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
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.
A major feature in language is the importance of asking and how you ask.
The impetus for all speech resides deeply in and around the imperative that we must want and ask for the spiritual development we are seeking. Frivolous asking and mundane desires do not count. They are outside of deep language use.
The Buddha only spoke on the Dharma when and if he was asked to do so.
The source and meaning of language and meaning itself can be glimpsed in this. Right Language is a soul-deep operation of the mind.
In this respect, FIML is a profound philosophical answer to what language is, what meaning is, what communication and communion are. FIML is this answer because it reveals and analyzes real-time, real-world speech between honest partners.
You cannot cut that close to the bone in any other way. Two people, true speech, true analysis — the source of linguistic being is revealed. The conundrums of psychology are healed.
FIML speaks to us within language, not from outside of language. With practice, FIML will move the source of your speech and meaning to your true experience. It will remove from you the need to understand yourself through extrinsic language and meaning.
In this sense, FIML is truly a philosopher’s stone. It will take you to the deepest levels you are capable of. ABN
On Good Friday, Catholics celebrate the day on which the Jews killed Christ. It seems like an odd thing to celebrate, but the Serbs celebrate the battle of Kosovo Pole, and Texans celebrate their defeat at the Alamo, so I suppose it’s understandable that Christians would celebrate the most catastrophic defeat in the history of the human race. Let’s meditate for a moment on what it must have been like on the Friday evening after Christ’s body was taken down from the cross. Think of how devastated the Apostles must have felt gathered in the upper room full of fear that what happened to Christ would soon happen to them.
…On the other side of town, the Jews gathered to celebrate their victory. Not just any Jews, not all Jews, but certainly the Jewish leaders Annas and Caiphas were there. Try to imagine the smug satisfaction on their faces and compare it to the bitter disillusionment on the faces of the apostles that night. Nothing unseemly here. No vulgar exaltation of the sort we would expect from a buffoon like Rabbi Shmuley. No, think of the most distinguished Jews you ever met, Natty Rothschild, Rabbi Stephen Wise, and their self-deprecating gestures as they congratulate each other at the moment of their greatest triumph, the day on which they killed God and proved that they belonged to the master race which stood above everything Moses forbade.
…In Jesus’s time, “Jewish authorities” were known as the Sanhedrin. Today the Sanhedrin goes by a different name. It’s known the “Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations,” an “umbrella body” that “coordinates national and international policy issues,”[3] for the following organizations: the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the American Jewish Committee (AJC), the American Jewish Congress, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), J Street, a “Progressive pro-Israel organization that advocates for a two-state solution and diplomacy alongside security for Israel,” B’nai B’rith International, the Jewish Masonic lodge which has as one of its main goals the promotion of the theories of Sigmund Freud, Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist organization, and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which is “prominent in Holocaust remembrance, fighting antisemitism, and tolerance education.”[4]
This is not an exhaustive list. It does not include de facto Jewish groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center, the American Civil Liberties Union, Pornhub, Only Fans, and the news room at National Public Radio, but it does establish the fact that “the Jews” is a category of reality which exists in real buildings at real addresses which can be sued for damages as a concrete expression of the rage that is sure to sweep over this country when its citizens wake up to the damage they have done by dragging America into a war which it cannot win.
…Pretending that “the Jews” don’t exist as a category or that they didn’t get us into this mess will only make matters worse and increase the likelihood of violence. The rage continues to build. “The Jews” just announced that Israeli soldiers will not accompany the America troops which are now scheduled for a ground invasion of Iran, which is solely for the benefit of Israel. Even an establishment figure like George Will had difficulty containing his indignation when he reported this. Americans need to identify “the Jews” and hold them responsible for the irreparable damage they have done to our international reputation by ensuring that they cannot do this again. One way to accomplish this end would be to seize the assets of groups like AIPAC, the ADL, and the SPLC and distribute them as reparations payments to anyone they opposed or defamed. Is there something wrong with this idea? Is Professor Mearsheimer, the man who co-authored the definitive book on the Israel lobby, telling us that AIPAC should emerge from causing the biggest foreign policy debacle in American history unscathed?
…Just as Nostra Aetate provides the necessary category for this discussion by defining (and rehabilitating) “the Jews” as a category of reality which encompasses “Jewish leaders and their followers,” Catholicism can provide guidance on how to deal with the mechanism which allowed this to happen, namely, usury and the use of usurious ill-gotten gains to bribe members of Congress. In his letter to Margaret of Flanders entitled “De regimine Judaeorum ad Ducissam Brabantiae (“On the Government of the Jews, to the Duchess of Brabant”), St. Thomas Aquinas give practical advice on how Margaret should deal with the severe economic problems which usury had created in her realm. The Jews have no right to keep usurious wealth, which is another term for ill-gotten gains, and does not truly belong to the Jews, but restraint needs to be exercised in appropriating this money to ensure that “the necessary subsidies of life in no way be taken from them … this seems to be what should be observed, that … the services coerced from them do not demand things that they had not been accustomed to do in times gone by.”
This is a longish essay about how ‘the Jews’ are going to pay dearly for having forced Trump into this war with Iran. I have provided a longer excerpt than I usually do to provide a sense of what Jones is arguing. The essay is rich in both Catholic and everyday reasoning. It’s well-worth reading. As for the term ‘the Jews’ and the confusion that arises from its use, I believe Jewish Supremacy is the better term and will solve the problems Jones describes, if more people use it. ABN
“A fractal is a natural phenomenon or a mathematical set that exhibits a repeating pattern that displays at every scale.” (Wikipedia)
Most of us know what math fractals look like and understand that shorelines and trees exhibit fractal patterns that display at different scales.
I think we can also see fractal patterns or sets in the humanities.
For example, the five skandha explanation in Buddhism to be fully understood must be conceived of as a fractal pattern that repeats at different scales. The normal explanation of the five skandhas is as follows:
The five skandhas are form, sensation, perception, activity, consciousness. A form can arise in the mind or outside of the mind. This form gives rise to a sensation, which gives rise to perception, followed by activity (mental or physical), and lastly consciousness. In the Buddha’s explanation, the five skandhas occur one after the other, very rapidly. They are not a continuous stream but rather a series of discrete or discernible moments. A form arises or appears, then there is a sensation, then perception, then activity, then consciousness. (Ibid.)
This explanation describes the most basic fractal pattern or the smallest one. “…the five skandhas occur one after the other, very rapidly.”
A simple example of this rapid movement of the five skandhas might be the experience of having something suddenly touch your neck. Your first awareness of this is the form. Your next awareness is the sensation; at this point you react with aversion, attraction, or neutrality. If you are outside, you might react with aversion as you perceive (third skandha) the touch to probably be an insect. Following that, there is often rapid physical activity (fourth skandha) as you involuntarily reach to brush it away. After that has been done, you will determine what actually happened, you will become conscious (fifth skandha) of what happened.
If it was an insect you might shudder or feel relieved. If it was a leaf on a tree branch you might feel a bit foolish. Your consciousness of the event comes after the first four skandhas have arisen or occurred.
A larger fractal version of the above might be the feeling (form, or first skandha) that you are ignorant about something. This form gives rise to an aversive sensation (second skandha), which leads you to perceive (third skandha) that you ignorance is probably something you should correct. This leads to mental activity (fourth skandha) which may require months of your time. At last, when you are satisfied that you are no longer ignorant on that subject, you will experience a new state of consciousness (fifth skandha).
In the above example, your ongoing feeling of ignorance as you study the subject might also be described as the fifth skandha, consciousness. Understanding that the five skandha explanation is a fractal pattern to be used to help you understand yourself will allow you to apply it where it can do the most good. As with so many things in the humanities, you will do better if you see the pattern and use it to aid understanding without letting yourself get trapped in a quasi-logical net that hinders understanding.
FIML practice can be seen as a fractal pattern as well. The smallest, or most basic level, is the basic FIML query which interrupts normal communicative processing to insert rational thought and more accurate information. The FIML query interrupts the mind as soon as the second skandha, sensation, arises. Whenever partners question a sensation, they will immediately change all of the five skandhas associated with it. Rather than follow a semi-conscious sensation down the same associative path as usual, partners gain an entry point to their deep psychology and an awareness of how their communications are affected by it.
A larger fractal pattern of FIML, might be hearing about it (form); feeling interested in it (sensation); perceiving what it is; learning the system (activity); and lastly gaining a new consciousness about how language can be made to work much better than without FIML.
FIML is a tool that helps partners leverage communicative details to gain great insight into how their minds work. Since FIML is not (yet) the rule for how people speak to each other, a non-FIML fractal pattern can be seen in society at large: since most people do not have a way to access the highly important details that FIML can access, they do not expect anyone else to access them either. Thus, by default they accept horribly sloppy reasoning and lies from politicians and others who make important statements in public.
The fractal pattern of non-FIML communication in society at large is all but defined by lies, secrets, and hidden motives. At a smaller fractal level, so are the personal lives of most people. The world goes on. It is my guess that brain scans and better computers and computer programs will one day make it easier for people to see that having the ability to perceive and manipulate communicative details greatly enhances communication. And that communication so enhanced greatly enhances our understanding of ourselves and others. And that this sort of understanding will help us see that we do not have to live in a society that is all but characterized by lies, sloppy reasoning, and partisan nonsense.
In the humanities, fractal patterns can be seen at many levels. By changing the details of very significant communicative patterns between ourselves and our partners, we will change both ourselves and our perceptions of others, and this will gradually lead to better concepts of what society is and how it can function. ABN
IMO, Malone is providing the softest reason possible. The stronger and more likely reason is both covid and the covid vax are bioweapons used to weaken especially the West to facilitate full takeover of our entire civilization. We can all see Trump appears to be controlled by Netanyahu, conforming to a long line of presidents who place Israel’s goals far above American needs and well-being. How this is connected to covid and the covid vax is not hard to see. ABN
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