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God is in Control . . . and His Grace is Sufficient, so . . . Keep Looking Up
Hopefully, every Sunday, we can find something here that will build us up a little . . . give us a smile . . . and add some joy or peace, very much needed in all our lives.
“This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn nor weep.” . . . “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
The Great Falling Away
Paul wrote 2 Thessalonians, in part, to offer a clarification after some of his readers misunderstood that the day of the Lord was upon them already (2 Thessalonians 2:1–2). Part of that clarification includes a statement that many have interpreted as predicting a great rebellion before Christ returns. Second Thessalonians 2:3 says this: “Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition” (NKJV).
In his first letter to the Thessalonians, Paul commended the believers for their faith, hope, and love (2 Thessalonians 1:2–3) and challenged them to excel still more (1 Thessalonians 4:1, 10). One area in which Paul encouraged them to grow was in their hope. To help with that, Paul taught them about the resurrection that will occur when the Lord meets believers in the clouds and the dead in Christ are raised (1 Thessalonians 4:13–17). This event, often referred to as the rapture, allows believers to grieve in a way consistent with their hope.
After the rapture, Paul explains, the day of the Lord will come. It will be a time of great difficulty for those who remain on earth in those days (1 Thessalonians 5:2–3). Paul explains that that day would not overtake believers (1 Thessalonians 5:4) and that God has not destined believers for wrath (1 Thessalonians 5:9). However, because of the shortness of the time, the Thessalonians needed to make the most of their opportunity, being awake and sober (1 Thessalonians 5:6–8).
It is evident that the Thessalonians misunderstood the timing of the day of the Lord, as some thought that the day of the Lord had come upon them (2 Thessalonians 2:1–2). Paul explains that the day of the Lord had not yet come and that it would not come until some things happened first. One of those events preceding the day of the Lord would be the revealing of the man of lawlessness (2 Thessalonians 2:3). Also, Paul says, the “falling away” or “apostasy” (NASB) would come before the day of the Lord. Many have understood from this statement that before Christ returns many people will reject the faith and rebel against God.
Paul uses the Greek word apostasia in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, so “apostasy” is a good, literal translation. The Greek word means “to be apart from or to stand apart from.” Paul uses the same word in 1 Timothy 4 when he explains that in the last days people will stand apart from (or fall away from) the faith and follow various kinds of falsehood (1 Timothy 4:1–3). So, there will be a standing apart from the faith or a great falling away before Christ returns. Wickedness will grow worse and worse (2 Timothy 3:13).
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. 2 Timothy 3:1-5
They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.” Luke 12:53
And brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death. Matthew 13:12
And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another. Matthew 24:10
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FreshStuff. May be worth a read, listen, or scroll on by.
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I await the next DumRat shiny object, attempt to bash Trump AND Fracture MAGA.
Prices pulled last evening. Gold $4,078.80. Silver $50.26. Bitcoin $85,050.
More on metals, further below.
Bitcoin…WTF? Early October, ~$124K. Bitcoin, like metals, big swings.
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American Stories. (A series)
The White House Salute to America 250 Task Force has partnered with Hillsdale College to provide a history series that tells the remarkable story of American Independence.
It will highlight the stories of the crucial characters and events that resulted in a small rag-tag army defeating the mightiest empire in the world and establishing the greatest republic ever to exist.
This is the story of America. This is our shared heritage and our proud destiny that will continue to lead us to unimaginable achievements in the centuries to come.
Placing the wisdom to own metals, aside, for a moment. Discussed many months, perhaps a year ago.
How or where to hold the metals comes with a few choices. Three of them are:
Hold physical metals at home, bank safe deposit box…
Pay someone to hold (safekeep) owned metals. (Trust someone you’ve never met)
Or, essentially have a piece of paper, saying the purchaser owns, or is owed XX amount of metal, gold, silver, etc.
Two and three, IMO, obviously recipes for FAILURE. There is no guarantee, metal will be provided, “on demand”.
Whether the metals “physical issue on demand” is based in London, the US, or anywhere, really does not matter. The concept is FUBAR from its inception. MeThinks.
Silver Shortage of Physical, China Refining Dominance, LBMA issues
LBMA is the London Bullion Market Association. A private marketplace where folks can trade silver and gold.
They had a little bit of a problem. more people that expected wanted physical delivery of metal, and their vaults didn’t have enough. 54 million ounces were shipped in from China as a kind of a cope…
There’s Billions of ounces being traded against Millions of inventory. Most folks are doing cash settlement, but… it doesn’t take much of a “glitch” of extra folks choosing “delivery” for things to go sideways fast.
In other news: COMEX Commodities Exchange does a lot of futures and options contracts. As of now, the SPOT price (for “right now on the spot!”) is higher than the price in futures contracts. This is backwards from The Usual expected state (contango) which it ought to be. Why? Because to guarantee delivery at a future time, somebody has to hold the commodity in inventory, which has a cost, and must have money tied up in that inventory, which means not getting the bank interest you could get by leaving the money in the bank.
Tylenol earned its reputation as unsafe. Article below, also talks about Naprosyn also hard on the liver. I did not know that. Knew I should eat something before taking Naprosyn.
N-Acetylcysteine (NAC)
NAC was posted numerous times during Covid AND, IIRC, post JAB use.
Seems NAC IS effective with many health issues. Migraines and more.
Comments at the Chiefio article are hugely positive for NAC and a wide spread of benefits, users have experienced.
NAC appears to work for Migraine mitigation and inflammatory problems
The spouse, her twin, and a couple of their kids all have had migraine issues from time to time. They have since abated even if not totally gone ( the son used Imatrix to good effect, IIRC).
In the video below, the presenter says that use of NAC Suppliment helped her reduce her migraine frequency a lot, in conjunction with some other dietary suppliments.
In addition to that “testimonial”, the spouse has had significant effect on some inflammatory issues she is dealing with (joint pains & arthritis mostly).
I’ve not noticed as much, partly because I don’t have as much of an issue I think…, but it has improved “mood” and overall energy levels (very subjective, I know).
There are also a lot of medical studies to back up the positive effects in a variety of illnesses as an adjunct.
ME. Following videos from the Chiefio post, ARE easy to follow AND quite informative.
She is NOT selling anything AND comes across as very, very, honest.
Me. Early Christmas gift, with perhaps, bonus, fireworks.
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As I recall, Trump stared down WEF back in ~2017. Told them essentially Globalism is DEAD. America First. Every country should FIRST put their interests, above all others.
^^^ Me. Common sense.
Davos assured Trump ‘woke’ topics were off the agenda
US officials told organisers that President’s attendance in January depended on programme.
Washington announced last week Trump would return to the Swiss event in person for the first time in six years. His last appearance was a virtual address days after his inauguration in January, when he called on the gathered business elite to make their products in the US or face tariffs.
Senior US officials asked Davos management to tone down or avoid discussions on areas including female empowerment and diversity, the green transition, climate change and international development finance as a condition of his participation, two of the people said.
SEDITIOUS. President Trump has never issued a single illegal order. The Democrats know exactly what they’re doing – and they’re doing it anyway.
American Stinker.
Service members, don’t take the bait
Six Democrats in a YouTube video have urged military members to refuse illegal orders!
Military career suicide
The posting advises military members to go ahead and decide their own law. If you feel that something is unjust, if you believe that some order conflicts with the Constitution, take it upon yourself to commit a crime under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).
Article 92 of the UCMJ criminalizes “failure to obey an order or regulation.” This congressional advice is unconscionable. These six Democrats failed to mention the disastrous life impact upon any service member who may choose to follow it.
Let me provide any tempted service members a little supplemental information. I reviewed hundreds of court-martial records as a military JAG officer. All orders from a superior are legally presumed to be lawful. Your opinion about whether an order is legal is irrelevant. If you defy them, you go to the brig and await trial. Your command may instead opt to simply administratively separate (“AdSep”) you for misconduct for the convenience of the government.
One more on the sixtraitorous Dumrats AND legal / illegal orders.
Publius.
RE: Lawful Orders
Many years ago as a young Army captain I was fortunate enough to serve as an intern on the Joint Staff (i.e., the staff that supports the Joint Chiefs of Staff).
One of the duties all Joint Staff interns routinely had was to be a “rent-a-crowd” for VIPs giving…
Many years ago as a young Army captain I was fortunate enough to serve as an intern on the Joint Staff (i.e., the staff that supports the Joint Chiefs of Staff).
One of the duties all Joint Staff interns routinely had was to be a “rent-a-crowd” for VIPs giving speeches.
One day me and my buddy Werner got the order to put on our Class A uniforms and head over to Fort McNair to hear a speech by President Bill Clinton.
Little did we know that we were about to hear the historic “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” speech allowing gays in the military.
I was literally in the second row in the auditorium. David Gergen and George Stephanopoulos were in the front row right in front of me. Before the speech started, the two of them were laughing and cackling like school girls over how successful they had been at setting up the imaging they wanted.
That imaging was Slick Willie at the podium with the Joint Chiefs of Staff sitting behind him, as if they supported what he was about to say.
I was about twenty feet from General Carl Mundy, who was then the Commandant of the Marine Corps. As Clinton started giving the speech that would begin the U.S. military’s death spiral into social experimentation that valued DEI over lethality, my eyes were riveted on Mundy. He sat perfectly motionless in his chair, legs spread, hands on knees, with a look on his face that said “Daggers.” He was apparently frozen and motionless. However, I was close enough to see that he was actually flexing his jaw muscles and gritting his teeth repeatedly as he endured Clinton’s speech.
His anger was palpable. He had been on record as strongly opposing the new policy, and it was obvious he was doing everything he could to control his emotions.
But you know what? As badly as Mundy obviously hated what Clinton was doing to his Marine Corps, he knew that Clinton’s order was lawful. While he hated it politically, he did not pretend the order was “unlawful.”
But not just Mundy.
ALL OF US hated the order politically and socially, but all of us knew it was a lawful order coming from the President and that it was our Constitutional duty to execute that order to the best of our abilities, enthusiastically.
So we did.
But somewhere along the way today’s cretinous veteran Democrats in Congress decided that they would no longer do the right thing that we and Mundy did.
They decided that lawful orders are “unlawful” if they disagree politically.
Now they are destroying our military and our nation out of sheer disloyal, treasonous ego.
Pretending that lawful orders are “unlawful” if you disagree politically is not the role of a U.S. service member who follows his or her oath of office.
Encouraging troops to take such steps is sedition.
Democrats need to step back and remember what General Carl Mundy knew before they start their second U.S. civil war.
Back off, traitors.
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Reporter Grills Zohran Mamdani and Trump Over “Jihadist”, “Fascist” Labels in WH Meeting | AC1G
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THIS needs to be contagious across the other 49 states.
Wyoming Legislators Advance Plan To Kill All Residential Property Taxes
Wyoming lawmakers advanced five property tax reform plans Wednesday. One of the measures, if passed by the Legislature and the people of Wyoming, would change the state Constitution to eliminate residential property tax altogether.
DumRats still pushing faux climate crisis. Whitehouse unhappy, is great news.
White House dubs Dem a scam victim after he fumes Rubio wouldn’t fund climate trip
Power the Future chief Daniel Turner slammed congressman for praising Chinese delegation’s pavilion at the confab
The White House dubbed Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse a scam victim after he publicly complained the Trump administration would not fund or support his junket to the COP30 climate change conference in Belém, Brazil this week.
The Trump administration largely ignored the confab of global climate change leaders; a stark contrast to former President Joe Biden sending Clinton confidant John Podesta to lead a substantial U.S. delegation to COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan in 2024.
“Sadly, Senator Whitehouse has fallen victim to the biggest scam of the century: the Green New Scam,” White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers said of Whitehouse, D-R.I.
“The senator can foolishly spend time and money attending this radical ‘climate’ conference, but the Trump administration refuses to waste taxpayer dollars.”
🚨 Aftyn Behn– the Democrat nominee for the upcoming TN07 special election– says that she despises Nashville, the city that she's running to represent in Congress:
“I hate the city, I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I hate country music, I hate all of the… pic.twitter.com/L9lmo1YkkJ
Aftyn Behn– the Democrat nominee for the upcoming TN07 special election– says that she despises Nashville, the city that she’s running to represent in Congress: “I hate the city, I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I hate country music, I hate all of the things that make Nashville. I hate it.”
The above image (also the header image) of a vintage Rolodex in today’s offering is courtesy of Google Images.
Health Friday is a series devoted to Big Pharma, vaccines, general health, and associated topics. As today’s offering speaks to the disaster of COVID-19, Yours Truly dedicates it to all persons, of whatever age or location, who have passed away from either the negative effects of a COVID-19 virus infection; or, from the negative effects of the COVID-19 “vaccines” that they had in their body.
There are Important Notifications from our host, Wolf Moon; the Rules of our late, good Wheatie; and, certain caveats from Yours Truly, of which readers should be aware. They are linked here. Note: Yours Truly has checked today’s offering for AI-generated content. To the best of her knowledge and belief, there is none, except perhaps for AI-generated images within linked URLs. If readers wish to post AI-generated content in today’s discussion thread, they must cite their source. Thank you.
Vaccines, Amen, by Attorney Aaron Siri. Attorney Siri is involved with https://phmpt.org/ (Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency, one of the organizations that have forced the release of thousands of documents on the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” via FOIA lawsuits.)
The Courage to Face COVID-19: Preventing Hospitalization and Death While Battling the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex, by John Leake and Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH. Mr Leake and Dr. McCullough are involved with https://www.thefocalpoints.com/, a website that focuses on, among other topics, disseminating the real truth about the COVID-19 “vaccines”, the role of Bio Pharma in promoting the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines”, and more.
Information Compendium sitesrelated to COVID-19:
From Children’s Health Defense: https://www.covidindex.science/, via Dr. Brian Hooker, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer of CHD. This is a searchable index of thousands of items.
Preventing Cancer: The ROOT Protocols. https://doi.org/10.71189/JIM/2025/V01N04A02, by Paul Marik, MD, and Justus Hope, MD. Both of these medical doctors are involved with Independent Medical Alliance https://imahealth.org/ (formerly FLCCC.) Interested readers must register with the Journal of Independent Medicine (the journal of Independent Medical Alliance) in order to view the entire paper. A story on The ROOT Protocols is here: https://imahealth.substack.com/cp/178752784, 12 November 2025.
Dr. Jessica Rose and Dr. Kevin McKernan have just finished a new project which reveals the truth behind the inclusion of N1-Methylpseudouridine, in both the Pfizer-BioNTech and the Moderna modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines”; and, of the inclusion of a gene code piece from the African Green Monkey cancer promoter, SV40, in the Pfizer-BioNTech modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines”: https://jessicar.substack.com/p/we-know-exactly-how-and-why-the-dna. “We now exactly how and why the DNA is in the Moderna and Pfizer vials”, 15 November 2025. Please see the screenshots from this article, below;
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A new study, by Alain R. Thierry, et al., reveals that 100% of COVID-19 “vaccinated” persons have microclots in their blood; and, that COVID-19 “vaccinated” persons who present with symptoms of “Long COVID” also have microclots: https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-study-anomalous-amyloid, “Breaking Study: Anomalous Amyloid Microclots Found in 100% of the COVID-19 Vaccinated”, Nicolas Hulscher, 17 November 2025. Please see the screenshots from this article, below:
The scientific paper referred to in the Hulscher article is here: https://doi.org/10.1002/jmv.70613, “Circulating Microclots Are Structurally Associated With Neutraphil Extracurricular Traps and Their Amounts Are Elevated in Long COVID Patients”, Alain R. Thierry, et al., 2 October 2025. Note the use of the word, “circulating.” This means that the microclots in the blood of the COVID-19 “vaccinated” persons are moving around inside the body. The Abstract from this paper is below:
The COVID-19 “vaccines” — all of them — if, for no other reason, must be immediately removed from use, from the market, and removed from any immunization schedule (especially the Immunization Schedules of the CDC), because of the evidence presented in the Thierry, et al., paper regarding circulating microclots in the blood of COVID-19 “vaccinated” persons, and in the blood of COVID-19 “vaccinated” persons who present with symptoms of “Long COVID.” There is no other acceptable option at this point.
THERE. MUST. BE. ACCOUNTABILITY.
THERE. MUST. BE. JUSTICE.
THERE. MUST. BE. TRUTH.
Peace, Good Energy, Respect: PAVACA
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This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!
Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.
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Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
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More STUFF……
(1) Hardware babe Anastasia back with more clickbait tech news, backhandedly praising Tesla and Samsung! File under “Disaster!/Miracle!” See if you can spot Trump’s invisible cameo!
(2) More Titan submersible “doom porn” – this time with an annoying Indian American smart girl twist that manages to (at the end) badly attack Elon Musk for MDS attagrlz. Nevertheless, the Titan data is good, and worth the watch time.
(3) A different kind of doom porn – about “backwards life” – that is worth watching and thinking about – especially about why this particular take is probably WRONG. There are not only theological reasons – the scientific reasons are significant.
My bottom line – “loss of function” research is still possible, useful, and will almost certainly show that “nature” (COUGH) got there already. Nonetheless, a good warning, and I agree that no form of highly divergent “synthetic life” should be created, now or in the foreseeable future. Call it “due diligence”!
(4) Interested in modern sniper technology? Here ya go!
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…The original consent decree was adopted in 1982 after the Democratic National Committee (DNC) [political website] brought suit [complaint, PDF] against the RNC, its New Jersey affiliate and several individual officers seeking to prevent them from “engaging in activities to intimidate, threaten or coerce minority voters.” The DNC alleged that the RNC had engaged in “voter caging” [Brennan Center materials] in New Jersey, wherein mail returned as undeliverable is used as a basis for purging voting rolls….
A US federal judge on Monday terminated [order, PDF] a consent decree [text, PDF] requiring the Republican National Committee (RNC) [political website] to get court approval for any “ballot security” measures it planned to implement…
The original judge came out of retirement to renew the Consent Decree every time it was set to expire until he finally died (IRC.) The new judge was an Obama appointee. FWIW The Black Panther party was active from 1966 to 1982 BTW.
The New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case was a political controversy in the United States concerning an incident that occurred during the 2008 election. Two weeks before George W. Bush left office, the New Black Panther Party and two of its members, Minister King Samir Shabazz and Jerry Jackson, were sued by the Department of Justice on claims of voter intimidation for their conduct outside a polling station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Although the decree technically permitted the RNC to engage in some Election Day activities at the polls and to seek advance permission for so-called “ballot security” work, the national party and its attorneys went to considerable lengths in recent years to urge national party officials and staff to steer clear of such activity, in part to avoid triggering allegations that could lead the consent decree to be extended…
So for thirty-five years the Democrats could cheat to their heart’s content without a challenge from the Republicans. No wonder they have such well developed cheating organizations.
WordPiss will not allow that tweet to show, so here is the text.
One of the greatest crimes ever perpetrated in United States history against the American people:
Former U.S. Border Chief Aaron Heitke, who served under five different administrations,
CONFIRMS— BEYOND THE SHADOW OF A DOUBT — that he was ordered by the Biden–Harris administration to cover up, conceal, and manipulate data on the border crisis; to deliberately decrease the amount of detention space nationwide; to issue new Social Security numbers to illegal aliens; to provide them with maximum Social Security benefits and Medicaid; to register them to vote; and, in fact, to allow them to vote in U.S. elections.
Border Chief Aaron Heitke:
“We have no idea who or what is coming through our country.”
— Regarding SIAs:
“Special Interest Aliens (SIAs) and known and suspected terrorists… At the time, I was told I could not release any information on this increase in SIAs or mention any of the arrests. The administration was trying to convince the public there was no threat at the border.”
— FENTANYL
“San Diego sees between 80% and 90% of the methamphetamine and fentanyl seizures annually for our entire country. With little enforcement at the border, these drugs were coming through in mass. During my last year in San Diego, the price for a single pill of fentanyl went from $10 to 25 cents.”
— FUNDING
“To make matters worse, during 2022 and 2023 I had to shut down San Diego traffic checkpoints—which are critical for drug interdiction—because the resources had been diverted to the process and release mission.”
— THE COVER-UP
“I had to release illegal aliens each day into communities that could not support them.
To quiet the problem, two flights a week were provided from San Diego to Texas.
Each flight cost approximately $150,000. This was the administration’s way of trying to quiet the border crisis.”
“Under pressure from the administration, my headquarters became more interested in the fiction being portrayed in the media, and not at all concerned with reality. We had 2,000 or more illegal aliens sitting between the fences, asking to turn themselves in.
I WAS TOLD TO MOVE THEM OUT OF SIGHT OF THE MEDIA.”
— CONCLUSION:
The Biden–Harris administration wasn’t just an unelected, illegitimate administration, but a terrorist organization.
October 10, 2025 – A federal judge ruled that the … officers’ ability to arrest people without warrants or probable cause, will be extended until February 2, 2026….
On December 1, 2021, a federal judge granted preliminary approval to a settlement agreement between our clients and the Department of Homeland Security. The judge granted final approval of the settlement agreement, making it a consent decree…
On December 1, 2021, a federal judge granted preliminary approval to a settlement agreement between our clients and the Department of Homeland Security. The judge granted final approval of the settlement agreement, making it a consent decree in February 2022.
Among other terms, the consent decree requires ICE to adopt a nationwide policy barring many vehicle stops and warrantless, “collateral” arrests, and provides us a way to advocate for ICE detainees who are arrested without warrants in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, or Kentucky to challenge detentions that violate the agreement.
In March 2025, with NIJC on behalf of ICIRR and OCAD, we filed an enforcement motion because Defendants had wrongfully arrested at least 22 class members, all Latino immigrants, in Chicago and Liberty, Missouri. We told the court that ICE agents regularly carried blank warrants and filled them out only after detaining someone. In May, we also filed a motion asking the court to extend the decree in light of repeated violations by ICE in the wake of new federal civil immigration enforcement. In September, we filed two notices of 30 more violations of the decree – warrantless arrests of Latino immigrants as part of ICE’s Operation Midway Blitz. On October 7, 2025, a federal court judge granted our motion to enforce the decree and extended the decree until February 2, 2026.
The judge’s ruling requires ICE to reissue its Broadcast Policy on Warrantless Arrests nationwide and produce any information for people arrested in the Chicagoland area since June 2025 so that we can assess if ICE violated the consent decree. The order requires ICE to meet with us about violations of the decree to resolve them, and remedies can include the release of individuals from detention….
ACLU of Illinois
150 N. Michigan Ave., Ste. 600
Chicago, IL 60601
The ACLU then calls for people to forward their complaints about ICE to them. I wonder how long the ACLU can keep ICE hogtied — Decades?
ICE officers and agents are on the streets every day, prioritizing public safety by locating, arresting and removing criminal aliens and immigration violators from our neighborhoods.
ICE does not need judicial warrants to make arrests. Like all other law enforcement officers, ICE officers and agents can initiate consensual encounters and speak with people, briefly detain aliens when they have reasonable suspicion that the aliens are illegally present in the United States, and arrest people they believe are illegal aliens. ICE officers and agents can also detain and search people crossing the border.
All aliens who violate U.S. immigration law are subject to arrest and detention, regardless of their criminal histories. Those with final orders of removal are removed from the United States.
ICE law enforcement officers cannot show the warrants they are executing to people who aren’t named or involved. Often, law enforcement sensitivities and privacy concerns require officials to keep this information under wraps.
§ 287.5 Exercise of power by immigration officers.
(a)Power and authority to interrogate and administer oaths. Any immigration officer is hereby authorized and designated to exercise anywhere in or outside the United States the power conferred by:
(1) Section 287(a)(1) of the Actto interrogate, without warrant, any alien or person believed to be an alien concerning his or her right to be, or to remain, in the United States, and
(2) Section 287(b) of the Act to administer oaths and to take and consider evidence concerning the privilege of any person to enter, reenter, pass through, or reside in the United States; or concerning any matter which is material or relevant to the enforcement of the Act and the administration of the immigration and naturalization functions of the Department….
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(4) Arrests of persons under section 287(a)(5)(B) of the Act for any felony. (i) Section 287(a)(5)(B) of the Act authorizes designated immigration officers, as listed in paragraph (c)(4)(iii) of this section, to arrest persons, without warrant, for any felony cognizable under the laws of the United States if:
(A) The immigration officer has reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing such a felony;
(B) The immigration officer is performing duties relating to the enforcement of the immigration laws at the time of the arrest;
(C) There is a likelihood of the person escaping before a warrant can be obtained for his or her arrest; and
(D) The immigration officer has been certified as successfully completing a training program that covers such arrests and the standards with respect to the immigration enforcement activities of the Department as defined in 8 CFR 287.8….
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(2)Issuance of arrest warrants for immigration violations. A warrant of arrest may be issued by any of the following immigration officials who have been authorized or delegated such authority:
(i) District directors (except foreign);
(ii) Deputy district directors (except foreign);
(iii) Assistant district directors for investigations;
(iv) Deputy assistant district directors for investigations;
(v) Assistant district directors for deportation;
(vi) Deputy assistant district directors for deportation;
(vii) Assistant district directors for examinations;
(viii) Deputy assistant district directors for examinations;
(ix) Officers in charge (except foreign);
(x) Assistant officers in charge (except foreign);
(xi) Chief patrol agents;
(xii) Deputy chief patrol agents;
(xiii) Division chiefs;
(xiv) Assistant chief patrol agents;
(xv) Patrol agents in charge;
(xvi) Deputy patrol agents in charge;
(xvii) Border Patrol watch commanders;
(xviii) Special operations supervisors;
(xix) Supervisory border patrol agents;
(xx) Directors of air operations;
(xxi) Directors of marine operations;
(xxii) Supervisory air and marine interdiction agents;
(xxiii) Executive Associate Director of Homeland Security Investigations;
(xxiv) Institutional Hearing Program directors;
(xxv) Director, Field Operations;
(xxvi) Assistant Director, Field Operations;
(xxvii) Port directors;
(xxviii) Assistant port directors;
(xxix) Field operations watch commanders;
(xxx) Field operations chiefs;
(xxxi) Supervisory deportation officers;
(xxxii) Supervisory detention and deportation officers;
(xxxiii) Group Supervisors;
(xxxiv) Director, Office of Detention and Removal Operations;
(xxxv)Special Agents in Charge;
(xxxvi)Deputy Special Agents in Charge…. [The list goes on and on and on…]
I left out a lot of that law but you get the idea.
Any officer or employee of the Service authorized under regulations prescribed by the Attorney General shall have power without warrant—
(1) to interrogate any alien or person believed to be an alien as to his right to be or to remain in the United States;
(2) to arrest any alien who in his presence or view is entering or attempting to enter the United States in violation of any law or regulation made in pursuance of law regulating the admission, exclusion, expulsion, or removal of aliens, or to arrest any alien in the United States, if he has reason to believe that the alien so arrested is in the United States in violation of any such law or regulation and is likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained for his arrest, but the alien arrested shall be taken without unnecessary delay for examination before an officer of the Service having authority to examine aliens as to their right to enter or remain in the United States;
(3) within a reasonable distance from any external boundary of the United States, to board and search for aliens any vessel within the territorial waters of the United States and any railway car, aircraft, conveyance, or vehicle, and within a distance of twenty-five miles from any such external boundary to have access to private lands, but not dwellings, for the purpose of patrolling the border to prevent the illegal entry of aliens into the United States;
(4) to make arrests for felonies which have been committed and which are cognizable under any law of the United States regulating the admission, exclusion, expulsion, or removal of aliens, if he has reason to believe that the person so arrested is guilty of such felony and if there is likelihood of the person escaping before a warrant can be obtained for his arrest, but the person arrested shall be taken without unnecessary delay before the nearest available officer empowered to commit persons charged with offenses against the laws of the United States; and
(5)to make arrests—
(A) for any offense against the United States, if the offense is committed in the officer’s or employee’s presence, or
(B) for any felony cognizable under the laws of the United States, if the officer or employee has reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing such a felony,
if the officer or employee is performing duties relating to the enforcement of the immigration laws at the time of the arrest and if there is a likelihood of the person escaping before a warrant can be obtained for his arrest….
There is a lot more to that law too.
I find it AMAZING how a judge can re-write a law that is passed by congress. ALSO NOTE it was the BIDEN ICE that consented to this travesty.
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LaRouche
Harley Schlanger, a historian and national spokesman with expertise in the financial industry since the 1980s, offers insights through The LaRouche Organization, where followers can access his analyses on geopolitics and economics.
Here are strategic profiles of 11 of the principal companies that constitute the Anglo-Dutch-Swiss food cartel. The profiles confirm that through multiple forms of concentration, these companies dominate grain, meat, dairy, and other food production, and the processing and distribution system of food, all the way to the supermarket. Very little food moves on the face of the earth without the food cartel having a hand in it….
A report published at the end of 2022 by The ETC Group reveals how a handful of corporations with the help of Big Tech are taking over the world’s food supply…
The findings show that many agrifood sectors are now so “top-heavy” they are controlled by just four to six dominant firms, enabling these companies to wield enormous influence over markets, agricultural research and policy development, which undermines food sovereignty…
This is the reason why billionaire technocrats, such as Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, are now among the largest owners of farmland in the United States…
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DO NOT FORGET BIO-FUEL!
Remember, farm subsidies go to GRAIN farmers, not to those growing veggies and fruit.
THIS WAS THE SET-UP
Amstutz was VP of Cargill. He wrote the WTO Agreement on Ag in 1995. Even Clinton admitted that agreement lead to starvation and riots of 2008.
Amstutz then wrote the Freedom to Farm act in 1996. This law was later called the Freedom to Fail act as US farmers over produced and grain prices dropped like a rock. Grain traders used the surplus of very cheap grain to bankrupt farmers around the world. This was actually a KNOWN US policy as Clinton has just admitted.
Amstutz was also responsible for wiping out the US grain reserve system. How to fight a food crisis: To blunt the ravages of drought and market greed, we need a national grain reserve… the 1996 Freedom to Farm Act abolished our national system of holding grain in reserve.
he first articles states: Commodity Futures Trading Commission judge says colleague biased against complainants
…Painter [head of the USDA Workers Union] said Judge Bruce Levine … had a secret agreement with a former Republican chairwoman of the agency to stand in the way of investors filing complaints with the agency. “On Judge Levine’s first week on the job, nearly twenty years ago, he came into my office and stated that he had promised Wendy Gramm, then Chairwoman of the Commission, that we would never rule in a complainant’s favor,” Painter wrote. “A review of his rulings will confirm that he fulfilled his vow….
Levine had never ruled in favor of an investor. Gramm [wife of former senator Phil Gramm (R-Tex.)], was head of the CFTC just before president Bill Clinton took office. She has been criticized by Democrats for helping firms such as Goldman Sachs and Enron gain influence over the commodity [Farm Products] markets. After leaving the CFTC, she joined Enron’s board.
The second Article states: How Goldman gambled on starvation
This is the story of how some of the richest people in the world – Goldman, Deutsche Bank, the traders at Merrill Lynch, and more – have caused the starvation of some of the poorest people in the world. At the end of 2006, food prices across the world started to rise, suddenly and stratospherically. Within a year, the price of wheat had shot up by 80 per cent, maize by 90 per cent, rice by 320 per cent. In a global jolt of hunger, 200 million people – mostly children – couldn’t afford to get food any more, and sank into malnutrition or starvation. There were riots in more than 30 countries, and at least one government was violently overthrown. Then, in spring 2008, prices just as mysteriously fell back to their previous level. Jean Ziegler, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, calls it “a silent mass murder”, entirely due to “man-made actions.” Through the 1990s, Goldman Sachs and others lobbied hard and the regulations [controlling agricultural futures contracts] were abolished. Suddenly, these contracts were turned into “derivatives” that could be bought and sold among traders who had nothing to do with agriculture. A market in “food speculation” was born. The speculators drove the price through the roof.
Here is the real attitude of these sons of syphilitic jackals:
In summary, we have record low grain inventories globally as we move into a new crop year. We have demand growing strongly. Which means that going forward even small crop failures are going to drive grain prices to record levels. As an investor, we continue to find these long term trends…very attractive.” — Food shortfalls predicted: 2008 www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/dancy/2008/0104.html
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Recently there have been increased calls for the development of a U.S. or international grain reserve to provide priority access to food supplies for Humanitarian needs. The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) and the North American Export Grain Association (NAEGA) strongly advise against this concept..Stock reserves have a documented depressing effect on prices… and resulted in less aggressive market bidding for the grains.” — July 22, 2008 letter to President Bush www.naega.org/images/pdf/grain_reserves_for_food_aid.pdf
Dan Amstutz was president of the North American Export Grain Association. They even named an award after the B@$t@rd!
To add insult to injury Congress did not even see if biofuel actually saves on the use of oil. It does not! David Pimentel, professor of ecology and agriculture at Cornell found it takes more fossil fuel to produce biofuel than is recovered:
* corn requires 29 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced;
* switch grass requires 45 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced; and
* wood biomass requires 57 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced.
* soybean plants requires 27 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced, and
* sunflower plants requires 118 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced.
First, a short update on Bud is in order. Robotic resection surgery on 10/6 to remove 10″ of his colon that had turned to nearly concrete to starting back to work a little more than two weeks later with all systems go other than heaving lifting restriction. His surgeon found his recovery remarkable. Knowing that prayer warriors had been called in to do battle, Bud was not surprised and is very grateful to the Lord and all who offered prayers on his behalf. Thank you, QTree.
Let’s go with some ground report observations from the lowcountry during our fall frolic.
Less hispanic peoples were present, probably due to ICE presence. Per the locals, those from that background who were still there are probably legal; either on worker visas or citizens. I had my doubts with some as they acted evasive, albeit a MUCH smaller number than in the past. ICE has been busy in the lowcountry and moved more of their efforts further south recently. Like other places, no overcrowding in local schools now. If they register for school their parents and guardians are checked out.
Local crime is WAY down. Imagine that. Who da thunk exiting illegals along with a more visible law enforcement presence could have changed life that dramatically that fast? Well, actually, all of us real Americans. Add in taking out the trade routes of the cartels and things seemed, well, nice. Could it be that those 1000+ police departments and sheriff’s offices that have signed or intend to sign the agreement to be authorized to perform ICE duties are also interested in doing the other aspects of their jobs well? Sure appears that way. Inquiring minds only need to check to see if the local law enforcement agencies in their home areas have executed the agreement to know where things stand. If not, why not? You know the enemy by simply observing. Do not be deceived – they always self identify.
Overall, people were more friendly again. It even FELT safer to be out and about. The PDT effect is special. 👍
No masks. None. Even with COVID and flu around.
The No Kings rally was non-existent around there and a leftist boomer snoozefest in other lowcountry areas such as Savannah and Charleston. They might as well have been palmetto trees for all normal people cared. The local media tried ginning up interest with no takers apparently. The following day they never even mentioned it.
Staffing was down in restaurants and retail establishments, however, those who were there from all backgrounds and cultures were good and efficient everywhere we went. Food quality was off the charts good. The menu prices were actually down from last fall. Managers visited tables, asked about the meals, and thanked people for coming in; which was a nice turn of events. With no taxes on tips, the 5% discount option for paying bills in cash that had been available had gone away. Good servers can now make a living at the occupation regardless of tips in cash or on a credit card due to the tax law changes. Farm to table has been growing and was big around there due to the longer agricultural seasons as well as minimal storm disruptions for the seafood. It is all really working well now. Waygu beef grown on southeastern/midwestern farms is on many of the menus.
Triple tail, redfish, flounder, red snapper, sheepshead, grouper, swordfish and mahi were the orders of the day along with the Carolina shrimp, oysters and blue crab. The month of November kicked off a number of oyster fest events throughout the lowcountry.
Starting to see some development projects again, primarily residential. Commercial real estate development and occupancy was still soft. Some vacant storefronts, a number of which have been empty for a year or longer. Some of that is related to the increase in web shopping. Overall these long term vacancies will bring rental rates down.
Grocery prices were down from the past couple of years. Two dozen large eggs were $4.40 approx at Sam’s (now under $4). A lot of product price reductions and sales on aisles at Walmart, Krogers and Publix. Fuel was around $2.60 – 2.85 per gallon.
Drivers were stupid bad on the interstates and highways around there. Many had death wishes for themselves and others. Many more wrecks than in the past. Probably the effects of the jabs is part of it. However, the volume of local traffic was a lot less than previous years after the fall break kids and their families went home. At times it became so light that we thought we went back to the future.
Mild and temperate again for that time of year, which made beach conditions ideal. By comparison it had become very hot over the past couple of decades. Somehow most of the Atlantic storms miraculously turned northeast into the middle of the Atlantic this season. It’s a miracle!
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Our lodging had the pleasure of being beside a lowcountry thicket that ushered deer past our windows most mornings and evenings. Momma deer and I had several rendezvous in the mornings as I ventured out to our vehicle or returned to the villa. She seemed unconcerned with my presence even with her babies nearby. Then there was the young alligator who wandered from a pond to within about ten feet of Daughter and family on its way into another thicket at one of the miniature golf establishments. The grandsons loved it. Their Mom and Dad were not quite as enthralled.
Time to finish the SC signers.
Arthur Middleton
Our last signer from South Carolina was born in Charleston in 1742. Arthur Middleton was born and bred as a proper Englishman to parents Henry Middleton and Mary Baker Williams. The family members were wealthy owners of a large homestead along with 19 other plantations totaling over 50,000 acres with over 800 slaves. As time passed Henry embraced independence due to British taxation policies. Beginning in 1770 he increased his participation in the independence movement, resigning British appointments, and rose to President of the First Continental Congress. With his health worsening after a year of service he resigned in favor of his son’s participation, so that he could return to SC and live out his remaining years there.
Arthur was educated by tutors in Charleston until he was sent at age twelve to Great Britain to attend Harrow, Westminster, and Trinity Hall. He studied law at Middle Temple and traveled Europe afterwards enjoying the arts, music and literature. He returned and married Mary Izard in 1764. They settled into Middleton Place plantation outside of Charleston, SC where generations of Middletons lived. They had five children over the years.
Arthur was a more hard line independence minded person than his father. He became a leader of the American Party in the state and one of its strongest advocates for independence. He served on the Council of Safety and its Secret Committee. In 1776 he replaced his father as a member of the Second Continental Congress. He subsequently became a signer of the Declaration.
He and William Drayton designed the Great Seal of South Carolina. Although a loving and kind person with family and friends, he earned a reputation of being ruthless toward loyalists in direct opposition with fellow signer Francis Merion, who urged reconciliation after the war. Since Middleton served in battle at Charleston and was captured along with Thomas Heyward and Edward Rutledge, he probably had good reasons to feel that way. He was freed in an exchange of prisoners along with the other two. Per his Descendants site, Benjamin Rush described Arthur Middleton “as a man of cynical temper but upright intentions towards his country.”
Arthur chose to return to private life once victory was assured and he went back to Middleton Place, which had been devastated by the British during the war. He declined a return to Congress to focus on the homestead and plantation’s restoration. He did serve in the state legislature and as a trustee for Charleston College. He did not last long after that, passing away in 1787 at age 44. He is buried there in the Middleton Place Gardens & Tomb along with his wife, who passed away many years later in 1814 at age 66.
If you enjoy that sort of thing, you owe it to yourself to visit this National Historic Landmark. It is an American jewel.
Arthur was the son of a famous, respected patriot in an aristocratic family. He came from extreme wealth and privilege. It did not matter. He advocated for independence even more strongly than his father, served his fellow colonists, and put his life on the line in battle. During the war he endured prison and found the family’s wealth and properties ravaged by the British at its end. Instead of regret and wallowing in pity, he set about the rebuild and restoration. At his life’s early end after having suffered from fevers for the better part of a decade, he had accomplished his goal while still serving the citizens of SC in the legislature. We pay homage to his dedication to America and the cause of independence.
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Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
The problem with evolution is that it’s like quantum mechanics. Despite being powerful, explanatory and extremely predictive, it is both “incomplete” and has “interpretations”.
The interpretations carry baggage designed to shape worldview beyond what the science itself can say. And they also influence what the science can say easily, and what it has to say with more difficulty.
When Veritasium Dude (Derek Muller) sighs and gives in to Dawkins’ “selfish gene” idea, he is really giving in to an interpretation. That interpretation, like any interpretation in quantum mechanics, highlights some aspects of the science more than others. I can formulate the exact same science – even the same math – as the “sharing/shared gene” interpretation. Or, to name it a bit more objectively, the network interpretation of evolution.
The fact is, Dawkins formulated evolution in a way – an interpretation – that would best sell his bias toward his own atheistic assumptions about the universe. He asserts that every gene number “n” in a larger population “m” is composed of a bunch of selfish “1”s. I can likewise assert that “n” is a metric of collaborative, shared success within “m”, orienting its unit members not only toward their own shared success, but also toward the goal of influencing larger system success, struggling toward the unity of perceiving and becoming one with the creative intelligence. And it’s the same math.
It’s an interpretation.
Dawkins knows that humans tend to see the gene as microscopic and less than the individual – but it’s just as valid to see the gene as a topological connection – a filament uniting individuals, not just through gene space, but through function space. I would allege that this alternative network interpretation shows more, deeper, and larger subtleties of evolution, including causation, anthropological history, and gradients in the development of intelligence.
The individualization of the gene is an excellent and useful approximation, but one that hides some of the gene’s most fascinating potentials, as a shared entity.
And as explained in the video, it all boils down to the mathematics…..created IN THE BEGINNING.
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God is in Control . . . and His Grace is Sufficient, so . . . Keep Looking Up
Hopefully, every Sunday, we can find something here that will build us up a little . . . give us a smile . . . and add some joy or peace, very much needed in all our lives.
“This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn nor weep.” . . . “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
Hope’s Answer
First Peter 3:15 says, “But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.”
In the immediate context, the apostle Peter discusses suffering for doing good (1 Peter 3:13–14). Persecution and suffering are to be expected in the Christian life (John 16:33), but a believer’s response to suffering should point others to Jesus. Peter emphasizes that Christ suffered and died to provide eternal life for those who believe in Him, and His example of suffering for doing good should strengthen all of us (1 Peter 3:17–18). Instead of fearing persecution, Christians are to make sure they suffer for righteousness’ sake, “honor Christ the Lord as holy,” and be prepared to give a defense of one’s hope in Jesus (verse 15, ESV). A believer should always be ready to tell others the good news of salvation in Jesus’ death and resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:2–4).
Providing a “defense” or giving an “answer” for one’s hope is based on the Greek word apologian, which carries the idea of “defending” something as a lawyer would defend his case in court. From the Greek word comes the English apologetics, “the discipline of defending” the Christian faith. Notice that Peter does not say that the job of giving an answer is only for the pastor or professional apologist. All Christians need to be prepared to give an answer or defense when someone asks them the reason for the hope that they have.
Peter wrote to the persecuted Christians in Asia Minor. As they were undergoing persecution, their outward behavior demonstrated hope in Jesus—not a wishful thought, but a solid and assured faith (see Hebrews 6:19–20). The believers’ lack of fear in the face of suffering would have propelled others to ask about the reason for their faith, giving the believers a perfect opportunity “to give an answer.” When believers display their sure hope in Jesus despite their circumstances, others will notice (see 1 Peter 2:12).
To properly answer someone who asks about one’s faith, the Christian must use “gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience” (1 Peter 3:15). There’s no place for harshness or disrespect in a Christian’s life, especially as he represents Christ and gives an answer to explain his faith. Peter exhorts the believer to answer unbelievers gently, respectfully, and with the example of one’s life (cf. Colossians 4:6). Believers should reflect Christ’s teaching of gentleness and “speak the truth in love” (Ephesians 4:15, NLT).
The command to “always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have” presupposes a faith that causes us to live out our hope in Christ visibly before others. When unbelievers see a Christian’s great hope in the face of persecution or suffering, they will naturally want to know the reason for that hope (Matthew 5:16). We need to be prepared to share the gospel in a way that is gentle and respectful. The result will be “that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander” (1 Peter 3:16).
How would you answer that question? A concise answer might be – As a Christian, my hope comes from faith in Jesus Christ, who offers forgiveness for my sins, purpose in my life, and eternal life in heaven through His death and resurrection. This changes my perspective to a Christian Biblical worldview, giving me peace, joy and confidence in God’s love and plan, no matter what life’s challenges are.
My hope is built on nothings less than Jesus Christ and [His] righteousness.
On Christ the Solid Rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand.
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FreshStuff. May be worth a read, listen, or scroll on by.
Prices pulled last evening. Gold $4,097.98. Silver $50.79. Bitcoin $95,099.
Bitcoin…WTF?
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American Stories. (A series)
The White House Salute to America 250 Task Force has partnered with Hillsdale College to provide a history series that tells the remarkable story of American Independence.
It will highlight the stories of the crucial characters and events that resulted in a small rag-tag army defeating the mightiest empire in the world and establishing the greatest republic ever to exist.
This is the story of America. This is our shared heritage and our proud destiny that will continue to lead us to unimaginable achievements in the centuries to come.
MeThinks, these videos are a worthy our time. Mine, anyway.
Refresher, new information for some, or many…
7:30.
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Articles.
Breaking Money Matters…
Trump cuts tariffs on goods like coffee, bananas and beef in bid to slash consumer prices
President Donald Trump exempted agricultural imports like beef, coffee, cocoa and bananas from his higher tariff rates.
The move comes as he faces political blowback for higher prices on grocery staples.
The action also extends to tomatoes, avocados and tea, among other items.
I truly feel bad for Pam Bondi and her DOJ. Activist judges harass them, nearly daily.
D.C. Appeals Court STRIKES DOWN Trump DOT’s Safety Rules — Allows Immigrants to Obtain Commercial Licenses Again Despite Fatal Florida Truck Crash
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit blocked the Trump-Vance administration’s emergency safety rule, a rule designed to keep America’s highways safe from unvetted foreign drivers.
The court sided not with public safety, not with the families of crash victims, but with activist groups, blue-city governments, and unions who argued that asylum seekers, refugees, and DACA recipients should continue holding commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) despite major questions about identity verification, training standards, and foreign driving histories.
Pope Leo Embraces Transgenderism — Invites Prominent Trans Activists to Vatican Luncheon
Pope Leo XIV appears to be embracing the cause of transgenderism.
According to left-wing Catholic blogger and activist Christopher Hale, Leo will meet with Italian transgender activist Alessia Nobile and several other campaigners for a luncheon on Sunday.
Pope Leo XIV will meet and dine in a group setting with Alessia Nobile, a transgender Catholic activist from Bari, during a special lunch at the Vatican this Sunday, November 16.
The congressional funding bill included a THC cap that effectively bans most hemp products, a move industry leaders say threatens the $28 billion market.
More than 300,000 jobs are at risk, with economic impacts expected in states with large hemp sectors, including Kentucky, Texas and Utah, industry experts said.
Executives warn the ban could fuel a surge in black-market sales if federal regulations aren’t adopted within a year, as demand for hemp-derived THC remains strong.
In search of my surprised face… Dumbass. MTG that is.
BREAKING: In Stunning Development, President Trump Withdraws His Support and Endorsement of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
President Trump on Friday evening announced he is withdrawing his support for GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
“I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of “Congresswoman” Marjorie Taylor Greene, of the Great State of Georgia,” Trump said on Truth Social.
Trump said he is tired of Marjorie Taylor Greene complaining despite him creating record achievements for the country.
“Over the past few weeks, despite my creating Record Achievements for our Country including, a Total and Complete Victory on the Shutdown, Closed Borders, Low Taxes, No Men in Women’s Sports or Transgender for Everyone, ending DEI, stopping Biden’s Record Setting Inflation, Biggest Regulation Cuts in History, stopping EIGHT WARS, rebuilding our Military, being RESPECTED by every Country in the World (as opposed to being the laughingstock that we were just 12 months ago!), having Trillions of Dollars (Record Setting!) INVESTED in the U.S.A., and having created the “HOTTEST” Country anywhere in the World from being a DEAD Country just 12 months ago (and so much more!), all I see “Wacky” Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!” Trump said.
Virginia Democrat Ibraheem Samirah Who Infamously DISRUPTED President Trump Sentenced in Explosive COVID Fraud Scheme
In a delicious twist of irony, Ibraheem Sabri Samirah, the Palestinian-American Democrat who infamously disrupted President Trump’s 2019 speech in Jamestown with a “Deport Hate” sign, has been nailed for wire fraud in a blatant PPP loan scam.
Samirah, 34, a dentist by trade, cooked up fake payroll records for his clinic, Nova Healthy Smiles PLLC, claiming four employees and $33,333 in monthly wages back in early 2020.
On September 26, 2025, President Trump directed government records related to Amelia Earhart and her final trip to be declassified and released. These records are available online at https://t.co/mgItx0H3JW. More records will be added on a rolling basis as they are digitized. pic.twitter.com/CvMuEV2O8P
On September 26, 2025, President Trump directed government records related to Amelia Earhart and her final trip to be declassified and released. These records are available online at http://archives.gov/ameliaearhart. More records will be added on a rolling basis as they are digitized.
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Still don’t know much about Crook’s.
My take is, there IS an ongoing investigation, that will redefine Breaking News AND take down lots of folks. Likely Big Names.
Not hopia. Just my opinion.
Crooks Case Overview:
Over 480 FBI employees were involved in the Thomas Crooks investigation. Employees conducted over 1,000 interviews, addressed over 2,000 public tips, analyzed data extracted from 13 seized digital devices, reviewed nearly 500,000 digital files, collected,…
Crooks Case Overview: Over 480 FBI employees were involved in the Thomas Crooks investigation. Employees conducted over 1,000 interviews, addressed over 2,000 public tips, analyzed data extracted from 13 seized digital devices, reviewed nearly 500,000 digital files, collected, processed, and synchronized hundreds of hours of video footage, analyzed financial activity from 10 different accounts, and examined data associated with 25 social media or online forum accounts. The FBI’s investigation into Thomas Crooks identified and examined over 20 online accounts, data extracted from over a dozen electronic devices, examination of numerous financial accounts, and over 1,000 interviews and 2000 public tips. The investigation, conducted by over 480 FBI employees, revealed Crooks had limited online and in person interactions, planned and conducted the attack alone, and did not leak or share his intent to engage in the attack with anyone.
Angry about affordability? Why are prices so high? Blame Joe Biden. 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐁𝐘 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓 Trump 1.0 –> NO INFLATION Biden –> RUNAWAY INFLATION TRUMP 2.0 –> INFLATION COMES DOWN
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Slashing regulations impacting housing.
.@SecretaryTurner encourages localities to slash burdensome regulations: "Right now, it costs about 40% in cost of regulations just to build a multi-family development—about 20-25% to build a single-family development. We have to attack the regulatory environment going forward." pic.twitter.com/JXuZjSr1Q7
.@SecretaryTurnerencourages localities to slash burdensome regulations: “Right now, it costs about 40% in cost of regulations just to build a multi-family development—about 20-25% to build a single-family development. We have to attack the regulatory environment going forward.”
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Speaking of housing costs.
“'I’m never satisfied,' @POTUS said, noting that driving down housing and consumer costs is central to helping people reach the American dream. He dismissed Democrats’ newfound focus on 'affordability,' after years of brushing off inflation under former President Joe Biden, as… https://t.co/R6EbuJ83sC
“’I’m never satisfied,’ @POTUS said, noting that driving down housing and consumer costs is central to helping people reach the American dream. He dismissed Democrats’ newfound focus on ‘affordability,’ after years of brushing off inflation under former President Joe Biden, as laughable, describing it as a hollow ‘catch phrase’ instead of serious policy.”
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TarGay dropping some food prices.
"@Target is dropping prices ahead of the holidays… announcing reduced costs on 3,000 food, beverage, and essential items starting this month. Target is also bringing back its Thanksgiving meal at its lowest price EVER." pic.twitter.com/KTByxIvkox
“@Target is dropping prices ahead of the holidays… announcing reduced costs on 3,000 food, beverage, and essential items starting this month. Target is also bringing back its Thanksgiving meal at its lowest price EVER.”
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Grewsome screws up lives across KaliforniStan AND many other states.
Gov Newscum is working overtime to cement his status as the worst governor in America.
Under his failed leadership, the great state of California is suffering with some of the highest gas and electricity prices in the country.
Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell threatened investigators after NBC News reported that he had been criminally referred to the Justice Department.
Federal Housing regulator Bill Pulte referred Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution over mortgage fraud.
According to NBC News, Pulte is alleging that Swalwell, a Democrat Congressman representing a district in California, took out millions of dollars worth of mortgage loans based on his declaring his primary residence as Washington, DC.
I just visited a shop class in Great Falls, Montana where high school students are building houses for people who need a place to call home.
Let that sink in for a moment.
High schoolers in Great Falls Montana, under the guidance of an excellent shop instructor and lots of community support, are building actual houses. Not birdhouses or doll houses – real homes, built to code from the ground up for real people, and move-in ready.
Yesterday, I toured the latest home these kids are in the process of building. It’s the 48th such home built since 1998, through this remarkable program. While I was there, I ran into @GregForMontana. Like me, the Governor was blown away by what these kids were doing and took the time to talk to each one of them, thanking them for their hard work and congratulating them for what they’d accomplished. I was then invited to join the Governor on stage at Great Falls High, where I answered a few questions about mikeroweWORKS, talked about the many opportunities in the skilled trades, and discussed the ways we might be able to encourage more projects like this one, in Montana and beyond.
It’s encouraging to see public/private partnerships done right. And really, it’s not that complicated; it just takes a few stubborn people in various organizations who won’t take no for an answer. In this case, too many to name, but a quick shout out to Pete Pace, the shop teacher at the center of High School Homes, the administrators in the school district, the principal at Great Falls High, Sherrie Arey and her devoted crew at @neighborworks, the incredibly generous executives at @WellsFargowho offered another round of financial support, and a Governor with the good sense to push through the normal bureaucratic nonsense that kills programs like this. Bravo to all!
Mike
PS. This is the third time in two months I’ve seen a program like this in action. The first was in Western North Carolina, (Rebuilding the Hollars), the second was in New Orleans, (@uCCNOLA.) The projects all have one thing in common – a shop class with an exceptional instructor. Like I said, it takes support from every direction, but a high school shop class is always where it starts.
For years, I’ve argued that removing shop class from high schools was a mistake that would deny a whole generation of students’ critical exposure to a long list of essential careers and rob them of an opportunity to prepare for the all-important apprenticeships on which most skilled careers are built. Today, standing in the shop class at Great Falls, watching dozens of engaged students cutting, hammering, measuring, and fabricating, it occurred to me that I was wrong. Taking shop class out of high school was not merely a mistake – it was the single dumbest decision in the history of modern education. We didn’t just rob a whole generation of students, we robbed ourselves, in a colossal, self-inflicted wound that’s led directly to a host of unintended consequences – including the current shortages in every essential skilled trade.
Correcting it, should be at or near the top of every Governor’s agenda in every single state. Because tomorrow’s skilled workforce is currently in the 8th grade, and if we don’t meet these kids where they are – right now – with programs like this, we’re in for a world of hurt.
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Tunes
Steppenwolf – Born To Be Wild (Live at Farm Aid 1986)
The Charlie Daniels Band – The South’s Gonna Do It Again (Official Video)
The header image of vintage Pfizer vaccine vials for today’s offering is courtesy of Dreamstime and Google Images.
Health Friday is a series devoted to Big Pharma, vaccines, general health, and associated topics. As today’s offering speaks to the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines”, Yours Truly dedicates it to all persons, of whatever age or location, who have passed away from the negative effects of these “vaccines” that they had in the body. May they rest in eternal Peace.
There are Important Notifications from our host, Wolf Moon; the Rules of our late, good Wheatie; and, certain caveats from Yours Truly, of which readers should be aware. They are linked here. Note: Yours Truly has checked today’s offering for AI-generated content. To the best of her knowledge and belief, there is none, except perhaps for AI-generated images within items that are linked in the post. If readers wish to post AI-generated content to today’s discussion thread, they must cite their source. Thank you.
Please refer to Part One of this two-part set, found here: https://www.theqtree.com/2025/11/07/health-friday-11-7-2025-open-thread-whats-going-on-at-pfizer-biontech-part-one/, regarding recent activities of PfizerUSA (also known as Pfizer), the United States-based co-partner of Pfizer-BioNTech. Today’s presentation will discuss some of the activities of the other co-partner, Germany-based BioNTech. Of necessity, some of today’s presentation will include items related to Pfizer (PfizerUSA.)
Note the Collaborator / Partner listings on the far right of the image. There are two entities involving Bill Gates: the Gates Foundation; and, CEPI. There are two mentions of Pfizer (also known as PfizerUSA.) There is one mention of the University of Pennsylvania. Note also the BioNTech rights listings: the company fully owns the mRNA (modRNA) “vaccines” under development for Tuberculosis, for Malaria, and for Monkeypox (Mpox.) More on the Fosun Pharma collaboration / partnership will be presented further below in today’s post.
It appears that the modRNA-based “combo vaccine” for COVID-19 + influenza, also known as either BNT162b2 + BNT161, or as tozinameran + famtozinameran, is actually being developed and tested by BioNTech, with PfizerUSA (Pfizer) as a kind of “stand-by” or “silent” co-partner. Please see the screenshots below, from registered clinical trials information, per https://clinicaltrials.gov/:
**** NONE of these clinical trials have a true Control Group (study subjects injected with a plain saline solution “placebo vaccine.”)
BioNTech is ALSO working on a “new” version of of the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine”, BNT162b2. However, the only BioNTech listing is this: https://clinicaltrials.biontech.com/trials/C4591076, which “translates” to the NCT07069309 clinical trial referenced above. “C459” is the prefix for Pfizer-BioNTech clinical trials for their modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” — for example, the huge C4591001 original clinical trial for BNT162b1 / BNT162b2 / BNT162b3, from which BNT162b2 was the “vaccine candidate” chosen by the company in the late summer/early fall of 2020 to proceed through the Emergency Use Authorization applications in the United States and in the EU / Scandinavia.
The question Yours Truly has regarding the “new COVID-19 “vaccine candidate” being used in NCT07069309: Is this “new COVID-19 vaccine candidate” ALSO being used in the clinical trial NCT06821061, also listed above? The modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine” called Investigational COVID-19 Vaccine per the Researcher View of NCT06821061?
Gentle reader, does one see how this aspect of the modRNA “vaccine” game works? BioNTech (the co-partner of PfizerUSA/Pfizer) comes up with a “new vaccine candidate” for COVID-19 — a “new vaccine candidate” which, in reality, is for the current circulating virus variant, LP.8.1. — and appears to use it it as an Investigational COVID-19 Vaccine in one clinical trial (NCT068210161): while, at the same, time, also using this same injectable in another clinical trial (NCT07069309)? How many study subjects in either clinical trial were told of this?
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And now, a dive into the “collaborators”, and what may be termed “the other partners”, the “investments partners”, and other entities that are involved with Pfizer-BioNTech, either with PfizerUSA(Pfizer), or with BioNTech. Yours Truly begins with the “active partners” list of PfizerUSA (Pfizer): https://www.pfizer.com/partners/venture-investments/our-portfolio. Below is a screenshot from this article regarding one of these “venture investments partners” — Saama:
On the other hand, PfizerUSA (Pfizer), wanting to enter more fully into the weight-loss drug marketplace, began acquisition talks with a company called Metsera in August 2025. Metsera is developing a GLP-1 based weight-loss drug, MET-097i, a GLP-1 drug. GLP-1 drugs (Glucagon-like Peptide 1) drugs are designed to lower blood sugar in people taking them, thus (theoretically) leading to weight loss. However, another company, Novo Nordisk, also wanted to acquire Metsera, and, at one point, was working on an “agreement in principle” with the company. This led to a “battle of offers” for Metsera between Pfizer and Novo Nordisk, leading to a lawsuit filed by Pfizer on 1 November 2025 against Metsera and against Novo Nordisk’s offers to Metsera (https://sbj.net/stories/pfizer-sues-metsera-novo-nordisk,101765, Springfield Business Journal, 3 November 2025.) It also appears that Pfizer possibly contacted the United States Federal Trade Commission about the situation — with the result that Novo Nordisk backed away due to a letter sent to the company by the FEC; and, Pfizer, then having the “green light”, could move forward with the acquisition deal for Metsera (https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/pfizer-beats-out-novo-10b-agreement-buy-metsera, Eric Sagonowsky, 8 November 2025.)
Gentle reader, does one see how this aspect of the game is played? It appears that PfizerUSA (Pfizer) gets the United States Federal Trade Commission involved in blocking a deal that a rival company (Novo Nordisk) is working on, in order for Pfizer to acquire the target company?
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Meanwhile, what of the “collaborators” and “partners” with BioNTech, other than their co-partner, PfizerUSA (Pfizer)? Following is a “snapshot” of this situation:
This article emanated from Mainz, Germany, and Oslo, Norway.
****Note also the use of a new term: “mRNA vaccine ecosystem.” Gentle reader, does one see how this aspect of the game is played? First, create the “problem” (the COVID-19 virus); Second, create the “solution” (modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines”); Third, convince / coerce / frighten / gaslight, billions of people into taking this unproven gene-therapy technology; Fourth, create an “mRNA vaccine ecosystem” in which endless types of mRNA-based / modRNA-based “vaccines” are created and administered to the convinced / coerced / frightened / gaslighted, billions of people as part of the “mRNA vaccine ecosystem”, with the underlying “passive-aggressive threat” of “people must take these “vaccines”, otherwise they would likely get very sick and/or die”.
Yours Truly now turns to the “partnership” between BioNTech and the Communist China-based pharmaceutical company, Fosun Pharma.
Fosun Pharma, also known as Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) Co., Ltd., was founded in 1994. The company has since “spun off” into other related entities, such as Fosun International, and https://fosunpharmausa.com/. Lest there is any doubt that the Chinese Communist Party holds a significant stake in Fosun Pharma, please see this: https://en.fosun.com/Upload/File/202104021739947_5055.pdf, “Corporate Social Responsibility Report – Fosun”, for the year 2012. A graphic from Page 11 of this report is below:
However, it also appears that Guo Guangchang, founder and chairman of Fosun International, has run afoul of the Chinese government at least twice. He “disappeared” in 2015 and in 2017, only to “resurface” after what appears to have been detention and interrogation (for the 2015 “disappearance”, at least) by Chinese authorities: https://variety.com/2015/biz/asia/missing-chinese-executive-released-1201660214/, Patrick Frater, 13 December 2015.
Fosun Pharma and BioNTech went into partnership regarding the development and distribution of BNT162b2 in Communist China. Please the screenshot from the Wikipedia entry regarding this, below:
Please refer also to the BioNTech “pipeline” graphics further above in today’s offering. Fosun Pharma is listed in the Infectious Diseases section as Collaborator / Partner with BioNTech regarding the development and distribution of the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine” BNT162b2 (now known as COMIRNATY.)
Gentle reader, does one see how this aspect of the game is played? The Big Pharma company “creates partnerships” or “sublicensing agreements” with other companies around the world to push the drugs and / or “vaccines” that the Big Pharma company creates and manufactures. Smaller pharmaceutical companies; alternative treatment entities and their products; other avenues of treatment opportunities — are left out / choked off / minimized.
The 2024 salary of Dr. Ugur Sahin, MD, CEO of BioNTech: $287 million dollars.
The 2024 salary of Dr. Albert Bourla, DVM, CEO of PfizerUSA (Pfizer): $24.6 million dollars.
Meanwhile, the Medical Tsunami of documented modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine”-induced or aggravated illnesses, injuries, or disabilities, among those who took / take these “vaccines”, rolls on. Meanwhile, the Medical Tsunami of documented modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine”-induced or related deaths among those who took these “vaccines” rolls on.
All persons — COVID-19 “vaccinated” or not — need to be following some type of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein detox / mitigation protocol. All persons — COVID-19 “vaccinated” or not — need to keep their immune system in the best shape possible.
All modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” MUST be removed from the market and from use. Now.
THERE. MUST. BE. ACCOUNTABILITY.
THERE. MUST. BE. JUSTICE.
THERE. MUST. BE. TRUTH.
Peace, Good Energy, Respect: PAVACA
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