“California won’t be doing business with @walgreens—or any company that cowers to the extremists and puts women’s lives at risk,” said Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a tweet. “We’re done.”

Shares of Walgreens (ticker: WBA) were down 2% to $34.73 on Tuesday, extending their 1.7% decline following Newsom’s tweet on Monday. The S&P 500 fell 1%.

In an email to Barron’s, a spokesperson for Newsom said California was “reviewing all relationships between Walgreens and the state,” but didn’t elaborate on further on the logistics of the boycott or its timeline.

In February, 21 Republican attorneys general sent letters threatening legal action against pharmacy chains that mailed abortion pills to jurisdictions where the pills are restricted. Last week, Walgreens confirmed it would not dispense mifepristone—either in stores or by mail—in those states.

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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

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

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It seems every day that goes by contains more false information that eventually will have to be straightened out.  But will it ever be?  The mountain of lies, accepted and repeated by nearly every media outlet just keeps growing.  There’s now so much that needs to be fixed, we’re wondering whether it will ever happen, or will we just have to live in a never-ending whirlwind of deception for the rest of our lives.

It’s not easy to know where to start.  They’ve been cramming the man-made global warming scam down everybody’s throats since they changed their minds about the “Coming Ice Age” in the 1980s.  We were supposed to have been incinerated, or starved to death in our feeble efforts to flee the wrath of Al Gore.  Universities lost their reputations, and scientists had to go into hiding after getting caught altering data designed to scare everybody half to death.  (East Anglia University, Climate Research Unit, Phil Jones, Michael Mann, “hockey stick”).

But no, the whole thing was a misunderstanding, the media concluded.  The claim is that we’re in an “existential climate crisis.”  What we’re still doing here, after decades of being told we’re all going to have to flee unsurvivable heat, is anybody’s guess.  But never fear, the “president elect’s” teleprompter says that we must treat global warming the same way they’ve treated COVID-19!  What exactly that means is not immediately clear.  But we all know that Americans have been subjected to the heavy-handedness of governors who issue un-Constitutional orders on the basis of emergency powers.  Governor Newsom in California has hobbled and bankrupted so many that he is the subject of a recall effort, and it’s gaining support.

The news-breaks sound just like last month, and the month before.  They’ve got record COVID-19 infections, record hospitalizations, record death tolls, just like they’ve had for every day, week and month since early last year.  Meanwhile we find out that everything from heart-attacks to gunshot wounds to motorcycle accidents are being counted.  We find out that the national death toll numbers from 2020 are no different than they were in 2019.  How can that be, with record deaths from something unknown one year ago?

Everyone is free to believe what they want and do as they please for at least another couple of weeks.  Then choices, and possibly freedom itself may be the stuff of bygone daydreams.  It turns out that corporations, not government, are the most stern of COVID-19 mandate enforcers.  We’re “lucky” that some state powers have allowed any businesses to stay open.  Let their employees wear masks and gloves.  But it would be nice to be able to get an oil change without the COVID lecture!

If you’re sick to death of the whole thing, better not turn on the radio or any device for that matter.  If you thought things were a little scary six or eight months ago, they’ve ramped it right up.  Every radio break tells nightmare stories.  Any explanation or disputation gets banned from social media.  If you don’t agree to be in a panic, tell no one.  Otherwise, there will be consequences.  Isn’t freedom great?

The United States has lost freedom as we knew it.  This time last year, they’d have thought you were out to rob the CVS pharmacy.  Suddenly, you’re doing the right thing by following the latest protocol.  Businesses in New York, New Jersey and California daring to serve the public and make a living have been visited by police and “health officials,” had their doors blocked by police, or been raided, like a hair salon in California was.  “Drop the clippers or else!”  The proprietor said it was like a drug bust.  There went freedom.

We’ve learned the hard way that the news media HATES the United States, hates freedom, and will call us cultists, racists, selfish, there is no end to the accusations and epithets they apply to anyone who doesn’t willingly relinquish their freedom immediately.  We must recognize the EXPERTS, even when they vacillate and change their minds, know better than us and have our best interests at heart.

As Victor Davis Hanson said a couple months ago, “They are trying to save us by stopping us living.” But those were the good ole days.  It’s much worse now, and new records are set every moment.  At least it’s reassuring to know the national death toll is no worse than it ever was.  There must be some explanation.  Or are we hip-deep in an unmentionable substance?

Everybody dies sooner or later.  The question is, then what?  You always here about the dear departed looking down and being proud, or being present at critical moments.  It seems our society has universally embraced the idea that dead relatives are “looking down.”  Nobody seems to look forward to the time that they’ll be “looking down.”  We’re not sure why not.  It sounds like a comfortable existence.

No, the truth is what God tells us in His Word.  The dead know not anything.  And they won’t until the resurrection.  We don’t know how going to heaven and the resurrection don’t conflict, but nobody seems bothered about the contradiction.  There is no coherent explanation.  But what’s new?

We’ve been extremely concerned about the impending loss of freedom, which is being accomplished by deceit of all kinds, and has implications for everybody on earth.  Those who would rule over us are warning that extreme measures will be necessary to save our lives from the “existential crises” they’ve invented or hyped beyond reason.  The time for debate is OVER, they tell us.  We’re not qualified to weigh in, only to obey their scientifically created mandates!  It’s for our own good, they say!

We know that the understanding and realization that the United States and the western nations are decedents of Israel is not a necessity for salvation.  But it sure does explain everything.  Captivity is at the door, whether or not we realize it.  Though not a linchpin of salvation, it would be nice if we didn’t have to experience the blight of captivity after having enjoyed Divinely ordained freedom.  We’re about to find out whether we continue in freedom or fall under captivity.  The media has already celebrated our impending captivity.  Hopefully they’ll be disappointed.  They’re not God, after all.

Mark

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

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Has the United States not gone to WAR, sent battle groups, ships and airplanes, not to mention America’s sons and daughters, to keep foreign nations from falling under the communistic or murderous intentions of their tormentors?  Ever heard of Iraq?  How about Korea or Viet Nam?  Did the U. S. not deploy all manner of weaponry and troops to avoid having others, halfway around the world, come under the DOMINION of communists, terrorists or dictatorial autocrats?  Did you ever consider the definition of that word in all caps?  It’s the name of the company that supplied the technical apparatus used to “tabulate” the results of the contested election.

Communism has always been a hateful ideology as far as most Americans are concerned.  But suddenly, in the wake of a glaringly corrupt election, we’re supposed to accept whatever the ‘experts’ say to the mainstream media?  Much of the land of the formerly free is under LOCKDOWN.  These governors are not fooling around.  They’ll send law enforcement to shut down any business whose owners think they have some Constitutional right or other.  Cuomo, Brylcreem, and Whitmer, among others, have determined that the only safe place to be is at home, where the news will brainwash you with fear.

In New York, Governor Cuomo has threatened to shut down synagogues, “once and for all” for having disobeyed him. Please don’t notice that two weeks has elapsed, and now it’s been ten months.  If you’re not out of business just yet, maybe another four to six months will do it.  That’s what Bill Gates says anyway.  Apparently he’s the “expert” nobody dares argue with.   The news tells you 1000 times a day you should be frightened half to death by COVID-19.  It’s killing thousands a day, they tell us.  Better not visit with family, or venture out to eat!  Dr. Fao Chi will not be amused!

What they will not report is how the dreaded Wu Flu has wiped out the death statistics from every other known cause.  No one dies of a heart attack, stroke, internal bleeding.  Nope.  Those have all been eradicated.  If somebody dies, it must have been the new cause of all suffering and death.  Did no one ever tell these vain officials about the American Constitution?  Who do they think they are, issuing “orders” for which they have limited authority?

There are some just judges remaining on the job.  Lawsuits take time.  Governors can exercise considerable muscle immediately, assuming they have the cooperation of law enforcement.  But getting governor’s “better judgment” overturned in a court of law isn’t an immediate proposition.  A judge in San Diego did slap down the tyrannical Gavin Newsome (aka governor Brylcreem) this week.  It turns out that dining establishments can open after all!  Brylcreem probably can’t get to sleep over this one!  He’ll have a hard time getting over the fact that his word is not necessarily law.

The dreaded virus was the mechanism (and excuse) used to overthrow the United States of America, with all the “lock-downs” and hastily approved rules for “absentee voting.”  It’s been described as “death by a thousand cuts.”  It appears as though every conceivable method of cheating was employed under the logic that, even if some irregularities were exposed, they wouldn’t have been sufficient to “overturn the results,” and therefore no courts are interested.  Never mind that the Communist Chinese seem to have helped elect someone whom they might very well OWN.  If you read up, you’ll find that they’ve got a major stake in the companies that own and operate tech systems that have been used to decide who the next president will be.

We’ve found out that most of the shenanigans were courtesy of judges, governors, secretaries of state and rule-making entities other than state legislatures, none of which are authorized to change the law without legislative action.  That’s what the Constitution says,  but so far no court seems concerned.  Not even the Supreme Court, which refused to take any evidence into account.  In fact NO COURT is interested in VIDEO PROOF, or eyewitness testimony, or the hundreds and hundreds of legal affidavits on file.

Overnight, we’ve learned that the United States has come under a massive cyber-attack, and even that our nuclear protocol has been intercepted.  By whom?  What, if any, will be the response?  President Trump has been mighty quiet lately.  CNN has a spy in the White House that claims he’s raging and throwing temper tantrums “about having to leave.”  If he’s throwing a fit, he’s not the only one.  Maybe it’s nothing to do with “having to leave.”

How corrupt is the government?  Are judges in on the corruption?  How deep is the Deep State?  Is there no floor to the swamp?  Will President Trump have any allies in government agencies if he should determine to fight?  Or will he just quietly get into a limousine and leave America to its Chinese captors?  Here’s hoping and praying for national redemption.  Otherwise, we’ll be in captivity.

Mark

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