“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to board Marine One with first lady Melania Trump en route to his Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida following the release of the Mueller report at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 18, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Barria – RC1F20A769B0
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – 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).
Please forgive us, Wheatie, we did not know That you had left us with armor in tow We had no idea with what you dealt We did not know the pain you felt And now we can only imagine With you what really did happen Cause rarely did you complain And/or share your personal pain Of one thing we are most certain You are flying high behind the curtain Watching over us above the crowds Our Warrior Angel above the clouds Thank You, Wheatie, for caring for us While you were here among the fuss We miss you dear you have no idea Since time began in the pangaea With you there was no time In your wisdom you would chime To clarify and magnify The what where how and why We did not question when you left We were not slightly bereft But over time we wondered why You did not at least stop by Now we know where you have gone With the break of this new dawn We could be angry but are not Tho with an arrow we’ve been shot Rest peacefully Warrior Angel dear Send us a sign that you are near A butterfly a flower a kiss of rain From your love do not refrain God sends Angels to watch over us And now we have an Angel Plus A Warrior Angel of Magnificence From today and forward hence
Boilerplate, more or less, but worth reading again and again, if only for the minor changes, and to stay out of moderation.
MINOR CHANGE NUMBER 1
Never talk about committing violence in a reply to Wolf or in response to anything Wolf has said, or you may get put into moderation so that your comments can be screened. This is ONLY because DHS is now playing door-knock Gestapo with people who have spoken at school board meetings, made public comments, etc. DHS regime jackboots are knocking on doors of school board mama bears and stupidly insinuating potential violence from things people say or don’t say on social media. A guy in Ohio pointed his FINGER at the school board, and they went after him, armed with pictures of the pointing, and screen captures of online comments. Yeah.
SO – give the Nazis ZERO ammo. Keep any mention of violence, even joking, away from Wolf, so that he doesn’t have to “explain” humor to humorless jackboots who pretend not to know things.
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OTHER THAN THAT…….
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SO….. [ENGAGE BOILERPLATE…..]
We must endeavor to persevere to love our frenemies – even here.
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That includes the life skill of just ignoring certain other posters.
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In the words of Wheatie, “Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”
A Moment of Prayer
Our policy on extreme religious freedom on this site is discussed HERE. Please feel free to pray and praise God anytime and anywhere.
Thus, please pray for our real President, the one who actually won the election.
You may also pray for our nation, our world, and even our enemies.
Musical Interlude
In honor of dear Wheatie, we now present some music to soothe, inspire, invigorate, or relax.
Here are three “placeholder” videos, selected from old Wheatie posts.
Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has assigned John Lausch, the U.S. attorney in Chicago, to review the classified papers and determine how they ended up at the Penn Biden Center.https://t.co/ADRJf3Cxch
As we left the last segment, I had accepted a position as Chief Administrative Officer of a family owned regional equipment related company with expansion plans. There were numerous strains on our family. Rock Star and I had made difficult decisions and were proceeding with our plan.
Off To a Big Start
Upon starting as part of my job description I was to arrange a new, more company advantageous banking arrangement that provided financing for new facilities and equipment inventory in new locations. After getting that successfully done, the new bank’s commitment letter was given to the ownership to execute to start the loan documentation The company and bank attorneys were authorized to negotiate the final language and terms. This was done over the course of that first month of my employment and the financing package was executed by ownership.
As part of that financing, the company agreed to provide CPA audited, unqualified opinion financial statements for the bank to review each year to determine the company’s financial situation. In the past when their financing needs had been much less, the lending bank had only required reviewed financial statements. The testing requirements for CPA reviewed financial statements are far less stringent than with the former. Since there was much more funding involved the new lender wanted assurances that what the company represented was accurate. They had no problem with continuing to use the company’s existing CPA who had formerly worked for the international firm of KPMG. In addition the bank required a third party appraisal of the company’s equipment and parts inventory to be completed annually. Again, the ownership agreed.
Thankfully for me, the owners had only themselves to blame for what happened next.
Disaster
About three months into my employment I had already observed numerous activities and situations that were very concerning. First, it appeared the CEO was on drugs, as in Percocets in a bottle he left out out on his desk, yet, did not exhibit or talk about any illnesses or disabilities. The presence of which probably explained some of his wild mood swings. The primary owner, the patriarch of the family, was elderly and never visited the offices, but apparently also was a druggie per a few employees who made deliveries of personal items to his home. His wife owned a business adjacent to the company headquarters and appeared to handle the executive decisions with her husband after consulting with the company attorney. Even that came into doubt later.
Over the ensuing months I made documentation changes and reworked the flow within the office. I noted equipment would periodically not be found on the lots, yet listed as being in inventory on the computer. I noted disturbing events and suspected they were committing insurance fraud with the assistance of a couple of off duty local law enforcement officers they employed as weekend security at the main location. Items would allegedly be stolen at night and a homeless vagrant arrested and charged with the theft. The equipment would never be recovered by the investigating police. The company would then make a claim on their insurance. The insurance company suspected fraud, but had no proof and could not deny the claim because the police would pick up a reported thief and charge him.
Each weekend one of the off-duty local police officers working security of the equipment lots at the primary warehousing area would be on duty when the thefts happened. The same officers who somehow helped apprehend each homeless vagrant right after they had supposedly stolen equipment. Then one day I had a conversation with a long time contractor friend who disclosed he had bought used equipment from the owners out on their farm outside of town. He paid cash for the equipment at about 25% of value. That led me to more quiet investigations as we tried to account for the inventory on the books in advance of the CPA audit after year end. The CEO would just smile and say, “It has been a mess for a long time.”
It became obvious they were selling the company’s equipment for cash. The homeless guy who would be arrested could care less, he would have a roof over his head and food to get out of the heat or cold for awhile. As long as a charge was pending or a conviction occurred, the company was in the clear for financial reporting purposes.
The owners never removed the old fully depreciated equipment from the books because some of it was actively rented. It would be included in their appraised assets, if the items still existed, on the equipment appraisal. Of course no income from the sale of this or the “stolen” equipment ever hit the income statement or tax return. The same would be true of some of the fully depreciated equipment that was rented if paid by the customer in cash. That cash went into their pockets. So the bank believed they had a larger value of equipment as collateral than actually existed and the IRS never received the taxes that would have been due from the sale and rental of said fully depreciated and “stolen” equipment had it been left on the books. State and local sales taxes also should have been collected on legitimate sales that were also fraudulently avoided.
The long term CPA knew about it all and more as it had been going on as a practice for decades. He had a problem as well, the completion of the audit with the new financial reporting requirements would blow the whole thing wide open.
But wait , there’s MOAR!
Reverse Oil Wells
If you have a business that sells and services equipment, you are required by law to dispose of waste fluids in accordance with local, state and EPA requirements. There are costs and fees associated with the disposal. But there are no costs associated if it disappears. The company would pay to dispose of a nominal amount to reduce suspicion. Much of the rest would disappear into a septic tank in the ground at one specific branch location. Oil, antifreeze, waste fuel, etc, poured into the drains leading to the septic system in the ground. Until the state underground storage bank (UST) board found out about it in a routine soil test near the company’s old fuel tanks. In which case a review was ordered. A fine was charged that was minuscule compared to the normal costs and fees of disposing of it all legally on a daily basis. Which they appealed and it was reduced. Since the company had been paying the state assessed fees for clean up of underground storage tanks (UST) per state and federal law, they became eligible for state removal and cleanup as the septic tank was located adjacent to the fuel tanks. A little help from friendly politicians at the state level and the project received sufficient funding of the clean up of the site of the fuel tanks as well as the septic tank from the state’s UST fund.
The City authorities then ordered the company to connect to city sewer to seemingly end the nasty activity.
Except they continued disposing illegally at that location and others by pouring it into the storm sewer system or taking it out to their farm to do God knows what with it.
And yet..
I had started with the company in the summer and it was now nearing spring in mid March of the following year. Much was known about some of their past sins of operation and I had devised and implemented plans to fix the more glaring. This included buying a small environmental remediation company that had equipment that could be used to legitimize the company’s waste operations, whose products could also be sold to other customers. The profits of which would pay for the acquisition in a few years and the company would go from EPA villain to good citizen.
In reality the owners did not want me to know some of what I knew that was so damaging. One of my key hires I had placed in charge of the equipment and parts inventory requirement of the audit as well as the appraisal. He and the CPA had been working closely together, going to lots and tracking equipment and parts inventory. The CPA had warned me a month before that we would not like what we would find. It did not matter, the bank required it for the loan funds the owners were using for their expansion and they had signed the documents. It would be whatever it was and we would deal with it when we knew.
But that warning told me what I needed to know, the CPA was in on it. He had been their CPA for 18 years and the company was perhaps his largest client. This was confirmed when my guy reported his audit findings. We were both shocked. Well over a $1 million of equipment inventory and $200 K of parts inventory was missing. No documentation of what happened to it was found and it was not physically located on any of the company’s sites or rented to customers.
Two days later I was terminated along with my two handpicked employees. I had just turned 40 years old.
Picking Up The Pieces
After the sting wore off for being so dumb as to being blinded by the compensation package and taking a job without doing better due diligence, I called a long term friend who was in ownership and the CEO of a small business lending operation associated with a small bank holding company in a nearby city. He had asked me to work with him for many years and had even visited with me at the equipment company at which time I referred him to a business customer of mine from my previous banking position. I told him the sad story and asked him if his employment offer was still on the table. He asked when I could start, that he would have an offer letter to me the next day.
The position would be in business development and there would be commission attached with a modest salary. However, it would allow me to work from home and provided important medical and dental insurance with a 401-k. I could work my long term existing professionals referral network for customer financing requests on my own time. They expected no production out of me that first year and a reasonable amount annually thereafter.
Rock Star told me it did not matter to her if I worked on a garbage truck as long as we could get by. She said she would call a mortgage company owner she knew and work part time with him to make ends meet until I had my new line of work established. She would be home in time to pick up our daughter from school. We decided we could afford to go on a scheduled week of vacation to the beach before starting our jobs since we had already paid for the lodging. We needed time to reflect on our new situation and just breathe.
My next call was to my long term attorney to discuss what had happened and for him to review my employment contract with the equipment company. We needed to talk when I got back.
We enjoyed the vacation and discussed what we needed to do. Upon our return I went to my new employer’s offices to meet with HR and visit with all of the senior officers. I already knew what the job entailed, so I picked up my office supplies and headed home.
Early Success
Within the first few months I was able to originate and go on to close a large loan transaction with some former business customers that made my new employers very happy along with Rock Star when I handed her the commission. We could breathe a bit easier as I continued to build a book of business. It was not long until executive management asked me to attend a popular training series they used that was based off the best selling book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People that was written by Stephen Covey. I kissed the family goodbye and headed to conference center a couple of hours away for a few days of training.
Many of you may be familiar with this book and the training, or have at least heard of it. I decided that if the Lord wanted me to learn something, he would make it obvious as I needed to retool and rebuild my career in a way that honored Him. Which is exactly what happened. It was eye opening for even a middle aged business warrior. I left there thankful and began a daily process of building the seven habits into my life. It also inspired me to get back to more serious Bible study.
Everything seemed to be heading in the right direction. I enjoyed my new found freedom of working from home. Until a knock on my door one afternoon 363 days from my termination from the equipment company. The deputy sheriff at the door handed me papers. I had been sued by the equipment company in civil court for theft and embezzlement of company assets. Yup, the same people who stole from themselves and committed all sorts of criminal acts for cash, drugs and such; were accusing me of being the bad guy. I wasn’t even surprised they waited until the last days before the statute of limitations applied. Fortunately, I had addressed many of the potential repercussions with my attorney upon our return from the vacation. I had clearly learned that bunch was capable of anything.
Yet, this feeling of being their scapegoat overcame me.
Scapegoat!
Conclusion
Next time we will pick up it up from here as I continued the process of rebuilding my career, only to be knocked sideways by the legal community, law enforcement, FIB, DODGE and the judiciary. I learned first hand about thirty years ago what many are just now learning about those “industries”. Being innocent does not mean anything if they want to cause you pain.
My 40th year on the planet had started a chain of events. There’s something about that number.
What appeared to be a personal disaster to the world around me and the business community in which I had spent many years, in reality, had led me to the narrow gate that changed everything. Praise be to God!
This Rejoice & Praise God Sunday Open Thread, with full respect to those who worship God on the Sabbath, is a place to reaffirm our worship of our Creator, our Father, our King Eternal.
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“What is the chief end of man?” “Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.”
The Bible says that God created all things—including us—for Himself. He is glorified in His creation. “From Him and through Him and for Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen” (Romans 11:36).
It may be hard to see how Adam and Eve’s falling into sin could bring glory to God. In fact, some might even wonder why, if God knew ahead of time all the trouble they would cause, He made them in the first place.
God is omniscient (Psalm 139:1–6), and He knows the future (Isaiah 46:10). So He definitely knew that Adam and Eve would sin. But He created them anyway and gave them a free will with which they chose to sin.
We must note that Adam and Eve’s falling into sin does not mean that God is the author of sin or that He tempted them to sin (James 1:13). But the fall does serve the purpose of God’s overall plan for creation and mankind.
If we consider the overarching story line of Scripture, we see that biblical history can be roughly divided into three main sections: 1) paradise (Genesis 1—2); 2) paradise lost (Genesis 3—Revelation 20); and 3) paradise regained (Revelation 21—22). By far the largest part of the narrative is devoted to the transition from paradise lost to paradise regained. At the center of this narrative is the cross, which was planned from the very beginning (Acts 2:23).
From God’s Word, we are led to the following conclusions: 1. The fall of mankind was foreknown by God. 2. The crucifixion of Christ, the atonement for God’s elect, was foreordained by God. 3. All people will one day glorify God (Psalm 86:9), and God purposes “to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ” (Ephesians 1:10).
God’s purpose was to create a world in which His glory could be manifest in all its fullness. The glory of God is the overarching goal of creation. In fact, it is the overarching goal of everything He does. The universe was created to display God’s glory (Psalm 19:1), and the wrath of God is revealed against those who fail to glorify God (Romans 1:18–25). The world that best displays the glory of God is the world we have—a world that was allowed to fall, a world that was redeemed, a world that will be restored to its original perfection.
God’s wrath and God’s mercy display the riches of His glory, but we cannot see either without the fall of mankind. We would never know grace if we had never needed grace. Therefore, all of God’s plan—including the fall, election, redemption, and atonement of mankind—serves the purpose of glorifying God. When man fell into sin, God’s mercy was immediately displayed in God’s not killing him on the spot. God’s grace was immediately evident in the covering He provided for their shame (Genesis 3:21).
God’s patience and forbearance were later on display as mankind fell deeper and deeper into sin. God’s justice and wrath were on display when He sent the flood, and God’s mercy and grace were again demonstrated when He saved Noah and his family. God’s holy wrath and perfect justice will be seen in the future when He deals with Satan once and for all (Revelation 20:7–10).
God’s glory is also revealed in His love (1 John 4:16). Our knowledge of God’s love comes from the Person and saving work of Jesus Christ in this fallen world. “This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him” (1 John 4:9). Had God decided not to create Adam and Eve, based on His knowledge of their fall—or had He made them automatons with no volition—we would never have truly known what love is.
The ultimate exhibition of God’s glory was at the cross where His wrath, justice, and mercy met. The righteous judgment of all sin was executed at the cross, and God’s grace was on display in His Son’s words, “Father, forgive them” (Luke 23:34). God’s love and grace are manifest in those whom He has saved (John 3:16; Ephesians 2:8–10). In the end, God will be glorified as His chosen people worship Him for all eternity with the angels, and the wicked will also glorify God as His righteousness results in the eternal punishment of unrepentant sinners (Philippians 2:11). Without the fall of Adam and Eve, we would never know God’s justice, grace, mercy, or love.
God foresaw Adam and Eve’s fall. He created them (and us) anyway, in His own image, to bring glory to Himself. They were given freedom to make choices. Even though they chose to disobey, their choice became the means by which God’s ultimate will was carried out and by which His full glory will be seen.
Give glory to God . . . There is no higher calling.
Then that is precisely how we should be living.
So . . . whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Romans 12:1-2
Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, to God our Savior, Who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen. Jude 1:24-25
Just remember…we might replace the RINO candidates. (Or we might not. The record is mixed even though there is more MAGA than there used to be.) But that will make no difference in the long run if the party officials, basically the Rhonna McDaniels (or however that’s spelled–I suspect it’s RINO), don’t get replaced.
State party chairs, vice chairs, secretaries and so on, and the same at county levels, have huge influence on who ultimately gets nominated, and if these party wheelhorses are RINOs, they will work tirelessly to put their own pukey people on the ballot. In fact I’d not be surprised if some of our “MAGA” candidates are in fact, RINO plants, encouraged to run by the RINO party leadership when they realized that Lyn Cheney (and her ilk) were hopelessly compromised as effective candidates. The best way for them to deal with the opposition, of course, is to run it themselves.
Running good candidates is only HALF of the battle!
SPECIAL SECTION: Message For Our “Friends” In The Middle Kingdom
I normally save this for near the end, but…basically…up your shit-kicking barbarian asses. Yes, barbarian! It took a bunch of sailors in Western Asia to invent a real alphabet instead of badly drawn cartoons to write with. So much for your “civilization.”
Yeah, the WORLD noticed you had to borrow the Latin alphabet to make Pinyin. Like with every other idea you had to steal from us “Foreign Devils” since you rammed your heads up your asses five centuries ago, you sure managed to bastardize it badly in the process.
Have you stopped eating bats yet? Are you shit-kickers still sleeping with farm animals?
Or maybe even just had the slightest inkling of treating lives as something you don’t just casually dispose of?
中国是个混蛋 !!! Zhōngguò shì gè hùndàn !!! China is asshoe !!!
And here’s my response to barbarian “asshoes” like you:
OK, with that rant out of my system…
Biden Gives Us Too Much Credit
…we can move on to the next one.
Apparently Biden (or his puppeteer) has decided we’re to blame for all of the fail in the United States today.
Sorry to disappoint you Joe (or whoever), but you managed to do that all on your own; not only that, you wouldn’t let us NOT give you the chance because you insisted on cheating your way into power.
Yep, you-all are incompetent, and so proud of it you expect our applause for your sincerity. Fuck that!!
It wouldn’t be so bad, but you insist that everyone else have to share in your misery. Nope, can’t have anyone get out from under it. Somehow your grand vision only works if every single other person on earth is forced to go along. So much as ONE PERSON not going along is enough to make it all fail, apparently.
In engineering school we’re taught that a design that has seven to eight billion single points of failure…sucks.
Actually, we weren’t taught that. Because it would never have occurred to the professors to use such a ridiculous example.
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.
Kamala Harris has a new nickname since she finally went west from DC to El Paso Texas: Westward Hoe.
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
All prices are Kitco Ask, 3PM MT Friday (at that time the markets close for the weekend).
Gold is going somewhere–we’re not at record levels (~$2070), but at the rate things are going it won’t be long, unless of course it reverses course (let’s face it: “they” will do their darndest to make that happen). Silver is too, though not as much. The others…not very much at all. This looks like the prime “pusher” is people worried about the economy. They will tend to pick gold over silver…and the other metals won’t share in that.
My gut feel is that it will end up dropping again, hard. If I am wrong and the dollar is going to collapse to the point where you can pay off your house with a silver dime because silver is at a million toilet-paper bucks an ounce…well, so be it.
If inflation gets THAT bad, expect your credit card companies to amend their agreements so as to index your balance to inflation. And certainly any other new loan. But old car and house loans cannot be amended!
How Far Are the Stars?
Thanks to Hollywood, it’s easy to imagine that since we’ve gone to the Moon (and yes, we have gone to the Moon), the planets are just one step away–one we inexplicably didn’t just take right after Apollo–and the stars one more step after that.
The moon’s orbit’s semi-major axis (which is one half of the length of the elliptical orbit, measured across the longest part; this serves as a good average distance) is 384,399 kilometers. But you should subtract the earth’s radius from that, as well as the moon’s, as it’s center-to-center. Let’s call it, very roughly, 375,000 kilometers.
Compare that to the distance between the earth and the sun, one “astronomical unit” of 149,597,870.7 kilometers. It’s 398.9 times as far…call it four hundred times. And these are the sorts of distances we’d have to travel to get to Mars. Sure it gets closer to us than 150 million kilometers, but we would not be traveling that shortest distance; we’d be using a “Hohmann Transfer” or something very similar to that (because it would take a lot less delta-V to do that; i.e, a lot less fuel), and that would easily be over 300 million kilometers.
Traveling 400-800 times as far is not a “small step.”
Compare Columbus traveling 3000 miles or so (one way) to the sorts of things people did before him, where they hugged the coastline but often traveled thousands of miles. Comparatively speaking, that’s a much smaller jump than going to Mars, having gone to the Moon, would be.
This is in large part why we’ve been doing everything with robot probes. It takes them as long as it would take astronauts, but they don’t have to bring along food and life support for months or years of travel…so that makes it possible to do it with smaller rockets…smaller meaning rockets smaller than a mountain.
Neptune, the outermost planet, is at about 30 AUs distance; that’s a 15-fold jump over a trip to Mars. Significant, especially when you consider the time it would take, but not that big a jump from getting to Mars. If we can start sending people to Mars, it won’t be that much harder to go other places (assuming there’s something there at the other end that’s not instantly lethal…and let’s face it Jupiter’s moons are mostly close enough to Jupiter’s radiation belts that astronauts would be broiled alive without a lot of heavy shielding…and that word “heavy” is a deal breaker). But, nonetheless, the planets are at similar distances to each other…compared to the jump it will be to go from moon travel to planetary travel.
What about the stars?
Proxima Centuari is the nearest star. And it is 268,000 AUs away. In other words it’s basically ten thousand times as far as Neptune.
We could have Southwest Spaceways running daily (except when their computers go tango uniform) trips to Neptune for tourists…and we’d be nowhere near ready for star travel. For a number of reasons, the main one of which would be having to go a thousand times as fast just to get there in a lifetime. But that’s just a consequence of the YUGE jump in distance.
That day we first set out for the stars, will represent a “giant leap for mankind” bigger than everything before it, put together.
Calculus Made Easy (No Joke)
This is a conceptual introduction to calculus; the meat of it starts about three minutes in–assuming, of course, that it posts at all! There’s no actual math drudgery involved for the conceptual part (though he does start flinging it at you around 12 minutes or so), though you do need to understand graphs. You should come out of it with an understanding of what integration and differentiation are, even if you don’t actually know how to do them.
If it buggers up here’s the link: h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuOxDh3egN0 (remove the space).
Obligatory PSAs and Reminders
China is Lower than Whale Shit
Remember Hong Kong!!!
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 !!!
BREAKING: Trump announces plan to dismantle the censorship regime: 7-year ban on FBI/CIA working for big tech including defunding NGOs and private contractors that receive funding for 'disinformation' monitoring https://t.co/JpyyHjQfNe
Sebastian talks to @FrFrankPavone, National Director of Priests for Life, to talk about the politically-motivated attack against him by Church leadership, as well as the work that still remains to be done in the pro-life movement.
Tucker Carlson: "There's verification right there. If you're wondering if the federal agencies are actually being used as tools of the Democratic party to change political outcomes, now we know for sure." pic.twitter.com/tzduJ1NAmp
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1And when he returned to Caper’na-um after some days, it was reported that he was at home. 2And many were gathered together, so that there was no longer room for them, not even about the door; and he was preaching the word to them. 3And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. 4And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him; and when they had made an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic lay. 5And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “My son, your sins are forgiven.” 6Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts, 7“Why does this man speak thus? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins but God alone?” 8And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you question thus in your hearts? 9Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, `Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, `Rise, take up your pallet and walk’? 10But that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins” — he said to the paralytic — 11“I say to you, rise, take up your pallet and go home.” 12And he rose, and immediately took up the pallet and went out before them all; so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”
SATIRE!
Updated Death Certificates Require Choosing Between COVID, Climate Change, Or Systemic Racism As Cause Of Death https://t.co/jgRkjScn9N
“This had nothing to do with whether the statements were inaccurate they use the word ‘misinformation’ and acknowledge this throughout as euphemism for any statement that departs from official government orthodoxies” pic.twitter.com/2ExPk1q25L
Illinois just banned semi-auto guns that look scary with a law that won't stop shootings and turns good citizens into criminals, but at least the rich libs feel better https://t.co/6465bai6ZL
The Democrat Party has fully embraced rule by an unelected permanent bureaucracy. This is the party’s unhinged response to a bipartisan committee investigating how intelligence and law enforcement authorities are trying to crush political dissent and democratic opposition. https://t.co/fWF0wqxx9x
It’s amazing the sheer volume of contradictory “expertise” there is out there about whether long duration fasting is just an overall amazing tool for health and weight loss-
Or a muscle-destroying, metabolism abusing strategy that taxes the body and isn’t worth it in long run
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7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, when you hear his voice, 8do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, 9where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years. 10Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, `They always go astray in their hearts; they have not known my ways.’ 11As I swore in my wrath, `They shall never enter my rest.'” 12Take care, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 13But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today, ” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14For we share in Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end,
There are SO MANY settings of the Magnificat. Here is my favorite for congregational singing.
I was going to do this as a comment but decided it would be better as an article… And then it grew and grew. I think we are going to be adding to this as events unfold. So put on your tinfoil hats, buckle your seat belts, grab your eye bleach and salt cellar and join me on another trip down a rabbit hole.
This article was prompted by three videos and the BIG QUESTIONS:
Did Allen Welsh Dulles import Nazi war criminals into the USA and his newly formed CIA?
If so did these Nazis shape the CIA into the Deep State we are dealing with today?
Dulles served as CIA director from 26 February 1953 to 29 November 1961. JFK was assassinated on November 22, 1963 after announcing his plan to destroy the CIA. Dulles died January 29, 1969.
Badlands Media had the first video I want to look at:
Altered State Ep 11: Operation Paperclip/Sunrise (Start at 26:45 minutes)
After WWII there were actually three programs. Operation Paperclip, Operation Sunrise and Operation Sunshine. Operation Paperclip was for general consumption. Operation Sunrise was for ‘conspiracy theorists’ if they got inquisitive and to HIDE Operation Sunshine. Even Zak conflates the two in the video.
OPERATION SUNRISE
Operation Sunrise was a series of secret negotiations arranged through a number of intermediaries and facilitated by Swiss Army Intelligence. They were held in March 1945 in Switzerland between representatives of the western Allies and Germany.
Allen Dulles (who later became the Director of the CIA) and Waffen-SS General Karl Wolff (a senior Nazi, once known as the “eyes and ears of Heinrich Himmler”) were the senior figures involved. After a number of confidence building measures, the main meeting was on the 19th March 1945 in a secluded estate at Ascona (close to the Italian border north of Milan).
The initial aim was to agree on the terms for a German surrender of their forces in Italy….
….Following the war, Henry Kissinger, who had become General Alexander Bolling’s German translator and principle assistant.
(Bolling, of course, was the Godfather to the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency that ran “Project Paperclip,” the secret exfiltration of approximately 2,000 high level Nazis, about 900 of whom were military scientists and medical researchers, including Erich Traub, Hitler’s top biological weapons developer and virus expert. Bolling also served as a high ranking member of the Inter-American Defense Board, a Washington based group that delivered Walter Emil Schreiber, Hitler’s chief medical scientist, the “Angel of Death” Joseph Mengele, and his assistant, “the butcher of Lyon,” Klaus Barbie, among others, to safe Havens in South America where they worked on CIA projects.)
In fact it was Henry Kissinger’s job to seek and find such Nazis that might be of service to America, and Kissinger became the chief of Army Counter-Intelligence in this regard. He trained other agents to hunt down Nazis at the European Command Intelligence School in Oberammergau, not to be tried for war crimes necessarily, but rather to serve U.S. military rather than Russian interests.
It was this operation that principally spirited the creation of the CIA as a cover agency for the powerful Gehlen Org, the German intelligence agency run by Reinhard Gehlen — an organization whose power superseded even the Nazi SS because of its prewar connections with German military intelligence.
After Hitler, Gehlen served Allen Welsh Dulles, whose “Operation Sunshine” brought Nazis into the U.S. spy service….
Remember Kissinger was Klaus Schwab’s mentor and thus fundamental in the development of the World Economic Form.
…We now arrive at Klaus Schwab, the founder of the ReichsWEF. We will explore the man, his family and business connections, and the true intention behind his monstrosity, the World Economic Forum.
Klaus’ family was tied to nobility that maintained business partnerships dating back centuries. These families were involved with Swiss private banking, innovation during the industrial revolution, and the creation of an atomic bomb for the Nazis. Using the Red Cross, they also helped the Nazis wherever and whenever they could.
Klaus would maintain close ties with his family friends, eventually founding the World Economic Forum in the Swiss town where his namesake bought a huge parcel of land. The early years of the ReichsWEF received enormous support from Harvard, as well as an array of former Nazis, SS leaders, militant communists, fascists and accused satanic pedophiles….
Allen Dulles was the longest-serving CIA Director who dominated American intelligence for a generation. He personified a cadre of Ivy League pragmatic elitists in high echelons of the government who greatly admired Germany’s scientific achievements. Princeton educated, Dulles affected the demeanor of a diplomat and professor rather than a spy. Prior to his CIA position he headed the operations of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in Switzerland. In the 1930s Dulles served as legal adviser to the delegations on arms limitation at the League of Nations where he met with the world’s leaders including: Hitler, Mussolini, Litvinov. He was a senior partner in the law firm, Sullivan & Cromwell.
Dulles and the other high ranking intelligence officials and in the State Department, had the highest regard for the Nazi elite – the Reich’s generals, chemists, medical doctors, and engineers – whose research and achievements were mostly in wartime technology, racial hygiene, torture, and genocide. Dulles exploited his post in OSS to quash war crimes prosecutions of senior Nazi officials and German business leaders who cooperated with him [<– This is important as it explains why the Nuremberg trials were a dud. One lawyer complained about how she was blocked. See further down. — GC] in a series of clandestine schemes to secure a U.S. advantage in Central Europe. Dulles personally intervened to ensure the escape from prosecution of major German bankers and industrialists complicit in the Nazis’ extermination-through-slave-labor program. Throughout the war and the years after, his reports to Washington ignored almost entirely the massacre of Jews – as though they were of no consequence…
Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg once stated that “The Dulles brothers were traitors.” Some historians believe that Allen Dulles became head of the newly formed CIA in large part to cover up his treasonous behavior and that of his clients.
Just before his death, James Jesus Angleton, the legendary chief of counterintelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency, was a bitter man. He felt betrayed by the people he had worked for all his life. In the end, he had come to realize that they were never really interested in American ideals of “freedom” and “democracy.” They really only wanted “absolute power.” Angleton told author Joseph Trento that the reason he had gotten the counterintelligence job in the first place was by agreeing not to submit “sixty of Allen Dulles’ closest friends” to a polygraph test concerning their business deals with the Nazis. In his end-of-life despair, Angleton assumed that he would see all his old companions again “in hell.”
…Dulles remained a diplomat through the early 1920’s, spending part of that time in Berlin. However, he left government service in 1926 for the greener pastures of private business, becoming a Wall Street lawyer with the same firm as his older brother, John Foster Dulles.
By the middle 20’s, Germany had started recovering from the effects of the war and its postwar economic collapse, and the great German industrial firms were looking like attractive investment opportunities for wealthy Americans. W.A. Harriman & Co., formed in 1919 by Averell Harriman (son of railroad baron E.H. Harriman) and George Herbert Walker, had led the way in directing American money to German companies and had opened a Berlin branch as early as 1922, when Germany was still in chaos. At that time, Averell Harriman traveled to Europe and made contact with the powerful Thyssen family of steel magnates. It was to be a long-lasting and fateful partnership.
The Thyssens’ steel business had suffered greatly from Germany’s defeat, and old August Thyssen had decided to guard against future setbacks by creating a system of private banks. He founded one in Berlin and another in the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. In the wake of Harriman’s trip, a third bank was added to the network, the Union Banking Corporation, founded in New York in 1924 with George Herbert Walker as president. Having their own personal banking system made it easy for the Thyssens to move assets around, launder money, conceal profits, and evade taxes.
By 1926, W.A. Harriman was doing so well that Walker gave his son-in-law, Prescott Bush, the gift of making him a vice president. In 1931, W.A. Harriman merged with a British firm to create Brown Brothers, Harriman, and Prescott Bush became a senior partner. During the 1930’s, Brown Brothers, Harriman would increasingly direct its clients’ investments to German companies. The Rockefeller family was prominent among these clients, and Standard Oil developed particularly close connections with the chemical giant I.G. Farben….
It was into this heady atmosphere of high-level investments and financial manipulation that Allen Dulles entered when he joined the firm of Sullivan and Cromwell in 1926. He would become the lawyer for the Thyssens’ Rotterdam bank and would also represent other German firms, including I.G. Farben…
After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 brought the United States into the war, the close associations of so many of its leading industrialists with German firms began to catch up with them. For example, it was discovered that Standard Oil had engaged in a cartel with I.G. Farben to produce artificial rubber and gasoline from coal for the Nazis. They had renewed this agreement even after war broke out in Europe in 1939 and had supplied certain patents to the Germans while keeping them hidden from the U.S. Navy and American industry.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., the principal owner of Standard Oil, claimed he had no involvement in day-to-day operations, leaving the blame to fall entirely on company chairman William S. Farish. Farish — whose daughter was married to Averell Harriman’s nephew — pled “no contest” to charges of criminal conspiracy in March of 1942 and agreed to make the patents available in the US. However, fresh revelations kept coming out, and Farish was called repeatedly to testify before a Senate committee investigating national defense. His health broken by the increasingly hostile questioning, he collapsed and died of a heart attack in November 1942.
At the same time, in October of 1942, Prescott Bush was charged with running Nazi front groups, and all shares of the Union Banking Corporation were seized by the U.S. Alien Property Custodian. The elaborate system of holding companies which Bush and Harriman had created in association with the bank started unraveling as well. Things were looking very bad for the old gang.
But just then, Allen Dulles worked a miracle. (to be continued … some day … when I figure out how he managed the trick)
In the article Dr. Eric T. Karlstrom does a compilation of quotes from different books and articles. For example one by Dan Estulin who has investigated the Bilderberg group.
XIII. Operation Safehaven (Cleansing the Record of Nazi/American corporate collaboration) and the Marshall Plan
a. Loftus, J., 2011, America’s Nazi Secret: An Insider’s History of How the United States Department of Justice Obstructed Congress by: Blocking Congressional Investigations into Famous American Families Who Funded Hitler, Stalin, and Arab Terrorists; Lying to Congress, the GAO and the CIA about the Postwar Immigration of East European Nazi War Criminals to the US; and Concealing from the 9/11 Investigators the Role of Arab Nazi War Criminals in Recruiting Modern Middle Eastern Terrorist Groups:
“The Special Assistant Attorney General of the United States closed all of the treason cases in Occupied Germany. Not a single corporate officer ever went to jail for doing business with the Nazis, either in America or the United Kingdom. The Justice Department covered it all up. More than a hundred American traitors were returned home after many profitable years of serving Hitler. The Army’s original investigative files, codenamed ASHCAN and DUSTBIN are still off limits to “protect the privacy” of the American citizens involved. An American Intelligence Officer, Allen Dulles, used his position in the OSS to protect himself and his clients from investigation for laundering Nazi funds back to America.
… Shredding the captured Nazi records was the favorite tactic of Dulles and corporate “volunteers” who stayed behind to help run the occupation of post-war Germany. Most of the Nazi records were shipped to the old torpedo factory on the Potomac River in Alexandria, Virginia. There the representatives of various intelligence services culled the documents under the guise of the War Department’s European Acquisition Project….
Estulin, D [an]., 2015, Tavistock Institute; Social Engineering the Masses:
“While Allen was employed in Switzerland, his brother John Foster was working at the State Department in Washington. Their uncle, an ultra-conservative Robert Lansing, was President Woodrow Wilson’s Secretary of State. The Dulles brothers actively courted Nazi officials in the 1930’s, as did the Rockefeller and Wall Street corporate interests, such as Ford Motor Company and IBM and helped them escape after the war, especially when Allen Dulles became CIA Director beginning in 1953…..
… operations, amongst them Odessa, which helped relocate Nazis into Peron’s Argentina and Die Spinne or “The Spider,” a loose designation of the post-war remnants of the Nazi secret police and covert intelligence apparatus, whose US point man was a Rockefeller Republican Party supporter, Harold Keith Thompson.
In 1945, Dulles, along with former Gestapo OSS agent, Hans Bernd Gisevius, was accused by the US Treasury Department of laundering Nazi funds from Hungary into Switzerland. The investigation was eventually dropped when the US State Department claimed jurisdiction
If anyone still has any doubts about the close proximity of the Rockefeller clan to the Nazis, in 1945, President Truman fired Nelson Rockefeller for his role in engineering the creation of Peron’s fascist regime, which provided a ‘safe haven’ for over 100,000 Nuremburg criminals delivered by Allen Dulles from Europe….
….However, Talbot is more complete than Kinzer regarding Allen’s dark doings. He goes into far more horrifying detail about Project MKUltra (the CIA torture/mind control program). He relates whole stories missed by Kinzer about Allen’s collaboration with Nazi war criminals. And he delves deeply into the issue of Allen’s possible involvement in the Kennedy assassination, which Kinzer only briefly mentions.
Scholarly Kinzer’s chief weakness is a certain lack of cynicism about the Dulleses and what drives them, especially in his concluding passages. Talbot, on the other hand, brilliantly cites C. Wright Mills to depict John Foster as an unctuous servant of the power elite, and perceptively cites Carl Jung to analyze Allen (who actually was psychoanalyzed by Jung) as a manipulative sociopath.
Left-liberal Talbot’s chief weakness is his rather evident fondness for Democratic presidents (especially Franklin D. Roosevelt) which mars several chapters. For example, Talbot’s indictment of Allen’s World War II career rings less true than his other critiques because it largely rests on his agreement with FDR’s monstrous war-extending insistence on unconditional surrender.
Together, the Dulles brothers inaugurated the perpetual war that has extended from the Cold War to today’s Terror War. It is a vitally important tale, and one masterfully told by both Kinzer and Talbot.
“Honest and idealist … enjoys good food and wine … unprejudiced mind …”
That’s how a 1952 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) assessment described Nazi ideologue Emil Augsburg, an officer at the infamous Wannsee Institute, the SS think tank involved in planning the Final Solution. Augsburg’s SS unit performed “special duties,” a euphemism for exterminating Jews and other “undesirables” during the Second World War.
Although he was wanted in Poland for war crimes, Augsburg managed to ingratiate himself with the U.S. CIA, which employed him in the late 1940s as an expert on Soviet affairs. Recently released CIA records indicate that Augsburg was among a rogue’s gallery of Nazi war criminals recruited by U.S. intelligence agencies shortly after Germany surrendered to the Allies.
Pried loose by Congress, which passed the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act three years ago, a long-hidden trove of once-classified CIA documents confirms one of the worst-kept secrets of the cold war–the CIA’s use of an extensive Nazi spy network to wage a clandestine campaign against the Soviet Union.…
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SO WHERE DID THIS PHILOSOPHY OF THE CIA/DEEP STATE COME FROM?
Will Zoll (a team) has a thesis that Prussia/Germany was never really defeated but instead went underground to become an army without a country.
An invisible hand sits behind humanity, exerting control over the human will. This hidden virus scours the earth, looking for hosts who will adopt its ideology, and wage war against dissenters.
You cannot leave a captivity that you cannot see.
Prussian ideology is this captivity. The awakening is seeing this invisible enemy, knowing its patterns, recognizing how we engage with it and understanding its ultimate end-game. Revealing the hidden enemy, is how humanity defeats the hidden enemy.
Understanding the ancient Prussian playbook shines unwanted light upon this tyrannical insurgent. This is the road to true freedom.
This is #PrussiaGate.
The #PrussiaGate papers are revealing when and how the most formidable army on earth [appeared] to fade away, but really just became invisible. This was the key to their transition from localized wars to complete world domination. To do this successfully, they would need to control intelligence agencies and media, but they also selected to use central banks, debt and large corporations to control the people. In this way, the US was essentially the “head of the snake”, although the influence was world-wide.
In terms of really understanding this ‘invisible hand’, the 2016 US election would prove to be a turning point for the entire world. Humanity received a four-year lesson in how the media deceive and how intelligence agencies were infiltrated….
This is a story about Prussia. The once great empire that is no more – or at least officially. As Comte de Mirabeau quoted:
“Prussia is not a nation with an army, but an army that controls nations.”
Prussia was never anything other than an ideology of War against all that it could not control. From the lands the Teutonic Knights had tamed, Prussia used shrewd methods of diplomatic espionage, carried out by its ambassadors and industrialists. Prussia sought to destroy everything it could not control via campaigns of “comply or die”. Prussian time frames are measured in centuries.
As one US President once said, it “was a Big Idea, a New World Order”.
Will Zoll
“…As one US President once said, it “was a Big Idea, a New World Order”.…” That refers to Bush who is directly connected to the CIA, Dulles and the Nazis as shown above. Now isn’t that a big surprise?
This is a link to all the #PRUSSIAGATE substacks. If you have the means please toss a few fiat dollars at these great writer/historians.
…Hitler and the whole Nazi era is said to have been deeply inspired by the 18th Century Prussian king. Even when all appeared lost for Hitler in WWII, as he retreated to the Fuhrerbunker in 1945, he ensured that his prized possessions came with him. One of those included a portrait painting of Frederick the Great – the man he still sought inspiration from, even though all appeared lost….
…Prussia is in a constant state of war. It is not [a] state, but an army seeking to control states. Prussia’s entire quest is about making the best spear in order to implement their New World Order, where they control and tax the world. Prussia does not understand peace.
Prussia is about winning and nothing else. The best spears (micro-penises aside) and the best soldiers, will eventually win all wars. Winning war involves mass deception, which involves mind-control, of your enemy AND your own army….
History will recall that many other events took place under Frederick the Great’s rule of Prussia:
The rise of the Rothschilds; the rise of the Jewish cult of Sabbatai Zevi; the safe harboring of the purged Jesuit order; the birth of the Illumnati; and the American Declaration of Independence.
All but the last occurred under the watchful eye of Frederick the Great.
The discerning reader will now understand that the American Revolution and the US Constitution was a complete affront to everything that was Prussian. The notion of freedom was toxic to a tyrannical ruler. This war continues today.
DURHAM ==> DURHAM BOAT WHO were the targets of General Washington? “….Hessian forces, which were the German auxiliaries aiding the British.” – WIKI
Frederick William I was succeeded by his son, Frederick II (1740–86). Frederick immediately disbanded the expensive Potsdam Giants and used their funding to create seven new regiments and 10,000 troops. The new king also added sixteen battalions, five squadrons of hussars, and a squadron of life guards…
In September 1743, Frederick held the first fall maneuver (Herbstübung). The different branches of the Army tested new formations and tactics; the fall maneuvers become annual traditions of the Prussian Army. Austria tried to reclaim Silesia in the Second Silesian War. Although successful in outmaneuvering Frederick in 1744, the Austrians were crushed by the king himself in the Battle of Hohenfriedberg and the Battle of Soor (1745). The Prussian cavalry excelled during the battle, especially the Zieten Hussars. For his great services at Hohenfriedberg Hans Karl von Winterfeldt, a good friend of King Frederick, rose to prominence….
During the 1740s, Frederick the Great issued a series of new regulations and documents regarding his army’s experiences during the first two Silesian wars and how they would relate to future wars. The doctrines he espoused focused on speed and offense. Lighter and faster cavalry were preferred over heavy cavalry; while Frederick William I had treated hussars as luxury troops, his son made them an integral part of the army. The artillery was to use light three-pound guns which made up for their lack of power with versatility…
So the Hussars were Fredrick the Great’s ‘best spear’ and loaned to his cousin, the King of England, to help crush the American Revolution. I doubt he was very happy when General Washington managed to capture 1,000 of the Hussars.
…What had been birthed [in Frederick the Great] was a formula to create the perfect soldier and leader for a totalitarian world. These soldiers would be devoid of any personal experience with the family unit. In fact, the family unit would be so decimated that a young person would grow up hating the family unit.
Only a soul, cloaked in complete evil and darkness, would think of such an ideology to cultivate and harness such darkness and depravity, that would lead to the end of humanity, if not checked….
Will Zoll
Transhumanism anyone? And the entire ‘Progressive’ push for the destruction of the family, procreation, Christianity and sanity. Also the corporate dehumanization of employees by gradually treating people as interchangeable cogs (Human Resources) instead of people to be trained and kept for decades (Personnel.)
The “enlightened despot”, King Frederick the Great of Prussia, laid the foundations of the Prussian primary education system in 1763. Prussia was one of the first countries in the world to introduce compulsory primary education. It took over a century for other European nations to follow.
Prussia, however, was in a constant state of war. State-funded compulsory education was never intended for the children to find individual enlightenment, but rather to know their place in society and obedience to the State. There were 6 key outcomes for the Prussian education system:
#1. Obedient soldiers to the army,
#2. Obedient workers for mines, factories, and farms,
#3. Well-subordinated civil servants, trained in their function,
#4. Well-subordinated clerks for industry,
#5. Citizens who thought alike on most issues,
#6. National uniformity in thought, word, and deed.1
Everything within the grasp of Prussia was to be utilised for the benefit of the state. Individuality was a curse that could give rise to free thinking and therefore a population that could potentially question the motives of their government.
Frederick knew this all too well. Renowned as one of the greatest military minds in history, he believed that a thinking soldier would destroy the cohesion of his army….
Will Zoll
Fredrick’s idea was to provide just enough education for his people to be useful but not enough to allow freedom of thought. He was also intent on making sure his people were fed. So he was seen as a ‘benevolent dictator.’
Fredrick was not only a great military leader. “…Frederick the Great’s true passions as he grew up was an intellectual pathway of the Arts, music (composing and playing), and philosophy….”
I think Fredrick’s philosophical inspiration was SPARTA.
According to tradition, Sparta was the handiwork of Lycurgus;… >>> — he persuaded the Spartans to agree to a new distribution of lands on a basis of equality, and by other measures he weaned them from the love of silver and gold, and led them to adopt that harsh simplicity of life which the very name of Sparta has come to connote. Plutarch’s description is of interest because, waiving the question of its historical accuracy, it gives a very adequate definition of the ideal communistic state, as ideally imagined by countless later generations. In general, he says,
he trained his fellow-citizens to have neither the wish nor the ability to live for themselves; but like bees they were to make themselves always integral parts of the whole community, clustering together about their leader, almost beside themselves with enthusiasm and noble ambition, and to belong wholly to their country.
… the Spartan state was probably unique in some respects in the record of political institutions. It is difficult to recall any other state in which the individual was so completely subordinated to the general ends of the community — and such subordination is, of course, of the very essence of socialism in its general sense, as distinguished from that species of socialism generally referred to as communism. From the day of his birth, when he might be not merely subordinated but suppressed for the good of the state, the young Spartan continued to be disposed of in one way or another until death opened up for him a way of escape. The common education, which began at the age of seven, was wholly designed to make good soldiers, to teach men to suffer uncomplainingly the extremes of heat and of cold, of hunger and of pain, and in each was implanted the conviction that he belonged not to himself, but to the state…
And if you move on to modern Britain, you find the same philosophy.
Source: George Bernard Shaw, Prefaces (London: Constable and Co., 1934), p. 296 George Bernard Shaw: The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, 1928, pg. 470
Sparta, Prussia, and the Fabian Socialists in the UK all share the same basic philosophy. If we boil it down there are really just two forms of government. Either the subjects are born to serve the State, OR the State is formed to PROTECT the God-given rights of the individual citizen. We are currently fighting to determine WHICH FORM OF GOVERNMENT THE WORLD WILL HAVE GOING FORWARD!
The world “Fascism” has been perverted by political advocates into some kind of “Right Wing Military Dictatorship” and the horror of all things Progressive.
Nothing could be further from the truth…
During the ’30s, Mussolini was a Hollywood Celebrity. He even was invited to do a Cameo in some Hollywood Movie and all the Stars and Starlets wanted to be at the parties where he was celebrated….
(Exclusive) In devastating detail, an excerpt from a controversial new book reveals how the big studios, desperate to protect German business, let Nazis censor scripts, remove credits from Jews, get movies stopped and even force one MGM executive to divorce his Jewish wife….
Harvard post-doctoral fellow Ben Urwand uncovers a darker side to Hollywood’s past.
Drawing on a wealth of archival documents in the U.S. and Germany, he reveals the shocking extent to which Hollywood cooperated and collaborated with the Nazis during the decade leading up to World War II to protect its business….
Hollywood was not the only American – NAZI collaborators.
…Although dozens of companies, such as Coca-Cola and Kodak, made clients of Nazi Germany, a few American multinational corporations stand out for going the extra mile. They didn’t just sell tools and products; they collaborated with the Nazis in creative ways to help them design and execute the systematic destruction of the Jewish people….
…. In 1939 a “Drug Trust” alliance was formed by the Rockefeller empire and the German chemical company IG Farben (Bayer). After World War Two, IG Farben was dismantled but later emerged as separate corporations within the alliance. Well known companies included General Mills, Kellogg, Nestle, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Procter and Gamble, Roche and Hoechst (Sanofi-Aventis). The Rockefeller empire, in tandem with Chase Manhattan Bank (now JP Morgan Chase), owns over half of the pharmaceutical interests in the United States. It is the largest drug manufacturing combine in the world. Since WWII, the pharmaceutical industry has steadily netted increasing profits to become the world’s second largest manufacturing industry; [3], [4] after the arms industry…..
IG Farben & Auschwitz
Auschwitz was the largest mass extermination factory in human history. However, few people are aware that Auschwitz was a 100% subsidiary of IG Farben. On April 14, 1941, in Ludwigshafen, Otto Armbrust, the IG Farben board member responsible for the Auschwitz project, stated to board colleagues:
“our new friendship with the SS is a blessing. We have determined all measures integrating the concentration camps to benefit our company.”
Thousands of prisoners died during human experiments, drug and vaccine testing. Before longtime Bayer employee and SS Auschwitz doctor Helmut Vetter was executed for administering fatal infections, he wrote to his bosses at Bayer headquarters:
“I have thrown myself into my work wholeheartedly. Especially as I have the opportunity to test our new preparations. I feel like I am in paradise.”
After WWII, IG Farben attempted to shake its abominable image through corporate restructuring and renaming. So great has been their success that the public has no idea that it many of the men responsible for such atrocities, were able to carry on their work even after the collapse of the Nazi regime. Namely, a medical paradigm that relies almost exclusively highly toxic drugs. Such men were in control of the large chemical and pharmaceutical companies, both well before and after Hitler. The Nuremberg Tribunal convicted 24 IG Farben board members and executives on the basis of mass murder, slavery and other crimes. Incredibly, most of them had been released by 1951 and continued to consult with German corporations. The Nuremberg Tribunal dissolved IG Farben into Bayer, Hoechst and BASF, each company 20 times as large as IG Farben in 1944. For almost three decades after WWII, BASF, Bayer and Hoechst (Aventis) filled their highest position, chairman of the board, with former members of the Nazi regime. Bayer has been sued by survivors of medical experiments such as Eva Kor who, along with her sister, survived experiments at the hands of Dr. Josef Mengele…..
As the above shows, it is important to note that not all of the USA viewed Hitler, the NazIs & Fascism with horror. This explains the next step in history.
After the war we got the Nuremberg Trials. No one mentions that part of the trials were run by a wet behind the ears Lawyer who graduated from HAAAaaarvard and then went into the military.
…Ferencz had immigrated to the U.S. as a baby, the son of poor Jewish parents from a small town in Romania. He grew up in a tough New York City neighborhood….
Lesley Stahl: You look so young.
Benjamin Ferencz: I was so young. I was 27 years old.
Lesley Stahl: Had you prosecuted trials before?
Benjamin Ferencz: Never in my life. I don’t—
Lesley Stahl: Come on.
Benjamin Ferencz: –recall if I’d ever been in a courtroom actually.
….he finished at Harvard then enlisted as a private in the Army. Part of an artillery battalion, he landed on the beach at Normandy and fought in the Battle of the Bulge. Toward the end of the war, because of his legal training, he was transferred to a brand new unit in General Patton’s Third Army, created to investigate war crimes. As U.S. forces liberated concentration camps, his job was to rush in and gather evidence….
Lesley Stahl: Did you meet a lot of people who perpetrated war crimes who would otherwise in your opinion have been just a normal, upstanding citizen?
Benjamin Ferencz: Of course, is my answer. These men would never have been murderers had it not been for the war. These were people who could quote Goethe, who loved Wagner, who were polite–
Lesley Stahl: What turns a man into a savage beast like that?
Benjamin Ferencz: He’s not a savage. He’s an intelligent, patriotic human being.
Lesley Stahl: He’s a savage when he does the murder though.
Benjamin Ferencz: No. He’s a patriotic human being acting in the interest of his country, in his mind.
Lesley Stahl: You don’t think they turn into savages even for the act?
Benjamin Ferencz: Do you think the man who dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima was a savage? Now I will tell you something very profound, which I have learned after many years. War makes murderers out of otherwise decent people. All wars, and all decent people….
Here is a Jew, a Romanian, who as a young man went into the Death Camps right on the heels of the Nazis and retrieved evidence of the MURDER of “…over a million people murdered that way, over a million people, that’s more people than you’ve ever seen in your life…” and yet he calls these murderers “…otherwise decent people…”
So not only do you have American and international corporations ‘sympathetic’ to the Nazis, you have this young JEWISH soldier, that has witnessed first hand the atrocities, sympathetic to the Nazis as individual people.
In passing I saw a comment by a female Nuremberg Lawyer that some prominent corporations stepped in and interfered with the trials. I cannot find it again. I think Belle Mayer was the lawyer.
Belle Mayer trained as a lawyer and worked for the General Counsel of the US Treasury, Foreign Funds Control Bureau. This bureau worked to enforce the Trading With the Enemy Act passed by Congress. In this capacity, Mayer became familiar with the German I. G. Farben chemical company, a large conglomerate that used slave labor during World War II. In 1945, Mayer was sent as a Department of Treasury representative to the polstwar London Conference. She was present as representatives from the Allied nations outlined the principles of law for the prosecution and trial of Europe’s major war criminals. Mayer reported to this commission as it prepared for upcoming war crimes trials. She was then among the attorneys (including her future husband William Zeck) who prepared the indictment against the I. G. Farben company at the Nuremberg trials….
….In 1933, after losing an election to President Paul von Hindenburg, Adolf Hitler gave a speech to a small group of German industrialists in the home of Hermann Goering. It was persuasive: Chemical company I.G. Farben donated 500,000 Deutsche Marks to the near-bankrupt Nazi party, essentially breathing life back into it.
For this gift, I.G. Farben became one of the largest wartime government contractors for Nazi Germany. The company not only manufactured synthetic rubber and oil for the war effort, it owned a large stake in a subsidiary that produced Zyklon-B, the gas used to kill Jews en masse via the gas chambers at Auschwitz and other death camps….
“Without I.G. Farben and its tremendous resources – particularly, U.S. dollars, foreign exchange – Hitler simply couldn’t have waged war,”
“They manufactured over 90 percent of the explosives in Germany. … Every bomb had their signature on it.”
… Her office in Washington, D.C. worked in partnership with a group of U.S. infantrymen in Europe who’d raided I.G. Farben headquarters in Frankfurt in the months after the war and left with gunny sacks filled with documents.
These documents made their way to Mayer’s office in D.C., and she and other staff began untangling the complex web of corporate trusts and business names meant to camouflage the ownership of the company….
… In her 1999 interview, Mayer – who died in 2006 at age 87 – explained how her investigation into I.G. Farben’s external assets would develop the case against the company.
“The investigation in the United States led to the identification of various factories and banks and warehouses throughout South America,” Mayer said. “I.G. Farben was like an octopus– it really covered the globe and has establishments and installations in every major city of the world.”….
Well that makes the Nazis fleeing to South America more understandable! Of course some did not bother to flee.
….For decades former Nazis and German war criminals served at the highest echelons of NATO. Most of them were highly decorated Nazis, who later served in top positions in the Western German army, and were later promoted to serve as Commander and Chief of all NATO forces in Europe. This was not a unique event, but a very common phenomenon in post WW2 western Europe and especially in Western Germany. Nazi war criminals and people who supported and helped Hitler to carry out the holocaust and other war crimes, genocides and crimes against Humanity were almost never put on trial for their crimes against the Jews, the Poles, the Greeks, the Russians and the people of Europe, but instead were installed in top positions in NATO, in the western German government, army, industry and western German society at large
The most famous of them was Adolf Heusinger, chief of the Operationsabteilung from 1940-1944. He was actually Hitler’s chief of staff and helped plan the Nazi’s invasions of Poland, Norway, Denmark, and France. He was promoted to colonel on August 1, 1940 and became chief of the Operationsabteilung in October 1940, making him number three in the Army planning hierarchy. After the war, this German war criminal, the man who helped Hitler plan and execute his invasion of neighboring countries which directly led to the deaths of millions of people, was not even put on trial, quite contrary he was allowed to take over the newly established West German army, the “Bundeswehr”. In 1961, Heusinger was made the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (essentially he was NATO’s chief of staff). He served in that capacity until 1964….
HMMMmmmm, Maybe that is why NATO is so gung-ho to support the Nazis in Ukraine.
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THE CURRENT ANTI-AMERICAN CIA
Shadowgate, 16 Aug 2020, by Millennial Millie includes Tore Maras. It covers the characters involved in Russiagate, the Fake News, ANTIFA/BLM riots – ALL the same people and who the string pullers are. She points out the dirty work is OUTSOURCED TO CONTRACTORS. (Think Rodney Joffe, identified as Tech Executive-1 in the Sussmann indictment) In this way FOIA requests are useless.
A look at some of the contractors who supply the labor for the deep state’s psy ops and attacks on the [Trump]0 administration. One involved contractor turned whistleblower calls it “managing the most malevolent operations you can imagine.”
‘ShadowGate’ features two whistleblowers, Tore and Patrick Bergy, who describe a network of government contractors in the Intelligence Community with access to the NSA’s dragnet surveillance and AI programs and who exploit this information to blackmail and control politicians and other powerful people.
These Globalist traitors are the primary administrators of the Fourth Generation warfare being waged against the American people as we speak.
The film details Interactive Internet Activities (IIA) and the military psychological warfare weapon, Shadownet, which is used to control the public narrative through the Fake News, to fix elections, to organize the BLM riots among other things.
Bergy explains how Shadownet was built by the military with US tax dollars and how General James L Jones, Obama’s National Security Advisor took this intellectual property and privatized it for personal gain.
Bergy says Shadownet was used heavily in the Ukraine Color Revolution by Paul Manafort and that an entire cottage industry has since sprung up, with multiple companies using this same software. Watch it before this gets taken down.
A lot of people claim to be critics of Big Pharma but still aren't ready to have a conversation about the many "mental illnesses" the medical industry has invented and monetized. They've turned the whole human condition into a disease. Are you ready to deal with that yet?
Paul Gottfried: "Contra Rich Lowry, there is loathing in the GOP, but it is a loathing that the base feels for the supposedly more civilized Republican politicians who represent their party." Only on American Greatness https://t.co/xgRrR11jpm
Obama won because of Race Card! Ever since then Americans with a brain and viewpoint have been labeled in order to curtail their freedom of speech. pic.twitter.com/uITaHFGkPt
Finally my personal account is restored after two years being suspended for saying Hydroxychloroquine works. I’ve been tweeting through my ministry account. Thanks @elonmusk.
BREAKING: Pfizer scientist Chris Croce was aware that their experimental mRNA "vaccine" was the likely cause for the myocarditis. #ProjectVeritaspic.twitter.com/10RWrZHh8F
— LaughLoveLive, identifies as Deplorable Patriot (@LaughLoveLive1) January 11, 2023
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29And immediately he left the synagogue, and entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. 30Now Simon’s mother-in-law lay sick with a fever, and immediately they told him of her. 31And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and the fever left her; and she served them. 32That evening, at sundown, they brought to him all who were sick or possessed with demons. 33And the whole city was gathered together about the door. 34And he healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons; and he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him. 35And in the morning, a great while before day, he rose and went out to a lonely place, and there he prayed. 36And Simon and those who were with him pursued him, 37and they found him and said to him, “Every one is searching for you.” 38And he said to them, “Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also; for that is why I came out.” 39And he went throughout all Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and casting out demons.
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We are getting ready to experience a level of evil that will be hard to comprehend. Stay strong. Be prepared.
It is quite clear, as per Wolf’s message from July, that we are under spiritual attack. Building up a robust arsenal of prayer and discipline is a must in fighting the enemy and his minions.
In that spirit, the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel from Tuesday’s threads, and the Breastplate of St. Patrick, not to mention the Litany of Humility are favorites recommended by exorcists in spiritual warfare.
SATIRE SECTION
‘California Is The State Of Freedom,’ Says Man Who Locked Everyone In Their Homes For 2 Years https://t.co/bKHMCjLABh
If the feds thought the cheese aged on wood fight was to the death, this one will shock them. Not even. No way, Jose. It’s bad enough that the feds made it so that stoves can’t be hand lit during a power outage, now they want to take away precision heat?!
Fascinating speculation of the possible impact of the American Deep State on the resignation of Pope Benedict. A few years ago, I'd dismiss such talk as wild conspiracy theories, but too many conspiracy theories have become facts to dismiss it out of hand.https://t.co/4MhxW6fXJK
If there’s one thing Washington hates, it’s accountability, and unfortunately the GOP is no different. No one’s ever punished or forced to explain their failures, and as a result, no one ever improves. They just keep getting rewarded for producing the same disasters. pic.twitter.com/Zmf2WOJzue
Many of us (who actually are practicing medicine) were saying this but getting censored for doing so. We were also being attacked by the Left being called "anti-science" and "hacks" when those they were defending were Jussie Smolletts of medicine
— Shawn Waugh, MS, MPAS, PA-C (@RealOnTheLevel) January 9, 2023
Check out Biden’s loyal supporters who showed up to greet him at his border visit pic.twitter.com/tKLMyFzX8o
Let me get this straight. Social Media banned real doctors with real opinions and promoted fake doctors with fake endorsements of the vaccine…? They hate us.
How interesting that this is coming out now. Will the Washington Post address the countless stories they wrote hyping Russian influence on the 2016 race? The Pulitzer they won for such coverage? https://t.co/NKVV58SB8Q
Few safeguards exist to prevent foreign actors, like China, from participating in civil litigation as an undisclosed third-party in U.S. federal courtrooms.
I'm asking the DOJ to provide details about actions they're taking to mitigate this threat.https://t.co/CARdALBXJ9
I litigate cases all the time, successfully, and I’ve got far more than five problems with this lame tale. I don’t believe a word of it. I don’t even believe the punctuation.
TWITTER FILES: Pfizer paid Gottlieb $365K for pushing jabs last year. Gobblieb, former FDA commissioner, a CNBC contributor, & a prominent voice on Covid public policy, who also happened to be a senior board member at Pfizer, company that made around 50% of $81B from mRNA jabs https://t.co/B0PupYZEpA
— LaughLoveLive, identifies as Deplorable Patriot (@LaughLoveLive1) January 10, 2023
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.
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No running with scissors.
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5For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking. 6It has been testified somewhere, “What is man that thou art mindful of him, or the son of man, that thou carest for him? 7Thou didst make him for a little while lower than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honor, 8putting everything in subjection under his feet.”Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. As it is, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him. 9But we see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for every one. 10For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through suffering. 11For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified have all one origin. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brethren, 12saying, “I will proclaim thy name to my brethren, in the midst of the congregation I will praise thee.”
MARK 1:21-28
21And they went into Caper’na-um; and immediately on the sabbath he entered the synagogue and taught. 22And they were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes. 23And immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; 24and he cried out, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God.” 25But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!” 26And the unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him. 27And they were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching! With authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.” 28And at once his fame spread everywhere throughout all the surrounding region of Galilee.
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray. And do thou, Prince of the Heavenly Hosts, by the power of God, cast down to Hell Satan and all his evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.
>>148156518 Amen brother. Q
As always, prayers for the fight against that which seeks to enslave us are welcome. Via con Dios.
Satire
AOC Asks Why We Need A House Speaker Since Everyone Already Has Headphones https://t.co/n4EZwEYal0
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – 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).
Please forgive us, Wheatie, we did not know That you had left us with armor in tow We had no idea with what you dealt We did not know the pain you felt And now we can only imagine With you what really did happen Cause rarely did you complain And/or share your personal pain Of one thing we are most certain You are flying high behind the curtain Watching over us above the crowds Our Warrior Angel above the clouds Thank You, Wheatie, for caring for us While you were here among the fuss We miss you dear you have no idea Since time began in the pangaea With you there was no time In your wisdom you would chime To clarify and magnify The what where how and why We did not question when you left We were not slightly bereft But over time we wondered why You did not at least stop by Now we know where you have gone With the break of this new dawn We could be angry but are not Tho with an arrow we’ve been shot Rest peacefully Warrior Angel dear Send us a sign that you are near A butterfly a flower a kiss of rain From your love do not refrain God sends Angels to watch over us And now we have an Angel Plus A Warrior Angel of Magnificence From today and forward hence
Boilerplate, more or less, but worth reading again and again, if only for the minor changes, and to stay out of moderation.
MINOR CHANGE NUMBER 1
Never talk about committing violence in a reply to Wolf or in response to anything Wolf has said, or you may get put into moderation so that your comments can be screened. This is ONLY because DHS is now playing door-knock Gestapo with people who have spoken at school board meetings, made public comments, etc. DHS regime jackboots are knocking on doors of school board mama bears and stupidly insinuating potential violence from things people say or don’t say on social media. A guy in Ohio pointed his FINGER at the school board, and they went after him, armed with pictures of the pointing, and screen captures of online comments. Yeah.
SO – give the Nazis ZERO ammo. Keep any mention of violence, even joking, away from Wolf, so that he doesn’t have to “explain” humor to humorless jackboots who pretend not to know things.
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YOU are responsible for your own comments, if they come knocking. YOUR choice. Just remember this…..
OTHER THAN THAT…….
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SO….. [ENGAGE BOILERPLATE…..]
We must endeavor to persevere to love our frenemies – even here.
Those who cannot deal with this easy requirement will be forced to jump the hoops of moderation, so that specific comments impugning other posters and violating the minimal rules can be sorted out and tossed in the trash.
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That includes the life skill of just ignoring certain other posters.
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A Moment of Prayer
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Thus, please pray for our real President, the one who actually won the election.
You may also pray for our nation, our world, and even our enemies.
Musical Interlude
In honor of dear Wheatie, we now present some music to soothe, inspire, invigorate, or relax.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the DayYear Week:
cosmorama
noun
a view of different parts of the world [most general]
an exhibition of perspective images using various optical effects [also general]
an exhibition of views of various parts of the world made to appear realistic by mirrors, lenses, and illumination [ more specific]
an exhibition of perspective pictures of different places in the world, usually world landmarks. Careful use of illumination and lenses gives the images greater realism
an exhibition in which a series of views in various parts of the world is seen reflected by mirrors through a series of lenses, with such illumination, etc., as will make the views most closely represent reality [even more specific]
a view or series of views of the world; specifically, an exhibition of a number of drawings, paintings, or photographs of cities, buildings, landscapes, and the like, in different parts of the world, so arranged that they are reflected from mirrors, the reflections being seen through a lens
the name of an entertainment in 19th century London, at 207-209 Regent Street, at which the public could view scenes of distant lands and exotic subjects through optical devices that magnified the pictures.