There have been a lot of times over the years where you think the population has lost its mind.  The anchors with furrowed brows, so transparent in their deceit.  So the long-awaited Durham Report has come out.  Presumably he got to the bottom of it.  I remember wondering at the time how much of our lives they would dare waste with nonsense.  But, as you know, the mainstream ate it up.  Boy!  Was Donald Trump in trouble this time!  Day after day, month after month, for two and a half years there was expert speculation about treasonous crimes.  It would seem appropriate if they’d have to answer for the countless hours of valuable airtime they spent trying to convince us of what they thought.  Or what they wanted us to think.  Did they really believe any of the nonsense they were reporting?

The Durham Report?  A big nothing-burger.  Some of the “experts” are still ranting.

You just can’t go by what is being preached on every network but maybe two.  The press behavior around the big guy is unconscionable by any standard.  Any questions about scandal?  They’ve made a decision somewhere that if it’s ignored it’ll go away.  But they may have miscalculated.  The stuff they’re involved in may be too big to fail. But it’s like all the people who matter are on the same page.  Not only that, they’ve squandered their credibility.

They’ve delayed the inevitable by three years, so far.  But the officials and agencies are guilty of selective targeting and untold malfeasance.  The Fake News has another misdirecting story for their audience.  Even the attempts to manipulate us have become so apparent, it’s hard to stand.

We’ve been told (by polls and experts) that half the country is pure lunatic.  That doesn’t seem right somehow.  Sure, a lot of them are caught up in some fad that they’ll hopefully outgrow.  But if reality ever dawns…  Sooner or later it will.  But surely half the country can’t be crazy!

It was some weeks ago that somebody asked a European diplomat what would happen in the event of the U. S. defaulting on it’s debt.  She said the ramifications would be so severe, that it just couldn’t and wouldn’t happen.  But here we are again, the two parties playing tough.  When you consider how much is being spent going green, or whatever, and then the military services getting involved in some of this idiotic nonsense, it’s enough to disgust everybody.  If you don’t count the ones who are giggling and congratulating themselves for having brought it about.  But no one dares say a word, or they’ve got all kinds of devastating names to call you.  

Call it what you want, but the Sports Illustrated has put some of the most beautiful women ever in it’s magazines.  In swimsuits, mostly.  But here comes word that they’ve decided to put a dude in drag on display.  In a swimsuit.  This can’t be a good move, financially.  May they reap the whirlwind that Bud Lite created.  We’re looking forward to a full blown disaster.  I guess supermodels are going broke.   

We’re finding out to our dismay, that the three letter agencies are not dealing off the top of the deck.  Do you believe the stories of the “whistle-blowers”?  They’re giving testimony that’s just devastating to whatever credibility remains in the eyes of the public.  But we didn’t even need their testimony.  It’s confirmation of what we already knew must be going on.

It’s really getting old, the news telling us things on full authority that isn’t even true, but was cooked up for the sole reason of shaping our thinking.  We hope that this can be worked out through familiar channels, but the indoctrination goes pretty deep.  

Sports Illustrated thinks they’re going to change our minds by putting some glamorous trans on the cover?  There used to be a commercial on all the time, probably margarine.  It said, “It’s not nice to fool mother nature.”   

Mark

The post Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – May 19, 2023 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

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

Recent events beg a question, and it’s a big one. What will we NOT bow down for?  Americans are driving around solo, all masked up. Does that make some kind of sense, or are people just projecting their obeisance? Certain gas stations and truck stops have installed large signs on either side of their doors featuring a giant stop sign. Masks are REQUIRED to enter. Really? Nobody says a word inside. Maybe they value our money more than anything else.

It says right on the side of the mask box that they’re ineffective against viruses. So what on earth are we doing? Many are probably afraid they’ll be accosted, and would prefer to remain anonymous like every other pencil in the box. Just get what you need and be on your way. But that may not work forever. The MANDATES are about to get much more severe. Hopefully you live in a state where the local law agencies still have some regard for Constitutional rights. If not, things may get a little sticky.

Where do we draw the line?

We’ve considered an idea for a cover on 21st Century WATCH. The Mark of the MASK. Yes, we realize that it’s tongue in cheek, but what are we NOT going to be forced to do to go on living here. There are Biblical examples of righteous characters who were thrown into the fiery furnace, and a prophet into a den of lions for refusing to bow down to idolatrous dictates. That’s where they drew the line, and there surely must have been an element of fear involved. “You mean all I have to do is take a knee or two and pretend to honor a statue?” That sounds easy enough. Surely their health would be put in jeopardy (to say the very least) if they didn’t comply. How easy would it have been to do what they were told in order to avoid certain death? Easier than most of what we’re facing.

But now, everybody is caving in. The news tells us that WE are the problem if we don’t share their views and attitudes. And these charlatans don’t mind lying to everybody if it’s saving their careers. Some have done it willfully, even gleefully. Others have to pretend to believe the party line. But they’re all bowing down for a pack of lies, and advising that we do the same, or else.

Did you ever see a city looted or burned in the wake of one of the dozens of rallies over the past four years? Any Macy’s or Nordstrom’s, or Wendy’s or pharmacies looted or burned? We’ve seen all that, but never following one of these massive rallies. There’s a lot we don’t know about what happened at the nation’s capital on the sixth. A video was just shown to me showing police officers opening the doors and letting people inside! Who knew? If it was a violent rampage inside, why were people politely walking between the velvet ropes? What kind of riot was it anyway?

Oh, they’re hyperventilating at the news desks, and it’s all the fault of you know who, so they say. He’s destroyed his legacy this time, they tell us. Why, there was talk of “fighting” at the rally. That’s proof, they claim. You know as well as the next person that every politician in memory has claimed to “fight” for something. It’s a favorite phrase, and often repeated. But this time they claim it was incitement. We’d hate to think of what might have happened if that crowd of at least a quarter-million would have been incited to riot. All the police in D. C. and the surrounding counties couldn’t have prevented anything that crowd decided to do. But the crowd wasn’t incited to do any such thing.

Maybe some Trump supporters got carried away. But nothing got burned. Nothing got spray painted. The fracas with Police at the barricades included antifa members who are used to battling police. The news will not tell you that, and will probably deny it. But they’ve lost trust long since.

Was Russian collusion true? Was the impeachment legitimate? We’ve watched as they’ve claimed to know what President Trump meant many times, knowing that he didn’t mean what they accused, that is if you’ve got two brain cells to rub together.

American citizens are on their own now, unless they’re trusting Almighty God for guidance and protection. No longer will there be a president who is the prime target. He’s stood as a buffer to patriotic Americans, and the primary target of the media and the permanent bureaucracy. We’d hoped there might be some justice coming for the evildoers, but it seems they outlasted his presidency. The swamp plug never got pulled. It appears the swamp won, and now they’ll search out the rest of us.

It’s the enemy within, and soon it will be calling all the shots. The question is, where do we draw the line? Will we have anything to say about anything, including our own bodies? We’ll see where this thing goes, and how far it gets. Buckle up, and stay in touch with God. As my Dad used to say, “Only God can save us now.” Half in jest, of course. If there is to be any truth, justice or American way, we’re going to need His help.

Mark

P. S. We’re in the process of contracting for television commercials for 21st Century WATCH on OAN, where millions of Fox viewers have fled. They reach 24 million households. We sent out over 200,000 pieces of mail from our offices in 2020. We had well over 50,000 unique visitors to the GTA-EA website, and put our ads for doctrinal booklets in front of 1.24 million on Facebook. (I personally hate to do business with the alien “fact-checker,” who in my opinion is one of the most evil, anti-American little twerps known to man. But it does produce some positive results.) We’ve added some 500 hundred who now receive the monthly letter and many request offered material. We won’t give up, we’ll not stop. Somebody has to stand for something, no matter how stupid things get.

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Greetings from Tyler,

Our worst fears are playing out in real-time.  There are a lot of things we don’t know yet.  Who do we trust?  We’ve seen corruption in the media, corruption in Federal agencies, and now there is apparent corruption in the electoral system.  So we’re waiting with bated breath to see what the media reports?  When have they shown any honesty over recent years? They’re behind the idiocy we’ve had to endure for the past four years.  The “dossier” was a fraud, and had to be proven so at a cost of tens of millions of dollars, but there is still no admission from the mainstream media.  They’re still wearing their haughty faces, sneering at the very suggestion that ANYONE still loves America as founded.

There’s one thing you can take to the bank.  Regardless of how the contested Presidential election finally turns out, there will be many, perhaps half of the country, who will not accept the result no matter which way it ends up.

If there’s any silver lining to this incredible mess, it is that the communist’s plans to upend the nation with a bunch of destructive Green New Deal foolishness will not succeed based on House and Senate results, should they turn out to be accurate.  Worst case is we’ll be back to defense, praying that their plans to return the United States to a path of “globalism,”  replete with income redistribution and environmentalist radicalism will never come to fruition.

Should fraud be proven, maybe things will take another direction.  But it seems that everyone is waiting on a demonstrably corrupt media to tell us what the deal is.  That’s a problem.

Sorry to beat this to a pulp, but all of this is brought to you courtesy of COVID-19.  It was used as justification for the “mail-in election.”  The media is going to keep panic alive a bit longer, if for no other reason than to cover their tracks.  They’re reporting new records TODAY, and of course hyping their fraudulent “death count.”  Maybe we’d be happier if we had some faith in their reporting.  But they’ve made that impossible, awkwardly pretending to believe their own lies on national television.

We know beyond any doubt that the experts’ predictions and polls were pure fiction.  Are we to believe those had no effect on the outcome?  We’ve watched the mainstream liars all but tear up over “attempts to subvert our democracy,” when THEY were in fact the worst offenders.  They’ve led the American public down one rabbit hole after another, trying to make us all believe things that were not true.  It’s been a consistent form of brainwashing, practiced by the mainstream media organizations relentlessly.  Now we’re being asked to believe it worked.

We can be thankful that we live in a beautiful and still somewhat free nation.  As wrapped up in our national survival and prosperity as we may be, we at least have the unique knowledge that our greatest hope lies in being citizens of God’s Kingdom.  May we all remember what true HOPE is all about.  And if it be possible, for the sake of our progeny, that the United States should survive in the meantime.

Mark

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The good news is that we observed the Feast of Tabernacles at all planned locations, save California, which apparently is still in “lockdown,” per the all-knowing governor’s orders.  Services were still held on the Holy Days at an undisclosed location.  Not many churches are claiming Constitutional protection, thinking it safer to cooperate with the local “authorities,” lest preachers be hauled away in handcuffs.  We don’t want to sue or see anyone arrested, but we will obey the mandates from on High long before some governor, drunk on his own “authority.”  These vain dictators never wielded this kind of power before, but they’re clearly enjoying telling everyone what they can and can’t do.  Constitution?  What Constitution!

Incredible news broke this week which suggests the foreign policy interests of the United States have been sold for a relative pittance, in relation to the actual stakes at hand.  Not once, but several times.  That is, unless all the documents and photographic evidence are false.  The social media giants have gone full 1984 this week, behaving now as the “Ministry of Truth.”  They’ll decide what’s true or false.  Their subscribers are simply not qualified to make such judgments and must be protected from all information that disputes the carefully crafted narrative that all mainstream media outlets embrace.  Geeks peering through thick lenses, having worked hand in glove with the most woke of politicians, have determined that their narrative must be protected from any and all information that might undermine what they’ve decided we must believe.

It’s not just the twits at Twitter or the self-righteous frauds at Facebook.  The big three on-air networks have paid zero attention to the bombshell news, backed up by voluminous (were talking tens of thousands) e-mail communications and documents.  No, this stuff might be made up to do damage their darling just weeks away from the most important election in history.  No way the mainstream networks or tech titans can allow distribution of information that might not be accurate!

Maybe they think we forgot about the misery they drowned us in with their Russian Collusion nonsense.  How many years have we suffered false “information” from the news media and the tech geeks?  They pumped it out 24/7, making certain no one on planet earth could avoid their non-stop crusade to convince us all that our President was a puppet of the Russians.  They purportedly had him black-mailed and all policy decisions were crafted on the basis of what was good for Russia!  Russia!  Russia!  After years of investigations by some of the most dedicated political types imaginable, the only thing they came up with was egg on their faces.  But the bad actors still appear on friendly outlets to demand that their accusations were accurate.  They don’t get their accounts frozen for sliming the United States or the President.  That’s approved for distribution, true or otherwise.  Mostly otherwise.

You can’t even watch the news anymore.  The mainstream media, as if with one voice, has determined that the time to panic is NOW.  The pandemic is setting records, they tell us every day.  There’s a new outbreak!  There are “clusters!”  More people are infected than ever before, and you better OBEY and fall in line before we’re all dead!

It has to be the height of irony that the very organizations that first told us masks were useless (like trying to stop a mosquito from flying through a chain-link fence), then demanded mask mandates, are busy clarifying their positions.  This week a CDC official insisted the agency had never suggested that masks provide any protection to one wearing the mask.  The mask you are wearing only provides a modicum of protection to others if you are sick!  That’ll be news to the masked population.  Another shocking bit of news that somehow slipped through the media cracks is that 85% of all who got infected wore masks nearly all the time.  Whether that information been cleared by the mainstream Ministry of Truth, we’ll have to see.  It would seem to indicate that masks aren’t much (if any) help, and you know they won’t let that stand.

We’re going to come under more pressure in the weeks and months ahead.  In addition to the mandates and regulations handed down so far by state “authorities,” there will be calls for a vaccination “MANDATE.”  The vaccine debate has already proven to be one of the most emotional subjects in play.  Those who believe in their effectiveness are utterly dismissive of those who believe they’ll make you sick, and visa versa.  You think the disagreements so far have been heated?  Just wait ’till a vaccine against the dreaded COVID-19 comes available.  The gloves will really come off.

When you consider the recent past, and the fact that every good and decent tradition known to man was being subjugated to the dictates of political correctness, it seemed that EVIL had won.  The miracle of Western freedom would be squelched for the “greater good” of all mankind.  The hard-earned wealth of freedom would be redistributed around the world in the name of equality and fairness.  It just wasn’t FAIR that free people had prospered, while those under socialist/communist systems went hungry in their poverty.  The only FAIR thing to do was “level the playing field.”  In other words, make the West poor in the name of equality.  The justification was that we’re all a bunch of racists anyway, and the whole prosperous West deserved to be destroyed in retribution.

We’re not facing an election.  We’re facing a revolution!  The media, the large corporations, even the sports franchises have determined that we’re all a bunch of racists in a racist “system,” and that we can either admit they’re right or face the consequences.  They’ve taken off their masks.  Those of us who are swimming upstream must be banished from society so they can build a new system based on fairness, equality and all the other balderdash of political correctness.  It’s Marxist philosophy, it’s not new.  This is merely the latest invocation of the nonsense of the ’60s and the ’90s.  But this time they’ve got their ducks in a row with the media, entertainment and corporate giants all preaching from the same manifesto.

It took a miracle to save the Western world from what would have been a death-blow the last time around.  We’re going to need another one unless every bit of blight imaginable is to dictate the futures of those we love.  On the other hand, we might just slide into a modern French Revolution.  It may be our last chance to take a stand against a totalitarian future.  May God’s Will be done.

Mark

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

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Maybe some protester means well.  But the screaming, cursing mob holding hundreds of police hostage while cities are systematically looted and burned is aiding and abetting the rampaging criminals.  The Senator is no doubt proud that hundreds of criminals were released on account of the viral panic that news organizations are still pushing, albeit feebly.  Bail reform was supposed to be a great improvement to the judicial system.  At present, it means that thieves and arsonists are freely doing what they do.  Apparently it was done of the basis of compassion and racial justice, but looks like a huge mistake right about now.  But Chuck is proud.

Is there some doubt that at least a portion of the rampaging gangs that have torn American cities asunder were put back on the streets just in time?  The Senator must be very proud.  He’s undoubtedly proud of all the other sanctuary cities that put the wants and needs of criminals way ahead of the security of law-abiding citizens and proprietors of formerly successful businesses.  

It was almost as if the Mayor of New York held the police at bay while the city burned.  We hesitate to divine motives, but the fact is New York’s most glamorous districts were reduced to poverty while news reporters stood in their masks with cameras rolling.  The looting went on hour after hour with no sign of any interference by law enforcement.  Later we learn that there were some few hundreds of arrests, but the looters and rioters were immediately returned to the streets, thanks to the last time the legal system was “reformed.”  Few if any are removed from the problem at hand.  

Mad Dog Mattis finally lived up to his name.  President Trump chose his top generals and advisors without litmus tests regarding their personal leanings.  He expected everyone to behave professionally and live up to universal expectations of high standards.  He thought they’d suspend any personal persuasions, performing their sworn duties on behalf of the United States.  Boy was he wrong!  Several of these “highly respected” professionals have shown themselves to be anything but.  They keep their heads down, grumbling privately about the president until they arrive at what they believe to be an opportunity to do maximum damage.  Then the long knives come out.  Mad Dog suggested the mayhem we’re seeing is the logical result of three years of immature leadership, directing his comments at the President.  So, what was the reason for Ferguson?  Was it Obama’s fault?  The ignorant protesters still act out the “hands up don’t shoot” fallacy.   Even though it was proven to be false, the media continued to show great deference.  They keep talking about the need for a conversation.  But this has gone way beyond a discussion.  

Mad Dog provided additional red meat to the angrily sneering “news” reporters.  He’s bolstered their case allowing them to rub his military rank and service in everybody’s face while basking in the reflected glow of his intemperate comments. What former general attacks the President who promoted him so enthusiastically?  The deep state undoubtedly cheered.  At least Mad Dog gave them a little temporary cover.  If there’s any shred of justice left in America, they’d better enjoy the moment.

Then there was the case of Mark Espers.  He’s publicly stated his disagreement that the President would use the military to protect national monuments in Washington D. C., many of which have already been vandalized with slogans of the mob.  Isn’t it great when those to whom the president entrusted important responsibilities defy him in public?  

Now we’re supposed to worry about the Constitutional powers of the President to protect national monuments with the military, many of which have already been vandalized and fouled with nonsense slogans?  Who does he think he is?  How dare he call out the soldiers and Humvees to protect the symbols of America?  Doesn’t he realize that someone might be upset?  We’re all upset!  It’s obvious the mob would break or topple every national symbol.  They’d burn down the White House with President Trump inside, such is their wild-eyed rage.  And they’re righteous, according to the media.  No, the only “right” and equitable thing to do would be to join the protest.  If the media had their way, we’d all go taunt some policeman while our buddies plunder the lives of those who worked for a living.  That is until the “authorities” told them they couldn’t!  What happened to the quarantine?  We were told we’d be putting everybody in “danger” if we so much as leave the house.  But we’re expected to display great deference and sympathy toward the mob burning up the lives of the law-abiding.

Violent mobs don’t have to stay home.  They don’t have to worry about going to work, work is still closed in the cities with large protests, and the government will now make it possible to survive without working.  They can stay up all night if they want.  They no longer have jobs.  Everyone else is quarantined!  Nobody better dare get in the way of the rampage, because those jumping around in the faces of police are right, according to nearly every source of news.  Their feelings have been hurt! You’ve got million-dollar ball players pretending to cry on national television because we don’t understand how “hurt” their feelings are.  Make it a river.  But then, where were the tears?  Pinched up faces don’t move us much.

How dare we respect the flag?  How dare we love the United States?  Don’t we realize how racist we are?  Don’t we realize that all the stealing is not really stealing at all?  It’s “symbolic taking,” and we have to support it if not contribute to it.  The news media has taken a knee, and they’re demanding we all do.  Say that you respect the flag?  You’ll be attacked, should they know your name.  The anarchists are blowing up ATM machines, as many as 50 reported in Philadelphia alone, using dynamite.  One idiot blew himself up in the process.  And the uh, “protesters” have defaced nearly every memorial in D. C.

They’re arguing that the president is pushing beyond his authority to invoke the Insurrection Act used by several Presidents over the last hundred years.  It was most recently used by President Bush Sr. in response to the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles.  Is this current situation not infinitely worse?  Back in the day Los Angeles was a significant concern.  Today, law and order in the United States is breaking down completely, and Chuck Schumer is proud.  Maybe he just wants to be the last one they loot and burn.

Imagine how proud he’ll be then.

It seems that the riots and looting is starting to recede.  But don’t worry, another crisis has been planned, and another one after that.  The only shame is that the coronavirus panic murdered the economy, and we’re all supposed to feel good about it.  The “news” media is still pushing the virus.  Commercials are still advising that we stay home and stay safe.  They think we’ll continue doing business with them?

Russia collusion was a scam, and one that no-one has paid for, except for those who were falsely accused and broken by attorney’s fees.  The Ukraine phone call impeachment was utter nonsense, despite the bug-eyed dumbster (Adam Schiff) to which we were all subjected.  The reaction to the virus was all out of proportion to reality, but we’re going to be herded around by idiotic rules for the foreseeable future. Much to our amazement, the President must have been legitimately spooked by the dark predictions of medical professionals.  He stood by while the economy was destroyed, even before the rampage started, and that’s a huge disappointment.  Any suggestion that America might recover is enough to start another round of rioting.  As we’ve realized for some time, those who hate this nation won’t be satisfied until it’s utterly destroyed.  Sadly, that’s a real concern.  We were right when we warned that things might get ugly.  We didn’t know how right we were. 

Calls to defund police departments are gaining steam.  In Minneapolis, they’re talking about disbanding the police department completely.  Imagine how peaceful the metropolis will be when there are no police.  Come to think of it, that’s exactly what we’ve been watching!  America has some serious problems all right.  They have nothing to do with racism, but they have everything to do with the hideous sins that political correctness regards as national values. Have we forgotten that “values” like these got Sodom and Gomorrah burnt up?  Forget about hurting the feelings of the mob.  Why do you think we’ve been left vulnerable to these violent, America-hating leftists?  And one more thing.  They hated America long before the advent of President Donald Trump.  This play-book was created by the radical movement clear back in the ’60s.  One of the most prominent of them (Bill Ayers, Weather Underground) was Obama’s mentor. He’s been teaching…we wonder what.  They were ready to destroy everything in the name of… yep, police brutality.  Racial inequality.  We lived through some idiotic episodes, and here they come again.  This time with two generations of miseducated miscreants, taught by ’60’s era radicals.  Nice.

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It took a couple weeks, but we’ve got a BRAND NEW scandal!

How did they ever come up with this one?  The creativity is just astounding.  Are you ready?  RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA!  You’ll never believe it, but it’s all happening.  That’s right.  Russia is already in the process of stealing the next election because Trump is Putin’s little puppet.  How is it possible that Russia is interfering again, after 17 “intelligence” agencies dedicated over three years and incalculable “resources” to ferret out the truth, IMPEACH the President and get him out of the White House?  Such dedicated public servants, risking their lives to rid us of this menace.

Except they didn’t, and they won’t.  Our time and trouble have been wasted on this nonsense, of which they never had anything close to proof.  Apparently lacking a fresh strategy, they’ve doubled down on their unmitigated and embarrassing failure, having failed to notice what fools they made of themselves.  We noticed.

If you thought Adam Schiff’s eyes were bulging before, they’re probably coming completely out their sockets over this NEW revelation.  We’ll probably have hearings with second-hand witnesses, expressing their deep emotional distress over the depths of Trump’s seditious behavior.  He’s undoubtedly mistreated some innocent government employees and caused them tremendous pain, you’ll see.

Or maybe not.  It turns out, once again, that the proof of this nefarious plot is classified.  It’s so diabolical they can’t tell us any details.  But people much, much smarter than any of you, dear readers, are up to speed and we’d be crazy not to take their word for it.  Try a cable-news channel if you dare.  It’s all Russia, all over again.

By now you’d think we could concentrate on the real problems facing our nation and the world.  You know them well.  Drug cartels operating freely in our cities; opioid deaths off the chart; Muslim terrorists infiltrating the population; weird viruses with no treatment or cure coming from filthy dietary practices in far-flung places; a flood of third world, poverty-stricken aliens dreaming of life on the American government dole; China’s building of military bases all over the world.  And that’s just scratching the surface of concerns that deserve attention.

But no.  We’ve got legions of people throughout the media supporting any and all of those who think they’ve still got a chance of deposing the President, preaching like evangelists about the “existential” (oh how they love that word) threat of “climate change.”

For years now we’ve likened it to a religious belief, and now the pope is removing all doubt.  Not only has he made it all but a plank of Catholicism.  That, and of course respect for homosexuality.  The pope is inviting “representatives of all the Earth’s inhabitants” to the Vatican to sign on to the Global Compact on Education.  That ought to shut us up!  The goal is to “educate” all the world’s children to the dangers of the invented “crisis of climate change.”

But he knows, just like all the network evangelists that it’s as phony as Russian collusion.  The media intends to force-feed us more nonsense for the foreseeable future, even though they know we’re not buying it.  They’re own network and think-tank polls, skewed as they are, still show that we’re just not buying into this nonsense.  It’s colder than…whatever we said as kids, just like every year this time. Snow still falls in the usual locations, contrary to the predictions of those who were trying to push this canard on us fifteen or twenty years ago.  They said we’d need video, photos and long explanations to explain what snow was like to the next generation.  Instead, we just take them skiing.

There are freak weather events, and there always have been.  It’s the weather after all, and we see anomalies from time to time.  But we’re getting a little tired of being told we have to be afraid, very afraid if there is no all-powerful government to force compliance with its dictates.  As one of my favorite personalities recently said, “All the free stuff sounds great to kids who’d rather not work for a living, but somebody should tell them it comes wrapped in an iron fist.”

The pope is all about socialism, “global warming,” open borders and apologies to “gay” people who aren’t even happy.  It’s the new religion and it requires a serious if not angry demeanor.  Yeah, thanks anyway.  The world may regard God’s Laws as bondage, we don’t.  Observing those things we’ve been given as reminders of His creation and His intervention at critical times in human history is wonderful, and we enjoy them.

We’re content in the realization that we’re in His Hands so far as the climate is concerned, weather events and all.  We’re thankful for freedom of religion, freedom of assembly and freedom of speech, and we intend to exercise all those freedoms for as long as possible.  And to those that demand that we fervently worry about their fake concerns?  Tell them to have a nice day.  We’re going to.  It’s the Sabbath, the day God rested after He finished this fabulous creation.  It’s what we call the pursuit of happiness.

Mark

PS. Mr. Terry Gooch is doing well and seemed to be in great spirits earlier in the week. Thanks to all who remembered him in prayer. The next monthly letter has gone to the printer and it’s more fun than the Update!  Our next issue of 21^st Century WATCH is also complete and off to be printed.  It’s a beautiful day in this neck of Texas, but colder than “global warming” should permit.  We’ll try to survive!

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

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At one point, he even said he wasn’t familiar with Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm behind the controversial anti-Trump dossier.

The longtime lawman was known to be reluctant to testify, having made clear he would largely stick to the boundaries of his original report. He reiterated Wednesday that his testimony before House committees would be based on the text of his report on Russian election interference and potential obstruction of the investigation.

But that didn’t stop a barrage of detail-rich questions that seemed to throw off the usually stone-faced investigator.

House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., focused his questions on the former Special Counsel’s findings that the investigation did not establish any conspiracy between President Trump and Russia. Collins asked Mueller if “conspiracy” and “collusion” were colloquially the same thing, and Mueller said no. Collins then quoted Mueller’s own report, which indicated otherwise.

EX-SPECIAL COUNSEL ROBERT MUELLER TESTIFIES TO CONGRESS — LIVE BLOG

“As defined in legal dictionaries, collusion is largely synonymous with conspiracy as that crime is set forth in the general federal conspiracy statute,” Collins read from the report. “Now, you said you chose your words carefully. Are you contradicting your report right now?”

“Not when I read it,” Mueller replied, prompting Collins to ask, “So you would change your answer to yes?”

“No, no, the uh, if you look at the language,” Mueller said before trailing off.

Collins pressed further, saying, “I’m reading your report, sir. It’s a yes or no answer.”

Mueller asked for the page number of the report, then stammered before saying he would “leave it with the report.” When Collins stated that the report says that the terms “collusion” and “conspiracy” are synonymous, Mueller said, “Yes.”

Mueller appeared flustered by Collins’ questioning, although the congressman admitted he has a tendency to speak quickly. Collins said he would try to speak slowly but still maintained a rapid pace during his five-minute grilling.

MUELLER REFUSES TO DISCUSS RUSSIA PROBE ORIGINS, STEELE DOSSIER IN TESTIMONY

Nevertheless, Mueller appeared off his game even after the fast-talking Collins was done.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., went next, speaking at a more deliberate pace. After her first question about the extent to which Russia interfered in the 2016 election, Mueller responded, “Could you repeat that, Ma’am?”

At another point, he asked GOP Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner what he was reading from.

“I’m reading from my question,” the Wisconsin lawmaker shot back before Mueller again asked him to repeat his question.

Source: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mueller-flustered-asking-lawmakers-to-repeat-questions-at-hearing

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