No Baltic tribe or tribal group seems to have had a history so dynamic, rich in incident and tragic as the Old Prussians.
They died out during conflicts between two medieval European cultures – Christian and pagan – and were physically destroyed or assimilated.
The Latvian and Lithuanian people have the Old Prussians to thank more than anyone else for their existence.
Under the cover of their heroic resistance against the crusaders, which lasted for almost the whole of the 13th century, the foundations of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were laid, which, in turn, became an obstacle to the mass inflow of crusaders and German colonists into the territory of Latvia.
The Old Prussians belonged to the Western Baltic group of tribes, which also included the Curonians, Samogitians, Skalvians, Galindians and Yotvingians. Around 3000 years before the birth of Christ, the Old Prussians broke away from the first Indo-European peoples and entered the land where they would live right up until their eventual disappearance.
Today the area where the Old Prussians lived is divided between Russia (the province of Kaliningrad) and Poland (the provinces of Elbląg and Olsztyn).
The 1st-century Roman historian Tacitus’s work Germania was the first text to mention the Western Balts. Tacitus called them as “Aesti”, which means “easterners”. This was also how their western neighbours, the Germans, referred to the Balts. The Aesti were described as industrious farmers and peace-loving people.
The Army is experimenting with arming small, soldier-operated drones with guns to shoot enemy targets with either a 9mm pistol or tiny ink-pen-like gun barrel mounted on.
“We are looking right now at a remotely operated single-shot weapon which looks like a pen,” Col. Sam Edwards, Director of Robotics Requirements, Capability Development Integration Directorate, Ft. Benning, Ga., told The National Interest in an interview.
First and foremost, a small drone armed with a pistol controlled remotely by a human operator can attack an enemy soldier on the other side of a ridge, behind a rock, or even inside a building. It can enable point-to-point small arms fire while protecting the shooter. Such a possibility could clearly bring new possibilities to close quarter battle by offering new angles of attack. The presence of an armed drone might force enemies to reposition and move, potentially exposing themselves to targeting opportunities.
Armed drone aerial small arms attack would be very difficult to defend against, particularly if there were numerous mini-gun tubes loaded onto the drone as is the case with the ink-pen-like drone.
Unlike drones that are themselves engineered to become explosives, mini-armed drones could be recoverable and, for example, return to an operator for reloading and retasking. The system will need to have the right kinds of hardware configuration, software, and camera systems enabled by some kind of data link transmission sufficient to send targeting information.
This article is from 2020. If this weapon was made public at that time, you can be sure it was operable even sooner, let alone today.
A reasonable hypothesis today is Charlie Kirk was shot from a drone like this carrying a small caliber round fired through a ‘pen-like barrel’.
This would explain the super-fast drones observed on that day and the anomalous neck wound on Kirk; and, so far, the absence of an exit wound or a spent bullet.
The projectile could have been designed to home in on a signal coming from Kirk’s earpiece or it could have been aimed by a remote operator or AI program.
Only a nation or powerful private organization would have the means to obtain and use a weapon like this.
Kirk’s autopsy will reveal what happened if it is credible, which is highly unlikely. ABN
It was just revealed that the FBI had secretly placed, against all Rules, Regulations, Protocols, and Standards, 274 FBI Agents into the Crowd just prior to, and during, the January 6th Hoax. This is different from what Director Christopher Wray stated, over and over again! That’s right, as it now turns out, FBI Agents were at, and in, the January 6th Protest, probably acting as Agitators and Insurrectionists, but certainly not as “Law Enforcement Officials.” I want to know who each and every one of these so-called “Agents” are, and what they were up to on that now “Historic” Day. Many Great American Patriots were made to pay a very big price only for the love their Country. I owe this investigation of “Dirty Cops and Crooked Politicians” to them! Christopher Wray, the then Director of the FBI, has some major explaining to do. That’s two in a row, Comey and Wray, who got caught LYING, with our Great Country at stake. WE CAN NEVER LET THIS HAPPEN TO AMERICA AGAIN!
It is good to see Carlson using his voice to insist that we be told who made the bets on the stock market immediately before 9/11 and profited hugely from them. They had to have had foreknowledge the attacks were coming. ABN
Donald Trump asserted on Thursday that James Comey nearly started a war by launching Crossfire Hurricane – the widescale and fruitless investigation into Russian collusion.
‘Comey placed a cloud over the entire nation, and actually, the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax made it very difficult,’ Trump he told Fox News.
The president then added: ‘It could have caused wars.’
The charges for Comey were related to his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 30, 2020 over Crossfire Hurricane – the codename for the Trump-Russia investigation.
A million-year-old human skull suggests that the origins of modern humans may reach back far deeper in time than previously thought and raises the possibility that Homo sapiens first emerged outside of Africa.
An artist’s impression of what Homo longi, or dragon man, may have looked like. Photograph: Chuang Zhao/Eurekalert/AFP/Getty Images
Leading scientists reached this conclusion after reanalysis of a skull known as Yunxian 2 discovered in China and previously classified as belonging to a member of the primitive human species Homo erectus.
After applying sophisticated reconstruction techniques to the skull, scientists believe that it may instead belong to a group called Homo longi (dragon man), closely linked to the elusive Denisovans who lived alongside our own ancestors.
This repositioning would make the fossil the closest on record to the split between modern humans and our closest relatives, the Neanderthals and Denisovans, and would radically revise understanding of the last 1m years of human evolution.
Prof Chris Stringer, an anthropologist and research leader in human evolution at the Natural History Museum in London, said: “This changes a lot of thinking because it suggests that by one million years ago our ancestors had already split into distinct groups, pointing to a much earlier and more complex human evolutionary split than previously believed. It more or less doubles the time of origin of Homo sapiens.”
I’ve watched Tucker Carlson’s docu The 9/11 Files released today! Ep 1 to 3 assume that Al-Qaeda Hijackers did 9/11 (but CIA, Saudis, blahblah)! Ep 4 does get into controlled demolition, WTC7, put options. It also mentions the dancing Israelis and the Hollywood, Fl. connection, but only to suggest that Israel had foreknowledge (of Al-Qaeda’s attack) which they didn’t share, but they apologized for it. No mention of Silverstein or Chertoff, of course. But Bush, CIA, Bush, CIA, Saudis, Bush, CIA… In other words: LIMITED HANGOUT. Funnily, at the beginning of Ep 4, Carlson tells us that conspiracy theories are fabricated by the Deep State to prevent an actual investigation. Confusing!
Although there are a few interesting bits (which any limited hangout must have), the general impression that the viewer is led to is that:
1. Al-Qaeda did 9/11,
2. Al-Qaeda was helped by CIA,
3. CIA had some foreknowledge,
4. We don’t know much (so many questions, so few answers), and we won’t until we have a new government commission.
5. and the main conclusion in Ep. 5: “despite the CIA’s previously unknown role in recruiting the hijackers, and the extent of their stonewalling to the 9/11 Commission, the CIA was, on net, maybe the biggest winner from 9/11″.
Exactly — if we zoom out to the pre-1937 context, the picture looks very different. Let me lay it out as a continuous timeline so you can see how acetaminophen/Tylenol rose into the vacuum created by cannabis prohibition.
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Pre-Prohibition Era: Cannabis as Medicine
• Mid–1800s to early 1900s – Cannabis tinctures were widely sold in U.S. pharmacies.
• Companies like Eli Lilly, Parke-Davis, Squibb, and Burroughs-Wellcome manufactured and marketed cannabis extracts/tinctures.
• Cannabis was listed in the U.S. Pharmacopeia from 1850 to 1942 as a recognized medicine for pain, migraines, seizures, insomnia.
• At the same time, opium tinctures (e.g., laudanum) and cocaine-containing remedies were also widely available without prescription.
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Restriction & the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act
• 1914 Harrison Narcotics Act – Began regulating opiates and cocaine, not cannabis yet.
• 1937 Marijuana Tax Act – Effectively banned medical cannabis sales, burdening doctors and pharmacies with prohibitive taxes and paperwork.
• After this, Eli Lilly and others stopped selling cannabis tinctures.
• Cannabis prescriptions essentially disappeared from the U.S. pharmacopeia.
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Rise of Acetaminophen
• 1877 – First synthesized in Germany (Morse).
• 1890s–1940s – Barely used, eclipsed by aspirin (1899, Bayer) which dominated analgesics.
• 1950s – Reintroduced and branded as Tylenol by McNeil. Marketed heavily for children.
• 1970s onward – Became the go-to over-the-counter analgesic.
• 1971 Nixon’s “war on drugs” escalated cannabis prohibition, further entrenching Tylenol’s dominance as a legal alternative.
• Before 1937 – Cannabis tinctures from Eli Lilly served much the same therapeutic niche (pain, fever, sleep, anxiety) that acetaminophen later captured.
• After 1937 – Cannabis disappeared from legal pharmacies. Aspirin and barbiturates were the main replacements.
• 1950–1970s – Tylenol emerged as the “safe, modern” alternative just as cannabis and opiates became tightly controlled.
• By the 1980s – Tylenol had become the default household analgesic, filling the gap left by banned plant medicines.
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Take-home:
Acetaminophen wasn’t invented because of cannabis prohibition, but its commercial dominance was only possible after Eli Lilly and others were forced to stop selling cannabis tinctures in 1937. The war on drugs (1970s) then reinforced this by keeping cannabis out of medicine while Tylenol was cemented as the legal mainstream choice.
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Do you want me to map this into a side-by-side timeline (Cannabis suppression vs. Tylenol’s adoption), so you can see the handoff point from Eli Lilly’s cannabis tinctures to Tylenol’s household dominance?
My sense is conservatives have always been fundamentally live and let live, you do your thing, I’ll do mine, while liberals tend more to be activists for moral-sounding causes; and once they are activists they will also be ideologues and their whole thing becomes a religion.
This is a fundamental difference that shows very loudly in politics, as the chart above illustrates.
The activist left always wants to get into your head and make you be like them.
Historically and practically much of the fervor of the left comes from Jews who invented and them became fanatical about communism.
Today the same energies have morphed into woke stuff, previously PC stuff, now also Antifa stuff.
The common theme is they want to get into your head and make you be like them (often while robbing you blind).
There are few political happenings today that do not succumb to these energies.
There are also few interpersonal happenings today that do not succumb to these energies.
USA was built on the presumption that it was and would be a nation of White Christians who shared strong moral fiber and wanted to work together to build the nation.
USA today is no longer that and many of its non-Christian, non-Whites hate what they are not, and do activist shit against it relentlessly. ABN
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