“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
Yep, Kurt has noticed that lots of people are getting twanging schadenböners.
And you do not have to be male to get this kind of böner.
Hat tip to Scott (I think–if it wasn’t Scott it was 4GodAndCountry) for this video, which implies a LOT of schadenböners in our future.
[WOLF EDIT – for whatever reason this YouTube video no longer embeds, even as the shortened URL (below), so I have converted both URLs to links which open up in a new tab.]
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.
What a roller coaster ride these last couple of weeks have been!!
Note that gold was below 3,000 earlier this week because of the general market panic over the tariffs. Silver, alas, hasn’t been keeping up with gold. After a couple of days spent practically in lockstep with gold at about 100:0, silver is just being left behind. (Are Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins in the room?) That was as of Thursday; on Friday silver played some catchup so over the week as a whole it gained against gold slightly. Or you can think of it as gold falling over two ounces of silver. Take your pick which one is the measuring stick.
Even platinum had some joy this last week, but that was after dropping below $900 for a bit.
*The SteveInCO Federal Reserve Note Suckage Index (FRNSI) is a measure of how much the dollar has inflated. It’s the ratio of the current price of gold, to the number of dollars an ounce of fine gold made up when the dollar was defined as 25.8 grains of 0.900 gold. That worked out to an ounce being $20.67+71/387 of a cent. (Note gold wasn’t worth this much back then, thus much gold was $20.67 71/387ths. It’s a subtle distinction. One ounce of gold wasn’t worth $20.67 back then, it was $20.67.) Once this ratio is computed, 1 is subtracted from it so that the number is zero when the dollar is at its proper value, indicating zero suckage.
FKatzoid Out?
No, FKatzoid isn’t going glober, but apparently he took enough blowback for going after Lisbeth the way he did, that he’s rebranding himself. Note the following non-apology apology.
Potassium and Argon
Good old potassium. A very earthy element. In fact, by weight the Earth’s crust is 2.6 percent potassium. It’s common in minerals like feldspars, micas, clay minerals, tephra, and evaporites (e.g., dry lakebed salt). In other words, it’s common.
Common stuff! So why is it you never see it? It’s one of the “Alkali metals” like sodium (it’s sodium’s big brother), and thus it’s so reactive that pure potassium metal doesn’t last long. In fact, expose potassium metal to the air and it will form potassium peroxide in mere seconds on exposure to air. The layer formed will flake off, exposing more of the metal, and the process repeats itself.
If something can’t stand being in just ordinary air, you’re not going to see it lying around on the ground in lumps.
Being in that left-hand column of the table, potassium can’t resist just dropping an electron on the floor and becoming an ion. So it ends up having an important role in biochemistry as much metabolism is regulated by the concentration of potassium and sodium ions. It also shows up in various proteins and enzymes. It’s important stuff.
It’s rather famously found in bananas.
And it just happens to be just a teensy bit radioactive. Potassium, symbol K (you can thank the Germans for that), is element #19, and it has three isotopes found in nature. 39K is stable, and 93.3 percent of all potassium is this isotope. 41K is also stable, and it takes up 6.73 percent of potassium. (Those numbers appear to add up to over 100 (100.03) percent thanks to a round off error.) Well within that round-off error is the natural occurrence of the third naturally found isotope of potassium, 40K, which makes up 0.0120% of all potassium. In other words barely one atom in every ten thousand.
Potassium-40 (I’m going to go with K-40 or potassium-40–and similarly for other elements and other isotopes–from here on out, since superscripting is a slight pain in Wordpiss) has a half life of 1.248 x 109 years, which means it’s one of those “primordial” isotopes that has been with us all along. And it’s a bit odd, in one respect. Up to now, everything I’ve discussed has one method of decay; it spits out an alpha particle, or maybe a beta particle. But potassium-40 has three decay modes.
89.28 percent of the time, it decays by beta radiation, which means the nucleus gains a positive charge but stays at the same mass number. Gaining one charge makes it an atom of the 20th element, calcium (Ca), and in particular calcium-40.
The other two modes are similar to each other, or rather, they have similar results. 10.72 percent of the time the potassium-40 nucleus will “capture” an electron. The inner shell electrons spend some time actually within the nucleus and that can be enough in this case, for beta decay to run backwards, essentially. The K-40 nucleus loses a positive charge but retains the 40 mass number; that makes it element 18, argon (Ar), specifically argon-40. The third mode is the nucleus emitting a positron (also known as positive beta decay); this happens 0.001% of the time. But that too lowers the charge of the nucleus, and argon-40 is the result of this decay mode, too.
All uranium is radioactive. Same with thorium. Only a tiny fraction of potassium is radioactive. But potassium is so overwhelmingly common compared to the other two, that most of the radioactive activity in the Earth is due to potassium.
So show those bananas some respect.
Given how common potassium is in minerals, K-40 seems like a good candidate for radiometric dating. And it has two distinct daughter isotopes to choose from since it can decay into either argon-40 or calcium-40.
Calcium is even more abundant in the Earth’s crust than is potassium. Furthermore its most common isotope by far is calcium-40 (at 96.9 percent of the total). [Calcium has four other stable isotopes and another, a rare one, with a half life of 19 quintillion years, which is effectively stable.] Remember that K-40 is quite a small proportion of all potassium, and you can see that its decay into Ca-40 is just not going change the Ca-40 amounts by much…so it will be really hard to see the change in ratio.
Argon, on the other hand is a very different matter! It won’t combine with anything–it’s a noble gas–so it’s unlikely to get incorporated into any mineral except possibly by being physically trapped in the magma somehow–this is not quite impossible but very unlikely. It’s far more likely to escape the magma. Various environmental factors can change how well this works, so this effects the size of the error bars when doing dating. But for the most part, if we see any argon-40 in a rock, it’s almost certainly decay product, similar to the reasoning used for lead appearing in zircons.
So we have potassium-argon dating, also called K-Ar dating.
(So for Pat Fredericks, this is the sort of dating where you wait until her parents argon, before doing anything with his potassium-rich banana. If you don’t take care wait long enough, you might end up utilizing uranium-lead dating.)
This method can work with any rock sample over a few thousand years old. It won’t work well with samples younger than that.
First, you take your rock sample and heat it enough to release trapped gases. Use a mass spectrometer to measure the argon-40. Use flame photometry or atomic absorption spectroscopy to quantify the potassium. You just want to know how much potassium is in the mineral, you don’t need to be specific as to isotope.
Here’s the basic formula.
Note that the amount of argon in the sample is divided by 0.109, which is the factor used to adjust for the fact that not all K-40 decays into Ar-40. By doing this division you get a number indicating the total number of decay products of K-40 decay (not just the argon ones). In the formula above Kf is the amount of K-40 in the sample now. Often though they simply measure the total amount of potassium and multiply by the ratio of K-40 to K-39+K-41 (0.000117/0.932581).
This is best used for dating minerals and rocks over 100,000 years old. Some of the rocks it is best used in are magnetic, so we can check the history of earth’s magnetic field by measuring the magnetism of the rocks and then determining their age.
We were even able to send a mini lab to Mars on the Curiosity rover, which was used to date a rock from Mars, ON Mars. This was very rough but the result was between 3.86 to 4.56 billion years old.
But there’s a bit more to this story.
Air is about 1 percent argon gas (0.934 percent to be precise). Almost all (99.6%) of the argon in the air is argon-40.
When we look at argon in space, though the vast majority of it is argon-36; the sun’s argon is 84.6 percent Ar-36 (based on sampling the solar wind), the outer gas giants are similarly rich in Ar-36–they’ll have retained what was in the original nebula. (This is logical because stars build up lighter elements by combining He-4 nuclei, and argon-36 is nine of those put together.) This suggests that Earth lost all of its original argon supply when it was very hot shortly after formation, and what argon we are breathing now is almost all radiogenic argon-40. Furthermore smaller worlds like Mercury, Mars and Titan all have some argon in their atmospheres, with argon-40 the vast majority of it. They too have radioactive decay going on.
If you think about it, it’s a bit freaky, you’re breathing stuff that used to be potassium with every breath. Fortunately it isn’t potassium any more because that would do a number on your lungs.
I haven’t found numbers on this, but this amount of argon in our air is yet another indication (as if not having short-half life primordial radioisotopes isn’t enough) that the Earth is old–as well as Mars, Titan and Mercury.
In fact this effect is so pronounced that if you measure the atomic weight of argon here on Earth, it’s higher than that of potassium, in spite of being before potassium on the periodic table. This was a bit confusing at first to people like Mendeleev when the periodic table was being developed.
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Health Friday is a series devoted to information regarding Big Pharma, vaccines, general health, and associated topics. As today’s post speaks to the disaster of the COVID-19 “vaccines”, Yours Truly dedicates it to the memory of all persons, of whatever age or location, who have passed away from the negative effects of these lab-created bioweapons.
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Today’s offering is part of a “mini-series” devoted to a single topic and/or scientific paper. Yours Truly presents a new paper confirming the increased risk for stroke, heart attack, and other cardiovascular serious events, after COVID-19 “vaccination.”
One begins here: https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-85-million-person-study, “BREAKING: 85-Million-Person Study Finds Increased Risks of Stroke, Heart Attack, Coronary Artery Disease, and Arrhythmia Following COVID-19 Vaccination”, by Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, 7 April 2025. The new paper cited in his article is found here: https://doi.org/10.4103/ijpvm.ijpvm_260_24, “COVID-19 Vaccination and Cardiovascular Events: A Systematic Review and Bayesian Multivariate Meta-Analysis of Preventive Benefits and Risks”, Raheleh Karimi, et al., 14 March 2025. (A discussion on how Bayesian Multivariate Meta-Analysis models work is here: https://bookdown.org/MathiasHarrer/Doing_Meta_Analysis_in_R/bayesian-ma.html.) Two screenshots from the Hulscher article follow: One is from the paper; the other is his statistical analysis:
The Karimi, et al., paper, in Yours Truly’s opinion, if one is reading it correctly, while being detailed and using sophisticated models for its conclusions, appears to endorse COVID-19 “vaccination” as a way to reduce the incidence of stroke: and, also, the authors appear to state that multiple injections of a COVID-19 “vaccine” reduce the potential for cardiovascular damage. Yours Truly believes that the paper’s authors have ignored a couple of important items: First, the fact that cardiovascular damage induced from COVID-19 “vaccination” can be incremental and cumulative over time. Please see: https://doctors4covidethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/causality-article.pdf, “Vascular and organ damage induced by mRNA vaccines: irrefutable proof of causality”, Michael Palmer, MD, and Sucharit Bhakdi, MD; refer to Slide 8 through Slide 11 of this article. And, Second, there is the paper published this year, based on the Yale LISTEN Study. Please see: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.18.25322379, “Immunological and Antigenic Signature Associated with Chronic Illnesses after COVID-19 Vaccination”, Akiko Iwasaki, et al. This paper clearly demonstrates that the spike protein in the COVID-19 modRNA “vaccines” (and, therefore, the potential for “vaccine”-induced damage) is present in the “vaccinated” person’s body for as long as, if not longer than, 709 days post-injection.
The following is the Conclusions section of the Karimi, et al., paper. It is astonishing to read that the authors appear to believe that the COVID-19 “vaccines” are “safe and effective” — just that persons with known (or suspected) cardiovascular issues should be tested before they are offered the opportunity to take one of these “vaccines”:
Why on Earth would a person (with cardiovascular issues or not) agree to have a COVID-19 “vaccine” that can cause (or aggravate) cardiovascular issues injected into their body? Why are cardiologists recommending that patients with heart conditions take COVID-19 “vaccines”? Please see: https://www.rush.edu/news/cardiologists-recommend-covid-19-vaccine-heart-patients, “Cardiologists Recommend COVID-19 Vaccine for Heart Patients Doctors say the vaccine can help prevent further heart and health complications”, copyright 2025 Rush University Medical Center (Chicago, Illinois.) Are these cardiologists not aware of the Palmer and Sucharit article cited above? Are they not aware that the FDA knew back in April 2021, that the COVID-19 “vaccines” can, and do, cause numerous types of heart and cardiovascular serious adverse effects in COVID-19 “vaccinated” persons? Please see the Appendix 1. List of Adverse Events of Special Interest section of this report, which Pfizer-BioNTech gave to the FDA in April 2021 regarding the company’s “flagship” modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine”, BNT162b2: https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5.3.6-postmarketing-experience.pdf. Scroll through the pages of the Appendix 1. to see the various types of heart and cardiovascular serious adverse events that were reported in persons who took this “vaccine.” For example, here is Page 2 of the Appendix 1. Note the multiple serious adverse events that were reported regarding cardiovascular conditions.
And there are many more types of cardiovascular serious adverse events reported in the Appendix 1. There are listings under “Coronary”; under “Thrombo”- (for example, Thrombocytopenia; and, under “Vascular” — among others.
The information regarding how dangerous and deadly the COVID-19 “vaccines” are is increasing from a “trickle” to a “torrent.” Why are physicians still recommending these injections? Why are these injections still listed on the CDC Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule?
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Do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. — Galatians 5:1
We got our miracle. America is back.
Let us dedicate ourselves to the cleansing, healing, and rebuilding of our beautiful nation.
God will guide us. Prayers & thanks to God for President Donald J. Trump.
Vigilance.
Here we are. We are living through some of the most amazing days in the history of our country. And yet we can sense an uneasiness. An awareness that we need to remain vigilant. A feeling that the enemies of what is good and right are still hard at work trying to interfere, disrupt, overthrow, yes and even murder those building a better future for our nation.
Being Warned in a Dream.
It has been rare, but there have been times in my life when I needed to be warned about something, and it seemed that a dream was given. A dream that would shake me deeply. And then I would ponder, pray, seek insight, and face whatever the warning seemed to be about. Then I would try to respond appropriately in the circumstances.
Two days ago I awakened out of a dream with a grave sense of imminent danger. It was so disturbing, but I couldn’t really make out the full meaning. I will try and tell the details here as I remember them:
I am looking out over a freeway which is just below me in a canyon. At the edge of the canyon there are couple of people sitting at a table, maybe sharing a meal and talking. Beyond them, off in the distance, I can see a large silver airplane flying low over the city. It is apparently having mechanical trouble. I sensed great cry of prayer going up to God for the plane. The plane steadies, there is a sigh of relief. But then there is a distraction. I am still watching the plane. Suddenly it upends and then goes down hard, crashing. I run from where I witnessed the crash over to the airport. The wreckage is on the runway, but there is no fire, no emergency response crews, no activity at all at the crash site. I look around and see that there are people working in other parts of the airfield. They are focused on their work. Work that seems to be related to organizing or preparing to create chaos, not just protests, but also other kinds of disruptions and destruction. In the dream I picked up the sense that these are the kind of people that intend to harm our country—and it’s people—in any way they can.
Needless to say, reading Gail’s post yesterday did not do anything to calm my heightened sense of needing to be on alert. Alert in prayer. Alert in the world around me.
Nehemiah the Builder.
One of my early Bible teachers taught us to face difficult situations by praying and asking, “Where am I in the Bible now?” Perhaps the example of Nehemiah—rebuilding a nearly destroyed people and nation while facing danger and threats from those who hated and opposed his success—might just be a good fit for today. May pondering this story strengthen us to work at the tasks set before us with wisdom, humility, strength and courage.
For those that might appreciate a quick video overview:
An Inquiring Heart.
The story begins with Nehemiah in captivity, serving the king of another nation. But his heart is back home with his people. He questions his brothers that had just returned from Judah about of the state of his homeland. They reply, “Those who survived the exile and are back in the province are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.” (Ne 1:3, KJV)
A Broken & Contrite Heart.
The response of Nehemiah reveals his tenderness and compassion for his people. “When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven.” (1:4) Nehemiah doesn’t stand in judgment over others, he sits among them in his prayer:
“Lord, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and keep his commandments, let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer your servant is praying before you day and night for your servants, the people of Israel. I confess the sins we Israelites, including myself and my father’s family, have committed against you. We have acted very wickedly toward you. We have not obeyed the commands, decrees and laws you gave your servant Moses.
“Remember the instruction you gave your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations, but if you return to me and obey my commands, then even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my Name.’
“They are your servants and your people, whom you redeemed by your great strength and your mighty hand. Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of this your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight in revering your name. Give your servant success today by granting him favor in the presence of this man.” (He was cupbearer to the king.)
Artaxerxes Sends Nehemiah to Jerusalem
Nehemiah succeeds in his plan to get King Artaxerxes’ support in returning to Judah to help rebuild. He gets the authority from the king to do this work. The king authorizes materials and military protection as well. However, some of the local officials are “very much disturbed that someone had come to promote the welfare of the Israelites.”
Nehemiah quietly checks out the situation after he arrives and then goes to the leadership of Jerusalem with his plan and the good news concerning the king’s support. They agree to begin rebuilding.
The Opposition’s Response #1
Their first response is to not only mock and ridicule the Israelites, but to also accuse them of rebellion against the king. Nehemiah answers them by (1) identifying God as their hope for success, (2) noting their submission to God as his servants, (3) declaring their undeterred decision to keep rebuilding, (4) pointing out the opposition’s lack of claim or historical right to their city.
The Opposition’s Response #2
As the work begins, the opposition becomes more incensed. The opposition leader airs his ridicule in front of his associates and the army of Samaria. “What are those feeble Jews doing? Will they restore their wall? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a day? Can they bring the stones back to life from those heaps of rubble—burned as they are?” Then his sidekick piles on, “What they are building—even a fox climbing up on it would break down their wall of stones!”
At this point Nehemiah has nothing left to say to their enemies. He goes straight to Godwith his appeal. “Hear us, our God, for we are despised. Turn their insults back on their own heads. Give them over as plunder in a land of captivity. Do not cover up their guilt or blot out their sins from your sight, for they have thrown insults in the face of the builders.”
The Opposition’s Response #3
The work continues to make good progress, and when the opposition hears about it, their anger grew to the point that “They all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and stir up trouble against it.”
Nehemiah’s response again was to pray “to our God” and this time he “posted a guard day and night to meet this threat.”
Internal Discouragement
The workers start to report that their discouragement, and their fear of attacks by their enemies. Nehemiah’s listened to their reports. He takes direct action to fortify the protection for the families working on the wall. Again, he personally looks over the situation and speaks to the people directly.
I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your families, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes.” When our enemies heard that we were aware of their plot and that God had frustrated it, we all returned to the wall, each to our own work.
Remaining Vigilant
Nehemiah then reports on the new level of vigilance provided to protect those working:
From that day on, half of my men did the work, while the other half were equipped with spears, shields, bows and armor. The officers posted themselves behind all the people of Judah who were building the wall. Those who carried materials did their work with one hand and held a weapon in the other, and each of the builders wore his sword at his side as he worked. But the man who sounded the trumpet stayed with me.
Then I said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, “The work is extensive and spread out, and we are widely separated from each other along the wall. Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, join us there. Our God will fight for us!”
So we continued the work with half the men holding spears, from the first light of dawn till the stars came out. At that time I also said to the people, “Have every man and his helper stay inside Jerusalem at night, so they can serve us as guards by night and as workers by day.” Neither I nor my brothers nor my men nor the guards with me took off our clothes; each had his weapon, even when he went for water.
Correcting Internal Exploitation
At this time there is a famine and the people are being (illegally) charged interest and are having their crops and lands siezed by the wealthy. When Nehemiah learns of this he beomes very angry for this injustice. He calls a public meeting and speaks directly to these wealthy leaders:
So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our Gentile enemies? I and my brothers and my men are also lending the people money and grain. But let us stop charging interest! Give back to them immediately their fields, vineyards, olive groves and houses, and also the interest you are charging them—one percent of the money, grain, new wine and olive oil.” “We will give it back,” they said. “And we will not demand anything more from them. We will do as you say.” Then I summoned the priests and made the nobles and officials take an oath to do what they had promised. I also shook out the folds of my robe and said, “In this way may God shake out of their house and possessions anyone who does not keep this promise. So may such a person be shaken out and emptied!” At this the whole assembly said, “Amen,” and praised the Lord. And the people did as they had promised.
The Opposition’s Response #4
When the opposition hears that the wall has been completely rebuilt (but without doors in the gates yet). They try a new tactic. Four times they send letters to Nehemiah, attempting to persuade him to come out of the city and meet them in an outlying village. But their plan was to ambush him and cause the work to stop. Nehemiah refused.
The Opposition’s Response #5
A fifth time the opposition sends an unsealed letter (so others would know what was written) with lying accusations saying the Israelites were planning to revolt against the king. Nehemiah says about this latest attack:
I sent him this reply: “Nothing like what you are saying is happening; you are just making it up out of your head.” They were all trying to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will get too weak for the work, and it will not be completed.” But I prayed, “Now strengthen my hands.”
Intrigue Within the Community
Nehemiah then elaborates on an incredible amount of intrigue where people inside of his own community try and trap or entangle him, are collaborating with their enemies due to alliances via intermarriage, are leaking information back to them and are lobbying to influence Nehemiah to see their enemies in a good light. Sounds familiar.
A Great Awakening
Chapters 8 through 12 of the book of Nehemiah recount a profound return to God by the people. Starting with fasting and confessing their sins, listening to Ezra read from the scriptures, repentance, and crying out to the Lord their God. The people then agree to obey the Lord by correcting wrongs, agreeing to obey the Lord’s instructions for offerings, worship, and consecrating the new wall in a large festival-like event. Things are going well for as long as their leader, Nehemiah was there to keep watch over the community.
However, in the final chapter of the book we learn that as soon as Nehemiah left to go back into service with the king, some of the people went back on their promises to God. When Nehemiah returns he again brings correction, helping the people to remain faithful to their God.
Keep Us Faithful, O Lord
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. — Jude 24-25 (KJV)
Our Turn.
We can’t leave this to others. We can make a difference. And we must make a difference.
May God bless and guide you as you pray and take action for our nation.
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God Bless America, Land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her Thru the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, To the oceans, white with foam God bless America, My home sweet home.
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I really love this paragraph because Jeff Childers ‘gets it’
To say that London is the world’s globalization headquarters is like saying the Mouse lives at Disney World. London has been the velvet-gloved epicenter of globalism ever since the East India Company shipped spices and opium on the same manifest. London’s financial class didn’t just benefit from globalization— they practically wrote the instruction manual. For them to start hand-wringing now about “mass immigration” and “no benefits from free trade” is a sign the ground is shaking beneath the WEF cathedral.
When looking at new information and ideas, it is always useful to see how it fits into past knowledge and history. In this case it is useful to look at the ending of the British East India Co. and the British actions in South Africa during the Second Boer War (1899 -1902.) That was a war over resources, such as diamonds and gold.
I want to reiterate what my South African friend told me on Sunday, March 16. First if I understood her correctly the South African area was NOT occupied by Blacks when the Dutch originally settled there. The Dutch (Boers) colonized it. Second she told me that DURING THE Second Boer War, the British took women and children prisoners AND FED THEM FOOD LACED WITH GLASS SO THEY DIED LINGERING, HORRIBLE, PAINFUL DEATHS!! Colonel Towner also mentioned that the Brits took women and children prisoner tortured and slaughtered them.
…According to the historian Madhusree Mukerjee, the colonial regime practically eliminated Indian tariffs, allowing British goods to flood the domestic market, but created a system of exorbitant taxes and internal duties that prevented Indians from selling cloth within their own country, let alone exporting it. This unequal trade regime crushed Indian manufacturers and effectively de-industrialized the country. [Sound familiar? — GC]
As the chairman of East India and China Association boasted to the English parliament in 1840: “This company has succeeded in converting India from a manufacturing country into a country exporting raw produce.” English manufacturers gained a tremendous advantage, while India was reduced to poverty and its people were made vulnerable to hunger and disease.
To make matters worse, British colonisers established a system of legal plunder, known to contemporaries as the “drain of wealth.” Britain taxed the Indian population and then used the revenues to buy Indian products – indigo, grain, cotton, and opium – thus obtaining these goods for free. These goods were then either consumed within Britain or re-exported abroad, with the revenues pocketed by the British state and used to finance the industrial development of Britain and its settler colonies – the United States, Canada and Australia. [Except those colonies were ALSO suffering under British mercantilism. -GC]
This system drained India of goods worth trillions of dollars in today’s money. The British were merciless in imposing the drain, forcing India to export food even when drought or floods threatened local food security. Historians have established that tens of millions of Indians died of starvation during several considerable policy-induced famines in the late 19th century, as their resources were syphoned off to Britain…
The template described above is similar to the template in use today. I wrote the following two decades ago:
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The 1944 Breton Woods Agreement (written by a Soviet spy and the Fabian, John Keynes) established the IMF and the World Bank because “The stock of gold grew slowly but the stocks of dollars and pounds could grow without limit. Member countries accepted the obligation to treat the two alike. In practice this meant they had to accept inflation or appreciate their exchange rate.” The IMF/World Bank used Structural Adjustment Policies, SAPs, to open up countries to exploitation by corporations. Instead of a British Empire overtly colonizing the world, heavily criticized by a voting public, we now have Corporate and Banking interests united in the covert control of whole nations in the name of profit.
Structural Adjustment Policies are economic policies which countries must follow in order to qualify for new World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans and help them make debt repayments on the older debts owed to commercial banks, governments and the World Bank. Although SAPs are designed for individual countries they have common guiding principles and features which include export-led growth; privatisation and liberalisation; and the efficiency of the free market.
SAPs often result in deep cuts in programmes like education, health and social care…
A former respected member of international banking, John Perkins, said this in “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”and in interviews.
JOHN PERKINS: Basically what we were trained to do and what our job is to do is to build up the American empire. To bring – to create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government, and in fact we’ve been very successful. We’ve built the largest empire in the history of the world. It’s been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It’s only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort. This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud…
John Perkins states he was initially recruited by the National Security Agency, a US Government agency. I contend these were not from our legitimate government elected by the US citizens but traitors representing banking interests. Perkins writes, “The book was to be dedicated to the presidents of two countries, men who had been his clients whom I respected and thought of as kindred spirits – Jaime Rolds, president of Ecuador, and Omar Torrijos, president of Panama. Both had just died in fiery crashes. Their deaths were not accidental. They were assassinated because they opposed that fraternityof corporate, government, and banking heads whose goal is global empire. We Economic Hit Men failed to bring Rolds and Torrijos around, and the other type of hit men, the CIA-sanctioned jackals who were always right behind us, stepped in.” Perkins “ fraternity of corporate, government, and banking heads whose goal is global empire” is certainly not representing the American people, but a cartel intent on a worldwide empire.
American corporations have been quietly sold off piece by piece. This is a sampling of the industries with over 50% foreign ownership, according to Source Watch in 2008 Foreign Ownership of US Corporations
Also Perkins neglects to mention the activities of the CIA.
…White House and Intelligence Community stated concerns during the period of the Church and Pike inquiries were preserving the effectiveness of the CIA and reassuring future operatives who might fear their “heads may be on the block” for their actions, no matter how well-intentioned. But intelligence officials also worried that disclosures of agency operations would be “disastrous” for CIA’s standing in the world: “We are a great power and it is important that we be perceived as such,” a memo to the president warned, urging that “our intelligence capability to a certain extent be cloaked in mystery and held in awe.”
In 1975, it was then-Deputy Chief of Staff Dick Cheney who spearheaded the Ford White House’s hostile approach to Congress, which required the CIA to submit all proposed responses to Capitol Hill for prior presidential approval and featured the explicit intent to keep investigators away from the most sensitive records. Those events presaged the battles between the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) and the U.S. Intelligence Community since 2012 over plans to publish the former’s 6,000-page report on the CIA’s rendition, detention and interrogation program…
This continuing fight against America by the rogue Intelligence Community is a feature of today’s political landscape.
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The big take away from this next article is that public perception was a major factor in the downfall of the British East India Co. I think this is KEY. The ‘International Syndicate’ aka Cabal wants to fly under the radar of both the public and of politicians to prevent a repeat. Complete control of the media in the USA, starting in 1915; Off the books operations of the CIA especially after the Church Commission tried to aired the CIA’s dirty linen (see above); and assassination of anyone who wanders too far off the International Syndicate’s Plantation; has kept knowledge of the International Syndicate off everyone’s radar until Operation Gladio was finally revealed by the Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti in an official statement to the Italian parliament. Operation Gladio – Hard Evidence of Government Sponsored False Flag Terrorism
The EIC had many enemies, not only rival European trading companies and rulers in India but also back in Britain. It was criticised for its monopolies, harsh trading terms, and corruption. The company’s trade was so large it was responsible for a serious drain of Britain’s stock of silver. Its directors returned to England with vast new wealth that upset the established hierarchy of British society. This nouveau riche was disparagingly called ‘nabobs’…
The 1773 Regulating Act resulted in changes…. The greater interest the British government began to take in India was likely a direct result of the loss of its colonies in North America in 1783…
…Once again, prominent members of the British Parliament were aghast at lurid tales of the EIC’s policies in India, and many sought to bring the company under much greater scrutiny and control. Reform was not straightforward, though, when dealing with such a commercial giant. Many MPs remained in EIC employ or were shareholders (23% in the 1770s). Further, the British monarchy was not in favour of infringing on private property. Still, the burning question of the day was why was this private company with private interests being allowed to conduct itself like a state but without any of the constraints of an electorate or any of the scruples of justice.
The atmosphere of the time was relevant here. Political philosophers were now influencing politicians in Britain with their thoughts on the importance of individual liberty, government by consent, and rule through justice….
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After the mutiny was quashed, the sentiment in Britain was that such an important colony as India could no longer be left in the hands of a private company. The general mood was captured by the Illustrated London News in the following article extract of July 1857:
The state of affairs in India may well exercise the alarm of the nation…Our house in India is on fire. We are not insured. To lose that house would be to lose power, prestige, and character – to descend in the rank of nations…Whether it were desirable that we should win India by the sword is no longer a question. Having won it we must keep it. (Barrow, 167-8)
The British Crown took full possession of EIC territories in India with the Government of India Act of 2 August 1858. The EIC armies were absorbed into the British Army, and the EIC navy was disbanded. The most aggressive and utterly ruthless private company ever yet created was effectively nationalised…
Read that last sentence again. “The most aggressive and utterly ruthless private company ever yet created was effectively nationalised…” So the British East India Company didn’t actually die it just morphed into part of the British government. Then after WWII British/City of London mercantilism was outsourced to NATO and the Brit’s favorite slave colony, the USA.
….Internationaldevelopmentprogramscouldpresentthemodernisationandexpansionofsecurityinfrastructureasgrowingstability [When in fact it increased destabilization which was its entire goal so the ‘International Syndicate’s’ oligarchs could steal these people’s resources. That is what it was really for and to put down any dissidents while they were being raped and stuff was being pillaged out of their country. -GC] and preventing crime in these nations, without the bad optics of the CIA or the military [involvement.]
Aubergine on April 1, 2025 brought an article to the Qtree that starts with this:
“In retrospect, the spark might seem as ominous as a financial crash, as ordinary as a national election, or as trivial as a Tea Party. The catalyst will unfold according to a basic Crisis dynamic that underlies all of these scenarios: An initial spark will trigger a chain reaction of unyielding responses and further emergencies. The core elements of these scenarios (debt, civic decay, global disorder) will matter more than the details, which the catalyst will juxtapose and connect in some unknowable way. If foreign societies are also entering a Fourth Turning, this could accelerate the chain reaction. At home and abroad, these events will reflect the tearing of the civic fabric at points of extreme vulnerability – problem areas where America will have neglected, denied, or delayed needed action.” –The Fourth Turning – Strauss & Howe
I think the author is correct that the risk of much death and destruction is high, but IMO it is because the CABAL is responsible for perpetuation of the 80 year turnings, on which they feed and thrive.
This turning is about disempowering the Cabal. It may be different in some new ways.
Another aspect of this risk is what the Colonel and Alpha address in the transcript I present today.
Cutting off the funding to the CIA/NATO Werewolf Units aka Stay-behind Units, is a major start but REMOVING/WIPING OUT those units is paramount. With Elon now in the CIA, he may be able to turn up the data on the Werewolf Units under the CIAs control.
Thomas Wictor (Carlos Osweda) mentioned during the George Floyd riots, that he thought tiny drones were being used to track the ANTIFA ring leaders. I certainly hope he is correct. Getting rid of the imported terrorist illegals is also going to help. Unfortunately the Cabal has had four years to import Werewolf Units, train them, equip them and hide them.
patfrederick brings a NebraskaFilly comment to the Qtree onApril 7, 2025.
“DC Cop Getting a Pass for Drugs, Guns Should Raise Major Questions” Bearing Arms, Tom Knighton | 4:30 PM | April 06, 2025
ENTIRE ARTICLE: “I’m not anti-cop by any stretch of the imagination. I happen to know for a fact that there are good cops out there. I was raised by one, may he rest in peace. I’ve known plenty in my life. I’ve known a bunch that were on the opposite end of the spectrum, too, though most are somewhere in between the angels and the devils, like most people. But what bothers me is how police often get preferential treatment on things. Cops often look the other way when one of their fellow officers are driving too fast or roll through a stop sign. Of course, this kind of thing bothers me far more.
A D.C. police officer once celebrated as a community leader was pulled over and detained in Prince George’s County with guns and drugs inside his car — but is only being cited for traffic violations.
Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela A. Smith confirmed Thursday the detention of Officer Maleek Isaiah Loggins, 22, which had taken place the day before in District Heights, Maryland.
She said his police powers have been suspended as the D.C. department conducts its own investigation into the incident.
MPD said Officer Loggins worked as a patrol officer. He became a sworn officer in March 2024.
A Prince George’s County police report obtained by The Washington Times said Officer Loggins was pulled over at about 3:20 p.m. after authorities witnessed him “committing traffic violations” near the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and Silver Hill Road.
The report said Officer Loggins was ordered out of the car, and a search of his vehicle turned up a Glock pistol with a 10-round magazine, and a Draco handgun — which mimics the look of an AK-47 — with a 24-round magazine.
Authorities said Officer Loggins also had 27.5 grams of marijuana in his car, which falls short of the 1.5 ounce criminal threshold for marijuana possession in the state, as well as a digital scale.
The report said the MPD officer was detained, handcuffed, and processed for multiple traffic-related offenses, and then released pending further investigation.
Now, let’s break this down. First, I get that the drugs were below the threshold, but in case you don’t have the conversion of grams to ounces handy, it was only short by less than a gram. Maybe it’s just me, but that could be a scale calibration issue. Either way, the law is the law. But because the law is the law, we have to remember that possession of a firearm by someone who uses drugs–even marijuana, mind you, regardless of state laws on the subject–is a felony. “Tom, that’s a federal charge. Local cops can’t file those charges unless there’s a corresponding state law.” That is true, and I haven’t bothered to look to see if Maryland has one, which is where Prince George’s County is, has one. But they do have a magazine capacity limit of just 10 rounds. The Draco had a 24-round magazine. They had grounds to charge him. Except for the fact that he’s a cop and they get special treatment. The laws don’t apply to someone like him as they would to you or me in Prince George’s County. So, they just wrote him a traffic ticket and sent him on his way. These are the gun control laws that we’re all supposed to follow. These are the laws we’re assured are absolutely essential to keeping us all safe. But they don’t apply to law enforcement officers because they’re better than us. They get different rules because they’re special. Well, I’m not walking around with marijuana in my vehicle, much less an amount that’s a skooch under the legal limit and trusting my badge to keep me out of trouble. What happened here should raise a lot of questions, including why laws that are supposedly so essential aren’t applied to everyone equally. Unfortunately, no one in Maryland or DC will be interested in asking those.”
Colonel Towner (above) sheds a lot of light on why police officers may be given a free pass in the following video. In this Operation Gladio video the Colonel turned up another danger point I never anticipated. Alpha Warrior, is not only a retired Marine he is also a fired LEO. He was fired for being honest BTW and then attacked by the Biden Admin AG/FBI using Lawfare as a ‘potential Domestic Terrorist.’ Keep this in mind as he makes comments on what Colonel Towner is saying.
The Colonel refers to this article, WIKI — Office of Public Safety, as she is talking about the Office of Public Safety. As usual it is a Limited Hangout telling SOME of the story but hiding the fact the actions never stopped. The story told is horrendous enough! Please note the section on the LAPD and also note the LAPD is now allowing NON-CITIZENS on their police force.
OPERATION GLADIO – CHAPTER 47 – “USAID-Office of Public Safety” PART 5 – EP.394
ROUGH TRANSCRIPT
7:00Colonel: I have even shocked myself and I have gotten pretty immune to this stuff. This is crazy. Again I could not be partnered with a better person, because the Office of Public Safety is about policing. It is an oxymoron because it has absolutely nothing to do with public safety and everything to do with torturing and killing. So you would think what has that got to do with policing? Well you are about to find out!
7:50 — 11:10 Banter about trick Colonel played on Alpha at GART in Los Vegas.
11:10Colonel: Pull up Wiki article on Office of Public Safety. I want people to understand the limits. We are going to do a tutorial just using Wiki to tell you something. Because when we are done tonight we are going to come back to this. I want you to compare what they are telling you is the Office of Public Safety to what I am going to explain to you is the Office of Public Safety.
READS:
The Office of Public Safety (OPS) was a U.S. government program within the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) that provided training, assistance and equipment to the security forces of U.S. allies. The program commenced in November 1962 and was terminated by Congress in 1974.
12:10 Colonel: You would think anything that happened before 1962 would have nothing to do with the Office of Public Safety and that we did not do any of these kinds of things. And that after 1974 they terminated it. They actually said you could not do it any more because of how bad it is. So that does not mean we did not do it. It [the wiki article] implies that it went away.
READS:
…Police assistance projects overseas had been established by the Eisenhower administration…
12:40 Colonel: Hey but wait a minute, Eisenhower was not in charge in 1962. How did that happen? Under the guise of ‘Police Reform’ Byron Engle, served from 1962 to 1973. Basically this guy was in charge of it.
Well, who is Byron Engle?
Byron Engle was hired by basically a Democrat Mafia Boss in Kansas City to be a police officer in Kansas City. And he goes on to become the head of this Office of Public Safety AND WAS IN FACT A CIA OFFICER.
To Alpha. If you can pull up that document I sent, this is what verifies the fact that Byron Engle was not just a cop. He was a CIA asset.
Alpha then reads the memorandum
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DOCUMENT SHOWN @ 13:56.
In readable form from The “Family Jewels” Report @ https://www.newsfollowup.com/docs/obama/family_jewels_ps607-613_ocr.pdf
The CIA Reading room refuses to cough up a copy and instead shows a different document.
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14:50 Alpha ends with the sentence: “This phase of the training is concluded by a two day orientation by the Bomb Squad of the DADE County Police Department in Florida.”
15:00 Colonel: What Dade county, you mean where the largest CIA domestic training facility is? Where they were training people to do bombs that were [QUOTE] Cuban Exiles [UNQUOTE to provide the False flag excuse] for attacking Cuba? Yeah that exact same place.
15:25 Alpha: That was the same one where Bad Boys, Bad Boys, with Will Smith and Martin Laurence operate out of. LINK And it is all about corruption in law-enforcement administration.
[Goes to page two and reads]
“….. Introducing the trainees to booby trapping devices and techniques giving practical experience with both manufactured and improvised devices through actual fabrication. ….”
16:40Colonel: So now you get the idea of the type of training we are talking about. Actually blowing shit up. The Office of Public Safety is teaching people at a police academy in Washington DC with a field trip to Miami on how to blow shit up and set booby traps.
Does that sound like safety to you?
17:05 Alpha: That does not even sound like police work to me!
17:10Colonel: Correct. It gets better. Let me read to you a letter that was written from Lyman Kirkpatrick who was the executive Directer, the #3 guy at the CIA to Byron Engles. Dated 21 June 1963, at the beginning,
Dear Byron,
I have received some rather disturbing information on the status of a police academy in Panama. Which may or may not be accurate please look into it. First I am told that General Mammira had agreed to make other … buildings [available]…. On the basis of the knowledge it would be in the government’s best interest to keep the academy on the fort. Second I understand that the accommodations… talks of air conditioning… on the first floor where they put non-americans is not air-conditioned. Third, I understand that in billeting and messing arrangements, the Latin attendees are saying there is no distinction made for rank. That you are messing and billeting colonels with non-coms. That’s not OK. Four, and finally I am told that the administrative support staff of the academy could be improved by an aggressive support or supply officer who could beg, borrow or scrounge what ever was required.
And then it is signed by the CIA director, basically implying that the guy is working for him, when supposedly USAID is an independent organization. Unless it is a CIA front which I have been saying all along.
19:25 Alpha:There is no way you are training together unless you are going to be doing future collaborations. [Remember this statement when I go into Fusion Centers. -GC]
19:30 Colonel: Now that we have established who this guy is, let’s go back to Wiki. It goes on to say: [The Colonels comments are in [brackets] – GC]
Police assistance projects overseas had been established by the Eisenhower administration, but military intervention and covert action by the CIA was the primary method of addressing communist groups and other subversives in poor and recently decolonised countries. [You know like the entire continent of Africa] In the 1950s and 60s, covert action was increasingly unsuccessful, [I do not know what they mean by unsuccessful because they had over thrown by that time, by the 1960s, at least 20 different countries.] the most infamous example being the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion. [4] [Yes, they screwed that up, but all the rest of them were sucessful.] Already a proponent of modernization theory and international development programs as an alternative method of combating the spread of Communism, Kennedy was receptive to the efforts of national security advisor Robert W. Komer [that guy himself could take an entire show. He was complerely corrupt. He was the guy who basically setup the phoenix program. Again a policing program out of Michigan State which we are going to get to. ALPHA: When you look at his Wiki page, his nickname is Blowtorch Bob Colonel: Komer is the one who told Kennedy that it would be a great idea to set-up this office of Public Safety. So you go on down ] …..International development programs could present the modernisation and expansion of security infrastructure as growing stability [When in fact it increased destabilization which was its entire goal so the ‘International Syndicate’s’ Oligarchs could come in and steal these peoples resources. That is what it was really for and to put down any dissidents while they were being raped and stuff being pillaged out of their country.] …. In a document drafted to launch the concept of the OPS, the USAID expressed concern over the optics of white American soldiers killing non-white dissidents: “In countering insurgency, the major effort must be indigenous. . . . In internal war it is always better for one national to kill another than for a foreigner—especially one with a different skin coloration to do so”
Colonel: So the whole purpose of the Office of Public Safety was to go in and train, under the guise of a national guard or a national police force, killers to put down their own citizens.
22:30 Alpha: An important statement that you read Colonel and I will quote it — “In countering insurgency, the major effort must be indigenous.” — If that is how they feel about other countries, that is exactly how they would deploy in our own country.
22:50 Colonel reads: –“The OPS operated in at least fifty-two countries in Asia, Africa and the Americas.” — It was actually about 90. As a matter of fact, there is a weird overlap of the 90 we have over thrown and the 90 that the OPS was present in.
She reads: — “In total, it provided over $200M of USAID and CIA funds to recipient countries in weaponry, communications equipment and tactical equipment.” — Wait a minute “weaponry, communications equipment and tactical equipment’ sounds an awful lot like stay-behind Units, right?
She reads: — “Its other functions were to facilitate the planting of CIA operatives within police forces of at-risk regions” –so it is an apparatus that allows the infiltration of CIA into police forces. GOSH! If they do it there, don’t you think they do it HERE?
23:50Alpha: You knew that part was going to give me goosebumps… HOLY SMOKES!
24:15 Colonel reads: — “A total of 1500 advisers were deployed overseas, reaching over a million police officers.[11] Alongside training, the OPS provided US-made equipment to overseas police forces, creating an aftermarket for upgrades and parts.” — And again this creates an industry. It creates a demand for our Military-industrial complex to provide the equipment because if we are over their training on it they are going to buy our shit. So this is basically salesmen going into a country and selling arms for the defense industry.
24:45 Colonel: a little bit about that international police academy you just read about. This is the one set-up in DC.
The OPS-operated International Police Academy (IPA) was instituted in 1963, and provided training to 7500 senior officers from seventy-seven countries in total.[1][15] Its first class included sixty-eight police officers from seventeen different nations.[16] The officers were trained at the Georgetown Car Barn in Washington, D.C.[17] Until the early 1970s, selected candidates could also receive training from CIA officers at the U.S. Border Patrol academy in Los Fresnos, Texas, including the making of bombs and incendiary devices.
24:45: Colonel: “.. the U.S. Border Patrol academy in Los Fresnos, Texas…” That is another one of the bomb and incendiary devices that we found during Operation Gladio [in Italy] They were bringing people as early as the immediate aftermath of WWII to this location in Texas. Some of the OAS agents, some of the Otto Skorzeny trained Gladio Assassins, and teaching them how to build bombs. That is what they were doing in this place in Texas. This are the same things, we are talking about Gladio here. Once you read thru this the parallels to Gladio are glaring….
26:20 Colonel: Read the next part, the role of LAPD, Alpha.
The OPS conducted a form of international knowledge exchange by recruiting ordinary US police officers for ‘short-term tours of duty’ on overseas police assistance projects. The LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department) was a major source of such officers, partly because a significant proportion of them spoke Spanish.[21]
LAPD officers were sent to Venezuela in 1962 to train local police officers and assist them in repression against the Armed Forces of National Liberation (AFNL).[10] Officers were also sent to the Dominican Republic in the same year; there was significant popular unrest following the CIA-backed assassination of dictator Rafael Trujillo, and Dominican police were struggling to keep order and train officers.[22]
27:15 Colonel: LAPD was not the only one, but it was one that was used. So basically they are sending US police officers TDY, to this locations. Wait until you hear what they do. So our police officers were being exposed to the CIA and probably often times recruited into being informants for the CIA while still being police officers. Because we know that hide the drug trafficking and stuff like that and if they catch one of the CIA guys in the drug network, it is just a matter of calling up one of your buddies that went on a deployment with you from the LAPD and saying Dude, he is one of ours leave him alone. That is why they never get prosecuted.
[Now do you know why I wanted to highlight Patfredrick’s comment on DC Cop Getting a Pass for Drugs, Guns Should Raise Major Questions” Bearing Arms, Tom Knighton | 4:30 PM | April 06, 2025? Now does that cop getting a pass make more sense? -GC]
28:05 Alpha: And just so everybody knows, that this really happens, I have been on the receiving end of those phone calls before. Where I was told Hey, and this is from some of the people you have worked with in the federal task force. And they say Hey, you have got one of ours, he is on our paperwork man. So do not hit him with new charges. Do what you are doing but don’t do this. And you are taking it like this. I have known this guy for years, we have been on teams together, I have got one of their informants. I do not want to compromise their informant. I do not want to compromise their investigation, so of course you go along with it.
And then you have to look back and wonder, did I stop one of their Gladio assets. And more scary than that colonel, LAPD is one of the police department here in California that is giving badges to people who are NOT US CITIZENS.
29:05 – 29:30 Colonel:After they train people in foreign countries to do all kinds of horrendous things.…
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I am stopping only one third of the way through because I want to bring even more information to the table. 9-11 was used as an excuse for the federal government to get their sticky fingers into our local police forces.
“Fusion Centers” are terrorism response and prevention centers designed to promote information sharing about potential threats between federal, state and local law enforcement officers. [1] They were started as a joint project between the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs between 2003 and 2007. According to the DOJ, “a fusion center is an effective and efficient mechanism to exchange information and intelligence, maximize resources, streamline operations, and improve the ability to fight crime and terrorism by merging data from a variety of sources.”[2]
Although the centers may have started in an attempt to gather criminal intelligence data, the fusion centers have continually focused on public and private sector data, raising many concerns about the privacy rights of Americans. [3]
As of July 2009, there were 72 designated fusion centers with 36 field representatives deployed. Department of Homeland Security has given more than $254 million to support fusion centers from FY 2004-2007. [4] The stimulus package gave $250 million to upgrade, modify and construct state and local fusion centers. [5] With the exception of Idaho and Pennsylvania, every state has at least one fusion center (if not more, as is the case with Texas). [6] State and local police departments provide both space and resources for the majority of fusion centers, and centers may be staffed by DHS employees, local police, or the private sector. [7]
Criticism of Fusion Centers: Overreaching and Lack of Oversight
Critics of fusion centers worry about the secrecy and lack of regulation or authority over individual centers, as well as the privacy intrusions that can arise from this lack of oversight.
The federal role in supporting fusion centers consists of providing financial assistance, primarily through the Homeland Security Grant Program, as well as security clearances, providing congressional authorization and appropriation of national foreign intelligence program resources, and some training.[8] States have been using local, state, and federal funds since 2004 to create fusion centers, but no standards or guidelines have been in existence to assist with interoperability and communication issues between centers at the regional, state, and federal levels. [9]. Most significantly, there has been a marked lack of regulation and federal oversight over individual fusion centers.
Both the Government Accountability Office and the Congressional Research Service have told Congress the need for more oversight in fusion centers. [10] A Congressional Research Service Report highlights the lack of focus of fusion centers on actual terrorism. “The centers “have increasingly gravitated toward an all-crimes and even broader all-hazards approach,” focusing on traditional criminals and local emergencies, according to a report this month by the Congressional Research Service (CRS).” [11] The CRS Report further found “little true fusion, or analysis of disparate data sources, identification of intelligence gaps and pro-active collection of intelligence.” [12]
The DOJ and Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) have recently developed fusion center guidelines in response to these criticisms.[2]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) highlights five problem areas regarding fusion centers: ambiguous lines of authority, private sector participation, military participation, data fusion/data mining, and excessive secrecy. [13]…
Insurrection Barbie I was curious as to how the United States can continue to engage in proxy wars without an official war declaration from Congress so I finally did the research.
You’ve heard of the CIA’s covert ops. But you may not know about Section 127e—the Pentagon’s shadow authority to fund, arm, and direct foreign proxy forces with almost no oversight. And it’s how the U.S. runs wars you never hear about.
What is Section 127e? It’s a legal authority buried in the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Full name: 10 U.S. Code § 127e – Support of Special Operations for Irregular Warfare.
Passed after 9/11 and expanded under Obama, Section 127e allows U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) to: •Fund and train foreign militaries or militias •Embed with them in combat •Launch joint operations •With almost zero transparency
These aren’t advisors. Under 127e, U.S. forces can command, plan, and direct the actions of foreign troops—without a declaration of war. It turns militias into covert extensions of U.S. Special Forces.
The budget? — Classified. But documents leaked in 2022 revealed that 127e operations had been run in: •Syria •Yemen •Somalia •Niger •Cameroon •Egypt •Tunisia •Afghanistan And elsewhere.
Where does the money go? Not just to the proxies. Huge portions are outsourced to contractors who provide: •Logistics •Intelligence •Weapons •Private airlift •Surveillance •Local “intermediaries”
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Booz Allen Hamilton •Deep ties to DoD, NSA, and SOCOM •Provides SIGINT, surveillance logistics, and battlefield IT for Special Forces •Former employer of Edward Snowden •Has won classified “special access” contracts linked to counterterror ops in Africa and the Middle East
CACI International •Major player in “human terrain mapping” and irregular warfare support •Accused in Abu Ghraib torture-related litigation, but still awarded contracts •Known to work on interrogation, signals intel, and drone ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance)
Leidos •Tech contractor tied to CYBERCOM and Special Operations •Supplies battlefield AI, threat detection systems, and intel fusion platforms used in 127e partner missions
L3Harris •Specializes in tactical communications, ISR drones, and battlefield radar •Linked to 127e-supported drone base operations in Niger and Somalia •Provides real-time targeting support through embedded tech systems
DynCorp (now part of Amentum) •Previously ran covert airlift and logistics for the U.S. in Afghanistan and Africa •Allegedly used to move arms and personnel supporting 127e programs in East Africa and the Sahel
Palantir Technologies •Provides battlefield data fusion and surveillance targeting support •Used to map insurgent networks in real-time •Its software has supported JSOC-led kill/capture missions using 127e-authorized partner forces
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The problem? Congress barely sees any of this. Section 127e funding is hidden in “Overseas Contingency Operations” or “classified annexes” of the defense budget.
There’s no public debate, no war authorization, and no transparency on outcomes or casualties.
This isn’t just a loophole. Section 127e is a deep state weapon—a tool for war without war powers, partnered with defense contractors that profit in the shadows.
Your tax dollars fund secret wars. Corporations get the checks. Congress gets kept in the dark.
The only way to really understand our foreign policy, especially the shadowy foreign policy that operates independently of the executive branch is by: Following Section 127e. Following the classified contracts. Following the bodies buried in black budgets.
I hope this article sheds a bit more light on the Gordian Knot/Ticking bomb that POTUS Trump and his team are dealing with.
I really do not have a dog in this hunt that I discuss today. None of us do. There is absolutely nothing that can be done to change something that happened over 235 years ago. I am not even sure I would want to change the final outcome anyway. I just want to go back in time and try to understand the reasoning of WHY the founders chose to do what they did with what information may be available.
Why did the founding fathers decide to completely ditch the Articles of Confederation instead of making needed changes to it? They were highly intelligent, motivated, patriotic people. They had spent a couple years on the Articles drafting what they believed they wanted for the new nation. They had a vision and executed on the vision. Why totally dump it less than a decade later? How could they have gotten it so wrong the first time?
Could it be that the misgivings Patrick Henry had about the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were valid? He refused to sign both documents despite being a very influential leader and founding father. He could not stand the thoughts of states’ rights being restricted by a federal government that could become as the British were.
I smell a major conspiracy, but presently have no concrete evidence it actually existed. It could have been as it actually appears; a bunch of popular, bull headed patriots who had the upper hand politically using their prominence and power to make things go their way.
Again, I am not saying it was the wrong or right thing to do. I just find it curious that they did it, when the stated original intent of the assembly was to amend the Articles as desired and needed. I see historical articles and statements that the Articles were just too hard to amend, that the framework was not right, that delegates of states just could not find common ground, etc. Yet, General Assemblies (and equivalents) of seven states wanted everything left as is when their representatives first walked into the door of that assembly hall. There is one source linked below that gives the writer’s assessment of the primary reasons many founders wanted it changed. There are many such reports you can access, but most give similar reasoning that never get to the meat of “why” they chose to can the Articles instead of amend.
Did the Articles of Confederation actually fail? Seems to me that some of what was perceived to be failure was actually working as they originally intended when they approved them. Suspicious Cat wants to know why this governing document was suddenly perceived as so bad and why they could not make the changes that were desired and necessary to the existing governing document.
So do other conspiracy theorists…
Here is a good short summary of the differences in the two documents.
Did you catch the founders wanted Canada in the fold even back in those days?
It seems one of the major unresolved issues was the same one Shay’s Rebellion represented. The federal and some state governments had lost the trust of the common man who had fought in the war. Not honoring the agreement to provide pensions to these patriot war fighters led to rebellions and much unrest in the new nation, especially when veterans lost homes and farms in the process. The primary problem appears to be that the Articles did not provide for the mandatory funding of the federal government by the states to honor the payments to veterans as well as to put down internal rebellions and other necessary federal functions. As it was it took private funding and sourcing of fighters to even put down Shay’s Rebellion as an example. That method could not be counted on throughout the thirteen states and a group of the founders were fearful that this problem could worsen and seriously endanger the nation.
It was a big deal.
The Newburgh Conspiracy
Just what was the Newburgh Conspiracy anyway? More importantly why did it scare the breeches off many of our founding fathers including the great George Washington?
Rock meet hard place. Just as we previously discussed with Shay’s Rebellion, so we now discuss a serious incident that occurred before Shay’s as the war ended in 1783. As always we will do what has to be done – follow the money. Or as in this case, figure out how to find some money.
The truth is that our new nation’s central government was dead broke and the states were also in bad financial shape from the war debts and mangled economies. The problem was that Robert Morris and others had offered lifetime pensions of half their active military pay for all retired war fighters to entice them to enlist. The bill came due to start paying. The vets needed the cash to help restart their lives and take care of their families since the fighting was done.
Oopsie, the federal treasury had about $125 K in cash versus about $6 million in debt. This was not good. The individual states were tapped out as well and starting to levy new and larger taxes to repay their own debts. The Articles of Confederation gave no taxing powers to the federal government. Its operation depended on requested, voluntarily paid state contributions from the same states that were nearly underwater fiscally.
The military members who were being stiffed were upset. They wanted what they had been promised, it was their blood that was spilled on the battlefields along with destruction of many of their farms and properties. The majority were even willing to cut what was due down to settle. None of the states would agree to compromise and solve the problem. Sorry, we have a bad connection, check back with us later were their attitudes. The Articles gave each the authority to operate their own states independently. They were in a superior position over the federal government.
The overall situation and response influenced a loose group of military discontents to get active discontenting and it was likely that George Washington’s old nemesis, Horatio Gates, was involved. Add in that some major founding fathers were very much in favor of finding ways for the war fighters to receive what was due. Some members of the Confederation Congress supported the funding; such as Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Gouverneur Morris, and Robert Morris. Robert Morris basically said that if there was no pay for the veterans, then he was out of there. The government withheld from public release that he had resigned because they were afraid of the impact the news would have on the young nation. From that nasty disagreement we see one of the first major cover-ups in American history. Which is something that the feds have perfected over the years.
The link below provides a good summary of the event and conditions on the ground.
As we learn from the story, impending disaster was averted. I loved the description of George Washington’s acting chops. His timing and words worked to defuse the situation, such was the respect the military had for this great man. However, it did not resolve the injustice as Shay’s Rebellion demonstrated later. Per the information in the links and many other sources it was agreed that the Articles of Confederation had a serious flaw relating to how the states could refuse to pay the federal government the money it needed to honor the pension agreement and other federal debts and responsibilities.
We still need to know more.
Back To Articles Versus Constitution
So why did the states not just agree to strengthen the Articles to provide financially for the role of the federal government’s responsibilities that are stated in the document’s enumerated powers? An amendment(s) to do so was all that was needed to solve the immediate problems. Why did the states who wanted to remain large and in charge of their fates in accordance with the Articles agree to terminate it and go the route of the new Constitution? Inquiring minds want to know because it is still puzzling.
Oddly enough, I actually found the most logical answers sans conspiracy theories at the following linked government website.
The founders set the terms for ratifying the Constitution. They bypassed the state legislatures, reasoning that their members would be reluctant to give up power to a national government. Instead, they called for special ratifying conventions in each state. Ratification by 9 of the 13 states enacted the new government. But at the time, only 6 of 13 states reported a pro-Constitution majority.
The Federalists, who believed that a strong central government was necessary to face the nation’s challenges, needed to convert at least three states. The Anti-Federalists fought hard against the Constitution because it created a powerful central government that reminded them of the one they had just overthrown, and it lacked a bill of rights.
I believe we have found our answer as to “why” they abandoned the Articles in favor of a new document. A powerful segment of founders would not accept modification of the Articles because a number of states did not want to lose their authority and power in the process. So the Federalists did a legal end run and called ratifying conventions in each state to elect representatives for the purpose. We can only speculate how they jockeyed to get more of their supporters appointed or elected to be delegates. As we later learned, all of these state delegates locked themselves into a hot assembly room and argued over the situation for three months before coming to a hard fought consensus and agreement to hammer out the details.
In reality the initially stated purpose of their attendance in the assembly was to amend the Articles of Confederation as needed. The delegates met for one purpose and a different purpose was escorted into being. The Federalists used the situation to undercut the current legal status quo to achieve their goals of creating a new governing document that was more suited to accomplishing their vision and goals for the country.
We need to understand what their end goals were and how to rationalize that it was prudent to do an end run around the state governments and the existing governing document. The mental gymnastics would need to include the fact that seven states up to that point were not pro-Constitution. So to get to nine in favor to make the change effective per the ruling Articles, the Federalists needed to flip three states.
I am not passing judgment on how it all worked out. However, it is clear the Federalists were very fearful of a weak federal government that could not respond appropriately to enemies and pressing issues of the nation. They wanted it to have the authority over the states to fund (tax) and enforce. States withholding funds at will was a big problem that needed fixed. The key for compromise was coming to an agreement about what enumerated powers the Constitution would have and addressing the authority for same. The Antifederalists were adamant in their beliefs that the federal government would supplant states’ rights in the process. They wanted no part of a British type government oppression to rear its ugly head again. Both sides eventually came to an agreement that included the Bill of Rights to protect the rights of citizens, but gave the Federalists what they wanted for central authority..
Knowing politics like I do, I wonder what horse trading was done to move people to one side or the other. Politics was as dirty then as it is now. Who received what to drop their opposition and go along? It is something we will probably never fully know, but it would be interesting to hear the gritty details and not the varnished view of lap dog historians.
Over the years that have followed we have seen the Constitution succeed and fail. Many of the failures were tied to omissions, some of which led to additional amendments. Many of the fears of the Antifederalists about civil liberties, oppressive taxation, and potential corruption in the federal government were realized. But so were the fears of the Federalists with the Civil War and other abuses. None probably foresaw a third branch of government, the judiciary that was charged with arbitrating disputes and law interpretations, going rogue to criminal to asset unauthorized power at times. But alas, that is exactly what has happened with politicization of branches and areas within government. We have reached the point that some of the ten listed weaknesses accorded the Articles of Confederation in the linked story now apply to the Constitution. It even seems that a few of those stated weaknesses of the Articles are now or could become strengths.
Or as stated by an Antifederalist on January 31, 1788 in Brutus 11 . “Is it prescience, or has the system always been the same?
“They will give the sense of every article of the constitution, that may from time to time come before them. And in their decisions they will not confine themselves to any fixed or established rules, but will determine, according to what appears to them, the reason and spirit of the constitution. The opinions of the supreme court, whatever they may be, will have the force of law; because there is no power provided in the constitution, that can correct their errors, or controul their adjudications. From this court there is no appeal. And I conceive the legislature themselves, cannot set aside a judgment of this court, because they are authorised by the constitution to decide in the last resort. The legislature must be controuled by the constitution, and not the constitution by them. They have therefore no more right to set aside any judgment pronounced upon the construction of the constitution, than they have to take from the president, the chief command of the army and navy, and commit it to some other person. The reason is plain; the judicial and executive derive their authority from the same source, that the legislature do theirs; and therefore in all cases, where the constitution does not make the one responsible to, or controulable by the other, they are altogether independent of each other.
The judicial power will operate to effect, in the most certain, but yet silent and imperceptible manner, what is evidently the tendency of the constitution: – I mean, an entire subversion of the legislative, executive and judicial powers of the individual states. Every adjudication of the supreme court, on any question that may arise upon the nature and extent of the general government, will affect the limits of the state jurisdiction. In proportion as the former enlarge the exercise of their powers, will that of the latter be restricted.”
“This power in the judicial, will enable them to mould the government, into almost any shape they please.”
Yup. Predicted then, subsequently observed multiple times, and it still continues to this day. As an example we can see the daily totals of fraud and abuse of tax payer funding from DOGE, yet, we are led to believe that We the People do not have standing with federal courts to pursue claims against the criminal elements within our own government and citizenship. The same tactic was used with the 2020 election cheat. The judiciary has insulated themselves within webs of legal trickery and collusion. Take a look at this explanation on “standing” and try to understand it as an average American citizen.
My hope is that readers will see that our nation has always lived in contentious times, much of it by design. What we see today is not unique. The Constitution has its obvious flaws like all documents. Enforcement and the abuse of same is still a huge issue. However, the principles espoused are still the best mankind has ever produced. We just need to be willing to put in the work to not only support its continuance, but to pursue the improvements it needs through amendments to make it even better for the good of the nation today as well as the future, just like our founding fathers were willing to do.
We are not finished with this discussion. It turns out there was a pre-war condition on the ground with this conflict between Federalists and Antifederalists that is still being fought over today. It would be unfair to delay the answer even if it is too soon to discuss it in more detail. So, Spoiler Alert – the reason for much of the conflict between the two was that ugly word – taxes.
Some will probably have a good idea how that part will go since Alexander Hamilton was Washington’s Treasury Secretary charged with funding the new Constitutionally governed America. Seems there are many current references to Hamilton’s methods lately.
On to a couple more signers.
Caesar Rodney
Born on the family plantation known as Byfield in Dover, DE in 1728, Caesar Rodney was the oldest of two children of Caesar and Elizabeth Crawford Rodney. His maternal grandfather had immigrated to America in the early 1680’s and developed the plantation. After his death the Rodney family assumed control. His father had immigrated from England in the early 1680’s with William Penn and he owned a plantation with slaves at the time of Caesar’s birth. The Rodney family ancestry goes back to 1095 in England. His mother was the daughter of an Anglican rector of Christ’s Church in Dover. His father had also served as speaker of the Colonial Assembly in DE in 1704.
Like so many other signers, Caesar was informally homeschooled and had some training through local clergy until he left home to attend a Latin school as well as the College of Philadelphia (Penn) in his teen years. When his father died in 1746, DE Supreme Court Justice Nicholas Ridgely became his guardian.
Just living was not easy for Rodney. The following paragraph from the applicable Descendants site describes and also provides the words of John Adams, who knew him well.
No portrait of Caesar Rodney exists. We know that he was tormented throughout his life by asthma, and that his adult years were plagued by a facial cancer. He experienced expensive, painful, and futile medical treatments on the cancer. The clearest account of his appearance is found in John Adams’s diary of September 1774: “Saturday . . . this forenoon Mr. Caesar Rodney of the lower counties on Delaware River, was introduced to us. Caesar Rodney is the oddest-looking man in the world; he is tall, thin, and slender as a reed, pale; his face is not bigger than a large apple, yet there is sense and fire, spirit, wit and humor in his countenance.”
From this it is easy to see why he never married or had children, so he threw himself into his work. He was appointed sheriff of Kent County at age 27 and from that point on was elected and served in many offices. Eventually he was elected to serve in the First Continental Congress and signed the failed Olive Branch Petition seeking reconciliation with Britain. The next year he was made Speaker of the state’s Assembly when counties began declaring their independence.
The dramatic process of approving the Declaration for DE is well documented. The state had left it up to the decisions of McKean, Read and Rodney. McKean was for independence and Read against. That let Rodney to break the deadlock. He is reported to having rode horseback or via carriage all night in a torrential rain to arrive in Philadelphia to break the tie for the vote for independence in DE. In his words, “I arrived in Congress (tho detained by thunder and rain) time enough to give my voice in the matter of independence . . . We have now got through the whole of the declaration and ordered it to be printed so that you will soon have the pleasure of seeing it.”
The area in DE he represented was loyalist dominated. As a result of his decision they refused to reelect him. However, the effects of war in the state changed that attitude and he was elected to President of Delaware for a three year term in 1778. Throughout the conflict he served as Brigadier General of the DE militia and engaged in battles at his friend, Gen. George Washington’s direction throughout the war. Washington held a high opinion of him and noted that when the state failed to provide for the militia as needed, Rodney did so out of his own financial resources.
He lived long enough to see the end of the war. In 1784 his frail body gave out and he passed away. The Descendant’s site gives this description of the man, “He was reported to be a temperate, forbearing and patient man. He was probably what we would today call a “consensus builder.” He was a pragmatic realist, with a wry and ironic sense of life and human nature. He inspired real affection among those who knew and worked with him.” I found no derogatory comments or accounts of the man in my research, a rarity.
Rodney had come to view slavery as something that should be abolished despite having 200 slaves on the Byfield plantation. With his death he made a proclamation that all should receive gradual emancipation.
There was a statute of this great patriot placed in Statuary Hall in the U. S. Capitol. We have all been blessed by the contributions of this great American patriot.
Samuel Chase
Samuel Chase was born in 1741 to Rev. Thomas Chase and his wife, Matilda Walker Chase in Princess Anne, MD. His father had immigrated to the area to serve a new church for the Church of England. Samuel’s mother passed away the year he was born. He was educated at home. At age 18 he went to Annapolis to study law under attorney John Hall. He was admitted to the bar in the 1761-63 time frame and opened a law practice there. It was during these years he was given the nickname of “Old Bacon Face” for how his complexion looked when he was angered or agitated.
In 1762 he married Anne Baldwin. They had seven children, with four surviving to adulthood. In 1764 he was elected to the MD General Assembly, which continued for twenty years. However, he was known to be foul mouthed and adversarial toward anything loyalist and Tory. He openly called them out and worked against everything they tried to accomplish. He helped start the local Sons of Liberty chapter with friend and fellow signer, William Paca. He was a vocal critic of the 1765 Stamp Act and all oppressive acts of the British through the Revolutionary War. He was an adamant proponent of boycotts to send messages to the British Parliament.
He wrote the following to John Duane, a delegate of NY in early 1775, “When I reflect on the enormous Influence of the Crown, the System of Corruption introduced as the Art of Government, the Venality of the Electors (the radical Source of every other Evil), the open and repeated violations, by Parliament of the Constitution . . I have not the least Dawn of Hope in the Justice, Humanity, Wisdom or Virtue of the British Nation. I consider them as one of the most abandoned and wicked People under the Sun . . . . Our Dependence must be on God and ourselves.”
When the battles of Lexington and Concord happened, he knew his fears were confirmed. Prior to the declaration of war he served on the Annapolis Convention and on the MD Committee of Safety in 1775. He was chosen as a delegate to both the first and second Continental Congress, during which time he approved and signed the Declaration. Not long after that his wife, Anne, died and left him to raise their four children. Years later he remarried a woman that was only four years older than his oldest child.
There is not enough time and attention span left to detail all of the activities and involvements of Chase from that point. It is an amazing story of extreme highs and lows. The link to the Descendants site is below for your review. To expedite I advise picking up his story at the point of signing the Declaration as you have time.
There is one major point left I wanted to address that is in the link. Who was the one U. S. Supreme Court Justice that was impeached? Yup, Samuel Chase in 1804 at the direction of President Thomas Jefferson. He was acquitted of all charges. I wonder what Chief Justice Roberts would think of that happening to him after his most recent comments and lack of attention to pressing national defense issues coming through the court system? Impeachment procedures exist for good reasons. That they may be used in error or for abusive reasons is not the issue. That the procedures are available and used when legal and appropriate to do so is the benefit to American citizens. Judges are in public service. We the People are the public they serve, not personally aligned political parties and never those that cross our borders illegally who are not citizens.
It is equally important for We the People to have the ability to fire as it is to hire.
Samuel Chase passed away in 1811. This lightning rod of controversy and opinions will always be remembered for the strength of his convictions and willingness to stand on principle. He was an important American patriot in the cause for liberty and freedom.
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Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
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).
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God is in Control . . . and His Grace is Sufficient, so . . . Keep Looking Up
Hopefully, every Sunday, we can find something here that will build us up a little . . . give us a smile . . . and add some joy or peace, very much needed in all our lives.
“This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn nor weep.” . . . “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
Guardian Angels
Matthew 18:10 states, “See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.” In the context, “these little ones” could either apply to those who believe in Him (v. 6) or it could refer to the little children (vs. 3-5). This is the key passage regarding guardian angels. There is no doubt that good angels help protect (Daniel 6:20-23; 2 Kings 6:13-17), reveal information (Acts 7:52-53; Luke 1:11-20), guide (Matthew 1:20-21; Acts 8:26), provide for (Genesis 21:17-20; 1 Kings 19:5-7), and minister to believers in general (Hebrews 1:14).
The question is whether each person—or each believer—has an angel assigned to him/her. In the Old Testament, the nation of Israel had the archangel (Michael) assigned to it (Daniel 10:21; 12:1), but Scripture nowhere states that an angel is “assigned” to an individual (angels were sometimes sent to individuals, but there is no mention of permanent assignment). The Jews fully developed the belief in guardian angels during the time between the Old and New Testament periods. Some early church fathers believed that each person had not only a good angel assigned to him/her, but a demon as well. The belief in guardian angels has been around for a long time, but there is no explicit scriptural basis for it.
To return to Matthew 18:10, the word “their” is a collective pronoun in the Greek and refers to the fact that believers are served by angels in general. These angels are pictured as “always” watching the face of God so as to hear His command to them to help a believer when it is needed. The angels in this passage do not seem to be guarding a person so much as being attentive to the Father in heaven. The active duty or oversight seems, then, to come more from God than from the angels, which makes perfect sense because God alone is omniscient. He sees every believer at every moment, and He alone knows when one of us needs the intervention of an angel. Because they are continually seeing His face, the angels are at His disposal to help one of His “little ones.”
It cannot be emphatically answered from Scripture whether or not each believer has a guardian angel assigned to him/her. But, as stated earlier, God does use angels in ministering to us. It is scriptural to say that He uses them as He uses us; that is, He in no way needs us or them to accomplish His purposes, but chooses to use us and them nevertheless (Hebrews 1:7). In the end, whether or not we have an angel assigned to protect us, we have an even greater assurance from God: if we are His children through faith in Christ, He works all things together for good (Romans 8:28-30), and Jesus Christ will never leave us or forsake us (Hebrews 13:5-6). If we have an omniscient, omnipotent, all-loving God with us, does it really matter whether or not there is a finite guardian angel protecting us? xhttps://www.gotquestions.org/guardian-angels.html
We should all remember Deplorable Patriot and Wheatie as we push forward with the fight. This is NOT over by any means.
Fight! Fight! Fight! Because JUSTICE must be served on those who foisted the “Vax” shit on us. And for all the other things they have done to this country.
You failed to pay attention to this advice. You went out of your way to do the opposite. You chose to rub our faces in it, imprison those who dared complain, and even to kill our people. Now you shall pay just a tiny fraction of the real price, Ratfuckers.
What is it that feeds our battle, yet starves our victory?
RINO scum. Like Murkowski and Collins.
That’s OK. We go around ’em for now.
January 6 Tapes Reminder
OK…I’m sick and tired of reminding you to no effect, Speaker Johnson, so I’ll do the more emotionally satisfying thing and call you a cowardly, lying, fraudulent sack of diarrhetic monkey shit.
Johnson, you are a cowardly, lying, fraudulent sack of diarrhetic monkey shit!
A Caution
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!
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.)
Paper Spot Prices
All prices are Kitco Ask, 3PM MT Friday (at that time the markets close for the weekend). (Note: most media quotes are for the bid…the price paid by the market makers, not the ask, which is what they will sell at. I figure the ask is more relevant to people like us who wish we could afford to buy these things. In the case of gold the difference is usually about a dollar, for the PGMs the spread is much wider.)
There’s no sugarcoating things. All of the metals except gold took a beating on Thursday. Then on Friday things got simpler. All of the metals took a beating.
At one point on Friday, gold was down over 90 bucks. As it is, by the end of the day it was down $77.90.
Gold was up over 3100 earlier this week and even crossed the magic $100/gram line (equivalent to $3110.35). I noticed on Thursday it had slipped below that line just a touch, looked at it Friday morning, read something ending in 20-ish dollars, and thought it had blooped up over the line again…then I realized it hadn’t gone up ten bucks, it had gone down ninety.
Silver took a harder hit. Note that the gold:silver ratio is now OVER A HUNDRED.
As a side note at least sometimes I title this section Paper Spot Prices (or something similar to that) as the spot price is ultimately derived from the commodities markets, which in turn trade paper gold and silver; futures that you’re expected to sell to cut your losses (or realize a profit). Since most people are in that market to make a buck, there are huge amounts of silver or gold contracts out there that will never actually be executed. This is always true. It’s when someone decides, “no I am taking delivery” that life gets entertaining; sometimes a LOT of people do that and then the person on the sell side of the contract is legally obligated to deliver. So more than likely he has to go out and buy 1000 ounces of silver, or 100 of gold. (Or 50 of platinum, when that market isn’t in a coma.) Suddenly, outside of the futures market there’s panic buying; people desperate to get their hands on the commodity they shorted; often paying much more than the buyer is going to pay them.
This can often lead to the market price for physical metal being quite different from the spot prices; a few years ago you simply couldn’t get gold for less than $200 over spot (and that was when it was much lower than it is even after today’s beating).
In the meantime, Silver is on sale right now folks!
*The SteveInCO Federal Reserve Note Suckage Index (FRNSI) is a measure of how much the dollar has inflated. It’s the ratio of the current price of gold, to the number of dollars an ounce of fine gold made up when the dollar was defined as 25.8 grains of 0.900 gold. That worked out to an ounce being $20.67+71/387 of a cent. (Note gold wasn’t worth this much back then, thus much gold was $20.67 71/387ths. It’s a subtle distinction. One ounce of gold wasn’t worth $20.67 back then, it was $20.67.) Once this ratio is computed, 1 is subtracted from it so that the number is zero when the dollar is at its proper value, indicating zero suckage.
Not Giving A F*ck
Kalbo (and then others) brought this to yesterday’s daily:
BREAKING: A White House official comments on President Trump's current "thinking".
There are multiple ways to not give a f*ck. In this particular case Trump has decided he has a job to do, that 80 million Americans (at least) elected him to do that job, and if you don’t get out of his way you will be lucky if all that happens is you end up with his footprints all over you as he tramples you.
Flerfs Eat Their Own
Nothing like leaving a cult to get those left behind to pull out the long knives. And sometimes you don’t even have to leave, just be nearby when someone else does.
Mark Sargent (he’s probably the most famous Flat Earther to the general public; he’s the fairly clean-cut, blond guy with the baseball cap who gets interviewed a lot and showed up in documentaries) and Dave Weiss (Flat Earth Dave, the Potato, Dirth [his channel is DITRH], the guy with the leaky app), and two other prominent Flerfs who have not been named–have been sent “Cease and Desist” letters by lawyers for three ex-Flerfs for claims the flerfs have made about them. (Text visible at approximately the 5:50 mark). One of ex-Flerfs is Patricia Steeres, who was Mark Sargent’s co-host until recently, then she left. (Mark has characterized it as a “breakup” even though they never dated.) The other two are Robby Davidson and “Paul on the Plane.” (These two are not ones I am familiar with except I think Robby Davidson is known for having quit Flat Earth as soon as he realized Dave Weiss and Eric Dubay had no interest in going to Antarctica in spite of saying so earlier. Too obviously they were bluffing and their bluff had been called.)
Did they cease and desist? Well, no. MC Toon did a livestream over 4 1/2 hours demonstrating that Sargent, at least, did not do so. I’m going to link it but I certainly don’t expect you to watch it unless you are an absolute glutton for punishment:
[Another fun activity on these long MC Toon livestreams is he has people sign into the chat and try to warn people that Dirth’s app is leaky, just to see how fast their comments get censored and themselves get banned. Clearly Menagerie is in their employ. He will also call the Flerfs up and leave taunting voicemails when they don’t answer.]
Next…some Flerfs are going after Lisbeth Acosta. Lisbeth is the Flerf who won a free trip to Antarctica, which turned out to be a sham prize. Will Duffy was suckered into awarding it and then the donor turned out to be a Flerf troll. There was an INSTANT rallying of globers to contribute to pay for her ticket so she got to go anyway. Apparently what she saw did not convince her, though since she decided to be Mark Sargent’s co host when Patricia Steeres left. (McToon begged her not to take the job.)
Sticking with Flat Earth isn’t enough though, since Fkatzoid decided to go after her.
Apparently, Lisbeth was prostituted out to the other Final Experiment goers to get them to toe the Globe Earth line when they came back. Fkatzoid calls her the “Village Bicycle.” This too is worthy of a lawsuit, however Fkatzoid lives in South Africa and has no money. (His job is mixing paints.) Perhaps some of the others can be gone after.
So not only is this guy the absolute best evidence for the Dunning-Kruger effect that I have ever seen (remember he argued against Critical Think’s weight experiment, and also go into it with Will Duffy about the location of the south pole), he is an absolutely shitty individual who would deserve a throat punch and a curb stomp even if he wasn’t an idiot.
Isochron Dating
Recall from last time that uranium-lead dating done on zircons lets one assume there were no daughter lead isotopes in the zircons when the zircons were first formed. That’s because the zircon crystallization process rejects lead while accepting uranium. However, there’s always the possibility that after some period some of the daughter isotopes (the lead) will leach out of the zircon crystals, which will have the effect of making the dating result look younger than it actually is.
The fact that there are two different pairs of uranium-lead parent-daughter isotopes allows us not only to detect that that has happened, but to correct for it, by taking several samples out of the same igneous rocks and then plotting the results on a “concordia diagram” then drawing a straight line to intercept the curve plotted for ideal cases where no lead has been lost.
Zircons can often turn out to be much older than the rocks they are in; they melt at a very high temperature and granitic magma doesn’t typically get that hot. So if you find a zircon in an igneous rock, it might be much older than that rock.
So to use uranium-lead dating in other places (not zircon crystals) we need a way to account for the likelihood that there was lead present in the rock when it formed. Then uranium lead dating can be used in more situations. And we can use it for other sequences, for example the rubidium-strontium decay (rubidium-87 to strontium-87 by beta decay, half life 49,720 million years; rubidium is element 37, strontium is element 38) and the samarium-neodymium decay (samarium-147 to neodymium-143 by alpha decay, half life 106,000 million years; samarium is element 62, neodymium is element 60). (There is another isotope of samarium, Sm-146, that has a half life of 92 million years, decaying by alpha decay to Nd-142, which could conceivably be used, however, that half life is just short enough that we can no longer detect any natural traces of samarium-146…so that clock has run out.)
All three sequences–four, really since there are two uranium-lead sequences–can benefit from isochron dating. (Isochron comes from the Greek for “same time.”) They aren’t the only ones, but they seem to be mentioned most often when I find an article about isochron dating.
Isochron dating is done by taking multiple samples. It works so long as: the samples all have the same origin (minerals from the same rock, rocks from the same geological unit)–this ensures that all samples had the same initial isotopic composition. And we assume nothing leaks out of the rock over time (the opposite of the situation with the zircon crystals, which could lose lead over time).
Note that there is no assumption that the daughter isotope was absent from the rock initially.
One more thing that is needed, is a non-radiogenic isotope of the daughter element. For rubidium-strontium strontium-86 fits the bill; nothing decays into that isotope. And for samarium-neodymium, neodymium-144 is used. Again nothing decays into it. (However, it is very slightly radioactive with a half life of 2,290,000,000 million years, about 170,000 times the age of the universe. Not enough to matter; in fact so little of it has decayed so far we can’t even think of using it for dating in a hypothetical neodymium-cerium dating sequence; we’d get no reading at all.)
Let me put that into a handy-dandy table:
Method Rb-87->Sr-87 Sm-147->Nd-143 U-238->Pb-206
Half-life (My) 49,720 106,000 4,468
Non-radiogenic or reference isotope strontium-86 neodymium-144 lead-204
Rubidium and strontium are admittedly obscure to the man in the street, but they are workaday elements, appearing to some extent in many rocks. Rubidium is potassium’s big brother, somewhat rare but it will substitute for potassium in minerals. Strontium, similarly is calcium’s bigger brother. Calcium is very common in the Earth’s crust, and strontium atoms will occasionally substitute for them. These elements are stable, or thought of as being stable, but as it happens 27.8 percent of all rubidium is actually rubidium-87, so your typical sample of rubidium is actually weakly radioactive. The daughter strontium-87 isotope is 7 percent of all strontium, while the reference isotope Sr-86 is 9.86 percent of all strontium. (Almost all the rest of the strontium is Sr-88.)
Samarium and neodymium are rare earth elements…yes, actually rare earths. They tend to be dispersed throughout the crust and there are few ores. Nevertheless, “rare” is a bit of misnomer; on average there is about three times as much samarium in the crust as there is tin. 15 percent of all samarium is samarium-147 (which means that samarium-147 by itself is roughly half as common as tin), but with a 106 billion year half life, you can probably think of it as just barely radioactive. The decay product, Nd-143, is roughly 12.2 percent of all neodymium, and the reference isotope, Nd-144, is 23.8 percent of all neodymium (and is very, very, very weakly radioactive).
So yes these isotopes can be found in rocks, fairly readily.
How Isochrons Work
Recall from last time we showed formulae expressing radioactive decay just showing the simple case where we started out with no daughter isotope. Here is a slightly more complex formula for the number of daughter isotope atoms:
This one has a D0 term, which is the initial concentration of daughter isotope atoms; i.e., what was in the rock when it formed. n is the present number of parent isotope atoms. The entire second term is the number of daughter isotope atoms that have resulted from the decay of the parent isotope, from the formation of the rock to the present day. Note that this formula is written in terms of the decay constant, not the half life. See the prior post for more information on this, but it’s 1 divided by [the half life multiplied by the natural logarithm of 2].
Since the isotopes are measured by mass spectrometry, it’s more convenient to deal with the ratios between the numbers, not the absolute numbers. So here is where we introduce the reference isotope (the non-radiogenic one); we’re going to divide all terms by that number, to get a bunch of isotope ratios.
The first term is the total amount of daughter isotope, divided by the total amount of the reference (non-radiogenic) isotope. This is something we measure. The second term is the initial amount of daughter isotope, divided by the amount of reference isotope. We don’t know this, because we don’t know the initial amount of daughter isotope. (But note, we’re not claiming this number is zero, as we were with the zircons.) The third parentheses surround the amount of parent isotope today, divided by the amount of reference isotope. This is something we can measure. The final bit is the proportion of daughter isotope generated by decay (so far) of the parent isotope; which depends on the age, which we don’t know.
But this is very very similar to:
y = b + xm
…which is the “generic” equation for a line (albeit rearranged a bit). b is where the line crosses the y axis, and m is the slope of the line. So if we substitute as follows:
y = D*/Dref (we measure this) b = D0/Dref (we don’t know this but it’s constant for a given rock) x = Pt/Dref (we measure this) m = eλt – 1 (we don’t know this but it’s constant for a given rock)
…well we might be able to do something about this. Note that in the line equation, b and m are supposed to be constants. Indeed for a specific rock, of some age (which we don’t know yet), D0/Dref (b) is indeed a constant; it should be the same everywhere within the rock. As should eλt – 1 because every part of a given rock is the same age, this is m. Of course m is the slope of our straight line. Note that it gets steeper the higher t goes.
The two things that correspond to x and y are the things we actually measure. So we can plot our measured y against our measured x and now we have one point on this line. Well by itself one point isn’t useful. We expect m will be a positive number, and b will be above zero (since there is more than zero daughter isotope in the rock)
So take another sample, of a different mineral in the same rock. Then take a few more. Plot them, y versus x.
If all of those points fall on a straight line…we can draw the line and figure out m and b. The first will tell us how old the rock is (by solving for t), the second is actually going to tell you how much daughter isotope there was initially; information that might be interesting but doesn’t directly help us date the rock.
If the line is not straight, something probably happened to the rock after it formed, that invalidates our assumptions. If you have six points and only one is out of line, you can treat it as an outlier (but of course when you write up your paper, you point this out!).
Examples
Here’s a sample (apparently not a “live” sample but just an illustration). Note that different minerals from the same rock are all analyzed, as well as “whole rock”
The X axis is the present day parent (rubidium 87) – reference (strontium-86) ratio (matching what I showed above as being “x”), and the Y axis is the daughter (strontium 87) to reference (strontium-86) isotope ratio. The y intercept is labeled as being the initial daughter/reference ratio; that tells us how much daughter isotope there was originally. And the slope is our decay term, the steeper the slope, the higher the value of t is.
Here’s an actual plot from a real measurement. Note that three of the minerals tested are clustered very close together near the left hand margin, and the computed ratio of daughter isotope present at the beginning, to the reference isotope, is 70 percent. And finally notice the age: 609.5 million years (give or take 2.5 million years).
So the short version of this is, isochrons can help you identify and correct for the sorts of things that those with a little bit of knowledge of radiometric dating might bring up as objections, of the form “but what if there was some daughter isotope already present?” But it will only work if the rock hasn’t lost any daughter isotope since it was formed; if it has, the line won’t be straight. The good news is when this happens, the data says it happened, and if you’re alert you won’t be fooled.
A bit more of this (I want to cover potassium-argon dating in particular, and then discuss carbon-14 dating even though it’salmost totally irrelevant to geology) and we’ll get back to the main narrative.
The above free image of an 1867 vaccination certificate is courtesy of iStock and Google Images.
Health Friday is a series devoted to information regarding Big Pharma, vaccines, general health, and associated topics. As today’s post speaks to the disaster of the COVID-19 “vaccines”, Yours Truly dedicates it to the memory of all persons, of whatever age or location, who have passed away from the negative effects of these lab-created bioweapon toxin injections.
There are Important Notifications from our host, Wolf Moon; the Rules of our late, good Wheatie; and, certain caveats from Yours Truly, of which readers should be aware. They are linked here. Note: Yours Truly has checked today’s post for any AI-generated content. To the best of her knowledge and belief, there is none. If readers wish to post any AI-generated content in the discussion thread for today’s post, they must cite their source. Thank you.
Today’s Health Friday offering is one of a “mini-series” devoted to one topic and to one important news item related to that topic (although there may be other items related to the topic presented as supporting and/or clarifying information. The topic for today is what the COVID-19 “vaccines” do to damage and/or destroy the crucial IgG3 immune system cells in the “vaccinated” person’s body.
This 80% higher risk was found in persons who had had multiple injections of COVID-19 “vaccines.”
The COVID-19 “vaccines”, especially via repeated injections, damage and destroy the crucial IgG3 (“fight it off”) immune system cells in the “vaccinated” person’s body; while, at the same time, fostering the increase of the IgG4 (the “tolerate but never clear”) immune system cells.Another screenshot from the Berenson article is below:
The paper referred to in the Berenson article is here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2025.106473, “Post-Vaccination IgG4 and IgG2 class switch associates with increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 infections”, Gemma Monocunill, et al., 18 March 2025. Below is a screenshot from this paper:
An important paper regarding descriptions and functions of the IgG immune system cell class in the human body is here: https://journals.aai.org/jimmunol/aticle/205/12/3400/107683/IgG-Subclasses-Shape-Cytokine-Responses-by-Human, “IgG Subclasses Shape Cytokine Responses by Human Myeloid Immune Cells through Differential Metabolic Reprogramming”, Willianne Hoepel, et al., 15 December 2020. A screenshot of the Abstract of this paper is below:
Note that this paper was published after the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” by Pfizer-BioNTech and by Moderna were granted their initial EUAs in the United States by the FDA (this occurred on 11 December 2020), but before these bioweapon toxin injections entered widespread use.
Back to the Monocunill, et al., paper. There is mention in the paper regarding the involvement of the T17 cells in the “vaccinated” person’s body in the IgG subclass switching. Yours Truly wrote about the importance of the T17 cells (also called Th17 cells or T17 Helper Cells), and the role of the N1-Methylpseudouridine in the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” in “turning off” these cells in the “vaccinated” person’s body (thus paving the way for continuous inflammation of many types) here: https://www.theqtree.com/2025/03/21/health-friday-3-21-2025-open-thread-more-on-the-n1-methylpseudouridine-in-the-modrna-covid-19-vaccines/.
However, there is another aspect of the situation discussed in the Monocunill, et al., paper that is of huge importance: The similarities between malaria, COVID-19 infection, and the class switch to IgG4 that the COVID-19 “vaccines” induce. Below is a screenshot from the Discussion section of the paper regarding this:
Yours Truly will now blow something out of the water regarding the FDA’s and the CDC’s official opposition to, and prohibition of, using Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquine to prevent or to treat COVID-19 infection.
And, Hydroxycholoquine (and also Chloroquine) can be used to treat malariaAND COVID-19. Please see this paper from September 2020: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7476892/, “Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of malaria and repurposing in treating COVID-19”, Zi-Ning Lei, et al. (USA and CCP), 8 September 2020.
In Yours Truly’s opinion, it is inconceivable that the NIH / NIAID / FDA / CDC did not know about the existence of these papers. Instead, by September 2020, these entities were hell-bent in pushing through the unproven modRNA “technology” for the Pfizer-BioNTech and the Moderna modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” then in development. This meant that the FDA / CDC accepted the manipulated / incorrect “data” that were given to them from the truncated “clinical trials” for these “vaccines” by Pfizer-BioNTech and by Moderna. This meant that the FDA / CDC did not question the sudden “vaccine”-manufacturing switch from the original “Process 1” method to the “Process 2 method” that occurred in August 2020, that is still in use by both companies in the production of their respective “new formula” COVID-19 “vaccine booster shots”, and is based on “culturing” the modRNA of the said “vaccines” in a “bath” of E. coli.
Further confirmation that malaria and COVID-19 infect the lungs in similar ways is here:https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9445119/, “The striking mimics between COVID-19 and malaria: A review”, Emadeldin Hassan E Konozy, et al. A screenshot from this paper is below:
Note the mention of the ACE2 receptorsas regards malaria infection. These cells are also attacked by the COVID-19 virus itself (and, therefore, since they are based on the virus, so do the COVID-19 “vaccines” attack the ACE2 receptors of the “vaccinated” person’s body.)
In short: the FDA / CDC pushed, and continue to push, COVID-19 “vaccines” to “prevent” COVID-19 infections, while knowing that Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine also prevent — and treat — COVID-19 infections. Why is this still going on? How about ASKING BILL GATES. UNDER OATH.
This is aside from the fact that those who lab-created the bioweapon of the COVID-19 virus itself, and those who lab-created-and-enhanced the bioweapons of the COVID-19 “vaccines” — knew that malaria and COVID-19 would attack the lungs in similar ways. They knew what would “turn off” the T17 cells that are so important for the immune system and for Uridine in the human body. They knew what would damage or destroy the crucial IgG3 cells of the natural immune system of the human body, while fostering the increase of the IgG4 cells that allow illness and medical conditions to take hold and thrive. These things they incorporated into the creation of the COVID-19 virus itself, and into the creation of the COVID-19 “vaccines.”
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2024 Presidential Election Map by County. (an uncertain credit) Let us Never Forget: our VOTES gave the Trump Administration a Mandate to FIX IT ALL.
Do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. — Galatians 5:1
We got our miracle. America is back.
Let us dedicate ourselves to the cleansing, healing, and rebuilding of our beautiful nation.
God will guide us. Prayers & thanks to God for President Donald J. Trump.
Hearts of Courage.
Some grow in courage over time, others find their courage appears in the moment of need.
When is comes to hearts of courage, there are some who truly stand out for me. They have stood by their principles, even when judges let them know that their stand was going to get them thrown in jail. There are likely many more that deserve to be highlighted. But tonight, let us remember Gregg Phillips, Catherine Engelbrecht, and Tina Peters, who have done time for the stand they took.
Free Tina Peters.
And may all good hearts continue to earnestly pray for God’s protection, healing and vindication for Tina who is still locked up while her case is on appeal.
On Monday, March 3rd, the Deep State Dam began to crack open upon news the DOJ just filed a Statement of Interest in the case of Tina Peters. Read more commentary about that HERE. Accompanying this news was a spectacular throw down by Mike Davis from the Article III Project who revealed the corruption which led to the persecution, prosecution and imprisoning of Tina Peters for 9 years.
Now is the time for everyone to learn the real story about the dystopian abuse of Tina Peters. At the center of that is understanding why they would go to such extremes to frame, persecute, prosecute and imprison a near 70 year age Gold Star Mom who lost her Navy SEAL Son during service to his country. Without as much as a J-Walking ticket, or any ticket for that matter, the judge heartlessly sentenced Tina to what very well could be a death sentence for standing up and doing her sworn duty to preserve her election records. As described by Mike Davis, she was sentenced for “thought crimes”.
Well, it’s safe to say that the Deep State sure didn’t like Clerk Peters preserving those election records under her jurisdiction (all 29,000 of them) that they thought were successfully deleted at the direction of the Colorado Secretary of State. That deletion along with the other vulnerabilities are discussed on her website, https://tinapeters.us/ along with her forensic reports that delve into extreme detail on all the discoveries made by the forensic computer scientists.
Our DOJ, last month, has made a Statement of Interest (read more: The Gateway Pundit):
This review will include an evaluation of the State of Colorado’s prosecution of Ms. Peters and, in particular, whether the case was “oriented more toward inflicting political pain than toward pursuing actual justice or legitimate governmental objectives.”
Ms. Peters is currently incarcerated while pursuing a direct appeal of her underlying nonviolent convictions and combined nine-year sentence.
The application explains that Ms. Peters suffers from serious health issues and that, while incarcerated, her physical and mental health have deteriorated. Reasonable concerns have been raised about various aspects of Ms. Peters’ case.
These concerns relate to, among other things, the exceptionally lengthy sentence imposed relative to the conduct at issue, the First Amendment implications of the trial court’s October 2024 assertions related to Ms. Peters, and whether Colorado’s denial of bail pending appeal was arbitrary or unreasonable under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments such that §2254 relief is appropriate.
Accordingly, the United States respectfully submits that the concerns raised in the Application warrant – at the very least – prompt and careful consideration by this Court (and, at the appropriate time, the Colorado appellate courts).
Parallel to these proceedings and Ms. Peters’ direct appeal, the Department of Justice is reviewing cases across the nation for abuses of the criminal justice process…
Our Turn.
We can’t leave this to others. We can get informed on what has been found, what is being done about it, and what more needs to be done.
We can make a difference. And we must make a difference.
May God bless and guide you as you pray and take action for our nation.
Twitterati, etc.
Speaking of hearts…
May I recommend to you Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, @NicHulscher. Click the posted image to watch the one minute video showing the heart damage. Nicolas is an epidemiologist and administrator at Dr. Peter McCullough’s Foundation (@mcculloughfund).
Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher Mar 19 NEW AUTOPSY STUDY – Cardiac Micro-Scars in Sudden Death Following COVID-19 Vaccination
Cardiac micro-scars (MMS) found in 3 patients who died of unexplained cardiac arrest—all had 5-6 COVID-19 booster injections.
Key findings: Micro-scars in arrhythmogenic regions (pulmonary vein-left atrium junction) suggest a structural substrate for arrhythmias following COVID-19 vaccination.
Pre-death arrhythmias (atrial fibrillation & nonsustained ventricular tachycardia) occurred in patients with multiple booster doses.
Possible mechanisms: Spike protein production in cardiomyocytes, triggering immune activation, inflammation, microvascular injury, and fibrosis—leading to myocardial scarring and electrical instability.
Corroborates our prior research on COVID-19 vaccine-induced cardiac arrest, linking myocardial scarring, arrhythmias, and sudden death.
Prayer.
God Bless America, Land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her Thru the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, To the oceans, white with foam God bless America, My home sweet home.
At home and abroad, these events will reflect the tearing of the civic fabric at points of extreme vulnerability – problem areas where America will have neglected, denied, or delayed needed action.” –
but IMO it is because the CABAL is responsible for perpetuation of the 80 year turnings, on which they feed and thrive.
Bad Boys, Bad Boys
(@inteltower) 
NEW AUTOPSY STUDY – Cardiac Micro-Scars in Sudden Death Following COVID-19 Vaccination 
Cardiac micro-scars (MMS) found in 3 patients who died of unexplained cardiac arrest—all had 5-6 COVID-19 booster injections.
Micro-scars in arrhythmogenic regions (pulmonary vein-left atrium junction) suggest a structural substrate for arrhythmias following COVID-19 vaccination.
Corroborates our prior research on COVID-19 vaccine-induced cardiac arrest, linking myocardial scarring, arrhythmias, and sudden death.