God’s heart is torn apart by wars, violence, injustice and lies. But our Father’s heart is not with the wicked, the arrogant, or the proud. God’s heart is with the little ones and the humble, and with them He builds up His Kingdom of love and peace day by day. Wherever there is love and service, God is there.
How can a human being make this claim? I assume ‘God’s heart’ is a metaphor. But how does a man know where God’s heart is or what tears it apart or what causes God to be somewhere or not somewhere? I ask these questions respectfully. Pragmatically and spiritually, I largely support Christians and the flourishing of Christianity. A good Christian is a good person. But what theology allows Christians, including the Pope, to claim they know what God wants? ABN
UPDATE: Candace has been doing some of the best journalism available today. I feel a bit sorry for people who have not been following her Charlie Kirk story. It is complex, but you can jump in with this episode and gradually figure out what the stakes are and why the story is so important. Candace uses copious crowd-sourcing information to back up very serious allegations. Within months she destroyed the FBI narrative. ABN
Mushroom networks fire voltage spikes that travel consistently in one direction.
Scrambling the timing destroys the pattern, proving it’s biological, not noise.
The same signalling logic that brains rely on may be over a billion years old.
A neuron fires in milliseconds. A fungal thread takes three minutes to pass the same kind of message across two centimeters of wood shavings. The difference in speed is staggering, roughly 40 million-fold. But the underlying principle is the same: an electrical signal starts at one point and travels, directionally, to another. If that sounds like a coincidence, consider the timeline. Fungi and animals share a common ancestor that lived over a billion years ago, long before anything resembling a brain existed. The question isn’t whether neurons are impressive. They are. The question is whether they invented directional electrical signalling, or inherited it.
A new study by Andrew Adamatzky, a researcher at UWE Bristol, published in Scientific Reports, offers evidence for the inheritance theory. Adamatzky spent fifteen days recording the electrical activity of oyster mushrooms, Pleurotus ostreatus, the common edible variety you’d find in a grocery store. What he discovered is that fungi electrical signals don’t just flicker randomly. They propagate through the fungal network in one consistent direction, at a measurable speed, with a structure that disappears when you scramble the biological timing.
Fungi now join plants and slime molds in a growing catalogue of brainless organisms that can send electrical messages across their bodies. And because fungi split from the animal lineage so long ago, the capacity for this kind of signalling may be something life figured out well before it figured out nerves.
Adamatzky describes the mycelium as “a spatially extended excitable medium in which electrical signals propagate as ionic waves.”
The speed is telling. At 40 centimeters per hour, fungal propagation sits in the same range as ionic and calcium waves in plants and slime molds. All of these are incomparably slower than nerve conduction. But they share the same functional architecture: a signal that starts somewhere, moves directionally, and arrives somewhere else with a predictable delay. “Information is not encoded in fast all-or-none impulses but in the timing, duration, and spatial progression of slow electrical events.” writes Adamatzky.
Buddhism and Christianity meet at junctures like this. Buddhism is 100% about truth or as close to it as we humans can get. All Buddhist philosophy and practice falls into three categories: 1) morality and ethics; 2) mindfulness and samadhi; 3) wisdom or clear thinking, truthful thinking. The West is very strong in many areas, but weak in mindfulness and samadhi. Mindfulness and samadhi are fundamentally the experiential part of Buddhism, the experience of truth. For a Buddhist, a Christian who experiences spiritual truth is having a real experience. The Buddha used the word nirvana to describe ultimate spiritual experience, but if you want to call it grace or God’s love or some other word, that’s fine. Doesn’t matter how you get there either. A good Christian is as good as a good Buddhist. Buddhism is a living tradition based on a very deep Buddhist tenet — if something is true it is good Buddhism whether a Buddha said it or not. If something is not true, it is not good Buddhism, even if a Buddha said it. Buddhism is a living tradition because, based on sound evidence and experience, Buddhist practice and philosophy can and do change as the world changes; as our vocabularies change, as experiences and truth endeavors change, as new discoveries are made. On a personal note, I love these brave Christians. They do so much good. ABN
Most people who take vitamin C take 1,000mg in a single pill. Most people who criticize that dose say absorption drops above 200mg so you’re wasting your money. Both groups are missing the more interesting part of the data.
Levine et al. (1996, PNAS) conducted one of the most rigorous vitamin C pharmacokinetic studies ever done. Seven healthy men were hospitalized for 4 to 6 months on a diet containing less than 5mg of vitamin C per day. They were then repleted at seven sequential doses from 30 to 2,500mg, with steady-state plasma concentrations measured at each level.
The absorption curve is sigmoidal. Bioavailability is complete (100%) for a single 200mg dose. At 500mg it drops to roughly 73%. At 1,000mg it drops to roughly 50%. At 1,250mg it is approximately 33%. The intestinal transporter SVCT1 saturates, renal excretion increases, and the fraction you absorb declines with every step above 200mg. Levine et al. (2001, PNAS) confirmed the same pattern in 15 women. This is the part most people stop at. It’s also where the analysis gets lazy.
The fraction drops, but the total milligrams absorbed still increases. At 200mg you absorb about 200mg. At 500mg you absorb about 365mg. At 1,000mg you absorb about 500mg. You are absorbing more vitamin C at every dose increase. You are just doing it less efficiently per milligram. Less efficient is not the same as useless. This matters because of what happens on the demand side. Immune cells, particularly neutrophils, monocytes, and lymphocytes, actively concentrate vitamin C to levels 50 to 100 times higher than plasma through SVCT2 transporters. In healthy people consuming at least 100mg per day, intracellular concentrations reach roughly 1.5 mM in neutrophils and 3.5 mM in lymphocytes. These cells saturate at about 100mg daily intake under normal conditions.
But conditions are not always normal. During infection, inflammation, surgery, or critical illness, plasma vitamin C can drop below 30 micromol/L within days. Activated neutrophils burn through vitamin C during the oxidative burst, taking up oxidized dehydroascorbic acid via glucose transporters and reaching intracellular concentrations as high as 10 mM. The body pool, roughly 1.5 to 2 grams total, can be substantially depleted during severe illness. At that point, the rate of consumption exceeds what a 200mg dose can replace.
This is the argument for higher doses during illness. Not that absorption is efficient. It is not. But that the absolute amount reaching your bloodstream is still higher at 500 or 1,000mg than at 200, and during periods of high demand, that additional supply maintains the plasma floor your immune cells draw from. The Cochrane review on vitamin C and the common cold (Hemila & Chalker, 2013) found that regular supplementation (200mg to 2g daily) reduced cold duration by 8% in adults and 14% in children, with larger effects in those under physical stress.
The practical insight is not about whether to take more. It is about how to take it.
200mg taken five times per day delivers approximately 1,000mg absorbed, because each individual dose falls within the range of complete bioavailability. 1,000mg taken once per day delivers approximately 500mg absorbed, because the single large dose exceeds SVCT1 saturation.
Same total dose. Roughly double the absorption. If you are going to take a gram of vitamin C per day, splitting it into smaller doses across the day is a straightforward way to get more of it into your body.
For most healthy people eating a reasonable diet, 200 to 400mg per day is sufficient to saturate plasma and immune cells. Supplementation beyond that has diminishing returns under normal conditions. But during acute illness or high physical stress, the math changes because the demand side changes, and split dosing becomes the most efficient way to meet it.
Levine et al., PNAS, 1996 Levine et al., PNAS, 2001 Hemila & Chalker, Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 2013
Stark new details have emerged of Vladimir Putin‘s poisoning laboratories where he hones toxic substances to kill his enemies.
Experiments are conducted on humans in a sprawling network of secretive structures highlighting the evil underpinning his repressive rule.
Investigative outlet Proekt revealed a staggering 3,500 people are employed on the Putin regime’s poison programmes.
Among the operations based on deadly toxins from this warped empire were the 2018 Novichok attack on ex-GRU spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the UK – and later poisoning of Putin political foe Alexei Navalny.
At the network’s centre is a little-known scientific hub in Moscow called Signal, created on Putin’s direct order in 2010.
According to leaked staffing data, the 500-strong centre is capable of synthesising deadly toxins, studying how to evade detection, testing substances on animals and humans, developing delivery systems and ‘gene editing.’
The sinister institute is run by a mix of senior scientists and security officials – including a former FSB officer – with reported links to operatives involved in high-profile poisonings.
The unashamed aim, according to internal writings, is to determine how best to ‘destroy or disable enemy personnel.’
No sources cited for this article, but I am posting it because it highlights poison and its covert uses. A good example of a probable covert use of poisons or targeted energy weapons against a prominent figure is Donald Trump. No way to know for certain but he appears to have lost touch with reality. When someone is poisoned or zapped with energy frequencies — 1) they will go off the rails in an exaggerated version of their former self; or 2) become subdued, shy, depressed and abandon their former life role. Trump looks to me like victim type #1. He himself appears to be oblivious to what he is doing, how outrageously he is conducting himself and USA policy. This is classic behavior resulting from some types of lobotomy, chemical or otherwise, and many kinds of drugs which interfere with normal forebrain monitoring of behavior and memory. Whether Trump is a victim of this or not, and I do believe we all must seriously consider this possibility, poison and other weapons are commonly used by governments and powerful groups to disable their perceived rivals. USA and the West has already been taken over by a small army of covert operators who direct their attacks against perceived enemies or people who may be blocking their grab for ever more power. This kind of civilizational assault is a form of ‘silent terrorism’. It is silent because it harms not just the direct victim but their entire community. Driving Trump crazy will do far more harm to MAGA, conservatives and traditional Westerners than unaliving him. That is a conspicuous example. When your next door neighbor, colleague or family member suddenly goes off the rails, keep in mind they may be victims of covert attacks. ABN
Ritter makes a few good points about the foolishness and feasibility of blockading the Hormuz Strait, but after that he launches into an anti-Trump rant that never ends. I put this video up before watching it. I do not recommend it except for the first few points Ritter makes. ABN
NEW EVIDENCE — and this one’s simple to understand.
A professional broadcast camera (Canon XA55) was recording at UVU on September 10. Unlike every phone in the crowd, this camera records UNCOMPRESSED audio on 4 separate microphone channels at 48,000 samples per second. The Canon was roughly 46m away from the tent which provided a acoustic buffer between the onset of the events. This distance has provided clarity to the event that was missing with the other camera angles.
Think of it this way: phone recordings are like looking through a foggy window. This camera is like a clean window with the lights on.
Here’s what that clean window shows:
THE SOUND ARRIVED IN ORDER — HIGH TO LOW
When a supersonic bullet passes, the crack arrives before the boom. High-pitched sounds hit first, low-pitched sounds hit last.
A bomb going off? Everything originates from the blast and arrives at the camera at the same time.
The Canon proves the high frequencies arrived FIRST — spread out over 100+ milliseconds. Followed by muzzle blast then a detonation which originates from the stage.
THREE SEPARATE BOOMS — NOT ONE
This is the big one.
Phone recordings near the stage smear everything together into one big noise. The Canon’s professional audio separates THREE distinct low-frequency events:
• +114ms — Early energy (Mach cone) • +202ms — Muzzle blast from ~120 meters away • +321ms — DETONATION AT THE STAGE
That third event — the stage detonation — is the LOUDEST of the three. It’s not an echo. It’s not a reflection. It is the strongest low-frequency peak in the entire recording, and it originates approximately 46 meters from the camera.
Right at the tent. Right were Charlie was seated.
Something EXPLODED there. The Canon captured it separately from the rifle blast for the first time.
WHY THIS MATTERS
If a rifle was fired from 120 meters away, and a separate detonation occurred at the stage approximately ~185ms later — those are two different events at two different locations.
A single shooter doesn’t produce a detonation under a tent 120 meters from the rifle. A device detonation doesn’t produce a muzzle blast from 120 meters away.
The Canon separated what the phones couldn’t: proof of events at MULTIPLE locations.
733 SUPERSONIC SIGNATURES
A supersonic bullet creates tiny pressure waves called N-waves. The Canon’s shotgun microphone captured 733 of them in under 200 microseconds each.
The best phone recording? 123.
That’s 6x more. The phones weren’t broken — their compressed audio just can’t preserve these. Uncompressed audio can. And it did.
THE SHOTGUN MIC WAS POINTED AT IT
The external microphone clipped 122,844 audio samples — it was overwhelmed because the sound source was directly in its line of fire. Meanwhile the built-in mics captured clean audio with almost zero clipping.
Zero correlation between the two signal paths. Same conclusion.
MUZZLE BLAST CONFIRMS THE DISTANCE
The +202ms blast puts the rifle at ~120 meters from the camera. The 10-camera analysis estimated 127 meters. That’s within 6%.
Two completely independent methods. Same answer.
But the stage detonation at +321ms? That’s only ~46 meters from the camera. That’s the tent.
A rifle 120 meters away. A detonation at the tent. Two locations. Captured separately for the first time on professional uncompressed audio.
This is the 11th recording to independently confirm the same findings. Professional grade. No codec excuses. And now, for the first time, the stage detonation is isolated from the rifle blast.
Many people have requested that I outline some context on the Iran conflict; so, here it is.
What follows is my own researched perspective on the challenge that President Trump is facing. I anticipate the non-interventionists will not be happy with it, and also the Israel First crowd will not like the brutal pragmatism of it. Alas, having spent a great deal of time watching things unfold, here’s my take.
Start with this question: Considering all the years the debate over Iran’s nuclear ambitions has persisted, why haven’t its strongest allies, China and Russia, ever provided Iran with a nuclear weapon?
Now, before anyone jumps into the nuclear non-proliferation perspective, let me remind you we are not going to pretend things here. You can pretend that Beijing didn’t give the DPRK nuclear weapons by pretending that North Korea isn’t a proxy province of China. Or you can stop pretending. The choice is yours!
So, what’s different? Well, in the DPRK example, Beijing holds the control mechanism. For Iran, giving religious fanatics a nuclear weapon would be tantamount to giving the Muslim Brotherhood the ability to start World War III.
As recently noted, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman urged President Trump not to back down from this moment of consequence and to eliminate the Iranian threat once and for all. MbS is about as close to a Middle East pragmatist as you can find. In response, a desperate British Prime Minister Keir Starmer rushed to Saudi Arabia hoping to change the position of MbS. Great Britain is almost out of fuel.
That’s a good place to start looking at the regional perspectives.
It’s possible Trump has lost his mind, is being psychologically mind-controlled, or is being mind-controlled through drugs or targeted energy weapons. It’s also possible he is doing controlled trolling on his own. Trump has criticized the Pope and the Pope has criticized him for posting the picture above. My uneducated guess is Trump has been drugged and/or targeted by some kind of energy weapon. His enemies may even know a wavelength that is tailored to work especially well on him by locking him into a trance subservient to them while also making him look crazy. That combination gives his enemies everything they want (WAR) while causing the world to blame Trump more than them. ABN
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