“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
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
You just might want to keep those Demmunists in check.
(2) Here are two voices in AI that are worth listening to. Ilya Sutskever was one of the top dudes at OpenAI. Eric Schmidt was the infamous Googler. Both have thoughts about AI.
Yeah, it’s a clickbait title – don’t let that mess with your head. The actual talk from these guys has some interesting silver linings.
Stick with GOD is my recommendation. As Luther said, we should “fear, love, and trust in God above all things.”
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Hopefully, every Sunday, we can find something here that will build us up a little . . . give us a smile . . . and add some joy or peace, very much needed in all our lives.
“This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn nor weep.” . . . “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
Things We Don’t Understand
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9
The Mystery of God’s Plan As we walk through life, we often find ourselves confronted with situations that leave us scratching our heads. We might not understand why certain events occur or how God’s plans are unfolding in our lives. Yet, when we reflect on God’s mysterious ways, we realize that He sees the bigger picture that we cannot. His infinite wisdom surpasses our limited perspectives. We should embrace our lack of understanding as an opportunity to lean on His divine guidance and trust that He is working for our good, even when things do not make sense to us.
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. – Isaiah 55:8
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” – Proverbs 3:5-6
“Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!” – Romans 11:33
“He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted.” – Job 5:9
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” – Ecclesiastes 3:11
Finding Peace in the Unknown Facing the unknown can be unsettling, yet we are encouraged to find tranquility in our faith. God assures us through Scripture that even when we don’t grasp the reasons behind our circumstances, He is sovereign and in control. We can take comfort in knowing that we are not alone in our lack of understanding. Through prayer and seeking His presence, we can find peace amidst life’s uncertainties. Let us cultivate trust in His perfect plans, knowing that His timing is always right and He cares for us deeply.
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” – Philippians 4:6-7
“Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” – Psalm 46:10
“You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.” – Isaiah 26:3
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” – John 14:27
“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind.” – 2 Timothy 1:7
Understanding Through Faith When we encounter things we don’t understand, our faith plays a key role in bridging that gap. Trusting God doesn’t mean we will always have the answers, but it means we believe He is working in ways that may be hidden from us for now. Our faith allows us to embrace the uncertainties while remaining confident in God’s promises. These times can deepen our relationship with Him as we learn to rely on His strength and guidance. Together, we can grow in faith, reminding one another that God is with us through every twist and turn.
“Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” – Hebrews 11:1
“For we live by faith, not by sight.” – 2 Corinthians 5:7
“If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.” – James 1:5
“Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.” – 1 Peter 5:7
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” – Matthew 7:7
The Role of Doubt in Understanding Doubt can feel like a heavy burden. Yet, through our struggles, we can experience growth and even clarity. It’s okay to wrestle with our faith and question things we find challenging to comprehend. Many examples in the Bible showcase this very human experience. It is through these moments of questioning that God often reveals more of Himself to us. We are able to transform our doubts into deeper understanding, encouraging each other in faith as we navigate our uncertainties together.
“Immediately the boy’s father exclaimed, ‘I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!’” – Mark 9:24
“When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted.” – Matthew 28:17
“He sent two of his disciples to ask him, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else?’” – Luke 7:19
“Then he said to Thomas, ‘Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.’” – John 20:27
“But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.” – James 1:6
The Promise of Understanding Through God’s Word, we find not just comfort but also the promise that understanding will come in due time. As we seek Him with our questions, we open ourselves to His wisdom and revelation. We can be assured that even if we don’t have answers immediately, God has a plan to reveal them to us at the right time. Holding onto this promise helps us embrace our journey with patience and expectation, knowing that we are never left without hope. Together, we can support each other in our quest for understanding.
“For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.” – Proverbs 2:6
“For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives.” – Colossians 1:9-10
“I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.” – Ephesians 1:17
“Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.” – Psalms 119:105
“Blessed are those who find wisdom, those who gain understanding.” – Proverbs 3:13
Hope in Our Uncertainty Even in our moments of confusion, we can hold tightly to hope. God remains our anchor, and through Him, we find purpose beyond what we currently comprehend. It is during challenging times that we cultivate resilience and strength. Our hope lies in the assurance that God is always present, even when we cannot see His hand at work. We can lend one another support, reminding ourselves that God uses our trials to shape us into who we are meant to be and to bring about His glory.
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” – Jeremiah 29:11
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” – Romans 8:28
“Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord.” – Psalms 31:24
“But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not be faint.” – Isaiah 40:31
“The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him.” – Lamentations 3:25
Final Thoughts As we reflect upon the topics of understanding and the mysteries of life, we find comfort in the Word of God. We may face situations beyond our comprehension, but we are assured that God has a plan and purpose for everything we encounter. Together, we can cultivate faith and trust in His divine wisdom, even in times of uncertainty. It’s okay to experience doubt and questions — what matters is how we respond. Through prayer and seeking His presence, we can find peace. Let us remain hopeful, encouraging one another as we walk this path of faith, believing in God’s promises. Remember, His wisdom is boundless, and we can lean on Him in every situation. xhttps://biblerepository.com/bible-verses-about-things-we-dont-understand/
Things to Come At this time, we know only a part of everything. We can only speak a part of God’s whole message. But a time will come when everything becomes complete. At this time, we see things as if we were looking at them in a dark, hazy mirror. What we see now is not clear. But the time will come when we will see everything clearly. Now we know only a part of what is true. But then we will know everything completely. We will understand completely, just as God understands us completely. – 1 Corinthians 13:9-10, 12
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FreshStuff. May be worth a read, listen, or scroll on by.
News, X’s you tube, or simply, different. In no particular order…
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Ignoring shutdown crapola in this post. Dumrats AND FUBAR courts continue doing everything they can to destroy the economy, sabotage Trump 2.0… F’m, Each And Every One Of Them.
On to other stuff…
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Once upon a time, I believed in sanctions.
At some point along the Ukraine Russia War crotch novel, “sanctions” became, IMO, commonly, short-sighted, ignorant, arrogant…counter-productive.
Maggot’s never seemed focused. Perhaps that was also common under Bushie’s, hussein…
Trump’s sanctions seem targeted, to get a specific reaction / action.
The International North South Transport Corridor (INSTC) is happening now. Connecting Russia to Iran by railroad. Then via ships to India. Bypassing naval choke points and sanctions regimes.
Extensions (eventually, maybe) to China Belt & Road locations, and potentially through Afghanistan (and some of the other *stans) to China as well.
Cutting transit times by 40% and costs by 30%. And avoiding Western Influence & Sanctions & Money.
Forcing the East & Global South & Russia into a shunned status has not only created BRICS+ and the Multipolar world; but is also pushing the creation of “bypasses” to all financial and transport & trade systems of The West. Rejecting 1/2 of the world will not work well for The West (USA, EU, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada; honorary mention Japan).
As this BRICS+ Block integrates, it will become one of the most powerful and influential blocks in the global future. Europe is already in dramatic decline (with Germany almost in economic collapse; and Germany is the financial cash cow that had paid for the rest of the EU… ). Demographics is also working against The West with most of Europe and the USA very top heavy with Old Retired Folks ( I am one ) and light on new births of new productive workers to pay the retirement bills.
As this transport system rolls out, connecting the BRICS+ nations together will also attract their neighbors to join in too. Shifting Russia from their desire to integrate with Europe (Putin in about 1998-9 asked to join NATO…) and into an Asian focus was likely the worst possible thing to do for The West.
Imagine for a moment a world where post USSR, we had invited Russia into The West. There would be an economic union spanning from the Atlantic to the Pacific across Eurasia, and then across north America back to the UK again. That is what we have thrown away via Russia Paranoia and TLA (Three Letter Agency) activism.
Instead we have the USA squandering $Trillions over the years on military adventures, Europe economically on the ropes via shunning low cost and plentiful Russian oil, gas, grain, timber & minerals. With Russia, China and increasingly India; becoming an integrated economic Eurasian Powerhouse. Good luck with that…
It seems that when you bully and piss on folks long enough, they don’t want to do business with you anymore and find other folks to work with. Free markets are like that, and when someone tries to enforce Monopolistic Abusive Policy long enough, folks get motivated to build an alternative.
Here’s a very useful video from the perspective of India on all of this. A pretty good economic and political analysis that also includes a sense of the annoyance people (and countries via their leadership) can have when others attempt to manipulate and dominate them, along with some history. Something to keep in mind in the present mode of manipulation and domination via tariffs & sanctions…
Note that in addition to rail through Azerbaijan there’s a water link through the Caspian Sea. So even destabilizing Azerbaijan (as the TLAs will want to try) can not stop this system from working. Also note the statement that Moscow is paying for most of this – Russia has plenty of money in their economy. The “economic sanctions war” is a failed approach.
Maybe, just maybe: The West would make better progress by respecting other countries and being their friends and partners, instead of the current approach of “piss & vinegar” sanctions and berating. More honey and kind words, more respect for sovereign nations and less “regime change” to impose despised “leaders”…
But having burned all those bridges already, I suspect it is a bit late to start trying to rebuild them.
MIT just exposed every top AI model and it’s not pretty.
They built a new test called WorldTest to see if AI actually understands the world… and the results are brutal.
It doesn’t just check how well a model predicts the next frame or maximizes reward it tests whether it can build an internal model of reality and use it to handle new situations.
They built AutumnBench 43 interactive worlds, 129 tasks where AIs must:
• Predict hidden parts of the world (masked-frame prediction)
• Plan sequences of actions to reach a goal
• Detect when the environment’s rules suddenly change
Then they tested 517 humans vs. Claude, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and o3.
Humans crushed every model. Even massive compute scaling barely helped.
The takeaway is wild.. today’s AIs don’t understand environments; they just pattern-match inside them.
They don’t explore strategically, revise beliefs, or run experiments like humans do.
WorldTest might be the first benchmark that actually measures understanding, not memorization.
The gap it reveals isn’t small it’s the next grand challenge in AI cognition.
(Comment “Send” I’ll DM you the paper
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Testing delivery systems and the like, I am sure. Actual, bombs/warhead detonations, Nah. Not happening. IMO.
.@POTUS on nuclear testing: "We're going to do some testing, yeah. Other countries do it. If they're going to do it, we're going to do it." pic.twitter.com/C9jjL64g9a
.@POTUSon nuclear testing: “We’re going to do some testing, yeah. Other countries do it. If they’re going to do it, we’re going to do it.”
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Have only seen the headlines. Zero details. Hope it is not classified. /s
Rather sure I’ll bump into high level details. Unlikely I’m real interested.
🚨 BREAKING: In an incredible success, Kash Patel and Dan Bongino's FBI just THWARTED a potential terrorist attack in Michigan, arresting several people
"Thanks to the men and women of FBI and law enforcement everywhere standing guard 24/7 and crushing our mission to defend the… pic.twitter.com/i9Mm6maX1r
BREAKING: In an incredible success, Kash Patel and Dan Bongino’s FBI just THWARTED a potential terrorist attack in Michigan, arresting several people “Thanks to the men and women of FBI and law enforcement everywhere standing guard 24/7 and crushing our mission to defend the homeland.” GREAT WORK!
This I Canada’s top general. This full waterworks apology is because Canada didn’t DEI hard enough. How many times have I told ya’ll that we need to kick the Canadian “military” out of joint billets? They are toxic.
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Can’t see the X, that JD responded to.
What a disgusting comment, and it's hardly been the only one along these lines.
First off, the question was from a person seemingly to my left, about my interfaith marriage. I'm a public figure, and people are curious, and I wasn't going to avoid the question.
What a disgusting comment, and it’s hardly been the only one along these lines.
First off, the question was from a person seemingly to my left, about my interfaith marriage. I’m a public figure, and people are curious, and I wasn’t going to avoid the question.
Second, my Christian faith tells me the Gospel is true and is good for human beings. My wife–as I said at the TPUSA–is the most amazing blessing I have in my life. She herself encouraged me to reengage with my faith many years ago. She is not a Christian and has no plans to convert, but like many people in an interfaith marriage–or any interfaith relationship–I hope she may one day see things as I do. Regardless, I’ll continue to love and support her and talk to her about faith and life and everything else, because she’s my wife.
Third, posts like this wreak of anti-Christian bigotry. Yes, Christians have beliefs. And yes, those beliefs have many consequences, one of which is that we want to share them with other people. That is a completely normal thing, and anyone who’s telling you otherwise has an agenda. https://x.com/ezralevant/sta/ezralevant/status/1984072547357618408
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Seems Elon has an incredible vehicle, to be unveiled soon.
NEW: Elon Musk says the new Tesla Roadster will be one of the most "unforgettable" things ever experienced, teases that it may be able to fly.
"This will be one thing I can guarantee is that this product demo will be unforgettable."
NEW: Elon Musk says the new Tesla Roadster will be one of the most “unforgettable” things ever experienced, teases that it may be able to fly. “This will be one thing I can guarantee is that this product demo will be unforgettable.” “My friend Peter Thiel once reflected that the future was supposed to have flying cars…”
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Rumor control getting calibrated.
Your “sources” claiming to have “knowledge of the situation” tricked you into writing a fake story https://t.co/YCIVkZaTiz
Trump team bars reporters from the "upper press" office of the White House where the press secretary's office is located. In this, Trump is following the lead of Hillary Clinton, who pressed the White House staff to do this in 1993. It provoked a storm and they rescinded the ban.
Some reporters have been caught secretly recording video and audio of our offices, along with pictures of sensitive info, without permission Some reporters have wandered into restricted areas (our offices are feet away from the Oval Office) Some reporters have been caught eavesdropping on private, closed-door meetings Cabinet Secretaries routinely come into our office for private meetings, only to be ambushed by reporters waiting outside our doors Press still has access to lower press where the press team sits and can answer all inquiries Reporters can make appointments to see us in our offices
Peter “Sniveling Dog” Baker
Trump team bars reporters from the “upper press” office of the White House where the press secretary’s office is located. In this, Trump is following the lead of Hillary Clinton, who pressed the White House staff to do this in 1993. It provoked a storm and they rescinded the ban.
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Near daily, ignorant shit like this, slows down Bondi/DOJ, as they respond to FUBAR activist judges.
Bondi/DOJ fights the daily pop up brush fires, as they also fight deep state…
BREAKING: Lawless Clinton Judge BLOCKS President Trump’s Proof of Citizenship Requirement on Federal Voter Registration Forms
2A ignorance runs amok in Delaware. Based on what I see in the article, lots of holes. Everything about, getting a permit to purchase a handgun, is Wrong.
Delaware State Police Launch Portal for Handgun Purchase Permits
My older brother, Sam, circa 1960 – 1961, dressed to perform in a school band concert:
My older brother, Sam, December 2021:
My older brother, Sam, early summer 2024, after his having taken at least five injections of a COVID-19 “vaccine”, beginning in early 2021:
Requiescat in Pace aeterna, frater mi. Lux perpetua tibi luceat.
My older brother, Sam: 24 November 1948 – 29 October 2024.
Health Friday is a series devoted to Big Pharma, vaccines, general health, and associated topics. Today’s offering is dedicated to all persons, of whatever age or location, who have passed away from the negative effects of the COVID-19 “vaccines” that they had injected into their body. May they rest in eternal Peace.
There are Important Notifications from our host, Wolf Moon; the Rules of our late, good Wheatie;, and, certain caveats from Yours Truly, of which readers should be aware. They are linked here. Note: Yours Truly has checked today’s offering for AI-generated content. To the best of her knowledge and belief, there is none, except perhaps for AI-generated images within URL links. If readers wish to add AI-generated content to today’s discussion thread, they must cite their source. Thank you.
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My older brother, Sam, passed away on 29 October 2024. He was only 75 years old. He had taken at least five (possibly, six) injections of COVID-19 “vaccines”, starting in early 2021. His last “vaccine” injection was taken around Thanksgiving of 2023, although he may have been given yet another shot while he was residing in a nursing home in the early fall of 2024. Yours Truly has written for this board regarding the health decline of Sam after he took the COVID-19 “vaccine” shot in November 2023: please see https://www.theqtree.com/2024/10/18/health-friday-10-18-2024-special-edition-neurological-effects-of-the-covid-19-vaccines-physical-and-psychological/; and, https://www.theqtree.com/2025/07/25/health-friday-7-25-2025-open-thread-more-on-the-covid-19-vaccines-and-what-they-do-to-the-brain/. Within the period of fewer than six months after his taking that COVID-19 “vaccine” shot in November 2023, my brother had lost interest in things he had once enjoyed, such as helping out with his grandchildren; had stopped going to church; had a “freak accident” in which he wrecked his car and then decided not to drive again; had lost interest in taking care of himself and eating properly; and so on. Then, there was the catastrophic fall he sustained in his home in early July 2023; then, to two weeks in the ICU; then, to be being discharged to a nursing home; then, to the diagnosis of “sudden-onset dementia” at that facility; then, to his losing the ability to walk and becoming bed-bound; then, to his contracting pneumonia in late October 2023 at this facility; then, to his death.
My brother had co-morbidities that complicated his health profile: among them, COPD from decades of smoking (he quit in 2010 after that diagnosis and was treated); and, prostate cancer (diagnosed and treated in 2019.) He had lost his wife in the October 2018, just shy of their 47th wedding anniversary; she passed away from an undiagnosed aneurysm that ruptured. He had spent several years after her death taking counseling and medications, which assisted in his processing of this tragedy.
What ultimately happened with my brother was despite the fact that he had “good longevity genes” in his makeup — there were multiple older members on both sides of our birth family who had lived well beyond their 80th, and even their 90th, birthdays. What happened with my brother was also despite the fact that he had made it a point of taking better care of his health since the diagnosis of COPD in 2010. While it is not possible for Yours Truly to state this definitively, I will say I firmly believe that it was the ingredients and mechanisms of the COVID-19 “vaccines” that Sam took which, over time and incrementally, compromised his brain — cognitively and emotionally — with terrible consequences. I firmly believe that it was the COVID-19 “vaccine” injection that my brother took at Thanksgiving 2023 which was the “straw that broke the camel’s back” for him.
However, even before my brother passed away, Yours Truly’s cousin Bill died in September 2023, a “died suddenly and unexpectedly” situation. Cousin Bill had also had taken COVID-19 “vaccines”, starting in 2021. By early 2022, this previously-healthy, active man had been diagnosed with cardiac problems and was undergoing treatment. According to what I understand of the issue, he was “doing well” in treatment. I am also more than fairly certain that my cousin Bill continued to take COVID-19 “booster vaccine” injections, likely based on the recommendations of his doctors. And then, September 2023 happened. Cousin Bill’s death was the first close-family death of the COVID-19 era for Yours Truly. To say that his death was hard for me is an understatement. I have good memories of cousin Bill. His father had passed away in 1993; his mother had passed away in 2017. They did not have to deal with the death of their son.
To say that the passing away of my own brother was devastating to Yours Truly is an understatement of Malthusian proportions. His death has shaken me down to my core. The last time I spoke to him (by phone) was twelve days before his death. It was heartbreaking and gut-wrenching to hear him fighting the “sudden-onset dementia” that had closed in on his brain. To know that he would never leave the nursing home, go back to his house and his nice old dog, go and be with his adult children and his grandchildren. To hear him tell me to send him books on the Civil War or World War II so he could “brush up” on his reading (the truth was, that by this time, he couldn’t read more than one or two sentences from anything.) To know that what had happened to him was so senseless, so incredibly senseless. It was (and still is) heartbreaking to go through the “what-if?” scenarios in my head — What if he had listened to me when I tried to warn him about the dangers of the COVID-19 “vaccines”, and refused to take any more of those injections? What if he had taken Ivermectin to try and clear out at least some of the COVID-19 “vaccine”-induced damage to his body and mind? What if the ingredients and mechanisms of the COVID-19 “vaccines” Sam took aggravated the lung damage from his COPD? What if the ingredients and mechanisms of the COVID-19 “vaccines” he took aggravated or re-established any emotional / psychological issues still lingering after the death of his beloved wife? What if? What if? Our mother had passed away in 1992; our father, in 2006. They did not have to deal with the death of Sam.
Yours Truly is not writing the above in order to solicit sympathy. I am writing the above to illustrate the kinds of things that went on — that are going on now — and, that will go on — in millions of families when the damage induced by the COVID-19 “vaccines” that were taken by family members starts to present (and the damaging effects that have started to present already.) It is all well and good to have a general “working knowledge” of the negative effects these “vaccines” (Bioweapon Toxin Injections) can, and do, induce in those who take them. It is quite another thing to lose close family members due to the negative effects of these “vaccines” that they took. It is quite another thing to have to deal with the knowledge that loved ones in the “here and now” who are COVID-19 “vaccinated” have had their bodies and brains damaged from these “vaccines.” It is quite another thing to listen to them tell those who try to warn them that they aren’t interested — that they “follow the science”; that they “trust their doctor”; among other responses.
Yours Truly will therefore say to those reading today’s offering who have taken COVID-19 “vaccines”:
**** The COVID-19 “vaccines” in your body have already damaged your natural immune system, perhaps even destroyed it:https://jessicar.substack.com/p/the-bnt162b2-mrna-vaccine-against, “‘The BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 reprograms both adaptive and innate immune responses”, 16 December 2021. Please see the screenshot from her article, below, the Figure 3 from the cited paper in the article:
Figure 3 shows how the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” systematically damage and destroy the natural immune system cells of the “vaccinated” person’s body.
**** The COVID-19 “vaccines” in your body are damaging your heart and lungs: https://doctors4covidethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/causality-article.pdf, “Vascular and organ damage induced by mRNA vaccines: irrefutable proof of causality”, Michael Palmer, MD, and Sucharit Bhakdi, MD, 18 August 2022. Please see the screenshots of Slide 7 and its description from the above paper, which clearly shows myocarditis induced by modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines”:
Please see the screenshot of Slide 12 from the above paper, which clearly shows lung damage induced by modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines”:
Note: the slides in the above paper are from autopsies of persons who passed away after COVID-19 “vaccination.”
**** The COVID-19 “vaccines” in your body crossed the Blood-Brain Barrier and damaged the cells and functions of your brain: https://eurmedres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40001-023-00992-0, “A review of neurological side effects of COVID-19 vaccination”, Roya Hosseini and Nayere Askari, 25 February 2023. Please see the screenshot of Figure 1 from this paper, below:
**** The COVID-19 “vaccines” in your body can induce psychosis: https://nature.com/articles/s41380-024-02627-0, “Psychiatric adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination: A population-based cohort study in Seoul, South Korea”, Eun Mi Chun, et al., 4 June 2024. Please see the screenshot of Figure 2 from this paper, below:
It is a mistake to dismiss the above paper and its conclusions “because it’s from South Korea.” The modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” used in South Korea that are examined for the above paper are the same as those used in the United States (COMIRNATY, by Pfizer-BioNTech; and, SPIKEVAX, by Moderna.)
**** The COVID-19 “vaccines” in your body will alter your DNA and change your body’s genomic codes. These effects are permanent, and are involved in cancers that present after COVID-19 “vaccination”: https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-first-peer-reviewed-study-715, “BREAKING: First Peer-Reviewed Study Finds Direct Molecular Evidence of mRNA “Vaccine” Genomic Integration”, Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, 14 October 2025. Please see the screenshot from this article, below (the image was AI-generated):
**** The COVID-19 “vaccines” in your body, if you are a female, have destroyed up to 60% of the lifetime supply of eggs in your ovaries:https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/mrna-shots-are-crippling-humanitys, “mRNA Shots Are Crippling Humanity’s Ability to Reproduce—And No Government is Ending COVID-19 Vaccination”, Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, 15 May 2025. Please see the screenshot from this article, below (Yours Truly believes that the graphic image of how COVID-19 “vaccines” destroy primordial follicles is AI-generated):
**** Every injection of a COVID-19 “vaccine” WILL SHORTEN THE LIFE OF THE “VACCINE” RECIPIENT: Please see: https://slaynews.com/news/major-study-confirms-covid-vaccine-dose-shortens-lives-recipients/, “Major Study Confirms Every Covid ‘Vaccine’ Dose ‘Shortens the Lives of Recipients'”, by Frank Bergman, 14 October 2025. The published paper is here: https://ijvtpr.com/index.php/IJVTPR/article/view/123/423, “Were the COVID-19 Shots Good, Bad, or Just Ugly? Dispensing with the Only Reasonable Objection to the Empirical Fact that Each Dose of the COVID-19 Shots, on the Average, Shortened the Lives of the Recipients”, John W. Oller, Jr., PhD, and Daniel Santiago, PharmD, 7 October 2025. Screenshots from this paper are below; first, of the Figure 2 from the paper, the all-age mortality figures reported to Public Health England:
Followed by Table 3 from the paper, the Connecticut Medicare Records:
Next, of Figure 5 from the paper, also derived from the Connecticut Medicare Records:
Then, from the Conclusions section of the paper:
These are the COVID-19 “vaccines” that you allowed to be injected into your body.
These are the COVID-19 “vaccines” that you allowed to be injected into the bodies of your children.
And why did you allow these unproven-technology, not-completely tested, “vaccines” to be put into your body, and into the bodies of your children? Because you “trusted the science“; because you “trusted your doctor“; because you were told that “it was the right thing to do“; because you were told that the COVID-19 “vaccines” were “safe and effective“; because you were told that the “the known and potential benefits of the COVID-19 vaccines outweigh the known and potential risks”; because you were told to “get COVID-19 vaccinated in order to keep yourself, your children, and your parents, safe“; because were you told “get COVID-19 vaccinated in order to keep your job, in order to travel, in order to go to school.”You were lied to. Every step of the way. Lied to by the government — by the CDC and the FDA — by your doctors — by your employer — by your school. They are continuing to lie to you.
Yours Truly has questions for those reading today’s offering who are COVID-19 “vaccinated”:
**** What are you going to do to try and mitigate the damage that these injections have done to your body and brain? To the bodies and brains of your children?
**** What are you going to do to educate yourself regarding how dangerous and deadly these injections are?
**** Do you plan to challenge and question any “recommendation” or “mandate” to have yourself and/or your children injected with more COVID-19 “vaccine” shots?
**** Do you plan to at least think about refusing to take any more COVID-19 “vaccines”, and to think about refusing COVID-19 “vaccines” being injected into your children?
Interested persons may wish to investigate these websites:
For those medical professionals who are COVID-19 “vaccinated”, Yours Truly has extra questions, below. These are based on my 5 1/2+ years of being an independent COVID-19 researcher and writer:
**** With all due respect: Have you recognized that the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” induce multiple types of serious adverse events, medical conditions, and can also kill? Have you read this report?: https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5.3.6-postmarketing-experience.pdf, 5.3.6 CUMULATIVE ANALYSIS OF POST-AUTHORIZATION ADVERSE EVENT REPORTS OF PF-07302048 (BNT162B2) RECEIVED THROUGH 28-FEB-2021, FDA time-stamped on 30 April 2021 09:26 (GMT).
**** With all due respect: Do you understand, that since you are COVID-19 “vaccinated”, there is a strong likelihood that you have also had negative effects induced from these “vaccines”?
**** With all due respect: Why are you still recommending and/or administering these “vaccines”, given the above evidence of damage and death induced by these injectables? Did you perform your own research into the COVID-19 “vaccines” to satisfy yourself that the CDC / FDA claims of “safe and effective” regarding these injectables were / are, true? And, with all due respect, before there are objections to what Yours Truly is writing, please see these websites, by medical doctors, who have actually investigated the COVID-19 “vaccines” and know how dangerous and deadly they are :https://www.thefocalpoints.com/ (Dr. Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH); https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/ (Dr. Pierre Kory, MD, MPA, Certified Tribal Practitioner); https://doctors4covidethics.org/ (Dr. Michael Palmer, MD, Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, MD); https://imahealth.org/ (Dr. Joseph Varon, MD, FCCM, FCCP).
**** With all due respect: Why are you not demanding that your employer; your State Medical Licensing Board; your medical professional organization; your Medical Specialty Credentialing organization; the CDC, FDA, AMA — impartially investigate the mounting evidence that the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” are dangerous and deadly? Do you, perhaps, have concerns about “retribution” from these entities by doing so?
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Yours Truly will remember the echoes of my older brother, Sam, before he started taking COVID-19 “vaccines.” I will remember the echoes of my Cousin Bill before he “died suddenly and unexpectedly.” The pain and the sense of loss from their deaths will never completely go away, since the human mind stores everything in the subconscious and the memory. One can only integrate the pain and the sense of loss into their own being in the healthiest way possible while moving onward.
The COVID-19 “vaccines” — ALL OF THEM — MUST be removed from the market and from use. NOW.
THERE. MUST. BE. ACCOUNTABILITY.
THERE. MUST. BE. JUSTICE.
THERE. MUST. BE. TRUTH.
Peace, Good Energy, Respect: PAVACA
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This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
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The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
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Another assortment of interesting tidbits!
(1) Lithium ion batteries. A great explanation.
(2) Sodium ion batteries. Made without CHINA. Interesting.
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PHILOSOPHICAL BACKGROUND
I have been pointing out the importance of TRADE and trade routes to the Cabal. The importance goes back centuries. The mercantile system is based on trade with the colonies as a source of raw materials and the ‘mother country’ the source of finished goods.
Mercantilism was an economic practice from the 16th to 18th century, where nations sought to increase wealth through export surplus and controlled trade.
The system emphasized accumulating precious metals and often used military force to protect trade interests and enforce monopolistic practices.
Mercantilist policies favored colonies as sources of raw materials and as markets for exports, exemplified by the British Sugar and Navigation Acts.
Although considered outdated, elements of mercantilism persist today, with countries like China and Russia controlling trade and imposing tariffs….
Outdated??? Well that is certainly a lie.
If a country is ‘De-industrialized’ it is back to being a source of raw materials and a market for the Cabal’s Transnational Corporations. See The Network of Global Corporate Control
On March 20, 1969, Dr. Richard Day, the National Medical Director of the Rockefeller-sponsored “Planned Parenthood” told a meeting that American industry will be sabotaged and shown to be uncompetitive.
In view of the recent bankruptcy of General Motors, his remarks are especially pertinent.
“The stated plan was that different parts of the world would be assigned different roles of industry and commerce in a unified global system. The continued preeminence of the United States and the relative independence and self-sufficiency of the United States would have to be changed… in order to create a new structure, you first have to tear down the old, and American industry was one example of that.”
👉“Each part of the world will have a specialty and thus become inter-dependent, he said. The US will remain a center for agriculture, high tech, communications, and education but heavy industry would be “transported out.”
These remarks to the Pittsburgh Pediatric Society were reported by Dr. Lawrence Dunegan, a Pittsburgh pediatrician who died in Jan. 2004. 👉The speech described “A New World System” already in place which would permanently transform the world....
The rest of the warnings in that 2009 article sounds like our recent history.
👉“Each part of the world will have a specialty and thus become inter-dependent, he said.
Al Gore said the same thing to the Future Farmers of America. He told them to get out of farming. There were other plans for the USA and described how the world would be carved up into specialties. I can no longer find those statements but I did find this. (Think AI)
Does economic interdependence increase or decrease the probability of war among states?
With the Cold War over, this question is taking on importance as trade levels between established powers such as the United States and Russia and emerging powers such as Japan, China, and Western Europe grow to new heights. In this article, I provide a new dynamic theory to help overcome some of the theoretical and empirical problems with current liberal and realist views on the question.
The prolonged debate between realists and liberals on the causes of war has been largely a debate about the relative salience of different causal variables. Realists stress such factors as relative power, while liberals focus on the absence or presence of collective security regimes and the pervasiveness of democratic communities.(1)
Economic interdependence is the only factor that plays an important causal role in the thinking of both camps, and their perspectives are diametrically opposed…
This paper is well worth the read despite being 3 decades old.
In 1863, Czar Alexander II sent Russian battleships to NY and San Francisco as a message of solidarity with Lincoln and a threat to imperial forces of Europe.
“In the Autumn of 1862, the governments of France and Great Britain proposed to Russia, in a formal but not in an official way, the joint recognition by European powers of the independence of the Confederate States of America. My immediate answer was: `I will not cooperate in such action; and I will not acquiesce. On the contrary, I shall accept the recognition of the independence of the Confederate States by France and Great Britain as a casus belli
for Russia. And in order that the governments of France and Great Britain may understand that this is no idle threat; I will send a Pacific fleet to San Francisco and an Atlantic fleet to New York.
All this I did because of love for my own dear Russia… I acted thus because I understood that Russia would have a more serious task to perform if the American Republic, with advanced industrial development were broken up and Great Britain should be left in control of most branches of modern industrial development.”
This fact has been literally erased from American history books, but it is better understood in Russia, which has today a statue featuring the two martyred patriots and great emancipators, Czar Alexander II and Lincoln holding hands in Moscow….
In 1890, Lincoln’s friend and first governor of Colorado William Gilpin published his book ‘The Cosmopolitan Railway’ outlining his dream of a world of rail networks, industrial progress and cooperation.
And so the Cabal instigated the Assassination of both leaders. Having failed to destroy the United States, they over threw the Russian government instead and installed ‘Communism.’ After WWII they fomented a cold war against the ‘Communism’ they created and used the communist label as an excuse to overthrow governments that did not cooperate in the Cabal’s rape of their country’s raw materials.
As Matt said:
…Sadly, history unfolded in another direction from the beautiful vision laid out by Czar Alexander II, Abraham Lincoln and William Gilpin.
An age of bankers wars, anarchist assassinations, and economic turmoil disrupted this new age of progress and cooperation among civilizational states.
Matt then goes into The True Origins of Bolshevism
So that was an early vision of an alternate route from the East to the West that could bypass the Middle East route controlled by the British Empire. (Note that the Lincoln, Czar Alexander II statue in Moscow still exists.)
Almost no one covered what should have been last week’s most interesting and most discussed story… India Today covered the news that started the ball rolling, which ran under the headline, “Russia gives US super-secret JFK files with map that could shake up world.” Just wait. This is another world-shaker.
The hand-drawn map within the newly released files —never seen before— bears the provocative English legend, “Kennedy-Khruschev World Peace Bridge—could and should be built between Alaska and Russia. AT ONCE.”
Last week, photogenic Florida Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fl.), member of the House Disclosure Committee, announced that —after asking them nicely— the Russians handed over a curated copy of their 400-page KGB dossier on President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
Translators are still working. But that map jumped right out and launched a week of wild speculation over what could be Trump’s most controversial and world-changing move yet.
🔥 One trending hypothesis is that, if the Russian dossier is accurate, at the time of his death, Kennedy—scared straight by the Cuba standoff— was engaged in personal back-channel talks with Soviet General Secretary Khrushchev to officially broker peace between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, including a joint trade development plan as shown on the dossier’s map.
Jeff Childersthen points to a Promethian Action video (11 minutes) via this tweet.
Others have wondered whether his top-secret peace efforts were the straw that spurred his assassination. For more speculation about the disclosure, see Promethian Action’s take (11:23).
🚨 BREAKING: Secret Soviet KGB files reveal JFK & Khrushchev planned a PEACE BRIDGE connecting US & Russia through the Bering Strait
Trump just tormented Zelensky with this SAME project yesterday
Is this why they killed Kennedy? The map that could flip the globalist chessboard pic.twitter.com/JWXragIUvo
BREAKING: Secret Soviet KGB files reveal JFK & Khrushchev planned a PEACE BRIDGE connecting US & Russia through the Bering Strait Trump just tormented Zelensky with this SAME project yesterday Is this why they killed Kennedy? The map that could flip the globalist chessboard.
Trump’s NEW Map Flips the Chessboard: Is it Why JFK Was Assassinated?
Russian KGB files reveal Kennedy-Khrushchev Peace Bridge project connecting US and Russia via Bering Strait. Trump and Putin now revive this vision that could flip the globalist chessboard…
Barbara Boyd reveals the revival of a secret project, the Kennedy-Khrushchev World Peace Bridge, aiming to connect the United States and Russia through the Bering Strait. Delivered to Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, these documents reignite debates about the Kennedy assassination and highlight a bold future vision that includes a tunnel project potentially involving Elon Musk’s Boring Company. The discussion extends to recent peace efforts by President Trump involving Ukraine, Russia, and Middle Eastern rebuilding. Discover why JFK’s assassination might be connected to his peace initiatives and infrastructure projects, and how Trump and Putin are challenging the globalist agenda for a transformative economic relationship.
Jeff also refers to this 2 min tweet from Rep Luna:
Before JFK was assassinated he was back channeling peace talks with the Soviet Union. Now, President Trump is finishing what JFK started, and negotiating peace with Russia. pic.twitter.com/CwNm0d20oK
Many years ago, Kent approached me on Tony Heller’s blog and sent me a draft copy of his book. This is an excerpt from that book. This passage is a glimpse into the CIA during Kennedy’s presidency. The CIA disdain for both Kennedy brothers drips from each word.
…KGB officers, working under a variety of covers, implanted this influence payload. In what must be considered a success of the highest possible level, a KGB colonel, military intelligence officer, operating under TASS cover, assessed and developed the callow Attorney General of the U.S., whose power far exceeded his job title. As the younger brother of the young President, Bobby Kennedy was one of the President’s closest advisors, 35 years old at the 1961 inauguration.
The military career of Bobby Kennedy, a dilettante who thrived under the patronage of his millionaire bootlegger father, may best illustrate the special dispensations he received, throughout his short life.
Bouncing between boarding schools during WW2, just before he turned 18, apparently to avoid the draft, Kennedy enlisted in the Navy. He was immediately accepted into the Navy’s special training program for college-aged officer candidates, sort of an early ROTC. He, of course, was accepted at Harvard’s version of the program. He did nearly two years in the program, bouncing from Harvard to Bates, and back to Harvard, until the Navy commissioned a ship named after young Bobby’s brother, the U.S.S. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., surely on the command of Daddy Kennedy, the Democrat power broker.
In February, Kennedy used his father’s Progressive patronage power to obtain a discharge from the officer candidate program, to serve as an apprentice seaman on the USS Kennedy. It doesn’t take much imagination to realize that the peripatetic Bobby Kennedy’s 119 day tour as a seaman on his daddy’s ship had nothing in common with a typical seaman’s sea duty. Arriving on February 1, he left the ship on May 30, and was discharged, honorably from the Navy.
Supported by the Kennedy family’s house newspaper in Boston, he flitted about the world, pretending to be a reporter for a few trips, until he finished law school.
He was immediately ensconced as a lawyer in the Department of Justice in Washington DC, for three months, before his daddy got him a job as a prosecutor in Brooklyn. He only lasted at that job for four months, resigning to “manage” his brother’s Senate campaign. After the successful campaign, daddy again pulled strings, and young Bobby landed a job with, ironically, Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Subcommittee on Investigations.
His tenure with McCarthy was more than seven months, a long time for this daddy’s boy on the move. He left the Senate job to work for, no surprise, daddy Kennedy, supposedly working on government reorganization.
It took his father seven months to get young Bobby his next gig, as chief counsel for the Democrat minority in the Senate. Eleven months later, bouncing Bobby became majority counsel, when the
Democrats won back the Senate from the Republicans. Bobby, not quite 30 years old, with no real world experience, settled into the warm comfort of the sinecure arranged by his daddy, in the shadow of his big brother, the anointed Democrat savior, and waited for the 1960 elections, which daddy Kennedy planned as a coming-out for his favorite surviving son.
Bobby again “managed” a John Kennedy campaign, this time a successful one for President, in 1960, and was rewarded by his daddy and big brother, with the plum appointment to be the Attorney General of the United States.
On his first day in the highest law enforcement office in the country, Bobby Kennedy was barely 35 years old. Outside his blatantly political job as a Democrat counsel in the Senate, he had held a handful of positions, usually for a few months at the most. It appears that virtually all of the “jobs” he held were arranged by his family political connections—119 days on the ship named for Daddy Kennedy’s favorite son, four months as a prosecutor in Brooklyn, seven months as a counsel in the Senate, seven months working for his daddy, until he joined his brother in the Senate, for nearly seven years.
From the point of view of a Russian case officer, working against this shallow, callow, punk daddy’s boy, elevated to a position of nearly absolute power in his brother’s administration, would be child’s play.
The KGB likely began probing multiple avenues of approach to the callow kiddie crowd in the White House, soon after their ascendance in January 1961. Maybe they already had established contacts with Bobby Kennedy, during his international travels, through Europe, the Middle East, India, Vietnam and Japan, as a student, pretending to be a journalist. Students on the make, traveling through these areas would have come to the attention of the KGB in each of the countries he visited. Especially a student who was the son of the corrupt Democrat ambassador to London. The KGB approach that clicked with the naïve Attorney General was the approach of a military intelligence colonel operating under cover as head of the Washington bureau of the TASS news agency. It may be useful to read ahead to the next chapter for the testimony of Ismael Ege, about the KBG’s use of TASS for operational cover.
…..In a classic piece of operational tradecraft, the KGB case officer, Georgi Bolshakov, represented himself to his target, Bobby Kennedy, as a “back-channel” conduit to the Kremlin. This is a common operational ruse, useful to convince otherwise wary targets that the information they share will go straight to the highest levels.
This ruse is also useful against targets in influential positions, for example a kid Attorney General, the most trusted advisor to his brother, the President of the U.S. Against these targets, the ruse is expanded to include a ruse within a ruse—that the target is also receiving confidential details in an “information exchange.” After accepting a “personal relationship” with the Bolshakov, Bobby Kennedy opened up to the espionage professional’s developmental operation. Kennedy invited the KGB officer to his home, and met with him dozens of times. For a developmental operation, this is a rather accelerated schedule. It seems that the KGB was ready to err on the side of aggression, due to the need to implant influence messages with the young administration. In stark contrast to the dilettante know-it-all Bobby Kennedy, Bolshakov was an expert at his profession. He had joined the Soviet intelligence system in 1943, served throughout WW2 and followed that with a three year graduate level training program in intelligence operations. He developed excellent English language skills prior to his posting to Washington.
The superbly successful development of the Attorney General by a man who was clearly Soviet intelligence would seem shocking by today’s counter-intelligence standards. At the time, evidently the Kennedys could do no wrong. Even today historians writing of this espionage operation give Bobby Kennedy an unwarranted benefit of the doubt.
Andrew, discussing Bobby Kennedy’s use as an influence agent, says that Bobby seemed to be, “forgetting that he was dealing with an experienced intelligence professional who had been instructed to cultivate him,” And that “the president’s brother became convinced that ‘an authentic friendship grew’ between him and [the KGB officer].”
There is absolutely no reason to give Kennedy the benefit of any doubt. He was simply an arrogant, ignorant, spoiled rich man’s son playing at international affairs. He was playing against talented, experienced, well-trained professionals. He was no match, and was out-witted, out-gunned, and out-maneuvered. The relationship seems to have terminated when the Russians manipulated the out-witted Kennedys during the Cuban missile crisis. The KGB case officer, after influencing the Kennedy administration’s view for several months, provided a disinformation payload to young Bobby, who swallowed it, hook, line and sinker.
In a conversation recorded in the Oval Office, between the President and his little brother, the two neophytes, playing at power politics seem to come to the realization that they’ve been played for fools.
Bobby tells his brother that he’d had lunch with his KGB handler that day.
President: “What did he say?”
Bobby: “He said this is, this is a defensive base for the Russians. It’s got nothing to do with the Cubans.”
President: “…They’re lying…This horror about embarrassing me in the election…. But they didn’t tell you there were missiles there.”
Bobby: “No. Remember, I told you that.”
A member of the President’s cabinet, later the same day joked about the potential consequences of a war that might ensue over the Soviet missiles in Cuba. Speaking to the Defense Secretary, Robert McNamara, an unidentified meeting attendee said, “Suppose we make Bobby mayor of Havana.” The KGB’s influence operations officers, in the field, were far superior to the Soviets’ decision makers, analysis, or ability to capitalize on the nearly unbelievable operations run by the field officers.
Recruiting, or at least co-opting, the Attorney General of the United States, by the KGB, is the operational equivalent of a grand slam home run, Triple Crown, Three-peat, MVP, World Cup, and a Super Bowl championship, all rolled into one.
The leadership of a banana republic, or an African former colony, where a young colonel as the President, after a coup, installs his even younger brother in his cabinet, might be seen as susceptible to a cabinet member being targeted and played by an ops officer. Such a country would be a ripe target for a case officer’s plucking. But to consider the leadership of a super-power to be susceptible to such a blatant influence operation is shocking and nearly incredible.
The fact is, though, that the Bobby Kennedy operation happened, and has been known for some time. Exact details remain sketchy due to most KGB documentation, as discussed earlier, being under the control of the KGB, while the Kennedy side of the story is controlled by the PC hagiographers who seem to believe that the Kennedys truly were the America’s Camelot. Exposure of truths that tarnish the haloes of the Kennedy brothers is not encouraged by the PC keepers of the legend.
The fact is, though, that the Bobby Kennedy operation happened, and has been known for some time. Exact details remain sketchy due to most KGB documentation, as discussed earlier, being under the control of the KGB, while the Kennedy side of the story is controlled by the PC hagiographers who seem to believe that the Kennedys truly were the America’s Camelot. Exposure of truths that tarnish the haloes of the Kennedy brothers is not encouraged by the PC keepers of the legend.
👉However, the relationship between Bobby and Bolshakov is known. Bolshakov’s true status is known. We know what KGB officers do. We know how they operate. We know their operational goals. We know what Bolshakov told Bobby. We know the story that Bobby believed—he had a “back channel” to the Kremlin to avoid diplomatic sclerosis. We know that Bobby eventually realized he’d been used. And we know that none of the American players ever admitted the whole truth.
Bobby told the Russian ambassador that if it became publicly known that he had accepted a deal with the Russians to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey in exchange for the Russians removing their missiles from Cuba it “could cause irreparable harm to my political career in the future.”👈
HMMMMmmmm Is this the reason Bobby Kennedy was offed too?
Now add in the CIA trying to scuttle the current negotiations with Hamas. Only by using NON-STATE DEPARTMENT people was POTUS able to actually get close to peace in the Middle East.
Besides the CIA, who actually works for the British Empire/ Globalist Cartel, there is another thread tying these two events together.
“you have been able to keep in Hungary the only CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVE in Europe”
PM Viktor Orban:
NOW – PM Viktor Orban: "you have been able… to keep Hungary, our country, as the only migrant-free country in Europe… you have been able to defy the entire snake nest in Brussels… you have been able to protect your families and drive the LGBTQ activists from your schools." pic.twitter.com/tP4srdV5Ac
I very much doubt Israel was established for religious reasons by the Satanists, royals & Rothschilds, MONEY aka trade was the real reason as I showed in my article.
1858 — The Suez Canal was an immensely profitable investment by the Rothschild family. The family basically owned the British banking system and had funded all the British war efforts throughout the 19th century. Because the Suez Canal was built with slave labor, the Brits did not want their name associated with the building of it. Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, (Jewish BTW) had N M Rothschild & Sons act for the British Government instead. Disraeli was a close personal friend of Lionel de Rothschild. LINK
(God may have other plans but I am not about to second guess him.)
For now the Cabal looks like they have given up on their new, bigger better canal, The Ben Gurion Canal, in the Middle East because they have bigger fish to fry — Keeping Russia and the USA from uniting and realizing their plans for a ‘BRIDGE’ from Alaska to Siberia thereby bypassing the Middle East all together.
Of course they are STILL trying to overthrow Trump and the USA, so the 5th Generation War is heating up.
What is the correct term to describe the conduct of the Democrat Party? https://t.co/3tI3ehgN6y
POTUS Trump is busy trying to cut-off another source of the CIA/ Cabal’s dark money – Drugs.
NOW – Trump says he will notify Congress of U.S. military strikes likely to occur against drug traffickers on foreign soil: "We have to do it to save lives." pic.twitter.com/ucUHb0V7jL
This one is interesting when you read between the lines.
Most countries in the Latin America use their militaries against the cartels not because they want to, but because they have to. Their police are severely outgunned.
Those who are crying about Trump blowing up narcoterrorists are either willfully ignorant about how bad things… https://t.co/ClZl5fWFfz
Most countries in the Latin America use their militaries against the cartels not because they want to, but because they have to. Their police are severely outgunned [AND co-opted by the CIA via the State Department’s Office of Public Safety. — GC] Those who are crying about Trump blowing up narcoterrorists are either willfully ignorant about how bad things are in Latin America or they really don’t care what happens to America — they oppose everything Trump does. [Of course they do because they are on the side of the Deep State that enslaves the Latinos and destroys US youth. Why else do you think the billionaires support this crap? — GC.]
No one is going to reveal the fight is between the US military and the rogue CIA. I nearly busted a gut laughing when I read Trump was sending the CIA in. I wonder WHICH CIA and WHY. Especially since he announced it.
EU vs Russia:
X 22 Report @ 38 to 42 minutes:
From X22 Report video above:
Visagrad 24 tweeted
British Royal Navy under NATO orders intercepted a Russian warship off UK shores in the North Sea. They intercepted and escorted ‘Vice-Admiral Kulalov’ away from UK. First time acted under NATO command.
Polymarket Intel tweets
Lithuania’s President Nauseda says Russian military jets briefly endered Lithuanian air space prompting a RAPID NATO fighter response.
Ukrainians in Poland surveilling military bases and saying they are Russian.
France indicted Assad over Chemical weapons (He is in Russia.)
X-22 notes the build up towards WWIII and the staging to BLAME Russia. (Their use of NATO means the USA gets dragged in.) So Trump uses useless tariffs to appease NATO.
X-22 then explains a bit about the Obama insurance scam and such.
….
From Scott:
Trump Goes West, Leaving the Modern British Empire to WRECK Itself
“In this episode, Barbara Boyd examines the recent series of attacks by the British Empire on President Trump and his policies.
Key topics include the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, the role of British and European leaders, Trump’s strategic economic alliances in Asia, and the purported financial destabilization plans involving frozen Russian assets.
Boyd also highlights the U.S. Justice Department’s efforts to prosecute those involved in the alleged coup against Trump. ”
So Trump is off to Asia to build the new system/BRIDGE.
Addendum from Scott.
Trump Ignores Canada’s Carney at ASEAN Summit, Major China Trade Deal Instead
“In this episode, we delve into Donald Trump’s trip to Asia, highlighting the substantial trade progress with China and contrasting with the suspended trade talks with Canada.
While headlines focus on China, Susan Kokinda reveals Prime Minister Mark Carney’s attempts to undermine Trump’s economic strategies, particularly at the ASEAN Summit.
The episode underscores the clash between Trump’s vision of sovereign nations cooperating and Carney’s globalist agenda. ”
Since we have been in the lowcountry of the great state of South Carolina, I will focus on the state’s Declaration signers that have not yet been discussed this week and next.
However, before we start we probably need to sit a spell on the porch and have some cuisine from the area. Will start with a tea that is the only one of its kind in the nation. Per the company it is the only tea grown commercially in the USA – black tea from Wadmalaw Island near Charleston. The Charleston Tea Plantation developed over a long period of time. It would start and fail, over and over again. Finally, it succeeded for a couple of decades due to involvement with Lipton, yet, shut down again. One of the former owners then cut a deal with R. C. Bigelow out of Connecticut and cranked it back up – successfully. Bigelow opened the Charleston Tea Garden on the island where you can taste test their offerings including the black tea that is grown there. It is open year round. American Classic is their go to. I found it smooth and with a good flavor.
Now that you have wet your whistle, let’s walk into a Gullah Geechee kitchen. Will focus on the more unique offerings. No lowcountry breakfast starts right without some hot sweet potato biscuits along with gravy, sausage, bacon and eggs with grits on the side straight from the Palmetto State’s farms.
Or maybe you are like me and would like to chow down on some crab cakes benny…
As the day gets long there are some low country specialty dishes that will satisfy most folks. South Carolina has some great sweet shrimp, so how about some perloo? For those unaware, it is the lowcountry’s version of jambalaya.
Or shrimp and grits?
So many versions of that to choose from in the lowcountry. Even some with SC pimento cheese grits and local bacon. Try a bit of your favorite barbecue sauce drizzled on top. 😀
As we approach Thanksgiving, it may be good to have some smoked turkey and collard greens…
They even have the official SC good luck meal on New Year’s Day known as Hoppin’ John. Carolina gold rice, black eyed peas and pork…
For dessert or to satisfy a sweet tooth snack, Benne seed cookies…
That’s just a starter pack of SC comfort food to get your attention.
Regions
South Caroline is noted for having five major regions with other smaller areas with distinctive features. They are described in the link below.
Bet you will not find another region in America called Pee Dee. 😀 Actually the name originates from a native Indian tribe that was located in the northeastern Piedmont region of the state. There is a river there named after them. A unique state with an interesting history.
They cannot help they produced two of the biggest political flimflam artists in American politics ever…
And…
With one of his proteges no less. Well, actually we need to add one more flimflamette…
Good Lawd, South Carolina. Do better.
Time for a signer.
Edward Rutledge
As the youngest of seven children of Dr. John and Sara Hert Rutledge, Edward Rutledge followed his older brothers and became an attorney. He was born in 1749 in Charleston. His father was Scots-Irish and was a physician. His mother was of English descent and was born in South Carolina. Her family was wealthy and owned plantations. Edward studied law in London. He was admitted to the Middle Temple (bar) in 1772 before returning to Charleston to set up his practice. In 1774, He married Henrietta Middleton, sister of future Declaration signer Arthur Middleton, and they had three children.
He partnered with another famous SC family member, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and became quite successful. He was an excellent orator. It was not long before he joined the patriot movement. He was elected to the Continental Congress and state’s House of Representatives. Over the next year he represented the state in many actions and discussions concerning independence. It was his ardent support as the final vote neared that swayed his fellow SC delegates to approve independence. He was the youngest Declaration signer at age 26.
Though he and his family owned slaves, he moved away from his support for it as time passed. He was careful in his approach with the issue in that he fully supported states rights on an issue that SC strongly supported. All of which made his participation in the preparation of the Articles of Confederation challenging.
Prior to the start of formal War hostilities; he, B and John Adams met with British Lord Admiral Howe to negotiate without benefit. Edwin held great respect for George Washington and said in the following in letter, “I must beg Leave to inform you that our Conference with Lord Howe has been attended with no immediate Advantages. He declared that he had no Powers to consider us an Independent States, and we easily discovered that were we still Dependent we should have nothing to expect from those with which he is vested. He talked altogether in generals, that he came out here to consult, advise & confer with Gentlemen of the greatest Influence in the Colonies about their Complaints…This kind of Conversation lasted for several Hours & as I have already said without any effect…. Our reliance continues therefore to be (under God) on your Wisdom & Fortitude & that of your Forces. That you may be as successful as I know you are worthy is my most sincere wish…God bless you my dear Sir. Your most affectionate Friend, E. Rutledge.”
Returning home in 1779 with an illness he was later appointed lieutenant colonel under Gen. Moultrie in Charleston and helped lead a victory over British forces at Port Royal. However, he was taken prisoner in the siege of Charleston and sent to St. Augustine with Thomas Heyward and Arthur Middleton. He was released eleven months later in 1781. He resumed his law practice with Charles Pinckney as well as public service in the state through the years that followed. He continued to become wealthier and purchased additional plantations. Henrietta passed away in 1792. He married Elizabeth Shubrick Eveleigh, who was a young widow and sister of two Eveleigh women who had married Declaration signers Thomas Heyward and Thomas Lynch.
Must have been something in the SC water. They sure liked to keep their love lives in the family(ies).
😉
He was offered an associate justice position on the US Supreme Court by Washington, but declined. Four years later he ran for governor of SC in 1798 and won. He served in that role until passing away in 1800. He is buried in St. Phillip’s Churchyard Cemetery in Charleston. His beautiful home in the historic district was occupied for many years until it was restored. In 1971 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Edward’s brother, John, had an equally impressive life and career during the period. From participation in the Continental Congress, to state government that included being its President and Governor, to being involved in the Constitutional Congress and as a signer, to being on the US. Supreme Court and being appointed its Chief Justice by Washington in 1795.
As to Edward’s reputation with his peers, in 1774 John Adams considered Edward “a peacock who wasted time debating upon points of little consequence.” Benjamin Rush had a more valued view although he considered him overly verbose. Whereas Patrick Henry viewed Rutledge as the greatest orator among a group that included John and Samuel Adams, John Jay, and Thomas Jefferson.
Sounds a bit like a founding father rivalry to me. Edward Rutledge (and his sibling) was a patriot of the first order who did great things for America. We appreciate his service to our nation.
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AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
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Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
mensch
noun
A person of integrity and honor.
Alternative spelling of mentch.
A decent responsible person with admirable characteristics.
Longer explanation from Wikipedia
Mensch or mentsh is a Yiddish word which literally translates to “person”, and figuratively means “a person of integrity and honor”. Jewish American humorist Leo Rosten describes a mentsh as “someone to admire and emulate, someone of noble character. The key to being ‘a real mensch’ is nothing less than character, rectitude, dignity, a sense of what is right, responsible, decorous”. The term is used as a high compliment, implying the rarity and value of that individual’s qualities.
Used in a sentence
Pat Frederick asked for clarification about my referring to somebody’s behavior as having been “top mensch” – and this word of the week is the result.
Shown in a picture
Dark MAGA Hat!
Described in a video
MUSIC!
An EDM (electronic dance music) artist called Skrillex, who is NOT the more recent rapper Skrilla, who becomes relevant below.
THE STUFF
SO – there is apparently some TikTok BS called “six seven” – which is referred to as “brain rot” (such a mystery that ChiCom TikTok would promote this – such a mystery…..) and here is the explanation.
And now that you saw that (maybe), here is the video that it came from, which I am only including for the hilarious comments.
And if all that was just too much video brain rot, or explained too hiply fast to comprehend, here it is in the slow motion of legacy media.
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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.”
Present with the Lord
In 2 Corinthians 5:8, the apostle Paul writes, “We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord”. The expression absent from the body refers to physical death. When this life ends, believers will be immediately ushered into the glorious presence of the Lord. Then we will see Him face to face (1 Corinthians 13:12). And, at that moment, we will be “present with the Lord.”
To fully appreciate the significance of 2 Corinthians 5:8, it is important for us to review the immediate context. In 2 Corinthians 5:1–7, Paul contrasts the temporary nature of our earthly bodies with the eternal nature of our heavenly bodies. Once our earthly bodies are destroyed, “we have . . . an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands” (verse 1). Most translations of 2 Corinthians 5:8 emphasize the aspect of having an “eternal house,” saying that, at death we will be “at home with the Lord”.
In our earthly state, we earnestly desire “to be clothed . . . with our heavenly dwelling” (2 Corinthians 5:2), which will not leave us “naked” or without a dwelling place (verse 3). Our heavenly bodies will not be subject to decay or death (mortality). Instead, we will receive new bodies that are imperishable and immortal (verse 4; cf. 1 Corinthians 15:54). We know that God has prepared a heavenly home for us (John 14:2) because He “has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come” (2 Corinthians 5:5; cf. Romans 5:5 and Ephesians 1:14). Currently, the presence of God is a matter of faith (Hebrews 11:1) because we are “at home in the body” and “away from the Lord” (2 Corinthians 5:6). So, right now, “we live by faith, not by sight” (verse 7). It is in this context that Paul writes, “We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord” (verse 8).
Physically, we cannot be in two places at the same time. If we are present in this world, we are absent from the ranks of heaven. But, for us believers in Christ, when we are absent from this world, we will be present with the Lord. We will have arrived at our true home. In the words of James M. Black, “When all of life is over and our work on earth is done, / And the roll is called up yonder, I’ll be there” (1893).
Paul longed for the day when his sin-corrupted body would be replaced with a glorified one. For this reason, he viewed trials and tribulations as “light and momentary troubles” that could not be compared to “an eternal glory that far outweighs them all” (2 Corinthians 4:17; cf. Romans 8:18). This hope for an incorruptible body and eternal dwelling place gives us confidence in the face of suffering, as we know that our salvation is eternally secure (John 10:28–29).
Because Paul was confident of his eternal destiny, he was not afraid to die (1 Corinthians 15:54–55). In fact, he welcomed death because he knew that he would be present with the Lord. In Philippians 1:21–24 he expresses a similar thought: “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know! I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far; but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body.” This does not mean that Paul had a death wish. On the contrary, he was expressing confidence that death is not final, especially for Christians. Death is simply a transition into a glorious heavenly body. Therefore, we should not fear anything or anyone (Isaiah 25:8; Matthew 10:28).
Second Corinthians 5:8 reminds believers that our ultimate home is not in this world, but in heaven. To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Hence, we are called to be in the world but not of the world (Romans 12:2). As heavenly citizens, our allegiance is to God, not the world: “Our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body” (Philippians 3:20–21). When Christ returns, our earthly bodies will be exchanged for bodies fit for heaven.
The hope of eternal life is the bedrock of Christianity. Because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, we know that death is not the end. And if we believe in Him for salvation from our sins, then we will live with Him in heaven (Romans 6:1). We will be present with the Lord and also reunited with loved ones who have passed away before us. This hope is not based on wishful thinking or blind faith but on the promises of God revealed in Scripture. xhttps://www.gotquestions.org/present-with-the-Lord.html
Let us labor for the Master from the dawn till setting sun; Let us talk of all his wondrous love and care. Then when all of life is over and our work on earth is done, And the roll is called up yonder, I’ll be there.
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More than 35,000 diamonds … found by visitors since the Crater of Diamonds became an Arkansas state park in 1972.
Notable diamonds found at the Crater include the 40.23-carat Uncle Sam, the largest diamond ever unearthed in the U.S.;
the 16.37-carat Amarillo Starlight;
the 15.33-carat Star of Arkansas;
and the 8.52-carat Esperanza.
THIS year, four, two carat diamonds have been found.
403 diamonds THIS year.
TMI.
Back in July, brought 10yo and 14yo Grands, girl and guy respectively to, Crater of Diamonds State Park.
Nearly four hours we sat and kneeled in dirt. Dug up some dirt, sifted… Brought some of the dirt to troughs of water, where we, sorta like panned for gold diamonds.
Grands came away with a mini handful, of what, they hoped were diamonds.
Arkansas Park employee, certified in identifying diamonds and semi-precious stones. Smiled, said, not this time. Hope you had fun. We did.
Oklahoma family uncovers ‘really neat’ diamond at state park, thanks to dollar store tools
Unusual discovery brings number of 2025 park finds to 403 diamonds
Oklahoma family members recently hit the jackpot when they found an impressive diamond at an Arkansas state park this month – with tools they bought at a dollar store.
The discovery, made at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, was announced by Arkansas State Parks on Sept. 23.
A family from Cookson, Oklahoma, some 65 miles southeast of Tulsa, made the discovery on Sept. 13.
Officials said that visitor Raynae Madison and her family visited the Natural State to celebrate the birthday of Madison’s nephew, William.
During the trip, they decided to stop by Crater of Diamonds State Park to try their luck at digging gems, according to a press release.
“To prepare for their visit, they purchased a beach digging kit and sand sifting tools from a dollar store,” the press release noted.
“The family picked a spot to dig on the north side of the park’s 37.5-acre diamond search area, near Prospector Trailhead.”
The family dug a few buckets’ worth of dirt before they began sifting through their screens – which is when Madison noticed “an unusual oblong, shiny stone.”
The aunt told officials that she thought the find was “really neat,” at first, but had no idea what it was.
The aunt told officials that she thought the find was “really neat,” at first, but had no idea what it was.
“[Brown diamonds] reflect red and green light, combining to make the diamond appear brown.”
“I honestly thought it was too big to be a diamond!” she said.
The gem was then identified to be a brown diamond weighing 2.79 carats – an impressively hefty find for the state park.
Madison opted to name it the William Diamond, for her nephew.
“Brown diamonds from the Crater occur due to a process called plastic deformation, which creates structural defects during a diamond’s formation or movement in magma,” park interpreter Emma O’Neal said of the find.
“These defects reflect red and green light, combining to make the diamond appear brown.”
Arkansas State Parks does not disclose the value of gems found at their park, and their website notes that the “exact value” of many diamonds is unknown until they are cut or appraised.
“Park staff do not grade or appraise diamonds,” the site states.
So far, 403 diamonds have been found at Crater of Diamonds State Park in 2025 – four of which have weighed over two carats.
Earlier this year, a Minnesota farmer found a “candy-like” diamond that he compared to a Werther’s candy wrapper.
In 2024, a French visitor found a 7.46-carat diamond at the park. The tourist, Julien Navas, named the gem after his fiancée, Carine.