Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Slow at first, then all at once.

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US PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP: “Their veins ran with Anglo-Saxon courage.”

"Honoring the British King might seem an ironic beginning to our celebration of 250 years of American independence — but in fact, no tribute could be more appropriate. Long before Americans had a nation or Constitution, we first had a culture, a character, and a creed. Before we ever proclaimed our independence, Americans carried within us the rarest of gifts: moral courage, and it came from a small but mighty kingdom from across the sea." --President Trump

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CHASE HUGHES: With a SIGNIFICANCE-driven person, you might see super tight fitting shirts or like crazy outlandish things, like adding to themselves, like my hair is way bright neon color.


The 6 human needs are significance, acceptance, and approval, intelligence, pity, and strength.  

SIGNIFICANCE
So if you're in a conversation just one-on-one with a person within three to five minutes they're going to start revealing a lot of those things.  Not just through their clothing.  And you might see super tight fitting shirts or like crazy outlandish things, like adding to themselves, like my hair is way bright neon color.  I've got some weird shirt on.  So we know that person from 100 yards away.  We know that person is significance driven.  They need to feel significant and that has to be reflected by other people.  And you'll also hear them say how they've managed lots of teams, how they've mentored lots of people, how they're in charge of hundreds of people at the company they work for, or how everybody kind of seeks them out for advice.

ACCEPTANCE
Then we have the acceptance people.  And the acceptance people are typically used terms like "we," "us," "our." They'll talk about groups and membership.  They'll talk about being at a company and talking about like all the sales team there, everybody goes out on Thursday nights.  We had a great time.  We all get along together.  So they'll talk about teams and groups.

APPROVAL
And then we get into approval.  And approval people are more likely to seek permission.  So they're more likely to seek some kind of reassurance from you.  They might say something like I've got to give a speech on Thursday but I know, I just know I'm going to suck at it.  I know everybody's going to hate it, just so like you Francesca you'd be like, "Oh, no, no. You're going to do great.  You did great last time and everybody loves it when you speak on stage.  You're great."  And that would be more the approval.

INTELLIGENCE
And then we have intelligence.  You see people wearing the Harvard University t-shirts and sweatpants, all these things that convey . . . .  Or, in a conversation, they'll say I published a bunch of papers on that.  You're going to hear them say like, "I remember when I was at X University," or "I'm a professor of X," or "I got my degree in X as an expert in X, Y, and Z."   You'll hear a lot of that.

PITY (OR HERO'S JOURNEY)
And pity.  We think that pity really wants us to hear them complain.  And pity is where we make a lot of mistakes. We hear people complaining about their life and traffic and all this, like our friends bitching about sitting in traffic for an hour or two.  And our instinct is to say like, "Oh, you know it's not that bad.  You know, like you put on a good audiobook, or do something that benefits you during all this traffic."  They don't want to hear that at all.  They want us to understand how bad they've had it and what they've been through.  So it's Journey.  Everybody wants us to comment and recognize their own Hero's Journey.  That's basically what needs are those needs are.

STRENGTH
And then the strength.  We have people that are posturing, puffing up the chest, and we have all manner of behavior that we could do from this.  And we all have one of these six, and the moment that we learn the predominant needs that someone has its usually two of the six.  If I know it's a significance person, I automatically understand that they're insecurity is feeling insignificant. Instantly.  And this is 3 minutes I know more about their deep insecurities than their friends and family.  In 3 minutes just from listening to basic phrases, and this is the preschool level of this and it's still more advanced than most programs out there.  If I know that it's acceptance, and that's their primary social need, I instantly understand that the hidden insecurities that that person has is about being rejected, being outcast, being kind of exiled from a tribe, and feeling not belonging.  So a lot of what we're really looking at here are what was the needs or typically what's missing in childhood and that's kind of what we're seeing when it comes to a person. 
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J. MICHAEL WALLER: Grand jury indicts former FBI Director Comey.

I don't know.  It certainly seems to me that the U.S., if not the world, is healing. 

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MASSIMO: A recent study has demonstrated that continuous exposure to rose essential oil through inhalation can lead to measurable increases in gray matter volume in the human brain.

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Monday, April 27, 2026

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PETER GIRNUS: What I cannot tell you is how 147 of those bottles left the building during an active shooter evacuation.

I am a senior coordinating producer for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. I have worked eleven of these. I was backstage at the Washington Hilton when the shots were fired. The first thing I heard was not the gunfire. It was glass. A champagne flute hit the floor of the International Ballroom at approximately 9:47 PM. Then a second. Then the sound that I have since been told was a 12-gauge shotgun, which from inside the ballroom sounded like a heavy door slamming in a parking garage. Then the Secret Service moved. They moved the President, the Vice President, the First Lady through the east corridor in under ninety seconds, which is protocol, which is practiced, which is the one part of the evening that worked exactly as it was designed. Everything else was improvised. I know this because I ordered the wine. 94 tables. Two bottles per table. 188 bottles of a Willamette Valley pinot noir that the Association selected in February after a tasting committee spent three meetings debating between Oregon and Burgundy. Oregon won. The budget was $14,200. I signed the invoice. I can tell you the vintage. I can tell you the distributor. I can tell you the per-bottle cost because I negotiated it down from $89 to $76. What I cannot tell you is how 147 of those bottles left the building during an active shooter evacuation. I can tell you what I saw. A correspondent from a network I will not name picked up two bottles on her way to the east exit. Full bottles. One in each hand. She was wearing heels and she did not spill. A man in a tuxedo tucked one inside his jacket the way you'd shoplift a paperback at an airport bookstore. A woman picked up a bottle, looked at the label, put it back, and took a different one. She checked the vintage. During an evacuation. That's editorial judgment under pressure. The theme of the dinner was "A Free Press for a Free People." The banners were still hanging when the evacuation began. I know because I hung them. Twenty-three banners, navy blue, gold serif lettering, $11,400 for the set. They were still hanging when 2,600 guests were directed to the exits by Secret Service agents, one of whom had just taken a shotgun round in his ballistic vest and walked to the ambulance on his own feet. The agent's vest costs approximately $800. The wine that left the building was worth $11,172 at Association cost. At restaurant markup, roughly $29,000. The guests saved more in wine than the vest that saved the agent. That's priority. The video went viral by 10:15 PM. Not the video of the evacuation. Not the Secret Service response. The wine. Three guests in formalwear grabbing bottles off white tablecloths while being told to move toward the exits, while a man with a shotgun stood in the same motor entrance where John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan 45 years ago. A woman near the service entrance was crying. She said "I just wanna go home." She was not holding wine. She was holding her phone. She was the only person I saw that night who looked afraid rather than inconvenienced. That's the distinction. The rest of the ballroom did not look afraid. They looked interrupted. An active shooter at the WHCD is a logistical problem. The dinner was disrupted. The timeline was off. The after-party at the French Ambassador's residence would need to be rescheduled. These are contingency matters. Contingency matters have solutions. Fear is for people who attend events without security details. I have produced eleven of these dinners. I have managed seating charts that require diplomatic-grade negotiations. I have handled comedians, cabinet secretaries, network anchors, and the editor of a major newspaper who once threatened to leave because his table was behind a column.

I have never, in eleven years, seen a guest leave a $76 bottle on the table during an evacuation. I have also never seen a guest check the label first. Both observations are consistent. The bottle is worth taking. The evacuation is worth surviving. The instinct is to do both simultaneously.

188 bottles placed. 41 recovered. 147 unaccounted for. One agent shot. Zero guests injured. Zero bottles broken. A free press for a free people. The press is free. The wine was $76 a bottle. They took it anyway.

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Brazilian scientist Tatiana Sampaio discovers a protein, Polylaminin, that can regenerate spinal cord.

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An assassination on Trumps life, and Norah O'Donnell calls the President a pedophile and racist

Does Norah O'Donnell carry water for the City of London? 

The so-called Manifesto is a stunning thing to read Mr. President he appears to reference a motive in it he writes this quote Administration officials they are targets and he also wrote this I'm no longer willing to permit a pedophile rapist and traitor to coat my hands with his crime what's your reaction to this?

Well I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would because you're horrible people horrible people yeah he did write that I'm not a rapist I didn't rape anybody.

Oh, do you think he was referring to you?

Excuse me.  I'm not a pedophile you read that crap from some sick person I got associated with all stuff that has nothing to do with me I was totally exonerated your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with let's say Epstein or other things but I said to myself you know I'll do this interview and they'll probably and I read the Manifest you know he's a sick person but you should be ashamed of yourself really because I'm not any of those things.

Mr President, these are the gunman's words.  

And I was never . . . .  Excuse me.  Excuse me.  You shouldn't be reading that on 60 Minutes.  You're a disgrace, but go ahead.  Let's finish the interview.

The other thing that he wrote . . . 

You're disgraceful.

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PAUL WESTON: Now there's a striking contrast between subverted Britain and countries like Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary, which overthrew communist rule in 1989.

They maintain strict Asylum policies and this is because they lived under real, genuine, practiced communism and so they developed a cultural immune system that instantly recognized the multiculturalism, open borders, and Native self-hatred, . . .  --Paul Weston

I recently talked about the Revolutionary Left's planned subversion of Britain and the West, but I barely touched on their ace in the pack which is of course mass immigration from the least Westernized countries that our traitor class could possibly find.  Now, many speak of an anti-white ethos dominating our institutions driven by a sort of racial hatred but I disagree.  From a revolutionary communist perspective, skin color secondary, what mattered was that the Christian, or post-Christian, capitalist West was never going to submit wittingly to communist rule because westerners were too educated, too comfortable, too affluent, and too culturally conservative therefore they had to be replaced a la Bertolt Brecht.  Now there's a striking contrast between subverted Britain and countries like Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary, which overthrew communist rule in 1989.  And today these nations refuse the UN migration compact.  They refuse the EU relocation quotas.  They built border fences.  They maintain strict Asylum policies and this is because they lived under real, genuine, practiced communism and so they developed a cultural immune system that instantly recognized the multiculturalism, open borders, and Native self-hatred was just a softer more Insidious form of the same communist Soviet ideology.  Western Europe however took the opposite path Muslim populations in the UK, France, Germany, and Sweden now stand at 6% to 10% and rising with disproportionately higher birth shares.  And the white British birth now hover near or below just 15%, believe it or not.  So many Poles and Czechs who came to Britain decades ago are now returning home to countries which are racial and cultural utopias compared to the fragmented tents and broken Britain.  

2:32.  And what renders this Western betrayal it is a total betrayal historically unparalleled is that it has no historical precedent no previous civilizations especially one at the peak of it's well technological achievement and Global power has deliberately accelerated its own demographic replacement through Mass immigration from culturally totally opposite regions and nor have they done this while simultaneously be building an Institutional apparatus of Critical Race Theory, DEI, and equality laws that demonize its own historical native majority.  And epochal moments in history, like the 7th and 8th century Islamic conquest of the Persian Empire, or German migration into collapsing Rome, had they occurred under military victory or interior weakness, the host societies did not invite them in and they did not enact propaganda laws which told their own people to hate their own traditions, history, and very founding identity.  The modern Western case is unique a prosperous and militarily on unbeatable Society is destroying itself as moral justification for alleged historical evils, alleged by the Revolutionary Left, of course.  And equally telling is the complete absence of any role reversal.  No non-white majority country anywhere in the world is importing large numbers of whites while granting the protected status in criticizing its own native population as inherently oppressive.  The flow remains decidedly one way only.  And the post 1989 divergence reveals a profound irony.  The half of Europe that suffered real communism is now preserving civilization continuity, while the half that believed itself free has succumbed to cultural subversion and is sleepwalking toward one of two choices: confrontation or collapse.  And in human terms this hinge point moves slowly.  In civilizational terms, it's happening with breathtaking speed and history offers no precedent for these pathological times. But history does indeed offer warnings.  

On Bertolt Brecht,

One notable statement is from his essay "The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication," 1932, where he discusses the role of the bourgeoisie and the necessity for societal change. However, the most direct and well-known articulation is from his 1938 poem "The Song of the German Mother," [Dear God, take your Prozac before listening] and his writings during the 1930s where he emphasizes the need to overthrow bourgeois values and structures.

A specific quote often attributed to Brecht is:

"The bourgeoisie must be replaced by a new class, the working class."

While this precise phrase may not appear verbatim in a single, famous quote, it encapsulates Brecht's consistent Marxist stance: the overthrow of bourgeoisie dominance and the establishment of a proletarian society.

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Brecht's writings and speeches from the 1930s and his Marxist essays articulate the need for the bourgeoisie to be replaced by a new societal order based on socialist principles.

If you're looking for a particular quote or speech, I recommend reviewing Brecht's "The Measures Taken" or his essays in collections like "Brecht's Collected Plays" or "Reflections on Theatre."

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JUDYTH VARY BAKER: That's when Dr Ochner realized that vaxxines could be used in biowarfare. By 1963, using Gain of Function, radiation, & the SV40 monkey virus, Ochsner's team produced the first cancer-causing bioweapon.

Bioweapons came from the CIA experimenting with weapons to "take out" Fidel Castro.  Was that a real goal or a justification for murdering Americans?  Vaccines, heart attack guns, and poisons have always been the tools of the CIA.

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AAKASH GUPTA: The circuit predates primates. Mammals have been using ambient soundscape continuity as a predator-detection system for roughly 200 million years. Birds stop singing when something larger moves through their territory.

Your brain has a circuit that doesn't know you live in a city. Its only job is to monitor whether birds are still singing. Right now, in this room, it is on.

The circuit predates primates. Mammals have been using ambient soundscape continuity as a predator-detection system for roughly 200 million years. Birds stop singing when something larger moves through their territory. For most of mammalian history, a forest full of song meant no large predator was nearby, and the cessation of sound was the warning. Your nervous system never updated this software. The Max Planck Institute tested the inverse in 2022 with 295 participants. Six minutes of birdsong dropped anxiety with a medium effect size. Six minutes of traffic noise raised depression with the same. The effect worked on subjects who lived in dense urban environments and had no regular contact with nature. The brain still ran the check. Birdsong sits in the 1,000 to 8,000 Hz range. Your brainstem reads continuous patterns in that band as a signal that nothing dangerous is currently moving through the environment. EEG data shows birdsong at 45 to 50 decibels boosts alpha wave activity by 14.1% relative to silence. Alpha is the brainwave signature of relaxed alertness. Push the same birdsong above 60 decibels and the response flips. Stress markers rise 29%. The circuit only trusts the signal at the volume of quiet conversation, which is exactly the volume birds sing at from a typical distance. Three things happen simultaneously when the brain registers ambient safety. The amygdala downregulates. The parasympathetic nervous system takes over from the sympathetic. Heart rate variability rises, cortisol drops. The posterior cingulate cortex, which sits at the center of the rumination circuit, quiets down. King's College London tracked this through a smartphone study with over 1,200 participants and found the mood lift lasted hours after the sound stopped. People diagnosed with depression got the same response as healthy controls.
Most of what gets labeled mental fatigue is hypervigilance running in the background. Birdsong tells the circuit it can stand down, and the brain reallocates the freed compute everywhere else. A quiet park feels different from a quiet office because the parks have sentinels.
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Sunday, April 26, 2026

BARBARA O'NEIL: EXERCISES FOR VISUAL ACUITY

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KANEKOA THE GREAT: September 2025 YouGov poll found that 26% of liberals under 45 say political violence is acceptable. 7% of conservatives under 45 said the same.

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