2026.01.13 Daily Thread: The World According To Trade(Bait)

It is time to kick off the next American series with a name change and an off ramp from pure American history. There are too many “American Stories” out there now with far better authors than me to keep that in play. We have closed out the Declaration signers and discussed the Articles of Confederation while lightly touching on the Constitution previously. Each one of the posts of this series is intended to be less than a 10 minute read. The attached videos may add to that total time allocated.

The series image at the top is my personal vision of America. More folks ought to try hiking in the Smokies or their favorite national and state parks. Their perspectives about life in America might change for the better.

Today’s scripture is from Matthew 7:24-27;

“Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”

Take that to the bank.

Series Intent

Unfortunately, YT will continue to play a part in this series due to their command of music and movie videos that Rumble cannot seem to duplicate yet. Since we are in a simulation anyway, who cares?! 😂

I will never stray far from the theme of AMERICA FIRST with the serious stuff.

These short stories will not be overly complicated. They will be based simply on observations, personal experiences, and publicly available evidence and documentation as in the past. To be sure I will continue with parallels, interconnections and inflection points that are baked into our American Experience. I seek to lighten these stories up to help readers have fun as well as inform. The heavy lifting was done with the Declaration of Independence series.

So let the fun begin.

My series title is a steal from the great, or insane, or pysop (your choice) movie from Robin Williams, The World According to Garp. Here is the trailer for those too young or did not see it. Note the year of release – 1982.

Also note the obvious CIA psyops in the movie that have surfaced (imagine that), have increased in scope and are ingrained into society today. Which brings us to who was Director of that renegade organization during those years? This guy – William “Bill” Casey from 1981-1987 during the Reagan years when all of us were focused on The Cold War and its end as well as recovery from the horrible economy and Iran hostages fiasco of the peanut farmer.

Fine, happy lookin’ feller. 😀 He also brought us a mixed bag of the Iran-Contra affair. Dude was CIA through and through for decades even without official titles. He was in the OSS after WW II before it became the CIA. So what was going on in Central and South America during his time in the saddle besides the Contras? Well, coke up the nose in America became king and the nation of Columbia was its capital for production and distribution. He was a practicing attorney who spent time as SEC Chair, under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, and Chair of the Exim Bank in the 1970’s. However, he also served on the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board at the end of President Ford’s term.

For those who want a snapshot of Casey, there is a short read from a 1987 Time article below.

https://time.com/archive/6709197/death-of-an-expert-witness-william-joseph-casey-1913-1987

This one made my eyes bleed, but was interesting perspective on him in spots. He was very hard to pin down.

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp90-00965r000807500037-5

But this February 1981 quote was his most famous, “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”

So, Bill, you said the government does disinformation programs to deceive the American public? I am so disappointed to read that. 😂 Notice it was said in 1981 and had obviously been done as a normal CIA practice for many years before that.

Again, no wonder the current DS corruptocrats hate POTUS so much. We know his agenda matches what We the People want, not what the DS wants you to believe.

Remember the Casey name, he reappears in the Conclusion today.

So back to this story, yes, in my opinion Robin and the movie about Garp was clearly a psyop of epic proportions and a precursor for more to come.

I promise not to be quite that insane in my own psyop versions, but being that my alter ego is Goober Gump, the fictitious brother of this guy, well…

Welcome to my world…

Your View Matters

For this first series and story we will stay with American history to set the stage and it is a really important concept if you seriously want to understand your life and government in America. When it comes to how you read and understand the Constitution, assuming you have, your viewpoint of its intent and content matters. As an example, if you were a Federalist back in those days you thought differently about it than an Anti-Federalist. So, let’s establish the two primary ways to interpret it that are still used today. I am going to keep this short and simple as I promised.

The two primary legal, political, and moral approaches to the Constitution are:

Strict ConstructionistLiteral and narrow reading (interpretation) of the document that limits the powers of the federal government to what it provides.

Loose ConstructionistViews it as a “living document” that is interpreted broadly that adapts to society as it evolves and its needs change.

Then there are the true rebels who use whichever is expedient to their cause of the moment.

Note the immediate stress and contention between the two. Strict supporters point to the 10th amendment; that powers not delegated to the U. S. by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. Seems rather straight forward, doesn’t it? If the issue is not covered under the powers of the feds or specifically prohibited; it was up to the states and We the People to handle.

Au contraire.

The Loose folks said the Necessary and Proper Clause (Article 1, Section 8) supported their theory that feds had powers not listed, including any powers needed to accomplish the powers that are listed through Congressional action. They do not call it the Elastic Clause without good reasons.

You decide for yourself if that stress on Constitutional interpretation was intentionally introduced or a consequence of disagreement of the parties involved in the Constitution’s creation. I have my own opinion and will not influence yours – yet.

Then There Is The Judiciary

The judiciary is designed in the Constitution and subsequent case law to be the arbiters of truth and justice of that document and related laws. How can the judiciary truly be that non-partial when their justices and judges are nominated, confirmed, and appointed in political processes? Human nature tends to influence how one sees the world and performs one’s role in it. You are not going to appoint or confirm a sworn enemy or ideologue you oppose if you have the power. In understanding the subject Constitution and laws along with their application; it all eventually leads us back to had control of Club Senate back in their day (BITD) as well as today because that is where the judiciary confirmation process exists.

Which is why it was of monumental importance when Harry Reid nuked the filibuster for non-SCOTUS judicial confirmations with Turtle answering when the GOP took over by nuking them on SCOTUS nominations. Harry got his leftist, loose constructionist federal judges. Turtle got the conservative, strict constructionist justices.

The historical political battle in our nation has always been between strict and loose constructionism. The rules of the game are set, then one group or another starts trying to change or reinterpret them to fit their goals. It has seesawed back and forth over the entire time period. The one consistency is that the Federalists of the past and Democrats after Jackson have tended to be loose constructionists while the Jeffersonian Republicans and GOP from Lincoln on have tended to be strict constructionists. This has polarized the general population over the years as one group or another became dominant.

Historically, it started as the post Revolutionary War patriots dealt with the process of isolating the loyalists and Tories along with building a country that could stand on its own accord. It took time and great effort to put down insurrections and mischief their enemies initiated to protect their personal interests. Over time the patriots rooted out their opponents, at least enough to insure America’s survival and progress. Many of those losers returned to Great Britain. Others converted and assimilated into society. It took a couple of generations and some funerals. This led to the Federalist Party’s demise as the Jeffersonian Republicans represented the vast majority of commoner patriots who actually fought in both wars.

However, even with the success there remained embedded operatives indebted and working for the ruling class and the Crown of Great Britain. As an example the southern plantation class along with the northern mercantilist and banker class sold “Cotton is King” to the nation to continue national slavery operations despite prohibiting the foreign slave trade operations decades before. They wanted to keep the money flowing from trade relations in Europe going, primarily with Great Britain, as they were becoming wealthier by the day.

Enter the Civil War.

If any of that intrigue sounds like it may still be going on today, you may be paying attention.

With this understanding you may be able to better understand why all of this current day retribution demanded by We the People seems to be taking so long. Every day it seems a loose constructionist and/or corrupt federal judge oversteps their authority. The depth of corruption and depravity in America has been breathtaking as well as disconcerting to discover. The amount of work that has to be done to fix things is daunting. The war rages on. Just always remember the definitions of strict and loose constructionists because there is a constant struggle within our government and people based on which interpretation rules on every issue.

There will be more applications of these two principles to consider that will be the focus of future threads, however, they will not always reference government related activities and conditions.

Conclusion

I cannot leave without a blast from the past. Does anybody remember the UPI press service of yore? It was formerly AP and UP at the forefront of what we now affectionately call the fake news. UP hit the skids long ago having gone through bankruptcy a couple of times and currently exists as a small disseminator of quirky stuff. But while they were still trying to remain a viable news source, they did political hit pieces. The fun in looking back on the declarations of idgits from the past is really, really hard to pass up. So below you will see a pre 2016 election article from UP.

Need a teaser? How about,

With Hillary Clinton threatening to rack up the biggest electoral victory since George H. W. Bush obliterated Michael Dukakis in 1988, the scenarios for a comeback by the bilious billionaire are becoming increasingly far-fetched.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/Opinion/2016/08/17/From-Russia-with-love-an-October-surprise/7531471424582

Another mention of ole Happy, Bill Casey, above. Notice the article writer’s name? Walter Shapiro. He was a Dem operative. He was good at being wrong, a lot. Including about COVID from which he developed complications and cancer before dying last summer without getting a chance to see the “bilious billionaire” win his second election against a female Democrat candidate from hell. It was either that or TDS that caused his demise, not sure which.

So let’s look at the bio of the not so dearly departed who uttered that phrase.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Shapiro

Actually that was the first time I have ever seen the word “bilious” written or said. Seems it relates to a colorful fluid in the liver. I think it would make a good Wheatie word for Wolf to use in a daily.

😀

Oh, the irony. The Trump curse struck yet again.

Remember Wolf’s site rules. Note and label all AI. Please be kind to one another, we are all in this together. May God richly bless America and all of you.

Dear MAGA: 20260111 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.”


Sons of Abraham

In Galatians 3:7, Paul, writing to Gentiles, says, “Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham” (ESV). Here Paul advances the idea of a spiritual family in contrast to a physical family—a family sharing faith rather than a bloodline.

Obviously, Abraham had literal, physical descendants. It was they, through Isaac and Jacob, who became the nation of Israel, God’s chosen people. However, many in Israel did not follow God the way that they should have. At the same time, there were some Gentiles in the Old Testament, like Rahab and Ruth, who were adopted into the family of Israel. In the New Testament, many Gentiles are “grafted” into the tree of Israel through their faith in Jesus, the Messiah of Israel (Romans 11:17–20).

Throughout the New Testament, we see that being physical descendants of Abraham, although culturally important, counts nothing for eternity. When John the Baptist was preaching to the Jews, he warned, “Do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham” (Matthew 3:9). John’s point was that more important than their physical lineage was their spiritual lineage.

In John 8:32–41, Jesus is speaking to some Israelites who were by definition descendants of Abraham. However, Jesus says that their physical lineage is overshadowed by their negative spiritual lineage:

[Jesus said] “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

“They answered him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?”

Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. Yet you are looking for a way to kill me, because you have no room for my word. I am telling you what I have seen in the Father’s presence, and you are doing what you have heard from your father.”

“Abraham is our father,” they answered.

“If you were Abraham’s children,” said Jesus, “then you would do what Abraham did. As it is, you are looking for a way to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things. You are doing the works of your own father.”

Twice, Jesus agrees that they are Abraham’s children but implies they really have another father. In verse 44 He states it plainly: “You are of your father the devil.” Their spiritual lineage trumped their physical lineage. Whatever blessings they counted on as physical “sons of Abraham” were negated by their condition as spiritual “sons of the devil.” Entrance to the kingdom will not be based on physical DNA but on faith in the Son of God.

In Romans 9:6–7 Paul explains, “For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham’s children.” In other words, there are some people who are descendants of Israel (Jacob), but they are not part of the blessing of Israel. Likewise, there are some who are descended from Abraham but not “sons of Abraham” in a spiritual sense. Being a descendant of Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob is not enough. One must also now be a “descendant” of Christ. Of course, Christ had no physical descendants, but, at the end of Romans 9, Paul explains that those who have faith like Abraham had are made righteous before God, just as Abraham was. Those without faith in Christ, even if they are physical descendants of Abraham, are excluded; those with faith in Christ, even if they are Gentiles, are included as spiritual “sons of Abraham.”

In Galatians 3, Paul states it all plainly: “So also Abraham ‘believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.’ Understand, then, that those who have faith are children of Abraham. . . . So those who rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith” (Galatians 3:6–9). To be a “son” of someone is to have that person’s traits. To be the “Son of God” is to have God’s traits. To be a “son of Abraham” is to display a character quality of Abraham, namely, faith. Everyone who evinces faith is showing himself to be like Abraham in the sense that Abraham, too, had faith (Genesis 15:6).

Abraham heard from God and believed. Abraham’s faith caused him to leave everything behind and live the rest of his life as a stranger in a strange land. Abraham’s faith trusted that he and Sarah would have a child, even though that seemed impossible. Abraham’s faith was even willing to sacrifice the promised son, believing that God would raise him from the dead (Hebrews 11:9). Because of Abraham’s example of faith, the Bible points to him as the father of faith, as it were. All who similarly trust in the Lord are “sons of Abraham.” As Paul writes, “So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile . . . for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise” (Galatians 3:26–29).

God had promised Abraham that “all peoples on earth will be blessed through you” (Genesis 12:3). One way this prophecy is fulfilled is through the salvation that God grants to us, by grace through faith: “Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, ‘In you shall all the nations be blessed.’ So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith” (Galatians 3:7–9, ESV).

A children’s Sunday school song has the line “Father Abraham had many sons; many sons had Father Abraham.” It’s a truth of Scripture expressed simply in those lyrics and stated clearly in Galatians 3:29, “Now that you belong to Christ, you are the true children of Abraham. You are his heirs, and God’s promise to Abraham belongs to you” (NLT).
xhttps://www.gotquestions.org/sons-of-Abraham.html

2026-01-10, Simply Saturday.

Administrivia.

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

AI stuff posted, requires a link. Please use spoiler, for longer posts.

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America, needs to embrace the following TRUTH…

Speaking of embracing…

If nothing follows, KK below, Night Crew, you are on your own.

KK

Apologies.

Abbreviated post today. Likely worthwhile nuggets included. 🙂

On the move today, during what are normally my primary post preparation hours.

Later, time permitting I’ll post more stuff.

Fresh Stuff.  That may be worth a read, listen, watch or scroll on by.  🙂

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American Stories.  (A series)

The White House Salute to America 250 Task Force has partnered with Hillsdale College to provide a history series that tells the remarkable story of American Independence.

It will highlight the stories of the crucial characters and events that resulted in a small rag-tag army defeating the mightiest empire in the world and establishing the greatest republic ever to exist.

This is the story of America. This is our shared heritage and our proud destiny that will continue to lead us to unimaginable achievements in the centuries to come.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/america250

The Story of America: Story of the American Soldier


Articles, Xs…

Several nuggets worth paying attention to. Some, may be helpful in our future.

Iran stuff interesting.

Iran: Coms “down” & Military Shooting Population

But… “You can’t stop the Signal, Mal…”

So here’s the revolution, being streamed.

The “officials” have shut down all communications channels they control. Mobile Phones, Cellular Data, the internet, etc. Yet with Starlink running, Satellite telephones, undoubtedly some folks with HAM Radio gear and others with Meshtastic (and similar Mesh Networks), the signal is still getting out…

And this, boys and girls, is WHY you want to learn, set up, and use something like Meshtastic (or HAM Packet Radio if licensed) AND learn how to set up “WiFi Repeaters” AND for some of you, buy a StarLink Roaming system (even if you don’t activate it with more than the $5/mo standby account).

Because TPTB WILL Shut down your regular communications in any event they don’t like, or if the local Natural Disaster (be it hurricane or earthquake or fire or flood or…) is bad enough, nature may do it for them.

So here we have Tousi TV showing ongoing “People in the Streets” all around Iran, even as “Comms are down” officially. Plus he knows that his reporting is getting back into Iran (my guess would be via StarLink but even “sneaker net” delivering USB drives or “Pirate Boxes” with hard drive copies and local open Wifi can do it…). Even one person with a Satellite phone can download it, and them share it via Mesh Networks…

You just can’t stop the signal anymore.

Slow it. Make it harder. Only get it via “diffusion” from the Tech Nerds to their Inner Circle to the ROW…Sure. But it WILL flow.

Key Points from the video:

Massive people in the streets still.
IRGC has called out the Military to shoot their own citizens.
The Regime is in full panic now.
People are fighting back with what they have. Rocks, Fire, Cars…
There are pleas for Israel & USA (Trump) to help.
Trump has said if they start killing civilians they will be “hit hard”.
Video of it all IS getting out, here.
MSM is still hard in the dark about all this, or hiding the truth.

My “takeaways” from all this?

As noted above, have a Starlink Roam system AND other ways to do communications.
Governments (all of them) WILL attack their own people to save themselves.
In a real crisis, the Police & Military may, OR may NOT, be on “your side”.
Prepare BEFORE you need it.
“weapons Restrictions” are futile. ANYTHING can be a weapon, even a Toyota.
The USA is likely to end up in another “adventure” in Iran this time.
The Revolution will not be Televised, but it will be streamed.

Is this a CIA / TLA “assisted” “color revolution”? No way to tell… yet.

But it does look like “someone” is going after the weaker and oil rich BRICS+ members what with Venezuela in the bag. I’m not liking the way the USA is starting to act a whole lot like a Global Bully. OTOH, not keen on Communist Dictators and Religious Dictators either, so maybe it’s the only way to fix it.

https://chiefio.wordpress.com

BTW. For the likes of myself, perhaps a few others.

Meshtastic

An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices

I’ll look into this. Along with Wi-Fi repeaters. Dunno if they make sense for me. Gotta understand them first.

At this point, unlikely. Had Kakala won, or a like moron in the future, we could have serious challenges.

We “Dodged The Bullet,” with Elon buying X AND Trump winning.

Did I mention, abbreviated post today?


Yea, I gotta get one of these with the arrow pointing to 2026.

Boston Saturday

More Than a Feeling

Don’t Look Back

Smokin’

Night crew, your nickel.

KK

Health Friday 1.9.2026 Open Thread: The Baric Files, Part Four: EcoHealth Alliance; Wuhan Institute of Virology; Dr. Zheng-li Shi; the “Template Patent”

The vintage image of laundering for the featured image today is courtesy of Google Images.

Health Friday is a series devoted to Big Pharma, vaccines, general health, and associated topics. As today’s offering (as are all the posts of The Baric Files) is related to the lab-creation of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) virus, Yours Truly dedicates it all persons, of whatever age or location, who have suffered an infection of this virus and recovered (with or without post-infection-induced complications); or, who have died from complications resulting from, or associated with, a COVID-19 virus infection.

There are Important Notifications from our host, Wolf Moon; the Rules of our late, good Wheatie; and, certain caveats from Yours Truly, of which readers should be aware. They are linked here. Note: Yours Truly has checked today’s offering for AI-generated content. To the best of her knowledge and belief, there is none, except perhaps for AI-generated images and/or text within linked URLs.

Special Note regarding today’s offering: In no way is the following, or The Baric Files series in general in Health Friday posts, to be construed as a “character assassination”, or as an “indictment”, or as any other type of attack or smear on Ralph S. Baric, PhD, of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, or of his lab at the university. The linked scientific papers, images therefrom, and other information about Dr. Baric (such as his Curriculum Vitae [1]) are all available on the internet. The ideas and conclusions of today’s offering are by Yours Truly. There is a plethora of items related to Dr. Baric; Yours Truly will focus on some of them in each part of The Baric Files.

Special Note regarding Part Four through Part Six of The Baric Files: Starting with Part Four, the research journey of Dr. Ralph Baric, PhD, becomes more complex. What began in Part One with research into the Sindbis virus becomes more like an “octopus with many tentacles” by Part Four. Yours Truly will present some of the more important aspects of the now-augmented research journey of Dr. Baric. Please bear with me. Thank you.

Today’s offering is Part Four of six.

The Baric Files, Part Four: EcoHealth Alliance; Wuhan Institute of Virology; Dr. Zheng-li Shi; the “Template Patent”

To “lay the groundwork” for The Baric Files, Part Four, it is necessary to first make a slight “detour” regarding two things: the ACE2 receptor cells of the human body; and, the increasing focus of Dr. Baric’s experiments with SARS-CoV coronaviruses after the year 2002. Both are important components in his research journey.

The ACE2 receptor cells of the human body: The following article by Sriram, et al., from May 2020 discusses these cells [2]. Please see the screenshots from this article, below:

In his research journey, Dr. Baric performed experiments with ACE2 cells, and also produced review / analysis papers regarding ACE2 cells. One example is a 2009 paper by Baric and Graham [3] which discusses recombination experiments (which may be otherwise known as Gain-of-Function experiments) of the spike protein of coronaviruses and “cross-species transmission.” Please see the screenshots from this paper, below:

An example of the increasing work with SARS-CoV viruses: In his research journey, Dr. Baric also performed Gain-of-Function experiments with lung cells (which also included mention of shedding of the SARS-CoV virus via infected lung ciliated cells). An example of this work is a 2004 paper from Baric, et al. [4]. This paper was funded by the NIH. Please see the screenshots from this paper, below:

Ciliated cells in the lungs are cells that have tiny “hair-like” protrusions (cilia) that, among other functions, help to remove mucus.

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Now, on to EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology:

These entities were funded, in part, by NIH / NIAID: either, to disperse funds to other research entities (via EcoHealth Alliance); or, direct funding to other research entities for Gain-of-Function work (Wuhan Institute of Virology; the Baric lab at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.) These funds were to be used for performing Gain-of-Function experiments on coronaviruses. In 2018, the DEFUSE proposal by EcoHealth Alliance, which was presented to the United States Defense Department, specifically mentions the roles that Dr. Ralph Baric (at UNC) and that Dr. Zheng-li Shi (of the Wuhan Institute of Virology) would play [5]. Please see the screenshots below from the proposal; first, the Title page:

From Page one:

From Page two:

From Page four:

From Pages five and six:

One more item needs to be mentioned: SHC014. This “SARS-like coronavirus” infects horseshoe bats. It was discovered in Yunnan Province in Communist China. Please keep WIV1 and SHC014 in mind while reading on.

In Yours Truly’s opinion, the DEFUSE proposal reads like a “blueprint” for a kind of elaborate “grant funds-laundering plus experiment-laundering” scheme under the aegis of EcoHealth Alliance. The Defense Department did not pursue the proposal. Instead, it appears that NIH / NIAID stepped in and provided funding for both Dr. Baric and for Dr. Shi via EcoHealth Alliance. For example, the NIAID issued a statement in October 2021 regarding that agency’s awarding grant R01AI110964 for experiments leading to the lab-creation of SARS-CoV-2 to the Wuhan Institute of Virology [6]. Please see the screenshot from this statement, below:

Both the United States General Accounting Office (GAO) and USA Spending have documented the R01AI110964 award grant by NIAID to EcoHealth Alliance to be dispersed to the Wuhan Institute of Virology {7}, [8]. Notwithstanding the NIAID statement above, the agency used taxpayer money to help fund the lab-creation of SARS-CoV-2 via experiments performed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology — and used what appears to be a “grant funding-laundering” scheme to do this. Please see the screenshots below; the first, from the GAO report; the second, from the USA Spending report:

After the NIH / NIAID was caught funding Wuhan University and the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), the NIH grant R01AI110964 was terminated in 2022, with NIH citing “non-compliance” by the WIV in certain reporting areas [9].

However, it appears that Dr. Ralph Baric was one of the United States-based persons also using funds from R01AI110964. He, along with his co-authors (United States-based and overseas-based) collaborated on a paper, published on 3 September 2020, regarding the potential for SARS-CoV-2 “spillover” to wildlife [10].

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Dr. Zheng-li Shi

It appears that Dr. Ralph Baric had an exchange with Dr. Zheng-li Shi in 2013 at a conference [11]. It may be assumed that he had already known about her experiments with the SHC014 bat coronavirus. He asked her to send him some samples of this virus, which she did. Please the screenshots below from the above article:

It was after the 2013 exchange between Dr. Baric and Dr. Shi that the R01AI110964 grant was authorized in 2014 for SARS-CoV research at multiple facilities, including the Baric lab at UNC and at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (see above in today’s offering.)

It is interesting to note that EcoHealth Alliance (with, it appears, the consent and/or knowledge of Dr. Baric) was misleading the United States Defense Department regarding the DEFUSE Proposal that EcoHealth Alliance presented in 2018 [12]. It appears that EcoHealth was going to “emphasize” the United States portion of the SARS-CoV research that DEFUSE would fund, and “minimize” the involvement of Dr. Shi and the Wuhan institute of Virology. Please see the screenshots below from this article:

Dr. Zheng-li Shi denies ever actually working with Dr. Baric at his lab at UNC; instead, she sent the SHC014 samples and collaborated with Dr. Baric via other means (possibly, emails; written documents; and so on.) However, since Dr. Shi works at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (which itself is under the aegis of the Communist Chinese Peoples Liberation Army), it can perhaps be mentioned that “the truth is up for grabs” in this situation. These questions also arise: Were the students or others working at Dr. Baric’s lab who were from Communist China? If there were, is it possible that they were “information conduits” to persons working at the Wuhan Institute of Virology? Please see the screenshot from the True Story Award article by Jane Qiu [13] in February 2022, below:

Nonetheless, Dr. Shi and Dr. Baric were co-authors of the 2015 paper [14] which describes a “SARS-like cluster” of bat coronaviruses that could infect humans through zoonotic “leap “. This paper is sometimes cited as the “start of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.” Please see the screenshots from this paper, below; first, the Abstract; followed by two portions of the Main section; and, ending with the Acknowledgements:

The above 2015 Baric, Shi, et al., paper is Gain-of-Function on the SHC014 CoV bat coronavirus in order to render this virus possible to infect humans.

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The “Template Patent”

The 2015 Baric, Shi, et al., paper above was published on 9 November 2015. This would assume at least six months of work, data collection and analysis, writing the paper and submitting it for peer-review, and so on, prior to publication. The paper was submitted on 12 June 2015 and accepted on 8 October 2015.

The following are screenshots from US Patent 9884895B2 granted to Ralph Baric, et al., via the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill on 18 October 2016. This Patent was applied for by Dr. Baric, et al., on 20 March 2015.[15] Please see the screenshots from the Patent document, below: first, the Patent Title and US Patent Number listing; second, the Invention and timeline section; third, the general Description; fourth, from the Detailed Description of the Invention (examples: the continuous mention of the use of the 2b subdivision of SARS-CoV viruses in the lab-creation (chimeric creation) of the possible SARS-CoV-2 virus “template”, including SHC014 and WIV1; the use of the Venezuela Equine Encephalitis virus in the lab-creation of the possible SARS-CoV-2 virus “template”; the use of Virus-like Particles in the lab-creation of the possible SARS-CoV-2 virus “template”; fifth, descriptions of methods to treat, prevent, and/or protect against an infection by this lab-created chimeric virus; sixth, from the Examples section regarding the development of a “vaccine” against an infection of such a virus; and, several figures from the Patent document.

It is interesting to note in the above screenshot the language regarding the lab-creation of a potentially lethal virus under BSL2 laboratory conditions.

Fig. 2 from the Patent: the S1/S2 site:

Fig. 6 from the Patent: graphic of the chimeric spike:

Fig. 10 from the Patent: the chimeric spike with the Venezuela Equine Encephalitis added:

Yours Truly: the above last screenshot regarding “methods” for treatment / prevention / protection against, an infection by this possible SARS-CoV-2 “template virus”, reads like a possible “list of basic ingredients” for products such as the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” [by Pfizer-BioNTech and by Moderna]; and also the “inactivated protein subunit” COVID-19 “vaccine” [by Novavax].

Several questions arise: First, did Dr. Ralph Baric share with Dr. Zheng-li Shi any of the work involved leading up to the application for US Patent 9884895B2? Second, did NIH share any information from US Patent 9884895B2 with Pfizer-BioNTech, or Moderna, or the United States Defense Department, or all of these, after the Patent was assigned to NIH in May 2017? Third, exactly to whom at NIH was the Patent assigned in May 2017? Fourth, exactly who at NIH holds the Patent assignment currently,especially since the Patent is in force until the year 2035? Fifth, was any information that Dr. Baric may have shared with Dr. Shi involved in the “lab leak”/ intentional release, of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab in late 2019?

Thus far, it appears that the research journey of Dr. Ralph Baric, PhD, has progressed from the study of a mosquito-borne virus, to experiments with swine coronaviruses, to experiments with SARS-coronaviruses of various types, to the lab-creation of the “template virus” for SARS-CoV-2, to the Patent for the “Template Virus” for SARS-CoV-2; a Patent which also describes “methods” to treat, prevent, or to protect against infection, of such virus. It is Yours Truly’s opinion that, while the SARS-CoV-2 virus that was released into the world in late 2019 emanated from the lab of Dr. Zheng-li Shi at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the “template” for this virus was very likely constructed in the lab of Dr. Ralph Baric, PhD, at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and a United States Patent for this “template virus” was issued to Dr. Baric in 2016..

To be continued in Part Five.

THE COVID-19 “VACCINES” — ALL OF THEM — MUST BE REMOVED FROM THE MARKET AND FROM USE IN THE UNITED STATES. NOW.

THERE. MUST. BE. ACCOUNTABILITY.

THERE. MUST. BE. JUSTICE.

THERE. MUST. BE. TRUTH.

Peace, Good Energy, Respect: PAVACA

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References:

[1]: “Curriculum Vitae Ralph Baric.” https://sph.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/112/2016/09/CV_Ralph_Baric.pdf. September 2016.

[2]: “What is the ACE2 receptor?” Krishna Sriram, Paul Insel, Rohit Loomba. https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/science/051620/what-is-the-ace-2-receptor. 16 May 2020.

[3]: “Recombination, Reservoirs, and the Modular Spike: Mechanisms of Coronavirus Cross-Species Transmission.” Rachel L Graham, Ralph S Baric. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2838128/. 11 November 2009.

[4]: “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infection of Human Ciliated Airway Epithelia: Role of Ciliated Cells in Viral Spread in the Conducting Airways of the Lungs.” Amy C. Sims, Ralph S. Baric, Boyd Yount, Susan E. Burkett, Peter L. Collins, Raymond J. Pickles. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1316022/. December 2005.

[5]: “Project DEFUSE: Defusing the Thread of Bat-borne Coronaviruses.” Peter Daszak, Ralph Baric, et al. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21066966-defuse-proposal/. 2018.

[6]: SARS-CoV-2 and NIAID-supported Bat Coronavirus Research.” https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/coronavirus-bat-research. “Content last reviewed on October 20, 2021.” “EXP. DATE: 07/31/2028.”

[7]: “FEDERAL RESEARCH: NIH Could Take Additional Actions to Manage Risks Involving Foreign Subrecipients.” https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-23-106119.pdf. 14 June 2023.

[8]: “R01AI110964.” https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_R01AI110964_7529.

[9]: Letter from Department of Health and Human Services to EcoHealth Alliance, Inc. https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/NIH-EHA-Production-8.19.22.pdf. 19 August 2022.

[10]: “Possibility for reverse zoonotic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to free-ranging wildlife: A case study of bats.” Ralph S. Baric, Peter Daszak, Lin-Fa Wang, et al. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008758. 3 September 2020.

[11]: “Inside the risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan.” Rowan Jacobsen. https://www.congress.gov/117/meeting/house/114658/documents/HHRG-117-IF14-2022042. 29 June 2021.

[12]: “American scientists misled Pentagon on research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.” Emily Kopp. https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/american-scientists-misled-pentagon-on-wuhan-research/. 18 December 2023.

[13]: “Meet the Scientist at the Center of the COVID Lab Leak Controversy.” https://truestoryaward.org/story/313. Jane Qiu. 9 February 2022.

[14]: “A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence.” Ralph S. Baric, Zheng-li Shi, et al. https://doi.org/10.1038/nm.3985. Published 9 November 2015.

[15]: “Methods and compositions for chimeric coronavirus spike proteins.” Ralph Baric, Sudhakar Agnihothram, Boyd Yount. https://patents.google.com/patent/US9884895B2. Patent Application submitted, 3 March 2015. Patent Assigned to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 18 October 2016.

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Given the significance of Trump’s extraction of Maduro, I thought I would gather information we have not yet looked at.I am not going to try and do transcriptions since my back said NO! (An arthritic back and cold do not mix, darn it!)

I am not going to try and put much order in the offering either, although I am going to put the information I think most important first as well as the new material I snatched from the comments at the Badlands Media substack

I am going to start with “Susan Kokinda from Promethean Action” (H/T Scott)

scott467  January 5, 2026 15:24

While You Watched Venezuela, Trump Quietly Put Canada On Notice

While mainstream media focuses on regime change in Venezuela, this video reveals Donald Trump’s covert battle against the British Empire’s financial backbone.

Susan Kokinda from Promethean Action breaks down how Trump’s actions extend beyond traditional geopolitics, targeting the nexus of narcotics trafficking, terrorism, and offshore banking systems.

Discover the deeper implications of this fight, the role of Canada, and why even the British intelligence and John Bolton see this as a significant shift.”

I lied, here is a partial transcript:

3:20 …listen to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. He told us exactly what this is…

Is the United States now at war with Venezuela?

…It’s not a war against Venezuela. You cannot continue to have the largest oil reserves, in the world under the control of adversaries of the United States. Not benefiting the people of Venezuela, stolen by a handful of oligarchs around the world, including inside of Venezuela, but not benefiting the people of that country.

Did you catch that? He didn’t blame socialism. He didn’t blame communism. He blamed oligarchs and drug trafficking organizations. [Remember the CIA always used Communism as the excuse for regime change according to Colonel Towner. Changes that benefited the oligarchs and NOT the people.– GC]

Now, that takes us back to Trump and his targeting of Canada, which no one seems to want to talk about. Because when you put the words oligarchs and drug trafficking organizations in the same context, you aren’t just talking about the cartels in Mexico or Colombia. You’re talking about key characteristics of the British Empire, which is the epitome of oligarchy. Or to put it another way, the rule of the few, which is what oligarchy means… [Remember The Network of Global Corporate Control — GC]

The British Empire has been the most notorious entity in the world when it comes to making money off of drug trafficking, going back over 200 years, including the notorious opium wars of the 19th century. This has never stopped. It’s just taken a new form….

4:56

…It is run by the empire’s favorite central banker, Mark Carney, and it is the major political outpost for the crown in North America, used for drug trafficking, as the president mentioned, illegal immigration, and terrorism.

…Carney has actually facilitated the financing arm of the cartels in his former role as the head of the Bank of England…

8:49

If this is a war on drug trafficking organizations and oligarchs, as Rubio says, then it is automatically a war on the global banking system because you can’t separate the two. The target isn’t just jungle labs and drug boats. It’s the city of London.

Let’s remember where Venezuela is. It borders the Caribbean. What else is in the Caribbean? The origin point for the infamous system of offshore banking established directly by the British. Back in 1960, the largest banking houses in London, working in partnership with the government and the ex-checker, established 14 completely separate secret jurisdictions. These are the offshore banking centers that now hold between 50 and 75 trillion dollars with all 50 of the world’s largest banks operating within them. These offshore centers exist outside the control of sovereign governments. They’re secret, they’re unregulated, and they facilitate illegal activity. What we once had, a legitimate regulated banking system, has been transformed into a criminal enterprise.

Interestingly, the Russians have known this for years and have been more vociferous about it than any Western government. In a 2014 speech, Viktor Ivanov, then Russia’s top drug enforcement official, laid it out clearly in a Moscow conference. He said,

“This allows us to confidently assert that narco money is the foundation of the modern financial system. It is not surprising that during the first peak of the financial crisis of 2008 2009, Antonio Costa from the UN announced that the top banks in the world dumped in around $352 billion of narco dollars to use for interbank borrowing to address the critical shortage of liquidity. And he goes on to make clear that the global financial system needs drug money to survive. The very existence of the global financial bubble, he said, is based on precisely this opportunity for banks to attract liquid narco money. In fact,this garbage fertilizes the present economic system…

…Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant recently commented that 50% of his job involves issues of national security. Now, think about it. Since we started targeting drug boats and lighting up the communications channels of the cartels and their financiers, I bet Treasury Secretary Bessant has been just as busy as Pete Hegseth…

END TRANSCRIPT

At 12:40, she mentions CryptoRich and Tom Luongo so let’s see what they have to say.

Trump vs Venezuela – What We Are Not Being Told! | With EM Burlingame & Blaine Holt

In that substack Tom posts the full video + transcript .Tom also highlights the most important part and I will reproduce it here.

As Dr Burlingame explains:

We need to understand is that, just like Russia prior, 20-some odd years ago and China, now over the last 10 years – 10, 11, 12 years – we have now gone to war with the financialists and their Kill Chain

But you know, the point is is that the drug- and human trafficking trade and the flooding of South and Central Americans into our country, in the tens of millions is an intelligence operation on behalf of the financialists, headquartered out of Wall Street, London, Amsterdam, Venice, Rome, Switzerland…

Roughly $2 trillion a year in cash – cash – floods into the banking systems in the United Kingdom and the US and Continental Europe and is what’s been keeping the banks afloat since 1971, increasingly, since we went to fiat…

How do you keep the whole thing having the appearance that it’s working? You need a ever-larger amount of illicit funding. Human trafficking is taken off in the last 20 years to an unbelievable, unprecedented-in-history rate. Why? Because humans beings – and 19% of that’s for sex – the rest is still labor or organs, right?

Over 50% of it is still for labor slavery all over the world, including in Europe, including here, in its various forms. Humans, as Illicit commodity have the highest return, the highest margins of any illicit product in the world, even way above drugs, including fentanyl…”

Here is the Youtube: (27 minutes)

So who are CrypoRich’s guests?

General Blaine Holt is a retired one star General with numerous recent appearances on John Michael Chambers’ “Eyes on Gitmo” series:

WHY ISN’T TRUMP ARRESTING THE CLINTONS? Gitmo Panel Breaks Down Bondi, DOJ & Military Tribunals (1 hr 30 min)

First 25 minutes is about the Wiener laptop & then Tina Peters. There is a brief discussion of Venezula since the extraction of Maduro had not yet occurred. They then get into elections.

39 minutes. —  Ret. Lt. Col. Matt Mack: “You can make a change locally. Hand count ballots one day election. …I talked to some folks at DOJ yesterday, the CIA is the BANE of all of this. They have been thwarting Tulsi Gabbard, trying to stop all of this. John Ratcliffe what the hell are you doing!” You are not helping the president, you are being controlled by John Brennan’s people…” And he goes off on a rightous rant against the CIA.

41 minutes — Ret. Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt

We have the only President in history that has not been anointed by the RIIA, the Royal Institute of International Affairs — Chatham house? The point is, this is the war. A 5th generation war and it is about to go kinetic.
Because what happens is, and you saw this in Tahrir Square when you had Egyptians, who could not feed their kids any more and they watched them die. Then they went and grabbed a gun… they are pushing us to that place. If you do not believe me, that’s fine, Go to Ireland. Go to the UK. Go to France, Go to Spain. Ireland is on the leading edge of complete society break down. Because it wasn’t just election integrity that was the problem.

You have to go to the WHY! Why is there an election integrity problem. Why don’t our politicians want to see one paper ballot one vote. Why do our politicians want to protect illegal invaders that come to our country to destroy our culture…

Our government, the Swamp, all of its tentacles, the Congress, all of the lobbyists, industry, the corporatists, the private equity bankers, everybody who profits off this system. They are ALL in on it They are the Swamp and have no desire to solve any of Americas problems. BUT they will suck the crap out of them with their taxes and resources and in some cases steal their land and their money.

So here are the battle lines. It is We the People vs the Swamp and there is a global edition of this. It is we the people vs the globalists, the city of London kids the ones that make Elon Musk’s wealth look like middle class wealth…. If you want to solve this problem, you had damn well better know who your enemy is.

EM Burlingame – Rich says he was enlisted in the green berets, special forces and stuff like that. https://emburlingame.substack.com


A recent article from EM Burlingame just for Scott:

Make No Mistake: They Fear Tulsi Most of All

or: How the Estrogenic Empire Finally Met a Matriarch Who Remembers the Old Ways and Won’t Kneel

…She’s our compass from the World of Woman. Our surety. The unseen hand that ensures our wrath isn’t wasted.

And they, women, have left her exposed.
One woman.
One true matriarch of the old patterns against the massive festering swarm.
Where are her peers from the World of Woman?
We men can kill till the end of time, and never truly protect her.
Only women engaged in the wars of women, that ruthless all or nothing blood feud has waged since the beginning of time, can.

And that swarm… you feel it, don’t you? The estrogenic tide. The inverted, the resentful, the hollow men and their shrieking harlots and harpies. They sense her and they convulse. Because she’s the restoration. The return of the healthy, the whole, the fierce guardian of the hearth. The Matriarch. Her strength’s a mirror, and in it they see their own withered, poisoned, worthless souls.

They can’t bear it.

Their time’s ending. You hear me? Your time of poisoning the well, of sterilizing the spirit, of trading our children’s future for your comfort… it’s over!

We need more of her. A legion of such women. A sisterhood of shadows, rising not to be like men, but to be the unbreakable wall around the creche that men can’t form. The final line….

Guess, EM Burlingame does not know about us. 😂

Tom’s next article & Video:

Patrick Byrne: Venezuelan Intelligence Has Penetrated the White House at the Highest Levels

At the bottom it includes an open letter to Trump & the American People From: Major General Cliver Antonio Alcalá Cordones, retired Major General of the Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venezuela.

…Patrick Byrne is so frustrated about the Color Revolution being waged against America that he made the rounds on three shows yesterday and dropped a lot of bombs and he burned his cover, finally admitting that he’d been a CIA asset since the early 2000s, telling Emerald Robinson that he’d had a non-standard relationship with them until he started working for John Brennan around 2006 to become a “Tier One Intelligence Asset”.

Around 2010 or 2011, Barack Obama elevated him to a “National Intelligence Asset” and in 2016, he was handled by Peter Strzok and James Comey to bribe Hillary Clinton for $18 million, during the early phase of the Russia Hoax….


As one of the guys at Badlands said. “Once CIA ALWAYS CIA…. OR YOU ARE DEAD.” How much of what Byne says is truth, I do not know. A Limited Hangout will put out maybe 80% truth so they can wrap it around the poison pill they are delivering. Given that, I think the crap about Marco Rubio & Ric Grenell is just that CRAP!

I also think ‘they’ are trying to poison the well in regard to election fraud. Because without election fraud they are in DEEP kimchi.

An alternate view:

The REAL Reason Behind Why The United States Just Took Over Venezuela?

…Here’s what I think this move was all about….

ONE: You may not know this, but dating back to the Bushes, Venezuela became a huge CIA hub.

Literally a large chunk of what ails the world probably originated or had some times to our CIA in Venezuela…

TWO: It has long been rumored that a large part of the election rigging was “outsourced” to companies with operations in Venezuela.

Here are the 14 minutes that got Lou Dobbs kicked off Fox News because he dared to cover it:

How about President Trump himself telling you the same thing point blank?

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One commenters under the CryptoRich video, points to this info on the processing of light versus heavy crude oil to say the video is incorrect.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4753767-why-the-u-s-cannot-use-its-own-oil


Seems that is Bull Schiff according to this from The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers. (I wanted to correct it now since it looks like it may become a talking point.)

Heavy vs. light crude oil: U.S. refiners process it all

The global crude oil market provides refiners and crude oil producers the opportunity to buy and sell the many different qualities of crude oils produced around the world.

Two of the most important crude oil qualities are sulfur content and viscosity. Some crude oils are “heavy” or viscous, while some are “light” or more free-flowing. Some crude oils have high sulfur content, known in the industry as “sour” crude oil, and some contain much less sulfur and are considered “sweet” crudes. Heavy sour crude oil is more complicated to refine into lower-sulfur fuel and requires investment in additional process units. Many refineries in the United States have made the investment needed to process heavy sour crude oil into low-sulfur fuels but also have the flexibility to process light sweet crude oil.

“U.S. refineries can take in pretty much any kind of crude oil in the world and turn it into the cleanest-burning fuel that you can find on the planet,” says Stephen Fisher, a refining strategy advisor for BP….


Tore was also mentioned. Here is her current substack.

WHO was Buying Venezuela?

Her Name Was INGA: Venezuela and the War You Were Never Shown (that is everywhere)

“She” is everywhere and nowhere. “She” never signs her name, never takes the podium, never runs for office. “She” doesn’t overthrow governments—“She” reorganizes them.

Chaos is not the breakdown of the system. Chaos is the system operating as designed. What you are watching—across governments, economies, wars, elections, and institutions—is not failure, incompetence, or decay. It is coordination masquerading as disorder. At this scale, chaos does not emerge spontaneously; it is engineered, routed, financed, narrated, and maintained. Once you learn to read its patterns instead of its headlines, the illusion collapses, and a single truth becomes unavoidable: none of this is accidental.

I’ve watched this pattern long enough to know it isn’t theory. It’s method. My handle on X is Chaos Coordinator, and I wear it deliberately. I don’t pretend chaos isn’t happening—I map it, track it, and connect its patterns. I pride myself on coordinating chaos in the only way that matters: by observing how it is manufactured, routed, financed, justified, and repeated across borders. That is precisely why I’m qualified to speak about the global disorder we’re living through, because once you follow the money, the narratives, and the timing, it becomes impossible to believe any of this is accidental. Chaos at this scale requires planning, alignment, and maintenance—and I’ve spent enough time watching the machinery turn to know the difference between failure and design…

“She” is patient. “She” doesn’t need you to believe in “her”. “She” only needs you to keep arguing with your neighbor while she rearranges the board.

This is why the chaos feels synchronized. Why crises stack instead of resolve. Why accountability dissolves the moment you reach for it. Because the problem isn’t left versus right, war versus peace, or spending versus saving. The problem is that INGA has learned how to govern without ever appearing to govern at all….

This parallels what I have been thinking for years.

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A few comments from Badlanders


🇫🇷 TRUMPist de La Fayette 🇺🇸 (He is in France & his substack is https://substack.com/@trumpistdelafayette )

It seems President Donald Trump needed to meet rapidly Nicolas Maduro and his wife

He just said they had been exited from Caracas by US Special Forces…

I wonder what triggered this action at the worst moment (full moon) for the maximum efficiency of Special Forces, which do prefer NO MOON !

It resembles a powerful SHOW of power, very well staged…

Some useful links:

Official: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115830428767897167

https://www.twz.com/news-features/explosions-ring-out-across-caracas-as-u-s-special-ops-helicopters-fly-over-city

REUTERS has scenic pictures !

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/loud-noises-heard-venezuela-capital-southern-area-without-electricity-2026-01-03

The MSM and legacy conservatives News outlets (Breitbart…) are very late or fully absent to cover this matter!

H/T to Badlands Team for having told us this exiting of Maduro was pending since a few weeks !


[NOTE: Rybar is a Russian media organization previously funded by the deceased Russian mogul Yevgeniy Viktorovich. –GC]

Kristina Camp 

…This is translation from Rybar, “ misinformation” channel.

Here is a faithful English translation, keeping the original structure, tone, and emphasis:

📝 Who Will Get Venezuela’s Oil? 📝

On the main beneficiaries of the U.S. Armed Forces operation

The U.S. operation in Venezuela immediately sparked debate about the economic objectives of Trump’s team. Many even, for some reason, began calculating Venezuela’s oil reserves.

But the story is somewhat more complex than a simple “they attacked to seize the oil” narrative. It is rather about the redistribution of assets that are already under American control, [Actually City of London control -GC] primarily through JP Morgan, which we have written about in detail before.

🔻 What assets are we talking about?

▪️ The strikes were preceded by a wave of court hearings concerning one of the most important assets — CITGO, which is formally a subsidiary of Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA.

▪️ CITGO is an oil-refining company headquartered in Houston, Texas. 100% of its shares belonged to PDVSA. It owned three refineries, as well as dozens of other facilities and retail outlets.

▪️ For Venezuela, this structure ensured the refining of heavy oil extracted in Venezuela. Through the CITGO network, Venezuela had access to a supply channel and the largest U.S. market, could attract investment into the country, and mitigate the effects of sanctions.

▪️ After Venezuela and PDVSA defaulted, creditors began demanding repayment of debts, using CITGO shares as collateral. In 2018–2019, creditor lawsuits began, and in 2023, a court decision launched hearings on the sale of CITGO to repay debts.

At the same time, the company’s debts and the deal to sell it are fully controlled by JP Morgan.

The process remained stuck, as the acquisition of the assets faced potential legal consequences and overlapped with a personal conflict between JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon and Donald Trump.

Therefore, with the arrival of a new U.S. president, the struggle for the asset intensified. Dalinar Energy, which was supposed to buy CITGO and whose deal was overseen by JP Morgan, began losing ground, while the court supported an alternative bid from Amber Energy — a company linked to one of Trump’s allies.

🔻 How did this happen?

▪️ At the beginning of 2025, new auction rules were established. The court now evaluates the winner not only by price, but also by the probability of closing the deal, including approval from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and settlement of competing claims to the asset.

▪️ By spring–summer, everything seemed nearly decided: Dalinar Energy (created by Gold Reserve to acquire CITGO) was considered the favorite, having offered over $7.3 billion. By August, the process was said to be nearing completion.

▪️ But then, after Trump’s team intensified its activity on the Venezuela track, Amber Energy entered the scene (another company created specifically to acquire CITGO by Elliott Investment).

▪️ What was surprising was that Amber Energy offered only $5.9 billion, and after lengthy hearings the court ultimately approved the deal in favor of Elliott Investment’s subsidiary due to guarantees presented to OFAC that the transaction would be completed without costs or lawsuits.

🖍 Why are these events important?

The beneficiary of Amber Energy, which is claiming the assets, is Paul Singer — a major donor to the U.S. Republican Party and one of Donald Trump’s key sponsors in his presidential campaign. Given their ties, it would be entirely in Trump’s style to secure control over strategic assets and strike at competitors.

🚩 As a result, the White House moved to action: after losing CITGO, Venezuela is left with resources without distribution channels and oil without refining capacity, while the U.S. applies pressure on the “shadow fleet.” In the long run, this will lead Venezuela toward economic degradation and a weakening of its political position.

❗️ Amber Energy still has many legal issues to resolve, but today’s events in Venezuela will at least weaken the negotiating positions of Trump’s opponents at JP Morgan and corporations linked to the bank. Venezuelans, meanwhile, will simply be presented with the fact of revised agreements.

Now isn’t that an interesting Factoid? JP Morgan (well connected to the Rothschilds) was trying to grab CITGO and Trump seems to have snatched the prize out of their hands. 😂

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Moon of Alabama:

Trump Abducted Maduro But Did Gain Nothing

Or maybe the point was just to show off what the Trump administration might do to others:

In 1992, American conservative writer Michael Ledeen reportedly said: “Every 10 years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business.”

Actually, such gratuitous demonstrations of might betray the fear that American world power is slipping. Beating up a weaker opponent to prove your strength is the action of an insecure bully.

Venezuela is likely to welcome U.S. oil companies which are willing to invest in the country. But it will be nothing like the bonanza Trump seems to envision. Venezuelan oil is heavy and costly to retrieve. One needs dilution fluids or steam to bring it to surface and to transport it to markets. With global oil prices expected to stay around $50 per barrel there is little incentive for the necessary multi-billion investment.

I expect that after this weekend’s action nothing will change. The U.S. does not want to govern Venezuela. It doesn’t want to put boots on the ground. The blockade, an act of war, will continue for a while but at some point the ships will have to go back to their harbors. As there is nothing to win from this the Trump administration will move towards its next target.

Meanwhile Israel is getting ready for another strike on Iran. The U.S. is repositioning troops to the Middle East while Iran prepares to hit back with all its might.

In a week from now Venezuela will likely be out of the headlines while business as usual continues.


I think he missed the election theft part of the story not to mention the money laundering and human trafficking.

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CRAP!!!
H/T patfrederick


However on second thought, has Maduro already made a deal and that is why he is being let off the hook via NY southern district? How machiavellian, keep your word with Maduro AND smear NY southern District, all in one act.

How US used 40,000-ton warship named after famous WWII battle to transfer Maduro


…Maduro was detained in Caracas along with his wife, Cilia Flores, and flown by helicopter to the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima before being transferred to the United States, according to a statement posted on X by US Attorney General Pam Bondi… 


Catching Maduro outside his ‘safe room’ and a trip on the open seas (not a plane) seems to indicate that Maduro was interrogated and records were recovered.

What a bang of a start to the New Year!

2026.01.06 Daily Thread – American Stories: When in the Course of human events – Finale

I begin by going back to the opening Part of this series that was posted almost one year ago today. I had no plan to time this out in the way it has, in fact, when I started this series it was being done on random days, not as a Daily Opener. Then Gail suggested I do so to pick up the author slack and Wolf gave the approval. So here we are.

This series started because it was clear to me along the way that God was delivering We the People from evil once again. That understanding crystalized at Butler, PA. Then on November 5, 2024, Donald J. Trump and JD Vance won the election in convincing fashion even with the commies cheating their azzes off.

At various points in American history there have been inflection points when God’s hand has pulled us back from the brink of total destruction while using committed American patriots equipped for the task to do so. I have no doubts that He did it again that day in Butler as well as election day. Since that latter point the transformation that began and remains on-going has been a whirlwind that is tightly orchestrated. In my opinion this did not happen by good fortune; it was predetermined by God while being guided, planned and implemented by His instruments and servants.

As I finish this series I have grown to realize that I do not agree with all of the words and actions of any one patriot in our entire history. There is always something they did or said that I wish was different. I know I am not alone in that realization. I know I am not alone in the realization that there are many things I wish I had said or done differently as well. All of the giants from our founding forward were simply flawed men and women who gave their all to the cause of freedom and liberty. They did their best and that is all anybody could ask of them… or of us today.

I am also struck by a simple introspective question we all should ask. Am I part of the solution or the problem?

Thinking things through before speaking or acting would eliminate a lot of issues. Which is what our founding fathers did in the final Declaration of Independence document. They literally kept all of the windows and doors closed in the middle of summer in the assembly room of Independence Hall to insure secrecy. To be sure there were many disagreements, much pompousness, misunderstandings and so on within the human condition of those involved. However, they came together in consensus agreement on the final content of the document and signed their names affirmatively; while knowing they were committing treason and were subject to death. They knew they were not only endangering themselves, they were doing so to their families, communities, and the colonies themselves.

They knew the new nation would be totally dependent upon God’s protection. When you study their letters and statements they say it openly. At minimum 50 of the 56 were professing Christians with the others being deists or drifting between the two beliefs, but who also believed in a Creator as the Declaration document stated.

That is the context for the colonists’ words and actions. God or a Creator was their source of authority to do and say what they did in the Declaration of Independence. The British believed that the Crown and Parliament were the established authority of the colonies.

I guess we know who won that question of authority. A higher calling than one of man tends to do that.

As a result of the passionate engagement of patriots then as well as similar commitments down through the years; it is still true today. When you hear or see anything to the contrary you know it is false and intentionally misleading. That should alert you to a possible seditionist or traitor if not proven to be just an ignorant statement.

The founders took courage and did what had to be done to be free, but not before they invited God/Creator into their process and acknowledged their dependence upon His providence and will. They made a one way, front loaded covenant with God/Creator. So what has God/Creator done in response?

We are still here and the most powerful, influential nation on earth despite our missteps and sins. We just need to refocus, clean the decks, and get better at our mission. A reminder…

A Look Back

From my first January 5, 2025 post:

…I contend that it is that same American spirit that charges through the words of the Declaration of Independence that led to the greatest, ongoing experiment in national governance in world history. It is a spirit that is very much alive and expressed by the massive America First MAGA movement today, whose spirit is spreading like wildfire worldwide.

Not all of the 56 signers were present during the discussions and negotiations that surrounded the production of the document. They signed on anyway. They knew what was at stake and agreed in principle with the contents of the document. In this series we are going to dig down into understanding their roles and who many of them were as human beings. We need to personally identify with their commitment such that we may be emboldened to go and do likewise. This series will focus on many of these brave patriots.

Hint: They acted a lot like many America First MAGA patriots do today. Quite a few were from wealth and dignified. A handful were truly messed up people. Others were heroic and inspirational. Some were bombastic and others were pensive. A large number were highly educated and accomplished. Others were less educated, yet enlightened and committed to the cause. Blended together they gave us the foundational start for a truly blessed nation.

At the time I wrote that statement I had no way of knowing how applicable it would be now that we have arrived at the end. Simply, my heart had been stirred to tell these stories here on the Qtree, where patriots are many.

Have you noticed what has happened internationally with the MAGA movement in the year since I wrote those words above? It became a worldwide movement that has resulted in America gaining great respect, $18 trillion in investments, and world peace breaking out in unheard of places between long term enemies. The old order is being destroyed before our eyes. They fight back harshly because their self constructed evil world is being attacked. When we sift past the propaganda and fear porn we realize their takedown is all being handled systematically and with truth, which is further evidence of God’s hand guiding our nation.

I brought this forward again because when we read the signers’ stories, we see that our MAGA elected officials are similar in so many respects. None of the current version are perfect, but there is little doubt they are giving their all for We the People as the patriots did then. There were counter operations and enemies of state acting as black hats back in their day just as there are today. Nothing was easy then, nothing is easy now.

We need to take time to celebrate the wins and patriots who brought them, discuss the parallels between then and now as well as identify the sometimes hidden black hats and seditious activities that undermine the American Experiment. We already know most of the traitors.

7th/8th Grade American History – A Lesson Learned

I have posted previously that I homeschool a couple of subjects with our Grandson #1 who is a 6th grader. We share a love for history. His focus and intensity rises when we study the assigned material and he asks really thoughtful questions. Before this Series on the signers I would not have been able to answer some of them. A handful of the answers to those questions are different and contrary to what the course curriculum and even some alleged historical accounts provide. We do not shy away from discussing those differences.

An example from a past subject of a Series I did on here is the Great Chicago Fire accounts from over 150 years ago in 1871. Nearly all current historical accounts of the event still say that bad ole Elsie the cow caused it by kicking over a lantern in the O’Leary’s barn as I discussed in the Fire! series. However, even AI calls that a myth now. Yet, the authorities of that day made the O’Leary’s the scapegoats without ever charging them. That continued to be the story for over a century until they were absolved by city leadership three decades ago long after the couple was dead. Yet, virtually none of the current historical accounts we reviewed noted the owners and cow were absolved from the accusation. The curriculum we used still showed it the former way. Since that curriculum is used by over a million kids, well, you get the picture. Ridiculous.

Shifting back; with the subject course curriculum provider regarding the Boston Massacre they gave a stock answer that did not rock the boat. Instead of accepting on face value we researched and discussed the actual documentation and evidence to base our own conclusions. When we do this sometimes they are different, sometimes they are similar. But the point I am teaching #1 is to do the work himself with adult assistance as needed and never accept anything of substance at face value. It teaches him critical thinking in all things.

As an example as it applies to this Finale of the series, some founding fathers, especially those in the Sons of Liberty, used the awful event of the Boston Massacre to grow the discontent and move the people more toward the independence movement (thankfully). However, many of the independence supporting descriptions in print, art and verbally left out the violent mob aspect that threatened the British soldiers. In our study the curriculum portrayed these subject colonist depictions as patriot “propaganda” and provided a definition of what propaganda is.

This was an unfortunate illustration. The curriculum providers either do not know or do not want to present the truth. To call the depictions propaganda is over the top. In reality, we only know what others from the period and soon after have provided. The truth is what it is and there is no consensus, just narratives about the actual events subject to perception of the presenters and perspectives of the readers. There were dozens of eye witness statements in the trials and even they could not get their stories straight. Some of the “witnesses” could have been operatives on either side as there were over 400 people present in the chaotic event. There is no way to know for sure and examine deeper because they are dead.

As a developer of curriculum, historian or teacher you should never call historical representations as being propaganda without proven evidence. It reveals a bias when you do. In the real world of education in America we know great bias exists, so I was not the least bit surprised. Most folks realize that the leftists love to rewrite history. They make sure they hire and appoint people of their political and cultural persuasions into roles that influence school text. When proven wrong most shrug it off as being not important. If there is one thing we all have learned together on the QTree; schools and education sources are filled with their own propaganda, outright lies, and agendas.

They were not done. The only victim of the shooting mentioned in the curriculum account was a man of color, Crispus Attucks, who was the first person shot for throwing projectiles at the soldiers. Apparently Attucks was a freed man, a mulatto. He was one of eight people shot, five of whom died from their wounds. None of the other names of victims were listed in the curriculum’s account. The objective of the curriculum writer for noting the name and skin color of the person is totally out of context with the historical account, but reveals their bias. I informed #1 that none or all of the victims names should have been listed without skin color because the color of one’s skin was not relevant to the event. Mr. Attucks was not shot for having a different skin color than others; he was shot for throwing crap at British soldiers who did not obey orders and military protocol. It was good they asked no questions about Attucks on the quiz/test.

The propaganda discussion in the curriculum turned into the opening I needed to explain how #1 should “think things through” and come to his own conclusions, even if he needed to answer any quiz/test questions as the material had been presented fo scoring purposes. This taught him to become more discerning about what he read or heard. He could then be content knowing the truth even if the material misrepresented or outright lied. The smirk on #1’s face told me he got what I meant. Yes, a child with my genes in him. 😂

Which is what all of us patriots have learned over the past decade that Donald J. Trump has been trying to lead our country. Take NOTHING at face value. Research and test it. Quit accepting other viewpoints who try to influence as fact without verification and evidence. instead, look for the motives of the presenters and influencers first.

The actual results of the Boston Massacre trials are documented. The commanding officer of the soldiers was ruled not guilty and it seems to be a correct verdict. Many in the crowd testified to not hearing him give a command to fire and they also observed him standing in front of the soldiers, which he would never do if he wanted them to shoot. These witnesses were generally not loyalists, they were part of the mob that generally did not like the British military at all. Six of the eight soldiers were also found not guilty, which seemed unlikely since 8 colonists were hit and 5 eventually died from the musket fire. But there was insufficient proof to convict. Two were found guilty of manslaughter due to overwhelming witness testimony and evidence they fired their muskets. However, their punishments were only a brand on one thumb of each person’s hand. The curriculum portrayed them guilty of only causing accidental deaths. Nope. They had to know better than that since the convictions are in court documentation and first person accounts. That was intentional misinformation. So I corrected it with #1 and fortunately there were no questions on the quiz/test.

However, their very real propaganda will be accepted by thousands of home schooled students and their parents who did not do the work to check it closer. But as for me and my house…

As those knowledgeable of the event would know, John Adams, was the lead lawyer who represented the British soldiers. He was excellent at his craft. He accepted the case when all others were reluctant to do so. The royal Governor Hutchison was trying to defuse the heated emotions and independence movement. So, Hutchison delayed the trial and encouraged Adams to take the case as they had a good relationship. John Hancock urged Adams to accept as well to calm the patriot waves. Adams agreed and the result we now know. The curriculum portrayed it as Adams having sterling, personal moral reasons of not wanting anybody to go without legal council and doing the right thing no matter the consequences.

Yeah, OK.

The truth is that Hutchison could have used loyalist lawyers to defend or not even charged the soldiers. But he knew the situation was a powder keg ready to explode. So convincing a respected colonist lawyer with both loyalist and independence minded connections and clients to take the case that softened the blowback made more sense. Hutchison accomplished his goal by using Adams.

Adams accomplished his of keeping the British from using even more violence to quell the unrest than the colonists were prepared to experience. Based on his comments afterwards he knew the verdicts would not reflect the complete truth that the British soldiers murdered 5 and wounded 3 other unarmed colonists indiscriminately. Incited to do so or not, the British soldiers’ responses were way over the top. Two being convicted of lesser charges was at least something to offer while buying time for his cousin, Samuel Adams, and the other patriots of the Sons of Liberty like Paul Revere to gather more support for the movement.

John Adams was not in that hell raising patriot group. He preferred to work on the independence issues he supported through the law and politics. He really was not a man of the people anyway, he felt more comfortable with the elites and aristocrats. His success in the defense of the defenseless kept his hands clean with the British authorities and military. That would prove useful for his continued acceptance in their circles for intel as the events unfolded.

When the Boston Tea Party subsequently took place, we know that a large number of well armed and capable British soldiers were there and observing, yet, took no action against the fake Indians dumping 342 valuable crates of tea from three British ships into the Boston Harbor. The troops wanted no part with the even larger hostile crowds who were present like those that had been faced with the Boston Massacre. Their lack of response also reflects Hutchison having already developed a plan for addressing future unrest that did not include violence if it could be avoided. That plan hit the colonists in the wallet and involved recovery of lost taxes, making the mercantilists whole for the damages, and even more oppression from Parliament against them.

All of these historical characters had a part to play. Only they would know the truth of what they did and they are not talking because they stopped breathing long ago. We just know the narrative taught in schools and in various curriculum is often shallow and sometimes manipulated. That makes them susceptible to fake or incomplete narratives. The documents and evidence from first hand accounts combined with critical thinking works better.

The MAGA movement will be written about one day as the shot heard around the world for our period in American history as well as world history. At least it will in the reports and stories of honest authors. After that the propaganda and lies may be used to deflect from its true value and effect. However, the trajectory of world and human history made a marked turn that cannot be hidden and the truth will be known to those who choose to pursue it. You know it from the huge international investment into America and the major changes in dozens of aligned nations around the world. That cannot be hidden – it is a parting of the sea type change.

Just like the long term effects of the Boston Massacre and Boston Tea Party. Once again, history becomes our guide.

Something About Those Words…

I hope your heart quickens as mine does when you read the following words once again;

In Congress, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness...

That part in bold stands out to me. What Thomas Jefferson and the founding fathers saw in those days 250 years ago is what We the People of the MAGA movement see today. It is our moral and legal authorization to do what we have been doing.

Exciting times. As Thomas Jefferson said in my two favorites quotes from him,

“I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”

“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”

And so both will continue. God bless America.

Please remember Wolf’s rules for our community. In general that means to be respectful to each other and to pull no shenanigans that your mom might find offensive or otherwise cause jail time. That said, free speech is honored here.

Please note a name change for this series next week. Although it started as “American Stories: When in the Course of human eventswith an emphasis on the signers of the Declaration of Independence. it is now time to move on. There are many more stories to tell.

Be blessed and go make something good happen!

Dear MAGA: 20260104 Open Topic

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

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We have a policy of mutual respect, shown by civility. Civility encourages discussions, promotes objectivity and rational thought in discourse, and camaraderie in the participants – characteristics we strive toward in our Q Tree community.

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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.”


Men & Women Equal?

Yes, men and women are equal in God’s eyes in that both men and women are created in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1:27). Men and women are also equally sinners in need of grace and salvation. Redeemed men and women are equally forgiven, equally indwelt by the Holy Spirit, equally invited before the throne of grace, and equally heirs of God (Galatians 3:28).

In Genesis 2:18 the Lord says, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” After God creates the woman from Adam’s rib (Genesis 2:21–22), Adam proclaims, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man” (Genesis 2:23). We then read the first description of marriage: “That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh” (Genesis 2:24). Everything about this passage points to the fact that men and women are equal in God’s eyes. The woman was “suitable” for (not inferior to) the man, she was created from him, and she becomes “one flesh” with him in marriage.

Nowhere does Scripture imply that women are unequal to men in God’s eyes or that they should have less significance than men. Men and women have different roles in the home and in the church, but different roles do not indicate differing worth. A screwdriver has a different role in the carpenter’s shop than a hammer, but that doesn’t mean one tool is more valuable than the other. The roles of men and women are divinely designed to be complementary.

People who believe men and women are not equal in God’s eyes often have a misunderstanding of God’s Word. First Peter 3:7 says, “Husbands . . . be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.” Some readers latch on to the word weaker and get offended. But what does it mean that the wife is the “weaker partner”? It has nothing to do with her mental or spiritual capabilities. It simply refers to the fact that a woman has a different physical makeup from a man. Men are naturally stronger, and, from the beginning of time, men have been the primary providers and protectors of their families. We find an allusion to this in God’s curse on Adam: “Through painful toil you will eat food from [the ground] all the days of your life” (Genesis 3:17). God’s curse on Eve explains the age-old battle of the sexes: “Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you” (verse 16), or, as the NLT has it, “You will desire to control your husband, but he will rule over you.” The harmonious relationship between the man and woman was broken by sin, and God predicted a new dynamic would emerge. But, even in Eve’s curse, there is no hint of her inferiority or inequality.

People who take umbrage with Peter’s mention of a woman’s physical weakness completely miss the rest of 1 Peter 3:7, which clearly says that the husband and wife are spiritually equal. They are “heirs” of the “gift of life” together. A wife should be treated with “respect,” and a husband who fails to honor his wife will find that his prayers are “hindered.” The Amplified Bible renders the verse this way: “You husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way [with great gentleness and tact, and with an intelligent regard for the marriage relationship], as with someone physically weaker, since she is a woman. Show her honor and respect as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered or ineffective.”

Another passage that some people can get confused about is 1 Timothy 2:11–15, “A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety” (cf. 1 Corinthians 14:34). In the church, women are not to exercise spiritual authority over men; that much is clear. The reasons for God’s directive for the church are also clear: the order of creation and the deception of Eve. Men, not women, are to be pastors; this difference in role, however, has no bearing on a woman’s intrinsic worth before God. A quarterback may call the plays on a football field, but that doesn’t make him any more valuable as a person than a tight end.

Those who focus on what women cannot do in 1 Timothy 2 often overlook what men cannot do in the same passage. Men will never experience the blessing of a life forming inside of them. Women are the only ones who can bear children (verse 15). The fact is, men and women have different, God-given roles, and those roles should be celebrated and assumed with thanksgiving.

Just because God has given men the spiritual leadership roles in the church doesn’t mean men are superior or that they have a special standing with God. It does mean that men bear a greater responsibility for the condition of the church and the family. Concerning the marriage relationship, 1 Corinthians 11:3 says, “The head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.” Men will answer to God for how they lead their families and the church.

Are women and men equal? In some ways, yes, and, in some ways, no. Spiritually, men and women are absolutely equal. Physically, they are obviously not equal. God has chosen distinct roles for both men and women that they may complement each other in a way that most glorifies Himself. Women may be fragile in some regards, but so are many things that are most precious to us. Men and women should work together, each fulfilling their respective, distinct roles, for the common goal of glorifying God.
xhttps://www.gotquestions.org/men-women-equal.html


Children of God

Before the coming of this faith, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until the faith that was to come would be revealed.  So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith.  Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian. So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.  There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. (Galations 3:23-29)

2026-01-03, Simply Saturday.

Administrivia.

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

AI stuff posted, requires a link. Please use spoiler, for longer posts.

Wolf Speak.  No obnoxious behavior towards fellow QTreeper(s). Freedom of Speech is honored here QTree.  Every poster, IS personally responsible for what they post. 

America, needs to embrace the following TRUTH…

Speaking of embracing…

If nothing follows, KK below, Night Crew, you are on your own.

KK

Fresh Stuff, which may be worth a read, listen, watch, or scroll on.

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Roller coaster continues.

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American Stories.  (A series)

The White House Salute to America 250 Task Force has partnered with Hillsdale College to provide a history series that tells the remarkable story of American Independence.

It will highlight the stories of the crucial characters and events that resulted in a small rag-tag army defeating the mightiest empire in the world and establishing the greatest republic ever to exist.

This is the story of America. This is our shared heritage and our proud destiny that will continue to lead us to unimaginable achievements in the centuries to come.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/america250

The Story of America: To Provide a Navy


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Articles, Xs…


Unrestrained ignorance on the left coast (CA, OR & WA)…

Excerpt from Chiefio’s latest.

In other news: California Oil Refineries are going off line now. One has dedicated jet fuel pipelines to SFO San Francisco Intl. Airport and Travis AFB (the “biggy” serving the Pacific). From where they will source fuel, and how to ship it from “wherever” TBD. (I’d suggest building a tanker unloading dock at the old refinery and feeding fuel from ships directly into the pipelines – but I’m sure the California Commissions strangling the economy won’t allow that and will just insist they swap over to Battery Electric Airplanes…) I can count at least 4 Gang Green commissions that will demand jurisdiction. Cal. Coastal Commission, SF Bay and Water commissions, probably the Redwood Commission, and CARB Cal. Air Resources Board. Also a few Unions, the State Legislature, and more… So watch this space for an answer- in about 20 years…

Sidebar: Oregon closed their last oil refinery in about 1995 so get 100% of their gasoline via a pipeline from Washington State… that is being talked up for closure… and where the refineries that feed it are talking about shipping gasoline to California instead (who will now be 20% short…). The entire West Coast is going to demonstrate what a Green Dream Life Without Oil! is like. Starting January 2026.

https://chiefio.wordpress.com



Great news. ht TB Emphasis mine.

BREAKING: Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Strikes Down California’s Ban on Open Carry – Trump Judge Issues Scathing Opinion

A US Appeals Court on Friday in a 2-1 decision struck down a California law banning people from openly carrying firearms.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals cited a 2022 Supreme Court ruling and said California’s ban on open carry is unconstitutional.

US Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke, a Trump appointee, wrote the majority opinion and blasted the state of California for banning open carry for 95% of its population.

California banned open carry on all counties with populations greater than 200,000 – which is 95% of the state.

In 2019, Mark Baid filed a lawsuit against the California Attorney General challenging the state’s ban on open carry.

Judge VanDyke, a known gun enthusiast, said California’ ban on open carry is unconstitutional.

“For most of American history, open carry has been the default manner of lawful carry for firearms. It remains the norm across the country—more than thirty states generally allow open carry to this day, including states with significant urban populations,” VanDyke wrote.

VanDyke said many states allow open carry and California has a history of open carry.

“Similarly, for the first 162 years of its history open carry was a largely unremarkable part of daily life in California. From 1850, when California first became a state, until the Mulford Act of 1967, public carry of firearms in California (open or concealed) was entirely unregulated. And when California first deviated (or considered deviating) from this practice, its reasons for doing so were less than morally exemplary,” VanDyke wrote.

“In our Nation’s history and tradition, open carry was widely recognized as being central to the Second Amendment right,” VanDyke added. “A ban on that which is at the core of the Second Amendment is not a ‘minimal burden’ on the Second Amendment right.”

More…

Genocide in America. And, predominately White countries.

Clandestine.

The Dems are Engaged in Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing

I think there’s a strong case to be made that the Dems are engaged in genocide and/or ethnic cleansing.

They flooded our nation with illegals, encouraged Americans to abort their babies, and destroyed all of our customs via Left-wing policies.

They are trying to replace our population with low-IQ immigrants who don’t speak English and have no idea they are being enslaved. They are trying to eliminate the American People as we know it, particularly the White People, because we stand in the way of their hostile tyrannical takeover. They are taking our tax dollars and using them to import foreigners to replace us, because we are much more difficult to rule than Somalis.

People love to throw around the word genocide, but I’d argue the real genocide is happening here in America, and in all predominantly White nations around the world.

https://bioclandestine.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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Ass wipe SlimeOilies are in for an ass whipping.

Trump, via bully pulpit, JD, DOJ, FIB, SoS, IRS, HLS, are gonna be busy. Deportations, Green cards revoked, citizenship cancelled, visas cancelled, clawed back federal funds…

Activated activist judges busy. DOJ lawyers busier. Epstein files, well, they can’t be the top priority.

TDS AND DumRats true to form, will be on the wrong side of another 80/20 issue. More likely a 95/5 issue.

The somali tiktoker who mocked Americans had a meltdown over Elon Musk and appeared to threaten his life: “I wouldn’t worry too much about him. He about to die.” .

@FBI should definitely look into this

Musk. Then it is war.

Trump continues to take a chain saw to immigration. Winning.

Trump Ending Automatic Green Cards for Migrants Marrying U.S. Citizens

Immigration lawyers are warning that federal agencies are increasingly skeptical when migrants claim to have legitimate marriages with Americans.

The policy shift comes after President Donald Trump’s deputies began cracking down on rising rates of marriage-related visa fraud by migrants who pay Americans for temporary marriages.

While marrying a U.S. citizen has never been a locked-in guarantee that a migrant would be issued a green card, marriages have previously offered a huge boost to a migrant’s request for legal status. But that may be changing as immigration attorneys are finding that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) are giving such marriages much closer scrutiny than ever before.

More…

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/01/02/trump-ending-automatic-green-cards-for-migrants-marrying-u-s-citizens

STEPHEN MILLER SAID IT PERFECTLY: “Look how powerful the Democrat Party became in Minnesota once they flooded it with 100,000 Somalians!” “Once the elections were decided by clan rivalries and ethnic feuds, once that happened, the Democrat Party became permanently powerful in Minnesota. They became permanently powerful in the Twin Cities.” “When you see the state of Somalia, that’s what they want for America. Because it’s easier to rule over an empire of ashes than it is for the Democratic Party to rule over a functioning, Western, high-trust society with a strong middle class.” “That’s their model for America, to make the whole country into a version of Somalia. And everything they do gets down to that.” This is a generational betrayal. We need less Somalia and more America.

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This analysis is a good example of what has really been bugging me lately. It’s been one year. Trump II is in the process of paradigm-shifting victories on immigration, presidential control over the executive, and the enforcement of the CRA against the many illegalities of the racial reckoning. It has demonstrated willingness to cut higher Ed’s federal lifeline to force institutions to their knees.

It’s forced the legal definition of sex back into the law. It is rooting out billions in public support for the institutional leftist machine.

Progress in each of these areas is tangible, I can list cases, firings, funding cuts, and lawsuits, not just rhetoric.

And yet people whine because the world hasn’t been completely and utterly transformed in a mere 360ish days, and there’s still work left to do. What did you expect? 20M deportations overnight? Did it occur to you that that’s a massively difficult logistical feat to organize, and would take some time even if they WEREN’T fighting a recalcitrant system? Did you think there really was a fix everything switch?

Some parts of the “online right” have an even more magical view of governance than the oldhead Washington Generals chattering classes.

In my book, this administration has racked up more critically important wins than any R administration in my political memory, and I think the case can be made it’s the best R administration for the right in 100 years.

HOLY SMOKES. The Democrat Governor of Maine gave state contracts to a Somali NGO that REGISTERED MIGRANTS TO VOTE in the 2022 election… …that Somali NGO has been caught committing Medicaid fraud. WOW.

“Janet Mills, when she was forming the Office of New Americans as a migrant resettlement agency for the state of Maine, picked a woman named Eklis Ahmed, who is a former employee of Gateway Community Services.” “Gateway received many no-bid contracts from the Mills administration for the purposes of doing community health outreach work, which involved registering migrants to vote in the 2022 election.” “So this is not just any run-of-the-mill organization that was fraudulently billing Medicaid, allegedly. It’s one that was very, very well tied and connected to the Maine Democratic Party and remains tied to the Democratic Party.” – Steve Robinson, Editor-in-Chief of the Maine Wire “It’s not just a Somali Medicaid fraud, it’s a Somali Democrat Medicaid fraud, because this is an organization with elaborate and extensive ties to the Maine Democratic Party, including Governor Janet Mills and her administration.” This is seismic. It’s not just Minnesota. It is everywhere.

UFB that sanctuary cities, states even exist in America.

JUST IN: New Hampshire Governor Announces “Sanctuary Cities are Officially BANNED” After Anti-Sanctuary City Laws Took Effect on Jan 1

Anti-sanctuary city laws took effect in New Hampshire on Thursday after Governor Kelly Ayotte signed two bills requiring cities to cooperate with federal authorities and immigration detainers for illegal aliens who are charged with a crime. 

The Governor championed the enacted laws in an X post on New Year’s Day.

“As of today, sanctuary cities are officially banned in New Hampshire,” she said.

“We will never go the way of Massachusetts and their billion-dollar illegal immigration crisis.”

Baby Gutfeld Roasts Hillary Clinton


Happy thought…

Fiddler On The Roof Saturday

Slow Guy watches, Fiddler On The Roof, often. Great stuff.

Bottle Dance

Sabbath Prayer

To Life

Night crew, your nickel.

KK

Health Friday 1.2.2026 Open Thread: The Baric Files, Part Three: Patents; Dr. Anthony Fauci

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Health Friday is a series devoted to information about Big Pharma, general health, and associated topics. As today’s offering speaks to the disaster of COVID-19, Yours Truly dedicates it to all persons, of whatever age or location, who have suffered health issues from to an infection of the COVID-19 virus itself; or, from the negative effects of the COVID-19 “vaccines” that they have in their bodies; or, who have passed away from complications due to an infection of the COVID-19 virus itself, or from complications due to the negative effects of the COVID-19 “vaccines” they had in their bodies.

There are Important Notifications from our host, Wolf Moon; the Rules of our late, good Wheatie; and, certain caveats from Yours Truly, of which readers should be aware. They are linked here. Note: Yours Truly has checked today’s offering for AI-generated content. To the best of her knowledge and belief, there is none, except for AI-generated images and/or text within linked URLs. If readers wish to post AI-generated content to today’s discussion thread, they must cite their source. Thank you.

Yours Truly wishes one and all a Happy New Year 2026.

Special Note regarding today’s offering: In no way is the following, or The Baric Files in general in the Health Friday posts, to be construed as a “character assassination”, or as an “indictment”, or as any other type of attack or smear on the Ralph Baric, PhD, of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, or of his lab at the university. The linked scientific papers, images therefrom, and other information about Dr. Baric (such as, his Curriculum Vitae [1]) are all available on the internet. The ideas and conclusions of today’s offering are by Yours Truly. There is a plethora of information related to Dr. Baric; Yours Truly will focus on a few of them in each part of The Baric Files.

Today’s offering is Part Three of six. For other information regarding Dr. Baric, please see: https://www.theqtree.com/2025/12/05/health-friday-12-5-2025-open-thread-the-baric-files-part-one/; and, https://www.theqtree.com/2025/12/12/heatlh-friday-12-12-2025-open-thread-the-baric-files-part-two-of-mice-rabbits-and-ai-23946/.

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The Baric Files, Part Three: Patents; Dr. Anthony Fauci

Patents:

Ralph S. Baric, PhD, owns 25 to 30 Patents (depending on whether one is looking at, for example, https://justia.com/patents/, or at https://patents.google.com/, or at NIH RePorter at https://report.nih.gov/) related to items he found or created during his research journey into coronaviruses and/or his Gain-of-Function experiments. What is definite, however, is that our old friend, NIH grant AI23946 (also called AI023946) figures in at least three of these Patents: Patent Number 6593111; Patent Number 7279327; and, Patent Number 7618802 — all of which are associated with his lab the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

Patent Number 6593111 is titled, “Directional assembly of large viral genomes and chromosomes.”

Patent Number 7279327 is titled, “Methods of Producing Recombinant Coronaviruses.”

Patent Number 7618802 is titled, “Methods and compositions for infectious cDNA of SARS coronavirus.”

Yours Truly will focus on Patent Number 6593111 [2], the timeline of which Patent begins on 5 May 2001. The NIH grant AI023946 has been “extended” several times; in this Patent, it is called “AI023946-08“, and the Patent Number has been changed to “US6593111B2.” By now, Dr. Baric’s research journey has taken him to experimenting with coronaviruses that infect pigs: in particular, the TGE virus (Transmissible Gastroenteritis virus, also called Transmissible Gastroenteritis Coronavirus [TGEV].) The following screenshots are from the Patent document. The screenshots are, in order: the Abstract; the Events summary; the first paragraph of the Summary of the Invention section; from the Detailed Description of the Preferred Embodiments discussion section; and, Fig. 1a and Fig. 2 from the images in the Patent document:

Note, in the screenshot above, the mention of “vaccines and expression vectors”; and, the sentence, “The vectors may be targeted to other species by, for example, replacing the S glycoprotein gene.” This paragraph, in Yours Truly’s’ opinion, begins the eventual “tie-into evolution” of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In other words — Gain-of-Function research and application.

However, there is another item in Patent Number US6593111B2 that is interesting: the list of Legal Events near the end of the document. A screenshot of this list is below:

Note that UNC (Baric lab) “transferred” the ownership of the Patent to the NIH in 2008. Note also that on 18 January 2011, someone at NIH must have sent the Patent Fee payment that would be good for eight years. A Fee payment for a Patent is a “Patent Maintenance Fee” that “preserve a patent.” [3] Note also, that on 15 January 2015, someone at NIH must have sent the Patent Fee payment that would good for twelve years (thus theoretically preserving the Patent until January 2027.) However, on the Events Summary list for Patent Number US6593111B2 (in the images above), it lists the Patent as Status Expired – Lifetime. This brings up some questions: To what person at NIH was Patent US6593111 transferred to in 2008? The NIH Director in June 2008 was Elias Zerhouni, MD [4]. When he left the NIH, who did he designate to take over NIH ownership of the Patent? Is Patent US6593111B2 still in force, even though it is listed as “Status Expired – Lifetime?” Is it still in force, but under a different name?

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Anthony Fauci, MD, Director of NIAID 1984 – 2022:

It can be assumed that Dr. Ralph Baric, PhD, had been on the “radar” of Dr. Anthony Fauci, MD, Director of the NIAID division (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases division) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since at least 1984, if not before (Dr. Fauci had joined NIH in 1968, shortly after completing his medical Residency.) This “being on his radar” situation, in Yours Truly’s opinion, would have included, at the least, what may be called a “bowing acquaintance” with Dr. Baric through NIAID funding applications and grants dispersements reports.

In fact, NIH / NIAID (and, it can be assumed, within the knowledge of Dr. Anthony Fauci), was funding Dr. Barics’s Gain-of-Function research on coronaviruses as far back as at least the year 2003 [5]. The 2003 paper not only describes what can only be called Gain-of-Function experiments with SARS coronaviruses; it also describes the Baric-invented “No see ‘m” procedure for covering up gene code insertions in the lab-creation of SARS coronavirus “clone” viruses. Please see the screenshots from this paper, below. Note that our old friend, NIH grant AI23946, was involved in the funding of the 2003 paper. Below are: the Abstract, the Figure 1., and, the Acknowledgements sections from this paper:

Note that one of the co-authors of the 2003 paper is Thomas M. Geisbert, of the the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (also known as USAMRIID, located at Fort Detrick, Maryland.)

Another example of NIH / NIAID / Dr. Anthony Fauci funding Gain-of-Function research by Dr. Baric is NIH grant R01AI059136-04, from 2004 [6]. Please see the screenshots from the documents on this grant, below: of the Title for the grant; the Abstract; the Funding Agency; and, the receiving Institution:

Dr. Fauci has denied ever knowing Dr. Baric. However, there is evidence to the opposite: Please see the screenshots, below, from a February 2023 U.S. Right to Know article by Emily Kopp [7]:

A screenshot of a photo from the Emily Kopp article:

The official work calendar for Dr. Anthony Fauci was released via FOIA from Open The Books [8]. The calendar shows that Dr. Fauci met with Dr. Baric in February 2020. A screenshot from the article in Open The Books on this situation is below:

An article by Sainath Suryanarayanan in U.S. Right to Know related to Dr. Baric’s emails early in the COVID-19 pandemic [9]. These emails were either from Dr. Baric, or were sent to him as part of a group email from various institutions and/or government agencies and/or from medical professionals in these institutions or agencies. In these emails, the “code name” for the burgeoning COVID-19 virus infection situation in the United States was “Red Dawn Responding, Start 16 March.” The emails were released through a public records request.

By the way, Dr. Baric and his lab at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill worked with Gilead Sciences to create remdesivir (Veklury), a COVID-19 treatment drug that can have a mortality rate of 50%, and also can cause kidney damage [10] [11] [12] [13]. Please see the screenshots below; the first, from the University of North Carolina article about the creation of remdesivir; the others are also items regarding this drug:

Please see Reference [10].

Veklury Package Insert,Warnings and Precautions:

Please see Reference [11].

Please see Reference [12].

World Health Organization (WHO) advisory against using Veklury (remdesivir):

Please see Reference [13].

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It is apparent that by at least the year 2003, Dr. Baric’s research journey was shifting to methods and applications for the cloning of coronaviruses, including his invention of the “No see ‘m” method of covering up insertions into coronavirus gene code pieces in the lab-creation of the cloning of coronaviruses to make such insertions “un-traceable.”

To be continued in The Baric Files: Part Four.

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ALL COVID-19 “VACCINES” MUST BE REMOVED FROM THE MARKET AND FROM USE IN THE UNITED STATES. NOW.

ALL GAIN-OF-FUNCTION RESEARCH ACTIVITIES IN THE UNITED STATES MUST BE STOPPED AND DE-FUNDED. NOW.

THERE. MUST. BE. ACCOUNTABILITY.

THERE. MUST. BE. JUSTICE.

THERE. MUST. BE. TRUTH.

Peace, Good Energy, Respect: PAVACA

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References:

[1]: “Curriculum Vitae Ralph S. Baric”. https://sph.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/112/2016/09/CV_Ralph_Baric.pdf. 2016.

[2]: “Directional Assembly Of Coronavirus Infectious Clones”. https://patents.google.com/patent/US6593111B2/en. Ralph S. Baric, Boyd Yount.

[3]: “Patent Maintenance Fees – Must be paid to preserve a patent.” https://sierraiplaw.com/patent-maintenance-fees, 2023 Sierra IP.

[4]: “Elias Zerhouni.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_Zerhouni.

[5]: “Reverse genetics with a full-length infectious cDNA of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus.” https://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1735582100. Ralph S. Baric, Thomas Geisbert, et al. 29 August 2003.

[6]: “SARS Reverse Genetics.” https://grantome.com/grant/NIH/R01-AI059136-04.

[7]: US Right to Know. https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/fauci-discussed-gain-of-function-work-with-wuhan-collaborator-in-pandemics-earliest-days-emails-suggest/. Emily Kopp. 21 February 2023.

[8]: Open the Books. https://www.openthebooks.com/substack-historic-release-dr-anthony-faucis-official-work-calendar-november-2019-march-2020/. Adam Andrzejewski. 20 October 2022.

[9]: US Right to Know. “Items from coronavirus expert Ralph Baric’s emails.” https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/ralph-baric-emails/. Sainath Suryanarayanan. 14 December 2020.

[10]: “Remdesivir developed through a UNC-Chapel Hill partnership proves effective against COVID-19 in NIAID human clinical trials.” https://sph.unc.edu/sph-news/remdesivir-developed-at-unc-chapel-hill-proves-effective-against-covid-19-in-niaid-human-clinical-trials/. 29 April 2020.

[11]: “Veklury Package Insert.” https://www.gilead.com/-/media/files/pdfs/medicines/covid-19/veklury/veklury_pi.pdf. Veklury is the marketing name for remdesivir.

[12]: “BREAKING — The Pandemic Justice Phase Begins as Criminal Investigations Commence.” https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-the-pandemic-justice-phase. Nicolas Hulscher. 18 April 2025.

[13]: “FDA Approves Remdesivir in Kidney Patients after Failed Trial.” https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/fda-approves-remdesivir-in-kidney. Dr. Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH. 21 July 2023.

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Jul 18, 2025
“This Post Will Destroy Every Fake MAGA Patriot and Intel-Asset Infiltrator on This Platform”
Some of you demand play-by-play updates while President Trump dismantles the most powerful, satanic, and demonic cabal in human history, a cabal literally run by the agents of satan himself. You want Trump to livestream the battle plan to save humanity like it’s a reality show.
You want him to post his moves in real-time… while the Cabal’s intelligence networks watch every keystroke.
You want him to hand over the Super Bowl playbook for humanity to the very demons we’re fighting, because your feelings told you, you deserve it?

NEWSFLASH:
You don’t deserve the playbook in real time if you didn’t sign up to deploy it.
You deserve the results.
You deserve a free country.
You deserve food that’s not poisoned for profit.
You deserve fair & free elections.
You deserve justice.
You deserve safety for your children.
You deserve freedom from systemic slavery.

But NO, you don’t deserve to be briefed mid-operation just so your dopamine fires while global operations hang in the balance. That’s not how war works. That’s not how victory is secured.

REAL warriors are out there right now, risking their lives in the shadows.

They’re undercover in cartel strongholds, infiltrating trafficking rings, and snatching children out of hellholes while you sit comfortably behind a keyboard virtue signaling, pretending you’ve earned a voice in this fight.


You have a voice in the fight, you didn’t earn it.
Other men who sacrificed their lives earned it – not you.
You’ve never risked your life for this country.
You’ve never stared evil in the face with nothing but courage and training to back you up. You’ve never kicked in doors to rescue kids while praying you’d make it home alive.


The only thing you’re entitled to is results, period.

You don’t get to cry because it’s not unfolding how you want, or at the speed your emotions demand.

You have no experience, No training, and no clue how to dismantle the most powerful satanic empire in human history.

How do I know?
Because many of you exposed yourself with this gem: “Just let the whole system crash if that’s what it takes, we can handle the truth.”


NEWS FLASH #2:
That’s not strategy, that’s the emotional outburst of a man without a plan, fishing for likes and cheers.
Here’s the reality:
Most of America can’t handle the truth! Get mad, argue – it is the truth. This is not the AMERICA of 1776. This is the AMERICA of soft men being critical of REAL warriors….

I am re-posting this part of his tweet because it is obviously something we all need repeated.

Remember Alpha served as a Marine and then as a LEO for 14 years until Biden’s FBI flash banged his house and pointed guns at his wife and kids, FOR TWEETS! The FBI said he ‘could’ become a ‘Homegrown Terrorist’. LINK 1 and Link 2

At this point I think the deep state is winning.

Why?

Because they have enlisted MAGA to help them win.

The Cabal is very very good at manipulating people. They have years of research and practice, an unlimited budget, and a massive army of troops masquerading as journalists, screen writers, producers, politicians and now social influencers.

TAVISTOCK INSTITUTE: An Ongoing Social Engineering Project to Mind Control Humanity

  “In 1941 a group of psychiatrists at the Tavistock Clinic saw that the right questions were asked in Parliament in order to secure the means to try new measures. As a result they were asked to join the Directorate of Army Psychiatry, and did so as a group.” –Tavistock Institute

 
They wind you up because they know what makes you tick. Tavistock Clinic studied “shell shock” (post-traumatic stress) in WWI but switched to developing psychological warfare in 1922.
Rather than helping traumatized soldiers, it calculated their breaking points. Tavistock shock doctrine now permeates global life. Their social engineers are a Who’s Who:  Freud, Jung, Adler, Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion, Edward Bernays, Eric Trist, A.K. Rice, Eric Miller, Aldous Huxley, R.D. Laing, and more.

Tavistock sent German-born psychologist, Kurt Lewin, to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1945 to establish the Research Center for Group Dynamics. In the United States, Lewin is the founder of ‘Social Psychology.’ The Center moved to the University of Michigan in 1948 where it became the Institute for Social Research, and continued to co-opt legitimate psychosocial research and exploit mass psychology. By then, the original Clinic became part of Britain’s National Health Service. In 1946, the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations split off a policy-making “mother of all think tanks,” publically claiming to research and direct groups and organizations while it continued massive covert operations in social engineering.  The think tank registered as a charity in September 1947, in London, England. It devised and spread interdisciplinary models of Group Relations and training in management, administration and sociopolitics…

“The Tavistock Institute was founded in London in 1946 with the aid of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.LINK

Britain’s Hidden Hand in America’s Government – They Set Up The Deep state

How did the British help build the very Deep State that now controls Washington? In this video me and Matt Ehret break down the hidden links between the British establishment, the City of London, Wall Street and the rise of the American Deep State. From secretive societies and intelligence ties to financial control and foreign policy manipulation. This is the side of US history you were never meant to see.


The Fabian Society: How Britain Engineered Communism & Controls The World

For over a century, the Fabian Society has worked slowly, quietly and patiently to reshape Britain – and the world. In this deep‑dive, we uncover how a small “intellectual” group became a powerful tool of the British establishment, how their ideas helped engineer modern communism and socialism, and how their influence still steers politics, policy and global institutions today. We discuss their key members, and the networks linking the Fabians to Labour, the City of London, the civil service, NGOs and supranational bodies. Is this really just a harmless debating club – or the long‑game engine of a managed society? If you’ve ever wondered who really pulls the strings behind “democracy”, why every party seems to push the same agenda, and how Britain projects power through ideology rather than open empire, this video will connect the dots

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The second reason is they have taken out not one but two key players. We are all aware of the murder of Charlie Kirk. However most are not aware of a more behind the scenes guy, Boone Cutler, who died in September . Boone was co-author of General Flynn’s Fifth Generation Warfare books. Alpha indicated that Boone IDed him and approached him anonymously at a convention, giving him a phone # and code name. I do know that Boone appeared on Sit-Rep in Badlands videos with Alpha. I do not know just how involved Boone was in mentoring and organizing MAGA podcasters and other influencers. However given the Fifth Generation Warfare books and his approaching a poor, newbie podcaster like Alpha was at the time, I think it is a lot more than we will ever know.

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The third reason is the Cabal has activated psychological warfare on multiple fronts and many in MAGA are falling for the Psyops.


Pam Bondi and the Justice Department is ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL and the cabal has attacked them from many different angles. Singing brought a video from a guy, Doug TenNapel, who explains a lot better than I can.

singingsoul1(@singingsoul1)  December 29, 2025 16:05

This is well worth watching. An eye opener how good Nationalists do the work of democrats. We need to be careful whom we listen too. They all fall for misinformation and spread it. I believe Harmeet Dillon.


I like this guy so I looked up this additional video.


TRANSCRIPT – from Youtube with my editing.

Okay, I have five major points defending Pam Bondi. Some of you guys don’t want to hear it. People are going around, they’re listening to lies. I’m going to make many cases today across these four videos that Pam Bondi is the most effective attorney general that we have.

These are the reasons why it takes so long for arrests and anything to get done. And people who ignore these five irrefutable facts, they want to believe a lie and live in a lie. I don’t want to live in a lie. I want to explain to you why things happen. Here’s the five reasons.

Welcome to Doug in Exile, where my audience, I think, is the best informed audience. And people who don’t want to be informed and just want to say nothing will ever happen, yeah, they’ve moved on.

Here we go. Reason number one.

This is why it takes so long. Through investigations and evidence gathering, federal corruption. And by the way, I just went to Grok [Yeah, Grok, but the reasoning makes sense. -GC] and said, “Give me the realistic reasons why no arrests happen with Pam Bondi.”

Federal corruption or misconduct cases like those involving abuse of power, fraud, or bribery require building an airtight case to survive legal scrutiny. This includes reviewing vast amounts of documents, financial records, emails, and communications, often involving forensic accounting or digital forensics. For a sitting congressman like Adam Schiff, investigators must navigate protections under the speech or debate clause, which shields legislative activities from prosecution. So, there’s built-in defenses that are made to protect their free speech, adding layers of legal analysis to determine what’s prosecutable. Witnesses need to be interviewed, subpoenas issued, and potential cooperating sources developed.

Rushing this risks weak evidence leading to dismissals or acquittal. So no one wins if we rush it, which could backfire politically and legally. White collar and public corruption probes can span years and years due to their complexity far beyond simpler crimes like drug possession.

Reason number two the grand jury and internal review process.

This is all part of what Pam Bondi has to go through to get anyone. Before charges can be filed, evidence is typically presented to a grand jury, which decides if there’s probable cause for an indictment. And remember, if you get a grand jury in New York or in Los Angeles, it’s not going to go through. Or Washington DC, the grand jury are 92% Biden voters. This alone can take weeks or months, especially if the case involves multiple allegations or jurisdictions.

Additionally, DOJ protocols require multiple levels of approval from line prosecutors up to senior officials, including the attorney general in high-profile matters to ensure the case aligns with department guidelines and avoids perceptions of bias. Political sensitivities amplify this.

Prosecuting a prominent Democrat could invite accusations of partisanship, which we all know will happen. So extra care is taken to dot every eye and cross every tee.

Reason number three,

Remember, reason number five is going to be the biggest one of all. But reason number three, is statute of limitations and strategic timing. Most federal crimes have a 5-year statute of limitations, giving prosecutors leeway, but also incentivizing thoroughness over speed. They often wait to gather more evidence or link related conduct as premature charges could tip off targets or weaken the overall case. So the more we know, the worse the case gets and they can defend it better.

The Democrats in corruption cases tied to official acts: defining the timeline of events. Example, when an alleged lie or abuse occurred adds further delays.

Reason number four, the court and system is overloaded.

Federal courts are backlogged. With discovery, sharing evidence between sides, alone taking months due to voluminous materials. If the case involves classified information or national security elements common in probes like Adam Schiff, given his intelligence committee role, additional clearances and redactions slow things down. Delays can also stem from defense motions, appeals, or parallel congressional ethics probes that must be coordinated or resolved first.

We’re going to get to point five next, but just think of all of the people that have to be involved. Pam Bondi, she’s not there doing this work herself. She has to have crews and crews. So does Cash Patel. They have crews and crews of people. And this is thousands of man-hour across millions of documents.

So part five, this is the real one.

This is the absolute defining reason why nothing happens. Staffing shortages and resource constraints under Pam Bondi’s leadership in this 2025 context. The Department of Justice is facing severe staffing issues, exasperating delays. Thousands of employees have exited since the Trump administration’s return. That was all documented by Harmeet Dillon. And I’m going to get a huge defense of Pam Bondi from Harmeet Dillon, probably in the next video.

When Trump came, all the Democrats just walked out with hiring stalled by budget cuts, a government shutdown, and new requirements like loyalty tests or favorite Trump policy questions for applicants. And look guys, Republicans and conservatives just don’t go into this field [lawyers] that often. It’s entirely peopled with Democrats to choose from.

Over 200 former staff have publicly decried efforts to undermine career employees. Those are the long-term Democrats that work there, leading to a coordinated effort [by Democrats] to push out non-aligned personnel and creating vacancies in key units like public integrity.

New prosecutor hires are down by about half compared to prior years because it’s so much easier for a Democrat to hire a prosecutor than a Republican, resulting in mounting case backlogs and insufficient bandwidth for complex investigations.

Just so you guys know, Pam Bondi is overseeing hundreds of cases. There aren’t enough people. Funding reductions to offices like the Office of Justice Programs have further strained resources for Bondi. This means her team is understaffed to handle high priority probes alongside routine workloads, forcing prioritization and extending timelines.

And I just want to add on top of all of this work, the one thing that we all know happened this year, that blew up in the last 6 months, it is the Epstein files. So massive public pressure from the right, the dummies on the right who carried the Democrats water, to tell Pam Bondi and Cash Patel, “Take your resources off of this stuff that needs to be prosecuted and put it all on Scooby-Doo doing this ancient dead story from 2008.” and they have to redirect [resources to] redact all the names before millions of documents are released because they have to protect victims and then they’re impugned for that as part of a cover up.

[Well that certainly explains WHY all of a sudden the DemonRats are so gun-ho on the Epstein files! — GC]

So she’s in a no-win situation and the bottom line on all this is Trump is making her do this and no one has the balls to go after Trump. So they go after your number two in command which is the AG Pam Bondi. So Pam Bondi is Trump’s fall guy. And I don’t mean he’s setting her up to fail, but I’m saying Trump says, “Look, prosecute this, work on this, work on this.” He’s not allowed to publicly command her job.

So, many in the MAGA movement, fueled by frustration over perceived two-tier justice system, may expect swift, decisive moves like those portrayed in media or campaign rhetoric, but they often underestimate the bureaucratic and legal hurdles designed to prevent abuse of power. In other words, it’s part of our system.

And look, I see conspiracy showing up that she’s sold out to big pharma. She and Susie Wiles are compromised. She’s a rhino. She’s working for the other side. Those are all lies that 95% of right-wing internet believe and they’re doing the Democrats work against Pam Bondi and therefore against Trump.

That’s why I’m here to defend her, because I’m MAGA all the way, Republican all the way, conservative all the way. An American patriot that believes if we lose 2026, Trump gets impeached and is a lame duck. They steal two years of his four-year presidency if we don’t win 2026 House of Representatives. And so far, it looks like the Democrats have about a 75% chance of winning the House of Representatives, meaning we’re screwed. So, I’m trying to point our focus on the truth. And every other channel is going off on this Pam Bondi Epstein stuff and it’s ridiculous. I’m going to show you more. I’m going to do more defenses of Pam Bondi later today. But I want this argument done.

I see it in my own chat, people reply using these lies that are out there. And I go, look, I can’t chase after 3% of my audience that believe the wrong thing. I have to present the evidence and let this show stand for what it is. Okay.

In conclusion, in short, impatience overlooks that strong cases take time and shortcuts risk bigger failures. If charges are pursued, expect them to unfold over 1 to 3 years or more, not weeks. That’s Grok giving its sober opinion, the most realistic opinion on Pam Bondi. I just presented you with the most sound case of all facts. If you have a problem with these facts, address the facts in the chat below. Tell me which fact is wrong or admit that Pam Bondi is doing her best. I’m going to do more on this later today. Thank you guys for watching. Hope you’ve subscribed. If you’re not getting notifications, go to the magnifying glass, put in Doug in exile, my channel, and then just click videos and you’ll get every video today. These are important because I’m trying to animate the right in the right direction.

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In another much longer video he gives two more reasons. ONE remember how long it takes to get a candidate confirmed? Do you really think the Uniparty would ALLOW a really great candidate to get past confirmation? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVqYysg8xqM

And here is a short TRANSCRIPT of the meat of that video

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Here’s Kathleen Winchell: “Yes my Choice would be Mike Davis for attorney general. Any other candidates?”

Now Mike Davis is one of my favorite guys in the whole world. He clerked for Gorsuch. He’s a regular source on here. I see him on Benny Johnson’s and Steve Bannon’s shows.

And here’s what Mike Davis says, and I hope this sinks in deep with everyone, including Trish Reagan. Mike Davis says of becoming the attorney general to replace Pam Bondi. He says, “No way. Pam Bondi is a savage.” Mike Davis knows. He knows this administration. No one’s closer. He knows Pam Bondi. No one’s closer. Knows Julie, Kelly, Steve, Ben, and everyone on the right. Why is everyone else against Pam Bondi and Mike Davis is for her and Trump is for her? … I’m just saying, what reason does Mike Davis have to say Pam Bondi is a savage?

Robert Barnes, all these people that go, she’s got to step down. Gunther Eagleman, Catturd, everyone going, she’s got to step down. Time to fire Pam Bondi. Retire Pam Bondi, what’s wrong? She’s a rhino. She’s bought out by big pharma. She doesn’t do her job. She’s incompetent. Trish Reagan just said she’s in over her head. I like her, but she’s in over her head.

Mike Davis, who’s one of the only guys who would know, says Pam Bondi is a savage. She is bold and fearless. She makes consequential decisions her GOP male predecessors never had the balls to make. She has a long string of monumental victories at the Supreme Court for the presidency, and lawfare democrats will go to prison.

This is the person that half of the Republican party is trying to fire right now. You idiots.

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I can not find OUT just how many lawyers work for the DOJ, however I did find this:

There are 94 districts. 58 are NOT Trump appointees, 7 are vacant, 11 are acting and ONLY 12 are Trump appointed and confirmed!

ONLY TWELVE OUT OF NINTEY-FOUR!

Let that sink in. And remember Doug TenNapel said he DMs Harmeet Dillon and she told him she has ONE staffer!

Epstein files totaling more than 60,000 pages… – CBS News


Hundreds of thousands of ‘Epstein files’ have been released | CNN Politics

over 300 gigabytes

But the bombshell came on Christmas Eve. That’s when the DOJ announced that its Manhattan office, and the FBI, “uncovered over a million more documents potentially related to the Jeffrey Epstein case.”

In its announcement, the Justice Department pleaded for patience, saying “We have lawyers working around the clock,” but that, “due to the mass volume of material, this process may take a few more weeks,” before all of the new documents are posted.

That drew bipartisan anger on Capitol Hill, and from the community of Epstein survivors….

There are at least 202 Results for Attorney Vacancies and Volunteer Legal Internships
Please note that a federal hiring freeze is in effect as of January 20, 2025, subject to limited exemptions.”

One of the things Doug TenNapel mentioned that I want to re-emphasize is all the lawfare against Executive power that the DOJ must counter AND has been doing so sucessfully.

Kash Patel is in the same position as Pam Bondi. He is dealing with a bureau filled with insurrectionists, with no way to fire them and find decent replacements. His job makes cleaning the Augean Stables look like child’s play.

After writing this, I am beginning to wonder if it was decided to send Dan Bongino back to doing podcasts in order to counter these attacks on POTUS Trump’s cabinet picks.