Weekly Update 

Greetings from Tyler,

Not a news break goes by without mention of the Covid plague.  Dr. Fauci is on TV again, warning that people should wear masks in public settings.  Los Angeles decided against another mask mandate, but not before letting everyone know that they had the power to impose a requirement. Several cities had already announced that they wouldn’t be enforcing any masking rules.  You’d think police had something more important to do, especially in California.  Apparently we’ve been too stupid to live our lives all this time.  What would we do if we didn’t have some bureaucrat telling us what to do?  It looks like they’re not going to let Covid die a natural death, and why should they?  Never has such intrusive power been wielded over a panicked public.  

The damage that’s been done to the U. S. economy via lock-downs and mandates is incomprehensible.  Money was created and given to people who don’t want to go to work.  The frauds we’ve heard about are mind-boggling.  It seems the government always sends the money and asks questions later.  Well this was an opportunity for rampant fraud.  Now we’ve got rampant inflation, which is surely not the fault of the people running this disaster.

When Trump spoke about the trouble with Western Europe, Germany in particular, being at the mercy of the Russian pipeline the German delegation laughed at him. In Hanover, Germany they’ve shut off hot water to all public buildings and turned off the lights at night.  They’re not laughing anymore, their constituency is taking cold showers.  Wait until the weather gets cold.

Here at home we’re busy learning the new definitions of words.  Recession?  Never mind the old definition, we’re transforming the economy to sustainable energy and these hiccups are inevitable.  That’s what they’re telling us.  Interest rates have been raised this week in another attempt to tame inflation not seen since the Carter years.  Never mind, they’re saving the planet!  It’s not their fault, they expected the “transition” to be a little bumpy.  

So we’re transitioning to “clean energy.”  What a boondoggle!  Who promoted these goofballs to be guardians of the planet?  They’ve long since stopped trying to convince us that it’s a worthy cause.  Now we just have to do what we’re told.  It’s the weather patterns, it’s the fertilizer, it’s the fact that you’re using too much power.  The buffoons pushing this nonsense appear to be doing it so they can preen in newfound power and self-righteousness.  They’ve staked out the lofty offices of planetary protectors.  They’re also involved in meatless meat and other investments that they’ll recoup just as soon as we acknowledge their brilliance.  They can wait forever so far as we care.

Sri Lanka went green, now there’s anarchy.  The leaders have flown to parts unknown, and just in time.  It’s a mess, but it always is when this green stupidity is “mandated” over the population.  Farms shut down over nitrogen fertilizer.  Who knew that was what was destroying the planet?  While everything is a shambles, at least they can bask in the knowledge that they went “green.”  

There are global organizations establishing these policies.  Whether it’s health or saving the planet, the WHO and the WEF have all the answers.  To follow their logic is national suicide, but they’re not fussed. They plan to be around, directing the rest of us amid the disaster they’re promoting.  

Maybe you’ve noticed, we don’t predict the time of the “end of the world.”  But we are well aware of the events that lead up to the nightmares of the end time.  It involves nations going along with central European powers as if they’ve got all the answers.  Just do what they say, and you’ll be fine.  But we’re not going to do what they say, we’re going to talk back and disobey their mandates.  

We’re finding out that leaders of governments and important offices of nations around the world are graduates of the World Economic Forum, and they’re all bought in to all this nonsense.  It just has to be mandated throughout the nations and let the chips fall.  Everything we believe about the Bible and the U. S. Constitution tells us these guys can go jump in the lake.  It looks like they’ll find out the hard way, but we’re not going with them.  

Mark

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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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It was one of the biggest bangs this side of Nagasaki.  The explosion at the Beirut port was so powerful that it killed at least 135 instantly, wounded thousands and rendered some 300,000 suddenly homeless.  We heard conflicting reports, whether fireworks factory, storage for missiles imported by Hezbollah from Iran, or a warehouse full of ammonium nitrate.  Whichever is the culprit, the result has been the complete destruction of the Beirut port facility, along with the thousands of injuries and a mounting death toll.  All three may have gone up in the mushroom cloud, but ammonium nitrate looks to be the culprit for the massively destructive explosion.  Apparently officials knew of the danger, and now there is a frantic search for someone responsible for letting this happen.

You could logically be forgiven for limiting your intake of “official information.”  Nearly every newscast begins with a triumphant recitation of the latest COVID cases and deaths.  Isn’t it glorious?  The often renewed panic is gnawing away at any chance of economic recovery, and it’s all the fault of you know who.  But who knows what’s going on with these 99.9% accurate tests?  We don’t give medical advice, but possibly the worst thing one could do, from the standpoint of retaining any modicum of personal freedom, is to go get tested.

We know from numerous anecdotal stories and reports that a lot of people test “positive” who aren’t sick, haven’t been sick and don’t plan on being sick.  Once somebody tests positive, they’re liable to lose whatever freedoms they thought they still had.  You’ll likely be told (not asked) that you must take yourself out of circulation for ten days to two weeks.  Official state agencies may try to contact you, demanding to know every place you’ve been and everyone with whom you’ve had contact.    They’re called “contact tracers,” by media.  We have other terms.  Surely the information being gathered isn’t going into some politically-oriented database?

Mainstream outlets speculate endlessly about the President’s impulse to behave as a dictator, while angrily blaming him for having not instituted “national mandates” to “flatten the curve,” or whatever.  Questioning the vain babbling of Dr. Fauci is tantamount to heresy.  The social media giants will silence anyone who offers any logic that differs from the pint-size oracle of all things COVID.

Trouble is, Fauci has been all over the map with his arrogance showing.  He gave interviews prior to his rise to international fame that largely dispute most of what he’s saying now.  The diametrically opposed public statements were all delivered with the same cocksure attitude, along with the nervous chuckle the little doctor always displays.  It’s not just about his contradictory statements about masks either.  In January, before we commoners knew his name, he plainly said there couldn’t possibly be the kind of dictated “shutdowns” in America that he now calls for routinely.  It just couldn’t happen here.  But now it must.  The “people” have nothing to say about any of it.  “Doctor’s orders” claptrap.

Experts appear on all the news outlets to say that we simply “cannot consider” opening schools, businesses or entertainment venues while still logging the infection and death toll rates that are being reported.  Every time there is some encouraging news as to job growth or upward economic movement, more spikes, hot-spots and hideous illness and death reports are soon to follow, accompanied by more stringent lock-down orders from any of several local dictators, rather governors, mayors, or “medical experts.”

Why do hospitals benefit financially when they label patients “COVID positive?”  If you look, you’ll see a raft of articles from various publications and government agencies, most of which try to complicate the equation until you don’t know what to think.  But a common thread is that there is an admission of increased Federal payments to hospitals for COVIS cases, particularly those over the age of 65 through Medicare.  Then there is usually an expression of outrage that anyone would dare suspect that “medical professionals” would tinker with the diagnoses for financial gain.  How dare such a possibility even be raised!

It is a little interesting that nearly every other cause of death has fallen off the statistical chart.  Cancer, diabetes, heart-attack, stroke or the annual flu;  None of those seem to rate much concern in the age of COVID.  Everybody that expires dies of COVID now.  And none of those qualify for additional government money.  Go figure.  Did I mention that the country is going broke to the tune of 3 or 4 trillion in deficit spending so far this year?  There were tears of anger over Obama running a $2 trillion deficit in a single year.  We’re on track to see three times that amount before this year is over.

It took Rudy Giuliani years to clean up New York City to be a relatively clean and safe place.  It took the woke mob a matter of hours to return it to the filthy cesspool we knew in the ’70’s.  Graffiti mars every view.  Murders, as in other metropolises around the nation, are up dramatically without the manpower to solve them.  A few “peaceful” riots, and it’s back worse than before.

Things are anything but black and white.  Mainstream outlets are stoking fear and loathing around the clock.  The most successful early treatment has been all but outlawed because President Trump made the mistake of mentioning it out loud.  Therefore it must be dangerous!  It’ll cause heart palpitations, maybe brain damage! You must agree with the destructive COVID fear; you must hate President Trump with the anger of the mob or you’re probably a white-supremacist, even if you’re not white!

It came as a shock that we even survived the Obama years.  Despite a couple of years of faint hope that something might be salvaged by people who love freedom and a president who respects them, it may be too late.  We understand the propensity for optimism, and believe in it.  But this great nation may have passed the point of no return.

We used to wonder, how on earth could a whole population be so hopelessly deceived as to act upon false propaganda.  We don’t have to wonder anymore.  It looks like we may be living in the early stages of the book of Revelation.  Our cities are ruined.  Graffiti is everywhere.  Police have been vilified to an astonishing degree, and are being attacked, abolished and defunded.  They’re quitting in droves, and who wouldn’t?  Stick your head up on social media and that will be the end of your voice.  Should have known better than to buck the conventional wisdom.

Get used to it.  Your beliefs are not acceptable.  We have two choices.  Hide, or help inform as many as possible as to the brainwashing in progress. Actually, we have no choice.  But you do.  We need the Sabbath now as never before.

Mark

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

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No one dares talk back, let alone do anything to stop the communist takeover underway.  If Trump does anything they’ll call him a dictator, which of course, they do anyway.  The mayors and police authorities in the smoldering cities won’t do much.  They’re taking a knee, in some cases literally bowing down before crowds capable of destroying everything in sight if provoked.

Every big-name company and corporation is bowing down, or in many cases actually giving large sums of money, or should we say buying protection—mafia style—to the organizations that are funding the mob.  And it’s not just Black Lives Matter, although the admittedly Marxist outfit obviously welcomes the muscle of the anarchists, the rainbow crowd and every other dispossessed misfit. They’ve joined together to insist that all law enforcement is intrinsically racist, and so are you!  Any denial will get you beat to a pulp.  If you get in the way of the mob, you won’t even have a chance to make such a denial, which anyway would be proof of guilt to the goons.  Assuming these people wreaking havoc know something about anything, which is highly doubtful.

Watching everybody take a knee in fear, meet the mob half way, accept the destruction of our history, and “take responsibility” for things that happened in another era is the most pitiful display ever witnessed.  The media has determined that they will make us kneel!  Make us wear a mask, regardless!  Force an admission of racism or else.

Now there’s another preposterous accusation, and we’re supposed to believe it this time.  With somber tones and straight faces, the “news” people told us that Trump was “colluding with Russia.”  They told us that he was Putin’s puppet, doing Russia’s bidding from the Oval Office.  And Mike Flynn was betraying the United States, and conniving with the Kremlin in secret phone calls.  For three years the “news” media maintained it’s somber demeanor while they accused the most patriotic of Americans of sedition, perhaps treason.  They ridiculed everyone who didn’t buy their idiotic claims, calling us stupid and unwilling to accept reality.

When it blew up in their faces after three years of pumping out the story day and night, they hardly noticed that their big investigation yielded nothing beyond the deep-state coup that they insisted was a conspiracy theory.  Maybe that’s because the “news” media was up to its eyeballs in the farce, complicit in reporting every false story from their “insiders” and “whistle-blowers.”  The whole thing blew up in their gay faces.  The Mueller investigation they’d hyped for nearly Trump’s whole first term was a complete and utter embarrassment.  Mueller fell completely apart in public testimony, revealing that he didn’t even know, in some cases had never heard of,  things that appeared in the report he’d supposedly written.

But that didn’t slow them down one bit.  The corrupt media moved seamlessly toward impeachment with the ungainly Schiff and Nadler leading the charge.  The media, once again, was all in on President Trump’s guilt.  It was all in the Ukrainian phone call!  But, once again Schiff, Nadler and their minions lied every day and night to the media, and the media lied to all of us, insisting that high crimes and misdemeanors had been committed by the President, and the only remedy was removal from office.  But that left them with soot all over their faces like cartoon characters that accidentally blew themselves up.  Still, they never noticed, never apologized, never admitted what fools they’d made of themselves for all to see.  Instead, they purported to still believe their own fake news and figured they were probably right all along, despite their inability to prove any claims they’d been making for years.

The mainstream media has yet to own up to its role in trying to bring down a presidential administration on the basis of, shall we say, nonsense.  Now, they’ve got a brand new toy.  This time they’re claiming that Trump was briefed on a report that Russia was paying Taliban terrorists a bounty for every American soldier they could kill, and the President hid that fact, knowing full well that American soldiers were being killed for money.

It’s just as far-fetched, and divorced from reality as the previous “news” reports. It’s a quandary as to how President Trump has even survived.  He’s had corrupt federal agencies, together with the corrupt media working day and night to accuse him of the most outlandish, nonsensical intentions all the while scolding the population about how racist we all are.  Racism, they say, is a fact of America’s founding.  They’re trying to say the very existence of our flag, our national anthem, our founders, our history and our whole culture is irredeemably racist.

They’ve thrown red paint all over memorials of George Washington.  They’ve toppled statues of every respected or reviled figure in American history.  They’ve burned some of the most expensive retail locations, rampaging like the criminal idiots they are, fists in the air as they cavort in silhouette.

Can you point to ANYONE (save DJT) who dares stand up and defend America?  The so-called conservatives in government have fallen over like bowling pins.  They’re prepared to give in to all manner of demands.  The so-called conservatives are quietly working to root out Columbus Day and replace it with Juneteenth.  The important thing, and parties on all sides of every debate are absolutely sure of one thing:  We must wear masks!

Even one of the most popular “conservative” voices is on every day and night saying, “If we can go back to ball games, we’ll wear them.”  Maybe he will.  Some of us might just as soon not go anywhere the mask police will harass us.  The idea that some believe that we have the constitutionally guaranteed freedom not to make any of several public statements that masks represent just drives the media personalities to distraction.  They claim that their insistence is not even politically motivated.  But you’re just “so wrong” if you think you have the freedom NOT to make all the statements the mask represents.

Wearing the mask says you believe in the sham-demic, and one or two of us don’t.  It says that you want to patronize some business or another so badly that you’ll capitulate to the pressure.  You have to fly after all, don’t you?  You will wear the mask or be removed from the flight, as has happened already.  Wearing the mask also is a sign (to some of us) that you’ve taken a knee.  That you believe in all their nonsense and submit.  We’re being softened up to submit to things we don’t respect or believe in.  How about #TogetherAlone?  That makes no sense, but you’re expected to feel a rush of warmth at the idea of people watching each other eat on computer screens, and pretend like they’ve been to dinner.  If you think pressure to wear a mask is intense, wait till they decide everybody must shave their heads for the public health, or take a Mark in order to participate in economic activity.  That’ll fix us.

What won’t we accept?  Especially when they accuse us of “endangering the public.”  You must SUBMIT to society’s demands.  Even the mob wears masks, but it has nothing to do with the virus.  When we all wear masks, we signal agreement with the mob.  The fact that governors and mayors are doing the bidding of the goon-squad is no sign that the rest of us are ready to relinquish our Constitution, the Bill or Rights, the Declaration of Independence, or history or culture.  You obviously are FREE to make your own decisions, without speaking for anyone else.  Aren’t we all?  Some, apparently few, of us believe that appeasement is not the answer.  Thanks anyway, Governor Abbot.   But the Governor has bought in to the phony “spike” stories that the “news” media tells us are true, and set Texas back even further as to any hope of a swift recovery.  It looks like the media, or the mob has gotten to him.

On the first or second of July, CNN’s Erin Burnett shook her head in exasperation explaining that some people consider the maze of mandates an infringement of personal freedoms and liberties guaranteed in all our founding documents.  “That’s so WRONG!” she explained, out of breath, shaking her head in disbelief, amazed that anyone would dare even make such a claim.  Across the board, including many of the “contributors” on Fox News, they are incredulous that President Trump has not issued a national mask mandate, and spend countless hours expressing disbelief.  Never mind the details.  Never mind Dr. Fauci’s earlier statements about the ineffectiveness of masks and the statement, “There’s no need for Americans to go around wearing masks…”  No, the good doctor has changed his mind, and as you all know, we need to make a U-turn every time the self-impressed little leprechaun thinks he’s cuter than before.

Crime has gone exponential in every big city.  Even the fake news admits it obliquely while insisting that the protesters are peaceful, and we need to take note.  The police now know that any time they’re summoned, thinking someone’s been shot or killed, it could well be an ambush.  It’s happened repeatedly.  Murders, robberies and assaults are occurring at vastly increased rates in most cities.  Meanwhile mayors and city officials are rushing to pass rules and laws that might appease the mob.  The “de-fund the police” movement has gained traction.  New York’s de Blasio and kindred spirits across the United States are falling all over themselves to grant mob wishes by slashing police budgets.  De Blasio’s slash is reportedly one billion dollars.  The Minneapolis City Council has resolved to abolish the police and “RE-IMAGINE” law enforcement.  Everybody’s repeating the magic re-imagine phrase.  But the insurrectionists have a never-ending wish list that includes the redistribution of all private property.  In fact they hate, viscerally, the very concept of private property.

They are felling statues and memorials at a blinding pace.  Now they are after the founders and framers, without whom none of these cities would have existed in the first place.  Without the idea of America, governed by “We, the People” we probably wouldn’t even be here, and might never have been born.  There certainly wouldn’t be the kind of wealth they love to plunder, or cities to loot and burn.  But they’re on a roll, and can’t be bothered with logic just now.  They’re happy to let the homosexuals that dominate prime time do their explaining.  Have you seen these idiots cavorting in the faces of policemen?  Have you looked at those desecrating memorials and pulling down statues?  Are they being paid?  Because from the looks of them, they likely don’t know anything about anything.

There are some voices, even in the medical community who say the “spike” in virus cases is a farce.  Sick people are going to hospitals all right.  For two months they were afraid to go, and now they’re flooding in.  Hospitals are testing everyone, and claiming COVID cases exist in patients who’ve come in for other reasons.  Reporters are giddy, breathless, as the inevitable spike leads every news report.   To supporters of the riots; to the officials who’ve waited a lifetime for the opportunity to clamp down on the general population; to the flabbergasted mainstream reporters who just can’t believe that no national mask mandate has been declared; it’s the best news they could have hoped for.

Time is short.  The mob, backed by the media and business entities paying protection in a myriad of ways, needs to bring down Trump, Attorney General Barr or if necessary the whole system of governance in the United States before the lead players in the failed coup are indicted.  It was announced just last night that a whole bunch in the House of Representatives have signed a petition calling for the impeachment of Barr.  To justify it, they trotted out one of those who claimed to have “proof” of Russian collusion for the past three years.  He’s concerned about damage to the rule of law if Barr should continue in office.  In fact, it’s Obama’s inner circle and his agency brass that are implicated in the earlier attempt at insurrection.  Supposedly the cases are nearing completion, but we’ve heard that before.  Nonetheless, all the big name Deep State players have reportedly lawyered up just in case.  Meanwhile, many federal employees and heads of agencies support the ongoing insurrection against the United States in general, and against the current President in particular.  It’s a battle for the soul of the United States, and everybody seems willing to appease the mob.  They’ll never be appeased, and they’ll never stop making demands, no matter what we do.

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