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What the heck! This chick will NOT get out of my Twitter X feed!
In the Bay Area today talking about vaccines for COVID, flu and RSV! Now is the best time to get #vaccinated to protect you and your family. pic.twitter.com/O3ZRIOutcA
"Jesus said to her, 'I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?'" (John 11:25-26)
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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.”
To Live is Christ . . .
Philippians 1:21 says, “For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” Most people focus on the second part of the verse, “to die is gain,” and contemplate the joys of heaven. But we should not overlook what comes before. The importance of the phrase “to live is Christ” cannot be overstated. In all honesty, this phrase should be central to every Christian’s life.
In this statement, the apostle Paul is saying that everything he has tried to be, everything he is, and everything he looked forward to being pointed to Christ. From the time of Paul’s conversion until his martyrdom, every move he made was aimed at advancing the knowledge, gospel, and church of Christ. Paul’s singular aim was to bring glory to Jesus.
“To live is Christ” means that we proclaim the gospel of Christ. Paul preached in synagogues; he preached at riversides; he preached as a prisoner; he preached as an apostle; he preached as a tentmaker. His message was constant: “Jesus Christ and him crucified” (1 Corinthians 2:2). He brought the message of Christ’s sacrifice to kings, soldiers, statesmen, priests, and philosophers, Jews and Gentiles, men and women. He would preach to literally anyone who would listen.
“To live is Christ” means that we imitate the example of Christ. Everything that Jesus did and said, that’s what Paul wanted to do and say. The church benefitted from his godly example: “Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ” (1 Corinthians 11:1). What would Jesus do? That’s what we want to do.
“To live is Christ” means that we pursue the knowledge of Christ. We want to know Christ better and better each day. Not just a set of facts about Christ, but Christ Himself. “I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead” (Philippians 3:10-11).
“To live is Christ” means that we are willing to give up anything that prevents us from having Christ. Paul’s testimony in this regard: “Whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in him” (Philippians 3:7-9). We cling to the promise of our Lord in Mark 10:29-30 that our sacrifices for Jesus’ sake will be repaid a hundredfold.
“To live is Christ” means that Christ is our focus, our goal, and our chief desire. Christ is the center point of our mind, heart, body and soul. Everything that we do, we do for Christ’s glory. As we run the “race marked out for us,” we lay aside the entangling sin and worldly distractions, “fixing our eyes on Jesus” (Hebrews 12:1-2). He is our life.
I posted about this a couple of weeks ago (see sidebar, last entry as of now…well until Wolf adds this post to the sidebar right underneath it). This is an event that would be a total solar eclipse…except that the Moon is near the farthest point in its orbit when it happens, so it’s consequently farther away and appears smaller. Too small, in fact, to cover the disk of the Sun. (The fact that the Sun is slightly closer to the Earth in January than it is in July–because of Earth‘s elliptical orbit around the Sun–probably doesn’t play much of a role; in October it ought to be pretty close to its average distance to Earth.)
And yes…I remember a conversation where I begged people to say “the far side of the moon” to mean the side we don’t see. Because that far side isn’t always dark; it’s quite well lit up when we see the new moon; at new moon the side facing us is the actual dark side of the moon.
Well moons don’t get any newer than when there’s a solar eclipse; we literally see exactly none of the lit side of the moon at those times; it’s perfectly back-lit. So this being my third full eclipse (another annular also in Albuquerque back in 2012, and the total eclipse in 2017), I’ve now seen the entire dark side (and this time it’s correct to say it) three times.
Anyway, it seems like I did everything I could to try to sabotage myself without quite succeeding in doing so. I planned to leave before 4 AM, it was 5 AM when I left. I left the camera I intended to use at home (idiot!) but had every other camera including my second choice (ironically a more expensive camera by far). I forgot to charge the batteries…one was dead, one was halfway there and I had trouble finding it. I also forgot to hang a weight off the tripod.
OK so the original plan was to drive to Albuquerque from Colorado Springs. Albuquerque was almost right in the middle of the track for this thing; the eclipse would last the longest and the Moon would almost perfectly center itself on the Sun…my eyeball, the moon, and the Sun would be in a perfect line for a split second. But the late departure meant I had to take more extreme measures.
Refer to the map:
I-25, which comes down from Colorado Springs is the thick line that comes into the frame at the top, just to the right of center. You’ll notice it meanders a bit. Just after entering the eclipse path, it jogs northwest, and gets no further in; finally it reaches Albuquerque.
I decided, because I was running late, to do something desperate. Notice right after I-25 enters the path, there’s a road running southeast from it (US-84). That’s a two lane road with very little traffic, I could get on that and drop down to the east-west road (I-40) then turn west and actually be getting deeper into the zone.
The eclipse was in progress by the time I reached US-84. I got about halfway down I-40 from US-84 to the next diagonal road (which also runs the wrong way!), stopped and set up. This was exit 234 if memory serves, and if you want to follow along on a more sophisticated map.
By the time I set up my equipment, the eclipse was well under way.
The Equipment
OK, let’s see, I had a Canon R5–roughly $3500. A Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.0-5.6 L, roughly $2200. A $250 tripod. And a two dollar filter to dim the sun enough it didn’t roast the electronics in the camera.
Clearly, before next April’s eclipse I will need a better camera.
OK, seriously, the filter is a piece of thin cardboard with a 1×5 inch window in it; the window has the same plastic they use in eclipse glasses. It’s handy for quick looks at the sun…or it can be duct taped over a camera lens (make sure the duct tape covers any part of the lens the filter does not).
And, incidentally, the R5 is arguably the best EOS camera Canon makes right now, though the R3 is better at a number of things. But not for this job. So I guess I have no choice but to improve the filter.
Oh, yeah, I forgot the duct tape. Fortunately gas station convenience stores usually sell it. Not cheap but IneededitrighteffingNOW!
The filter works…but it imparts an orange glow to everything, and the sun gets an orange tinge to it. Well it would if it weren’t blown out in the images. Which is fine, it should look white not orange anyway. (I could conceivably get photographs of sunspots if I didn’t blow out the sun by mistake; I know I did with the same filter on a different camera during the Venus transit of 2012.) In a way the event looked better through regular cheapass eclipse glasses (which I also had with me), because they aren’t obviously glaring orange in areas that ought to be jett black.
Here’s the first picture I took after setting up.
(Cropped from 8192×5464 pixels full frame down to 3000×2000, then reduced in size 50 percent to 1500×1000.)
The Moon came in from about 45 degrees clockwise from the top (1:30 though I shouldn’t use clock positions to indicate directions here because someone might think I am actually giving the time). So given that you can see it has 60 percent of the way across the Sun already. I cut it close!
Closer to annularity:
This is right about the point (just a bit later actually) where the crescent of the Sun starts to curve inwards at the tips. That can only happen if the occluding body isn’t as wide (in terms of angle of sky) as the Sun. Or in other words, you won’t see it look like this shortly before a total eclipse.
Getting very close.
At this point things happen rapidly. I started hitting the button on the bulb (wire remote) every second or so, I can flip through them on my computer and watch the horns of the crescent grow longer. (I want to figure out how to make a time lapse movie out of them. And yes the camera could probably have done that, except I couldn’t remember how to set it up and certainly didn’t have time to do it right there and then!)
Oh, good, I wasn’t imagining things! This is 57 seconds after the previous picture:
This is the moment right before annularity. The ring is complete…except for two breaks. These are due to mountains on the moon cutting off the Sun’s disk, still…for just that moment. As the moon moves further down and to the left the mounts will eventually fall completely inside the Sun’s disk.
A similar effect happens during a total eclipse but is much more obvious, because the sun shining between the mountain peaks is the ONLY sunlight in view (the rest of the ring is absent). This is called “Bailey’s beads.” Bailey’s beads are visible with the unaided eye and are evidence the moon has mountains and is not an absolutely smooth sphere. (This was controversial around Galileo’s time when many believed everything in the sky was pristine and perfect. Clearly no Chinese weather balloons back then!)
I wasn’t in the middle of the path so the “ring of fire” was not of uniform thickness even at mid eclipse. At roughly 10:38 AM Moutain Daylight Time, this is as close as it came from where I was:
You’ll notice in these last three pictures the sun is apparently moving up and to the right. I didn’t bother trying to center it when I cropped the big 45MP image. Instead I made sure to crop exactly the same area off each picture, so you could see the (apparent) motion of both the Sun and Moon as the eclipse progressed.
Several times I had to loosen the tripod and shift to keep the Sun/Moon from leaving the frame entirely, but I did not have to do that at this time, and so what you see is the real relative motion of the Sun and Moon against the sky as A) the Earth rotates, causing the illusion of motion from east to west, B) the Sun moves, ever so slowly reoughly west to east, taking a full year to completely circule through the entire sky. (That’s what a year is, in fact.) This is “real” motion against the background stars…except for the fact that it’s really us on Earth moving, in the other direction! The Moon is also moving west to east across the sky, about 12-13 times faster than the sun; New Moon is when it laps the sun going across the sky. (And this time it really is the Moon that is moving.)
And now annularity ends.
Again, we see the effect of mountains on the lunar rim. People on those mountains, at that moment would see Earth and Sun on the horizon…in two exactly opposite directions. (I did not have to move the camera, but I did crop this from a different location in the frame, so that’s why it seems to be centered again.)
The total duration here, according to the timestamps, is 3 minutes, 49 seconds.
The moon looks like it’s dropping through the center of the bottom side of the Sun. In fact, I joked with another eclipse watcher who was there, that I was now taking pictures of the Turkish flag..which is often hung downwards like a banner (much like the US flag is hung behind the Speaker’s chair in the House of Reprehensibles), with the crescent points towards the ground. Of course the Turkish flag also has a big five pointed star on it.
Last one…the moon almost completely departed, Down and left the tiniest “cut”.
Many lessons learned for next April. Better filter. Dial down the exposure a bit (and maybe catch some sunspots if there are any), and the focus could be a tiny bit sharper.
Today, it is still the case that Joe Biden didn’t Win.
I realize that to some readers, this might be a shock; surely at some point things must change and Biden will have actually won.
But the past cannot actually be changed.
It will always and forever be the case that Joe Biden didn’t win.
And if you, Leftist Lurker, want to dismiss it as dead white cis-male logic…well, you can call it what you want, but then please just go fuck off. No one here buys that bullshit–logic is logic and facts are facts regardless of skin color–and if you gave it a moment’s rational thought, you wouldn’t either. Of course your worthless education never included being able to actually reason–or detect problems with false reasoning–so I don’t imagine you’ll actually wake up as opposed to being woke.
As Ayn Rand would sometimes point out: Yes, you are free to evade reality. What you cannot do is evade the consequences of evading reality. Or to put it concretely: You can ignore the Mack truck bearing down on you as you play in the middle of the street, you won’t be able to ignore the consequences of ignoring the Mack truck.
And Ayn Rand also pointed out that existence (i.e., the sum total of everything that exists) precedes consciousness–our consciousnesses are a part of existence, not outside of it–therefore reality cannot be a “social construct” as so many of you fucked-up-in-the-head people seem to think.
So much for Leftist douchebag lurkers. For the rest of you, the regular readers and those lurkers who understand such things: I continue to carry the banner once also carried by Wheatie. His Fraudulency didn’t win.
Let’s Go, Brandon!!
Hey China!
Or rather, “Hey Chinese Communist Party and your entire array of servitors, ass-wipers, and fellators!”
You’re not even worth my time this week. When you decide to act like civilized people, maybe I’ll give you a lesson or two in how non-barbarians behave.
Hey BiteMe! (Or, Whoever Has Their Hand Rammed Up That Putrefying Meat Puppet’s Ass)
[Language warning]
You and yours have caused a lot of injury. Literal injury with your war on people who don’t want to take an untested vaccine. When people die in an emergency room because a hospital won’t admit them because they haven’t had their clot shot, that’s a crime.
I’m going to address here the insult on top of the injury, because I am among the insulted. I still have my health but apparently you want me to live under the 8th Street Bridge (which actually isn’t on 8th Street, but whatever, that’s what the I-25 overpass over Cimarron is called), so maybe if you have your way that won’t be true for long. Dreadful time of year to become homeless.
No, you’re just trying to make me unemployed, because I won’t take your fucking shots.
Well, that threat is NOT going to work. I. Won’t. Take. Your. Fucking. Shots.
And it looks like enough people agree, that you’re having to back down, you worthless asswipe.
You’re LOSING.
You LOSER.
You Chinese-bought ratfucking traitor.
I would love to see you die an agonizing, humiliating death. (This isn’t a threat, because I am not threatening to cause that death. I am just announcing my intention to party if it happens.) It would be just recompense for the way you’re killing America…and millions of Americans.
His Fraudulency
Joe Biteme, properly styled His Fraudulency, continues to infest the White House, we haven’t heard much from the person who should have been declared the victor, and hopium is still being dispensed even as our military appears to have joined the political establishment in knuckling under to the fraud.
One can hope that all is not as it seems.
I’d love to feast on that crow.
(I’d like to add, I find it entirely plausible, even likely, that His Fraudulency is also His Figureheadedness. (Apparently that wasn’t a word; it got a red underline. Well it is now.) Where I differ with the hopium addicts is on the subject of who is really in charge. It ain’t anyone we like.)
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 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.
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(Hmm a few extras seem to have crept in.)
Tranheuser Busch
Those asshats either get the world, all time record for obtuseness…or this is deliberate somehow. And their namby pamby non-apology that amounts to a “We’re sorry you’re too much of a knuckledragger to appreciate what we did” simply underscores the stupid. It’d be like a 400 pound golfer wearing spikes tromping on your instep and being utterly clueless why you are screaming in pain.
Me
I wrote that months ago, and they are casting about now trying to figure out how to get people to come back. However the one thing that might work (an abject admission that they were wrong to even think of doing this) is the one thing they cannot do. Because the decision makers are woke and cannot conceive that they were actually fuckheadedly wrong to do this.
WOW Gold has recovered nicely from whatevertheheck happened to it the last couple of weeks! (Hopefully, you bought some.) Platinum and palladium have undergone a more modest recovery (and I’ve not compared them to where they were before gold took its dive). Rhodium, on the other hand, went up over ten percent (beating what gold did)!
Obligatory PSAs and Reminders
China is Lower than Whale Shit
Remember Hong Kong!!!
Whoever ends up in the cell next to his, 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 His Fraudulency 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 !!!
Add the vodka, pear juice, vanilla-nutmeg syrup, lime juice and bitters into a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled.
Strain into a double Old Fashioned glass over fresh ice.
Top with the cider.
Garnish with an apple slice and a sprinkle of freshly grated nutmeg.
*Vanilla-nutmeg syrup: Combine 2 cups sugar, 2 teaspoons ground nutmeg, 6 vanilla beans (cut in half lengthwise) and 2 cups water in a small saucepan and cook over low heat, stirring until sugar is fully dissolved. Let the syrup cool completely and strain into a closed container. Store in the refrigerator.
Italian-Americans apparently don’t pass the color test. Although they come from roughly the same Mediterranean stock as people from Spain, Americans of Spanish descent get a bump up the swag wagon. Italians get niente.
DP – No, we don’t. Not those of us descended from the actual people from Spain, not those who made a pit stop in Central and South America. There’s even a book titled “Invisible Immigrants” that tells the story of the true Spanish in America.
While you were sleeping, CNN, NBC, WaPo, Yahoo, Axios, NPR, Al Jezeera, NY Post, Business Insider, etc., have all reported that the White House walked backed Joe Biden’s claims of seeing photos of terrorists beheading babies.
Yes, there are now photographs. After, what, four or five days? Still not sure about this as the heartstring tugs are pretty strong.
Trump is reminding the people of the Doha Agreement and the Abraham Accords this week as a means of threading the Peacemaker narrative throughout the War of Stories, and beyond the conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
I care about Israel for the sole reason that they are in control of the historic Christian holy sites that were reclaimed in the first crusade. We need to do that again. https://t.co/o6YYuEzZgG
— LaughLoveLive, identifies as Deplorable Patriot 🐞 (@LaughLoveLive1) October 12, 2023
Let’s be clear:
Before Israel, there was a British mandate, not a Palestinian state. -Before the British Mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire, not a Palestinian state. -Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, not a Palestinian state.…
Because 9/11 turned out to be a plot orchestrated by elements within our own government, and Americans were psychologically manipulated in order to justify stealing resources and it resulted decades of war…
Ep. 30 What's happening at the southern border isn’t just an invasion, but a crime. The politicians and NGOs responsible for it are criminals, who should be punished accordingly. pic.twitter.com/cbkTSUyogC
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15But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Be-el’zebul, the prince of demons”; 16while others, to test him, sought from him a sign from heaven. 17But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and a divided household falls. 18And if Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Be-el’zebul. 19And if I cast out demons by Be-el’zebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges. 20But if it is by the finger of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. 21When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are in peace; 22but when one stronger than he assails him and overcomes him, he takes away his armor in which he trusted, and divides his spoil. 23He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters. 24“When the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places seeking rest; and finding none he says, `I will return to my house from which I came.’ 25And when he comes he finds it swept and put in order. 26Then he goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”
Today is going to be on the short side. There really wasn’t much out there other than Israel, and the whole narrative is starting to show the production seams.
Okay, well, Steve Scalise being designated House Speaker, but did we expect anything else?
These poor poor refugees on the way to Italy, they're so frightened and war torn, they forgot to bring their wives, sisters, & children in their new sea going vessel. I'm just glad they all remembered iPhones, matching raincoats, and an unwavering spirit of bravery. pic.twitter.com/lW5p4hwa9o
Former President Trump has been insinuating for weeks that former President Obama is secretly still in control of the White House. On Monday in New Hampshire, he explicitly said it. https://t.co/3ouSWxloLI
Yesterday, I said that Donald Trump represented the signal within the noise, but you know who else is proving to do that with every fresh Crisis the Globalist war machine attempts to spin up?
Vladimir Putin.
Honestly, lately, if you swapped out the quotes of one for the other,… https://t.co/2i24bEDSms
Uhhhh….something tells me the Speaker Full vote will be a hum dinger!!! What if the majority of Congress calls for a DIFFERENT person in their final vote??
Such as…President Trump…or an outsider that kicks butt? 💥💥
Angus Dalgleish: Professor of Oncology at St George's Hospital Medical School, London: "At the end of last year I reported that I was seeing melanoma patients who had been stable for years relapse after their first booster (their third injection). I was told it was merely a… pic.twitter.com/lAC6DLikII
I’m not going to pretend there are no ‘Actuals’ occurring, as it stands to reason that there are; rather, I’m suggesting that Trump’s very seeding of Peacemaker Narratives into the live deployment of Israeli chaos is a hint that patriots are well aware of what’s happening, AND… pic.twitter.com/DTl0tI7mna
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313“Your words have been stout against me, says the LORD. Yet you say, `How have we spoken against thee?’ 14You have said, `It is vain to serve God. What is the good of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the LORD of hosts? 15Henceforth we deem the arrogant blessed; evildoers not only prosper but when they put God to the test they escape.'” 16Then those who feared the LORD spoke with one another; the LORD heeded and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the LORD and thought on his name. 17“They shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, my special possession on the day when I act, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him. 18Then once more you shall distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him. 41“For behold, the day comes, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. 2But for you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go forth leaping like calves from the stall.
PSALMS 1:1-4, 6
1Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; 2but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. 3He is like a tree planted by streams of water, that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. 4The wicked are not so, but are like chaff which the wind drives away. 6for the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
. PRAY ……. Like Nehemiah OBEY ……. Like Daniel LEAD …….. Like Moses BUILD ……. Like Noah FIGHT ……. Like David SERVE ……. Like Martha BELIEVE ….. Like Mary EDUCATE … Like Paul PROTECT .… Like Peter LOVE ..……….Like JESUS
When encountering a new scent, wolves will scent roll to mark that area as their own + bring the scent back to the pack to share the discovery – it’s like bringing home a souvenir!
That explains the behavior of a number of dogs in my life over the years. It was there long before breeds were established.
Author note:
Again, thanks to all who pitched in and kept the dailies going in the last three weeks. As we move on to the next phase of life, I will continue to post. This movie isn’t over yet. There’s still work to do. Today’s post is going to be a little light as Ying had to make an emergency trip to the vet. The vet seems to think she’s stressed out, and probably in mourning. As of this writing, she is FINALLY resting after almost three hours of really strange behavior.
I actually don’t think most pundits have a clue on what is really going on right now. They’re looking too much at the surface, not enough under the waves.
The war in Ukraine has been raging for 20 months, and not once, not even one single time, did we see simultaneous international war correspondents delivering their reporting, showing action on the front lines, donning their protective gear and taking the audience toward the battles in a similar fashion.
DP – and yet it was assembled so quickly in Israel. Not all that different from 9/11.
It’s amazing how many people fell for Bobby claiming he’d take more votes from Trump than Biden. Yeah, no. His best function right now is all the red pill bombs he’s dropping.
Tweets, X-Posts, Whatever
All real wars are the result of lost Info Wars.
We're winning this one.
Perhaps the most positive trend I'm seeing in the Anon world and the Truth Community is this decentralized collective's refusal to be provoked into mindless warmongering.
Plenty of war propaganda is starting to circulate. Unfortunately, many Trump supporters have fallen for this fake narrative being set by the government of Israel and the fake news. Before the first war in Iraq we were given fake stories about Iraqis killing Kuwaiti babies in incubators. To justify the bombing of Syria we were given a fake story about Bashar-al-Assad gassing his own people. Lies about Muammar Gaddafi killing and raping his own people was used to destabilize and turn Libya into a slave market. They always use children and women to justify reasons for war. They will never show you one shred of evidence because the narrative is fake.
If you're angry that unconfirmed reports say 40 infants were murdered half a world away, how much more angry should you be that over 1,700 infants were murdered here on your very doorstep today? Let's not pretend that other people have a monopoly on barbaric savagery.
— Producer @ Avoiding Babylon (@AvoidinBabylon) October 10, 2023
Winning.
Leaving aside the fact that polling itself is rife with fraud & represents Narrative Warfare on the part of the Media Industrial Complex, I find the framing of recent polling surges by Donald Trump to be ironic, even by the alternative media.
Am I going crazy or did the Libs call us all nazi's and antisemites for the last 7 years and then go into full Hamas fanboy mode when they started murdering Israeli civilians?
— Brian Cates – Political Columnist & Pundit (@drawandstrike) October 10, 2023
I am gonna keep HAMMERING this point home: Same people who are NOW RUSHING VERY PUBLICLY TO ISRAEL’S DEFENSE and pledging billions of dollars to help Israel fight off Hamas… are the SAME PEOPLE…. …the same people, mind you…don’t skip over this part… …the very SAME people that spent the last few years sending Hamas and Iran hundreds of millions of dollars. And like his ‘mentor’ Obama, Biden recently decided to hand Iran back $6 billion dollars of frozen assets. Would anybody like to take a stab at guessing why that $6 billion was frozen in the first place? I’m getting tired of watching these Shadow Cabal simps quietly shoveling big $$$ at terrorist groups and outlaw regimes. And then pulling a shocked, SHOCKED! act at what these terror groups and regimes do once they get the bennies.
I often say that @realDonaldTrump is the 'Signal in the Noise' of the Info War.
Trump doesn't lay out the right answers every time; he lays out the right questions.
So, what questions does he want us asking this week?
10/10/23 Very special Eye of the Storm planned for 10/10 at 1030pm EST On going Speaker Comms Israel for Last Comms "Dog Comms" (I've been waiting all year for this one) DJT news "Biden News" Look for the "Bat Signal" this show will be lit Link will be pinned by 6pm to my profile pic.twitter.com/B7XcM0WdLL
(I don’t remember who brought this to a daily in the comments, but thanks.)
And, of course, the obligatory George Carlin:
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I guess this group hasn’t seen “History of the World, Part 1.”
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It is quite clear, as per Wolf’s message from July, that we are under spiritual attack. Building up a robust arsenal of prayer and discipline is a must in fighting the enemy and his minions.
In that spirit, the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel from Tuesday’s threads, and the Breastplate of St. Patrick, not to mention the Litany of Humility are favorites recommended by exorcists in spiritual warfare.
The still image is from the 1938 movie comedy, “Carefree“, with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Mr. Astaire plays a psychiatrist and Ms. Rogers plays his reluctant patient. And, yes, there’s lots of great dancing and funny one-liners. And, yes, the psychiatrist cures the patient, and they “go off into the sunset together.” And, yes, the songs are by Irving Berlin and are delightful.
Please get a cup of coffee or tea and settle in to peruse the following. There are so many negative things going on in the world today, so many things to be concerned about. But it is very important not to let the COVID-19 situation and the COVID-19 “vaccines” disaster go out of sight. Yours Truly has tried to avoid making the following sound like a boring college lecture.
Are some people afraid of getting an injection of any kind? Yes. Are they “afraid of needles” in general? Yes. Are they afraid of “what might happen” due to an injection? Yes. These feelings are normal and may be called “anticipatory dread.” These feelings may have started in childhood, or may have started after a negative reaction to an injection later on. Today, Yours Truly will discuss psychiatric issues induced after an injection of a modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine.”
The FDA knew, back in April, 2021, that the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” induce or aggravate over 1,000 medical disorders or illnesses. The document that lists the reports of these serious adverse events is the 5.3.6 Cumulative Analysis of Post-authorization Adverse Event Reports for the Pfizer-BioNTech “flagship” COVID-19 “vaccine”, BNT162b2, in the Appendix 1. List of Adverse Events of Special Interest section at the end of the report. The company gave this document to the FDA on 30 April 2021. The document can be found here:
Among the list of medical disorders and illnesses are at least 23 different items that affect the Central Nervous System and/or the brain of the “vaccine” recipient — from ataxia to Guillain-Barre syndrome to neuropathy to stroke (called “cerebral artery embolism”) to epilepsy to multiple sclerosis (both initial onset and relapse), and more.
However, there are also at least five psychiatric or neuropsychiatric medical conditions on the Appendix 1 list: Alpers disease; Dreamy State [the medical condition]; Limbic Encephalitis; Neuropsychiatric Lupus; Paediatric (sic) autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infection (this last one is a kind of “two-fer.”) Alpers disease leads to dementia and liver failure; Limbic Encephalitis is inflammation of the brain’s limbic system (see below); Neuropsychiatric Lupus affects the central nervous system and also has psychiatric presentation (depression); the medical condition of Dreamy State is linked to another condition called “Twilight State”, in which the person loses touch with present reality.
THE LIMBIC SYSTEM OF THE HUMAN BODY — A VERY SHORT OVERVIEW: The limbic system of the human body is part of the cerebrum (the largest part of the brain.) Three important organs of the limbic system are the hippocampus, the thalamus, and the amygdala. The limbic system processes emotions and regulates emotions and memory. It also influences human behavior, long-term memory, and motivation. Behaviors related to the actions of the limbic system include reproduction, the instinct to eat, the taking care of children, and the “fight or flight” response. More information can be found here: https://www.webmd.com/brain/limbic-system-what-to-know
The hippocampus is located in the brain’s temporal lobes directly above the ears. It is important in memory formation, long-term memory, spatial navigation (the ability to “determine and maintain a route from one place to another (Gallistel, 1990).” See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3380196/.) When the hippocampus is damaged, any of the following may occur, among other issues: memory impairment; disorientation; depression; and amnesia. Keep this in mind when reading on.
Since the rollout of the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines”, a new type of medical research has evolved: the study of the onset of psychiatric issues, including mania, depression, and other conditions, in persons after they receive a COVID-19 “vaccination.” A growing body of investigative papers and articles is being published. It appears that both the Pfizer-BioNTech and the Moderna modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” are responsible for inducing these psychiatric issues. One paper, from researchers in Italy, pinpoints where in the brain the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” appear to “trigger” a negative alert: the hippocampus. The paper can be found here: https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.17923.84002, titled, “mRNA vaccine against COVID-19 triggers an alert in the hippocampus: Brain Sensors activate in the limbic area.” Using Quantum Biophysical Semeiotics, Sergio Stagnaro and Simone Caramel found that there was a “…sudden and persisting microcirculatory activation, type 1, associated, in the limbic area — and in the hippocampus in particular — starting immediately after the administration of the afore said vaccine…” In other words, it appears that the hippocampus immediately registers an “alarm alert” after the body is injected with a COVID-19 “vaccine.” The “vaccine” referred to in the paper is the Pfizer-BioNTech “flagship” COVID-19 “vaccine”, BNT162b2.
It appears that COVID-19 “vaccine”-induced psychosis can occur in persons who have no prior history of psychiatric issues before “vaccination”; and in persons who do have psychiatric issues tendencies but never exhibited them before “vaccination.” Yours Truly will present the following examples of case studies:
Of the first type of COVID-19 “vaccine”-induced psychosis, in a person who had no prior history of psychiatric issues before “vaccination”: https://www.psychiatrist.com/pcc/covid-19/psychosis-associated-covid-19-vaccination/, from February, 2022. The patient, after being “vaccinated”, began to have hallucinations and anxiety. After admission to the hospital, the patient became combative toward staff. The patient was in the hospital for almost a month, taking medication and under supervision. The patient was then discharged to home, but still had “…some residual symptoms, mainly reduced concentration and motivation.” (Italics mine) Recall what was discussed above about the hippocampus. There is another “clue” in the case report: “…there is a possible viral transmission to the nervous system [of the COVID-19 virus]…via circulation,…” (In other words, in my opinion, COVID-19 virus elements cross the blood-brain barrier; in my opinion, this would implicate the virus’ spike protein and its modRNA present in the “vaccines.”) Unfortunately, it appears that this case report implies that onset of psychosis after a COVID-19 “vaccination” is “rare.”
Of the second type of COVID-19 “vaccine”-induced psychosis, in a person who had psychiatric issues tendencies but never exhibited them until after “vaccination”: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114165, from October, 2021. The patient, who had “some schizotypal personality traits ” [a “cluster A personality disorder”] but no exhibition of them previously, began to show grandiose behavior, claimed to be clairvoyant, and other symptoms, after COVID-19 “vaccination.” An MRI showed, among other things a “…focus of susceptibility in the right lateral thalamus.” (Italics mine) The modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine” that the patient took was the Moderna “flagship” COVID-19 “vaccine”, mRNA-1273. After a short hospital stay with supervised medication, the patient was discharged with ongoing medication in stable condition. A week later, he was back at work and asymptomatic. Recall what was discussed above the Limbic System of the brain — the thalamus is part of that system.
In summary: It appears that the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” can, and do, either cause first-onset of, or kick off a predisposition to, psychosis in the “vaccinated” person. It appears that the hippocampus of the “vaccine” recipient’s brain sends out an “alarm alert” immediately upon the person getting “vaccinated.” It appears that the spike protein and its modRNA elements are transmitted to the recipient’s nervous system via the blood. Separately, and, in addition, it is now known that the spike protein and its modRNA migrate to, and enter, into cells in areas all over the body, including to the brain, of a “vaccinated” person. It is also now known that the lipid nanoparticles in the COVID-19 “vaccines”, which facilitate “transfer” of the spike protein and its modRNA to the cells of the recipient’s body, are elements that the body likely cannot break down and eliminate. It is also now known that elements of the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” continue to remain in the recipient’s body for weeks, if not months, after “vaccination.”
A couple of caveats here: First, Yours Truly is not implying that the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines”, once inside a person’s body, will inevitably induce psychiatric issues. Second, that the study of psychiatric issues induced by modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” is just “getting off the ground”, and much more investigation is necessary. (However, recall that incidences of myocarditis after modRNA COVID-19 “vaccination” were previously called “rare”, but which have since been shown to actually be much more numerous. See https://www.openvaers.com/, noting that VAERS actually enumerates only about 40%, at most, of all incidents.)
Among the questions that come to mind, one is: Since the FDA knew back in April, 2021, that the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” can, and do, cause onset of psychosis in persons who take them, why didn’t the agency immediately stop the use of these “vaccines” until the situation could be further investigated?
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Spiritual Warfare
Various people in the Gospels and the Book of Acts commanded demons to leave other people—the disciples as part of Christ’s instructions (Matthew 10); others using Christ’s name (Mark 9:38); the children of the Pharisees (Luke 11:18-19); Paul (Acts 16); and some others (Acts 19:11-16).
It appears that the purpose of Jesus’ disciples casting out demons was to show Christ’s dominion over the demons (Luke 10:17) and to verify that the disciples were acting in His name and by His authority. It also revealed their faith or lack of faith (Matthew 17:14-21). It was obvious that this act of casting out demons was important to the ministry of the disciples. However, it is unclear what part casting out demons actually played in the discipleship process.
Interestingly, there seems to be a shift in the latter part of the New Testament regarding demonic warfare. The teaching portions of the New Testament (Romans through Jude) refer to demonic activity, yet do not discuss the actions of casting them out, nor are believers exhorted to do so. We are told to put on the armor to stand against (not attack) them (Ephesians 6:10-18). We are told to resist the devil (James 4:7), be careful of him (1 Peter 5:8), and not give him room in our lives (Ephesians 4:27). However, we are not told how to cast him or his demons out of others, or that we should even consider doing so.
The book of Ephesians gives clear instructions on how we are to have victory in our lives in the battle against the forces of evil. The first step is placing our faith in Christ (2:8-9), which breaks the rule of “the prince of the power of the air” (2:2). We are then to choose, again by God’s grace, to put off ungodly habits and to put on godly habits (4:17-24). This does not involve casting out demons, but rather renewing our minds (4:23). After several practical instructions on how to obey God as His children, we are reminded that there is a spiritual battle. It is fought with certain armor that allows us to stand against—not cast out—the trickery of the demonic world (6:10). We stand with truth, righteousness, the gospel, faith, salvation, the Word of God, and prayer (6:10-18).
It appears that as the Word of God was completed, the Christians had more weapons with which to battle the spirit world than the early Christians did. The role of casting out demons was replaced, for the most part, with evangelism and discipleship through the Word of God. Since the methods of spiritual warfare in the New Testament do not involve casting out demons, it is difficult to determine instructions on how to do such a thing. If necessary at all, it seems that it is through exposing the individual to the truth of the Word of God and the name of Jesus Christ.
