"The American ability to fight militarily is going down. And to the military, that means if we don’t have war now and wait till next year in the future, we’ll be less and less and less able to win.

"Well, the reality is they’re going to lose wherever they go, unless there’s atomic war and the chessboard is thrown over. And I think their feeling is the Americans are doing everything they can, from Ukraine to Israel to Iran, to try to stir up a retaliation so that they can then say, ah, we’re under attack, we’re purely defending ourselves, and once you tell your population and your voters this is a war for defense, as the Nazis know, you can always get a—as Goebbels said, you can always get a population on your side if you say it’s for defense."

https://voxday.net/2024/08/03/neocons-are-back/

Biden almost flew to Russia as a result of the exchange .

The President of the United States went and boarded the plane after all the prisoners had already gotten off it , and sat there until he was taken out of it .

The pills don't help anymore.

🇮🇪 🤝 🇬🇧 Catholics and Protestants are quite literally marching shoulder to shoulder in Belfast, Northern Ireland as they demand an end to Mass Immigration.

🔶️ When these two communities are putting their differences aside and coming together, you know you’ve messed up.

📎 Cillian

"There are three possible explanations for the Trump assassination attempt, which Big Tech and the media have attempted to delete from our memory: (1) thanks at least in part to DEI, the Secret Service has achieved levels of incompetence heretofore unimagined; (2) the Deep State let it happen through malicious apathy; or (3) the Deep State made it happen."

https://moonbattery.com/unprecedented-incompetence-or-inside-job/

A Cool Guide to Latin Phrases
https://redd.it/1ecmn0e
@coolguides

Enormous xylophone in the woods of Kyushu, Japan plays a Bach tune when a wooden ball rolls down each "key."

Dark Brandon kicks covid’s ass (AGAIN) and comes back 5 inches taller.

This is my President.

@AltSkull48

☀ Three suns rose at once in China today.

In the morning, a very rare optical phenomenon occurred - a halo, as a result of which rural residents of central China observed three Suns at the same time.

I was asked elsewhere if the Freemasons founded America. Not exactly. Here was my answer:

The Masons grew out of the Knights Templar, but the architect of modern Freemasonry was Francis Bacon who stands at the confluence of Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, Scientism and the intelligence apparatus of the English Empire. I made the case for Bacon as the Father of Scientism, and through Peter Thiel, inspiration for the modern technocratic state, here:

https://aetherczar.substack.com/p/23-francis-bacon-and-the-birth-of

My friend Robert Frederick is the proprietor over at The Hidden Life is Best podcast (https://thehiddenlifeisbest.com/) where he shares "The Strangest Story Never Told About the Most Influential Man Who Ever Lived." He goes much deeper into the rabbit hole and has uncovered and tied together a bunch of fascinating scholarship.

His thesis starts with Bacon being the author of the plays attributed to Shakespeare. Shakespeare itself was just one of Bacon's intelligence operations on behalf of the English Empire - a psychological warfare operation to achieve English cultural supremacy and bolster Tudor legitimacy in particular and the English Empire in general.

Bacon's role in scientism, The Royal Society, and more modern science is outlined in my piece.

Bacon was also likely the author of the Rosicrucian manifesto, and a key player in the rebirth and popularization of Freemasonry. Bacon’s 1580s-1590s reformulation introduced additional Egyptian and Judaic, (but not Christian) Gnostic symbolism. Those elements pervade Shakespeare and also Bacon’s acknowledged public writings, like the New Atlantis. Freemasonry then served as a vehicle and tool for English intelligence to exercise power including in the American and French Revolutions.

Francis Bacon personally ran the Virginia Colony corporation that settled Jamestown (1607) the first successful English settlement, just down the Chesapeake Bay from DC. Beat the Puritans by more than a dozen years.

Washington was a Mason. Franklin was a Mason AND a member of the Hellfire Club in London. Jefferson thought Bacon was the smartest man who ever lived.

The American Freemasons broke away from English Freemasonry and served the purposes of the emerging American elite, until the time of the Anti-Masonic movement in the 1820s which may have been the English Grand Lodge reasserting control over the organization in America.

So the TLDR is Freemasonry did not "found America." It was an intelligence and political influence and clandestine coordination tool employed by the English in the exercise of empire in general and in the colonization of America in particular. Masonry was employed by the Founders as they broke free in the revolution. The amount of Masonic imagery in the layout of Washington DC, in the Great Seal, and elsewhere is truly staggering. The Washington Monument is a freaking Masonic obelisk, for goodness sake.

Some more mainstream, "respectable" scholarship along those lines, Builders of Empire: Freemasons and British Imperialism, 1717-1927 by Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs: https://amzn.to/3WPLsqm

"Bradbury had a lighter touch and less moral substance than either Tolkien or Lewis. But in Something Wicked he offered up the same way to resist evil. It’s the deliberate choice to love when it’s easier to hate; to be grateful; to take joy from the gifts we already have in life despite its burdens and disappointments – these are what defeat Mr. Dark. These are the things that give us peace, make us happy, and keep us fully human. Which is why they’re so infuriating to the chronically restless and dissatisfied."
https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2024/08/02/something-wicked-this-way-comes-2/#:~:text=Bradbury%20had%20a,restless%20and%20dissatisfied.