KMAG DAILY THREAD 20260930 & Operation Warp Speed

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Up front I want to say, if we are to be a free people it is up to us to take control of our lives. We have been deliberately trained to remain infantile and to look to an authority to tell us what to do. POTUS Trump wants us to be adults.

A word about POTUS Trump and Sec Kennedy.

Trump spent 5 years in a military school and then made his money building in one of the most corrupt cities in the USA. He KNOWS strategy. Kennedy is a trained, successful lawyer. He watched his father, his uncle and his cousin get assassinated by the Cabal. He also knows the enemy and strategy.

We focus on various battles – Vaccines, Epstein, illegals, crime, fuel prices, AI, Flock Cameras – POTUS and his Secretaries are focused on the WAR. The Globalist Cabal has various troops they deploy against We the People. The Fake News being a major weapon. Commie judges and the Senate being other major weapons. Then there are sanctuary cities and states, Antifa, drugs…. However I think the biggest battle is against the Mercantilists based in Europe & the City of London. Also remember POTUS is trying to bring back our industrial base. That includes Big Pharma that was exported to China and India thanks to the World Trade Organization ratification.

If you go back in history, depending on the author, you find similar systems. Whether it is Rome and slaves or Europe and serfs, you have an upper class (oligarchy) usually a priesthood and a thin layer of technical people. The rest of the people are serfs or slaves. Essentially feudalism.

Rosa Koire, a democrat, over a decade ago described the New Feudalism in THE POST SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

Your government is a corporatocracy, a new authoritarian state in the process of consolidating your output into a more controllable, exploitable channel. The reason you are being misled by your government and told that all of this is good for you, is because there is no profit in managing a mass uprising. It is too disruptive. The markets want you to continue to consume—quietly and obediently. The technology that is being marketed to you is actually being used to condition you to expect to be spied on, and to spy on others. Every totalitarian state in history has relied on data collection. The Nazis were masters of data collection and analysis. Your government now has technological capabilities that far exceed anything ever seen on the planet to this date. You are in the midst of the biggest public relations scam in the history of the world. The pretty pastel vision of life in a SmartGrowth development is a manipulation, a mask. In fact these plans are designed to restrict your freedom of movement and choice.

Transit villages (formerly known as cities) will be restricted to having only the population that can be supported by food grown within a 100 mile radius (called a ‘food shed’). Food sheds will dictate where you can live and when you can change your residence. Calculations, such as those done recently at Cornell University, will determine how much food can be grown within that area and then the Transit Village population will be limited to the number of people who can be fed by that land (click on the blue to go to the Cornell website). It is reasonable to expect rationing based on this mode. If you want to move to that village you will have to apply and wait for an opening…

According to ICLEI, if you only have one car or no car your disposable income will be at least 20% higher.  Does this mean that you will have 20% more money to spend?  No.  It means that corporations can lower your wages by 20% and still sell you the same number of goods.  A compression of the economy with a more efficient outcome for big business.  Concentrating populations into urban areas where they can be easily monitored, where their usage of energy can be regulated, and where their consumption of goods can be restricted, is a goal of UN Agenda 21…


ICLEI BTW is still alive and well. The nearest city, as a member, had our 4-lane roads changed to 2 lanes with a middle turn lane and bike paths, two years ago. I have yet to see a bike on the bike paths. Combine what Rosa said with
The Wildlands Project and UN Convention on Biological Diversity Plan to Restore Biodiversity in the United States and it becomes clear there are too many people serfs so the herd has to be thinned. If disease doesn’t do the job there is THE CASE FOR NUCLEAR WAR.

Normal use is the little green areas. Again, we got the future plans for our county. My farm is within a wildlife corridor and thus no human use will be allowed.

Getting rid of mRNA vaccines does not get rid of the real problem–the Oligarchy who actually rule us. If Kennedy & Trump manage to succeed in getting rid of mRNA vaccines, our rulers would just use a different method to cull the herd. Why do you think POTUS keeps saying Iran must never have a nuclear weapon?

In short POTUS is getting rid of the guy with the gun NOT THE GUN!

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I want to use oil as an example of how complicated things actually are.

Crude Oil Prices Today – Brent, WTI & Global

Brent Crude Oil – 60-Day Price Trend. Brent crude oil– the international benchmark that pricesapproximately 65% of the world’s traded crude… Brent crude trades at $114.89/bbl per barrel. The Strait of Hormuz crisis, OPEC+ production decisions, and sanctions on major producers are reshaping global energy markets. Oil prices directly affect gasoline costs, inflation, defense budgets, and geopolitical stability worldwide….

Five major crude oil benchmarks serve different regions and market segments. Understanding the spread between these benchmarks reveals supply constraints, sanctions effects, and regional demand patterns.

BENCHMARK .. PRICE USD/BBL .. EXCHANGE .. REGION .. DESCRIPTION

Brent Crude ……… $114.89 ……… ICE London …… Global ….. International

~65% of the world’s traded oil. [Price] sourced from North Sea production.

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WTI ……………. $108.20 ………….NYMEX…….Americas U.S. domestic benchmark.

(West Texas Intermediate) Delivered at Cushing, Oklahoma. Trades at a discount to Brent due to landlocked delivery. [And NOT because it is American oil.]

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Dubai/Oman Crude . $110.80 ………….. DME ….. Asia-Pacific . asia-Pacific benchmark.

Used for pricing Middle East crude exports to Asia. Sour crude grade.

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Urals Crude ………. $68.50 OTC ….Europe/Asia .. Russian export blend .. Sanctioned

Trades at a steep discount to Brent since 2022 Western sanctions. Primary buyers: India, China, Turkey.

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OPEC Basket …… $109.60 ………….. OPEC ….. Global

Weighted average of 13 OPEC member crude grades. Published daily by the OPEC. [This is the Oil that is actually priced in London Exchange.]


So let’s take a look at Brent Crude Oil aka North Sea Oil.

North Sea Oil Production Statistics 2026 | Key Facts

January 2026, the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) — which accounts for the overwhelming majority of North Sea oil output — produced an average of 2.219 million barrels per day of oil, natural gas liquids (NGL), and condensate… the United Kingdom Continental Shelf (UKCS) ..with crude oil production falling from 0.56 million bpd in 2024 to 0.40 million bpd by 2029 [and 0.93 projected for 2026.]

So somewhere around 3.1 million barrels a day of North Sea oil is used to price almost 65 million barrels a day.

Oil Producing Countries 2026

These are the top eleven, there are more in the chart at the website.

United States FlagUnited States21.1M889.9M
Saudi Arabia FlagSaudi Arabia11.4M535.8M
Russia FlagRussia10.7M523.3M
Canada FlagCanada6.2M302.2M
Iran FlagIran5.2M242.1M
Iraq FlagIraq4.4M214.6M
China FlagChina4.3M216.1M
United Arab Emirates FlagUnited Arab Emirates4.2M189.1M
Brazil FlagBrazil3.9M203.6M
Kuwait FlagKuwait2.8M134.7M
Kazakhstan FlagKazakhstan2.1M99.4M

World Total 99.4 Million barrels a day.


The financiers in London are controlling the pricing, NOT the oil producers! As The Network of Global Corporate Control showed, “…737 top holders accumulate 80% of the control over the value of all TNCs [Trans National Corporations] … A relevant additional fact at this point is that ¾ of the core are financial intermediaries...”

These financiers, the City of London are POTUS Trump’s targets. That is why Mark Carney is acting nutz.

TradeBait goes into this too, only looking at the situation from the point of view of the US military.

Living in America: Monday Morning Quarterbacking – Pete & DS Operatives


This video is prompted to where you see the last ten minutes instead of two hours. Please watch to the end. Jim who speaks at the end is a Canadian. The other guy is Burning Bright from Badlands. He is from the Boston area.

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THE ENEMY

Our enemy, once they had lost the overt fights against the USA, turned to psychological warfare.


“For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence–on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.”

JFK


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Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath  when they speak in condemnation of it.”

Woodrow Wilson

The Impact of Science on Society – B. Russell

Bertrand Russell was a “scientific consultant” to evil psychopaths who wanted to run a world tyranny. In this book, he lays out a framework for a “scientific” global dictatorship, and ponders the intricacies of bringing it about, while blithely penning his sociopathic rationalizations for moving forward with it…

– p56 [1] On education “The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for a generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.”

– p41 [2] “In like manner, the scientific rulers will provide one kind of education for ordinary men and women, and another for those who are to become holders of scientific power. Ordinary men and women will be expected to be docile, industrious, punctual, thoughtless, and contented. Of these qualities, probably contentment will be considered the most important. In order to produce it, all the researches of psycho-analysis, behaviourism, and biochemistry will be brought into play…. All the boys and girls will learn from an early age to be what is called ‘co-operative,’ i.e., to do exactly what everybody is doing. Initiative will be discouraged in these children, and insubordination, without being punished, will be scientifically trained out of them.” “It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fichte laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished.” – p61 [3] On control over opinion “The completeness of the resulting control over opinion depends in various ways upon scientific technique. Where all children go to school, and all schools are controlled by the government, the authorities can close the minds of the young to everything contrary to official orthodoxy.


LORD MARK MALLOCH-BROWN – THE GLOBALIST RACKETEER KINGPIN RUNNING THE QUEEN’S PRIVY COUNCIL WITH GEORGE SOROS

(Jun. 19, 2018)—The kindest thing we can say about Queen’s Privy Council kingpin Lord Mark Malloch-Brown is that he is certainly one of a kind.

It has taken an entire group of researchers over a month just to gather the facts about him. These facts are scattered across the Internet in many dozens of biographies in an evident strategy to confuse people about his background. No two are alike. These convoluted biographies are telling for a man with literally trillions of dollars at his fingertips; meaning he can buy national elections anywhere on the planet, but he cannot seem to write his resume…

….the Queen’s Privy Council and the United Nations plan for us. Exploitation, abuse and euthanasia. They don’t even hide the fact that they want to exterminate 75-90% of the world’s population (see video-taped comments by eugenicists Prince Philip and Ted Turner).

Is the above article, bafflegab? Truth? Or a mix?

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WOLF MOON on mRNA VACCINES

AND THIS IS KEY.

If what Wolf proposes is true, POTUS unleashed the brainstorming of Americans to find ways to mitigate the effects of the clot shots. Not only did Trump, spike the guns of the 10 years of lockdown crowd AND not require or promote the clot shot, but early on he promoted alternatives. Trump and Dr Navarro even got India to manufacture HCQ for the USA and the USA then had strategic reserves of the stuff. Of course the Cabal countered with a lying Fake Science trial showing HCQ kills people. With Ivermectin, they just killed the study.

Starting the comments HERE on September 22, 2026 11:26 Bold is mine.

Wolf Moon  Reply to  Aubergine

He [Trump] won’t answer, either.

IMO, after numerous “behavioral training” hoaxes for allegedly possessing or releasing information, Trump is NEVER going to push to actually release information on deep military stuff like “why they’re developing bad but very quickly produced vaccines” that cost only 0.0001 out of 15, which apparently is a real DEAL as far as the military is concerned. Even among their own forces.

IMO Bobby Kennedy has been “read in”, too. But (IMO) they did NOT read in Prasad or Makary – too low-level and could not be trusted to keep the secrets. Those guys pushed where Kennedy could not protect them.

I strongly suspect now that JFK was killed because he was going to take stuff public in some way that was a predictable disaster.

If I go back and study the stuff that was kept secret during WWII, and assume that similar situations are ongoing today, then things starts making sense.

We are NEVER going to ban these vaccines. IMO they would rather disclose the truth and endure the resulting societal problems, than lose the military edge that genetic vaccines provide in hypothetical conflicts.

But whatever. We need to keep doing our thing to minimize the blowback, IMO. But not having the “gun/shield” is not an option.

Wolf Moon Reply to  PAVACA

You yourself have published the truth about the HHS/DoD connection. We all know that DoD and HHS have been joined at the hip on bioweapons for decades. I doubt that there was even military unanimity on the idea of Fauci and HHS moving experiments to Wuhan being a good idea or a bad idea. I suspect there are varying levels of realism on mRNA vaccines.

And yes, in these hypotheses, I assume Fauci was the guy who was “read in” on whatever is really going on.

Not everybody who supports mRNA vaccines has the same motivation for supporting them. Many people believe all the narrative BS that the media spits out. But then add people who discern varying levels of badness of the vaccines, and who then have varying levels of tolerance on that.

I don’t think anybody except embedded depoppers, ChiComs, and a few others are “fine” with the casualties of the clot shot. But I do think there are people in the system who know how bad it is, but who also know why that badness is being tolerated.

Wolf Moon  Reply to  TheseTruths

I’m not trying to discourage people. I’m trusting Trump, AND Bobby Kennedy, and simultaneously trying to explain why they’re allowing a marginal but potentially critical vaccine technology to be developed.

And if I’m right about this, it’s a lot more important than an election. I don’t LIKE that, but it’s true. A “humanity-clearing virus” with 80+% mortality being stopped in its tracks by a vaccine with a COVID-level death rate (or a COVID vaccine-level death rate – pretty similar) – that’s a win, if we’re ever in that position.

That’s cold, hard science. It’s not pretty, but it has to be considered.

Frontiers are not safe. At the same time we were developing the American frontier, we had “early” anesthesia. Ether, chloroform, and others. It was DANGEROUS as hell. We also had rapid amputations with saws. Same. But it was better than the alternative.

Right now – with all the flaws of the mRNA vaccines, if there is suddenly an “airborne Ebola”, then our having the ability to create a working and deliverable vaccine in under 24 hours is a huge, huge, huge military advantage in SAVING AMERICA. Maybe saving humanity.

Obviously, WE should not be making that virus. But WE don’t control other people on the planet (honestly, we can’t even control our own), and if there ARE “people” not on this planet who have more advanced technology, well, we don’t control them, either.

So, IMO, the bad (side effects) but good (fast) mRNA technology needs to move forward. I just think we need to be more honest about why we’re doing it. The REASONS of speed and simplicity have been mentioned. The reasons behind those have not.

I refuse to believe Trump is stupid about this, and that Bobby Kennedy has turned into a polar opposite on vaccines. Something is up. And these hypotheses explain it.

Wolf Moon  Reply to  TheseTruths

It is all food for thought.

Thanks for thinking about it. It’s not easy, but it bears consideration by more minds to see if it makes sense.

I’ve done a lot of thinking to try to solve the riddle of Trump’s enigmatic vax position, but Bobby Kennedy gave me another equation to work with, and that allowed me to see some potential solutions. Mix in the military’s shadowy support for the entire thing, without knee-jerking that they’re Satan-worshiping DARPA baddies, and suddenly some rational possibilities come into view.

There are times that the entire COVID psy-op struck me as a bit of a live drill, and while I think that idea is far too simplistic, I do think that people advising Trump have surely been doing so from literal Q-clearance knowledge that can’t go public.

For instance (and this is also to share some mRNA knowledge) it is entirely possible that our military KNEW in 2018-2019 that there would eventually be another pathogen lab leak, likely significant, and in top military manner, we had prepared for it. The best tech for rapid response on a proven platform, though not using proven-safe protein targets, had to have been the mRNA technology, IMO, despite all its flaws, problems, and unknown risks. On paper, it’s the best. Yeah, it doesn’t guarantee a shut-off of production. Yeah, it makes errors because of N1-methylpseudouridine. Yeah, it has toxicity problems in the LNPs. Yeah, it goes to bad places it shouldn’t go. Everything we’ve discussed.

BUT we know that the baseline badness of side effects is probably only one or two orders of magnitude worse than our “best” vaccines. For some unknown future disease where the death rate exceeds that from the clot shot itself, AND the saving of lives due to fast action is exponential, mRNA shots will clearly have a desirable total life-saving yield. They won’t do it as safely as a traditional vaccine using a protein immunogen, but they will start saving lives sooner and faster. This can be easily modeled.

This would have been more obvious if Omicron had not saved us from Delta, with the latter being about as pathogenic as Original Wuhan, and it would have been completely clear if there had been no mutation of Wuhan, because in that case we might have seen permanent immunity from the vax.

All that said, we must (IMO) keep pointing out the deficiencies of the mRNA technology. I suspect there are limits to how much improvement is possible, so we cannot delude ourselves if these remain sub-par vaccines compared to protein technologies. We cannot let lies about mRNA technology, nor even its potential heroic use in a truly apocalyptic biological event, blind us to the reality that old-style vaccines are and likely will remain superior.

However, I think that it would be wonderful if somebody “on our side” were able to outline the highly theoretical risk-benefit curves, where mRNA vaccines might save lives sooner and bigger at high pathogenicity, but are demonstrably sub-optimal at low pathogenicity, thereby framing both the negatives and positives of the technology in a way that allows us to make peace with each other. In that case, RFKJ’s wisdom of allowing mRNA to go forward, but under increased scrutiny and deference to sound scientific results, will prove historically correct, IMO.

I’ll just say right off the bat that I don’t expect anybody here to believe any of these hypotheses – and I do call them hypotheses, because I’m not locked in on any of them. And just for further clarification, I’m not certain that anything you’re additionally speculating as being implied, is actually implied, or is intended by me to be implied, but you are welcome to digest what I say in any way that makes sense to you, no problem.

These are very loose hypotheses, designed around the idea that much of what we are seeing is the result of secrecy that is both constraining and manipulating President Trump and Bobby Kennedy.

I remain uncertain whether Trump was actually read in on anything potentially related to these hypotheses during his first term, but the suspicion that he (45) was NOT – and later (47) WAS – looms large to me as a handy explanation of otherwise inexplicable things. Indeed, I further suspect that Obama and Brennan’s plot to raise “Russia, Russia, Russia” suspicions about Trump was designed to make sure Trump could not be informed about certain things.

In the beginning of the “pandemic”, Trump had to act on uncertainty – uncertainty about many things, including the origin of the virus, the motivations of all the players behind it, the science itself, and even the actual lethality of the virus. I don’t know what he was told that was classified at the time, but I suspect he WAS informed of SOME classified things in SOME areas. That is a multi-dimensional continuum – not a binary.

I suspect his context for decisions included some, but not all, classified aspects. All I know is that I trust that Trump did the best he could with what he was given.

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To me, this indicates the Malthusians aka British Empire has been in control. And to some extent still is. (See my Depop series especially Kissinger’s National Security Study Memorandum NSSM 200.) Remember Kissinger said point blank during a Chatham House speech, he kept the Brits better informed than our US State Dept. Also Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum was a protegee of Kissinger.

PAVACA September 29, 2026 13:00

YOURS TRULY WARNED THIS BOARD ABOUT DR. ERICA SCHWARTZ, MD, Rear Adm (ret) WHEN SHE WAS CONFIRMED AS THE NEW CDC DIRECTOR — THE “QUEEN OF VACCINES.” THE “ENFORCER” OF THE PENTAGON’S COVID-19 BIOWEAPON “VACCINE” MANDATE ON THE U.S.MILITARY.

YOURS TRULY WARNED THIS BOARD ABOUT HOW HHS SEC. KENNEDY, JR., WAS BEING HOBBLED AND IS ESSENTIALLY USELESS.

See below: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/staggering-surrender-cdc-pushes-covid-vaccines-healthy-people-label

My SWAG is Schwartz is placed within the government so she will most likely have to answer questions from Congress unlike Fauci.

Brave AI

 Refusing to testify without a valid legal basis is itself the offense.  Under 2 U.S.C. § 192, willfully failing to appear after a valid congressional subpoena, or refusing to answer pertinent questions once there, is a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in prison and a fine. 

The CRS puts it plainly: a subpoena recipient “has a legal obligation to comply, absent a valid and overriding privilege or other legal justification.” So the legal basis is the only shield.  If an official can’t point to one — the Fifth Amendment, executive privilege, a recognized separation-of-powers conflict (e.g., the Secretary of State appearing at a major diplomatic event), attorney-client privilege, etc. — the refusal is contempt.

In practice, Congress has several enforcement levers when an official refuses without a valid basis:

She is also military so indictment would be via a military tribunal avoiding the Woke judges & juries of DC. It also allows RICO as she CONTINUES her pushing of the Clot Shots. (The five year window for the military is fast closing.)

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In order to not clutter up this article, I removed a collection of VARIOUS COMMENTS ABOUT THE CLOT SHOT AND mRNA VACCINES. If Treepers wish I can put them in a separate article so they do not get lost. They would have doubled the length of this article.

Dear MAGA: 20260929 ❀ DePat Tuesday ❀ Open Topic | The Woodlouse Hunter

This DePat Tuesday Open Thread honors the author of the original Tuesday open thread on this site, namely the late Susie Sampson, a.k.a. Deplorable Patriot, among her other handles, pen names, etc.

For more on the untimely passing of Dear DePat, please see these three posts.


At one time, DePat handled FOUR daily open threads here, in addition to taking care of her relatives, choir duties, and numerous other responsibilities. She was a powerhouse – a dynamo – a true force of nature.

DePat’s faith in Trump, Q, “The Plan”, the White Hats, and “the anons” in general, was legendary. Although I didn’t always agree with her quick acceptance of some sketchier evidence and fringier theories, I will gladly admit to “coming around” to numerous so-called “conspiracy theories” which she championed first. I was always careful to give her credit for being right, too, when I had been wrong.

It is impossible to overstate how much DePat did for not only this site, but for her country. I urge all to say a quick prayer of thanks, whenever you think of her, for the privilege of knowing, in life or after death, such an exemplary human being, and lover of God.

And thank you, Susie, for the firm foundation which you left us, when you were called to your true home!


The Woodlouse Hunter

I have found a new spider expert on YouTube – or rather, the algorithm found a new one for me. This guy is slow, thorough, and meticulous. Enjoy this 45-minute presentation, about a spider you may well have in your house, or out in your yard. It has many unique features and behaviors.

That’s enough for now. Have a great Tuesday!

W

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W



Living in America: Monday Morning Quaterbacking – Pete & DS Operatives

Today’s subject is more frequently asserted conspiracy theory that turns out to not be conspiracy theory. The following is my dot connecting and should be viewed as such. So the rename of my threads has become Monday Morning Quarterbacking to honor the day they will occasionally occur, the football related connection that all fans have, as well as our human tendency to look back in the rear view mirror of life and see reality.

As many have observed, Pete Hegseth attacks have been on the upswing as of late. It is also clear our military is achieving many goals at PDT’s direction. So I could stop the story here and the conclusion as to the reasoning for the attacks would be easy to determine.

However, in the bigger picture it is also clear that some war pig industries as well as aligned nations housing our bases are losing income streams and influence in the process of our military upgrading tech, weaponry, strategic asset placement, methods of engagement, and so on. For example deemphasizing Germany and moving to the proposed Fort Trump in Poland with a nation that is all in with America would cause great consternation in globalist as well as some war pig supporting industries.

https://unn.ua/en/news/nawrocki-expects-a-permanent-us-military-base-to-be-established-in-poland-which-will-be-named-fort-trump

Then there is Pete’s recent retooling of the requirements for generals and admirals,

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/news/hegseth-announces-new-pentagon-battlefield-test-for-generals/ar-AA2cLJgy

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/pentagon-overhauls-officer-promotion-process/ar-AA2cLDwW

He is stirring the hornet’s nest. It appears that testing for the ability to conduct war fighting instead of buying into the lip services of desk jockeys is a requirement with Pete. Imagine that. All of which has already been instituted into the rank and file. This bottom up approach is inspiring to all patriots.

As a result the media and internal DS military operatives with the help of the uniparty have been called into action in an attempt to upset and redirect the plans; which leads to treasonous and seditious media involvement, of course.

As I posted recently, I believe it is obvious that Pete Hegseth knows all too well that Jennifer Griffin is a DS cabal plant for the Murdoch’s and fellow Chyna connected globalists. They worked at Fox News together at one point. His counterattack on her in front of peers during the Iran conflict presser in the early days, which embarrassed the gal to no end on national TV, spoke volumes to me about how he knows the game has been played.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5370774-hegseth-briefing-jennifer-griffin-fox

Ever since then she has narrowed her focus and become quite one sided and shrill in her reporting about Pete and the military on Fox at times. My observations are that she played the game of getting back into sync with Pete and the military until recently activated to do the dirty by the Murdoch’s. It will not work. Pete, PDT, and We the People are way too far ahead of their treachery to fall for it.

For what it is worth, this is a perfect example as to why I continue to watch the globalist presented news of the traditional networks (fake news) on a rotating basis. I know they are all cabal and clown controlled. I want to know the narratives they are presenting to the many sheeple Americans so I can counter their garbage and plant seeds of truth around me. My influence is small, but seeds of truth being planted have a tendency to grow abundant fruit when more of us are planting them. Which is a Biblical principle as many on here know.

Media

When you run in the same circles with DS globalist operatives in any setting, you tend to blow off the signs that are right in front of you because you think you know the person behind the smiling face that you run into when you are out and about. They act friendly and helpful – until they don’t. Glad to see Lara finally figure one of them out.

Jennifer Griffin has long appeared to me to be a tool of the deep state & numerous sources over the years have come to me about this. But I always thought it was a real mark of her character that she was a source for a WaPo hit piece on me when I was at 60 Minutes & they came after me for my Benghazi reporting. Right before the hit piece came out, it was Halloween & I was with my young children “trick or treating” in the neighborhoods around our DC home. I ran into Jennifer that night & we spoke – the one person I saw who knew me & would have immediate access to reporters. Amazingly, the next day the article quoted an anonymous source as describing me dressed like a stripper when out with my kids for Halloween. Actually My four-year-old daughter had asked me to be the Pink Power Ranger because my children loved that show so that’s what I was – for them. And I was wearing some standard Power Ranger pink & white one piece from Walmart. It was such a personal attack that had literally nothing to do with my work. So small.

Then when I was reporting at Fox News on the disastrous Afghan betrayal/withdrawal, she complained about me to the “front office” & I was notified by my agent.

Many of us know the highs and lows of Lara Logan’s career along the way. However, the same is true for all of us in some regard. What is good is that she has a large following of those who believe her or are even her quiet enemy. Her words have now been widely read about operatives like Ms. Snake Griffin.

Within the comments (always read some of the comments) of the X post you will find one with Griffin’s husband’s photo in it. You will learn that he has NY Slimes, AP, and currently NPR among other clown controlled fake news organizations in his bio. Below is his bio link at NPR.

https://www.npr.org/people/348766539/greg-myre

From the above:

“Myre is a scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington and has appeared as an analyst on CNN, PBS, BBC, C-SPAN, Fox, Al Jazeera and other networks. He’s a graduate of Yale University, where he played football and basketball.”

For those who have access, spend some time here:

Seems hubby has been spending quality time in Ukraine of late. 😂 my azz off with his Al Jazeera analyst connection. Note that he is a graduate of … Yale. Surprised?

Note that Daniel Driscoll is also a graduate of Yale Law School – same as JD. JD and he knew each other well while in law school. They both enrolled at Yale on the GI Bill after serving in Iraq. Note also that Driscoll came through another clown university – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – the home of Dr. Ralph Baric and his Coronavirus bioweapons research. Note that like JD, Driscoll also went into investment banking and management of venture capital at BlackArch and Flex Capital. See his Army bio below:

https://www.army.mil/e2/downloads/rv7/leaders/bio/driscoll_bio.pdf

How does it make you feel when you realize 16 Dem Senators voted to confirm Daniel Driscoll to U. S. Army Secretary in 2025? Did you go, “Aha!” or get a bit queasy. It tells me he was a uniparty pick for the role and PDT went along with JD’s friend having the job. Until he didn’t.

Was Driscoll playing JD in hopes of booting Pete and taking the job? If he was, PDT would already know what team he played on, which means JD would also have been made aware. The resignation coming when it did appears to be another hit job attempt to portray things in upheaval within the military before the midterms.

Or…was he a plant within the cabal part of the military by the white hats? Did he fulfill his mission and is now moving on to other things?

Presently I opt for the former, but also realize that the way things appear are not the tale of the tape at times. That leaves this Monday Morning Quarterback with the only thing left to do from here, and that is to follow where Daniel Driscoll goes after he works out his notice. Does he go back into the M&A or other venture capital functions? Or, does he use his “drone” expertise and expanded industrial military complex connections to his personal and team’s advantage? Who he works and aligns with going forward will be a big tell. Now that he has the resignation from the Trump administration due to “policy differences” on his resume while still remaining a friend of Vance; it sure makes him more marketable to the cabal going forward without severing ties to our likely POTUS after the 2028 election.

The way we will know is from observation of future activities and events. I bet there will be a bingo on the card with him entering at a high level into the war pig industry. Whether that is for the white or black hats is the question to be resolved. Regardless of the team, there will be interconnections that can be traced and mapped going forward.

The neocons will keep breeding their own operatives. However, what we really learn from this story of three operatives of the DS globalist cabal – Griffin, Myre, Driscoll – is that the apparent object of their contempt and skullduggery is a true patriot and a person we should value very highly. Who loves and respects Pete? The right people, including us.

When you have the time, enjoy the digging for the associations and interconnections of the players. Enlist the AI that is developing that you trust to assist. Follow where they go next and know that the white hats are mapping all of it as well. It is just a modern form of war gaming.

All of that is also why our VP (“friend of Driscoll”) needs to stay somewhat connected to the other team. Same as Marco when he was in the uniparty enemy camp; a man who may be the second most powerful leader in the world today. Who on here would have ever thought that a few years ago? It is the same as with Scott Bessent when he was in the pit with the Soros/Rothschild beast as well as the same with Pete when he was getting screwed within the Bush/Soetoro military. They are building their own network of patriots. PDT himself was deep into the uniparty for a time. That’s how you obtain intel for future endeavors and learn who the secret operatives are. Today, all of the folks above have proven to be white hat patriots in support of We the People and the views of our founding documents.

When and how they personally became white hats is not for us to necessarily know or even in some cases, to judge. Somebody and/or something helped them to the proper conclusion. There is no applicable purity test required for clandestine dirty work. Much of this obviously took military intelligence involvement going back decades. For example, how else can you explain the systematic worldwide economic strangulation you see Bessent executing with Iran? The world saw how quickly Venezuela came to heal when we put an end to their criminal operations by cutting the head off the snake. Many nations operating in the fringe have become much less combative as a result of what they observed and felt. Ask Denmark and Mexico. More will be added over the coming days.

USAID funded much of the cabal’s operations in the Caribbean basin, Central and South America. With that funding gone we now see new leaders elected in Latin America that all align with the Trump Administration, which aligns with We the People. By extension we can surmise that the previous MO for CIA operations in the region are being neutered. Which leads the remaining elements of the cabal’s politician operatives to reinvent themselves as Democratic Socialists with Muslim Brotherhood Islamic ties in a last gasp attempt to stay relevant and in the money.

It’s not in our pay grade to know the details. However, we can be in the know of general direction and steps we can take through observation and even our own mapping of current and future events.

The patriots have been and will continue to spring the traps at the appropriate times.

Q said to enjoy the show. Q said we have everything we need. Q said to follow the wives, which also means to follow the husbands. And everybody should know by now to always follow the money.

Wonder why Leon Black refused a House subpoena to appear and is now suing same? Oopsie, did they hit a nerve within the DS Epstein beast? Seems both GOP and Dems now want that guy in the hot seat and held in contempt. Why both sides?

🤨

And I am off to the next conspiracy theory, which will probably lead to more Monday Morning Quarterbacking.

Stay safe, be blessed, VOTE, PRAY, and may God bless America

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Dear KMAG: 20260928 ❀ Wheatie Monday ❀ Open Topic | Wolf’s Midnight Special!


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:

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

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

“We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”

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

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is STILL under DIRECT THREATS by hostile forces – notably COMMUNISTS – and they’re HERE IN AMERICA.

Daily outrage and commie phuckery still abound.

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

Commies won’t win!

And we will keep saying COMMIES OUT until we get their FRAUD and INSANITY out of our country!


THE STUFF

Wolf’s Midnight Special!

Does anybody here remember The Midnight Special? In Concert? Or Don Kirschner’s Rock Concert?

I’m just gonna dump a few of my favorite earworms into a single post. Yeah, you’ve seen some of these before. However, there are some new ones here. Thanks to many of you (you know who you are) who introduced (or reintroduced) me to some of these great songs!


(1) My latest fave! AI Celtic Metal! “HEAVEN YEAH!!!”


(2) God Bless Spencer Pratt! STILL MY HERO!!!


(3) Yeah, it’s Monday. REMEMBER MONDAY!!!


(4) And while we’re remembering Monday, let’s remember Wheatietoo, who loved epic music and an orchestral group which performed it, called Two Steps From Hell.

From her post here…..


(5) Linda also remembered this song video which Wheatie posted.

It’s been over 4 years since Wheatie passed. Vaya con Dios, sister!


(6) Here is a video posted on one of Deplorable Patriot’s blogs. I’ll provide a link to her extensive commentary on Catholic music.

https://thatcatholicwoman.blogspot.com/2023/02/catholic-church-music-good-and-bad-and.html


(7) Maybe you remember this one from the 2016 Trump rallies. It’s called “The American Dreamer” by Jacob Seales.

Those were the days! Ten years ago, my friends.


(8) Always good for a watch!


(9) And with that, I close out (well, almost) with one more AI Celtic Metal Hymn!

This is the song I was carrying in my heart back around January 6, 2021. And a little over 5 years later, hymns are arranging themselves, thanks to Maxwell’s equations, and a few others, built into the universe, waiting to be set free, to praise their own creator.

A salute to Steve, and all of my fellow J6ers, wherever you are now, in Colorado or otherwise.

“And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.”

(10) Our God is indeed an Awesome God!

W

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W



Dear MAGA: 20260927 Open Topic

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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.”


Pride: 7 Symptoms

Seven Symptoms of Pride

Pride will kill you. Forever. Pride is the sin most likely to keep you from crying out for a Savior. Those who think they are well will not look for a doctor.

As seriously dangerous as pride is, it’s equally hard to spot. When it comes to diagnosing our hearts, those of us who have the disease of pride have a challenging time identifying our sickness. Pride infects our eyesight, causing us to view ourselves through a lens that colors and distorts reality. Pride will paint even our ugliness in sin as beautiful and commendable.

We can’t conclude that we don’t struggle with pride because we don’t see pride in our hearts. The comfortable moments when I pat myself on the back for how well I am doing are the moments that should alarm me the most. I need to reach for the glasses of Christ-like humility, remembering that nothing good dwells in my flesh, and search my heart for secret pride and its symptoms.

In his essay on undetected pride, Jonathan Edwards points out seven sneaky symptoms of the infection of pride.

https://www.edparton.com/blog/pride-edwards.html

1. Fault-Finding

While pride causes us to filter out the evil we see in ourselves, it also causes us to filter out God’s goodness in others. We sift them, letting only their faults fall into our perception of them.

When I’m sitting in a sermon or studying a passage, it’s pride that prompts the terrible temptation to skip the Spirit’s surgery on my own heart and instead draft a mental blog post or plan a potential conversation for the people who “really need to hear this.”

Edwards writes,

The spiritually proud person shows it in his finding fault with other saints. . . . The eminently humble Christian has so much to do at home and sees so much evil in his own that he is not apt to be very busy with other hearts.

2. A Harsh Spirit

Those who have the sickness of pride in their hearts speak of others’ sins with contempt, irritation, frustration, or judgment. Pride is crouching inside our belittling of the struggles of others. It’s cowering in our jokes about the ‘craziness’ of our spouse. It may even be lurking in the prayers we throw upward for our friends that are — subtly or not — tainted with exasperated irritation.

Again Edwards writes, “Christians who are but fellow-worms ought at least to treat one another with as much humility and gentleness as Christ treats them.”

3. Superficiality

When pride lives in our hearts, we’re far more concerned with others’ perceptions of us than the reality of our hearts. We fight the sins that have an impact on how others view us, and make peace with the ones that no one sees. We have great success in the areas of holiness that have highly visible accountability, but little concern for the disciplines that happen in secret.

4. Defensiveness

Those who stand in the strength of Christ’s righteousness alone find a confident hiding place from the attacks of men and Satan alike. True humility is not knocked off balance and thrown into a defensive posture by challenge or rebuke, but instead continues in doing good, entrusting the soul to our faithful Creator.

Edwards says, “For the humble Christian, the more the world is against him, the more silent and still he will be, unless it is in his prayer closet, and there he will not be still.”

5. Presumption Before God

Humility approaches God with humble assurance in Christ Jesus. If either the “humble” or the “assurance” are missing in that equation, our hearts very well might be infected with pride. Some of us have no shortage of boldness before God, but if we’re not careful, we can forget that he is God.

Edwards writes, “Some, in their great rejoicing before God, have not paid sufficient regard to that rule in Psalm 2:11 — ‘Worship the Lord with reverence, and rejoice with trembling.’”

Others of us feel no confidence before God. Which sounds like humility, but in reality it’s another symptom of pride. In those moments, we’re testifying that we believe our sins are greater than his grace. We doubt the power of Christ’s blood and we’re stuck staring at ourselves instead of Christ.

6. Desperation for Attention

Pride is hungry for attention, respect, and worship in all its forms.

Maybe it sounds like shameless boasting about ourselves. Maybe it’s being unable to say “no” to anyone because we need to be needed. Maybe it looks like obsessively thirsting for marriage — or fantasizing about a better marriage — because you’re hungry to be adored. Maybe it looks like being haunted by your desire for the right car or the right house or the right title at work: all because you seek the glory that comes from men, not God.

7. Neglecting Others

Pride prefers some people over others. It honors those who the world deems worthy of honor, giving more weight to their words, their wants, and their needs. There’s a thrill that goes through me when people with “power” acknowledge me. We consciously or unconsciously pass over the weak, the inconvenient, and the unattractive, because they don’t seem to offer us much.

Maybe more of us struggle with pride than we thought.

There’s good news for the prideful. Confession of pride signals the beginning of the end for pride. It indicates the war is already being waged. For only when the Spirit of God is moving, already humbling us, can we remove the lenses of pride from our eyes and see ourselves clearly, identifying the sickness and seeking the cure.

By God’s grace, we can turn once again to the glorious gospel in which we stand and make much of him even through identifying our pride in all its hiding places inside of us. Just as my concealed pride once moved me toward death, so the acknowledgement of my own pride moves me toward life by causing me to cling more fiercely to the righteousness of Christ.

Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting! (Psalm 139:23–24)


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Shalom! May God’s PEACE be upon this House.

2026-09-26, Simply Saturday

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Seems like such an obvious solution.

Elon echoes the obvious…

Until we have a conservative majority, we’ll…

Stuff…

This Saturday, skipping:

  • Hyperventilating over AI SI. WTF RFK Jr has not banned Covid Jabs, mRNA… IRGC shenanigans in Strait of Hormuz or Houthi’s… Lunatic wymyn murdering their youngsters. Lying dog breath R-Cons, Dumocrats… Canuckistan imploding.

Placing all of that stuff on ignore for a short while.

  • Or one can quickly scroll on by, rejoin the lunacy sooner.

This Saturday relax a bit. The lunacy can wait AND will be there when you tune into it.

May I suggest. Feet up. Sit back. grab a coffee, tea…enjoy a sampling of You Tube videos. Slow Guy found these interesting. Hope someone here enjoys one or more. videos.

First up.

Serious AH-HA moment for Slow Guy.

Have watched this happened hundreds. Perhaps a thousand times. The sequence always seemed to happen. Never knew WHY. Quite obvious WHY, now that it is splained.

Further explains WHY extra engines are placed in longer trains…Everything is choreographed. Assumed the latter. just not the WHY.

14:03

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Speaking of Ah Ha moment. No, make that…

Elon’s incredible insight into What If We… Could We… Why Not… We Will Do It…

Tesla. Odd name for a car. Slow Guy always figured.

Nikola Tesla. Statue of Nikola Tesla in NY State park at Niagara Falls. Another odd moment for me.

  • IF Tonawanda was here, he’d school me for above line about Nikola Tesla, Niagara Falls…

What the hell does Elon naming a car Tesla, have in common with Nikola Tesla?

  • Was naming Tesla homage to the brilliance of Nikola Tesla?
  • Or a glimpse into Elon’s vision for future EV motors?
  • AND logic MeThinks.

—

Have seen a video or two of a windowless airplane.

This video splains the why. Arriving in 2027?

8:14

—

Boeing, for all of its screw ups with 737Max, DEI bullshit, Boeing is in fact delivering incredible vision, innovation…

  • Head on challenge to AirBus 380, 350…
  • Seamlessly incorpotated into existing airport operations around the Globe. (Unlike 380)
  • Efficiency in air travel, aircraft production including major components, training pilots, comfort of passengers AND crew…

Future 777 variants are incredible.

Also arriving 2027.

30:53

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Tesla Muscle Car?

7:25

—

Returning to boilerplate, Simply Saturday.

Grateful our ancestors broke the British chains, again, and again…

Thankfully, Trump is finishing off the Brits, Canucks… Along with NATO. Ideally UN.

—

Charlie said the obvious part, out loud.

Ban islamis. Along with Sharia.

—

Stay The Course. Trust Trump. Remember…

Never, Ever, forget what they did to us.

Celebrate America, Everyday!!!

Relax, It’s Saturday.

Night crew, your nickel.

KK

Health Friday 9.25.2026 Open Thread: Dismantle Them. Salt The Ground. Start All Over Again. Do It Right Next Time: Part Two

The free image of the trumpets of the Battle of Jericho for today’s offering header is courtesy of Shutterstock and Google Images. Health Friday is a series devoted to information about Big Pharma, vaccines, general health, and associated topics. 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: AI-generated items in today’s offering will be cited as such. If readers wish to post AI-generated items in today’s discussion thread, they must cite their source. Thank you.

Dismantle Them. Salt the Ground. Start All Over Again. Do It Right Next Time: Part Two

Part One is here: https://www.theqtree.com/2026/09/18/health-friday-9-18-2026-open-thread-dismantle-them-salt-the-ground-start-all-over-again-do-it-right-next-time-part-one/.

The focus of today’s offering regards the continuing issues and situations with respect to: One: non-modRNA-based “vaccines”; Two: the “revolving door” between the FDA and Big Pharma / Big Donors; and, Three: medical lobbyists and Establishment Medicine organizations keeping the “vaccine religion” going. What follows are what may be called “snapshots” of each area.

One: non-modRNA-based vaccines: Please see: https://kirschsubstack.com/p/a-list-of-evidence-consistent-with, “A list of evidence consistent with the hypothesis that “vaccines cause autism””, 12 September 2026. There are 30 items on the list. Two examples from the list: Number 17: “Aluminum concentration in the brains of autistic kids are among the highest measured (Exley 2017 study.) The title of the Exley, et al. paper: “Aluminum in brain tissue in autism”, Christopher Exley, et al.; Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology, Volume 46, March 2018, Pages 76 – 82; and, Number 31: “Vaccines cause autism in baby monkeys. What is different about people that it wouldn’t also cause autism in people?” Please see the screenshot from the Kirsch article regarding Number 31, below:

The paper referenced above is found here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/45185677_Influence_of_pediatric_vaccines_on_amygdala_growth_and_opioid_ligand_binding_in_rhesus_macaque_infants_A_pilot_study, BJ Lopresti, et al.; 30 June 2010 (the title of the paper is the same as the URL). A screenshot of the Conclusions section of this paper is below:

Granted, the study concerned the effects on infant macaque monkeys. However, the vaccines used were ones approved for human use. In Yours Truly’s opinion, even if thimerosal (mercury compound) were completely removed from all vaccines, there possibility still remains that negative effects could occur due to the other ingredients.

Two: the “revolving door” between NIH / NIAID: Here is a prime example of this “revolving door”: Mark Raza, the former chief counsel for the FDA, and who had just left that agency — was immediately hired by a very large Big Pharma-connected law firm. Please see: https://aaronsiri.substack.com/p/the-revolving-door-the-media-wont, “The Revolving Door the Media Won’t Expose”, 15 September 2026. Also, please see:

And, here is the story from the law firm: https://www.mondaq.com/pressrelease/208152/hogan-lovells-cadwalader-welcomes-former-fda-chief-counsel-mark-raza-to-expanding-pharmaceuticals-and-biotechnology-practice, 9 September 2026 (the article title is the same as the URL.) Please a screenshot from this article, below:

Note the mention of hiring numerous other FDA former employees, in addition to now having Mr. Raza on their roster.

But wait, there’s more! Please see: https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/the-fda-is-a-criminal-cia-handled, “THE FDA IS A CRIMINAL CIA-HANDLED “HEALTH” AGENCY: Former FDA Chief Counsel Now Hired By Major BigPharma Law Firm”, 13 September 2026. In this article, there is a list of former FDA employees who now work for Big Pharma (or are connected with Big Pharma.) Examples from this list: Dr. Peter Marks, MD (former CBER director, FDA) —> now working for Big Pharma company, Eli Lilly; Mark McClellan (former FDA employee tasked with regulating Johnson & Johnson) —> now a board member of Johnson & Johnson; Dr. Scott Gottlieb, MD (former FDA commissioner in charge of regulating PfizerUSA) —> now on the board of directors for PfizerUSA; Dr. Stephen Hahn, MD (former FDA commissioner in charge of regulating Moderna) —> now Chief Medical Officer of Flagship Pioneering, the venture capital firm that bankrolls Moderna drug and “vaccine” development.

Three: medical lobbying and Establishment Medicine keeping the “vaccine religion” going: First, regarding medical lobbying: Pharmaceutical companies and Establishment Medicine (the American Medical Association [AMA]; the American Academy of Pediatrics {AAP]; and other similar medical professional organizations) have a “vested interest” in wielding influence in both chambers of the US federal government. Contributing to political campaigns for members of the House and the Senate can, so to speak, produce results that benefit these companies and professional medical organizations. For example, this 2023 article, from the AMA: https://www.ama-assn.org/about/leadership/how-does-ama-influence-public-policy, 22 August 2023. Which leads to this, from June 2026: https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/ama-adocacy-impact-report.pdf. Please see the screenshots from this latter link, below. Note especially the claim in the first screenshot about how 73% of Americans “trust the AMA more than the CDC on vaccines”:

Followed by a screenshot, from the same link above, regarding the AMA’s political action committee, AMPAC:

AstraZeneca, another Big Pharma company (maker of FLUMIST©, SEROQUEL©, NEXIUM©, and many other drugs) also has a lobbying department: https://www.astrazeneca-us.com/sustainability/political-contributions. Click on “Federal & State Lobbying” down the main page. Yours Truly then clicked on the company’s lobbying report for the 4th quarter of 2025: https://www.astrazeneca-us.com/content/dam/az-us/Documents/PoliticalContributions/2026/AstraZeneca-LD2-Q4-filed.pdf, filed on 20 January 2026. The total for this lobbying division for the 4th quarter of 2025 was $670,000. Please see the screenshot, below, from this latter link:

Finally, regarding the ongoing, aggressive efforts by Establishment Medicine to “keep the “vaccine” train going”: Please see: https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/why-do-pediatricians-blast-babies, “Why Do Pediatricians Blast Babies with Multiple Vaccines on Same Visit?”, Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, 12 September 2026. There is a video interview with Dr. McCullough, along with a text summary.

The “vaccines” that are currently “recommended” for children from age 0 (birth) to through age 4 years:

Age 0 (birth): HepB

Age 2 months: DTap; IPV (polio); Hib; HepB; PCV (pneumococcal); Rotavirus

Age 6 months: DTap; IPV; HepB; PCV; Rotavirus; COVID-19

Age 12-15 months: MMR; Varicella (chickenpox); Hib booster; PCV booster; HepA; Influenza

Age 15-18 months: DTap booster; Influenza

Age 18-23 months: HepA 2nd dose; Influenza

Age 4 years: DTap booster; IPV booster; MMR booster; Varicella booster; Influenza

How can the still-forming and still-immature immune system of a child from birth until about age 7 years handle all of these antigens, especially if multiple injections of “vaccines” are administered in one healthcare visit?

There are incentives for healthcare professionals to administer the HPV “vaccine”: https://www.hpviq.org/incentives/types-of-incentives. And, consider this, a paper from 2021: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360815265_Vaccine_Practice_Payment_Schedules_Create_Perverse_Incentives_for_Unnecessary_Medical_Procedures_-_at_What_Cost_to_Patients, James Lyons-Weiler, Paul Thomas, March 2021 (the title of the paper is the same as the URL). Please see the screenshot of the Abstract of the paper, below:

It is Yours Truly’s opinion that people must educate themselves regarding: the medicines that they take; the “vaccines” that are “recommended” for themselves and their children; the ongoing efforts to gaslight the general public by Big Pharma and Establishment Medicine; the lobbying of local, state, and federal elected officials by Big Pharma; and, the current state of affairs at the FDA / CDC.

Peace, Good Energy, Respect: PAVACA1

(Intellectual Property Disclaimer and Notice: Except for the linked URLs and other items available on the Internet in today’s offering, the ideas and/or opinions in today’s offering are by PAVACA1. Credit must be given to PAVACA1 if ideas and/or opinions in today’s offering are used by other blog writers; by podcasters; or in print or social media.)

Dear MAGA: 20260924 ✾ TRUST THE PLAN ✾ Thursday Open Topic | Dr. Amy Acton, Queen of Cringe


Sometimes you have to have faith.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Plan!


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Dr. Amy Acton, Queen of Cringe

Amy Acton seems like an enigma – until you realize that there are two Amy Actons.

One of them is the real Amy Acton. Who I will call Real Amy Acton. She’s likable, but in a ditzy, scatter-brained, and often cringey way. There is absolutely no way that this person should have been a Director of Health. She could never, ever, be the governor of a state.

The other Amy Acton – who I will call Imaginary Amy Acton – is a mirage – a creation. She’s not very likable, but she is competent. She obeys Democrat policy, because she is the creation of professional Democrats. On paper, she sounds quite different from the real Amy Acton, because she’s not the real Amy Acton. She’s like a Soviet consensus on what Amy Acton is supposed to think and believe.

It’s no wonder the Democrats in Ohio are not allowing either Amy Acton to debate Vivek Ramaswamy.

I would like to show you some select insights into this lady, that will help you understand.

Let’s start with a recent X post by Dr. Acton – or Lockdown Amy as she is known, that I find both attractive and a bit out of touch. This is Real Amy Acton.

Let’s look at those selfies more closely.

At first glance, I really liked these images. She’s like a neighbor, going out and eating at some restaurant and posting a tweet about it. That’s very real. It’s very likable. If she wasn’t running for office, I’d think “Hey! That’s Amy Acton, that doctor lady from Columbus!”

I find it interesting that there’s nobody around, and I think that says a lot about her campaign. I think the Democrats may not be thinking she can win, or even planning on winning. I think perhaps they’re grooming her for head of HHS, or CDC, or something like that, should the Demon Donkeys ever get back in the White House.

Next point – while I think it’s awesome that Dr. Acton is having a MONSTROUS steak (I have not had one like that in years), I don’t see that image as being politically wise right now – unless she’s desperate for some carnivore crossover votes that she’s surely not going to get, IMO. Indeed, that picture drew lots of criticism on her timeline, although it’s hard to know how much of that criticism is real, and how much is just AI bots going after her. I see the “same but opposite” on all the GOP timelines.

But what is Imaginary Dr. Amy Acton like?

Well, politically, there are some problems.

Ohio here is what Amy Acton will not tell us out loud.

Amy Acton supports:

⯈Abortion ( even up to 9 months )
⯈Sanctuary cities
⯈Illegal invaders
⯈Entitlements for illegals
⯈Higher taxes to pay for entitlements to illegals
⯈Cuts in police
⯈Shutting Ohio down
⯈Forcing more vaccines on Ohioans ( especially children)
⯈Not allowing ICE to operate in Ohio
⯈Allowing lunatic liberal protesters to take over Ohio cities

Amy Acton is running on two things. Brown man is bad. ( Which is racist ) and she will somehow make things less expensive ( for generational entitlement freeloaders ).

She is 100% for socialism not free choice.

NO VOTE AMY ACTON

SO – yeah – Imaginary Amy Acton – the one who would actually be in charge of Ohio – is pretty left-wing, despite some serious efforts to pass her off as moderate right now.

I started looking more deeply into Acton’s background, especially back in her “COVID czarina” days, and what I found is both laughable and disturbing.

Two videos. The first was the New York Slimes singing her praises in early 2020, as the “pandemic” was just getting started. Here is the thumbnail (not an active video).

OMG, it is SO CRINGE! SO VERY CRINGE!!!

You get Real Amy Acton talking, but you get the Times pretending they are talking to Imaginary Amy Acton. This is how they sell one to the public, to install the other in office.

Amy Acton even SOUNDS like Kamala Harris. Just listen.

https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000007111965/coronavirus-ohio-amy-acton.html

Amy Acton has been a PROJECT of the left from day one. But now, after the fall of both COVID communism and Kamala Harris, Real Amy Acton is clearly not fit for the job. She was never fit for her earlier job, either.

But it gets worse. Much worse.

Imagine CRINGE SQUARED.

Imagine a video of an event CELEBRATING the first video.

Imagine an event – a lecture given by Real Dr. Acton – celebrating Imaginary Dr. Acton’s “success” as the popularly evicted COVID czarina.

Imagine Amy at her absolute CRINGIEST, WOKEST, and DIZZIEST. Yes. She’s ten times more out to lunch than in any modern video.

Yes, it’s THAT BAD. Although it is fun and entertaining, like talking to a tipsy female doctor in a bar.

I kid you not.

There is a “transcript” which is actually an essay derived from the second video. The essay is clearly a re-write of Real Amy Acton’s speech by somebody else, to make her sound like Imaginary Amy Acton. It’s hard to tell that they’re even related.

https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/healthmatrix/vol34/iss1/3

Both of these videos are mind-boggling reminders of just how psychotic the COVID years were. And Amy Acton – both of them – was fully riding along with all that dubious psychosis. All the psychosis that was dubious then, and is horrifying now.

These videos are gold mines of cringey error, bad science, dictatorial hubris, talking down to the public, cargo-cult hero-worship, wishful remembrance, and all the rest. I hope to give both videos their own threads in the future, before the election, but you are welcome to dig in now.


So what’s the verdict?

Real Amy Acton may be a nice person and a good neighbor. Stripped of her goofy politics, she seems like a very typical, very likable, Ohio mom. Real Amy’s a bit more entertaining than most, either because of (1) alcohol, (2) xanax, or (3) naturally dizzy mentality. Provided that Real Amy Acton doesn’t drive drunk, she would be welcome in almost any neighborhood in Ohio. She does not strike me as a bad person.

But that is not why we have governors. We have governors to make difficult choices correctly – to do the right things, and to not do the wrong things. And Real Amy Acton is NOT governor material.

But neither is Imaginary Amy Acton – the competent leftist.

Imaginary Amy Acton is what we would get – and it would be even worse than those brutal COVID days.

We have to get that word out. Ohio doesn’t need the trouble it would have, if Amy Acton – any version of her – was Governor.

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CNN HOAXES aka Psychological warfare

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At 21 minutes to 33 minutes LT of X-22 Reports goes over the CNN hoaxes. I do not have time to do a transcription plus many are video clips.

It was not until I did a bit of research on hemp, that I realized the anti-hemp rules probably originate in the EU/Cabal!

CORN & BIO-FUEL

2008 The Clean Energy Scam — TIME in parnership with CNN

(Time & CNN, ROTFLMAO!)

The Clean Energy Scam – The U.S. quintupled its production of ethanol–ethyl alcohol, a fuel distilled from plant matter–in the past decade, and Washington has just mandated another fivefold increase in renewable fuels over the next decade. Europe has similarly aggressive biofuel mandates and subsidies, and Brazil’s filling stations no longer even offer plain gasoline. Worldwide investment in biofuels rose from $5 billion in 1995 to $38 billion in 2005 and is expected to top $100 billion by 2010, thanks to investors like Richard Branson and George Soros, GE and BP, Ford and Shell, Cargill and the Carlyle Group.

2011 Industrial Agriculture’s Water Use: It’s Time for Change. Mother Earth News

Much of the water used to irrigate corn and refine ethanol is drawn from the ever-threatened Ogallala aquifer, which runs beneath eight western U.S. states and provides nearly a third of all U.S. irrigation water…

 The handful of giant agribusinesses and food processing companies that dominate the food chain keep farm prices low, which only pushes farmers to produce more. Most farmers resort to water-intensive and chemical-dependent practices to sell enough farm products to make a living.  

In the United States and around the world, only a few companies sell the seeds, buy the harvests, slaughter the livestock, and turn farm products into the food consumers buy. Farms that are far away from wealthy metropolitan areas are especially dependent on agribusiness buyers. The four largest firms in the United States slaughter 84 percent of the cattle, crush 80 percent of the soybeans and process 66 percent of the hogs. Even in recent years, when prices were higher, the few companies that sold seeds, fertilizers and fuel could jack up their prices, so higher production costs gobbled most of the gains from increased farm prices. Two corn seed firms (Monsanto and DuPont’s Pioneer Hi-Bred) control about 60 percent of the seed market and 80 percent of U.S. corn is grown from Monsanto-patented seed traits. In 2009 and 2010, the leading corn seed companies raised prices between 20 and 40 percent…

I could write an entire article on the bio-fuel scam and WHO benefits. Instead a few points. Fruits and veggies do not get USDA subsidies grains do. That means feed lot cows are subsidized by US tax payers making feed lots cheaper than grass. Many grains are GMO so the seed has to be bought each season, as well as the fertilizer & insecticides. Again ALL is tax payers funding Big Ag with the farmer as the conduit.

Understanding Nutrient Requirements for High-Yielding Corn

Typical fertilization for corn in the United States is 180 lbs of N, 90 lbs of P 2 O 5 and 160 lbs of K 2 0 per acre, with no S or micronutrients.

Hemp is a alternative source of bio-fuel.

Hemp Biofuel: Is This the Answer to Environmental Crisis? Royal Queen Seeds

…Using hemp for ethanol production curbs the potential problem of using too many food sources like corn and wheat. Ultimately, this makes food production more efficient while also minimising its disruption.

At the same time, hemp is much easier to grow compared to other food crops. They’re like weeds that can thrive in lower-quality conditions.

Hemp biodiesel also has a higher flash point, aka the temperature at which it ignites. Because of this, it is much easier to store, transport, and handle overall…

When it comes to hemp, there is a lot of conflict about fertilizers. Probably because it has a variety of uses.

Hemp Fertilizers – Do You Need a Special Kind?

Hemp is not a particularly demanding crop when it comes to fertilizer requirements. In fact, hemp is known to be quite tolerant of poor soil conditions.

Growing Industrial Hemp as an Organic – Rodale Institute

The use of no-tillage strategies without any weed control measures can be detrimental to hemp stand establishment. Nitrogen fertilization up to 150 kg ha–1 can increase fiber and seed yield. Leguminous cover crops can supply adequate nitrogen to hemp without supplemental fertilization as indicated by similar yields among nitrogen rates in treatments that included hairy vetch and winter pea. Although hemp density was low in the no-till cover crop treatment, greater bast fiber yield per stalk significantly increased the total fiber yield, making it comparable to conventional tillage treatments. This suggests that cover crops can be considered a positive investment for hemp production…

The crop is photoperiod sensitive and is typically a short-day plant. Hemp responds well to elevated CO2 and temperature levels in the context of current climate change scenarios and is a water-efficient crop…

Growers can take herbicides and other costly weed control measures off their inventory because hemp is a smoother crop and rapidly produces a dense canopy that suppresses weeds. This makes it a perfect choice for organic production. 

Let’s save American hemp

What Is Industrial Hemp? Definition, Uses & U.S. Rules

 Industrial hemp is Cannabis sativa L. grown commercially for fiber, grain/seed, and other lawful products, with U.S. federal law defining compliance through THC testing and licensing. USDA hemp production · Hemp vs. marijuana vs. CBD · Hemp University

An exceptionally versatile plant, industrial hemp has a wide range of industrial and everyday household uses, and the commercial market for hemp products is booming worldwide. Products made from hemp are considered long-lasting and eco-friendly. Hemp derived CBD products are also proving to be incredible for our health and well being. It is not What is Hemp but what can hemp do for us in our quest for sustainability!…

With the passage of the Farm Bill in 2018, hemp cultivation has commenced in numerous states. Yet, the question extends beyond mere definition; it’s now about understanding what hemp can do for individuals and our environment, and what we can do to harness its potential. Now, hemp oils, CBD, hemp plastics, hemp building materials, and various hemp fiber products are readily available in the market.

Hemp is the low tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) variety of the Cannabis Sativa plant, containing minimal THC content as mandated by federal law—specifically less than 0.3% THC by dry weight. This distinction ensures that industrial hemp does not induce any psychoactive effects associated with marijuana. However, hemp and marijuana often face confusion, which can be clarified through our hemp vs. marijuana page….

Dec 19, 2025 — President Trump’s Executive Order to Save Hemp

PRESIDENT TRUMP DIRECTED CONGRESS TO FIX HEMP. NOW THEY MUST ACT.

President Trump issued an executive order directing Congress to reconsider the classification of hemp-derived products to ensure Americans, like our seniors, can access hemp-derived products they have found beneficial while still protecting children. The President gave clear direction. Now Congress must follow through. The McConnell-Harris hemp restrictions threaten to destroy 325,000 American jobs, devastate thousands of farmers and small businesses, and deny seniors access to CBD products that President Trump wants them to have. President Trump provided the solution: protect children through regulation while preserving consumer access to beneficial CBD and hemp-derived products. The hemp industry has offered exactly the common-sense regulations President Trump’s order calls for: -Age restrictions (21+) to protect children -Mandatory third-party laboratory testing for safety -Clear, uniform labeling for informed choices -Child-resistant packaging standards Contact your Representative and Senators today. Tell them to immediately act on President Trump’s executive order, fix the McConnell-Harris hemp ban, and implement the common-sense regulations that protect farmers, small business owners, consumers, and children. Let’s save American hemp and tell Congress to act on President Trump’s directive.

This excerpt is direct from HIFA. Please click the link to sign the next petition to move forward with a two year extension. https://hifa.health/contact-your-lawmakers/

Congress pushes hemp crackdown after pressure from states

A provision significantly limiting the sale of intoxicating hemp products made its way into legislation to reopen the federal government just a day before the Senate approved the bill. Its inclusion follows years of pressure from states and the marijuana industry.

While states continue to expand access to legal marijuana, a separate market of hemp-derived intoxicants has blossomed. The products, from drinks to gummies, are sold in gas stations and smoke shops. Critics say some companies have exploited a legal loophole from 2018 to manufacture products that get people high — without the safety regulations and taxes facing the legal marijuana industry.

That’s led dozens of states to limit or ban certain intoxicating hemp products. Most states also have pushed for federal changes, though some farm states worry the pending federal bill — which the House is expected to vote on as soon as today — goes too far.

A bipartisan group of 39 state attorneys general recently urged Congress to clarify the federal definition of hemp, arguing that the underregulated industry threatens public health and undermines law enforcement…

Senate Rejects Attempt To Save Hemp Industry

The Senate has rejected an amendment to a critical spending bill that would have removed language to ban hemp products containing THC.

After the chamber cleared the appropriations minibus package for floor consideration on Sunday, senators on Monday took up the measure from Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) that he said would prevent the eradication of the hemp market that’s matured since the crop’s federal legalization under the 2018 Farm Bill.

The amendment was killed in a 76-24 vote on a motion to table.

“My amendment would strip the provision designed to regulate the hemp industry to death. The bill, as it now stands, overrides the regulatory frameworks of several states, cancels the collective decisions of hemp consumers and destroys the livelihoods of hemp farmers,” Paul said on the floor ahead of the vote. “And it couldn’t come at a worse time for America’s farmers. Times are tough for our farmers.”…

How about we outlaw the Senate instead? They certainly have been ANTI-AMERICAN!

Cannabis as a treatment for COVID-19

(I used to have the scientific study but brave bookmarks lost it.)

CBD Oil: What are 9 Proven or Possible Health Benefits

Cannabis is a plant, and there are two main types, Cannabis Indica and Cannabis Sativa. Both marijuana and CBD can be derived from both types, but hemp is only derived from Cannabis Sativa. By law, hemp must contain no more than 0.3% THC…

 CBD has been credited with relieving numerous medical conditions, such as epilepsy, anxiety, inflammation, insomnia, and pain. Although “credited” does not mean proven. Because of the historical regulatory landscape, there are hardly any well-conducted trials backing up those claims, although research is expected to ramp up now that laws distinguish between hemp and marijuana.

We look at nine medical conditions where CBD may be, or, has already proven to be, beneficial.

1. Epilepsy

In June 2018, the FDA approved Epidiolex (a plant-based formulation of CBD) to treat seizures for people 2 years of age and older with Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS), which are two rare forms of epilepsy… [ I have 2 friends that use it for epilepsy with sucess]

2. Pain

Animal studies have shown that CBD has anti-inflammatory effects and works on the endocannabinoid and pain-sensing systems to relieve pain… [I got off of NSAIDs by using CBD oil.]

3. Arthritis

Animal studies showed that topical CBD applications relieve pain and inflammation associated with arthritis with few side effects…

4. Anxiety

Pretreatment with 300mg CBD significantly relieved anxiety in 57 healthy males who undertook a simulated public speaking test. However, dosages of 150mg CBD and 600mg CBD did not make any difference to the men’s anxiety levels.7

So CBD threatens Big Pharma. However I found this part of my research ‘interesting’

Industrial uses of Hemp

The Wonders of Industrial Hemp: Versatile and Eco-Friendly — Amsterdammarijuanaseeds.com

Amstedam is the Capital of the Netherlands

The versatility of industrial hemp extends beyond its use as a raw material. 

Unleashing a New Wave of Sustainable Practices with Industrial Hemp

Industrial hemp, this incredible plant, stands tall as an embodiment of versatility. A crop whose potential extends far beyond its rustic exterior, transforming into an eco-friendly powerhouse with an impressive array of applications spanning numerous industries…

Industrial hemp, scientifically known as Cannabis sativa L., has served humanity for centuries, providing fiber, food, and medicinal benefits. Today, its role has expanded, becoming increasingly important as a sustainable and eco-friendly solution within various industries.

By integrating hemp into numerous manufacturing processes, industries can lessen their dependence on non-renewable resources and significantly reduce their environmental footprint. The inherent versatility and functional characteristics of hemp make it an ideal candidate for substitution, driving it to the forefront of sustainable development.

Moreover, hemp cultivation offers additional benefits such as soil remediation. By absorbing toxins and replenishing soil nutrients, hemp promotes healthier soils, which in turn, benefit subsequent crops…

Corporate giants such as Ford Motors, Patagonia, and The Body Shop have already recognized the profound potential of this sustainable resource, utilizing hemp seed, fiber, and oil as fundamental raw materials in their product lines. This level of corporate adoption serves as a testament to the staggering potential that industrial hemp offers as an environmentally conscious substitute for other resources.

Below are a few ways industrial hemp is already making its mark across industries:

  1. Automotive, Railway, Aviation, and Aerospace: These industries are progressively embracing hemp-derived products as substitutes for traditional plastic materials. Hemp’s lightweight yet durable nature and biodegradable properties position it as a superior alternative to conventional plastics.
  2. Cosmetics and Personal Care: The nutritive richness of hemp seed oil has found applications in numerous industrial and cosmetic products. From soaps and shampoos to other personal care items, the moisturizing properties and skin-nourishing abilities of hemp seed oil make it a coveted ingredient within the cosmetics and personal care sectors.
  3. Textiles, Fabrics, and Paper Manufacturing: Hemp fiber’s application in the production of textiles, fabrics, and paper is truly a game-changer. It offers an eco-friendly alternative to traditional textile materials, requiring less water and fewer pesticides during cultivation, with the added advantage of being easily recyclable…

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Industrial Hemp Uses: Fibre, Paper, Materials — Justbob Lyon France.

Reading industrial hemp uses across fibre, paper and materials

Industrial hemp is one of the oldest agricultural crops on the European continent. Beyond the modern cannabinoid catalog, the plant supplies fibre for textiles and ropes, hurd for construction biocomposites, paper for specialty applications and seed fractions for the wider agricultural framework. This Justbob guide walks through industrial hemp uses sector by sector, with the regulatory framework that connects the cultivation side to each application…

Industrial hemp uses cover the non-cannabinoid applications of Cannabis sativa L. cultivated under the EU industrial hemp framework. The main categories include textiles (canvas, rope, twine and modern fabrics), paper (specialty applications), construction biocomposites (hempcrete walls, insulation panels), automotive components (door panels and trim parts), agricultural substrates (animal bedding and horticulture) and biorefinery feedstock…

Textile applications: from canvas to modern fabrics

Textile production is one of the oldest documented uses of hemp fibre in European industry. Canvas, the heavy fabric traditionally used for sails, tents, and painting supports; rope, widely used in maritime, agricultural, and construction settings; twine, commonly found in packaging, gardening, and crafts; and modern technical fabrics all rely on the bast fibre extracted from the hemp stem.

The mechanical properties of hemp textile fibre are well documented. The tensile strength supports applications where durability matters more than a fine weave, while its natural resistance to mildew and pests adds value in maritime and outdoor settings. Its breathability and moisture handling propriety make hemp textile interesting for modern clothing and home textiles.

Paper applications: specialty papers and durability

Paper applications represent another long-standing industrial use of hemp. The long bast fibres give hemp paper a stronger tensile profile and a longer fibre length than typical wood-pulp paper, making it suitable for specialty applications where these properties are particularly valuable.

Documented use cases include banknotes, where the strong tensile profile and the resistance to repeated handling are well suited to the application; archival papers (the low lignin content supports long-term stability; and technical papers, including filter papers, art papers, and thin technical papers. Hemp paper is also a feedstock for some specialty paper producers in France and Italy that supply niche markets.

The USDA published the foundational bulletin Hemp Hurds as Paper-Making Material in 1916, documenting the technical feasibility of hemp paper at industrial scale. The bulletin is still referenced in contemporary hemp economy literature as one of the early modern studies on this application.

Hempcrete and construction biocomposites

Hempcrete is the most visible modern application of hemp hurd in construction. This biocomposite combines hemp hurd with a lime binder to produce wall infill, insulation and structural-light applications. The French Isochanvre product was introduced around 1986 as one of the first commercial hempcrete formulations…


There is a LOT more…

WHY THE ORIGINAL ATTACK ON HEMP?

There was a comment about Hemp on WUWT by Dr Brown in August of 2013. He refers to something Dr Judith Curry said that I can no longer find.

[I do not have the origin of this quote]

The story goes …Dupont had patented nylon, and wanted hemp removed as competition….

Why is Marijuana Illegal?

Its said that industrial hemp converts CO2 to oxygen better than trees.

‘Do you have a link?’

[Hemp “more effective than trees” at carbon storage –2021Cambridge Univ]

I havn’t come across anything tangible (of an academic nature) but there must be tons out there. I’ll keep looking, but in the meantime here are some numbers from HempNews.

‘It follows that every tonne of industrial hemp stems contains 0.445 tonnes Carbon absorbed from the atmosphere (44.46% of stem dry weight).

‘Converting Carbon to CO2 (12T of C equals 44T of CO2(IPCC)), that represents 1.63 tonnes of CO2 absorption per tonne of UK Hemp stem harvested. On a land use basis, using Hemcore’s yield averages (5.5 to 8 T/ha), this represents 8.9 to 13.4 tonnes of CO2 absorption per hectare of UK Hemp Cultivation.

‘For the purposes estimation, we use an average figure of 10T/ha of CO2 absorption, a figure we hold to be a reasonably conservative estimate. This is used to predict carbon yields, but CO2 offsets will be based on dry weight yields as measured at the weighbridge.

‘The roots and leaf mulch (not including the hard to measure fibrous root material) left in situ represented approximately 20% of the mass of the harvested material in HGS’ initial field trials. The resulting Carbon content absorbed but remaining in the soil, will therefore be approximately 0.084 tonnes per tonne of harvested material. (42% w/w) (5).

‘Using Hemcore’s UK yield estimates (5.5 – 8 T/ha) this represents 0.46 to 0.67 tonnes of Carbon per hectare (UK) absorbed but left in situ after Hemp cultivation.’ [So in 2013 the UK was growing hemp but it was banned in the USA.]


Dr Brown rgbatduke said on August 22, 2013 at 5:44 am

Judith Curry’s remarks, as usual, are dead on the money. Here’s an almost perfectly analogous problem: CNN recently completely reversed its editorial policy and now calls for the legalization of Marijuana. Sanjay Gupta, its “resident physician editorialist”, who had previously somewhat vigorously led this opposition from the scientific point of view completely reversed his own position, and explained why in considerable detail both in text and in online video.


Historically, marijuana was both legal and considered to be a useful medicine all the way up through the beginning of the twentieth century. At that point, William Randolph Hearst had invested heavily in pine forests in Mexico, intending to sell them to his own newspapers to make newsprint. The Dupont family were discovering petrochemicals including plastic and oil-derived pharmaceuticals. A machine was invented that was the equivalent of a “cotton gin” for hemp — it mechanically stripped down the hemp plant and turned it into useful fiber, oil, and vegetable waste that could be used as an animal fodder (yes, we can imagine some very happy cows, can’t we?:-). One of many uses for the now inexpensive hemp fiber was to make equally inexpensive newsprint paper that was clearly superior in quality and cost to wood pulp paper. Another was that the oils and fiber could be used to synthesize various chemical products. Both Dupont and Hearst were suddenly hundreds of millions of dollars at risk.


They turned to Harry Anslinger, who happened to be Hearst’s brother in law. Anslinger was a suddenly idle ex-prohibitionist working for the FBI, and he created a propaganda campaign that portrayed hemp as literally maddening those that actually smoked it, leading them to commit acts of rape and robbery and moral turpitude. At the same time, political revolutions in Mexico (funded and fought by a private army belonging to Hearst) and a negative portrayal of blacks and mexicans as common users of hemp for recreation purposes added a useful racist hook. Between these, congress outlawed hemp.


So matters remained until the Viet Nam war and the 1960s and early 70s. As part of the quiet “revolution” against what many perceived as a military-industrial complex with a life of its own that was fighting a series of expensive and pointless wars, pot had become “the” recreational drug of choice among young hippies and freaks as well as the military draftees who fought the war. Its use was so prevalent that Texas dropped the question about cannabis use from its entrance exam to police academy, because “asking a vet of they had ever smoked pot was like asking them if they smoked Camels”. Suddenly a large fraction of an entire generation of U.S. citizens had smoked pot and discovered that no, it does not turn you into a crazed rapist, and usually does not make you insane unless you are most of the way there on your own already. They also discovered that it is neither physically addictive nor dangerous in the sense that it is literally impossible to overdose on marijuana — it is literally one of the safest compounds we know of, with no meaningful fatal dose.


However, Ronald Reagan took office in the 80’s, an immediately declared a “War on Drugs”. Marijuana was reclassified as a schedule 1 narcotic by the federal government, trumping communities that had already begun to experiment with decriminalization or even legalization. This once again gave law enforcement agencies lots of useful work (helpful if you are trying to build a police state), gave cops everywhere the ability to selectively enforce drug laws and thereby control the populace, and caused us to rather suddenly need to build enormous numbers of prisons because it rapidly turned out that by making marijuana trafficking a felony and putting even mere users in jail (just like heroin, cocaine, and actually dangerous drugs) somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 of all prison sentences were being handed down for low grade drug offenses. Our expenditure on controlling pot went from next to nothing to tens of billions of dollars a year. Obviously, many profited from this, including (as usual) the money launderers and organized criminals that made fortunes providing marijuana on the black market, and the politicians and bankers that provided well-paid-for top cover.


And now to the interesting bit (although I think all of the above is interesting:-). One of the reasons given for making marijuana a schedule 1 felony class drug was that we didn’t know about the harm it might cause, and there was no known medical benefit. Yes, it had been used as a medicine for centuries, the founding fathers literally “mandated” the growing of hemp on American farms because it was so useful a plant both industrially and medicinally, but we had entered the era of double blind placebo controlled drug trials, and there were now enormous pharmaceutical companies whose billion-dollar products were at risk, dwarfing even the Duponts’ complaint back in the 30’s. Its risks were similarly unstudied.


A period of research then ensued. If you wanted to study pot, you had to both get funded and get the experimental marijuana from a single, small farm in Mississippi that grew “legal” pot for this purpose. The government itself was in complete control, in other words of what research got conducted, because even if you could find outside funding, you couldn’t get legal pot to do the research with without approval.


Gupta initially opposed marijuana legalization because a review of the medical literature showed him that 96% of all published articles found some sort of negative effect of marijuana, and almost no articles showed a benefit, especially compared to existing approved medications. However, a couple of anecdotal cases coming out of the states that had legalized medicinal marijuana in SPITE of the federal governments laws caused him to go back and reexamine the funding model. In retrospect it shouldn’t have been surprising, but he learned that 96% of all funded research was to look for negative effects of marijuana, and that to get funded and permission to get government grown pot was so difficult that there simply weren’t all that many papers in the first place. In well over thirty years of intensive examination, all of the examination was literally preselected to find problems, almost none to find benefits, and one had to walk on water and push much paper to do either one (and relatively few scientists had bothered).


That caused him to examine the body of emerging, still anecdotal, evidence from the states that had legalized medical marijuana. They showed that — again unsurprisingly — marijuana is a rich pharmacopeia with multiple legitimate medical uses that could survived double blind placebo controlled investigation, while at the same time having minimal side effects and no known lethal dose. Perhaps he came to realize that its negative effects might, conceivably, have been a bit exaggerated or might arise from confounding uncontrolled elements. Confirmation bias is, after all, the bete noir of science.


This situation almost perfectly matches the evolution of “climate science”. Nobody cared about it for decades, but suddenly a group of individuals emerged that all benefited from the demonization of carbon. This included environmental groups, that hated civilization itself and the burning of anything (as long, of course, as their own lifestyle was preserved), energy producers that saw in this the opportunity to triple or quadruple their profits by creating artificial scarcity of a plentiful resource, politicians that saw in this the opportunity to raise taxes, get elected on a world-saving “issue”, and perhaps line their own pockets along the way, and a United Nations that saw an opportunity to transform it into a way to tax the rich nations and transfer money to developing nations (while again lining various pockets along the way). The role of Anslinger was admirably met by one James Hansen, a True Believer who never stinted and does not stint today in exaggerating the data and claims of disaster (five meter sea level rise! temperatures like that on Venus!). And suddenly, quite literally all funded research was on how burning carbon was bad for the climate.


Even completely ethical scientists have to eat, and if the only way they can eat is to get funded, and the only way they can get funded is to submit proposals that seek to prove that CO_2 is bad, guess what they will propose to study? And if they want to get funded AGAIN, guess what they will find? Climate science has been effectively corrupted beyond any hope of objectivity.


On the good side of things, scientists are actually usually pretty ethical. Also, in the end data talks, bullshit walks. The hypothesis of CAGW or CACC could, in fact, be true (across a wide spectrum of the meaning of “true”, in fact). However, recent data is not in good correspondence with the theories that have predicted it, and many good scientists are in the process of reassessing their conclusions. As is the almost simultaneous case with regard to marijuana, the confounding evidence is starting to overwhelm to narrowly funded and directed arguments to date. We will see where the future takes us, in both cases.
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mikerossander says on August 22, 2013 at 12:40 pm

re: rgbatduke’s extended history at August 22, 2013 at 5:44 am:

One correction – Nixon is the moron who declared a “War on Drugs”. Congress made marijuana into a Schedule I narcotic in 1970. Pres Reagan may be guilty of a lot but he is innocent of that particular charge above.

Other items of interest from my notes.

Pot Shrinks Tumors; Government Knew in ’74

In 1974 researchers learned that THC, the active chemical in marijuana, shrank or destroyed brain tumors in test mice. But the DEA quickly shut down the study and destroyed its results, which were never replicated — until now.

The term medical marijuana took on dramatic new meaning in February, 2000 when researchers in Madrid announced they had destroyed incurable brain tumors in rats by injecting them with THC, the active ingredient in cannabis.

The Madrid study marks only the second time that THC has been administered to tumor-bearing animals; the first was a Virginia investigation 26 years ago. In both studies, the THC shrank or destroyed tumors in a majority of the test subjects.

Most Americans don’t know anything about the Madrid discovery. Virtually no major U.S. newspapers carried the story, which ran only once on the AP and UPI news wires, on Feb. 29, 2000…

2008 — The Greatest Story Never Told

Smoking Cannabis Does Not Cause Cancer
Of Lung or Upper Airways, Tashkin Finds;
Data Suggest Possible Protective Effect

The story summarized by that headline ran in O’Shaughnessy’s (Autumn 2005), CounterPunch, and the Anderson Valley Advertiser. Did we win Pulitzers, dude? No, the story was ignored or buried by the corporate media. It didn’t even make the “Project Censored” list of under-reported stories for 2005. “We were even censored by Project Censored,” said Tod Mikuriya, who liked his shot of wry. 

It’s not that the subject is trivial. One in three Americans will be afflicted with cancer, we are told by the government (as if it’s our immutable fate and somehow acceptable). Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the U.S. and lung cancer the leading killer among cancers. You’d think it would have been very big news when UCLA medical school professor Donald Tashkin revealed that components of marijuana smoke -although they damage cells in respiratory tissue- somehow prevent them from becoming malignant. In other words, something in marijuana exerts an anti-cancer effect.

Tashkin has special credibility. He was the lead investigator on studies dating back to the 1970s that identified the components in marijuana smoke that are toxic. It was Tashkin et al who published photomicrographs showing that marijuana smoke damages cells lining the upper airways. It was the Tashkin lab reporting that benzpyrene -a component of tobacco smoke that plays a role in most lung cancers- is especially prevalent in marijuana smoke. It was Tashkin’s data documenting that marijuana smokers are more likely than non-smokers to cough, wheeze, and produce sputum.

Tashkin reviewed his findings April 4 at a conference organized by “Patients Out of Time,” a reform group devoted to educating doctors and the public (as opposed to lobbying politicians). Some 30 MDs and nurses got continuing medical education credits for attending… [long article]

Cannabinoids: potential anticancer agents

Published: December 2003. Cannabinoids: potential anticancer agents. … Other potential palliative effects of cannabinoids in cancer patients — supported by Phase III clinical trials — include appetite stimulation and pain inhibition.

Dear MAGA: 20260922 ❀ DePat Tuesday ❀ Open Topic | Wolf’s Report on Political Brawling in Ohio

This DePat Tuesday Open Thread honors the author of the original Tuesday open thread on this site, namely the late Susie Sampson, a.k.a. Deplorable Patriot, among her other handles, pen names, etc.

For more on the untimely passing of Dear DePat, please see these three posts.


At one time, DePat handled FOUR daily open threads here, in addition to taking care of her relatives, choir duties, and numerous other responsibilities. She was a powerhouse – a dynamo – a true force of nature.

DePat’s faith in Trump, Q, “The Plan”, the White Hats, and “the anons” in general, was legendary. Although I didn’t always agree with her quick acceptance of some sketchier evidence and fringier theories, I will gladly admit to “coming around” to numerous so-called “conspiracy theories” which she championed first. I was always careful to give her credit for being right, too, when I had been wrong.

It is impossible to overstate how much DePat did for not only this site, but for her country. I urge all to say a quick prayer of thanks, whenever you think of her, for the privilege of knowing, in life or after death, such an exemplary human being, and lover of God.

And thank you, Susie, for the firm foundation which you left us, when you were called to your true home!


Wolf’s Report on Political Brawling in Ohio

The attack ads are flying everywhere now.

At first it was mostly Democrats attacking Republicans, but now it’s the other way around.

TRANS is being exploited as an issue, far more than I would have expected.

Here’s another one.

The comments are awesome – people realize what Sherrod Brown’s voting record actually is.

Here was my comment.

IMO it’s the PAC ads that are most effective. Some of them are truly devastating.

In contrast, the Dem ads against John Husted and Vivek try to paint them as corrupt, but IMO people just aren’t buying it, and the ads are far from convincing.

Speaking of Vivek, his opponent, Lockdown Amy, is getting cringer and cringer.

Mehek Cooke is a GOP activist who once ran for office for something, and IMO was cheated out of a win, but found her true calling as a party person rather than a candidate.

UGH!!!

But it gets worse. Lots worse.

🚨THIS is the woman asking Ohio to hand her the keys to the governor’s office? NO WAY!

Amy Acton gets onstage and this is the performance Ohio voters are supposed to look at and think, “Yep, that’s who I want running the state”?

Watch the video. Make up your own mind.

But here’s what I want to see next: put her on a debate stage with Vivek Ramaswamy.

2 candidates standing across from each other answering for what they believe and what they plan to do with Ohio.

If Amy Acton wants the job, she should be willing to make her case directly to the people she wants to govern.

🔥Ohio deserves the debate.
Let’s see it.

I can tell you – this woman will not do well in a debate, other than getting all the sympathy votes.


And some later breaking news – Husted is looking GREAT in his videos, directly attacking Sherrod Brown’s record, while Sherrod Brown is trying to excuse his way out of his TRANS votes.

Vivek is also firing confidently back at Lockdown Amy.

And now they’re going after Sherrod Brown for being too weak to stand up to the socialists. TRUTH!!!

Things are heating up, but the GOP is doing pretty well, IMO.

W

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

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