Antikythera mechanism: Ancient celestial calculator

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A picture taken at the Archaeological Museum in Athens on September 14, 2014 shows a piece of the Antikythera Mechanism, a second-century B.C. device known as the world’s oldest computer which tracked astronomical phenomena and the cycles of the solar system.(Image credit: LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP via Getty Images)

The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient shoebox-sized device that is sometimes called the world’s oldest computer for its ability to perform astronomical calculations. Discovered by sponge divers off the Greek island of Antikythera in 1901, the remains of the mechanism are now preserved in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. Only 82 fragments, consisting of about one-third of the original mechanism, survive today, It was built around 2,200 years ago.

The mechanism was capable of performing different calculations, and it could help track the motions of the sun, moon and five of the planets; it could even tell when athletic competitions, such as the Olympics, were set to take place, the researchers wrote. Since the discovery of the Antikythera mechanism, scholars have been trying to understand the device. And although they have made considerable progress, many questions remain unanswered. For example, researchers still aren’t sure who made it. The inscriptions on the mechanism are written in Greek.

An engraving illustration of the last hour of Archimedes, the mathematician who died in 212 B.C. or 211 B.C. when the Romans captured Syracuse, Sicily. (Image credit: mikroman6 via Getty Images)

The recovered fragments of the mechanism contained writing and inscriptions, and over the past two decades, scientists have been able to read more of these Greek inscriptions using high-tech imaging methods, such as 3D X-ray scanning. This has enabled them to learn more about how the mechanism worked.

CT scans “revealed inscriptions describing the motions of the sun, moon and all five planets known in antiquity and how they were displayed at the front as an ancient Greek cosmos.” The mechanism used “cycles from Babylonian astronomy, mathematics from Plato’s Academy and ancient Greek astronomical theories.”

More pieces of the Antikythera Mechanism at the Archaeological Museum in Athens.(Image credit: LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Between the front and back of the mechanism were a vast array of gears, designed in such a way that all the dials would depict the correct timing of all the cycles. “Suppose a user of the Antikythera Mechanism wants to check eclipse predictions for a particular month some years ahead. The user winds the mechanism forwards to the desired date, as shown on one of its calendars,” Tony Freeth, a researcher with the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project, wrote in a paper published in 2014 in the journal “PLOS One.”

Though the ship that held the Antikythera mechanism was discovered more than a century ago, the wreck has not been fully excavated. Its location and depth make it hard to excavate. Despite these difficulties a new program of excavation is being carried out by a team of archaeologists and new artifacts continue to be found, shedding light on what the ship, which likely sank around 65 B.C. was like.

Marine archeologists also found a bronze arm from a sculpture in the same shipwreck. Credit: Greek Ministry of Culture

Researchers have noted that many of the artifacts were luxury goods intended for the wealthy. So far, the recent excavations have not uncovered any new remains of the mechanism.

Excavations in 2016 at the Antikythera shipwreck found a nearly intact skull, including the cranial parietal bones. (Image credit: Brett Seymour, EUA/WHOI/ARGO)

Antikythera Mechanism rewrote the history of science

In 2015, Kyriakos Efstathiou, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki said: “All of our research has shown that our ancestors used their deep knowledge of astronomy and technology to construct such mechanisms, and based only on this conclusion, the history of technology should be re-written because it sets its start many centuries back.”

In 2016, yet another astounding discovery was made when an inscription on the device was revealed—something like a label or a user’s manual for the device. It included a discussion of the colors of eclipses, details used at the time in the making of astrological predictions, including the ability to see exact times of eclipses of the moon and the sun, as well as the correct movements of celestial bodies.

A model of the Antikythera Mechanism was made by Derek De Solla Price. Credit: Public Domain

Inscribed numbers 76, 19 and 223 show maker “was a Pythagorean”

On one side of the device lies a handle that begins the movement of the whole system. By turning the handle and rotating the gauges in the front and rear of the mechanism, the user could set a date that would reveal the astronomical phenomena that would potentially occur around the Earth. Physicist Yiannis Bitsakis has said that today the NASA website can detail all the eclipses of the past and those that are to occur in the future. However, “what we do with computers today, was done with the Antikythera Mechanism about 2000 years ago,” he said.

Making this incredible machine even more impressive is the fact that the movements of the planets are directly linked to specific observation sites around the known world at the time, suggesting that the creator of the Antikythera Mechanism had provided for the use of the machine in more than one location.

Bones found at the Antikythera Mechanism shipwreck site

Greece’s Ministry of Culture issued a statement in late 2019 informing the public that ”bones were collected, which now need to be analyzed, (as well as) olive kernels, and bronze nails from the ship as well as a bronze ring, whose use remains unknown.”

Among the findings which were discovered were sections of the bodies of ancient amphorae, as well as the bases and the necks from the main bodies of the vases. The types of amphorae are identified as those which were typically used on the island of Kos and in Southern Italy in ancient times.

The Greek Ministry noted ”this scientific mission of October 2019 completed the first five-year research program. Based on the results of the latest research, preparations for the new five-year program, starting in May 2020, will begin immediately with the continuation of excavation research in various areas of the wreck, where there are good indications that impressive new findings will come to light.”

“The mission was concluded with great success despite adverse weather conditions and the limited length of time for the rescue research,” the Ministry added.

A video titled “2017 Return to Antikythera Expedition” looks at the delicate and often hazardous work marine archeologists do in recovering ancient gems from the depth of the seas. That expedition, led by the Greek Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, Lund University, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, was conducted between September 4th to September 20th of that year, and as per previous trips to the wreck, the team did not leave disappointed.

With excellent weather conditions above them, the divers managed to recover an “orphaned” right arm of a bronze statue, pottery shards, nails, lead sheathing fragments, and an odd metal disc, among other artifacts. Prior to that expedition, the Return to Antikythera project team managed to recover glassware, luxury ceramics, anchors, counterweights, tools, and even an ancient skeleton, which is still undergoing DNA analysis.

References:

***https://greekreporter.com/2022/09/15/antikythera-mechanism-secret/

***https://www.livescience.com/antikythera-mechanism



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  1. Morning All!
    very interesting Filly!!
    their “machine” did not require electricity! just the best minds of the time…
    and we have advanced so far as to have joe biden and dylan mulvaney…
    hmmmmm…we are NOT progressing.

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  5. Citizen 817
    April 15, 2023 12:25 am

    @realDonaldTrump

    9h
    David McIntosh is the failed leader of the Club for NO Growth, who was losing Election after Election, until he teamed with me, and we won every single Race. Then I dropped him, because he wanted to support Candidates I could not support. Now he’s supporting his worst choice of all, Social Security-cutting Ron DeSanctimonious, who is dropping like a rock in the Polls—The Club for NO Growth is beside themselves!

    So, what do they do? They put out a Statement of Disinformation, as least as it pertains to Trump, that Biden and Trump want to cut Social Security. True with Biden, false with Trump! Never mentioned, never even talked about. Club for NO Growth Candidate, Globalist Ron DeSanctus, has actually VOTED to cut Social Security three times, and Medicare twice. Additionally, he wants to raise the minimum age to 70. He’s a disciple of RINO Paul Ryan, I am certainly not!

    The Club for NO Growth’s Fake Statement was made in the Globalist Wall Street Journal, a Rupert Murdoch paper, which is fading fast, just like Murdoch himself. Never says good about me, just like 2016—until I won. Then, they couldn’t be nicer!

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    1. OK, I’m NOT liking this language at all….”…because I allowed them this freedom?” WTH is that BS??!!?? And he is STILL not taking ANY responsibility for the jabs??? This does not make me happy in the slightest!!!

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      1. YES–he did not buy into the NATIONAL MANDATES…he gave the states the power to choose. the little fascist et al wanted complete control but Trump gave the states the freedom to choose. there’s no other way to say that.

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  7. Citizen 817
    April 15, 2023 12:27 am

    @realDonaldTrump

    5m
    If we can send $120 BILLION DOLLARS to Ukraine, then we can afford 1/10th of that amount to protect American children in American schools!

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  14. This question is nagging at my mind:

    Why did President Trump call Judas Pence a good man in his NRA speech last night?

    Pence betrayed Trump multiple ways
    -by blaming Trump for the January 6 false flag operation.
    -by refusing to address the obvious brazen election fraud.
    -changing Senate rules to cement the fraudulent election.

    Pence was in charge of the Covid Task Force and the Election Integrity Task Force – and used both to betray Trump and our Country.

    Why is Trump still defending and praising Pence?

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      1. i think you’re missing the point on the jabs. fauci and the rest wanted the entire country locked down TILL there was a vaccine–even tho the little bastard KNEW they created the vaccine before they released the virus. They wanted to drag it out for many years. POTUS came up with “warp speed” to get it released as soon as possible because every day this country was shut down was killing the economy. he knew some states would choose not to, but some would close. it was a gamble and the best option given the circumstances.
        what exactly do you want him to take responsibility for? he never mandated a national indefinite shutdown. He never mandated the vaccine nationally and he offered MANY therapeutic options to the vaccine.
        he played the cards he was dealt without knowing all the treachery involved.

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        1. I understood that at the time but now, since all the info has come out about how deadly they were? No, Pat…..no! If you recall, thruout this WHOLE debacle, I have been defending him on this subject right down the line. IMO, the time for that is long past and he needs to speak the truth now!!!!

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  15. From Substack’s new “Note” feature – very similar to Twitter, which is why Elon is blocking them. I’ll leave it to others as to whether that is right or wrong.

    “A Midwestern Doctor
    The Forgotten Side of Medicine ∙ 16h

    ENTIRE NOTE: “Many have suspected collusion occurred between governments around the world throughout COVID-19 since so many insane policies were simultaneously adopted around the world.

    Judicial Watch recently obtained redacted emails showing this happened the moment Pfizer was initially launched in England. Heads of the FDA and the MHRA (England’s FDA) were having regular closed door meetings covered under confidential agreement to come up with ways to dismiss the adverse reactions immediately observed in the very first to be vaccinated. It should come as no surprise that corrupt gaslighting has never stopped.”

    https://www.judicialwatch.org/us-and-uk-agreement/

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    1. JW EXCERPT: “A lengthy, heavily redacted December 2020 email exchange shows U.S. and UK health officials placing a heavy emphasis on their “mutual confidentiality agreement” in a discussion regarding “anaphylactoid reactions” to the COVID vaccine.

      The exchange is initiated by Jonathan Mogford, policy director of the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency and is sent to Acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock as well as Peter Marks, director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER). The subject line and body of the email are fully redacted under FOIA Exemption B3 (relating to statutory prohibitions).

      As background, Mogford includes information on “two cases of anaphylactoid reactions in individuals with a strong past history of allergic reactions….” Marks replies to Mogford: “It would be very helpful if our Office of Vaccines could receive additional details [redacted] from MHRA [UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency] under the terms of our mutual confidentiality agreement.” Mogford later replies, “… attached are [redacted] hope that’s helpful in the meantime. If I can just remind – information shared under our confidentiality agreement.”

      Marion Gruber, head of the Office of Vaccines Research and Review (OVRR), then replies to Mogford, “Thank you so much for this information. Our emails crossed. If possible, would be available for a t-con [teleconference] today?” The exchange concludes with OVRR Deputy Director Phil Krause advising UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency official Jamie Convisser, “Your summary is correct. I’m cc:ing Amanda Cohn at CDC who can provide the most up-to-date details about [redacted]. Obviously, [redacted], not all of this is public so please hold these details confidential.” Cohn then replies to Mogford, and includes an attachment titled “Anaphylaxis CLARK Dec 19 2020 Final”. She writes, “I am adding my colleagues Tom Clark and Stacey Martin, we are happy to share more information with you. Attached are slides that were presented at a public meeting on Saturday. [Redacted].”

      The FDA issued its Emergency Use Authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine for individuals 16 years of age and older on December 11, 2020.

      On May 14, 2021, the CDC’s Dr. Amanda Cohn emailed Office of Vaccines Research and Review Director Marion Gruber and Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director Peter Marks with the subject line “Coadministration of COVID-19 Vaccines with Other Vaccines During Pregnancy.”

      Gruber writes, “I am fine with this language.” Marks then responds to Cohn and her CDC colleague, Sarah Mbaeyi, “I can live with this too. Please let me know if you want to connect about the adverse event issue later today. Seems like work is still ongoing, but let me know. Thanks.” Cohn replies, “We have a meeting with Rochelle [presumably CDC Director Rochelle Walensky] at 3:30 about if we should say anything or wait until we have more definitive information. I will let you know where we land. I’m not sure there is a right answer.”

      “It again took a lawsuit for the Biden administration to hand over, albeit heavily redacted, information regarding the safety of the COVID vaccines that the public has every right to know,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “This disturbing batch of new documents have uncovered a secret confidentiality agreement tied to COVID vaccine safety issues and emails that raise new questions about the vaccines and pregnancy.”

      Judicial Watch is pursuing challenges against the agency’s redactions under FOIA.”

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  19. “How Did Jack Teixeira Gain Access to the Documents He Leaked, and Why Were MSM Stories About Him Stealth-Edited?”
    By Jennifer Van Laar | 10:15 PM on April 13, 2023

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “The big story Thursday was the arrest of 21-year-old Jack Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard who allegedly leaked more than 100 pages of classified documents that exposed extremely sensitive information from the Pentagon regarding Ukraine, Russia, China, Israel, and documents produced by the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency.

    That story changed markedly through the day, though, and the sparse information we have about Teixeira raised major questions about how he could have possibly had access to such a wide-ranging tranche of information, why what was finally reported as the true story was so different from what had been published earlier, and who was pushing the disinformation?

    In addition, the way it all went down, with the New York Times beating the FBI to Teixeira, raised eyebrows, especially given that they were the first outlet to report on the leak, just a week ago. Who was their source for the stories?

    When the story first appeared Reuters claimed – based on anonymous sources – that Russia was behind it: “Russia or pro-Russian elements are likely behind the leak of several classified U.S. military documents posted on social media that offer a partial, month-old snapshot of the war in Ukraine, three U.S. officials told Reuters on Friday. The documents appear to have been altered to lower the number of casualties suffered by Russian forces, the U.S. officials said, adding their assessments were informal and separate from an investigation into the leak itself.”

    For days after that there was no real speculation until the Washington Post published an exclusive interview Wednesday night with a teenage boy who was part of the Discord server where the documents were posted. The teenager said that the leaker went by the screen name O.G., and that he was probably in his mid-20s, in the military, and worked on a military base. Despite reports Thursday morning that the leaker worked at Fort Bragg, NC (more on that below), it turns out that Teixeira worked at Otis Air National Guard Base in Massachusetts. Otis is located on Joint Base Cape Cod and is the home of the 102nd Intelligence Wing.

    Teixeira is an Airman First Class (E3) and his job title is cyber transport systems journeyman – working with IT infrastructure, not analyzing intelligence. According to Jennifer Griffin at Fox News, he has a TS/SCI security clearance. Obviously, he would have access to classified information and documents given his job, but there are documents in the leak that someone in his position should not have had. Mere possession of a security clearance doesn’t equal legal access to all documents/information that exist at that level of classification. He also would have needed to know the information to perform his job duties.

    As I referenced earlier, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday morning that investigators believed that the leaker was based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, at the time of the leak. After the Pentagon briefing and arrest, the story was significantly changed. From the original: “Investigators believe the leak of purported highly classified documents on Ukraine and dozens of other subjects likely originated from an Air National Guardsman who was based at Fort Bragg at the time of the leak, U.S. officials said, and an arrest could be made as early as Thursday.”

    The “updated” story made no reference to Fort Bragg, nor was there any note that significant changes had been made to it. Curiously, an NBC News story about the imminent arrest and then the actual arrest was changed several times. The initial story read: “Officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation, said that officials have been tracking Teixeira for some time and that an arrest is imminent.”

    (Screenshot from NBC News story on DOD leaked documents investigation, April 13, 2023)
    The next version omitted Teixeira’s name and changed the characterization from “tracking” to “onto him.” The current version (archived link here) deletes that sentence entirely.

    Who told NBC News that they’d been tracking Teixeira for some time? NBC claims that the sources were part of the investigation. Was it an FBI source or a Pentagon source? These questions need to be answered. More than an hour after the arrest, Gordon Lawson, a former Navy officer who was assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency, referenced Teixeira working at Fort Bragg in an appearance with Neil Cavuto.

    He said: “Especially if you’re in an intelligence role, you’re in that secure facility and you may have access to those computer systems. Now, I think this one had some human source intelligence that was well beyond what someone of this rank and responsibility should have. That could have been due to where he was assigned. I believe he was at Fort Bragg, which obviously has some sensitive commands there with Special Operations Command.”

    Meanwhile, the Fayetteville Observer reports that Fort Bragg officials have stated that Teixeira never served at Fort Bragg and was never affiliated with any unit on Fort Bragg, which houses the Joint Special Operations Command. An official at Fort Bragg late Thursday issued a statement saying a Massachusetts Air National guardsman accused of leaking classified documents does not appear to have served at Fort Bragg. Initial media reports suggested he worked at the military installation in North Carolina.

    “After exhausting efforts across the organizations on our installation, we are unable to confirm that Jack Teixeira had any service history or has been affiliated with any unit on Fort Bragg,” Maj. Matt Visser, spokesman for the 18th Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg said.

    Who was telling the Wall Street Journal that Teixeira had a connection to Fort Bragg? In this case, it doesn’t really matter given the unit Teixeira was attached to, but WSJ has deep connections in the military intelligence community and doesn’t generally publish information that’s so easily and quickly disproven. Who was telling Reuters that Russia was behind the leak? Why?

    The changing stories, with no acknowledgment of or explanation for the changes, are likely part of an effort to distract from the elephant in the room. When reporters repeatedly confronted the Pentagon spokesperson with questions about how a 21-year-old, low-level enlisted airman had access to the scope of information that he apparently had access to, and how he could get more than 100 documents out of a SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility), he answered by saying that they’re examining information distribution lists and that they had the rules in place and Teixeira broke the rules, so they shouldn’t be held responsible. That’s unacceptable.”

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          1. i know you don’t like gwp…but they have an article (seen on liberty daily) about things not adding up with this kid. the author cites an ex cia friend and military friend who say there’s no way an E3 would be anywhere new a scif,,,

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              1. someone mentioned, they will likely put this kid in witsec, move him and lose him…
                and then later, they can rid of him before he goes public…and who would be the wiser?

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  20. “9/11 Hijackers Given Bank Accounts, California Apartment at ‘Behest of the CIA’ – FBI Investigator”
    Yesterday
    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “An extraordinary legal filing revealed two of the hijackers responsible for the September 11 terror attacks had a much more intimate relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency than previously known.

    At least two of the 9/11 hijackers were being closely monitored by the CIA and may have even been recruited by the agency well before they helped fly a pair of Boeing 767s into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, newly-released documents reveal. The jaw-dropping court filing contains extensive testimony by multiple FBI investigators who maintain that the CIA obstructed official investigations into the notorious terrorist attack in order to conceal its connections to al-Qaeda*.

    Perhaps even more shockingly, one FBI agent explained that American bank accounts were opened for the two hijackers – and a San Diego based apartment rented for them – “at the behest of the CIA.”

    Skeptics have long focused their attention on the extremely close relationship between 9/11 hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar and alleged Saudi intelligence agent Omar al-Bayoumi, who arranged a steady stipend as well as accommodations for the pair immediately after their arrival in the US. Al-Bayoumi has publicly maintained that his incredible generosity towards them was based on a mere ‘chance encounter’ at a restaurant after they landed in California.

    (Saudis Created ‘Little Crucible’ for 9/11 Hijackers, CIA Never Told FBI, 12 September 2018, 01:00 GMT)

    According to one agent, who’s code-named “CS-23” in the documents, the CIA has long been working to stonewall the FBI’s investigation into the 2001 terrorist attack, in part by refusing to divulge information regarding the agency’s relationship with al-Bayoumi.

    According to CS-23, when first asked, “CIA officials responded to the [FBI’S] San Diego field office and reported that the CIA held no files on al-Bayoumi,” a claim which the agent said was “a falsehood,” given “the CIA maintained ‘operational files’ on Omar al-Bayoumi” and that their relationship had left a noticeable “paper trail.”

    Indeed, “information concerning al-Bayoumi was never passed to the FBI,” the agent explained – likely because Omar al-Bayoumi was “an intelligence officer in [the] employ of the Saudi government,” who was “directed to attempt to recruit Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar as intelligence sources while they were in San Diego.”

    Even more horrifying is the fact that “the attempt to recruit al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar was an operation directed by the Central Intelligence Agency,” CS-23 maintains.

    According to that FBI agent, “the CIA used their liaison relationship with the Saudi intelligence services to conduct an operation on US soil,” the legal filing reveals.

    Such an arrangement would be necessary since “the CIA is forbidden by law to conduct intelligence operations within the US,” the agent explained, noting that “the CIA has used its relationship with allied intelligence services to conduct operations inside the United States in the past.”

    For decades, much of the CIA’s dirty work was carried out by a secret international grouping of pro-US intelligence services which bore the name ‘The Safari Club’ – and which included Saudi Arabia. The group’s existence didn’t become public knowledge until Egyptian journalist Mohamed Heikal was granted permission by Iran’s new revolutionary government to examine the Shah’s archives and discovered a document formalizing the agreement.

    Likely seeking to avoid any similar disclosure, CS-23 explained, “when FBI officials in San Diego and at FBI headquarters became aware of both al-Bayoumi’s affiliation with Saudi intelligence and subsequently the existence of the CIA’s operation to recruit al-Harmi and al-Mihdhar through al-Bayoumi… senior FBI officials suppressed investigations into the above.”

    Furthermore, the FBI investigator revealed the CIA had effectively tainted the entire inquiry before it even got off the ground by tampering with witnesses.

    “CS-23 also told me that FBI agents testifying before the Joint Inquiry into the 9/11 attacks were instructed not to reveal the full extent of Saudi involvement with Al-Oaeda,” the report concludes.”

    https://sputnikglobe.com/20230414/911-hijackers-given-bank-accounts-california-apartment-at-behest-of-the-cia–fbi-investigator-1109495777.html

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  28. “Rethinking mental illness, sanity, and culture in light of the fact that the chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, Grace Lee, is literally insane”
    TOBY ROGERS
    APR 14, 2023

    EXCERPT:

    I. The many faces of psychopathy: When you think of a psychopath, who do you picture? Do you picture Leonard DiCaprio in Shutter Island — wide-eyed, sweating, unwashed hair, not making any sense?

    Or perhaps Jack Nicholson in The Shining breaking through a door with an axe?

    Or maybe Christian Bale in American Psycho with his weird laugh and lack of affect?

    In many ways those stereotypical psychopaths represent the least dangerous form of psychopathy— because they are so easy to spot. If you see a crazy guy spinning in circles on the street corner, you instantly know to steer clear of him. But what about the people who fit in? As Hannah Arendt taught us in Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, the people who led the Holocaust were bureaucrats. They dressed properly, went to work each day, and figured out the most efficient means of carrying out their bosses’ vision.

    [Oh far out — I just discovered this photo! Check out Eichmann’s crooked smile! Eichmann very well may have been vaccine-injured. But I digress.]

    The photos of the staff who worked at Auschwitz show them laughing, smiling, flirting, and singing along to an accordion. If one did not know the context of this photo one might be inclined to think that this was a swell bunch.

    The point in all of this is that the psychopaths one really needs to watch out for are the ones who fit in and are well-adjusted to a psychopathic society.

    II. The American public health establishment is filled with well-adjusted psychopaths

    III. Conclusion
    ——————-
    It is a crying shame that the political left evaporated over the last three years because what we are living through is the quintessential example of biopolitics (popularized by Michel Foucault, who also had a crooked smile). The fascist corporate state seeks to control the bodies of the populace down to our DNA itself and the people tasked with carrying out the iatrogenocide are often, but not always, from formerly marginalized groups. In order to be selected for a gatekeeping position in the bourgeoisie one must be so completely mentally colonized (by capital) that one will continue the conquest and call it public health, justice, and equity without even a hint of irony. We could be having a spectacular conversation about this “biopolitical turn” (as they would say) but the political left, that debated biopolitics for decades, is busy standing in line at the pharmacy to get their sixth or seventh Covid shot — and they don’t have an opinion about any of this anyway because they now love Big Pharma.

    So daily life becomes like an episode of the Twilight Zone where the crazy people are in charge and when we try to point out the insanity of the system they just get sad and confused (and then later, angry and violent) because they have no idea what we are talking about.”

    https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/rethinking-mental-illness-sanity

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    1. There is a LOT more really interesting info…..

      II. The American public health establishment is filled with well-adjusted psychopaths

      I watched the February 22-24, 2023 meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). The meeting was filled with smiling, laughing, happy people who are well-adjusted to a psychopathic society. If you bumped into them at the grocery store you would likely find them pleasant. But they are responsible for more dead and disabled Americans than any foreign military adversary in U.S. history.

      Heading into the meeting, the ACIP and its fixers (Tom Shimabukuro, John Su, Matt Oster, and Nicola Klein) had a problem — the Covid clot shot causes so many strokes in seniors that the various vaccine safety monitoring systems — that are intentionally designed to hide vaccine-injury — were showing a statistically significant safety signal (which in a previous era would have been enough to get a vaccine pulled from the market).

      So the true believers were scrambling to save their beloved toxic idol.

      At the ACIP meeting they came up with a new & novel theory so brazen that I felt like I was hallucinating when they unveiled it.

      A sane (actually scientific) study that is trying to measure the stroke risk from the bivalent booster would have compared the rate of strokes in the vaccinated vs. the unvaccinated. But the CDC is staffed with psychopaths. So what they did instead was to compare the stroke risk in the bivalent-boosted population in days 1 to 21 post-vaccination against a group of bivalent-boosted people in days 22 to 42 days post-vaccination. There’s no control group and because everyone on the ACIP is dedicated to hiding vaccine safety signals, no one asked, “Hey, what if the stroke risk from the vaccine is similar across both time periods?”

      But as it turns out, even by rigging the study in this way, there is still a statistically significant difference between the two groups (there were significantly more strokes in days 1 to 21). Super-fixer Tom Shimabukuro explained that yes, it appears [to your lying eyes] that there are more strokes in the first few days after receiving a Covid vaccine. But, that’s because the Covid shot is so effective at reducing strokes LATER in the month, that the first few days look bad by comparison. I wish I was joking because that claim is so completely preposterous that I feel like washing my hands after even typing a sentence that dirty. But that’s their story and they are sticking to it.

      Which brings me to the chair of the ACIP, Grace Lee. Dr. Lee’s title is (grab a comfortable chair, this is going to take a minute) Chief Quality Officer and the Christopher G. Dawes Endowed Director of Quality at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, and Associate Dean for Maternal and Child Health (Quality and Safety) and Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine. The powers that be are well-pleased with this one.

      Dr. Lee is a bougiecrat par excellence. She wears a permanent smile, she makes jokes, her voice goes up at the end of sentences like she’s always asking a question, she keeps the meetings running on time, and she’s a complete psychopath.

      As you may recall, Dr. Lee CALLED THE POLICE on Steve Kirsch when he tried to share vaccine safety data from Israel with her. Apparently, anything that might disrupt The Official Narrative™️ is now a thoughtcrime punishable by arrest, in Dr. Lee’s opinion. (In fairness to the police, they were as confused as the rest of us about why they were called.)

      At the end of the most recent three-day ACIP meeting, on top of two years of unrelenting carnage from the most disastrous vaccine role-out in human history, Dr. Lee said this (starts at 1:53:29):

      ‘Then reflecting back on the vaccine safety data we saw earlier… my interpretation is that the signal… I’m not convinced that there is a true signal. I am thinking that actually that signal that we are seeing is partly the protective effective of vaccination [Shimabukuro’s preposterous cover-up explanation]. So I’m not even sure if there is a signal…. I’m not saying that we should ignore it, I’m just saying that I don’t think that I’m convinced that that is a real signal given the totality of the data that we have seen today.’

      THAT, my friends, is how you get a fully-endowed position at Stanford and a sweet new house in Palo Alto!”

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    2. “I want to be clear about the level of psychopathology we are dealing with here.

      So I asked the team at OpenVAERS to run the actual numbers for me. My contact at OpenVAERS explained to me that “stroke is VERY difficult to define simply. Some are blockages, some are bleeds etc…” So, as the right proper scholars that they are, they reached out to Dr. Peter McCullough to ask him to list every single different type of stroke or stroke symptom that one might find in the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS). He came back with a list of 51 different terms that a doctor might use to describe what we commonly refer to as a stroke.

      Then OpenVAERS ran the numbers to see how many reports are in VAERS for these 51 different terms and then broke the reports into 4 categories: All VAERS/All Stroke reports, All VAERS/Covid vaccine only stroke reports, U.S. Only (so, no foreign reports)/All stroke reports, and U.S. only/Covid vaccine only stroke reports. The table looks like this:

      Reading the totals across the bottom, there are 24,159 reports of stroke in VAERS for all vaccines over the last 32 years. Over 92% of those reports (22,296) are following Covid vaccines (so, just in the last two years, an obvious safety signal). If one only wants to look at U.S. reports there were 9,134 reports of stroke following any vaccine in the last 32 years. And 87% of those reports (8,010) are following Covid vaccines. All independent scholars agree that these are significant undercounts of the actual harms.

      And the chair of the ACIP, Dr. Lee, just stated in a public meeting that “I’m not convinced that there is a true signal.” Dr. Lee is the ultimate submissive subject in the giant Asch Conformity Experiment being inflicted upon our society. Dr. Lee has access to the same data that OpenVAERS does. But Dr. Lee, as a high ranking protector of the drug cartel, sees 22,296 reports of stroke following Covid shots and says, “I’m not convinced that there is a true signal.”

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  29. Well, we finally got some of that rain they were predicting – we’ll see how long it lasts. Chilly today at only 41 – we may get down to freezing tonight so I’ll have to bring the Clematis in, Vinca’s are already inside. Crappola! My grass is already growing and my mower is nowhere near operating condition!

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    1. wow!
      our grass is still “crunchy”…lol
      but the trees are budding.
      strange tho–2 aspens have LEAVES already…they are usually the last to bud and the last to drop their leaves in fall

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  30. sliding down…down splitting for today. man it’s hot out there! about 83* currently…
    took a bath, now gonna have lunch!
    we split about half the pile and i got my grape vines pruned too!

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  33. so someone rushed the stage at a rhonda event? most are saying it was orchestrated…to show how calm and unTrump like he is…then there’s this…

    The Defiant One
    April 15, 2023 11:41 am
    Reply to Val1

    It’s almost as if Ron DeSmallist Meatball KNEW what the “Protestor” was going to do.

    Also wouldn’t Security have kept ANYONE rushing the stage as far away from the person they are guarding at all time?

    The lady BREACHED the minimum distance for a bladed weapon to be effective. People have been SHOT BY THE POLICE for getting 10 as close as she does.

    AGAIN IT’S ALMOST AS IF IT’S KNOWN TO SECURITY THAT THIS MIGHT BE A STUNT. I MEAN LOOK AT THE BEARDED GUY, HE DOESN’T LOOK LIKE HE”S FREAKED OUT BY HER GETTING THAT CLOSE!
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  40. “D.A. Bragg Now Alleges Trump Dropped Baby Penguin Off Cool, Cool Mountain”
    U.S. · Apr 15, 2023 · BabylonBee.com

    “MANHATTAN, NY — District Attorney Alvin Bragg unsealed new charges today, now alleging that former President Donald Trump tossed Baby Penguin off of Cool, Cool Mountain.

    “Trump held Baby Penguin over his head, and -despite the desperate cries of Mother Penguin – launched Baby Penguin off the side of Cool, Cool Mountain,” said Mr. Bragg. “If you listen close, residents of Cool, Cool Mountain say you can still hear the wails of Mother Penguin to this day.”

    According to Bragg, Mr. Trump had been asked to locate and return the lost Baby Penguin known as “Tuxie” in exchange for a gold star. “The arrangement between Trump and Mother Penguin likely violated campaign finance laws,” said Mr. Bragg. “Yet that pales in comparison to the heinous act of callously flinging Baby Penguin to certain doom. Have you ever heard a baby penguin scream? Justice will be served!”

    For his part, Mr. Trump has denied the allegations. “I love baby penguins. No one has done more for baby penguins than me,” said Mr. Trump. “I have returned so many baby penguins to their mothers, it’s unbelievable. That’s why they love me so much over on Cool, Cool Mountain. The penguins there are so beautiful, and I would never throw one off a cliff – even one with a loser name like ‘Tuxie’.”

    At publishing time, Bragg had unsealed yet another allegation that Trump also smashed a massive snowman body into a poor, unsuspecting Headless Snowman.”

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  41. “Scholars Now Believe Bible Verse ‘They Were Naked And Felt No Shame’ Written About Walmart”
    SCRIPTURE · Apr 15, 2023 · BabylonBee.com

    “U.S. — Bible scholars now believe the verse in Genesis about people being naked and without shame was a prophecy about Walmart customers.

    “The ancient prophecy has come to pass,” said theologian Bart Harmon as he surveyed his local Walmart. “There is…no shame in this place.”

    Originally thought to describe the innocence of Eden, the verse in Genesis came under new scrutiny after Bible scholars realized it also described Walmart. “Does this make Wal-Mart an Edenic Paradise?” asked Old Testament Professor Roger Carmichael. “There are many theological questions still to be answered here. All I know for sure is that I went to Walmart to buy a coffee maker, and I observed a multitude of people without pants who clearly felt no shame.”

    Interviews with Walmart customers confirmed that they do not have clothes on and feel pretty good about it. “Embarrassed? Heck no,” said Walmart customer Ben Douglass. “Just have to be careful not to spill my Icee. Hey, why are you wearing pants?”

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  45. Issue: April 15, 2023
    “Court rules against online snitch portal in Loudon County Schools, cites First Amendment. The system was accused of chilling free speech.”
    By Ben Squires
    Posted 1:28 pm

    ENTIRE ARTICLE @ ReclaimTheNet: “The US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ruled that a program asking students to report alleged discrimination through an online portal in Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) might violate the First Amendment.

    In 2021 parents filed a lawsuit to challenge two programs introduced by the LCPS to address what it called discrimination and systemic racism. The first program was a bias-reporting system, dubbed the Bias Incident Reporting System, which allowed students to anonymously report incidents of bias and request administrators to investigate. We obtained a copy of the ruling for you here. https://docs.reclaimthenet.org/menders-doe-v-LOUDOUN.pdf

    The second program was the Student Equity Ambassador Program, which recruited a small group of students who would meet with administrators and share accounts of racism and harassment from anonymous classmates.

    The lawsuit was dismissed by a judge in the Eastern District of Virginia. The parents appealed the decision at the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. The appellate judges said that the parents could not challenge the ambassador program. However, they said that the bias-reporting system could violate the First Amendment.

    The court said that “these allegations are sufficient to show that the bias reporting system caused the parents’ children to experience a non-speculative and objectively reasonable chilling effect on their speech.” “They allege their children’s views plausibly fell within what Student Equity Ambassadors in presentations about the program defined as microaggressions,” the court wrote. “And the parents allege that their children refrained from speaking on these issues because they feared that, if they did, fellow LCPS students would accuse them of bias.”

    In the lawsuit, the parents alleged that the bias-reporting system “prompts self-censorship.” The suit added that the school district was “creating a process for anonymously ratting out classmates for anything anyone finds offensive, with no burdens of proof or due process protections.”

    A spokesperson for the school district said that the bias-reporting system has not been used since the lawsuit was filed.”

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  46. ANOTHER DERAILMENT! with hazardous material on board. this time in Maine
    FTA
    A train has reportedly derailed in the state of Maine and officials say they believe hazardous materials were on board.

    “Train derailment with fire north of rockwood, hazzard materials please stay clear!” The Rockwood, Maine Fire & Rescue posted on Facebook Saturday.

    The Fire & Rescue team posted a photo of the incident that shows a derailed train and a fire burning in a snow covered forest area.

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/train-carrying-hazardous-materials-derails-rural-maine-residents-warned-stay-clear

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  47. brinton facing more legal battles
    FTA
    But Brinton’s legal troubles are far from over. The Las Vegas heist was just the start of the known extent of the former nuclear waste official’s cross-country crime spree. Brinton faces another felony charge for stealing a woman’s suitcase with contents worth $2,325 from the Minneapolis-Saint Paul airport in September 2022. Brinton’s next hearing in that case is scheduled to take place on Monday morning.

    Brinton hosted regular “kink parties” in a Washington, D.C., “dungeon” and taught hands-on spanking at leather kink conferences during his short tenure overseeing the federal government’s disposal of highly radioactive nuclear waste.

    “The red flags regarding Brinton were overwhelming and obvious to all who cared to see them,” LGBTQ Nation reported in December as news of his various airport capers came to light. “Unfortunately, some of America’s top LGBTQ+ activists and organizations were willfully blind to Brinton’s shortcomings.”

    The Department of Energy unceremoniously dismissed Brinton in December.

    Brinton’s penchant for stealing women’s luggage may have started long before he joined the Biden administration in June 2022. Houston fashion designer Asya Khamsin said in February that she believes Brinton is responsible for stealing her luggage from a Washington, D.C., airport in 2018.

    Khamsin posted pictures on Twitter showing Brinton wearing the same custom outfit and jewelry that she had in her lost bag, which she said was never recovered.

    https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Ffreebeacon.com%2Fbiden-administration%2Fgenderfluid-bag-thief-sam-brinton-charged-for-airport-baggage-heist%2F

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    1. The JØbama administration has hired all those mental cases just to show their contempt for our country and its citizens. They have made the USA a Ruination – on purpose.

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  48. “In Hinduism, the 10-day Ganesh Chaturthi festival celebrates the birth of the elephant-headed deity Ganesh, the god of prosperity, new beginnings, and wisdom. In the Indian city of Sambalpur in Odisha, a group called Natraj Club pay their respects to the Hindu god by creating an epic statue of him every year using different materials. In 2017, the 11 members created a 25-foot-tall Ganesh statue made with five metric tons (about 5.5 tons) of bananas.”

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  49. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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