Trump rocked their world at Davos.  Nobody wants to say the wrong thing.  Private parking for jets was at a premium, and nobody had to guess who was running the show.  America may be in for the greatest era of growth we’ve ever seen.  I drive the same highway every day, and I’ve never seen so many dump trucks and heavy equipment on the highway.  This may be the greatest time in American history, but let’s not get too carried away.

Everybody wants to be friends with DJT.  They certainly don’t want him lying awake at night thinking of ways to ruin them.  Davos used to be where they preached global warming and worried about how many years we had.  Now they’ve got a spoiler.  They can either save the planet or do business, their choice.  Not that the planet needs saving.  That’s in God’s domain.

We’ve got Maduro, and Venezuela is celebrating.  We dug the wells and they kicked us out.  But things haven’t been too good domestically.  That’s about to change.  Maduro’s not dancing around any more.  Furthermore, we demonstrated some technology in Venezuela that has the rest of the world talking, or worrying.  Apparently Venezuela’s defenses were knocked out without warning and they were helpless.  Now they’ve lost their fearless leader, and they’re happy.

Here at home, things are good.  The grocery store is stocked, gas is cheap(er) and things are looking up.   I don’t know when we’ve seen gas prices go down, but don’t look now.  

DJT has got big things on his plate.  Europe has worried about global warming, and Donald wants business.  Who knows what’s to become of Ukraine?  There must be some minerals that everybody needs, but other than that people are being killed.

Donald Trump has positioned himself as a peacemaker, and you know what the Bible says about that!

A new letter has just been written and you can get all the details, or some of them, there.

Sabbath services have been canceled here in Tyler due to the potential for severe weather. We hope you all stay warm and safe.

Mark

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While some traditional allies of the U.S. have responded cautiously, and in a few cases have rejected Trump’s offer, others including nations that have long had strained ties with Washington such as Belarus have accepted.

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A reporter on the scene described an unusual smell that is ‘making some people in our area cough.’

Hundreds of business leaders and government officials have descended on the forum for the five day event, gathering to discuss pressing global issues.

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Why it matters: In recent weeks, Trump has shown he’s no longer content just dominating the U.S. and the news cycle — he wants to dominate the world.

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It’s happening too fast. You couldn’t keep up if you were trying. The orders coming out of the new Administration are in line with the promises made on the campaign trail. President Trump has been saying what he will do in his speeches. I don’t know if you watched the appearance in Davos on the big screen but it was priceless. He wrecked them. All the dignitaries are wondering why they came, and what’s next. How good is it to have a guy that doesn’t need a teleprompter?

There’s a pervading sense that the U. S. is back, directing things, not just waiting to see what happens. There has been a blizzard of executive orders. It’s a full-time job just to keep up. Fauci has been denied secret service protection, but he’ll still need protection, so he’s reportedly hired his own.

So many documents are due to be released. Several that are no doubt already the theme for books. How many books have been written about the very things that are released, and how many theories will be tested? We may find out things we don’t want to know.

America is back with a vengeance, so to speak. We don’t know how many reports will be written in the coming days and weeks. I don’t know if we could stand everything at once. Maybe there will be a schedule. The experts will pour over everything released and let us know. They’ll probably prove their theories with the real thing, which nobody can deny.

There are all kinds of reports about AI, and what it will bring in the future. It seems things are speeding up and changing. AI better not do all the things they’re worried about. There is dangerous territory here. Some may regard it as the answer to everything. We’ll have to be on our guard, lest it lead us off into the wrong direction.

You can listen to Trump’s speeches, they’re coming fast and furious. You think the world is not taking notice? They better get with the program or risk being left behind. Maybe you’ve noticed, everybody wants to be on the Trump train.

Big name business people didn’t miss the inauguration. They were all there, wanting to be greeted by the President. They better be part of the solution, and they know it. Those trying to stand in the way are going to get run over. Think of it, we don’t have to pretend we understand all the cockamamie nonsense they’ve thrown our way.

I’m sure they’d like to respond, but Trump isn’t giving them time. Executive orders are coming so fast it’ll make your head spin.

Fires are still burning in California, but the good news is the minnows have been saved. What? They haven’t been saved? Nobody has seen one in ten years? This idea that people have to get burned out to save some little fish is wearing thin. Apparently they got so carried away, with “change” and all that, they forgot to make sure the fire hydrants had water. They apparently didn’t think dry reservoirs during the Santa Ana winds would be a problem.

I lived in California for many years. The Santa Ana winds are an annual occurrence, but the city has never burned before! You don’t suppose these “officials” were worrying about other things?

While they were worrying about whether they had enough weirdos on the force…

From here it looks like things are going in the right direction. We don’t have to worry about offending anybody anymore. They don’t get to insist we believe things that aren’t true.

I know the church has always preached the end of the world, and I guess something still could happen to derail this realignment. But my sense is that God looked down in His mercy and decided the time is not yet. Let’s see where this American revival goes.

Mark

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Bloomberg) — The global elite in Davos woke up Tuesday breathing a sigh of relief after President Donald Trump concluded his first day in office only talking about trade wars rather than starting any.

But just how long the world’s most effusive tariff salesman will hold fire is anyone’s guess — and the chief executives and investor class gathered in the Swiss mountain resort town are bracing themselves.

“Even when I was there eight years ago, there was always a heavy debate on tariffs — on the positives and the negatives of tariffs, on the intended consequences, unintended consequences,” Gary Cohn, IBM Corp. vice chairman and Trump’s former National Economic Council director, said Tuesday on Bloomberg TV. “Look, it’s day one of a four-year administration. You don’t have to put tariffs on day one.”

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No doubt everybody has seen it. The things you have to do to save the planet! It did make a good visual though, people pushing their battery cars in the snow. Elon Musk is something akin to a genius, but surely he knows that battery technology is no good in sub freezing temperatures. Who doesn’t know this? We have tremendous respect for his achievements in sending rockets to space and the opportunities for communication that governments can’t easily stop. But he might have stopped thinking about winter and Teslas too soon.

No doubt these battery cars are wonderful under ideal conditions. But sometimes you need transportation, which is why a battery car is a status symbol. It has to be a second or third car, unless you’re a true fanatic. Nevertheless, the endless harangue over “clean energy” continues to plague us. The windmills are frozen, useless. The solar panels? It’s winter. Somehow I don’t remember warnings about energy outages when I was a kid. Now they’re warning that people should unplug their appliances, because the grid is under strain.

But they’re having their elite meetings in Switzerland. As if anything they decide will matter if you know who is re-elected. The shadow of Donald Trump hangs over the meetings at Davos. Amazonian witch doctor or whatever, no amount of whooshing on people’s foreheads is going to solve the world’s energy problems. Facepaint or no facepaint. Does the world really have an energy problem, or are these slick talkers just blowing smoke and getting richer by the panic they create?

There’s a full court press on TV news. They hate the prospect of another Trump presidency, or more accurately, fear it. They’re scared to death. If he does a fraction of what he’s promising in his campaign speeches, they should be. Seems to me he tried to play nice the first time around. It could be that they’ve misjudged him. That’s what they’re afraid of.

Oh no! What if the deep-state is dismantled. Call it what you want, but events over recent years proves it exists. They fear Trump, and they fear us. Maybe that’s why the border is wide open and they’re giving away the farm. Cell phones, accommodations, we can’t give them enough. Is it true that a replacement is going on? Are we destined to be a minority in our own county? One that God ordained and blessed abundantly.

The carnage continues on i24. You can’t watch much. Your heart can’t take it. What are we supposed to do? You watch little children tell their stories. You see civilians walking around the scene of the festival the terrorists crashed and tell you what happened where.

If the comments I’m reading are any gauge, people have had about enough. It’s clear that the pretender is not forging policy. In fact, long-standing American policies to do with Israel and the hostile surrounding nations have put this administration at odds with its base. You see all these demonstrations? Shutting down freeways and bridges. What are these people doing here?

Are we going to squander our blessings? If you read the Old Testament, it looks like the United States is what was promised to Abraham. We’ve got a Constitution that has been copied elsewhere, but is unique in the world. Nobody has the kinds of freedoms and protections that the American citizen has under the Law. Maybe some of these people blocking traffic ought to get a clue, or go home.

Mark

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Following in the example of WEF Chairman Klaus Schwab’s ‘Global Risk Report’, EU chief Ursula von der Leyen used her address in Davos on Tuesday to highlight the supposed risks of allowing the free flow of information in light of the alleged threat of “disinformation and disinformation”.

“These risks are serious because they limit our ability to tackle the big global challenges we are facing: changes in our climate – and our geopolitical climate; shifts in our demography and in our technology; spiralling regional conflicts and intensified geopolitical competition and their impacts on supply chains,” she said.

The EU chief therefore called for governments and private firms to form a “new connective tissue” to “deliver the solutions we need, to fight threats like climate change or industrial-scale disinformation.”

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Source: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/01/17/wef-eu-chief-von-der-leyen-demands-censorship-of-industrial-scale-disinformation-at-davos/

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They’ve decided to keep the Covid fear machine in place, at least until May 11, and you can bet there will be crocodile tears if it ever happens. You can hear them now. Covid did what Global Warming was supposed to. Not that they’re not still throwing fits about stuff we’ve never heard of. National Geographic must be slow on the uptake if these wild phenomena are taking place somewhere on the “planet.” Some of these guys nearly busted through their suits with anger. The trick is that we, the recipients of their wrath, can’t even conceive of their wealth.  

I’m trying to remember if a fit has been thrown in the U. S. Congress to compare to the bouncing and gesturing of AOC. Maybe she has a future at the pulpit. It’s as if some of those gestures were created in a mirror. She was nearly beside herself with anger at all the usual whipping boys. You know, racism, inequality, violence against women of color. Turns out the whole squad is apoplectic. What do you mean they can’t serve on important intelligence and national security committees? What an outrage! How dare we stand for it? This fit will be memorialized.

So you know we’ve got a Chinese spy balloon drifting high above the United States. Nothing can be done because… The explanations don’t make a lot of sense. Who knows what ramifications shooting down a Chinese spy balloon would have, or what backroom agreements would be breached. Word has it that the pretender wants it shot down and the military is balking. We can land vehicles on Mars, but have no idea how to deal with a spy balloon.  

I made the mistake of tuning in to one of the lesser news stations. There was a Ukrainian woman of some high office sounding like a true believer. She wants all Russian influence kicked across the border and the international community’s blessing. Nothing short of that is acceptable. That’s as unrealistic as it gets. It overlooks realities of decades, and guarantees perpetual war. It makes you wish our government was half as concerned about our southern border.  Only those borders halfway around the world really matter.  

Everybody’s after Trump. Old stories are being dredged up with all kinds of criminal implications. They’re going to destroy him no matter what. You’ve got to admit, all these years of throwing the book at him, and nothing to show for it has to be infuriating. I’m thinking of the Police Chief in the Pink Panther movies.  

Meanwhile, Hunter’s gone on offense. He’s got some of the finest lawyers money can buy. A lot of them. How dare his personal stuff go public! Somebody must be responsible. Sue everybody in sight, maybe that’ll work. You have to wonder what the big guy’s lawyers are thinking. I’m thinking this wasn’t their strategy, but who knows? You might have noticed, the details of some international deals are getting published all over the place. The “going on offense” posture is designed to call a halt to the revelations. It’s a little late. We already know.

We were kind of hoping we hadn’t heard the last of the Davos crowd, urgent to save us from ourselves as they were. Apparently our bosses (they think) have a lot of things figured out.  They’ve decided the planet can be saved if we just all stay home! Imagine the non-existent traffic jams and no office energy consumption. The Covid mandates showed the way, and if they could just get us all back indoors everything would be fine. Surely you won’t mind a little dietary diversity, like bugs.  

The arrogance of buffoons knows no bounds. John Kerry’s got that look on his face again. Uh oh. There go the gas stoves. Everybody stay home, except when it’s time for your next booster shot. If these self-absorbed intellectual types weren’t so vain, it might be a little easier to take. We don’t believe in them. There’s a much higher power and we believe in Him and the common sense he gave us. Thanks anyway. 

Mark

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Last night an ambush video was aired showing an alleged Pfizer executive boasting that variants were being created with a vaccine ready to go, or words to that effect.  That’s before he realized that he’d been recorded and went full blown loony tunes. Surely the company will fire the guy and say they barely knew him.  But he did have an impressive title.  If he wasn’t talking through his hat, gain of function research is on the table, which doesn’t look right for the company selling vaccines.  He called the ploy “directed evolution.”   That’s before he called the police and then started rushing people.  We may see a lot of this before it’s over.  Newsweek has already published a “fact check” attempting to discredit the whole episode.  Pfizer has yet to comment. 

We found out this week that the United States is sending Abrams battle tanks to Ukraine.  Purely a defensive measure mind you.  It’s been explained that the U. S. had to send a battalion of tanks so Germany could in turn send twice as many Leopard tanks.  Is that how diplomacy works?  The argument is that Putin is on the ropes, and if he doesn’t win in Ukraine something will happen internally to take him down.  Apparently there isn’t any anti-war movement in Russia.  Putin’s successors might be even more aggressive.  His popularity doesn’t seem to be suffering, assuming you believe the polls.  But the tanks.  That seems to be ratcheting up our involvement in something that could turn ugly, as if it’s not ugly enough.  

The whole thing seems an exercise in playing chicken with W. W. III.  But nobody asked us.  Did they ask somebody?  Somebody’s going to have to tell me what the pretender said, because trying to decipher words and meanings has become impossible.  Who’s making these decisions, and are they the right ones?  The guys standing in the backdrop in uniforms and medals don’t inspire a lot of confidence either.

Where does this end up? Or does it? There are some things yet to happen. If the Davos crowd gets it’s way it would all happen at once.  It looks like they want to have the power over what people think, publicly at least.  Nobody would dare question global warming without severe punishment.  Or for that matter entertain any of the “conspiracy theories,” especially those that turn out to be true. If the media is any gauge, we must all believe the same things and speak with the same voice.  They’ve gone to great lengths already, but some of us aren’t buying in.

It’s not like the public doesn’t already know too much, on a whole range of subjects.  But the mainstream keeps banging on like the public agrees with their conventional wisdom.  Polls are conducted and released to banish any question about what the public believes.  We’ve got “analysts” that come on television to tell us what we believe.  It’s enough to make you talk back.  

Mark 

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