THE MYSTERY OF VICTORIAN PURPLE DYE

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The Victorian era was one of science and innovation. Cameras, cars, electricity and evolution were heralded in under the reign of Queen Victoria. In the world of Chemistry, Dalton and Faraday were making discoveries in atomic theory and electricity. One of the most famous chemists of this era was William Henry Perkin.

In 1856, an 18-year-old William Perkin, Hofmann’s assistant at the Royal College of Chemistry, was tasked to create a chemical synthesis of quinine. Quinine is found in tonic water and used as an anti-malarial. Perkin made several attempts at the synthesis over the Easter vacation in his home laboratory, using coal tar as a source of aniline. Oxidizing the aniline with potassium dichromate gave a black sludge which didn’t contain aniline: it contained something far more exciting. Perkin noticed whilst cleaning out a flask with ethanol that a purple solution had formed – an observation which led to Perkin becoming one of the most celebrated chemists of the Victorian era.

William Henry Perkin

The purple substance – initially named aniline purple – was one of the world’s first synthetic dyes: mauveine. Mauveine’s significance as a dye is its elusive colour. Throughout history, purple clothes have been worn almost exclusively by the richest in society due to the expense of creating purple dyes. Phoenician dye, known as ‘Purple of the Ancients’, is a famous example made from predatory sea snails.

Perkin was encouraged by his family to test the purple substance for colouring clothes. A sample was sent to Messrs Pullar of Perth who gave their approval. Finding success, he quickly patented the method. He set up a factory with his brother, funded by his father. In doing so, he brought purple to the Victorian mass market.

Purple became the height of fashion in Paris and London in the late 1850s to early 1860s, and the frenzy over mauve became known as ‘mauveine measles’. Even Queen Victoria was not exempt from the excitement, appearing in 1862 at the International Exhibition wearing a silk dress colored by mauveine. Wife of Napoleon III, Empress Eugenie wore mauveine-dyed dresses to stat functions.

Piece of silk dyed by Sir William Henry Perkin in 1860

But within this story there lurks a curious mystery. Closer inspection of Perkin’s synthesis method reveals that he may have been hiding something. There are eight bottles of mauvine alleged to have been made by Perkin left in the whole world, spread across six museums in four cities: London, Manchester, Bradford and New York. Museum-stored mauveine was tested in the 1990s and is rich in two main components – the chromophores of mauveine known as mauveine A and mauveine B.

Dr. John Plater at the University of Aberdeen repeated Perkin’s synthesis as it was written in the original patent, and here’s where the curiosity begins. The synthesis produces not two chromophores of mauveine, but four: A, B, B2 and C.

John Plater obtained his BSc in Chemistry from Loughborough University in 1986 and his PhD in heterocyclic synthesis from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in 1989. He was awarded his DSc from The University of Aberdeen in 2009 where he is currently Senior Lecturer.

Did Perkin miss something out when he patented his method? Or are the samples in these museums not genuine Perkin’s mauveine? To solve this mystery, Dr. Plater began investigating the synthesis of mauveine. Perkin’s starting material was aniline extracted from coal tar, and later made commercially from coal-tar, which would also have contained two impurities, ortho- and para-toluidine, which have a similar chemical structure to aniline.

A bottle of original William Henry Perkin (WHP) mauveine from the WHP factory in Greenford.


Dr. Plater’s attempts to make mauveine from different combinations of aniline and toluidines were always unsuccessful – he never managed to create a product with only the A and B chromophores. Every synthesis created four chromophores of mauveine. Removing the B2 and C chromophores was also impossible.

In the search for more information, Dr. Plater was given access to analyze three samples of Perkin’s mauveine. These samples were stored in museums: one in Manchester, Bradford, and the other in Sudbury, the London borough where Perkin built both his family home and his factory. One sample is accompanied with a letter, addressed to Prof Henry Armstrong Fellow of the Royal Society, from William Henry Perkin’s son, Frederick Mollwo Perkin. The ‘Mollwo’ letter, as it is now known, provides evidence that the museum-stored mauveine samples are from Perkin’s factory.

An example of a Victorian mauveine dyed silk dress, Science Museum London.

Dr Plater used liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) to identify the chromophores present in these mauveine samples. In LC-MS, liquid chromatography is used to separate compounds by running them along a long column filled with reverse phase silica gel. The different chromophores reach the end of the column at different times. Mass spectrometry can then be used to identify the structure of each chromophore from its molecular mass and the way it fragments. This revealed that the Bradford and Sudbury mauveines, like the Manchester mauveine, are highly rich in mauveine A and B.

Museum-stored mauveines match each other in their compositions, and the Mollwo letter provides evidence that the samples originate from Perkin. However, the synthesis described by Perkin doesn’t produce mauveine with the correct composition. Dr. Plater deduces from this that Perkin actually used a different synthesis method from the one he said he used.

Perkin’s mauve was used to colour 6d postage stamps from 1867-1880.

A final clue in this mystery comes from six pence stamps. Victorian postage stamps printed using mauveine dyes are available to purchase online. Dr. Plater analyzed the mauveine in 15 six pence stamps using LC-MS. Each stamp had a slightly different composition, generally of all four chromophores. A fluctuating composition of mauveine provides further evidence that the method for synthesizing mauveine changed over time. Dr. Plater believes that his method is actually more similar than the method in Perkins patent to the method actually used by Perkin.

Purple became the height of fashion in Paris and London in the late 1850s to early 1860s, and the frenzy over mauve became known as ‘mauveine measles’.


One question remains: why would Perkin patent one method for making mauveine, but use another? An answer may be to do with the yield of product. Dr. Plater notes that mauveine is actually very difficult to make. The yields are low – about 1 per cent. The method proposed by Dr. Plater increases the yield to about five per cent. Perkin discovered this synthesis by accident, but clearly understood the chemistry well enough to understand the need for research and development.

But there may be another answer to this question. In a lecture in 1896, Perkin revealed his concerns about his competition: other manufacturers of mauveine were using copper chloride as an oxidizing agent in place of Perkin’s potassium dichromate. Dr. Plater has strong evidence now that Perkin never revealed his true method. Perkin may well have done this intentionally: as the demand for synthetic dyes grew, Perkin wanted to avoid his competition getting hold of his secrets.

Perkin was the first person to mass produce a synthetic dye, but this research uncovers a new aspect to Perkin’s achievements. Analysis of mauveine stored in museums, Victorian stamps, and Perkin’s original patent provides evidence that Perkin iterated and improved his method of making his dye, making him one of the first chemists to realize the value of research and development. Because Perkin never revealed his true method, we may never know how he did it – but with Dr. Plater’s research we are one step closer to the truth.

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  1. Morning All!
    very interesting! would you call him a fraud? patenting a process that doesn’t yield the stated result?
    i understand the need for protecting his process–but patenting is supposed to do that, no? if you can’t replicate the results, how can you patent the process? doesn’t someone “check” that before issuing the patent? I am confused.
    oh, i know… I need coffee…LOL

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    1. IDK the first thing about patents! But remember….this was “waaaay back when….” LOL – oh, and good morning! Down to 25 this morning and snow on the way, supposedly. At least I know it won’t stick around for long…..hopefully anyway!

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      1. Morning!
        we got another 3 inches last night. i gotta shovel off the deck and the dish, but there are 4 deer laying in the snow just beyond the deck and I don’t want to disturb them at the moment.

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  3. Good morning, Pat and Filly!

    Thanks for the most interesting post. In doing watercolors, purple is the hardest color for me to paint. My violet paintings were always duller than I wanted them to be.

    Your post about the development of purple dye brought this poem to mind:

    Grandpa Dropped His Glasses by Leroy F. Jackson

    Grandpa dropped his glasses once
    In a pot of dye,
    And when he put them on again
    He saw a purple sky.
    Purple fires were rising up
    From a purple hill,
    Men were grinding purple cider
    at a purple mill.
    Purple Adeline was playing
    With a purple doll;
    Little purple dragon flies
    Were crawling up the wall.
    And at the supper-table
    He got crazy as a loon
    From eating purple apple dumplings
    With a purple spoon.

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    1. Frankly, it was no scoop for many of us – we’d seen it all before anyway! He is being HIGHLY disingenuous!!! We knew it all, you can bet your bottom $$$’s that he did, too!

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        1. Good morning! ☀️
          Perhaps the important aspect of the Tucker coverage of Jan6 is that it presents a side of the story that has been systematically stifled and embargoed by corporate media in service of the lies promulgated by the Jan6 committee (kangaroo court). Of course we knew it was a pack of lies. We weren’t the ones needing convincing. The “normies” are the ones that are desperately in need of truth. Till now the truth has been effectively denied them by the combined work of politicians and corporate media.

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      1. i think i read there are thousands of hours of footage showing nothing–empty rooms/hallways. but you still HAVE to watch those to make sure you don’t miss anything…

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  15. TheseTruths(@thesetruths)Offline
    Wolf
    March 7, 2023 01:48

    Prominent DC Lawyer Who Served in Clinton Administration Killed After Business Jet Hit Severe Turbulence

    A prominent DC lawyer who served in the Clinton and Obama Administrations was killed when a private jet she was aboard hit bad turbulence while flying over New England.

    The business jet carrying five passengers made an emergency landing at Bradley International Airport in Connecticut on Friday after encountering heavy turbulence.

    Dana Hyde, 55, was rushed by ambulance to a hospital in Hartford, Connecticut on Friday where she was pronounced dead.

    Hyde also served as a lawyer on the 9/11 commission.

    There is no explanation of what caused her death. The plane didn’t crash. She needed medical attention after the plane hit turbulence. Jab? Something more “personal”?

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    1. Turbulence can hit with little warning. Big passenger jets can be badly buffeted, executive jets more so. She may not have been belted in. Broken neck?

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      1. really?
        the only one on the plane who wasn’t belted in?
        i think hitlery is flexing her wings…she’s getting bored with 2 shots-to-the-back-of-the head suicides.

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          1. Bill, Bill, Bill…hitlery IS the dog in that equation. hell she’s the dog in EVERY equation…LOL
            you’ve seen her…

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  17. SOROS PASSED AWAY?????????

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      1. Granted, this is Yahoo but….”Thomson Reuters thinks the 82-year-old billionaire philanthropist George Soros is dead. At 5:41 p.m. Eastern on Thursday afternoon, the 162-year-old news agency accidentally published reporter Todd Eastham’s prewritten obituary for Soros, complete with dummy text for the place and time of his future death:

        (Reuters) – George Soros, who died XXX at age XXX, was a predatory and hugely successful financier and investor, who argued paradoxically for years against the same sort of free-wheeling capitalism that made him billions.”
        —————–
        According to a spokesman who spoke with our brothers at Quartz, Soros is, in fact, alive.”

        https://news.yahoo.com/reuters-killed-george-soros-232307125.html

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        1. oh THAT’S where all this is coming from! plus the fact that they lost track of him sometime over the weekend.

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  18. Citizen 817
    March 7, 2023 12:25 am

    @realDonaldTrump

    17h
    Ron DeSanctus voted THREE TIMES to cut and destroy Social Security, and increase the age requirement to at least 70. LIKEWISE, he voted to radically CUT MEDICARE. He is a disciple of RINO Paul Ryan, what do you expect?

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    1. you gotta wonder if the cartels are involved in pressuring gov’t officials to do this shit. everyone moves out of CA, they can finally claim the state for themselves…

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  22. yup…interesting. now we have the rhonda vs Trump stuff, the train derailments and ukraine to distract us from …

    j x
    j x
    March 7, 2023 7:15 am

    Notice how Biden’s possession of stolen documents has been memory holed?

    Notice how a Pfizer executive stating they perform gain of function on virus to turn them into a “cash cow” has been memory holed?

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  23. Trump asks a question…the answer is enlightening (at Diamond’s funeral)
    FTA

    At around the 3 hour and 50 minute mark the President reveals to the attendees that he always felt ignorant with regard to how to address the Black community.

    “I always used to ask — what do you like better — African American?… Black? You know there are many different terms. They said “We like Black” — because I was always saying “African American.”

    Upon hearing this revelation, I could not help but admire his willingness to admit that he didn’t know, as well having the humility to ask. I’d never heard a politician ask before. This is what sets Donald Trump apart from politicians. He is not a politician. He has offered himself to Americans as a man of the people, and in keeping with that persona, he admitted that he just didn’t know. And how could he know? After all, in over a rather condensed period of time, we’d gone from “Colored” to “Negro” to “Black” to “African American.” I’d be confused too if I weren’t Black.

    snip

    I applaud President Trump for admitting that he needed to ask because he wasn’t sure. It was refreshing. He also admitted to pondering if he should shed tears at the funeral if he felt it welling up in his spirit. But he concluded that the media would have a field day with it. What this tells me was that crying may have indeed been in his spirit after the death of Diamond, and perhaps he may have done so in private.

    The more I see of President Trump, the more evident it becomes that he is not a manufactured automaton telling the people what they want to hear, and doing otherwise. He has profound moments of humility. He is listening to us. He seeks to execute change. He seeks to understand, and not render himself foolish or self-absorbed.

    Thank you for asking, Mr. President. We prefer Black.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/03/thank_you_for_asking_mr_president.html

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    1. That pretty much nails the man – he is GENUINE, not fake except when he INTENDS to be to bamboozle his enemies. Genius with a kind, soft heart. Of all the things he has done for the black community overall, the main thing that always stuck out to me was him hiring the first black female construction foreman. Waaaaay back when he was just a beginner in the construction business. IDT there is a prejudiced bone in his body – all he cares about is character and what you can do, not what you can say. He’s a “prove it” kind of person, as am I!

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  24. rules for one, not the other
    entire article
    What do we call people who don’t pay the help?

    Well, in the past, they were known as plantation owners, or slave-holders, a hot topic for wokester leftists.

    Nowadays, just say “Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.”

    She’s got quite a track record of not paying the help based on her appearance at the Met Gala last year, according to revelations from the congressional ethics investigation on her.

    She not only took “gifts” (really big gifts, which started with the $35,000 price of the ticket), but failed to pay in any timely manner the staff who fluffed her up in her famous “Tax the Rich” gown that got her so much fawning publicity.

    According to TMZ:

    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delayed making payments in regards to her Met Gala appearance two years ago — this according to the findings of an ethics investigation.

    The NY congresswoman has been at the center of a Capitol Hill probe for about a year, and this week … the results were released. According to the fact-finders, it looks like AOC and/or her staff were quite slow in paying people back … to the tune of thousands of dollars.

    The House Ethics Committee came down hard in their report, saying they have “substantial reason” to believe Rep. Ocasio-Cortez might have violated ethics rules for members of Congress, and maybe even broken federal laws pertaining to gifts and perks she received at the time of the Gala, when she walked the red carpet in a loud “Tax the Rich” dress.

    According to them, it’s unclear if AOC was ever going to pay people back for the dress, the makeup services, the hotel costs, the accessories, or anything else she received as part of her appearance … and they go on to claim that the launch of this investigation seems to have spurred her and her staff to act. AOC has since paid off the tab … about $7,700 all told.

    This is an amazingly crummy way of treating tradespeople, who no doubt gave their all to make Ocasio-Cortez look like a million bucks for the other Beautiful People at that Vogue-sponsored gala. Ocasio-Cortez makes a six-figure congressional salary, so we know she had the means to pay. She just didn’t want to, and had there not been a congressional ethics investigation, she might not have.

    Most of these people who went unpaid for months weren’t high-paid workers, as Nicole Gelinas wrote in her excellent description of the scandal for the New York Post.

    It costs money to be a Kardashian-level celebrity: transportation, dress, hair, makeup, hotel room, manicure, shoes, handbag, jewels, boyfriend accessories.

    As AOC’s lawyer assured Congressional ethics officials just after the gala, “the Congresswoman is paying personally for all other benefits including the rental value of her dress, handbag, and accessories, … shoes …, hair and makeup, transportation, and … hotel room … for staging.”

    Oh, no! What to do? Just … don’t pay for these things, and hope no one notices.

    How? The fashion industry is famously exploitative. Struggling designers need exposure, and work for cheap to get it.

    So AOC got herself a haute couture dress – consultation, design, fittings, materials, and day-of styling, likely well above a ten-thousand-dollar value – from a Brooklyn designer for a billed cost of a $1,300 “rental.”

    Good deal! But did she pay the $1,300? No. Her campaign staff called the designer to talk the price down to $300. That’s how much AOC values weeks worth of labor.

    Then she delayed, by months, the paying of the staffers who gussied her up — the gown “rental,” the shoe “rental,” (Gelinas points out that these were questionable classifications), as well as the hairdo, the makeup, the car service, the hotel service, the boyfriend’s accessories. Only the manicurist got paid promptly because she demanded payment in cash up front. (It makes one wonder if she’s been burned in the past by people like AOC.) The others got paid only after the congressional investigation got going. According to Gelinas, “the makeup artist sent the bill to a collection agency, which said it was ‘EXTREMELY overdue.'” The hairdresser threatened to call the New York Department of Labor to make a complaint over the $477.73 bill.

    Apparently, only the congressional ethics investigation actually motivated her to cough up.

    Ocasio-Cortez preened around like a celeb because in her mind she was a celeb, and stiffing the little guys who do these things is what celebrities often do. The little guys in that industry are forced to take it because the celeb’s custom is “exposure” for them, but it usually doesn’t work out that way, and even if it did, they still need to be paid. It’s one of Hollywood’s crappiest games, and Ocasio-Cortez leaped in to embrace it with gusto.

    That left a lot of people waiting for a paycheck after performing their services, something that wouldn’t be tolerated in the restaurant industry or at hotels if the clients were ordinary people. One set of laws for them…

    Ocasio-Cortez, however, is a pol, and politicians are subject to more ethics rules on gifts than ordinary people, which makes her omission twice as egregious. Pols know the rules and are very careful to follow them, but Ocasio-Cortez flouted them with alacrity.

    She not only flouted the pay-the-help practice, but actually solicited the tickets to the event and then spent weeks with staffers attempting to make it on the up-and-up, not an illegal campaign gift, finally settling for AOC’s tickets not being from Vogue (whose parent company has a Washington lobbyist, making it subject to ethics rules on gifts), but from Devil-Wears-Prada editor Anna Wintour, who must consider AOC a very good friend indeed to be handing her two free $35,000 tickets to her gala.

    Of course, it has the look of cash for favors. But like the unpaid help, it’s of little concern to AOC. Laws are for little people. Socialist celebrities are different. That’s what AOC demonstrated here. Who knew that AOC would have so much in common with Leona Helmsley?

    TMZ says that Congress gave AOC a pass on the tickets/gift violation, while AOC’s induced payment of the help got her off the hook otherwise. Haven’t congressional investigators sent less tony congressmen to jail for less? Think of Rep. Duncan Hunter, who spent campaign cash on trips to Italy. He’s out of office for that. Why isn’t she?

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/03/alexandria_ocasiocortez_hadnt_been_paying_the_help.html

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  25. true, by canceling student debt you can’t ask those receiving the benefit to return their degrees if in fact, they quit school. why reward failure?
    entire article
    I am vehemently opposed to Joe Biden’s illegal assumption of the power to force taxpayers to assume the burden of student loan repayments on college tuition obligations voluntarily entered into. It’s wrong constitutionally, and it’s wrong morally to force other people to pay for services to others that only a minority receive.

    Besides, higher education has devolved into a brainwashing arm of the hard left and has lost all claim to be a general public benefit. The education cartel has abused the public, with tuition escalating at three times the rate of general inflation for about half a century now, financing useless, expensive, and counterproductive administrative bureaucracies that now equal or outnumber teaching faculty at many institutions.

    But David Catron at American Spectator today raises a terrific point that I have never heard mentioned before, one that should trouble even those who do not share my critique: why should college dropouts be rewarded for their failure to complete the degrees to which they aspired?

    Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Neil Gorsuch did note that it would provide benefits to certain favored persons while ignoring the very real costs it would impose on others, but no one mentioned a fact that will gall most taxpayers — it would cancel student loans for college dropouts.

    Remarkably, the Biden administration and most Democrats see this as a selling point for the plan. The White House fact sheet puts it as follows: “Nearly one-third of borrowers have debt but no degree, according to an analysis by the Department of Education of a recent cohort of undergraduates.” The Democrats justify canceling these loans because tuition costs have risen, ignoring evidence that the loans have driven that increase. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) claims: “Up to 4 in 10 people with student loan debt weren’t able to graduate, many because of high costs. … Canceling student loan debt would change their lives.”

    The problem is that the $400 billion program would also “change the lives” of millions of Americans for the worse. How? It will raise the stealth tax known as inflation. As former Clinton Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers put it when Biden announced the scheme: “Student loan debt relief is spending that raises demand and increases inflation. It consumes resources that could be better used helping those who did not, for whatever reason, have the chance to attend college.” It is also unfair to students who finished their degrees and paid off their loans.

    To be fair, subsidizing failure is a primary feature of the welfare state. And anything that you subsidize, you tend to get more of. See single parent homes.

    It’s bad enough asking people who didn’t go to college to pay for those who did. But it is far worse to subsidize those who didn’t follow through and complete the programs they started. They have given up. Why should quitters be subsidized? Advocates need to be pestered with this question, for there is no good answer.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/03/a_great_question_nobody_is_asking_about_bidens_student_loan_giveaway_plan.html

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  26. “The Room None Dare Enter — Even Alt Media Can’t Handle the Truth”

    Jimychanga
    6 hr ago

    “History will show that China was only a secondary player. The genocidal and lucrative design and game plan came right from the DOD and the University of Chapel Hill. Now THAT is the part that most independent media won’t touch with a 10 foot pole: The Department of Energy and even the Republicans in Congress working so that you don’t see what there is to see.

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  28. “BIG Update on Q Anon Shaman Case After Tucker Airs Bombshell Video of Capitol Police Escort”

    “My client, Jake Chansley, was a big part of Tucker’s first big rollout of video tonight. There is a story beyond just the fact that the Govt had video Jake’s attorney never looked at.”
    Kyle Becker
    23 min ago

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “There are new legal developments being reported in the case of Jacob Chansley, aka the QAnon Shaman, following a bombshell video aired on Tucker Carlson Tonight on Monday. Tucker Carlson aired the never-before-seen January 6 video showing Chansley was escorted through the Capitol building by police when he was in the building.

    A former federal prosecutor representing J6 clients revealed that Chansley very well may be released from custody soon. “My client, Jake Chansley, was a big part of Tucker’s first big rollout of video tonight,” said his attorney on Twitter. “There is a story beyond just the fact that the Govt had video Jake’s attorney never looked at. Jake is set to be released from custody soon.”

    “He’s going to tell his story,” the lawyer continued. “But Jake has also committed himself to helping me raise money so I can get into cases for J6 defendants earlier than I was able to get into his. I’ve spend 20 or more hours talking to Jake by phone.” “He’s a very interesting young man and I look forward to meeting him in person,” he added. “It is quite fortuitous that these videos are coming out around the same time as he might first be able to address them himself.”

    “This is the way I’m able to help Jake — I’ve never asked him for a singe dollar [sic] — and other J6 defendants,” he said while posting a GiveSendGo link. “Generous contributors are helping them.”

    Tucker in his segment pointed out that Chansley had been described as a “dangerous conspiracy theorist dressed in outlandish costume who led the violent insurrection to overthrow American democracy for these crimes.” “Chansley was sentenced to nearly four years in prison,” he added. “Far more time than many violent criminals now receive.” “What did Jacob Chanley do to receive this punishment?” he continued. “To this day, there is dispute over how Chanley got into the Capitol building, but according to our review of the internal surveillance video, it is very clear what happened once he got inside.”

    “Virtually every moment of his time inside the Capitol was caught on tape. The tape show that Capitol Police never stopped Jacob Chansley. They helped him. They acted as his tour guides.” “Here’s video of Chanley in the Senate Chamber,” he went on. “Capitol Police officers take him to multiple entrances and even try to open locked doors for him. We counted at least nine officers who were within touching distance of unarmed Jacob Chanley. Not one of them even tried to slow him down. Chanley understood that Capitol Police were his allies. Video shows him giving thanks for them in a prayer on the floor of the Senate.” Watch:

    This January 6 video, and the 44,000 other hours of footage like it, undoubtedly contains a plethora of exculpatory evidence for J6 political prisoners. In an update, the J6 prisoners attorney under the Twitter handle ‘shipwreckedcrew’ provided more information about how this footage may have been kept from the defense in several cases.

    “Re Tucker and videos. One very important clarification. Yes, DOJ made a database of videos available to defense attorneys in filed cases. BUT … DOJ could only put into the database what Congress gave DOJ,” he wrote. ”If Congress/Pelosi held back video then DOJ would not have it to put in the database,” he continued. “All videos from body worn cameras of USCP and CCTV are the property of Congress, not DOJ.”

    “That is a separation of powers issue,” he added. “Whether DOJ was obligated by Brady to get videos from Congress was litigated, and Judges held that DOJ didn’t have any way to force Congress to produce videos it didn’t want to produce, even if they were Brady material.” “Regardless of what media members say, it is not possible to say definitively right now that defense attorneys did — in fact — have all the videos that Tucker/Fox is showing,” he went on. “McCarthy says he gave Fox everything. That might include videos not given to DOJ by Pelosi/Cong. Dems.”

    Indeed, Judicial Watch sued to have the videos released in early 2022, because the Pelosi-led Congress was claiming sovereign immunity to keep them from the public. “Judicial Watch announced that it filed an opposition to the U.S. Capitol Police’s (USCP) effort to shut down Judicial Watch’s federal lawsuit for January 6 videos and emails,” the legal watchdog group announced. “Through its police department, Congress argues that the videos and emails are not public records, there is no public interest in their release, and that “sovereign immunity” prevents citizens from suing for their release.”

    Now we know why Pelosi and the partisan J6 committee wanted to keep the videos secret. It wasn’t because of national security concerns. It was because full transparency would deal a tremendous blow to the Democrats’ J6 “insurrection” narrative.

    In summary, the Feds knowingly let extremists carry out a riot to smear peaceful Trump supporters as violent insurrectionists. This was a deliberate fed op to sabotage election objections and to stop Trump from ever running for president again. The gaslighting is over. There needs to be hell to pay for the partisan J6 committee that misled Americans to cover up a fed op to frame Trump supporters for an ‘insurrection.’”

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  29. Lydia in the Bible, a Christian friend of the Apostle Paul, was a seller of purple dye and cloth:

    Lydia’s story is told in Acts 16:13-15, 40.

    Key Verses
    Acts 16:15
    When she and the members of her household were baptized, she invited us to her home. “If you consider me a believer in the Lord,” she said, “come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us. ( NIV)
    Acts 16:40
    After Paul and Silas came out of the prison, they went to Lydia’s house, where they met with the brothers and sisters and encouraged them. Then they left. (NIV)

    https://www.learnreligions.com/lydia-in-the-bible-4150413

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  30. “What the WHO Is Actually Proposing” — Full text, by Dr. David Bell, published by Brownstone and the Epoch Times

    Meryl Nass
    36 min ago

    EXCERPT: “The World Health Organization (WHO) is currently developing two international legal instruments intended to increase its authority in managing health emergencies, including pandemics;

    (1) Amendments to the 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR), and
    (2) A pandemic treaty, termed ‘ÇA+’ by the WHO.

    The draft IHR amendments would lay out new powers for the WHO during health emergencies, and broaden the context within which they can be used. The draft CA+ (‘treaty’) is intended to support the bureaucracy, financing and governance to underpin the expanded IHR.

    These proposed instruments, as currently drafted, would fundamentally change the relationship between the WHO, its Member States and naturally their populations, promoting a fascist and neo-colonialist approach to healthcare and governance. The documents need to be viewed together, and in the far wider context of the global/globalist pandemic preparedness agenda.”

    https://brownstone.org/articles/what-the-who-is-actually-proposing/

    https://merylnass.substack.com/p/what-the-who-is-actually-proposing

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  32. back in from round 1 of shoveling…what’s on the deck was powdery. so with the high winds, every shovelful practically blew right back in my face…lol.
    nothing is off the roof yet so there s another round of shoveling coming.
    hubby said we can expect 3 more inches by Friday.

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    1. They have lowered our totals, thankfully – now I am in the 1-3″ range, which is nothing since it won’t last long. Back up above freezing during the day next week and most nights as well. But I’m not fooled….been there, done that! No sirree Bob! I’ll wait before I get too excited about ANYTHING! LOL

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  36. very interesting point!!

    Gail Combs
    Gail Combs(@gailcombs)Online
    Coyote
    March 7, 2023 09:11

    I watched an interview of the writer of this article:
    Blockchain, Good. Blockchain Voting, Bad.
    I will not bother to link because the interviewer puts Sean Hannity to shame. I find her Very very very annoying because she monopolizes the conversation. I have watch three of her videos.

    WHat occurred to me when the current voting system was discussed, is that Mail in Voting not only REMOVES chain of custody but it also REMOVES ANONYMITY!

    The envelope is supposed to have your signature that is to be check by a human, AND THEN THAT HUMAN OPENS THAT ENVELOPE AND SEES WHO YOU VOTED FOR!

    All this BS about ‘protecting the anonymity of the voter’ that is brought up in court is just so much happy horse SCHIFF! Mail in voting by its very nature REMOVES that anonymity.

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  39. what are they distracting us from this time?
    we all basically knew what happened on 1/6…so the big release…all the hype…what are they distracting us from THIS TIME?

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    1. EXACTLY! I literally FF’ed thru Tucker, feeling nothing but disgust thru the entire thing! WE knew and HE knew yet….at the same time, when I force myself to take a step back and recall…he HAS brought this up many times and questioned it so…..WTH – we gotta take what wins we can get, right??? We have known all along the entire goal was to wake up the “normies” and he does that, at least. Still the best out there at the moment.

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      1. i honestly think this opener from him was not for US at all. but to wake up people to the fact that they were lied to repeatedly by dems.
        seeing it with their own eyes for the first time.
        i want to see if there’s video evidence of the ashli babbit murder…rosanne boyland’s murder…

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          1. you wanna know what you don’t know yet…while we’re being shown what we already know, hoping for those who do not know to finally see, you know?
            LOL

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    1. i’ve been reading comments about the tapes, and i think i know what they’re going to use to NOT release the prisoners.
      the doj ( according to the brady rule) HAS to turn over any exculpatory evidence to the defendants. however, they (doj) are claiming that congress NEVER gave them all the videos and ARE NOT REQUIRED to do so. so doj proceeded based on what they had.
      “no harm, no foul” for the doj.

      what i don’t understand is how congress CANNOT BE COMPELLED to release the tapes they have.

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      1. Separation of powers between the Congressional Branch, the Legislative Branch and the Executive Branch. That is what they use – this has to be done WITHIN the Congressional Branch. If no-one there has the will and the balls to do it? Then it doesn’t get done, just shuffled once again under the table. That is my read on it – no doubt Jonathan Turley has a much better handle on it. He is the only “legal” mind I subscribe to these days.

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        1. I could understand if this were a private citizen who recorded the event…even then THOSE were subpoenaed weren’t they?
          but this is paid for by TAXPAYER monies and therefore should be available. its not classified…it should be FOIA available!
          they are OUR EMPLOYEES and I for one am damn tired of being treated as dirt.
          everyone on that committee and pelosi et al, should face ethics violations for not providing this evidence to be used at trail.
          hiding evidence should be grounds for removal from office

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          1. At a minimum, removal – again, I fail to see anything but out-and-out treason. As for FOIA, all KINDS of agencies are exempt and certain categories WITHIN agencies are exempt – it only goes so far. All they do is claim “national security” and bingo – hidden! The Legislative Branch is the only way to change that permanently. Again, I’m not a trained expert – this is just what I see.

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      2. Wait, I got that wrong – Congress IS the “Legislative Branch,” DOJ is the “Judicial Branch” and the Office of the President et al is the “Executive Branch.” I think I’ve got that straight now….LOL

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  41. NF: Incredible machine!

    “Of course you recognize this – it’s the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. This subsonic, jet-powered strategic/nuclear bomber was first produced in 1952 and was just approved to continue to fly until 2050. Some key features that make this aircraft stand out are its ability to carry 70,000 pounds of ordinance, its combat range of 8,800 miles without aerial refueling at a maximum speed of 650 miles per hour. The B-52 proved lethal to group troops and targets as well with conventional bombs & cruise missiles in both the Vietnam and Gulf Wars.”

    (The B-52 on it’s very first test flight on April 15, 1952.)


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    1. it’s ALL about control…
      you can default on your student loans…but not your car…
      this is what repo men are paid for.

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  45. “Liability-Free Stock Market Scams: As Pharma Learns to Cheat Right in Our Faces, We’ll Suffer Massive Chronic Iatrogenic Illnesses of Unknown Causes”
    James Lyons-Weiler
    9 min ago

    EXCERPT: “Products that do not perform as advertised, bulk purchases from the US government, product consumption mandated by the government, and harm? What harm? No liability for these non-essential products. Here’s a checklist of the dream-come-true drugs:

    — A pill that reverses erectile dysfunction. That’s old news. Viagra, introduced over 20 years ago as Pfizer’s “little blue pill” ushered in the realization of a “blockbuster” drug.

    So, here’s a new checklist that drug companies would love to have:

    1. A pill that is inexpensive to make
    2. A pill that does not require long-term safety testing.
    3. A pill that does not even have to do what it was designed to do.
    4. A pill that is given Emergency Use Authorization.
    5. A pill that will be purchased in bulk by the US government.

    6. A pill that will be advertised, for free, by the US government and all mainstream (legacy) media outlets.

    7. A pill that they can market and sell with zero liability for adverse events and deaths it might cause in some people.

    8. A pill that appears far safer, and far more effective than it is due to collusion by the US government to warp, control, and enforce public perception on safety and effectiveness.

    9. A pill that everyone knows (or believes) will yield $15-$30 billion in profit.

    10. A pill that only has to work half the time for EUA approval.”

    (11 – 20…..)

    https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/liability-free-stock-market-scams

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  47. just was reading some replies to the tweet claiming ashli babbit was murdered. it is inundated with “she should have complied” replies. a few are trying to ask where and when she was ordered to stop–can it be heard on ANY tape and no one answers. but they all say she should have complied—where were THESE PEOPLE in the mike brown case/ the flloyd case?
    one guys reply says here she is violently breaking down the doors–only on the video there are 2 guys with beards breaking down the doors…
    assholes.

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    1. Yeah, she didn’t break the windows, just trying to climb thru them. No warning was given at ANY point during that episode! And there was so much commotion and yelling, who would have heard it anyway??!!??

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  49. “The American Dream Mall in New Jersey has an escalator to nowhere. It was installed before they decided not to add a fourth floor to the building. You can NOT make this shit up.”



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  50. Old Truck Tuesday:

    Well, not exactly a truck per se…1960 Ford Zephyr Ute, Aussie land…

    NF: Don’t ask! I haven’t a clue! Some kind of harvesting, I presume…”

    “1973 Fargo”

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