Everything surrounding Covid-19 and the vaccination campaign appears complex, but the reality is very simple. The goal always was, and still is, "everyone in America, and everyone around the world gets vaccinated." This according to the United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.

"...We face an economy that's in transition. And as far as that transition we are seeing high prices for some of the things that people have to buy. But, the reality is that the only way we're going to get to this place where we work through this transition is when everyone in America, and everyone around the world gets vaccinated. That's why the president continues to be focused on the idea that we get everyone we can vaccinated in this country."

Covid will be used to scare the public once again. Look at this headline:

A covid summer uptick is underway as FLiRT and LB.1 variants ascend

Coronavirus infections are likely growing in 44 states and territories as of June 25, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Nationally, coronavirus activity in wastewater remains low but is increasing; it is highest and rising most sharply in the West, according to the CDC. June data may be incomplete because of reporting delays.

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“We have consistently seen over the past three years that there is a winter surge and there is also a summer surge,” Marlene Wolfe, program director for WastewaterSCAN, a private initiative that tracks municipal wastewater data, and an assistant professor of environmental health at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health. “Right now we are waiting to see whether we actually will see a downturn over the next couple of weeks and we’ve hit the peak here, or whether those levels will actually go up.”

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The covid vaccine currently on the market is designed to target defunct XBB variants, but it still confers some protection against the latest variants. An updated vaccine is expected to hit the market in late summer or fall and will be promoted as part of a broader respiratory virus vaccination campaign.

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CDC Director Mandy Cohen last week recommended everyone six months and older to receive that new vaccine. The Food and Drug Administration urged manufacturers to target the KP.2 variant.

Reed of the CDC said the new vaccine should be effective against the other common variants, citing early lab studies, because they are closely related.

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If you contract covid-19, the CDC now advises people isolate until their overall symptoms have improved and they have been fever-free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medication. The agency also advises precautions such as wearing masks and improving air circulation for an additional five days. This guidance applies to all respiratory illness regardless of whether you test positive for covid.

This change in guidelines has been widely cited by institutions who have dropped special isolation requirements for people who have covid.

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With hospitalizations and deaths sharply declining and largely concentrated in elderly and severely immunocompromised people, long covid has become the largest threat to the general public. Long covid encompasses symptoms lasting weeks to years, including debilitating fatigue or brain fog and persistent coughing and chest pain.

The messaging here is jumbled. "Coronavirus infections are likely growing in 44 states and territories as of June 25." Now we hear that there is a winter and summer surge in coronavirus wastewater samples (keep in mind this does not translate to cases). The old vaccines offer "some" protection, new ones are needed, and they recommend that everyone 6 months and over get the new vaccines.

If you contract Covid-19, you no longer have to isolate if your overall symptoms have improved, and you have had no fever for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medication. What happened to "asymptomatic spread?"

Oh, and Long Covid is back. "Long covid encompasses symptoms lasting weeks to years, including debilitating fatigue or brain fog and persistent coughing and chest pain." There's no test for Long Covid. Your health care provider can only assume that's what is ailing you, therefore, there is no treatment for infection, only management of the symptoms.

WHO: Covid Shots Triggered Global Heart Deaths Surge

Official figures from the World Health Organization’s global database have revealed that Covid mRNA shots triggered a worldwide surge in heart failure and related sudden deaths.

The bombshell data was made public by a team of medical research investigators who were able to unseal and probe the data as part of a major international study.

The research was led by several investigators at Kyung Hee University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.

They published the results of the study in the prestigious peer-reviewed Journal of Medical Virology.

Without getting into all of the study details, we know this to be true. The CDC was worried about the concern for myocarditis as well, and held an emergency meeting in June 2021.

The first portion of the meeting will feature an update on COVID-19 vaccine safety, including myocarditis cases seen after the administration of vaccines built on messenger RNA technology, according to the meeting agenda.

The CDC has so far identified 226 reports in people ages 30 and younger that might meet the agency’s “working case definition” of heart inflammation following the shots, Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, a deputy director at the agency, told the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory group during a virtual meeting. That was out of about 12.2 million who had received a vaccine as of May 31.

While the vast majority of the patients have recovered, 41 had ongoing symptoms, 15 are still hospitalized, and three are in intensive care units.

Shimabukuro told members that the CDC will continue to evaluate myocarditis following vaccination and assess the benefits and risks of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, which both use mRNA technology, ahead of the emergency meeting next week.

“I think the myocarditis is something that needs to be looked at closely because we’re likely seeing the tip of the iceberg,” added Dr. Michael Kurilla, director of the Division of Clinical Innovation at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, which is part of the National Institutes of Health.

Pfizer said it supports the CDC’s assessment of the heart inflammation cases, noting that “the number of reports is small given the number of doses administered.”

“It is important to understand that a careful assessment of the reports is ongoing and it has not been concluded that the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines cause myocarditis or pericarditis,” the company told The Epoch Times in an email.

What is life like after myocarditis, or pericarditis?

The primary treatment for myocarditis is supportive care based on guidelines and recommendations published by major cardiovascular organizations in North America and Europe. Most times, cardiac rest and / or oral medications is all that is needed. Dependent on the severity of the case, administration of intravenous cardiac medications or the insertion of a temporary pacemaker may be necessary. In severe cases, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) or a ventricular assist device (VAD) may be necessary in the acute phase to allow the heart to recover or to serve as a bridge to transplantation. Immunoglobulin or corticosteroids have also been used in some acute cases to inhibit the immune response.

Following the acute phase, surviving patients may recover completely or have long-term deficits. In severe cases, cardiac transplantation may offer the best chance for long-term survival. For most patients, if they receive an early diagnosis, they are able to survive myocarditis without major medical support. However, 1-8% of those diagnosed with myocarditis require a heart transplant. Heart transplantation is generally reserved for patients that have attempted other medications and surgeries, but their condition has not sufficiently improved.

If you need a heart transplant or will need treatment for myocarditis, it is important to lead a healthy lifestyle in order to support proper heart function. Your doctor may recommend that you reduce sodium in your diet, avoid alcohol, limit fluid intake and quit smoking. It’s also generally advised to avoid competitive sports, and other rigorous exercise for a period of time after diagnosis, to be determined by your cardiologist.

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When symptoms of pericarditis appear, physicians will look for underlying conditions that could be causing the tissue to change. Many cases of pericarditis stem from the occurrence of additional infections, diseases, or injuries, including:

Heart attack or surgery
Infections
Systemic inflammatory disorders such as lupus [cytokine storm, a listed possible side effect of mRNA vaccines]
Heart trauma
Kidney failure
Cancer

To treat pericarditis symptoms, you must control and treat underlying conditions. If left untreated, pericarditis can return or worsen to develop additional heart conditions. That’s why it’s so important for patients to follow after-care procedures. By taking the proper medications and avoiding certain activities, you can treat pericarditis as well as the disease that’s causing it.

Myocarditis and pericarditis are serious life-threatening/life-changing conditions.

Both should be considered when taking into account that the fatality rate for younger people who contracted Covid was statistically zero.

The vast majority of those who died from/with Covid had multiple preexisting conditions. This was known all along, and yet, the push to get younger people vaccinated marched on. Of course, this was to "protect" the elderly -- only the vaccines didn't help to "stop the spread," which was also known in the beginning.

The claim of "stopping the spread" was based on the idea that less infected people, would result in less people spreading the virus. However, it was known that the vaccines couldn't stop infection. The claim was that they stopped "symptomatic infection."

The premise for vaccinating everyone was the "asymptomatic spreaders." Because people didn't have symptoms, and didn't know they were sick -- that was perpetuating the spread of the virus. The spread was inevitable with or without vaccines. To make things worse, vaccinations had the potential to create even more "asymptomatic spreaders" thus worsening the situation.

All roads lead to, "Vaccinate everyone period. The science will follow." Only the science never did "follow."

The science that is following -- is undermining nearly all of the decisions made during the COVID-19 scare.

Covid was much less of a "public health concern," instead it was used as the pretext to mandate specific "public health measures." Don't be fooled again.

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Independence Day mean a lot of things to a lot of people. This year I'll just focus on this:

The United States of America was founded on the belief that God meant for people to be FREE -- not "better governed."

Have a Happy Independence Day!

These are some strangely named fireworks I've purchased over the years:

A few years back there was another Golden Shower Fountain hiding in the pack!

Stay safe out there, and keep a hose close by.

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Voter confidence in Joe Biden has gone down sharply following this first debate. Those numbers are reflected in a recent CBS – YouGov poll.

These are two of the most important issues as it relates to the presidency (at least as far as I’m concerned). Which candidate will positively effect your finances (which indirectly relates to freedom) and which candidate even makes sense?

Do you think that you’ll be in a better financial situation under this candidate? This is the #1 most important question – to most people out there.

Does the candidate even make sense. Do they understand what they are talking about, or just regurgitating stuff they’ve heard before? If a candidate can’t get the point across in a friendly debate, how are they going to push back against their advisors? More importantly, do they even understand what they are talking about?

Another important question is, “Does the candidate have a strong dislike for the American people?” We know that the “elites” within the Democrat Party don’t like average American citizens. They don’t like “smelly Walmart shoppers” or "[a] basket of deplorables" as Hillary Clinton so aptly put it.

I had to correct that last part. It was Peter Strzok (Peter Struck/Stroke) who said, “Just went to a Southern Virginia Walmart. I could smell the Trump support.”

It was Hillary Clinton who said, "You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? [Laughter/applause]. The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people, now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric. Now some of those folks, they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.

Biden is likely on the way out

Because of Biden’s poor debate performance. His potential as a serious candidate is being questioned by pretty much everyone. There are many big democrat donors that want Biden out. After all, you can’t buy influence through someone – who has no influence.

Still there are many within the Biden camp, who want Joe to stay in. They are pushing to have him keep moving forward with the campaign.

But there’s another side to this issue, a side that I don’t think many have considered.

Those who want Biden out are setting things up to use Jill to take down Joe. They’ll blame Jill for everything. She somehow “shielded” Joe from everyone, so they couldn’t witness his cognitive decline – even though we all saw it from day one – even before day one.

Remember Biden was known for his “gaffs” during the Obama administration. He was ‘Ole Uncle Joe. The uncle that you just don’t talk about at “the family barbecue.” Joe Biden’s cognitive decline was never in question amongst people paying attention – it was always noticeable.

They have simply lied too long to back out now. Letting it be known that Biden was never capable of running the show – even before 2020 – will void the last bit of enthusiastic support that the Democrat/Biden voters might have had for any potential candidate.

They’re going after Jill?

The Democrat leadership has to be careful in their criticism of Jill Biden – because she’s the first modern female president. I only make the distinction of “modern” because Woodrow Wilson’s wife was considered to be running the country for a while after his stroke.

You heard that right, Jill Biden is the first female president.

Once it’s more widely known that Joe Biden hasn’t “been all there” mentally for the entirety of his time in office, people will want to know, “Who’s been running the show?”

But this is a game of political chicken. It all hinges on whether or not they boot Biden at the DNC convention – and more importantly, if they choose a woman as his replacement!

If they go too hard after Jill Biden, it will reflect badly if they chose a female candidate. After all, Jill Biden really screwed things up without Joe Biden’s wit and insight, right?

Who will the DNC pick?

I think this question will be answered by how they treat Jill Biden. If they do go after her, they’re going to pick Gavin Newsom, or some no-name dude.

If they allow things to play out in a more “natural seeming way” they might pick Hillary Clinton as their candidate. She still claims that the Russians are the reason that she lost in 2016.

Keep in mind, the Democrats don’t expect to win the presidency, that ship has sailed. You have to imagine everything going down, as if the MSM narrative is believed by everyone. That’s how the Deep State/Permanent Government operates. That’s why so much of this is confusing to people who are paying attention – because it doesn’t really make sense.

The narrative is that Biden has been keeping tight control of the government, and is making all the big decisions. The reality is Biden was never really president. He was just paraded around, while his advisors ran the show.

My take on it all

I believe this all makes for good theater really. From what I can surmise, the outcome of the 2024 presidential election won’t matter as much as we would like it to. I’ll explain why.

It seems likely that Trump will win in a landslide, regardless of who the Democrats put up as their nominee. That being the case, I believe that the Democrats are going to “make sure” that they keep, or take more senate seats, effectively neutering Trump.

Trump won’t be able to remove Deep State/Permanent Government actors – without the help of the senate. Keep in mind Republicans couldn’t manage to oust Alejandro Mayorkas, who is arguably the worst Homeland Security Secretary.

Meaningful (pro-American) legislation will never make it past the senate – for Trump’s entire second term. That leaves only executive orders as a means to get things done for the American people.

Trump’s second term will likely be a continuance of “exposing the crooked system as a whole.” Don’t expect things to be fixed – that’s up to us now.

Everything has to keep working its way from the ground up. That’s the only way this country gets back on track. It can be fixed from the top. The unelected bureaucrat class is too well protected, and congress has abdicated too much of their power to rein it in. Everything falls back on the American people. This involves fixing things at the local level, then pushing uphill.

What do you think?

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I've always had a love for sound. So when it came time to purchase a new stereo receiver as a gift for my wife's parents, I went to work finding the best stereo I could find for the price.

This was in 2003, before Amazon was really what it is today. I would shop in large chain stores to find really good products. Stores like Sound Advice, and BestBuy, then try to see if someone sold them online for cheaper.

I found this stereo receiver.

Here is a quick look at the specs:

The JVC RX-8040 features premium performance with high current 130 WATT x 6 This receiver also incorporates new convienience features such as Virtual Surround Back and Quick Speaker Set-up. The DSP processor enables the RX-8040 to provide the highest level of accuracy in decoding Dolby Digital EX and DTS-ES and Dolby Pro Logic IIx. It also makes possible All Channel Stereo, and the JVC exclusive DAP soundfield.

• 130 watts x 2 min. RMS, both channels driven into 8 ohms from 20Hz to 20kHz with no more than 0.08% THD
• 130 watts x 6 min. RMS, into 8 ohms, 1kHz, 0.8% THD
• DVD Multichannel Audio Compatible (5.1 channel analog input and 5 separate amps) for connection to existing and future multichannel sources such as DVD Audio
• Texas Instruments 32/64-bit Floating-Point DSP
• Virtual Surround Back: allows users to playback 6.1 channels without adding a surround back speaker

If you noticed that little white sticker at the top of the receiver. It's a warning not to put anything on top of it, because it might catch on fire. But two pets put themselves on top of it, two of our cats. The receiver is powered on most of the time, and it gives off a decent amount of heat, just what cats love.

I never worried about it much, because the cats would just get off of it, if it was getting too hot. What I didn't consider was their hair!

I know that cats shed, but you wouldn't imagine that it's much when all they are doing is sleeping. They were never moving around on top of the receiver, they would just get on top and sleep, they didn't clean themselves, or do much moving around at all. But alas, the hair came out anyway. And man, did the hair come out!

Once I removed the cover, I was greeted with this. Mind you, there was never any hair on the cover ever -- because the cats were dusting it off with their bodies.

Cover first removed

Power transformer to the left

Discrete amplifier boards

As you can see, there was quite a bit of hair in there!

Cleaning the receiver was not too bad. I used a vacuum cleaner and shop air to get all of the hair out.

The next part was to come up with some way to keep the cats off of the receiver. I was bouncing around a few ideas, when my wife reminded me of "hostile architecture" video we saw a while back.

For those who don't know I'll show some examples. Hostile architechture was placed in various cities across the country, to keep homeless people from being able to sleep on park benches, or in store windows.

There's no sleeping on these benches.

The plan was to create something uncomfortable for the cats, but not block airflow through the receiver. After looking around my garage I came up with an idea.

I found some aluminum angle stock that I bought a few years ago, but haven't used it yet. I decided to make angle iron strips that would be good for airflow, and hopefully just uncomfortable enough for the cats.

When working with metal, I always like to make it look art-deco, because why not? People like that style now. Here's what I came up with.

Angle piece with markings

Angle piece once cut

The basic layout with angle pieces

Here are the angle pieces once attached using aluminum baling wire

How I twisted the aluminum baling wire to make it flush with the cover

The part where it says "HOT RESISTORS ARE 1.8Ω 2W" was from around 2010. My wife's parents purchased a newer receiver because they wanted one that could switch HDMI video. My wife's dad gave me their old one (this JVC). I cleaned it out, but noticed that there were resistors which had been so hot, that their color bands were almost gone. I wrote down the values in case I needed to change them some day.

It paid off, because some time around 2016, the receiver died. Once I started checking it out, I found that one of those resistors had burned open! I looked everywhere but couldn't find a replacement. Finally I found one on NewEgg. It was a 1.8 Ohm 25 Watt wirewound resistor, used for elevator controls, and made in Russia. 25 Watts is way more heat dissipation than was required, but that's fine because it just means it's overkill. I replaced all of the old resistors and it's been doing find ever since.

Replacement resistors

View from the front

View showing where I sanded the angle pieces to make them look swank

This is the cat that normally sleeps on the receiver checking it out

He's looking around trying to figure out what has happened

Success! He finally he decides that there's no way he's going to sleep on this "hostile" receiver anymore

Now my surround sound receiver should stay cat hair free for years to come. Also, it will have an edgy art-deco look about it. Haha!

It's always something...

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As a kid growing up in the 80s, I always made fun of the whole backwards music stuff. With a record, you couldn't spin it in reverse well enough to hear anything (plus it's bad on the needle) and regular tapes can't be played backwards.

You would need a fancy turn table for mixing/spinning records, or a reel-to-reel tape player to even hear anything played backwards. The idea that there were hidden messages in songs always seemed silly to me.

Some of you might remember "Bunchie" that weird green llama GIF file from 2003.

But what you might not know, is that there's a super secret hidden messages when you play the GIF backwards!

Fast forward to modern times, and playing music backwards is not a complicated task at all. In fact, there are many open source tools that can play any audio in reverse. Audacity is the first that comes to mind. I've used it for around 20 years for a number of audio editing tasks.

Back around 2016, there was a list of songs in an article, where some parts of songs actually did sound like they're saying something when played backwards. And you don't have to “listen closely,” it's actually pretty clear.

Being a skeptic. I downloaded these songs to see if I could hear the same thing, when reversing the audio using Audacity.

Here's what I found:

• Britney Spears "...Baby One More Time" - It sounds like she's saying, "Sleep with me I'm not to young."
britainy spears - baby one more time - backwards.mp3
• Missy Elliot "Work It" - She says, "I put my thing down, flip it and reverse it" twice. (This song is widely known for this, as it was not "hidden."
missy elliott - work it - backwards.mp3
• Pink Floyd "Empty Spaces" - It says:
  –Hello looker...
  –Congratulations, You have just discovered the secret message.
  –Please send your answer to Old Pink, care of the Funny Farm, Chalfont...
  –Roger, Carolyne's on the phone!
  –Okay.
pink floyd - empty spaces - backwards.mp3
• Queen "Another One Bites the Dust" - It sounds like he's saying, "It's fun to smoke marijuana."
queen - another one bites the dust - backwards.mp3

I'm sure there are more songs out there, but these were some where you could more easily hear the wording. Some backwards words are definitely in there on purpose. The one from Pink Floyd, and the Missy Elliot song are obviously not "hidden." But the others are much more likely to be coincidental.

I brought up the reverse music after seeing a Substack Note about the Supertramp album "Breakfast in America." Where there were some theories that perhaps the cover made references to 9-11 and the Twin Towers coming down. It made me think of the super secret hidden messages in songs.

Here's a link to the file Barbara was referencing.

My first question was, "Who has time to listen to all this music backwards, just to see if there's something hidden in it?" Or, perhaps some people can hear the backwards messages the first time they hear the song.

I've never known anyone that could pick up on backwards speech hidden within a song, but maybe some of you have?

What are your experiences with this?

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