“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
We should all remember Deplorable Patriot and Wheatie as we push forward with the fight. This is NOT over by any means.
Fight! Fight! Fight! Because JUSTICE must be served on those who foisted the “Vax” shit on us. And for all the other things they have done to this country.
“Don’t Tread On Me,” it says. You failed to pay attention to this advice. You went out of your way to do the opposite. You chose to rub our faces in it, imprison those who dared complain, and even to kill our people. Now you shall pay just a tiny fraction of the real price, Ratfuckers.
What is it that feeds our battle, yet starves our victory?
RINO scum. Like Murkowski and Collins.
That’s OK. We go around ’em for now.
January 6 Tapes Reminder
OK…I’m sick and tired of reminding you to no effect, Speaker Johnson, so I’ll do the more emotionally satisfying thing and call you a cowardly, lying, fraudulent sack of diarrhetic monkey shit.
Johnson, you are a cowardly, lying, fraudulent sack of diarrhetic monkey shit!
A Caution
Just remember…we might replace the RINO candidates. (Or we might not. The record is mixed even though there is more MAGA than there used to be.) But that will make no difference in the long run if the party officials, basically the Rhonna McDaniels (or however that’s spelled–I suspect it’s RINO), don’t get replaced.
State party chairs, vice chairs, secretaries and so on, and the same at county levels, have huge influence on who ultimately gets nominated, and if these party wheelhorses are RINOs, they will work tirelessly to put their own pukey people on the ballot. In fact I’d not be surprised if some of our “MAGA” candidates are in fact, RINO plants, encouraged to run by the RINO party leadership when they realized that Lyn Cheney (and her ilk) were hopelessly compromised as effective candidates. The best way for them to deal with the opposition, of course, is to run it themselves.
Running good candidates is only HALF of the battle!
Justice Must Be Done.
The prior election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system.
Nothing else matters at this point. Talking about trying again in 2022 or 2024 is hopeless otherwise. Which is not to say one must never talk about this, but rather that one must account for this in ones planning; if fixing the fraud is not part of the plan, you have no plan.
Kamala Harris has a new nickname since she finally went west from DC to El Paso Texas: Westward Hoe.
Lawyer Appeasement Section
OK now for the fine print.
This is the WQTH Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Poltical correctness, but civility is a requirement. There are Important Guidelines, here, with an addendum on 20191110.
We have a new board – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation.
And remember Wheatie’s Rules:
1. No food fights 2. No running with scissors. 3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone. 4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns. 5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded. 5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty. 6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy. 7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire. 8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.
(Hmm a few extras seem to have crept in.)
Paper Spot Prices
All prices are Kitco Ask, 3PM MT Friday (at that time the markets close for the weekend). Format: bid/ask
Gold managed to push up into the 3430s. (I got to re-use that part of the sentence from 5 weeks ago! The old sentence says “…on Monday/Tuesday” but this time it was Friday.) Gold up nearly $50 on Friday thanks to the fun in Iran; up over a hundred bucks over the course of the week. Silver dropped 3 cents on Friday but is still up for the week (not very spectacularly to be sure). As a result the gold:silver ratio has gone up. Platinum actually took a bad hit on Friday (down 67 bucks), but still up quite a bit this week. Palladium down a bit though it didn’t drop so hard on Friday. Rhodium up 75 on Friday but still down for the week.
*The SteveInCO Federal Reserve Note Suckage Index (FRNSI) is a measure of how much the dollar has inflated. It’s the ratio of the current price of gold, to the number of dollars an ounce of fine gold made up when the dollar was defined as 25.8 grains of 0.900 gold. That worked out to an ounce being $20.67+71/387 of a cent. (Note gold wasn’t worth this much back then, thus much gold was $20.67 71/387ths. It’s a subtle distinction. One ounce of gold wasn’t worth $20.67 back then, it was $20.67.) Once this ratio is computed, 1 is subtracted from it so that the number is zero when the dollar is at its proper value, indicating zero suckage.
A Couple of Videos of Some Interest
I gave a lot of Saturnian moons a bit of short shrift, on the theory that if you’ve seen one iceball, you’ve seen them all. This is a deeper dive on Tethys, the 3rd major (spherical) moon of Saturn, counting out from Saturn itself. (For laughs: Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, [Hyperion], Iapetus, [Phoebe] with the ones in brackets not actually being major moons but sizeable and of interest for other reasons, and all together comprising the “classical nine” moons of Saturn.) It is the 16th largest moon in the solar system, and has a couple of “Trojans” (no, Pat, not what you think), other smaller moons 60 degrees away from it in its orbit (I recall mentioning that because it’s unusual).
The name Tethys was also given to the gigantic “bay” that preceded today’s Indian Ocean.
As an additional aside, Saturn’s moon count is up to 274.
And,,,trigger warning, this is human evolution. (And for Wolf: trigger warning, goofy opening music.) Apparently the difference between our brains and those of our close relatives like neandertals, denisovans, erectus, etc…is ONE amino acid in ONE protein. Not only that but earlier Homo Sapiens are the same as the others, it’s only later that Homo Sapiens got this upgrade. This change in the protein helps in the development of the frontal lobe. (NB: this is two years old and may be outdated.)
The following is, yes, nearly a twelve hour video. However you’ll get the general idea in ten minutes. It’s a real time video out the window of a flight from Sydney, Australia, to Santiago Chile. Which, if the reader will recall, Rayzorback asserted does not exist, because the Flerf charlatans who have suckered him lied and said it does not. Wolf was able to demonstrate otherwise, but if that’s not enough this is a video, uncut of that flight.
The reason this is of actual interest is that in a sort of “picture in picture” layout are videos of Dave Weiss (Flat Earth Dave, Dirth, Potatohead–a likely target of defamation lawsuits if memory serves) stating that the existence of this flight would disprove Flat Earth, and other clips of him offering (usually) 3 bitcoin to anyone who can disprove Flat Earth. Needless to say many have submitted such evidence but it is ignored. There are people planning to try to sue for that as well but I suspect such suits will get nowhere because this isn’t quite a contract (in some way I don’t understand very well). Flight is by Critical Think (who had the scale and weights in Antarctica) but was edited to put the insets into it by MC “Where are the GUNS, Nathan!?!” Toon.
Health Friday is a series devoted to Big Pharma, vaccines, general health, and associated topics.
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Today’s offering follows a different path from the posts on the COVID-19 disaster. Yours Truly will make it clear that she is not a climatologist, nor a meteorologist. However, the topic warrants discussion.
Assume, for argument’s sake, that one wakes up in the morning and sees a nice, clear sky from the window looking out to the southeast. Assume, for argument’s sake, that a couple of hours later, one sees a few (or, perhaps, more) “streaks” in the sky, that resemble thin lines; these “thin lines” do not look like real clouds forming. Assume, for argument’s sake, that one hears what sounds like a small plane (or, perhaps, a couple of small planes) in the sky. Assume for argument’s sake, that one sees more of these “thin lines” that have “spread out” into what may appear to be “low-level clouds” — except, that these “clouds” follow a strange pattern of horizontal, vertical, diagonal, and/or oblique directions. Assume, for argument’s sake, that these “clouds” are seen in the southeast sky, which then “spread out” towards the northwest, and appear not to “generate” on the opposite direction on the compass (in other words, in the northwest direction.) Assume, for argument’s sake, that on days when there are multiples of these “not-real-clouds” in the air, there is also “something” that makes the sinuses hurt, that make one feel as if a bad allergy day is occurring, that makes the eyes sting, and that the usual remedies for allergy symptoms (antihistamine, saline nasal spray) have minor or no effect.
Yours Truly has seen and felt all of these things, both in the Spring of last year and also this Spring. Photos of examples of what was seen are below:
View of the sky to the SE, early morning, April 2025.
View of the sky to the SE, around Noon, April 2025.
View of the sky to the NW, morning, April 2025.
Then, there is ** something ** that was different about the Central North Carolina pollen that was in the air, on the car, covering the front porch floor, on the window sills, and just about everywhere else — including getting into one’s lungs. In the Spring, starting in about mid-March, the Central North Carolina pollen starts to show up. It is a slightly “greasy”-feeling and looks like a yellow and green mixture. Not so this year. What one observed this Spring was a dry, yellow-colored powder that coated everything. It had a slightly acrid smell. Photos of what Yours Truly observed of this yellow-colored powder are below, taken in April. The first photo is from what I scraped onto a clean index card; the second photo is this stuff on the front porch floor:
Yours Truly began to research about “chemtrails”, one of those “conspiracy theories” that has been around for some years. What she found out is quite interesting. And, Yes, they are real.
One understands that “seeding” of the sky has been going on for years. However, the old-style “cloud seeding to induce rain” approach has changed — into “seeding” the sky with other types of chemicals. Please see: https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-09-10-chemtrails-no-longer-conspiracy-globalists-battle-climate-change.html, “Chemtrails no longer a conspiracy theory as globalists call it an essential part of their battle against “Climate Change””, S.D. Wells, 9 October 2024.
And, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has weighed in on the issue. Please see: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-administration-claims-us-behind-143951527.html, “Trump administration claims US is behind sinister ‘chemtrails’ programme once thought to be conspiracy theory”, by Joshua Nair, 2 May 2025. Please a screenshot from this article, below:
DARPA = Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a unit of the United States Defense Department.
In Yours Truly’s opinion, if “there’s something in the air” that is being sprayed without the knowledge and consent of the American public, that is wrong and must be stopped.
My schedule has been hectic, so an on-topic breather is in order. I am going with a subject that relates to the subject period in history as well as today. Since it is in the news at times, let’s discuss the filibuster. What the heck is it and why should we care?
This definition per clown provided Wiki is as good as any…
A filibuster is a political procedure in which one or more members of a legislative body prolong debate on proposed legislation so as to delay or entirely prevent a decision. It is sometimes referred to as “talking a bill to death” or “talking out a bill”, and is characterized as a form of obstruction in a legislature or other decision-making body.
However, its noted origin as a procedure (not the name) appears to trace back to ancient Rome in 60 and 59 BC when Cato the Younger conducted it in opposition to Caesar’s desires in the ancient Roman Empire. The Roman Senate had a rule that all daily work had to be completed by nightfall. Cato was noted for his long winded speeches, so in two instances he got up and spoke until nightfall to foil Caesar’s plans. It worked the first time, but Caesar had a work around ready the second time as he took the measure he wanted passed to the Tribal Assembly and got it done.
There are numerous countries in which this procedure has been done in their legislative assemblies. As an example, the first time it appears to have been done in Great Britain was in Parliament in 1874. It first entered into U. S. Club Senate rules in 1806, but not used until 1837.
The filibuster was not used frequently until the 1970’s. In more recent times it has become more of a threatened use, especially since the 2010’s. It has also become watered down as a procedure to the point it is mostly only used to counter new legislation today, which is bad enough when the legislation that could pass would help We the People instead of the Uniparty and globalists.
However, the big thing is that it is not a product of the Constitution.It is in the Club Senate’s “rulebook”.
So, why does it continue to exist? Better yet, why do we need an obstruction to the usual “majority rules” method of determining the fate of legislation? We need to understand the history to know the answers to those questions, well, at least more official answers. TradeBait’s response that follows is probably a bit less tactful. 😂
To cut to the chase It is just another contrived rule that We the People had no voice in determiningits existence and use. As posted in previous Dailies they do the same garbage in the judiciary. They build in rules of engagement, practices, procedural hoops, and standing that are not enumerated or codified into law by the legislature. They are inserted at the discretion of the involved parties and frequently used as weapons to achieve goals in conflict with the intent of the Constitution, laws, and will of We the People. They grant permissions to positions and bodies to do so that have never been legally authorized by our system of government. They then hide behind the rules they create.
The Senate politicians sell filibuster presence as a tool to prevent unthrottled and dangerous control by legislators of the “political process” that could abuse citizen voters. They use fear porn induced warnings in serious tones of voice to make their points. Sometimes, I am convinced the real boogeyman or Sasquatch will run out from behind them to threaten us all.
One thing is true, the threat of the use of this tool has kept even a unified House, Senate and POTUS from achieving their fake media described scary agendas despite having received control from the popular vote. How convenient that the GOP or Dems cannot seem to get that important piece of legislation across the finish line that benefits We the People more than the politicians and globalists. With it available the Uniparty continues its reign.
Instead, we get Obamacare and such, right McShame? Oh yeah, you are no longer here to undercut the will of We the People. 👍 But just as a reminder, if Harry Reid followed by Turtle did not permit its nuking in regard to confirmations; PDT would have never received approval for any judges, SCOTUS justices, or cabinet selections. Who knew in advance we would thank two Uniparty henchmen for their efforts to release us from that bondage one day? Of course, doing so was met with wailing and gnashing of teeth by media and the Uniparty faithful. Much fear porn was broadcast and now we know why. SCOTUS leaned back toward the right over time and some honest judges were added to the federal court rosters.
In Club Senate the filibuster is still a game maneuver the majority can also use to not move forward with popular legislation that they would ordinarily have the votes to pass, especially with the Uniparty in control. Instead they can hide behind the perceived threat of a filibuster. Rarely do filibusters actually happen, the vast majority of the time their use is just threatened or “understood” to be possible. All of it is theater to keep the public fooled and sidetracked, just like the non-election elections.
There is no point in addressing cloture to end debate. The majority still needs 60 votes to invoke it to end the show. In the political environment of today, rarely would there be any Dems willing to join with the GOP to do so. That makes it easy for GOP Senators to grandstand and gaslight the public on their “conservative” values and standing “with” POTUS Trump against the big, bad Dems.
Conditions Today
Let’s take a look at what MTG thinks of the Club Senate and the filibuster.
If you are an optimist you will respond to this situation with a desire to get rid of it so you can get done what needs to be done. If you are a pessimist you want to keep the filibuster as a tool to keep the leftists from ruining the country should they return to power. However, that may turn out to be a less than accurate analysis if indeed, POTUS Trump and patriots are cleaning the election system and taking back control of the federal government swamp.
Do you really believe the Democrat Party has over 70 million real life voters? If you do, you will be more likely to want to retain the filibuster. If you don’t, you will be more likely to want it terminated providing the election system is cleaned up and fair for all voters.
Next, do you believe in DOGE and their efforts or not? I did not say Elon, I said DOGE. Their efforts are helping to clean the system along with ICE and Homeland Security. Add in the Civil Rights division of the DOJ which is now playing hardball as you saw in Part 2. Evidence is being introduced into the courts on hacking election systems, fraudulent ballot harvesting, and fraudulent voter registration activities. Lies are being exposed that claimed no internet connectivity, when in fact the voting machines were connected. More legal actions are underway on clamping down on ID requirements as well as illegals having access to voter registrations.
I don’t believe the Dems have the votes even if it not totally cleaned yet. My gut says they have less than 50 million. They have no message, no inspiring leaders, no bench to sway the majority of the eligible voters. The longer that America First MAGA can dominate the more the judiciary will become Constitutionalist in nature. That realization is contingent on the current administration and leadership knowing that the Democrat Party does not now have or will have anywhere near the votes they manufactured in 2020 with the election steal.
PDT suggested doing away with the filibuster at least a dozen times in his first term. Contrast that viewpoint with that of a Uniparty Senator. From a 9/26/24 USA Today article on the subject comes this quote, “The day Republicans vote to nuke the filibuster is the day I walk out the door,” said Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., who noted that the party repeatedly resisted Trump’s calls to end the filibuster for legislation while he was president.
Sounds like a really good reason for it to be nuked to me, Thommy Turd.
That leads this author to suggest that it is time to kill the filibuster dead as a doornail. Just the threat of its use stops good legislation that We the People support. With its termination the remaining RINO’s will have to openly state their positions for or against a measure – no more hiding. We the People can then primary them out and replace with America First.
If we truly want to end the RINO species, we have to eliminate their habitat. Thommy Turd told everybody where he hides. Remove the ability to hide and openly expose them. Playing defense all the time plays into the Uniparty’s hands. If we go on offense on this, they will either fight to survive or run away scared. We the People then know where they stand and what to do.
However, none of that is the primary reason to terminate the use of the filibuster. The primary reason to get rid of it is the same as with the other contrived rules, procedures and practices in every area of government. There is no provision for it in the Constitution. Assuming honest elections, the threat and the use of it circumvents the will of We the People.
Remember what Alexander Hamilton, John Adams and a handful of other revered founding fathers wanted to do to circumvent the will of We the People when the Constitution was constructed? They were fearful of We the People and the popular vote as it had been a major problem to the new nation due to States’ Rights and its inability to pay military pensions. Thanks to Thomas Jefferson and a large majority of founders they did not get what they wanted. The popular vote was supported in the end result. However, that did not stop those at our nation’s founding that did not like that result. Instead, less than 20 years later, the pro-filibuster crowd in Club Senate began making rules that worked around the issue just a Caesar’s opponents did with the ancient Roman Senate.
The specific problems from our founders’ days no longer exist. In my opinion, it is time for We the People to go boldly into the Golden Age and terminate the filibuster.
Or we can continue looking around for the boogeyman and Sasquatch.
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God is in Control . . . and His Grace is Sufficient, so . . . Keep Looking Up
Hopefully, every Sunday, we can find something here that will build us up a little . . . give us a smile . . . and add some joy or peace, very much needed in all our lives.
“This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn nor weep.” . . . “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
Love the LORD
“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.” (Deuteronomy 6:4–5)
This is known as the Shema, taken from the first word “hear” in Hebrew. Modern Jews consider the recital of the Shema both evening and morning to be one of their most sacred duties. It was cited by Jesus as the “greatest commandment in the Law” (Matthew 22:36–37).
This command seems to be impossible to obey. That’s because, in the natural state of man, it is impossible. There is no greater evidence of the inability of man to obey God’s Law than this one commandment. No human being with a fallen nature can possibly love God with all his heart, soul, and strength 24 hours a day. It’s humanly impossible. But to disobey any commandment of God is sin. Therefore, even without considering the sins we commit daily, we are all condemned by our inability to fulfill this one commandment. This is the reason Jesus continually reminded the Pharisees of their inability to keep the Law of God. He was trying to get them to see their utter spiritual bankruptcy and their need for a Savior. Without the cleansing of sin that He provides, and the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit who lives in the hearts of the redeemed, loving God to any degree is impossible.
But, as Christians, we have been cleansed from sin and we do have the Spirit. So how do we begin to love God the way we should? Just as the man in Mark 9:24 asked God to help his unbelief, so too we can ask God to help us in areas where we don’t love Him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. It is His power that we need to do the impossible, and we begin by seeking and appropriating that power.
In most cases, our love and affection for God grows more intense as time goes by. Certainly, young Christians newly saved are very much aware of the love of God and their love for Him. But it is through the witness of God’s faithfulness during times of struggle and trial that a deep love for God grows and grows. Over time, we witness His compassion, mercy, grace, and love for us, as well as His hatred for sin, His holiness, and His righteousness. We cannot love someone we don’t know, so knowing Him should be our first priority. Those who pursue God and His righteousness, who take seriously the command to love Him above all else, are those who are consumed with the things of God. They are eager to study God’s Word, eager to pray, eager to obey and honor God in all things, and eager to share Jesus Christ with others. It is through these spiritual disciplines that the love for God grows and matures to the glory of God.
The above image of TLR Signalling Pathways is courtesy of BioFinder and Google Images.
Health Friday is a series devoted to information about Big Pharma, vaccines, general health, and associated topics. As today’s offering is related to the disaster of the COVID-19 virus itself, and of the COVID-19 “vaccines”, Yours Truly dedicates it to the memory of all persons, of whatever age or location, who have passed away from the negative effects of these lab-created Biological ToxinWeapons.
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 any AI-generated content. To the best of her knowledge and belief, there is none. If readers wish to post any AI-generated content in today’s discussion thread, they must cite their source. Thank you.
And now, to the reader’s Edification Smorgasbord, a “feast of information” regarding just how dangerous and potentially deadly mRNA-1283 (mNEXSPIKE) is, Yours Truly offers the following Menu:
APPETIZER: WHAT IS TLR4?
TLR4 (aka Toll-like receptor 4) is a transmembrane protein that exists across a cell membrane. TLR4 functions as a kind of “sensing device” within the body. It detects foreign bacteria and viruses. When a foreign element is detected by TLR4, it begins to send messages to the natural immune system to activate the immune response. TLR4 is crucial to the correct functioning of the natural immune system. Please see the screenshots below for more information:
FIRST COURSE: THE FDA APPROVES “mNEXSPIKE” IN MAY 2025:
The “newest version” COVID-19 “vaccine”, mRNA-1283 (aka mNEXSPIKE), was “fully approved” by the FDA on 30 May 2025. Yours Truly wrote about this situation here: https://www.theqtree.com/2025/06/01/stop-press-edition-hhs-secretary-robert-f-kennedy-needs-to-resign-now/. This “vaccine” claims to be “more effective” in “preventing” an infection of COVID-19. The claim is based on the fact that mRNA-1283 (aka mNEXSPIKE) uses “only” the S1 protein and the N sector of said S1 protein of the COVID-19 virus spike protein, as opposed to using the entire spike protein (as in mRNA-1273, the original “flagship” modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine” by Moderna.) Please see: https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiaf022, “Safety and Immunogenicity of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Receptor-Binding Domain and N-Terminal Domain mRNA Vaccine”, Spyros Chalkias, et al., 15 April 2025 (most of the authors of this “informational paper” are either affiliated with Moderna, or are employees of Moderna.) A screenshot of the Background section of the Abstract of this paper is below:
At first glance, this “new development” by Moderna may appear to be a “positive” achievement. However, there are other issues that arise:
First, there is the fact that the S1 protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus contains both the RCB (Receptor-Binding Domain) AND the N-terminal domain of the virus. It is the RCB that allows the virus to “attach” itself , or to “dock” itself, to cells in the body — for example, to the ACE2 cell receptors; and, to TLR4 cells. The N-terminal domain is the “end part” of the S1 protein; it is a “free” group at the end of the protein, while, at the same time, it “initiates” a polypeptide chain.
While the above article refers to the Pfizer-BioNTech modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine” BNT162b2, the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine” from Moderna, mRNA-1273, also targets the RBD, which interacts with TLR4 cells in the “vaccinated” person’s body. In addition, all of the modRNA “descendant clone” COVID-19 “vaccines” by both companies also use the RBD, there interacting with TLR4 cells in the “vaccinated / boosted” person’s body.
TLR4 cells are also present in multiple areas and organs of the body. The modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” will interact with these cells. This is due to the fact that the S1 protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus contains certain amino acids residues (numbers 1-1208) that interact with TLR4 cells. Please see: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.306187, “SARS-CoV-2 spike protein S1 subunit induces pro-inflammatory responses via toll-like receptor 4 signaling in murine and human macrophages”, Ken Shirato, Takako Kizaki, February 2021. A screenshot of the Abstract of this paper follows:
Regarding the S1 amino acids residues 1-1208 and TLR4, please see this paper, from 2020: https://europepmc.org/article/ppr/ppr170060, ” Structural characterization of a nanobody derived from a naive library that neutralizaes SARS-CoV-2″, M Dumoux, et al., 1 June 2020. Below are screenshots from the Methods section and from a portion of the Supplementary Table section of this paper (the Supplementary Table portion shows some of the gene code for the S1 1-1208 residues):
Further information regarding SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and its interaction with TLR4 is found here: https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2024.1368946, “TLR2/4 are novel activating receptors for SARS-CoV-2 spike protein on NK cells”. Nadine Landolina, et al., 30 May 2024. “NK” stands for “Natural Killer” cells in the body. A screenshot from this paper is below:
Then, there is the issue of clinical trial used by the FDA to “justify” the “full approval” of mRNA-1283 (aka mNEXSPIKE), NCT05137236 (https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05137236.) There was NO Placebo Control Group in this study. The study participants (study subjects) were injected with the following Moderna modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines”: mRNA-1273; OR, mRNA-1283; OR, mRNA-1283.211; OR, mRNA-1283.529. Why was there no Placebo Control Group? Assuming that the study subjects knew, in advance, they would be injected with any one of FOUR different variations of a modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine”, were they fine with that?
And, there is the “opinion piece” by Dr. Martin Makary (FDA Commissioner) and Dr. Vinay Prasad (new head of the FDA’s CBER division), regarding the “new approach” that the FDA will use for COVID-19 “vaccines.” Please see:
SECOND COURSE: WHAT DOES THE modRNA COVID-19 “VACCINE”, mNEXSPIKE, CONTAIN?
Please see the FDA-issued Fact Sheet for Healthcare Providers (aka the Package Insert) for mRNA-1283, mNEXSPIKE: https://www.fda.gov/media/186738/download. Below is a screenshot of section 11 Description, section 12 Clinical Pharmacology, and section 13 Nonclinical Toxicology of this document:
Which plainly states that mNEXSPIKE contains the same types of dangerous, deadly lipid nanoparticle and excipient that all the other modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” by Moderna contain: SM-102, and PEG2000-DMG. This means that mNEXSPIKE will be rapidly spread into every cell in the “vaccinated” person’s body. It is also clear that mNEXSPIKE has NOT been tested for mutation potential, cancer-inducement potential, or reproductive impairment potential.
Yours Truly then performed a search to ascertain whether or not mNEXSPIKE contains N1-methylpseudouridine. She has written extensively on this board about this lab-created “fake Uridine plus a form of methane”, which completely replaces the natural RNA in the Uridine in the body. Recall that natural Uridine is crucial to multiple body functions and mechanisms: regulation of mood, of learning and memory, and of “gut-brain connection” functions. Lo and behold, the US Patent for mRNA-1283 (aka mNEXSPIKE) does have language describing “various types” of pseudouridine, including N1-methylpseudouridine, are used in all of Moderna’s modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” — which would also include mNEXSPIKE. The US Patent for mRNA-1283 is found here (US 20240382581A1): https://patents.google.com/patent/US20240382581A1/en?q=(mRNA-1283)&oq=mRNA-1283, “Pan-human coronavirus vaccines”, ModernaTX, published 21 November 2024. Please see sections 0120, 0121, 0122, and 0123 of this document for descriptions of the “various types” of pseudouridine.
Lastly, there is the question as to whether mNEXSPIKE contains any saRNA (self-amplifying RNA) component. Yours Truly searched for information regarding this, since the IM dose (intramuscular injection dose) of this COVID-19 “vaccine” is a very small amount — 0.2mL. She found this, which appears to be a “dancing all around the truth” description of this “vaccine.” Please see: https://synapse.patsnap.com/article/what-is-mrna-1283-used-for?, 28 June 2024. A screenshot from this article is below:
Read the last sentence in the second paragraph above, especially “…a robust and durable immune response, potentially requiring fewer doses and offering longer-lasting immunity compares to other vaccines.” Sounds like a description of the saRNA H5N1 “vaccine”, KOSTAIVE, currently approved for use in the EU / Scandinavia, and in Japan; and, a version of which “vaccine” is to begin clinical trials in the United States (NCT06602531), under the name ARCT-2304.
DESSERT AND BEVERAGES: REACTIONS AND QUESTIONS:
First, this: https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/maha-movement-flabbergasted-covid, “MAHA Movement Flabbergasted COVID-19 Vaccines Remain on Market”, Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, 2 June 2025. There is an embedded interview with Dr. McCullough in this article, along with a linked copy of the “Kabuki Theater performance” regarding “stopping” the COVID-19 “vaccines” in the United States by Dr. Martin Makary (FDA), Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (NIH DIrector), and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., on 27 May 2025. A screenshot from the McCullough article is below, giving his views on the current situation:
Second, this tweet, from Dr. William Makis: https://x.com/MakisMD/status/1930296443434348771, 4 June 2024. Two screenshots from his tweet are below: first, a statement from HHS Secretary Kennedy, Jr.; and, second, from Dr. Makis:
Questions, posed by Yours Truly: Why did the FDA “fully approve” a “new”, modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine” that specifically targets person over age 65, and persons who “fit” a detailed list of “persons at risk of severe COVID-19 infection”, as complied by Dr. Martin Makary and Dr. Vinay Prasad? Why was there a “Kabuki Theater performance” on 27 May 2025 by Drs. Makary and Bhattacharya, along with HHS Secretary Kennedy, Jr., when it was obvious by that date that the FDA “full approval” of mNEXSPIKE was “a done deal”? Why did the FDA issue an Approval Letter to Moderna for mNEXSPIKE that has so many “caveats”, “requests for more information”, and an “order” for the company to perform a Phase 4 clinical study on the “vaccine” — a “vaccine” that the FDA had just “fully approved”? Please see: https://www.fda.gov/media/186740/download; and, the screenshot of Page 9 of this document, regarding the “order” for the Phase 4 study, below:
More questions, posed by Yours Truly: How many elderly persons are going to be pressured / cajoled / “mandated” (by the nursing home or care facility where they live), to take mNEXSPIKE? Will they be told that this injectable is “safer” than mRNA-1273, “because the dose is smaller”? What about persons who “fit” into the multiple categories of “persons at high risk for severe COVID-19 infection” according to Drs. Makary and Prasad? What pressure will these persons be subjected to in order to get them to agree to take mNEXSPIKE? Finally, will people be told the truth that mNEXSPIKE, just because it does not contain the S2 portion of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, is NOT “mRNA-1273 Lite” — but, rather, it is another version of a dangerous, potentially deadly modRNA COVID-19 ‘”vaccine”?
Before we return to the remaining signers of our Declaration of Independence we need to move the ball down the field more on the present subject that originated with Scott’s and Wolf’s posts of May 3.
Put simply, why has the statutory nature of the Constitution and law been abused so radically by those who give their oaths to defend it? The creation of shadow governments and legal systems that sustain them appears to be the vehicles used to do the dirty deeds. The instigators apparently want undeserved, unearned, and unauthorized power over the assets and people of our nation.
The use of rules, procedures and practices that they develop, sell to the public at large as necessary for the safety and/or prosperity of citizens, and then implement with colluding enforcement arms is what keeps them in power and control. With the current version of swamp critters, they added illegal invaders and provided access to the rights of citizens to insure their continued dominance of our nation. This corrupted the election system even worse to go with everything else in society, which was the primary purpose of COVID and the jabs in addition to depopulation efforts. The propagandists lied their ways into the heads of sheeple to move the needle toward accepting the unacceptable that has been tanking our society.
We can continue to discuss how it all is rectified, however, it will not change a basic, historical truth. What has happened in the past 250 years in America is not new to the world stage. It has happened in other civilizations who turned their faces from God and/or righteous living since the beginning of time. Some of those civilizations never recovered and disappeared from the planet. Others were reduced to a remnant. Some of those remnants never regained their prominence, while others went on to become even more prominent and dominate segments of the world. For this latter group, the common factor contributing to success seems to be a return to more equitable treatment of their populations. It usually took the common people coming together to force the replacement of their former leaders or when God otherwise directly intervened through events of nature. Remember, even the insurance industry calls them “acts of God” in their contract provisions.
Just like Biblical accounts of the ancient nation of Israel, this concept of the righteous remnant surviving and rebuilding is also built into the fabric of America. It is expected of us to do so and has been stated within our founding documents. How else can you explain our recovery and development into a great, superpower nation after the horrible Civil War that erupted some 70 years after the ratification of the Constitution, which was followed by WW I, the Great Depression and WW II? How else could it possibly be explained when the America First MAGA movement led by a bullet dodging brilliant patriot changes the world for the betterment of all mankind?
Judicial Discretion
Nothing makes my point better about judicial rules, procedures and practices than the following recent post from Covid & Covid with Jeff Childers. It truly is an interesting read anytime, but especially so with the current subject matter and ongoing events within our government. The article to read is the first on Blind Justice.
Did you spot all of the judicial discretion that was employed? Jeff Childers is an experienced, accomplished attorney who has taken on an unenviable task of challenging the PREP Act successfully. The weight of the federal government as well as Big Pharm is aligned against all challenges. Even with that situation, the judge chose not to shut this one down. In fact, he handed Jeff the ticket to use to attend the show. To say Jeff was pleasantly surprised is an understatement.
What is most interesting to me is the approach Judge Young used in questioning counsel of both sides from the outset is one that could be used by all judges, but rarely is. Why? Unless you are into performance art and deception as a judge; it would seem that if you truly desire to make an honest, legally correct ruling you would use all avenues of inquiry to reach a solid decision. Which tells me that in all of the previously unsuccessful challenges, there probably was no judge who was serious in their consideration of the merits of the PREP challenges. They went along with what the government wanted to not rock the boat. Anybody who has ever sat in pre-trial conferences knows exactly to what I am referring. The rules of the game (trial) are set by the judge after input from the opposing attorneys representing sides in the case.
Now, I could be a conspiracist and tell you that frequently those rules have already been worked out (as well as the decision) in advance over a meal or drinks at a bar together beforehand, but that would just be speculation, right? That never actually happens, does it? Justice is always blind like it was in all of those Perry Mason TV shows, right? The attorneys from both sides give their best efforts and whoever wins, wins. The decision always represents what the law states.
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Granted that latter statement does happen in some higher profile cases that attract widespread attention from the general public and media. Sometimes rules, procedures and practices are insufficient to blunt the will of the We the People and law. But what about those cases of We the People that are ongoing in lesser courts all across America every day that are similar to what Geddes described? For that matter, what about J6 cases that were high profile? Whatever little credibility the feds and DC legal system had prior to that event has been totally washed away by their violations of the law through obvious corruption and oppression.
The aftermath of J6 is the very definition of politicization of the judiciary and legal system followed by weaponization. Add in the usual skullduggery with rules, procedures and practices with the courts that Jeff Childers discusses and you can see how hard it is to break through when the shadow government and judiciary are aligned against We the People.
We need to keep a watch on this one from Jeff. Removing Big Pharm’s liability protections is a game changer.
Good Stuff Happens At The Right Time In America
The recently released interview below discloses more than the average person knows about how things really work in and around the current federal government. If you have not done so, watch it and think about the insiders in DC and our federal government going back centuries. Then consider the magnitude of POTUS Trump’s undertaking. Skip it ahead to the actual interview a few minutes in if you want to conserve time.
In particular there is very interesting commentary starting around the 51 minute mark. Some of the pertinent discussion topics will ring bells relating to the Information War. They discuss many current topics we hit hard on here such as…
Wiki is a weapon and the IC is involved. Weaponization of the government against the citizens has been underway. It is not about the information you have they let you see, it’s about what you have to find (Ed Martin’s paraphrased words that means they intentionally withhold or hide it). Certifications of elections systems – fraud and money rule. Election in Poland soon – Obama is there. Why? The fed system used to be politicized and now it is weaponized. It started big with Obama and accelerated with Biden. Jack Smith under the microscope. All the big cases recently including cases related to Trump, IRS against citizens, school boards, IC, Crossfire Hurricane – all Bondi ordered investigations. Elections – aspects of things did not make sense in their construct.
Ed Martin stated, “I don’t think there is a way for the people to petition…”as it applies to forcing release of information regarding any of the on-going “investigations” or even past classified events that have been declassed like the JFK assassination from 62 years ago. No way to petition for judicial relief even when POTUS Trump declassified all of the documents? No standing as American citizens whose lives have been hugely negatively impacted by the events? Is that like having no standing to file a lawsuit against proven election fraud? Really?
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Which leads to where are the releases of the rest of the Kennedy, MLK, and Epstein docs? How about the J6 tapes and some honesty on 911? For goodness sakes, how about a real accounting of what happened in Butler less than a year ago that was witnessed on live TV? Nope, even PDT’s handpicked top cops from FIB will not go there.
Besides the usual criminal corruption, these events and people are all hidden behind rules, procedures and practices. Ed Martin would not even go there in response to many of Tucker’s questions. He knows the issues, yet skirted around answers with his responses. Why? An answer of “dunno” does not work for us. We know better. An answer of it being classified does not work for us either. We saw many of the events in real time as they occurred. Years have gone by and nothing is disclosed officially. We know what that means.
Just the content in this one interview reveals a depth of criminality and corruption that is mind blowing. It is also clear that Ed Martin believes people were more honorable in their personal conduct 100 years ago as he stated. If true, it indicates the primary problem today is the breakdown of morality, ethics and personal integrity within our society as it has become more politicized and now, weaponized. Personally, I don’t think his belief is true. I believe people have been equally corrupt and criminal in their activities throughout human history. The farther back you go the more the official history is cleaned by the corrupt. My brief FIRE! series highlighted some of that going back into the 1800’s.
We do not have to look far to see even more current abuse through rules, procedures and practices; this time in civil rights. Tucker’s interview of Harmeet Dhillon is a major eye opener of their use in destroying the quality of life in many cities, racism in colleges, religious persecution, elections steals and so on.
I confess the leftist pity parties as they exited that department would have been great fun to observe.
But it does not stop there, stories come out multiple times per week to substantiate what is now obvious. If you have not followed, read this short article.
If you have never been employed in the legal industry or interacting branches of government you probably never knew that the ABA was used by our elected federal officials for ratings of judicial nominees. It has been used for decades despite the org being a private, non-government controlled organization of over 400,000 legal worker members. So, the federal government authorized and utilized rules, procedures and practices associated with this proven partisan org that led to the confirmation support from azzhat elected officials/staffs for the corrupt, wacko federal judges we have seen circumventing the will of We the People this entire time. How convenient.
Oh yeah, did you notice that the ABA was formed in the late 1800’s? Folks – the ABA and many other divisive, anti-patriot orgs are nothing more than NGO’s that have been funded and weaponized by subversive globalists and wannabe dictators from times long ago. Many trace their lineages back post Civil War, some before. As an example you will find names of major industrialists with deep pockets such as Rockefeller who seeded them into American society. The AMA is another one as Gail has posted. This is the same org that walked lock step with Fauxi’s NIH and the CDC. Next, think about all of the NGO’s that trace back their funding back to subversive globalists that brought us the alien invasion.
Don’t get me started (yet) on the World Council of Churches or even the National Council of Churches. That will be a segment I address down the road as well, God willing.
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If you have not I highly advise deeper dives into Gail’s research. I also advise you to focus on the results of the globalist cabal’s seed planting as WW I and WW II ended. What orgs and acts were undertaken during and immediately following? Where did the funding of same come from as well as what elected officials and globalists were in their corner? We are in the middle of the exposure and destruction of some that occurred at the end of WW II over 75 years ago; whose seeds were actually planted leading up to WW I.
All of the corruption, manipulation and circumvention links together, just find the connecting dots. There are not multiple movies. There are many scenes that tie together in a blockbuster movie that has gone on in America since the Declaration of Independence was signed.
The situation is and remains as described below in the immortal words of 81 year old Benjamin Franklin:
“A republic, if you can keep it.”
We will return to this in future parts detailing the signers of our founding documents.
Steve/Wolf’s Solution Confirmed
The evidence has been presented. The verdict will be decided by a jury of We the People and not some idgit leftist judge placed in a position of fake authority by corrupted politicians and swamp. We the People who are America First still desire the republic that our founding fathers provided.
We are not going to solve the lack of ethics and deterioration of morals of our nation and world on here, much less within our intentionally polarized American society. However, the practical answer to it all has actually been by initiated by PDT subject to being fully supported by We the People and not stalled by the globalists and swamp. That gives hope. Reducing and defanging government means there are less azzhats in positions of authority to screw things up and mess with We the People. That has to be the current and most focused approach to solving the weaponization that was actually seeded through politicization first beginning with the strong central government backers’ efforts to create and pass the Constitution while building on the British legal system that the colonies employed here in America.
We will never know, but would we have been better off with the previous Articles of Confederation and any amendments as needed for enumerated powers, handling Treasury needs and military preparedness?
As discussed in previous Parts, we see how it happened in ancient Israel through the time of Christ just as it has in other civilizations in world history. Keeping things simple is just not normal behavior for many humans. The problem the power hungry as well as We the People have in America is that our nation has been dedicated to God and His providence from its founding. As a people we can stray from that and attempt to take things over on our own. However, until the Lord returns it will always be met by His discipline until a God fearing patriot remnant persevere through the fires and rebuild in accordance with His will. Again.
The better, most fulfilling American Way is to do things His way from the onset. Which means the manipulation, corruption and deception built into the rules, procedures and practices need to be practically and firmly eliminated.
I repeat for emphasis this statement from a great American we all dearly love on here,
So we wreck them by seriously cutting government and giving them fewer places to exist. Among all of the other benefits, the body politic would have fewer sociopaths and parasites in it.
– Steve–
Edited 1:23 PM, 6-3-25
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The above image of a vintage vaccine vial and syringe is courtesy of Google Images.
This post is a STOP PRESS EDITION. It has to do with the FDA BLA (Biologics License Application) approval of the Moderna COVID-19 modRNA “vaccine” mRNA-1283. This “vaccine” was FDA-approved without any clinical trial in which there was a placebo control group. mRNA-1283 contains a “shorter portion” of the COVID-19 virus spike protein. This “vaccine” also contains elements of the H7N9 Avian Influenza strain that was used in Gain-of-Function experiments by Dr. Yoshihira Kawaoka, DVM, PhD, in 2013, along with other scientists, at the University of Wisconsin (Madison.)
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 this post for any AI-generated content. To the best of her knowledge and belief, there is none. If readers wish to post any AI-generated content in the discussion thread of today’s offering, they must cite their source. Thank you.
Please see the following breaking news outlets pieces regarding the FDA granting the BLA for the Moderna “newest COVID-19 “vaccine”, mRNA-1283: First, this one: https://www.thefocalpoints.com/cp/164898171, “BREAKING: FDA Goes Rogue — Approves Moderna’s Next-Gen COVID-19 mRNA Injection Without a Placebo-Controlled Trial”, Nicolas Hulscher, May 2025. Please see the screenshots from this article, below:
HOWEVER, there is another aspect to the mRNA-1283 modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine” — this injectable appears to be a combination of BOTH the SARS-CoV-2 virus AND elements of the deadly H7N9 Avian Influenza virus. Please see: https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/cp/164803097, “FDA Approves Moderna COVID Jab Containing GOF Bird Flu Gene Segment That PCR Could Mistake for Infection”, 31 May 2025. The “bird flu gene segment” is from the Gain-of-Function experiments with the H7N9 Avian Influenza virus conducted by Dr. Yoshihiro Kawaoka, Ron Fouchier, and other scientists, under the aegis of the University of Wisconsin (Madison), where Dr. Kawaoka has his lab. These Gain-of-Function experiments were “outed” when serious lab accidents occurred; it appears that the experiments were then stopped. But not before Dr. Fouchier wrote this article: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1243325, “Gain-of-Function Experiments on H7N9”, 9 August 2013, in which Dr. Fouchier attempted to justify further Gain-of-Function experimentation.
The archived article regarding the H7N9 experiments at the University of Wisconsin (Madison), is found here: https://archive.ph/LX7MP, “Study: Lab-derived H5N1 virus component binds to human receptors”, Robert Roos, 13 April 2013.
In Yours Truly’s opinion, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services, is not doing his job. BOTH the FDA and the CDC have now “gone rogue” — first, with the “sleight-of-hand” regarding the CDC’s “new recommendations” about the COVID-19 “vaccines” (per Dr. Susan Monarez, PhD, the current Acting Director of the CDC, as of 30 May 2025); and, second, with the FDA (Dr. Martin Makary, Commissioner) granting approval of the Moderna modRNA COVID-19 + H7N9 gene pieces combination “vaccine”, mRNA-1283 (as of 31 May 2025.) It is time, in Yours Truly’s opinion, for Secretary Kennedy, Jr., to either get control of the FDA and CDC — after all, these agencies are part of HHS — or, to resign, and allow President Trump47 to find someone who will.
FLASH UPDATES! MORE ON THE “DIRTY BACKSTORY” RELATED TO THE FDA’s APPROVAL OF mRNA-1283 ON 30 MAY 2025:
ONE: The FDA’s Approval Letter to Moderna on 30 May 2025, regarding mRNA-1283: https://www.fda.gov/media/186740/download. Please see the screenshot of page nine of this document, below:
This is the PHASE 4 clinical study that Moderna is requested to perform for mRNA-1283, but which has NOT begun yet, nor has it ENROLLED any subjects yet.
TWO. This is the slide presentation for the CDC’s ACIP committee meeting for April 2025 related to the “2025-2026 COVID-19 Vaccines Formula” selections. Notice that there is NO vote that ACIP planned to take regarding mRNA-1283. Please see: https://www.cdc.gov/acip/downloads/slides-2025-04-15-16/05-Panagiotakopoulos-COVID-508.pdf. Below is a screenshot of the pertinent image from the slide presentation:
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God is in Control . . . and His Grace is Sufficient, so . . . Keep Looking Up
Hopefully, every Sunday, we can find something here that will build us up a little . . . give us a smile . . . and add some joy or peace, very much needed in all our lives.
“This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn nor weep.” . . . “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
Dragged to GOD!
The clearest verse on God’s drawing to salvation is John 6:44 where Jesus declares that “no one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.” The Greek word translated “draw” is helkuo, which means “to drag” (literally or figuratively). Clearly, this drawing is a one-sided affair. God does the drawing to salvation; we who are drawn have a passive role in the process. There is no doubt that we respond to His drawing us, but the drawing itself is all on His part.
Helkuo is used in John 21:6 to refer to a heavy net full of fish being dragged to the shore. In John 18:10 we see Peter drawing his sword, and in Acts 16:19 helkuo is used to describe Paul and Silas being dragged into the marketplace before the rulers. Clearly, the net had no part in its being drawn to the shore, Peter’s sword had no part in being drawn, and Paul and Silas did not drag themselves to the marketplace. The same can be said of God’s drawing of some to salvation. Some come willingly, and some are dragged unwillingly, but all eventually come, although we have no part in the drawing.
Why does God need to draw us to salvation? Simply put, if He didn’t, we would never come. Jesus explains that no man can come unless the Father draws him (John 6:65). The natural man has no ability to come to God, nor does he even have the desire to come. Because his heart is hard and his mind is darkened, the unregenerate person doesn’t desire God and is actually an enemy of God (Romans 5:10). When Jesus says that no man can come without God’s drawing him, He is making a statement about the total depravity of the sinner and the universality of that condition. So darkened is the unsaved person’s heart that he doesn’t even realize it: “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” (Jeremiah 17:9). Therefore, it is only by the merciful and gracious drawing of God that we are saved. In the conversion of the sinner, God enlightens the mind (Ephesians 1:18), inclines the will toward Himself, and influences the soul, without which influence the soul remains darkened and rebellious against God. All of this is involved in the drawing process.
There is a sense in which God draws all men. This is known as the “general call” and is distinguished from the “effectual call” of God’s elect. Passages such as Psalm 19:1-4 and Romans 1:20 attest to the fact that God’s eternal power and divine nature are “clearly seen” and “understood” from what has been made, “so that people are without excuse.” But men still do deny God, and those who acknowledge His existence still do not come to a saving knowledge of Him outside of His drawing them. Only those who have been drawn through special revelation—by the power of the Holy Spirit and the grace of God—will come to Christ.
There are tangible ways in which those who are being drawn to salvation experience that drawing. First, the Holy Spirit convicts us of our sinful state and our need for a Savior (John 16:8). Second, He awakens in us a previously unknown interest in spiritual things and creates a desire for them that was never there before. Suddenly our ears are open, our hearts are inclined toward Him, and His Word begins to hold a new and exciting fascination for us. Our spirits begin to discern spiritual truth that never made sense to us before: “The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Corinthians 2:14). Finally, we begin to have new desires. He places within us a new heart that inclines toward Him, a heart that desires to know Him, obey Him, and walk in the “newness of life” (Romans 6:4) that He has promised.
What is it that feeds our battle, yet starves our victory?
January 6 Tapes?
Where are the tapes? Anyone, Anyone? Bueller? Johnson??
Paging Speaker Johnson…this is your conscience calling you out on broken promises.
Evading Reality
Many things the Left believes are simply not true. Right now the focus is on the size and scope of our government, and the many many billions of dollars the government has been spending on no-one-knew-what. None of that money is going to a key role of government. Which, after all, has the sole purpose of protecting rights.
And if you, Leftist Lurker, want to dismiss this as dead white cis-male logic…well, you can call it what you want, but then please just go fuck off. No one here buys that bullshit–logic is logic and facts are facts regardless of skin color–and if you gave it a moment’s rational thought, you wouldn’t either. Of course your worthless education never included being able to actually reason–or detect problems with false reasoning–so I don’t imagine you’ll actually wake up as opposed to being woke.
As Ayn Rand would sometimes point out: Yes, you are free to evade reality. What you cannot do is evade the consequences of evading reality. Or to put it concretely: You can ignore the Mack truck bearing down on you as you play in the middle of the street, you won’t be able to ignore the consequences of ignoring the Mack truck.
And Ayn Rand also pointed out that existence (i.e., the sum total of everything that exists) precedes consciousness–our consciousnesses are a part of existence, not outside of it–therefore reality cannot be a “social construct” as so many of you fucked-up-in-the-head people seem to think.
So much for Leftist douchebag lurkers. For the rest of you, the regular readers and those lurkers who understand such things, well here we go for another week of WINNING against the Deep State.
I confess that the novelty has not worn off.
Justice Must Be Done.
The prior election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system.
Yes, we won this time around. Not only did we win, we got to KEEP that win instead of having it stolen from us.
But no one should imagine that that’s the end of electoral fraud. Much work needs to be done to ensure it doesn’t just happen again next time around. And incidentally to rescue those states currently in the grips of self-perpetuating fraud, where the people who stole the last election, make sure it’s easier to steal the next one.
This issue, though it’s not front-and-center right now, is not going away, and if we ignore it, we’ll pay the price. See the article above about the consequences of evading reality.
Lawyer Appeasement Section
OK now for the fine print.
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We have a new board – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation.
And remember Wheatie’s Rules:
1. No food fights 2. No running with scissors. 3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone. 4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns. 5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded. 5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty. 6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy. 7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire. 8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.
I’m making a minor change here. Before, I quoted “ask” prices; i.e., the spot price corresponding to what you would pay a precious metal seller (if they actually paid attention to the spot price). The other price is “bid,” what they nominally pay you. The “bid” prices are what usually show up in the news. So from here on out it will be bid/ask, with the part after the slash corresponding to what I used to post. I’ll still use the ask prices to compute gold:silver and FRNSI.
Gold stayed above 3300 this week, but finally took a hit on Friday. Similar with the other metals. On the plus side for silver people, silver gained half an ounce (of silver) against gold.
*The SteveInCO Federal Reserve Note Suckage Index (FRNSI) is a measure of how much the dollar has inflated. It’s the ratio of the current price of gold, to the number of dollars an ounce of fine gold made up when the dollar was defined as 25.8 grains of 0.900 gold. That worked out to an ounce being $20.67+71/387 of a cent. (Note gold wasn’t worth this much back then, thus much gold was $20.67 71/387ths. It’s a subtle distinction. One ounce of gold wasn’t worth $20.67 back then, it was $20.67.) Once this ratio is computed, 1 is subtracted from it so that the number is zero when the dollar is at its proper value, indicating zero suckage.
Volcanoes
I’ve talked about streams. I’ve talked about glaciers (and judging from reactions, that was a better effort than the one on streams). Now it’s time–and we have the background–to talk about volcanoes.
Isaac Asimov was famous as a science fiction writer (most famous works being the Foundation Trilogy and the Robot stories and novels–he popularized the putative three laws of robotics) but he also was a biochemist and science popularizer. (In other words, when I read his work I realize how bad a job I am doing at this.) For decades he wrote a column for the monthly magazine Fantasy and Science Fiction. The editors gave him free rein. He usually wrote about some scientific topic. These got collected into books which I read, and oftentimes remember.
One of the essays I remember to this day is one he wrote in 1959. Asimov considered some of the most vital elements for living things (chlorine, sodium, potassium, sulfur, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, iron, manganese, zinc, cvopper, molybdenum, cobalt and iodine). That list isn’t complete, obviously, but he was focused on soil and land life. He then compared the abundance of each in the soil to the abundance in living things. For instance, soil he lists as being five percent iron, but living things are 0.0027 percent iron (this is presumably before the IRS bleeds you dry and gets all your hemoglobin). The idea being that land life will never run out of iron, because it’s actually more strongly concentrated in dirt than it is in living things. But work it the other way around: sulfur is 0.052 percent of all dirt, but 0.104 percent of living things–it’s twice as concentrated in living things as it is in the soil. Conceivably, life could be fruitful and multiply…until it weighed half as much as the upper layers of earth and there was no more sulfur left. OK, that wouldn’t happen, would it? We’d never have that much living stuff on Earth. The king though was phosphorus, which is concentrated 5.9 times in living things, versus the soil. Given how little of the Earth’s upper layers is living things, there should be no issue with running out of phosphorus, though, right?
Well, no. If it’s locked up in solid rocks, it’s useless; plants can’t use it and therefore, we animal types won’t be able to either. Add to that the fact that these elements aren’t distributed uniformly, and well, after a lot of discussion he states that phosphorus is “life’s bottleneck.” (And that is the name he gave the essay.) Then he pointed out that phosphorus tended to wash out into the oceans (3 and a half million tons per year), and there was no way for it to come back other than in waterfowl poop, which recovers maybe 3 percent and in any case (let’s face it) won’t help Kansas out. Furthermore, the ocean water was already saturated in phosphorus, so it’s carrying as much life as it can, and so what phosphorus washed out of the land would settle to the bottom of the ocean in sediment.
(There, I just used the “S” word so now you might be thinking there’s actually geology coming up sometime.)
He actually suggested trying to capture some of that phosphorus so it wouldn’t be lost forever; given enough time the Earth’s land would be nearly lifeless simply for lack of usable phosphorus.
Actually, it’s not a bad argument. He sounded more worried about that than about running out of oil and coal (but then, he liked nuclear power). As he said at the end, “We may be able to substitute nuclear power for coal, and plastics for wood, and yeast for meat [ick!]…but for phosphorus there is neither substitute nor replacement.”
But there was one factor he didn’t take into account, and that’s no surprise whatsoever, because as I said before he wrote the article in 1959. No one could have taken that factor into account because we were only beginning to get a glimmer of it.
And the factor is (drumroll): Volcanoes…fed by plate tectonics.
Volcanoes can be thought of as Earth-scale zits popping, and thus regarded as a big negative, especially since they can be hazardous, but in fact they play a vital role, as they bring back to land what gets washed into the ocean. It’s by no means a fast process, since ocean crust can last up to two hundred million years, but it’s there.
Most volcanoes (I say most) appear either over subduction zones, or at divergent zones. The latter of these is the more intuitive, and the signature example is Iceland. As the plates move further apart, magma wells up to fill the gap and becomes ocean floor, literally hot off the conveyor belt. Magma welling up to the surface will of course make one think of volcanoes.
The first diagram shows the mid-Atlantic ridge from above, and also a profile, showing that the ridge comes comparatively close the surface, then slopes away to the more level bottom of the Atlantic ocean.
If that mid-ocean ridge should happen to break the surface of the ocean, it will form a volcanic island, and indeed we see this happen at Iceland, but also Jan Mayen, Pico island in the Azores, Ascension Island, St. Helena, Tristan da Cunha, Gough Island and Bouvet Island in the Atlantic ocean. In other oceans, the Galapagos islands are on a divergent boundary in the Pacific, and Rodriguez, St. Paul, Amsterdam, MacDonald, Heard, and Kerguelen islands in the Indian ocean.
(St. Paul and Amsterdam islands, by the way, are antipodal to Colorado; directly on the opposite side of the Earth from here. Kerguelen–a much larger but still-small island–is antipodal to the Montana/Alberta/Saskatchewan border. The rest of the Lower 48 is opposite of water.)
Why are there islands at these particular locations and not other places on the ridges? Hot spots. Which I’ll get to later.
But most volcanoes are on convergent boundaries, in particular subduction zones, which pretty much ring the entire Pacific ocean. To refresh memories, here’s a picture:
Why would there be volcanoes there? New crust isn’t forming, it’s disappearing. The ocean floor is basically being pushed down deep below the surface of the earth, presumably never to be seen again.
What’s happening is that the lighter continental rock sediments on the ocean floor are being heated, melt, and force their way upward through the denser rock until they reach the surface…and there they form volcanoes, usually not right on the subduction zone (which generally forms a deep oceanic trench like the Marianas trench) but a ways “downstream” from it; the sedimentary rocks need time to heat up and melt.
So this is how we get our continental crust (including phosphorus) back after it washes into the oceans! Asimov had no idea in 1959.
These account for almost every volcano out there, but of course there are two famous exceptions, Hawaii and Yellowstone. What accounts for them? Hotspots. Which I’ll get there later.
Volcanic lava tends to determine how explosive a volcano is. The more basaltic, the better; basaltic magma is very fluid and doesn’t have a lot of water trapped in it, so mid-ocean ridge volcanoes tend not to go “kablooey!” when they erupt. Near subduction zones, the magma is less basaltic (it has all that melted continental sediment in it after all) and has water trapped in it, so it tends to be explosive. As soon as that magma gets close to the surface the water in it flashes to steam and…well…(cued to 13:02):
Mount St. Helens was likely the largest landslide in recorded history. Worldwide. But it was by no means a superlatively large eruption as eruptions go. Big, but not humongous.
(The remainder of the video covers four other eruptions around the world, caught on camera.)
Also worth watching, the Smithsonian making itself useful (though you will want to stop it before it plays the next video):
Lava Types
There are two major types of lava flow, readily identifiable when they solidify. Logically enough they have Hawaiian names; the Hawaiians deal with lava like Inuit deal with snow.
The first is ‘a’a, roughly pronounced “ah, ah”. It tends to look chunky and jagged; the lava is a bit viscous. Then there’s pahoehoe (“pa hoy hoy”) which is much more smooth; it can look ropy because the top layer will get compressed and “scrunch up” as the still-liquid lava below it continues to flow. Here’s a picture of a new ‘a’a flow making its way across an older pahoehoe surface. The blocky chunks it is solidifying into are called clinkers.
Because lava tends to solidify at the top of the flow while the lower layers remain liquid, lava tubes can form, essentially caves through which lava once flowed. Here’s one in Hawaii:
you can see “step” lines in the walls, as later lava flows that didn’t fill the tube, used it as well.
Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho is probably one of the best places to see these sorts of things. It has cinder cones, lava fields that stretch to the horizon (it’s eerie to see almost no signs of life as far as you can see), pahoehoe and ‘a’a lava all over the place, and lava tubes. (And those are extremely unforgiving; I managed to bang my knee up pretty well tripping over something when I walked through one of the tubes–which was not nearly as smooth as the one in Hawaii; it was ‘a’a lava.)
Other Volcanic Stuff
Volcanic ash is the dusty stuff that gets ejected high into the atmosphere. It may not travel very far. When it comes down in thick layers it can consolidate into fairly soft rocks called tuff. (Tuff is sometimes erroneously called tufa, which is actually the name of a kind of marble.) Ash particles are 2mm or smaller, larger stuff gets labeled lapilli, at least until it reaches a diameter of 64mm.
Blobs of lava sent flying through the air are called volcanic bombs or lava bombs when they are more than 64 mm in diameter. They can fly many kilometers if they’re that small, but ones five to six meters across have been recorded, flying a few hundred meters. Here is an example from Kilauea:
If the eruption sends an already-solid rock through the air that would otherwise be a bomb, it’s a volcanic block. This example is from Cotopaxi in Ecuador.
Types of Volcanoes
There are quite a number of different types of volcanoes, including a number of types for volcanoes in the ocean–and I mean in the ocean, not above it–but the major ones are:
Cinder Cones. These are basically piles of small cinders, ash, clinkers that have spewed up vertically and fallen back to earth in a fairly neat, conical pile. They can range from tens to hundreds of meters tall. Mount Capulin in northeastern New Mexico is an example, they are also present in Craters of the Moon national monument in Idaho. (What’s a volcanic field doing in Idaho, nowhere near a plate boundary? Hot spots. Which I’ll get to later.)
Quite possibly the most famous cinder cone is Paricutin, in Michoacan State in Mexico. Picture this, a farmer in 1943 minding his own business when a vent in the ground opens up and starts spewing cinders. His name was Dionisio Pulido, and his account is:
At 4 p.m., I left my wife to set fire to a pile of branches when I noticed that a crack, which was situated on one of the knolls of my farm, had opened . . . and I saw that it was a kind of fissure that had a depth of only half a meter. I set about to ignite the branches again when I felt a thunder, the trees trembled, and I turned to speak to Paula; and it was then I saw how, in the hole, the ground swelled and raised itself 2 or 2.5 meters high, and a kind of smoke or fine dust – grey, like ashes – began to rise up in a portion of the crack that I had not previously seen . . . Immediately more smoke began to rise with a hiss or whistle, loud and continuous; and there was a smell of sulfur.
He–along with two whole towns–was SOL, his farm is now under a 424 meter tall cindercone (which did spew some lava). This happened over the span of nine years, and it has been dormant since then. Luckily only three people were killed.
Next we have the shield volcano. These will form when a volcano consistently erupts highly fluid, low viscosity lava, and have very gentle slopes. They’re named shield volcanoes because they reminded someone of one of those round hoplite shields (like Leonidas had), laying flat on the ground…just a low mound.
Hawaii is an example of a shield volcano. Here’s another in Iceland, named Skjaldbreidur…
…which is considerably easier to pronounce than Eyjafjallajökull, a troublemaker underneath a glacier. (Iceland Air, by the way, names its airplanes after Icelandic volcanoes.)
Mauna Kea/Hawai’i is the largest shield volcano on Earth, but Olympus Mons on Mars beats it handily. The total area within the escarpment is roughly the same as the country of Poland, and it is 21,900 meters tall (compare to Everest which is less than 9000, and to Hawai’i which measured from its base on the ocean floor, is 9330 meters tall.
And we can do combinations. Here’s a cinder cone that is in the San Francisco volcanic field near Flagstaff in Arizona…a nice symmetrical one, but the big black blotch upwards from it in the photograph is a basaltic lava flow from before the cindercone formed. (This field contains volcanoes anywhere between 1000 and 4 million years old. Mt. Humphreys (12,600 ft) is part of this field. The field is considered active, but likely not due for an eruption for a couple of thousand years.)
But probably the one you form a mental image of when you hear the word “volcano” is the stratovolcano…the type Mount St. Helens, and Ranier, and Shasta, and Hood, are.
Here is Mount Ranier:
It’s very prominent, when I first laid eyes on it on a road trip I immediately thought of “Fist of God” from Larry Niven’s Ringworld novels.
The internal structure will look something like this (vertically exaggerated):
Key to the diagram: 1) Large magma chamber 2) Bedrock 3) Conduit (pipe), 4) Base 5) Sill 6) Dike 7) Layers of ash emitted by the volcano 8) Flank 9) Layers of lava emitted by the volcano 10) Throat 11) Parasitic cone 12) Lava flow 13) Vent 14) Crater 15) Ash cloud.
These volcanoes tend to have a layered structure and in fact this is Broken Top, an eroded volcano in Oregon:
The crater at the top is often also known as a caldera, particularly if it’s big.
Another famous eruption in the Pacific Northwest is that of Mount Mazama. If you’ve never heard of that one, that’s because it is much more famous as Crater Lake. The 12,000 foot mountain erupted 7700 years ago–and it erupted so much that the magma chamber under the mountain was now empty. The peak of the mountain collapsed into the magma chamber, forming a caldera six miles across. The highest point on the rim of the crater is now 8,157 feet above sea level.
From the outside it’s an unassuming line of tree-covered peaks (they look like hills to me, honestly, since they don’t bust the tree line). From the inside, on the other hand:
I can attest that that is what the water actually looks like. This image has not been enhanced to exaggerate the color. The rim is hundreds of feet high or more. In the center is Wizard island, the result of a much smaller eruption a few thousand years ago.
Add it to your bucket list. I’m not joking, add it to your bucket list.
Volcanic Eruptions Ranked
Scientists will measure absolutely anything on a scale, and for volcanic eruptions they have the Volcanic Explosivity Index, or VEI, largely based on how much stuff the eruption spewed into the atmosphere.
Each step in the scale is ten times as much ejecta. Ten thousand cubic meters is a 1, a hundred thousand cubic meters a 2, and so on; at this rate when you get to a 5, that’s a cubic kilometer. The scale runs up to 8, 1000 cubic kilometers. When you realize that’s a cube six miles on a side, you realize that’s a LOT of crap spewing into the atmosphere.
So how do some famous eruptions stack up? Mt. St. Helens was a 5 (one cubic kilometer). Vesuvius in 79 CE was also a five. Pelee in 1902 was “only” a 4…but that volcano, on Martinque, destroyed the town of St. Pierre, killing 29,000-30,000 people almost without warning, the worst loss of life to a volcano of the 20th century. There were, by the way, three survivors. (That is not a typo. 3. Out of 30,000.)
Krakatoa, 1883, and Pinatubo, 1991, were VEI 6s, 10 cubic kilometers. Remember when the Phillipines kicked us out of the bases we had there? Well one of those bases got destroyed by that eruption.
Mazama was a 7, roughly 100 cubic kilometers of spew. Santorini in 1600 BCE was also a 7, and it was suggested it may have destroyed the Minoan civilization, but the timing isn’t quite right. There are Minoan ruins on what is left of that island, formerly Thera, now Santorini. And then there is Tambora, 1815. Tambora is on Sumbawa island, east of Java and Bali. Tambora’s eruption was heard 2600 kilometers away in Sumatra. In the northeastern US the next year, there was a persistent “dry fog” in the atmosphere from sulfur kicked up by this volcano, it dimmed the sun enough that people could see sunspots with their naked eyes. And that was the year without a summer; so much dust was in the upper atmosphere that massive crop failures were the result…world wide. It snowed June 6, 1816 in Albany, New York.
That was the biggest eruption in recorded history, but it is by no means the biggest eruption ever.
At a VEI of 8 we have Toba, on Sumatra, 74 thousand years ago, Taupo in New Zealand 26.5 thousand years ago, and, America is not to be outdone! Yellowstone, 2.1 Ma, and 640,000 years ago. (We’re due, folks…and the only safe place is Mars.)
Volcanic Plugs
One more thing I’ll cover, and that’s the subject of volcanic plugs. This is where lava hardens in the conduit of a volcano, and then the rest of the mountain erodes away.
By far the most famous of these is Devil’s Tower in Wyoming, made famous in Close Encounters of the Third Kind:
Aliens not included. [The wikipedia article on volcanic plugs hedges a bit and says many geologists believe that Devil’s Tower is a volcanic plug. Which means at least some do not.]
The striated look is because basalt likes to shrink and fracture into hexagonal columns, like this (the Giant’s Causeway in Ireland):
Wrapping Up
I said I’d talk about hot spots. And that’s true. I thought I’d do it today but I realized that subject is closely tied to a slightly deeper look at plate tectonics that I wanted to take. So I will (hopefully) do both next time. In the meantime I’ve given you quite a bit to digest already.
Health Friday is a series devoted to information about Big Pharma, vaccines, general health, and associated topics. As today’s offering has to do with the disaster of the COVID-19 “vaccines” (Bioweapon Toxin Injections), Yours Truly dedicates it to all persons, of whatever age or location, who have passed away due to the negative effects of the COVID-19 “vaccines” that they had injected into their bodies.
There are Important Notifications from our host, Wolf Moon; the Rules of late, good Wheatie; and, certain caveats from Yours Truly, of which readers should be aware. They are linked here. Note: Yours Truly has checked today’s offering for any AI-generated content. To the best of her knowledge and belief, there is none. If readers wish to use any AI-generated material in the discussion thread for today’s post, they must cite their source. Thank you.
Yours Truly has been researching, reading about, and writing about, the COVID-19 disaster since March 2020. She had a sense, early in 2020 when the speculation about the development and use of a COVID-19 “vaccine”, that something was “off” in the hype regarding “how this will stop the spread” of the virus, “how this will prevent COVID-19 infection”, and so on. As it turns out, that “Suspicious Dog” feeling was the correct one — the COVID-19 “vaccines” have been, are now, and will be, a disaster. These injectables do not prevent COVID-19 infection. These injectables have injured, sickened, disabled, and even killed, millions of “vaccinated” persons all over the world. These “vaccines” will continue to injure, sicken, disable, and even kill, those who have them put into their body — not only because of the ingredients and mechanisms of these injectables, but now also because of the “new and improved” (not) faulty foundation of “lab-created antibody titer levels tests” that will be used in the development of the “latest mutation version” of the “vaccines”, instead of doing actual clinical trials with lab animals and/or with human subjects. I will make it clear at the start that today’s offering is not meant to “stir the pot.” There are, in my opinion, legitimate questions that need to be asked regarding certain recent news items.
There are several central elements of the current situation regarding the “2025-2026 COVID-19 Vaccine Formula”, and the actions of certain people and entities. One such entity is the FDA. The current Commissioner of the FDA is Dr. Martin Makary, MD, MPH, who is also a proponent of COVID-19 “vaccination” (including in pregnant women), and is himself “vaccinated.”
On 22 May 2025, the FDA’s VRBPAC (Vaccines and Related Biological Advisory Committee) members met to “consider” and then to “recommend” the “2025-2026 COVID-19 Vaccine Formula.” The committee voted unanimously, after “presentations” by Pfizer-BioNTech, by Moderna, and by Novavax, to “recommend” the “formulas” for the modRNA (Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna) and the “inactivated protein” (Novavax) COVID-19 “vaccines.” Please see: https://www.contagionlive.com/view/fda-makes-recommendations-for-2025-2026-formula-for-covid-19-vaccines, 23 May 2025. A screenshot from this article is below:
These “vaccines” will be lab-developed, then lab-tested regarding the amount of “antibody titers” that “might” be “effective” in the “2025-2026 Formula COVID-19 Vaccines.” There will be no clinical trial testing of these “vaccines.” This protocol, outlined in the “Option 4” method, was adopted by the FDA on 28 June 2022. Please see the Briefing Document for this meeting: https://www.fda.gov/media/159452/download. “Option 4” is located on page 19. Please see the screenshot below:
Therefore, it appears that any person who takes an injection of the “2025-2026 Formula COVID-19 Vaccine” by Pfizer-BioNTech, by Moderna, or by Novavax, will be, in essence, a “human lab rat”, since these “vaccines” will only have been tested under “Petri-dish conditions” in a lab to confirm whether the “antibody titer amounts” expressed by the “vaccine” ingredients “might” be “effective” in humans.
There were over 95,000 public comments that were submitted to the FDA regarding the VRBPAC meeting of 22 May 2025, indicating a “major public outcry” against the “recommending” of more COVID-19 “vaccines.” Nonetheless, the VRBPAC members voted to endorse the “2025-2026 COVID-19 Vaccine” formulas, as described above, using the “Option 4” method. Please see: https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/fda-recommends-more-mrna-shots-despite, “FDA Recommends More mRNA Booster Shots Despite New Study Showing Booster Failure — and Major Public Outcry”, Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, 26 May 2025. Please see the screenshot from this article, below:
The phrase, “immunogenicity data” refers to the “Petri-dish lab experiments” as described above.
The image below is from the “opinion piece” written and published by Dr. Martin Makary and Dr. Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH. Dr. Prasad is another important person in the current situation regarding the HHS / FDA / CDC. As of 6 May 2025, Dr. Prasad is the new Director of the FDA’s CBER department (Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.) The “opinion piece” was published on 20 May 2025, two days prior to the FDA’s VRBPAC meeting. Please see: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb2506929. A screenshot of the combined Figure 2 and Figure 3 from the “opinion piece” are below:
Dr. Prasad made it clear, in a podcast, that the FDA will implement the elements outlined in the “opinion piece” as the “new framework” for COVID-19 “vaccination.” Please keep this in mind for later on in today’s offering.
The paper regarding the failure of COVID-19 “booster shots”, already online-published but will appear in a medical journal in June 2025, is found here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.127257, “Effect of the 2022 COVID-19 booster vaccination campaign in people aged 50 years in England: Regression discontinuity analysis in OpenSAFELY-TPP”, Andrea L. Schaffer, et al., journal Vaccine, Volume 59, 20 June 2025, 127257. The salient image from this paper is below:
Regarding the impact of COVID-19 “vaccination” on the lifetime supply of eggs in a female’s ovaries, it is now known that BOTH the modRNA AND the “inactivated” COVID-19 “vaccines” have a devastating impact on this egg supply. Please see: https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines/13040345, “Impact of mRNA and Inactivated COVID-19 Vaccines on Ovarian Reserve”, Enes Karaman, et al., 30 January 2025. This paper demonstrates that there is a 30% conception failure rate, and an overall loss of up to 60% of the lifetime egg supply in the female ovaries, both induced by COVID-19 “vaccination” in a female of child-bearing age.
Then, there is Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, the new Director of the NIH (National Institutes of Health.) It appears that Dr. Bhattacharya may be “betting on both sides of the game” regarding COVID-19 and the COVID-19 “vaccines.” While it is true that Dr. Bhattacharya has stated that lockdowns, “mandated masking”, “social distancing”, and so on, are not real methods to deal with the virus, he also said this, in 2021, regarding the COVID-19 “vaccines”:
Link to the above: https://www.newsweek.com/stanford-doc-jay-bhattacharya-calls-vaccine-mandates-unethical-says-patients-can-choose-1611938. The above statement from Dr. Bhattacharya raises some questions: One, if COVID-19 is “basically a cold”, how can a “vaccine” protect against it? Two, if COVID-19 is “basically a cold”, why are there so many persons who have had a COVID-19 infection (either from the mechanisms of the COVID-19 “vaccines” themselves, or from the virus itself) and have since presented with symptoms of “Long COVID”? Three, if indeed a person who had a COVID-19 infection and recovered, is “protected against new disease”, why are people (COVID-19 “vaccinated” or not) still coming down with COVID-19 virus mutation infections?
Next is Susan Monarez PhD, the current Acting Director of the CDC. Previously, she had worked in the Department of Homeland Security with BARDA and with other HHS departments. Dr. Monarez is a “biosecurity expert” who has also endorsed the COVID-19 “vaccines.” Please see: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/health/cdc-director-monarez.html, “Trump Nominates Susan Monarez to Lead C.D.C.”, 24 March 2025. The pullquote from the article: “Monarez is a biosecurity expert who endorsed the Covid vaccines, and her selection may signal a growing impatience with anti-vaccine sentiment.”
And, finally, there is current HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., an attorney who founded the Children’s Health Defense organization (https://childrenshealthdefense.org/), and who has been an outspoken opponent of the COVID-19 “vaccines.”
And here begins Yours Truly’s presentation of the Kabuki theater going on at HHS / FDA / CDC:
On Tuesday 27 May 2025, HHS Secretary Kennedy, Jr., appeared in a video with Dr. Markary and Dr. Bhattacharya to announce that the COVID-19 “vaccines” that are “recommended” (in actual practice, they are called “routine”) by the CDC for healthy children under age 18, and for healthy pregnant women, would be removed from the CDC Immunization Schedules. Please see: https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1927374665745342535, a screenshot of which is below:
Where was Dr. Monarez, the Acting Director of the CDC? Why wasn’t she included in the video? An “announcement” of this importance would surely have required her to be included. To the best of Yours Truly’s knowledge and belief, neither Dr. Makary (FDA), nor Dr. Bhattacharya (FDA CBER), have the direct authority to remove vaccines from the CDC Immunization Schedules. The CDC is a separate departmental entity of HHS.
However: In reality, nothing has changed regarding the CDC Immunization Schedules. The CDC is still using the same 2025 Immunization Schedules that were issued on 21 November 2024. Please see: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/imz-schedules/index.html. The CDC is still “recommending” that pregnant women get COVID-19 “vaccinated”. Please see: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines-pregnancy/about/index.html. This “recommendation” was issued by the CDC on 17 June 2024.
The “elaborate costumes and dance of Kabuki theater” approach were on display during this video with Secretary Kennedy, Jr., Dr. Makary, and Dr. Bhattacharya. But it was a “performance.” And the audience suspended reality for the “performance.”
Yours Truly now turns to the blog article by Sasha Latypova, a former medical technology and pharmaceutical technology professional, about this “Kabuki theater performance” of 27 May: https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/eugenics-for-dummies-aka-hhss-evidence, “Eugenics for Dummies, aka HHS’s “Evidence-Based Approach” to covid shots.”, 29 May 2025. Please see the screenshots from her article, below:
It appears that, in reality, what has happened is that the current CDC Immunization Schedules have been neatly “absorbed into” the “new evidence-based approach to the COVID-19 vaccines” so-called “opinion piece” of Dr. Makary and Dr. Prasad (see the links to their “opinion piece”, above; and, also, the statement by Dr. Prasad that this “new approach” will be implemented at the FDA / CDC (so, it seems, they aren’t “opinions” at all.)
Further confirmation of the “Kabuki theater” element regarding the 27 May “announcement” by Secretary Kennedy, Jr., Dr. Makary, and Dr. Bhattacharya, comes from The Kingston Report: https://karenkingston.substack.com/cp/164733998, “Who’s Calling the Shots at HHS?”, 29 May 2025.
WHO IS IN CHARGE OF HHS? If Secretary Kennedy, Jr., can take the time to write letters to ask that ostriches in Canada are not “culled” due to a “possible” infection from Avian Influenza; if he can issue a directive to have titanium dioxide removed from candy (Skittles) — why did he participate in a “Kabuki theater performance” on 27 May regarding something incredibly important to the health of every American — the dangerous, deadly COVID-19 “vaccines”? Did he, or anyone else, at HHS, inform Dr. Monarez about the “change” in the CDC Immunization Schedules? If so, did she agree?
In Yours Truly’s opinion, there appears to be some sort of “issues” going on at HHS, the FDA, and the CDC. HHS Secretary Kennedy, Jr., needs to get to the bottom of all of them.
FLASH! AS OF TODAY, 30 MAY 2025: THE CDC HAS JUST ISSUED THE “NEW CHILDHOOD VACCINE IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE” RELATED TO THE COVID-19 “VACCINES”:
It appears that Dr. Susan Monarez, PhD, has finally weighed in regarding the 27 May “announcement” (aka “Kabuki theater performance”) by HHS Secretary Kennedy, Jr., Dr. Makary, and Dr. Bhattacharya COVID-19 “vaccines” and the CDC Childhood Immunization Schedule. Please see Sasha Latypova’s presentation here: https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/cdc-issued-the-anticipated-updates, “CDC issued the anticipated updates to the children’s schedule for covid shots”, 30 May 2025.
HOWEVER, there’s some “catches” in the “updates.” Huge “catches.” These have to do with the CDC “definition” of what a “healthy child” means. In short summary: It will be the CDC who decides if a child meets their “criteria” for being a “healthy child” (meaning, the COVID-19 “vaccines” aren’t “necessary” or “recommended”); it will be the CDC’s “guidance” on this that will be in control of any discussion between a child’s parent(s)/guardians, and the clinician who can administer COVID-19 “vaccines”; there are no provisions that Yours Truly can see in the CDC “guidance” for exemptions on religious or other grounds; and, that ANY clinician who is cleared to administer COVID-19 “vaccines” will ultimately make the decision on whether or not to COVID-19 “vaccinate” a child who does not fit the CDC “criteria” for a “healthy child.” This includes clinicians who have never treated the child (in other words, a CVS pharmacist, for example.) Please see the screenshots below, from the Latypova article of today:
