So much time and energy has been squandered by the historic raid, you almost wonder if something else is happening that we’re not supposed to notice.  Everyone is trying to figure it out or find some justification.  It’s hard to think of anything the vaunted agency could have done to engender more distrust.  You’ve heard it a million times and probably thought it yourself, “They better come out with something that is mighty worthwhile…”  But they haven’t.  Despite having rummaged where they had no business and getting round-the-clock cover from the mainstream, they’re concerned about their integrity.  Seriously!?

Top secret documents?  The president has power over classifications last time we checked, and coming up with papers that “should” have been turned over isn’t going to work. Then there’s this pernicious rumor going around that Trump was in possession of proof the Feds framed him on the Russia Collusion debacle or something like that.  If that’s what it was, they couldn’t even display the raided items.  Surely this celebrated action will turn up something!  It had to be something huge.  You can almost hear the damage control session.  It’s got to be BIG.  What could be bigger than a nuclear bomb?

Those you’d have thought must surely have been consulted apparently weren’t, to whatever extent we’re being told the truth.  The raid made history, and surely was the subject of intense consideration beforehand.  The only thing nuclear was the backfire.  Did the planners not see this coming?  Does it wreak of sheer desperate insanity on the part of the establishment?  This doesn’t seem to have been considered very carefully.  Never before has a former president’s home had governmental agents searching the premises.  But then, never before has an individual been hated and feared like this.

The widely publicized raid can only redound to Trump’s favor failing something disastrous being found in the raid,  and that doesn’t seem to be forthcoming.  It’s enough to make you wonder if he was somehow behind it.  Surely the animosity of the Deep State is not so blinding that they stumble into errors like this.  Surely!  At this point it’s pure slapstick.  Another failed attempt to destroy the mainstream’s hated enemy.

As always, the mainstream is doubling down, trying to look serious and credible while suspecting that Trump was going to sell nuclear secrets to America’s enemies.  Remember Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?  They were convicted and executed in the 1950’s for selling nuclear secrets to the Russians.  That must be it.  Trump was going to pass the secrets to Russia so they could win a nuclear war!  He’s every bit as despicable as they’ve suspected all along!  So the media is starting to make straight faced claims that eleven sets of top secret nuclear documents were “stolen,” and we’ll just have to watch it play out.  What’s with all the drama?

It’s amazing that the Constitution survives, ignored to whatever degree by the courts, it remains the law of the land.  At least they tip their hat while finding justification for all manner of nonsense.  The Bible survives, but no one admits to trying to obey God.  What are you, crazy?  No, it has to be done in private and you can keep your thoughts and opinions to yourself.  Media and government will tell everyone what to do.  Better not condemn all the goodness of the mainstream, they know what’s right.  Can you imagine any time in the past if anybody would have said that we’d all be under “lock-down orders” from any entity?  If you go broke, too bad.  Checks were mailed willy-nilly to ease the pain of the urgent orders.  It was kind of like killing two birds with one stone.  You will bend to the government mandate, and then get a reward in the mailbox to make up for not going to work or having to close your business.  Whatever it is, it doesn’t sound like capitalism.

Have we not heard of more extreme examples of selling out the country that were in fact true?  Were there any raids?  The defensive players in this game of chess (or checkers) are trying to act like national security was at stake.  This makes how many, four attempts to destroy Trump?  Is there something they haven’t tried?  Yes, but for now they’re staking their hopes on “stolen classified documents.”  We’ll see if this time is the charm.

Someone tried to finish off Salman Rushdie, infamous author of the Satanic Verses, by stabbing him in the neck at an appearance in New York.  The ayatollah Khomeini had a bounty on Rushdie’s head for having insulted the prophet.  For years he lived in hiding, but thought the threat had subsided enough to go out in public.  No word about the attacker except that he’s in custody. Rushdie’s life hangs in the balance.

You may have guessed.  The media is full of “heat-wave” news to bolster the global warming panic.  It happens every Summer.  They’re calling the Las Vegas flooding a monsoon.  Predictions are that the Colorado River will soon be insufficient to supply the water needs of Southern California.  Quick!  Go out and buy an electric car.  Not only will you be “iconic,” you’ll probably  have to leave it behind in a rush.  Have a great Sabbath.

Mark

P.S. Just to let you know, we’ve got nearly 70 computers tuned in for our weekly Sabbath service. If you’d like to experience our Sabbath service LIVE, go to youtube to the Intercontinental Church of God channel.

The post Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 12 August 2022 first appeared on Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association.

Does it seem like things are building to some kind of crescendo? The mainstream sources of information have been holding back the onslaught, but the levy’s about to break. Material is now circulating freely, and at some point the legacy media will have to save its own credibility. You can bet they’re figuring out how to handle it right now.

No doubt you’ve noticed. The “save the planet” contingent wants us to eat meatless meat. That way they can justify getting rid of those pesky cows, contributing to methane in the atmosphere. Maybe you didn’t see the massive revolt in Holland. It only lasted a day, but it was a message that farmers are not about to put up with EU regulations that hamper their efforts and in some cases may put them out of business all together. They blocked highways, ports and spewed manure at government buildings. Let’s just say they’re displeased. Not hearing about this on the mainstream news? They can’t afford to let you know that somebody’s got the guts to blow off environmental nonsense.

Tucker Carlson is going where the mainstream dare not tread. He showed the extensive video of the mob swarming the streets and government buildings. Sri Lanka went green. They had other problems. They borrowed way too much money, and can’t begin to pay it back. Farms shut down on account of nitrogen fertilizer damaging the environment, so there’s a food shortage. Nothing seems to get people into a rage like a food shortage. The video is something out of a high budget film. The leaders fled a few days ago, no doubt brimming with pride over their ESG score. They can’t go back.

There’s all kinds of controversy over tennis great Novak Djokovic and whether he’ll be allowed entry into the United States. It seems he’s a foreigner without a vaccine. Maybe he should consider the southern border, they don’t have many requirements, and Then just show up at the tournament. Maybe the tennis association will look the other way. Unbelievable that the government is flexing mandate muscle this long after the fact. Australia pulled this stunt, to its shame. Novak likes his internal chemistry and doesn’t want to take a chance. Power can be exercised capriciously just so we all get it through our thick heads. You WILL comply or they’ll dream up a punishment.

We don’t know anybody that knows anybody, but the local news is rife with Corona virus outbreaks. They’re advising shots for toddlers and infants, as if we haven’t heard about the “rare” harm that may ensue. Word is that masks and vaccines are still on the table, and we’ve been advised to take action. Though it seems that the vaccine and booster shots are not particularly effective. But that kind of talk will get you canceled.

Educated people are warning that vaccines sometimes have unforeseen consequences. You know how they warn you of all the rare things that might happen if you take some advertised drug. In this case the drug companies are immune from whatever legal problems that might arise. So, how bad does Novak want to play in the U. S. Open? Not that bad. Maybe this seems off the subject, but it is global institutions calling the shots. The WHO (used to be a rock band) or the WEC. They don’t require logic. When Dr. Fauci speaks…

The City of New York is airing a public service announcement telling people what to do in case of nuclear attack. And you thought they hated everything about the 1950’s. That’s the last time we were schooled about nuclear attack. The pretender seems to be doing everything but sending troops to Ukraine to tick Putin off. Let’s hope he doesn’t have a terminal disease. Putin, that is. The pretender is in tremendous trouble, and probably won’t last more than a few months, in office that is. The mainstream media is beginning to abandon the impossible defense. The poll numbers are atrocious but
we suspect not near as bad as the truth.

These people (the pretender’s family) have got to be experiencing tremendous anguish. The kind that overtakes a person. It’s a weight, a cloud, a nightmare they hope to wake up from. But now it’s all over TV and there’s no escaping the damning video. There’s no denying the phone message everybody’s heard by now. It gives the lie to previous statements. The worst of escapades were filmed , and now it’s being released to the media. The mainstream media mostly knows nothing about it. But it’s all over TV and the internet. Still, they know nothing except it must be Russian propaganda. That dog won’t hunt. We’re not even going to describe the low rent conduct here. Good luck trying to hide this stuff now.

Apparently the January 6 committee is still going. Headlines in the mainstream claim that Trump has lost half of his support. (Right!) But their record for trying to herd us has not gone unnoticed. The headlines have been steering us wrong for as long as we can remember. The near universal mainstream hatred of Trump and his supporters has been obvious right along. It seems there is an effort to disqualify him permanently from office, and convince his supporters that they’d have to be crazy to back him. Why are they in such a hurry? It’s their last chance. Or who knows, maybe they’ll try again if this doesn’t do the trick.

There is ongoing fallout from the Supreme Court decision. There’s a reported bounty on Justices’ home addresses, and they might have to use the rear exit if dining out. The news reporting on the nonexistent “right” doesn’t seem quite accurate. In essence the Court washed it’s hands of the issue, sending it back to each individual state. But there are ramifications. You’ve no doubt seen that a long list of familiar corporate names have lined up to pay the expenses of a woman needing to go to another state.

The inflation rate was just released, and you know the result. Just over 9%. That’s spread out over a whole range of products. Chances are you buy more gasoline than other goods. In that case we’re talking way more than the number being reported. We know what gas is costing. Everybody, save the wealthy who can’t be bothered, just got a giant demotion. Take-home pay isn’t what it used to be.

The Pretender is embarrassing himself all over the Middle East at present. Don’t show us the gaffes. We can’t take it. He’s on bended knee before some of our worst enemies, and not a bit shy.

Much has been made of the poor old codger doing somebody’s dirty work, and blaming everyone else. As soon as he’s outlived his usefulness he’ll get all the blame, but the damage will have been done. It is being done. This one’s complicated, but God knows what’s up. We don’t need to stress too much. His Will definitely will be done, regardless.

Mark

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

The post Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 15 July 2022 first appeared on Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association.

News of the shooting in a Copenhagen mall has circled the globe.  Maybe if they only had stricter gun laws this wouldn’t have happened.  Do you think somebody intent on killing people is going to care about the gun laws?  Lawful citizens already have to abide all kinds of regulations and federal “checks” to see that they’re in compliance.  Presumably the Copenhagen shooter fell through the cracks.  They’ll definitely need to pass more laws to see that this doesn’t happen again.

Here at home, the Supreme Court is driving the usual suspects crazy.  They struck down New York’s restrictive gun laws and the governor responded by making nearly everywhere someone might go a “gun-free zone.”  Would be shooters can reasonably expect that they’ll get no resistance if they go to one of those.

This morning we woke up to the news of the assassination of Shinzo Abe, former Prime Minster of Japan and by all accounts a great and humble man.  He was murdered by a homemade gun.  Mr. Abe appeared and gave an eloquent speech at Pearl Harbor on the occasion of the 75^th anniversary, expressing grief and sorrow for the attack against the men in the service and their loved ones.  He vowed, on behalf of Japan to never again resort to war, and promised to pursue a policy of peace.  But that doesn’t cover it. He praised the freedom of America and the American people, something apparently abhorrent to our embarrassment of an administration and the mainstream ideology.

Gun laws are extremely strict in Japan, so much so that the average person would never dedicate so much time and trouble to following the stringent regulations.  So this assassin just made them at home.  He claimed he was trying to kill someone else.  Either way, he was a fine man who rose above the visceral hatreds of the past and pledged peaceful cooperation on behalf of the Japanese people.  Donald Trump loved Abe and thought very highly of him.  That alone is enough to send liberals over the top with hatred, but they surely dare not express it right now.  It seems like every world leader you can think of has come out and expressed their profound respect and sorrow.

Also this week we have the resignation of Boris Johnson as the Prime Minister of the U K.  What a disappointment he turned out to be.  We thought he’d be the Donald Trump of England, and then suddenly he was all about climate change and coronavirus restrictions.  Then came the scandals, staples of British entertainment.  When all the ministers who had supported him through those trials resigned, he knew it was over and said so in a very good-natured resignation speech.  Apparently he will remain in office while succession is sorted out.  You don’t suppose EU membership will be revisited?

When you look around the world, the nations that we have counted on to be sane are in a kind of political limbo.  It’s hard to know what comes next in Israel.  Boris is now just a place-holder, Canada has the heavy handed governance of Trudeau, and he’s buddies with Mark Rutte of Holland.  They are both graduates of Klaus Schwab’s WEF.   As we all know, that outfit knows everything about everything, way more than you or me.  Especially when it comes to planetary survival.

We’ve reached the point where quoting the Declaration of Independence is an act of defiance against a government that has declared war on its citizens.  You know the maneuver that temporarily stopped the rising price of gas?  Strategic reserves were reportedly released on the world market and sold to China.  If there were brokers in between, we’ll find out sooner or later.  Probably later.

You’d think there was a five alarm emergency over the Supreme Court’s recent decision on Roe.  There’s gnashing of teeth and all manner of nonsense.  There should be a law!  Make it an executive order!  Several woke institutions want you to know that they’ll pay the travel and whatever other expenses for a woman who has to go out of state to procure “treatment.”  Meanwhile, the true believers are still chasing Supreme Court Justices around.

You’d not know if limited to the mainstream news, the Dutch farmers have mounted a rebellion against EU plans to save the planet.  It seems that they’ve got to cut nitrogen emissions, and that has all kinds of ramifications.  It’s not exactly leading the news, but word is getting out.  Police actually shot at a 16 year old driving a tractor around a roadblock.  The crowds in protest are vast.  It looks like the Dutch farmers have figured it out, and been pushed far enough.  What’s everybody going to eat when the farms are interfering with planet saving measures?  This climate-change farce looks like the bandwagon everyone has to get on, or else.  That, and gay and tranny nonsense, reparations for racism and vaccine mandates.

They think they can repeal the Laws of God if they can just get enough of us to go along.  If the mainstream media can just get most people to accept the logic put forth, then they’ll be happy knowing that rebellion against the Laws of nature is “universal.”  The blurred “pride” logo on network TV and the internet tells us it’s universal, and we’re responding out loud.  Not quite.

Mark

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

The post Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 8 July 2022 first appeared on Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association.

By the time most people saw the story it had already been debunked.  When was the last time you saw the Secret Service release a statement about anything?  You’ve got the limo driver and the agent and they’re offering to testify under oath?  This is the Anita Hill tactic, but it’s not first person, she heard it from a friend.  Maybe that’s why hearsay isn’t allowed in a real court of law.  But this is not a court of law.   You have to wonder what fantastic stories we’ll be treated to as the Fall draws closer.  No doubt the story has plenty of drama, even violence.  As you try to envision it in your mind, it’s a little difficult.  Then you realize it’s not true.  Classic.  But unlike Russian collusion or treason in a phone call, this one’s crashed on takeoff, but the mainstream hasn’t noticed.

The gal none of us had ever heard of is having her 15 minutes of fame, longer if the mainstream media has anything to say.  If any of this were true she’d make a living on appearances and a book deal.  This is going to be in the history books despite it’s farcical nature.  She’ll either be a star or she’ll be thrown under the bus.

What’s up with Liz Cheney giving her comments from the Reagan library? (Mark Levine says Trump haters occupy top positions on the Reagan library board) It’s an indisputable fact that Ronald Reagan turned this country around, after interminable humiliation from some Iranian whack jobs.  Gas stations had lines around the block.  There was rationing.  Some are not old enough to remember, but it was depressing to say the least.  America was perceived to be weak, and constantly humiliated around the world.  Hardly any business was being done.  That’s what happens when interest rates go ballistic.  Ronald Reagan brought in an era of patriotism and strength.  He turned the country around.   For his name to be associated with this travesty of nonsense is shameful.

Since when is an administration bent on punishing its own citizenry?  The border news is so bad we don’t want to hear it.  Inflation is hurting everyone, especially those trying to make a living.  But none of that is as important as the “insurrection” and how close we came to “losing our democracy,” to coin a phrase.

Not only is Donald Trump guilty, having “lost his mind,” grabbing for the wheel of his limo and trying to choke a secret service officer, he’s guilty of being insane and trying to overthrow the country.  Just so that those who love and support him know what they’ve teamed up with.  If he’s guilty of “insurrection” and all the rest, what does that make his supporters?

We’ve been lied to straight faced by these committees, the networks, the newspapers and realized they’re no good at eating crow.  Instead of admitting what fools they’ve made of themselves with their sober proclamations and righteous predictions, they’re doubling down.  The hatred for Trump and his supporters runs deep.  You can’t believe in the Constitution and support Trump?  Liz Cheney, with that familiar look on her face, has decreed it.  Now we’ve heard everything.  That’s about as desperate as it gets.  It didn’t matter that the story was debunked as soon as it was told.  Nevertheless, the committee was deeply distressed.

Do they not realize that the same players put the people of this country through years of this nonsense under the guise of Russian Collusion and the fake impeachment.  Have we not seen all this before?  They’ve decided the people of this country are gullible.  If big names say something, repeated by the newspapers, the websites and the six o’clock news, it must be true.  A glance at the mainstream media revealed bombshell headlines.  You have to read nearly the whole article to find out that the actual first-hand witnesses say nothing of the sort ever happened.  These sober hearings weren’t designed to glean truth.  They were designed to be the last nail in the Trump coffin.

If the United States hasn’t been drawn into a proxy war in Ukraine, you’d never know it.  The public pronouncements have become provocative, weapons and the money more so!  So, who’s at war and why?  None of our business. Leave that to the experts.  Don’t think or say anything negative or some agency might send a swat team.  Some White House spokesman has proclaimed our several predicaments less important that the future of the “liberal world order.”  The what?  “This is about the future of the liberal world order, and we have to stand firm.”  Apparently everything’s already been fixed.  Don’t you love when they tell you what it’s “about?”  They’re committed and can’t go back now.  It’s double down time, and it looks like the American citizen is hostage to the liberal world order, whatever that is.

Eventually these buffoons find out what pipsqueaks they are.  But until then…

Mark

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

The post Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 1 July 2022 first appeared on Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association.

Today is the day the mainstream has been dreading.  In actual fact, the abortion issue has been handed back to the states.  The 1973 ruling was invalidated as a matter of law.  The idea that the U. S. Constitution handed some sacred “right” to women was a fantastic reach in the first place.  Finally, nearly 50 years later, it’s been overturned.  Some “crowds” (to be charitable) have been parading, banging drums and chanting in front of the homes of Supreme Court Justices.  Who are these people?  Are they wearing masks outdoors for fear of COVID, or to hide their identities?

If the hard left gets its way, there will be all kinds of mayhem.  Nobody seems interested in prosecuting those trying to influence the decision, a crime though it may be.  They seem to be doing the dirty work we were promised.  Will it set off riots?  Maybe looting and burning?

It’s Trump’s fault, of course.  Him and his ultra-maga supporters.  Biden is mad,  Maxine Waters says they’re going to be out protesting in their thousands, or millions.  “We are going to make sure we fight for the right to control our own bodies.”  (Where was she during the mask mandate?)  They’ll defy the Supreme Court.  How, other than causing a ruckus, we’ll see.

Obama says the court has curtailed our freedoms.  Michelle is heartbroken.  It is a “horrifying decision.”  They’re both calling on people to join protests and give Planned Parenthood support.  The Justice Dept. says it will “use every tool at our disposal to protect reproductive freedom.”  It’s hard to know what that means, but the weeks ahead should give us some idea.   AOC is shown with her mouth wide open, talking about “birthing people” and  chanting with protesters.  I guess this is supposed to let us know she thinks men can get pregnant.  But sure enough, some states are announcing that abortion is illegal, as of today.

World leaders are appalled.  Especially Justin Trudeau of Canada.  He’s horrified and can’t imagine the fear and anger that it will cause.  Even Boris Johnson is bent out of shape.  Just when the whole world was seeing the light and liberalizing laws governing abortion.

It’s the second time this week they’ve seen the court rule against their  beloved philosophy.  First it struck down New York’s gun law.  So they were already ticked.  The abortion ruling though, just might drive them over the edge.  The police caught a guy who said he’d come to “kill Kavanaugh.”  No big deal, according to the mainstream media.  Hardly worth reporting.  But all bets are off as we wait to see how crazy the protesters will get.  This may well justify riots and looting.  Even if the rioters and looters don’t know what they’re mad about.  Riot police are staging outside the Supreme Court, just in case.  But not everybody is down in the dumps.  Some are celebrating.  Trump says to God be the glory.

What ever happened to Ukraine?  It’s not in the news much lately.  The last thing we heard was that we were going to send billions of dollars and more.  Apparently Russia has had to call in troops that were stationed in other hot spots.  Some are worried that this thing may drag on and that other countries may get involved causing an escalation that may get out of control.  We hope they’re wrong.

Meanwhile UN officials are warning of food shortages.  The pope is hinting at resignation.  Maybe he’s done enough damage.  The American economy is reeling from inflation being driven by the  pretend administration’s war on oil.  They want you to know there’s nothing more they can do.  But at least something’s gone right today.    Have a great Sabbath.

Mark

P.S. The new Feast brochures are printed and will be going out with the next letter, probably Monday or Tuesday.

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

The post Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 24 June 2022 first appeared on Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association.

Everything is going according to plan.  We’re up to our ears in crises, the phony administration is saving the planet, but only in the U. S.  It would be fine if Saudi Arabia and Venezuela could ramp up the supply of oil.  But we’re not going to do it here.  Because we’ve gone “green.”  No need to explain that it’s still the same earth, and nobody produces cleaner energy than the United States.  But they’ve decided we’re dense, and they’re going to pound their point through our thick heads when we buy gas.  If there’s any consolation, it is that the global warming zealots have to buy gas and groceries too.

So the pretender sent a strongly worded letter to those greedy oil outfits.  He must have said “Putin’s price hike” or words to that effect four or five times.  You mean the guys at the apex of the oil industry need the pretender to tell them why prices have necessarily skyrocketed?   It’s no secret.  It’s the price of going green.  “Look in my eyes,” the pretender said before he said he would “end” fossil fuels.  We’ve got to destroy the western way of life to save the planet.  Nonsense.

The Major League Baseball franchises are being pressed to wear rainbow stars on their uniforms.  If not, some gal on ESPN will call players who refuse bigots and haters.  The media insists that support of gay marriage and transgenders is so universally supported that none dare oppose it.  Maybe that’s because there will be network and internet media attacks that will swing into action and call the non-supporter a bigot.  That sounds like a reason somebody might keep their head down.

They sing God Bless America in the seventh inning at major league games.  Talk about a conflict!  All while wearing the rainbow star, everybody but those hateful bigots who refuse it.  None of this makes any sense.  Did you ever consider that we’re being made to endure nonsense because the consequences are too disturbing?  Not for one minute do I accept that a majority is supportive of homosexuality.  The majority just doesn’t want to suffer the consequences of being called a hater and a bigot.  Asking God to bless America when there is apparent embracing of things He condemns roundly in both Testaments is insane.

Do we really all support this concept that someone can change genders on a whim?  Little children are being offered the “choice” as to whether they would prefer to go through life as a boy or girl.  They get to decide.  Little children who still believe in the Easter bunny and Santa Clause are being “educated” to choices they didn’t realize were an option.  Parents who believe in God and nature?  They’re just old fashioned and out of touch with the latest science.  You see, there are puberty blockers that will prevent under- age kids from developing naturally.  We can only guess at the side effects.  There will be comprehensive studies out in about fifteen years.  The Heritage Foundation just released a study showing that tranny children are more likely to kill themselves, sooner or later.  That sounds like a side-effect.

What did they think would happen when they confuse little children about their very identity?  It doesn’t end well.  How many trans are recognizable?  I can think of two, and neither is what you’d call a roll model.  There’s a reason they don’t show us what a wonderful life they’re living.  If they could, they would.  So you get the “drag-queen” shows, where guys in outrageous wigs, make-up and high heels mince around like they’re having fun.

We don’t want to get political, but we have a pretender who thinks we deserve wild gas prices.  We’re getting what we’ve got coming.  The pretender gets pretty miffed if he thinks he’s taking the blame for something.  He’s liable to lash out angrily.  It’s all Trump’s fault after all.  Him and his ultra-maga supporters.  And Putin, don’t forget him, and those greedy oil companies.

The dog and pony show known as the January 6, committee is failing. Everything else they’ve done to rid the playing field of Donald Trump also failed.  With any sanity, the J 6 committee will go the way of the Muller investigation, or the impeachment debacle.

The energy secretary says the prices at the pump make a compelling case for buying an electric car.  Don’t ask where the components come from.  It’s not pretty.  Don’t ask too much about charging the batteries, or what happens when they’ve breathed their last.  But it will only cost you half as much to drive.  If you’re not going to far.  Concerns about the grid are on the news.  How does a blackout effect a car’s charger?  There’s not a word about any of it in the commercials.  But it would have to be a second or third car, not one that you rely on for hassle-free transportation.

I have to credit my son with this.  He says, “They should have gone green when gas was cheap.”  They were preaching it, now we’re living it.  It’s as bogus as it was twenty years ago.  But we’re apparently paying for the companies and corporations suddenly preaching woke doctrine as if it’s universally accepted.  Our retirement accounts are tied up with a basket of companies we know little about.  Maybe you’ve noticed, the markets have not been kind of late.  Everybody’s taking a bath, and why?

Just seeing photos of monkey-pox is enough to give you nightmares.  If you knew what they had to do to get the disease, you wouldn’t sleep at all.  It seems like a return to aids, when the news told us it was an epidemic.  Nothing works like making people worry.  It seems everything we learn is designed to make us worry.  But monkey-pox is not airborne.  We aren’t going to get it.  Or a vaccine either.

Mark

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

The post Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 17 June 2022 first appeared on Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association.

We didn’t know how the world could be so upside down.  Prosecutors seem to be on the side of criminals.  How is it that violent felons get off with a slap on the wrist, to go out and wreak mayhem?  We have the unbelievable situation where Supreme Court justices are being heckled at their homes with people in the streets banging drums and shouting chants.  Not that that’s not a crime, and a serious one.  But it seems they’re doing the bidding of those that loved the sacred “right” the Supreme Court gave them back in the Seventies.  Somebody with a gun apparently told Police he was there to “kill Kavanaugh.”  These political criminals aren’t the smartest in the world.  But they do have a support group that shrugs and says, “I told you we were going to have problems.”

“He will pay the price!”  That’s what an angry politician said about Brett Kavanaugh, suspecting that he’s swayed the court against Roe vs. Wade.  Is this the price?  “You won’t know what hit you!”  Those sound like intemperate remarks.  But what do you know?  He was right.  Must be a touch clairvoyant.

We’re not about to recount all the problems that have been caused since the suspicious election.  What we know for sure is that we’re deep into Jimmy Carter territory.  If you were up and running, you’ll remember that as the most humiliating and depressing experience ever.  Until now.

Interest rates haven’t yet reached the heights of the early Eighties, but everything else is not good.  We see examples of criminals visiting violence on unsuspecting citizens, and they’re right back out committing additional crimes.  It’s a trend.  We just can’t watch all the idiotic decisions being made, or the excuses made for everything going wrong.  Nothing makes sense anymore, and we get hammered about discrimination or bigotry for refusing to celebrate, or “honor” ridiculous movements determined to rope everybody in.  If you don’t celebrate “pride month,” you must be a bigoted discriminator.  Just one question.  What are they so proud about?  I don’t think that has ever been answered.  But if you don’t celebrate pride month, you might be a bigot.  Nobody will tell these goofballs how stupid this all is.  Who would dare!

We’re expected to believe, or if not, at least pretend to believe all the nonsense that spews from the mainstream.  Last night they treated us to some slickly produced propaganda.  It was on at least eight channels LIVE.  I heard some of the opening statements, despite not watching the charade in its entirety.  The upshot is that President Trump had a plan to overthrow the government, and the “insurrection” was the result.  Don’t say it wasn’t an insurrection, or some heads might explode.  So, it was an insurrection that Donald Trump devised, and you must repeat that and at least pretend to believe it, or you might be an accomplice.

There’s never been anything as bad as Trump, or any supporters that haven’t denounced him.   The committee chairman on the podium on TV news and on the radio said that attempts to justify what actually happened on Jan. 6 reminds him of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan and I don’t know what all.  Let’s all line up and feel for the poor guy.  Of all the things that were going to turn the public against Donald Trump or make you afraid to stand for any of the values of the United States, this may have been the weakest.  You haven’t forgotten COLLUSION with Russia, the lead story for two years.  Nor the impeachment over a phone call.  This was hopefully the last attempt to falsify the record and present something of substance.  It failed to live up to the hype, despite all the grim faces.  They edited statements and audio clips as if we didn’t know that the full statements blew their whole theory.  They’ve done it before.  We’re wise to it.

If against all odds there should be a resurgence of Trump support or the man should have any further success in politics, you can expect more.  Not only that, we all better get used to being targeted.  Nothing we believe lines up with these new “values” that are all over television or the internet.  Nobody will say the obvious.  Pride month can’t be over soon enough.  It’s just designed to make us go along, or get used to wearing some stupid labels.  I’ll take the labels any day.  There comes a time when you just have to say, “NO!”

Mark

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

The post Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 10 June 2022 first appeared on Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association.

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

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

The post Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 3 June 2022 first appeared on Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association.

You can’t escape the news of the school shooting in Uvalde, TX.  But the story has taken several surprising twists.  Apparently there are protocols for this kind of thing.  Police don’t just storm in and take control of the situation.  Despite the fact that the shooter was inside the school, killing children, police were outside arguing with distressed parents.  There’s plenty of video of the police holding panicked parents at bay while nobody knew what was going on inside.  We don’t have the whole story.  It will trickle out through eyewitnesses in the days ahead.  But the press conferences and explanations as to the actions of law enforcement don’t sound very good.  We support law enforcement and expect them to take action against the shooter immediately, especially when the lives of little children are at stake.  Listening to the spokesmen talk about the need for “specialized equipment” while seeing parents held at bay by police is not a very good look.

We have yet to feel the brunt of inflation.  It may cost $100 to fill your tank, but everything we buy is on the rise.  With fuel costing double already, the increase will be applied to every single thing we buy.  We may already be in recession, but it’s not official yet.

You’ve noticed that news from the war in Ukraine is dying out.  Our tormentors voted to insert $40 billion of U. S. aid into the fray.  Surely some of that must go to replace America’s dwindling supply of some items.  Who knows.  At the rate things are going we might need them.  The pretender seemed to say that we’d intervene if China tries to take Taiwan militarily.

Maybe it wasn’t the smartest thing in the world to outsource the production of electronic chips to a country China says belongs to the regime.  We don’t even want to have to imagine what life will look like if manufacturing is dependent on items that are unavailable.

There is growing evidence that the short supply and soaring prices of gas and diesel is intentional.  It’s looking, and sounding, more and more like this is part of the plan to “save the planet” by forcing everyone into modes of transportation that are impractical, expensive, and anything but “green.”  It’s unbelievable that everybody’s been thrown into an economic tailspin due to canceled pipelines and oil exploration  being placed off limits.  The last thing we need is some nonsense speech about “when this is all over.”  We can’t help but wonder what the world will look like once they’ve “saved the planet.”

The WEF (World Economic Forum) has been meeting in Davos, Switzerland.  The globalist institution has our future all planned for us.  They’d have to run over the Constitution, but there’s not much else standing in their way.  Apparently the powers that be want to give enormous powers over to a global body, one that sees the United States as racist, bigoted and unfair.  We hope there will be another chapter where we become the light of the world.  After all, it’s not the pretender who’ll be around to suffer what he’s wrought.  It’s our kids and grandkids.  They’ll never forgive us if we allow some jaundiced institution like the WEF to eradicate freedom in the United States.

Maybe they’ll be chasing us around about monkey-pox next.

Mark

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

The post Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 27 May 2022 first appeared on Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association.

Amid the scare that the pretend administration is trying to turn American sovereignty over to a faceless UN body known as the WHO, is the reality of “emergency powers.”  Isn’t that convenient?  Congress doesn’t have to pass laws.  A pint-sized twerp in a lab coat can be trotted out to make a declaration, and that authorizes all manner of stupidity.

Businesses were closed in New York, California and a host of states where the governors acted on behalf of the “public.”  Surely the “public” would be better off if they weren’t running around spreading coronavirus all over the place.  Businesses of all kinds closed, often permanently.  You probably miss some of them.  There was nothing gyms could do except lock the doors.  Some who bucked the lock-down were raided and forcibly closed by police.  What Constitution?

It appears that ways to exert authority have been discovered, and the protections that we thought were inherent in our citizenship are no protections at all when it comes to “emergency declarations.”  Governors retained the right to FORCE people to stay home, not work and hunker down.  At first, Joe Q. Public probably didn’t mind, thinking it would be a week off, maybe two.  But that was two years ago, and still we’re getting bossed around about coronavirus.  They’re trying to resurrect it in New York, where the mayor has declared that masks must be worn outdoors in public.  What!?!  These so-called emergency powers have been egregiously abused, and there are other emergencies around the corner.  We only have to wait for them to be manufactured.

The naysayers said Trump was dangerous.  They said he would bungle us into nuclear war.  They said the same thing about Ronald Reagan.  Not even close.  We were worried about North Korea.  Remember the panic in Hawaii?  People lowering their children down manhole covers, making one last call to loved ones?  They haven’t forgotten, and probably never will.  Now we’re worried about Russia.  Threats have been issued.  The last time we were this close to war with Russia was the Cuban missile crisis.  If you listen to some of the advisors you’d think it was the U. S. at war in Ukraine!  Talk about stumbling into big trouble.  At least Trump has all his marbles, and loved the country enough to sacrifice his billionaire lifestyle to make it thrive.

The election appears to have been stolen.  Saying so would get you thrown off social media platforms, not that I care.  Differing with the approved narrative was not allowed.  What are you, a source of “disinformation”?  The pretend regime thought they’d appoint someone to stamp out “dis-information” and set everybody straight.  Unfortunately they picked some hair-brain gal that’s been busy spreading nonsense, between singing to her computer and making creepy faces.  It was so ludicrous they’ve shut down, or more accurately “paused” the new department under the department of Homeland Security. Now Homeland Security has appointed Michael Chertoff to figure everything out.  Another creep.

Nobody can figure out what to do about China.  Tons of plastic junk fill the shelves of nearly every store.  But businesses can make tremendous profits if they manufacture in China.  The NBA has staked its future on the huge audience that has no chance of actually competing in the sport.  They must thrill to the athleticism on display.  Not only that, it’s the biggest imaginable market for their swag.  What do those profiting from China care?  They’ve got the money to live anywhere on Earth.  And no.  We’re not jealous.  Taiwan?  Apparently that’s a sacrifice worth making for the profits involved.  People making money off ignoring the abuses in China ought to have to live there.  Just saying.

The baby formula crisis is so bad that all the wire services have propelled it into everybody’s domain.  The first thought was that mothers would be going to the internet to find out how to make it at home.  But the news is warning that you better not.  Now there’s a news story about a mother who’s been “caught” hoarding formula to feed her babies.  What mother wouldn’t try to acquire a supply amid a crisis?  How many crises have arisen?  We’ve got more  crises than we can keep up with, and the pretend administration is only a year and a half old.

It’s as if turning back all of those evil Trump policies means that the American people have become the enemy.  Now it’s all about “social justice,” diversity, inclusion and saving the planet.  All the big corporate names are popping up to let us know they’re on board.  After all, they don’t want to be attacked by the three letter agencies that are tasked with making sure we all think the same thoughts.  It’s a joke, and a bad one at that.  But we seem to be on some kind of ride that we can’t get off.  Not to wreck your weekend by spelling out all the manufactured crises, you already know.  This can’t end well, and it won’t.  Hopefully there will be something left to save when the “adults” are no longer in charge.

Mark

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

The post Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 20 May 2022 first appeared on Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association.