Turns out Vermont is one of those states where people have rushed to be vaccinated.  It is also a state that is one of the “hot spots” for infection.  They’re a “victim of their own success,” whatever that’s supposed to mean.  Oh wait.  It means that the state let down it’s guard, and people went about catching up on mundane activities, like getting together with family and friends.  The inference is that the population should have been kept in lock down.

It reminds me of what Victor Davis Hansen said sometime ago.  “The authorities are trying to save our lives by stopping us from living.”  Wouldn’t you know it, now they’ve got a full blown medical emergency on their hands.  Maybe the vaccine isn’t such a medical miracle after all?  Not that social media wouldn’t ban such a statement.  People can’t even relay the most minor side effects without adjudication from the censors, always on the prowl for “dis-information.”

This embarrassment of an administration, in league with those who pull all the levers of power media-wise, is in the process of beating January 6 to death at the same time they bludgeon the public COVID-19. The media keeps telling us it was a deadly insurrection.  But the pictures and the video tell a different story.  One question that seems pertinent, since when does a “deadly insurrection” require that people stroll politely between the velvet ropes?  No doubt there were some violent incidents that people will be arguing about until the end of time.  But who was responsible?  The pullers of levers are going to make sure everybody gets their face rubbed in the official version of events, even though antifa leaders were in the mix, maybe even some undercover operatives.

You’ve probably heard, the head of the New York chapter of BLM (used to stand for the Bureau of Land Management) has threatened riots, fires and all the scenes emblazoned on our memories if the mayor should carry out plans to reduce the explosion of crime in that city.  Black Lives Matter won’t stand for it, and they’re making promises they can keep.  Whatever you do, don’t look at the crime statistics, the rate of inflation, or America’s tattered reputation  in the wake of the Afghanistan debacle, these things couldn’t have been helped.  It’s all the fault of the last administration, we’re told, and things will return to the official narrative at last.

We’re casualties of that great success, but too dim to understand. The supply chain is so complicated, we couldn’t begin to comprehend the complexities.  Inflation is a result of the wealth of the average Joe.  People are spending and buying so much that goods can’t be kept on the shelves.  All those container ships anchored off-shore Los Angeles?  That’s way over your head.  Besides, there are higher priorities.

Global warming, for instance.  Between the media, the corporations and official mandates, we’ll be forced into “saving the planet.”  It’s really entertaining, watching a conga line of buffoons claim they will save the planet by forcing us to live in a world we want nothing to do with.  But they’ve got higher priorities than what we think.  They’ve got a “planet” to save.

If there’s a bright side to all this deceptive bravado, it is that pride comes before a fall, and I don’t mean Autumn.  How nice that it’s a law of nature, and it works like a charm.  There are several recent examples, but we’re looking to the future.  All the pompous blowhards who want credit for “saving the planet” at the expense of the civilized world will get what’s coming to them.  Maybe not on our timeline. But soon enough.  Dr. Fauci may strut around like he’s ten feet tall, but his day is coming just like others who’ve shot off their mouths deceitfully.

But maybe we should look inward to see the cause of so much bad news.  Maybe you turn away when some demonic images appear amid a perfectly innocent program.  They’re trying to sell some movie or video game for the holiday season.  A trip to the gaming section of an electronic store is startling.  Somebody’s buying this stuff.  Maybe we’re not just victims of circumstance.  The stench of mainstream acceptability of heinous activities just might fall into the category of what God can’t stand.

The themes portrayed throughout the Bible is that mankind has choices.  Some lead to peace and prosperity, others to ruination.  It looks like we’re on the road to the latter.  It seems we cannot hold attitudes or beliefs sanctioned by the mainstream without reaping the whirlwind.  Stand by.

Mark

Source: http://www.intercontinentalcog.org/fridayupdates.php

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In case you didn’t know, the redhead with the hair that hangs limply on one side informs us that the border problem was created during the last administration, and the new crew is just trying to clean up the mess.  Nobody laughed because they’re all on the same team.     We need to make buddies with the Iranian terrorists who want to nuke Israel, no matter the cost.  They have honest complaints, and we must stand down while sanctions are dropped and they re-enter the community of nations. Please recognize the sarcasm.

Ever heard of Sylvie Brunner?  No?  The mainstream news will likely make sure you never do.  She fell seventeen stories to her death in Tehran, and the whole thing is still a big mystery.   Try searching “Swiss diplomat Sylvie Brunner” and you can see for yourself that the only reports are on websites you never heard of, with the exception of Wikipedia and the Jerusalem Post.  Surely the Iranians will get to the bottom of it.  It seems that quite a few diplomats and foreigners are diving out of tall buildings in the Middle East.  Depression, you know.

The U.S.A.’s southern border patrol is now tasked with the health and hygiene of tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors and “families” streaming into the United States.  It’s the greatest boon to cartel drug smugglers of all time.  The fees charged to the smuggled people may seem exorbitant, but it’s pocket change compared to the drug profits, which is the main business of the cartels.  Massive quantities of meth, heroin and fentanyl are streaming through unopposed, while the border patrol is having to play babysitter. Any other policy would be… oh, you already know.

If you think you have any right to react to any of this calamity, brace yourself to be accused of racism!  You simply cannot oppose the destruction of this once free country, or you’re a racisssss!

Funny isn’t it?  The people lecturing us about race constantly are on the attack.  Those of us who want them out of our faces are a serious problem, and they’ll deal with us in due time.

Those twenty to thirty that shot each other in Chicago or any number of other “progressive” cities, last weekend, their lives don’t matter no matter what color they are.  Hundreds have died due to crimes that had to do with somebody standing on someone else’s corner, or some dispute related to a drug deal.  Never mind all that.  Spare your anger for the counterfeiter high on oxycontin.  Now that’s a huge TRAGEDY, and whitey must pay!  You can’t have missed it.  There must be at least fifty, and probably more, people who are calling the conviction of Derek Chauvin a “first step.”  All over media talking points are being repeated with dozens saying the same four words.  There is “more work to do.”  It’s like a broken record.

It’s fueling the anti-police movement that’s taken hold in cities across the land.  In numerous cities they’ve been “defunded.”  They’re quitting their jobs because they’d likely be prosecuted and turned into a national pariah if they did them.  Criminals are being released on the philosophy that “society made them commit crimes.”  It’s not their fault, it’s everybody’s fault but the criminals.  That’s according to the philosophy the media and the politicians have adopted.  Police simply need to find a different career, because enforcing the law is just…  No need to say it again.

We’re all dealing with the effects of inflation.  Compare today’s gas prices, food prices, lumber prices, steel prices, you name it.  Probably due to the nationwide panic the media and government agencies induced, everything imaginable is going up like crazy.  Who knows what is going to happen with house prices?  In Texas, they’re already up some 30% and we’re hearing that there’s a shortage.    Hyperinflation may well be just around the corner, and that may be the plan.

Meanwhile the mask and “vaccine” mandates are shaping up to be big issues going forward.  You don’t “have” to buckle to the pressure.  You might lose your job, or be refused entry to a business, or get thrown off an airliner, assuming you made it past the TSA.  They were already barking loudly at long lines of people waiting their turn to be molested, but now the professional abusers have newfound authority to lord over the traveling public.  Remember the “friendly skies?”  That was a long time ago.

The Pacific Northwest is out of control, with Antifa running amok.  Say something about BLM the social media doesn’t approve and you’ll be silenced by non-government yahoos.  Look how militarily aggressive China is getting!  That ought to be a major concern, but you best not say much about that either.  They’re our friends, you know.

On a happier note, did you notice Mr. and Mrs. Biden taking cozy photos with poor ole Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn?  Maskless, no less!  You telling me the Carters aren’t in the “high risk” pool?  But he has to wear a mask to walk around outdoors!  Vaccinated, no less.  You read it here, nothing makes a lick of sense, period.

Why is everything happening this way?  Just maybe the Almighty is losing patience with a stubborn and stiff-necked population that has taken fantastic blessings for granted while capitulating to every “progressive” (with a lisp) demand.  It looks like very few are prepared to stand up to the encroaching socialism that is sweeping the formerly free nations of the world.  Those who dare are promptly ridiculed and rejected (if not prosecuted) by all the powers that exist.  But don’t worry too much.  Those boneheads are creating a disastrous future for themselves too.  Maybe they should be warned!

Mark

Source: http://www.intercontinentalcog.org/fridayupdates.php

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The pope is once again proving that he embraces communism as “perfect Christianity.”  He says the disciples shared all things in common, and there you go.  That is his justification for communist leanings.  He should have sung harmony on John Lennon’s Imagine record.  But it’s doubtful he can sing.  Even Lennon reportedly outgrew his fanciful lyrics.  But not the pope.

Russia is amassing troops and tanks on Ukraine’s border, while conducting military exercises in the Black Sea.  There are reports that the fraudulent president has called back two Navy ships that were on their way.  Putin has closed the straits that would have had to be navigated if American ships were to have entered the Black Sea.  Get used to it.  America’s military is going to be backing down from any hint of conflict as long as we have to endure the current regime.

If Russia decides to annex Ukraine it looks as though nothing will be done.  Germany is not going to get involved.  It went forward with plans for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline for energy against the advice of President Trump, so Russia has undisputed leverage over Germany.  As an aside, Angela Merkel failed to live up to her promise of increased funding for Germany’s part in NATO, which remained a major bone of contention for the Trump administration.  With Germany compromised by its energy needs, NATO can’t be expected to intervene.

Vladimir Putin is apparently aware that no one will stop him from taking Ukraine if that is indeed what he intends to do.  Half of Ukraine’s citizens are said to support Russian annexation anyway.  So, don’t be surprised when Ukraine becomes part of Russia.

You might remember any number of insider videos released by Project Veritas.  They nailed a lady from Planned Parenthood admitting over lunch that they sold aborted baby parts.  She said she was going to buy a Ferrari or Lamborghini or something.

Most recently they showed a CNN technical director saying he joined the network to help get Trump out of office.  He says they created the story claiming Trump’s hands were shaking out of whole cloth, and then brought in a batch of doctors and “experts” to speculate about what might be wrong with him.  That’s not all they did, and are still doing.  Anyone who watched the network over recent years knows that their homosexual anchors pushed the idea that Trump was crazy, racist and likely suffering some sort of dementia.  They called Trump supporters racist and uneducated all day and night.

One of their most aggressive “pundits” is gone without a trace.  Whatever happened to Jeffrey Toobin after all?  We wish we didn’t know.  Without the constant determined effort, the guy on hidden video suspects Trump would still be president.  He said the next big push, once they’ve completely exhausted the last of their audience with COVID fear, will be “global warming,” or climate change as they’ve come to call it.  He actually said, “Fear sells.”  Maybe that should be their new tagline, since we all know they’re not, “The Most Trusted Name in News.”  Not for a long time now.

If you’re brave enough to risk seeing what they’re doing on CNN, the technical director says that pictures of video of morose Polar bears and collapsing ice will be common on the “news” network.  They’ll try again to bamboozle us with this nonsense, and ridicule all who don’t buy-in.  It seems CNN hates America, hates President Trump and reserves a special hatred for Trump supporters, all the while accusing us as being dangerous “haters.”  Antifa and BLM are justified in all that they do, whether attacking Police precincts, burning businesses or looting department stores.  If you don’t support what they’re doing, you might be a racist!

There are too many signs of the times in which we’re living to even scratch the surface.  But one of the most telling is the fact that corporations are falling all over each other to implement “mandates” of one kind or another.  There is all kinds of noise about the “vaccination passport,” and a movement to insist that an individual be able to prove they’ve had their shots before being able to fly or enter into an establishment where people are shopping.  That push actually predates the news that some people don’t respond well to being vaccinated.  It’s hard to know what to believe in this vortex of conflicting information, but some vaccines have been banned in Europe and one (J & J) has been “paused” in the United States due to the onset of blood clots.   We’re also told that they may be dangerous to some who have already been exposed to the virus and developed anti-bodies, possibly all without their knowledge.  Whatever the truth may be, don’t expect Dr. Fauci to tell it.  Especially if there’s any hint of returning to FREEDOM.  It would be the end of the fame and power he so enjoys.

What’s important from our point of view is that multinational corporate conglomerates are doing the government’s dirty work.  There’s no need for the government to implement un-Constitutional mandates if every big name in food, sports, transportation etc. requires proof that you’ve relinquished freedom for the privilege of being a consumer.  Will we ever taste freedom again?  If the Supreme Court is packed and the Electoral College eliminated, both of which are goals of our fraudulent masters, probably not.  Try to have a great Sabbath.  There is a much Higher Power!

Mark

Source: http://www.intercontinentalcog.org/fridayupdates.php

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The media tells us it’s over.  The election, that is. COVID-19 is running amok, or so all the news-breaks say.  Just as we thought, the COVID-19 scare is still picking up steam 10 months later.

It is setting records every day, maybe every minute.  “Hospitals are being overrun with COVID cases,” they tell us.  Get ready for more lock-downs, assuming you don’t live in a state that’s not still in lock-down.  Maybe just another month to six weeks would do it.  Never mind that we’ve spent nearly an entire year under un-Constitutional orders passed down by power-drunk “officials.” They’ve decided that you can’t go to work, or school, or church or out to eat.  Nope.  It’s just too dangerous at a time when COVID cases are exploding.  Have they ever thought that if masks and lock-downs worked this thing might be a distant memory?  Of course not.

Governors here and there are flexing their mighty powers, demanding that you follow their guidelines for Thanksgiving.  It’s truly bizarre that they think they can exert their personal clout upon a free people, IN THEIR HOMES, no less.  If the media is right, and now it’s every single mainstream network including Fox, we’re going to be punished.  American citizens are going to be punished in every way they can devise.  The speaker of gibberish is beholden to Antifa, BLM, the Deep State, nearly all big corporations and Big Pharma, and will have to satisfy their demands.  After all, they’re all taking credit for his “win,” should it hold.

The flood gates will open and the third world will flood in again.  That’s a good thing, we’re told.  It’s the source of our strength.  What a crock!  Obama had to pretend like he was on America’s side, while making apology and proclaiming America a racist nation.  That’s no longer the case.  Those who plan to continue the “transformation” of the Obama years have exposed their anti-American leanings and will go full tilt to fulfill their socialist dreams.  If they get their way we’re on our way to Venezuela, without ever leaving home.  Should you need reminding, Venezuela was one of the most prosperous nations in South America until they embraced Marxism.  Now they’re sifting through trash for something to eat and trying to evade the government’s goon squads.

The media demands that you give up hope NOW, or else.  Primetime Fredo says, ominously, that those who fight on may lose a lot more than the election.  Oooh, scary!  Fauci says he realizes that Americans are free-spirited people, but now it’s time to “DO WHAT YOU’RE TOLD.”  Get used to it.  Mandates and bans are going to be handed down like candy, and mind you, they’re compiling lists of those who dared support Donald Trump, and any who might think they can get away with defiance of their mighty orders.  The squad will teach us a lesson!

If the media call stands, and we’re not getting much hope from anybody save Donald Trump himself and “America’s mayor” Rudy Giuliani, we’ll be banking on Supreme Court decisions and narrow margins in the nation’s legislature to strike down their plans to destroy America.  We’re supposed to believe that the goons looting departments stores and burning up American cities WON a great victory over average American citizens, who will soon pay a heavy price for having loved the country.  How dare we!

Maybe it was too far gone to be salvaged.  After all, the mainstream has rolled over for every bizarre sin.  You know the one that brought down fire out of heaven?  Yeah, that’s an American value.  Because we’re told, “We have to choose our battles wisely, and this one is not worth fighting.”  How often have we heard it?  Many have gone along in agreement.  Maybe that WAS an argument worth having.

It’s not getting very wide coverage, but have you seen the crowds protesting the lock-downs in Germany?  You’d think crowds that size would merit some attention.  But then, we’re drowning in fake news.  We’ve got monopolistic overlords determining what’s important or not.  Forget what’s important, they’re now the arbiters of TRUTH with the power to determine what people can read.

We’ll see Who the arbiter of truth is, and I’ll guarantee you it’s not any of the misfits who dominate social media.

Mark

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Others have continued to argue it doesn’t exist or has been blown out of proportion.

After months of daily unrest and violent crime surges in major American cities, some media figures finally felt compelled to ditch the “mostly peaceful” canard and discuss the violence — only to pin the blame on nebulous actors such as Russia and white supremacists.

Cities such as Portland, Ore., which has seen a spike in shootings and an unrelenting wave of arson and vandalism, and Kenosha, Wis., which suffered nearly $2 million in riot damage last week, have borne the consequences of daily protests transforming into nightly chaos. But rather than reporting on the groups and actors we know to be behind the surge in lawlessness, pundits are choosing to push their own recycled conspiracies.

Take MSNBC anchor Joy Reid, who warned — “without evidence,” as the pundit class has become so fond of saying — that the unrest was being “perpetrated” by Trump supporters and “white nationalist mobs.”

“The ‘riots’ are not Black Lives Matter marches gone wrong. Armed white nationalists are mobbing these cities to take advantage of protests and scare fellow white people into quietly siding with them. It’s an old, tried and true strategy: using fear & anti-blackness for politics,” Reid tweeted.

Reid’s diagnosis ignores that leftist agitators had been torching and vandalizing businesses and assaulting people at random for months in Portland before Trump supporters showed up in any significant number. She also has the cause and effect exactly backwards in the most recent instance of political violence, the one she was ostensibly referring to, in which a Trump supporter was shot and killed on Saturday by a suspect who has publicly declared his allegiance to Antifa and who has the balled fist of the Black Power movement tattooed on his neck.

Rather than accept and report on the fact that there is a growing contingent of black-bloc anarchists intent on tearing up American cities, CNN’s chief political correspondent, Dana Bash, went looking for a familiar — yet conveniently distant — culprit.

Bash asked Adam Schiff — the same Adam Schiff who breathlessly claimed for more than a year that he had seen “evidence” of Trump-Russia collusion, even after closed-door hearings found none — whether Russia “is trying to fuel some of the civil unrest.” The California congressman did not bat an eye: “We have to worry about their aggravating these tensions in our cities,” he stated. While Russia is undoubtedly trying to help along the self-destructive elements now ascendant on the American left, it isn’t Russian meme-makers who are burning down city blocks.

The obscurantism isn’t confined to talking heads and detached national politicians, either. In May, Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey blamed “white supremacists, members of organized crime, out-of-state instigators, and possibly even foreign actors” for the violence in his city, despite arrest records indicating his claims were baseless.

Many have pointed to Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who is charged with murder for killing two men in Kenosha, as a totem of white supremacy, and proof that President Trump is baiting his supporters into a “race war.” According to these analysts, Rittenhouse was the kind of white supremacist who kills white people hours after showing up to a demonstration with the express purpose of providing medical care to injured BLM protesters.

And for every Kyle Rittenhouse, there are dozens of far-left activists and provocateurs — many of whom have lengthy criminal records — who have been arrested for instigating chaos, as journalists such as Andy Ngo have meticulously catalogued. Even as the New York Times attempted to explain away the violence as the inevitable result of “right-wing activists . . . bent on countering the racial justice protests with an opposing vision of America,” it quoted a Portland activist “who helps organize security” for Black Lives Matter protests and carries a baton and a Taser.

The tactics the BLM enforcer discusses mirror those discussed on Telegram — an anonymous messaging app used to orchestrate protests — and anarchist websites such as CrimetheInc, which provides anonymous first-person accounts of riots, illustrating how many of the “protesters” actively seek conflict with police. Diagrams shared on far-left Telegram channels and reviewed by National Review instruct the woke how to construct “shield wall formations” and counsel them to consult “gear checklists,” which include weapons and defensive combat equipment, before heading out to the day’s “mostly peaceful” protest. The diagrams also include descriptions of various “protest roles” such as “range soldiers,” whose responsibility it is to throw projectiles at police, and “fire mages,” who set fire to objects and launch flaming projectiles.

“There is room for chanting and dancing and joyful noises and there is also room for rage. We make that space for each other,” one woman told the Times in July, before the alleged appearance of the lunatic white supremacists who have supposedly disrupted the formerly peaceful protests. “I don’t consider property destruction violence,” another added. “Violence is when you attack a person or another living, breathing creature on this planet. Windows don’t cry and they can’t die.”

Not content to attribute the recent wave of political violence to nefarious foreigners or white supremacists, some have continued to argue it doesn’t exist or has been blown out of proportion. Former FBI agent and current CNN correspondent Josh Campbell falls into the former camp, tweeting a picture of an idyllic Portland park during his lunch hour on Tuesday as proof that “the city is not under siege and buildings are not burning to the ground.” He made no mention of the situation the night before, which police declared a riot after activists broke windows and attempted to start a fire in a store on the ground floor of the condominium building of Democratic mayor Ted Wheeler.

Good morning from wonderful Portland, where the city is not under siege and buildings are not burning to the ground. I also ate my breakfast burrito outside today and so far haven’t been attacked by shadowy gangs of Antifa commandos.

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Josh Campbell@joshscampbell

Update: Downtown Portland remains intact with no raging fires. There are some routine contrails (not chemtrails!) above the city from arriving flights, but no indication any of those airplanes are bringing in brigades of Antifa commandos.

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Later in the day, Campbell conceded that “there is nightly violence,” only to argue that “neither local nor federal leaders seem to have a clue how to stop it.”

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Source: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/media-admit-riots-real-shift-blame-to-white-nationalists-and-russians/

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Stand by to be refused service or canceled completely.  You might lose your job.  Maybe you’ll be kicked out of the store or restaurant.  Unless of course you’re willing to bow down to every new mandate that someone dreams up.  Then they might just leave you alone, temporarily.  Better not draw any red lines that you’ve already decided not to cross.  Red lines are not allowed.  When the authorities agree on what you must do, the media tells you why you must comply, and the corporations (or local businesses) demand you come to heel if you want to access their products or services, you know you’re stuck.

Take a look at the things that our nation has determined that we will all accept, or at least not make a stink about.  Evolution.  Global Warming (along with the attendant worship of windmills and solar panels). Abortion.  Homosexuality.  Transgenderism. Multiculturalism, diverthity, rioting and looting, mandatory masks, social distancing… What will they demand next?  And the big question.  Will we be prepared to accept the next mandate?

If you look at the list of things we’ve been made to choke down, you’ll realize this has been a long game.  Our whole culture has gradually gotten us used to the idea of compliance with every clap-trap demand.  The enforcers are not necessarily even government agencies or officers.  Sometimes the places we go to buy what we need or want are the enforcers. It might not even be a manager or employee of the business.  It might well be some angry female on aisle 9 throwing a raging fit at you.   She’s screaming her head off, thankfully somewhat muffled by her N-95, about “keeping everyone safe!”

“Somebody call the cops!”  Not long ago the “woke” logic went like this.     Why do you need a gun?  All you need to do is call the police and they’ll handle it.  Lately we’ve been shown that doesn’t work.  (It still works in East Texas, but this is the exception.)  Good luck in the big cities.  Now the “woke” crowd demands the police be abolished or defunded.  Who you gonna call?  What if black lives matter and antifa decide to come to your middle-class neighborhood at say, 3 am, shouting through bull horns that you need to get out of your house and surrender your belongings to them.  That’s already started to happen in Seattle and Portland.  Mobs are assembling in the wee hours to bang drums and scream profanities at confused, groggy residents, waking their kids and the dogs, telling them they’ve got to give up their residences, trying to get them to come out onto the street.  No word if any police showed up.  Probably not.  It’s Seattle and Portland after all.

They’ve got all the answers on the west coast, all right.  They’ve apparently replaced some of the traditional power plants with their lovely windmills and solar farms.  Trouble is, they don’t make enough power for the cities (what a shock) especially when it’s really hot, as it is right now.  So there are rolling black-outs.  Just like the third world.

It looks as though the nonsense is going to keep coming.  After all, nobody is pushing back against every un-American, anti-freedom, un-Constitutional mandate they can dream up.  But it’s just getting off the ground.  Who’s going to put a stop to it if the people won’t.  This is the only last hope for avoiding utter tyranny.  Think they’re going to stand up in Australia?  Wait ’till you read the article in our upcoming WATCH magazine if you think they might.  The state of Victoria and the city of Melbourne have gone full police-state with dire penalties for anyone daring to break whatever new set of rules has been announced.  And they are incredibly dire and ruinous.  Crocodile Dundee must have been a one-off.  Even the British press is alarmed.  You think they’re going to stand against tyrannical nonsense in Britain or Canada?  Right.  Here in the U. S. we’ve seen a minimum of push back, but lots of, let’s say non-compliance.  A few have filed lawsuits, or refused to close.  So few that the police have been able to descend in force.

Rioting, looting, arson, marauding in sleeping neighborhoods.  That’s all fine, and so very non-violent.  But call the wrong pro-noun (oops, who could know for sure?) and that’s it.  You’re fired, and good luck ever working again!

Maybe you’ve got your own theory, and maybe you’re right.  But it looks like God has taken about enough abuse.  Not just from the goon squad in the streets, but from all of us who’ve stood by while our national sins have become symbols of pride.  A reason to parade!  Now we’re suffering the beginning stages of the curses that accompany such sins automatically.  There might have been some hope of turning back, on the other hand it looks a little late.

Once the “authorities” have got us used to bowing down for every bit of “woke” nonsense, how hard will it be to implement the scourges of the end time?  We’d better hope God knows who we are and approves of what we’ve done in these “trying times.”  Those who refuse the “mark of the beast,” which will be a global MANDATE, are the only ones who will receive His reward.  Some will be martyred for their rebellion against whatever stupidity awaits.  Mankind as a whole will reap the whirlwind, and worse.

We’re being asked, no TOLD, that we must accept total garbage as the truth, when we know better.  The nightly “news” anchors lie in our faces, and then roll their eyes about any who dare disagree with them.  They’re some of the worst offenders.  The time for quiet acquiescence to our national sins is just about up.  If we’re to “cry aloud and spare not,” we better start taking a look at what we’ve already swallowed.  If we relied on social media for traction, we would have long ago been silenced.  If the communists overtake us, they’ll track us down.  That is, if the lady at the grocery store doesn’t get to us first.   Have a great SABBATH.

Mark

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Protesters burned an American flag and a Bible in Portland, Oregon, sparking outrage just as weeks of violent demonstrations seemed to be coming to a close.

For more than 60 days, Black Lives Matters demonstrators, including a “Wall of Moms” and a “Wall of Vets,” have clashed with federal agents in the city, drawing national attention as authorities blasted marchers with tear gas and the civilians at times responded with weapons of their own — such as feces, bleach, bricks or batteries.

Friday night’s demonstrations were largely peaceful, appearing to mark a break from the chaos as federal agents made a recent deal to allow local authorities to handle the protests.

But just after midnight, marchers were caught on video using the flag and holy book as kindling for bonfires lit outside the federal courthouse, which has been a focal point of rioting after the death of George Floyd in police custody in May, according to a news report.

“Left-wing activists bring a stack of Bibles to burn in front of the federal courthouse in Portland,” claimed Ian Miles Cheong on Twitter Saturday.

The post featured a video which showed protestors with “Black Lives Matter” signs tossing bibles into a raging bonfire. The video, which has gone viral, had more than 1.8 million views and thousands of retweets.

“Now we move to the book-burning phase,” said Donald Trump Jr. in a tweet Saturday. “I’m pretty sure ANTIFA doesn’t actually stand for what they say it stands for. Maybe just remove the anti part of [their] name and it’s perfect,” he wrote.

The fire was later put out by members of Moms United for Black Lives Matter, who doused the flames with bottles of water and stomped on the embers, according to KOIN 6, a local CBS affiliate television station in Portland.

Source: https://nypost.com/2020/08/01/protestors-burn-bible-american-flag-as-tensions-rise-in-portland/

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It may not be news on the mainstream outlets, but we’re in the middle of an insurrection to overthrow everything to do with the United States.  Months after the fact, “protesters” are still battling police in the streets at all hours of the night and early morning.  They’ve spray-painted buildings, including federal offices and courthouses.  The coalition of antifa, black lives matter and Muslim brotherhood have banded together to battle police throwing every available projectile at them.  President Trump has sent officers from the Border Patrol and Homeland Security to protect federal property, and you undoubtedly know the response, not only from the protest groups, but from the “progressive” Mayors of Portland, Chicago and other big cities.

“Clean up the graffiti and go home!”  For at least a week most media outlets have come unglued, claiming that Trump has unleashed “federal troops” to “disappear peaceful protesters in unmarked vehicles.”  They’ve said, “This is what we’d expect of a foreign dictator.”  It looks as though we can expect this narrative to play on.  The President has just said he intends to send federal police to a list of cities, including Albuquerque?

Apparently the carnage in Minneapolis and New York was so spectacular, the media failed to even inform us about what a hotbed Portland had become.  The insanity is ongoing in Portland to this day.  It’s the sixties all over again, with a whole generation having been brainwashed instead of educated. The radical bombers and rioters of the ’60s are now esteemed professors, and they’ve turned the nation’s youth against their own parents and against the United States.

There’s no way I can’t tell you of the work Glenn Beck has done, exposing the connections between the radical professors, the “Arab Spring” protests that roiled the Middle East, the invasion of Europe by “poor refugees” and now the full-blown attempt to destroy the American culture and economy.  He’s got the goods.

Some of us have been highly suspicious of the media reporting about the Chinese virus.  Yes, we do know of a handful of people who are said to have tested positive.  But none of them died, and for some it was a matter of something like the common cold.  For others we know it was like a bad flu, but they survived it and are doing fine.  Nevertheless, every news report claims a new spike in cases, and proceeds to lecture that you must be afraid.

News anchors across the board read the “wire,” claiming that cases are “exploding” in state after state, county after county, city after city.  You must proceed with fear, assuming you proceed at all.   They express total exasperation at President Trump for not having issued a national mask order.  Meanwhile lawsuits are flying over mask “mandates.”  All the mandates we care about are the ones God-ordained.  Isn’t that the whole idea behind the American philosophy?  Laws are to maintain a peaceful, orderly society according to God’s Laws for mankind.  Beyond that, we don’t think too much of little officials who’ve had a taste of power.

Here in Texas, our governor saw fit to order a mask mandate.  He says we can all go back to living if we’ll just wear our masks, wash our hands, stay at least six feet apart and stop touching our faces.  You’d be amazed at how few pay the least bit of attention.  But businesses don’t have that luxury.  If they’re a restaurant or bar, they can have their business license or liquor license revoked if they don’t follow protocol, regardless of the soundness of whatever logic the “authorities” are pushing this week.  Credit goes to Victor Davis Hansen for coming up with this gem.  “They’re trying to save our lives by preventing us from living.”

Meanwhile, the media’s beloved protesters obviously don’t care a whit about “keeping everyone safe.”  Portland, Oregon has nightly battles between protesters and police.  These poor cops are standing around dodging rocks, bricks and frozen water bottles.  Meanwhile the President sent in some Border Patrol, U. S. Marshals, and DHS officers to protect the federal courthouse and office buildings.  And the media goes nuts.

Who knew there was trouble in Albuquerque, of all places?  It’s going to get a compliment of federal police too.  Turns out they’ve had violent confrontations in the streets resulting in shootings.  All this is over a statue of a conquistador who founded the settlement, but is accused having massacred Indians.  All that happened some 400 years ago, long before the founding of the United States.  Do you ever get the idea that radicals are just looking for an excuse to create anarchy?

It’s “marshal law” say all the networks.  They’re “stormtroopers.”  It’s the gestapo!  Anchors and “experts” on all the cable channels claim that this is merely a dry run for when Trump refuses to leave the White House after losing the upcoming election.  They wedge that in between calling the President a racist, xenophobe, narcissist, dictator, claiming he values his political fortunes more than he cares about the people of the United States.  Just guessing, but it’s doubtful many would have given up the luxury and freedom of his billionaire lifestyle to become the target of lowlife communists, the darlings of network anchors.

The Church of God has a history of preaching that the end of the age is at hand.  It made the mistake of predicting that the church would flee to a place of safety, even naming that place, as the tribulation of Matthew 24 and the book of Revelation began destroying western culture.  That was fifty and more years ago.  Since then, some of these guys who led away splinter groups have called themselves prophets and apostles and claim they are administering the “government of God” among their flocks and will lead them to a place of safety.  That is, after their people have given everything they have to the “church.”

If somebody knows what they’re saying or doing now, please keep it to yourself.  We don’t even want to know.  It’s a huge embarrassment that they took some of the most bizarre claims of Herbert W. Armstrong very late in his life, when he was suffering severe health problems and under the smothering influence of his “advisor,” and applied those claims to themselves.  Suddenly they are apostles and prophets with God’s infallibility, and people just wait for their instructions.  If you’ve ever been under such dictatorial authority, our hearts go out to you.

Ours is a work of watching and warning, not issuing and enforcing “orders.”  Things are getting mighty dicey of late.  We’ve got a communist insurrection underway that is wealthy and has the tacit approval of most mainstream corporations and media.  Sports used to be a way of escaping the nonsense.  Not any more.  The franchises are all going to rub our faces in their racist nonsense.  Professional baseball, basketball and football have gone out of their way to let us know they side with the mob.  Most TV networks are not only on board, but airing ads about how they stand for diversity, inclusion, equality and justice.  In fact, they’re hoping they don’t get burned to the ground.

When you look at the bravery and the dignity with which our founders conducted themselves in the business of winning our freedom, this stuff looks like tiddlywinks.  But only in terms of its actual importance.  Some of us believe the racists are the people trying to rile everybody up about racism.  The rest of us are hoping the anarchists and the violent masked masses find something productive to do with their lives.

The United States has been a great blessing to all mankind.  We’ve got real concerns, and no time to be drawn aside by a bunch of thugs yearning to loot expensive retailers.  We want the police to do their jobs and return peace and order to cities and public places.  We’re not about to take a knee, or join some movement of appeasement.  If they’re bent out of shape about some historical injustice, they can write a letter.  But attacking police has got to stop.  Rioting, burning, looting is not protest.  The protests are NOT peaceful.  They are cover for a movement that seeks to destroy Western culture.

In my neighborhood, two houses have lawn signs that say God is in control.  Certainly God has intervened at critical times in history, and you’d have to be blind to ignore the miracles He wrought, several in the war that won our independence.  But the idea that He’s “controlling” the lies, the deceptions and the violence we see playing out around us seems a stretch.  My Dad believed that God allowed humanity to do what it would, intervening only when He saw fit.  Will He see fit to intervene and save the Western world?  Does the Western world deserve His intervention and continued blessings?

God is in control whenever He wants to be.  Otherwise, he’s allowing events to unfold here on Earth.  He hears the prayers of the righteous, but how many are there?  It seems that there are many upright people trying to do what’s right, but have been deceived by their own families and churches about God’s Sabbaths and commanded observances that commemorate historical events of all our forefathers.  There are things they don’t understand and cannot accept, but they are living otherwise honorable lives.

Evil has descended upon the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia, and Europe.  All have been consumed by the deception we call fake news.  Every one of those nations has already fallen victim to an ideology of evil, contrary to the Bible and contrary to the founding principles that allowed for the peace and prosperity foretold and promised to Abraham by God.  He made good on His promises, but our societies have long since abandoned our responsibilities that were part of the covenant.  In essence, we’ve nationally reneged on respecting His Word and obeying His Laws.

Society has demanded that we acquiesce to some of the most heinous sins ever invented.  They are celebrated with parades and debauchery, you must applaud lest “society” destroy your life.  Our nation needs the prayers of people God respects.  We’re in the middle of a big deal, and it’s starting to look as if there’s no going back.  Not only with the communists that want to destroy freedom and capitalism, but with communist China. If we want God to intervene and save Western civilization one more time, it will take repentance for having broken His Laws.  No, there is not yet a ten-nation beast power.  Jerusalem is not surrounded with armies.  We can still buy and sell, sort of.  The abomination of desolation has not been set up, and there is yet no temple.  But Western civilization is in grave trouble.  We suspect that the author of evil is directing the deception and the destruction, and we know where the only hope lies.

Mark

PS  It looks as though we’ll still be able to keep all our Feast sites running. Of particular concern was the one at Land Between the Lakes.  But that was a false alarm and we are secure in that location.  Any questions can be directed to our Coordinator Mike Partridge (812) 867-9835.

Source: http://www.intercontinentalcog.org/fridayupdates.php

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For some time they were patient with those who believe in inviolable rights handed down from the Creator God.  It’s in our Declaration and codified in Constitutional language.  But they’ve had enough already.  Now, you will submit on the basis of keeping everybody safe, or they’d have you believe that you’re risking “killing people” by transmitting a disease you don’t know you have.  So you’re not sick?  That’s what you think.  Why, this virus can hide out for at least a couple of weeks while you spread it to people who’ll die.  It’s made to order for the destruction of capitalism. They’d have us believe that simply displaying a mask is somehow “saving lives,”  even if you’re not sick.  Perhaps especially if you’re not sick because it’s sending a message to everyone around you.

Because many have refused to play by the new rules, governors are threatening to shut down everything completely.  In California, business concerns were “allowed” to begin working again as long as all COVID protocols were followed.  But then a funny thing happened.  Hardly anyone showed up anywhere with masks and gloves.  It’s not nice to flaunt official MANDATES.  So now everything has to be shut down again!  That ought to teach the public that when the governor or mayor gives an order, you better obey their mandates, or suffer their wrath.

New definitions for words have been devised, and a whole new range of phrases that don’t mean what you thought they did.  It’s not acceptable anymore to say you’re not racist.  Under the evolving new lingo, that’s proof positive that you’re a racist, alright.  You must be “anti-racist” in order to be left alone, and that means supporting the tenants of BLM (which used to stand for the Bureau of Land Management, but that’s probably a racist bit of knowledge).   Somewhere in the process of being “anti-racist”, you must admit that “systemic racism” is part and parcel with American culture and the capitalist system.  Becoming “anti-racist” means you have to help, or at least support its destruction.

It’s why you keep hearing about the need for a “conversation.”  Nothing means what it did.   Innocent-sounding phrases now have all kinds of ramifications, and you must learn what things really mean, and why you’ve been part of the problem without knowing it; why you’re probably sick and don’t know it.  In short, we’re being herded into admission and submission.  It looks like that is what nearly all the big corporations, everything from TV networks to sporting goods chains are doing, admission and submission.  Corporations think the quickest way to get the goon squad out of the street and off their backs is to agree to every demand coming our way.

That means changing the names of everything.  The Washington Redskins announced that they’re giving in as an organization, and now they’re going to change the name.  We’re not sure to what.  Glenn Beck suggested The Washington Weasels.  It’s hard to remember how many times this argument has come around.  The last time it did, they couldn’t seem to find any tribe or Indian representative who was offended.  It seems like some came forward and said explicitly that the moniker wasn’t offensive, but that was then.  Now they’ve got BLM, antifa, the Muslim Brotherhood and every other radical misfit on the bandwagon.  From recent experience, they know and we know that there will be attacks, fires interspersed with “peaceful protests” at any attempt to go forward without taking a knee for the mob.  But that won’t be the end of it.  They’ll have another grievance soon.

Here in Tyler, the local news reported this morning that there will be meetings to determine whether the names of both high schools in town must be changed.  One is John Tyler High School, the other is Robert E. Lee High School.  If they manage to get those names changed, maybe the name of the city is next!  At the rate names of things and places are falling into disrepute, soon we may not know where we are or where we’re going.

Disney, of all places, has the quarterback with a hairband who doesn’t play football as a production partner to give his unique perspective on all aspects of race relations in sports.  He’s going to produce a special that chronicles his life, and it’s going to include never-before-seen footage that’s been shot over these years he’s not been playing.  Oh boy, we can’t wait!  Instead of football, he’s been signing big deals with the likes of Nike just to make sure we never buy another pair of shoes from them.  That ought to show us!

News anchors have been beside themselves because our president wouldn’t don a mask in public, and finally, they claim, a hospital visit was put on his official schedule for the express purpose of getting pictures of Donald Trump in a mask.  “Pretty sad,” said CNN.  He’d never have set the photographic example, except that they put him in a hospital situation where infectious patients in residence made it a necessity.  Too bad he didn’t just refuse to go the hospital under the circumstances.  If he’d done that, there would have been a media meltdown that would have lasted until they had another bombshell accusation.  Maybe he needs new advisors and planners.  Going along with the demands of the mob right now is tantamount to helping accomplish the goal of a communist revolution.  Some of us just aren’t on board!

Crime has exploded in America’s big cities.  Police in New York (and many other places) are afraid to do their jobs, lest they be called you know what, possibly fired and prosecuted.  Criminals have been encouraged to resist and fight police or run if confronted.  Even a presidential hopeful is now calling police “the enemy.”

The destruction of Western civilization is underway, and it’s being carried out in such a way that no one dares fight back.  After all, you may get the dreaded virus and DIE.  Every time it looks like the economy may bounce back, the news reporters ON EVERY NETWORK and local station dependent on wire services announces a spike in cases.  This testing extravaganza was a bad idea.  It’s hard to know whether the tests are unreliable, or those conducting them are part of the plot.  Laura Ingraham reported that the testing stations in Florida are reporting 100% of people tested are positive, none negative.  In Virginia, every time they get another positive result out of someone who’s tested positive, it’s listed as an additional case.  One person who tested positive 15 times has been reported as 15 separate cases in the “numbers,” which of course don’t lie.

It was reported today that the U. S. government has dispatched an estimated  EIGHT TRILLION dollars to make sure people weren’t under undue financial stress as they stayed home unable to go to work, lest one or another state government make an example of them.  It turns out that’s a “guestimate” for all of 2020.  A mere 4.75 trillion has been expended to date.

Several states that make up a sizable proportion of American productivity are still LOCKED DOWN.  They’re determined that children not return to school in the fall, and that means many adults have a problem going to work, assuming it’s “allowed.”  That ought to fix capitalism, once and for all.

Maybe you’ve noticed, the lock-downs include churches!  You will NOT assemble to worship God, or the police might show up!  So who do you fear?  The rioters obviously don’t fear the authorities or God.  We fear and worship God, and the local “authorities” will learn to sooner or later, assuming they ever get over their power trip.

Source: https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/admit-youre-part-of-the-problem-and-submit/

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