Guess I'm a cat person...!

 An Essay

Friends, Romans, countrymen! All people, like Gaul, are divided into three parts! These are the three personality types that dominate human beings.

Each personality type is named after an animal totem that best exemplifies that type: "'Sheeple', Canines, Felines." Please note that some individuals will exhibit perhaps more than one of the types earlier in life, but one specific type usually comes to eventually dominate, most often early on, and especially as a person ages. However, extraordinary circumstances might "awaken" a sleeping trait, so beware.

"Sheeple", "Canines" and "Felines"

The Sheeple are of course the majority, the sheep-people, bah-bahing through life. They're followers, following each other one-by-one till they form a group, always following their leaders (who are usually Canines, rarely a Feline). Sheeple are by far the most numerous of the three types. Perhaps they're mostly born that way, though I am certain the modern state-imposed educational apparatus does its very best to stamp out any potential Felines (Felines are just too dangerous; see below). The modern educational system is definitely NOT going to turn out Socrates, Aristotle, or Thomas Jefferson, not if it can prevent it. (Richard Feynman, the famous American physicist, has a quote about that, somewhere.)

Sheeple or Buffalo?

Essential to being a Sheeple is that Sheeple don't question orders; they obey. They'll obey people in authority, whether or not those people deserve that authority over others. Any "argument from authority" is OK by them. Or I mean, that's the usual way sheeple are – perhaps a clever Feline can get them to question orders. Perhaps Canines can push Sheeple far enough that they "break" and "stampede." Difficult, to be sure, but not impossible. Sheeple are usually not going to cause trouble, but then again, circumstances can arise – rarely – when the Sheeple turn into rampaging buffaloes. For a short time.

Now, don't get me wrong: Sheeple have minds, souls, the innate dignity of being human; they can be smart or dumb, "educated" in modern society's understanding of "education", or not. They can be knowledgeable about particular things, and competent in keeping a technological civilization running whether as plumbers, technicians, or engineers. They can be good people, they can be bad people, they can be the worst of people, they can be the best of people – well, in absolute moral terms. They can, of course, be the "best" people in a shallow wealthy society sense, naturally enough; but if so, they inherited their wealth and position rather than garnered it by being inventive entrepreneurs. Sheeple just aren't (usually) risk-takers.

Wolf or Guard Dog?

The Canines are either shepherds or wolves. Fewer in number than Sheeple, they dominate – or try to – the other two groups. Canines are always leaders of the Sheeple and are proud they're not Sheeple! But then again, many Canines question their orders no more than the Sheeple do; HOWEVER, unlike the Sheeple, the Canines have a higher likelihood of rebeling against authority. Sometimes moral Canines will do this in order to do what is right and needful because they're good shepherds and moral leaders; alas, usually they rebel in order merely to seize the power of authority for themselves.

Canines have a certain edginess about themselves. They think they're dominant, "top dogs" or "alphas" and "leaders of the pack." Or at least they seem born with the urge to become policemen, soldiers, or those nasty kinds of bureaucrats who love bossing other people about. You've all met the type. (I had an uncle by marriage who was a nice guy except when he put his Army uniform on. Then he became the worst kind of military martinet.) Canines can be smart or dumb as well, they can be good or bad, they serve as your friendly neighborhood cop or, also, the local Stasi agent. (Again and again we've seen regular, everyday American policemen – even elected sheriffs – abuse their authority during the Covid "lockdowns".)

Canines can be exemplary clergymen "leading their flocks" or they can be classic Pharisees. But again, though they take up their time bossing people about, they do not often ask that pesky question: "Why?" (Unless it is: "Why am I following this leader's orders? Why don't I jusr shoot him and become leader myself?")

The Cats

The Felines do ask "Why" because they are the Cats, and, like their whiskered animal totem, they're curious. Few in number, they are inherently driven by the notion that "the unexamined life is not worth living", as Socrates ("patron saint of Felines"), liked to say. Felines want to know the "Why" of everything. And by definition they are more suspicious of authority than either Sheeple or Canines. That's just who they are, who they are born to be – if society doesn't beat it out of them! This curiosity of theirs naturally makes them the utter pests of the Sheeple and the Canines, especially the latter, for the Sheeple are usually clueless about being curious although they find the Cats quite harmless while the Canines are smart enough to know they're lacking something in life. (It's partly why so many Canines are emotionally unbalanced, too, naturally enough!) Also, to be sure, the Canines definitely DO NOT like their shibboleths questioned. My personal experience over 60 years confirms that Canines can become quite aggressive when you question the current narrative (whatever that might be at a given time) whereas Sheeple just smile and say, "Fancy that."

Canines will therefore react badly to pesky Felines, as they did with Socrates himself, after all. They put him to death for, really, just asking questions. (Doesn't this remind you of the current "race" narratives being fostered or Covid situation? It is out of control in politics, where curiosity about, say, the 2020 election can get you into serious trouble with the authorities. Canines are very clearly trying to "shut down" any Felines who question "the Party Line"; we see that in a number of countries and states. It will get worse.)

Felines make up many – though not all, by any means – of the world's philosophers: but I would think they make up most of the artists, the inventors, the gamblers, entrepreneurs, and risk takers. They also make up the quiet dreamer types noted for being an excellent teacher in the classroom or "problem solver" in business. Once upon a time, they made up the majority of journalists and scientists, but that is definitely no longer true. The academic disciplines of science and journalism drive them out as surely as any military or journalism traditionally drives them out, and business will also drive them out, with vengeance.

Why? In part because the Cats embarrass the "hacks" and "time servers" in business, science or the military, or the propagandists in journalism; and in part if they're ever actually listened to by Canines in government, Felines can change the world.

Canines can't have that. It would disturb the "peace of mind" of the Sheeple, don't you know. (I'm being sarcastic.)

Examples:

The Military:

General Patton and Napoleon Bonaparte are perfect examples of exemplary Cats who engaged in the usually Canine Profession of the Military. They were fantastic generals. Thus, of course, they were not popular with their contemporary generals. They were Felines in the military art and they embarrassed their Canine friends. They were hated. (Napoleon dealt with that by making himself an emperor but failed to establish a lasting regime. He was eventually exiled and died not long after. A wide-spread belief is that Napoleon was murdered. George Patton, however, was murdered even before he went into exile; i.e. retired to the U.S.)

Such leaders are usually few, and they end up badly. This is true in the history of any military, for example, Ancient Rome. But just look at the Japanese military during WWII and consider Admiral Raizō Tanaka and General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the "Tiger of Malaysia". Brilliant military leaders indeed, these two garnered famous victories against impossible odds. (The Americans called Tanaka "Tenacious Tanaka".) However, these two men were loathed by the leaders of Japan's military. And alas, the Canine idiots had the power, and thus they sidelined both of these extremely capable officers. Yamashita was brought back in a hopeless situation toward the end of the war and ended up accused of war crimes and executed in 1946. Admiral Tanaka peaceably retired post war and lived quietly in obscurity until 1969. 

Finally, two quick examples from U.S. history: U.S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman were brilliant generals in the American Civil War, but both men had actually been driven out of the Peacetime Army before the war. (The extraordinary circumstances of the war allowed them back in.) The Canines in the Peacetime Army didn't want them because the two cats were just too clever. And also, I am sure, neither Grant nor Sherman liked being bossed about by Canine "hacks", and  the two clever generals were probably utterly bored in the Peacetime Army. (Similarly, had the French Revolution not happened, Napoleon would have never risen to be a colonel of artillery. Canines and Felines take advantage of extraordinary circumstances.)

Examples could be multiplied, but it is also true that we'll never know about all those cats who were caged by canines before they were allowed to gain any recognition for their "catness", or hammered down into the Sheeple.

In Part Two of this essay, I'll consider the situation regarding the discipline of science, because that is affecting all of us at the moment, and will continue to do so, in ever more profound, and dire, ways.

An Préachán

Joe Biden whispering into the microphone at a presser...and a Lovecraft movie

The other day, China Zhou Biden gave "the worst speech ever", as a friend put it.

But Biden's whispering into the microphone at a presser the next day is even worse! Bonchie covers it here at RedState and has the video clip, looped. Absolutely utterly creepy! And watch Biden's eyes – he's clearly drugged out of his (the little bit that's left, that is) mind.

What we're enduring is like a horror movie! In fact, here's the trailor of 1970's (an ominous year for Trad Catholics) The Dunwich Horror. This was one of the better adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft – it gets the alternative universe "feel" of Lovecraft's writings. (H.P.L. was a Weird Tales writer back in the '20s and '30s and if he wasn't actually possessed, he was certainly "under the influence".) However, the film is better plotted than the short story of the same name, and it seems a prophetic movie when you consider Biden & Son.  (The Bidens seem more than a little possessed themselves.) At 1:08 in, when the girl opens the door, that's like one imagines opening the door into Biden's hidden lair. An doesn't the young actor Dean Stockwell look something like Hunter Biden? At two minutes in, that's the Feds breaking through the wall, coming to visit! (Probably to give "the Jab", right?) The FBI in full form! 

Just wow, a chairde. Sc-Fi and Horror writers were often prophetic!

An P

Abp. Viganò discusses failure of Vatican II Novus Ordo Mass

 In a recent interview, Archbishop Viganò noted something that bears repeating (well, he said a lot that bears repeating, but this stood out to me).

Excerpt (highlights mine):

Those who prepared the conciliar documents to have them approved by the Council Fathers acted with the same malice that the drafters of the liturgical reform adopted, knowing that they would interpret ambiguous texts in a Catholic way, while those who were to disseminate and utilize them would interpret them in every sense except that.

In fact, this concept is confirmed in everyday practice. Have you ever seen a priest who celebrates the Novus Ordo with the altar facing East, entirely in Latin, wearing the fiddleback (Roman) chasuble and distributing Communion at the Communion rail, without this arousing the ire of his Ordinary and confreres, even though, strictly speaking, this way of celebrating would be perfectly legitimate? Those who have tried — certainly in good faith — have been treated worse than those who habitually celebrate the Tridentine Mass. This demonstrates that the continuity hoped for in the Council’s hermeneutic does not exist, and that the break with the pre-conciliar Church is the norm to which one must conform, to the satisfaction of conservatives.

An P again:

For those who don't know, here is an image of the fiddleback (Roman) chasuble:

And this below is an example of the so-called "Gothic chasubles", which you're more familiar with, unless you attend the TLM:

The fiddleback or Roman chasuble is obviously designed for the priest to be facing ad orientem, toward the east and God, whereas the Vatican II Gothic one is for the priest facing ad populum, toward the people. The Roman chasuble is a portable icon screen, fulfilling the role the iconostasis does in the Eastern Liturgies. Iconostases and Roman chasubles serve as the curtain in the Jerusalem Temple, the confection of the Eucharistic sacrifice being the highest and holiest sacrament.

Before Vatican II's liturgical changes (implemented over a decade), it was easy to believe something holy was occurring, indeed, nothing less than the Incarnation of God brought forward time into our midst; after the Novus Ordo reigned supreme, however, it would take a miracle to believe in Transubstantiation. This is because the liturgy remains the Church's main teaching device.

Viganò states in the interview:

Now, if Vatican II was a revolutionary act, both in the way it was conducted and in the documents it promulgated, it is logical and legitimate to think that its liturgy is also affected by this ideological approach, especially if we bear in mind that it is the chief means by which the faithful and clergy are catechized. It is no coincidence that Luther and the other Protestant and Anglican heretics used the liturgy as their main method to spread their errors among the faithful.

An interview very worth reading.

An Préachán

Did Joe Biden threaten to nuke Americans?

 Has the Demented Idiot-in-Chief finally gone too far?

An excerpt:

Earlier today, as RedState reported, Joe Biden launched into another dementia-laden rant where he talked about nuking Americans and shooting deer in kevlar vests. No, I’m not being facetious. That actually happened (see Biden Accidently Makes Best Ever for Second Amendment in Speech Promoting Gun Control Initiatives).

An P again:

Has 'Zombie Zhou Bi-dumb' finally gone too far? He's a dithering demented senile moron, and before the onset of his dementia, he was a moron, a proven plagiarist, and he's ever been the definition of a corrupt politician, using his position to collect massive amounts of money illegally. (It's a family thing with him and his son; it's just come out that Hunter Biden used his father's credit card to pay for $25,000 to a Russian prostitute. That must have been some whore!)

As the author of this piece, Bonchie, goes on to say:

The truth is that if enough Americans felt the government had become tyrannical and rose up against it with arms protected by the Second Amendment, things would be a lot more complicated and gray than “well, the military has nukes.” We’ve seen that reality play out in foreign countries many times. Further, the very fact that Biden would threaten such is yet more proof the Second Amendment must be protected.

The fact is, however, that despite Biden being insane, this speech was quite intentional. As one Commentator to the RedState article put it:

Larrycas • 10 hours ago
It wasn’t a dementia-laden rant. His handlers wrote it and passed it around for redline edits. Many people looked at it and approved it. And the addle-brained Xiden practiced it. These people are insane.

Insane they are. Both the Global Warming fraud and the Covid hoax shows both how far they're willing to go to push their plans, and how far we've fallen that we let them do this.

And remember, this gibberish from Biden is more than equaled by absolute utter gibberish from the Chairman of the Joint Chief, Mark Milley, who went on a ridiculous rant about Critical Race Theory, White Supremacists, and boasted of having read Marx. Sundance at The Conservative Treehouse has a great article here.  

Remember Obama replaced the top military leaders of pre-Obama times, and replaced them with political operatives like Milley. The very Leftist French Republic in the decades before WWI also emasculated their military. Look what that got them. As another RedState commentator wittily put it, should a "woke" military give the order to fire on Americans:

 Usernotfound Colonel Race • 9 hours ago
Even if they did, an officer who got promoted for their gender confusion and pink hair is not likely to be very effective.

No, they're not. And China knows this. Expect an invasion of Taiwan any day.

Friends, this can't go on much longer. How it all comes undone, and whether we'll all be undone with it, we'll have to see. If they make "vaccines" mandatory, that will be a sign that they won't tolerate anyone who rejects their poison (pun intended). Tucker Carlson, commenting on the bizarre school board meeting the other night wherein angry parents confronted the school board members on Critical Race Theory, and the board chairman suddenly declared the session to be an unlawful assembly (simply jaw-dropping insanity, but it happened and so far they've gotten away with it) and the local sheriffs arrest two parents. Of this Carlson said, "They're gonna get a revolution if they keep acting like this."

An excerpt:

“If they keep acting like this, they’re gonna get a revolution,” Carlson responded. “I mean, this is what happens when you ignore legitimate complaints, is people get radical. And I hope it doesn’t happen. But, you can see how it could. So in this case, these are the people who pay for Loudoun County Schools.”

An Préachán

Did Our Lord Christ habitually speak Greek?

 Amici,

Old Father Hunwicke has a number of fascinating articles about the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Old Testament created by 70 Jewish scholars in the last centuries before the Incarnation.

In one of them here, Fr. H raises an amazing argument I've never come across before (I am ALWAYS open to learning new things and reviewing criticism, etc.).

The article, for your perusal (highlights mine):

Dunno if you read, a couple of months ago, of some two-millennia-old Biblical fragments recently discovered in caves in the Judean desert. One of them (Zechariah 8:16-17) was ... except for the Tetragrammaton ... written in Greek.

Greek was the lingua franca of the Mediterranean world.  Rome was the largest Greek-speaking city in that world. Non-Greek languages survived in circumstances of bilinguality. Think Palestine ... think Wales ...

But we know that Christ spoke Aramaic. This raises an interesting question. The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke contain long passages which are more or less verbally identical. 

IF YOUR ARE SPEED-READING THIS, YOU MIGHT AS WELL SAVE YOURSELF TIME BY GIVING IT UP NOW.

Now: if you ask three people to translate a single text into a different language, it is highly improbable that their three renderings will be verbally identical, even reproducing the same word-order. In a classroom, you will work out whose work was passed around and then plagiarised by the other "students". Time was when, at this point, the cane came out of the cupboard. Not that I ever used one. I relied on Mental Cruelty.

So, clearly, one needs an answer to the problem of the Three Synoptic Gospels. Who did the original translation of the words of the Lord from Aramaic into Greek? Mark is shorter and cruder, so he is clearly first. The other two borrowed from him. What about passages in Matthew and Luke which are not borrowed from Mark? It stands to reason that they were taken from a now-lost work which wiser men than me (or you) have called 'Q'.

Bingo! You have solved "the Synoptic Problem".

But do we know that Christ spoke Aramaic? Of course we do. Mark records him as using the Aramaic Talitha Coum(i) when raising Jairus' daughter. And Abba and Ephphatha. QED.

Um ...

But why does Mark only record a few odd Aramaic words? Modern Scientific Commentators go shifty at this point. Do these words safely record Christ as an Aramaic speaker ... or do they neatly record some rare occasions when a habitual Greek-speaker spoke Aramaic instead?

In conditions of bilinguality, the 'old' language ... Welsh or Aramaic ... may still be used round the hearth, in families, by women and children. The chaps will use the big, cosmopolitan language ... English, let us say, or Greek. But when turning to babies, young girls, the handicapped, they might well use the 'informal' local language. I have heard educated speakers of 'Establishment' English automatically using the Glottal Stop when they address children or minorities which they (perhaps unconsciously) despise.

I have a fair bit more to say on all this. But first let me dispose of the 'Priority of Mark' ...shorter, cruder, therefore clearly first of the Gospels to have been written.

A great Oxford papyrologist called Peter Parsons once gave a paper, not on any biblical subject, but on Classical Literature. Particularly the chronology of the plays of Aeschylus. Recent papyrological discoveries had revealed that the Supplices was quite late in the playwright's oeuvre. But it had always been assumed that it was among his first plays ... because of its 'primitive' structure etc, etc..

Parsons adduced other examples of the dangers of facile a priori assumptions.

One of the problems about Modern Scientific Biblical Scholarship is that those involved in it are often much too proud to take any notice of those outside their own narrow, precious, specialty. Particularly of us Classicists! More on this later.

If Christ habitually spoke Greek, then the 'Synoptic Problem' disappears into thin air. Massive numbers of 'learned' books and articles are ... Crass. No; we do not need another imaginative reconstruction of 'Q'.

And the 'new' Judean manuscript makes clear (what we well knew already) that Christ would not have been the only faithful Jew to speak Greek. Indeed, consider the varied names recorded of His disciples. PHILIPPOS is not only a Greek name; it is redolent of the Macedonian North Greek culture which became part of the common Hellenic currency of the regions which had been conquered by Alexander the Great and ruled by his 'Successors'. 'ANDREAS is Greek for ... no; I will leave to you the fun of speculating. You might enjoy including in your speculations the names of the Hellenised Chief Priests mentioned in the Books of the Maccabees.

An P again:

Absolutely fascinating.

French review of Hungarian Covid cases since vaccination began...

Friends,

This report is from Truth Based Media. And if your French is good enough, here's the original article. This original article is by Dr Gérard Delépine.

The graph for Hungary:

However, Hungary is not so bad as other countries. These same sort of dire statistics appear for most countries, usually worse. Next door Romania, which has a large ethnic Hungarian population, is worse.

If you are interested in these developments in other European and non-European countries, review the article.

A most curious development, isn't it?

• Basically, for the first half of 2021, everywhere the "vaccinations" have been implemented, there followed a dramatic rise in new infections and mortality for several weeks or months, before subsiding.
  
• If you accept the official "party line" that the "vaccines" are working, then we have no way of knowing why the infection/mortality increase occurred, or whether the subsiding is permanent.
  
• In an effort to explain what's going on, some resort to invoking the so-called "Delta Variant" of Covid, as report on here at the NOQ Report.
• Those of us who have been saying this entire Covid "narrative" is a fraud have been predicting exactly this: PCR tests will keep finding more strains of Covid, which will require more and more "vaccines", until everyone taking the "vaccines" resemble pin cushions.
  

Meanwhile, chaos reigns in the Public Health departments of the various nations. The contradictions and conundrums of Covid has left them in a mess, and China rubs it in our faces by rewarding the idiots who supposedly made the virus in the first place!

Also, "death by vaccine" numbers keep increasing. In the U.S., the VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Reaction Reporting Service) says over 6,000 Americans have died from "the Jab" and thousands have become seriously ill (in Europe the vaccine mortality is over 10,000, it is said). Dr. Peter McCullough asserts to Reiner Fuelmich the actual number of Americans dead from the vaccine is over 50,000. (McCullough says flatly that what is going on is "bio-terrorism by injection".)

(Starting at 17 mins in, Dr McCullough has some startling news. "One (vaccine) death is one too many...I've chaired over two dozens boards for the FDA and the NIA, and with this program, there is no clinical [can't make it out] committee, no safety monitoring board, no human ethics committee, and those structures are mandatory for large clinical investigations. The one that's really used for what's going on is malfeasance, which is wrong doing by those in position of authority. And without any safety measures in place, you can see what's going on. We're administering – basically – it's the largest application of a biological product with the greatest  amount of mortality in the history of our country. (18:11) We've had over five thousand deaths, as you know, over 15,000 hospitalization, in the EU it is over 10,000 deaths. We are working with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMS, data, and we have a pretty good lead that the real number is ten-fold. Is ten-fold. We knew data from Harvard in 2016 that the Vaccine Adverse Effects Reporting system only reports about ten percent of what's really going on. We have inside people, now, a whistleblower inside the CMS, and also two whistleblowers in the CDC. And those are being developed right now in order to get this out. So we're looking at ten-X, we think we're looking at 50,000 dead Americans. 50,000! So we actually have more vaccine deaths per day than certainly the viral illness." (19:11)

Reports of the vaccines sterilizing people are also growing more numerous, and oddly, and shockingly, the New York Times is predicting population crash in the near future. Do they know something about the vaccines we don't (officially) know? 

Nothing about this Covid story makes sense. The longer the circus goes on, the less sense it makes.

An P

Guest post: Saint Columba biography

 Guest post by Mike Finn, an AOH historian:

The Irish island most associated with St. Colm Cille is Tory Island which lies nine miles off the north western coast of County Donegal. 

You will find Tory Island first mentioned in Irish Mythology. As the ancient tales relate, the island was the home of the Formorians, a race of giants (supposedly, a very rough bunch), who were ruled by King Balor of the Evil Eye. Balor had one eye in the middle of his forehead and the other one directly opposite in the back of his head. One glance from his evil eye meant certain death.

A prophesy dictated that Balor could only be killed by his own grandson. To prevent this prophesy from being fulfilled, Balor imprisoned his only daughter, Ethlinn, in a crystal tower on the eastern end of Tory Island so that no man could get to her.  Despite his efforts at shielding Ethlinn form the world, Cain mac Cainte of the Tuatha de Danann, managed to reach the island and enter the tower. Through their union Lugh Lamhfada (Lugh of the Long Arm) was born. Lugh escaped Balor’s attempt to murder him as an infant on Tory Island and became a member of the Tuatha de Danann. He would become the chief god of the Celts. In the second and final battle of Mag Tuireadh in County Roscommon, Lugh managed to smash out Balor's eye with a sling and Balor fell dead. This battle marked the end of the Formorians and ushered in the rule of the Tuatha de Danann.

Later in history we find the island being Christianized by St. Colm Cille. Local legend says that Colm Cille stood on a hill in County Donegal with his companions Saints Fionán, Dubthach and Begley. As they stood there they discussed who would have the task of converting the Tory islanders to Christianity.  They decided to resolve the question by throwing their crosiers. Whoever threw his crosier as far as the island would carry out the conversion.  Colmcille’s crosier landed on Tory Island, winning him the reward of converting the island. His crosier is said to have formed a crater on Tory’s northeast cliffs.  Colmcille founded a monastery on Tory in the 6th century.

Colm Cille is most famous for his tangle with copyright law.  During a visit to his old teacher, St. Finnian of Moville, Colm Cille was shown a manuscript that was the Psalter of St. Jerome (a Psalter is a volume containing the Book of Psalms). Colm Cille wanted a copy of the manuscript to share with his monasteries. So, each night Colm Cille carefully traced the pages of the manuscript onto fresh parchment. Soon Colm Cille had copied the entire volume.  Colm Cille claimed the copy as his. Finnian demanded the return of the original manuscript and the copy. Colm Cille believed he should keep the copy.  The matter was referred to Dermott, the High King for arbitration.  After reviewing the evidence Dermott issued the now famous copyright decision, “To each cow her calf and to each book its copy.”  Colm Cille was forced to return the copy of the Psalter to Finnian.

This decision led to the Battle at Cúl Dreimhne, near Ben Bulben in County Sligo, Dermott's army and Colm Cille's family (Uí Néills) met. Throughout the battle (often called The Battle of the Books), Colm Cille prayed for the success of the northern force. His prayers were answered. The High King's army of three thousand men was massacred, with only one casualty on the side of the Uí Néills.

Colm Cille was almost excommunicated for his actions in inciting the battle, but he was saved at the last minute by the intervention of St. Brendan of Birr.  However, in confessing his sins to St. Molaise, Colmcille was given a most unusual penance.  St. Molaise said, “You will leave your land and your kindred – forever.  You shall behold them no more but shall travel in foreign lands, winning as many souls for Christ as were slain at Cúl Dreimhne.” He then left for Scotland and established his monastery on the island of Iona.

MIKE

"Three-way-squeeze" will result in Biden's departure from the presidency...

 Amici,

See The Three-Way-Squeeze here for a great read, a "futurist" speculation about the near future.

It's a fascinating essay by James Howard Kunstler (novelist, political writer, blogger) on the near future. He predicts the Joe Biden Administration will last "probably" till the Fall (Autumn for non-U.S. English) of this year, and I myself predicted Biden himself wouldn't last through April. However, I didn't count on Biden's wife, "Dr Jill", who seems to be replaying the role of Woodrow Wilson's wife, Edith Bolling, in the last months of that dictator's presidency. (Wilson had suffered a stroke in October of 1919.) It's now mid-June and the zombie "Zhou Xiden" is still tethered to his wife or the puppet strings of whoever is controlling him, but this trip to Europe and the G7 was so cringe-worthy embarrassing as to be utterly appalling.

(I actually prepared an email a few days ago with many examples of Biden's stumbles, mumbles, bumbles and "get-off-my-lawn" rage reactions (like his clutching his answer notebook to his chest, leaning into the microphone, and breathing in clear rage the words, "I've only been here 120 days, ok? C'mon, man! Give me a break!", but these burlesques are all over the Net.)

As noted, Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke and his wife filled in for him. But America has never elected the brain-dead before. It has elected cripples such as John Kennedy (severe pain in his back) and the paralyzed FDR. The U.S.A. has otherwise had all sorts of presidents, from demi-gods like Washington and Jefferson and Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt to competent but forgotten men like James Monroe and James K. Polk and Calvin Coolidge, not to mention would-be dictators such as Woodrow Wilson and FDR, Theodore's distant cousin, and of course scoundrels galore, like Andrew Johnson and JFK and LBJ (and of course many would place Nixon at the head of the list, but he couldn't hold a candle to LBJ, the worst president the country ever had!) and we've even had a gay president, James Buchanan (of course the word wasn't invented back then but check out his history – interestingly, no one seemed to care about his private life.) Finally, we've had our share of incompetent presidents, such as Warren G. Harding (also a sort of scoundrel, maybe even the "master scoundrel" of them all, right, Mike?:), Herbert Hoover, and the ever luckless Jimmy Carter.

We're never had, however, a non compos mentos president! Biden is not "there" mentally; this is manifest. He exhibits this senility almost every time he is in public. It is so bad even his fawning press are mocking him now. We've never had anyone like Biden.

Presumably his "puppet master" is Obama, or Obama's "brain", Valerie Jarret. Behind them are globalists like George Soros, Klaus Schwab, and Bill Gates. Yet even as a figurehead, this trip to Europe has shown Biden to be simply grotesque, a simulacrum of a man. In truth, he always was basically stupid, a plagiarist intellectually who endlessly grabbed women's butts or spent time sniffing girls' hair, and ever and always raking in money via his brother and son. (Woodrow Wilson, in contrast, was an actual intellectual and a university professor at Princeton – when that meant something, indeed – then president of Princeton, and later governor of New Jersey! Of course, he later became a dictator, and created the first fascist state in the world, before Mussolini even invented the word! But still, he was a man of actual accomplishment.) But now, finally, Biden is on the world's stage and he's just too much. He has to go. So does Kamala Harris, who – after her disastrous trip to Guatemala – is clearly incapable of being president. Harris is currently 'on the run' from going to the Border, as Biden (or more likely, "Dr Jill") made Harris 'Border tsar', and she's avoiding that job like the plague. Harris, who came in last of all the Democrat candidates, actually never ran a real political campaign before; she was placed in her various roles owing her advancement in California politics to her carnal relations with a married Willie Brown, a powerful CA politician. She's a sort of "Animal House" sorority version the idiots in that famous 1978 movie, and her incompetence is stunning.  

Therefore, the blogs (blogs not on the Left, I should point out, but even some of those are embarrassed by Biden; he's just too embarrassing for anyone) are full of articles about how the U.S. is doomed. This Kunstler article is better written many and quite insightful. Kunstler's "Three-way-squeeze" pretty much covers the Biden situation.

I highly recommend it.

An P

June 9 was St. Columba's Feast Day...

 A Chairde,

Sorry to be just mentioning this, but 9 June was St. Colum Cille's Feast day. He lived from 7 December 521 to 9 June 597, and was an O'Neill prince (a great-great grandson of Niall of the Nine Hostages himself, high king before Patrick ever arrived) from the north of Ireland who became the Apostle of Scotland, or as some would have it, Apostle to the Picts, or at least to the Irish colony in what is now southwestern Scotland.

Were I to start to even begin a cursory history of the saint, I'd end up writing a book. For those interested, try the old Catholic Encyclopedia article on him. 

For an interesting bit of insight into the times of St. Columba, and especially those small stone "oratory" churches here and there, particularly in Kerry (far outside of St. Columba's activities) consider reading old Fr. Hunwicke's 9 June column. 

A lot of great info, on many levels! As it is not long, here it is.

9 June 2021

S Columba: all is revealed (2) (With a fine thread from more than a decade ago)

There isn't really any mystery about why S Columba did not enter the church until after the Gospel of the Mass. For the answer, you only need to go to the Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry - that's the bulge sticking out into the Atlantic just South of the not always edifying tourist honey-trap of the Dingle. (Avoid the Dingle; go to the Waterville and Valentia Island area.) If you are a bookish sort of person, take the admirable Archaeological Survey of the Iveragh published by UCC. And, before you go, read my own paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Volume 102C, Number 1, 2002. (You could do worse than to read the even older treatment in by Francoise Henry: Volume 58C, 45-166.) And let yourself be lured into crawling around the innumerable early Christian sites. 

The Skellig Island (to which, as I recently observed, G B Shaw once had himself rowed from Sneem) is uniquely dramatic and - provided you are not easily seasick - a must, but you may be a little diasappointed by being made to wait before climbing to the top so that the previous lot of tourists can come down, chattering away into their mobile phones to their boyfriends in Barcelona. Go as well or instead for peace and quiet and visit Killabuonia and trace the buildings among the brambles on the hillside; and get a boatman to row you the few yards from Port Magee to Illaunloghan,  excavated and spectacularly written up by Jenny Marshall White (for sale in the shops at Port Magee ... Magee was a pirate ...). Or during the spring low tides you can walk through the straights across to Illaunloghan, watching the scallops snapping shut as you wade past them.

What you will discover is that the stone oratories which survive in such abundance, often with 'Founder's Shrines' and standing crosses beside them, were very very small. And archaeology has revealed that the wood and peat oratories which preceded the stone edifices were even smaller. And yet, apparently, these chapels served large 'monastic' communities and very large lay districts. It is clear that entire congregations could have not got into these little buildings. 

What obviously happened was that the bulk of the congregation was outside, and that even the clergy were outside, from the litany which started the Mass until after the Gospel. Then the clergy, probably not more than half a dozen individuals, went inside for the Holy Sacrifice.

Ergo ...

Reflecctions on President Trump and Covid

Reflections on President Trump and Covid

For all his great achievements, just stupendous achievements, President Trump was played, totally. We now know how profound, and profoundly ruthless, the Deep State is. But four years ago? Therefore it is hard to fault the President for something few realized was so evil. As it was, sadly, even till the end of his Administration, he was given bad avice as he should not have let Zhou Biden be inaugurated.

But he is not “all-seeing” and he wasn’t given good advice before or after how to prevent, or deal with, election fraud. Rudy Giuliani was great in his day, for example, and could be soncisered an “Elder” with a lot of wise counsel, yet Rudy should not have been involved in stopping the steal, we now know. But in general, it is so shocking how President Trump was played by so many, and many of them he, himself, picked to serve in his Administration. In hindsight, we know now that he should have fired a huge swath of the bureaucracy (i.e. those that could be fired) and that includes all the public health bigshots. We think of the FBI/CIA types, but it probably wouldn’t have occurred to President Trump or his closest MAGA supporters that the public health people and the government “science” were foul, rotten, diseased in themselves, utterly corrupt and heinous, as Fauci clearly is. (Of course, the GOPe would have gone ballistic had he fired on the necessary scale, but they were and are an essential part of the problem.)

But I do fault him personally for two actions. First, listening to Fauci at Easter, 2020, when the President “cancelled” Easter, etc. First of all, never react in panic. Panic can be as deadly as whatever the problem is supposed to be. It is a very delicate balance. For example, his cancelling flights from China was brilliant; his cancelling the economy was not.

Trump should also have known enough to know that lockdowns are not the traditional way to deal with a contagion, but something new, in fact, CCP-inspired. He should have realized that for every percentage drop in employment, suicide increases, all that. He should have stood firm with the timeless truth that wrecking the economy would be as dangerous as anything else that could happen because it is a truism that a healthy economy can deal with most any problem whereas a crashed economy is unable to support a nation in need.

The second thing I fault him for is not clearly saying (and repeatedly saying, again and again) something like: “We’re on Trump time to get vaccines ready, but I must also carefully caution EVERYONE that these will be ‘Emergency Use Authorization’ only, and I personally cannot recommend anyone actually take them. It’s your choice, but beware. Rush jobs may work and they may not. And please carefully note that Congress has made these drug companies immune from lawsuits arising from their creations.”

Now he’s still lauding the vaccines, and the Left will not hesitate to use that against him should ever increasing numbers of people die of the vaccines (which is a strong possibility). Praising these vile potions is the worse thing Donald Trump has ever done, and I am afraid it will haunt him for the rest of his life.

Otherwise, I’ve no complainst except maybe he should have delved into Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin, by which I mean into the weird push-back against them. It was an odd thing then, and we know now why Fauci, etc., were so against these drugs.

Bottom line: the U.S. Federal Goverment is famously incompetent for a reason: it is run by the most ruthless yet worthless notwits and grifters. Admiral Yammamoto famously made it known he thought the Imperial Army was led by incompetents and crazies, but that Army's commanders are Solomonic in comparison to the "ejits" we have in commend of the United States of America. From the lowest to the highest, Zhou Biden, Moron in Chief. This can't last much longer.

An Préachán

"Parents who turn their daughters into quasi-prostitutes"

Amici,

"What happens when the 12-year-olds know more about sex than the most syphilitic Parisian madames of the 18th century?" So asks an essay everyone should read. It's a powerful though obviously disturbing article: "Parents who turn their daughters into quasi-prostitutes" by Father John Zuhlsdorf. "Fr Z" himself in turn is reporting on an essay by Peachy Keenan titled: Big Pimping. 

Fr Z includes a lot of shocking but important quotes from the article, such as these:

[…]

[F]or the last twenty years or so, American girls have been raised from birth to be premium dating fodder, primed from the first whiff of puberty to be Available for Sex on Saturday Night. So why are they being ghosted in droves? Abandoned and left to die alone, clutching their pets and Warren for President signs?

[…]

When it comes to sex ed, I believe in the screenwriting theory known as Chekhov’s gun: if you show a gun in the first act, it must be fired by the third. If you show kids the sex toys (and worse) in the first grade, the sex toys will be used by high school.

[…]

At an institutional level, we are creating a cursed generation of females expert at every imaginable permutation of sex with an infinite number of partners, while largely shunning the other thing, the main thing, the only thing still emitting any heat in the cold, merciless hearth of contemporary life: the dream of forming a family.

Because the shocking truth is: No one wants to wife a sex expert. 

[…]

Why do AWFLS want their daughters to start dating so early? As anyone who has been involuntarily single can confirm, dating almost always totally sucks. Why do PARENTS (!) want to extend their child’s miserable dating window longer and longer, younger and younger? How many years of soul-destroying “dating” are they willing to subject their kid to? Ten years? Twenty? A lifetime of unfulfilled longing?

Shouldn’t parents be guiding children to make their dating windows as short as possible? Imagine if your entire dating history consisted of one date! It would be like pitching the perfect game in baseball. We met, went on one date, and that was it.

[…]

What happens when the 12-year-olds know more about sex than the most syphilitic Parisian madames of the 18th century? Does this ensure they will marry young and well, and be good and loving parents?

Or is it more likely that this blasted knowledge guarantees a tedious multi-decade Bataan death march through dating apps, therapists, anti-depressants, polyamorous cul-de-sacs, and (eventually) to a spiritual and biological dead end?

[…]

"Smoking Gun" proof: CDC knew for years they could not differentiate between SARS-CoV 'virus' particles and naturally produced cell bits

A chairde,

You need to know about what Dr. Tom Cowan is reporting a Covid "smoking gun": i.e., there's a new scientific paper out (peer-reviewed and all the works, wholly standard "science"), that shows the CDC (and others) knew since 2004 that it is impossible to tell the difference between so called SARS-CoV "corona" "viruses" and "endogenous mimickers" that one's body naturally produces.

Dr Tom Cowan reports that 'The paper is titled “Appearances Can be Deceiving – Viral-like Inclusions in Covid-19 Negative Renal Biopsies by Electron Microscopy.” The authors are Clarrisa A. Cassol, et al., and the citation is Kidney360 1:824-828, 2020. This is a peer-reviewed journal affiliated with the American Society of Nephrology; in other words, this paper comes squarely from what is called acceptable, mainstream science.'

Here's an excerpt from Cowan's article, which is mostly quotes from the paper itself.

However, it turns out these photos are actually NOT corona viruses, and the CDC, among others, has known this fact since at least 2004. The above paper examines the evidence used to claim that these images represent viruses, rather than normal “structures” within a cell, particularly sick cells. Here is what the paper says:

“We have observed morphologically indistinguishable inclusions within podocytes and tubular epithelial cells both in patients negative for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as well as in renal biopsies from the pre-COVID-19 era” (emphasis added).

In other words, the researchers saw these same structures in people with no evidence of Covid and in samples they took before Covid even happened, before the virus was said to even exist. 

In addition, they say:

“We postulated that endogenous mimickers could be present that are morphologically indistinguishable from SARS-CoV-2 virions ultrastructurally.”

And:

“Viral-like inclusions, consisting both of single vesicles with diameters between 50 and 138 nm, as well as packed groups within larger vesicles, were found in all 15 cases, either in podocytes. Tubular epithelia, or vascular epithelial cells (figure 1).”

In all 15 cases that they examined, they found structures identical to what is being called SARS-CoV-2.  They were scattered all over the kidneys and blood vessels; they are not viruses, but normal parts of the cells. 

Then they go on to describe how these particles come about:

“A number of potential natural mimickers that can generate intracellular groups of round vesicles mimicking

SARS-CoV-2 virions could be listed, the most likely being endocytic vesicles and endosomal components such as microvesicular bodies containing exosomes, among others.  Endocytosis leads to the formation of 60-120 nm vesicles, which is within the size range described for SARS-CoV-2 (60-140nm).  These endocytic vesicles may be coated by different proteins, one of the most common being clathrin. The presence of coating proteins may be responsible for the presence of an electron-dense area surrounding these vesicles, giving the appearance of a viral corona.”

In other words, remember the famous “corona” on the corona virus? It turns out it’s just a common protein coating on normal vesicles, picking up the dyes in the electron-microscope preparation. The corona appearance is just another creative fiction, dreamed up by virologists and their graphic design teams.

Finally, the paper goes on to say that, naturally, you see more of these particles in sick people than in healthy people, which is exactly what I have been suggesting this past year. Dead and dying cells make these particles in the dying process and partly to get rid of poisons.

An P again: We've been completely scammed! This is staggering news, and along with the Kentucky court ruling and the CDC's emergency meeting over teen vaccinations, suggest a sea change in the whole Covid fraud is coming.

N.B.

The Kentucky Court Ruling wherein Judge Richard A. Brueggemann issued a state-wide permanent injunction against mask mandates and much else. It will be a "landmark" case other judges can refer to.

CDC emergency meeting about heart inflammation in young males after they received the "vaccine". NO ONE should let their children be vaccinated. 

An Préachán

"Something this Court never expected to see outside the pages of a dystopian novel"

Hi Everyone,

Well, finally, a court in the land – in this case, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, has had an extensive hearing on mask mandates and social distancing and a number of other afflictions we've had to endure, and in its judgement, it has thrown the whole lot of them out as unconstitutional, with the judge, Judge Richard A. Brueggemann, quoting a Federal district judge as noted in the title of this post. Truly, we've been living in a dystopian novel, ceart go leor. The Democrat governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear, who might have got in via vote stealing, has not only had his wings clipped, he's been plucked entirely.

See The Blaze article here for details.

What I think is most important, though it isn't mentioned in this article, is that this ruling will give major ammunition to Reiner Fuellmich and the efforts of lawyers around the world to put a stop to the Covid madness. For this Kentucky court held hearings in which experts testified – the experts the media and Fauci and his "Faucists" ignore – and found their arguments persuasive. That also happened in a German court a month or so ago and after the German judge made his truly landmark ruling, his house and car were raided be the police! (Somehow I would not recommend Governor Beshear sending in the state police to raid Brueggemann.)

While this ruling, which is broad and sweeping, issuing a permanent injunction against mask mandates, etc., for Kentucky, the article does point that this case will be used within the United States to begin not just a rolling back of what Covid mandates remain, but it removes any constitutional support for such illegal, authoritarian nostrums to be promulgated in the future. (I'm sure lawsuits in California and Michigan will be referring to Judge Brueggemann's ruling.)

Also, quite significantly, Judge Brueggemann listed to testimony about the infamous PCR test. An excerpt:

The judge also questioned the use of PCR testing as the primary means for denying people their liberties, especially given that the CDC now has a different standard of cycle thresholds for those who are vaccinated.

This invites many questions, such as why Ct values in Covid tests should differ based upon whether or not the individual being tested has been vaccinated; and, why a federal government agency has ordered labs to 'not include Ct values on laboratory reports . . . to inform patient management,' even though the CDC indicates that PCR Ct values should be ≤28. These are important questions. Case counts have been the poster child for the need to deprive people of their liberty.

An P again:

Just fantastic. Once actual evidence and testimony is heard in court, the whole Covid "narrative", from the PCR tests on through mask mandates and all the rest, simply does not bear scrutiny.

And of course all of this is within the standard Germ Theory of Disease. Even within that purview, close inspection and audit will reveal the extent of the depraved scam we've all had to endure. The legal troubles of the execrable Tony Fauci are just the tip of a legal iceberg, in other words.

An Préachán

PS Breaking news: CDC calls emergency meeting over children vaccination. Another turning point?

https://www.foxnews.com/health/cdc-looking-into-reports-of-heart-inflammation-in-young-males-after-covid-shot

Novena to St. Joseph to start tomorrow (June 10) for the preservation of the TLM

 Amici,

Rumors (they seem well-founded, but so far as we know, as of now they're still rumors) is that Bergoglio is going to squash (restrict, gut, take the stuffing out of) Pope Benedict's Summorum Pontificum, which allowed the TLM (Traditional Latin Mass) to be celebrated without the local ordinary's (local bishop's) permission. In practice, though, any priest who tries to celebrate the TLM is in for episcopal trouble, of various sorts, from most of the world's bishops. Actually repealing or restricting Pope Benedict's approval would most likely therefore result in a new persecution of the TLM.

Fr. Z has the details on a French proposal for a novena to St. Joseph to start tomorrow to avert this. 

Below is the novena prayer. Please pass it on and consider participating.

An Préachán

Saint Joseph, so faithful foster father of the divine Child, virginal husband of the Mother of God, powerful protector of the Holy Church, we come to you to recommend us to your special protection.

You have sought nothing in this world except the glory of God and the good of your neighbor. Given everything to the Savior, it was your joy to pray, to work, to sacrifice yourselves, to suffer, to die for him.

You were unknown in this world and yet known to Jesus, his gaze rested with complacency on your simple and hidden life in him.

Saint Joseph, you have already helped so many men, we come to you with great confidence.

You see in the light of God what we lack, you know our worries, our difficulties, our sorrows.

We recommend to your fatherly concern this particular matter, the preservation without restrictions of the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum in the Church.

We place it in your hands, who saved Jesus the Child, but first of all implore for ourselves the grace to never separate ourselves from Jesus by mortal sin, to know him and to love him always more, as well as his holy Mother, to live always in the presence of God, to do everything for his glory and the good of souls, and to one day arrive at the blessed vision of God to praise him eternally with you.

Amen.

What drives the viral and vaccine business: Money, of course

Amici, a Chairde,

As we keep struggling along with the ramifications of Covid, as I sit on a bus, wearing a useless mask, which thanks to Tony Fauci's emails, we know HE himself knew how useless masks are, a fact that also fit any number of previous studies over decades. (Also about Fauci, see this article on how Fauci and important U.S. doctors conspired to disqualify hydroxychloroquine as a Covid treatment, thus condeming many to death.) 

In any event, I think it is important to remember that a serious argument exists which says the entire thing is a fraud, down to the idea that viruses cause illness.

Now, I know that sounds crazy but I've been researching it for some time, and the more you know about the history of the idea, and how it came to be so widely accepted, the more incredulous you become. Dr Andrew Kaufman is someone who carefully explains the many aspects of this question. He has an excellent and clear interview here with Søren Ventegodt.

They cover a LOT of material, much of it how science works, or is supposed to work, how scientists are supposed to function, and the history of virology. For example, from 6:49 to 9:15 there's a discussion of how researchers fraudulently "isolate" viruses, and it goes beyond that latter time stamp. We've generally covered this issue before, so I'll provide here my transcript of their discussion of just WHY they use the tissue culture method of virus "isolation" (remember, it doesn't remotely "isolate" any virus). The initial part of that discussion is the famous (or infamous) spike protein on the Covid virus casing, the protein the "vaccines" are chockablock full of and which are supposed to get the body to resist the virus, but also which doomsayers assert will start ripping up arteries and veins.

(N.B. Whether the vaccines eventually result in wide-spread death, as some are predicting, I have no clue: we have wait to find out; but as of now, over 5,000 vaccine-caused deaths are recorded and the CDC's VAERS pages. That's supposed to be between one and ten percent of the total, although were that huge number true, the MainStream Media would never tell us.)

However, should Kaufman, and Dr Tom Cowan, and the German scientist Stefan Lanka, among others, be correct, then whatever the "vaccines" are, they're not doing anything to stop a virus, because viruses either don't exist or do not cause disease. And they cannot stop Covid, in particular, because Covid was never isolated, as Kaufman patiently explains.

Then I skip ahead to Kaufman's explanation of just what makes the whole virus-is-deadly-and-needs-vaccines "narrative". The short answer is money, of course. Always, always follow the money.

The infamous "spike" protein

29:50 In order to say there's a spike protein – because that's what we're talking about that's from a virus – would be to actually take a spike protein right off the envelope of a virus and study it; then you can sequence that protein and match it up to a gene. If it matches a gene, you can do it that way. But these experiments have never been done; they've never ever taken a spike protein from a virus particle because they've never actually purified any virus particles. So what they did was, and they did this from the beginning, they came up with a theoretical genome based upon these crazy computer experiments but never taking the genetic material from a virus, only piecing it together from big mixture of lots of organisms with random fragments of genetic material. And the computer models this and comes up with this sequence and calls it a gene and says it's the spike protein. But how do we know it has anything to do with nature, because it's never been shown to exist in nature. (31:19)

What drives the viral business: Money, of course

37 minutes in:

Exsomes are cell particles that escape cells that are damaged or dying. They have developed procedures to purify those out of people. And there are lots of published papers – they've even taken them out of lung fluid directly. So if they can do this procedure so readily with exosomes, which are small in number in fact, according to the theory of what they are, they're supposedly fewer than viruses, a much smaller number than viruses, they should have no problem doing it (isolation) for a virus.

(37:46) They tried this, BTW, in the 1930s and '40s after the electron microscope had been invented but they gave up in the early 1950s because they came to the conclusion that all we see are random particles of dying cells. (An P: i.e., the electron microscope allowed them to look for the tiny disease-causes particles Louis Pasteur theorized 100 years before; however...) ...There's no one predominant particle that would represent one entity. (i.e. They couldn't prove Pasteur's theory). And so they gave up until this tissue culture experiment was created by John Enders in 1954.

(38:13) And that tissue culture isolation method combined with the (then) new theory of DNA and the recently reported double-helix to lead to this re-invigoration of the virus idea, which was re-conceptualized as having genetic material. They named this new experiment "isolation", which really obfuscated the true issue, and it really propelled the whole thing (the virus idea), the real kicker of why this thing took off. These tissue culture experiments that I told you are not able to prove a virus but they are offered as the proof, is also the technique for vaccine manufacture. So that same tissue culture experiment, they take the fluid off that and that is what they call a "live virus vaccine". And if they take that fluid and put it in another culture, grow that culture and take the fluid off that and grow it in another culture, and take that fluid, that's called an "attenuated live virus vaccine". (39:20)
So, in other words, with one experiment, you can both prove the existence of a dangerous virus and manufacture a vaccine for that dangerous virus. And THAT's what's driven the science of virology, really. Because remember there are no treatments that are successful for viral illnesses. (N.B. Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin are for parasitical infections, not viruses, though they work wonderfully well against Covid.) There are some very toxic drugs that are used but none of them claim to cure a viral illness, so the main industry is the vaccine industry that addresses these viruses, and it is one of the biggest revenue generators for the pharmaceutical-medical industrial complex. (40:02)

An P again:

This last point is significant. Since traditionally, standard medicine practitioners say viral illnesses can only be protected from vaccines, as opposed to commonly available drugs like Hydroxy or Ivermectin actually curing the illness – that puts the "Big Pharma" conglomerates in a wonderful money-making monopoly. So, clearly, they had every reason to hide the effectiveness of Hydroxy and Ivermectin against Covid. 1, We now know that use of these Lysosomotropic drugs would have meant no need for any vaccines, and so no money for Big Pharma; and 2, malarial/parasitical medicines working against a supposedly viral illness would have destroyed the entire Covid narrative, for it would mean that either Covid is not a viral disease or viruses don't cause disease in the first place.

There's a lot more to the interview than these bits, and especially fascinating (and depressing) is the history of how they "proved" a virus causes Polio or the insane (and unsuccessful) lengths they went through to infect volunteers during the Spanish Flu pandemic. So if you are interested in THE big issue of the day, you ought to listen to some of it, at least.

Truly, acta deos numquam mortalia fallunt.

An Préachán