Justice is fallen in the streets.  I guess you heard about the acquittal in what looked like a slam-dunk case.  It has political overtones, but it threatened to answer most of the questions that were obvious to those watching.  If it had gone the other way, it would have been fun to see how the mainstream handled it.  If the truth ever spills in to the mainstream we’re going to find out a litany of things that we already knew but the mainstream will never report.  Is that it?  All these years of investigations and the only case brought goes down in flames?  Oh there’s more, lots more.  We’re just wondering if any of it will ever see the light of day.  So far it looks like the goon squad may get away with what they did.  They used the power of government and some agencies in particular to carry out operations against their perceived enemies.  Will it ever get straightened out?  It’s looking doubtful.

We’ve been grappling with what to do with the next WATCH magazine cover.  No, I’m not going to give it away.  But it’s looking like the government can do whatever they want to beat down and impoverish the citizens, and nothing is their fault.  It’s Putin’s fault.  The gas prices?  Yep, Putin.  Food shortages?  They’ve been predicted, now it looks like all the stops will be pulled out to make that come true.  Oh, that’s the corporations.  Corporations that are determined to play government ball at any cost.

We’re drowning in crises.  Well, crises to us anyway.  The politicians are strutting around like they’re saving the planet.  Gas has gone over budget, way over.  Food is following suit, and we haven’t seen anything yet.  That will be Putin’s fault too, wait and see.  The only silver lining is that America-haters have to buy gas and groceries too.  They’re going to react when they figure out they’ve been slapped back a peg or two.  They’ll probably get some government handout to ease the pain.  Maybe their student debt will be canceled.  Yeah, the people who work can pick that up.  The government is spewing money as fast as they can print it, in spite of roaring inflation.  But act like they don’t have a clue.

You can’t have missed the monumental amount of military aid for Ukraine.  So what’s the goal?  There is no plan?  You mean…  Who can stand it?  Apparently they’re cleared to make life miserable for citizens, and they couldn’t be any happier.  Who’s they?  They’re at the microphones telling us how proud they are.  You can’t miss them.  You’d think Ukraine was attached to government somehow.  You’d be right.  The same lame-brains are trying to put us all back in masks, those that ever wore them.  The cancellation of the “mandate” for airlines is being appealed.  Never mind that Europe has canceled theirs.  Since when have the nations of Europe ever been a model for us?  We’re not who we thought we were, not since the pretender and his handlers started calling the shots.  Obama is so jealous?  No, Obama is taking the stairs two, maybe three at a time.  He had to pretend to be on our side.  The pretender doesn’t.

Not to alarm you, but a Russian TV show is talking about how easy it would be to take out the eastern seaboard of the United States.  Putin apparently is getting treated for some ailment, maybe cancer.  It probably wouldn’t pay to play chicken with him, having nothing to lose and all.  That would spell tribulation all right, and it’s the last thing we’re rooting for.  Pray that we get through this intact, and emerge as the nation we were intended to be.  Sounds like a long shot, but it is our hope.

Mark

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Analysts are starting to wonder aloud whether Putin is winning the war in Ukraine.  We see that some territory has been reclaimed, and a Russian ship blown up near Odessa.  But the refugees are streaming out, and the radio tells us we’ll get 100,000 of them here in the U. S.  It’s hard to know what or who to believe with the news coming constantly.  It’s hard to see Vladimir calling the whole thing off and declaring victory.  But everybody is nervous.  By everybody, we’re talking about all the current and former politicians who were using the country as a corrupt piggy bank.

Justin Trudeau got told off to his face in the Canadian parliament.  It looked like he might have been crying.  Hard to tell with his mask covering most of his face, but he didn’t look happy. He got told off again, called a dictator and asked, politely, to “spare us your presence” at the meetings in Brussels where world leaders have convened to talk about the war in Ukraine.  Too bad Gavin Newsome wasn’t there.

All the airline execs have signed a letter saying the mask mandate on airplanes is a burden upon employees who were never trained as enforcement agents.  Airlines have hospital-grade filtered air on their airplanes, and many of the contentious episodes resulting in passengers being removed from flights and charged with crimes is because stewardesses, uglier than ever, are now barking orders instead of serving drinks.  It’s not about a disease, it’s all about control.

Gas prices are near record levels.  There’s little debate as to why, although we’ve been programmed to blame everything on Putin’s invasion.  The government response has been, not to release the oil companies to drill proven reserves, but to try and buy oil from the likes of Venezuela and producers in the Middle East.  Not to mention drawing down our national reserves.  But they’ve got another idea.  Why not issue government sponsored credit cards that people can use to buy gas?  Inflation?  Anybody?  We certainly wouldn’t want to irritate the squad!

We hope you’ve seen the woman at the swim meet.  About the large guy in a girl’s swimsuit she said, “I’m a woman, and that’s not a woman.”  Some idiot from a couple rows below says, “What are you, a biologist?”  She says, “No, and I’m not a vet, but I know a dog when I see one.”  Maybe you’ve already seen the exchange, but it’s still funny.  They asked the Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji if she could define what a woman is, and she said she couldn’t, she’s not a biologist.  We don’t need to see how she’ll vote on every issue before the High Court, everything will be totally predictable.

Wouldn’t it be something if the world is plunged into war, and U. S. leadership is utterly compromised from the outset.  You wonder when the information we Americans are finding out will ever be recognized by the mainstream.  They’re supposed to be telling us what is going on, but it looks like they’re the last to know.  Even when nearly everybody (who’s paying attention) knows the answer, the mainstream has never heard the question.

Nobody could write a novel containing all that is afoot in high places. Who’d believe it?  If somebody wrote a true rendition about what’s transpiring in our daily news, it would seem too fictional.  But it’s our reality in 2022.  Maybe some of this nightmare can be turned around, we surely hope so.  On the other hand, it could get worse.  With the U. S. fighting for the Western “values,” and the corruption that has taken place in high places it’s difficult to say who the good guys are.  All this is certainly not the fault of Ukrainian civilians.  It’s not our fault either.  We don’t believe that a man can put on women’s clothes, and presto!  Everyone is at pains to call it a girl, or suffer the wrath of social media, the corporations and the mainstream.  That’s one of the “values” that’s being fought over.  One thing we know for sure, you can’t imbibe too much tribulation without an emotional reaction.  We just don’t know who all we should be mad at.  None of this is going without notice.  May God’s Will be done in His time.  Propaganda means nothing to Him.

Mark

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