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RFK Jr gives a good historical account of this on The Twins Podcast. Basically, we promised, after the Cold War, not to move Nato one inch to the East. We've consistently broken this promise. Finally, Russia said, fine, but don't move into Ukraine. I guess they've been invaded twice through Ukraine. RFK likened this situation to the Cuban Missile Crisis. We were going to invade Cuba, but cooler heads prevailed. All Russia's doing is what we would have done in Cuba had they not backed down. We should back down.
WSJ points out 8 key and vulnerable bridges; RFK Jr. should pounce on this as proof that DHS and all the other waste of $$$ Security State Agencies and InFAKEstructure spending has been Laundered away from what should have been prioritized... ALL LIES, theft, more money more power more spying with ZERO results--DEFUND it ALL; where's the investigations and audits into 24+ years of FAILURE to fix and safeguard these structures? Where's justice for the 6 workers killed by the FAILURE and neglect and grift? RFK Jr should campaign to fix what the Republicans and Dems have squandered the $$$ and decades to fix as they were too busy screwing around to be bothered.
Gvt Agencies are NOT to be bothered with safeguarding the population or the nation, only the Leftist sick political and asset classes and their owned institutions who manage the herd populations; out with the old, in with the fundamentally new and improved formula of demographics--collateral damages are a benefit factored into the equation
Yes especially lately, it’s embarrassing, the amount of terrorism we as a country have committed and go so far from our moral resolve as “in God we trust” and “one nation under God” exactly why pastor Jack Hibbs asked for forgiveness on behalf of our nation
I saw she was doing interviews. She is out saying - I knew the vaccine was not going to keep people from getting and spreading covid. Of course none of the puppets have a word to say in response. They just pop a soma and nod. I will note that she is not wearing scarves anymore. She may be worried an opportunist might fashion a noose.
Amazing what 75 Years of hate and fear training will do to 300 million people. Russia has been most patient with some of the worst American regimes in history. I just listened to Brian kilmeade on the radio. I wish he'd volunteer his monet and his ass to throw away on Ukraine. These fucking neocons are now progressive liberal war mongers. Yikes.
yes but he is OUTRIGHT LYING about JFK and RFK 's support for Israel. in fact they demanded (but never got ) a look at DIMONA where the Israelis sneakily developed a nuke - kicking the can successfully down the road til after the "Big Event", and also DEMANDED AIPAC (actually its predecessor) REGISTER UNDER FARA AS AGENTS FOR A FOREIGN POWER. They also were heavily in favor of Palestinian rights, as well as rights for all indigenous people.
somehow this all changed under LBJ. who had motive? lots of people- INCLUDING ISRAEL. DETAILS HERE from the brilliant Sabby Sabs- new doc release. : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUagTUw_81g
But that would be defeatist. Curious what's almost never discussed in public, and any attempt rapidly censored, with any war is who profits (hint: defense contractors, politicians, the usual suspects); who loses (hint: taxpayers and "normal" citizens, those who are shipped off to fight, be wounded or die.) Perhaps sometimes war is a necessary last resort. But in the modern world that's far from clear. Tiny groups of "experts" with a lot of power direct these "police actions." To what end? To whose benefit? Running what risks?
The initial 'war' in the troubled Dunbas region was actually titled a 'military operation' and was expected and planned to end in a few weeks. Enter Biden and Johnson, and US interference, and then it turned into a full scale war. 😢🙄
Imagine we have a conflict or something in the future on our border to stop the invasion..and another country decides to fund our invaders, turning it into a full on war!.
(Well, I am sure that there are people who are funders, but I mean transparently and in the name of a foreign country. )
BlackRock and more. The "bigs" are already surveying out the place and rubbing their greedy palms together: fund it to break it, fund it to put it back together. The Parable of the Scorpion......
It's time to send the OLD FARTS WHO START THE WARS into the FRONT LINES! That mantra chanted at Vietnam "anti war" rallies, 'HELL NO...WE WON'T GO' should be resurrected!
RFK said it right. But there were many, many more provocations coming from the American Empire/NATO complex. And it would take a book to write about it. There were, for example, other proxy wars fomented by the CIA/intelligence complex, Chechnya for one. And there was the engineered take over of Russia being engineered from within (take-over of key economic sectors and stopped by Putin). Another words, there have been multiple covert attacks made by the American Deep State on Russia and not spoken about.
Unfortunately, the United States is the Evil Empire. And if 'somebody or somebodies' are attacking our infrastructure, who do we have to blame? And so, not only should 'we' back down, we should have never started ... and instead tended our own gardens (like the border, restoration of Constitutional Rights, build up our economic sectors, etc.)
And WE THE PEOPLE will die for our DESPOT leaders!! Countless millenia and the power mongers always come out "on top" underneath the dead bodies of its plebeian citizenry - ALMIGHTY JEHOVAH JIREH - SAVE US FROM OUR 'LEADERS'!
It used to be there was old money, new money, and everyone else ... at least in old and older America. Old America was my father's and grandfather's generations, largely the 20th century. Older America was America before the income tax and direct election senators amendings plus the advent of the Federal Reserve Bank usurpation. I saw the last remnant of old America which my dad and mom and their friends knew so well. It was a lot better America for all of its already evident major flaws than this the present Wasteland. For example, my dad never was locked down, mandated or interfered in his travel. For example, you just boarded a ship, train or airplane ... and nobody dared to search you, look into your bags, spy on you or tell you that you were carrying to much money on your person and where did you get it. Nothing like that back then.
As to the old money and new money and all that, I saw some of that. And I can say that where there is corruption, it usually spills over in to not having a very satisfactory private/family life. And one problem which I have observed close up with some of the very rich is that they don't have the slightest idea of what a quality family life looks like. I find that quite surprising but it seems to be true. I don't mean to over-idealize things, but there is nonetheless (at least by my observation) a large grain of truth in what I am saying. That is, a price is often paid somewhere down the line for things which are not just quite right. Even so, this may not be quite comforting ... and the way things are looking, our greater reward my well lie in the next life. The Faith of Our Fathers is Faith no matter what comes our way.
I just listened to this, an interview with Jerome Corsi for whom I have the highest of respect. I agree with him that America died with the JFK assassination. After that, nothing was the same. And the corruption just grew, and grew ... and grew to where we are today.
The interview is valuable to me because Corsi pretty much thinks things out as I do, that is ... by the connective tissue. It's more than JFK. It's more like a time line survey review.
BINGO, Dave! Did you see the interview Tucker Carlson had about a week ago with RON PAUL - a great libertarian whom I worked for in his primary campaign for the Presidency "way back when". Ron stated, "America experienced a coup in its Federal government in 1963 (JFK's assassination) and nobody realized it (except the snoops agency black hats, of cus--and some complicit bureaucrats and Supreme Court justices).
I LOVE that old hymn of the Christian faith, "Faith of Our Fathers" - I'll have to get out my hymn books and play that this week!!
JEHOVAH JIREH - GOD SUPPLIES!! By His Boundless Mercy!!
I did not see it. But Jerome Corsi draws the same demarcation line in this interview, and the same as I do, and the same as in what you viewed. After the 1963 coup d'etat, nothing was the same. Post 1963 marks the beginning of the long slide into the abyss. (And not to say that the first half or so of the 20th century was a merry hay ride.)
This interview has a lot of statement that goes way beyond the immediate coup. America died in 1963.
My local OLLI (Osher Life Long Learning Institute) offered this term, The Assassination of JFK: A Sixty Year Retrospective. Its an examination of the crime scene and multiple shooter accounts.
I suggest going to the Russian army to fight for your side.
Nobody provoked this war except Putin. His government openly stated there was not a war coming. The west said he was going to invade and his propagandists all accused the west of fomenting false information.
Then Russia invaded.
I suggest you get the Sputnik shot. Putin says it's safe and effective and he's gotten it twice PLUS he mandated it.
never should have poked our large fat schnozz i to russia's self-preservation moves in the first place. I remember well when the first new "installations" went up just on ukraine's side of the line in the sand. Putni began to speak out. Then he began to move troops to HIS side of the threatened line. who, of sane mind, woiuld NOT have done?)
When you see the zombiescoming over thehill, you can do any of several things. You can stand there and wach them, wondering where they are going to stop.
Hou can start shooting at them as they are coming down the hill, and risk being accused of aggreessing before they'fe done harm. You can stage your own zombie-repellants on your side of the fence at the bottom, against the chance they actually cross. Or you san depoly your own defensive tools and toys, making a hard-to-cross line in the sand on YOUR side.
Putin acted wisely as this unfolded. I followed it pretty closely. When Ukraine had built up a suitably sized aggressive threat just on the other side the line, he then preemtpively crossed to neuralise the thret. And the world erupted in rage...... but he stood his ground. He has exercised imressive restraint. He COULD have waged a scorched earth plan, but all he wanted to do was protect the Russian populations that had voted freely to leave the Ukraine and rejoin with Russia, which nation had been their homeland for centuries until some wonks decided to play God and decide who now lives in whatt parts of what new countries they decided to make up ou of whole cloth.
Sadly, true, lol. To add to what Jeff wrote ("Speaker Johnson’s question...should be what is the plan?")...
The other question he - or anybody who claims to be a conservative - needs to ask is "okay, where do we make $61B of cuts?" No cuts, no money. Cuts in equal amount to the spend need to be made or it will be a bad bill, the intent of which is obviously to print more money for laundering, since we don't have the money to begin with. All anyone wants to talk about is where the money is spent. What freaking money? We are deeply in the hole.
As everyone around here said just a couple weeks ago when it comes to Johnson: "judge him by his works."
If it wasn't in the budget when the budget was passed, it should not be funded. And if at some point something new "needs" to be funded: it should be considered "new" spend, a strong justification needs to be presented for why it's needed, a plan presented for how the money will be used, a system set up so that every dollar is accounted for, and offsets made elsewhere that are proven to have lower priority/value. And given our debt situation, every year's budget should be lower than the previous year's. IOW, this type of funding would never pass if the budgeting process came anywhere close to what the SEC requires of private corporations.
Or, better yet, maybe we just don't spend money on countries that aren't our allies. Ukraine isn't in NATO. The funny thing no one in our media (or the majority of our population) seems to ask is why can't Ukraine fight for themselves? Why can't Ukraine make their own decisions? Why can't Ukraine negotiate for themselves? Why can't Ukraine afford its own war materials, given the vast natural resources it has and the economy it should therefore have?
It's all so obviously theft that I just can't deal with the phony "concern" anymore. Let's face it - no one, including our political class and the clowns who put Ukraine flags in their bios - actually cares one bit about Ukraine. If they did, they'd be advocating for a negotiated peace agreement. They care about either stealing money or getting a partisan political "win." Meanwhile, actual Ukrainians get killed, while Zelensky, Schumer, Pelosi, McConnell, Biden, et al steal their - and our - money.
Exactly right. And tend 'our' own gardens. And stop launching bio-weapons and calling it Health. And stop attacking Americans and the rest of the world in endless chains of aggressive attacks.
What you are advocating is a complete overhaul of our government and how it operates, and removal of the majority of lawmakers. THAT IS THE PLAN! And it is comimg. It is the only hope. We can't govern ourselves out of this corrupt mess. REFORMATION is the only way!
I'm sure that every cut would be to our necessary infrastructure/our military protection. In California, whenever there was a budget deficit, they close the libraries and parks, defer paving the streets and fixing potholes, and threaten to cut funding to police and fire. I'm sure Biden's cronies would take the same course of action.
Yup exactly, like with public schools, the go-to move where I grew up was that if the budget didn’t pass, then they would threaten to cut sports because they knew many people cared about that more than anything else and so they always got the money they wanted in the end 😕🙄
the cuts would be to social security and medicare, making seniors poor, starving and homeless. still think that is a great idea? you must know a few old people, no?
Cuts were in our border security, NOT upgrading bridges, and raising taxes for more Gvt. Laundering so that the Rich can pay their "fare share" and it all comes back to them via politicians, programs, contracts, grants, etc. the working class gets slammed and the shirking classes get the payola.
I wouldn't call those "cuts" to border security. Cuts means identifying things and actually cutting the spending from the budget. Putting forward a lower budget YoY. E.g...No more Dept of Ed. No more Dept of Int. No more ATF. No more IRS. No more Homeland Security. And so on.
No one in our government or media ever talks about making actual cuts to anything. Like putting forward a total budget that is lower than last year's. They just talk about what gets the spending and what doesn't. But, we just simply can't afford to keep spending on top of spending, with money we don't have b/c we are so deep in the hole.
Not to mention spending for things that have negative effectiveness, like Dept of Ed, the CDC, NIH...I could probably name 12 agencies that contribute negatively to the country and the world w/o offering one single thing of value. It's kind of nuts.
Nuts indeed!! They are both the nubs of the fruit and the seeds for spreading that insane, toxic weed. You are right. Weed it out, root and branch, and dispose of properly. Thanks RU. My thoughts exactly — in both of these posts. Well said.
Have a garden, buy from a local farm for meat and eggs, and learn how to can your food. We need to be self sustaining. Set up your personal infrastructure now so you’re prepared for later. I live in a suburban neighborhood, that’s what we’re working on. And know who your networking neighbors are.
Seriously we have inserted ourselves as a nation all over the world in absurd conflicts for spurious motives, killing our own, and other countries peoples
I became aware of this when I was a student at Columbia University in 1969 and 1970. Vietnam was my first exposure to our country, abusing our military. I haven’t seen it stop
"...It as if the ultimate goal is to destroy our own country." NO, it's not as if...IT IS THE GOAL! We need to get people to open their eyes and see this. If YOU aren't seeing this then you need to open your eyes and LOOK AROUND/do the research!
Where is the remaining NATO troll - Benjamin double N??? Also, its the 10 year anniversary of the start of NATO's proxy war with Russia:
RUSSOphobia: Best Ukraine Hypocrisy Memes (Happy 10th Proxy War Anniversary!)
NAZI to see again, to the last Ukrainian down syndrome person, freeze & starve for Ukraine and more Ukraine hypocrisy memes for the 10-year anniversary of the start of NATO's proxy war with Russia!
Strange, isn't it? Back in 2012 the left went ga-ga over Obama's "the 80's called and they want their foreign policy back". Now, Russia is the biggest threat to the US.
THe Commie Libs preached this about South Vietnam...keep funding a losing proposition right next door to N. Vietnam/China/USSR and see how you get handled... but now NPR and Foreign Policy Experts parrot the "Dominoes Falling to Russia" all through Eastern Europe and Germany itself, also the Red States' idiot MAGA Trump lovers are benefitting from a booming War Machine economy without sending their white trash sons and daughters to do the fighting... when did NPR and Leftists become Neo-Cons??? Oh yes they've ALWAYS been Militarist Marxists since "our" Armed Services and Corporate War Industry turned full on Congressional Military Industrial Communist Complex
the CIA and oligarch fascists push endless war to pad the wallets of WAR CONTRACTORS> see ALLEN DULLES and WALL STREET< SULLIVAN AND CROMWELL. it pays to be informed and not just spew what you heard on youtube last night from questionable sources.
yes, the roots are deep; You Tube is rarely worth getting "news" from any more than NBC, CNN, Fox, or NPR or iHeart media; nearly all modern media, even the best sources can be tainted in some way--historical workings from 70 or 120 years ago portended the ultra refined neo-conflict/reconstruction/repeat cycles we're watching in real time 2024.
i'll look into those; best to always be wary as sensationalism sells and gets attention.. and often tailored for us through so many avenues; just headlines from Epoch Times and some articles they put out can be for obvious "conservative consumption" rather than impartial, factual, comprehensive.
my manufactured home has the axles and brake lights removed so i guess not too lower class;, (though my pink flamingo stands in weeds not a freshly mown lawn), yet still I'm Deplorable and a Bitter-Clinger with Pride; we are the ignored, the despised and maligned. White trash Christian Nationalist and whatever else the Commie Elitists and their Cult followers want to label me; sick thing is they're the truly useful idiots and the ruination of the nation.
commie elitists? the best friends our enemies have is us not understand who is doing it to us. its not commies its UBER CAPITALISTS. they want to own everything and for us to be peasants again.
Uber Capitalists doesn't have the same disparaging image to me although that is EXCELLENT--yes, nouveau riche THUGS, Political-Corporate-Judicial criminalists, enslavers of humanity, Social-Darwinists, Robber Barons, Neo-Aristocracy, Asset Class, Trust Fund Shirking Class, the Predatory Globalist 1%ers, Rich Privilege Punks, Marx-Engels' Commie Idealism and full control of the Peasants & Prols melded to Elitism to master all information, history, allegiances, property, resources, power and control with no competitors other than the incestuous rivalries that factions of these Uber-Scum may squabble over. I'm warming to the label but it's still too nice.
conflating uber capitalists with Marx = engels commie idealism is Orwellian abuse of language at its worst. lets strive to CLARIFY instead of Obfuscating.
You don't understand the real war that Russia is fighting. Ukraine is just a sidebar and has been useful for keeping the US and NATO distracted while Putin works the big board for the big game.
Such a narrow focus you have. Do you remember the status of the Russia-China relationship prior to this war? It was adversarial. Now they are aligned. Do you remember the status of Iran prior to this war? It was a pariah state. Now it is aligned with Russia and China.
So, Israel, Taiwan, and South Korea are now vulnerable to our adversaries. And so our allies know they are not going to be protected by the US.
Safely in NATO? No such thing. A country could be in NATO, but NATO is so weak safe does not even enter the picture.
Abandoning Ukraine because Republicans like Mike get pissy causes Israel, Taiwan, and South Korea to take note.
All it takes for America to abandon them is for one side to get convinced they have bio labs, "ethnic Chinese speakers", or launder money.
Even Jeff has pushed Chinese propaganda about Bio labs in Taiwan here. The people here are finicky and have the focus of an ADHD diagnosed 4 year old. It doesn't take much to get them to abandon people.
If Nato was so weak Russia wouldn't have cared about Ukraine joining Nato and there wouldn't be such a fit about "nato expansion" (a myth). Russia has not attacked any of the Nato members and launched 4 wars (technically 3) to keep nations out of Nato.
The war to stop "nato expansion" now has a former Russian colony, Finland, safely inside Nato despite Russian sabre rattling. A Brigade of British troops effectively stopped Russia from Invading.
absolutely incorrect...for some reason, you have a hard-on for Zelensky and Ukraine. Now, I know Ukranian women are the most beautiful in the world, but you never mention them. So it must be Zelensky.
Every line exudes peace. While seeming to be disjointed subjects, here we see a beautiful description of God: Compassionate Healer, Almighty Creator, Omniscient Lord, Helper, and Righteous Judge. He is all that and infinitely more.
...11 ‘The very dust of your city which clings to us we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God has come near you.’ 12 But I say to you that it will be more tolerable in that Day for Sodom than for that city... 14 But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. 15 And you, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades. 16 He who hears you hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me.”
...17 Then the seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name.” 18 And He said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19 Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over ALL the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
...21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit and said, "...22 ALL things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.” 23 Then He turned to His disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things you see; 24 for I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see, and have not seen it, and to hear what you hear, and have not heard it.”
Who is the one that brings down the wicked to the ground? Who is the one who brings in the Kingdom of God? Who is the one who brings in the judgement upon the city because they rejected the Father by rejecting Him. The Messiah came to his own and they received Him not. Jerusalem rejected Him and crucified Him. When he arose form the grave and ascended to the throne at the right hand of God, He saw Satan fall like lightening to the ground and gave His disciples the authority to trample on evil spirits and over ALL the power of the Enemy. ALL things foretold by the prophets were delivered by His Father to the ascended Christ who now sits on the throne at the right hand of God to rule and reign and sends the Holy Spirit to indwell the body of Christ on earth against which no evil can prevail thus establishing the kingdom of God.
Because they rejected Him and thus the Father, the judgement that He suffered on the Cross for our sake came upon Jerusalem (in "this generation" Mt 24:34) when the Temple was destroyed in 70 AD. "For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled." LK 21:22
Many in ME countries, including Israel in recent years are being drawn to follow Jesus Christ — Jews realizing that the NT is a continuation of the OT, unlike the Rabbinical writings. The Word of God, not “spiritual” sages. The perfect all-wise righteous judge and gracious lover of each soul. The once for all sacrifice for sin.
The spirit is moving mighty in Israel. Obama/Biden is attempting a color revolution to bring in a government they can again control. They’re sending out street mobs as plan B, since their government implant couldn’t deliver.
So far they can’t get the traction they need. But given the biblical prophecies, the nation of Israel may be fooled one last time before the final clash.
…Not so sure O/B is even in charge of that stuff. More like the major int’l ds intel people (& their partners in crime & stooges) — it has the mark of their special talents & capabilities, which have more control than we can imagine. And have for longer than we can imagine. This is not geopolitics as we know it.
The prez is not directing the show. More than that, I’ve only a tiny glimpse and a fuzzy one at that (and it’s deliberately obsured). Think bigger, more nasty, sneaky, manipulating & vile — Our minds & hearts cannot comprehend it.
But 👆🏼He knows.
Be at peace. The Lord is not idle. And He is much, much — infinitely — bigger.
As I read the part that says he gives names to all the stars, I started to think about that radio ad that talks about paying a fee to name a star for someone. That starts to sound a little presumptuous, doesn't it?
ONE of the many reasons my ex and I divorced close to 30 years ago, was when I found a certificate of naming a star for someone and it was his girlfriend's name (not mine).
And Yes, how presumptuous! In the vastness of time, our lives are but a speck in comparison to the ages of the stars.... How many of them have been renamed? Like a rescued pet that one renames once you adopt it...
I once heard a preacher describe our situation something like this …
“Mathematics tells us there are more dimensions than the four we commonly experience as humans. Let us assume God, creator of those dimensions, has mastery over them and is even Himself of at least that number of dimensions. He finds Himself separated from us in this way, He being of x number dimensions, we being very much four dimensional. What if He still endeavored to commune with us, to SPEAK to us, or at least try? Imagine your own self, a four dimensional creature trying to communicate with a two dimensional world … it would be awkward and you would seem very mysterious and far from your two dimension-bound subjects.”
God, if you entertain He exists, is in a similar predicament… He is mostly working in our limited reality to tell us something of Himself. He is not bound by time, for example. If He is conducting profound and wonderful things throughout time, it is all very purposeful and complete to Him. He is not stuck viewing things as we do, one moment unfolding into the next with some awareness of history but not even a second into the future … IF He is using time to accomplish His purposes, He is not bound by it Himself. This explains a lot about Him actually… it explains a lot about our experience of His plan. And of course He knows full well what He is requiring of us as we suffer along the timeline, stick as we are. This is why He provides for us what we need as we go.
I would also argue that our ability to wonder about God and conceptualize Him is a key attribute that sets us apart from the rest of creation … without faith perhaps it is not even possible I don’t know. Abidinguy, I do not know your exact state but here you are with the rest of us. Most people have an awareness of something larger than themselves, something outside their own field of vision. Physicists searching for those “building blocks” and “binders” of matter first must recognize we still do not KNOW very much, that there is much more than what meets the eye. Spirituality aware people are not so different as we try to understand our world.
I'm fine with the religious... I just don't care for the pompous clowns that act like they know anything... bottom line, and I think YOU know this... is that I don't know... YOU don't know and NO one knows.
Can we speculate and read ancient mythology and try to gain some connection? Sure.
Is there some creation force or entity? Could be! Is the truth in any of the hundreds of organized religions and their many iterations and sub-groups...?? IMO... nope.
How’s about just reading the Bible. If THAT’s the God you’re talking about, why not simply ask him to show Himself to you? For wisdom? For answers. If He is really that God — Good, Loving and all-knowing, all-wise and all-powerful, He will do it.
Keep your mind open. Seek Him. He promised in the Bible that if you seek Him with your whole heart, you will find Him — He will meet you…He knows where you live.
All that other stuff we scratch our heads about — trying with our meager tools to hammer out a plausibly reality — will be revealed. But first, Him. Don’t think in terms of religion. Think in terms of Life. God is not in the category of religion, He is in the category of What is and who you are. Religion is application of an idea or actions to achieve a spiritual or, for some, a practical goal. The God who is doesn't Work like that. You can never attain it. So He does it all in you — for you, but mainly, for Himself. Based on Truth…to show Who is true, what is true …all His work, nothing of ours, and nothing of man’s wisdom.
But He does change us.
…Asking only for us to receive Him, the living and Good Creator.
The Bible, both old and new are about Jesus Christ, God breaking into the world to save it — By giving Himself to us. Because we are, in reality, walking dead men. We need to be made alive. Not the things of this world, not the esteem of men. We need that true God, only.
100%! A place many believers err incliding myself at times … we presume we understand all there is to be understood. This is only arrogance. How could any creation comprehend its creator aside from the little He chooses to reveal??
I get a little grumpy sometimes when Christians talk about hell and heaven as though they understand those concepts. We can not! We have IDEAS and we have CLUES and possibly even some WITNESS ACCIUNTS but who can know if those witnesses are being truthful??
The best I feel I can say myself is that heaven is to be in the presence of God and hell, by deduction, to be outside the presence of God. This is enough for me … I struggle but I am no fool, I can see my day is full of hardship AND blessings (a headache but I am in a comfortable room with my children downstairs and dinner soon to be underway) … if I accept that all good things are from God (I do!) then I imagine hell must be misery without mitigation. And heaven, in the direct presence of God must be … much better. There are accounts in the Bible if both places although the hell description could be allegorical BUT it was recounted by Jesus.
Actually, it is all in the Bible, very thorough descriptions of both places but I think it is a mistake to assume I know exactly what the Bible is meaning to say …
What is safe to say is that I, human, will never reach full understanding of the divine at least not in this lifetime and the best I can do is keep that in mind while hunting answers to the questions as they arise.
SEEK it says … seek… seek … seek … if that is the mission, I ACCEPT!
Hell as a thing thrown around by so many today is a mythical concept (just as it was in the parable Jesus told about Lazarus and the rich man, a place of eternal torment was what the Pharisees taught.) It is antithetical to the God of Scripture. And the point Jesus was making to these so called Jews was this: if there is such a place, Pharisees, then that’s where you will be! Self righteous hypocrites who think their belief, their work, their faith, their religion has earned them salvation, and isn’t it a shame about all those ‘unbelievers’. It was, in fact, God in Christ reconciling the WORLD to Himself, at Golgotha. One Sacrifice for all sin for all of humanity in all of its times. Done
You do know that both Clif and Biglino have shown themselves to be either hucksters or worse — in the service of something less than wholesome?
This is discernable with Clif by reading some of his old posts (although I have read some that are quite good — but not as good as other writers on the topic). Old posts & podcasts also reveal his definitive assessments that were clearly way off the mark.
Biglino produces bitter fruit. I see it in you and everyone who has written here promoting his book.
His avid followers are both arrogant and bitter. Often easily angered. Haughty. Some spew ugly filth at the drop of a hat. The pride and arrogance oozes. His writing is compelling to many, because he writes as one with special insight and a quasi scholarly approach. But it’s all pretense and easily negated.
Both convey an aura of special knowledge & insight that’s disarming and thus gains our trust. It plays on our own pride, thinking we too, now share in special knowledge and insight. But it’s an illusion. Tricks.
And there’s quite a simple test: By their fruits you will know them. Show me good fruit. Or, perhaps, you can first define what good fruit is.
I wish you well. All the best, in fact. But I will expose those charlatans whenever I can because they prey on those who are craving truth. But it’s a trap; those two will only deceive, do harm, and serve themselves.
Abiding, this is probably not for me … I am a student of the Bible, reading and researching most every day. I spend this kind of time because I believe it to be TRUE. Because it is true, I am convinced offhand it can stand up to the “irreverence” of this author but … I am a busy mom of five and I must choose how I spend my time. Is there a particular point you took from this book that I can mull over? Laundry and dishes hale loudly … … …
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In my experience, when I walk around with an over abundance of certainty I find myself with a closed mind, no ability to engage with others, and no empathy. I end up in a corner, lashing out with ad hominem style attacks.
As a general rule, I am suspicious of loudly proclaimed certainty, but I have to watch that I'm not too certain about my uncertainty. There is a kind of arrogance in thinking that because I don't know, that its not possible someone else could know.
I'm not quite sure where you are with all this. I believe there is ultimate truth, despite having a non-positive epistemology. I believe there is truth, but the best our cloudy minds can see is a shadow of that truth. For me there is faith in that ultimate truth, even though I can only see a hint of it out of the corner of my eye.
“I no longer use transgender pronouns and you shouldn’t either. Using transgender pronouns is a sin against the ninth commandment and encourages people to sin against the tenth commandment. Using transgender pronouns is a sin against the creation ordinance and image bearing. It discourages the believer’s progressive sanctification and falsifies the Gospel; it cheapens redemption and tramples on the blood of Christ. It fails to love my neighbor as myself. It fails to offer genuine Christian hospitality, and it yields the definition of hospitality to liberal progressivism, identity politics, and human flourishing.”
--Rosaria Butterfield, Former Professor of English and Women’s Studies, NYU.
In other words, acknowledging the psychotic and sinful behavior and going along with it because it seems the loving thing to do actually legitimizes it and draws the troubled one farther from the gospel rather than to it.
A violation of the 9th Commandment. They want us to lie, and by consenting to lying, they want us to deny our God and our Lord Saviour.
All of this is a direct attack on the Christian and Christianity ... and all the while, and with much guile and cunning the Evil Ones pretending to be Little Miss Innocent.
Ditto. And once one see it, they are transparent as looking through glass (sort of like three to five year old little demons acting out, only the damage is real.)
"Today’s counter-revolution against liberty is being fought on a number of fronts in American society. One is on college and university campuses across the country, where the ideology of “political correctness” is strangling freedom of speech and smothering intellectual controversy and debate. Critical to this campaign is the capture of language.
It is through our language that we think about ourselves, our relationships to others, and the social order surrounding us. Words do not merely delineate objects, individuals, events or actions. Words also create mental imageries, emotions, attitudes, and beliefs that color how people see themselves and the world around them."
Those Who Control the Language Control the Culture
"In “Politics and the English Language,” Orwell calls this “an invasion of one’s mind” — again, the purposeful manipulation of language in order to corrupt one’s thoughts and affections. Thus, the choice of academia, the media, and the publishing industry to adopt the singular they is not simply about word choice — as silly and illogical as it may be: Alex needs to learn their lines by Friday! — it is about forcing students and others to accept the language of transgenderism and the ideological corollaries behind the vocabulary. It is asking us all to accept something that is less than reality. Pronouns, we are told, are no longer related to the body (male and female) but to the mind, how one “identifies” or “expresses” the social construct of gender. Reality is denied, and the fluid world of one’s nonbinary fancy replaces it.
It is worth noting that last year the Vatican’s Congregation for Catholic Education published a 30-page document, “Male and Female He Created Them,” on this very topic. Quoting Pope Francis, it explains that gender theory “denies the difference and reciprocity in nature of a man and a woman and envisages a society without sexual differences, thereby eliminating the anthropological basis of the family.” This ideology, Pope Francis explains, promotes “a personal identity and emotional intimacy radically separated from the biological difference between male and female. Consequently, human identity becomes the choice of the individual, one which can also change over time.” Thus, in the case of the Catholic educator or the Catholic student, one must compromise one’s religious principles in order to conform to the industry standards of language."
Follow the Science!!
The Interdisciplinary Handbook of Perceptual Control Theory
Note: Marxist Noam Chomsky is a professor of Linguistics. His influence on several generations of students eager to change the world into a progressive utopia can't be overstated going back to the 1970's, rising to prominence on campuses and in coffee houses in the 1980's-1990's, inescapable in those milieus, as insufferable as it was for non-progressives.
That's not a coincidence or quirk of history. Linguistics is the preferred weapon of revolutionaries in an Information War. It is the atomic bomb. We mustn't underestimate the power of language. We must give the new language no quarter. It must be rejected. And shamed, scorned from polite conversation. Bars of soap handy to wash out the mouths of those who dare utter the insults to our minds., reality and God.
With Word Sorcery 'they' magically alter meanings and by doing so cast spells over our minds. They also do this with Narratives which is just a broadening of Word Sorcery into a wider application.
Basically, 'they' control us by casting spells upon us. And thus the unreal and the fabrication become reality the Grand Illusion. And by the way, all of what C19 was a Grand Illusion, a spell cast over the globe. And 'they' did all with Words!
Rosaria is also a former “trans” person, saved and redeemed by the truth of the Bible. She knows whereof she speaks. I have seen her on YouTube. Very powerful witness.
A transgender was interviewed and stated her religious mother never called her by her male name or used any trans pronouns. Instead she called her sweetie honey basically endearing names. The mom prayed nonstop but would not validate her daughter’s new gender and throw her religious convictions on the burn pile. Eventually God won and the daughter is now a believer who speaks to many of the gender confused individuals. BYW the trans community that once embraced and isolated her, quickly disowned her afterwards. So I agree the trans agenda is very damaging for young confused persons.
That will be my approach with my grand-niece who wants to be called “Tom” now…she lives 2 states away so it’s been several years since I’ve seen her in person. The next time I do, though, I will try to use the word “BELOVED” because THAT is her true name before the Lord…
I’m so pleased the interview post helped you with your niece. These are definitely strained relationships but God always has the answers we need to navigate them. 😌
Debbie, even more amazing; while the mom was praying God told her to let Him deal with her daughter! What a comforting word from God. I’ve never believed in attending a gay wedding, I know that conflicts with my beliefs. Children respect parents that hold firmly to their long held beliefs!!
This is an incredibly powerful testimony (mother and daughter)!!! We watched this excellent dvd called In His Image and she and her mom shared this story on it. This dvd was so well done and really helped our whole family walk through questions surrounding the transgender issue. Our church also just started this series called Wonderfully Made that can be watched online (it is a 6 week series). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZaZyPff7Fg Here also is the link to this dvd https://resources.afa.net/in-his-image-2-dvd-set
Maggie I also think they’re cultish. They desperately try to isolate the kids by telling them not to tell their parents they are confused about being gay or trans. I believe
these kids need their parents more than ever then. The agenda is to catch the confused kids early, and isolate with the lie that they are the only ones who understand and care about them. All the while brainwashing them that their parents are terrible and can’t be trusted!!
Actually, Rosaria was not "trans". She was a leftist lesbian professor and supporter of the alphabet community. But I totally agree that she has a tremendous testimony. Her book, "The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert" is well worth reading.
One of the things that was most interesting to me was that the pastor & wife friends who influenced her over a period of time over numerous dinners in their home never discussed her sexual orientation with her and condemned it. The pastor said something to the effect that "before one becomes a Christian, they have a "sin" problem. After they become a Christian they have a "sins" problem. Until the "sin" problem is dealt with, the need for repentance and acceptance of what Jesus did for them on the cross, the specific sins are not the issue. After the person becomes a believer, then the "sins" need to be dealt with. As Greg Koukl from Stand to Reason Ministry puts it, "Even God catches His fish before He cleans them." After Rosaria become a believer the Holy Spirit convicted her and helped her with her struggles in that area.
I noticed something similar with the interview of the ex-onlyfans lady in yesterday's post. She talked about how she met Jesus first, and then AFTER that she became convicted that she needed to delete her OF because it was sinful.
I watched Rosaria’s testimony and was moved! And convicted!! What a lovely voice for Christ … but I do not think trans is part of her past? Lesbian yes and a promoter of the alphabet lgbggjiydsasf but not herself trans?
So powerful. There are none chosen who are out of Gods reach. She was always HIS daughter even while she was in evil. Praise the Almighty!!!! We must remember this story as we address those wallowing in sin … we must b take care how we think of and speak of them … some are God’s children and He is doing amazing works in their lives! Let’s be praying??
You might also enjoy “A Change of Affection” by Beckett Cook. An amazing story of transformation. He also has numerous videos on YouTube and a terrific interview with Eric Metaxas.
I like this and I’m going to think more on this and write on this. I think the same way that we were able to stand up to the mandates with religious exemptions, we can use religious exemptions here to not give into the trans agenda: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/elmo-and-a-rock
That said, I know a professor (tenured) whose religious exemption request was denied by his Catholic university.
He sued (excellent lawyer, btw). The final disposition: an out-of-court settlement which suited him just fine. In his 70s, retirement was in his sights. He has a bit more money without the time and effort drain if teaching.
Romans 1:21 For although they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 claiming to belies, they became fools...24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to dishonoring their bodies...26 For this reason, God gave them up to dishonorable passions...vs 32 Though they know God's righteous decree...they not only do them, but give hearty approval to those who practice them. (ESV)
Freedom of speech means freedom not to speak, too. I refuse to speak this nonsense. If someone is going to force it on me, then they will use my pronouns: "F--- / Biden". That will put an end to that pronoun garbage quickly.
I’m currently listening to her book (5 Lies I used to believe…already listened to most of her other ones)….I have a daughter who calls herself a man and the pronouns is my last (and maybe only) stand….it forces me to lie to myself as the one who carried her and birthed her knowing full well her sex then and now. She earnestly believes herself to be a man and in so many ways is still my sweet little girl. But she believes a lie that I cannot accept. Our relationship is strained and many cut off their parents…I’m probably holding too tightly to this relationship and probably compromising more than I should (I’m working through this with lots of prayer)….It’s impossible to show her love if there’s no relationship though and if she can’t see Christ’s love for her through His body, she will continue down this path….I don’t know my point here, other than this is hard. We have to hold to truth without losing love and it’s so easy to fall off the cliff on either side (loving in a way that embraces the ideology or holding to truth so sternly that we don’t embody love at all)
Praying for you two. Motherlove never ends, and as you are living proof, one can and still must love what one cannot accept. I hope she refinds her dignity. You sound like a great mom.
Heather: 🙏🏻 for you as you walk this tightrope. I believe God is helping you. Press into Him and do not waver. You are your daughter’s lifeline. She is worth your struggle.
Stay strong, Mama! I'm not quite where you are, but we are dealing with strained relationships. We've been praying for reconciliation and will all be together this weekend for the 1st time in nearly 7 years! God never sleeps. I laid all of our mess at His feet and have kept my faith through the worst of times and prayed. He fights our battles, we need only be still. My prayers are with you!
Transgenderism has all of these Anti-Christian characteristics and thus by definition is demonic. It’s no coincidence that we are seeing more evidence of satan worship in our culture.
AMEN! I don’t use those pronouns or even altered names either. God’s truth is TRUTH or isn’t. God is Truth.
First time I’ve agreed with this Pope when he says this agenda & those promoting it are trying to “make oneself God.”
I’ve been saying that since this cultural phenomenon raised it ugly head; the audacity of men (mankind) playing God Who created male & female. Rather putting themselves ABOVE Him deluding themselves & others into a lie.
Satan deluded Eve who influenced Adam to try to set themselves above God. All 3 learned the hard way that God alone is on the throne.
False pronouns are … FALSE. They are nothing but a lie, they drag us into complicity with all that is hateful and wrong about the trans movement. They are the lie that demeans us and demeans all of creation as something of our making rather than God’s. I can think of nothing less “loving” … they take the biblical concept of LOVE, something unique to GOD and trust it up to serve an evil agenda.
With this I agree fully but how do y’all feel about … “DEADNAMING”? I am willing to call a person by a new name he just made up but I will not call him a her. Am I being inconsistent?
I shall be referred to now by all who address me as, "Your Eminence," and by all who refer to me as "The Eminent." Failure to do so is henceforth impermissible, and subject to criminal prosecution and sanction, loss of employment, financial services, shopping and access to public spaces. So it is written. And so it shall be. All have been duly warned.
I just spent this afternoon listening to Rosaria’s videos as she spoke truth into the chaos of same-sex “marriage” and the mental illness that is transgenderism. These are socially constructed lies that are not of God. I ask God for his help in not affirming the lunacy and to speak His truth in love.
I just wish she'd really said what she thinks. 😉 Her statement needs to be repeated over and over, starting with my Substack, when I get a chance to write.
I think transgender surgery and drugs should be considered cosmetic surgeries. I personally believe each person was born man or woman for a reason. There are quite masculine woman and feminine men. I would like to see us as a society accept them for who they are. I am personally against body modification surgeries but accept people’s right to have them. Trans surgeries are not “health care” and should not be paid for at the tax payers expense. The “Trans Agenda” is clearly a Trogan Horse for people accepting the Tranhumanism the WEF is openly advocating. Religious and spiritual people will be the biggest obstacle to the merging of machine and human. I wish Christians had stepped up and said no to genetically modifying anything as that is also “playing God”.
I have to agree! When I took Human Sexuality in college back in the late 90’s, we were taught about cross dressers - not transgender people. And we learned this about adults! Mostly men! Think Brice Jenner types… fast forward to today and the normalization of drugs — When you introduce drugs that change hormones & bodies of children it becomes demonic.
“What do you think? Is this sudden transgender phenomenon an artifact of ‘cultural evolution’? Or is it something more sinister?”
Definitely more sinister! It is Satan trying to BE God just like he has from the beginning. God creates us. God chooses our male or female person at conception. That is HIS gift to us. So why would we be surprised in any way that the devil himself is trying to usurp God’s authority and change that which God has created? The whole reason the devil fell from heaven was because he wanted to be God. By getting adults and kids to think THEY can choose their gender. They are now playing God and the devil is laughing in our faces. It’s been the same MO since the beginning. He’s just using people to do the same thing. Ya know, in the back door.
Yup. Evil and sinister and demonic. Every. Bit. Of. It.
Am I the only one shocked by the Vatican’s stance on transgenderism? I feel like there have been several things (as listed by Jeff) that are anti-biblical that have come from the Vatican in the last several years, this hard line was surprising to me.
I’m not Catholic, but I am Christian. It is so discouraging to see the leader of a Christian faith being dragged along by popular culture. Our faith should be our bedrock, not set in the shifting sands of what’s trendy.
Honestly, I am surprised so many care about the stance of the Catholic Church. I am not saying they shouldn’t but I fell like if you were a part of the LGBTQ community- why would you even be biblically religious? The Bible is so clear on that. It has always confused me. Same with the sanctity of marriage out side of legal law. For instance, a lot of my 20/30 something employees (none are religious) do all sorts of blurred sexual moral things- like poly and bi and they don’t care what a church would think of what they do at all. So is it just an assault on religion by evil forces is why they try to be accepted?
Yes it is definitely an assault on religion! They attack everything God holds dear. They have been attacking marriage for decades. Satan Hates and wants to destroy God’s Word.
I think "transgenderism" is a line that can't be crossed and we are seeing many stand up to say "nope, we're not going to that place." Even if they can't articulate why they have to stand against it.
My take is that it's just too obviously a mental illness that's being elevated to the status of "normal." And as far as slippery slopes go, there are none slipperier. If one is allowed to declare themselves something they are not, to call a feeling or idea "reality" - and have that become a legally binding change of reality for their society and everyone in their orbit - the ramifications are just too vast. It will ultimately destroy society. It can't be allowed to happen, even for liberals like this Pope, and even if they can't articulate exactly why they are against it.
If the pope approved this, most of the priests would be wearing high heels and skirts and earrings. Then too many people would wake up, and it would ruin his “boiling the frog”approach. He’s taking his baby steps, first blessing their unions, second approving them as godparents. Seducing society once baby step at a time.
Me too which is why I don’t trust it. I’m suspicious after what he’s done and okayed the last while. Something is wrong when he JUST did the whole blessing and God parent thing. Cue the law suit! He’s probably backing himself into a corner on purpose and when push comes to shove he’ll cave or there will be a settlement that removes him from the corner because hey, it was the law suit that made me do it.
BTW I just went into a local shop and low and behold there is a DUDE employee, with whiskers for beard and mustache, obviously no breasts, with the hair of a dude who was sporting some earrings and a little make up. I thought it was a dude and would address the DUDE as such. I didn’t even question he was a dude. The other employee called him a “she” and then the dude became flamboyantly gay acting. I almost threw up. I never needed to address the DUDE but I’m rethinking where I shop now. 😒
There are a lot of serious, terrible errors in the document so these things which should be a given anyway are now being used as the sugar to help those fighting for the true Catholic faith to take the demonic "medicine" in the rest of the document. Do not be fooled by this wolf document in sheep's clothing.
Well, Francis is the first Pope ever elected who is a Jesuit. They are notoriously left wing and heterodox. Its hard to paint any individuals with a broad brush that applies to the group they belong to. I really like Fr. Greg Boyle founder of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, his stories and ministry are amazing. He is a Jesuit. But still, its not really surprising that Francis wandered pretty far off the reservation. I am surprised that he landed where he did on this issue.
Isaiah 28:10: For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little." Coming to this passage yesterday morning, my first thought was Jeff's promise of 'drip, drip, drip......"
We’ve known about the clots for, what, three years now. About time someone like Brand gets the word out. 👏🏻 He might reach a few 🐑 we can only hope and pray.
Sharyl Attkisson had a segment on last week's show (Full Measure) about them as well as interviews with Dr. Marik and Dr. Kory. This is on an ABC affiliate in the Seattle area, so things are definitely loosening. Now is the time to be on guard.
Elect honest Coroners. The corrupt ones won’t report. They bury the evidence and lie about cause of death. My friend worked for the Coroners office, collected gobs of evidence, and then ran for the office. Sadly, he lost, and was never able to expose REAL causes of deaths in documented Covid deaths (spoiler alert…they did NOT die of Covid). Perhaps there’s been a shift in those elected to the office in the past year or two? Perhaps people aren’t as afraid to speak truth? Vote local. Everything matters. And it starts in our own back yards…
Yes. I've grown accustomed to a 2-4+ yr wait for the folks with large followings to catch up. I guess they're so busy setting up their guests and prepping for the interview, that they can't read up on things in real time.
There is a chart in this article labeled, "US treasury debt out standing". People think that the "economy" is too complicated to understand when in reality this one chart is all you need to know to completely understand the economy and how we are being screwed. It's as easy as understanding your checkbook.
For a bit of background color, the US abandoned sound money domestically (credit based gold standard) for a fiat currency money system based on debt in 1917 with the creation of the Federal Reserve. Ever since that time, the USG domestically has had a blank check to run deficits financed by the Federal Reserve that increasingly placed a debt load on the backs of the American taxpayer through inflation. Prior to that time, the Federal Gov't could only run a budget deficit TO THE EXTENT the American people were willing to buy Gov't bonds. This was THE MOST IMPORTANT restraint on the Federal Government in the Constitution. The American people had the final say in what the Fed Gov't could do because they alone controlled the purse strings! All of this was possible because the US currency was gold and as such every dollar was a credit amount of gold.
With the switch to a fiat currency (debt) system domestically in 1917, the USG began running increasingly larger deficits and rarely balanced the budget. With WWII, this debt ballooned to what appeared to be gigantic proportions. But as you can see in the chart, this was nothing compared to what has happened since then, beginning in 2008. Now, up to 1971, the international dollar was still backed by gold. But in 1971, Nixon (a "conservative" President) closed the international gold window meaning that the dollar was no longer backed by gold internationally which put the US dollar completely on the debt based fiat system.
Now I would point out that beginning in 1917, the local domestic economy increasingly moved from a cash-and-carry (credit) system to a buy-over-time (debt) system that progressively enslaved the American people to debt, ie, to the banks. (All of this increasingly robbed the American people of their productivity to pay for the debt to the international banking system via the Federal Reserve.) With the real estate crash of 2008, the doors were thrown open to the financial rape of the American people with the "bailouts" of the zombie banks and "too-big-to-fail" corporations. From this point on, the corporations have had unlimited access to the productivity of the American people via USG debt. This was sold to the American people and the liberal intelligentsia as Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) which I'm sure everyone has heard of.
Now here's what you don't see in that "US treasury debt out standing" chart. It took 90 years from 1917 to 2008 for the national debt to grow to a little less than $5 trillion while the purchasing power of the dollar dropped 90%. From 2008 to 2023, the national debt grew to $27 trillion, an increase of $22 trillion or 540% in 15 years! If I plotted that history on a linear chart all the way back to 1917, you would clearly see that the growth in Gov't debt has gone exponential. The current trend line would look nearly vertical. You can see the slope of the growth curve and how the slope suddenly changed in 2008 and then changed again in 2019 going nearly exponential.
We are headed for the same brick wall that brought down the last great empire, the Soviet Union. The USG Empire is literally the culmination of the last 500 years of Western Civilization and, as the author states, "At this point there is nothing standing between us and fiscal collapse. The only question is when."
Pretty soon we're going to be talking about real money.
"U.S. national debt spiraling out of control, rising $1 trillion every 100 days"
'The soaring debt has affected America’s credit rating. In November, Moody’s Investors Service lowered the rating from “stable” to “negative,” citing the national debt and growing budget deficit. '
At some point, the debt becomes so large that the creditor becomes the slave of the debtor. This can be ended overnight by giving up the empire and declaring national bankruptcy. End the Federal Reserve, declare all external debt void and go back to a credit based monetary system. Become a "Switzerland" and downsize and withdraw all USG activity to within the US borders and operate on a cash basis. This will collapse the power of the international banking cartel and free the American people from the slavery of the banking system.
Cash and barter -- barter and goods exchange are already happening more and more at the local level.
And agree that it will become a situation where the American people walk away from the debt the military-industrial-government complex is responsible for and has been the only 'entity' to profit from. It's their debt and they can damn well repay it.
Jeff said, “ It feels like Iran and Russia are waiting, for … something. A sign? A starting signal? They appear more to be following a plan, and not just reacting to provocative events. Prior to the Proxy War, Russia and Israel were more closely aligned than were Russia and Iran. But Russian requirements for Iranian drones early in the war led to a realignment.”
Are BRICS countries (which include Russia and Iran at this point) waiting for our financial collapse?
This is why they are developing an alternative credit based monetary system based on resources such as gold and trading arrangements based on that system.
Everybody's situation is unique. Ask yourself, "What can I trade these dollars for that is both useful and durable." Bottom line, if dollars and dollar denominated assets are in danger of extinction where can I store my extra wealth. My son is buying rural real estate to use both as a recreational hunting area, an investment and, if necessary, a possible retreat. Gold coins are an obvious store of value that is more liquid than real estate and we are right at the beginning of an historic gold bull market. That train is just leaving the station. Paying off all debt is another good use for dollars. I guess the point is to have a "reserve" somewhere that cannot be destroyed by a dying dollar.
Cases of 12 cans of soup are $22 delivered (walmart, amazon, etc); shelf live is easily 20 years. A good way to use $1,000 here and there to cover emergencies or offset inflation. And you can give it away if you're moving and don't want to haul it around.
Yes. But how much for the 10 yrs worth of cans or glass jars to store it? Still better for you from home, but at a price that's likely MORE than Sam's.
Phil, I’ve always wondered where someone is going to liquidate those coins if they’re needed in the future? Banks? Gas stations? Grocers? Local farmers? Are we going to saw them into little pieces? Lop them into fourths? I’m not being sarcastic, I truly don’t know.
Gold is difficult since you would have to lop off small pieces and even then a small piece of gold is a little steep for a loaf of bread, but I think the intent is to have the gold when a new gold backed economy starts up. For the day to day stuff, I'm going more for silver and then 90% silver coins since these could most likely be used for small day to day purchases and still be useful when the new gold backed economy starts up.
Melt it down into smaller weights. But as soon as it loses it's original shape and stamping, fillers start showing up. You know, like how the govt pulled silver out of dimes and quarters, etc.
You can buy what is called ‘shot’ but it’s usually refined down to 18 or 14k. Jewelers who cast jewelry usually use shot. There’s no way stores or regular people are going to own small electronic scales and carry them when they go shopping. And like you say, regular people won’t be able to assess purity, and merchants won’t be able to take the time to test each piece.
At least coins are marked and regulated… for now. That’s why as someone mentioned, silver coins are worth way less than gold and more easily used in trade.
The derivatives market is a GIANT house of cards. I looked at that in 2008 and wondered then if it would collapse. At that time, if I remember correctly, the estimated total was $700 TRILLION. I'm sure there are others here that know more than I do. God knows what it is now. If the USG were to declare bankruptcy, that whole house of cards would come down. All the Rothschild's would be left with is a much smaller personal fortune.
Read The Great Taking. Those at the top get everything as international laws have set up that everything below the top is collateral to Them. Includes the Rothschilds. Here is a video, but the pdf book is free.
Penny, I bought that book in paperback, but haven't read it yet. To support authors, I buy books telling about all the various aspects of what's been going on, but I can't read them all, as it's like crawling over broken glass. It's one reason I'm appreciative of Jeff's optimism.
It’s crazy everything is still afloat. It’s truly Monopoly money. And it’s the whole world. I don’t know why the house even debates money. I think going digital is their escape hatch.
Another risk for our financial institutions is the holding of huge amounts of commercial real estate loans. That market is not doing well and all signs are pointing to a coming tide of defaults. To see the exposure of some of the biggest banks:
Absent a dramatic course correction, US debt will reach 130% of GDP during the next presidential term. When that happens there is no further chance of an “intentional” resolution of the debt problem.
..................................I agree with Bonner:
.... In this election, there is something more at stake. And neither of the two leading candidates has any idea of what it is or what to do about it. Most likely, this is the election that will seal America’s fate. Unless there is a dramatic course correction... US debt will reach 130% of GDP during the next presidential term. When that happens there is no further chance of an “intentional” resolution of the debt problem...
I also agree with Bonner's assessment of Trump's capabilities. EVERY administration in recent memory has out-spent the previous administration and Trump was no exception. His grasp of the business deal is legendary but his understanding of real economics and how the world works is right down there with a college freshman. We have not had one President in living memory that was willing or even understood the necessity to cut the Fed budget and veto every bill that comes across his desk. Trump was a bigger spender than any previous President like Obama.
The US will most likely cross the point of "no return" before the end of the next Presidential term. Bonner poses three possibilities as outcomes. 1) An outright default, 2) a devaluation of the currency, or 3) a de-facto default in the form of chronic inflation to deal with the high debt levels. Number 3 is Venezuela or Weimar Germany hyperinflation. This impoverishes all Americans and destroys the economy. Number 2 is an attempt to reset the currency game at the expense of the American citizen so they can continue their game which quickly brings us right back to where we were to begin with. Number 1, default or national bankruptcy, is the only outcome with the chance to clear the slate and start new. But this will only work if the Fed Gov't is downsized and restructured to prevent this from happening in the future. This of necessity means deposing the NeoCon oligarchs and ending the USG Empire. This is essentially what happened in Russia when the USSR collapsed. Russian society descended into gut-wrenching chaos for several years. Can we do better? We are about to find out.
"democrats have “promised” to support Johnson and help keep him in the position" = Lucy holding the football and telling Charlie Brown that this time she'll allow him to actually kick it. Don't make me laugh so hard!
Because...Zelensky...because democracy...in a country that has suspended elections, imprisoned reporters (who subsequently died) and restricted religious freedom. Democracy!! Democracy!!!
I understand. That's why it is so chilling and ridiculous for anyone to defend Zele**ky over P*tin. They're both two sides of the same totalitarian coin. Only Putin isn't hiding POTUS and his son's secrets.
There aren't any restricted religious freedoms in Ukraine. We support a southern Baptist church in Dnipro. They are free to preach and spread the Gospel.
Why don't you go ask the Greek Orthodox church about why they can't have services in Russian occupied areas?
”He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.“
I am nonplussed that so few Christians today realize that Jesus was glorified when He rose from the grave and ascended to the throne at the right hand of God and gave the Holy Spirit to His body on earth to empower us.
Traditions are responsible for not knowing Scriptures: If we ignore them, we are lost!
Jesus said it:
”You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.“
My wife got mad at me for not waking her up from her nap to see the eclipse. There was nothing to see since we had full cloud cover. But "still" she said. I told her she can see the same thing every day around 9:30pm.
I live in NE Texas on a lake smack in the center of the path. The weather folks predicted complete cloud cover but that didn't happen until after the eclipse so we were able to see it just fine.
It was a pretty cool thing to see. I couldn't get over how dark it got during the 4 minutes of totality. All of our outdoor solar lights came on. The first thing I noticed was the wildlife activity. As soon as the sun was covered, the fish in our lake were jumping all over the place. All the normally chirping birds stopped completely. It was pretty cool actually and I don't normally get excited about eclipses.
I am about a 100 miles north of the total eclipse line in Michigan. It was underwhelming to say the least. Looked like a high cloud went over. From the looks of pictures, it was better in Texas then Ohio which was the line closest.
I was only in partial (94%) but noticed the tree frogs got quiet for about 30 seconds, I think because the temp dropped at the peak coverage, but the peepers never stopped singing! I don't know if you have vernal ponds in Texas, you might now know what I"m talking about but you get the gist! Birds didn't react at all...
I woke up at 1340 hrs and was in a panic because I had to be up at 1750 to be at work by 1900. It was eerily quiet and dark. The birds stopped chirping and you couldn't hear the normal freeway traffic.
We were supposed to have clouds but the entire day was perfectly cloud free. I watched the whole thing here in northern Illinois with 85% shadow. Amazing. I probably won’t be around for the next one. The sun was busy yesterday doing awesome displays. The sunset was incredible! Got to give thanks to the moon also. 😀.
Yep! Here in the Rochester NY area it looked like any random December late afternoon. Must say, that despite concerns about traffic, the roads were all eerily empty. It reminded me of the early days of Covid (yuck!).
Turns out the bureaucratic clowns that "run" Niagara Falls kept hundreds of thousands of people away with their state of emergency declaration. I thought tourist towns keeping people away was a bad idea?? sheesh. I guess that's why they are the experts.
It was raining here! I came out of my session, looked outside, and said ‘we’ll it’s only a little darker than I expected it to be with the weather’ and went back to work. If y’all happen to follow Marcus Luttrel (sp?) on IG, he lives in my area and his video was exactly correct.
We live in Luttrel’s area too, and we had an amazing thunderstorm in the middle of the eclipse. We sat on the front porch and watched it get quite dark—more than storm-dark. It was very dusk like and the frogs were loud (whether due to rain or dusk, not sure). I thought it was more impressive than I expected. Though I missed the crazy shadows that we saw in the last eclipse.
Though, I video taped the whole thing and my video was not as impressive. Weird coincidence — my phone was on gray-scale while I was recording so it looked more impressive in real time, but when I saw it in color it was hardly noticeable. I believe the phone camera was adjusting the light for me—too bad.
I'm in NE Kansas. I was doing shopping, got out of my car and thought it had gotten quite cool and sunlight was dulled slightly. Didn't even think about the eclipse as Gates shit is sprayed across our skies almost every day and the sun's normal now, is dull. Wasn't until I got home that I learnt the eclipse had happened...
My coworkers all ran outside to blind themselves while I peacefully ate my lunch. Here in Michifornia we have a cloud induced eclipse more days than not.
"Fortunately, three tugs had already been assigned to the Qingdao, and three more were staged nearby, apparently for just such an emergency, and leapt in. The six tugs easily moved the massive ship out of harms way, and the propulsion came back on."
This is almost certainly going to be the near-term solution to this currently mysterious problem. I was honestly surprised to learn that these ships were not already required to be accompanied by harbor tugs until they were past the bridges. I would look for the NTSB preliminary report and interim safety recommendation be fast-tracked.
(I live on Maryland's Eastern Shore and this has all been local news for me. We flew past the wreckage yesterday evening on our way back from eclipse-watching and my heart was broken anew.)
It sounded like the ship lost power, got tugged, and then just sailed off. Did they not stop immediately to inspect, troubleshoot and do maintenance on the power loss?
And yes, every ship should be pulled now until they are away from bridges. Might slow things down, but it better than destroyed bridges.
I don't know how a huge container ship that was beginning its journey to Sri Lanka did not have a backup power system or two or three. I don't know why it hit the exact part of the bridge that would bring the bridge down. I don't know why, last I heard, all the crew were still being kept on board the ship. I don't know why Biden doesn't want the insurance company to pay for any damage, except that insurance companies have an incentive to ask tough questions about who's to blame for the event. The media is showing literally zero intellectual curiosity about this event. Oops, big ship hit big bridge! Bridge comes down! Bad luck. I hadn't even heard about the Verrizano incident until now.
I don’t want to get into a long exchange in this but, regarding the Francis Scott Key incident, it is simply inconceivable that a fully-loaded container ship of that size, transiting those waters, and that bridge, did not have at least three (3) tugs in attendance all the way out of the Port. I am virtually certain that such tug assistance is mandatory for such traffic in and out of the Port of Baltimore. If anyone could produce evidence to the contrary, it would be very worthwhile - but I sincerely doubt they can. Here’s the opportunity to prove me wrong…
I think it may have been one of this guy's early videos on the Key Bridge incident in which he says that once the freighter is in the channel and underway it's normal for the tugs to go elsewhere. I think he said they left en route to their next job.
It’s normal once critical hazards have been cleared; it’s definitely abnormal for that to happen in the immediate timeframe of the greatest possible - and very easily/commonly known - hazards being present. There’s more than this, of course, but this is quite fundamental.
No, what the guy said is that it's normal, because they were in the channel. I think he said the rules vary by port about how far out the tugs have to accompany. If you have a reference by someone involved in freighter shipping that supports a uniform rule for every American port requiring tugs past all known hazards, post it.
Fla. Mom, I’m not interested in playing whack-a-mole with anyone on this, or any other subject. There s such a thing as common sense, but there’s an even more relevant thing known as ‘Standard Maritime Practice’, and the circumstances in the case of the Francis Scott Key bridge do not meet what would be considered ‘good and standard maritime practice’ - by a long shot. It may be what has been allowed in a given Port by certain groups for some time. If that’s the case in this particular set of circumstances, then they were fools of a very high order indeed. Perhaps that is true in this instance; it’s just that I would be shocked to see that being the case.
There's a video on YouTube of two mature mariners (NY Maritime, and Mass Maritime grads) discussing the Key bridge affair. I believe the Mass Maritime fellow was in charge of Baltimore Harbor at some point. Useful to hear from guys who know what they are talking about.
Yeah, wouldn’t we all agree with that? However, if the last four years in particular have taught me anything - it is that ‘the Experts’ aren’t what they used to be - and many of those I once thought were trustworthy, we’re not, and are not… My own view is that many things ‘done in darkness’, that were hidden from our eyes, have been brought into the light; into open view - at least for those with ‘eyes to see and ears to hear’, and hearts/minds willing to receive and accept the truth, no matter how painful or disruptive it may be. To an unprecedented extent, at least in my 68 years of life, the veil has been pulled back and spiritual realities revealed. And one of the salient aspects of that phenomenon, ist least in my perception, is the massive betrayal of trust by a stunningly broad spectrum of those in the top to mid-level leadership positions within every single institution of our nation - not to mention those of other nations.
So, here’s the problem we all face; ‘Which ‘experts’ do we trust?’ Certainly, most, if not all of those who follow C&C have witnessed the ‘David vs Goliath’ struggles of the few medical professionals who bravely, courageously, and sacrificially, stood against the ‘experts’ within their profession, who joined the cabal / for one reason or another - in gaslighting us all; in betrayal of their vows and oaths, as well as all that is good and ‘right’. So, I will say that it is no surprise at all if we see maritime professionals who claim ‘there’s nothing to see here, move on’. But I happen to have spent many years in that profession myself, and I assure you there are others who would take a different view.
I could tell from your earlier comments that you were a mariner. BTW--just for fun (I think you'll find it so)--my uncle was at Mass Maritime, in the last class to train on the tall ships. A master by WWII, and entered an African harbor with guns trained on his ship. Spent most of his career in Great Lakes shipping.
It would have been wonderful to train on Tall Ships, and I’m sure your uncle had many fascinating experiences to share. There are many different - and valid -points of view that could be expressed, but I am grateful for the blessings that came from a maritime career in a time when there was still a fair element of adventure (a mixture of uncertainty, risk, and dangers, with opportunities for rare and often awesome experiences) - before the bulk of that got sucked out by technology together with administrative and regulatory overkill. Modern, state-of-the-art vessels are wonderful in many respects, but the life aboard them - though rich in options for entertainment and the ability to communicate with the outside world - is, at least in my view, sterile and lacking in a true ‘depth’ of human experience. I could go on and on about this, but that’s enough got now. Some will understand, and others won’t - and I doubt there’s anything that can change that in either direction.
Oh--and to your point about the effect of technology, husband, from age of eight, was determined to be an astronomer--and this was his undergraduate study. But when he came to graduate school, being an astronomer meant sitting in front of a computer. Left the PhD program, settled for an M.S. Physics, and has spent the last 50 years inventing things. Doing something real. And making people's (often USN, USAF, USAR) lives safer. And sometimes just more pleasant (individual screens for your plane seat).
To say nothing of Annapolis giving up on training sailors in the art of celestial navigation. Husband and I travel, 14-20 x per year, past Bath Iron Works. Last summer with English grandchildren visiting, we actually took the 'scenic harbor ride'. Don't remember the exact number, but amazed to learn that in WWII, BIW, working 24 hours/day, 7 days/week, was turning out one ship every two weeks.
Just keep in mind there are always paid experts and propaganda that “they” make, they go to great expense to provide “experts” (actors following a script) to control the narrative. so you have to be careful which “experts” you believe. The masses believe these paid actors and therefore believe the narrative. It’s a very easy and effective.
Here's a breakdown of the Qingdao incident, with some new info about the Dali and some insider scoop about practices on freighters, from the YouTube channel What's Going On With
Shipping. Summary: Qingdao lost propulsion, not power; that channel is very narrow, so it was normal to have tugs still on it; the loss of propulsion happened next to a tug port, so more were readily available; repairs were made; these things happen more often than we hear about. 10 min.
Oh yeah, I really like that WGOWS guy. My specialty is aviation, not maritime -- but the tools he uses in his analyses, like the real time ship movement tracking, have analogues in aviation that I use all the time. My comment about what to expect from NTSB was based on my past experience being involved with three aviation accident investigations (including two fatals), so I'm extrapolating among transport modes in a way that might be naive or not fully informed. But heck, if you can't blow off on topics you only partly understand then what's the internet good for? ;-)
What do you think? Is this sudden transgender phenomenon an artifact of ‘cultural evolution’? Or is it something more sinister?
The latter. Definitely the latter. Transgenderism is a reality-denying attempt to recreate the Garden of Eden in "our" own cultural image. As a traditional, Mass-going, Confession-going, Rosary-praying, abortion-clinic protesting Catholic with no love for Pope Francis, I am happy to hear unmuddied words about this issue.
IMO, it's both good old fashioned psychopathy and a political attempt to re-constitute reality and force the false reality on people.
My "theology" (however basic it is, lol) is that mind is of the brain, which is of the body. The mind and body are one, they are both physical, and neither of them is Spirit, which somehow permeates this world while also being beyond it and out of its touch. Spirit is pristine and untouched by what happens on this plane. So, contra Jeff on this one, I don't think this has anything to do with Spirit.
I think it's good old fashioned psychopathy that's been around for a long time, but has recently been co-opted for social/political purposes.
Their brain/mind generates an idea, then latches onto that idea, then attempts to make that idea reality. So, I agree with you, "they" (which in psychopathy is really just their mentally disturbed out-of-control mind having taken over, talking to itself, reinforcing its own core false belief) are trying to alter reality, to play God, and more recently, to force others to accept non-reality as reality.
That last part is clearly the most important piece to this current social/political movement, and a step beyond what old-fashioned leave-me-alone trannies wanted. It's not enough to "accept" that trannies exist; we must now "affirm" them, which means positively state our agreement with their psychopathic ideation. Someone clearly decided this psychopathy was a good way to undermine society.
So, from what I see it's both psychopathy and someone in a position of power taking that underlying psychopathy and using it for political purposes, to undermine Western society, destroy the militaries and men of the West, etc.
It’s both or all of the above. There’s a HUGE correlation between autism spectrum and transgenderism and we have a huge increase in autism thanks to vaccines. That uncomfortableness that many autistic folks have (especially females since they don’t manifest autism in the same way we expect in boys) finds a home in being in the wrong body
Satan has taken this and run wild with it, exploiting these confused children and adults and tormenting the rest of us
A Politico article says: "A staffer for Speaker Mike Johnson told a group of GOP aides today that the Louisiana Republican opposes imposing a warrant requirement as part of this week’s debate on reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, according to two people familiar with the meeting who were granted anonymity to speak candidly." If Mike Johnson supports a warrantless FISA renewal, it's proof that he is controlled by the Deep State.
Yeah, good Ole Vlad Zelensky is that guy just asking for one more "loan," except he's not bankrupt and his scheme is 100% guaranteed to make him very rich. I can only imagine how many hundreds of millions he's made, courtesy of the US taxpayer. Of course, it's all blood money, but that sure is of no concern to Zelensky or the US politicians and their cronies getting filthy rich off the war. I guess they will continue using Ukrainian men as cannon fodder, while enjoying their expensive glasses of champagne and eating their filet mignon steak in their mansions or on their yachts.
I read recently about the fat cats there who are seemingly enjoying our money. Also, right after the first monies were sent, an article I saw somewhere talked about the very expensive properties being bought by Ukrainians in Switzerland. Does anyone really believe that every million is going into the'war' there?
You're kidding? Please tell me that you're kidding! (i have been sickened by how Z and his wife have been treated by the royal family as if they are royalty!)
I read it in Epoch Times. The writer had your same concerns. The question was, because Camilla is so enthralled with Z's wife, did their close relationship put pressure on Charles to agree to it...
The past is the best predictor of the future. Ukraine will lose the war no matter how much aid the US provides.
RFK Jr gives a good historical account of this on The Twins Podcast. Basically, we promised, after the Cold War, not to move Nato one inch to the East. We've consistently broken this promise. Finally, Russia said, fine, but don't move into Ukraine. I guess they've been invaded twice through Ukraine. RFK likened this situation to the Cuban Missile Crisis. We were going to invade Cuba, but cooler heads prevailed. All Russia's doing is what we would have done in Cuba had they not backed down. We should back down.
If nothing else, RFK Jr is certainly shining a light on the US's dubious past (as well as many other questionable things).
WSJ points out 8 key and vulnerable bridges; RFK Jr. should pounce on this as proof that DHS and all the other waste of $$$ Security State Agencies and InFAKEstructure spending has been Laundered away from what should have been prioritized... ALL LIES, theft, more money more power more spying with ZERO results--DEFUND it ALL; where's the investigations and audits into 24+ years of FAILURE to fix and safeguard these structures? Where's justice for the 6 workers killed by the FAILURE and neglect and grift? RFK Jr should campaign to fix what the Republicans and Dems have squandered the $$$ and decades to fix as they were too busy screwing around to be bothered.
not to mention it is a BLUEPRINT FOR TERRORISTS> hello??!
of course the worst terrorist is the US government.
yet another bumper sticker for my collection: This government IS the domestic terrorist.
Gvt Agencies are NOT to be bothered with safeguarding the population or the nation, only the Leftist sick political and asset classes and their owned institutions who manage the herd populations; out with the old, in with the fundamentally new and improved formula of demographics--collateral damages are a benefit factored into the equation
Yes especially lately, it’s embarrassing, the amount of terrorism we as a country have committed and go so far from our moral resolve as “in God we trust” and “one nation under God” exactly why pastor Jack Hibbs asked for forgiveness on behalf of our nation
This 20 minute documentary is worth watching. https://vigilantnews.com/post/how-the-deep-state-sabotaged-president-trumps-covid-response/
Yet another reason to NEVER again listen to ANY 3 letter agency: CDC WHO FBI WEC etc., https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/exclusive-cdc-hid-finding-of-possible-link-between-covid-vaccines-and-tinnitus-5624340
Dena, great vid. So, where is Birx now and what is she doing?
I saw she was doing interviews. She is out saying - I knew the vaccine was not going to keep people from getting and spreading covid. Of course none of the puppets have a word to say in response. They just pop a soma and nod. I will note that she is not wearing scarves anymore. She may be worried an opportunist might fashion a noose.
Thanks for this! It was really interesting.
This is a must watch...especially for Johnny-O
Thank you!
Amazing what 75 Years of hate and fear training will do to 300 million people. Russia has been most patient with some of the worst American regimes in history. I just listened to Brian kilmeade on the radio. I wish he'd volunteer his monet and his ass to throw away on Ukraine. These fucking neocons are now progressive liberal war mongers. Yikes.
You can volunteer for the Russian army if you want.
Putin is an enemy of the west. Why does he keep threatening nukes? Why does he keep causing wars all across the globe?
At any point he can withdraw his armies and respect the treaties Russia signed..why not?
Accusing one side of starting the war when it's Russia who launched it is a fascinating lie to spread.
He is brilliant, but the media propaganda machine is keeping his words and thoughts hidden.
yes but he is OUTRIGHT LYING about JFK and RFK 's support for Israel. in fact they demanded (but never got ) a look at DIMONA where the Israelis sneakily developed a nuke - kicking the can successfully down the road til after the "Big Event", and also DEMANDED AIPAC (actually its predecessor) REGISTER UNDER FARA AS AGENTS FOR A FOREIGN POWER. They also were heavily in favor of Palestinian rights, as well as rights for all indigenous people.
somehow this all changed under LBJ. who had motive? lots of people- INCLUDING ISRAEL. DETAILS HERE from the brilliant Sabby Sabs- new doc release. : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUagTUw_81g
The CIA and Mossad killed JFK and all the Kennedys. JFK was trying to stop nuclear proliferation. Israel was stealing weapons technology from the USA.
If JFK ever found out…😉
I believe this is the truth.
Agree. JFK wanted peace and the MIC couldn't have that.
Thank God Israel has the nuke. They would have been exterminated long ago without that ace in the hole.
Unfortunately, you’re assuming that Israel is the good guy.
Unfortunately you are assuming Hamas are the good guys?
You get it!👍
Thank you, Liz.
But that would be defeatist. Curious what's almost never discussed in public, and any attempt rapidly censored, with any war is who profits (hint: defense contractors, politicians, the usual suspects); who loses (hint: taxpayers and "normal" citizens, those who are shipped off to fight, be wounded or die.) Perhaps sometimes war is a necessary last resort. But in the modern world that's far from clear. Tiny groups of "experts" with a lot of power direct these "police actions." To what end? To whose benefit? Running what risks?
So true!!!! Never let a crisis go to waste. How many billionaires were made via covid? I think a lucky 9 were.
Hardly “lucky”
Pre planned & perfectly executed….. until thinking folks & genuine scientific experts (researchers, doctors) rose up.
The initial 'war' in the troubled Dunbas region was actually titled a 'military operation' and was expected and planned to end in a few weeks. Enter Biden and Johnson, and US interference, and then it turned into a full scale war. 😢🙄
Imagine we have a conflict or something in the future on our border to stop the invasion..and another country decides to fund our invaders, turning it into a full on war!.
(Well, I am sure that there are people who are funders, but I mean transparently and in the name of a foreign country. )
Purin told us what he was gonna do. And it was incredibly close to what pdt was gonna do. Hmm. Wonder why.
Pdt?
😎
BlackRock and more. The "bigs" are already surveying out the place and rubbing their greedy palms together: fund it to break it, fund it to put it back together. The Parable of the Scorpion......
Later Jay
It was actually a war to take **all** of Ukraine. There was never any intent to just take Donbass.
Why would Russia land their elite forces at Hostomel and try to take the capital?
It's time to send the OLD FARTS WHO START THE WARS into the FRONT LINES! That mantra chanted at Vietnam "anti war" rallies, 'HELL NO...WE WON'T GO' should be resurrected!
Putin. I hate thus phone
RFK said it right. But there were many, many more provocations coming from the American Empire/NATO complex. And it would take a book to write about it. There were, for example, other proxy wars fomented by the CIA/intelligence complex, Chechnya for one. And there was the engineered take over of Russia being engineered from within (take-over of key economic sectors and stopped by Putin). Another words, there have been multiple covert attacks made by the American Deep State on Russia and not spoken about.
Unfortunately, the United States is the Evil Empire. And if 'somebody or somebodies' are attacking our infrastructure, who do we have to blame? And so, not only should 'we' back down, we should have never started ... and instead tended our own gardens (like the border, restoration of Constitutional Rights, build up our economic sectors, etc.)
Agreed with your nuance with the term 'we'. We, the People, have no control over backing down and we know that We, the US, isn't going to.
It's sad to know we are an Evil Empire. :\
Word has it we are building a Death Star.
And WE THE PEOPLE will die for our DESPOT leaders!! Countless millenia and the power mongers always come out "on top" underneath the dead bodies of its plebeian citizenry - ALMIGHTY JEHOVAH JIREH - SAVE US FROM OUR 'LEADERS'!
It used to be there was old money, new money, and everyone else ... at least in old and older America. Old America was my father's and grandfather's generations, largely the 20th century. Older America was America before the income tax and direct election senators amendings plus the advent of the Federal Reserve Bank usurpation. I saw the last remnant of old America which my dad and mom and their friends knew so well. It was a lot better America for all of its already evident major flaws than this the present Wasteland. For example, my dad never was locked down, mandated or interfered in his travel. For example, you just boarded a ship, train or airplane ... and nobody dared to search you, look into your bags, spy on you or tell you that you were carrying to much money on your person and where did you get it. Nothing like that back then.
As to the old money and new money and all that, I saw some of that. And I can say that where there is corruption, it usually spills over in to not having a very satisfactory private/family life. And one problem which I have observed close up with some of the very rich is that they don't have the slightest idea of what a quality family life looks like. I find that quite surprising but it seems to be true. I don't mean to over-idealize things, but there is nonetheless (at least by my observation) a large grain of truth in what I am saying. That is, a price is often paid somewhere down the line for things which are not just quite right. Even so, this may not be quite comforting ... and the way things are looking, our greater reward my well lie in the next life. The Faith of Our Fathers is Faith no matter what comes our way.
I just listened to this, an interview with Jerome Corsi for whom I have the highest of respect. I agree with him that America died with the JFK assassination. After that, nothing was the same. And the corruption just grew, and grew ... and grew to where we are today.
https://rumble.com/v4nb9d9-there-is-now-scientific-proof-jfk-wasnt-assassinated-by-lee-harvey-oswald.html
Keep the Faith and always glorify the Lord.
The interview is valuable to me because Corsi pretty much thinks things out as I do, that is ... by the connective tissue. It's more than JFK. It's more like a time line survey review.
BINGO, Dave! Did you see the interview Tucker Carlson had about a week ago with RON PAUL - a great libertarian whom I worked for in his primary campaign for the Presidency "way back when". Ron stated, "America experienced a coup in its Federal government in 1963 (JFK's assassination) and nobody realized it (except the snoops agency black hats, of cus--and some complicit bureaucrats and Supreme Court justices).
I LOVE that old hymn of the Christian faith, "Faith of Our Fathers" - I'll have to get out my hymn books and play that this week!!
JEHOVAH JIREH - GOD SUPPLIES!! By His Boundless Mercy!!
I did not see it. But Jerome Corsi draws the same demarcation line in this interview, and the same as I do, and the same as in what you viewed. After the 1963 coup d'etat, nothing was the same. Post 1963 marks the beginning of the long slide into the abyss. (And not to say that the first half or so of the 20th century was a merry hay ride.)
This interview has a lot of statement that goes way beyond the immediate coup. America died in 1963.
https://rumble.com/v4nb9d9-there-is-now-scientific-proof-jfk-wasnt-assassinated-by-lee-harvey-oswald.html
My local OLLI (Osher Life Long Learning Institute) offered this term, The Assassination of JFK: A Sixty Year Retrospective. Its an examination of the crime scene and multiple shooter accounts.
I suggest going to the Russian army to fight for your side.
Nobody provoked this war except Putin. His government openly stated there was not a war coming. The west said he was going to invade and his propagandists all accused the west of fomenting false information.
Then Russia invaded.
I suggest you get the Sputnik shot. Putin says it's safe and effective and he's gotten it twice PLUS he mandated it.
:)
never should have poked our large fat schnozz i to russia's self-preservation moves in the first place. I remember well when the first new "installations" went up just on ukraine's side of the line in the sand. Putni began to speak out. Then he began to move troops to HIS side of the threatened line. who, of sane mind, woiuld NOT have done?)
When you see the zombiescoming over thehill, you can do any of several things. You can stand there and wach them, wondering where they are going to stop.
Hou can start shooting at them as they are coming down the hill, and risk being accused of aggreessing before they'fe done harm. You can stage your own zombie-repellants on your side of the fence at the bottom, against the chance they actually cross. Or you san depoly your own defensive tools and toys, making a hard-to-cross line in the sand on YOUR side.
Putin acted wisely as this unfolded. I followed it pretty closely. When Ukraine had built up a suitably sized aggressive threat just on the other side the line, he then preemtpively crossed to neuralise the thret. And the world erupted in rage...... but he stood his ground. He has exercised imressive restraint. He COULD have waged a scorched earth plan, but all he wanted to do was protect the Russian populations that had voted freely to leave the Ukraine and rejoin with Russia, which nation had been their homeland for centuries until some wonks decided to play God and decide who now lives in whatt parts of what new countries they decided to make up ou of whole cloth.
Nonsense.
Ukraine didn't mobilize until after the war started. Russia publically stated they weren't going to invade.
Putin has waged a scorched earth policy. Look at what happened in Bucha. Izium. Kharkiv.
He's done his best.
It's so weird that "russian populations" vote to leave Ukraine wherever there's Russian soldiers.
Ironic.
Can you show a link to this agreement and treaty?
Sad that our country is in this war in the first place. It does nothing but destroy our foundations, communities, etc. It’s as if the ultimate goal is to destroy our own country: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/september-11th-and-menticide
Hey - that's not true at all. It also provides some _great_ money laundering opportunities!
Sadly, true, lol. To add to what Jeff wrote ("Speaker Johnson’s question...should be what is the plan?")...
The other question he - or anybody who claims to be a conservative - needs to ask is "okay, where do we make $61B of cuts?" No cuts, no money. Cuts in equal amount to the spend need to be made or it will be a bad bill, the intent of which is obviously to print more money for laundering, since we don't have the money to begin with. All anyone wants to talk about is where the money is spent. What freaking money? We are deeply in the hole.
As everyone around here said just a couple weeks ago when it comes to Johnson: "judge him by his works."
I say every dollar for Ukraine must be offset by two dollars cut elsewhere.
If it wasn't in the budget when the budget was passed, it should not be funded. And if at some point something new "needs" to be funded: it should be considered "new" spend, a strong justification needs to be presented for why it's needed, a plan presented for how the money will be used, a system set up so that every dollar is accounted for, and offsets made elsewhere that are proven to have lower priority/value. And given our debt situation, every year's budget should be lower than the previous year's. IOW, this type of funding would never pass if the budgeting process came anywhere close to what the SEC requires of private corporations.
Or, better yet, maybe we just don't spend money on countries that aren't our allies. Ukraine isn't in NATO. The funny thing no one in our media (or the majority of our population) seems to ask is why can't Ukraine fight for themselves? Why can't Ukraine make their own decisions? Why can't Ukraine negotiate for themselves? Why can't Ukraine afford its own war materials, given the vast natural resources it has and the economy it should therefore have?
It's all so obviously theft that I just can't deal with the phony "concern" anymore. Let's face it - no one, including our political class and the clowns who put Ukraine flags in their bios - actually cares one bit about Ukraine. If they did, they'd be advocating for a negotiated peace agreement. They care about either stealing money or getting a partisan political "win." Meanwhile, actual Ukrainians get killed, while Zelensky, Schumer, Pelosi, McConnell, Biden, et al steal their - and our - money.
Exactly right. And tend 'our' own gardens. And stop launching bio-weapons and calling it Health. And stop attacking Americans and the rest of the world in endless chains of aggressive attacks.
What you are advocating is a complete overhaul of our government and how it operates, and removal of the majority of lawmakers. THAT IS THE PLAN! And it is comimg. It is the only hope. We can't govern ourselves out of this corrupt mess. REFORMATION is the only way!
And Zelenskyy bought King Charles’s former home with “our”money!….
100% 🎯
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Great comment!
You have my vote.
I'm sure that every cut would be to our necessary infrastructure/our military protection. In California, whenever there was a budget deficit, they close the libraries and parks, defer paving the streets and fixing potholes, and threaten to cut funding to police and fire. I'm sure Biden's cronies would take the same course of action.
And buy new credit card making machines for illegals
And then they push through another bond measure “for the roads.” Hahahaha! /s
Yup exactly, like with public schools, the go-to move where I grew up was that if the budget didn’t pass, then they would threaten to cut sports because they knew many people cared about that more than anything else and so they always got the money they wanted in the end 😕🙄
Or 3!
the cuts would be to social security and medicare, making seniors poor, starving and homeless. still think that is a great idea? you must know a few old people, no?
Cuts were in our border security, NOT upgrading bridges, and raising taxes for more Gvt. Laundering so that the Rich can pay their "fare share" and it all comes back to them via politicians, programs, contracts, grants, etc. the working class gets slammed and the shirking classes get the payola.
I wouldn't call those "cuts" to border security. Cuts means identifying things and actually cutting the spending from the budget. Putting forward a lower budget YoY. E.g...No more Dept of Ed. No more Dept of Int. No more ATF. No more IRS. No more Homeland Security. And so on.
No one in our government or media ever talks about making actual cuts to anything. Like putting forward a total budget that is lower than last year's. They just talk about what gets the spending and what doesn't. But, we just simply can't afford to keep spending on top of spending, with money we don't have b/c we are so deep in the hole.
Not to mention spending for things that have negative effectiveness, like Dept of Ed, the CDC, NIH...I could probably name 12 agencies that contribute negatively to the country and the world w/o offering one single thing of value. It's kind of nuts.
Cuts are no longer in anyone's lexicon--only in Argentina
Nuts indeed!! They are both the nubs of the fruit and the seeds for spreading that insane, toxic weed. You are right. Weed it out, root and branch, and dispose of properly. Thanks RU. My thoughts exactly — in both of these posts. Well said.
Yes!
Yes! I will not only vote for you, I will volunteer in your campaign.
Oh I couldn’t agree with you more RU!!!
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Agree….its all about money laundering!!!
It's both.
I need real people I know to be credible who’ve used this method of food preservation etc.
The ad presentation is a turnoff for me. I see so many similar ones.
Have a garden, buy from a local farm for meat and eggs, and learn how to can your food. We need to be self sustaining. Set up your personal infrastructure now so you’re prepared for later. I live in a suburban neighborhood, that’s what we’re working on. And know who your networking neighbors are.
no "as if" about it...clear intent
Seriously we have inserted ourselves as a nation all over the world in absurd conflicts for spurious motives, killing our own, and other countries peoples
I became aware of this when I was a student at Columbia University in 1969 and 1970. Vietnam was my first exposure to our country, abusing our military. I haven’t seen it stop
yes its so sad that our own country IS THE TERRORISTS>
"...It as if the ultimate goal is to destroy our own country." NO, it's not as if...IT IS THE GOAL! We need to get people to open their eyes and see this. If YOU aren't seeing this then you need to open your eyes and LOOK AROUND/do the research!
Where is the remaining NATO troll - Benjamin double N??? Also, its the 10 year anniversary of the start of NATO's proxy war with Russia:
RUSSOphobia: Best Ukraine Hypocrisy Memes (Happy 10th Proxy War Anniversary!)
NAZI to see again, to the last Ukrainian down syndrome person, freeze & starve for Ukraine and more Ukraine hypocrisy memes for the 10-year anniversary of the start of NATO's proxy war with Russia!
https://covidsteria.substack.com/p/ukraine-hypocrisy-memes-proxy-war-anniversary
Strange, isn't it? Back in 2012 the left went ga-ga over Obama's "the 80's called and they want their foreign policy back". Now, Russia is the biggest threat to the US.
I ask the TDS and Ukraine NPCs (usually the same people), "When did Russia become our enemy?"
Frequently, the answer is, "They've always been our enemy. Remember the cold war?"
Then I'll share Obama and George W quotes, maybe even some Bill Clinton if I'm feeling feisty. The response is usually silence.
"No, my friend. Russia became our enemy when Hillary lost and needed someone to blame besides herself."
I guess you forgot how Trump put American soldiers on Russia's border and massacred Russian soldiers in Syria :)
Appreciate this and your memes. Thanks!
It's actually 10 years for Russia's war on Ukraine.
How's the 2 day war going, tovarisch?
I the meantime, the US debt gets ever larger and the border remains wide open. How long can this be sustained?
Congress had stopped representing “we the people” a long time ago.
Grand professions of love and commitment
Dependency
Mistreatment by criticisms
The frequent lying
Excessive anger
Release and the danger of a relapse
These are all narcissistic behaviors in a relationship. Not to be an armchair psychiatrist, but in a word: Zelensky.
…and here I thought you were going to say “Biden” or “Bibi”, any 3 letter agency or congress or…
Yes, indeed. We do it for “us” (not us), not for them.
I oddly heard my late Dad quipping "what did you do with the last 100 billion I gave you?
hysterical!@!
Umm, it was used to liberate large patches of Ukraine and drive Russia out of certain areas?
Jeff begs for money a lot, daily in fact. What happened to the money he already got?
it was a joke, bro. Simmer down.
THe Commie Libs preached this about South Vietnam...keep funding a losing proposition right next door to N. Vietnam/China/USSR and see how you get handled... but now NPR and Foreign Policy Experts parrot the "Dominoes Falling to Russia" all through Eastern Europe and Germany itself, also the Red States' idiot MAGA Trump lovers are benefitting from a booming War Machine economy without sending their white trash sons and daughters to do the fighting... when did NPR and Leftists become Neo-Cons??? Oh yes they've ALWAYS been Militarist Marxists since "our" Armed Services and Corporate War Industry turned full on Congressional Military Industrial Communist Complex
the CIA and oligarch fascists push endless war to pad the wallets of WAR CONTRACTORS> see ALLEN DULLES and WALL STREET< SULLIVAN AND CROMWELL. it pays to be informed and not just spew what you heard on youtube last night from questionable sources.
yes, the roots are deep; You Tube is rarely worth getting "news" from any more than NBC, CNN, Fox, or NPR or iHeart media; nearly all modern media, even the best sources can be tainted in some way--historical workings from 70 or 120 years ago portended the ultra refined neo-conflict/reconstruction/repeat cycles we're watching in real time 2024.
Rumble is better. I like DUE DISSIDENCE and SABBY SABS and Kim Iverson.
Thanks! I like “Defected” & Breaking History, for less levity —both on Badlands media—
For a good zoom in & out satellite view.
Redacted also has a lot of good stuff. and is ok for a broad audience.
i'll look into those; best to always be wary as sensationalism sells and gets attention.. and often tailored for us through so many avenues; just headlines from Epoch Times and some articles they put out can be for obvious "conservative consumption" rather than impartial, factual, comprehensive.
Hey WP,
I was with you till you started that white trash crap.
Later Jay
my manufactured home has the axles and brake lights removed so i guess not too lower class;, (though my pink flamingo stands in weeds not a freshly mown lawn), yet still I'm Deplorable and a Bitter-Clinger with Pride; we are the ignored, the despised and maligned. White trash Christian Nationalist and whatever else the Commie Elitists and their Cult followers want to label me; sick thing is they're the truly useful idiots and the ruination of the nation.
commie elitists? the best friends our enemies have is us not understand who is doing it to us. its not commies its UBER CAPITALISTS. they want to own everything and for us to be peasants again.
and they still wont be happy.
Uber Capitalists doesn't have the same disparaging image to me although that is EXCELLENT--yes, nouveau riche THUGS, Political-Corporate-Judicial criminalists, enslavers of humanity, Social-Darwinists, Robber Barons, Neo-Aristocracy, Asset Class, Trust Fund Shirking Class, the Predatory Globalist 1%ers, Rich Privilege Punks, Marx-Engels' Commie Idealism and full control of the Peasants & Prols melded to Elitism to master all information, history, allegiances, property, resources, power and control with no competitors other than the incestuous rivalries that factions of these Uber-Scum may squabble over. I'm warming to the label but it's still too nice.
conflating uber capitalists with Marx = engels commie idealism is Orwellian abuse of language at its worst. lets strive to CLARIFY instead of Obfuscating.
Never get into a land war with Russia.
Russia is on day 770 of the 2 day war.
They're losing a war on their back door and so far:
Lost 20% of the Black sea fleet including the flagship
Lost somwhere around 7 generals
Half a million dead and wounded
3000 tanks
11,000 other vehicles including APCs, armor, drones, and front line aviation
Now Ukrainian drones are striking deep inside Russia.
The losses for Russia are in the trillions
How is that winning?
I'm with you, Neil!
Incorrect as much as you think it is and Jeff pushes it.
Russia is on day 770 of a 2 day war because they’re winning, right?
2 more weeks to victory, huh tovarisch?
You don't understand the real war that Russia is fighting. Ukraine is just a sidebar and has been useful for keeping the US and NATO distracted while Putin works the big board for the big game.
Please educate me about this “real war”.
How does sacrificing 500k men to only take 17% of Ukraine accomplish any of his goals?
Russia is weaker than pre war and nato is stronger.
Reminder…one of the regions Russia claims is now safely in nato.
Such a narrow focus you have. Do you remember the status of the Russia-China relationship prior to this war? It was adversarial. Now they are aligned. Do you remember the status of Iran prior to this war? It was a pariah state. Now it is aligned with Russia and China.
So, Israel, Taiwan, and South Korea are now vulnerable to our adversaries. And so our allies know they are not going to be protected by the US.
Safely in NATO? No such thing. A country could be in NATO, but NATO is so weak safe does not even enter the picture.
Brought to you by the Biden admin!
Absolutely incorrect.
They were aligned before and even did military maneuvers together, sold weapons to each other, and shared intelligence.
They were hardly adversaries.
This was from pre-war times.
https://www.rferl.org/a/china-russia-military-cooperation/31401442.html
Abandoning Ukraine because Republicans like Mike get pissy causes Israel, Taiwan, and South Korea to take note.
All it takes for America to abandon them is for one side to get convinced they have bio labs, "ethnic Chinese speakers", or launder money.
Even Jeff has pushed Chinese propaganda about Bio labs in Taiwan here. The people here are finicky and have the focus of an ADHD diagnosed 4 year old. It doesn't take much to get them to abandon people.
If Nato was so weak Russia wouldn't have cared about Ukraine joining Nato and there wouldn't be such a fit about "nato expansion" (a myth). Russia has not attacked any of the Nato members and launched 4 wars (technically 3) to keep nations out of Nato.
The war to stop "nato expansion" now has a former Russian colony, Finland, safely inside Nato despite Russian sabre rattling. A Brigade of British troops effectively stopped Russia from Invading.
Bloody hell, the English.
absolutely incorrect...for some reason, you have a hard-on for Zelensky and Ukraine. Now, I know Ukranian women are the most beautiful in the world, but you never mention them. So it must be Zelensky.
But, it keep all of the middle men/women happy.
[Yahweh] is the One who heals the brokenhearted
And who binds up their wounds,
Who counts the number of the stars;
He gives names to all of them.
Great is our Lord and abundant in power;
His discernment is infinite.
Yahweh helps up the afflicted;
He brings down the wicked to the ground.
— Psalm 147:3-6 LSB
Every line exudes peace. While seeming to be disjointed subjects, here we see a beautiful description of God: Compassionate Healer, Almighty Creator, Omniscient Lord, Helper, and Righteous Judge. He is all that and infinitely more.
"...He brings down the wicked to the ground."
The entirety of Luke 10:1-24 should be read....
...11 ‘The very dust of your city which clings to us we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God has come near you.’ 12 But I say to you that it will be more tolerable in that Day for Sodom than for that city... 14 But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. 15 And you, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades. 16 He who hears you hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me.”
...17 Then the seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name.” 18 And He said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19 Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over ALL the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
...21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit and said, "...22 ALL things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.” 23 Then He turned to His disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things you see; 24 for I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see, and have not seen it, and to hear what you hear, and have not heard it.”
Who is the one that brings down the wicked to the ground? Who is the one who brings in the Kingdom of God? Who is the one who brings in the judgement upon the city because they rejected the Father by rejecting Him. The Messiah came to his own and they received Him not. Jerusalem rejected Him and crucified Him. When he arose form the grave and ascended to the throne at the right hand of God, He saw Satan fall like lightening to the ground and gave His disciples the authority to trample on evil spirits and over ALL the power of the Enemy. ALL things foretold by the prophets were delivered by His Father to the ascended Christ who now sits on the throne at the right hand of God to rule and reign and sends the Holy Spirit to indwell the body of Christ on earth against which no evil can prevail thus establishing the kingdom of God.
Because they rejected Him and thus the Father, the judgement that He suffered on the Cross for our sake came upon Jerusalem (in "this generation" Mt 24:34) when the Temple was destroyed in 70 AD. "For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled." LK 21:22
AMEN
— And see Josephus on the Jewish Wars.
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Many in ME countries, including Israel in recent years are being drawn to follow Jesus Christ — Jews realizing that the NT is a continuation of the OT, unlike the Rabbinical writings. The Word of God, not “spiritual” sages. The perfect all-wise righteous judge and gracious lover of each soul. The once for all sacrifice for sin.
Thanks, PP.
The spirit is moving mighty in Israel. Obama/Biden is attempting a color revolution to bring in a government they can again control. They’re sending out street mobs as plan B, since their government implant couldn’t deliver.
So far they can’t get the traction they need. But given the biblical prophecies, the nation of Israel may be fooled one last time before the final clash.
Biden’s war on Israel
https://pulseofisrael.com/2024/04/07/bidens-war-israel/?utm_source=israelunwired.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=biden-s-war-against-israel-pulse-of-israel-warriors-huge-legal-win-for-ari-fuld-hy-d-against-iran-syria
…Not so sure O/B is even in charge of that stuff. More like the major int’l ds intel people (& their partners in crime & stooges) — it has the mark of their special talents & capabilities, which have more control than we can imagine. And have for longer than we can imagine. This is not geopolitics as we know it.
The prez is not directing the show. More than that, I’ve only a tiny glimpse and a fuzzy one at that (and it’s deliberately obsured). Think bigger, more nasty, sneaky, manipulating & vile — Our minds & hearts cannot comprehend it.
But 👆🏼He knows.
Be at peace. The Lord is not idle. And He is much, much — infinitely — bigger.
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I’m not going to argue with you about the roots of this evil.
And now we have a new and different day.
As I read the part that says he gives names to all the stars, I started to think about that radio ad that talks about paying a fee to name a star for someone. That starts to sound a little presumptuous, doesn't it?
That’s one of the best scams ever! Wish I’d thought of it 😆
Haha — yes, sure does! Especially since they already have names … their God-given ones! :))
✝️🕊👆🏼💌
ONE of the many reasons my ex and I divorced close to 30 years ago, was when I found a certificate of naming a star for someone and it was his girlfriend's name (not mine).
And Yes, how presumptuous! In the vastness of time, our lives are but a speck in comparison to the ages of the stars.... How many of them have been renamed? Like a rescued pet that one renames once you adopt it...
Hmm I missed that. Oh yeah, I never have the radio on. 🤣 Yes, presumptuous!
In highschool my best friend gave me one of those for a birthday gift. It is odd that man would choose to rename for themselves
Amen!
You wont believe this, unreal.... https://groups.google.com/g/knews328/c/ZzmW3lh4Krc?=9
Yeah, He is doing such a great job of that.
Look at the world, Baalam!
I once heard a preacher describe our situation something like this …
“Mathematics tells us there are more dimensions than the four we commonly experience as humans. Let us assume God, creator of those dimensions, has mastery over them and is even Himself of at least that number of dimensions. He finds Himself separated from us in this way, He being of x number dimensions, we being very much four dimensional. What if He still endeavored to commune with us, to SPEAK to us, or at least try? Imagine your own self, a four dimensional creature trying to communicate with a two dimensional world … it would be awkward and you would seem very mysterious and far from your two dimension-bound subjects.”
God, if you entertain He exists, is in a similar predicament… He is mostly working in our limited reality to tell us something of Himself. He is not bound by time, for example. If He is conducting profound and wonderful things throughout time, it is all very purposeful and complete to Him. He is not stuck viewing things as we do, one moment unfolding into the next with some awareness of history but not even a second into the future … IF He is using time to accomplish His purposes, He is not bound by it Himself. This explains a lot about Him actually… it explains a lot about our experience of His plan. And of course He knows full well what He is requiring of us as we suffer along the timeline, stick as we are. This is why He provides for us what we need as we go.
I would also argue that our ability to wonder about God and conceptualize Him is a key attribute that sets us apart from the rest of creation … without faith perhaps it is not even possible I don’t know. Abidinguy, I do not know your exact state but here you are with the rest of us. Most people have an awareness of something larger than themselves, something outside their own field of vision. Physicists searching for those “building blocks” and “binders” of matter first must recognize we still do not KNOW very much, that there is much more than what meets the eye. Spirituality aware people are not so different as we try to understand our world.
I'm fine with the religious... I just don't care for the pompous clowns that act like they know anything... bottom line, and I think YOU know this... is that I don't know... YOU don't know and NO one knows.
Can we speculate and read ancient mythology and try to gain some connection? Sure.
Is there some creation force or entity? Could be! Is the truth in any of the hundreds of organized religions and their many iterations and sub-groups...?? IMO... nope.
How’s about just reading the Bible. If THAT’s the God you’re talking about, why not simply ask him to show Himself to you? For wisdom? For answers. If He is really that God — Good, Loving and all-knowing, all-wise and all-powerful, He will do it.
Keep your mind open. Seek Him. He promised in the Bible that if you seek Him with your whole heart, you will find Him — He will meet you…He knows where you live.
All that other stuff we scratch our heads about — trying with our meager tools to hammer out a plausibly reality — will be revealed. But first, Him. Don’t think in terms of religion. Think in terms of Life. God is not in the category of religion, He is in the category of What is and who you are. Religion is application of an idea or actions to achieve a spiritual or, for some, a practical goal. The God who is doesn't Work like that. You can never attain it. So He does it all in you — for you, but mainly, for Himself. Based on Truth…to show Who is true, what is true …all His work, nothing of ours, and nothing of man’s wisdom.
But He does change us.
…Asking only for us to receive Him, the living and Good Creator.
The Bible, both old and new are about Jesus Christ, God breaking into the world to save it — By giving Himself to us. Because we are, in reality, walking dead men. We need to be made alive. Not the things of this world, not the esteem of men. We need that true God, only.
He will show you He is trustworthy.
So, I tell you —humbly ask.
100%! A place many believers err incliding myself at times … we presume we understand all there is to be understood. This is only arrogance. How could any creation comprehend its creator aside from the little He chooses to reveal??
I get a little grumpy sometimes when Christians talk about hell and heaven as though they understand those concepts. We can not! We have IDEAS and we have CLUES and possibly even some WITNESS ACCIUNTS but who can know if those witnesses are being truthful??
The best I feel I can say myself is that heaven is to be in the presence of God and hell, by deduction, to be outside the presence of God. This is enough for me … I struggle but I am no fool, I can see my day is full of hardship AND blessings (a headache but I am in a comfortable room with my children downstairs and dinner soon to be underway) … if I accept that all good things are from God (I do!) then I imagine hell must be misery without mitigation. And heaven, in the direct presence of God must be … much better. There are accounts in the Bible if both places although the hell description could be allegorical BUT it was recounted by Jesus.
Actually, it is all in the Bible, very thorough descriptions of both places but I think it is a mistake to assume I know exactly what the Bible is meaning to say …
What is safe to say is that I, human, will never reach full understanding of the divine at least not in this lifetime and the best I can do is keep that in mind while hunting answers to the questions as they arise.
SEEK it says … seek… seek … seek … if that is the mission, I ACCEPT!
How’s about the Tarzan approach:
Hell - Bad 😣
Heaven - Good 😇
Me want 😇
Hell as a thing thrown around by so many today is a mythical concept (just as it was in the parable Jesus told about Lazarus and the rich man, a place of eternal torment was what the Pharisees taught.) It is antithetical to the God of Scripture. And the point Jesus was making to these so called Jews was this: if there is such a place, Pharisees, then that’s where you will be! Self righteous hypocrites who think their belief, their work, their faith, their religion has earned them salvation, and isn’t it a shame about all those ‘unbelievers’. It was, in fact, God in Christ reconciling the WORLD to Himself, at Golgotha. One Sacrifice for all sin for all of humanity in all of its times. Done
A reasonable approach...
You might also like to read Biglino's "The Naked Bible", recommended by Clif.
Very interesting. The pompous refuse and snark about it without reading it...
Ah, I see. Clif High & Biglino.
You do know that both Clif and Biglino have shown themselves to be either hucksters or worse — in the service of something less than wholesome?
This is discernable with Clif by reading some of his old posts (although I have read some that are quite good — but not as good as other writers on the topic). Old posts & podcasts also reveal his definitive assessments that were clearly way off the mark.
Biglino produces bitter fruit. I see it in you and everyone who has written here promoting his book.
His avid followers are both arrogant and bitter. Often easily angered. Haughty. Some spew ugly filth at the drop of a hat. The pride and arrogance oozes. His writing is compelling to many, because he writes as one with special insight and a quasi scholarly approach. But it’s all pretense and easily negated.
Both convey an aura of special knowledge & insight that’s disarming and thus gains our trust. It plays on our own pride, thinking we too, now share in special knowledge and insight. But it’s an illusion. Tricks.
And there’s quite a simple test: By their fruits you will know them. Show me good fruit. Or, perhaps, you can first define what good fruit is.
I wish you well. All the best, in fact. But I will expose those charlatans whenever I can because they prey on those who are craving truth. But it’s a trap; those two will only deceive, do harm, and serve themselves.
Abiding, this is probably not for me … I am a student of the Bible, reading and researching most every day. I spend this kind of time because I believe it to be TRUE. Because it is true, I am convinced offhand it can stand up to the “irreverence” of this author but … I am a busy mom of five and I must choose how I spend my time. Is there a particular point you took from this book that I can mull over? Laundry and dishes hale loudly … … …
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There is much more to the Bible than the select cherries preachers and politicians pluck from its hundreds of pages. There exists, in fact, a massive, rotten underside. But who has the time and sufficient quantities of NoDoz to read the entire book? In this collection of brief, entertaining essays, written in a tone both matter-of-fact incredulous and wryly sarcastic, Andrew Bernardin dives deep beneath the Bible's cover to share a peek of some of the customarily cloaked, sordid content. He reveals both how "God's inerrant word" has been worded differently in many versions of the Bible, and how "God's Message" changes from Genesis to Revelation within each Bible. In addition to the essays, Naked contains bonus, eye-opening verses translated into blunt, everyday English. From front to back, The Naked Bible strips bare the outright scandalous and plainly silly alike. If you care to know more about the lesser known Bible, this is one fun way to do it. - Revised 04/11 to update formatting and correct typographical errors.] This description may be from another edition of this product.”
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I see you.
I see you are still wrong.
How "special" of you, Teddy... as in "special education".
How would YOU know if I am wrong about anything, dunce?
*Short answer:* I don't know if you are wrong.
*Longer answer of dubious value:*
In my experience, when I walk around with an over abundance of certainty I find myself with a closed mind, no ability to engage with others, and no empathy. I end up in a corner, lashing out with ad hominem style attacks.
As a general rule, I am suspicious of loudly proclaimed certainty, but I have to watch that I'm not too certain about my uncertainty. There is a kind of arrogance in thinking that because I don't know, that its not possible someone else could know.
I'm not quite sure where you are with all this. I believe there is ultimate truth, despite having a non-positive epistemology. I believe there is truth, but the best our cloudy minds can see is a shadow of that truth. For me there is faith in that ultimate truth, even though I can only see a hint of it out of the corner of my eye.
I don't disagree with any of that... are you Teddy. posting under two names?
Thanks be to GOD
The trans agenda is demonic. (Not every trans person, but the agenda.)
The Transgender Agenda
“I no longer use transgender pronouns and you shouldn’t either. Using transgender pronouns is a sin against the ninth commandment and encourages people to sin against the tenth commandment. Using transgender pronouns is a sin against the creation ordinance and image bearing. It discourages the believer’s progressive sanctification and falsifies the Gospel; it cheapens redemption and tramples on the blood of Christ. It fails to love my neighbor as myself. It fails to offer genuine Christian hospitality, and it yields the definition of hospitality to liberal progressivism, identity politics, and human flourishing.”
--Rosaria Butterfield, Former Professor of English and Women’s Studies, NYU.
In other words, acknowledging the psychotic and sinful behavior and going along with it because it seems the loving thing to do actually legitimizes it and draws the troubled one farther from the gospel rather than to it.
A violation of the 9th Commandment. They want us to lie, and by consenting to lying, they want us to deny our God and our Lord Saviour.
All of this is a direct attack on the Christian and Christianity ... and all the while, and with much guile and cunning the Evil Ones pretending to be Little Miss Innocent.
Always kills me when the evil ones pretend to have the moral high ground.
Ditto. And once one see it, they are transparent as looking through glass (sort of like three to five year old little demons acting out, only the damage is real.)
I'm so thankful for the discernment the Holy Spirit gives us.
Would-Be Tyrants Capture Language to Control Thought
FEE, August 11, 2017
https://fee.org/articles/would-be-tyrants-capture-language-to-control-thought/
"Today’s counter-revolution against liberty is being fought on a number of fronts in American society. One is on college and university campuses across the country, where the ideology of “political correctness” is strangling freedom of speech and smothering intellectual controversy and debate. Critical to this campaign is the capture of language.
It is through our language that we think about ourselves, our relationships to others, and the social order surrounding us. Words do not merely delineate objects, individuals, events or actions. Words also create mental imageries, emotions, attitudes, and beliefs that color how people see themselves and the world around them."
Those Who Control the Language Control the Culture
Townhall, September 8, 2020
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbrown/2020/09/08/those-who-control-the-language-control-the-culture-n2575807
“Politics and the English Language.” By George Orwell.
New Oxford Review, April, 2020
https://www.newoxfordreview.org/documents/politics-and-the-english-language-by-george-orwell/
"In “Politics and the English Language,” Orwell calls this “an invasion of one’s mind” — again, the purposeful manipulation of language in order to corrupt one’s thoughts and affections. Thus, the choice of academia, the media, and the publishing industry to adopt the singular they is not simply about word choice — as silly and illogical as it may be: Alex needs to learn their lines by Friday! — it is about forcing students and others to accept the language of transgenderism and the ideological corollaries behind the vocabulary. It is asking us all to accept something that is less than reality. Pronouns, we are told, are no longer related to the body (male and female) but to the mind, how one “identifies” or “expresses” the social construct of gender. Reality is denied, and the fluid world of one’s nonbinary fancy replaces it.
It is worth noting that last year the Vatican’s Congregation for Catholic Education published a 30-page document, “Male and Female He Created Them,” on this very topic. Quoting Pope Francis, it explains that gender theory “denies the difference and reciprocity in nature of a man and a woman and envisages a society without sexual differences, thereby eliminating the anthropological basis of the family.” This ideology, Pope Francis explains, promotes “a personal identity and emotional intimacy radically separated from the biological difference between male and female. Consequently, human identity becomes the choice of the individual, one which can also change over time.” Thus, in the case of the Catholic educator or the Catholic student, one must compromise one’s religious principles in order to conform to the industry standards of language."
Follow the Science!!
The Interdisciplinary Handbook of Perceptual Control Theory
Living Control Systems IV
Language and thought as control of perception
https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818948-1.00011-3
Language as the Device for Psychological Manipulation in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four: a psycholinguistic analysis
European Journal of English Language and Linguistics Research, September, 2017
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323935347_Language_as_the_Device_for_Psychological_Manipulation_in_George_Orwell's_Nineteen_Eighty-Four_a_psycholinguistic_analysis
Controlling People Through Language
Transnational Institute, September 16, 2010
https://www.tni.org/en/article/controlling-people-through-language
Note: Marxist Noam Chomsky is a professor of Linguistics. His influence on several generations of students eager to change the world into a progressive utopia can't be overstated going back to the 1970's, rising to prominence on campuses and in coffee houses in the 1980's-1990's, inescapable in those milieus, as insufferable as it was for non-progressives.
That's not a coincidence or quirk of history. Linguistics is the preferred weapon of revolutionaries in an Information War. It is the atomic bomb. We mustn't underestimate the power of language. We must give the new language no quarter. It must be rejected. And shamed, scorned from polite conversation. Bars of soap handy to wash out the mouths of those who dare utter the insults to our minds., reality and God.
I call what 'they' are doing Word Sorcery.
With Word Sorcery 'they' magically alter meanings and by doing so cast spells over our minds. They also do this with Narratives which is just a broadening of Word Sorcery into a wider application.
Basically, 'they' control us by casting spells upon us. And thus the unreal and the fabrication become reality the Grand Illusion. And by the way, all of what C19 was a Grand Illusion, a spell cast over the globe. And 'they' did all with Words!
Yep. I've often called them Linguistic Sorcerers. It's exactly what they are. Modern day Merlin's and Rasputin's.
"They'll be offended!"
"Then let them be offended."
Precisely!
Diabolical!
Rosaria is also a former “trans” person, saved and redeemed by the truth of the Bible. She knows whereof she speaks. I have seen her on YouTube. Very powerful witness.
Great post. I will be sharing this quote.
A transgender was interviewed and stated her religious mother never called her by her male name or used any trans pronouns. Instead she called her sweetie honey basically endearing names. The mom prayed nonstop but would not validate her daughter’s new gender and throw her religious convictions on the burn pile. Eventually God won and the daughter is now a believer who speaks to many of the gender confused individuals. BYW the trans community that once embraced and isolated her, quickly disowned her afterwards. So I agree the trans agenda is very damaging for young confused persons.
That will be my approach with my grand-niece who wants to be called “Tom” now…she lives 2 states away so it’s been several years since I’ve seen her in person. The next time I do, though, I will try to use the word “BELOVED” because THAT is her true name before the Lord…
I’m so pleased the interview post helped you with your niece. These are definitely strained relationships but God always has the answers we need to navigate them. 😌
Thank you for lighting that path! 🕊️🔥🕊️💚💚💚🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I like that Susan and will do the same with a grandson who I am in a similar situation with. I will call him beloved (child of God)
Love this! What an amazing, patient, and trusting mom.
Debbie, even more amazing; while the mom was praying God told her to let Him deal with her daughter! What a comforting word from God. I’ve never believed in attending a gay wedding, I know that conflicts with my beliefs. Children respect parents that hold firmly to their long held beliefs!!
She heard. She believed. And she waited. A great lesson for all of us.
Always speak truth in love.
Yes! God wins. Every Time. That mom is living in answered prayer. Praise God!
Pastor Alistair Begg got in trouble because he advised a grandmother to go to her grandchild's trans wedding and take a gift.
This is an incredibly powerful testimony (mother and daughter)!!! We watched this excellent dvd called In His Image and she and her mom shared this story on it. This dvd was so well done and really helped our whole family walk through questions surrounding the transgender issue. Our church also just started this series called Wonderfully Made that can be watched online (it is a 6 week series). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZaZyPff7Fg Here also is the link to this dvd https://resources.afa.net/in-his-image-2-dvd-set
Praise God!!
That is what they do. It is the same in the LGBT movement. Because they think they should "own" you.
Maggie I also think they’re cultish. They desperately try to isolate the kids by telling them not to tell their parents they are confused about being gay or trans. I believe
these kids need their parents more than ever then. The agenda is to catch the confused kids early, and isolate with the lie that they are the only ones who understand and care about them. All the while brainwashing them that their parents are terrible and can’t be trusted!!
We are fighting against an evil agenda!!
No she wasn't trans. She lived a lesbian lifestyle.
Ok. I stand corrected. Either way, she knows the truth now and is bold to speak it!
This is true and I am glad those people use their platform to advance truth and holiness.
Agreed. They are very brave.
Actually, Rosaria was not "trans". She was a leftist lesbian professor and supporter of the alphabet community. But I totally agree that she has a tremendous testimony. Her book, "The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert" is well worth reading.
One of the things that was most interesting to me was that the pastor & wife friends who influenced her over a period of time over numerous dinners in their home never discussed her sexual orientation with her and condemned it. The pastor said something to the effect that "before one becomes a Christian, they have a "sin" problem. After they become a Christian they have a "sins" problem. Until the "sin" problem is dealt with, the need for repentance and acceptance of what Jesus did for them on the cross, the specific sins are not the issue. After the person becomes a believer, then the "sins" need to be dealt with. As Greg Koukl from Stand to Reason Ministry puts it, "Even God catches His fish before He cleans them." After Rosaria become a believer the Holy Spirit convicted her and helped her with her struggles in that area.
I noticed something similar with the interview of the ex-onlyfans lady in yesterday's post. She talked about how she met Jesus first, and then AFTER that she became convicted that she needed to delete her OF because it was sinful.
*Not trans, Rosaria was a militant lesbian.
Yes. I was corrected in an earlier comment. Thank you!
I watched Rosaria’s testimony and was moved! And convicted!! What a lovely voice for Christ … but I do not think trans is part of her past? Lesbian yes and a promoter of the alphabet lgbggjiydsasf but not herself trans?
Yes, several people have corrected my error. She was lesbian, not trans. Still, a powerful voice to the issue.
Thank you!
So powerful. There are none chosen who are out of Gods reach. She was always HIS daughter even while she was in evil. Praise the Almighty!!!! We must remember this story as we address those wallowing in sin … we must b take care how we think of and speak of them … some are God’s children and He is doing amazing works in their lives! Let’s be praying??
Rosario was not trans, she lived in a lesbian relationship. She's married now. I've read all of her books and highly recommend them!
You might also enjoy “A Change of Affection” by Beckett Cook. An amazing story of transformation. He also has numerous videos on YouTube and a terrific interview with Eric Metaxas.
I like this and I’m going to think more on this and write on this. I think the same way that we were able to stand up to the mandates with religious exemptions, we can use religious exemptions here to not give into the trans agenda: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/elmo-and-a-rock
I read her book "The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey into the Christian Faith (2012)". Great read!
Excellent book!
Interesting thought.
That said, I know a professor (tenured) whose religious exemption request was denied by his Catholic university.
He sued (excellent lawyer, btw). The final disposition: an out-of-court settlement which suited him just fine. In his 70s, retirement was in his sights. He has a bit more money without the time and effort drain if teaching.
Back to his great joy: research.
Romans 1:21 For although they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 claiming to belies, they became fools...24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to dishonoring their bodies...26 For this reason, God gave them up to dishonorable passions...vs 32 Though they know God's righteous decree...they not only do them, but give hearty approval to those who practice them. (ESV)
The Transgenda
Freedom of speech means freedom not to speak, too. I refuse to speak this nonsense. If someone is going to force it on me, then they will use my pronouns: "F--- / Biden". That will put an end to that pronoun garbage quickly.
I’m currently listening to her book (5 Lies I used to believe…already listened to most of her other ones)….I have a daughter who calls herself a man and the pronouns is my last (and maybe only) stand….it forces me to lie to myself as the one who carried her and birthed her knowing full well her sex then and now. She earnestly believes herself to be a man and in so many ways is still my sweet little girl. But she believes a lie that I cannot accept. Our relationship is strained and many cut off their parents…I’m probably holding too tightly to this relationship and probably compromising more than I should (I’m working through this with lots of prayer)….It’s impossible to show her love if there’s no relationship though and if she can’t see Christ’s love for her through His body, she will continue down this path….I don’t know my point here, other than this is hard. We have to hold to truth without losing love and it’s so easy to fall off the cliff on either side (loving in a way that embraces the ideology or holding to truth so sternly that we don’t embody love at all)
Praying for you two. Motherlove never ends, and as you are living proof, one can and still must love what one cannot accept. I hope she refinds her dignity. You sound like a great mom.
Thank you for your kind words…and prayer is always appreciated ❤️
Praying for you and your daughter 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank you and much appreciated!
Heather: 🙏🏻 for you as you walk this tightrope. I believe God is helping you. Press into Him and do not waver. You are your daughter’s lifeline. She is worth your struggle.
Thank you!!
Stay strong, Mama! I'm not quite where you are, but we are dealing with strained relationships. We've been praying for reconciliation and will all be together this weekend for the 1st time in nearly 7 years! God never sleeps. I laid all of our mess at His feet and have kept my faith through the worst of times and prayed. He fights our battles, we need only be still. My prayers are with you!
Thanks Maggie….I will pray for your time together this weekend!
Thank you!
Transgenderism has all of these Anti-Christian characteristics and thus by definition is demonic. It’s no coincidence that we are seeing more evidence of satan worship in our culture.
AMEN! I don’t use those pronouns or even altered names either. God’s truth is TRUTH or isn’t. God is Truth.
First time I’ve agreed with this Pope when he says this agenda & those promoting it are trying to “make oneself God.”
I’ve been saying that since this cultural phenomenon raised it ugly head; the audacity of men (mankind) playing God Who created male & female. Rather putting themselves ABOVE Him deluding themselves & others into a lie.
Satan deluded Eve who influenced Adam to try to set themselves above God. All 3 learned the hard way that God alone is on the throne.
re: First time I’ve agreed with this Pope
"Is the Pope Catholic?" has taken on a new meaning with current guy. But yes, first time for me as well.
False pronouns are … FALSE. They are nothing but a lie, they drag us into complicity with all that is hateful and wrong about the trans movement. They are the lie that demeans us and demeans all of creation as something of our making rather than God’s. I can think of nothing less “loving” … they take the biblical concept of LOVE, something unique to GOD and trust it up to serve an evil agenda.
With this I agree fully but how do y’all feel about … “DEADNAMING”? I am willing to call a person by a new name he just made up but I will not call him a her. Am I being inconsistent?
I shall be referred to now by all who address me as, "Your Eminence," and by all who refer to me as "The Eminent." Failure to do so is henceforth impermissible, and subject to criminal prosecution and sanction, loss of employment, financial services, shopping and access to public spaces. So it is written. And so it shall be. All have been duly warned.
Eh freedom what did you say?? Speak into my other ear!!!
I love Rosaria. Her testimony is just amazing! Read it!!💕
I just spent this afternoon listening to Rosaria’s videos as she spoke truth into the chaos of same-sex “marriage” and the mental illness that is transgenderism. These are socially constructed lies that are not of God. I ask God for his help in not affirming the lunacy and to speak His truth in love.
A couple of weeks ago I listened to her presentation where she said this. It's so powerful! She's a force.
Individual "trans" people have been seduced by the whispering of the Devil as in "did G-d REALLY say...?" Straight back to Genesis.
Not that they give a hoot WHAT God says.
Totally.
https://www.mediamatters.org/candace-owens/candace-owens-trans-agenda-demonic-any-actor-actress-individual-supports-supporting
I just wish she'd really said what she thinks. 😉 Her statement needs to be repeated over and over, starting with my Substack, when I get a chance to write.
Trans movement/people need to read what God did to Sodom and Gomorrah.
I think transgender surgery and drugs should be considered cosmetic surgeries. I personally believe each person was born man or woman for a reason. There are quite masculine woman and feminine men. I would like to see us as a society accept them for who they are. I am personally against body modification surgeries but accept people’s right to have them. Trans surgeries are not “health care” and should not be paid for at the tax payers expense. The “Trans Agenda” is clearly a Trogan Horse for people accepting the Tranhumanism the WEF is openly advocating. Religious and spiritual people will be the biggest obstacle to the merging of machine and human. I wish Christians had stepped up and said no to genetically modifying anything as that is also “playing God”.
I have to agree! When I took Human Sexuality in college back in the late 90’s, we were taught about cross dressers - not transgender people. And we learned this about adults! Mostly men! Think Brice Jenner types… fast forward to today and the normalization of drugs — When you introduce drugs that change hormones & bodies of children it becomes demonic.
Trans people are confused and troubled, and it could be a demonic influence. Remember, satan is the master of confusion.
Atleast until recently, they were given mental health assistance.
Until quite recently, it was considered mental illness, and it is..or demonic influence.
Yes. I believe this is one reason why they change their voices regardless of whether they take hormones. Demons.
“What do you think? Is this sudden transgender phenomenon an artifact of ‘cultural evolution’? Or is it something more sinister?”
Definitely more sinister! It is Satan trying to BE God just like he has from the beginning. God creates us. God chooses our male or female person at conception. That is HIS gift to us. So why would we be surprised in any way that the devil himself is trying to usurp God’s authority and change that which God has created? The whole reason the devil fell from heaven was because he wanted to be God. By getting adults and kids to think THEY can choose their gender. They are now playing God and the devil is laughing in our faces. It’s been the same MO since the beginning. He’s just using people to do the same thing. Ya know, in the back door.
Yup. Evil and sinister and demonic. Every. Bit. Of. It.
1) Deuteronomy 23:1
“No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord.”
Well said
The movement is demonic
Every trans person. No exemptions.
Every trans person what?
Reply to Ann Clifton who said above at the beginning of this chain of comments:
"The trans agenda is demonic. (Not every trans person, but the agenda.)"
Am I the only one shocked by the Vatican’s stance on transgenderism? I feel like there have been several things (as listed by Jeff) that are anti-biblical that have come from the Vatican in the last several years, this hard line was surprising to me.
I also was shocked at this apparent return to what must be doctrine coming out of the socialist Pope. Handlers, perhaps?
I’m not Catholic, but I am Christian. It is so discouraging to see the leader of a Christian faith being dragged along by popular culture. Our faith should be our bedrock, not set in the shifting sands of what’s trendy.
I am a Catholic Christian and I am disheartened by where this "pope" is leading us.
Honestly, I am surprised so many care about the stance of the Catholic Church. I am not saying they shouldn’t but I fell like if you were a part of the LGBTQ community- why would you even be biblically religious? The Bible is so clear on that. It has always confused me. Same with the sanctity of marriage out side of legal law. For instance, a lot of my 20/30 something employees (none are religious) do all sorts of blurred sexual moral things- like poly and bi and they don’t care what a church would think of what they do at all. So is it just an assault on religion by evil forces is why they try to be accepted?
Yes it is definitely an assault on religion! They attack everything God holds dear. They have been attacking marriage for decades. Satan Hates and wants to destroy God’s Word.
I think "transgenderism" is a line that can't be crossed and we are seeing many stand up to say "nope, we're not going to that place." Even if they can't articulate why they have to stand against it.
My take is that it's just too obviously a mental illness that's being elevated to the status of "normal." And as far as slippery slopes go, there are none slipperier. If one is allowed to declare themselves something they are not, to call a feeling or idea "reality" - and have that become a legally binding change of reality for their society and everyone in their orbit - the ramifications are just too vast. It will ultimately destroy society. It can't be allowed to happen, even for liberals like this Pope, and even if they can't articulate exactly why they are against it.
If the pope approved this, most of the priests would be wearing high heels and skirts and earrings. Then too many people would wake up, and it would ruin his “boiling the frog”approach. He’s taking his baby steps, first blessing their unions, second approving them as godparents. Seducing society once baby step at a time.
Me too which is why I don’t trust it. I’m suspicious after what he’s done and okayed the last while. Something is wrong when he JUST did the whole blessing and God parent thing. Cue the law suit! He’s probably backing himself into a corner on purpose and when push comes to shove he’ll cave or there will be a settlement that removes him from the corner because hey, it was the law suit that made me do it.
BTW I just went into a local shop and low and behold there is a DUDE employee, with whiskers for beard and mustache, obviously no breasts, with the hair of a dude who was sporting some earrings and a little make up. I thought it was a dude and would address the DUDE as such. I didn’t even question he was a dude. The other employee called him a “she” and then the dude became flamboyantly gay acting. I almost threw up. I never needed to address the DUDE but I’m rethinking where I shop now. 😒
"Dude" - sounds like a good pronoun! :-)
The Dude Abides
I was thankful hearing this
There are a lot of serious, terrible errors in the document so these things which should be a given anyway are now being used as the sugar to help those fighting for the true Catholic faith to take the demonic "medicine" in the rest of the document. Do not be fooled by this wolf document in sheep's clothing.
Well, Francis is the first Pope ever elected who is a Jesuit. They are notoriously left wing and heterodox. Its hard to paint any individuals with a broad brush that applies to the group they belong to. I really like Fr. Greg Boyle founder of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, his stories and ministry are amazing. He is a Jesuit. But still, its not really surprising that Francis wandered pretty far off the reservation. I am surprised that he landed where he did on this issue.
This is interesting, thank you. I didn’t know that the Jesuits were a more liberal group.
Is the damn breaking?
Russell Brand is now talking about the embalmers finding the white fibrous clots (20 mins):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dhxKRMM231s
Little by little, day after day, and then it will be unstoppable and undeniable.
Waiting and praying for it with hope filled anticipation.
Isaiah 28:10: For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little." Coming to this passage yesterday morning, my first thought was Jeff's promise of 'drip, drip, drip......"
Don’t have time to look, but when God brought the Israelites into the promised land, they were to take the land little by little in a gradual fashion.
If the surrounding pagan nations had all disappeared at once, there would have been a lot of predatory wild animals to deal with.
How in the earth has it taken this long. That feels like years ago that I first heard that.
We’ve known about the clots for, what, three years now. About time someone like Brand gets the word out. 👏🏻 He might reach a few 🐑 we can only hope and pray.
Sharyl Attkisson had a segment on last week's show (Full Measure) about them as well as interviews with Dr. Marik and Dr. Kory. This is on an ABC affiliate in the Seattle area, so things are definitely loosening. Now is the time to be on guard.
Yes!
https://fullmeasure.news/
Her show airs on a few MSM networks. None in my area unfortunately (NE Ohio).
“They” are losing control of the narrative. Thus the fear mongering about the bird flu.
Elect honest Coroners. The corrupt ones won’t report. They bury the evidence and lie about cause of death. My friend worked for the Coroners office, collected gobs of evidence, and then ran for the office. Sadly, he lost, and was never able to expose REAL causes of deaths in documented Covid deaths (spoiler alert…they did NOT die of Covid). Perhaps there’s been a shift in those elected to the office in the past year or two? Perhaps people aren’t as afraid to speak truth? Vote local. Everything matters. And it starts in our own back yards…
Yes. I've grown accustomed to a 2-4+ yr wait for the folks with large followings to catch up. I guess they're so busy setting up their guests and prepping for the interview, that they can't read up on things in real time.
Fiscal Collapse Accelerates
https://brownstone.org/articles/fiscal-collapse-accelerates/
There is a chart in this article labeled, "US treasury debt out standing". People think that the "economy" is too complicated to understand when in reality this one chart is all you need to know to completely understand the economy and how we are being screwed. It's as easy as understanding your checkbook.
For a bit of background color, the US abandoned sound money domestically (credit based gold standard) for a fiat currency money system based on debt in 1917 with the creation of the Federal Reserve. Ever since that time, the USG domestically has had a blank check to run deficits financed by the Federal Reserve that increasingly placed a debt load on the backs of the American taxpayer through inflation. Prior to that time, the Federal Gov't could only run a budget deficit TO THE EXTENT the American people were willing to buy Gov't bonds. This was THE MOST IMPORTANT restraint on the Federal Government in the Constitution. The American people had the final say in what the Fed Gov't could do because they alone controlled the purse strings! All of this was possible because the US currency was gold and as such every dollar was a credit amount of gold.
With the switch to a fiat currency (debt) system domestically in 1917, the USG began running increasingly larger deficits and rarely balanced the budget. With WWII, this debt ballooned to what appeared to be gigantic proportions. But as you can see in the chart, this was nothing compared to what has happened since then, beginning in 2008. Now, up to 1971, the international dollar was still backed by gold. But in 1971, Nixon (a "conservative" President) closed the international gold window meaning that the dollar was no longer backed by gold internationally which put the US dollar completely on the debt based fiat system.
Now I would point out that beginning in 1917, the local domestic economy increasingly moved from a cash-and-carry (credit) system to a buy-over-time (debt) system that progressively enslaved the American people to debt, ie, to the banks. (All of this increasingly robbed the American people of their productivity to pay for the debt to the international banking system via the Federal Reserve.) With the real estate crash of 2008, the doors were thrown open to the financial rape of the American people with the "bailouts" of the zombie banks and "too-big-to-fail" corporations. From this point on, the corporations have had unlimited access to the productivity of the American people via USG debt. This was sold to the American people and the liberal intelligentsia as Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) which I'm sure everyone has heard of.
Now here's what you don't see in that "US treasury debt out standing" chart. It took 90 years from 1917 to 2008 for the national debt to grow to a little less than $5 trillion while the purchasing power of the dollar dropped 90%. From 2008 to 2023, the national debt grew to $27 trillion, an increase of $22 trillion or 540% in 15 years! If I plotted that history on a linear chart all the way back to 1917, you would clearly see that the growth in Gov't debt has gone exponential. The current trend line would look nearly vertical. You can see the slope of the growth curve and how the slope suddenly changed in 2008 and then changed again in 2019 going nearly exponential.
We are headed for the same brick wall that brought down the last great empire, the Soviet Union. The USG Empire is literally the culmination of the last 500 years of Western Civilization and, as the author states, "At this point there is nothing standing between us and fiscal collapse. The only question is when."
Pretty soon we're going to be talking about real money.
"U.S. national debt spiraling out of control, rising $1 trillion every 100 days"
'The soaring debt has affected America’s credit rating. In November, Moody’s Investors Service lowered the rating from “stable” to “negative,” citing the national debt and growing budget deficit. '
Yes, and wait till China or whatever country the US and Canada are enslaved to call in their loan?!?!?!
At some point, the debt becomes so large that the creditor becomes the slave of the debtor. This can be ended overnight by giving up the empire and declaring national bankruptcy. End the Federal Reserve, declare all external debt void and go back to a credit based monetary system. Become a "Switzerland" and downsize and withdraw all USG activity to within the US borders and operate on a cash basis. This will collapse the power of the international banking cartel and free the American people from the slavery of the banking system.
Cash and barter -- barter and goods exchange are already happening more and more at the local level.
And agree that it will become a situation where the American people walk away from the debt the military-industrial-government complex is responsible for and has been the only 'entity' to profit from. It's their debt and they can damn well repay it.
Yes...they can eat it!
Jeff said, “ It feels like Iran and Russia are waiting, for … something. A sign? A starting signal? They appear more to be following a plan, and not just reacting to provocative events. Prior to the Proxy War, Russia and Israel were more closely aligned than were Russia and Iran. But Russian requirements for Iranian drones early in the war led to a realignment.”
Are BRICS countries (which include Russia and Iran at this point) waiting for our financial collapse?
This is why they are developing an alternative credit based monetary system based on resources such as gold and trading arrangements based on that system.
Israel has been distancing itself from Russia because of Russia's support for Iran and Hamas.
Right now Israel is killing one of Russia's closest allies by the bucketful in Syria-Iran.
All the weapons Russia depends on for fighting in Ukraine is being directed back to Iran's own forces.
Thank you for this explanation. Now, what can we do to protect our earnings, investments, etc?
Everybody's situation is unique. Ask yourself, "What can I trade these dollars for that is both useful and durable." Bottom line, if dollars and dollar denominated assets are in danger of extinction where can I store my extra wealth. My son is buying rural real estate to use both as a recreational hunting area, an investment and, if necessary, a possible retreat. Gold coins are an obvious store of value that is more liquid than real estate and we are right at the beginning of an historic gold bull market. That train is just leaving the station. Paying off all debt is another good use for dollars. I guess the point is to have a "reserve" somewhere that cannot be destroyed by a dying dollar.
Gold, silver, and ammo.
For sure, and land and stored food.
Cases of 12 cans of soup are $22 delivered (walmart, amazon, etc); shelf live is easily 20 years. A good way to use $1,000 here and there to cover emergencies or offset inflation. And you can give it away if you're moving and don't want to haul it around.
Our b & b is also a regenerative farm on 27 acres...beef, lamb, goat, eggs, chicken & veggies.
You can buy cases of most canned goods at Sam’s for around $10.
You can make that soup for pennies...
Yes. But how much for the 10 yrs worth of cans or glass jars to store it? Still better for you from home, but at a price that's likely MORE than Sam's.
The purpose of the Second Amendment is to protect the First Amendment.
Phil, I’ve always wondered where someone is going to liquidate those coins if they’re needed in the future? Banks? Gas stations? Grocers? Local farmers? Are we going to saw them into little pieces? Lop them into fourths? I’m not being sarcastic, I truly don’t know.
Gold is difficult since you would have to lop off small pieces and even then a small piece of gold is a little steep for a loaf of bread, but I think the intent is to have the gold when a new gold backed economy starts up. For the day to day stuff, I'm going more for silver and then 90% silver coins since these could most likely be used for small day to day purchases and still be useful when the new gold backed economy starts up.
That makes sense. Thanks.
Here is an interesting innovation. The technology now exists to print foldable gold money and it is slowing catching on in some states.
The Sound Money Movement Gains Momentum: A Deep Dive into Goldbacks!
https://www.brighteon.com/519ca828-1430-484e-ba4a-7a0f072db7d6
Melt it down into smaller weights. But as soon as it loses it's original shape and stamping, fillers start showing up. You know, like how the govt pulled silver out of dimes and quarters, etc.
You can buy what is called ‘shot’ but it’s usually refined down to 18 or 14k. Jewelers who cast jewelry usually use shot. There’s no way stores or regular people are going to own small electronic scales and carry them when they go shopping. And like you say, regular people won’t be able to assess purity, and merchants won’t be able to take the time to test each piece.
At least coins are marked and regulated… for now. That’s why as someone mentioned, silver coins are worth way less than gold and more easily used in trade.
Gold and silver are climbing quickly now. And what’s crazy are the derivatives. No one ever talks about them!
The derivatives market is a GIANT house of cards. I looked at that in 2008 and wondered then if it would collapse. At that time, if I remember correctly, the estimated total was $700 TRILLION. I'm sure there are others here that know more than I do. God knows what it is now. If the USG were to declare bankruptcy, that whole house of cards would come down. All the Rothschild's would be left with is a much smaller personal fortune.
Read The Great Taking. Those at the top get everything as international laws have set up that everything below the top is collateral to Them. Includes the Rothschilds. Here is a video, but the pdf book is free.
https://youtu.be/dk3AVceraTI?si=5h37emiU243zkIW0
Penny, I bought that book in paperback, but haven't read it yet. To support authors, I buy books telling about all the various aspects of what's been going on, but I can't read them all, as it's like crawling over broken glass. It's one reason I'm appreciative of Jeff's optimism.
It’s crazy everything is still afloat. It’s truly Monopoly money. And it’s the whole world. I don’t know why the house even debates money. I think going digital is their escape hatch.
If we collapse, I definitely want the top dogs who created the mess to be included in the devastation.
A friend of mine and I pray for a solar flare to take out the internet. That’d put us all on common grounding.
On derivatives & the full picture Watch / read The Great Taking if you haven’t yet.
In 2021 a new rule allowed credit unions to enter the derivatives game. My credit union has an exposure of over $10 billion. You can see a list at :
https://ibanknet.com/scripts/callreports/filist.aspx?type=ncuaderivatives.
You can see how much your bank is exposed at:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/which-big-u-s-banks-have-the-most-commercial-real-estate-exposure/
Another risk for our financial institutions is the holding of huge amounts of commercial real estate loans. That market is not doing well and all signs are pointing to a coming tide of defaults. To see the exposure of some of the biggest banks:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/which-big-u-s-banks-have-the-most-commercial-real-estate-exposure/
Addendum:
An event that will seal America's fate
Bill Bonner
Absent a dramatic course correction, US debt will reach 130% of GDP during the next presidential term. When that happens there is no further chance of an “intentional” resolution of the debt problem.
https://www.bonnerprivateresearch.com/p/an-event-that-will-seal-americas-e7f
..................................I agree with Bonner:
.... In this election, there is something more at stake. And neither of the two leading candidates has any idea of what it is or what to do about it. Most likely, this is the election that will seal America’s fate. Unless there is a dramatic course correction... US debt will reach 130% of GDP during the next presidential term. When that happens there is no further chance of an “intentional” resolution of the debt problem...
I also agree with Bonner's assessment of Trump's capabilities. EVERY administration in recent memory has out-spent the previous administration and Trump was no exception. His grasp of the business deal is legendary but his understanding of real economics and how the world works is right down there with a college freshman. We have not had one President in living memory that was willing or even understood the necessity to cut the Fed budget and veto every bill that comes across his desk. Trump was a bigger spender than any previous President like Obama.
The US will most likely cross the point of "no return" before the end of the next Presidential term. Bonner poses three possibilities as outcomes. 1) An outright default, 2) a devaluation of the currency, or 3) a de-facto default in the form of chronic inflation to deal with the high debt levels. Number 3 is Venezuela or Weimar Germany hyperinflation. This impoverishes all Americans and destroys the economy. Number 2 is an attempt to reset the currency game at the expense of the American citizen so they can continue their game which quickly brings us right back to where we were to begin with. Number 1, default or national bankruptcy, is the only outcome with the chance to clear the slate and start new. But this will only work if the Fed Gov't is downsized and restructured to prevent this from happening in the future. This of necessity means deposing the NeoCon oligarchs and ending the USG Empire. This is essentially what happened in Russia when the USSR collapsed. Russian society descended into gut-wrenching chaos for several years. Can we do better? We are about to find out.
What is the best way to go about purchasing silver and gold? Asking for a friend…🙏.
"democrats have “promised” to support Johnson and help keep him in the position" = Lucy holding the football and telling Charlie Brown that this time she'll allow him to actually kick it. Don't make me laugh so hard!
Because...Zelensky...because democracy...in a country that has suspended elections, imprisoned reporters (who subsequently died) and restricted religious freedom. Democracy!! Democracy!!!
Gonzalo Lira, an American citizen, was tortured, denied medical care, and died, in an Ukrainian prison.
Yup. I was referring to him. And the current administration?...in defense of freedom of the press?...and an American citizen did?...crickets.
What happened to Gonzalo Lira could happen to all of us.
Just look at how the J6 political prisoners are being treated.
I understand. That's why it is so chilling and ridiculous for anyone to defend Zele**ky over P*tin. They're both two sides of the same totalitarian coin. Only Putin isn't hiding POTUS and his son's secrets.
Putin is less totalitarian than Biden.
That's incorrect.
I can go to DC today and shout how Biden is a pedophile and how America is not doing good.
Can I go to Red square or the Kremlin and say how Putin is a khuilo, the war is not going well, and the Russian army is not making it's goals?
We can ask Evan Gershkovits how free Russia is.
There aren't any restricted religious freedoms in Ukraine. We support a southern Baptist church in Dnipro. They are free to preach and spread the Gospel.
Why don't you go ask the Greek Orthodox church about why they can't have services in Russian occupied areas?
Or...they're actually on the same side.
Great analogy and visual.
"Safe and Effective"
Vaxxed woman discharges large uterine lining or something. Looks like the white clots pulled from veins. https://twitter.com/naomirwolf/status/1776687477446594615
Dr. Naomi Wolf "The Pfizer documents have a chart showing that many vaccinated women are passing tissue vaginally, and also hemorrhaging."
That gives vaccine shedding a whole new meaning!
For sure!
Holy guacamole! Yikes.
Whattt??? 🫣😱
Must be my lucky day, I was 1st to love the article, 1st to comment and the first to wish every C&C reader a fantastic day! :)
Nice bio photo!
Thanks! :)
Hope you have a good day as well!
Time to get lottery ticket 😉
”He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.“
John 7:38-39 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/jhn.7.39.NKJV
I just read a great post today that ties in with rivers of living water starting from a trickle and becoming a cleansing flood:
https://open.substack.com/pub/codyilardo/p/i-saw-water-flowing?r=xi4fs&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
thank you for sharing this!
You’re welcome!
I am nonplussed that so few Christians today realize that Jesus was glorified when He rose from the grave and ascended to the throne at the right hand of God and gave the Holy Spirit to His body on earth to empower us.
Traditions are responsible for not knowing Scriptures: If we ignore them, we are lost!
Jesus said it:
”You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.“
John 5:39-40 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/jhn.5.39-40.NKJV
Placing steel reinforced concrete abutments around these vulnerable bridge supports would fix this problem.
Oh, I forgot we have to send that money to the sink hole in Ukraine, silly me.
Correct. There is no money now for infrastructure and other frivolous things.
Wait! What about that "infrastructure bill" that the puppet-in-chief shoved through??!!?
😂🤣🤯🤬
Someone on NextDoor was just touting how fabulous that bill was…clearly didn’t read the fine print.
Every President from Obama to Trump to Biden talk about rebuilding infrastructure, yet....
(let's be 3rd world, who cares, as long as we can proxy war with Russia)..talk about an obsession! An obsession which is destroying us.
We haven't approved any new aid in nearly 5 months.
Democrats blame Trump for everything even though he hasn't been in office for nearly 4 years.
A lot of C&C folks are the same.
"my bunions are acting up! YOOO UKRAINE!"
My wife got mad at me for not waking her up from her nap to see the eclipse. There was nothing to see since we had full cloud cover. But "still" she said. I told her she can see the same thing every day around 9:30pm.
I live in NE Texas on a lake smack in the center of the path. The weather folks predicted complete cloud cover but that didn't happen until after the eclipse so we were able to see it just fine.
It was a pretty cool thing to see. I couldn't get over how dark it got during the 4 minutes of totality. All of our outdoor solar lights came on. The first thing I noticed was the wildlife activity. As soon as the sun was covered, the fish in our lake were jumping all over the place. All the normally chirping birds stopped completely. It was pretty cool actually and I don't normally get excited about eclipses.
I am about a 100 miles north of the total eclipse line in Michigan. It was underwhelming to say the least. Looked like a high cloud went over. From the looks of pictures, it was better in Texas then Ohio which was the line closest.
I was only in partial (94%) but noticed the tree frogs got quiet for about 30 seconds, I think because the temp dropped at the peak coverage, but the peepers never stopped singing! I don't know if you have vernal ponds in Texas, you might now know what I"m talking about but you get the gist! Birds didn't react at all...
Whoa! Hello neighbor!
I'm assuming you mean lake rockwall.
I woke up at 1340 hrs and was in a panic because I had to be up at 1750 to be at work by 1900. It was eerily quiet and dark. The birds stopped chirping and you couldn't hear the normal freeway traffic.
Had evening birdsong here, too. Then at (real) dusk they seemed hesitant...
Hah - that's great!
My dog was like "Wait ... What?? It's dark out and I never got my dinner."
🤣
We were supposed to have clouds but the entire day was perfectly cloud free. I watched the whole thing here in northern Illinois with 85% shadow. Amazing. I probably won’t be around for the next one. The sun was busy yesterday doing awesome displays. The sunset was incredible! Got to give thanks to the moon also. 😀.
Yep! Here in the Rochester NY area it looked like any random December late afternoon. Must say, that despite concerns about traffic, the roads were all eerily empty. It reminded me of the early days of Covid (yuck!).
Turns out the bureaucratic clowns that "run" Niagara Falls kept hundreds of thousands of people away with their state of emergency declaration. I thought tourist towns keeping people away was a bad idea?? sheesh. I guess that's why they are the experts.
State of emergency for an eclipse?
Sigh.
It was raining here! I came out of my session, looked outside, and said ‘we’ll it’s only a little darker than I expected it to be with the weather’ and went back to work. If y’all happen to follow Marcus Luttrel (sp?) on IG, he lives in my area and his video was exactly correct.
We live in Luttrel’s area too, and we had an amazing thunderstorm in the middle of the eclipse. We sat on the front porch and watched it get quite dark—more than storm-dark. It was very dusk like and the frogs were loud (whether due to rain or dusk, not sure). I thought it was more impressive than I expected. Though I missed the crazy shadows that we saw in the last eclipse.
Like I said, I was working so I didn’t get to do much other than look out the window and notice that it was pouring and a little darker than expected.
Though, I video taped the whole thing and my video was not as impressive. Weird coincidence — my phone was on gray-scale while I was recording so it looked more impressive in real time, but when I saw it in color it was hardly noticeable. I believe the phone camera was adjusting the light for me—too bad.
I'm in NE Kansas. I was doing shopping, got out of my car and thought it had gotten quite cool and sunlight was dulled slightly. Didn't even think about the eclipse as Gates shit is sprayed across our skies almost every day and the sun's normal now, is dull. Wasn't until I got home that I learnt the eclipse had happened...
My coworkers all ran outside to blind themselves while I peacefully ate my lunch. Here in Michifornia we have a cloud induced eclipse more days than not.
Is the knot on your head purple yet? LOL
😂
Yes, that’s what I saw.
😜
"Fortunately, three tugs had already been assigned to the Qingdao, and three more were staged nearby, apparently for just such an emergency, and leapt in. The six tugs easily moved the massive ship out of harms way, and the propulsion came back on."
This is almost certainly going to be the near-term solution to this currently mysterious problem. I was honestly surprised to learn that these ships were not already required to be accompanied by harbor tugs until they were past the bridges. I would look for the NTSB preliminary report and interim safety recommendation be fast-tracked.
(I live on Maryland's Eastern Shore and this has all been local news for me. We flew past the wreckage yesterday evening on our way back from eclipse-watching and my heart was broken anew.)
It sounded like the ship lost power, got tugged, and then just sailed off. Did they not stop immediately to inspect, troubleshoot and do maintenance on the power loss?
And yes, every ship should be pulled now until they are away from bridges. Might slow things down, but it better than destroyed bridges.
I don't know how a huge container ship that was beginning its journey to Sri Lanka did not have a backup power system or two or three. I don't know why it hit the exact part of the bridge that would bring the bridge down. I don't know why, last I heard, all the crew were still being kept on board the ship. I don't know why Biden doesn't want the insurance company to pay for any damage, except that insurance companies have an incentive to ask tough questions about who's to blame for the event. The media is showing literally zero intellectual curiosity about this event. Oops, big ship hit big bridge! Bridge comes down! Bad luck. I hadn't even heard about the Verrizano incident until now.
I don’t want to get into a long exchange in this but, regarding the Francis Scott Key incident, it is simply inconceivable that a fully-loaded container ship of that size, transiting those waters, and that bridge, did not have at least three (3) tugs in attendance all the way out of the Port. I am virtually certain that such tug assistance is mandatory for such traffic in and out of the Port of Baltimore. If anyone could produce evidence to the contrary, it would be very worthwhile - but I sincerely doubt they can. Here’s the opportunity to prove me wrong…
I think it may have been one of this guy's early videos on the Key Bridge incident in which he says that once the freighter is in the channel and underway it's normal for the tugs to go elsewhere. I think he said they left en route to their next job.
https://www.youtube.com/@wgowshipping/videos
It’s normal once critical hazards have been cleared; it’s definitely abnormal for that to happen in the immediate timeframe of the greatest possible - and very easily/commonly known - hazards being present. There’s more than this, of course, but this is quite fundamental.
No, what the guy said is that it's normal, because they were in the channel. I think he said the rules vary by port about how far out the tugs have to accompany. If you have a reference by someone involved in freighter shipping that supports a uniform rule for every American port requiring tugs past all known hazards, post it.
Fla. Mom, I’m not interested in playing whack-a-mole with anyone on this, or any other subject. There s such a thing as common sense, but there’s an even more relevant thing known as ‘Standard Maritime Practice’, and the circumstances in the case of the Francis Scott Key bridge do not meet what would be considered ‘good and standard maritime practice’ - by a long shot. It may be what has been allowed in a given Port by certain groups for some time. If that’s the case in this particular set of circumstances, then they were fools of a very high order indeed. Perhaps that is true in this instance; it’s just that I would be shocked to see that being the case.
common sense is different than regulations.
At 1:30 am? It's a busy port, but at that hour?
He's the shipping expert, and that's what he said.
There's a video on YouTube of two mature mariners (NY Maritime, and Mass Maritime grads) discussing the Key bridge affair. I believe the Mass Maritime fellow was in charge of Baltimore Harbor at some point. Useful to hear from guys who know what they are talking about.
Yeah, wouldn’t we all agree with that? However, if the last four years in particular have taught me anything - it is that ‘the Experts’ aren’t what they used to be - and many of those I once thought were trustworthy, we’re not, and are not… My own view is that many things ‘done in darkness’, that were hidden from our eyes, have been brought into the light; into open view - at least for those with ‘eyes to see and ears to hear’, and hearts/minds willing to receive and accept the truth, no matter how painful or disruptive it may be. To an unprecedented extent, at least in my 68 years of life, the veil has been pulled back and spiritual realities revealed. And one of the salient aspects of that phenomenon, ist least in my perception, is the massive betrayal of trust by a stunningly broad spectrum of those in the top to mid-level leadership positions within every single institution of our nation - not to mention those of other nations.
So, here’s the problem we all face; ‘Which ‘experts’ do we trust?’ Certainly, most, if not all of those who follow C&C have witnessed the ‘David vs Goliath’ struggles of the few medical professionals who bravely, courageously, and sacrificially, stood against the ‘experts’ within their profession, who joined the cabal / for one reason or another - in gaslighting us all; in betrayal of their vows and oaths, as well as all that is good and ‘right’. So, I will say that it is no surprise at all if we see maritime professionals who claim ‘there’s nothing to see here, move on’. But I happen to have spent many years in that profession myself, and I assure you there are others who would take a different view.
I could tell from your earlier comments that you were a mariner. BTW--just for fun (I think you'll find it so)--my uncle was at Mass Maritime, in the last class to train on the tall ships. A master by WWII, and entered an African harbor with guns trained on his ship. Spent most of his career in Great Lakes shipping.
It would have been wonderful to train on Tall Ships, and I’m sure your uncle had many fascinating experiences to share. There are many different - and valid -points of view that could be expressed, but I am grateful for the blessings that came from a maritime career in a time when there was still a fair element of adventure (a mixture of uncertainty, risk, and dangers, with opportunities for rare and often awesome experiences) - before the bulk of that got sucked out by technology together with administrative and regulatory overkill. Modern, state-of-the-art vessels are wonderful in many respects, but the life aboard them - though rich in options for entertainment and the ability to communicate with the outside world - is, at least in my view, sterile and lacking in a true ‘depth’ of human experience. I could go on and on about this, but that’s enough got now. Some will understand, and others won’t - and I doubt there’s anything that can change that in either direction.
Oh--and to your point about the effect of technology, husband, from age of eight, was determined to be an astronomer--and this was his undergraduate study. But when he came to graduate school, being an astronomer meant sitting in front of a computer. Left the PhD program, settled for an M.S. Physics, and has spent the last 50 years inventing things. Doing something real. And making people's (often USN, USAF, USAR) lives safer. And sometimes just more pleasant (individual screens for your plane seat).
To say nothing of Annapolis giving up on training sailors in the art of celestial navigation. Husband and I travel, 14-20 x per year, past Bath Iron Works. Last summer with English grandchildren visiting, we actually took the 'scenic harbor ride'. Don't remember the exact number, but amazed to learn that in WWII, BIW, working 24 hours/day, 7 days/week, was turning out one ship every two weeks.
Massive betrayal!
This guy is trustworthy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_kaAVu1T04&ab_channel=WhatisGoingonWithShipping%3F
He seems to be Ellen; thanks for the link!
Just keep in mind there are always paid experts and propaganda that “they” make, they go to great expense to provide “experts” (actors following a script) to control the narrative. so you have to be careful which “experts” you believe. The masses believe these paid actors and therefore believe the narrative. It’s a very easy and effective.
Here's a breakdown of the Qingdao incident, with some new info about the Dali and some insider scoop about practices on freighters, from the YouTube channel What's Going On With
Shipping. Summary: Qingdao lost propulsion, not power; that channel is very narrow, so it was normal to have tugs still on it; the loss of propulsion happened next to a tug port, so more were readily available; repairs were made; these things happen more often than we hear about. 10 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de21JU3iyb0
Oh yeah, I really like that WGOWS guy. My specialty is aviation, not maritime -- but the tools he uses in his analyses, like the real time ship movement tracking, have analogues in aviation that I use all the time. My comment about what to expect from NTSB was based on my past experience being involved with three aviation accident investigations (including two fatals), so I'm extrapolating among transport modes in a way that might be naive or not fully informed. But heck, if you can't blow off on topics you only partly understand then what's the internet good for? ;-)
Lots of speculation that the CCP could be behind these coincidental container ship incidents. Check out the Political Moonshine Substack of April 7th.
What do you think? Is this sudden transgender phenomenon an artifact of ‘cultural evolution’? Or is it something more sinister?
The latter. Definitely the latter. Transgenderism is a reality-denying attempt to recreate the Garden of Eden in "our" own cultural image. As a traditional, Mass-going, Confession-going, Rosary-praying, abortion-clinic protesting Catholic with no love for Pope Francis, I am happy to hear unmuddied words about this issue.
It's an attempt to destroy the US military.
CCP and Russia knows the Pentagon is woke and weak.
Oh, the ripple effects are significant. Totally agree!
If the Russians knew the USA was weak they would have seized Alaska back like they wanted to.
IMO, it's both good old fashioned psychopathy and a political attempt to re-constitute reality and force the false reality on people.
My "theology" (however basic it is, lol) is that mind is of the brain, which is of the body. The mind and body are one, they are both physical, and neither of them is Spirit, which somehow permeates this world while also being beyond it and out of its touch. Spirit is pristine and untouched by what happens on this plane. So, contra Jeff on this one, I don't think this has anything to do with Spirit.
I think it's good old fashioned psychopathy that's been around for a long time, but has recently been co-opted for social/political purposes.
Their brain/mind generates an idea, then latches onto that idea, then attempts to make that idea reality. So, I agree with you, "they" (which in psychopathy is really just their mentally disturbed out-of-control mind having taken over, talking to itself, reinforcing its own core false belief) are trying to alter reality, to play God, and more recently, to force others to accept non-reality as reality.
That last part is clearly the most important piece to this current social/political movement, and a step beyond what old-fashioned leave-me-alone trannies wanted. It's not enough to "accept" that trannies exist; we must now "affirm" them, which means positively state our agreement with their psychopathic ideation. Someone clearly decided this psychopathy was a good way to undermine society.
So, from what I see it's both psychopathy and someone in a position of power taking that underlying psychopathy and using it for political purposes, to undermine Western society, destroy the militaries and men of the West, etc.
It’s both or all of the above. There’s a HUGE correlation between autism spectrum and transgenderism and we have a huge increase in autism thanks to vaccines. That uncomfortableness that many autistic folks have (especially females since they don’t manifest autism in the same way we expect in boys) finds a home in being in the wrong body
Satan has taken this and run wild with it, exploiting these confused children and adults and tormenting the rest of us
A Politico article says: "A staffer for Speaker Mike Johnson told a group of GOP aides today that the Louisiana Republican opposes imposing a warrant requirement as part of this week’s debate on reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, according to two people familiar with the meeting who were granted anonymity to speak candidly." If Mike Johnson supports a warrantless FISA renewal, it's proof that he is controlled by the Deep State.
When Jordan lost the vote and Johnson won, you knew there was a reason.
Yeah, good Ole Vlad Zelensky is that guy just asking for one more "loan," except he's not bankrupt and his scheme is 100% guaranteed to make him very rich. I can only imagine how many hundreds of millions he's made, courtesy of the US taxpayer. Of course, it's all blood money, but that sure is of no concern to Zelensky or the US politicians and their cronies getting filthy rich off the war. I guess they will continue using Ukrainian men as cannon fodder, while enjoying their expensive glasses of champagne and eating their filet mignon steak in their mansions or on their yachts.
I read recently about the fat cats there who are seemingly enjoying our money. Also, right after the first monies were sent, an article I saw somewhere talked about the very expensive properties being bought by Ukrainians in Switzerland. Does anyone really believe that every million is going into the'war' there?
Didn’t Zelenskyy just buy a Royal place in the UK?
Yes he did. Purchased it from the King. It was the home where he and Diana raised their sons....briefly.
You're kidding? Please tell me that you're kidding! (i have been sickened by how Z and his wife have been treated by the royal family as if they are royalty!)
I read it in Epoch Times. The writer had your same concerns. The question was, because Camilla is so enthralled with Z's wife, did their close relationship put pressure on Charles to agree to it...
No wonder Q Eliz hung on as long as she could. Charles is weak.
Not true at all.
It's just like the "Egyptian mansion" which was shared by an unknown youtube account and blew up all over with various sites qouting each other.
Why would Zelenskyy own a mansion in Egypt, a country with semi friendly relations with Russia?
I'm gonna go ahead and state it's a lie just like the various other claims about Zelenskyy that have been made.
Lol! Yes, I am sure you would be the only one who could verify anything your good buddy does.
I too like to trust random YouTube accounts that make wild claims.
“Hillary has demon baby
Trump secretly in control of the White House
Zelensky buys 6th mansion with vial of infant blood”
Sure..
Yeah, evidently most of the military brass were seen driving around in brand new Mercedes'. Go figure. 🤑