LIBERTY: Informed consent in medical treatment is a fundamental human right!

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

https://www.malone.news/p/bioethics-and-freedom-to-choose?publication_id=583200&post_id=185082203&isFreemail=true&r=3snn7d&triedRedirect=true

Bioethics and Freedom to Choose
Stop vaccine mandates. They are unethical, unjustified, scientifically unsound historic artifacts. Just say no.
Dr. Robert W. Malone
Jan 21, 2026

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But what do the Medical Guilds have to say about mandates and informed consent?

In its Code of Medical Ethics, the American Medical Association states:

“Informed consent in medical treatment is fundamental in both ethics and law. Patients have the right to receive information and ask questions about recommended treatments so that they can make well-considered decisions about care. Successful communication in the patient-physician relationship fosters trust and supports shared decision making.”

American Medical Association. Code of Medical Ethics: Informed Consent. 2025.

Fundamental in both ethics and law. But apparently there is an unwritten and unspoken vaccines mandate exemption.

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Hard for anyone who has read about the WWII horrific “medical experiments” conducted in Germany, Japan, and the USA.  

The Tuskegee Experiment, officially known as the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male, was a unethical study conducted from 1932 to 1972 by the U.S. Public Health Service, which observed the effects of untreated syphilis on African American men without their informed consent and without providing them treatment, even after effective medication became available

“Informed Consent” and a complete prohibition on Gooferment “research” is the only answer.

Maybe when I’m “king”, I can sign an “executive order” to mandate such.

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SECURITY: Personal lesson make your User Id random

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

OK so I’ve become very lazy —  security wise.

My Frau version 2 recently got “hacked”.  Not exactly sure what or how it happened BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), she was getting text code to confirm a password change on a financial account’s website.  She attributed to yet another credit card being “stolen”. Not sure if I agree with that. Given that she uses a childhood nickname as her User Id, then I suspect maybe the financial institution or one of its many contractors or data handlers has had a leak.

Anyway, I’ve begun changing all my User Ids from something easily know or guessable to some random string generate by my password manager. For example, instead of “myname@myemailprovider.com”, I’m now know as “Unthread1-Batch7”.

Belt and suspenders?  Maybe.  But who can tell!

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RANT: Do protestors have constitutional rights to reside in America?

Monday, January 26, 2026

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/federal-judge-left-shocked-when-doj-attorney-drops/

Federal Judge Left SHOCKED When DOJ Attorney Drops a Brutal Truth Bomb After Judge Goes on Tirade Against President Trump Regarding ‘Unconstitutional’ Deportations
by Cullen Linebarger Jan. 16, 2026 10:15 am

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A so-called federal judge was caught off guard when an administration attorney dropped a devastating truth bomb that put all of his whining over Trump to shame.

As Politico reported, a federal judge presiding over a lawsuit in Boston regarding the deportation of foreign, pro-Hamas activists went off on Trump and his cabinet on Thursday for orchestrating an “unconstitutional conspiracy” to pick off migrants.

The affected activists include Columbia University’s Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Madhawi, Tufts University Ph.D. student Rumeysa Ozturk, and Georgetown University academic Badar Khan Suri. These students have all issued hateful anti-American and ant-Semitic remarks, leaving other students uncomfortable.

Despite the activists having no constitutional right to reside in America, U.S. District Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, decided to bash Trump, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

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I’d suggest “no”.  

They are “guests” in our country and as such have a responsibility to refrain from involvement in our “internal affairs”.  They could become citizens and then have a right to “seek redress of grievances”. BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), not as an invited guest permitted to be here.

As such, they should be deported IMMEDIATELY!

And, the Senate should IMMEDIATELY impeach U.S. District Court Judge William G. Young for his comments and allowing his personal opinions, which he certainly has a right to have, to insert themselves in court proceedings.  Time to bring judges in line as “impartial arbiters of law”; not emotional partisans.

Argh!

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ENCOURAGING: The outcome shadows decision quality

Sunday, January 25, 2026

https://bookfreak.substack.com/p/book-freak-193-how-to-decide?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1194226&post_id=183593966&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1uhcoe&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Book Freak #193: How to Decide
Simple Tools for Making Better Choices
Mark Frauenfelder
Jan 13, 2026

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Stop “Resulting”

“Resulting” is Duke’s term for judging a decision’s quality by its outcome. A good decision can lead to a bad outcome (and vice versa) because of factors outside your control. When you overfit decision quality to outcome quality, you risk repeating errors that preceded a lucky good outcome and avoiding good decisions that didn’t work out due to bad luck.

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“The quality of the outcome casts a shadow over our ability to see the quality of the decision.” — Annie Duke poker player

What a great observation!  Too often, I’ve confused the result with the decision process.  I wonder now, if I’ve been betrayed by my own paradigms?

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TECHNOLOGY: T-Mobile and ATT blamed when VZ goes down

Saturday, January 24, 2026

https://www.androidauthority.com/downdetector-carrier-reports-spike-3632489/?utm_source=newsletter

T-Mobile and AT&T also seeing an uptick in outage reports during today’s Verizon disruption
Not as many reports as Verizon, but still a bunch.
By https://www.androidauthority.com/author/taylorkerns/
18 hours ago 
<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2026-01-15>>

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  • Verizon is experiencing a significant service outage today.
  • Other services, including AT&T and T-Mobile, have seen smaller but still significant upticks in outage reports on Downdetector.
  • Verizon has said it’s working on a fix for its own service issues today.

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​I have a second phone on Google Fi, which basically costs nothing if not used.

“3 is 2! 2 is 1! 1 is none! Look for redundant capability; not redundant gear!” — a disaster recovery adage

Just an FYI.

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CLOUD: Google is “soulless” as is Apple, Microsoft, and other Big Tech

Friday, January 23, 2026

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-one-deal-insult-illegal-3632009/

This Google One deal is a calculated insult if you ask me
It’s a loyalty tax we all have to pay.
By https://www.androidauthority.com/author/mitjarutnik/

<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2026-01-15>>

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However, Google is no ordinary company, and it knows it. Its strategy is simple: lure users in with promos, get them hooked on the service, entrench them in the ecosystem, and then hike up the price. Google knows that once your Gmail is at capacity and you have terabytes of photos and videos stored in its cloud service, the costs of switching are too high for most people to bear. The technical pain of migrating data to a new provider is a larger hurdle than the financial pain of a price hike. It’s a brilliant business move, but it’s predatory, and it’s exactly why Big Tech feels so soulless.

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Well, I, for one, am planning to move to a NAS (Network Attached Storage) and reduce my dependence upon the Cloud.

I’m also planning to leave the Apple “Walled Garden” and Google “ecosystem”.  

I cleaning up all the shoulda, coulda, and woulda projects!

“Making a list; checking it twice; gonna find out who’s naughty and nice.”

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Counseling for ideological thoughts?

Thursday, January 22, 2026

https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/schools-flag-11-year-olds-as-terrorists?publication_id=975571&post_id=184483013&isFreemail=true&r=60qmwq&triedRedirect=true

Daily Pulse
Schools Flag 11-Year-Olds as Terrorists for Questioning Mass Migration | Daily Pulse

  • They’re training kids to report “bad thoughts.” One wrong move—and the system takes over.

The Vigilant Fox
Jan 13, 2026

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STORY #1 – Students are being monitored for thought crimes through a government-funded video game in UK schools.

Kids as young as 11 are warned that they could be flagged as potential terrorists simply for questioning mass migration.

The game, Pathways, puts students in control of a white character navigating so-called moral dilemmas. If they express the “wrong” opinion, share the “wrong” video, or attend a protest defending British values, their extremism meter climbs. The penalty? Counseling for ideological thoughts or a referral to PREVENT—Britain’s official counterterrorism program.

Even researching immigration statistics is treated as suspicious. If a student dares to “look into it more,” the game warns: you’re being radicalized.

Looking up the truth is now a red flag.

This isn’t education. It’s psychological conditioning—pressuring children to stay silent, conform, and report their peers for independent thought.

Maria Zeee exposes what happens after a child is flagged, and just how little power parents have once the state takes over.

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Well, what do “We, The Sheeple” expect when you have Gooferment Skrules?

The Prussian model of “education” is to create cannon fodder for the Army, willing morons for the factories, and useful idiots to vote for and be led by the elite!

It’s nothing more that an “indoctrination camp”.

This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now we have been rendered permanent children. It’s the architects of forced schooling who are responsible for that.
John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

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INSPIRATIONAL: Surgeon Saved His Life as a Teenage Immigrant

Wednesday, January 21, 2026

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/a-surgeon-saved-his-life-as-a-teenage-immigrant-now-they-operate-together-for-charity-in-ethiopia/?utm_source=newsletter.goodnewsnetwork.org&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=newborn-seals-strike-a-pose&_bhlid=ea31a3722d85b0f5607e35bb57c75f12874b42ea

A Surgeon Saved His Life as a Teenage Immigrant. Now They Operate Together for Charity in Ethiopia
By Andy Corbley – Jan 13, 2026

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One can imagine it didn’t take much for him to make room in his schedule to return to Ethiopia to do surgeries through the nonprofit Heart Attack Ethiopia. On the first surgery mission trip a couple of years ago, Mesfin surprised Dr. Jim Kauten, who was also there at the time.

“That was especially nice in my mind,” Kauten said. “For him to be able to pay back to his community services that he received in the United States, and he was able to pay it back in Ethiopia.”

As well as providing a key service in the operating theater, the native Amharic-speaker acts as the social glue between volunteer surgeons and patients, children like he once was, unable to understand or talk to his benefactors. His translations help put the patients at ease and stitch both sides of the volunteer team together.

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Sometimes we never know who benefits or how they benefit.  In this case, there was a great feedback loop. The lack of feedback should never discourage charity. 

Have you heard that old Irish adage about “good works only count if done in secret”. Funny, I learned that from my maternal English Protestant grandmother who wanted to teach me about my maternal grandfather’s “heathen Irish culture that has a few good points”. ROFL!

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INSPIRATIONAL: The largest underwater structure ever discovered in France rewrites history?

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

https://bigthinkmedia.substack.com/p/7000-year-old-underwater-wall-raises?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2863167&post_id=184352981&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=58ecz2&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

7,000-year-old underwater wall raises questions about ancient engineering — and lost-city legends

  • Scientists found a massive underwater wall off the coast of France that might help explain the origin of the legend of Ys.

Big Think By Frank Jacobs
Jan 13, 2026

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The structure consists of some 60 massive granite monoliths, set directly onto the bedrock in pairs at regular intervals. Smaller slabs and packing stones fill in the gaps, locking the whole into a single, deliberate construction. With an estimated total mass of around 3,300 tons, this is the largest underwater structure ever discovered in France.

The team named it TAF1, after Toul ar Fot, the Breton term for this stretch of sea (in English: “Hole of the Wave.”)

TAF1 is not just massive; it’s ancient as well. By reconstructing ancient shorelines, researchers dated the wall to between 5,800 and 5,300 B.C. That’s centuries older than Stonehenge, and millennia older than the pyramids of Giza.

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Once again demonstrating how little humanity knows about anything, in this case about the past.  Stunningly pushing back the “oldest” label from Stonehenge.  (I’ve seen it personally and, as a fat old white guy injineer, all I could think was “NFW did humans do this without heavy equipment”!  Some smart people have found that with sand and wobbling big <synonym for excrement> could be moved.  But vast distances?  Here’s an example of “hunter gatherers” doing big construction.  

Bottom line:  Where there is a will; there’s a way.  And, don’t underestimate any human no matter what you think, they are geniuses just waiting to prove your pre-conceived notions wrong.

“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.” George Bernard Shaw

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TECHNOLOGY: Maybe a simple small phone is good for children and older adults?

Monday, January 19, 2026

https://www.androidauthority.com/mudita-kompakt-hands-on-ces-2026-3631800/?utm_source=newsletter

This tiny, e-ink Android phone is the minimalist gadget I’ve been waiting for
Say hello to the Mudita Kompakt.
By Joe Maring
<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2026-01-14>>

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One of the more interesting smartphone trends of the last year or two has been the rise of minimalist phones; phones that are designed to be less addictive than “regular” smartphones while still keeping you connected to phone calls, texts, etc.

I saw one such device at CES 2026 last week. It’s called the Mudita Kompakt, and compared to other minimalist phones on the market today, it’s the first one I’m actually tempted to buy.

As you’d expect from a phone of this caliber, the Mudita Kompakt is a pretty simple device. It has a 4.3-inch e-ink touchscreen display, a 3.5mm headphone jack, IP54 dust/water resistance, 32GB of storage (expandable up to 2TB), and a 3,300mAh battery rated to last up to six days.

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​This might be a good phone for “children” who are old enough to handle it. Unlike the politicians and bureaucrats that run schools, I think that children NEED to be able to communicate with parents and visa versa. Teachers are not above suspicion and emergencies happen. Like when my child’s bus driver missed his drop off. And, there has been (at least one or two that I remember) school shootings that were first reported by a “child” with his phone.

Heck I might ever get one as my “next” phone! Might even be perfect for befuddled old people like me?

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