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

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Everything has accelerated to the point you can hardly keep up, assuming you want to.  Rules, mandates, requirements. It’s looking like travel will never be the same, unless in the confines of your own car, and there are  plans for that too.  If someone was holding out hope to visit Australia, they can forget it unless prepared to be submissive and patient.  If something isn’t just so, you can look forward to detention while being guarded against, escape?  They make sure that’s impossible, especially for an innocent traveler.  Ever been deported?  You’d hate to make that flight twice, back to back.

Two professions that had great respect, almost reverence, were science and medicine.  Doctors still have take the Hippocratic oath and swear to do no harm.  Science is the ongoing challenge to facts that have been known and believed traditionally.  It aims to not only verify what we already know to be fact and who knows, maybe discover something not previously known and receive recognition.   Can you imagine a scientist who doesn’t believe in global warming?  That would be career suicide.  Everybody’s playing along to get by.  Nobody dares call it what it is.

You see what’s going on on the Internet.  Any article on Djokovic, or the dreaded virus, January 6^th, or perish the thought, election irregularities, assuming comments are allowed, is going to be swarmed with unhinged idiots calling names and using language.  They’ve gone crazy at the very thought of anyone believing anything but the mainstream take.  It’s enough to ruin any intelligent exchange that might have ensued.  But they’re not prepared to argue anymore.  It’s been repeated enough times that (coronavirus pronouncements, global warming, saving the planet, racial hatred) those beliefs have become facts that nobody dares dispute.  Nobody except some dangerous conspiracy theorist.  Who wants that moniker?

The lengths to which the mainstream networks, newspapers and yes, local radio wire readers have gone to avoid anything that goes against the narrative is astonishing.  We remember when publications were proud of their “scoops.”  There’s no such thing anymore unless you venture to the “fringe.”  There better not be any revelations that dispute the overriding narrative.  There are a precious few exceptions, and most of them are not in a position where they can be fired.  There are other ways of dealing with the masses.  Social media networks will just cancel whatever or whoever disagrees with their “fact-checkers.”  They’ll disappear you without a second thought.  Followers?  Not anymore.  Freedom of speech?  “They” control the platform.

Since when were we “afraid” of false information?   When did it become so “dangerous?”  There’s never been a shortage.  Just like everything else that’s wrong in the world, we just tuned it out.  We refused to be ruffled.  Huge legal disputes were decided forty years ago that legalized pretty much everything on the basis of a free society where the individual was free to decide what was right, or moral or true.  Maybe that wasn’t the best idea from the standpoint that a lot of evil was allowed to spill out into the public.  Nevertheless, the courts erred on the side of freedom under the Constitution, and nuts to the consequences.

How times have changed!  Suddenly, even a personal rendition of any negative experience with the mandated potions is dangerous and must be silenced.  The “legitimate” sources of information have turned their heads another direction.  As far as they’re concerned nothing bad has ever happened  to anyone who’s followed orders.  They never heard of it.  It’s like the testimony before Congress.  Nobody knows what anybody is talking about.  The wave-lengths are not compatible.  Documents?  The news will not acknowledge their existence.

There aren’t any, according to previously ignored agencies that used to put out a study now and again.  Suddenly they’re telling everyone what to do, what to believe, instituting requirements that are a violation of our personal sovereignty.  When you’ve been deceived and intentionally so, chances are you don’t return for advice.  Especially when you’re in the habit of making your own personal decisions.  The agencies are proceeding at warp speed to put an end to that.

As far as the mainstream is concerned, they’ll be no more personal decisions.  You’ll do what your told without hesitation or, they won’t let you in, they’ll see to it that you’re fired, they’ll quarantine you and exact penalties for infractions.  Authoritarianism is on a roll.  Regardless of whatever information about the latest “variant,” the “authorities” are hard at work, keeping everybody “safe.”  The narrative has been repeated enough times, we must all believe it.

But we don’t.  We’re too polite to bash idols.  But the mainstream hasn’t earned much credibility, not for a long time.  They’ve pretended to believe the most idiotic accusations.  They pretend to believe the garbage they spout even after it’s been picked apart, disproven, sometimes defeated in court.  But the smirks just keep on coming without any shame for the nonsense they’ve pushed and pounded.

It’s a bleak future for the earth if the banks and corporations require proof of compliance with whatever flavor they’ve invented.  It will be supposedly rescued from the selfish who thought freedom (within the boundaries of righteous law) was guaranteed.  Not so fast!  Freedom has been stamped out in Canada, Australia, several European nations, and would be extinct in the United States if not for a few honest judges.  It looks like the mandates, the firings, the cancellations will ultimately be reviewed by the Supreme Court.  Not that mistakes haven’t been made in the past, but there is some hope for this promised land yet.  If they let the United States down, we’ll go the way of the world.  Let’s hope God isn’t ready to abandon us just yet.  Calling those idols what they are might help.

Mark

P.S.  The latest I’ve heard on Mr. Robert Nunnery’s situation. It looks like he’s taken a turn for the better and will be receiving treatment that doesn’t include the ICU.  We hope to hear he is home and back to normal strength.

Update on Australia deporting #1 tennis player and defending champion Novak Djokovic: He spent the week in limbo after winning a legal hearing.  But Australia’s Health Minister has decided that for the sake of Australians who have sacrificed mightily during the “pandemic,” Djokovic must be deported for the public good.  He didn’t follow the rules sufficiently, consequently…

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A brief illustration, if you don’t mind.  If you ever attended a live taping of Johnny Carson, you know that the audience was whipped up ahead of the show.  They’d see which part of the room could cheer the loudest, or laugh the hardest.  By the time Ed McMahon said, “Heeeeeeer’s Johnny” the crowd was wildly enthusiastic.  All metaphors break down at some point.

Have we ever seen a time where everything the news, of nearly every stripe reports, is misdirecting the public on a continual basis?  Even with our understanding, it’s hard to fathom.  There were several shills on January 6^th.  There’s video of that frigid day, and some show guys that were actively involved in using persuasion and stoking anger with the help of a bullhorn.  Imagine that irritable crowd, freezing in the biting wind, being urged to move forward and breach the Capitol.  Strangely, the guys trying to manage the crowd are nowhere to be found.  They are not among the two hundred some odd charged with trespassing, and they’re not among those being held with more serious charges of having grappled with police.  Some have been identified, but not held or charged.

Meanwhile we’re treated to daily news comparing the incident and it’s anniversary to 9-11 or the attack at Pearl Harbor.  It’s unseemly that such statements can be made without being treated as an attempt at comedy.  You know full well who’s saying it, and the anchors nod with furrowed brow.  They think if they can hang the blame on the former President, it will destroy any hope of a comeback.

Coronavirus fear is high on the agenda.  You’d have thought they’d have run out of records to break, but no.  It looks like the latest “variant” is the common cold, but hair is still burning on the heads of every news reporter.  It’s their job, after all.  How do they not choke when shown what they’re supposed to read?  Australia just detained the number one tennis player in the world, Novak Djokovic, upon his arrival to Melbourne.  He thought his medical exemption had been accepted, but there is some confusion. The Australian Prime Minister explained to the public,  “Rules are rules, especially when it comes to our border.”  Djokovic is being deported, and won’t be playing in the Australian open.  He was apparently treated poorly, having all his belongings including his wallet taken away while detained in a room with police guards.  But the it’s already been figured out.  The mainstream will call him an “anti-vaxer” and a weirdo, so you can forget any sympathy.  He might just be a weirdo who’s seen the videos of healthy young people collapsing amid competition.  This story just might have legs. But then again…

Australia is a patchwork of rules, regulations and penalties.  Unvaccinated people are not allowed to go their way in the Northern Territory.  Movements are limited to strict necessities, and that doesn’t include work.  Apparently the population has determined to suffer in silence, and supports the heavy-handed approach.

We know, thanks to the unapproved media available on the Internet, that there have been large demonstrations all over Europe, some of them we illustrated in the new 21^st Century WATCH.  That kind of information has no place in the narrative-driven mainstream.  Here at home, we are a polite and long-suffering people.  We assume the Constitution and Bill of Rights will hold up, sooner or later, and the spate of authoritarian regulations will be struck down.  But the courts have been all over the place on this.  The Supreme Court is weighing the merits of OSHA regulations that the Occupant decreed must include vaccination for companies that employ more than 100 people.  We won’t know the outcome until the end of the month.

It’s astounding that people have put up with all kinds of authoritarian edicts, closures, rules and penalties.  We’ve had a relatively mild situation here, with a governor who is suing the Feds over vaccinations for the Texas National Guard.

You know how the media loves an obsession.  They love to repeat what you’ve heard over and over as if for the first time.  We’re going on two years with the corona bologna, and they show no signs of slowing down the fear express.  Without that factor, they’d never have been able to destroy careers with a wave of the finger.  You don’t suppose they’re enjoying the power?  No.  We can’t think that way.  They’re just trying to keep everybody safe.  But our founding documents weren’t written to keep everybody safe.  But they were what we counted on to keep us free.  For now, that’s just not the case in the U. S. and much of the formerly free world.

Mark

P.S. Now that you’re temporarily depressed, let me share some wonderful news. My Son and Daughter-in-law have a brand new baby boy, James Mark Armstrong.  (Hopefully that middle name won’t turn out to have been a mistake.)  He’s perfect and everybody’s doing fine, especially his big sister Anna who will no doubt be of great help through the stages.  We’re very happy.

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