2025·05·31 We Will Have Justice Daily Thread

What is it that feeds our battle, yet starves our victory?

January 6 Tapes?

Where are the tapes? Anyone, Anyone? Bueller? Johnson??

Paging Speaker Johnson…this is your conscience calling you out on broken promises.

Evading Reality

Many things the Left believes are simply not true. Right now the focus is on the size and scope of our government, and the many many billions of dollars the government has been spending on no-one-knew-what. None of that money is going to a key role of government. Which, after all, has the sole purpose of protecting rights.

And if you, Leftist Lurker, want to dismiss this as dead white cis-male logic…well, you can call it what you want, but then please just go fuck off. No one here buys that bullshit–logic is logic and facts are facts regardless of skin color–and if you gave it a moment’s rational thought, you wouldn’t either. Of course your worthless education never included being able to actually reason–or detect problems with false reasoning–so I don’t imagine you’ll actually wake up as opposed to being woke.

As Ayn Rand would sometimes point out: Yes, you are free to evade reality. What you cannot do is evade the consequences of evading reality. Or to put it concretely: You can ignore the Mack truck bearing down on you as you play in the middle of the street, you won’t be able to ignore the consequences of ignoring the Mack truck.

And Ayn Rand also pointed out that existence (i.e., the sum total of everything that exists) precedes consciousness–our consciousnesses are a part of existence, not outside of it–therefore reality cannot be a “social construct” as so many of you fucked-up-in-the-head people seem to think.

So much for Leftist douchebag lurkers. For the rest of you, the regular readers and those lurkers who understand such things, well here we go for another week of WINNING against the Deep State.

I confess that the novelty has not worn off.

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.

Yes, we won this time around. Not only did we win, we got to KEEP that win instead of having it stolen from us.

But no one should imagine that that’s the end of electoral fraud. Much work needs to be done to ensure it doesn’t just happen again next time around. And incidentally to rescue those states currently in the grips of self-perpetuating fraud, where the people who stole the last election, make sure it’s easier to steal the next one.

This issue, though it’s not front-and-center right now, is not going away, and if we ignore it, we’ll pay the price. See the article above about the consequences of evading reality.

Lawyer Appeasement Section

OK now for the fine print.

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

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

And remember Wheatie’s Rules:

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

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

Spot Prices.

Kitco Ask. Last week:

Gold $3,356.90/3,358.90
Silver $33.45/33.57
Platinum $1093.00/1103.00
Palladium $976.00/1016.00
Rhodium $5,180.00/5,630.00
FRNSI* 161.487-
Gold:Silver 100.057-

This week, markets closed as of 3PM MT.

Gold $3,288.30/3290.30
Silver $32.96/33.08
Platinum $1052.00/1062.00
Palladium $957.00/997.00
Rhodium $5,300.00/5,750.00
FRNSI* 159.168+
Gold:Silver 99.465-

I’m making a minor change here. Before, I quoted “ask” prices; i.e., the spot price corresponding to what you would pay a precious metal seller (if they actually paid attention to the spot price). The other price is “bid,” what they nominally pay you. The “bid” prices are what usually show up in the news. So from here on out it will be bid/ask, with the part after the slash corresponding to what I used to post. I’ll still use the ask prices to compute gold:silver and FRNSI.

Gold stayed above 3300 this week, but finally took a hit on Friday. Similar with the other metals. On the plus side for silver people, silver gained half an ounce (of silver) against gold.

*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.

Volcanoes

I’ve talked about streams. I’ve talked about glaciers (and judging from reactions, that was a better effort than the one on streams). Now it’s time–and we have the background–to talk about volcanoes.

Isaac Asimov was famous as a science fiction writer (most famous works being the Foundation Trilogy and the Robot stories and novels–he popularized the putative three laws of robotics) but he also was a biochemist and science popularizer. (In other words, when I read his work I realize how bad a job I am doing at this.) For decades he wrote a column for the monthly magazine Fantasy and Science Fiction. The editors gave him free rein. He usually wrote about some scientific topic. These got collected into books which I read, and oftentimes remember.

One of the essays I remember to this day is one he wrote in 1959. Asimov considered some of the most vital elements for living things (chlorine, sodium, potassium, sulfur, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, iron, manganese, zinc, cvopper, molybdenum, cobalt and iodine). That list isn’t complete, obviously, but he was focused on soil and land life. He then compared the abundance of each in the soil to the abundance in living things. For instance, soil he lists as being five percent iron, but living things are 0.0027 percent iron (this is presumably before the IRS bleeds you dry and gets all your hemoglobin). The idea being that land life will never run out of iron, because it’s actually more strongly concentrated in dirt than it is in living things. But work it the other way around: sulfur is 0.052 percent of all dirt, but 0.104 percent of living things–it’s twice as concentrated in living things as it is in the soil. Conceivably, life could be fruitful and multiply…until it weighed half as much as the upper layers of earth and there was no more sulfur left. OK, that wouldn’t happen, would it? We’d never have that much living stuff on Earth. The king though was phosphorus, which is concentrated 5.9 times in living things, versus the soil. Given how little of the Earth’s upper layers is living things, there should be no issue with running out of phosphorus, though, right?

Well, no. If it’s locked up in solid rocks, it’s useless; plants can’t use it and therefore, we animal types won’t be able to either. Add to that the fact that these elements aren’t distributed uniformly, and well, after a lot of discussion he states that phosphorus is “life’s bottleneck.” (And that is the name he gave the essay.) Then he pointed out that phosphorus tended to wash out into the oceans (3 and a half million tons per year), and there was no way for it to come back other than in waterfowl poop, which recovers maybe 3 percent and in any case (let’s face it) won’t help Kansas out. Furthermore, the ocean water was already saturated in phosphorus, so it’s carrying as much life as it can, and so what phosphorus washed out of the land would settle to the bottom of the ocean in sediment.

(There, I just used the “S” word so now you might be thinking there’s actually geology coming up sometime.)

He actually suggested trying to capture some of that phosphorus so it wouldn’t be lost forever; given enough time the Earth’s land would be nearly lifeless simply for lack of usable phosphorus.

Actually, it’s not a bad argument. He sounded more worried about that than about running out of oil and coal (but then, he liked nuclear power). As he said at the end, “We may be able to substitute nuclear power for coal, and plastics for wood, and yeast for meat [ick!]…but for phosphorus there is neither substitute nor replacement.”

But there was one factor he didn’t take into account, and that’s no surprise whatsoever, because as I said before he wrote the article in 1959. No one could have taken that factor into account because we were only beginning to get a glimmer of it.

And the factor is (drumroll): Volcanoes…fed by plate tectonics.

Volcanoes can be thought of as Earth-scale zits popping, and thus regarded as a big negative, especially since they can be hazardous, but in fact they play a vital role, as they bring back to land what gets washed into the ocean. It’s by no means a fast process, since ocean crust can last up to two hundred million years, but it’s there.

Most volcanoes (I say most) appear either over subduction zones, or at divergent zones. The latter of these is the more intuitive, and the signature example is Iceland. As the plates move further apart, magma wells up to fill the gap and becomes ocean floor, literally hot off the conveyor belt. Magma welling up to the surface will of course make one think of volcanoes.

The first diagram shows the mid-Atlantic ridge from above, and also a profile, showing that the ridge comes comparatively close the surface, then slopes away to the more level bottom of the Atlantic ocean.

If that mid-ocean ridge should happen to break the surface of the ocean, it will form a volcanic island, and indeed we see this happen at Iceland, but also Jan Mayen, Pico island in the Azores, Ascension Island, St. Helena, Tristan da Cunha, Gough Island and Bouvet Island in the Atlantic ocean. In other oceans, the Galapagos islands are on a divergent boundary in the Pacific, and Rodriguez, St. Paul, Amsterdam, MacDonald, Heard, and Kerguelen islands in the Indian ocean.

(St. Paul and Amsterdam islands, by the way, are antipodal to Colorado; directly on the opposite side of the Earth from here. Kerguelen–a much larger but still-small island–is antipodal to the Montana/Alberta/Saskatchewan border. The rest of the Lower 48 is opposite of water.)

Why are there islands at these particular locations and not other places on the ridges? Hot spots. Which I’ll get to later.

But most volcanoes are on convergent boundaries, in particular subduction zones, which pretty much ring the entire Pacific ocean. To refresh memories, here’s a picture:

Why would there be volcanoes there? New crust isn’t forming, it’s disappearing. The ocean floor is basically being pushed down deep below the surface of the earth, presumably never to be seen again.

What’s happening is that the lighter continental rock sediments on the ocean floor are being heated, melt, and force their way upward through the denser rock until they reach the surface…and there they form volcanoes, usually not right on the subduction zone (which generally forms a deep oceanic trench like the Marianas trench) but a ways “downstream” from it; the sedimentary rocks need time to heat up and melt.

So this is how we get our continental crust (including phosphorus) back after it washes into the oceans! Asimov had no idea in 1959.

These account for almost every volcano out there, but of course there are two famous exceptions, Hawaii and Yellowstone. What accounts for them? Hotspots. Which I’ll get there later.

Volcanic lava tends to determine how explosive a volcano is. The more basaltic, the better; basaltic magma is very fluid and doesn’t have a lot of water trapped in it, so mid-ocean ridge volcanoes tend not to go “kablooey!” when they erupt. Near subduction zones, the magma is less basaltic (it has all that melted continental sediment in it after all) and has water trapped in it, so it tends to be explosive. As soon as that magma gets close to the surface the water in it flashes to steam and…well…(cued to 13:02):

Mount St. Helens was likely the largest landslide in recorded history. Worldwide. But it was by no means a superlatively large eruption as eruptions go. Big, but not humongous.

(The remainder of the video covers four other eruptions around the world, caught on camera.)

Also worth watching, the Smithsonian making itself useful (though you will want to stop it before it plays the next video):

Lava Types

There are two major types of lava flow, readily identifiable when they solidify. Logically enough they have Hawaiian names; the Hawaiians deal with lava like Inuit deal with snow.

The first is ‘a’a, roughly pronounced “ah, ah”. It tends to look chunky and jagged; the lava is a bit viscous. Then there’s pahoehoe (“pa hoy hoy”) which is much more smooth; it can look ropy because the top layer will get compressed and “scrunch up” as the still-liquid lava below it continues to flow. Here’s a picture of a new ‘a’a flow making its way across an older pahoehoe surface. The blocky chunks it is solidifying into are called clinkers.

Because lava tends to solidify at the top of the flow while the lower layers remain liquid, lava tubes can form, essentially caves through which lava once flowed. Here’s one in Hawaii:

you can see “step” lines in the walls, as later lava flows that didn’t fill the tube, used it as well.

Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho is probably one of the best places to see these sorts of things. It has cinder cones, lava fields that stretch to the horizon (it’s eerie to see almost no signs of life as far as you can see), pahoehoe and ‘a’a lava all over the place, and lava tubes. (And those are extremely unforgiving; I managed to bang my knee up pretty well tripping over something when I walked through one of the tubes–which was not nearly as smooth as the one in Hawaii; it was ‘a’a lava.)

Other Volcanic Stuff

Volcanic ash is the dusty stuff that gets ejected high into the atmosphere. It may not travel very far. When it comes down in thick layers it can consolidate into fairly soft rocks called tuff. (Tuff is sometimes erroneously called tufa, which is actually the name of a kind of marble.) Ash particles are 2mm or smaller, larger stuff gets labeled lapilli, at least until it reaches a diameter of 64mm.

Blobs of lava sent flying through the air are called volcanic bombs or lava bombs when they are more than 64 mm in diameter. They can fly many kilometers if they’re that small, but ones five to six meters across have been recorded, flying a few hundred meters. Here is an example from Kilauea:

If the eruption sends an already-solid rock through the air that would otherwise be a bomb, it’s a volcanic block. This example is from Cotopaxi in Ecuador.

Types of Volcanoes

There are quite a number of different types of volcanoes, including a number of types for volcanoes in the ocean–and I mean in the ocean, not above it–but the major ones are:

Cinder Cones. These are basically piles of small cinders, ash, clinkers that have spewed up vertically and fallen back to earth in a fairly neat, conical pile. They can range from tens to hundreds of meters tall. Mount Capulin in northeastern New Mexico is an example, they are also present in Craters of the Moon national monument in Idaho. (What’s a volcanic field doing in Idaho, nowhere near a plate boundary? Hot spots. Which I’ll get to later.)

Quite possibly the most famous cinder cone is Paricutin, in Michoacan State in Mexico. Picture this, a farmer in 1943 minding his own business when a vent in the ground opens up and starts spewing cinders. His name was Dionisio Pulido, and his account is:

At 4 p.m., I left my wife to set fire to a pile of branches when I noticed that a crack, which was situated on one of the knolls of my farm, had opened . . . and I saw that it was a kind of fissure that had a depth of only half a meter. I set about to ignite the branches again when I felt a thunder, the trees trembled, and I turned to speak to Paula; and it was then I saw how, in the hole, the ground swelled and raised itself 2 or 2.5 meters high, and a kind of smoke or fine dust – grey, like ashes – began to rise up in a portion of the crack that I had not previously seen . . . Immediately more smoke began to rise with a hiss or whistle, loud and continuous; and there was a smell of sulfur.

He–along with two whole towns–was SOL, his farm is now under a 424 meter tall cindercone (which did spew some lava). This happened over the span of nine years, and it has been dormant since then. Luckily only three people were killed.

Next we have the shield volcano. These will form when a volcano consistently erupts highly fluid, low viscosity lava, and have very gentle slopes. They’re named shield volcanoes because they reminded someone of one of those round hoplite shields (like Leonidas had), laying flat on the ground…just a low mound.

Hawaii is an example of a shield volcano. Here’s another in Iceland, named Skjaldbreidur…

…which is considerably easier to pronounce than Eyjafjallajökull, a troublemaker underneath a glacier. (Iceland Air, by the way, names its airplanes after Icelandic volcanoes.)

Mauna Kea/Hawai’i is the largest shield volcano on Earth, but Olympus Mons on Mars beats it handily. The total area within the escarpment is roughly the same as the country of Poland, and it is 21,900 meters tall (compare to Everest which is less than 9000, and to Hawai’i which measured from its base on the ocean floor, is 9330 meters tall.

And we can do combinations. Here’s a cinder cone that is in the San Francisco volcanic field near Flagstaff in Arizona…a nice symmetrical one, but the big black blotch upwards from it in the photograph is a basaltic lava flow from before the cindercone formed. (This field contains volcanoes anywhere between 1000 and 4 million years old. Mt. Humphreys (12,600 ft) is part of this field. The field is considered active, but likely not due for an eruption for a couple of thousand years.)

But probably the one you form a mental image of when you hear the word “volcano” is the stratovolcano…the type Mount St. Helens, and Ranier, and Shasta, and Hood, are.

Here is Mount Ranier:

It’s very prominent, when I first laid eyes on it on a road trip I immediately thought of “Fist of God” from Larry Niven’s Ringworld novels.

The internal structure will look something like this (vertically exaggerated):

Key to the diagram: 1) Large magma chamber 2) Bedrock 3) Conduit (pipe), 4) Base 5) Sill 6) Dike 7) Layers of ash emitted by the volcano 8) Flank 9) Layers of lava emitted by the volcano 10) Throat 11) Parasitic cone 12) Lava flow 13) Vent 14) Crater 15) Ash cloud.

These volcanoes tend to have a layered structure and in fact this is Broken Top, an eroded volcano in Oregon:

The crater at the top is often also known as a caldera, particularly if it’s big.

Another famous eruption in the Pacific Northwest is that of Mount Mazama. If you’ve never heard of that one, that’s because it is much more famous as Crater Lake. The 12,000 foot mountain erupted 7700 years ago–and it erupted so much that the magma chamber under the mountain was now empty. The peak of the mountain collapsed into the magma chamber, forming a caldera six miles across. The highest point on the rim of the crater is now 8,157 feet above sea level.

From the outside it’s an unassuming line of tree-covered peaks (they look like hills to me, honestly, since they don’t bust the tree line). From the inside, on the other hand:

I can attest that that is what the water actually looks like. This image has not been enhanced to exaggerate the color. The rim is hundreds of feet high or more. In the center is Wizard island, the result of a much smaller eruption a few thousand years ago.

Add it to your bucket list. I’m not joking, add it to your bucket list.

Volcanic Eruptions Ranked

Scientists will measure absolutely anything on a scale, and for volcanic eruptions they have the Volcanic Explosivity Index, or VEI, largely based on how much stuff the eruption spewed into the atmosphere.

Each step in the scale is ten times as much ejecta. Ten thousand cubic meters is a 1, a hundred thousand cubic meters a 2, and so on; at this rate when you get to a 5, that’s a cubic kilometer. The scale runs up to 8, 1000 cubic kilometers. When you realize that’s a cube six miles on a side, you realize that’s a LOT of crap spewing into the atmosphere.

So how do some famous eruptions stack up? Mt. St. Helens was a 5 (one cubic kilometer). Vesuvius in 79 CE was also a five. Pelee in 1902 was “only” a 4…but that volcano, on Martinque, destroyed the town of St. Pierre, killing 29,000-30,000 people almost without warning, the worst loss of life to a volcano of the 20th century. There were, by the way, three survivors. (That is not a typo. 3. Out of 30,000.)

Krakatoa, 1883, and Pinatubo, 1991, were VEI 6s, 10 cubic kilometers. Remember when the Phillipines kicked us out of the bases we had there? Well one of those bases got destroyed by that eruption.

Mazama was a 7, roughly 100 cubic kilometers of spew. Santorini in 1600 BCE was also a 7, and it was suggested it may have destroyed the Minoan civilization, but the timing isn’t quite right. There are Minoan ruins on what is left of that island, formerly Thera, now Santorini. And then there is Tambora, 1815. Tambora is on Sumbawa island, east of Java and Bali. Tambora’s eruption was heard 2600 kilometers away in Sumatra. In the northeastern US the next year, there was a persistent “dry fog” in the atmosphere from sulfur kicked up by this volcano, it dimmed the sun enough that people could see sunspots with their naked eyes. And that was the year without a summer; so much dust was in the upper atmosphere that massive crop failures were the result…world wide. It snowed June 6, 1816 in Albany, New York.

That was the biggest eruption in recorded history, but it is by no means the biggest eruption ever.

At a VEI of 8 we have Toba, on Sumatra, 74 thousand years ago, Taupo in New Zealand 26.5 thousand years ago, and, America is not to be outdone! Yellowstone, 2.1 Ma, and 640,000 years ago. (We’re due, folks…and the only safe place is Mars.)

Volcanic Plugs

One more thing I’ll cover, and that’s the subject of volcanic plugs. This is where lava hardens in the conduit of a volcano, and then the rest of the mountain erodes away.

By far the most famous of these is Devil’s Tower in Wyoming, made famous in Close Encounters of the Third Kind:

Aliens not included. [The wikipedia article on volcanic plugs hedges a bit and says many geologists believe that Devil’s Tower is a volcanic plug. Which means at least some do not.]

The striated look is because basalt likes to shrink and fracture into hexagonal columns, like this (the Giant’s Causeway in Ireland):

Wrapping Up

I said I’d talk about hot spots. And that’s true. I thought I’d do it today but I realized that subject is closely tied to a slightly deeper look at plate tectonics that I wanted to take. So I will (hopefully) do both next time. In the meantime I’ve given you quite a bit to digest already.

Health Friday 5.30.2025 Open Thread: What is Going On at HHS, the FDA, and the CDC?

The above graphic is with thanks to https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/fda-recommends-more-mrna-shots-despite, “FDA Recommends More mRNA Booster Shots Despite New Study Showing Booster Failure — and Major Public Outcry”, by Nicolas Hulscher, 26 May 2025.

Health Friday is a series devoted to information about Big Pharma, vaccines, general health, and associated topics. As today’s offering has to do with the disaster of the COVID-19 “vaccines” (Bioweapon Toxin Injections), Yours Truly dedicates it to all persons, of whatever age or location, who have passed away due to the negative effects of the COVID-19 “vaccines” that they had injected into their bodies.

There are Important Notifications from our host, Wolf Moon; the Rules of 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 offering for any AI-generated content. To the best of her knowledge and belief, there is none. If readers wish to use any AI-generated material in the discussion thread for today’s post, they must cite their source. Thank you.

Yours Truly has been researching, reading about, and writing about, the COVID-19 disaster since March 2020. She had a sense, early in 2020 when the speculation about the development and use of a COVID-19 “vaccine”, that something was “off” in the hype regarding “how this will stop the spread” of the virus, “how this will prevent COVID-19 infection”, and so on. As it turns out, that “Suspicious Dog” feeling was the correct one — the COVID-19 “vaccines” have been, are now, and will be, a disaster. These injectables do not prevent COVID-19 infection. These injectables have injured, sickened, disabled, and even killed, millions of “vaccinated” persons all over the world. These “vaccines” will continue to injure, sicken, disable, and even kill, those who have them put into their body — not only because of the ingredients and mechanisms of these injectables, but now also because of the “new and improved” (not) faulty foundation of “lab-created antibody titer levels tests” that will be used in the development of the “latest mutation version” of the “vaccines”, instead of doing actual clinical trials with lab animals and/or with human subjects. I will make it clear at the start that today’s offering is not meant to “stir the pot.” There are, in my opinion, legitimate questions that need to be asked regarding certain recent news items.

There are several central elements of the current situation regarding the “2025-2026 COVID-19 Vaccine Formula”, and the actions of certain people and entities. One such entity is the FDA. The current Commissioner of the FDA is Dr. Martin Makary, MD, MPH, who is also a proponent of COVID-19 “vaccination” (including in pregnant women), and is himself “vaccinated.”

On 22 May 2025, the FDA’s VRBPAC (Vaccines and Related Biological Advisory Committee) members met to “consider” and then to “recommend” the “2025-2026 COVID-19 Vaccine Formula.” The committee voted unanimously, after “presentations” by Pfizer-BioNTech, by Moderna, and by Novavax, to “recommend” the “formulas” for the modRNA (Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna) and the “inactivated protein” (Novavax) COVID-19 “vaccines.” Please see: https://www.contagionlive.com/view/fda-makes-recommendations-for-2025-2026-formula-for-covid-19-vaccines, 23 May 2025. A screenshot from this article is below:

These “vaccines” will be lab-developed, then lab-tested regarding the amount of “antibody titers” that “might” be “effective” in the “2025-2026 Formula COVID-19 Vaccines.” There will be no clinical trial testing of these “vaccines.” This protocol, outlined in the “Option 4” method, was adopted by the FDA on 28 June 2022. Please see the Briefing Document for this meeting: https://www.fda.gov/media/159452/download. “Option 4” is located on page 19. Please see the screenshot below:

Therefore, it appears that any person who takes an injection of the “2025-2026 Formula COVID-19 Vaccine” by Pfizer-BioNTech, by Moderna, or by Novavax, will be, in essence, a “human lab rat”, since these “vaccines” will only have been tested under “Petri-dish conditions” in a lab to confirm whether the “antibody titer amounts” expressed by the “vaccine” ingredients “might” be “effective” in humans.

There were over 95,000 public comments that were submitted to the FDA regarding the VRBPAC meeting of 22 May 2025, indicating a “major public outcry” against the “recommending” of more COVID-19 “vaccines.” Nonetheless, the VRBPAC members voted to endorse the “2025-2026 COVID-19 Vaccine” formulas, as described above, using the “Option 4” method. Please see: https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/fda-recommends-more-mrna-shots-despite, “FDA Recommends More mRNA Booster Shots Despite New Study Showing Booster Failure — and Major Public Outcry”, Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, 26 May 2025. Please see the screenshot from this article, below:

The phrase, “immunogenicity data” refers to the “Petri-dish lab experiments” as described above.

The image below is from the “opinion piece” written and published by Dr. Martin Makary and Dr. Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH. Dr. Prasad is another important person in the current situation regarding the HHS / FDA / CDC. As of 6 May 2025, Dr. Prasad is the new Director of the FDA’s CBER department (Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.) The “opinion piece” was published on 20 May 2025, two days prior to the FDA’s VRBPAC meeting. Please see: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb2506929. A screenshot of the combined Figure 2 and Figure 3 from the “opinion piece” are below:

Dr. Prasad made it clear, in a podcast, that the FDA will implement the elements outlined in the “opinion piece” as the “new framework” for COVID-19 “vaccination.” Please keep this in mind for later on in today’s offering.

The paper regarding the failure of COVID-19 “booster shots”, already online-published but will appear in a medical journal in June 2025, is found here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.127257, “Effect of the 2022 COVID-19 booster vaccination campaign in people aged 50 years in England: Regression discontinuity analysis in OpenSAFELY-TPP”, Andrea L. Schaffer, et al., journal Vaccine, Volume 59, 20 June 2025, 127257. The salient image from this paper is below:

Regarding the impact of COVID-19 “vaccination” on the lifetime supply of eggs in a female’s ovaries, it is now known that BOTH the modRNA AND the “inactivated” COVID-19 “vaccines” have a devastating impact on this egg supply. Please see: https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines/13040345, “Impact of mRNA and Inactivated COVID-19 Vaccines on Ovarian Reserve”, Enes Karaman, et al., 30 January 2025. This paper demonstrates that there is a 30% conception failure rate, and an overall loss of up to 60% of the lifetime egg supply in the female ovaries, both induced by COVID-19 “vaccination” in a female of child-bearing age.

Then, there is Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, the new Director of the NIH (National Institutes of Health.) It appears that Dr. Bhattacharya may be “betting on both sides of the game” regarding COVID-19 and the COVID-19 “vaccines.” While it is true that Dr. Bhattacharya has stated that lockdowns, “mandated masking”, “social distancing”, and so on, are not real methods to deal with the virus, he also said this, in 2021, regarding the COVID-19 “vaccines”:

Link to the above: https://www.newsweek.com/stanford-doc-jay-bhattacharya-calls-vaccine-mandates-unethical-says-patients-can-choose-1611938. The above statement from Dr. Bhattacharya raises some questions: One, if COVID-19 is “basically a cold”, how can a “vaccine” protect against it? Two, if COVID-19 is “basically a cold”, why are there so many persons who have had a COVID-19 infection (either from the mechanisms of the COVID-19 “vaccines” themselves, or from the virus itself) and have since presented with symptoms of “Long COVID”? Three, if indeed a person who had a COVID-19 infection and recovered, is “protected against new disease”, why are people (COVID-19 “vaccinated” or not) still coming down with COVID-19 virus mutation infections?

Next is Susan Monarez PhD, the current Acting Director of the CDC. Previously, she had worked in the Department of Homeland Security with BARDA and with other HHS departments. Dr. Monarez is a “biosecurity expert” who has also endorsed the COVID-19 “vaccines.” Please see: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/health/cdc-director-monarez.html, “Trump Nominates Susan Monarez to Lead C.D.C.”, 24 March 2025. The pullquote from the article: “Monarez is a biosecurity expert who endorsed the Covid vaccines, and her selection may signal a growing impatience with anti-vaccine sentiment.”

And, finally, there is current HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., an attorney who founded the Children’s Health Defense organization (https://childrenshealthdefense.org/), and who has been an outspoken opponent of the COVID-19 “vaccines.”

And here begins Yours Truly’s presentation of the Kabuki theater going on at HHS / FDA / CDC:

On Tuesday 27 May 2025, HHS Secretary Kennedy, Jr., appeared in a video with Dr. Markary and Dr. Bhattacharya to announce that the COVID-19 “vaccines” that are “recommended” (in actual practice, they are called “routine”) by the CDC for healthy children under age 18, and for healthy pregnant women, would be removed from the CDC Immunization Schedules. Please see: https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1927374665745342535, a screenshot of which is below:

Where was Dr. Monarez, the Acting Director of the CDC? Why wasn’t she included in the video? An “announcement” of this importance would surely have required her to be included. To the best of Yours Truly’s knowledge and belief, neither Dr. Makary (FDA), nor Dr. Bhattacharya (FDA CBER), have the direct authority to remove vaccines from the CDC Immunization Schedules. The CDC is a separate departmental entity of HHS.

However: In reality, nothing has changed regarding the CDC Immunization Schedules. The CDC is still using the same 2025 Immunization Schedules that were issued on 21 November 2024. Please see: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/imz-schedules/index.html. The CDC is still “recommending” that pregnant women get COVID-19 “vaccinated”. Please see: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines-pregnancy/about/index.html. This “recommendation” was issued by the CDC on 17 June 2024.

The “elaborate costumes and dance of Kabuki theater” approach were on display during this video with Secretary Kennedy, Jr., Dr. Makary, and Dr. Bhattacharya. But it was a “performance.” And the audience suspended reality for the “performance.”

Yours Truly now turns to the blog article by Sasha Latypova, a former medical technology and pharmaceutical technology professional, about this “Kabuki theater performance” of 27 May: https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/eugenics-for-dummies-aka-hhss-evidence, “Eugenics for Dummies, aka HHS’s “Evidence-Based Approach” to covid shots.”, 29 May 2025. Please see the screenshots from her article, below:

It appears that, in reality, what has happened is that the current CDC Immunization Schedules have been neatly “absorbed into” the “new evidence-based approach to the COVID-19 vaccines” so-called “opinion piece” of Dr. Makary and Dr. Prasad (see the links to their “opinion piece”, above; and, also, the statement by Dr. Prasad that this “new approach” will be implemented at the FDA / CDC (so, it seems, they aren’t “opinions” at all.)

Further confirmation of the “Kabuki theater” element regarding the 27 May “announcement” by Secretary Kennedy, Jr., Dr. Makary, and Dr. Bhattacharya, comes from The Kingston Report: https://karenkingston.substack.com/cp/164733998, “Who’s Calling the Shots at HHS?”, 29 May 2025.

WHO IS IN CHARGE OF HHS? If Secretary Kennedy, Jr., can take the time to write letters to ask that ostriches in Canada are not “culled” due to a “possible” infection from Avian Influenza; if he can issue a directive to have titanium dioxide removed from candy (Skittles) — why did he participate in a “Kabuki theater performance” on 27 May regarding something incredibly important to the health of every American — the dangerous, deadly COVID-19 “vaccines”? Did he, or anyone else, at HHS, inform Dr. Monarez about the “change” in the CDC Immunization Schedules? If so, did she agree?

In Yours Truly’s opinion, there appears to be some sort of “issues” going on at HHS, the FDA, and the CDC. HHS Secretary Kennedy, Jr., needs to get to the bottom of all of them.

FLASH! AS OF TODAY, 30 MAY 2025: THE CDC HAS JUST ISSUED THE “NEW CHILDHOOD VACCINE IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE” RELATED TO THE COVID-19 “VACCINES”:

It appears that Dr. Susan Monarez, PhD, has finally weighed in regarding the 27 May “announcement” (aka “Kabuki theater performance”) by HHS Secretary Kennedy, Jr., Dr. Makary, and Dr. Bhattacharya COVID-19 “vaccines” and the CDC Childhood Immunization Schedule. Please see Sasha Latypova’s presentation here: https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/cdc-issued-the-anticipated-updates, “CDC issued the anticipated updates to the children’s schedule for covid shots”, 30 May 2025.

HOWEVER, there’s some “catches” in the “updates.” Huge “catches.” These have to do with the CDC “definition” of what a “healthy child” means. In short summary: It will be the CDC who decides if a child meets their “criteria” for being a “healthy child” (meaning, the COVID-19 “vaccines” aren’t “necessary” or “recommended”); it will be the CDC’s “guidance” on this that will be in control of any discussion between a child’s parent(s)/guardians, and the clinician who can administer COVID-19 “vaccines”; there are no provisions that Yours Truly can see in the CDC “guidance” for exemptions on religious or other grounds; and, that ANY clinician who is cleared to administer COVID-19 “vaccines” will ultimately make the decision on whether or not to COVID-19 “vaccinate” a child who does not fit the CDC “criteria” for a “healthy child.” This includes clinicians who have never treated the child (in other words, a CVS pharmacist, for example.) Please see the screenshots below, from the Latypova article of today:

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Dear MAGA: 20250529 ✾ Thank God ± Theistic Evolution ∈ Thursday Open Topic

This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!

Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.

Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!

Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.

The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.

And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.

And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.

OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.

No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.

If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!

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A Tab-Clearing Selection of Videos

OK, people, listen up.

I have collected WAY too many videos in my tabs, with the intent of using one every week in the Monday open thread. The trouble is, I collect them much faster than I am using them.

Well, I’m going to FLUSH some of them. Right now. And every week. Until I have a more manageable number.

Find what you like – play what you like – ignore the rest.

Thank you for your consideration of this matter.

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(1) The Nancy Mace Allegations

Nancy Mace makes explosive allegations on the floor of the House. Go to 19:00 minutes where it begins (it should be queued up).

(2) Einstein, Emmy Noether, and General Relativity

Is Veritasium a heavy metal? If so, I maintain that it is still good for you! This is fascinating history about Einstein, even if you ignore the science. It’s basically about a woman mathematician who came up with some math and science that saved Albert’s butt!

(3) Barbara Corcoran On Donald Trump

I’m not saying she’s right about WHY Trump is the GOAT, but she is right THAT Trump is the GOAT, and her little story here is fascinating. You’ve seen this before – still – worth another watching!

(4) The World’s Dumbest Calculator For Pi

This is actually kinda cool, but in the end, you will feel the dumbness, and it burns! “Moar Maker Madness!”

(5) Pyromaniacs, Clickety-Clacks, and the Thermite Welding of Railroad Tracks

Veritasium with all the fireworks and none of the equations. OK, maybe just a few equations. But still, it’s all worth it. Enjoy!

Stay tuned for the next five tabs to escape though this page!

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KMAG 20250528 OPEN TOPIC plus Transnational Corporations

Site rules stolen from our good friend PAVACA

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.

Do not forget to LABEL AI articles video and such.

Morgenthau Plan – Wikipedia

The Morgenthau Plan was a proposal to weaken Germany following World War II by eliminating its arms industry and removing or destroying other key industries basic to military strength. This included the removal or destruction of all industrial plants and equipment in the Ruhr. It was first proposed by United States Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. in a 1944 memorandum entitled Suggested Post-Surrender Program for Germany….

That sure sounds like what was done to the USA via ‘leveraged buyouts’ in the 1980s thanks to Reagan’s laissez-faire attitude towards monopolies. According to Source Watch a long list of industries now have over 50% foreign ownership.

I worked for one of the targeted AMERICAN corporations. Here’s how they ran their business. Compare these methods to those of current corporations:

Personnel were hired for the long term & for their ability to grow into other jobs.
The corporation paid for continuing education and would even give time off for critical courses if you were going for a degree.
NO CORPORATE DEBT
SELF INSURED HEALTHCARE provided to the employees
American owned
Matching-funds if you bought corporate stock up to 10% of your salary. [This is why they succeeded in fighting off the first few hostile take-over attacks… Until the CEO mysteriously died of a heart attack at his desk. – A CIA hit maybe? Given what I know now it is not as far-fetched an idea as I first thought.]
Committed to QUALITY, Religion & the USA.

What allowed the buyout of US corporations? Mutual Funds & Pension Funds held stock in them. The stock, purchased using YOUR MONEY or pensions and was held in YOUR NAME. But you didn’t vote it as a stockholder. Instead, the stock was VOTED by Fidelity, Vanguard, Blackrock, State Street and other financial institutions. They are the ones who voted to allow the leveraged buyouts.

Do not forget 401K plans. They are another control transfer mechanism.

Americans held approximately $7.3 trillion in 401(k) plans as of June 30, 2021, according to the Investment Company Institute. And the typical wealth held in an American family’s 401(k) has more than tripled since the late 1980s…

In 1974, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) was enacted, [There is that 1974 date again. — GC] creating a governmental body that oversaw and regulated company-sponsored retirement and health care plans for workers.

ERISA temporarily halted IRS plans to severely restrict retirement plans through regulation in the early 1970s, according to the EBRI. The Act created a study of employee salary reduction plans as well, which the EBRI credits for influencing the creation of the 401(k) later on in the decade….

The modern 401(k) originated in earnest in 1978 with a provision in The Revenue Act of 1978 which said that employees can choose to receive a portion of income as deferred compensation, and created tax structures around it.

Section 401 was originally intended by lawmakers to limit companies creating tax-advantaged profit-sharing plans that mostly benefited executives, according to the ICI. Thanks to the interpretation of the section by businessman Ted Benna, the language evolved into the basis of the modern 401(k), as it enabled profit-sharing plans to adopt CODAs.

The law was signed by President Jimmy Carter and became effective at the turn of the decade….

Is it any wonder that ‘the little guy’ now has very little influence over the big corporations?

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But it gets worse. In 2010 the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC allowed corporations and unions to spend unlimited amounts of money on political advertisements and other forms of independent political expenditures. The founders, who hated corporations, must be rolling in their graves. SEE: What The Founding Fathers Thought About Corporations

Supreme Court decisions that paved the way for big money in politics

Supreme Court Decisions

Believe it or not, before some recent Supreme Court decisions the American political system was not always so skewed in favor of the wealthy and powerful. In fact, dating back to the Tillman Act of 1907 and the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, Congress limited the ability of corporations and labor unions to make contributions or expenditures in connection with political campaigns.

The influx of money from corporations, unions, and ultra-wealthy individuals in recent decades is due largely to a few poorly reasoned Supreme Court decisions. The best way to understand how our campaign finance laws became so horribly dysfunctional is to understand those decisions, which are explained in detail below.

Buckley v. Valeo (aka The Court’s First Big Mistake) (1976)

First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti (aka The Citizens United of the 1970s) (1978)

Federal Election Commission v. Massachusetts Citizens for Life (aka The Nonprofit Case) (1986)

Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce (aka The Good One) (1990)

Citizens United v. FEC (aka The Worst Decision Since Dred Scott) (2010)

Arizona Free Enterprise Club v. Bennett (aka The Public Financing Case) (2011)

McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission (aka The Nightmare Continues) (2014)

The article goes through what each decision did to our election system.

One of the biggest problems as SourceWatch showed, is these corporations influencing our elections are no longer even AMERICAN corporations but are instead TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS run by FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS – AKA the Banksters using the Mercantile system. However if an international corporation has offices in the USA, they can donate to political campaigns or run ads. So much for ‘American only’ influence in our political campaigns.

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H/T to Barkerjim who brought us this last Tuesday from Badlands.

WILTED IVY: The Death of Prestige and the Rise of Sovereignty

…Carroll Quigley, a historian with privileged access, wrote in Tragedy and Hope, [1966]

“The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim… nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands.”

Harvard, in this view, acted less as a neutral educator and more as a strategic hub.

They didn’t just teach economics.
They reinforced orthodoxy:

Orthodoxy of narratives.

Orthodoxy of institutions.

Orthodoxy of “experts” upholding the prevailing system.

Graduating from an Ivy League school was less about critical thinking, and more about credentialing for access into the upper tiers of an increasingly globalized control system.

This is why the collapse of their perceived invincibility isn’t just symbolic, it’s tectonic.

Because if Harvard can fall, the entire scaffolding of manufactured consensus can fall with it.

If Harvard shaped minds, BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street shaped markets.

These three asset managers didn’t merely participate in corporate governance, they dominated it. Their collective control over trillions of dollars made them the unofficial enforcement arm of the globalist order….

Good old Commie central. I lived near there in the Combat Zone. The area leans so far left, that three decades ago a friend, originally a card-carrying communist , had to register as a Republican and work the polls so Cambridge MA could hold their elections!

Also whenever a small company, such as the one I worked for or Spags, suddenly had problems from major changes in the way they did business and then went under, Hubby & I would say they had been HAVAAAAD business schooled. The method was to cut needed expenses such as ongoing maintenance so the bottom line looked really good for a couple years and then move on to the next victim.

The Spags case was special. The store was not open on Sunday because the Borgatti family was religious. The old man dealt in CASH ONLY, no checks or credit cards. Thus he could also get really good deals on merchandise by paying THAT DAY and NOT paying 3 months later as most stores do. Also since Massachusetts taxed inventory in warehouses but NOT goods in transit, he stored his merchandise in trailers in his lot. His retail store was a no-frills warehouse with the merchandise on warehouse racks in cut open boxes. (No additional stock boys.) When he died his kids hired a Harvard business grad. They started taking credit cards (5% paid to the card company by the vendor) fancied up the selling area ($$$$) got a warehouse ($$$$) and the business went under in a few years and was sold.

Today, those asset managers DO NOT LIKE TRUMP’S TARIFFS. Thus you are going to see price gouging such as bananas going from $0.39 to $0.59 in ONE WEEK. Allowing the Fake news arm of the globalists to jump in and BLAME TARIFFS.

5/23/25 – Volvo Cars CEO says its customers must pay for rising tariffs | Reuters

So TOUGH, buy a Chevy or a Dodge…

Trump will destroy world trade, but democracies can defend themselves — and each other | the Guardian UK

by Anders Fogh Rasmussen

We need a trade block, a D7, that would mirror Nato. An economic attack on one would be an attack on all

Anders Fogh Rasmussen is a former prime minister of Denmark and former secretary general of Nato

[He writes:]

The postwar global economic order, with the United States at its centre, has created more prosperity than any other period in human history. [by sucking the USA dry. –GC] Yet as Donald Trump takes a sledgehammer to that economic order, America’s democratic allies face a choice. We can accept the new cost of doing business with the US. We can follow the US down a path of mutually assured economic destruction with an ever-escalating trade war. Or we can find new avenues to keep free trade alive.

[FREE? You have GOT TO BE KIDDING ME! –FREE to the EU but NOT to the USA that is getting raped via multiple methods. -GC]

My proposition? I believe we need a new platform for economic cooperation between the world’s seven leading democracies. Call it the “Democratic 7”, or “D7”. The EU, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and South Korea represent roughly 25% of global GDP and account for about 35% of global trade volume. Together, these democracies can help to shield each other from the threats of economic nationalism and coercion – while also championing democracy, the rule of law, and market economics…

GEE, the EU, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and South Korea… What do they all have in common? WHY THE US MILITARY GUARDS THEM!

What happens if the USA under Trump joins BRICS?

This problem was also identified by Angelo M. Codevilla (may he rest in peace) in July of 2010.

America’s Ruling Class—And the Perils of Revolution

…The only serious opposition to this arrogant Ruling Party is coming not from feckless Republicans but from what might be called the Country Party—and its vision is revolutionary.

As over-leveraged investment houses began to fail in September 2008, the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, of major corporations, and opinion leaders stretching from the National Review magazine (and The Wall Street Journal) on the right to The Nation magazine on the left, agreed that spending some $700 billion to buy the investors’ “toxic assets” was the only alternative to the U.S. economy’s “systemic collapse.” In this, President George W. Bush and his would-be Republican successor John McCain agreed with the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama. Many, if not most, people around them also agreed upon the eventual commitment of some 10 trillion nonexistent dollars in ways unprecedented in America. They explained neither the difference between the assets’ nominal and real values, nor precisely why letting the market find the latter would collapse America.

The public objected immediately, by margins of three or four to one.

When this majority discovered that virtually no one in a position of power in either party or with a national voice would take their objections seriously, that decisions about their money were being made in bipartisan backroom deals with interested parties, and that the laws on these matters were being voted by people who had not read them, the term “political class” came into use. Then, after those in power changed their plans from buying toxic assets to buying up equity in banks and major industries but refused to explain why, when they reasserted their right to decide ad hoc on these and so many other matters, supposing them to be beyond the general public’s understanding, the American people started referring to those in and around government as the “ruling class.” …

The Republican Party did not disparage the ruling class, because most of its officials are or would like to be part of it.

Never has there been so little diversity within America’s upper crust. Always, in America as elsewhere, some people have been wealthier and more powerful than others. But until our own time America’s upper crust was a mixture of people who had gained prominence in a variety of ways, who drew their money and status from different sources and were not predictably of one mind on any given matter….

Today’s ruling class, from Boston to San Diego, was formed by an educational system that exposed them to the same ideas and gave them remarkably uniform guidance, as well as tastes and habits. These amount to a social canon of judgments about good and evil, complete with secular sacred history, sins (against minorities and the environment), and saints. Using the right words and avoiding the wrong ones when referring to such matters — speaking the “in” language — serves as a badge of identity. Regardless of what business or profession they are in, their road up included government channels and government money because, as government has grown, its boundary with the rest of American life has become indistinct. Many began their careers in government and leveraged their way into the private sector. Some, e.g., Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, never held a non-government job. Hence whether formally in government, out of it, or halfway, America’s ruling class speaks the language and has the tastes, habits, and tools of bureaucrats. It rules uneasily over the majority of Americans not oriented to government.

…The two classes have less in common culturally, dislike each other more, and embody ways of life more different from one another than did the 19th century’s Northerners and Southerners — nearly all of whom, as Lincoln reminded them, “prayed to the same God.” By contrast, while most Americans pray to the God “who created and doth sustain us,” our ruling class prays to itself as “saviors of the planet” and improvers of humanity. Our classes’ clash is over “whose country” America is, over what way of life will prevail, over who is to defer to whom about what. The gravity of such divisions points us, as it did Lincoln, to Mark’s Gospel: “if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.”….

And thus the Tea Party was formed and ATTACKED by both the Democrats (LINK 1 and LINK 2) followed by the Republicans — Chamber of Commerce to Spend $100 Million to Destroy Tea Party. I guess the big transnational corporations did not like the idea of the serfs organizing.

Here is an example of the types of articles you would see in academic circles.

A Nation Dispossessed: The Tea Party Movement and Race — 2011

Leonard Zeskind

Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, USA

Critical Sociology 0(0) 1–15 © The Author(s) 2011 Reprints and permission: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/journals

Abstract

This analysis combines both qualitative information and quantitative data. The author reviewed numerous first person reports of Tea Party rallies, conferences and meetings from every corner of the country, and read most of the movement’s own literature. The Tea Parties are described as a unique movement appearing at a specific historical moment. The movement encompasses constituent national networks, core members and more loosely aligned supporters. Its supporters are overwhelmingly white and middle class. Matters of race and national identity motivate many Tea Partiers as well as a sense of dispossession from their place of privilege in the racial order. This analysis takes at face value the movement’s dress, symbols and invocation of the constitution, as well as its claims to embody the aspirations of a narrow body of ‘real Americans’. By making an exclusionary claim on the nation’s founding moments, they actually set themselves apart from other Americans.…

Conclusion
Social movements do not last forever. More often than not, they have one or another or a combination of three fates. One, they are either victorious and decline after reaching their goal. Two, they are defeated outright. Three, they are co-opted by some larger institution.

The militia movement that emerged in the 1990s, for example, was defeated following the
Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 by a concerted campaign of civic opposition and government repression. Militia groups have reappeared, but the movement itself is gone as of now. To go back further in history, the Ku Klux Klan and other white-minded thugs that emerged during the Reconstruction period after the Civil War were essentially victorious in re-establishing the system of white supremacy in the former Confederacy, and the Klan dissolved effortlessly into the Democratic Party before the end of the century. The Klan in the 1920s may have suffered from the scandals surrounding its leadership, but the movement did not die until after it won a change in the 1924 immigration law that protected Anglo-Saxon hegemony for another generation. After that it basically closed up shop, except in the Deep South. The Klan, the Citizens Councils, the Birchers
and the segregationists in the 1950s and 1960s were decisively defeated by the black freedom movement, and they were left standing with empty hands after Governor George Wallace’s independent presidential campaign in 1968. Only the Republican Party gained after it adopted its infamous ‘Southern Strategy’.

The decisive moments that will decide the Tea Parties’ fate have not yet occurred. The movement’s sights are set squarely on November 2012. If they win back the presidency for the Republican Party, the movement might or might not dissolve into squabbling factions. If they perceive that they have lost that election, or the Republican primaries before it, an internal power struggle may or may not split it irrevocably apart. Win, lose or draw, however, the Tea Party movement has already left important markers on America’s political landscape: First, in the current debate over economic policy and the national debt, they have moved the discussion toward fiscal restraint and de-regulation. They stand in the way of environmental protection and other measures by which the federal government might promote the common good. Of more long-term consequence, however, will be its legacy in the arena of race. Please consider that the Tea Party movement may be a precursor of an even larger revolt by supposedly dispossessed white people as the expected population and demographic shifts occur in the decades to come.

Keywords Tea Party, Tea Party movement, nationalism, racism, white dispossession, white majority fears, white nationalism

Good Grief the Tea Party was NEVER, EVER about RACE. It was about the Federal Reserve, Fractional Reserve Banking, TOO MUCH TAX and not enough FISCAL RESTRAINT! By ignoring the complaints and driving the Tea Party underground the Globalists forced the birth of MAGA.

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Wolf Moon in a comment thread gets into more of this information and its connections to today via Jack Smith.

I did research this. What I know is that his name is John L. Smith, where L is weird and I forgot what it is.

And he was indeed an attorney for the ICC/ICJ in the Hague – even Politico fact-checks this as TRUE, with lots of details.

But THIS is the most important part.

I did a Twitter thread on the guy, last year.

The Hague is a city in the Netherlands that is the home of U.N.’s International Court of justice and the International Criminal Court. So Jack Smith worked for the Globalists. — GC

The entire problem of "John Smith" (yes, that's his real name) as special counsel is explained by this great article on Smith's insane war against the Tea Party movement. The guy will relentlessly push bad theories until other people get into trouble.https://t.co/gvmzpn1jsT
— Wolf Moon (@WOLFM00N) June 28, 2023

You can see the entire thread using this URL: https://xcancel.com/WOLFM00N/status/1674123794301046800

TEXT from the first few tweets.

The entire problem of “John Smith” (yes, that’s his real name) as special counsel is explained by this great article on Smith’s insane war against the Tea Party movement. The guy will relentlessly push bad theories until other people get into trouble.

Jack Smith’s Tortured History With Republicans in Congress

This guy John Smith is literally, personally, WHY there was a Tea Party IRS scandal. Without him, no scandal. He’s the one who pushed the IRS into criminal persecution of conservatives. His DOJ then had IRS people pleading the Fifth to hide crimes against American citizens. [VIDEO]

Wolf Moon@WOLFM00N

28 Jun 2023

IMO, dirty judge Merrick Garland and Obama DOJ handler Lisa Monaco chose Smith not to win the case, but to drive Trump out of politics. Smith did exactly that to John Edwards. Smith LOST his case against Edwards, but drove him out of politics for good.

Trump special counsel Jack Smith lost the John Edwards case — what might that mean?

Wolfm00n gives more examples of Smith’s sucessful lawfare cases used to destroy political opponents.

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So, getting back to Angelo Codevilla’s article, WHERE did all that 2008-9 bank bailout money actually go??? Why to our European Masters of course. SEE: The Federal Reserve’s Covert Bailout of Europe And the American Tax Payer got stuck with the TRILLIONS in debt AS USUAL.

It is interesting that POTUS Trump is FINALLY going after the EU that has been taking advantage of the USA since WWII. FINALLY, the US might stop hemorrhaging wealth and lives.

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TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS

The Network of Global Corporate Control

…we find that only 737 top holders accumulate 80% of the control over the value of all TNCs [Trans National Corporations] …This means that network control is much more unequally distributed than wealth. In particular, the top ranked actors hold a control ten times bigger than what could be expected based on their wealth…

…In detail, nearly 4/10 of the control over the economic value of TNCs in the world is held, via a complicated web of ownership relations, by a group of 147 TNCs in the core, which has almost full control over itself. The top holders within the core can thus be thought of as an economic “super-entity” in the global network of corporations. A relevant additional fact at this point is that 3/4 of the core are financial intermediaries….

Exposing the Financial Core of the Transnational Capitalist Class

Introduction

In this study, we decided to identify in detail the people on the boards of directors of the top ten asset management firms and the top ten most centralized corporations in the world. Because of overlaps, there is a total of thirteen firms, which collectively have 161 directors on their boards. We think that this group of 161 individuals represents the financial core of the world’s transnational capitalist class. They collectively manage $23.91 trillion in funds and operate in nearly every country in the world. They are the center of the financial capital that powers the global economic system. Western governments and international policy bodies work in the interests of this financial core to protect the free flow of capital investment anywhere in the world…

The Transnational Capitalist Class (2000), Leslie Sklair argued that globalization elevated transnational corporations (TNC) to more influential international roles, with the result that nation-states became less significant than international agreements developed through the World Trade Organization (WTO) and other international institutions.8 Emerging from these multinational corporations was a transnational capitalist class, whose loyalties and interests, while still rooted in their corporations, was increasingly international in scope. Sklair wrote:

The transnational capitalist class can be analytically divided into four main fractions: (i) owners and controllers of TNCs and their local affiliates; (ii) globalizing bureaucrats and politicians; (iii) globalizing professionals; (iv) consumerist elites (merchants and media). . . It is also important to note, of course, that the TCC and each of its fractions are not always entirely united on every issue. Nevertheless, together, leading personnel in these groups constitute a global power elite, dominant class or inner circle in the sense that these terms have been used to characterize the dominant class structures of specific countries...

This is why the Supreme Court decisions to give these TNCs control of our political campaigns was so detrimental to the USA. It explains why the Republicans and Democrats are globalists and not patriots.

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And in the GOOD NEWS DEPARTMENT:

TRADING MAYORS ☙ Tuesday, May 20, 2025 ☙ C&C NEWS

A Major Hat-tip to barkerjim for introducing me to C&C News.

… Rounding out today’s accountability trifecta, on Sunday the Washington Post ran an intriguing story headlined, “Trump Justice Dept. considers removing key check on lawmaker prosecutions.” The “key check” is a Biden-era rule that forbids Attorneys General from investigating public officials for corruption without first getting permission from the DC field office. You can guess how often that happens.

According to leakers (“three people familiar with the proposal”), federal prosecutors across the country may soon be able to indict members of Congress without pre-approval from “lawyers in the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section,” or PIN, which is safely settled in Washington, DC where politicians can keep a wary eye on them.

Even better, under the new plan, FBI investigators and prosecutors would also be freed from having to ‘consult’ with the section’s attorneys “during key steps of probes into public officials.” In other words, even when the DC office did green-light an indictment, it still micromanaged the whole investigation.

Currently, the DOJ’s manual requires that PIN’s attorneys must approve —not just be consulted on— any charges against members of Congress. It doesn’t happen often, to say the least.

WaPo, probably intentionally, missed the painfully obvious point: a special oversight privilege for public officials provides them with a special tier of justice that other Americans do not enjoy. WaPo whined that the Public Integrity Section’s role was to “ensure that cases against public officials are legally sound and not politically motivated.”

But … what about us? Wouldn’t it be better and fairer to ensure that cases against all Americans are legally sound and not politically motivated, and not just public officials?

The ironically named Public Integrity office has already “dramatically shrunk” during the Trump administration, plunging from around 30 prosecutors by the end of the Biden administration to fewer than five today. One was fired, some rage-quit over the dismissal of the DOJ’s case against New York’s Democrat Mayor Eric Adams, while others have been “detailed to different sections in the department,” such as the division of Indian Affairs. In Trump’s first week in office, he fired PIN Director Corey Amundson.

It sure makes you think. Say you were planning to initiate wide-scale investigations into members of Congress, maybe for NGO abuse, insider trading, or general self-enrichment. This kind of thing would probably be your first move. Just saying.

C&C News on Tariffs

DULY PROCESSED ☙ Saturday, May 17, 2025 ☙ C&C NEWS

President Trump and his team appear to have no intention of losing Congress in next year’s midterms. And after seeing Trump’s scorched-earth tariff plan, imagine what similar kind of comprehensive strategy they might be deploying to completely destroy the Democrat brand. That is what I believe is happening.

The Democrats are getting further and further behind.

Here’s a thought experiment. Imagine that the next 18 months sees a steady series of increasingly damning disclosures about Biden’s lack of a real presidency plus the mounting evidence of 2020’s stolen election?

Remember, just like they gained access to the Biden Audio, the Trump Team now has access to all that information, too. They have receipts….

Whoopsies! Sorry, experts. This week, Politico ran a story headlined, “Tariffs have little impact on prices, defying forecasts.” Unexpectedly!

On Tuesday, the Labor Department reported that prices only rose at an annualized rate of 2.3 percent, the smallest increase since 2020— before the pandemic. And that was in spite of tariffs. It’s almost like Trump’s tariffs have had the opposite effect the experts sagely predicted.

An honest media would call the experts to account, and require them to explain why they were wrong. But Politico’s story lavishly applied the passive voice (“prices were expected to climb”), obscuring who was wrong, generously giving unreliable experts a pass. Oh well.

From Shadow Stat Alternate Inflation Charts

….The CPI-U (consumer price index) is the broadest measure of consumer price inflation for goods and services published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

While the headline number usually is the seasonally-adjusted month-to-month change, the formal CPI is reported on a not-seasonally-adjusted basis, with annual inflation measured in terms of year-to-year percent change in the price index.

In the charts to the right we show two SGS-Alternate CPI estimates: One based on the pre-1990 official methodology for computing the CPI-U, and the other based on the methodology which was employed prior to 1980.

Please note: Our Data Download is currently only providing the 1980-Based numbers, but 1990-Based numbers will be introduced shortly.

2025.05.27 Daily Thread – American Stories: When in the Course… Rules, Procedures & Practices – Part 2 of 3

I hope you are sticking with this subject, it is important to understand to make sense of the efforts of the patriots and the black hats response to them.

Root Of The Current Corruption

In my opinion the corruption that has resulted is primarily rooted in American law dating back to our founding since it is based on British law, which is prone to manipulation and corruption as history has clearly shown the entire world. British leadership have sometimes been brutal oppressors of other peoples for many centuries. To support their aggression they needed a legal system to support it. Many of our founding fathers along with other military, business and government leaders were educated in the UK. Some went to law school there. They were all subjects under the Crown/Parliament in the colonies and the British legal and governmental system applied. Many of the colonists were loyalists (Tories) who became Federalists post war and strongly supported the related laws. Many of our founding fathers became highly successful attorneys and judges in elevated roles throughout the Colonies. Some were initially appointed to their roles by the Crown/Parliament and their designated leaders in the colonies.

The Federalist movement/political party won the battle to change from the Articles of Confederation as well as over some of the content of the Constitution that replaced them. Again, that change in governing documents may or may not have been necessary. To us in this time of American history, it just is what it became. What transpired about 235 years ago is a product that was negotiated and implemented that may have needed more thought and work put into it; unless it was designed intentionally with legal and operational “flaws” that could be bent as needed. I do not know that the latter point was the case, just that there is evidence of flaws in the document and system that developed from it from the outset.

In my personal opinion, they should have paid closer attention in particular to Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry and related patriots who were balanced by close associations with other nations and peoples as well as to the dangers of excessive centralized control of a nation.

There is just way too much wiggle room for those who seek advantages over others that was not intended in the document. In many areas there are no defined limitations and boundaries. The methods to address abuse are too convoluted to be quickly handled or even addressed at all. Strong fences make for good neighbors while not having borders makes for chaos and corruption both literally on the ground and figuratively within governing documents.

Throughout the national formation turmoil, there was a large segment of colonists who stayed tightly connected to Great Britain while the majority of commoners and true patriot leaders fought the war for independence. Some of our population denied their future citizenry and remained subjects. Many were aristocrats and other loyalists. They did not like their wealth and standing in society negatively impacted by the rebellion and war. Many were compelled to leave, abandon their personal and business holdings, and go back to the UK both during and after independence was achieved. Beginning with the year the Treaty of Paris was signed (1783), even many of our patriot founding fathers went back for periods of time on their own volition to improve their personal health, visit family and friends, as well as foster business and political connections. With some, it was like nothing had happened of deadly consequence between them. Life had moved on.

Carry that latter approach to national allegiance of some citizens today. In 1967 dual citizenship was permitted in this country for the first time. What could possibly go wrong with being a citizen of two different countries?

We only need to look at Great Britain’s system of government along with its horrible ethics and corruption that oppresses its own native citizenry today to know the path. It has not materially changed, it is still fundamentally the same game. Throughout mankind’s history we can see how systems of powerful nations have been slowly and gradually destroyed from within via “infiltration” versus “invasion” as Q put it. Today, the once proud British commoner citizens have been beaten into submission by their corrupt leaders and the unrestrained immigration and infiltration into government and judiciary.

So let’s have a little fun. This linked story is a short historical summary of the law in England and Wales going back 1000 years.

A (very) brief history of the legal system in England and Wales

Many MAGA patriots would be big time in favor of bringing back the carrying of a red hot iron bar or their version of waterboarding to determine guilt. The following is a more thorough historical summary as it applies to the colonies leading up to the Revolutionary War period.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/1600-1754-law-and-justice-overview

One thing is clear from the latter summary, the diversity of the customs and society of the nations of origin of the immigrants along with national allegiance by territory of settlement led to improvisation in the establishment of American common law. The “industry” of that day would take British law and mingle it with that of other nations they felt appropriate. The law that developed after trial and error (pun intended), was used for order and rights as well as for community and social issues. This evolution of the law during the period was still ultimately controlled by the Crown and Parliament.

So do we think that maybe, just maybe, the Brits might have known the strengths and weaknesses as well as the levers of control through the rules, procedures and practices they put in place in the system in the colonies? Do we think that maybe, just maybe that historical knowledge is being used even today within America’s federal government and judicial systems by our own version of loyalists and Federalists? Do we think maybe, just maybe that system of government, law and judiciary responses might be taught in America’s law schools and collegiate curriculum by those trained by our own version of loyalists and Federalists today?

The results of the Revolutionary War and subsequent ratification of the Constitution changed the path of development, but did not fundamentally change the foundation of the legal and judicial systems that were rooted in The British Way. Now what was it John Adams said about liberty? “But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”

Rules, procedures and practices are subtle, less noticed, but very effective ways to change a Constitution of Government from Freedom. They can be used in similar fashion as framing an argument is done in a debate. They establish the boundaries and emphasis without having the stated authority to do so. As long as people go along with it, the abusers have the opportunity to dictate the way the game is played.

Folks, the Brits have always been masters of infiltration. It was going on back in those days of Adams and the founders just like it is today. It is not a new concept. As a result it is OK for me to state the following since the Constitution says I can do so. The Constitution as written and amended has been unable to successfully defend against significant manipulation, corruption and violence committed against We the People over the centuries that followed. Just as John Adams indicated would be a problem if not handled well – the loss of liberty – we have experienced to various degrees as a reality from the struggles within our own borders.

Doubt it? How about some mundane recent examples? Did you socially distance, wear a mask, follow edicts and orders from government leaders, avoid going to church, not go to a beach or park, use delivery services instead of going to the store, buy truckloads of toilet paper and Lysol, and so on during the early days of COVID?

None of any related guidelines and mandates pushed down on citizens had a legal basis for the authority that was exercised. The same was true of the get jabbed or lose your job, or, you will not receive surgery in a hospital type dictates. People went along with it due to being job scared, having serious health issues, or just being unwilling to challenge government or employer authority.

Did your kids wear masks at school or stay home and be taught on-line? More dictates placed on the public without legal authority.

If you did any of those things and many more you were being manipulated by the federal government and its minions to reduce your liberty and hand them more control and money.

It seems it was not just the development and implementation of a great Constitution that was needed. It was also operating under same within the spirit and intention it was ratified with We the People having legal triggers to use to defend against government oppression when abused or attacked. The use of the second amendment is vitally important as the final act of rebellion against oppressors, however, would it not be much better for its use to never be needed because We the People could bring abuse to an end effectively before it starts or reaches a point of violent conflict?

That insufficient triggers exist has given cause for rebellion in various forms by We the People at times in our history. There are multiple types of rebellion, it does not always have to result in violence (unless you are a Democrat). Just like the Tea Party, MAGA is a direct rebellion against the ways of the current day versions of the American Crown/Parliament and its loyalists. For example, most of us know we are currently in a pitched battle with a branch of government, the judicial. We cannot let up on the attack against corrupted judiciary and those that defend it. Chief Justice Roberts can stick his statements about impeachment of judges up his azz. His opinion on the matter is no more valuable than mine. The provision to do so already exists in the governing document and law. He and his kind know that and are deflecting to retain power. They feel their subversion of the Constitutional framework will be exposed and they will no longer be entitled to being king makers and determiners of the fate of the nation.

To cut to the chase, one leg (Judicial) of the three legged stool is being made larger and stronger than the other two by the Cabal. If you can get that image in your mind, what happens to the other two when the weight of the stool sitter (us – We the People) gets shifted more onto them (Executive/Legislative)? The weight gets heavier and their weaknesses are exposed. The stronger leg then has more control over the stool.

The SCOTUS of about 40 years ago gave us the Chevron Deference decision, which contributed to an explosion of regulations with corresponding rules, procedures and practices devised by agency bureaucrats and their legal staffs that has made life miserable for many citizens. In essence, for 40 years SCOTUS and the judicial branch said we really don’t want to work that hard on deciding cases in accordance with law, let the bureaucrats run things. So they gave our nation a system that facilitated a more flexible and responsive regulatory framework through what was known as the “Chevron Two-Step” process. The courts would determine if the intent of Congress on a matter was clear; if not, they would decide if the agency’s interpretation was reasonable.

Nah, nothing arbitrary and subjective about that at all. Again, 40 years of it before the current SCOTUS ended it. The damage to our nation and We the People was far reaching and immeasurable. That it was allowed to exist created downstream opportunities for even more agency overreach through rules, procedures and practices. Ending their use even after the correction cannot be accomplished quickly. It takes hard work from dedicated reformers.

There are many excellent patriotic justices, judges and attorneys in this nation. They judge ethically and legally without making it all about themselves. Because they do their jobs well the media says nothing about them. The key for We the People is to empower and openly support their efforts, to do things legally as intended, and to kill the corruption using the Constitutionally supported law while having an America First Legislature codify the gains.

In every one of the federal agencies and sub-agencies there are rules, procedures and practices established by legal staffs and bureaucrats. Most are further supported by judicial bureaucracy (some say judicial tyranny). This is true in all 450+ of them. From those spring legitimate and criminal business, banking, and political connections that extend internationally like tentacles. So what was once supposed to be limited government (H/T Steve), has become the creature from the deep that is to be feared worldwide with central bankers and globalists in control. It seems the globalist cabal never really left American life, they just evolved their methodology to maintain power.

Let’s take a look at one of the most corrupt, embarrassing, and damaging federal government and judiciary scams of our times over eight years later. The horrible damage to our nation and citizens has already been done; so now it is going to be about retribution. Although satisfying, would it not have been far better to have never experienced Russiagate at all?

Trump’s New Weaponization Czar Ed Martin Unleashes Hell on Deep State — Quietly Investigates Russiagate Architects and Lawfare Operatives Including Weissmann

We have all seen POTUS Trump use his deep knowledge of history as a frame of reference for what he does on behalf of our nation. What other major world leader has a similar frame of reference and understanding of history related to the nation he leads?

Yup – Putin. Sort of explains the direction of diplomacy recently, doesn’t it?

All of the opposition who have been enjoying the rip off know that going back to original intent and cleaning up the deficiencies destroys their power base and money train. Original intent means that we exist and operate under the Providence of God in accordance with our founding documents as the Declaration of Independence directly states. Among many other noble activities the patriots are doing is removing the corrupted ties that bind relating to the oppressive rules, procedures and practices. That takes away the enemy’s access to our money, power, and LIBERTY.

Which is why we see the war raging around us. Any and all other methods to address our challenges will be fruitless. The vision and implementation must have pure motives in accordance with what We the People declared at our founding. The Declaration of Independence is still the vision and mission statement of America. Without question it is the world’s most successful national mission statement. All we need to do as patriots is remain true to the words contained within.

For many years this nation has been wandering between the wicked ways of the world provided by those that have oppressed for many centuries and those who support and reside in God’s kingdom. This is true in many other nations of the world as well. We cannot continue to serve the carnal desires of man instead of God and thrive. We are in a strong position of influence in the world if we can be successful in our efforts.

The Part 1 posts that started this subject reflect that struggle. We should always ascribe to the higher purpose. The Geddes post describes a modern day exercise in futility that the Pharisees and Sadducees with all of their scribes in Israel during the time of Jesus would be quite proud to have debated and delivered to the oppressed. In my Christian mind I see that The Talmud they constructed came into existence because the religious leaders who influenced and controlled the daily lives of the people as well as their supporting lawyers were not content that God’s Word had provided sufficient content. They wanted more authority and riches, so they added more rules, procedures and practices.

When these current day oppressors attempt to do the same, do not go along to get along.

Lord Mansfield

So who is this Lord Mansfield that Geddes references?

https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Murray-1st-Earl-of-Mansfield

How did he influence American law centuries after his death? Read this quote from that linked biography. I have left the links in should you decide to learn more about the referenced terms.

Mansfield’s permanent stamp upon Anglo-American law lies in commercial law. When he mounted the bench, at the start of the Seven Years’ War that was to fasten Britain’s grasp upon America, India, and international trade, English law was land-centred and landbound in outlook and entrenched in professional tradition. Reform was imperative. Mansfield’s vision and ambition reached beyond the continental model of a special body of rules for commerce and banking. He sought to make the international law of commerce not a separate branch but an integral part of the general law of England, both common law and equity, using the leverage thus gained to pry loose from feudalism whole blocks of other rules that had little or no direct commercial bearing. An important part of this brilliant venture succeeded.

Anglo-American Law is common law. This is the law in America that has evolved from the British system that is built on judicial precedents and case law that does not solely rely on statutory law. America was a new territory for the expansionist Crown/Parliament. Their subject colonists needed incentive to tame the wilds, so a degree of autonomy was given to do so. They wanted the colonies to become a feeder of wealth. So a colonies version of common law developed under the umbrella of the British system. Lord Mansfield was instrumental in its development in America in the area of common law and in particular, commercial law. I encourage you to read the following link if you are serious about understanding what you see playing out in the judiciary in front of your very eyes today. It is not a hard read.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/politics/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/common-law-anglo-american

The following two paragraphs from the above referenced link are huge. Think about them.

While the federal Constitution did not adopt the common law as a general rule of decision, many of its specific provisions were of common law origin. In its delineation of the separation of powers, the Constitution incorporated common law limitations upon the prerogative and Parliament which had been honored in England and disregarded in the colonies. The bill of rights, adopted in part because of doubts about the existence and efficacy of a federal common law, codified specific common law procedural rights accorded the criminally accused. It also incorporated common law protections of more fundamental interests, including that basic guarantee of reason and fairness in governmental action, the right to due process of law.

Most important, the common law process has enabled the federal judiciary to attain its intended position in the constitutional plan. Chief Justice John Marshall’s opinion in marbury v. madison (1803), asserting judicial power to review legislation and declare it unconstitutional, was founded on the common law obligation of courts to apply all the relevant law, including the Constitution, in deciding cases. A declaration of unconstitutionality in one case is effective in other similar situations because of the force of precedent. In refining Marbury ‘s principle, the Supreme Court more recently has developed the doctrine of justiciability, designed to establish in constitutional cases the existence of a truly adversary case or controversy, to which decision of a constitutional issue is necessary. Together, these rules, by proclaiming that the federal courts are confined to the traditional common law judicial role, provide both legitimacy and effectiveness to court enforcement of the Constitution’s limits upon the powers of the other branches and the states.

Fire alarm bells just went off!

We now enter into a different three legged stool discussion and illustration. Not only is our federal government designed as one, the Judicial branch in America has one for its system of operation and judgments. The legs are statutory, judicial precedents, and case law.

So what leg do they ignore or deemphasize if they can achieve desired responses from the other two? Yup, statutory. The other two deal with activities where rules, procedures and practices they institute can achieve desired results as long as statutory does not get in the way.

This shiz cannot keep happening and still have a viable, healthy country.

The Answer

Do you see any resemblance to the current SCOTUS or judiciary in the lofty statements made in those paragraphs in bold that were quoted from the last linked article? Truly, despite a few recent victories it is embarrassing how far removed the opinions and rulings have been for a very long time. Countless SCOTUS and federal judiciary decisions made along political party lines, cultural influences, social hot buttons and so on have been the rule rather than the exception for decades. As just one example, look at the timing of the initial Roe v. Wade decision and coordinated CIA orchestrated push to loosen social mores and values. Did it ultimately build a better society and bring people together? We now know the answer with certainty. When it came time to remove its impact it took a turn by the SCOTUS toward enumerated powers to change it. None of that would have happened without MAGA and POTUS Trump.

Today, we are watching it play out in real time with the removal of illegals. Something that a child could understand is being made into a major mess by the Judicial branch and corrupted federal government.

Those examples are more visible and macro in nature. What about the countless Martin Geddes type micro injustices here in America nationwide? Do we really want all of that on our consciences? As a result and in answer to the question of what can we do Constitutionally to stop the madness, in my opinion Wolf stated what our collective, MAGA, America First response should be perfectly.

“So we wreck them by seriously cutting government and giving them fewer places to exist. Among all of the other benefits, the body politic would have fewer sociopaths and parasites in it.“

If We the Patriots can DOGE the crap out of all government there is a declining ability to wage war against We the People via swamp critter bureaucracy, lawfare and propaganda. The money dries up as do the cases and precedents of two of the legs of the stool that the enemy can use to play the lawfare game and attempt to swing the balance in their direction. When the enemy is busy destroying themselves, let them. They have been using up quite a bit of their ammunition lately with very few wins. So let’s keep the pressure on and force their hands.

We the People should never disregard or ignore history in understanding the foundation of the same laws that are being abused. The spilled blood of patriots demands our full attention and response.

Stay tuned, we will continue to drill down on this and related subjects as we progress.

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Be blessed and go make something good happen!

Dear KMAG: 20250526 Trump Won Three Times ❀ Open Topic | AI & The Black Box Post

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).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!

We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

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No running with scissors.
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Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

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

Joe Biden didn’t win.

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

Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:

bathysmal

adjective

of, like, or pertaining to the depths of the ocean
not to be confused with abysmal
not to be confused with Obysmal

Used in a sentence

One of the first uses of “Obysmal” – not to be confused with abysmal or bathysmal – is found in a blog post “Barack’s Obysmal Health Care Meeting“.

LINK: https://drugwonks.com/blog/barack-s-obysmal-health-care-meeting

ARCHIVE: https://archive.fo/1zUMI

Best use of an “ysmal” word in recent news

“Mercedes boss Toto Wolff bemoans ‘abysmal’ Monaco GP qualifying as George Russell and Kimi Antonelli miss out on top 10”

Toto Wolff? REALLY???

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

MUSIC!

Toto! And not the toilet!

THE STUFF

Sometimes you just have to wash away “the stuff”!

Toto. Useful stuff.

Just sayin’!

And speaking of useful stuff, one of the best explanations of AI is the following post from Jeff Childers of “Coffee & COVID”.

LINK: https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/black-boxes-friday-may-23-2025-c

ARCHIVE: https://archive.fo/cl5Ou

I will hereafter refer to this as the “black box post” – because it basically describes the “core” of AI as a kind of “black box” that people don’t fully understand, but which I would describe as “emergent intelligence that seems like us, and therefore impresses us”. Childers does a great job in describing what we know and don’t know about it, in easy-to-understand language.

Do yourself a favor and read it!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W

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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.”

God’s Will

Many people are interested in knowing God’s Will for their life. But most people are confused about God’s Will because the term is used to describe three different ideas or concepts.

Most sincere Christians would say they want to do God’s Will, particularly when they need to make a big decision. Unfortunately, knowing the Will of God seems like an elusive mystery to most people. We are often confused about how to be wise, “understanding what the Will of the Lord is” (Ephesians 5:17).

This confusion is partly due to three different concepts all being referred to as “God’s Will.” They are God’s “Perfect Will,” His “Proscribed Will” (which is revealed in His Word), and His “Predetermined Will” (or Plan).

1. God’s Perfect Will
The first “Will of God” is the idea that God may have a “Perfect Will” for our lives. Many preachers and teachers talk about “God’s Perfect Will.” So, Christians often wonder whether there is a “Perfect Will of God” for their lives, and if there is, how they can know it. They may be especially concerned about this when they have a big decision to make.

The Greek original reads “that you may discern what the will of God is, the good and acceptable and perfect.” And teleios (the Greek word translated as “perfect”) means complete or mature.

The command in Romans 12:2 is not to do the perfect will of God. It is to stop conforming to the image of the world. Instead, we are exhorted to allow ourselves to be continually transformed by the renewing of our minds through the work of the indwelling Holy Spirit. Then we will be able to understand God’s Will by what is good, spiritually mature and pleasing to God.

So, “God’s Perfect Will” can be better understood as God’s Preferred Will, that which is good, spiritually mature and pleasing to God. The Preferred Will of God is what God desires. But even though God is omnipotent, His Preferred Will is often ignored or rejected in this sin cursed world. God allows this as a natural consequence of creating us in His image with a free will.

2. God’s Proscribed Will
If only there were a way to know what God desires so we could do it. . . well, there is. God has revealed it to us in His Word, the Bible.

God’s second Will is “His Proscribed Will.” God has clearly revealed many do’s and don’ts (positive precepts and prohibitions), and other guiding principles in His Word to show us how He wants us to live.

These principles are often referred to as the “Moral” or “Revealed” Will of God. God does not want people to sin; He desires love, holiness, and obedience instead.

The best-known prohibitions in the Bible are the 8 “Thou shalt not . . .” commands in the Ten Commandments. Doing anything the Bible has expressly prohibited is sin.

The Bible contains hundreds of positive precepts (commands) as well. Failing to do what God has commanded us to do is also sin.

The Two Greatest Commandments:
Of all the commands in the Bible, Jesus revealed the two greatest commands which are the most important to obey.

The Greatest Commandment:
Thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. (Deuteronomy 6:5; 10:12; 11:1, 13; 13:3; 30:6; Joshua 22:5; Matthew 22:37-38; Mark 12:30; Luke 10:27)

The Second Greatest Commandment:
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. (Leviticus 19:18, 34; Matthew 19:19; 22:39-40; Mark 12:31; Luke 10:27; Romans 13:8-10; James 2:8)

The great news is that the “Two Greatest Commandments” provide practical principles by which we can discern God’s Will. For all the law is fulfilled . . . in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.(Galations 5:14)

1. We should love God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength. This is Godlike ‘agape’ love, which is a choice, not based on feeling. This precept means God should take first place in your life relative to everything else. You should love God more than your family, friends, possessions, and even your own life. If you truly love God, you will want to do the things that please Him.

2. We should love our neighbor as ourselves. This also refers to Godlike ‘agape’ love, and it applies to all people (as in the story Jesus told of “the good Samaritan”), not just the people who live near you. If you love others as yourself, you will treat them the way you want to be treated; with kindness, generosity and respect.

While the two greatest commandments set a high bar, they are simple Principles that are easy to remember and understand. If we live by these two ‘Positive Precepts,’ we won’t need to worry about remembering all the rest.

As we seek to love God with all our heart, mind and soul, we should remember that Jesus said, “If ye love Me, keep My commandments” (John 14:15), and “He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me” (John 14:21). He also taught us that the way to abide in His love was by keeping His commandments (John 15:10).

So, the way we please God is by loving Him enough to keep His Proscribed Will revealed in the Bible, which includes loving Him with all our heart, mind and soul, and loving others as ourselves.

3. God’s Predetermined Will
God’s third Will is “His Predetermined Will,” which can be thought of as “God’s Plan.” God’s predetermined plan is certain and unchanging. Before God created the world, He had already determined everything that would happen.

Nothing has ever caught God by surprise. Before “the beginning,” He already knew everything that would be.

God is purposeful; His plan is not random. Everything He predetermined was chosen for a reason. So, “God’s Predetermined Will” is sometimes referred to as His “Purpose.” This purposeful Plan of God is what people are often referring to when they talk about predestination, destiny, or “God’s Sovereign Will.”

Because God has already predetermined everything that will happen, we cannot deviate from His plan. His predetermined plan will be accomplished. Everything we will ever think, say and do was already built into God’s plan before He spoke the world into existence.

We are still responsible for our thoughts and actions, because God created us in His image, with a free will and gave us the ability to make choices. However, our all-knowing God already knew us before He created the universe.

Before time began, by His ‘foreknowledge’, God already knew how we would use our free will, including every choice we would make. God’s omnipotent power and omniscient wisdom enabled Him to weave all our choices (good and bad) into His predetermined plan.

Whatever you do, God has already woven you into His Plan

You don’t have to worry about living God’s Predetermined Will because you can’t miss it. Whether you choose good or evil, love God or reject God, whatever you do, God has already woven you into His Plan.

Summary

God does not want us to be unwise, “but understanding what the will of the Lord is” (Ephesians 5:17). So don’t be foolish, but understand God’s Will and behave wisely.
xhttps://www.revealedtruth.com/doctrine/gods-3-wills/

I think the above can be more easily summarized and remembered by the following . . . and without giving names to the three concepts:

God’s Will (Three concepts)
1. What God would like to see happen (but does not enforce).
2. What is written in God’s Word (positive actions and prohibitions).
3. What actually does happen (planned and controlled or permitted by God).

Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin?
And not one of them falls to the ground
apart from your Father’s will.

2025·05·24 We Will Have Justice Daily Thread

What is it that feeds our battle, yet starves our victory?

Do We Still Need the Kang (Mis)Quote?

I’m still using the quote about winning the battles but losing the war. It seems like this doesn’t make sense right now given that we seem to be going from triumph to triumph.

On the contrary. This is the exception that proves the rule. The quote isn’t just a lament, it’s to point out why we can never seem to win.

You see, the RINOs cannot interfere and that is why, just for once, we are actually winning. And that is just one more piece of evidence (for the willfully blind) as to what I have been saying with that quote.

It stays.

Speaker Johnson
Pinging you on January 6 Tapes

Just a friendly reminder Speaker Johnson. You’re doing some good things–or at least trying in the case of the budget–but this is the most important thing out there still hanging. One initial block released with the promise of more…and?

We have American patriots being held without bail and without trial, and the tapes almost certainly contain exculpatory evidence. (And if they don’t, and we’re all just yelling in an echo chamber over here, we need to know that too. And there’s only one way to know.)

Either we have a weaponized, corrupt government or we have a lot of internet charlatans. Let’s expose whatever it is. (I’m betting it’s the corrupt weaponized government, but if I am wrong, I’d like to see proof.)

Justice Must Be Done.

The 2020 election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system.

Yes this is still true in spite of 2024. Fraud must be rooted out of our system and that hasn’t changed just because the fraud wasn’t enough to stop Trump winning a second term. Fraud WILL be ramped up as soon as we stop paying attention.

Otherwise, everything ends again in 2028. Or perhaps earlier if Trump is saddled with a Left/RINO congress in 2026, via fraud.

Small Government?

Many times conservatives (real and fake) speak of “small government” being the goal.

This sounds good, and mostly is good, but it misses the essential point. The important thing here isn’t the size, but rather the purpose, of government. We could have a cheap, small tyranny. After all our government spends most of its revenue on payments to individuals and foreign aid, neither of which is part of the tyrannical apparatus trying to keep us locked down and censored. What parts of the government would be necessary for a tyranny? It’d be a lot smaller than what we have now. We could shrink the government and nevertheless find it more tyrannical than it is today.

No, what we want is a limited government, limited not in size, but rather in scope. Limited, that is, in what it’s allowed to do. Under current circumstances, such a government would also be much smaller, but that’s a side effect. If we were in a World War II sort of war, an existential fight against nasty dictatorships on the brink of world conquest, that would be very expensive and would require a gargantuan government, but that would be what the government should be doing. That would be a large, but still limited government, since it’d be working to protect our rights.

World War II would have been the wrong time to squawk about “small government,” but it wasn’t (and never is) a bad time to demand limited government. Today would be a better time to ask for a small government–at least the job it should be doing is small today–but it misses the essential point; we want government to not do certain things. Many of those things we don’t want it doing are expensive but many of them are quite eminently doable by a smaller government than the one we have today. Small, but still exceeding proper limits.

So be careful what you ask for. You might get it and find you asked for the wrong thing.

Political Science In Summation

It’s really just a matter of people who can’t be happy unless they control others…versus those who want to be left alone. The oldest conflict within mankind. Government is necessary, but government attracts the assholes (a highly technical term for the control freaks).

His Truth?

Again we saw an instance of “It might be true for Billy, but it’s not true for Bob” logic this week.

I hear this often, and it’s usually harmless. As when it’s describing differing circumstances, not different facts. “Housing is unaffordable” can be true for one person, but not for another who makes ten times as much.

But sometimes the speaker means it literally. Something like 2+2=4 is asserted to be true for Billy but not for Bob. (And when it’s literal, it’s usually Bob saying it.) And in that sense, it’s nonsense, dangerous nonsense. There is ONE reality, and it exists independent of our desires and our perceptions. It would go on existing if we weren’t here. We exist in it. It does not exist in our heads. It’s not a personal construct, and it isn’t a social construct. If there were no society, reality would continue to be what it is, it wouldn’t vanish…which it would have to do, if it were a social construct.

Now what can change from person to person is the perception of reality. We see that all the time. And people will, of course, act on those perceptions. They will vote for Trump (or try to) if their perception is close to mine, and vote against Trump (and certainly succeed at doing so) if their perception is distant from mine (and therefore, if I do say so, wrong). I have heard people say “perception is reality” and usually, that’s what they’re trying to say–your perception of reality is, as far as you know, an accurate representation of reality, or you’d change it.

But I really wish they’d say it differently. And sometimes, to get back to Billy and Bob, the person who says they have different truths is really saying they have different perceptions of reality–different worldviews. I can’t argue with the latter. But I sure wish they’d say it better. That way I’d know that someone who blabbers about two different truths is delusional and not worth my time, at least not until he passes kindergarten-level metaphysics on his umpteenth attempt.

Lawyer Appeasement Section

OK now for the fine print.

This is the Q Tree Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Political 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:

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

(Paper) Spot Prices

Kitco “Ask” prices. Last week:

Gold $3,203.70
Silver $32.26
Platinum $998.00
Palladium $990.00
Rhodium $5,825.00
FRNSI* 153.979-
Gold:Silver 99.309-

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

Gold $3,356.90/3,358.90
Silver $33.45/33.57
Platinum $1093.00/1103.00
Palladium $976.00/1016.00
Rhodium $5,180.00/5,630.00
FRNSI* 161.487-
Gold:Silver 100.057-

Gold is still jumping around a lot but on the whole it had a good week and so did silver (though not as good as gold, the ratio has again slipped to over 100). Even platinum had a good week! (I guess zombies do exist!) Palladium is up for the week (but went down on Friday), rhodium is down, down, down. Those last two are almost purely industrial metals so that may not be good news for the economy.

Memorial Day

Memorial Day is intended to honor those American servicemen and women who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. It has an incredibly complicated history (which I had to skim for lack of time), but it appears that at one key point it was commemorated by placing flags on the graves of those interred in military cemeteries for those who had died in the Civil War. Later on it expanded (at least informally–the purpose I stated above is still the nominal purpose of the holidy) to include any deceased military veteran whether or not they had died while serving–likely because many of them are now interred in military cemeteries as well.

Regardless of that, I think we can all agree it’s not just a day to fire up the barbecue. Unfortunately it became such a day in the minds of many when it became one of those holidays observed on a Monday, instead of being observed on May 30 regardless what day of the week it fell on. Moving it to the “Last Monday in May” turned it into a convenient three day weekend (most businesses observe it because of that) marking the unofficial beginning of summer, a time to go on a camping trip and/or fire up the barbecue.

When the change was made in 1968 (taking effect in 1971) many complained and as recently as 2002 the VFW stated: “Changing the date merely to create three-day weekends has undermined the very meaning of the day. No doubt, this has contributed a lot to the general public’s nonchalant observance of Memorial Day.”

I can’t disagree.

No Science Post

Sorry had no time. I imagine many will be relieved not to be reading about volcanoes, which is what I had planned to do now that we’re at a point in the narrative where it becomes possible to talk about them intelligently.

Health Friday Open Thread 5.23.2025: The FDA’s EUA to Pfizer-BioNTech for BNT162b2 on 11 December 2020 Is Invalid

The above free vintage image of a vaccine vial and syringe is courtesy of iStock and Google Images.

Health Friday is a series devoted to information about Big Pharma, vaccines, general health, and associated topics. As today’s offering is related to the COVID-19 biological toxin injections, aka the COVID-19 “vaccines”, Yours Truly dedicates it to all persons, of whatever age or location, who have been injured, made ill, become disabled, or have passed away, from the negative effects of these “vaccines” that they had in their body.

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 can be found 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 today’s discussion thread, they must cite their source. Thank you.

Yours Truly began writing about the results of the huge C4591001 clinical trial of the Pfizer-BioNTech modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine”, BNT162b2, on the board here back in 2023. I was reading through document after document that the company generated related to this clinical trial, documents that were released to the general public only after Pfizer-BioNTech, in partnership with the FDA, lost their case in federal court to keep all of the data about C4591001 sealed for 75 years, and they were then sued by Attorney Aaron Siri’s group, Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency (PHMPT.) Please see: https://www.biospace.com/non-profit-group-wins-transparency-lawsuit-over-fda-records-of-pfizer-vaccine-authorization, 7 January 2022. Note: regarding the Pfizer-BioNTech and the Moderna COVID-19 “vaccines”, “mRNA” and “modRNA” are interchangeable descriptive words for these injectables.

The FDA press release of 11 December 2020, announcing the agency’s granting of the EUA for the Pfizer-BioNTech modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine” BNT162b2 is here: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-annoucenments/fda-takes-key-action-fight-against-covid-19-issuing-emergency-use-authorization-first-covid-19, “FDA Takes Key Action in Fight Against COVID-19 By Issuing Emergency Use Authorization for First COVID-19 Vaccine.” A screenshot from this press release is below:

Note the phrase, “Follows Thorough Evaluation…”. It is now known that this manifestly was NOT performed before the EUA was granted.

Regarding the invalidity of the 11 December 2020 EUA that was granted to Pfizer-BioNTech for BNT162b2 to be used “to prevent COVID-19 infection” in the United States: Yours Truly begins here: https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/fda-authorization-of-pfizer-covid. “FDA VRBPAC December 11, 2020 Decision on Pfizer mRNA Found Invalid”, Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, 17 May 2025. There are several screenshots from this article, below:

Regarding the delaying by the FDA and the CDC of important information regarding the incidence of myocarditis following COVID-19 “vaccination”, and these agencies (and, also, Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna) failing to issue Black Box Warnings about this on the Package Inserts for their modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” (BNT162b2 [Pfizer-BioNTech] and mRNA-1273 [Moderna]), please see: https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/us-fda-and-cdc-delayed-health-advisory, “US FDA and CDC Delayed Health Advisory on COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Myocarditis for Months, Failed to Issue Black Box Warning for Years”, Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, 18 May 2025. A screenshot from this article is below:

The above slide image is from the FDA’s VRBPAC meeting of 22 October 2020. This meeting was held seven weeks prior to the 11 December 2020 granting of the EUA for BNT162b2. The FDA therefore KNEW before 11 December 2020 that BNT162b2 could cause myocarditis — but went ahead and issue the EUA anyway.

Yours Truly has written extensively on the manufacturing process for BNT162b2, and on associated topics. Please see: https://www.theqtree.com/2023/11/06/the-infamous-process-2-manufacturing-method-for-the-pfizer-biontech-modrna-covid-19-vaccines/

Also: https://www.theqtree.com/2024/02/01/an-open-letter-to-medical-professionals-who-took-the-covid-19-vaccines/

And: https://www.theqtree.com/2024/11/15/health-friday-11-15-2024-open-thread-hold-them-accountable-edition/

The FDA’s VRBPAC members will meet on Thursday 22 May 2025 to make “recommendations” regarding the “2025-2026 COVID-19 Vaccine Formulas.” Public comment is accepted until 11:59PM on Friday 23 May. To submit comments electronically, please see: https://www.federalregister.gov/2025/05/08/2025-080803/vaccines-and-related-biological-products-advisory-committee-notice-of-meeting-establishment-of-a; scroll down this page to the section “Electronic Submissions.”

But wait, there’s more! The “new” leadership of the FDA and the CDC, Dr. Vinay Prasad and Dr. Martin Makary wrote an article which was just published in the New England Journal of Medicine: https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMsb2506929, “An Evidence-Based Approach to COVID-19 Vaccination”, Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, and Martin A. Makary, MD, MPH, 20 May 2025. This article is NOT an “opinion piece” — Drs. Prasad and Makary make it clear that they are going to implement this “new approach” to COVID-19 “vaccination” through the FDA and the CDC.

In Yours Truly’s opinion, this “new approach” has many items to question. For example: the granting of FDA authorization for “new formula” COVID-19 “vaccines”, authorization based on lab-performed experiments on the “new formula” ingredients that produce certain numbers of “antibody titers” that might “correspond” to “effectiveness.” There would be no clinical trials at all, performed either on lab rats or on humans. This “lab-experiments with Petri dishes results” authorization method is outlined in “Option 4” of the FDA vaccine authorization / full approval guidelines that the agency adopted in 2022. This “lab-experiments with Petri dishes results” method will now be used for “new formula” COVID-19 “vaccines” for persons age 65 and over; and for persons under age 65 with compromised immune systems or who are part of “vulnerable” or “at risk” populations — such as, for example, pregnant women. Please see, regarding the “Option 4”: https://www.fda.gov/media/159452/download, “VRBPAC Briefing Document”, 28 June 2022. A screenshot of “Option 4” is below:

For another example: COVID-19 “vaccination” will still be “recommended” for pregnant women and for women who have just given birth. This flies in the face of the mounting, and published, evidence that COVID-19 “vaccination” during pregnancy can, and does, result in miscarriages, stillbirths, live births but the infant has medical issues, and so on. In addition, COVID-19 “vaccine” antibodies show up in the breast milk that “vaccinated” new mothers nurse their infants with.

Why do the FDA / CDC continue to ignore the evidence-based facts that Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, and Vitamin D both prevent and treat COVID-19 infections?

Three screenshots from the Prasad and Makary article are below:

NOTE THE LAST SENTENCE OF THE ABOVE IMAGE: “Ultimately, these studies alone can provide reassurance that the American repeat-boosters-in-perpetuity strategy is evidence-based.”

Let’s take a look at the combined Figure 2 and Figure 3 image:

Which makes it plain, in Figure 2, that the COVID-19 “vaccines” will be “recommended” for people who “fit” the diagnosis parameters of multiple types of medical conditions, including pregnant women and women who have just given birth — in other words, these groups of people may well be subjected to multiple types of “convincing” strategies to get them to agree to take these “vaccines.” Who made the decisions on the types of “risk factors” for the “increased at-risk” groups?

And, there’s this tweet, from Dr. Martin Makary, of August 2023:

There is published, irrefutable evidence that the COVID-19 “vaccines” can cause death among the “vaccinated.” Please see: https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/the-causal-link-between-covid-19, “The Causal Link Between COVID-19 Vaccination and Death”, Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, 21 May 2025. There is an embedded interview between Mr. Hulscher and Dr. Idriss J. Aberkane, PhD, on this subject. A screenshot from the Hulscher article is below:

It appears to be unclear, in Yours Truly’s opinion, about where this “new approach to COVID-19 vaccination” fits in as regards the “Generation Gold Standard” that was announced a few weeks ago. Does the federal government control “new” COVID-19 “vaccine” development processes? Where does Big Pharma (Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, Novavax) come in? Is that what “Sponsor-Driven” clinical trials means (see the above image)?

However, here’s the real situation: In Yours Truly’s opinion, given that the initial EUA granted by the FDA to the Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 on 11 December 2020 was invalid — that means, by extension, that every other EUA (and “Full Approval”) of the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” is also invalid: which would include any “formula” that is “recommended” for the “2025-2026 COVID-19 Vaccine”. Which would also, in Yours Truly’s opinion, invalidate any “Full Approval” of the Novavax COVID-19 “vaccine”, since the foundation of that injectable is the same Wuhan Hu1 SARS-CoV-2 virus that was used as the foundation for BNT162b2.

FLASH! — Meanwhile, the FDA just granted “Full Approval” to the Novavax company’s injectable on 19 May 2025, under the name “NUVAXOVID”: https://ir.novavax.com/press-releases/2025-05-19-U-S-FDA-Approves-BLA-for-Novavax-COVID-19-Vaccine.

FLASH! 2 — The VRBPAC members voted unanimously today to “recommend” that the “2025-2026 COVID-19 Vaccine Formula” injectables contain the JN.1 Omicron variant of the original SARS-CoV-2 virus. This is the same strain that was “recommended” for the “2024-2025 COVID-19 Vaccine Formula” injectables. The decision today by VRBPAC will be implemented according to the Dr. Prasad and Dr. Makary “new approach” method, as outlined above in today’s post. This means that persons age 65 and older, and that persons under age 65 who fall into one of the “increased risk” categories (Figure 2, above in the post) will be “encouraged” to get “vaccinated.” The exact formulation of the “2025-2026 COVID-19 Vaccine Formula” for the Pfizer-BioNTech and the Moderna injectables will be based, as was their other COVID-19 “vaccines” on the modRNA (aka mRNA)-based platform. The Novavax (now called NUVAXOVID) “2025-2026 vaccine” product will be based on the company’s previous “inactivated protein”-based platform. It is unclear whether the NUVAXOVID “2025-2026 vaccine” product will be authorized for persons under age 65 and/or who have underlying “increased risk” conditions. Please see: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/fda-vaccine-advisers-recommend-sticking-jn1-strain-next-covid-vaccines, 22 May 2025; and, https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/vaccines/FDA39s-new-COVID-19-vaccine/103/web/2025/05?sc=230901_cenrssfeed_eng_latestnewsrss_cen, 22 May 2025. A screenshot from the C&EN / ACS article is below, highlighting items related to the Dr. Prasad and Dr. Makary “new approach” article:

THERE. MUST. BE. JUSTICE.

Peace, Good Energy, Respect: PAVACA

Dear MAGA: 20250522 ✾ Thank God ± Theistic Evolution ∈ Thursday Open Topic | Moar AI Spam | Mutually Acceptable Lies About The Clot Shot

This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!

Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.

The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.

And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.

And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.

OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.

No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.

W

Moar AI Spam

AI is assisting with the proliferation of bullshit, because it puts fairly smart white lies in the hands of fairly dumb people who need them.

Example? This bit of engineered bullshit, either actual spam, or IC AI bullshit disguised as spam, trying to get on this site.

Note – I included Cuppa Covfefe’s last comment on the Open – A REAL COMMENT – for context. That comment was made roughly 4 1/2 years ago.

For those with low vision, the text of the spam post:

‘This Sanctuary Sunday Open Thread’ beautifully fosters unity, faith, and respectful dialogue. I appreciate the emphasis on civility, truth, and open discussion. A great reminder of how meaningful and peaceful conversations can shape a strong, thoughtful community.

I’ll be frank – that’s a nice comment. I won’t say why it’s obviously an AI comment, because I don’t reveal tells of that nature – but for those and other very definitive reasons, I can assure you that it’s an AI comment.

Now, let’s compare that with the following first few paragraphs of Carl’s post, which were analyzed and turned into that AI response.

In the original post, both “Sanctuary Sunday Open Thread” and “Please show respect and consideration” were bolded, and it’s clear that the AI noted this, by putting single quotes around those first four words, which were played back. In the sample from Carl’s post, below, I am bolding almost all of the things on which the AI appeared to be focused.

This Sanctuary Sunday Open Thread, with full respect to those who worship God on the Sabbath, is a place to reaffirm our worship of our Creator, our Father, our King Eternal.

It is also a place to read, post and discuss news that is worth knowing and sharing. Please post links to any news stories that you use as sources or quote from.

In the QTree, we’re a friendly and civil lot. We encourage free speech and the open exchange and civil discussion of different ideas. Topics aren’t constrained, and sound logic is highly encouraged, all built on a solid foundation of truth and established facts.

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Let’s not give the Internet Censors a reason to shut down this intellectual haven that Wolf has created for us.

Note that the word “faith” was not there – it was generated by the AI. The only place “faith” appeared in Carl’s entire post was 12 times in a large paragraph way down in the body of the post. If you want to check it out…..

LINK: https://www.theqtree.com/2020/12/27/dear-kmag-20201227-open-topic/

Thus, the mere mention of “worship” at the beginning, and the entire context of the body of Carl’s post, were likely the origin of “faith” in the AI comment.

“Meaningful” and “peaceful” are also derived from the larger context. Those words are not present, although “peace” appears 5 times in the body of the message from Carl.

I want you all to understand that the AI is basically doing what high school students and college students are trained to do, in writing a reply letter, answering essay questions, or otherwise composing written material based on some source, without plagiarizing. It’s reading, grabbing concepts, mixing things up, generalizing about what is observed, then composing a restatement which comes very close to what was originally said, from a reader perspective, without “aping” the original, which is both cringeworthy and considered plagiarism.

AI is pleasing its trainers, just like students try to please their ~~trainers~~ teachers.

This is why AI is being used by students to pass exams.

Andrew Torba has a masterful post about this, which you all really need to read. He predicts that universities themselves, as we know them, are about to be on life support, because of AI.

After reading Torba’s post, I realize that Harvard is falling apart for multiple reasons. IMO, woke does not have the honesty needed to deal with AI, or anything else, for that matter.

TORBA…..

LINK: https://news.gab.ai/ai-is-flipping-education-and-work-on-its-head

ARCHIVE: https://archive.fo/vIvHH

By Andrew Torba in AI — 15 May 2025

AI Is Flipping Education and Work On Its Head

Over the next 15 years, universities will face existential pressure to adapt or perish. Some may evolve into credentialing hubs, offering “micro-degrees” for niche skills.

Excerpt:

Artificial intelligence is not merely a tool for incremental change it is the architect of a total overhaul. At the heart of this transformation is a radical reimagining of how knowledge is delivered, absorbed, and validated. At Alpha School in Texas, students spend just two hours a day learning with AI, yet they outperform 98% of students nationwide, scoring in the top 1-2% on standardized tests.

WOLF AGAIN…..

The question will not be whether you can use AI to fake out people about how smart you are, in their decaying system. The question will be whether (1) you can use AI for real research, or (2) whether you can change, fix, use, or install AI to do something useful and good to others.

That output of your use of AI may include good stuff, or bad stuff. People who use AI for bad stuff will need to be punished. Good AI and AI in the hands of good people will get it done.

Welcome to the future.

Mutually Acceptable Lies About The Clot Shot

It’s time to be honest about what is going on in HHS, NIH, FDA and CDC.

Reform of these agencies – whose sins almost killed us, and did in fact kill many of us, and many other people around the world – will NOT occur by a quantum leap from bad to good.

It is occurring gradually and continuously, just like the end of government-sanctioned slavery did, in centuries past. And just like The Death of Slavery (cough), the entire process of Death To The Death Jabs (cough, cough) will be a shifting morass of what I call “mutually acceptable lies“.

PAVACA has very nicely documented the various half-measures, quarter-measures, and non-measures which have been taken by the government-ensconced part of MAHA against the clot-shots.

That is the current state of the matter. Not the end state – the current state.

Stated bluntly, the jabs are being gently but not honestly withdrawn from the young and the healthy, and are being kept, with no denial of existing fictions, for the sick, the old, the infirm, and the chronically medicated.

You know – the very people that a socialist depopulation program still wants to remove.

NOW do you see why the current assortment of lies and truths might be mutually acceptable to the two sides?

You don’t normally think like a depopulationist, or like somebody whose kids are being threatened by a shadowy cartel. So you never saw it coming – that our side would accept both some silver and some lead – at least temporarily. Or that the other side – the depop cartel – would accept a mixed bag. Yes – just like the drug cartels, they accept shifting realities.

The BAD SIDE threatened our children and young adults, and showed us that they had the power to not just kill our loved ones, but to make us do it – to make us part of the murder. Having them back off from this extortion is what we get, in return for their continued elimination of the people they wanted to eliminate all along – the weak, the old, the medically costly, the non-productive, and the undesirable, who can be slipped into their caskets at any time by a few shots.

This was very skillful play by the depoppers and their deep state allies. Do you see it? They had a REASON for pushing the jabs too far. So that when their commu-Nazi tide went back out, it was still deep enough to drown the “useless eaters”.

Now – this is not the spoken reality – meaning the lies. What I gave you is the mutually acceptable truth. The mutually acceptable lies are continuation of the scientific bullshit about antibody count, no need for clinical testing, and most of all, the need for those medical pobrecitos (poor young little ones) to get the merciful jabs to protect them from the still mythically Wuhan-dangerous omicron common cold.

THAT is their goal. THAT is what they needed to accomplish.

Somebody is still gonna pick the cotton and go to Heaven.

We know the “dangers” to these fragile patients are all bullshit, already shockingly disproved by the “peer-reviewed” literature. But the media that can never be wrong, and the scientific media that is even worse, are “not done not talking about things” – so we have to wait for memories to cool, so that nobody gets in trouble for ~~slavery~~ killing Black and Indian kids with jabs.

So what do we do?

We keep pushing on. We keep fighting. We make sure the public, the MAHA now in office, and (importantly) the American pope know that the fight for human life is not over – that “depopulation” is real, that it’s insidious, and that its stealthy proponents are not done fighting.

The depoppers will put up a hell of a fight to keep things where they are right now – where they not only have the elderly and the infirm at the end of a population-adjusting needle, but where they also have a prime depopulation AGENT (coronavirus spike protein) authorized for that needle.

And yet, I think we have some strong weapons at hand, against their strong lies.

If our theories are correct, then we will find evidence of safer outcomes with non-mRNA vaccines like Novavax, Coronavac (ChiCom jab), CorbeVax, and others that omit the mRNA technology. Even better, the new “Gold Standard” “universal platform” jabs that are now being pushed by Secretary Kennedy and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, should prove much safer than mRNA.

Yeah, they’re not perfect – but they’re better. Fewer people will die. SOME people – in fact MANY people – will be rescued from depopulation.

This is war. There will be casualties. But we will win.

What is it that feeds our battle, yet starves our victory?

January 6 Tapes?

Evading Reality

Justice Must Be Done.

Lawyer Appeasement Section

Spot Prices.

Volcanoes

Lava Types

Other Volcanic Stuff

Types of Volcanoes

Volcanic Eruptions Ranked

Volcanic Plugs

Wrapping Up

This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!

And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.

And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.

OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.

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A Tab-Clearing Selection of Videos

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(1) The Nancy Mace Allegations

Nancy Mace makes explosive allegations on the floor of the House. Go to 19:00 minutes where it begins (it should be queued up).

(2) Einstein, Emmy Noether, and General Relativity

Is Veritasium a heavy metal? If so, I maintain that it is still good for you! This is fascinating history about Einstein, even if you ignore the science. It’s basically about a woman mathematician who came up with some math and science that saved Albert’s butt!

(3) Barbara Corcoran On Donald Trump

I’m not saying she’s right about WHY Trump is the GOAT, but she is right THAT Trump is the GOAT, and her little story here is fascinating. You’ve seen this before – still – worth another watching!

(4) The World’s Dumbest Calculator For Pi

This is actually kinda cool, but in the end, you will feel the dumbness, and it burns! “Moar Maker Madness!”

(5) Pyromaniacs, Clickety-Clacks, and the Thermite Welding of Railroad Tracks

Veritasium with all the fireworks and none of the equations. OK, maybe just a few equations. But still, it’s all worth it. Enjoy!

Stay tuned for the next five tabs to escape though this page!

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Supreme Court Decisions

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5/23/25 – Volvo Cars CEO says its customers must pay for rising tariffs | Reuters

Trump will destroy world trade, but democracies can defend themselves — and each other | the Guardian UK

A Nation Dispossessed: The Tea Party Movement and Race — 2011

TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS

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From Shadow Stat Alternate Inflation Charts

Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!

We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

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

Joe Biden didn’t win.

Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:

bathysmal

adjective

Used in a sentence

Best use of an “ysmal” word in recent news

Toto Wolff? REALLY???

MUSIC!

Toto! And not the toilet!

THE STUFF

Sometimes you just have to wash away “the stuff”!

Toto. Useful stuff.

Just sayin’!

And speaking of useful stuff, one of the best explanations of AI is the following post from Jeff Childers of “Coffee & COVID”.

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W

On this day and every day –

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.”

God’s Will

What is it that feeds our battle, yet starves our victory?

Do We Still Need the Kang (Mis)Quote?

Speaker JohnsonPinging you on January 6 Tapes

God is in Control
. . . and His Grace is Sufficient, so . . .
Keep Looking Up

“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.”

Speaker Johnson
Pinging you on January 6 Tapes