Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Two Sides Are Escalating


Trying to unbalance the other party is a kind of escalation.

ICE against certain states?

Why are ICE agents targeting Minneapolis?
The Economist | 26 Jan. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_DWKIugWvY


To be fair, in Minnesota, there was also the question of Somalian fraud. However, not sure why ICE would be even as Federal Agents the best, wouldn't FBI be more on the target?

Protesters against ICE?

New Alex Pretti Details Confirm Coordinated Attack
Robert Gouveia Esq. | 27 Jan. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDx9cAIfBEY


So far, the killings are on the ICE side.

And, as some remind us, ICE was very much active under Obama:

ICE's Optics Are Bad. But THIS Is Worse
Vanessa Mares | 22 Jan. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND3yfeBB84c


This video was posted before Pretti died.

After receiving more than 220,000 applications to join ICE from patriotic Americans, ICE blew past its original hiring target of 10,000 new officers and agents within a year. In fact, we have more than doubled our officers and agents from 10,000 to 22,000. With these new patriots on the team, we will be able to accomplish what many say was impossible and fulfill President Trump’s promise to make America safe again.


ICE Announces Historic 120% Manpower Increase, Thanks to Recruitment Campaign that Brought in 12,000 Officers and Agents
Release Date: January 3, 2026
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/01/03/ice-announces-historic-120-manpower-increase-thanks-recruitment-campaign-brought


10 000 out of 22 000, and Jonathan Ross is among the original 10 000, have been working for Biden and perhaps even Obama. I'd not endorse Democrats. Have you heard of Third Party?




Senior FBI QUITS Rather Than Give ICE Immunity!
Combat Veteran News | 27 Jan. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBimkrZ8uSY





Fr. Gregory Pine OP is pretty much agreeing with my assessment in the title:

Godsplaining Reacts: The Minnesota Protests & Shootings | Fr. Gregory Pine
Godsplaining | Catholic Podcast | 27 Jan. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjPLCtkxvMw






Appearance: Evil Dictator Pulling Strings | Reality: Emergent Behavior of System
The New Enlightenment with Ashley | 24 Jan. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m3by-mgFWI


@alimariehere
The Dehumanizing Epidemic in America
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HfzZ1U7i-YM

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Sharing on Duckweed / Phum


Twice The Protein Of Eggs. Grows In 7 Days. Why Every Government Wants It Gone.
Lost Plant Remedies | 22 Jan. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UqTUHE7NFA

Metatron weighed in


I'm ready to Talk about the Minneapolis Situation
Metatron | 26 Jan. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iChU7pS7xio


This has been said over and over again:

"Minnesota does not ban lawful carry at protests"


Possibly the agent was from a state where this was not the case.

I'm reminded of a black man being arrested for carrying a gun in one of the South States. It turns out, he had a licence, and he was from Missouri, a former French colony, with less of a racist heritage than some English ones, where a black man having a licence is perfectly normal. That was a few years ago.

Perhaps if DHS was going to monitor the protest, they should have been told and be telling every agent, "lawful carry, even at a protest, is not a threat" ...

E Dennis
@edennis8578
He actually wasn't lawfully carrying. It's illegal to carry at a protest without also bringing your permit and ID; he had neither.

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@hglundahl
@edennis8578 It is quite possible he had, and they subtilised those items to cover up for the killing.

It is also quite possible that you are misrepresenting the law of Minnesota.


20:11 How many shots were heard?

If only one shot was heard, it was the one that killed him. But if more than one, it's still possible that already the first one was deliberately aimed at him.

It could be mentioned that if Alex Pretti's own gun incidentally went off, that would be probably testable.

Hence the subpoena for federals not to tamper with evidence.

lasko24
@lasko24
From what I could tell in the video the agents had him down trying to cuff him another agent appears to take something and started walking away. Then as he was a few steps away other agents started running so that was where the first shot happened right after that is when the agent pulled his gun and shot Pretti. Both deaths are on the far left liberals they are the ones posting videos threatening to kill ICE and border control agents or telling others to do it. Then you have people physically attacking ICE and border control. Then you get situations like these and people act surprised.

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@lasko24 Thank you for your observations on the video.


...

If we want to look at the broader picture, I don't support ICE.

And while you have a point on how some gestures look to the law enforcement, there is also how the law enforcement looks to the public.

I supported Trump (from my blogs in France) in the election. Sometimes had 700 views per day from the US. When I heard about "mass expulsion" of illegals, I was despondent.

Dollfuss and Schuschnigg certainly deported Czechs back to then Czechoslovakia, probably over Gmünd or sth, but they were batches of industrial workers, men, no families, it was kind of a game on both sides.

Austrian industries could survive without Communist agitators. In this case, many of the technically illegal residents are part of the backbone of agriculture in certain states. A former Mormon who's gone slightly left stated that border crossings increased under Biden only or mainly because Biden increased deportations. For a certain point, a few months back, the deportations by ICE since Trump took over are just 2 times and some of what they were under Biden. Trying to deport people who are part of communities will lead to civil war, unless someone, and I don't mean Waltz, he's not likely to, takes a step back.

In Minnesota, there are arguably fewer people from Latin America. ICE shouldn't have dealt with the Somalians, much as there is a reason to suppose some kind of fraud.

As to immigration from Latin America, the best way to have a safe border is, if that's ever possible, unite the US and Mexico, and the South border of those 81 states would be a shorter stretch in partly rougher terrain, so, easier to patrol. If that happens, every Mexican would automatically be legal, btw.

When it comes to the shooting of Renee, this traumatised ICE agent shouldn't have been back in service. But mainly, the proper way for safe borders is turning suspicious people and transports around at the border not letting police roam the streets "sicut leo rugiens quaerens quem devoret" ...




Alex Pretti Shooting: Federal Agents Fired After He Was Disarmed?
Christopher Winchell | 26 Jan. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnrIaX84uPI





Whether this Republican applies this correctly to the Pretti killing or not, this is useful information:

7:04 If you want to carry, you must avoid 7:06 confrontation. If you want to film, you 7:08 must avoid interference with lawful 7:11 operations. If you want to protest, you 7:14 must avoid impedment. 7:17 Those aren't my political opinions. 7:19 Those are the laws of our land.


The Pretti Case Exposes a Dangerous Lie
Walter Hudson's 'Closing Argument' | 28 Jan. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QePoawDA_48

Friday, January 23, 2026

Did St. Luke make a mistake in Chapter 2 of his Gospel? Answered in the Negative


Did St. Luke make a mistake in Chapter 2 of his Gospel?
Decrevi Determined to be Catholic @thecatholicman | 21 janv. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWLIxGXYxgk


The ensuing dialogue starts with my first comment to the title, ignoring all the rest.


No, he didn't. Quirinius was not THE governor, and Luke doesn't say he was, he was in the business of governing (along with Saturninus) Syria, and St. Luke says he was.

Again, there were many Roman censuses over Roman provinces, the one that Josephus remembered from 6 AD was in Judaea, and it's recalled because it caused a revolt.

The one Luke mentions was in Galilee, already a province, while Judaea was just a protectorate. There was no Roman census official in Bethlehem, the census Joseph most chaste Spouse took was for the Temple tax. Shekels were still the common currency in Bethlehem and in Jerusalem, or at least a common one.

Joe Bloggs
@joebloggs1356
Bethlehem is stones throw from Jerusalem. If they didnt use some sort of common money I'd be very suprised. As for the debate about the status of Judea and Samaria in the time of Jesus, history is very very clear. Pompey the Great put the Edomite Herodians into power, creating a Patron/Client relationship between Rome and Judea-Samaria, this alone gave the Romans a very big interest in knowing the wealth status of this entity which has effectively lost independence long before and legates or governors officially sat in power.

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@hglundahl
@joebloggs1356 Nevertheless, Judaea was a vassal kingdom, not a province, making it a thing outside normal Roman taxation (at that point only of provincials) and so, presumably, of censuses.

Joe Bloggs
@hglundahl no, in the time of Jesus Judea was a part of Syria for administration reasons. Romans, you cant beat em😂

This is what chatgpt said, but its very solid history It happened in AD 6.
When Herod Archelaus (ethnarch of Judaea, Samaria, and Idumaea) was deposed by Augustus in AD 6, his territory was converted into a Roman province (often called Judaea/Iudaea) and placed under the oversight of the legate (governor) of Roman Syria. That’s the moment Josephus describes as Judaea being “added/annexed” to Syria for administrative purposes, and it’s when Quirinius came to conduct the property assessment that sparked opposition.
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So as you can see that Judea/Edom/Samaria wasnt as independent as you think.

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@joebloggs1356 Exactly.

AD 6, the independence of Judaea was over.

And that's too late for Luke 2, so it's not the census Luke is talking about.

Joe Bloggs
@hglundahl the census luke mentions isnt the taxation type, its a 'census of the world', and Joseph goes to register, with Mary. Because he is of the House of David. Quirinius is made governor in Syria of which Judea is part in ad 6. Im not sure what people are missing.

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@joebloggs1356 "a 'census of the world',"

Was there actually such a thing?

As mentioned, AD 6 is too late, since Herod the Great had already died by then.

Joe Bloggs
@hglundahl it's hard to make people understand that yes, the Roman's thought the Mediterranean civilisation and near attached lands were the "world" even if they were only slightly aware of anything bigger, it didn't matter to them

@hglundahl I see the point about Herod being dead. I'm also not going to say that 'muh bible is wrong' just because I'm too stupid to explain what's happening. The Bible is the inspired Word of God and if theres a mystery there then by faith I believe it's there for a reason, and not some 2000 year old error, because even the ancients were aware of it.

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@joebloggs1356 Quirinius was in the title position of Governor in 6 AD, but he was doing the job of one under Saturninus "in the title" back when Jesus was born.

As to "the whole world" I think the actual words of Augustus would have been "in all of the provinces of the Roman Empire" and then a certain tax or census officer in Galilee somewhat overreported this to the Holy Family. Or even, it was the actual wording of Octavian, but involved an overreach which has so far not been quite filled with actuality.


Noting that the census edict is available for registered users (I'm so far not one) on the Valtorta app.

So, I can't check if I agree or disagree with her.

[Wait, did Robert Nugent say sth about Saturninus? The thing is Saturninus, as I recall, was actually "in office" as to the title, but it was Quirinius who was doing the job.]

Thursday, January 22, 2026

Hinduism is False (as Most Commonly Understood)


Hinduism is FALSE and here's why
Sanctus | 20 Jan. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCg3rsEDB0g


Unlike the story-lines of Ramayana and Mahabharata (if you reverse the order), Hindu theology is a total mess.

And a story-line is not a complete theology.

Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Best Documentation to Us is Not About Who was Best Documented Back Then, But Whose Documentation Survives Best


Christians, Stop Saying This About Jesus
The Counsel of Trent | 21 Jan. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMHZgtahZuE


1:41 Prove Anaphora Pilati is a forgery?

BrentenApologetics
@BrentenApologetics
If you’re looking for evidence that the Anaphora Pilati is a forgery, the scholarship is actually unanimous on this. There are zero early manuscripts of it, the earliest Greek copies show up over a thousand years after Pilate, and no Roman administrative record ever mentions such a report even though we have thousands of surviving Roman documents. The style and vocabulary are clearly Christian and post‑Nicene, not Roman bureaucratic, and the text uses theological language that didn’t even exist in the first century. Early Christian writers like Justin Martyr and Tertullian only reference the idea of Pilate reporting to Tiberius as an apologetic trope, not as an actual document, and none of them ever quote a text. On top of that, the content contradicts known Roman procedure, because a governor would never send a theological reflection to the emperor praising a man he just executed. Modern scholars classify it as an apocryphal pseudepigraphon, with works like Baudoin’s “Truth in the Details: The Report of Pilate to Tiberius as an Authentic Forgery” explicitly identifying it as a later Christian composition falsely attributed to Pilate.

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@hglundahl
@BrentenApologetics "There are zero early manuscripts of it,"

Did you just attack Caesar's writings?

"the earliest Greek copies show up over a thousand years after Pilate,"

Them being Greek might be a problem, if one could show Zeno and others were too interested in religious forgeries. Can one do so, or does that depend on viewing other things as forgeries which have also been accepted as genuine, just because they theoretically could be and it sounds "over the top"?

A thousand years after Pilate? So, one century worse than Caesar, but some centuries better than the epistles of Cicero.

"and no Roman administrative record ever mentions such a report even though we have thousands of surviving Roman documents."

I don't know what you mean by us having thousands of surviving Roman "documents" ... if you mean administrative reports, sorry, we don't.

We have thousands of literary works that are based on administrative reports, and we may have thousands of fragments of administration, like wage rolls for militaries or inscriptions saying "such and such an administrator did this building, while so and so were consuls" ... neither of these would be likely to mention Pilate, unless you mean Roman historians of Nero's time, like Labienus, none of whom have survived in full if they dealt with contemporary issues.

[Pilate is mentioned inscriptionwise as builder in Caesarea Maritima, I think, though]


"The style and vocabulary are clearly Christian and post‑Nicene, not Roman bureaucratic, and the text uses theological language that didn’t even exist in the first century."

You are presuming very much on 1) Pilate never having Christian convictions and 2) 1st C. Christians never using language close to Nicene theology. If Nicene theology is correct, at least the ideas should have been there.

"Early Christian writers like Justin Martyr and Tertullian only reference the idea of Pilate reporting to Tiberius as an apologetic trope, not as an actual document, and none of them ever quote a text."

Oh, they did reference that idea. How if it happened, but they couldn't access the document, but had a reliable rumour about it?

"a governor would never send a theological reflection to the emperor praising a man he just executed"

As in changes of heart and stepping out of the routine never happens?

You might be overdoing the routine aspect of Tiberius' administration after analogy with later administrators, like Pliny the Younger.

"[Anne-Catherine] Baudoin"

She's in these institutions and conferences:

1 AOROC - Archéologies d'Orient et d'Occident et Sciences des textes
2 ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris
3 LEM - Laboratoire d'Etudes sur les Monothéismes
4 Cultures de l’écrit

In, very Secularist academic culture, France. I think there is a bias.


3:15 How much evidence do you have for the Rubicon?

"Bellum Civile" is his own words, earliest manuscript 10th C AD.
Livy, Velleius, Tacitus and Suetonius, but by the latter two, it's like comparing to Early CCFF for Jesus.

3:18 Cicero wasn't precisely a historian, he was a historic source, and we have his letters from one manuscript discovered by Petrarca.

3:25 Between Cicero and Bellum Civile, you insert a letter from Pompey.

Is it in Cicero's correspondence, or where else?

Anthony Zav
@anthonyzav3769
Only in Cicero’s letters back and forth to each other. The Poet Lucan has Pompey as a charter - he prob used sources we lost.

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@anthonyzav3769 Ah, thank you!

It's a while since I read Cicero, does Pompey mention the Rubicon?

Lucan using lost sources is obviously a parallel to Justin Martyr mentioning a real report by Pilate if the Anaphora is after all even a forgery.


3:34 Coinage commemorates Pallas Athena.

Is she a real goddess, or is the coin just showing her statue?

4:52 We have enough manuscripts for Bellum Civile, but enough isn't as many as for Jesus, or especially, as early as for Jesus.

Assume someone had wanted to forge history about Caesar, the production of manuscripts of fake documentation would have had more time.

7:38 I begin to think, both you and the Orthodox priest have read my work on the issue, and he's repeating me badly, you are partially correcting and partially repeating me, badly, both without mentioning my name.

The blogs in question, mainly "somewhere else" (than in the comments section of Tim O'Neill, hence the name of my blog) have made these points:

  • on manuscript evidence, Moses is comparable and Gospels better than Corpus Caesareum
  • on other authors confirming Caesar, they also have late manuscript evidence
  • on George Washington, he is, per definition, the origin story or "aetiological myth" about the US, doesn't prove he isn't historical, and neither should the origin stories of Israel or of the Church be assumed to be such
  • on comparable documentation, in the sense of contemporary surviving to us, Alexander the Great has lots less than the Crucifixion, Caesar conquering Gaul less (not as good as the crossing of the Rubicon), Tiberius has less, if only because Velleius says nearly nothing except "Tiberius is perfect, let this be perfectly clear" and after Velleius no contemporary historian speaks up before Tacitus' Agricola, but obviously, Joseph Smith and George Washington have more, because he lived in a much more written age, with newspapers, and a closer and therefore better preserved age.


8:25 I did go on and on about historians who wouldn't have mentioned Jesus and why.

Like if Varro died in 4 AD ...

11:30 I would, for reasons mentioned, not call it an overstatement.

I respect your mention of the Testimonium Flavianum, to which I have done parallel work.




Returning to the Rubicon, we don't have much sources for it:

Cicero, contemporary of Caesar, does not mention Rubicon or the cast of the die in his letters.

Neither does the historian Livy in his Ab Urbe Condita, written only 17 years or so after the event. (Tucker, p. 246) The relevant volume (liber 109), however, containing these events is missing. What we have left is the Periochae, i.e. summaries of the book itself. The summary does not mention the Rubicon or Iacta alea est, the book might have.

Another Roman historian, Marcus Velleius Paterculus (c. 19 B.C.- c. 31 A.D.), mentions Rubicon, but not the expression:

“…ratus bellandum Caesar cum exercitu Rubiconem transiit.”


— Velleius, 2.49

i.e. ”Caesar concluded that war was inevitable and crossed the Rubicon with his army.” (transl. Shipley, 1924)


Iacta Alea Est: Crossing the Rubicon
By Amelie Rosengren
https://latinitium.com/iacta-alea-est-crossing-the-rubicon/


Both Velleius and Lucan were born after Caesar had been killed.