Mitch McConnell is the current Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration even though he is mentally incapacitated. We do not know his current status and he may be dead. The magic date is August 3rd: if they can hide his death until then, there will not be a special election to replace him. Who will replace him as Chairman of this powerful Senate Committee when the truth is released?

Per Grok:

Ted Cruz would be the most likely immediate successor as chairman, as he appears next in the majority-party lineup after McConnell. The Republican Conference (via its Committee on Committees and steering processes) would formally handle the transition, often ratifying the next senior member unless there’s a vote or exceptional circumstances.

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See how easy it will be to transfer the power of this Committee from China to Israel.

The nation Dates of rise and fall Duration in years:

Assyria 859-612 B.C. – 247 years
Persia 538-330 B.C. – 208 years
(Cyrus and his descendants)
Greece 331-100 B.C. – 231 years
(Alexander and his successors)
Roman Republic 260-27 B.C. – 233 years
Roman Empire 27 B.C.-A.D. 180 – 207 years
Arab Empire A.D. 634-880 – 246 years
Mameluke Empire 1250-1517 – 267 years
Ottoman Empire 1320-1570 – 250 years
Spain 1500-1750 – 250 years
Romanov Russia 1682-1916 – 234 years
Britain 1700-1950 – 250 years

The 13 Great Empires flourished and collapsed in mankind’s past before America existed. From the Arab Empire to the British Empire… they each had the identical problems that America has now.
The same problems affecting us NOW destroyed these Empires. Foreign Immigration, welfare, wars, corruption, sexual deviancy, abandonment of religion and fraud caused their demise.

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Roth Note: Everything is cyclical, Empires, too. This post contains The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival by Sir John Glubb.

From Huter der Irminsul

Heil – The original call of the whole

Long before the word salvation was co-opted and distorted by ideologies, it carried an ancient, sacred meaning. It meant wholeness, integrity, happiness, blessing and the harmonious balance between humans, nature and the powers of the cosmos.

In ancient Germanic and Nordic traditions, salvation was not a call of submission, but rather a desire for life. Anyone who wished someone else good fortune promised them health, strength, peace and the goodwill of the gods. It was a blessing word, born from a time when people saw themselves as part of the great world tree.

The Old High German heil and the Proto-Germanic hailaz meant “whole”, “unharmed” and “healthy”. To this day, words like heal, healing and heil come from the same root. The English whole and health also go back to the same Indo-European origin – a linguistic echo of an ancient idea: true health is wholeness.

In pagan cultures, salvation was more than physical well-being. It was the force that connected people with their ancestors, that ordered the change of seasons and brought blessing over fields, forests and hearths. A warrior could possess salvation if his courage was in harmony with his honor. A seer could bring healing if her wisdom showed people the right path. A king was only considered safe if his people lived in peace and the fertility of the land was preserved.

Salvation was not a possession, but a state of harmony. It flowed like the water of the springs, grew like the roots of the old oak trees and shone like the sun after the long winter night. It was a reminder that all life is interwoven.

It was only many centuries later that this ancient word was misused and thus burdened for generations. However, this abuse did not change its original origin – but it did change its public perception. History can distort words, but its oldest roots often tell a deeper truth.

The ancient salvation is reminiscent of a time when people heard the wind as a messenger from the gods, saw the rhythm of fate in the stars and honored the spark of life in fire. It was the desire for wholeness – with oneself, with nature and with the divine fabric of the world.

May this original meaning not be forgotten: salvation as a symbol of life, healing, connection and inner balance – not as a call to power, but as an ancient blessing for everything that lives.

May you find salvation in your heart, strength in your roots, Wisdom in the movement of the stars and peace on all paths you take. As the tree stands firmly in the earth and stretches its crown towards the sky, so may you too find your place between the worlds – in harmony with nature, your ancestors and yourself.

From Huter der Irminsul

Roth Note: … work out your own salvation with fear and trembling” (Philippians 2:12). No need for the Christian to take offense at this post. It’s just history for you and a different path for others. My wish for the reader is the final paragraph, whatever that ‘salvation’ is for you.

Amidst the funeral for Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei, the Saga of Hormuz has continued taking some interesting turns.

Iran has refused to make any concessions to the US because it knows the treacherous Trump administration has no principles whatsoever when it comes to honoring deals. All the while, the US has resorted to outright begging and making every possible concession to avert the humiliation of accepting a Hormuz with tolls:

WSJ writes:

The U.S. and Oman are looking for ways to break Iran’s insistence on charging tolls for ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. Their chief lever in indirect talks was a promise to unfreeze some of the $100 billion in Iranian funds held overseas.

The U.S. diplomats offered a trade-off to Iran, the people said: Relinquish its claim to control the strait and renounce toll payments in exchange for billions of dollars of unfrozen funds.

Europe, on the other hand, is now convinced that bowing to Iranian regional hegemony is the only remaining rational choice as the rest of the world simply lacks cards to play in prying Hormuz away from its rightful proprietors.

As the most striking example of this came Vice President JD Vance’s eye-opening admission two days ago that Trump merely used the MOU as a brief pause to give the world some time to refill its oil stocks and stave off economic collapse, before—it is strongly implied—continuing the unprovoked aggression against Iran as needed.

It’s clear that the US is now biding its time to resupply its stations in the Mideast before potentially embarking—at the least—on more strikes. In light of this, there are some unverified reports from “anonymous sources in Iran” that Iran is even considering preemptive attacks on Israel for such a contingency, because Iranian leaders are tired of playing the militarily passive-reactive role.

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Roth Note: FAFO.

Which is better — to be ruled by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants one mile away?
— Rev. Mather Byles (1706-1788)

Byles feared a government of 3,000. Today, the feds employ close to 3 million. Thomas Jefferson warned that when the federal treasury becomes a federal trough, and the people recognize it as such, they will only send to Washington politicians — faithless to the Constitution — who promise to bring home the most cash.

In a democracy, a faithless majority will take whatever it wants from the minority — including its liberty and property. That’s where we are today on the 250th anniversary of the start of this Jeffersonian and Madisonian experiment — a country the Founders wouldn’t recognize as their creation.

Read the Judge’s entire post at Zerohedge

h/t Sabina Truth

additional information:

h/t WRSA

Roth Note: Would only that we’d won …