THIS video was made by Claudia Stauber in September, 2019.

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ALAN writes:

My mother was the principal architect of the happiness and warmth and security and serenity that I knew during my boyhood. To say that I owed her a huge debt for all of that would be the understatement of my life.

She saved 45 greeting cards that I gave her in my boyhood years in the 1950s-early’60s. Nine of them were Mother’s Day cards. At some point I must have stopped giving her such cards. Why was that?  Simple: I was an idiot — and more so because I didn’t know I was an idiot.

When I was a boy, I had no idea what a “benevolent sense of life” could be, even though it was right there in front of me every day. It was there in the person of my mother:  In how she lived, acted, and spoke; in her frame of mind and her perspective on life;  in her sense of humor; in what she found funny, what she found beautiful, or what she found repulsive, and why.

I am quite confident she never thought about such things. She was not a philosopher. She was too busy living and discharging the responsibilities that she had assumed or that life handed her. There was no need for me to think about such things when they were the essence of her character.

Her sense of life was like that of uncorrupted children: Children who love life and are alive to its beauty and wonders, but with a grown-up’s ability to differentiate between substance and illusion, between genuine and contrived.

Nor did I know that it was her benevolent sense of life that would inspire her to take photographs of the beauty that nature provides just for the looking or that men and women create when they share that sense of life. Read More »

THERE’S only one good thing about tyranny: Resisting it.

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AT ITS BEST, naiveté, or the quality of being naive, is a trusting innocence and simplicity.

At its worst, it is hubris and willful stupidity.

Americans suffer from the worst kind of naiveté. Many of them believe others are just as empathetic and altruistic as they are. This is a comforting fantasy. A significant minority of people possess little empathy and high levels of competitive aggressiveness even though they may be outwardly friendly and charming. We live in an intensely competitive world and personalities that want to win at any cost and dominate at any cost are much more common than in the past.

Almost everyone in America is in an abusive relationship with psychopathic manipulators in government. I’m not fond of the terminology of the psychology industry, but it describes what we are seeing and experiencing. One of the fundamentals of these relationships, psychologists often say, is that the abused consent to being manipulated and are often so emotionally drained they can’t protect themselves. Why do they consent? They are naive, too trusting and do not understand the art of manipulation.

In personal lives, the same is often true.

In his book In Sheep’s Clothing: Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People, George K. Simon contends that because they are steeped in the psychotherapeutic belief that disturbed people are psychologically “wounded” from childhood trauma, Americans often do not understand aggressive and manipulative personalities, especially covert manipulators.

Simon’s makes good points: Read More »

KATHERINE writes:

I’m just a little old widow woman on Social Security, but I’m doing what I can! Earlier in the week I went to the Kroger’s grocery store in Portsmouth. The store now has an armed guard inside the entrance. As I entered, maskless, he approached me.  I stared right at him and continued walking. He backed away. Then I went to the Fresh Market, an upscale grocery store in Ghent, Norfolk.  It’s the only place where I can find decaf whole coffee beans. As I checked out, unmasked of course, the young, blond cashier asked me if I was not wearing a mask because I was vaccinated. I said I will never get the shot and I am unable to wear a mask.  Her response astounded me: “Good for you!  Don’t let anyone intimidate you!  These masks are stupid.  The whole thing is stupid.” She said that she has asthma and the masks aggravate her condition.

I went birding Saturday in the Great Dismal Swamp. Usually this time of the year I would go with a birding group looking for all the lovely Warblers. But I went alone, as the group declared that masks had to be worn and social distancing observed, in the swamp!!!  There’s even a sign that says masks are required while in the Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge.  It has a picture of a black bear wearing a mask. Read More »

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YAHOO reports (my comments in italics):

Police officers were among the first front-line workers to gain priority access to coronavirus vaccines. But their vaccination rates are lower than or about the same as those of the general public, according to data made available by some of the nation’s largest law enforcement agencies.

Police have a greater understanding of criminal minds. They would naturally decline. They don’t easily fall for this “priority access” gimmick. 

The reluctance of police to get the shots threatens not just their own health but the safety of people they’re responsible for guarding, monitoring and patrolling, experts say.

The refusal of the police to take an experimental drug is common sense. Their example may protect others. Read More »

A FRIEND recently told me something I’d like to share with you.

She knows a young man who has Down Syndrome. Whenever this man is forced to wear a face mask, as so many disabled adults are, he believes he cannot see or hear. He acts as if he cannot see or hear when he has a mask on — and no one can convince him otherwise.

This man knows something that people far more intelligent and capable do not know.

He knows the head is a functioning whole and our senses are interconnected. He has an intuitive grasp of the amazing complexity of our faces. You cannot cut off the nose and mouth from the face and expect it to function normally.

He knows that a mask is a radical thing, a challenge to his existence. He knows that he cannot be expected to adjust. His mind and body are one.

It is sad to think of this man, and so many like him, some with touching meekness and submission, trying to live in this dehumanizing world. They often read faces. Many of them need faces. But at the same time, his reaction to something so unnatural is reassuring and uplifting even.

God has generously given us beings who are incompetent by normal standards. They help us see and experience life in its simplicity and profundity. Their wisdom is necessary to us. In a way, we cannot see or hear without it. Read More »

SUDDEN deaths, seizures, blood clots, a cancer diagnosis, bizarre and horrifying skin conditions  — the fallout from the COVID shots continues.

So far the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, known to be an undercount, includes some 3,800 deaths and 119,000 injuries.

A 149-page document includes hundreds of examples taken from news and government sources. None of the families of these victims will receive any kind of compensation from pharmaceutical companies that are making billions every week from the shots.

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PROPAGANDA outlets are already sending out signals of what is in store for the months ahead.

From Christians for Truth:

They are warning doctors about what they can expect to see from so-called “Long COVID” in the next 6 months — “respiratory conditions, diseases of the nervous system, mental-health diagnoses, metabolic disorders, cardiovascular and gastrointestinal conditions, and poor general well-being.”

Clearly, the real purpose of this study is to pre-emptively blame these diseases and deaths on the dubious COVID virus itself — not the “safe and effective” mRNA vaccines.

These mRNA vaccines act like ticking time bombs — with a delayed fuse — which was discussed in detail on a recent Alex Jones show — yes, sometimes when Alex takes a break for shilling for Israel and the Mossad, he provides some good content:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/9Qb6OhTrc7Pc/

Michale Yeadon,  Pfizer’s former Vice President and Chief Scientist for Allergy & Respiratory who spent 32 years in the industry, recently made similar predictions, as have many others. Read More »

CHRISTIAN Elliot’s article has been widely circulated on social media, but here it is for those who have not read it.

Highly recommended.

A REPORT from Alberta and some interesting information below from Ontario, where we have been told in recent weeks of such alarming spikes that the military is being deployed. Where there are many (faulty) tests, there are many cases. The “casedemic” is as plain as day, but there is no pandemic at this time in Ontario:

FROM The Anti-New York Times:

Let me see if I got this straight — After 16 months, the mega-densely-populated cities of India — which heretofore had experienced only a fraction of the “cases” and “deaths” that the United States had suffered [both in number and per capita (here)] — have just now, all-of-a-sudden, without explanation, become the overnight “epicenters” ™ of Stupid 19? India’s numbers had been so low that a BBC headline from just this past November — citing baffled “scientists” — asked:

* Coronavirus: Are Indians More Immune to Covid-19?
“India’s case fatality rate or CFR, which measures deaths among Covid-19 patients, is less than 2%, which is among the lowest in the world.” (here)

I reckon this nasty little pathogen is like your foodie reporter here in some ways. You see, for decades, I would never even think of trying Indian food. Too exotic and “different” from my Italian-Irish-American cravings for various pasta dishes, chicken parm, meatballs — or even just good old American hot dogs & hamburgers. It was only in recent years that I discovered the Indian culinary wonders of Butter Chicken, Tika Masala, Onion Nan bread — and Rasmali for dessert. Yummm! And these North Indian specialties aren’t too spicy either. You really ought to try them.

So, perhaps the heretofore European-American “coronavirus” just had a similar mid-life epiphany and suddenly developed an appetite for the bronchial cells of Indian folks in its older years?

Just last week, a well-known actor in India said he was on the streets with beggars and there was no crisis. I guess Corona has no taste for the poor, especially those who are not anti-social distancing. The same thing is true in this country. Corona has largely shunned the homeless and densely-packed prisons, where people should have been dropping like fleas if it was as contagious as they say.

Stay calm. Surely there will be troops on the streets of India, inoculating those all-too-healthy beggars, any day now.

We are all unpaid actors in a non-stop pharmaceutical commercial.

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IN 2009, the main manufacturer of COVID vaccines paid the largest pharmaceutical civil fraud settlement and the highest criminal fine “of any kind ever.”

Pfizer agreed to pay $2.3 billion after the federal government charged it with illegally marketing the drug Bextra as a painkiller. From The New York Times on Sept. 2, 2009:

Bextra was approved in 2001 by the Food and Drug Administration to treat arthritis and menstrual cramps. The drug was not approved for the treatment of acute pain, nor was it shown to be any more powerful than ibuprofen. But Pfizer instructed its sales representatives to tell doctors that the drug could be used to treat acute and surgical pain and at doses well above those approved, even though the drug’s dangers which included kidney, skin and heart risks increased with the dose, the government charged. The drug was withdrawn in 2005 because of its risks to the heart and skin. Read More »

AN INTERESTING interview with Dr. Henry Ealy:

“Dr. Henry Ealy and his team started looking at CDC data on COVID-19 cases and fatalities in mid-March 2020, quickly realizing the agency was vastly exaggerating fatalities

“Over-reporting of fatalities was enabled by a March 2020 change in how cause of death is reported on death certificates. Rather than listing COVID-19 as a contributing cause in cases where people died from other underlying conditions, it was to be listed as the primary cause

“As of August 23, 2020, the CDC reported 161,392 fatalities caused by COVID-19. Had the long-standing, original guidelines for death reporting been used, there would have only been 9,684 total fatalities due to COVID-19

“The CDC violated federal law, as the Paperwork Reduction Act requires data collection and publication to be overseen by the Office of Management and Budget. Proposed changes must be published in the Federal Register and be open to public comment. None of these transparency rules were followed.”

“MODERN-day culture has changed dramatically since the theory of Darwinian evolution came on the scene and dominated academics in western culture, so that today the physical world is exalted above all other realities. The spiritual world is either denied or ignored. Hence, creation of physical idols out of basic elements such as wood or metals is very uncommon, because current culture ignores the unseen world that could be represented by such physical manifestations.

“What has replaced those idols, however, are beliefs in new ones. The most common idol in western culture today, by far, is medicine – the new ‘magic.’

“Modern day medicine has existed for a relatively short period of human history, and the creation of a body of licensed ‘physicians’ can be traced back to the start of the vaccine movement in Europe in the 1800s, when health officials wanted more control over the population and what they perceived as threatening diseases like smallpox.

“Today, medicine is seen as the solution to almost all of life’s problems. A pill or vaccine exists now for just about every ailment or problem in life, and for those problems that don’t have a medical solution yet, billions of dollars are spent on research to find one. The belief system currently in place is that physical science and medicine can solve all problems in life.”

— Brian Shilhavey