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

"Dr. Tony Fauci will go down as one of the greatest mass murderers of our day"

Amici,

Big news developing. A portion of Dr. Tony Fauci's emails during the early Covid months are being published. The revelations are shocking.

Apparently, the Powers-That-Be have decided to put old Tony Fauci on the chopping block. The news is full of his newly published emails, which the WaPo and Buzzfeed (media of the American Left, mind you) have been publishing. Everything the Washington Post does is politically motivated, so it is obvious the people behind the "Pandemic" have decided to end him. Very publicly. The emails show Fauci needs to be arrested and put on trial. At the very least we now know Fauci lied in sworn Senate testimony.

Interesting, the politics of it. For example, Tucker Carlson, always a weather-vane signaling "narrative change", is out for a piece Fauci hide. 

Remember not long ago that Carlson had the temerity to report on the VAERS mortality rates? That sent political shock waves, indeed. He's been quiet on that front since, but the VAERS mortality/serous illness statistics just keep rising and rising. Pressure is building. They can't keep this quiet too much longer. The non-MainStream Media is full of information about it.

As for Dr. Tony Fauci, it is quite apparent the old fraud has lied any number of times; he lied about his involvement in "gain of function" viral research and whether masks help (they don't, and he knew that and said so) and on to non-vaccine treatments, and more besides. How can this surprise anyone since he lied for years about his HIV/AIDs research?

Here's an article discussing how the published emails show he knew Hydroxychloroquine actually helped people, if administered early enough  –  by suppressing what he knew and by outright lying about it, in fact, Fauci is literally responsible for the deaths of many thousands. (N.B. Gateway Pundit has pop-ups but this article is very worth reading. It also has a lot of useful links.)

Here's another article from Headline USA.

And see also, again from The Conservative Treehouse. : 

An excerpt from the above link:

Within the emails we discover, Fauci had some urgent, time sensitive discussions about “gain of function” research; the weaponization of the COVID virus. Fauci also told colleagues “retail masks don’t work” as protection from COVID due to the molecular size of the virus. Also the emails reveal that Anthony Fauci was very well aware the outbreak came from a possible lab leak.

Additionally, there is a warning from a scientist inside the NIH who warned Fauci that China was lying about virus, death rates, spread and data. A hubris-filled Dr Fauci responded to the internal warning by telling the physicist his email was “too long for me to read.”…  Yeah, think about that.

An P again: So what is going on? Many things, of course, of which we only get glimpses.

N.B. It is however very worth noting that one reason the public health people for months hid the truth about Hydroxychloroquine and also Ivermectin is because these Lysosomotropic drugs are basically anti-parasite compounds, and too many people would be asking the obvious question: If Covid can be controlled by anti-parasite drugs, maybe the virus theory about Covid is wrong.

Can't have people asking that. Oh no, no, no, no. There's too much money to be made hustling expensive vaccines.

But also these revelations plainly demonstrate the MainStream Media most definitely DID NOT do its job. It completely covered up the truth and was a major part of the "cover-up" about Covid treatments. And of course this was mainly done to just get Donald Trump out of the presidency, and a Chinese puppet installed. Think about that: people died in order for the Left to "get Trump".

On the other hand:

I know the Communists are in control of both the U.S. Federal government and also the MainStream Media, but I can't imagine they can keep these anti-Fauci revelations from being the hot iron that will eventually melt the entire Covid ball of wax. Democrat majorities in both Houses of Congress are held in power by very slim majorities, after all, while "Zombie Zhou" Biden is an absolute brainless farce. The Democrat hold on power is tenuous in the extreme. (The Senate parliamentarian just dealt the Senate Dems a blow, as well.) And next to Covid, the biggest story in the U.S.A. is how the voter fraud of the 2020 election is being revealed. Bit by bit, day by day.

Or then again, maybe...

Or maybe the cynic in me is right? Maybe the often-stated idea is true that the CDC's VAERS system is only reporting between 1 to 10 percent of Covid vaccine deaths, and that it is actually correct many more are not reported. So therefore instead of 4,400 Americans dead from the Covid vaccines (reported as of last week), it really is 44,000? That's approaching Vietnam casualty territory (55,000). Believe me, if such a number is bordering on reality, or even half of such a number, like 22,000, then the Powers-That-Be are panicking, just as Reinhard Fuellmich himself reports, and Fauci will be one of their fall guys. Fuellmich says he has "whistle blowers" who report that this obviously disastrous vaccine adverse event level is going to bring on a pure hell storm.

We'll see.

At least the faux-Chinese curse is true for us: we're living in interesting times.

An Préachán

Canadian virologist: "We've made a huge mistake with the vaccines...".

 A Chairde, amici,

I came across this important story today, from two different sources. First, this about a vaccine expert warning "We made a big mistake". And then at LifeSiteNews, another take on the same story. 

The news? More doom and gloom predicted and foreseen. One might be tempted to dismiss it all except for two reasons: the quality of those predicting the doom and gloom and the incredible mortality and illness statistics reported from the VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) that the U.S. CDC (Centers for Disease Control) maintains.

So it is that this new report is significant in who is making the warning: Byram Bridle, a viral immunologist and associate professor at University of Guelph, Ontario. Bridle is a mainstream scientist of standing. So, what's his report?

In essence, Bridle reports that they're only now recognizing the fact that it is the infamous "spike" protein itself that is the toxin, as opposed to the underlying coronavirus virus.

1. First of all, the idea of raping, pillaging, merciless yet somehow non-living viruses causing mayhem to your cells is nearly universally believed. But Pasteur made this "narrative" up nearly 200 years ago, and later discoveries were shoehorned into it. Very few laymen know the exact narrative of how viruses are supposed to work. It's complicated, and upon investigation, it's absurd.
   
2. However, whatever is true or not true about virus behavior, this news about the spike protein is much easier to understand and to describe than the possible dangers of either viruses in general or of genetic mRNA "vaccines" design to "fight" them.
3. The dangers of mRNA vaccines can so easily sound too "tin-foil hat", like UFOs, etc., that it is easy for the MSM to mock it. And mock it they do, although mocking is not science. I'll report soon on the actual state of the science of biology, and it will shock you. The discipline is a mess. This needs to be widely known.
   
4. The spike protein is what Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi warned about in that video I sent around a month ago. The distinguished old man comes across as totally convinced and eminently believable.This new report of Bridle's supports him.
5. And more reports are coming, as of one mentioned in the articles I've linked to, an Oxford study that is soon to be published.
   

So, here's a few excerpts from the first link above (yellow highlights mine):

“The SARS-CoV-2 has a spike protein on its surface. We now know spike protein gets into circulation. We thought the spike protein was a great target antigen; we never knew it was a toxin. So by vaccinating people, we are inadvertently inoculating them with a toxin.”

...

Shockingly, according to Bridle, the COVID-19 vaccine is different from traditional vaccines. For the first time ever, the Japanese Regulatory Agency recently gave Bridle and several international collaborators access to a study called “the Bio-Distribution Study.” The groundbreaking research presents scientists with a more reliable understanding of where COVID-19 messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines travel in the body after being injected. Bridle explains the study absolutely refutes the premise that the COVID-19 vaccine stays in the shoulder muscle, asserting: 

“The short answer—is absolutely not. It’s very disconcerting. The spike protein gets into the blood, circulates through the blood in individuals over several days post-vaccination. Once it gets in the blood, it accumulates in a number of tissues such as the spleen, the bone marrow, the liver, the adrenal glands. And of particular concern for me is it accumulates in the ovaries, in quite high concentrations.”

An P again:

So, the spike protein fills the "vaccine" shot, in the billions, (or some other ridiculously high number). It is injected via the four major Western "vaccines". Once injected, it tends not to stay in muscle but gets into the blood and goes on a rampage, ripping artery walls and wrecking everything in sight (or touch). Another excerpt:

“We have known for a long time that the spike protein is a pathogenic protein. It is a toxin that can cause damage in our body if it gets into circulation. Now, we have clear-cut evidence that the vaccines that make the cells in our deltoid muscles manufacture this protein, [we now know] the vaccine itself plus the protein gets into blood circulation. When in circulation, the spike protein can bind to the receptors that are on our platelets and the cells that line our blood vessels. When that happens, it can do one of two things: it can either cause platelets to clump, and that can lead to clotting—that’s exactly why we’ve been seeing clotting disorders associated with these vaccines. It can also lead to bleeding, and of course, the heart is involved, which is part of the cardiovascular system, so that is why we are seeing heart problems.”

An P again:

Well, just peachy. A classic example of the famous sarcastic comment: "NOW they tell us!" These vaccine makers are like a cartoon character running off a cliff: he keeps running right along for a moment, then stops, looks down, and only then he realizes he's off the cliff. At that point he falls into oblivion.

Here's an excerpt from the LifeSite article:

Bridle cited the recent publication of a peer-reviewed study which detected spike protein in the blood plasma of three of 13 young healthcare workers that had received Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. In one of the workers, the spike protein circulated for 29 days.

An Préachán again:

Well, well, well.

As I've been saying since the vaccine "rush" began – especially because of the loathsome "bum's rush" push to get everyone "the Jab" even though they are ALL "Emergency Use Authorization" ("Conditional Use" in Europe), a measure that is supposed to be used in exceptional cases for critically ill individuals – in the long history of the world, when has a government NOT lied to its people? That's especially true of mega-corporations who have an international reach and influence.

For an example of the latter, it is widely recognized now that Ivermectin, a long-established and cheap drug, works wonderfully well against Covid, better than Hydroxychloroquine does. And when there's a cure for an illness, there's no need for a vaccine for that illness. Or supposedly, that is what ought to be the moral position. Unfortunately, government and Big Pharma kept denigrating both of these Lysosomotropic drugs. Now with both India and Mexico both marinating themselves in Ivermectin, and their Covid hospitalization cases crashing down to nothing, that "cat is finally out of the bag".

Non-medical ramifications

Aside from the danger to anyone who has had the vaccine, whether there is actual danger or not – because of the many VAERS reports, there seems to be a serious mortality rate compared to, say, flu vaccines, so only time will tell just how dangerous these potions turn out to be – there a couple of non-medical conclusions stand out as being obvious enough:

First, Donald Trump is finished. So is Boris Johnson, Bibi Netanyahu, Angela Merkel, Macron, and a host of other leaders (Netanyahu and Merkel are finished anyway, for various reasons). So is the Zombie known as "Zhou Biden", for that matter. The entire Western political world is in deep trouble.

Why? Assuming that this new study and its supporting studies are correct, or even half correct (and some degree of concern remains warranted about all the other studies over the past few months warning of mRNA vaccines processes in general, etc.), with none of this junk having gone through the three-year (some say five years, some even ten years) testing usually required of a new vaccine, then the MainStream Media will go full crazy on Donald Trump (or anyone anyone they hate, like Boris Johnson) for having "rushed through" the vaccines. These political leaders are perfect targets. But take down Trump or Johnson and you take down the rest, too,

Former President Trump, like the others, is continually praising the vaccines, boasting ceaselessly about them. I see today Trump recently said no one should be forced to take a vaccine, but still encourages others to take them. He is behind the times. Yet the damage is done – again, assuming these "vaccines" actually do cause the damage, no, even half the damage, they're being predicted to cause, political heads will roll.

Already, in London a couple of days ago, a million people protested the Covid lockdowns and other measures. The UK media tried to hush it up, but "the times they are a changin'." As Abraham Lincoln said, you can't fool all the people all the time.

Secondly, there will be great anger and "push back" against the Democrats and "the Left" in general for their own idiotic parroting of their hyping of this "medicinal trash", if that is what it turns out to be. Intense anger is already building over the lockdowns, and in the U.S. it is the Left that usually makes those simply unbearable (as in New York, New Jersey, Michigan and California). In countries where the Left is out of power, they will use the anger to seize power.

Right now, however, I'm sensing "the narrative" as it has been over the past year can no longer be maintained. It's cracking apart – for those willing to look. How long this stage of the game will last, I don't know. But I'm guessing, not too long. The more "the Jab" is hyped, the more people will resist, and if widespread illness results from the vaccines (it's happening now, but just how far-reaching it will be remains to be seen), well. It's going to be brutal.

An Préachán