The Economics Conundrum (In Mt Head) Update

Back on the 21st this month I started a discussion with myself concerning working to understand economics enough to comprehend what it is that Donald Trump is attempting to do - economically.

Somehow that seems important to me.

So, from Promethean Updates

Continuing on from June 21:

Trump Rolls Out HUGE Peace Deal, British Libertarians PANIC, Can't Handle 'Big Beautiful Bill'

Did I just get what she was saying?

Nope.

But is it a good beginning? I'm beginning to think it might be. At least she is coming across as someone who understands what she is talking about.

And she seems to be acting as though we are capable of understanding.

AOC - I Mean, Really

We all have heard about and seen AOC in action, the girl from the Bronx, right? The bartender from New York who made it big in DC?

Well, brace yourself. Here's where the real AOC grew up:

I Investigated Where AOC is Really From, What We Found Will Stun You: The Biggest Fraud in Congress?

Isn't it fascinating that the fake news Democrats never revealed this to their audience?

Iran - What Happened to Paradise?

This travel video just came up on my YouTube list and it is spectacular but with a dark side beginning at 34:30, the 1979 transformation of Iran. I tend to believe that the road to destruction began well before 1979 in Iran at the hands of the country's American rulers, but this video displays the nation's potential for humanity's advancement - after the narrow-minded Islamic tyrants running the place now are thrown out:

Iran: The Side the News Doesn’t Show You | 4K Travel Documentary

Update:

This documentary traces the downfall:

1979 Iranian Revolution, Explained | Last Persian Shah

World War Now!

Should the entire world break out in war, we now have a person we can point to as the one responsible for starting it. This article has today's date on it:

Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi

Essentially this guy seems to be declaring war against any and all people who oppose Muslim dictatorships.

Maybe I'm reading this wrong but if not, then what alternative does the world have other than to exterminate all Muslims who accept this fatwa?

Quick Update:

It just occurred to me that Donald Trump just spared the life of Iran's religious leader when he sent a bomber raid against Iran's nuclear sites. So, this fatwa against President Trump was not because Trump threatened Iran's leadership. It has to be because Trump threatens Iran's nuclear weapons program which seems hypocritical since there is already an Iranian fatwa against Iran obtaining nuclear weapons. Is it any wonder that the world doubts the word of Iranian religious leaders?

Fear and Loathing...

This post is about another kind of fear and loathing but first I want to say one of the most hilarious movies I have ever watched is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Jonny Depp just nailed it, nailed the kind of things I saw using LSD back in the day. It's more than difficult to capture those visions on film.

But this is a different kind of fear and loathing. I just came across this link and thought it might help people who are caught in the mystery of how things got to be so bad in the Middle East, how it started, how it evolved, how it took the whole region (and the rest of the world too) down to the point where it is today.

Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem

The Economics Conundrum (In Mt Head)

Just the other day I posted a link to a group that I was unaware of until now, Promethean Updates and came across ideas that reminded me of a book I had read fairly recently but never finished or absorbed.

That book, published 18 years ago, is The Shock Doctrine, The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, written by Canadian Naomi Klein. Its focus is the much praised and usually disastrous Milton Friedman economic theories.

Here's the author speaking recently about her work:

Trump’s End-Times Fascism | Naomi Klein | TMR

I'm not convinced that Trump's agenda conforms to this "shock doctrine" economic philosophy but I definitely need to look into it more deeply. At this point I tend to think the debate in my head needs to focus on understanding this Friedman theory with the argument being presented in defense of Trump policy as explained by these Promethean folks. How does Trump's economics differ from neoliberal, neoconservative, free market, globalist principles? Or does it?

Are Muslim Women Retarded?

Yup.

Hijab-less Women Rebel in Iran

But you must recall that Muslim women wear the hijab to help Muslim men resist the urge to rape them. So maybe it's not just the Muslim women who demand that women use the hijab but also Muslim men who can't control their own urges?

Most Christians don't suffer this malady. Give your heart to Jesus.

Wait, on second thought that might not be wise since in some Muslim societies becoming a Christian is basically a self-inflicted death sentence - which further proves my point about Muslims.

Still, giving your heart to the Lord is the wisest thing a person can do.

Jewish Eyes Wide Shut

Disturbing testimonies reveal widespread ritual CHILD ABUSE in Israel involving religious and political elites

No Kings Violence

The other day I wrote about my experience attending a No Kings event in downtown Ellsworth, Maine. At that event several people spoke to me about the peaceful nature of the event.

Yesterday My wife mentioned something I hadn't noticed at that event, two people holding up signs that read 8647.

If I had noticed those signs, chances are I would have photographed the individuals and reported it to the police. Last I knew it was against the law to threaten the life of the President.

But considering that the whole idea of "No Kings" is to instigate the assassination of President Trump, it doesn't seem likely the police would have acted on my concerns.

A Curious Video

Check out this dark mysterious video concerning the collapse of a New York City skyscraper back in 2001.

No, not the Twin Towers, another skyscraper - the same day:

The Building between Six and Eight | FLESH SIMULATOR

You may have seen some of this material before.

Just not presented in quite the same way...

Trump and Israel from a Whole New Perspective

YouTube just linked me to a whole new perspective of the modern world, of Trump, of war, of Israel.

Two examples from this Promethean Updates YouTube channel:

 Trump DESTROYS G7 Globalists: 'Your System Creates War' | Britain Panics as TRUMP'S NEW WORLD RISES

and...

TRUMP & PUTIN UNDER ATTACK: The British Plot to TRAP Trump's America in a New Middle East WAR

Iran's Final Fling?

In a very real sense, this is where I am taking my stand on the Iran War. Will the people of Iran come to their own rescue?

🚨 BREAKING: Israel Finally ATTACKS Khamenei’s Bunker - President’s Plane Leaves Tehran

Max Blumenthal on Israeli War on Iran

I need to get something off my chest first before posting this link.

I go back to before 9/11. Actually when 9/11 happened I was in my early 50's so indeed I go back. I go back so far that I can freshly remember stories going around on the Internet claiming that Israel had ways to convince the American people that Israel's enemies in the Middle East were America's enemies as well and one of Israel's tricks to convince us was to set off a few mini nuclear bombs in populated areas such as, perhaps, sports stadiums during games when the stadiums were full. Stories had it that the bombs were already in the United States.

Needless to say, Israel never did that. Fortunately for Israel 9/11 was all it took to cement the hearts of Americans against Israel's Muslim enemies.

Since the mini nukes stories virtually disappeared down the memory hole, I always wondered what became of them. Did the American government track them down and secretly remove them? Were they even real in the first place? Who knows. It's as though that topic was never brought up in the first place and I only dreamed it up.

But a whole lot of American money was spent and a whole lot of American blood was shed meeting Israel's security needs.

In recent months many Americans have come to see Israel the same way most of the rest of the world's population sees it. Israel is losing the hearts and minds of the American public. The slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza has triggered a sea change in the hearts and minds of many Americans.

Suddenly people are realizing that Israel could care less about the lives of any humans who are not Jews.

A month or so back Russia came under attack by unknown saboteurs who used weapons assembled within Russia to attack Russia's nuclear bomber fleet. Ukraine proudly claimed responsibility and the whole world bought the story. Ironically the same thing happened in Iran a couple of weeks later and nobody even thought to make the connection. I have heard nobody claim that it was Israel, not Ukraine. that attacked and threatened Russia's nuclear defense capabilities.

But those two attacks made one thing crystal clear, that Israel had and still has the capacity - and has been working for years to perfect it - to attack anybody anywhere in the world where Jews are allowed to roam. For all anybody knows there could be warehouses in America stocked with drone weapons ready to be trucked anywhere in the country to attack America to convince us that we have been attacked by Russia or by Iran or by China and we would be helpless to refute the claims of our own media sources backing up the story.

Helpless.

So I always seem to have that idea in mind when I watch something like this video:

Max Blumenthal : Who is to Blame: Trump or Netanyahu?

Why do I think that? Because there's always speculation that somebody is pressuring Trump to do what Israel demands rather than him carrying out his promise to those who voted to put him in office.

'Nuf said. Just one wee little man's opinion. Nothing more...

Candace and Ian Truth Bomb

Generally, I can't listen to an entire episode of Candace Owens, but she teamed up with Ian Carroll who perfectly balanced and grounded her sharp voice allowing me to listen all the way through this huge truth bomb about Israel first, then Elon Musk, then a little more Israel.

Have a listen:

I’m BACK! Just In Time For World War 3. | Candace Ep 200

Beware: If you are triggered by antisemitic speech, you might not appreciate this talk.

No Kings Protests Trolled by Trump

Interesting how many of my observations are confirmed here:

Protesters Get Run Over! LOL

No Kings in Ellsworth

My wife and I decided to be spectators last Saturday at the "No Kings" rally in the city hall parking lot in Ellsworth (Maine). There was a large crowd already gathered when we arrived just after noon. Parking was non-existent with the exception of the parking lot at the Baptist church nearby. Being Christians ourselves, we figured hey, why not so I backed into a space where the Trump Team sticker on my tailgate wouldn't be spotted. I didn't want my truck getting keyed.

Before I was even out of the truck, I became aware of the fact that this event was an American flags event, flags everywhere, but talking with a participant while walking down the sidewalk I realized American flags are the new thing now with TDS liberals, 99% of the crowd last time Ellsworth had an event like this.

As I get pathetically older, I tend to speak my mind more freely and Saturday was no exception. I asked several attendants where the king's guards were since it seems obvious there would be king's guards at insurrections like this. There weren't even police in the crowd and certainly no sword and bayonet carrying riflemen looking for traitors to the king. So, king's guards? Zero. Nobody could point out even one.

I did notice quite a few black signs with white lettering that said "RESIST" on the high ground adjacent to city hall and one prominent sign identically colored down in the crowd that said "Divided We Fall" which seemed enormously hypocritical to me since the object of the protest was to divide the American public.

I did manage to find one other conservative. Just one, though.

Several of the folks I spoke with bragged about how they were able to practice their free speech rights with no violence. I shit you not. This after the past four years of the Biden administration supporting censorship in social media and holding over a thousand political prisoners many in solitary confinement and being subject to torture to get them to testify against Trump not to mention the Biden Department of Justice declaring parents at school board meetings being "domestic terrorists".

Basically, I concluded that the event was one huge virtue signal designed to mask over the actual guilt of the Left for opposing free speech during the Biden years. They have a lot of guilt to mask over.

Iran War Perspective

Here's one perspective on the new war in Iran. It's eye-opening coverage:

🚨 BREAKING: Israel Wipes Out IRGC Leaders As Iranians Celebrate

This certainly takes me back to a time when I hoped for something like this to happen to Iran in hope that the ruling regime would crumble giving the Iranian people a new chance to be relevant.

Secret Drone Bases Behind Enemy Lines - Again

This morning's surprise in the news was this article:

Mossad Built Drone Base Inside Iran, Struck Ballistic Missiles And Air Defenses (Videos)

My immediate reaction when I read the headline was man, this sure sounds like what Ukraine claimed they did to Russia a couple of weeks ago. Here this is a totally new war strategy that takes months or years of preparation, and it is used to great success in two entirely different war fronts by two totally different attacking nations? What an amazing coincidence!

Is it any wonder that in the comments to this article some are speculating that maybe, just maybe, the attack in Russia was actually a Mossad operation.

Surprise of the Day

Well - this is a surprise. That Walmart heiress that's stirring up trouble with a million dollars to spend on the project isn't just the one behind this weekend's nationwide organized and financed protest. No, she's more than that:

 L.A. News Station ACCIDENTALLY AIRS Riot Funders! | Buddy Brown

Enuf Already

We Are Done

Here's Why

Thomas Massie Calls To END MILITARY AID To Israel

A Lesson on Human Psychology

Try analyzing this news:

The Video Netanyahu Doesn't Want You To See

Touring Storm Damage after Hurricane Helene

Eight months after the storm along a North Carolina Stream:

Inside the Forgotten Aftermath of Hurricane Helene 🇺🇸

Israel in Ukraine?

Today's first red pill...

I can't recall seeing any discussion concerning the involvement of Israel's strategic Mossad covert military arm being involved in the war in Ukraine even though, to me, its involvement is obvious.

Until now.

Check out the first question asked in this YouTube interview:

Douglas Macgregor: This New information will Astound You !!

Myself, I can't see any reason why the Mossad wouldn't want to be covertly operating in Russia as well to the point where they would have the capacity to plan and carry out drone strikes against Russia which Ukraine's leaders could claim as their own brilliant successes worthy of further investments by Western powers.

Nobody that I know of has suggested that possibility yet.

To Be Fair

Just to be fair and to help balance out my criticism of Trump, consider what the alternative was in 2024 and still is today:

Trump just CALLED their BLUFF.

Musk: 1 - Trump: 0

I just had a very strange notion come to me, kind of like when you are going around in a circle and you finally come to the end of it and everything you have been observing suddenly makes total sense.

Well, not total sense, but maybe, if I observed correctly, a whole lot more sense.

My wife and I both are Trump people. We believe in MAGA at face value. All those conservative values that Trump preaches at all his rallies resonate with us folks who, for sure, aren't "woke".

My wife's brother rants about how untrustworthy and ungrateful Trump is in reality but all we see is how much we wish Trump actually means it when he advocates for "we the people" control of government and fiscal sanity and constitutionally guaranteed rights and virtue.

Oh dear, there's that word - virtue.

My brother-in-law doesn't think Trump's virtue is real. He imagines it as false, fake. He imagines Trump has a large ego, that he is basically narcissistic.

Surprisingly just the other day I was trying not to pay attention as a lady, I think it was Trump's sister, spoke about the narcissistic side of Donald Trump. I tried really hard not to resonate with what she was describing. After all, I want to believe in Trump

A whole bunch of people are in the same boat that my wife and I are in. We believe that Trump is the champion of the conservative principles that we live by.

Back just before the 2024 election I read a book by a sportswriter who honors the game of golf about what it is like to play a round of golf with Trump, how he cheats and dishonors the game. Although I had no doubt about the truth of that book, I justified it as Trump just not taking this "game" seriously, that golf is a game and real life is real life and the two don't converge.

Along comes Elon Musk, a man whose intelligence leaves all the rest of us in the dust - a genius, someone we should at least listen to, probably show some respect for, someone who might be right concerning his judgment even when we don't get it.

Trump recognized that about Musk, realized that Musk was somebody that voters could resonate with.

So Trump used him, used Musk to convince not only the MAGA people but independent-minded voters as well to vote Trump in November 2024. And we did.

Now Trump claims that he would have won the election even without Musk's help. That may very well be true considering what a piece of sh*t his opponent was... still is... all three of them, Biden, Harris, and Tim Walz, Harris's VP choice. What choice did we have, really.

So we believed Trump and voted for him.

We believed that Trump had what it takes to end the stupid and dangerous war between Ukraine and Russia.

We believed Trump would reduce government spending, do something to keep the national debt from ballooning to ever higher levels.

We believed that Trump policies would help bring prices back down, the price of gas and electricity, the interest rates, the runaway costs for a new pickup truck, or even for a good used one.

And a whole lot more! We believed it all. We even believed that Trump would do something to keep public school officials from sexualizing and corrupting our children!

We believed Trump would see to the release of the names on the Epstein client list, names of public officials, politicians, judges, federal bureaucrats, business people, all those who are compromised by the threat of blackmail and who submit to the deep state, whoever that is.

We believed that Trump and Republicans in Congress would get to the bottom of what happened after the January 6, 2021 protest in Washington DC that led to the arrest of well over a thousand political prisoners - oh, sorry, I mean conservatives, political critics of the Democrats and RINO traitors and their theft of the 2020 election.

Trump won the election and we waited for noon on January 20, 2025 when Trump could finally end the Democrat nightmare.

And we waited.

And we waited.

And we are still waiting.

And it's beginning to look like it looked back in Trump's first term when so many of us hoped that Q-Anon was telling the truth.

Q-Anon wasn't telling the truth. Q-Anon was an intelligence community psyop designed to pacify those who oppose the takeover of the American government by this bureaucratic monster known as the deep state.

Q-Anon wouldn't succeed a second time around. Trump needed help pacifying his impatient MAGA base. So he brought in pacifiers.

Tulsi Gabbard

Robert Kennedy

Elon Musk

Kash Patel

Dan Bongino

and more, a lot more.

As soon as anybody enters prominent office in the American government, they immediately learn how government actually works. They immediately learn that their personal beliefs and even truths they will discover when they use their power to access government secrets are worth absolutely nothing, absolute zero. They learn obedience to the deep state. No matter what they say or do to convince citizens who actually care about the country that they are still real and relevant, they are no longer either real or relevant.

The one exception was Elon Musk, or so it appears anyway.

What made Elon Musk different was that he let his beliefs override the bureaucratic mandate that he compromise himself and faithfully serve the deep state - which at this point is basically a Marxist dictatorship.

Trump let Elon Mush follow him around, study him, learn about Trump's nature, see him for who he really is, watch how he treats anybody who isn't obedient.

Imagine the surprise when Musk realized that Trump isn't the nice guy that all his followers think he is! And if you can't believe this, look at all the trash that Trump has been throwing at Musk because Musk actually believed he could impact government spending. Musk was devastated when he found out all his work and all his personal and financial sacrifice, now measured in tens of billions of dollars or more of personal loss for him, was all in vain.

Most of Trump's base can't see this from Musk's perspective. They still trust Trump, or if they don't, they still believe Trump will fulfill his promises.

But Trump made a huge mistake.

Trump treated Musk, a dedicated ally, like shit and he hurt him financially to the tune of billions of dollars, all because Mush wouldn't keep his mouth shut about how Donald Trump betrayed him.

And we all had a front row seat while all this took place.

Meaning...

That now, if we so choose, we can see Trump for the brutal narcissist that he really is, the one my brother-in-law assured us was for real, the one Trump's sister warned about.

The reason Trump is powerless to end the war in Ukraine is that Putin has noticed that Trump could care less about the actual cause of the war. Trump wants a ceasefire, but he could care less about the future. Trump wants peace to boost his ego, to enlarge his image.

Meanwhile Trump favors the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Trump favors the submission of Muslims to secure Jewish dominance in the Middle East to boost his own ego, to enlarge his image.

Trump could care less about the national debt as long as government spending boosts his ego, his image.

Americans be damned. This is Trump's America now, his own personal kindergarten sand box, and he won't share anything equally. He dominates.

And it's all right there now, out in the open for anybody to see.

Mind you, this is just one man's opinion. I could be wrong.

 

The CIA - Beyond the Veil

Tucker and Infowars have both recently featured a CIA whistleblower who reveals where the power in government actually resides.

Here's Tucker's version:

John Kiriakou: CIA's Secret Torture Programs, Mk-Ultra, 9-11, and Why Obama Threw Him in Jail

And here's Alex Jones and Infowars's version:

EXCLUSIVE: CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou Reveals How The CIA Is Attempting To Manipulate President Trump By Keeping Him In The Dark On What's Really Happening In The Ukraine War & Other Major Foreign Policy Sectors

If you ever have an occasion where you want to know who to really blame when the nukes start going off around you, now you know. No excuses.

MAGA, Musk, and the BBB Explained Rationally

Last week the MAGA political movement took a big crap with Trump's "Big Beautiful [spending] Bill" and thanks to the mainstream media it hit the fan. That bill took MAGA by surprise and it is no wonder that the champion of reigning in government spending, Elon Musk, criticized it. Naively, Musk didn't realize how vicious Trump is to his critics. If you are anything like me, this has left my head spinning.

For some insight based on rational thinking, check out this video from a guy I have been turning to for years for rational conservative analysis of the irrational American government:

💥 Trump STRIKES BACK at Elon Musk - Full Breakdown

Devotion - An Epic War Movie

YouTube's algorithms linked me to a movie last night, a war movie called Devotion about a group of Navy aviators flying upgraded World War II F-4U Corsair carrier-based fighter planes at the beginning of the Korean War back in 1950. The movie was released in 2022 so it's recent with stunning video.

I didn't recognize even a single actor or actress, but the acting was as stunning as the video and so was the action. More than any war movie I have ever seen, this movie put me right there with these men. This is Top Gun with the clock wound back decades.

The Trailer:

DEVOTION - Official Trailer (HD)

The movie, all two hours and nineteen minutes of it:

Devotion

Is Putin Jewish?

Since we seem to be into unverified Internet info this morning, check this ten-year-old article out:

Jewish roots of Russian president Vladimir Putin.

The Elephant in the Room

Illustrating the obvious

Ukraine War - Why Did Russia Do It?

Thank YouTube for this. From three years ago and in the words of Putin himself:

‘West was preparing to invade our land,’ Putin says at Victory Day parade

From Behind the Censorship Curtain - Brother Nathanael

Brother Nathanael used to be on YouTube. Born and raised Jewish he converted to orthodox Christianity and now raves against Jewish domination:

Death Of The Jewish Pencil*

Ukraine, the Khazars, the Jews, Russia, and Christianity

My suspicion is that if you do read this article, you won't soon forget it:

The Truth About The Conflict With Russia

I can't vouch for any of this, but I am inclined to believe it.

Ukraine - A Greater Israel

I can't vouch for this. It's on the Internet, after all:

Zelensky Says His Goal is to Turn Ukraine Into a 'Greater Israel'

Celebrate antisemitism before it's completely censored. The truth is still out there.

Ukraine's Proud Leader Playing Piano

Thank goodness for the Internet. When in history has it ever been possible to prevent such artistic expression from being lost in the memory hole of censorship? Oh wait, isn't this what art has done for thousands of years - preserve the memory of the most profane?

I've heard of this performance, but I didn't know it was on YouTube:

Ukraine President plays the piano

Ukraine Drones Attacking Russia's Nuclear Bomber Fleet

Argh!!!

That was and still is my reaction to the much-praised Ukrainian drone attack against Russia's nuclear bomber fleet.

Why?

Because it sends a clear message to Russia that Ukraine wants Russia to retaliate with nuclear weapons.

Which would most certainly start the dreaded World War III.

I can't help but wonder why the media compares this attack to Pearl Harbor and not to 9/11. I would compare it to 9/11 myself, mainly because it looks so much like something you might expect the Mossad would do. 

Blowing Your Mind on Politics

If you are up to it, and I don't imagine many people are, read this article in full but don't stop there. The comments and the replies to those comments will blow your mind:

Why Are Western Leaders Such Deranged Clowns?

Share the Sandbox, Donald

I am beginning to remember how I felt about Donald Trump running for President again during the Biden years.

During his first term, the four years between Obama and Biden, Trump was plagued by fake news to the point where he was disabled by it. When it became clear that Trump wanted to get back into the White House during the Biden term my reaction was that he had better somehow magically wean the American public off of their addiction to fake network news and Democrat lies and get solid backing in Congress.

That did not happen, yet Trump is back in the White House.

I know it's only been just over four months, but there is so much hate now in America aimed against conservative thinking, I am losing heart. The fake news TDS public is strangling him to the point where I am beginning to wonder if Trump himself has lost faith in his own rhetoric.

I haven't wanted to talk about it much.

But here's a familiar face who now is saying what needs to be said:

"Col. Macgregor EXPOSES What No One Dares Say About Trump..."

Wake up Donald Trump. Your arrogant superiority complex is taking us on the path to nuclear war. Pay attention to what people beyond America's borders need. America First doesn't mean American dominance. Don't let the deep state globalist fringe dominate your presidency in their greed to rule the world.

Share the sandbox, Donald.

With Friends Like These...?

Some people still think that China is good, that they are a good trading partner.

I point you to this guy who used to live in China and ride around on his motorcycle recording YouTube videos with his biking friend. He knows China.

Tell me China is the good guy after watching this:

I'm Genuinely Terrified of What China Just Did

Ukraine War - The Secret Cause

More than a year ago I thought hey, why not use Google Earth to see what Russia's interest in the Black Sea might be, and more specifically where the Sea of Azov fits in. I wasn't expecting what I discovered.

The Black Sea and the Sea of Azov pretty much surround the Crimean Peninsula. The Ukraine War is all about Russian interests. Russia has air and sea military strongholds there.

Ukraine was Russia-friendly until the coup in Ukraine in 2014 orchestrated by the CIA - yes, by America and its perceived "national security interests". This coup is called the Maidan Coup or the Maidan Revolution.

Using Google Earth I was able to zoom in on the northeast corner of the Sea of Azov and discover that the Don River, a major shipping channel through Russia, drains into the Sea of Azov there giving Russia shipping access to the Black Sea and to the Mediterranean Sea by way of Istanbul, Turkey. Crimea is key to Russia's defense of this essential waterway.

After the Maidan Coup in 2014, Ukraine, Europe, and North America have sought to drive the Russians out of Crimea. Russia's refusal to give up this essential defense of its shipping channel and Ukraine's insistence to take it from them led Russia to invade Ukraine early in 2022 which began the Ukraine War that nobody seems able to end.

Western interests - Europe and North America - don't even mention this issue, nor does Russia. It's a dirty little secret. But it is the prime reason why Russia refuses to give up and pull out of eastern Ukraine.

I have never come across a discussion of this issue until yesterday. I watch a daily commentary on the war on YouTube and yesterday he discussed the issue.

Forward this video to the 32:00 minute mark and listen to what this guy is saying:

Lavrov dictates terms. Russia warns Berlin. Merz reveals Taurus strike plan. Kallas Black Sea plan

Now you know what Russia's primary interest is and why Russia needs to win this war.

Gaza War - The Secret

Why Israel’s $55 Billion Mega-Canal Through Gaza Is Sparking Global Attention

Covid Vaccine Worry

For quite some time I have been speculating that it seems likely that Covid is spread by the vaccines, but I don't recall any actual evidence that this might be true.

Until now. Read beyond the headline for this article:

Former CDC Director Believes Vaccine Makers Should Be Sued

Greased Pig

There is now a blue star on the new "default" Maine license plate.

Figuring out why that star is blue is like chasing a greased pig. There is no rational explanation for it. A star maybe. One of the stars on the American flag represents Maine - but blue, as in "blue state"...

What are my chances of ever coming across the answer to my question?

Losing It in Ukraine

I tend to agree with this assessment. I watch this guy often. He goes by the assumption that Russia will eventually win the war against Ukraine. I refuse to make that assumption mainly because it's impossible to predict the effect of technology on the final outcome. Drones looked bad for Russia a year ago. But Russia has developed countermeasures. Russia developed successful countermeasures against missiles as well.

The one thing Russia has not yet successfully developed countermeasures for is propaganda, the use of lies and deception to drive public opinion against Russia. Even Trump himself falls for the bullshit to the point where he doesn't even acknowledge what the Russians say.

This guy convincingly lets you hear what the Russians say:

Col Doug Macgregor: Trump's Irrelevant & No Longer in Control

Blue State Blues

I live in a state whose leadership is committed to ensuring that we become and remain a blue state - covertly symbolized by the blue star now appearing on Maine license plates. Our governor has written herself into infamy as Donald Trump's opponent concerning biological males (trans women) competing against biological females in public school sports.

DOJ takes over Maine Title IX case as battle over trans athletes in girls’ sports escalates

I don't know why this didn't dawn on me before now but just recently it did dawn on me that efforts to transition minors really is child abuse. It is something that only the coldest of hearts would portray as virtuous.

It seems that I now have the federal government on my side. From GENDER.NEWS:

Trump administration reaffirms: Gender-related procedures are CHILD ABUSE

I am hoping that the courts will realize that the minority view on this issue violates basic human rights and dignity. But something happened to judges in recent years and liberal politics now dominates the courts. I won't be holding my breath on this issue, but I will never give up hope.

Mainstream Media Ambushes Trump

 Mainstream Media Parrots EXACT SAME Talking Points on Trump's Meeting with South African President

Meanwhile...

South Africa’s EFF Leader Leads Chants of “Shoot to Kill, Kill the Boer, the Farmer” at Saturday’s Rally as Media Elites Insist This Is Not Happening

It beats me why people still trust the mainstream media. It's one of two things, though.

It's either TDS (a hate-filled heart)

or

people are just too lazy to pay attention to that which is true

or both

Truth or Christianity, Which Do You Prefer

Back when I was young, in the culture in which I was raised - America - people who were "Christian" were pretty much either Catholic or Protestant. There was no "Fundamentalist Christianity" yet.

My parents were Protestant so we as a family bounced between the Congregational Church and the Methodist one.

As a teen, I opted out and became an atheist.

Atheist!

As a young adult, when I started using LSD, atheism became a problem for me. Obviously, there was something much larger than the atheist mind.

When I went looking, there was something new in town - "Fundamentalist Christianity" - and I was drawn in. I was baptized the real way and joined the new Fundamentalist church in town. I was "born again".

Fundamentalist Christianity didn't survive. I almost think it was Jimmy Carter who inadvertently did the "born again" movement in. As I recall, he claimed to be born again, and conservative Christians just couldn't stomach it.

That movement away from "fundamentalist" and "born again" evolved into "evangelical" leaving me out in the cold, wondering.

Eventually I was kicked out of the "body of Christ" - something that I know they did to me despite assurances that it could never happen to a "born again" Christian.

Truth itself seemed to be the issue for me. Fundamentalist Christianity and the "born again" movement seemed to be saying that the only truth in the world was what could be found in the Bible but only if it was revealed by the "Holy Spirit" through faith.

Despite all the rock-solid fundamentals, it all seemed wishy-washy to me. I tried. I even attended a small fundamentalist Bible college for a semester, but that experience did me in. What I was expected to believe and profess eventually crushed my faith.

Now it's truth - truth itself - that matters most to me, not the limited religious dogmatic Biblical truth but truth. Recently I have discovered that I am not alone. There is a new truth movement rising from Christianity and it doesn't demand membership. I have not attended church since I was evicted from the body, but I have yet to find a church that can accept this new notion of "truth".

What I can do, though, is resonate with this:

Contradictions in modern Christianity exposed: A journey from evangelicalism to spiritual awakening

So... Putin is the war criminal? Explain this

Vadym Novynskyi: Zelensky’s Mission to End Christianity in Ukraine & Why America Is Still Funding It

Last I heard, Zelensky is Jewish. Plus he loves his cocaine. Or so I have heard... And the weapons we have been sending to him have been winding up on the black market around the world. And all he can think of is getting more money and weapons from the West. Oh, and a good many of his fighters are Neo-NAZI, a relic from World War II.

All things considered, that makes him the creepiest person on the face of the earth, doesn't it?

Ane this creep is America's hero.

Could someone explain all this to me so it makes some kind of sense?

Cis (Cisgender)

The word "cisgender" is something I have heard used occasionally but I never knew the meaning. For some strange reason I seem to recall cisgender being the word that describes either a male born with genetic female characteristics or a female born with genetic male characteristics.

It turns out that I was wrong. Luckily I never used the word.

It turns out that "cisgender" refers to what I always thought of as "normal". "Heterosexual" is the word I might use.

At some point in recent history (1994 according to Wikipedia) the medical science community (or perhaps the social science experts) sent the world careening over the edge by declaring that a person's gender is magically "assigned at birth".

Think of it... All those ultrasound scans of pregnant women where they were able to identify whether their baby was male or female rendered meaningless!!! Basically a medical scam!!!

It amazes me that doctors who deliver babies haven't defended reality by dispelling this queer hoax!

What the term "assigned at birth" implies is that doctors should have the skill necessary to identify the gender of a newborn baby. It doesn't take a whole lot of skill to recognize this as a complete lie yet we are allowing ourselves to be virtue signaled into imagining this fib as truth.

When Child Abuse Is the Abuse of Children

Recently I have been thinking that cutting the genitals off of boys and cutting the breasts off of girls is child abuse. How have we become so blind that we cannot see that?

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Introduces ‘Protect Children’s Innocence Act’