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This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread is 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).
Yes, it’s Monday…again.
But it’s okay! We’ll get through it.
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Please pray for our real President, the one who actually won the election:
For your listening enjoyment, I offer this from Phil Rey Gibbons, titled ‘Northmen’:
And this from Patrick Rundblad, titled ‘Mission Infinity’:
Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
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.
I will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wheatie’s Word of the Day:
spate
Spate is a noun which means…a sudden rush, flood or outpouring; a large number of similar things or events appearing or occurring in quick succession. It is often followed by ‘of’…as in, a spate of.
The Urban Dictionary lists some newer usages of spate: 1) Spate can be an alternative term to sex. 2) Spate also means to play a prank on someone. 3) You can also Spate yourself, by accidentally causing grief to yourself after performing an act. 4) Spate can be used as a curse word.
Used in a sentence:
The good patriots who love this country are getting fed up with the spate of lawlessness and constitutional violations that are flowing from the Demoncrats in power.
This is a HEADS UP to all authentic American patriots about our phony globo-nazi “friends” in DOJ and FBI, otherwise known as “Dodge” and “FIB”.
Let me give you the TL;DR right here.
The Bidenistas and Bidenazis are going to try to GO CANADA during however long they remain in power. “FIB” is going to be an integral part of the harassment. Expect FIB to escalate in response to their own phony accusations against “domestic violent extremists”. That is how the incremental tyranny works. And when audits threaten the fake election, expect it to get REALLY BAD.
You can glean this out of a combination of recent Biden orders and policy statements on dealing with “domestic extremists” (that would be us loyal Americans), and what the deeply corrupt DOJ, through the FBI, is now doing to gently extend the pool of harassables, who are getting the “20 machine gun, broken front door” treatment. Short story – people who are not even being CHARGED are getting VIOLENTLY raided.
So far, FIB has done an “excellent” job (using NAZI criteria here about what is “excellent”) of keeping the political aspect of what they do beneath the obviously and easily accusable. One thing that has been done, at a policy level, is to not engage in prosecutions of January 6 “domestic extremists” except when those people either entered the capitol building TRAP itself, or engaged in actual violence outside the building. This is essential for them to maintain the false narrative of “domestic extremists” by omission of the vast majority of Trump supporters who were there, peacefully protesting the TREASON which happened INSIDE the capitol.
TREASON which the deeply political KGB-FBI helped set up, and in some cases, actually helped commit.
One seeming exception to this policy was the “high-valued political target” of “Walk Away” movement founder Brandon Straka, who has been REMARKABLY QUIET of late, as was clearly intended by prosecuting him.
Straka was immediately shut down on Facebook after January 6 – his sites and groups being completely eliminated on January 8. Sundance had great coverage of this:
Extreme control efforts are a reaction to extreme fear. If the left-wing political elements who control most social media platforms were not fearful they would not be taking such aggressive action. Today Brandon Straka announces his #WalkAway group has been removed from Facebook and deplatformed.
Then, on January 25, Straka was arrested in Omaha, Nebraska. After two days in jail, he was let out. A flurry of mainstream Fake News articles appeared – then nothing. Again, Sundance covered it:
Despite the weak evidence outlined in the indictment, this looks like a case of specific DOJ and FBI targeting of political voices. The regime will not be opposed…
Brandon Straka was the founder of the #WalkAway movement. He was also a key organizer for the Stop the Steal group during the January 6th political protest in Washington DC.
WASHINGTON DC – A prominent activist in the Stop the Steal movement who spoke at a rally held by backers of President Donald Trump in Washington the day before the storming of the Capitol was arrested on Monday on charges that he took part in the riot.
Brandon Straka, 44, was arrested on a felony charge of interfering with police during civil disorder. The self-described founder of a movement to “walk away” from liberalism was also charged with unlawful entry into a restricted building and disorderly conduct.
An FBI agent’s affidavit used to obtain a criminal complaint against Straka describes his role as an organizer of Stop the Steal and quotes his comments at the Jan. 5 rally held at Freedom Plaza, but doesn’t indicate whether the government views those activities as context for his actions at the Capitol or part of the alleged crimes.
The charging documents are HERE. The transactions of Straka’s case are listed HERE. You can see that his case was continued to May 26. Apparently on May 25 his case was continued AGAIN for another 3 months. During that time, Straka ONLY broke his silence in a Facebook live podcast / video to his supporters on the occasion of the re-continuation, which video was later REMOVED – reason unknown. Details of his brief message are HERE and in more detail HERE.
Brandon Straka also has a website – https://brandonstraka.com/ – which has ZERO information about the case, and doesn’t even appear to have much recent information AT ALL. All people with any questions are directed to his site – which says nothing.
The details of the case are interesting. It is very debatable whether Straka did anything other than “almost” going into the capitol building, by being in a crowd near a doorway which was successfully BLOCKED by Capitol Hill Police. Basically, Straka was in behind others who were pushing and shoving and trying to get in. You can read the charging documents and linked articles. I am of no opinion about what Straka did or didn’t do, but I am also of the opinion that DOJ is going after him, because he was a rally speaker on January 5, along with General Mike Flynn, and “Dodge” is still desperate to go after Flynn.
Now it is clear that Dodge and FIB have gone after people who merely walked inside the building, in some cases without any warning or opposition, and in a subset of those cases, literally invited in by Capitol Hill Police. It is generally observed and understood that people who did NOT enter the Capitol, and who did NOT engage in violence, or otherwise attempt to “breach” the building, have not been charged.
YET.
Prosecution seems a bit uneven, however, within the group which only entered the building and behaved courteously. Some of those “insurgents” had completely civilized encounters with FIB, although in some of those cases, with laughably large numbers of agents and local law enforcement present. I won’t give any further details, lest some of the more enthusiastic Bidenazis decide those poor innocents need more trouble because they didn’t get enough. Because that’s how Nazis THINK and ACT.
However, in other cases, such as Dr. Simone Gold, the head of a doctor’s group (AFLD) supporting use of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin to treat COVID-19, there has been a ridiculous amount of intimidating force used.
Yeah, we’ve got a real Bonnie and Clyde there, my friends.
Welcome to communism by a MINORITY PARTY. I guess maybe they really are “Mensheviks”.
The arrest of Dr. Gold was NOT benign. HERE is coverage at Gateway Pundit, originally HERE, with information from an interview with Michelle Malkin.
In describing this incident, Gold said, “I was paid a visit by the FBI in a Roger Stone kind of take down moment, which is quite uncalled for. You know, if anybody wanted to get a hold of me, they could have picked up the phone and called. I’m very easy to find. But there were literally twenty guys with guns blazing, [and they] broke down my door,” Gold said.
“It was dramatic and what I want to say is that I weep for our country. If you can pull in a person like me … [and] have the FBI break down your door with 20 guns, shackle you [in] handcuffs [and] drag you off, I mean it was really terrible … I’m telling you America, this can happen to you.”
Here is the interview:
Now, while it’s pretty clear that Straka and Gold were “high-value political targets”, it was looking like something I knew was going to happen, was not happening yet. Until now.
I knew that eventually the terribly corrupt and politicized “Dodge” would go after ALL patriots who were in Washington that day. ALL of them. They would not do so at first, but as the Soviet American communists – Bidenistas – Bidenazis – globo-nazis – WHATEVER – tightened control over America, they would ESCALATE.
OK? I want EVERYBODY who was in Washington to understand that. They will come for you EVENTUALLY. So you need to have a PLAN.
Worse yet, they are eventually going to start leaning on people who simply KNOW people who were in Washington. Yup. If you know me, as in have ever showed up on our site here, they are going to LEAN ON YOU. It cannot be stopped, unless THEY are stopped.
My mother didn’t live through the Nazis, and teach me all about them, to let this kind of information just sit with me alone, doing no good. I am giving all of you the earliest warning possible, so that you can be READY when they show up at your door. HAVE A PLAN.
Don’t tell me what you’re going to do. Let THEM worry about that.
Although, until you have a plan, THIS WORKS.
This is MUST-SEE video. I recommend watching it MANY TIMES, so that you have an INGRAINED RESPONSE. My recommendation is to psychologically prepare yourself against the regime by watching this over and over and over again.
Now, here is the kicker. Here is where they start raiding people who are NOT being arrested.
It’s imperative to read through this all, because of two points you need to watch for:
(1) The vaccine connection
(2) People being investigated for SOCIAL MEDIA CONNECTIONS
Now – I find it extremely interesting that this guy was INSIDE the Capitol Building, but he is not being charged. This immediately brings up the suspicion that it’s RACIAL-POLITICAL – that he is not being charged – ironically – because he’s black. Either THAT or lawyers are already getting charges DROPPED for some arrested protesters due to evidence that protesters were being ALLOWED IN or even ENCOURAGED to enter the Capitol Building. But if that is the case, why raid him at all?
I am starting to think that the most important part seems to be the ANTI-VAXX connection. Note that Massaquoi is NOT a friend or associate of “Baked Alaska” – he simply showed up in Baked’s videos.
The whole thing screams politics. One of the FEW places where Hollywood seems to buck the leftist establishment is on vaccination. Thus, I am thinking that this is a BIG reason they are going after him. Yet, at the same time, for all of Hollywood and all of Fake News Journalism, and frankly for all of DOJ and FBI as well, being “Blackque” is deserving of special treatment. I think, in that world, at the most cynical interpretation, they know DAMN WELL that arresting a BLACKQUE MAN for anti-vaxx in Hollywood, would whip up a firestorm – ironically one of their own making. Thus, they decided to drop him into a kind of “material witness” status, so that they could “deliver the message” without taking political risks on the left.
And THAT brings us back to THIS SITE.
We have been leading the way on a lot of VIRUS and VACCINE reporting. We NAILED the spike protein. We called out the magnetic disinformation, and our side has been INOCULATED against the ploys of the left. We are a target. I think there was big hope that we would swallow the “magnetic vaccine” crap and be discredited. Instead, we turned that around.
My first response to the magnetic stuff, while bobbling the ball, was to hint back at technological possibilities which would trigger their greed – basically a kind of “radar”. While that picture was resolving, I looked at the “magnetic vaccine” problem and came to the conclusion that it was disinformation being used to discredit the most susceptible (no pun originally intended) critics of the spike protein vaccines. There is still an enormous amount of very interesting science there, but it’s a distraction – even a risk – because it’s easily thrown into the bad context of the “Magnet Challenge”. Right now, we need to make them pay for what they did, and secure FREEDOM.
Also, they are going to try this COVID crap again. There are appropriate responses. I’m sure our people have some ideas of what they are. And that’s all I’m saying. But trust me, they will pull some crap like that again. Biden said so – literally – another pandemic is coming. All the boardroom bozos can feel smart saying that, for the wrong reasons. It’s coming because the last one WORKED.
We have to be the spoke-bending, tire-stopping, vehicle-crashing STEEL BAR that brings down the next phony plannedemic.
Are you with me? GOOD.
Now – because we’ve been scoring so many hits on the other side, on the virus and the vaccine, and helping unmask all this crap, and because we could seriously interfere with their NEXT plannedemic, they WILL come after us. It’s only a matter of WHEN – barring JUSTICE FOR THE FAKE ELECTION. And THAT will not be pretty, either. Expect raids related to THAT as well.
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Last week, we read about the need for Christians to return to an “Old Time Religion”, but, specifically, what might that entail? What are the essentials or basic beliefs and practices of that Old Time Religion?
The following are two articles that address that topic. I don’t intend for these statements to be taken as a complete statement of the basics, and I won’t defend them as such. However, they provide a decent overview to address what Christianity is all about.
Remember that Jesus did not present His gospel via a four-year intensive program of studies attended by the religious elite of the day. Jesus spoke to be understood by the rough, hard-working people of that time and, specifically, to the sinners identified in that society.
As an example of the simplicity of our beliefs, we have the incident of the thief on the cross. That thief simply said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” And Jesus replied, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.” No walking down front, no special prayer being sure to mention 3 or 4 things, no special blessing or approval by a high-ranking member of the local church, no special religious rites to be performed . . . nothing else. That thief simply trusted in Jesus.
“There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.” Romans 3:10-12
And so it is today. God’s Word does not need a host of religious elite to interpret and expound, seemingly without end, the intricacies of the Christian faith. Christianity remains today as a set of core beliefs and practices meant to be understood, believed and practiced by the common people of our time.
At that time Jesus answered and said, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight . . . Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Matthew 11:25, 26, 28-30
In the essentials . . . UNITY. In the non-essentials . . . LIBERTY. In all things . . . CHARITY (LOVE – Agape Love).
What are the essentials of the Christian faith?
The Bible itself reveals what is important and essential to the Christian faith. These essentials are the deity of Christ, salvation by God’s grace and not by works, salvation through Jesus Christ alone, the resurrection of Christ, the Gospel, monotheism and the Holy Trinity. These are the main “essentials” that we should understand and believe if we are followers of Jesus Christ. Let’s look at all of these in a little more detail.
The deity of Christ. Quite simply, Jesus is God. While Jesus never directly says, “I am God” in the Scriptures, He makes it very clear to those around Him, especially the Pharisees and Sadducees, that He is God. John 10:30 says, “I and the Father are one.” Jesus was claiming deity, and, interestingly enough, He did not deny that He was God. Another example is John 20:28, when Thomas says, “My Lord and my God!” Again, Jesus does not correct Him by saying that He is not God. There are many other examples one can find in the Scriptures regarding Jesus’ rightful place in heaven.
Salvation by grace. We are all sinners separated from God and deserving of eternal punishment for our sin. Jesus’ death on the cross paid for the sins of mankind, giving us access to heaven and an eternal relationship with God. God did not have to do this for us, but He loves us so much that He sacrificed His only Son. This is grace, and it is most definitely undeserved favor. Scripture tells us, “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God not by works, so that no one can boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9). There is nothing we can do to earn God’s favor or gain access to heaven apart from His grace.
Salvation through Jesus Christ alone. A truly provocative question to ask someone might be “Do all roads lead to God?” The truth is that all roads do lead to God. Eventually, we are all going to stand before God when we die, no matter what faith we are. It is there that we will be judged for what we have or have not done while we were alive and whether Jesus Christ is Lord of our lives. For the majority of people, this will be a terrible occasion, as most will not know Him or be known by Him. For these people, hell will be the final destination. But God in His mercy has provided all of us the only means for salvation through His Son, Jesus Christ. Acts 4:12 tells us that “salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.” This passage speaks of the name of Jesus and His saving power. Another example is found in the book of John. Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). No one gets into heaven except by faith in the saving work of the Lord Jesus Christ on his or her behalf.
The resurrection of Christ. Perhaps no other event in the Bible, aside from Jesus’ appearance here on earth and subsequent death on the cross, is as significant to the Christian faith as that of the resurrection. Why is this event significant? The answer lies in the fact that Jesus died and then after three days came back to life and rose again to reappear to His followers in bodily form. Jesus had already demonstrated His ability to resurrect others such as His friend Lazarus. But now God the Father had resurrected Him to display His awesome power and glory. This amazing fact is what separates the Christian faith from all others. All other religions are based on works or a powerless deity or person. The leaders of all other religions die and remain dead. The Christian faith is based on Christ crucified and resurrected to life. “And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain” (1 Corinthians 15:14). Lastly, to deny Christ’s bodily resurrection (John 2:19-21) is to deny that Jesus’ work here on earth was a satisfactory offering to God for the sins of mankind.
The gospel. In 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, Paul spells out what the gospel is and how important it is to embrace it and share it with others. He reminds the Corinthians of the gospel he preached among them: “That Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures.” This is the essence of the gospel. Paul also warns us to be wary of the many “false gospels” that are being offered to the unsuspecting: “But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed” (Galatians 1:8-9). The pure gospel of Jesus Christ—His death on the cross for sinners and His resurrection to everlasting life—is central to the Christian faith.
Monotheism. Quite simply, there is only one God. Exodus 20:3 states very powerfully, “You shall have no other gods before me.” Monotheism is the belief that there is only one God to be worshiped and served. “‘You are my witnesses,’ declares the LORD, ‘and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me’” (Isaiah 43:10). Here we see that we are to “believe” and “understand” that God lives and is one. A Christian will know that there is only one God, the God of the Bible. All other “gods” are false and are no gods at all. “For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many ‘gods’ and many ‘lords’), yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live” (1 Corinthians 8:5-6).
The Holy Trinity. While the concept of a “three-in-one God” is not represented by a single verse or passage, it is described frequently throughout Scripture. If we look at Matthew 28:19, we see the verse calling out the Trinity: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” While this verse mentions all three Persons of the triune God, it does not call them the Trinity. So to understand the doctrine of the Holy Trinity, we must look at the “totality” of Scripture and glean from it the definition. In 1 Corinthians 12:4-6, we see how this comes together: “Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.” Again, we see all three Persons being represented but not titled the Holy Trinity.
Faith. The essentials of Christianity would not be complete without the ingredient that binds everything together—faith. “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1). As Christians we live by this verse with the understanding that we believe in a God we cannot see. But we see His work in our lives and all around us in His creation. We do all of this through faith because we know that faith pleases God. “And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him” (Hebrews 11:6).
The core beliefs of Christianity are summarized in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4. Jesus died for our sins, was buried, was resurrected, and thereby offers salvation to all who will trust in Him in faith. Unique among all other faiths, Christianity is more about a relationship than religious practices. Instead of adhering to a list of “do’s and don’ts,” the goal of a Christian is to cultivate a close walk with God. That relationship is made possible because of the work of Jesus Christ and the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
Beyond these core beliefs, there are many other items that are, or at least should be, indicative of what Christianity is and what Christians believe.
Christians believe that the Bible is the inspired, “God-breathed” Word of God and that its teaching is the final authority in all matters of faith and practice (2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20-21).
Christians believe in one God that exists in three persons—the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit.
Christians believe that mankind was created specifically to have a relationship with God, but sin separates all men from God (Romans 3:23; 5:12).
Christianity teaches that Jesus Christ walked this earth, fully God, and yet fully man (Philippians 2:6-11), and died on the cross.
Christians believe that after His death, Christ was buried, He rose again, and now lives at the right hand of the Father, making intercession for the believers forever (Hebrews 7:25).
Christianity proclaims that Jesus’ death on the cross was sufficient to completely pay the sin debt owed by all men and this is what restores the broken relationship between God and man (Hebrews 9:11-14; 10:10; Romans 5:8; 6:23).
Christianity teaches that in order to be saved and be granted entrance into heaven after death, one must place one’s faith entirely in the finished work of Christ on the cross. If we believe that Christ died in our place and paid the price of our own sins, and rose again, then we are saved. There is nothing that anyone can do to earn salvation. We cannot be “good enough” to please God on our own, because we are all sinners (Isaiah 53:6; 64:6-7). There is nothing more to be done, because Christ has done all the work! When He was on the cross, Jesus said, “It is finished” (John 19:30), meaning that the work of redemption was completed.
According to Christianity, salvation is freedom from the old sin nature and freedom to pursue a right relationship with God. Where we were once slaves to sin, we are now slaves to Christ (Romans 6:15-22). As long as believers live on this earth in their sinful bodies, they will engage in a constant struggle with sin. However, Christians can have victory in the struggle with sin by studying and applying God’s Word in their lives and being controlled by the Holy Spirit—that is, submitting to the Spirit’s leading in everyday circumstances.
So, while many religious systems require that a person do or not do certain things, Christianity is about believing that Christ died on the cross as payment for our own sins and rose again. Our sin debt is paid and we can have fellowship with God. We can have victory over our sin nature and walk in fellowship and obedience with God. That is true biblical Christianity.
* https://www.gotquestions.org/christianity.html
The church today is surrounded by, struggling with, and in many cases has been corrupted by, a liberal, secular culture and needs people who are not ashamed to proclaim the gospel of Christ. Truth does not change, and adherence to the essential or basic principles of doctrine is needed. These principles are the bedrock upon which Christianity stands, and, as Jesus taught, the house built upon the Rock will weather any storm.
“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. (Matthew 7:24-25).
On this day and every day –
God is in Control . . . and His Grace is Sufficient, so . . . Keep Looking Up
Hopefully, every Sunday, we can find something here that will build us up a little . . . give us a smile . . . and add some joy or peace, very much needed in all our lives.
“This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn nor weep.” . . . “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
Enjoy another one of my “musicals”. I’ll get to it in a moment. But first, the background.
I actually like the idea of “Juneteenth” as a holiday, despite its unfortunate association in some parts of the country with black violence (Am I allowed to say that? It’s the truth.)
The end of slavery in America WAS a good thing. For EVERYBODY.
Man, did we learn THAT ONE in 2020. And the Bidenazis and Bidenistas had to use RACE to hide it.
And our own freaking FBI helped in the election theft. Utterly horrifying. I had no idea how right I was when I used to call them “KGB-FBI”.
NOW does the FBI giving Dylann Roof his gun make sense?
I’m kinda surprised that Juneteenth hasn’t been more celebrated, although – yeah – patching up the civil war probably involved LOTS of bad compromises, beyond the Missouri one that helped start bad things. Compromises just waiting to be undone along with “statues of remembrance” being torn down on both sides by communists. Mostly WHITE communists, ironically. That’s where the manipulable “guilt trip violence” comes in.
Just BECAUSE Juneteenth was often an opportunity for hooliganism, doesn’t mean that it has to stay that way. As more and more black people are stolen from the Democrat WHOOPS I MEAN COMMUNIST plantation, Democrat hooliganism will become more and more of a liability for them. At some point, they’ll pretend like it never happened. But until then, DUCK.
ANYWAY, I saw something that triggered a thought. I want to thank bflyjesusgrl for this repost on GAB.
Apart from misspelling ROSENBERG, I have to love that tweet. Even more, I have to love that it was captured as an image, so it will be here with us long after Twitter hides it by suspending the author. That is how Choomer Rasputin stacks the content on Twitter to the LEFT, as America moves massively TO THE RIGHT. He censors PEOPLE and thereby their ACCOUNTS to hide the censoring of the CONTENT THEREIN.
ANYWAY, I’m a bit of a connoisseur of Rosenberg memes. I’ve collected a few.
Here is a GREAT tweet by Dinesh D’Souza, comparing the Rosenbergs to the Clintons.
That picture of the Rosenbergs is from dear Wikipedia.
Another view.
Bolsheviks. SPIT.
Here was a great take on it, that somebody did.
Of course, there’s nothing earthly that can’t be improved.
Like I said, I’m a connoisseur. I even collect the bit players you never heard of, like George Koval. I did a deep dive on him and Jen Rubin back almost a year before Wray’s attack on Trump on Capitol Hill.
The very fact that fake conservative Jennifer Rubin published the below article (paywalled)…. “The descent of the GOP into authoritarian know-nothingism“ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/17/descent-gop-into-authoritarian-know-nothingism/ (WAIT BEFORE READING THIS – we’ll do it together later in the post.) … on February 17 tells me who is living rent-free in her mind. February the Qth was no accident. And …
Yup. The Bolsheviks in Washington HAD to destroy Trumpism. Too bad that didn’t work.
I believe that the reason our treasony traitors pulled off the horrifying January 6 false flag…..
…..which we have indeed covered, is that they figured the only way out of blame for a lot of nasty stuff, was to not just get rid of Trump – they had to get rid of true American patriotism itself.
One thing that the traitors did, which was actually very, very smart, was to INFLAME the buffalo for five years. They wanted us AGITATED so that we would go right over that cliff on January 6.
Funny how badly that didn’t work. They ALMOST got their “Reichstag”, but not quite.
Too bad THEY were the only ones yelling “Burn This Shit Down”.
Anyway, back to the Rosenbergs. If you simply do a search on Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, you will be reminded that they became instant heroes to the treasonous left, and remain so to this day.
Another week, another deluge of BS from the White House and from the Controlled Opposition.
The Audit continues.
The collapse of the Covidschina continues.
No doubt much will be said about those today. (And I have missed a lot this past week.)
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.
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.
The metals took a major thumping this last week! Gold was at 1860 on the 15th and has fallen a hundred bucks since then.
Light (Part VIII of a Long Series)
Introduction
The general outline of this story is to start off by putting you “in touch” with the state of physics at the beginning of 1895. Physicists were feeling pretty confident that they understood most everything. Sure there were a few loose ends, but they were just loose ends.
This week marks the end of that positioning. Next week we move into 1895.
1895 marks the year when people began tugging at the loose ends and things unraveled a bit. In the next three years, three major discoveries made it plain there was still a lot to learn at the fundamental level.
Up until now, I have been explaining what the scientific consensus was in 1895. So much of what I have to say is out of date, and I know it…but going past it would be a spoiler. So I’d appreciate not being “corrected” in the comments when I say things like “mass is conserved.” I know that that isn’t considered true any more, but the point is in 1895 we didn’t know that. I will get there in due time. (On the other hand, if I do misrepresent the state of understanding as it was in 1895, I do want to know it.)
Also, to avoid getting bogged down in Spockian numbers specified to nine decimal places, I’m going to round a lot of things off. I used 9.8 kg m/s2 last time for a number that’s actually closer to 9.80665, for instance, similarly for the number 32.
Introduction
Light is our primary means of sensing the world around us (closely followed by sound, which does take top marks when talking about interacting with people specifically).
So it’s pretty important, and of course we have worked to understand it basically since…forever. Thus it might be surprising to find it was still largely an enigma as of 1895.
As is so often case, the story starts with the philosophers of ancient Greece, who engaged in all sorts of speculation, perhaps the most interesting of which is that we saw by having rays go from our eyes to the object.
Lens makers were able to gain some understanding of optics and construct the first eyeglasses about 1300 and the first telescope in the very early 1600s. (The first patent was by Hans Lippershey in the Netherlands in 1608.) These were used to observe ships coming into port, but word got to Galileo Galilei in Italy. He constructed a much-improved version, turned it skyward, and our view of the universe hasn’t been the same since. (His telescopes still exist; they are in a museum in Florence, Italy.) I’ve told parts of that story in prior posts.
Fig 8.1 – Galileo’s telescopes
Newton Splits Sunlight
But the first step in our story today was actually taken by Sir Isaac Newton, in 1666. He famously used a prism to break up a beam of white sunlight into light of many colors, in a band called a spectrum, but he also was able to use a lens and another prism to reassemble the light back into a white beam. He was also able to show that, having isolated one color nothing could change that color, not shining it on other colored objects, or the same colored object. It could be blocked or absorbed, but the color never changed to another color.
Fig 8.2 – Prism spreading white light into a spectrum
Based on this he reasoned that (say) a green object looked green because it reflected green light and absorbed the other colors.
Thus white light turned out to simply be a mixture of colors of all sorts of different bright hues.
Noting that light split into colors going through a prism, he realized that light bends going from one medium (air) to another (glass) at an angle, and that the different colors bend at slightly different angles. Going through a pane of glass the two transitions (air to glass, glass to air) cancel each other out, but with a prism the surfaces are not parallel, so the different bending angles are compounded rather than cancelling.
Newton came to the conclusion that light was made of particles (which he called “corpuscles”).
Telescopes (a digression)
A lens in a telescope also has non-parallel surfaces, so astronomers using telescopes with lenses (“refractors”) will see “chromatic aberration” where objects seen in the telescope will have rainbow fringing around them. Newton invented a different type of telescope, one that uses a parabolic mirror to gather light, avoiding a large, expensive lens there; the eyepiece is still a lens. This (“reflector”) is the dominant type of telescope today (there are many variations. That is because a lens is much more expensive than a mirror of the same size and also because a large lens will sag under its own weight, whereas a mirror can be supported from behind.
Figure 8.3 – Keplerian refracting telescope invented in 1611 (an improvement over Galileo’s design).
The practical limit for a refractor was reached in the late 1900s, with the Yerkes Observatory’s 40 inch diameter telescope near Chicago. However, it was possible (with some epic difficulty) to build one-piece mirrors 200 inches across (Palomar Observatory in southern California) and even larger telescopes with multiple mirrors kept in close alignment (or even shifting for adaptive optics).
Figure 8.4 – Newtonian reflecting telescope, one of many variants
The Palomar Observatory was conceived in the 1930s, and finally came on line in 1955. It is without a doubt the premier example of pre-computer precision tech on a massive scale. It weighs two hundred tons yet is finely balanced enough to be turned with a motor that could drive a washing machine. The weight of a sandwich on the right part of the mount will cause it to turn, slowly, but turn nonetheless–that’s how friction-free it is. And it is still doing work. It still stands beside Hubble, and the big multiple mirror scopes on the Big Island of Hawaii. You can take tours in the daytime, but at night it might just be imaging planets around other stars, a feat thought impossible back in the 1990s. And this was 1930s technology. But then on the other hand, it was impossible to talk about Palomar in the 1970s without some dickhead bringing up the fact that the Soviet Union was building a 236 inch telescope. It was blatantly obvious they were doing this just to beat us out. Well, guess what; it turned out to be a piece of shit, so the joke was on them. (Please stand and yell, “‘Murica!!!” now.)
Figure 8.5 – The Hale Telescope at Mount Palomar. The vertical tube that’s basically a latticework is the actual telescope; the rest is its equatorial mount. The latticework’s diameter is over 17 feet (internal diamter 16 2/3 feet). (Note: I am surprised that Wikipoo doesn’t have a better picture than this.)
The Spectrum
Where was I?
OK, so let’s take a look at Newton’s spectrum. To our eyes, it’s a long color gradient, running from deep red through red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, blue, and violet, eventually getting to a deep violet.
Figure 8.6 – And of course the picture I found has to be read right-to-left when following along in my text.
If you’ve seen people make that statement before you might notice it’s a bit off from your recollection. The colors quoted are usually “red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet,” and there’s even a cute “Roy G. Biv” mnemonic to help people remember the order. (I never needed it, I have no trouble visualizing red shading to orange to yellow…etc.) A lot of people have opined that “indigo,” a bluish-purple, hardly seems to be worth considering to be its own color (in particular, Isaac Asimov is quoted to that effect on Wikipedia). But that’s a modern confusion. Newton was the first to list the colors, and to him “blue” meant the color of the sky, what we call today a light blue, and “indigo” meant a dark blue, like seen on the Flag of the United States. There is even a natural dark blue dye named indigo (I don’t know if the color was named after the dye or vice versa). So indigo wasn’t “bluish purple” but rather “blue” in today’s parlance. And therefore I chose to use “turquoise” where Newton was referencing (sky) blue and “blue” where he said “indigo,” more in line with present day usage.
And indeed when you look at Newton’s spectrum, or a rainbow, there are distinct light blue and dark blue bands; today we’d probably term that light blue color “cyan.” They really are distinct colors even if our language doesn’t acknowledge it. (Other languages do, Russian for instance.)
Rainbows
Figure 8.6 – Double rainbow with supernumaries inside the main rainbow. Note the photographer’s head’s shadow is dead center within the arc, that shadow is directly opposite from the sun (the “antisolar point”).
I mentioned rainbows in passing, and as it turns out rainbows have exactly the same cause. Sunlight enters a small water droplet (approximately spherical) in the atmosphere, and gets refracted. It strikes the far side of the droplet, and some goes on out, but some gets reflected, and leaves the front side of the droplet, getting refracted again, constructively. Down on the ground, one tiny part of the spectrum reaches your eye; perhaps you see a certain yellow-orange color from that droplet.
“But I see the whole spectrum,” you respond. True. That’s because you are also seeing light refracted through other droplets, and you just happen to be standing where some other droplet is sending red. Or blue. Or purple. Since all of the red rays coming out of all the droplets are parallel (and likewise for all the other colors) you see a nice orderly rainbow.
But you will only see it with the sun behind you; the droplets are sending light back very roughly the way it came. Therefore at noon the rainbow would be at your feet (and there’s usually not enough water droplets between your eyes and the ground for rainbows to happen, not at high noon there isn’t), so that is why rainbows always seem to happen early in the morning and late in the afternoon. And of course they follow rain showers because rain leaves innumerable microscopic water droplets in the atmosphere.
Figure 8.9 – Water droplet diffracting light. If you happen to be standing where the red band hits your eye, a lower droplet will be sending yellow or blue or purple to your eye. That’s why red as at the top of the main rainbow, violet at the bottom.
Herschel and Infrared
The next notable discovery was in 1800, by William Herschel, also of fame for discovering Uranus in 1781 (and trying to name it after King George III…yecchh). He conceived the notion that perhaps the different colors of light carried differing amounts of heat, so he put thermometers in several different locations in a solar spectrum. Like any good scientist, he set up another thermometer outside the spectrum as a control. He didn’t expect that to budge, except perhaps in response to the room itself getting warmer or colder.
He happened to set the control thermometer next to the “red” thermometer, and that was a very happy thing.
When he came back to the test area to record results, the highest temperature was on the “control” thermometer. Not one of the ones that actually had sunlight shining on it! The next highest was the red thermometer, then less and less so towards the purple end of the spectrum.
Eventually the truth became clear. There was non-visible “stuff” off the red side of the spectrum that was associated with heat, and Herschel named it “heat rays.” It ultimately became known as infrared (below red). In today’s parlance, we consider it another kind of light, and distinguish it from “visible” light (Newton’s spectrum). It’s just as “real” as visible light, and we try not to be parochial about the light we can see versus the light we cannot see.
Ritter and Ultraviolet
The very next year, Johann Wilhelm Ritter placed silver chloride soaked paper along the spectrum. Silver chloride will darken when exposed to light (the sort of phenomenon that ultimately led to photography). Presumably he was checking to see which color of light would darken it the most, and the answer turned out to be the hitherto-unknown invisible light on the far side of violet. He named these rays “deoxydizing rays” but today we call them ultraviolet.
We now know that slightly over 50 percent of the energy we get from the sun is in the form of infrared, and ten percent in the form of ultraviolet.
Ultraviolet was discovered to kill bacteria in 1878.
The Speed of Light
The first meaningful attempt to measure the speed of light was by Galileo, but he failed to detect any time delay at all; as far as he could tell light was instantaneous.
Rømer later measured light as taking 22 minutes to cross the diameter of the earth’s orbit. We didn’t know what that diameter actually was back then, but now that we do, Rømer’s measurement works out to 227,000,000 m/s.
In 1849, Fizeau set up a rotating cog wheel. He shone light through one gap, towards a mirror, and himself looked through a gap at the mirror. He could alter the speed of rotation, and thus know how fast the wheel had to rotate to let him see the light in the mirror. At the wrong rotation speed the light would be blocked by the cog, either coming or going. So he could calculate the speed of light, and got 313,000,000 m/s.
Figure 8.10 – Schematic of the Fizeau apparatus. The light passes on one side of a tooth on the way out, and the other side on the way back, assuming the cog rotates one tooth during transit of the light. (Caption copied from Wikipedia.)
In 1862 Foucault (as in pendulum, not as in post modern bullshit) used rotating mirrors to get a speed of 298,000,000 m/s, close to today’s value.
However, it also became apparent that light moved at different speeds in different materials. It was fastest in vacuum. (In fact, these speed differences are what cause it to bend when it crosses from one material to another.)
Waves
People were arguing over whether light was made up of particles, or whether it was a wave, until the early 1800s, when Young and Euler showed beyond any reasonable doubt that it was a wave.
And now I’ve got to explain some stuff about waves. Let’s take waves on the surface of a pond as an example. Take a snapshot of these waves, and there will be two obvious things you can measure to describe the waves. First, the distance from crest to crest (or trough to trough—they are the same). This is called the wavelength, and is usually symbolized by λ, Greek letter lamba (representing the “L” sound). Logically enough, it’s measured in meters.
Figure 8.11 – Wavelength of a wave
The second is the amplitude, which is the height of the waves. However, there’s a small nuance here: It’s half the trough-to-peak height, because it’s measured from where the water level would be if it were calm, to either the peak or trough. (There are rare exceptions where something different is done; this is by far the most common, followed by something called RMS [“root mean square”] which is a sort of average deviation from “flat” and is used in electrical engineering to measure, for instance, the voltage delivered to your house.) Amplitude is measured in whatever the field is measured (volts for electrical fields, meters for water waves, etc.)
Figure 8.12 – Amplitude, as usually measured is arrow 1. Arrow 4 is the wavelength.
The higher the amplitude, the greater the energy in the wave, generally energy goes as the square of the amplitude–twice the amplitude, four times the energy.
OK, unfreeze the action. Take a movie. Go wading out into the water, and count how many waves pass you in a second. (It’s probably less than 1 if you’re wading in water, but roll with me here.) The number of peaks (or troughs) that pass you in a second is the frequency. It’s measured in per second, 1/s, also known as hertz, but we haven’t met him yet. We will. When talking about light, the frequency is represented by ν, which looks like a v but is actually the Greek letter nu (representing the “N” sound).
[Side note: The Greek letter upsilon (which has had a bunch of different values as time has gone on, but the consensus is in ancient times it was much like German ü. Today it’s like the i in machine) looks like this: υ and they look an awful lot alike in some fonts, which takes getting used to when trying to learn Greek. Mistaking a vowel for a consonant or vice versa when trying to sound out an unfamiliar word is confusing!]
If the waves are passing by at (say) ten meters a second, and you’re measuring a frequency of five times a second, that means five waves take up ten meters. That makes the wavelength 2 meters. Or, you can go at it from another direction. If you know the wavelength, and the frequency, you can deduce the speed; in our example, a 2 meter wave passes 5 times a second, so the speed is 10 m/s.
The speed of light is invariably represented by c and we met it in an unexpected place, buried in Maxwell’s Equations. For light, we can write the following:
c = λν
(If you have trouble remembering which one is which, remember lambda and length both start with L. If you can’t remember which one of those funky symbols is lambda…well, I don’t know a good trick to remember that, so hopefully you just can remember. It’s easy if you’re looking at the capitals: Λ and Ν, because capital nu even looks like an N.)
OK, back to our story. Young was able to demonstrate that light was a wave in 1800, by measuring its wavelength.
This measurement relied on the light waves interfering with themselves. And that’s another thing about waves I’ve gotta explain.
Imagine an ocean wave approaching a breakwater head on. If there is a wide gap in the breakwater, much wider than the wavelength, the waves will simply go through the gap, remaining parallel straight lines.
But if that gap is much less than a wavelength, something else happens. The gap behaves as if were a source of waves, and on the other side of the breakwater, waves ripple out as if a stone had been dropped in the gap. This is diffraction, and it can even force a laser beam to spread out. Doing it to a ray of sunlight through a very narrow slit was strong evidence that light was a wave; particles would simply have barged through the opening without changing direction.
Even better, what if there are two gaps in the breakwater? Then you have two different “sources” of waves for the far side of the breakwater, and the waves they produce will criss-cross. You can set yourself at some fixed point and find that at some places, both wave peaks (and both wave troughs) hit that point at the same time, resulting in the wave being twice as high there, and at other points, the trough of one wave will hit you the same time the peak of the other does, and vice versa…and they cancel each other out. The water is calm where you are.
Figure 8.13 – The actual sketch by Young of wave interference patterns for waves going through two slits. C and F are where the two waves add together,, meaning the interference patterns is bright here (when dealing with lilght), D and E are places the ripple patterns do not overlap so in those areas the waves will cancel out and appear dark.
Now go to the shore, and some parts of the shore will get very high waves, and others will get calm.
Picture, instead, light passing through two slits, being projected on a screen. You should see bright and dark bands where the waves add or cancel, respectively.
And this was done by Young in 1800, also.
But it was his measuring the wavelength that is key here. He found that light’s wavelenth is less than a millionth of a meter, depending on the color. Violet light’s wavelength would be in the neighborhood of 400 nanometers (nm, a nanometer is one billionth of a meter), while red light would come in at 700 nm).
We can get the frequency (what’s the frequency, Dan?) this way:
c = λν
c/λ = ν
So let’s see; about 300,000,000 m/s divided by say 500nm (a nice yellow color) gives: 600,000,000,000,000 hertz, or 600 terahertz (Thz, tera = trillion).
600 trillion is more than the national debt…well, this week anyway; check back next week, and that many waves go past you every second when you’re out in the sun, or for that matter, basking in light from a compact fluorescent bulb.
If you get the idea that a lot of progress was made on light in 1800-1801, you are right.
Spectroscopy
On the subject of stars, all investigations which are not ultimately reducible to simple visual observations…are necessarily denied to us…We shall never by any means be able to study their chemical composition.
Auguste Comte, 1835
This seems like a reasonable stance. How are we going to get to the stars to take a sample? However, this one wouldn’t age well. (Though oddly enough the first part of this remained true!) It was already coming undone twenty years before he wrote it.
And it almost continued into 1802. In that year, Wollaston (who would shortly discover rhodium and palladium–more chemists doing physics and vice versa) noted that there appeared to be a few gaps in the solar spectrum rather than it being a smooth continuum, but he didn’t pursue this.
In 1814, Joseph von Fraunhofer, working on improving optical glass, would invent the spectroscope for the specific purpose of obtaining spectra. He noticed a dark line in the light coming from flame, counted 576 such lines in sunlight, and noted other lines in the light coming from various stars. He was able to rule out the atmosphere as the cause because the lines were different for different stars.
Figure 8.14 – Solar spectrum with (major) Fraunhofer lines shown.
There are now over half a million known of these “Fraunhofer lines”
Figure 8.15 – LOTS of Fraunhofer absorption lines.
It had long been known that different chemicals could glow differing colors when heated in flame; soon other scientists were using a spectroscope to look at what these colors were made of. They often saw that the spectrum of these glows consisted of a number of bright lines against a dark background; the exact opposite of the sun’s black lines against a bright background.
Talbot was able to tell lithium from strontium by this means. Both gave off a red light, but lithium was carmine and strontium, scarlet.
It turned out that the bright lines and dark lines were often at the same frequency; it turned out that the dark lines were due to something absorbing light, and the bright lines were that same substance emitting light.
In the mid 1850s scientists began to realize that every element had its own characteristic spectra, and by 1865 they were attributing specific bands to specific elements.
Hydrogen, it turns out, has by far the simplest spectrum. There are four lines in the visible spectrum, at 656.274 nm (red), 486.135 nm (cyan), 434.0972 nm (bluish-purple), and 410.1734 nm (very purple). There are a couple of additional lines whose wavelengths are below 400 nm, and therefore technically considered ultraviolet, but some people can see them: at 397.0075 & 388.9064 nm.
Figure 8-16 – Hydrogen emission spectrum in visible light
Most other elements have dozens of lines in their visible spectra.
And now we could analyze the stars chemically, though Comte did have it right in one respect: we were still using their light, because we still can’t do anything else.
In 1868, in fact, a set of totally unknown lines was noticed in the Sun, and it was eventually concluded that this was due to an unknown element. We had no idea which element it was; I imagine that after Mendeleev published the periodic table people were guessing it would fill one of the holes he left open in that table. (There was no known way of predicting what the spectrum of an element would be; you had to measure it and catalog it for future use. Today we can predict hydrogen’s, but others are difficult if not impossible.)
Figure 8.17 – Spectrum of helium.
The element was known to be on the sun (and nowhere else), so it was named after the sun, Helios in Greek mythology, so (figuring it was a metal) they named it helium.
Other elements were discovered through the use of spectroscopes, which would tell scientists their sample contained something new. Cesium, rubidium, indium, and thallium were all discovered this way, and…every single one of them is named after the color of its spectral lines, sky blue, deep red, indigo, and sea green, respectively.
The 1860s were also the time when light was first recognized to be an electromagnetic wave, thanks to Faraday and Maxwell.
Christian Doppler
I told this story quite some time ago, and probably should not have, I should have left it for now. But it bears repeating even so.
In 1842, an Austrian scientist named Christian Doppler described what we now call the “Doppler Effect.” He was working with sound, not light, but it turns out the Doppler effect also applies to light.
Although the mechanism behind sound is very different from that of light, a source of sound still sends out waves in expanding spheres, just as a light bulb (or the sun) does. And the wavelength of sound corresponds directly to pitch: A short wavelength is a high pitch compared to a longer wavelength.
Sound travels through air (or other materials) as its medium. What happens if the source of sound is moving?
If it is moving towards you, at (say) half the speed of sound, then something curious happens. If it emits the peak of a wave at a certain time, well, by the time it emits the second peak, it has moved half a wavelength towards you. So what you will hear a sound of half the wavelength that was emitted, or twice the pitch (an octave higher for you music folks). Similarly if the same source moves away at the same speed, it will emit the second peak half a wavelength further away, so you will hear a pitch with 50% longer wavelength (a perfect fifth lower).
Figure 8.18 – A cheesy little GIF that hopefully will illustrate what I’m trying to say.
This effect was coming to people’s attention because they could hear it in train whistles as the train passed by. Of course the train might only be moving at 10-20 percent of the speed of sound, but that’s more than enough. At first people thought the train engineers were doing something to cause the phenomenon, just trolling the people outside the train, but that would have required multiple whistles at different pitches, and besides as far as we know none of them were ancestors of Donald Trump (though who knows about Melania’s family tree).
If you can determine the frequency emitted, and the frequency heard, you can calculate the speed of the source, but only along a radial line. It’s no good for transverse motion. (Likewise if you want to work with wavelengths.)
The Doppler effect also works on things that sound (or light) bounces off of. In fact this is how the local constabulary’s radar gun works; it knows the frequency of emission (since it is doing the emitting); it just senses the frequency of the returning signal and does the calculation and informs the officer whether or not he’s one step closer to meeting the quota he denies having to meet.
As I said, light is subject to the Doppler effect, and it’s possible to use that effect to determine how fast a star is moving in the radial direction. (Painstaking, detailed observations over time will reveal how fast it’s moving in the transverse direction, at least assuming other stars in the photographs are much farther away, and provided we know how far away the star is.)
Simply take the star’s spectrum and see how much it is shifted. If it is shifted towards shorter wavelenths (becomes bluer) it’s moving towards us, if shifted towards longer wavelenths (becomes redder) it’s moving away.
But wait…a star puts out all frequencies. If some blue wavelength gets shortened by 10 nm, won’t some slightly less blue wavelength get shifted into the position as it gets shifted 10 nm as well?
Aaah, but you see, a star’s light doesn’t contain all frequencies. The Fraunhofer lines are darkk! And we know what their frequencies are “supposed” to be, so when we see them shift, we can measure the red- or blue-shift of the star and get its velocity.
(Typical radial velocities are in the tens of kilometers per second, relative to the Sun which is also moving along with the herd. The true speed with respect to the center of the galaxy is a couple of hundred kilometers per second.)
Sometimes we can even tell how fast a star is rotating! Consider, the side that is moving towards you will look slightly blue-shifted, and the side rotating away from you will be slightly red-shifted. This will cause the Fraunhofer lines to get thicker as they are shifted in both directions at once, though they will also not appear as dark.
Neill de Grasse Tyson (yeah, I know, but here he’s talking about stuff he knows quite a bit about) considers the discovery of the Fraunhofer lines the birth of astrophysics, because it opened the door to knowing the composition and motion of the stars.
Black-body Radiation
Hot objects glow. You know this from watching embers in a fire or perhaps you’ve seen molten metal glowing either in person or in a video.
It’s also what makes an incandescent light bulb work. The filament gets hot; as much as 3000 K. Because it is hot, it emits light over a spread of frequencies. That would be enough to cool it off, because light carries off the energy, but of course there’s an electric current going through it and the filament is a resistor which means there’s a voltage across it and, well, power = current x voltage, and power is just a rate of energy, so more energy is coming into the filament as it is radiating away. (Radiating like this is one of three major ways to transfer heat, the other two are direct contact and convection.)
If you’ve ever seen an unfrosted incandescent light burning, that dinky little filament is bright. How bright it is, per surface area, is a direct consequence of its temperature. Imagine looking at a molten blob of metal at that temperature; it’d be very bright, every square millimeter of it putting out as much light as a square millimeter of the filament (which might not even have one square millimeter of surface area).
As it turns out a perfectly black object will behave in an ideal manner, so this is called black-body radiation.
Another thing that turns out to depend directly on the temperature is where the “peak” of the curve is. For some reason, the glow isn’t just done at any old frequency, there’s a distinct distribution, which is why objects that are glowing from the heat can be colored from red (relatively cool) to orange to white, and even blue. (That requires a temperature so high that you’ve probably never seen anything glowing blue hot…other, that is, than many stars in the night sky.)
Figure 8.19 – Color of the glow of a hot object versus its temperature in K. The sun comes in at about 6000 K.
Figure 8.20 – Black body spectral curves versus temperature. An elaborate classical theory gives the curve shown in black for 5000K, which of course doesn’t resemble the blue line very much.
Scientists were unable to explain why the curve didn’t just go higher and higher into the ultraviolet, rather than displaying the distinct hump you see here.
But one thing that should be plain, is that a 5000 K “white hot” body emits far, far more radiation than a 3000 K “red hot” body. At every single wavelength, even the red ones, the white hot object far outshines the red hot one. In fact, it turns out that the total emission goes up as the fourth power of the temperature: Double the temperature, increase the emission by 2x2x2x2 = 16 times!
Michelson and Morley
Albert Michelson was fascinated by light and experimented on it a lot. He pioneered the use of the interferometer…and I’m not going to try to explain how it works in brief, other than it splits a beam of light and sends one half at a ninety degree angle to the first. Both parts of the beam reflect off mirrors and meet at a detector. Do the waves constructively or destructively interfere? If destructive, you can shift one of the mirrors slightly to get constructive interference, and the distance you shifted is half a wavelength (so one can measure the wavelength of light by this means).
Link here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson_interferometer
If you get the thing set up so the two beams constructively interfere, you can rotate the entire apparatus 45 degrees to see if that changes due to, say, the light travelling at a different speed in that direction, because we (riding along on planet Earth) are moving through the medium through which the waves propagate.
If you were to try a similar experiment with sound on a moving platform, it would appear to move slower when measured in the direction you’re traveling, faster when measured backwards in the direction you’re getting farther from, and in the middle somewhere, just about at the rest velocity, to the sides. That’s because you are moving through the air that sound propagates through.
In 1887 Michelson and Morley built a very accurate interferometer, isolated it from vibration as best they could, and decided to try to detect our velocity through the medium it was presumed to move through, known as the aether.
And got nothing. We weren’t moving through the medium, and that was true no matter when we took the measurement, or where. At different times of the year the earth ought to be moving in different directions, so we should see something sometime even if the aether were moving along with the earth at one time of the year.
But nothing. Apparently the speed of light didn’t depend on how much the observer was moving; it was dead constant (in a vacuum).
Hertz and Radio
There is just one more story, before we assume the runner’s crouch in preparation for dashing across the 1895 line next week.
Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894, yes he didn’t even live to see 40) was looking for a topic for his doctoral thesis and noted the claim made by Maxwell in 1864 that light was an electromagnetic wave.
He reasoned that he ought to be able to create electromagnetic waves of much lower frequency by setting up a couple of long straight wires in line, with a tiny gap between them. By getting a spark to jump the gap he could set up a standing wave in the wires, which would presumably cause EM waves to radiate away from the wires.
Figure 8.21 – Circuit diagram of Hertz’s transmitter and receiver
Figure 8.22 – A crude photograph of the business end of Hertz’s transmitter.
So how would he detect the waves? He’d set up another circuit with a gap some distance away, and see if sparks jumped the gap in response to an electric field–the electric field of his propagating wave.
And indeed it was so! It was 1886 and Hertz had just discovered radio. He was transmitting, rather fitfully, at about 50 MHz, a frequency now used by television. Ironically, he thought it would be of absolutely no use whatsoever.
Hertz also noticed something rather peculiar. It was hard to see the spark at the receiver, so he’d put it in a dark box. But when he did that, he had to bring the two terminals closer together to get the spark to happen. Something in the light, apparently, made it easier for a spark to jump the gap. He put a window in the box, made of glass, and the spark jumping distance remained the same, no matter how bright the light was.
When he use quartz, instead of glass, he could move the terminals further apart again.
What was the difference? Glass blocks ultraviolet light. Quartz does not.
So there is something about ultraviolet waves that gives the electrical fluid in the receiver a bit of an extra kick. But not visible light, and certainly not infrared.
No matter how bright you make visible light, it doesn’t help. If light is a wave, the brightness corresponds to the amplitude, and the energy depends on the amplitude. But ultraviolet had an effect, even ultraviolet of much lower amplitude.
This is known as the “photoelectric effect” and, since this didn’t make any sense, it’s our 1895 mystery of the week.
Hertz, alas, passed in 1894…so he wouldn’t ever know the answer, nor how very useful radio turned out to be.
Obligatory PSAs and Reminders
China is Lower than Whale Shit
To conclude: My standard Public Service Announcement. We don’t want to forget this!!!
Remember Hong Kong!!!
If anyone ends up in the cell right next to him, tell him I said “hi.”
中国是个混蛋 !!! Zhōngguò shì gè hùndàn !!! China is asshoe !!!
China is in the White House
Since Wednesday, January 20 at Noon EST, the bought-and-paid for Joseph Biden has been in the White House. It’s as good as having China in the Oval Office.
Joe Biden is Asshoe
China is in the White House, because Joe Biden is in the White House, and Joe Biden is identically equal to China. China is Asshoe. Therefore, Joe Biden is Asshoe.
But of course the much more important thing to realize:
Joe Biden Didn’t Win
乔*拜登没赢 !!! Qiáo Bài dēng méi yíng !!! Joe Biden didn’t win !!!
It’s sweltering in Texas, but it’s cool in Wolf’s Pub. Welcome back and head on over to the bar. It’s Modelo Time! We’ll get to that in a moment, but aren’t you glad it’s Friday?
What a week. So much news happening. There’s a couple things to think about today. I don’t know about you, but I’m getting angrier by the moment, knowing that fellow Americans are being held as political prisoners in a Capitol jail in D.C.
It’s an outrage. Y’all are idiots in D.C. Do you think we’re gonna be afraid and head into the shadows?
The treatment of our fellow citizens–being held in solitary confinement without bail while y’all try to pin an insurrection on us–is intolerable. We aren’t gonna forget what you’ve been doing to us.
The liars who run our media and our federal agencies (hey there!) may have been colluding to gin up a supposed insurrection. Imagine trying to indict all the grandmas and grandpas and veterans and small business owners in America that make up every-day Americans?
“Revolver News is willing to address the matter directly in the following three questions:
In the year leading up to 1/6 and during 1/6 itself, to what extent were the three primary militia groups (the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys, and the Three Percenters) that the FBI, DOJ, Pentagon and network news have labeled most responsible for planning and executing a Capitol attack on 1/6 infiltrated by agencies of the federal government, or informants of said agencies?
Exactly how many federal undercover agents or confidential informants were present at the Capitol or in the Capitol during the infamous “siege” and what roles did they play (merely passive informants or active instigators)?
Finally, of all of the unindicted co-conspirators referenced in the charging documents of those indicted for crimes on 1/6, how many worked as a confidential informant or as an undercover operative for the federal government (FBI, Army Counterintelligence, etc.)?”
Y’all in D.C. are fools. And you look it. You’re an embarrassment. For heaven’s sake, come clean while you can.
That Buffalo Jump is ultimately proving to be a failure. Smart people had it figured out from the get-go.
The few good people left in government are sniffing out the stinking mess:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1405023243342282753
BREAKING: Congressman Matt Gaetz calls on FBI Director Christopher Wray to fully disclose the role and involvement of FBI operatives during the January 6th Capitol riot.
“The report in question alleges that federal agents were involved in the planning of the Jan. 6th riot and were violent participants. In fact, more than 20 co-conspirators involved remain unindicted despite participating in worse activities than many supporters who are now serving jail time.
Revolver News explains the pattern they found in the charging documents from January 6th: “In many cases the unindicted co-conspirators appear to be much more aggressive and egregious participants in the very so-called ‘conspiracy’ serving as the basis for charging those indicted.”
The report questioned why this is and whether or not some participants are being shielded from charges because of their involvement as undercover agents or informants for government agencies.”
Just in case you missed Tucker Carlson on the issue: Gab TV
Aren’t you D.C. types getting a bit sick of being made fools of by regular Americans with cameras and the alternative media? Doncha get it? You have been outed.
You people are owned. And now you want all of us to be owned, too. Sorry to disappoint, but we aren’t going to sell our souls, our fellow citizens, and our country out. And we won’t let you overcome us.
WE SHALL OVERCOME!
LET OUR PEOPLE GO!
A MEXICAN IMPORT WE CAN ALL GET BEHIND
It’s been so dee-dang hot in Texas that even I began to hanker after a beer. Modelo is our go-to around here. Modelo has been brewed in Mexico since 1925. The bar happens to have Modelo Especial on tap today. Enjoy!
Back when Maximillian thought he was going to start another empire in the New World (1864-67), a bunch of German and Austrian folks emigrated to Mexico and began brewing beer. The Mexicans gladly took over when old Maximllian met his fate in 1867.
Of course, the inhabitants south of our border have been brewing good stuff long before the Germans came along, but nevertheless, the fine pilsner that is Modelo Especial entices the pickiest of beer drinkers. You can read about Modelo here and here. And for some fun reviews of Modelo, see below (language warning at the second video):
https://youtu.be/wHWynMO4ZPw
Here’s a short history of beer in Mexico:
HOUSE RULES
While the beer mugs are filling, let’s review the rules here. Modelo is mellow and lovely. Good messaging.
Hit the Utree if brawling is your thing. The Utree is also a place to reconvene if we get separated.
ODDS AND ENDS
Bet you didn’t know that Bill Gates grows potatoes, and they often end up in McDonald’s French fries. Erb.
The Anatomy of a Smear Campaign chronicles how they are trying to discredit those interested in Q. They ignore Q but go after those who read/follow Q. Meh. Another failed plot. The socialist/prog/commie/globalists have lost their mojo.
Gotta follow Lin Wood. Man of God. Taker of prisoners. He’s kicking butt with those stupid lawyers in Georgia who tried to take him on. It’s a joy to watch him take down corrupt lawyers. A true joy.
And here’s a lovely video of Lin’s estate in South Carolina. Wow!
Since Jon Stewart and Bill Maher are speaking the truth about some things, something behind the scenes is going on. I mean, when you get this out of Rachel Maddow, the panic is palpable.
Okay, yeah, the incident happened last year, but guess what. The market value of Coke dropped by BILLIONS after one of the greatest athletes on the planet showed his opinion. (He’s a really good guy. Truly.)
Coca-Cola’s market value reportedly drops $4 billion following Cristiano Ronaldo’s snub https://t.co/Do1dZwaMky
I posted this thread before and feel so strongly, I’m posting again: It’s been interesting living 2 lives as surgeon and hear colleagues worship masks, lockdowns, vax, and ignore therapies.Then I come here and see how people have lost trust in medical and “scientific”community.1/
— Patriotic Trauma, MD (@PatrioticTrauma) June 16, 2021
I posted this thread before and feel so strongly, I’m posting again: It’s been interesting living 2 lives as surgeon and hear colleagues worship masks, lockdowns, vax, and ignore therapies.Then I come here and see how people have lost trust in medical and “scientific”community.1/
And as they should! I don’t blame them! I have as well! People (as patients with autonomy) should never feel pressure to be forced to be injected with untested mRNA gene therapy vaccines that don’t have clear delineations for contraindications, or be prevented from getting…2/
treatment with meds that are being used all around the rest of the world (eg hcq and ivermectin) all for the sake of pushing an agenda and a vax that is so clearly being used to control our freedoms. My field of medicine has been hijacked for other purposes other than to heal. 3/
Many will keep our head down and continue to keep the oath we made as doctors, which I will do. I will continue do my job as a trauma surgeon which is all I know to do, but as a patriotic citizen, I will continue to speak out here and continue to pray for my country.4/4
Be on the lookout for good doctors like this. They think for themselves.
Let’s see…what else have I got…..
And…this woman should be an inspiration to people everywhere.
Take heart. It’s almost Friday.
Oh, and before I forget:
Yes, I’m a product of the 80s.
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This is for the historical record. I hope that this analysis gets to the “dissident scientists” involved, but even if it never does, future historians will get a powerful look at what I call “Fake Science” – the establishment’s phony, deceptive and controlled scientific complex – and how infiltration, control, and discreditation of dissident populist …
You will recall that I located the point where the “suramin error” was dropped in front of the right people to be uploaded to the prominent doctors of the anti-vaxx community, prior to the “magnet challenge” disinformation being similarly uploaded, and then used to discredit them in the Daily Mail.
Part of the suramin attack involved a highly edited video of Judy Mikovits touting suramin, minus the full information about that drug. That video, in combination with erroneous assertions about suramin being in pine tree needles, resulted in the physicians who are currently prominent warning about the COVID vaccines, picking up the error and discrediting themselves in their very current and very popular videos about the gynecological and shedding problems of the persistent and migratory spike protein vaccines.
Well, that video which was used to misinform them has been removed.
Sunlight. It cures quite a bit all on its own.
More seriously, I realized that, at some level there, probably in the background, I was dealing with pro “influencers of influencers of influencers”. I won’t be sharing all my information on that, as much as I would love to, but it became apparent that they are watching us like hawks. Speaking of which…..
2.
The Sleeper Has Awakened
Yes, Sundance just came out with a piece critical of the COVID vaccines. You will recall that SD and his crew were all fairly pro-vaxx, so this tells me there is a fundamental shift going on.
And while the fact that the HHS entrance to VAERS went down at the same time SD came out with this article may very well just be coincidence, I am 100% certain that the policy of Barack Obama and Eric Holder is BACK IN PLACE under Merrick “Whatever You Say, Barack” Garland, and that journalists like Sundance (and ourselves) are being SPIED ON by the federal government, in a abuse of power for political purposes.
SO – anyway – keep an eye on CTH in regard to things “COVID” – there is going to be some good stuff there, I’m willing to bet.
[Just for the record, I wrote this BEFORE the recent CTH post about “QAnon” stuff, which I happen to regard as a very helpful warning, but which was “not received warmly” by most on this site. I’m not looking to exacerbate the situation, but I hate “spiking” anything – for anybody. And I’m going to be very blunt. Sundance is going to have THE BEST coverage of DOJ asshattery against our site, so prepare to see me using a LOT of his coverage in my postings and reasoning. People need to learn to keep their emotions in check, because that is how an army survives – digital or otherwise. WWG1WGA begins with YOU.]
3.
Scientists Are Calling Out The Snakes
Everybody is seeing how people are calling out FAUCI, but in my opinion that’s actually a side-show. The REAL DEAL is scientists calling out the scientific BULLSHIT about COVID, and particularly the spike protein nuttery that was imposed on us. At long last, people in Scienceville are going “WHAT THE #### IS GOING ON?”
First, a video that came to us via Grandmaintexas and this link:
It’s worth listening to the beginning of this video to hear this dude list off his credentials. This guy isn’t just some country doctor. Nor is he old, senile, or out-of-date on current medicine. Just listen to him. This dude is IMPRESSIVE. He’s still sharp as a tack, just like Trump. I would almost say “more”, at the risk of offending some who believe this is not possible! Just listen to him.
Among many other jaw-droppers of sensible scientific perspective, this video basically tells you why I have been so mouth-agape about that Pfizer data snagged back into American science from JAPAN.
You have to look closely at it, but not THAT closely.
The VIDEO adds more about testicular localization in males.
Yeah, boys. It ain’t just the broads. Cross those legs – this is gonna make you cringe like a prostate exam.
One of the things which is EXTREMELY NOTEWORTHY about the video is that this lady YouTuber / Facebooker / BitChuter and all-around “social media presenter” goes into deep detail about the extreme censorship she is encountering, and how she deals with it.
For example, she states that the YouTube video was taken down in about 10 minutes.
Alternatively, you can listen to some different scientists in THIS great video, thanks to singingsoul.
Here we have Bret Weinstein interviewing a doctor and an engineer who explain – to the satisfaction of any honest scientist – WHY the mRNA vaccines (and to a lesser extent, the adenoviral vector vaccines) are CLEARLY problematic.
This is EXACTLY the same stuff we’ve been talking about. And it will be extremely useful in getting to where we are going, looking at NEW VACCINES COMING.
I’ll give you a hint now – the new vaccines could be a strong correction, back to what vaccines SHOULD be – or they could just be a slower and stealthier path to get us where the cabal has us going now – elite-controlled social contraception, and immunity debt enslavement – which is the worst-case future of “vaccine capture” a la Marek.
So – let me review previous posting, mostly mine, but also Deplorable Patriot’s reachy but prophetic question about the incredible and previously unthinkable idea of vaccine shedding. All of it based on what YOU, our loyal posters, brought here for the group to digest.
Take a bow, people. YOU DID GOOD.
4.
A Short Bibliographic Toldjaso From This Site
I will preface each of these blurbs with another short blurb, explaining relevance.
This will “refresh your memory”, before we get into the FUTURE.
We start, very appropriately, with RAND PAUL.
Gotta give DOCTOR Rand Paul credit – he has led the fight to bring SANITY back to medicine and science. Thank GOD Trump put him where he saved the most people – in the SENATE. I also have a personal debt here, as a recoveree, forced to wear a needless mask, aggravating my hypoxia. Rand Paul has FREED ME of my TORTURE MASK.
Introduction You have GOT to see the video I’m going to show you. It’s not just what they’re talking about. It’s WHERE IT LEADS. Most of the people who watch Rand Paul go after Fauci here, are concentrating on MASKS, because that is the TOP LAYER of the argument. But THAT is the small potatoes. …
This post is where disparate cracks in the narrative all opened at once. I was no longer going along with the bullshit. Too many questions, too many pat answers turning up WRONG – no – the narrative was full of holes, and it was time to think ON OUR OWN.
PREFACE I thought that I might withhold this post on Easter Sunday, and then I changed my mind, thanks to Deplorable Patriot, Trump, Gab and Jesus. If anybody ever FOUGHT on Easter Sunday, it was Christ. It’s time to FOLLOW POINT. The Branch Covidians have taken a toll, but the WAR is turning, and – …
I just went back and read this thing, and – WOW – just WOW. I was all over two things – spike protein and genetic incorporation – the JAENISCH paper. We are now all over the spike protein, but we MUST turn our attention to genetic incorporation of the vaccine – particularly in people who “fountain” the spike protein. I had forgotten this, but much of the suspicion of Fauci on this site centered around his seeming obsession with vaccines for viruses capable of genomic incorporation.
Yes, Wuhan is important, but I see that as the plotters playing “hot potato scandal” to distract us from the deeper purposes of this LYING phony pandemic.
Genetic incorporation of these vaccines must be investigated. There has been so much we have been told that is WRONG – I think genetic incorporation due to the spike protein acting as a reverse transcription promoter for its own RNA is a biggie.
Alternate Title: Is Persistent Reverse Transcription a Hidden Virus/Vaccine Objective? Gloating Pre-Preface There are few feelings of satisfaction like opening up the NEWS and knowing one’s theories and understandings are WORKING even better than one thought. Let’s see if they use this one for damage control, and get the “new science” out before the STORY …
No good guys among these genetic vaccines. They are all RISKY for certain people, and when we EUAed them forward, we took those risks. The problem is, with idiot BIDEN in charge, instead of Trump, there was nobody to push the sensible idea of sparing the vaccine from those for whom it would be knowingly risky.
Every coronavirus vaccine so far has shown us SOME defect upon mass release, which was NOT evident in EVEN phase III clinical trials. Look HERE for a searchable PDF document of adverse effects from the Pfizer vaccine: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/977005/COVID-19_mRNA_Pfizer-_BioNTech_Vaccine_Analysis_Print.pdf Check out these videos on the low-platelet clotting problem from the Oxford/Astrazeneca vaccine. Here is a fantastic …
I was really starting to get it here. I was starting to accept that “it’s the full spike protein, stupid!”
I saw an excellent explanation of the clotting problem with the AstraZeneca vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 here: The doctor, Dr. ZDogg, MD, offers an exceptionally clear explanation of both what is going on with the AstraZeneca vaccine, and why its distribution was halted or limited in some places for some age groups of patients. …
This is when I realized that all the gynecological problems being reported for the COVID vaccines were actually a REAL problem, and not just a sub-problem of the clotting problems. I also realized that this effect was too pronounced to be an accident. And then the complications going to other people in close contact – how could this even be possible?
So I considered what sounded like a more reasonable alternative to “vaccine shedding” – namely, spike protein shedding. Indeed, both avenues could be operating, but vaccine shedding now has DATA to support it, in the form of the Pfizer animal data showing persistence and migration. And if you stay with this to the very end, you will see that these lipid nanoparticles have been nothing but trouble from the beginning. It’s an impressive technology, but clearly not fully baked.
Thus, read this post, knowing that the vaccine is likely to be nearly as persistent as the spike protein it produces. Everything I’m saying for the spike protein, should apply in spades for the vaccine, which essentially brings in mRNA as a transmissible FACTORY for creating spike protein. It would not take much vaccine transfer to create the EXACT problem that is observed in alleged shedding incidents.
“When the people have any power to object to a socialist solution, a deniable 5% fait accompli is always more desirable to socialists than a negotiated 50% solution, because they can always negotiate on the remaining 95%.” -Wolf Moon When I first heard about a case of a miscarriage by a pregnant doctor, due to …
This is where I really laid out the evidence that the spike protein is causing the problems we’re seeing.
Using Principles of Protein Equivalence and Analogy as Predictive Tools for Coronavirus Understanding Surely you’ve heard of the BROWN RECLUSE SPIDER. The brown recluse is related to several other recluses, and a couple of other families of spiders, that all have a similar venom – a protein called sphingomyelinase D. This is an enzyme that …
If you don’t think those “lipid nanoparticles” of the mRNA vaccines can’t “act like viruses” and basically pass “disease” to a NEW HOST – read this. LNPs ≈ VLPs.
EVERYTHING we are seeing in vaccine medicine now is a COPY of what nature did about 70-100 million years ago, in the insect world. Once I realized this, I was able to pattern this stuff all over what Big Pharma is doing, and get ahead of their game.
This post is probably going to go over a lot of heads, but I think scientists will find it disturbing until they find it compelling, and then ultimately find it satisfying. Creation teaches us – not the other way around.
OK – we’re going to have some fun here – but stick with me, and you could learn A LOT. Cue the music! Borrowed from Wheatie! Previous posts helped put both the SPIKE PROTEIN DISEASE and the SPIKE PROTEIN VACCINE into deep perspective. We were seeing that the SOLUTION was a significant part of the …
Deplorable Patriot hit the nail on the head here. Before I accepted the awful fact that these vaccines are not what we thought they were, I didn’t believe shedding could be real. Oh, boy, was I wrong about that.
Our dear boss, Wolf, has been busy putting together scientific primers on just what it is the various shots and inoculations marketed to be preventative of severe symptoms of COVID do, but what hasn’t been addressed for those of us who chose not to be shot up with whatever is in the syringes is how …
This was beautiful – mainstream science and medicine starting to question the Fauci BS. Revel in it. Some of this is now “accepted” – all of it will be, soon enough. We’re headed back to sanity, folks.
This is a very important video you don’t want to miss. It just came out, and the doctor is a guy I’ve been following. He chooses his words carefully, to stay inside the establishment where he can publish some of the top papers, but he speaks the truth at all times. Don’t let the video …
This is where I was blown away by the Pfizer leak out of Japan. The targeting of the ovaries.
AYE-YI-YI. What is one supposed to think? Good GRIEF.
TL;DR – you MUST listen to a short podcast of a scientist revealing the latest research on the spike protein vaccines. The VACCINE ITSELF (not just the spike protein – the mRNA vaccine itself) is persistent and is not only concentrating in ovaries – THE VACCINE ITSELF IS EXCRETED – e.g., in breast milk. Meaning …
Now you can see it very easily – the enemy threw that “Magnet Challenge” out to muddy the water as we were gaining understanding. But here is where I started to look at it experimentally – give it a real examination – and come away fairly doubtful that there is anything to it. The Magnet Challenge is bad science. It may be well-motivated, but it’s quality disinformation. Top-shelf stuff – ACTIVE DISINFORMATION to make people SELF-DISCREDIT – meant to insulate the controlled and groomed experts by discrediting smart people outside of controlled science.
Wherein we examine, in something like “MythBusters” style, the dubious “Magnet Challenge”, without relying (too much) on the anti-scientific crutch of scientific authority First, a confession. The main reason I am attracted to these videos of people sticking magnets to the COVID vaccination injection sites on their shoulders, is that I love to watch normal …
This is where I actually call out the other side for trying to mislead our side with the “Magnet Challenge”. At this point I really understand how utterly misleading this trick is, and WHY it was inflicted on us.
Wherein we look at how the COVID scammers are now using “magnetic” disinformation to try to escape justice for REAL abuse of liposome biotechnology to achieve [most likely contraceptive] vaccine persistence and migration. TL;DR – after mRNA vaccine persistence and anatomical migration were revealed in leaked Pfizer data, explaining “shedding” via persistent liposomes, the COVID …
This is where I investigate the origins of one of the “fake facts” used to trip up the doctors opposed to the spike protein mRNA vaccines. I am convinced that this was some kind of discreditation operation – a precursor to the “Magnet Challenge” psy-op.
This is for the historical record. I hope that this analysis gets to the “dissident scientists” involved, but even if it never does, future historians will get a powerful look at what I call “Fake Science” – the establishment’s phony, deceptive and controlled scientific complex – and how infiltration, control, and discreditation of dissident populist …
At this point, you should be ready for more information – about WHERE vaccination is going.
5.
New Vaccines – The Great Crony Blame Escape
It took me a while to put 2 and 2 together, but when I first saw the June 7 cover article on my new “vaccine snitch”, Chemical & Engineering News, something bothered me about it.
This is more excellent reporting by Ryan Cross, who routinely ferrets out (pun intended) the full story on virus science and vaccine technology, as available to “public science” – to be distinguished from the deeply hidden stuff. Cross never adds in any politics, crime, depolitical deconstruction, “conspiracy theory” speculation, or any of the things that are MY JOB. I have to respect that. This is the way THE NEWS used to be.
get the facts
understand the facts
teach the facts
teach the understanding
light fuse, run away
AH. I love my job. BE THE FUSE.
Figuring out the criminality of the government, industry, and financial backers – getting past the obscurantism, deceptions, and lies – that is OUR JOB – We The People – for we are (now that Merrick Garland soils the DOJ with Chicago communism) the
REAL DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
Yup. WE are not the communist insurrection and their corporate cronies, destroying everything in their path to money and power, including honest science and doctor-patient medicine.
We are (and like Confucius, I WANT them to hate this) the RESURRECTION.
The RESURRECTION vs. The INSURRECTION.
Eat your own label, insurrectionist commies. It’s good for you!
OK, back to science.
I really encourage you all to read this full article, which is written so that the general public can understand 99% of it easily. You will learn a LOT about vaccine technology. I will move you along through it, skipping over things, but when we’re done, consider reading the whole thing both WITH and FOR greater understanding.
I will try to only quote selectively from it, as I capture a few key points. But I can do no better than to give C&EN’s own “TL;DR” which they label “In brief“:
Vaccines are synonymous with shots, but it doesn’t have to be that way. More than a dozen groups are working on COVID-19 vaccines that can be squirted or sprayed into the nose instead of injected in the arm. Besides the potential practical advantage of easier administration, these vaccines could trigger the mucosal immune system to make antibodies in the nose and help stop the coronavirus at its point of entry. It sounds great, but the mucosal immune system is hard to study, and pharma companies have been reluctant to invest in the needle-free approach. Mucosal immunologists and intranasal vaccine developers are hoping the pandemic will change that.
This is where my first “2+2” $0.02 comes in.
Note the final statement:
Mucosal immunologists and intranasal vaccine developers are hoping the pandemic will change that.
It’s not the phony pandemic that is “going to” change delivery route. It’s already happening, in my opinion, due to the massive unveiling of not just the problems of the systemic gene therapy vaccines, but the clear motivations behind these vaccines, some of which were not just hidden from the public, but also from the scientific community, which I believe is now getting WISE.
Stated more simply, OUR PRESSURE in getting out the TRUTH about the existing vaccines is forcing the industry to react to vaccine shortcomings they WILL NOT ADMIT otherwise. The industry is likely also under forces from ABOVE THEM which are also being exposed.
You will see this as I go through the article.
The most powerful weapons in our hands are the UNDERSTANDINGS of the following:
spike protein toxicity
vaccine persistence
vaccine migration
spike genetic incorporation
Fauci’s reverse transcription obsession
Bill Gates’ “pre-programming the experts”
Zuckerberg connection to Baric lab
irrational hatred of cheap available therapeutics
generality of therapeutics being fought, thus…
the enabling of ChiCom manipulations
ovarian and testicular targeting
hiding of evolutionary knowledge
“circuits of plausibility” to create errors and crises
Put these things together and the “easy path” of systemic vaccines which do NOT mimic stimulation of natural immunity as well as NASAL VACCINES do, has been chosen under the cover of simplicity, but in reality because it always lies closer to what the industry TRULY wants, e.g., right now, gene therapies, where they NEED to target many specific organs. Nasal vaccination is a niche safety point which has always WAITED while systemic gets the action the deep backers want and NEED.
When it’s just easier and possible to do the wrong thing they want, they DO IT.
The current gene therapy desideratum – organ specificity – is actually in another article in the same issue of C&EN, talking about CRISPR, anti-CRISPR, and how to make gene therapy not have side effects, a point which is admitted more openly now that they are “safe on first” by having “proven” that gene therapy “works”.
Such a scam.
But it gets worse. Industry motives are not the motives of those who manipulate THEM.
As you read the rest of this, note that the “running dog” industry layer, which now performs for taskmaster commies, is also manipulated by THEIR true masters, the global elite, now looking at pesticides for humans, and particularly deplorables. It’s clear to me now, after the ovarian, placental, and testicular actions of the spike protein broke media containment, that the reason the entire vaccine industry jumped into full spike protein gene therapy tests masquerading as necessary vaccines is manipulation by the one guy who double-controls vaccine technology via “owning” CEPI – and that would be BILL GATES.
Yes, that Bill Gates, whose father is standing behind Fauci here.
Thus, when both the Gates Foundation and CEPI back some project, it’s Bill Gates getting TWO SCOOPS of control.
Note also Event 201 backing.
With Fauci and the Faucists inside government, and Bill Gates on the outside, there was no way that safer, metered, recombinant spike protein tech or peptide subunit tech was ever going to go first. They needed the new tech given a carte blanche, and they got it. This plus the “crisis” allowed the full spike protein’s foot to be shoved in America’s door, past everybody who might have questioned it.
This is one of the guys who spotted the “snake protein analogy” first, in what would have been time to alter the landscape.
No longer random, this is what happens when people get in the way of a conspiracy TWO LEVELS UP, where the really big boys and girls play. There are money motivations in between, but this guy’s real crime was potentially interfering with “the spike must flow”.
Have I raised your suspicions?
GOOD! Let’s look more deeply at the article now.
In fact, the mucosal membranes that line our airways, digestive systems, and reproductive tracts are often the first parts of our bodies to face an invading pathogen. A network of immune cells resides underneath our mucous membranes, or mucosae, and forms a front line of defense against invaders, and they prevent most infections from taking root. This is the mucosal immune system, and some immunologists think we have been seriously underestimating it.
“When you think about it, that’s where we acquire most of our infections: we inhale them, we consume them, or we get them through sex,” says Michael W. Russell, a mucosal immunologist and professor emeritus at the University at Buffalo.
This is where we begin to realize that mucosal immunity and systemic immunity are NOT the same thing. And it doesn’t have to be “either/or” – you can have BOTH. There are many plausible reasons for one over the other, but it will become clear that using the mucosal pathway adheres more strongly to the natural “API” of immunity by “contact”, if you will, with the pathogen, rather than sudden systemic introduction.
Have we really been underestimating it? Or have we been IGNORING IT ON PURPOSE at the highest motivational levels of power?
In my opinion, if the powers that be in VAXX WORLD would have been looking out for us all this time, there would have been stronger forces pushing researchers toward mucosal immunity. The problem is, that kind of naturalistic and patient-centered thinking is a problem for those who see vaccination as more of a path to power or other ends, particularly SOCIAL ends, rather than as part of a path to individual health. Nothing has made this more clear than the “pandemic”, controlled by “experts” who seemed not to know what they were doing.
Are you now starting to understand how and why conspiracies are intentionally mischaracterized as giant joint illicit cooperation, when they are in fact TOWERS OF LAYERS OF INTERNAL DECEPTIONS?
Good. Let’s move on.
Our mucosal immune cells make a special class of antibodies that are constantly secreted from the mucous membranes to protect the nose, gut, and other vulnerable sites from pathogens we’ve seen in the past. “But if you don’t stimulate the immune system in the mucosae, you don’t obtain mucosal immune responses,” says Pierre Charneau, head of the Molecular Virology and Vaccinology Unit at the Pasteur Institute.
Yet most research on SARS-CoV-2 and our immune systems has overlooked mucosal immunity in favor of the easier-to-study systemic immunity. “When the pandemic hit last year and I started to see papers coming out about immunity, it really quite staggered me to see an absence of attention to the mucosal immune response,” Russell says.
See that? The TILT of the field – the RUSH to systemic – that is a SOCIAL phenomenon – and socialists, or believers in the effectiveness of socialist tactics, like me – will tell you very honestly that science can be controlled SOCIALLY – that the SOCIAL aspects of science are not all warm campfires around each other’s blogs, but actually PART OF THE FIGHT that controls WHAT SCIENCE THINKS and WHAT SCIENCE DOES.
Or like this blog. I’m just honest about it.
I keep telling people that the “jabs” were PUSHED and SHAPED to be what they were – for REASONS – diverse yet all valid – which compromised all the insiders to DO WHAT WAS NEEDED to create what was needed at the TOP:
SYSTEMICALLY MOBILE, GONAD-TARGETING, SPIKE PROTEIN OVERDOSE INJECTIONS AT CONTRACEPTIVE LEVELS.
Stated more generally, it wasn’t a BUG – it was a FEATURE. And we were RUSHED into testing (if not USING) the feature ON PURPOSE.
Now – remember how COVER works – these vaccines did what they were SUPPOSED to do in our little world – but they also did what other people wanted in THEIR little and very exclusive world of “human benefactors”.
We move on.
Charneau and a group of scientists in Paris have shown that natural SARS-CoV-2 infections trigger both systemic and mucosal immunity. But our current crop of COVID-19 vaccines offer only systemic protection. Developing vaccines that are sprayed up the nose, rather than injected into the arm, could change that, Charneau says. Mucosal immunity in our noses could be like a guard at the door, potentially helping stop even small infections of SARS-CoV-2 right where they start.
It’s a tantalizing notion, but whether it’s a viable one is up for debate.
Now, the FIRST thing I think when I read this is “hey, that means my disease immunity is almost certainly BETTER than vaccine immunity – as doctors have all known for decades prior to COVID-19”.
Of course, we know they lied about that to “prevent vaccine hesitancy”. Or stated using different words, “to prevent picking the mild disease over the vaccine in the safer age groups, the latter being most of them”.
Do you see that? Almost ANY lie can be justified in the name of “overcoming vaccine hesitancy”. Who, besides Fauci and CDC is so obsessed with that Swiss army knife excuse and viral talking point?
But you know what – Fauci knew this – and Rand Paul knew Fauci knew this. So when Rand Paul went after Fauci on reinfection of COVID recoverees, like both HIM and ME, he knew Fauci was on THIN ICE.
But toss that all aside. At BEST, we went straight after systemic immunity “because emergency”. But it turned out that it wasn’t all that big of an emergency, and that’s where it gets interesting.
As I said, things are changing very rapidly now – obviously getting a technology on the cover of Chemical & Engineering News is a big deal.
And I quote:
After all, the pandemic provided a chance for messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine technology to finally prove its worth, and mucosal immunologists are hoping that this will be a moment for intranasal vaccines to do the same. “This climate is a game changer,” says Hiroshi Kiyono, codirector of the University of California San Diego Center for Mucosal Immunology, Allergy, and Vaccines. “This is a great opportunity to advance nasal vaccines, not just for COVID-19 but for other respiratory diseases.”
YUP. That’s the way CRISIS MECHANICS works. The “crisis” is just going to CHANGE, to get people to do a NEXT NEW WRONG THING.
My advice to Hiroshi Kiyono would be WATCH OUT – you are going to be subjected to many pressures that bring mucosal vaccines TOWARD viability as spike protein contraceptives. There will be pressure AWAY FROM doing what is best for the PATIENT, and TOWARD doing what is best for the SCIENCE and the RESEARCH, and that “better” will just happen to be better for surreptitious social or even sociobiological manipulations, too.
This is just a HEADS UP.
I’ve been there. Fake Science is not a very nice place to be when billions or trillions of dollars are on the line, and YOU’RE IN THE WAY.
At this point, the article goes into the HISTORY of intranasal vaccines, intranasal being one of the very best routes for respiratory virus vaccines. I’m going to SKIP over all that, even though there are some very interesting aspects to that history. I don’t really see any smoking guns of obstruction or sabotage, but it’s pretty clear that intranasal was a bit of a black sheep, and fended for itself.
Now, HERE is what’s interesting. Which intranasal vaccines are “in the pipeline”?
TURN YOUR NOSE UP
More than a dozen intranasal vaccines are in development for COVID-19. Here are several to keep an eye on.
Phase 1
Altimmune ▸ Adenoviral vector
AstraZeneca and University of Oxford ▸ Adenoviral vector
Beijing Wantai Biological Pharmacy, University of Hong Kong, and Xiamen University ▸ Live attenuated influenza virus vector
Bharat Biotech and Washington University in St. Louis ▸ Adenoviral vector
Codagenix and Serum Institute of India ▸ Live attenuated SARS-CoV-2
Laboratorio Avi-Mex and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ▸ Live Newcastle disease virus vector
Meissa Vaccines ▸ Live attenuated respiratory syncytial virus vector
Preclinical
AuraVax and University of Houston ▸ Recombinant spike protein with adjuvant
HanaVax and University of Tokyo ▸ Recombinant spike protein with adjuvant
TheraVectys and Pasteur Institute ▸ Lentiviral vector
University of Eastern Finland and University of Helsinki ▸ Adenoviral vector
Sources: Companies, World Health Organization.
Now, that may not look like much, but there is a TON to unpack, because we not only have OLD “new” technologies in a NEW route – we have NEW “new” technologies to explain – and in a new route.
If you don’t think the other side can cause trouble with their spike protein attack through the nose, you are sorely underestimating the ability of those who CONTROL SCIENCE to “get there first” and mislead the rest of the pack.
Remember – if you think like me, then you know people have been doing this crap for billions of years in THIS universe alone. We’re just “rediscovering reality under supervision” on one more planet. The lies are OLD. Very, very OLD. And as I like to say, “Satan weaponizes everything.”
The adenoviral vectors we’ve seen. That’s AstraZeneca, Johnson+Johnson, Sputnik V, and others. The only difference is that they’re going through the nose, where these viruses are actually supposed to go.
There is a LOT of possibility that this move could solve the biggest problems with these vaccines. IF the nasal delivery route is a kind of highly evolved and intelligent natural “attenuation gauntlet” for viruses, then the outcomes for these vaccines could be uniformly improved.
IF that is indeed the case, then I’m going to be a “toldjaso” asshole and use this as part of my explanation of why “they” have divided us in the specific way they have, over the topic of evolution, separating the “intelligence” side from the “evolutionary science” side, thus pushing the latter to view evolution as DUMB instead of “cautiously and obsessively path-checking”, which looks dumb to localized intelligence that doesn’t know how to keep its biases in its own lane.
These vaccines also introduce lentiviral vectors – pretty much the same thing as the adenoviral vectors, just a different virus. Again, this is new, so it could be interesting.
Another returning technology is Recombinant spike protein with adjuvant. That is basically Novavax, which we have not really had a chance to deconstruct, because there is not yet much public information on safety or efficacy. So a big QUESTION MARK on that one. In principle this should be safer than genetic technologies, both because there are ZERO risks of genomic incorporation (see Jaenisch for SARS-CoV-2 incorporation), and because there are no possibilities of unmetered “fountaining” of spike protein.
First up in technologies we have NOT seen yet: Live attenuated SARS-CoV-2.
We have already used INACTIVATED SARS-CoV-2 – that would include the Chinese Sinovac vaccine, which is rebranded as CoronaVac in the West. I’ve been cautioning that I believe “bad lots” of CoronaVac, which are incompletely inactivated, have been passed off, which would explain why there is typically a surge in cases right when countries start using CoronaVac. Obviously that’s good for business, and we know how Chinese business works. The only other explanation would be that PCR is picking up vaccine during rollout, and I’m half-way thinking that’s a better explanation, were I not so familiar with ChiComs and the corruption they spread.
However, we have NOT yet seen live attenuated virus. This could be GREAT – or it could have a whole NEW bag of problems. I’m very “wait and see” on this.
The real BIGGIES of the new intranasal vaccines are these:
Live attenuated influenza virus vector
Live Newcastle disease virus vector
Live attenuated respiratory syncytial virus vector
Unlike the adenoviral vector vaccines, which are basically “working but dead mRNA in a dead skin suit of a different virus that’s easy to work with”, these vectors are LIVE VIRUSES with “something extra” (like the spike protein) inserted into their genes, making them chimeric at the genetic level, not just the vector level.
These vaccine viruses are actually designed to “run a bit”. They INFECT YOU with instructions to crank out spike protein.
This is where things start getting weird, and it’s hard to trust a world which contains both THIS technology AND the CCP.
You know what I’m sayin’?
But now let’s look at all these. We suddenly have a LOT of vaccines to keep track of.
It’s gonna take some work – but we have to do it. We cannot let them keep experimenting on us like they did, while CHINA did almost NO “experimentation” on its people.
Understand what I’m sayin’?
Good.
Now – the rest of the article is basically the HOPES and the NOPES of the intranasal route. Some of the possibilities here are MIND-BOGGLINGLY GOOD.
Mucosal immune cells constantly make an antibody called secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA), which gets released into the mucous membranes of the nose, mouth, airways, and gut. Pound for pound, we produce more IgA than any other antibody, Russell says, although most of it is broken down and sneezed, coughed, or pooped out within a few days.
And critically, while injected vaccines induce only systemic immunity, vaccines delivered to mucosal sites can induce both systemic and mucosal immunity, he says.
That fact is evident in animal studies of a vaccine being developed by David T. Curiel and Michael Diamond at Washington University in St. Louis. Both the injected and intranasal forms of their vaccine triggered the production of IgG antibodies, but only the intranasal route triggered mucosal immune cells to secrete IgA that blocked the virus from replicating in the nose. A day after they published preprint data demonstrating as much in July 2020, the Indian vaccine company Bharat Biotech contacted the university’s technology-transfer office to license the intranasal vaccine in India, where it is being tested in a clinical trial. “How that will play out clinically remains to be seen,” Curiel says. “But this animal model finding suggests, qualitatively, that we have some additional benefit.”
It is very clear that – for a respiratory disease – there is an advantage to having “naturally obtained” respiratory mucosal immunity.
All that said, we’re still talking spike protein. But if the intranasal route can keep it out of the ovaries, testicles, and placenta – GREAT.
And THAT brings me to another great C&EN report by Ryan Cross – everything you want to know and need to know about those damned lipid nanoparticles.
Without these lipid shells, there would be no mRNA vaccines for COVID-19
Fragile mRNA molecules used in COVID-19 vaccines can’t get into cells on their own. They owe their success to lipid nanoparticles that took decades to refine
Without doing any “gotcha” journalism, Cross reveals the GOOD, the BAD, and the UGLY about these lipid nanoparticles.
The impression I get is that this field was dogged with problems, most of which were overcome, but not all.
So, without getting into the details, all these criticisms of the lipid nanotech that you are hearing are NOT “conspiracy theories” – the scientists are TALKING ABOUT THEM as real problems they’re trying to solve, with various degrees of success, in this report.
To me, it was very clear that people WAY above these scientists needed to PUSH this LNP (lipid nanoparticle) technology, necessary for GENE THERAPY, into acceptance using the phony plague.
If you don’t want to take this stuff, STAND UP for your rights. Otherwise, it’s over the hill, the horses are OUT OF THE BARN, the fence is open and the cattle are GONE.
BUT – I think that if we keep pushing the REALITIES of these vaccines, we can make the “mandate martinets” crawl back into their Fuehrer Bunkers and leave us alone.
And THAT is worth it.
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PSSSST – hey, DOJ and FBI. Want to see some audit results?
THEY’RE EXPLOSIVE!
Seriously, you injustice-perpetuating assholes deserve to be trolled. Your phony allegations of “violence” or even potential violence by the QAnon “believers” are an affront to Americans. They’re a SICKNESS coated with a patina of professionalism. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
Did you all know that a lot of us were part of a cult. One that actually asks us to think for ourselves and not follow the leaders blindly off a cliff, but that doesn’t seem to matter.
We may not know, but the powers that wannabe have an idea of what they want from us.
And to achieve these ends, there are tattle-tales.
Yeah, this isn’t happening anytime soon.
And about President Trump’s track record.
Not everyone here is a Christian, but we all can be fools for patriotism.
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I’m not sure all of that is true, but it is interesting.
Something to remember, always.
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I’d throw in a few Rockefellers and Rothschilds also.
Of course, this does not mean committing felonies, but standing up to the forces that want to tear this nation – and humanity apart. The very people XVII told us will be destroyed by the time this movie comes to an end are currently roaming the halls of power…supposedly. It’s a sickening sight.
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St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray. And do thou, Prince of the Heavenly Hosts, by the power of God, cast down to Hell Satan and all his evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.
>>148156518 Amen brother. Q
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