Today is Estonia’s Victory Day, which has been celebrated on June 23 every year since 1934. The date recalls the victory in the 1919 Battle of Vonnu of the Estonian military forces (and Latvian North brigade) and their allies over German forces (Baltische Landeswehr) who sought to re-assert Baltic-German control over the region. The battle was part of the 1918-1920 Estonian War of Independence, where the main adversary of the newly independent Estonia was Communist Russia.
Today, Victory Day also marks the contributions of all Estonians in their fight to regain and retain their independence. Estonian celebration of June 23 is ceremonially tied to the following Midsummer Day celebrations on the 24th.
According to Estonian laws, the state flags are not to be lowered during the night between days.
From early on, blood clotting has been rumored to be associated with COVID and its treatments [“vaccines”]:
The ”auto-generated” text given from a DuckDuckGo search: “The term ‘clot shot’ is often used informally to refer to COVID-19 vaccines, particularly in discussions about rare side effects like blood clots associated with some vaccines, such as Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca. While these side effects are serious, they are extremely rare compared to the risks posed by COVID-19 itself.”
But is it really the case that rumors of clotting are merely that, mere rumors? An efflorescence of dark humor in a trying time? Dr. John Campbell has been following the story, and interviewing doctors, scientists, and embalmers:
In this repeat interview with Major Tom Haviland, who has spoken to and polled embalmers at morticians’ conventions, we learn that while the stories told and evidence collected by embalmers working on dead bodies (preparing them for internment) are alarming, scientists and government funders have shown remarkable restraint in following up on clues.
The clots being found after the rollout of the various “vaccines” are not just small, easy to tear. They are large, “tough and rubbery.”
However, the mainstream of the medical profession takes pains to debunk these stories every now and then, dismissing them as tall tales, or as almost anodyne, quite common before and after the pandemic, contrary to the testimony of Haviland.
Note that Haviland and Campbell are not talking about microclotting. Nor is Haviland referring to “chicken fat clots,” which are small, yellow, and have been observed for a very long time. Haviland is on track of an even more alarming trend, which features clots of sometimes gruesome length.
Be careful in choosing an emoji to accompany your “clot shot” epithet.
Morality not only commands innumerable terrible means for preventing critical hands being laid upon her: her security depends still more upon a sort of enchantment at which she is phenomenally skilled. That is to say, she knows how to enrapture. She appeals to the emotions; her glance paralyzes the reason and the will. . . . Ever since there has been talking and persuading on earth, she has been the supreme mistress of seduction.
Friedrich W. Nietzsche, as quoted and translated by H.L. Mencken, The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1913), from Daybreak (“Morgenröte,” preface, § 3).
On June 22, 1633, astronomer Galileo Galilei recanted his belief in heliocentrism, the idea that the Earth revolves around the sun. He didn’t do this based on scientific research, but under pressure from the Holy Office in Rome.
Three hundred forty-five years later, to the date, American astronomer James W. Christy discovered Charon (pictured above), a moon for what was then called “the ninth planet,” Pluto. This put Christy in an august company of satellite discoverers, including Galileo, who had discovered four of Jupiter’s moons in 1610.
When Pluto was later “demoted” to “dwarf planet” status, in 2006, no one was put under house arrest for objecting, or for not changing his or her mind, as had Galileo been centuries before.
The ratio in sizes between Charon and Pluto make the pair, effectively, a “double dwarf planet.”
“A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll reveals a significant wave of discontent among Democratic voters,” explains Billy Adams at MSN, “with a strong majority expressing a desire for new leadership and a shift in party priorities.”
The spectacular failure of party leadership in the debacle that was the transition from the Biden re-election campaign, last year, to the Harris presidential election campaign, is just the tip of the proverbial calved glacier.
“The survey indicates that many Democrats feel their party is over-emphasizing issues such as transgender rights and electric vehicles, while not paying enough attention to pressing economic concerns,” the article points out. “Voters are eager for their leaders to address ‘kitchen-table issues’ like the cost of living and affordability, and to work towards reducing corporate influence.”
Are we seeing an end to identity politics as the focus of the left? Or perhaps the end of the left’s influence on the party? “Some prominent Democrats have openly criticized the party for being too ‘weak and woke,’” and the general trend of complaints about the pathetic response of Democrats, in 2024, to a resurgence of Trump support showed, apparently, a need to reconnect “with its base on core economic issues.…”
But can the party retreat from cringe woke nonsense to return to its core strengths of cringe statist/socialist nonsense? Rep. Marc Pocan (D-Mich.) has expressed how difficult this is proving to be: “I would love to have a day go by that @DNC doesn’t do something embarrassing & off message.”
On June 21, 1915, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens. In Guinn v. United States, the Supreme Court found “grandfather clauses” in effect in several formerly slave states — though superficially race-neutral — to be little more than sneaky ways of allowing illiterate white folks to vote while disallowing illiterate black folks.
The policies of the new Trump administration have given us only partial reprieves from the war on freedom of speech.
The war is still chugging along. It extends even to our most private communications, including those now hidden from prying eyes by encryption. Revived legislation in the U.S. Senate threatens the providers of such encryption.
Reclaim the Net’s Dan Frieth observes that under the STOP CSAM Act of 2025 (S. 1829), which targets “child sexual abuse material,” providing a “secure, privacy-focused service could be interpreted as ‘facilitating’ illegal activity, regardless of whether the provider can access or verify the content being transmitted.”
The legislation stipulates that providers may defend themselves from charges of “facilitating” illegal activity by showing that it is “technologically impossible” to remove CSAM without disabling their encryption. But firms would still often have to go to court to make this case, and “many platforms may adopt invasive scanning out of fear, not necessity, just to avoid liability, with real consequences for privacy and user trust.”
Defaulting to routine invasive scanning means an end to providing users with encryption, including users threatened by despotic regimes.
Current law already requires platforms to report known examples of material that entails the sexual abuse of children.
Any good or service that can be put to good use can also be put to evil use. Just as we shouldn’t penalize the makers of knives, forks, mail, curtains, roads, and guns for their use by criminals, the makers of encryption services should also not be so punished.
Nor should we grant to government bodies such a frightening dystopian power, accumulated to override our basic freedoms.
On the 20th of June in 1787, at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Oliver Ellsworth moved to confine legislative powers to two distinct congressional bodies, and to strike the word “national” from the document. Edmund Randolph of Virginia had previously moved successfully to call the government the National Government of United States. Ellsworth moved that the government should continue to be called, simply, the United States of America.
The final wording eventually became “All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.”
The words “nation” and “national” do not occur anywhere in the Constitution as ratified by the original set of states, or as amended.
John F. Kennedy authored the Encyclopædia Britannica’s article on Ellsworth. This was Kennedy’s only contribution to the encyclopedia.
The image, above, is of a portrait of Oliver Ellsworth by Ralph Earl (1785); it is housed, perhaps with a tinge of irony, in the National Portrait Gallery.
Let it, then, be henceforth proclaimed to the world, that man’s conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.
John Tyler, funeral oration for Thomas Jefferson (July 11, 1826).
