimes we actually listen. Sometimes we even plagiarize.

DNA bargains and wheedles its way into the future, changing in whatever ways it has to, to keep itself alive. It gains as much vision of the future and the past that it can, using proteins, to persist as well as it can.

Think of it this way. DNA fights and feuds with DNA, but who wins in the end?

DNA.

NOTHING that these foolish young humans are trying to do with their coronaviruses, their “vaccines”, and their “gene therapy” is new to DNA. DNA came up with ALL of this stuff – AGAIN – at least 100 million years ago. THAT was its destiny. Ironically repeating like its own form.

I am absolutely serious. The technology of EVERY one of our wonderful new coronavirus vaccines (or “injections” or “gene therapies”, if you prefer) was RE-invented by DNA approximately 70-100 million years ago on this planet, and is still around.

ONE example of a prior reinvention of gene therapy resides in a tiny biological war-game where THREE organisms cut a deal that keeps them all alive. I will point out all of the “original versions” to you, and you will see where human science basically plagiarized.

One of the three organisms is an insect – a kind of wasp – that gravitated into using a living host for reliable reproduction. The second is a voracious plant-predatory host insect – a caterpillar – that needs a dependent predator to keep its numbers in steady balance, because it won’t do it itself. The third is a virus that found a way to survive by helping insure that the host-guest “life transfer” process always succeeded, so that it, too, would survive.

DNA uses ALL OF THEM to optimally persist.

The key to understanding all of this, is a kind of virus called a “polydnavirus”. I personally like to pronounce that “Poe-LID-na-virus”, even though that is wrong. They’re actually supposed to be called “Polly-D-N-A-virus”. My advice is pick whatever you like – you’re probably never going to have to say the word publicly – and on the internet, your canine pronunciation is always perfect.

Or just call them PDVs.

Wikipedia’s entry for them is an excellent place to start.

LINK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydnavirus

ARCHIVE: https://archive.fo/YHP7V

The bottom line is very simple. The wasp lays its eggs INSIDE a caterpillar by injection. However, instead of injecting a mere venom along with the egg – a kind of chemical weapon – the wasp injects a venom containing a VIRUS – a biological weapon. The virus provides biological effects like immune suppression that HELP the wasp egg survive, hatch, and grow. This is much more efficient than merely injecting, say, immunosuppressive proteins in the venom. The immune suppression by the virus prevents immune response by caterpillar cells known as hemocytes.

All of that is shown in the following graphic.

Here is one of the first really fascinating aspects of these polydnaviruses. When they are in the wasp, they are actually PART of the wasp genome. That’s right. They’re IN THE WASP’S CHROMOSOMES. The virus is now PART of the wasp’s genetics. One could even view it as the wasp sending PART OF ITS OWN GENES into the host, to make sure that the egg survives.

When the virus is still inside the wasp, it only comes out of the genes and reproduces in one place, in FEMALE wasps, near where the eggs are formed. It doesn’t harm the wasp, because DNA is NOT stupid. Viral DNA learned – the hard way – don’t shoot the pilot. Just stay in your seat until it’s time to debark. Wasp DNA learned – the hard way – let the jihadists sleep until we get to the airport we want them to shoot up. All of it mediated through the most annoying code in the world, with zero comments and nearly inscrutable, almost accidental language.

You remember those “well, it works” phone calls, coders. “I don’t know. Try this.”

Now – the next point is even cooler – because it’s the exact same strategy as the coronavirus vaccines that use viral vectors (e.g., Johnson+Johnson, Oxford/AstraZeneca, Sputnik V).

The infection does not lead to replication of new viruses, rather it affects the caterpillar’s immune system, as the virion carries virulence genes instead of viral replication genes.[4] They can be considered a type of viral vectors.[5]

Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydnavirus#Biology

The virus particles that are sent into the caterpillar are NOT reproductive – they are merely infective. They don’t code for creation of new virus, which might reproduce exponentially and kill the host or use up too many resources. Instead, the infective non-reproductive virus particles – just like the coronavirus vaccines – give a nice, predictable amount of expression of new proteins, useful for the wasp eggs and larvae to prosper. The virus basically CONSERVES caterpillar so that it has a ticket and a ride OUT of the dead caterpillar when it’s all over.

That’s the EXACT same strategy as our mRNA and DNA vaccines. Don’t crank out too much spike protein, by cranking out any new virus, and thereby kill the host. The main point is SAVING the host. The point may also be STERILIZING the host, to some extent, because THAT protein effect is beneficial to the injecting parasites known as the Democrat Party, globalist banks, and China. And probably more than one type of pencilneck. But they do want us to live – at least for some time, it would appear.

But seriously – the wasp polydnavirus immunosuppression strategy IS the human adenovirus vaccination strategy.

The only difference is what the proteins that are created DO. In the caterpillar, they suppress the immune system response to the egg or larva. In humans, the one protein stimulates antibodies to itself, and possibly does other things which are intended or not.

So you may be wondering how the virus gets from parent wasp to child wasp if the virus that is sent into the caterpillar host is not reproductive. AHA. It is because the virus is tucked into the GENOME of the baby wasp, safe and sound, for a ride into the future. The virus genome is essentially protected by the wasp.

LINK: https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jgv/10.1099/0022-1317-77-11-2873

Thus, you can see how genetic incorporation of the VIRUS benefits BOTH the wasp and the virus – and even – in a weird way – the caterpillar. The wasp gets to control the genetics and expression of the virus, so that they don’t cause the wasp too much trouble, but instead yield maximum benefit. The virus can then be more effective at its now exclusively delegated task of immune suppression in the caterpillar, by relinquishing reproduction to the wasp. Division of labor creates a great mutual dependency, but it also creates a strong contract.

One could say that genetic incorporation is a STRONGER CONTRACT between the virus and the wasp.

Just like genetic incorporation of COVID-19 spike protein could be a STRONGER CONTRACT of reduced human fertility.

But how does the caterpillar benefit?

The caterpillar is not going to live on as THAT particular caterpillar, but THAT particular baby caterpillar-culling wasp will live on in an assured 1:1 trade-off, and the REST of the caterpillars which benefit by the current culling will also live on as a stable population. The C-W-V balance is maintained BETTER by seeking a more stable chaotic resonance, without the wild swings of boom and bust, if wasp reproduction and population can be more closely tied to the caterpillar population, and they all live into the future without wild swings in numbers.

Another way to view it from the caterpillar perspective, is that viral efficiency minimizes the number of sacrificial caterpillars needed to keep the necessary number of wasps alive.

Now – we’ve seen viral vector vaccines analogous to the non-reproductive but infective polydnavirus virus particles – those would be the Johnson-+Johnson, AstraZeneca, and Sputnik V vaccines, which use adenoviral vectors for non-reproducing, protein-creating, virus DNA. But what about the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines?

Well, it turns out that these {{{wasps + viruses}}} invented ANOTHER way to get DNA or RNA into the caterpillar host – those are called VLP, for “virus-like particles”. There is a lot of range and variability here, just as there is in non-viral-vector vaccine technology. So in the same way that the Pfizer, Moderna and Inovio vaccines use proprietary “virus-like lipid droplet nanotechnology” to get their mRNA or DNA into human cells and thus cranking out spike protein, wasp/virus DNA can also use a strategy of “virus-like particles” that don’t even mimic non-working viruses, and STILL get their effective DNA transferred to the caterpillar, to effect the desired expression of needed wasp/virus proteins in the caterpillar.

Now – that is not to say that PDV (polydnaviruses) and VLP (virus-like particles) are the only tricks up the ovipositors of these parasitic wasps. It turns out that – in addition to these well-described DNA viruses, there are also apparently RNA viruses which ride along with wasp eggs during injection. So YES – both DNA and RNA “vaccines” are part of the wasp injections. And YES – there can be genetic incorporation in the caterpillar cells – for their short lifespan – just as there is already genetic incorporation, long-term, in the wasps.

Remember – who wins? DNA WINS. The HOUSE always wins.

But don’t forget Novavax! It may just be protein, but protein shills for DNA!

Not only are the Novavax “pseudo-viral protein-based nanoparticles” already examples of virus-like particles – they are matched by protein-based components of the wasp venom, both free-floating or otherwise. Indeed, one cannot read about the virus-like spiked particles in this wasp venom and not think that Novavax design is pretty much the same thing.

NOW – this is all a LOT to unpack. Not just that, but my “dumbing it down” probably made it just plain dumber. To correct that, I’m going to let the experts FIX THINGS UP.

The field of polydnaviruses in insects is NOT a huge field. It’s actually rather obscure, despite the phenomenal importance we are witnessing now. Just as the media can help those in power hype and control a field like climate science, or literally HIDE certain other fields like [[[ COUGH ]]], they can obscure still other fields which radically affect you, by hiding them pretty much in plain sight.

There is a BOOK that reviews the field, however, which is EXTREMELY helpful.

You can download parts of this book, and that includes TWO parts which are more than enough for a reasonably smart normal person to see the CONTEXT EXPLAINED.

Let me get ONE of those parts out of the way because you’re not going to be interested in this, unless you’re ready to get VERY nerdy on the history of science. But I am including it because it is AMAZING STUFF. You might view this as “The history of the science of the rediscovery of all the evolutionarily discovered technology used in the “vaccines” or “shots” or “gene therapy” of the coronavirus genetic injections”. It’s a beautiful window into HOW SCIENCE WORKS.

Foreword – The Discovery of Polydnaviruses and the Influence of Dr. George Salt

You can download a PDF of this at the linked page.

Now – if you read that – you will get a LOT, including a window into the slow and painful nature of research, but it’s a bit difficult to extract the good stuff if you’re not used to reading scientific review literature.

In contrast, the PREFACE of the book is MUCH easier to read, and it puts ALL this stuff in context that normal humans who are not experts in polydnaviruses can understand.

Preface – Parasitoid Viruses – Symbionts and Pathogens

I highly encourage you to read the full preface at the linked page. But what I’m going to do here is simply pull out all kinds of juicy quotes – which is damn near the whole thing. [ My comments ] and identified WOW sequences will be in bold.

Here we go – this is all quoting:

Among parasitoid viruses, the fascinating models of polydnaviruses (PDVs) were discovered in the 1970s and the new field of polydnavirology was thus opened.

This field has been moving very fast since the beginning of the century thanks to the use of genomic approaches and rapid expansion of accessible databases on insect and viral gene sequences.

Parasitoid and viral genomic studies have confirmed that PDVs are functionally gene transfer agents used by parasitoid wasps to manipulate the physiology of their parasitized lepidopteran hosts by introducing modified versions of their own genes into host cells.

In the case of PDVs from braconid wasps, this kind of gene therapy (detrimental for the patient, which is in this case the lepidopteran host!) originated from the integration of a virus genome in a wasp genome ca. 100 million years ago. [LOL – I just noticed this “being impressed by the date” part – looks like we BOTH realized this independently. -Wolf]

This virus has been modified to incorporate wasp genes instead of its own viral genome in the nucleocapsids inside the viral particles. [Minor beef here – ownership and original genetic penmanship on the payload could be more “virus” and less “wasp” – interesting problem.]

Such use of viruses as vectors has been selected several times independently during the evolution of parasitoid wasps. [There it is. VIRAL VECTORS. Invented by DNA.]

The PDVs associated with braconid and ichneumonid wasps (Campopleginae subfamily) are unrelated as judged from the machinery producing the particles, and they represent an example of convergent evolution with different viral origins.

A third association event is suspected to have occurred in the Banchinae subfamily of ichneumonid wasps. In essence, the parasitoids have ‘captured’ viral elements that have evolved a host regulatory role that benefits the parasitoid to facilitate successful parasitism. [This is more “archaeopteryx” on the payload being of viral origin.]

Other associations with viruses or virus-like particles might have evolved with different organisms but they have not been unraveled yet, and parasitic amoebae that have associations with mammalian viruses are just one example. [“Lots of room at the bottom.”]

Many insects have evolved associations with a large number of species of bacteria such as Wolbachia and associations with viruses have been less well studied to date compared to bacterial symbionts.

A number of different viruses are found in the genital tract of the parasitoid wasps and conceivably they could be transferred to female wasps by behavioral traits, such as host feeding, initiated following ovipositor puncture of the surface of the integument.

Host feeding may thus be an advantageous behavior for viruses which facilitates their spread within insect populations and this intimate association with viruses might have favored interactions leading in some cases to integration of viral sequences into the wasp genome, although most of the wasps described in this book are no longer host feeders.

These viruses include RNA viruses of insect parasitoids and most of them appear nonpathogenic. Could these likewise have evolved a symbiotic relationship with their host? Future research may reveal such an intimate relationship with the wasp host carrying them but, currently, we have little information about their functional role as symbionts or pathogens in the virus–wasp–insect host relationship. [This was in 2012 – the situation could be different now.]

While the study of polydnaviruses was initially inspired by the pioneering studies of George Salt and Susan Rotheram at Cambridge University, more recent studies of Venturia (formerly Nemeritis) canescens particles (the virus-like agent studied by George Salt) by Otto Schmidt and Sassan Asgari documented that these virus-like virions lack both DNA and RNA; the particles are comprised of proteins encoded by parasitoid genes. [This is basically virus-like particle nanotechnology akin to the Novavax vaccine.]

The multiplicity of different molecular forms seen in these viruses and virus-like particles is truly amazing but, compared to polydnaviruses, we have less information about the biology of virus-like particles and how they function. [There is clearly an infinitude of possibility here – clearly WHY the push for gene therapy.]

Finally, not all parasitoid species are associated with viruses and most in this category have to rely on virulence factors produced by their ovaries and venom glands instead of using the host to produce them like for PDV-encoded gene products. [Translation – most of the wasps use plain old venom.]

PDV-associated species also produce venom that was shown in some cases to synergize the effect of the virus. [Combination biological and chemical weaponry.]

New sequencing approaches are more comprehensive and will thus allow comparisons of the arsenal of proteins used in different species, which will enhance our understanding of the dynamics of evolution of parasitoid virulence strategies. [Big data will allow spying on the past to happen even faster.]

Ectoparasitic wasps have not been examined yet for the presence of viral symbionts, and appear to have exploited venoms as a source of host regulatory molecules instead. Comparative studies on paralyzing versus nonparalytic venoms are lacking, and screening ectoparasitic species for viral elements should also be a future research priority. [Translation: there’s more to learn from regular stinging / paralyzing wasps.]

In addition to enhancing our knowledge of parasitoid strategies and increasing our understanding of the importance of symbiotic relationships in species evolution, parasitoid viruses and venoms may constitute a source of new molecules to control insect pests. This might be a revolutionary outcome of research on PDVs and other parasitoid viruses, since the safety of many chemical pesticides with respect to their detrimental impacts on human health and key species in the environment such as bees and other beneficial insects, is questioned. [You think proteins are going to be safer? HA! Get ready for new problems.] We anticipate that harvesting biopesticidal molecules from parasitoid venoms will likewise prove fruitful. [Translation: All this human wasp techno coronavirus lying crap is headed to agriculture, and presumably already there. Yeah.]

Finally, we hope that this book will satisfy the reader by presenting an overview of the most recent findings on all these topics presented by an international assemblage of authors. [You can say that again!]

In addition, we aim to inspire many future researchers to choose polydnavirology or studies of other parasitoid viruses or viral-like elements and venoms as their focus field. [You’ve inspired me, even though it’s a bit late for me to enroll in one more Marxist university.]

That’s it.

I tell you – this whole thing was a revelation. Suddenly, everything these people in Big Pharma have been doing has been HUMBLED BY GOD, using BUGS. LOL! Pretty amazing.

And being humbled, all of us, the TRUTH now becomes clear.

Now – if all this seems a bit scary, but you’re thinking “Hey, this isn’t exactly like our case, in which Democrats mind-fracked their victims with an RNA virus” – well, HOLD YOUR BEERS. With God – IRONICALLY – all things are possible.

Yes, this, too – baffling the victim with an RNA virus – was borrowed from nature, although I am being just a wee bit facetious, since it was done much more intelligently and much more socially against a more intelligent and social species.

The Case of the Shanghaied Babysitter

Yeah, I’ll try to keep this one shorter, but I don’t really have to go back TOO MUCH to the original literature here.

Here is where I FOUND this case originally. An article that was COPIED onto a forum.

Parasitic wasp uses virus to control its host

LINK: https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/parasitic-wasp-uses-virus-to-control-its-host.332664/

The links back to this forum article are ALL bad, but I was able to google for correct ones. Here is the article in Discover Magazine:

Biological Warfare: Parasitic Wasp Uses A Virus To Control Its Host

Science Sushi By Christie Wilcox Feb 11, 2015 2:36 AM

LINK: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/biological-warfare-parasitic-wasp-uses-a-virus-to-control-its-host

THAT article goes back to THIS scientific literature:

LINK: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2014.2773

This is actually a very long and complete scientific article. Let me give you the “TL;DR” version.

When the wasp lays an egg in the ladybug, it also injects an RNA virus. That virus makes the ladybug go “mask Karen” crazy, and stick around and GUARD the pupated larval wasp after it emerges from the ladybug and cocoons. The ladybug may then even kick the virus and go on living after the young wasp departs.

Yeah, let me HIGH FIVE that long-hauler ladybug.

Just sayin’.

Democrats.

SPIT.

SO – where are we now?

Is Phony Gene Therapy About Population Control?

We have now looked at the COVER PRESENT (coronavirus and vaccines), the EFFECTIVE PRESENT (spike protein virus and vaccines), the LIKELY DEEPER MOTIVATING PRESENT (contraceptive / abortive virus and “vaccines” that look pretty much like public “health” gene therapy), and the PURPOSED ORIGINAL HONEST PAST (infection and/or genetic modification of the injected to produce desired effects using RNA viruses and/or specialized viral vectors) – the latter insect past being a lot like what is happening now.

Are you ready for the FUTURE?

Well, there’s a lot of range on that. Maybe it’s THIS…..

Now I know a lot of y’all are, like me, saying “Yeah, that will be a cold day in hell!” But let’s consider it anyway. It helps to understand things.

WHY would Hillary say this, about Trump’s possible winning in 2016?

What crime could POSSIBLY send hundreds of historic conspirators to some horrible fate like what happened to the NAZIS? They would have had to have done something even more horrible – right?

Well, viewed in “holocaust” (small “h”) terms, an “abortion virus” followed by “abortion vaccines” might count.

It’s a pretty ingenious idea. If you honestly believe that overpopulation threatens the planet, and that stopping it “by any means necessary” is justified, then the idea of:

  • taking a modifiable cold virus but…..
  • don’t call it that, so people will be AFRAID
  • warm up the FEAR CROWD with SARS, Ebola, Zika, etc.
  • use a cold with its own moderate antiprogestogenic or oxytocin hormonal activity, or some other way of exerting a contraceptive or abortive activity
  • optionally increase that activity
  • release the virus
  • create vaccines with the same effect
  • require ongoing vaccines to titrate the effect on society

To me, this is very much like the wasp strategy, only instead of hijacking the juvenile butterfly with immunosuppressive negative gene therapy in a PRO-FERTILITY strategy for its own offspring, what the Democrats are doing is an ANTI-FERTILITY strategy using progestosuppressive negative gene therapy on basically all humans who are not in on the scam. And they also used an RNA virus to mess with our minds, though THAT was a bit artful, shall we say.

Now, I think the success or failure of their operation is going to depend on the ultimate level of contraception that is achieved here. The effect on society will depend on whether the Dems, globalists, and Chinese are trying to pull off a very steep and fast population drop that would generate a social immune reaction, or a long, slow, incremental one that would not. We probably won’t know this for several years.

But just consider this “back of the envelope” calculation.

Let’s say that Demmunists require 2 coronavirus boosters every year. Say that between compliance and effectiveness, ONE of those boosters is effectively pregnancy-blocking for any pregnancy currently in process. Run this over all of humanity, so that once every year, every woman is hit with a “menstruation and miscarriage vaccine” using the spike protein. With a pregnancy window of 75% of the year, that target is the broad side of a barn, as long as CDC continues to insist that it’s safe for pregnant women, or women who are trying to become pregnant. You would get massive observable menstruation and miscarriages after vaccination, and the plot would not last.

It’s not a SUSTAINABLE LIE.

BUT – as long as the effect is random, subtle, and single-digits, it can be hidden by a compliant scientific community, which is socially conditioned to reject the truth. Even bigger, control of social media, communications, and other avenues of discovering the truth, mean society can be kept completely blind to a subtle population control.

But seriously – reducing the fertility of humans by 5% is a BIG DEAL. It doesn’t mean it’s the end of it. It’s a GOOD BEGINNING – from their point of view.

You’ve got to look at this thing, like you’re trying to pull it off, to see that you really COULD pull it off.

And if we could pull it off, they will pull it off.

So – that’s where I’m at.

And if I’m right, they will NEVER FACE JUSTICE for what they’re doing.

So here is a rule about Democrats.

Democrats, China and other communists will always pick an unjust fait accompli over a just agreement.

Thus, as long as they do things where the price of tolerating their crimes is less than the cost of a civil war, they will just keep doing those things.

Something to think about.

W

Dear KMAG: 20210503 Joe Biden Didn’t Win ❀ Open Topic

Joe Biden didn’t win. This is our Real President:

This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread is VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

Yes, it’s Monday…again.

But it’s okay! We’ll get through it.

Free Speech is practiced here at the Q Tree. But please keep it civil. We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.

If you find yourself in a slap fight, we ask that you take it outside to The U Tree…which is also a good place to report any technical difficulties, if you’re unable to report them here.

Please also consider the Important Guidelines, outlined here. Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us. 

Please pray for our real President, the one who actually won the election:

For your listening enjoyment, I offer these compositions from Andrés Hernández, titled ‘Divine Assault’ and ‘Wildfire’:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

I will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.

I think there may be some physics going on here:

Wheatie’s Word of the Day:

scienter

Scienter is a noun which means…full knowledge that one’s actions and statements are illegal, deceptive and unlawful. It also can refer to the Intent to engage in especially criminal conduct. Scienter can also be used as an adverb, which means…knowingly, willfully, deliberately criminal.

Used in a sentence:

Feigning ignorance of their scienter, Democrats count on the enemedia to cover up their guilt while they falsely accuse conservatives of breaking the laws that they themselves have broken.

 

 

Spike Protein = Spike Protein ≈ Snake Protein

Using Principles of Protein Equivalence and Analogy as Predictive Tools for Coronavirus Understanding

Surely you’ve heard of the BROWN RECLUSE SPIDER.

The brown recluse is related to several other recluses, and a couple of other families of spiders, that all have a similar venom – a protein called sphingomyelinase D. This is an enzyme that degrades animal tissues, and is responsible for the very distinctive giant-pock-mark-wound-forming symptoms of recluse bites. The brown recluse does not have as much of this protein in its venom as do some other recluses. The worst recluse, distributed over several countries in South America, has roughly ten times as much sphingomyelinase D as the North American brown recluse. Bites by THAT recluse not only result in deep wounds – they result in SYSTEMIC effects much more often than do bites of the “mere” brown recluse. Fatalities are much more common.

But just stop and think – THAT is how potent protein venoms can be. The tiny bite of a spider with a tiny bit of a protein in it – mere micrograms – can leave a 10-inch hole in the leg, with life-threatening systemic effects.

Snake venoms use different proteins from spiders in their venoms. Some spiders like the black widow have neurotoxic venoms, which affect nervous function, and some snakes like cobras have DIFFERENT neurotoxic venoms.

The honey badger is, weirdly, somewhat immune to the paralyzing neurotoxic cobra venom (jump to near the end of the video).

Many snakes have hemotoxic venoms, and THOSE venoms tend to cause cardiovascular problems. Interestingly, one of those problems is a somewhat rare clotting disorder called thrombocytopenia.

Thus, when I heard that this uncommon symptom was sometimes occurring as a coronavirus vaccine adverse effect, I suspected that there might be a protein cause – the spike protein – acting similarly to proteins in those hemotoxic snake venoms.

If that were the case, we should expect the same effect to be caused by COVID-19 itself, sometimes.

AND IT IS.

Should we just jump on such an analogy? One that is based on the ASSUMPTION that the spike protein is causing thrombocytopenia? Or at least similarly involved in the two cases?

Let’s think about this.

One of the things which is most fascinating about the BRANCH COVIDIANS – including the high clergy in government and media – is just how STRONGLY they tend to discourage alternative perspectives on COVID-19 – doing so in a way which is alarming even by the normal standards of narrative-setting and enforcement.

For example, at the very beginning, social media gatekeepers were needlessly hostile to Dr. Cameron Kyle-Sidell’s “high-altitude sickness” perspective on COVID-19 hypoxia, despite the fact that this led to a very beneficial new policy on keeping patients OFF vents, probably saving millions of lives, as well as giving us all a better understanding of HOW COVID-19 is and (more importantly) is NOT damaging lungs of patients.

Millions of lives. Think about it. Not a bad save – unless you want a guy named Trump GONE by any means necessary.

Now, some of these “different” perspectives can and do lead to non-working or just plain wrong theories at a micro-level, but so can ANY perspective. Dr. Kyle-Sidell’s ideas led to a variety of hemoglobin-related and malaria-related theories of COVID-19 which were neither fundamentally true nor useful, and which theories died on their own, without any need for censorship, but which were part of a questioning movement which also led to increased recognition of the endothelial nature of the coronavirus attack on patients’ lungs and other organs.

A CHANGE in perspective which WAS and IS fruitful.

Whether we are talking about damage to capillaries in the lungs, vein occlusions in the retina, or organ damage, particularly in the heart or kidneys, it appears that the cardiovascular endothelium is where COVID-19 does the most damage.

Comorbidities which already involve damage or potential damage to blood vessels – particularly diabetes and endocrine or cardiovascular diseases – are thus particularly dangerous, as SARS-CoV-2 and (presumably) its spike protein – which is what attacks cells – would be attacking an already weak point of failure.

LINK: https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/coronavirus/nearly-40-of-those-whove-died-from-covid-19-had-diabetes-ada-says

LINK: https://www.consumerreports.org/diabetes/why-diabetes-plus-covid-19-is-so-dangerous/

Now – let’s think carefully about IMMUNITY from both DISEASE and VACCINE. BOTH of them are mediated by immunological reaction to the SPIKE PROTEIN.

What should that tell us about VACCINE RISKS?

LINK: https://www.zdnet.com/article/prominent-security-expert-dan-kaminsky-passes-away-at-42/

LINK: https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/2021/apr/16/actor-vivekhs-heart-attack-severe-not-related-to-covid-19-vaccination-hospital-2290710.html

I want to thank GrandmaInTexas for those two most recent examples of COVID vaccinations precipitating fatal outcomes in people with both diagnosed and undiagnosed comorbidities. For the record, Dan Kaminsky’s vaccine was undoubtedly either Pfizer, Moderna, or Johnson+Johnson, while Actor Vivekh’s vaccine was Covaxin. The former 3 are all genetic vaccines – the latter is inactivated whole virus. All of them use the WHOLE spike protein in some form or another to trigger immunity.

Here is a handy principle which I call “spike protein equivalence”, as a special case of “vaccine immunological equivalence”.

If some affliction, condition, or mere FACTOR happens to be BAD for a potential victim of COVID-19 itself, then it’s also going to be bad for recipients of the vaccine. The difference is only that – most likely – in MOST cases – the vaccine constitutes a far lighter assault on the patient, than the disease itself.

THAT is the basic logic of vaccination. REDUCE THE RISK. But nonetheless, ACCEPT A RISK.

Do not kid yourself. The WHOLE POINT of vaccines is to entertain a lesser risk – a risk that is not as bad as the disease. The only question is “how less bad” does any particular vaccine happen to be. Based upon that information, one has INFORMED CONSENT.

People need to understand risks clearly in order to take those risks smartly.

Or NOT take them. Where the lyric “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice” operates against the circling helicopters of COVID-19 and any successor viruses.

When we do not honestly face the risks and benefits of vaccines, we end up with the psychotic disconnect we now see, where people who SHOULD be voices of reason and trust – like the CDC – are LYING and losing half or more of the nation as trusting followers.

Rather than re-hash here how the CDC has lied to us already, or why the handy principles of “spike protein equivalence” and “snake protein analogy” work so well in understanding COVID disease and vaccine risks, let me give you links to my most recent discussions of the relevant thought.

The FIRST ONE is probably the most comprehensive, and helps to understand the rest.

Branch Covidians – Seven Ways To See Through The Phony Pharmageddon of COVID-19

PREFACE I thought that I might withhold this post on Easter Sunday, and then I changed my mind, thanks to Deplorable Patriot, Trump, Gab and Jesus. If anybody ever FOUGHT on Easter Sunday, it was Christ. It’s time to FOLLOW POINT. The Branch Covidians have taken a toll, but the WAR is turning, and – …

Wolf’s Red-Hot Date With Retrotranscriptive Faucipox

Alternate Title: Is Persistent Reverse Transcription a Hidden Virus/Vaccine Objective? Gloating Pre-Preface There are few feelings of satisfaction like opening up the NEWS and knowing one’s theories and understandings are WORKING even better than one thought. Let’s see if they use this one for damage control, and get the “new science” out before the STORY …

Johnson+Johnson Vaccine Follows Pfizer, Moderna, and AstraZeneca into Problem Territory, and Proves Once Again – Clinical Trials Have Limits

Every coronavirus vaccine so far has shown us SOME defect upon mass release, which was NOT evident in EVEN phase III clinical trials. Look HERE for a searchable PDF document of adverse effects from the Pfizer vaccine: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/977005/COVID-19_mRNA_Pfizer-_BioNTech_Vaccine_Analysis_Print.pdf Check out these videos on the low-platelet clotting problem from the Oxford/Astrazeneca vaccine. Here is a fantastic …

Are Clotting Problems a General Minor Risk of COVID Vaccines?

I saw an excellent explanation of the clotting problem with the AstraZeneca vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 here: The doctor, Dr. ZDogg, MD, offers an exceptionally clear explanation of both what is going on with the AstraZeneca vaccine, and why its distribution was halted or limited in some places for some age groups of patients. …

I am not the only person who is seeing that the SPIKE PROTEIN and variants are interesting beasts. Cthulhu tipped me off to THESE TWO GEMS by Karl Denninger, which are extraordinarily worthwhile:

No Doctor, You’re Wrong

I Hate Being Right

Even though these deal primarily with spike protein equivalence rather than the snake protein analogy, the latter of which Cthulhu mentioned in his tip (he knew I would like these), there is some even more shocking perspective in the second link, in which Denninger simply asks – why did we use the WHOLE sequence of the spike protein which we received from China?

Beyond simple blame games, in which I could postulate that “whole spike protein vaccines” may have resulted from dumb psychology, or even malicious treachery by one or more parties, I can ALSO place Denninger’s question in the context of both failing to ask “Stoecker questions” about “should we base vaccines on the WHOLE spike protein?”, AND the idea that – intentionally or unintentionally – by whoever – we essentially fell into China’s version of the plot of Species…..

OR – if we don’t want to be all negative about things, try the Earth-saving genetic sequence reconstruction sub-plot of The Fifth Element, with a few more plot devices about process-skipping on the internal growth code, also a bit of a lesson.

Is such “gain of function” good or bad? One could view horsepox-based smallpox vaccine adoption as “gain of function” – a low-level example of the intelligent acceleration of evolution as a “natural” part of evolution itself.

As an aside, IMO the reason they use women for these scenes is ultimately the same reason the spike protein seems to target women’s physiology more than men’s, and that men are actually the first utilitarian sex robots, but – well – it’s so simple, it’s complicated. Patriarchy is both overrated and overstated, shall we just say.

ANYWAY, back to snakebite. “Cleopatra meets spike protein” – only worse.

I actually saved that whole report, which is not easily linked, as a series of images:

Before I go on, let me just say that immunology strikes me as a lot like quantum mechanics. If anybody says they truly understand it, it’s almost a sign that they don’t. Nevertheless, basic suspicions work like crazy in either field, which is, again, interesting. In either field, it doesn’t take a genius to see that – 99% of the time – a snake in the grass IS a snake in the grass.

Already, the entire Snopesian Empire is fired up over this case.

LINK: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/breastfeeding-baby-covid-vaccine/

SEEK anything related, and you will FIND – both WHEAT and CHAFF.

READ, and you will FIND – both INTERESTING and HOLLOW.

No matter how many guns they get working and belt-fed, cross-firing with their diversionary strawman arguments on this one case, the fact of the matter is that TTP is intimately linked to immune disorders, immune responses, and vaccination, so if it shows up, vaccines are and will remain the likeliest suspect NO MATTER WHAT. All Fauci’s horses and all Pfizer’s men are not going to get rid of the NOTABLY MANY cases of TTP , other thrombocytopenic clotting disorders, and clotting disorders in general, which are showing up in (1) COVID cases, (2) COVID recoverees, (3) vaccination adverse events, and (4) vaccination of recoverees in particular.

The relationship of TTP to vaccines and “malappropriate antibodies” in particular is UNDERSTOOD SCIENCE. This is not going away, despite the near-dogmatic narrative that “COVID vaccines do no harm” at the public level, reinforced by the narrative that “fighting vaccine hesitancy is worth LYING about adverse effects”.

No, it’s not.

Skip the following scientific review unless you feel nerdy. I recommend just skimming in either case. But I promise – the deeper you dig here, the more WHEAT you will find.

CLINICAL PLATELET DISORDERS| MAY 25, 2017

Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

Bérangère S. Joly , Paul Coppo , Agnès Veyradier

Blood (2017) 129 (21): 2836–2846.

https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2016-10-709857

TTP as a function of age of onset and mechanism for ADAMTS13 deficiency. The proportions of adulthood-/childhood-onset TTP and acquired/inherited TTP, respectively, presented in this figure were calculated from the data of the French Registry for TTP (840 patients).10,13  These data are in agreement with miscellaneous demographic data reported in the literature by other teams.3,5-9  The diagram shows 100 patients with TTP, each patient being represented by a symbol, either a square for patients with adulthood-onset TTP (91%) or a circle for patients with childhood-onset TTP (9%). Acquired TTP is presented in blue (94.5%), and inherited TTP (USS) in red (5.5%). Interestingly, the proportion of USS is very low (2.5%) in adulthood-onset TTP, whereas it is as high as 33% in childhood-onset USS.

Abstract

Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is a rare and life-threatening thrombotic microangiopathy characterized by microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, severe thrombocytopenia, and organ ischemia linked to disseminated microvascular platelet rich-thrombi. TTP is specifically related to a severe deficiency in ADAMTS13 (a disintegrin and metalloprotease with thrombospondin type 1 repeats, member 13), the specific von Willebrand factor-cleaving protease. ADAMTS13 deficiency is most frequently acquired via ADAMTS13 autoantibodies, but rarely, it is inherited via mutations of the ADAMTS13 gene. The first acute episode of TTP usually occurs during adulthood, with a predominant anti-ADAMTS13 autoimmune etiology. In rare cases, however, TTP begins as soon as childhood, with frequent inherited forms. TTP is ∼2-fold more frequent in women, and its outcome is characterized by a relapsing tendency. Rapid recognition of TTP is crucial to initiate appropriate treatment. The first-line therapy for acute TTP is based on daily therapeutic plasma exchange supplying deficient ADAMTS13, with or without steroids. Additional immune modulators targeting ADAMTS13 autoantibodies are mainly based on steroids and the humanized anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody rituximab. In refractory or unresponsive TTP, more intensive therapies including twice-daily plasma exchange; pulses of cyclophosphamide, vincristine, or cyclosporine A; or salvage splenectomy are considered. New drugs including N-acetylcysteine, bortezomib, recombinant ADAMTS13, and caplacizumab show promise in the management of TTP. Also, long-term follow-up of patients with TTP is crucial to identify the occurrence of other autoimmune diseases, to control relapses, and to evaluate psychophysical sequelae. Further development of both patients’ registries worldwide and innovative drugs is still needed to improve TTP management.

So what does TTP look like?

See those pictures? You may want to THINK TWICE about the coronavirus vaccine if you ALREADY have this risky potential outcome of either the disease or the vaccine. I have a link showing that TTP is a high risk in COVID recoverees who get any of the vaccines – I just can’t find it now.

We ARE seeing some public recognition of adverse effects now:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/what-to-know-about-the-rare-blood-clots-linked-with-the-j-and-j-vaccine

However, as is visible in this article, we are not seeing ANY contraindications to vaccination being admitted publicly. The advice tends to be “get vaccinated, and if you don’t die, but have bad symptoms, see your doctor.

“Sure, Dr. Stalin. Sure. Say – you don’t have any recommendations to PREVENT THIS from happening again to somebody else now, do you? Those would be called ‘contraindications’. Most drugs have them.”

However, I think some recognition is coming. And why is that? Well…..

In my previous post…..

Is The Abortion Vaccine Right For You?

“When the people have any power to object to a socialist solution, a deniable 5% fait accompli is always more desirable to socialists than a negotiated 50% solution, because they can always negotiate on the remaining 95%.” -Wolf Moon When I first heard about a case of a miscarriage by a pregnant doctor, due to …

…..we discussed other disorders – affecting reproductive health, you might say – that MAY or MAY NOT be mediated through the SAME or DIFFERENT activities of the spike protein.

THAT is an interesting question, actually. How economic is spike protein activity? How MUCH strategic information is carried, and at what density? How efficient ARE proteins at carrying smaller-molecular strategies into “genetic warfare”? We may not have those answers yet – and certainly not in PUBLIC SCIENCE – for some time.

Still, I think these questions will eventually be asked and answered, because the menstrual/gestational and clotting effects of the vaccines are so startling, that people are going to ask questions and get answers, whether the “mainstream” (meaning government/corporate) media wants to ask them or not, or to see them answered.

In that regard, we will carry on, asking questions and getting answers, carrying the principle of SPIKE PROTEIN EQUIVALENCE with us, as a handy and useful physiological tool.

The idea of SNAKE PROTEIN ANALOGY will become less of a medical utility, and more of a METAPHOR.

LINK: https://stephenwardeanderson.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-temptation-of-eve.html

There is a refreshing honesty and innocence in this guy’s work. But more than that, he just has a way of catching small details that everybody else misses, and making them beautifully prominent. His portraits of famous figures are quite wonderful in this way. He will completely drop many of the features of those people that I love and see prominently as part of my personal recognition algos, and yet childishly play up awesome things I never noticed.

And with that, let’s talk about Eve.

Our next installment is going to go BACK IN TIME, and show you something very startling about WHEN all this COVID vaccine technology was actually invented.

A lot earlier than anybody wants to admit publicly. Here is a hint.

W

2021·05·01 Joe Biden Didn’t Win Thread

His Fraudulency

Joe Biteme, properly styled His Fraudulency, continues to infest the White House, we haven’t heard much from the person who should have been declared the victor, and hopium is still being dispensed even as our military appears to have joined the political establishment in knuckling under to the fraud.

One can hope that all is not as it seems.

I’d love to feast on that crow.

Physics?

Part 1 was last week. I intended to do Part 2 this week, but both of my drafts are an utter mess. I’m going to keep plugging away at it, though, so hopefully next week.

Justice Must Be Done.

The prior election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system.

Nothing else matters at this point. Talking about trying again in 2022 or 2024 is hopeless otherwise. Which is not to say one must never talk about this, but rather that one must account for this in ones planning; if fixing the fraud is not part of the plan, you have no plan.

Lawyer Appeasement Section

OK now for the fine print.

This is the WQTH Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Poltical correctness, but civility is a requirement. There are Important Guidelines,  here, with an addendum on 20191110.

We have a new board – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation.

And remember Wheatie’s Rules:

1. No food fights
2. No running with scissors.
3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns.
5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded.
5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty.
6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy.
7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire.
8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.

(Hmm a few extras seem to have crept in.)

(Paper) Spot Prices

Last week:

Gold $1778.20
Silver $26.07
Platinum $1236.00
Palladium $2914.00
Rhodium $28,000.00

This week, 3PM Mountain Time, markets have closed for the weekend.

Gold $1768.60
Silver $25.97
Platinum $1205.00
Palladium $2996.00
Rhodium $29,000.00

(Be advised that if you want to go buy some gold, you will have to pay at least $200 over these spot prices. They represent “paper” gold, not “physical” gold, a lump you can hold in your hand. Incidentally, if you do have a lump of some size, doesn’t it give you a nice warm feeling to heft it?)

Of these, palladium continues its steady climb. In fact, on Thursday it had closed at $3012, above three thousand dollars for at least the second time in the last week.

I did, long, long ago, buy some palladium, not a huge amount. (But I can drop it on my foot. I won’t hurt if I do so, because, like I said, not a huge amount.) I even told the guy I was buying it because it had gone over 900 bucks earlier (which at the time was higher than gold had ever been), maybe it would do so again. He scoffed, and explained that was due to a temporary supply interruption from Russia, unlikely to ever happen again. But now, it’s worth well over ten times what I paid for it. In fairness, I had to hold onto it for over 20 years for it to finally do what I wanted it to do, so this isn’t the short of thing that is a “short term” play.

I knew someone who, about the same time, wanted to find a way to get into rhodium, but back then there was no such thing as a rhodium one ounce bar. I don’t know if he managed to find a way to do it, but if he did, he has done very, very well, even if it took a couple of decades for it to finally move.

Obligatory PSAs and Reminders

China is Lower than Whale Shit

Remember Hong Kong!!!

Whoever ends up in the cell next to his, tell him I said “Hi.”

中国是个混蛋 !!!
Zhōngguò shì gè hùndàn !!!
China is asshoe !!!

China is in the White House

Since Wednesday, January 20 at Noon EST, the bought-and-paid for His Fraudulency Joseph Biden has been in the White House. It’s as good as having China in the Oval Office.

Joe Biden is Asshoe

China is in the White House, because Joe Biden is in the White House, and Joe Biden is identically equal to China. China is Asshoe. Therefore, Joe Biden is Asshoe.

But of course the much more important thing to realize:

Joe Biden Didn’t Win

乔*拜登没赢 !!!
Qiáo Bài dēng méi yíng !!!
Joe Biden didn’t win !!!