ter·na·ry /ˈtərnərē/ adjective mathematics
-1 0 1, composed of three parts
using three as a base
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12/18/2025

Italy
October 2025
Sol Foundation Symposium
Jacques Fabrice Vallée, born 1939, is an Internet pioneer, computer scientist, venture capitalist, author, ufologist, and astronomer currently residing in San Francisco and Paris. He holds a BS University of Paris; MS University of Lille Nord de France; and PhD Northwestern University. His career begins as a professional astronomer, Paris Observatory. He co-develops the first computerized map of Mars for NASA, 1963.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Vall%C3%A9e​

Action in Arkansas lithium
​Haynesville, Louisiana
Shale Business

​Vallée wants the bark of the trees to be examined by the scientists assessing the Shroud of Turin.

Google AI Overview
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Q. What did John Taylor Gatto do for his students?
A. John Taylor Gatto empowered his students by fostering independence, critical thinking, and real-world skills through his "gorilla curriculum", taking them out of traditional classrooms for hands-on projects like selling ads, challenging the system's conformity, and teaching self-reliance, ultimately leading to his resignation as he felt mainstream schooling stifled these qualities, promoting dependency and a "hidden curriculum" of control instead.

Key Actions for His Students:

• Real-World Learning: He sent students into New York City to sell ad space for a newspaper they created, giving them practical experience.
• Challenged Assumptions: Gatto encouraged students to question the inherent value and structure of schooling itself, encouraging them to think dialectically*.
• High Trust, High Standards: He trusted his students with autonomy and responsibility, expecting them to meet high standards, which they thrived under.
• Fostered Independence: He aimed to help students find their own paths, independent of state-mandated structures, by teaching them to solve problems and think for themselves.
• Provided Sanctuary: He offered private support for students struggling with the school system, helping them find ways to cope or work around its pressures.

His Philosophy & "I Quit" Resignation:

• "The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher": Gatto argued that compulsory schooling taught students to stay in their assigned place, obey authority, rely on external validation, and become dependent, rather than fostering true education.
• Critique of Mass Schooling: He believed formal schooling created confusion, dependency, and a lack of privacy, preparing children for subservient roles rather than true self-sufficiency.
• Advocacy for Homeschooling/Unschooling: After quitting, he became a prominent advocate for homeschooling and unschooling, viewing them as ways to nurture curiosity, self-knowledge, and authentic learning.

​In essence, Gatto did everything he could to provide an actual education, rich with real-world engagement and critical thinking, in stark contrast to the conventional schooling he felt was damaging.

*Dialectical describes a method of reasoning or a situation involving opposing ideas to find truth, often through a process of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis, resolving contradictions to reach a higher understanding or resolution, and also relates to regional speech patterns (dialects). Essentially, it's about understanding reality by examining conflicting forces and integrating them.

Want to work with me?

1. I can give you more time than any teacher.
2. I have more experience than any teacher.
3. Your parents can negotiate a price.​

P.S. Homeschooling is not ideal: you need adults who are outside the family.

The first audiobook we will listen to (also in paperback) comes from an observer of the Spanish royal court and is a Machiavelli counterpunch. Jesuit Father Balthasar Gracián wrote The Art of Worldly Wisdom, published in 1647. It is about four hours of philosophy, and we will digest it in bits.

1710-11

• What is three-color rule in art? The rule states to use primary, secondary, and tertiary colors in 60%, 30%, and 10% proportions, respectively.
• The triadic rule is a color scheme found on the color wheel, using three colors equally spaced in a triangle to create vibrant, balanced palettes.
• The color wheel is the tool, while the triadic rule is a method of selecting harmonious colors from it for design in many phases of art.

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Margaret Thaler Singer (7/29/1921–11/23/2003) was an American clinical psychologist and researcher.

She did a report for the American Psychological Association (APA). DIMPAC stands for “Deceptive and Indirect Methods of Persuasion and Control”. In the aftermath of so much mind control and cult activity in the twentieth century—which seemed to culminate in the 1978 Jonestown massacre—the APA assigned cult expert Singer to head up a task force that would assess the situation and provide recommendations to them. This included promoting public awareness to help ordinary Americans learn more about the tactics and methods of coercive persuasion.

However, after the report was ready to go, the APA decided to dismiss and even suppress it, on the advice of outside “experts”, one of whom derided the whole idea that people can be brainwashed. The DIMPAC report is extremely difficult to locate on the Internet.

Persuasion and control is the bedrock of the modern education system and what young people face today. I believe that the coeducational Catholic charismatic renewal movement and Renewal Ministries and the all-male Catholic Knights of Columbus are cults.

12/1/2010

The main San Francisco address for Jim Jones' Peoples Temple was the former Scottish Rite Temple and was acquired by the cult in the early 1970s. Local Democrat politicians, including Diane Feinstein, visited the building at 1859 Geary Boulevard and raved about the organization.

United States

L. Frank Baum, theosophist
anti-Catholic extremist
ultimate feminist

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Jews
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Google AI Overview
​William Jennings Bryan

• Religion: Bryan was a devout Presbyterian.
• Political Stance: He championed Populist causes, like "free silver", and his economic critiques were sometimes interpreted as anti-Semitic, alienating some Jewish voters who favored his opponent, William McKinley.
• Jewish Support: Despite this, some Jewish voters did support Bryan, as shown by surviving Yiddish campaign pins from the 1900 election. 

​Jewish POV
​https://aish.com/the-wizard-of-oz-and-the-jews/

The Age of Disclosure
Documentary released in late 2025, available on Prime Video and in select theaters​

Disclosure Day
Sci-fi trailer released 12/2025, film release date 6/12/2026

Content Creator
12/29/2025
"The Space Age didn't begin with science. It began when the founder of the JPL [Jet Propulsion Lab] stood in a desert circle with L. Ron Hubbard ... and summoned a demon. This is the story of the 'Collins Elite' — the secret Pentagon faction convinced that 'aliens' are actually biblical entities and why the government's upcoming 'Disclosure' isn't a revelation of truth — but a carefully laid spiritual trap."

Google AI Overview
Q. Did L. Ron Hubbard meet Jack Parsons?
A. Yes, rocket scientist Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard met in 1945 in Pasadena, becoming deeply involved through Parsons' occult practices, with Hubbard participating in sex magic rituals (the "Babylon Working") to summon a goddess, a period that ended with Hubbard absconding with Parsons' girlfriend and money. (end of AI)

Parsons
John Whiteside Parsons (1914-1952, dead at 37) was an American rocket engineer, chemist, and Thelemite occultist. Parsons was one of the principal founders of both the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Aerojet.

Google AI Overview
Q. What is Aerojet?
A. Aerojet, now part of Aerojet Rocketdyne, is a major American manufacturer of rocket, hypersonic, and electric propulsion systems for space, defense, and commercial applications, known for building engines for NASA, the Space Shuttle, and missile defense, and recently acquired by L3Harris, though parts are spinning off. The company began with JATO [Jet-Assisted Take-Off] rockets and evolved through mergers, playing a crucial role in space exploration and national security, using advanced techniques like 3D printing for cost and time savings. (end of AI)

Frances Swan
Using automatic writing, naval investigators summon a UFO (UAP). The story was publicized in a 1974 film hosted by Rod Serling of Twilight Zone. Frances wrote Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Abduction Experience, the true story of the world's first documented alien abduction case. She lived in Eliot, Maine.​

I have covered Kenneth Arnold and numerous other eyewitnesses, some in the US Air Force and ranchers.

​Listen to what Avi Loeb said about Hollywood:
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Google AI Overview (shortened)
Q. How old is the Enochian alphabet?
A. ​The Enochian alphabet is from the 16th century, first appearing in the late 1580s when English occultists John Dee and Edward Kelley claimed that angels revealed it to them. They recorded this "celestial speech" and its unique alphabet in their journals during magical sessions, believing it to be the language of angels, used for Enochian magic.

Tau Tav Taw

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Google AI Overview
Q. What presidents knew about UFOs (UAPs)?
A. Several U.S. Presidents, including Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and Donald Trump, have had known interactions or expressed significant interest in UFOs/UAPs, with Carter reporting his own sighting, Reagan famously asking Gorbachev about alien invasion, and Trump acknowledging briefings and "interesting" Roswell info, while presidents like Truman, Eisenhower, and Clinton also dealt with the topic or showed curiosity, with recent administrations seeing formal Pentagon reports on UAPs.

I ended all YT subscriptions to Catholics. I promoted many on this website, including the Latin Mass orders, not expecting something in return, but after much time has passed, one would expect some subscriptions or comments. The Catholic and Orthodox Churches are inert. This website suspends them. I'm still available for tutoring English, all levels but not AP, which is nonsense (and I don't teach how to read), plus math through trig, my reeducation having begun in 2020. Thank you to the 40 or so subscribers unrelated to me. Check out the Reading List's "The Outsider". When you become an insider, you're doomed. Triple feature.

• Author Douglas Baber, born Belfast 1918, was from Epsom, England, and a Royal Air Force pilot during WW II. He died in 1963.
• Father Matthews was played by Liam Gaffney. Banker Closterman was played by Robert Forbes Felton, which is an anglicized Jewish name, Velten, or Felten from Germany, or Valentim, the English version being Valentine, from the Latin, Sanctus Valentinus.
• The film gained attention because Christopher Craig watched it, and later the same day he killed a cop during a burglary.

Crossed fingers
Where did fingers crossed originate? Early Catholics persecuted and martyred by Romans flashed crossed fingers, the canonical digits, forefinger and middle finger, often with another person's fingers forming an Ichthys, or fish symbol, to secretly identify each other. They began crossing their fingers to invoke the power of the cross for protection and blessings against evil or misfortune.

The practice flourished in England in the 16th century when persecutions began against recusants, including Shakespeare, according to the Oxford Reference. Over time, the meaning and significance were secularized, notes the Grammarist. (Gemini assist)

Merchant of Venice
As the dog Jew did utter in the streets, "My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter! Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats! Justice! the law!"

JStor, ithaca.org, is dominated by women and Jews.

Greenland
We will get Greenland, eventually. Why? Rare earth minerals and oil. Your cell phone and laptop would not work without rare earth minerals from China, and we tried to buy Greenland once before: 1947, actually since 1867. The country is losing people, and if they became Americans, the spreadsheet, not the ice sheet, would make them the richest people on Earth. We bought Alaska and the Philippines and maneuvered our way into Hawaii, American Samoa, and Guam. Greenland is physically part of North America, not Europe, and rests on the North American Tectonic Plate.

outsider

What's the biggest thing in the solar system?
Jupiter with its magnetic field

​1/22/2026
"Don't date a microbe." -Loeb

the Ides of March

Shakespeare Julius Caesar
A soothsayer says, "Beware the Ides of March." On that fateful day, Caesar was stabbed 23 times.


Ranieri of Pisa, rocket man with conical fingers
Benedictine hermit monk, c. 1115-1160
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Titled Blessed Ranieri Frees the Poor from a Prison in Florence, the Sassetta altarpiece, painted 1437-44, was once part of an elaborate altarpiece in the Church of San Francesco in Sansepolcro, Tuscany, and is now in the Louvre. It consisted of 60 images and was constructed over Ranieri Rasini's tomb; only about half of the images survived, scattered in museums and private collections.

Jupiter
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courtesy of IFLScience

Hebrew alphabet

First, read what Chopin's friends said about him, including Liszt, in the Piano Category. Second, read what Google AI Overview had to say.

Chopin and Liszt were friends, but their relationship was a complex mix of intense camaraderie, mutual admiration, professional rivalry, and eventual drifting apart, characterized by both deep understanding and personal friction, particularly concerning performance styles and romantic entanglements.

They were contemporaries, fellow piano virtuosos, and met in Paris in the 1830s, becoming significant figures in the Romantic music scene, though their differing personalities (Chopin's delicate style vs. Liszt's theatricality) eventually caused strain, notes WWTW and Interlude HK. (end of AI)

However, Google AI fails to mention that both were devoutly Catholic. Chopin's body minus his heart rests in Church of the Madeleine, Paris, and Liszt is buried in a chapel-shaped tomb at the Stadtfriedhof (City Cemetery) in Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany. While each had a complex romantic life, especially Liszt, both received the Last Sacraments.

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From everything I've read about him, and perhaps he realized this, my best guess is that Chopin's vocation was the single life. His music displays a great deal of resilience.

Field, father of the Nocturne

Act of Homage
Composer: Philip Heinrich Erlebach 1657-1714
Artist: Sebastiano Ricci 1659-1734
BaroqueXRococo

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Minor Basilica umbraculum

Google AI Overview
Q. When did the umbraculum come into existence?
A. The use of the umbraculum, a large silk parasol in the traditional papal colors of red and yellow, dates back to at least the 13th century.

Originally a practical item used to provide shade for the pope during outdoor processions, the umbraculum eventually evolved into a powerful symbol of papal authority and the temporal power of the Papacy.

Key moments in its existence include:

• 13th Century: Earliest known visual evidence is a papal insignia, shown in a fresco cycle from 1248 in the oratory of San Silvestro in Rome.
• 15th Century: Pope Alexander VI (r. 1492-1503) began employing the umbraculum as a symbol of the temporal powers of the Papacy.
• 16th Century: The umbraculum was first used as an interregnal emblem (during a sede vacante, the period between popes' reigns) on coins minted in 1521.
• Vatican II Reforms (1960s): Physical use of the umbraculum in processions was discontinued.

AI doesn't know that the umbraculum is still present in some Latin Mass churches, such as the FSSP Basilique Notre-Dame de Fribourg, Switzerland.

Google AI Overview
Q. Did China buy oil from Venezuela?
A. Yes, China has been a major buyer of Venezuelan oil, often through complex deals involving debt repayment and purchases by independent refiners, despite U.S. sanctions, though the volume has fluctuated and recent events (early Jan 2026) have created uncertainty, with China seeking alternative suppliers like Iran and Russia to fill gaps. 
Key Details:

• Major Buyer: China has consistently been Venezuela's largest oil customer, taking the majority of its exports.
• Sanctions & Circumvention: Due to U.S. sanctions, shipments are often disguised to hide the Venezuelan origin, with independent "teapot" refiners being key purchasers of the discounted crude.
• Debt & Investment: Oil sales have often been linked to massive loans China made to Venezuela, with oil used to repay debts.
• Recent Developments (Early 2026): Following political shifts in Venezuela (e.g., Maduro's removal/capture), U.S. pressure increased, leading to reports of halted shipments and a scramble by Chinese refiners to find alternatives, primarily from Iran and Russia, according to sources like Reuters and Bloomberg [left-leaning sources].
• China's Stance: Beijing maintains commitment to ties but faces challenges in securing consistent supply from Caracas due to the volatile situation, notes South China Morning Post. 

In essence, China has been Venezuela's lifeline for oil exports, but the relationship is complex and currently undergoing significant disruption due to geopolitical events.

oil tanker seized

What is the purpose of life? To know, love, and serve God

The Russia-flagged oil tanker, formerly named Bella 1, was seized by the US Coast Guard after slipping past the Venezuela Blockade, very wide and very far, no one killed, and the footage was declassified almost immediately.