There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —Soren Kierkegaard. "…truth is true even if nobody believes it, and falsehood is false even if everybody believes it. That is why truth does not yield to opinion, fashion, numbers, office, or sincerity–it is simply true and that is the end of it" – Os Guinness, Time for Truth, pg.39. “He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.” – Blaise Pascal. "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" – George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph — 1795. We live in a “post-truth” world. According to the dictionary, “post-truth” means, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Going beyond the MSM idealogical opinion/bias and their low information tabloid reality show news with a distractional superficial focus on entertainment, sensationalism, emotionalism and activist reporting – this blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequences—temporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." – George Orwell “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
After the Iowa Republican and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) produced along-awaited Senate reportwhich concluded thatHunter Biden’sfinancial dealings with Ukrainian, Chinese and Russian businesses created “criminal financial, counterintelligence and extortion concerns” concerning everything from sex-trafficking to bribery –the MSM panned itas a partisan attack on a presidential candidate’s son.
Now that Hunter has admittedhe’s under investigationfor tax fraud (and, asPoliticoandCNNhave added, money laundering and accepting bribes),Grassley is having the last laugh.
In Thursday remarks on the Senate Floor, Grassley blasted the media after months of covering for the Bidens.
“For over a year, Senator Johnson and I investigated the Biden financial family dealings,” said Grassley, adding “We found that they engaged in potential criminal financial deals across the globe, including China, which created counterintelligence concerns.”
Grassley then turned his attention to the MSM, saying “Those same liberal outlets that disparaged our investigation now report that Hunter Biden’s financial deals in China raise counterintelligence concerns.”
He went on to say that the media should have been covering concerns raised by Republicans instead of covering them up.
“So you can understand why I think it’s very outrageous that the fourth estate would choose to ignore facts when they are uncovered by Republicans,” Grassley continued. “It shouldn’t take subpoenas and confirmation from Hunter Biden himself to get the rest of the press to pay attention.”
Data visualization is a wonderful thing. It helps us understand important trends that would be invisible in raw data alone. Now more than ever, data analysts have been instrumental in providing data visualizations that rebut two of the most widely accepted, baseless slogans of the prolockdown, militant mask-wearing crowd: “Lockdowns save lives” and “Wear the damn mask.” The data tell a surprisingly clear story about the effectiveness of mask mandates and lockdowns in stopping the spread of covid-19: both are futile and the latter is deadly.
“Lockdowns Save Lives.”
Without any historical or scientific precedent indicating that lockdowns were even remotely effective at saving lives, governors single-handedly shut down their economies in an effort to quickly do something,anythingto slow the spread. Questioning these orders on moral or utilitarian grounds quickly became “questioning the science,” an exceptionally strange slogan for its assumption that any evidence existed that vindicated the efficacy of lockdowns. But after only a few months of lockdown, it first became apparent that there was no correlation between how soon a region locked down and that region’s death toll:
The abysmally low R2value shows that locking down quickly clearly did not matter, but what about locking down in general? Surely the strictest lockdowns would save more lives, right? Hardly.
If the science was settled on lockdown efficacy, this plot should unambiguously slope downwards, indicating that more stringent lockdowns are more effective at mitigating cases. No such trend exists. Here is a population-adjusted visualization, courtesy ofPANDA, that compares a nation’s lockdown stringency with its death toll per million.
Again, if lockdown science is truly settled, the right half of this graph should consist almost entirely of black and red bars—countries with “hard” to “extreme” lockdown stringency—while the left half should consist almost entirely of purple and green bars—countries with “normal” to “light” lockdown stringency. We see no such correlation, and to point out the lack of correlation in any of the above charts will have you anathematized by the mainstream media and their favored health experts.
The Costs of Locking Down
Not only have the lockdowns played no role in disease mitigation, they come with deadly costs. You would think that the prolockdown health officials informing public health decisions would have entertained the potential costs of disrupting global supply chains and forcing hundreds of millions of people to remain shuttered in their homes. No matter. When nations around the globe are at “war” with a virus, immediate action is the only option. Damn the consequences.
What follows are some of the most alarming costs of the lockdowns, costs that are hardly eclipsed by the plethora of anecdotal sob stories floating around on social media. The establishment media and public health officials were doomed to look past these potential consequences because of their monomaniacal fixation on “cases,” a fixation that elevated short-term economic thinking and feel-good policies above all else.
TheNew York Timespredicts1.4 million excess tuberculosis deaths alongside nearly 1 million excess malaria and HIV deaths.
The UNestimatesthat as many as 130 million people will be at risk of starvation thanks to the lockdown’s disruption of global food supply chains.
The CDCreportedjust under 200,000 excess deaths, a26.5 percent jumpfrom previous years, attributable to covid-19 over a ten-month period; a majority of these deaths affected 25–44-year-olds.
UNICEFpredictedan excess of 1.2 million child deaths (ages 5 and under) over a six-month period
The Associate Presslinkedvirus-related hunger to 10,000 child deaths per month for the first year of the pandemic
The CDCconducted a week-long survey in Junefinding that 25 percent of young adults between 18–24 years of age have considered suicide because of the pandemic.
CBSciteda study indicating the potential for 75,000 excess deaths of despair: deaths due to drug and alcohol abuse or suicide
A CDC reportfounda 31 percent increase in mental health–related emergency room visits for children between the ages of 12 and 17 over a three-month period.
EvenThe Atlantic now admits that asking people in low- to middle-income countries to stay home is, in many cases, asking them to starve. There is simply no way to justify the claim the lockdowns save lives with a knowledge of their costs. More can be found on the physical, mental, and social health consequences of the lockdowns atCollateral Globalandthepriceofpanic.com.
“Wear the Damn Mask.”
This past Wednesday governor Mike DeWine of Ohio went on a lengthy Twitter tirade about the importance of wearing masks. Among many remarks, he most foolishlytweetedthat we now know “mask wearing…is the chief way of slowing this virus.” Statements like these give the impression that wearing masks slows the spread of covid-19. The data consistently refute this preposterous claim:
Were these charts to be left blank, you would not be able to accurately pin the mask mandate on the graph. If masks play such a pivotal role in disease mitigation, then these charts—more to be foundhere,here,here, andhere—should looknothinglike they do, especially in the United States, where mask compliance, as of mid-August, was at84 percent. If these visualizations appear to show anything, it is that the virus runs its course regardless of politicians’ failed attempts to control it.
A Brief Note on “Cases”
This has undoubtedly been a case-driven pandemic. Lockdowns, public health mandates, and societal panic have ebb and flow alongside case count. Much, if not all, of this panic can be attributed to extremely sensitive PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests, which are used to identify covid-19 “cases.” Quotations around “cases” are warranted given that the vast majority of positive PCR tests aredetecting inert genetic material, essentially “dead” chunks of virus that pose no threat to anybody. A recentNew York Timespiecesums up the PCR sensitivity issue nicely.
Officials at the Wadsworth Center, New York’s state lab, have access to C.T. values from tests they have processed, and analyzed their numbers atThe Times’s request. In July, the lab identified 872 positive tests, based on a threshold of 40 cycles. With a cutoff of 35, about 43 percent of those tests would no longer qualify as positive. About 63 percent would no longer be judged positive if the cycles were limited to 30. In Massachusetts, from 85 to 90 percent of people who tested positive in July with a cycle threshold of 40 would have been deemed negative if the threshold were 30 cycles.
In the same article Juliet Morrison, virologist at the University of California, said any PCR tests running more than 35 cycles are too sensitive, and Harvard epidemiologist Michael Mina even recommended a cycle count threshold of 30 or less! The sameNew York Timesarticle also pointed to the CDC’s own calculations, which suggest that “it is extremely difficult to detect any live virus in a sample above a threshold of 33 cycles.”
Ultrasensitive PCR testing leads to an artificially high “case” count, which translates to an artificially high number of covid-19 hospitalizations—an excellent analysis of inflated covid hospitalization numbers can be foundhere. Simply lowering the sensitivity of PCR tests to realistic levels would crumble covid dogmata and end this baseless panic almost instantly. Surprisingly, despite these inflated numbers, United States hospital utilization ratesremain under 80 percentin all areas except Rhode Island and Washington, D.C. In some regions, this represents an improvement over previous years.
Returning to Normal Life
The data have spoken, and we are long overdue for a return to normal life, not some dystopian “new normal” where strangers are faceless pathogens and gatherings are limited to ten people. The world desperately needs more “antiscience” individuals like New York City councilman Joe Borelli, whotweetedthe following prior to Thanksgiving:
I’ll be having more than 10 ppl at my house on Thanksgiving. My address is public record. Some family will come from (gasp!) New Jersey.
Kids will see their grandparents, cousins will play in the yard, sis in law will bring strawberry rhubarb pie, & a turkey will be overcooked.
Of course this led to infuriated responses like “You’re siding with the virus!” which more or less sums up the establishment’s rebuttal of anyone who desires their own humanity or doesn’t reflexively bow down to “expert authority.”
Human beings are more than just passionless biological entities whose sole purpose is to remain fed, hydrated, go to work, and experience life on a laptop screen. Through its lockdowns and media-induced fear mongering, the state has all but destroyed the very things that make life worth living: musicals, concerts, holidays, professional sporting events, family gatherings and celebrations, recreational travel, religious worship, comedy gigs, art festivals, and so much more. These things technically still exist, but only as shadows in Plato’s cave.
Flight attendants should wear disposable diapers while in the air to avoid having to use pathogen-riddled airplane toilets, China’s civil aviation body has suggested in a seemingly extreme move to battle Covid-19 onboard.
“It is recommended that the cabin crew wear disposable diapers and avoid using the toilet barring special circumstances, to avoid infection risk,”theguidelinesfrom the Civil Aviation Administration of China read.
The bizarre suggestion is sandwiched among more typical pandemic-related recommendations, such as a requirement that cabin crew be provided with medical-grade face masks, disposable rubber gloves and protective clothing including shoe covers.
The document, titled Technical Guidelines for Epidemic Prevention and Control for Airlines, Sixth Edition, was published late last month in Chinese, but only came to the attention of English-language media on Thursday.
Flight attendants are also advised to manage passengers’ restroom use“in an orderly manner,”with an order to prohibit them from gathering outside the toilet to wait for a vacancy. One toilet is to be set aside for quarantined personnel, while the first class toilet is for flight crew.
Airline personnel are advised to monitor the mental health of their cabin crews, with“full consideration”given to“psychological state, personality characteristics, current family life pressure.”
While airline bathrooms are notoriously disgusting, scientists are working on the problem. Japan’s ANA airline has devised a no-touch door for on-board toilets, while Boeing has applied for a patent on a self-cleaning toilet that uses ultraviolet light to nuke germs in between uses.
Time magazine has named presumed president-elect Joe Biden and his vice president Kamala Harris as “person of the year,” an uninspiring choice celebrated more as a dig at President Donald Trump than real appreciation for the pair.
The selection seemed calculated more to twist the knife in President Trump than anything else – avowedly anti-Trump musician Bruce Springsteen was selected to deliver the news, and the addition of the“Guardians of the Year”category allowed Time to essentially hand out prizes to all of the short-listers except the president.
Corona czar Anthony Fauci, the“movement for racial justice,”and frontline health workers all got the ‘guardian’ nod – leaving Trump the odd one out.
— Kosoko “PREORDER YESTERDAY IS HISTORY” Jackson (@KosokoJackson)December 11, 2020
While many celebrated the selection of Biden and Harris – putting aside how two people can constitute a ‘person of the year’ – their joy, too, was more aimed at mocking the president than a genuine appreciation of the incoming Democratic administration.
The Biden-Harris ticket represents something historic.
Of course, given that Biden could scarcely attract a few dozen people to a rally even before Covid-19 and Harris dropped out of the primary before a single vote was cast, the only real attraction of the pair has always been that they aren’t Trump. Even some Biden/Harris fans found the selection to be“tone-deaf.”
I think in any other year I’d say yea, fair dos. But this year, damn did we learn who our society can function with and who it can’t, and picking two politicians just feels tone-deaf#TimePOY
Biden, who reassured his wealthy donors that“nothing would fundamentally change”if he was elected, has spent the last few weeks stuffing his cabinet with holdovers from the Obama administration. Just as Obama’s own cabinet was picked and vetted by bankers from Citigroup, Biden’s crew comes with the seal of approval of Big Business.
But in the woke world of 2020, in which appearances are everything, a Biden-Harris administration can pass off an entire cabinet of lockstep neoliberals as somehow“diverse”– even though one would be hard-pressed to find any real differences of opinion on important policy matters.
Time has selected controversial figures in the past for its ‘person of the year’ – from mass murderers like Adolf Hitler and Henry Kissinger to virtue-signaling picks like Greta Thunberg or“the silence-breakers”(2017’s pick encompassing the #MeToo movement). Biden and Harris represent a safe, milquetoasty selection guaranteed to go down smoothly among the liberal intelligentsia – and they’re the only ones who count, right?
Republican Senator Tom Cotton, believed to have presidential aspirations in 2024, has called for aspecial counsel to investigateHunter Biden’s business dealings, including his links to China.
This week, it was revealed that Hunter Biden is under investigation for “tax dealings,” and that the investigation began in 2018.
Tax Investigation “Went Quiet” In 2018
Hunter Biden revealed Wednesday that he is currently subject to an investigation by federal prosecutors in Delaware for his tax dealings.
In a statement,he said he was taking the matter “very seriously,” but is “confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisors.”
According to CBS, federal sources began investigating Hunter Biden in 2018, but that the “investigation went quiet during election season due to DOJ policy around ‘overt’ investigative action that could impact [the presidential] election.”
Two sources familiar with the investigation tell CBS that the tax investigation of Hunter Biden began in 2018 report@ClareHymes22@AndyTriay. The investigation went quiet during election season due to DOJ policy around “overt” investigative action that could impact election.https://t.co/BRWQ48SHOs
Appearing on Fox News,Senator Cotton argued that the tax fraud investigation into Hunter Biden in Delaware is simply the “least damaging part of the investigation.”
“There are allegations of securities fraud, money laundering related to Hunter Biden’s Chinese businesses, a crooked hospital deal with Jim Biden, Joe Biden’s brother out in western Pennsylvania. These investigations span multiple jurisdictions,” Cotton argued.
“If Joe Biden becomes president, then all those prosecutors are in line to be fired next month. If there were ever circumstances that create a conflict of interest and call for a special counsel, that’s here,” he continued.
Republican Sen. Tom Cotton says a special counsel should be appointed to investigate Joe Biden’s son Hunter:pic.twitter.com/UCbAbvBSfK
“Hunter Biden had business associations with Ye Jianming, Gongwen Dong and other Chinese nationals linked to the Communist government and the People’s Liberation Army,” the report details. “Those associations resulted in millions of dollars in cash flow.”
Cotton, who serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the allegations were “very serious,” especially with the prospect of Hunter Biden’s father becoming president.
This isn’t just a tax investigation and there are other investigations into Chinese influence that are separate from the Hunter Biden investigation.
“The Biden family has been trading on Joe Biden’s public office for 50 years,” Cotton argued.
“Do we really think that will change if Joe Biden becomes president, the highest office in the land? If they did it when he was vice president and he was senator, of course it’s going to happen when he has even more power.”
If you follow the various evangelical sub-cultures you probably know that Carl Lentz, the megachurch pastor cum superstar pastor of pop star Justin Bieber, fashion icon, one-time college basketball player, denizen of day-time TV talk shows and the tabloids, has been fired from his position as pastor of Hillsong’s East Coast branch congregation for “leadership issues and breaches of trust” as well as repeated “moral failures.” Lentz has confessed to infidelity to his wife. The New York Timesreports repeated infidelities. The senior pastor of what is fairly described as a multi-national corporation of congregations, Brian Huston, indicts Lentz for “‘general narcissistic [sic] behavior, manipulating, mistreating people’ as well as ‘breaches of trust connected to lying, and constantly lying.’” As grievous as Lentz’s abuses are—and they are. These events damage Christians young and old and, of course, reverberate far beyond the walls of the megachurch—perhaps the most telling line in the entire article says: “Founded in Australia under a different name in the 1980s, its great innovation was to offer urban Christians a religious environment that did not clash with the rest of their lives.” Reporter Ruth Graham offers this assessment without a hint of what it signifies. Imagine this sentence: The great innovation of the Corinthian congregation was to offer to urban Christians a religious environment that did not clash with the rest of their lives.”
Lentz’ rise and fall is symbolic of the very nature of the late-modern megachurch enterprise. It is an ostensibly religious multi-national corporation. It is a business more than it is a church. Hillsong’s success is rooted in their ability to package therapeutic moralistic deism more successfully than the other megachurches, to sand down the distinction between Christ and culture so that the distinction was gossamer thin. Indeed, we might say that more than any of the other megachurch pastors of the age, Lentz was the first real “crossover artist.” This is the language used in the music and radio businesses to describe a singer who starts out in one genre, usually a niche such as contemporary Christian music or traditional country into the mainstream pop markets. Amy Grant was the first real contemporary Christian artist to become a crossover star. Taylor Swift is probably the biggest crossover star to date. The high-flying, basketball-dunking, talk-show-circuit appearing Carl Lentz is the Taylor Swift of pastoral ministry.
The infidelities and neglect of his congregation, of which he is accused, are just part of becoming a jet-setting rock star. In other words, Lentz was adhering to the nature of the megachurch enterprise. It is a crossover artist by design. Lentz is just the first guy to follow the path to its logical end: the rock and roll lifestyle. VH1 used to broadcast a series about the rise and fall of rock bands. It was the same story on a loop: band practices hard in a garage. Band gets a gig and learns its craft. Band gets discovered. Band records a hit and tours to support the hit. Band makes its first money and goes crazy on booze, drugs, and sex. Tensions develop. The follow up album fails because it is bad. Band struggles to recover but cannot over the internal tensions. Band breaks up and comes to regret their hastiness a decade later. Band tries to reunite and re-kindle the original magic. Lentz reached Justin Bieber and got swept up into the fast-paced rock and roll life. He became a star in his own system.
It not only Lentz who became a star. Graham explains,
By now, Hillsong is not just a church, but a brand. Hillsong is a look: neutrals, streetwear, body-conscious fashion. And it is a sound, too. The church’s bands have won a Grammy. Their most popular song, the soaring ballad “Oceans (Where Feet May Fail),” has been streamed more than 235 million times on Spotify. And the formula works. The global church now has congregations on six continents, and claims an average attendance of 150,000 people weekly.
Hillsong itself has become a star, a part of pop culture. A fashionable place to see and in which to be seen. Again, to appreciate how odd this should be for a Christian congregation, substitute Corinthian congregation for Hillsong. Of course, this is just the struggle one of the several struggles faced by the Corinthian congregation. How to live faithfully and graciously in the midst of pagans, without compromising fidelity to the Christian message.
Paul’s message to the Corinthians was neither hip nor culturally relevant. Indeed, it was counter-cultural and despised by Greco-Roman culture:
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.” Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe (1 For 1:18–21; ESV).
It is difficult to resist the temptation to cut and paste most of the epistle here since so much of it is so apropos. The Corinthian congregation was, apparently, not composed of powerful, sexy, influential people.
For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God (1 Cor 1:26–29; ESV).
Paul seems more likely to be been dunked upon than to have dunked:
For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God (1 Cor 2:2–5; ESV).
As I read about the VIP seating for celebrities, it was difficult not to think about James 2:
My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? (James 2:1–5; ESV).
I do not blame the celebrities entirely. In our celebrity-obsessed culture it must be exhausting to be “on” and to be mobbed constantly. The church is meant to address this sort of thing not to perpetuate and market it as part of a “brand.” The only “brand” the church has is Christ and him crucified.
We need to appreciate again how repulsive the cross was to the first-century Greco-Roman. To the non-citizen, resident aliens it represented Roman oppression and cruelty. To the citizens and the powerful it was disgusting since only the offscouring of society ended up on the cross. To worship a nobody and especially a nobody who had been crucified was beyond offensive. To preach Christ and the cross was decidedly not seeker-sensitive. Therapeutic, moralistic, deism with its musical narcotics and its soothing sermons might have done well in Corinth, where orgiastic, therapeutic religion was not unknown.
The great crisis facing the Corinthian congregation, which plagued it for decades after Paul’s martyrdom, was its inability or refusal to distinguish between Christ and culture. The Corinthian congregation sought to conform Christianity to the prevailing culture. Where the culture had popular, successful public speakers, the Corinthians had their “Super Apostles.” Where Paul called them to distinguish the secular (e.g., common meals; 1 Cor 10:14–22) from the sacred (e.g., the Lord’s Supper), the Corinthians wanted to confuse them and turn the Lord’s Supper into a gluttonous, pagan feast. Paul says. “It is not the Lord’s Supper that you eat” (1 Cor 11:20). Where Paul called the Corinthians to sexual chastity (i.e., sex within the bounds of heterosexual Christian marriage), the Corinthians took a lax approach and refused to discipline a man who was committing gross sexual immorality with his step-mother (1 Cor 5:1), which Paul says, even the debauched Corinthians did not do. He was not calling the Corinthians to leave the pagan culture but to Christian fidelity in the midst of the pagans (1 Cor 5:9–13). He was calling them to live in light of Christ, our Paschal Lamb (1 Cor 5:7). In short, he called them to be distinct from the surrounding pagan culture, not to imitate it:
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God (1 Cor 6:9–11; ESV).
Paul could hardly have been more pointed. The language he used here to describe, e.g. “men who practice homosexuality” is graphic and it comes as part of a list of other gross sins, equally heinous violations of God’s moral and natural law.
This was such a problem for the Corinthians that he had to hit this theme again in a later epistle:
What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty” (2 Cor 6:17; Lev 26:12; Ex 6:7; Isa 52:11; Ex 4:22; ESV)
He concludes this string of Old Testament quotations by saying: “Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God” (2 Cor 7:1; ESV).
Paul called the Corinthians and he calls us to a “religious environment” that clashes with our daily lives, that is distinct from our secular existence. There is nothing evil about a secular vocation, i.e., an ordinary vocation in this world. We share those vocations with the pagans. There are pagan plumbers and Christian plumbers. What sets us apart from the pagans is not our vocation but our God, his grace, his Christ, and his gospel. What sets us apart is how we treat each other and our pagan neighbors. According to Paul, should a pagan walk into a Christian worship service, he should not say, “Cool! Nice light show.” Paul has a rather different vision for the church:
If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your minds? But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all, the secrets of his heart are disclosed, and so, falling on his face, he will worship God and declare that God is really among you (1 Cor 14:23–25; ESV).
What our pagan neighbors need from us is not a brand but salvation from the wrath to come. They need to know the greatness of their sin and misery. They need to know that Jesus is the Savior and that everyone must turn to him in repentance and faith, embrace him in true faith, and join his congregation in the pilgrimage through this evil age (Gal 1:4) to the age to come (Eph 1:21).
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.—John 14:6.
PEOPLE say: “I want to know what is the truth.”
Listen: “I am the truth,” says Christ. (John 14:5.) If you want to know what the truth is, get acquainted with Christ.
People also complain that they have not life. Many are trying to give themselves spiritual life. You may galvanize yourselves and put electricity into yourselves, so to speak; but the effect will not last very long. Christ alone is the author of life. If you would have real spiritual life, get to know Christ. Many try to stir up spiritual life by going to meetings. These may be well enough; but it will be of no use, unless they get into contact with the living Christ. Then spiritual life will not be a spasmodic thing, but will be perpetual; flowing on and on, and bringing forth fruit to God.[1]
Investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald talked to FOX News host Tucker Carlson about the Hunter Biden story being buried by the media and how the media became “disinformation agents” for U.S. intelligence agencies that believed Donald Trump was a threat. “I still think we need to recognize what a historic crime and disgrace this is, not only in journalism, but as soon as these documents became known, the operatives in the intelligence community, the CIA, John Brennan, James Clapper, Michael Hayden, all of the standard professional liars, issued a letter claiming this material was the hallmark of Russian disinformation, even though they had no basis for thinking that, and that gave the media permission to lie to the public continuously, and Silicon Valley to censor these materials,” Greenwald said Thursday. “So not only did the public not become aware of them, they were lied to, not only by claiming that Russia was involved, even though there was zero evidence they were and no one thinks that, but also by calling it disinformation, the implication was these documents were forgeries, when now we know the criminal investigation that has been ongoing, it is about the very transactions these documents covered,” he continued. “This is an incredible crime by the corporate media and a lie to the public, and burying information before an election, but also again, domestic interference on the part of intelligence agencies in order to manipulate the outcome of our election,” Greenwald said. “Well, I think that the intelligence services in the Trump era became one of the leading bulwarks against the Trump movement, so the media partnered with them based on the premise that the Trump presidency was dangerous, which is fine. If the media really wants to believe that the Trump presidency poses a danger, that is their prerogative,” Greenwald said. “But what they don’t have the right to do is become disinformation agents, and the CIA and all of those guys in the intelligence community were open about the fact that they wanted Donald Trump to lose and they wanted to sabotage his presidency.” “Remember, Chuck Schumer told Rachel Maddow, in early 2017, that the CIA was going to sabotage Trump’s presidency if he continued to criticize them, and that was the story of the last four years,” he said. “A union between the intelligence agencies that fed lies to the media that mindlessly repeated it for their own interests.”
After 18 Republican-led states backed Texas in challenging presidential election procedures in four swing states, 22 jurisdictions led by Democrats sided with the defendants and social media buzzed about a second US ‘civil war.’
There was a flurry of activity on the US Supreme Courtdocket 22O155on Thursday, as Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin responded to the Texas complaint, Ohio filed a puzzling brief ostensibly backing neither side, a number of lawmakers also sought to join the case, all before the Democrat-led jurisdictions filed their ownamici curiaebrief.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has asked the court to block the seating of electors from the four swing states, arguing that they usurped the authority the Constitution gives legislators to change the election rules and make them vulnerable to fraud. President Donald Trump, whoseeksto join the Texas lawsuit himself, has complained the states improperly declared Democrat Joe Biden the winner.
While the four states submitted their responses by the court-mandated deadline of 3pm on Thursday, Democrat-led jurisdictions mobilized legal troops for their defense. District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine led California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington – and the territories of US Virgin Islands and Guam – in theamicus briefseeking the dismissal of the Texas case.
Next Update (TX v. PA):
The District of Columbia on behalf of 22 States and Territories has filed an amici curiae brief.
The Democrat amici argued that“state courts and local actors”should be able to“interpret and implement state election law”as the states need“sovereign ability to safely and securely accommodate voters in light of emergencies such as [Covid]-19.”
Attached is the following map displaying the Texas SCOTUS case:
1) All states, in red, which have filed briefs in support of TX.
2) All states, in blue, which have filed briefs in support of WI, MI, PA, and GA.
What Texas wants would“upend states’ systems of government”they argued, adding that their“experiences with safe and secure methods of voting by mail”will explain why the case should be denied.
So far, a total of 18 Republican-led states have filed amicus briefs to support Texas. On Thursday, six of them – Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Utah – haveaskedto“intervene,”that is join the case directly.
Caught in the middle of this legal war between the states was an oddmotionby Ohio AG Dave Yost, a Republican. Officially“in support of neither party,”Yost actually argued that the Texas case should be thrown out, but that the nine Justice should “issue a decision on the meaning of the Electors Clause at the earliest available opportunity.”
“The importance of the public’s constitutional doubts, however, pales in comparison to the importance of the public’s concerns regarding basic fairness,”Yost argued, in a strange turn of legal acumen.
As Arizona filed a separate amicus brief in support of Texas later on Wednesday, for much of the day the US mainstream media spoke of“17 states”involved in the dispute. To no one’s surprise, angry Democrats drove Twitter trends such as #SeditiousSeventeen, denouncing the plaintiffs for wanting to“overturn”the election and stoking the next“civil war.”
Only the lawyers have been fighting this“war,”so far. For what it’s worth, the country appears to be as divided as it was in 1861-65, when eleven states tried to secede over Abraham Lincoln’s election. As of Thursday, only six US states have not officially weighed in on the dispute: Alaska, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, New Hampshire and Wyoming.
Texas has asked the Supreme Court toexpeditethe proceedings and hear the case as soon as Friday, December 11, saying that if no action is taken the four states will seat electors“based on unconstitutional and deeply uncertain”results, which if validated will taint this election and future ones.
Missouri and five other states on Thursday threw their support even further behind the Texas lawsuit aiming to prevent Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin’s electors from casting their electoral votes by asking the Supreme Court to let them join the Texas suit.
One aspect of narcopaths (narcissistic sociopaths) that is important to remember is thatthey live in their own little world in which their desires and bizarre dysfunctions are normalized. They believe themselves superior to most people because they are predatory, and don’t suffer from annoying hang-ups like empathy and conscience. They generally tend to believe they have pulled the wool over everyone’s eyes the majority of the time.They think that you are a submissive idiot, and that when they bark an order, you will simply jump to attention because you “believe”.
Almost every aspect of the globalists and their behavior indicates they are a club or cult of narcopaths. Their obsessive need to control as well as to corrupt and destroy in order to get what they want is not an extension of mere greed, it is a deep-seated aspect of who they are as beings. It is a defining mechanism at the core of their character. They are real world monsters, like vampires attempting to blend into an unsuspecting population.
In their arrogance, then tend to expect they can drain the public dry at will without being resisted or exposed. The problem is, as soon as they start to feed and destroy they draw attention to themselves. Eventually, they will attract the suspicions of the public, along with some vampire hunters. Unless they find a way to hide a stake through the heart is inevitable.
I have been writing about the threats of globalism and the “reset” for many years now, and I have noted for some time two separate quandaries; one affecting the liberty movement and the other affecting the globalists:
1)First, criminals tend to brag about their crimes when they think that it’s too late for anyone to do anything about them.I predicted the globalists would be very open in revealing their agenda the moment they believed themselves “untouchable”. For the freedom loving public this suggests that in 2020 going into 2021 that the elites must think there is nothing that can be done to stop the machine; they are so blatant in their calls for the global “reset”, a cashless society, totalitarian lockdowns and a surveillance state that no one in their right mind can claim these notions are “conspiracy theory” anymore.
The fact is, the “conspiracy theorists” were RIGHT ALL ALONG, and now there is nothing anyone can say about it.
2)Second, I have also argued in the past that the globalist push for a “new world order” is a double edged sword that could very well end up annihilating them.As they attempt to initiate their reset agenda, they become more and more exposed; they can no longer lurk in the safety of the shadows and there is no going back once the process is started. Once the globalists become widely known, they must either swiftly take control through engineered chaos and collapse, or face retribution that could eliminate a cabal that took them centuries to build. Vampires must make the rest of the world a dark place before leaving the shadows, or they risk dying in the light of day.
There aretwo schools of thought in the liberty movement; one suggesting that the globalist agenda is fixed and unstoppable and that the best anyone can do is survive. The second suggests that the reset can be stopped and the globalists can be brought to justice. I stand in both camps.
There are aspects of the reset that are indeed fixed and that cannot be undone.For example, numerous national economies including the US are in the midst of a stagflationary collapse and there is nothing that can be done to reverse it. Perhaps a decade ago we could have changed course, but now it is too late. The pain can be reduced if people quickly end their dependency on the system and create localized trade networks of their own, but the economy as we know it right now is dead and it is not coming back anytime soon.
I do not see this, though, as a win for the elites. Crashing the economy is one thing, rebuilding it into the collectivist dystopia they desperately want is another. Everything depends on who rebuilds; maybe it will be them, maybe it will be us.
I am seeing some encouraging signs these days that the globalist reset is NOT a sure thing, and those that know my work know I have never been one for misplaced optimism. Specifically, the exploitation of the pandemic response as a means to ram through numerous draconian restrictions does not seem to be going exactly as the elites planned.
I have to look back at Event 201 to really gauge the state of the game, becausewhat the elites planned and what has happened do not completely match up.For those not familiar, Event 201 was a type of “war game” held by globalists from the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The scenario? A pandemic outbreak of a coronavirus which would spread like wildfire and kill a predicted 65 million people. The simulation was held only a couple of months before the real thing happened at the start of 2020.
In the year since the outbreak, the globalists have attempted to enforce nearly every plan that was outlined during Event 201,including using social media to censor or restrict any news or information outside of the establishment approved narrative (Yes, narrative control was discussed at the event in great detail). Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum has consistently and excitedly applauded the pandemic crisis as a “perfect opportunity” to institute the “reset” that the globalists have been talking about for years.
Unfortunately for them, the virus has not been anywhere near as deadly as they appear to have hoped.With a death rate of well below 1% for anyone outside of a nursing home with preexisting conditions, the establishment has now been forced to pump up infection numbers as a means to terrorize the populace because the death numbers are not enough to convince people to willingly hand over their freedoms. The Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) for Covid 19 not counting nursing home deaths with preexisting conditions is only 0.26% of those infected.
There is a propaganda meme being passed around these days that tries to exaggerate the danger of death from Covid, and it goes a little something like this:
“Covid has killed more people that the Vietnam War and the Gulf Wars combined in a single year, therefore your freedoms are forfeit…”
This is an idiotic talking point but luckily no one is buying it.
Over 40% of Covid deaths are people that are already sick and on the verge of dying anyway(And no, refusing to wear masks is not the same as endorsing “death panels”, because a death panel is about socialists refusing treatment to people at risk because of their age. No one is suggesting that old people be refused treatment, and they always have the option of staying under quarantine if they fear they will become infected. They are already retired and receiving social security, perhaps if we are going to stimulate then the bailout money should go to those most at risk so that the rest of us can continue on with normal life?)
Hundreds of thousands of people die every year from diseases and illnesses including the flu, common colds and pneumonia, yet, the prospect of abandoning the Bill of Rights, submitting to economic shutdowns and wearing a muzzle on our faces wherever we go was never brought up before.
Why should we ask 99.7% of Americans or the world to accept medical tyranny just to make .26% of the population feel safe?People who question the mandates are called “selfish”, but even if I was one of the people susceptible to the virus, I would NEVER demand that 99% of the population bow to totalitarianism at the off chance that I might live a little while longer. Now THAT would be selfish.
As more and more studies and data are released, the mask mandates are also coming into question.Though Big Tech has sought to suppress or censor studies that run contrary to the mainstream narrative, this has only led more people to question the motivations of governments pushing the mandates. After all, the mainstream media keeps saying that we should “listen to the science”, but they ignore or censor the science. So, if the pandemic response is not based in science, then it must only be about control.
Many Americans are not as stupid as the elites think. They see the inconsistencies in the rhetoric and the data and they are increasingly prone to refuse to comply.This might be why the establishment is suddenly rushing out at least two Covid vaccines in the span of half a year; they have to get the vaccine phase of the Reset underway before too many people jump from the panic bandwagon.
The vaccine rush and the claims of effectiveness of 94% to 95% from Pfizer and Moderna are suspect. The average effectiveness of most vaccines is around 50% or less, and these are vaccines with hundreds of trials and years of usage. Somehow, Pfizer and Moderna were both able to produce a vaccine for a SARS type virus when multiple governments tried for over a decade to produce vaccines for SARS in China and were unsuccessful, and they were able to achieve 95% effectiveness?
Many people are not buying the vaccine story,and this is perhaps why the elites are jumping headlong into vaccination so fast. Consider this fact:
Here I think we have our explanation for the vaccination bonanza. The elites know that a third of Americans (and probably Europeans) will not take the vaccine regardless of any propaganda they dish out. They also know that 60% of Americans are unlikely to take the vaccine unless they can show an effectiveness rate of at least 75%. Neither Moderna nor Pfizer have actually produced any evidence that their vaccines are capable of prevented severe illness or death from Covid, so, their effectiveness rate is based on “projections” of success according to their minimal trials. Meaning, the effectiveness rate of 95% is completely arbitrary.
Why did they go with such a high number instead of a more realistic 50% to 60%? Because the polls say they need an epic effectiveness rate in order to convince Americans to take the vaccine. I think it is really as simple as that.
Americans are skeptical of the vaccines for a number of reasons. The reality that they are minimally tested and rushed out in less than a year is one reason . The fact that the government and the media have been caught censoring or lying about Covid data is another reason.People just don’t trust the elites, and who can blame them?Who would trust a cabal of psychopaths to inject them with an unknown viral cocktail? Maybe their intentions are not so pure?
Maybe this is what Bill Gates meant when he stated in his Ted Talk that “vaccines and reproductive services” could help contribute to a reduction of the Earth’s population of 10% to 15% as a means to “stop global warming.
Why would Bill Gates mention vaccines in the same breath as “reproductive services” in reference to population reduction? Aren’t vaccines supposed to help people live longer? Well, the Pfizer VP’s warning about the Covid vaccine is ringing bells for me. Maybe the Covid vaccine won’t make you sick, or kill you. Maybe you will live a long life free of coronavirus, but you’ll find out a few years after taking the vaccine that you won’t ever be able to have kids.
Watch the movie ‘Children Of Men’ to get a sense of what the future might be like if the globalists get their way.
In the meantime, the elites are trying with everything they have to convince the public that they must abandon notions of civil liberties in the name of survival and “the greater good”.
They are already talking about how things will never go back to normal, and the changes being made today will stay in place for many years to come.
Governments are in the media right now claiming the vaccines “will not be mandatory”. This is a lie.At the same time they are putting mandates in place to require you to prove you are vaccinated in order to go to public places and even to go to work. Basically, you take the vaccine or you die from poverty. This is not a choice.
But, I see millions of Americans standing in opposition to this agenda. I see sheriffs and police across the country refusing to enforce the agenda, even in hard-left states like California.I see protests in lockdown states like Michigan, California and New York. I see mass protests in Europe. I see the Reset scheme being exposed and the truth breaking into the mainstream.
I see something rising to the surface, and I smell that gunpowder scent of rebellion, and I like it.
I’m not pessimistic about the future.I know a crash is coming. I know a fight is coming.But right now what I see is a fight that can and will be won by those that respect the principles of freedom.The globalists may have overplayed their hand.
Texas claims that the presidential elections as held (and as directed by government officials outside the legislature) in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Michiganall flagrantly violated their own election laws by materially weakening or doing away with security measures. Further, according to the U.S. Constitution, the legislature (representing the citizens) of each state has absolute authority and responsibility for how presidential electors are chosen; the will of legislature being expressed through state law.
Texas claims that the violations of election law in these statescreated an environment where ballot fraud was enabled and likely to occur. The lawsuit lists the violations of law in each of the defendant states and provides evidence of fraud (the number of ballots handled unconstitutionally) in each of the states sufficient to change the outcome of the ballot counts.
Pennsylvania
Facts:
Vote Tally: 3,445,548 for Biden and 3,363,951 for Trump – margin 81,597.
Requests for mail-in ballots 70% Democrats and 25% Republicans.
Mail-in ballots increased from 266,208 in 2016 to over 3,000,000 in 2020.
Violations of Election Law:
The Secretary of State unilaterally abrogated signature verification requirements for mail-in ballots.
PA supreme court changed existing deadline for receiving mail-in ballots from 8:00 PM on the day of election to 3 days after the election and adopted a presumption that non-postmarked ballots be considered as valid.
Election officials in Philadelphia and Allegheny Counties did not follow state law permitting poll-watchers to be present for the opening, counting, and recording of mail-in ballots.
The Secretary of State directed election officials to remove ballots before 7:00 AM on the day of election in order to “cure” defective mail-in ballots. This was done only in Democrat majority counties.
Election officials did not segregate ballots received after 8:00 PM on election day breaking the promise made to the U.S. Supreme Court thus making it impossible to identify or remove those ballots.
Evidence of Fraud:
Ballots with no mailed date: 9,005 (no evidence they were sent to a voter)
Ballots returned on or before the mailed date: 58,221
Ballots returned one day after the mailed date: 51,200 (Perhaps not impossible, but highly unlikely for the average voter to receive a ballot, fill it out, place it in the mail and have it returned the next day.)
On Nov 2, the day before the election, PA reports that 2.7 million ballots had been sent out. On Nov 4 that number had increased to 3.1 million — an increase of 400,000 mail-in ballots at election time with literally no reasonable chance of them being used by legitimate voters.
Georgia
Facts:
Vote Tally: 2,472,098 for Biden and 2,458,121 for Trump – margin 12,670.
Mail-in ballots: 65.32% for Biden and 34.68% for Trump.
Mail-in ballots increased from 213,033 in 2016 to 1,305,659 in 2020.
Violations of Election Law:
The Secretary of State unilaterally abrogated signature verification requirements for mail-in ballots.
The Secretary of State authorized opening and processing mail-in ballots up to three weeks before election day when the law prohibits that until after the polls open on election day.
The Secretary of State materially weakened the security requirements for ballot rejection based on signature verification or other missing information.
Evidence of Fraud:
Mail-in ballot rejection rate for missing or inaccurate information or for non-matching signatures decreased from 6.42% in 2016 to .36% in 2020. Rejecting 2020 ballots at the same rate as 2016 would have resulted in a net gain of 25,587 votes for Trump – twice the number needed to overcome Biden’s count. With a six-fold increase in the number of mail-in ballots, reason would indicate that the rejection rate would increase, or at least stay the same, with so many first-time mail-in ballots.
Michigan
Facts:
Vote Tally: 2,796,702 for Biden and 2,650,695 for Trump – margin 146,007.
In 2016 587,618 voters requested mail-in ballots. In 2020 3.2 million votes were cast by mail-in ballot.
Democrats voted by mail at a rate approximately two times that of Republican voters.
Violations of Election Law:
The Secretary of State unilaterally abrogated signature verification requirements for mail-in ballots.
The Secretary of State sent out unsolicited ballots to all 7.7 million registered voters contrary to election law which requires a voter to request a mail-in ballot through a process that includes a signature to be matched with the voter registration.
The Secretary of State also allowed absentee ballots to be requested online without signature verification.
Local election officials in Wayne County — containing 322,925 more ballots for Biden than for Trump — opened and processed mail-in ballots without poll-watchers present.
Local election officials in Wayne County also ignored the strict election law requirements of placing a written statement or stamp on each ballot envelope indicating that the voter signature was in fact checked and verified with the signature on file with the state.
Evidence of Fraud:
174,384 mail-in ballots in Wayne County had no valid registration number, indicating they likely resulted from election workers running the same ballots through the tabulator multiple times.
71% of Wayne County Absent Voter Counting Boards were unbalanced, where the number of people who checked in did not match the number of ballots cast.
Wisconsin
Facts:
Vote Tally: 1,630,716 for Biden and 1,610,151 for Trump – margin 20,565.
Mail-in ballots increased from 146,932 in 2016 to 1,275,019 in 2020.
Violations of Election Law:
The Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) positioned hundreds of unmanned illegal drop boxes to collect absentee ballots. (The use of any drop box, manned or unmanned, is directly prohibited by Wisconsin statute. Any alternate mail-in ballot site “shall be staffed by the municipal clerk or the executive director of the board of election commissioners…” “Ballots cast in contravention of the procedures specified in those provisions may not be included in the certified result of any election.”)
The WEC encouraged voters to unlawfully declare themselves “indefinitely confined” in order to avoid security measures like signature verification and photo ID requirements. Nearly 216,000 voters said they were indefinitely confined in the 2020 election, nearly four times as many as in 2016.
Strict laws requiring mail-in voters to certify by signature including the signature of an adult witness were ignored or circumvented by election officials.
Evidence of Fraud:
One hundred thousand ballots were supposedly missing and directed to be “found” after election day.
Conclusion
Significant violations of election law that were put into place to protect against election fraud is sufficient to invalidate the results of the elections, apart from whatever evidence is able to be gathered in a short time to show actual numbers of fraudulent ballots. Reason would indicate that there is a high number of fraudulent ballots that are impossible to identify, which is why the election laws pertaining to mail-in ballots were established to begin with.
There is no remedy to correct the Nov 3rd election because ballots that did not adhere to election law cannot be identified as separate from those that did. An accurate count of legal ballots that were cast cannot be made. Therefore, as directed in the Constitution, it falls to the legislature of each state to choose electors as has been done in the past.Failing that, each state may determine not to submit any presidential electors.
The Texas lawsuit claims the odds of Biden overcoming Trump’s lead and winning any of the states after the point indicated was one in a quadrillion. And therefore, the odds of winning all four was one in a quadrillion to the fourth power. The lawsuit did not provide information on how that number was determined. This may seem an exaggerated to some. It is enough to state that the odds of winning any one of the states was highly unlikely and the odds of winning all four were extremely unlikely. For example, if the odds of winning any one of the states was numerically much less extreme but still highly unlikely, say something like one in twenty, then the odds of doing that in all four states would be 1 in 160,000. Twenty beans in a jar: 19 white and 1 black. Reach in without looking and be lucky enough to pull out the one black bean. Chances of doing that again is 1 in 400. Clearly indicative of cheating if someone claims to have done that four times in a row. As I said the statistical analysis behind the claim of odds of 1 in a 1,000,000,000,000 are not given so I cannot speak to that. But even if the odds were orders of magnitude better than that, they were still astronomically small. At any rate, the merits of the lawsuit do not depend on any certain level of odds of Biden overcoming a lead that had been established by 3:00 A.M. the day after election.
According to Trump’s former Director of Nation Intelligence Richard Grenell, our governments ties with China extends to “mayors, governors and senior officials.”
Jim pulled select news stories out from tomorrow’s news round-up program in order to highlight them. Regardless of whether you find the stories outrageous, angering or disgusting, one thing is certain. All of them elicit the question: What in the world?
Michigan State Representative Cynthia Johnson gave a warning Tuesday at a vote fraud hearing where she called on soldiers (on the ‘left’) to ‘make them pay’ (referring to Trump supporters).
The staff of late term abortionist LeRoy Carhart is having fun making a mockery of Christ’s birth by decorating an office Christmas tree with abortion tools.
Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler twice accused her opponent, Democratic challenger Pastor Raphael Warnock, of using the Bible to justify abortion.
In an Appropriations Committee hearing, House Democrats characterized the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits the federal government from funding abortions, as racist and discriminatory.
Joe Biden says he will name a radical abortion activist, Xavier Becerra, as
his Health and Human Services secretary.
Other stories dealt with the coronavirus, Nancy Pelosi and the maker of Ritz crackers attempting to redefine the family.
What in the world? Get the details and hear how listeners responded when you listen to this Crosstalk broadcast.
In today’s episode, Todd uses our brand new series “Road Trip to Truth” to explain why God is necessary to be able to understand the world as we know it today. Jesus is the answer to all of life’s questions.
Despite claims that any correlation between mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations and the Mark of the Beast are “conspiratorial,” the reports are real.
No, we aren’t claiming that COVID-19 vaccines are the Mark of the Beast prophesied in Revelation 13:13-18. But what the Great Coronavirus Panic of 2020 has taught us is that the technology is present to fulfill the Scripture’s prophecy.
“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six” (Revelation 13:13-18).
Of course, by now you realize that the COVID-19 vaccination will probably not be “mandatory” in most First World nations, at least so far as governments are concerned. Our current reality shows us the burgeoning power of the emerging Technocrats who do the majority of the strong-arming these days. After all, it’s not the government normalizing 1984-style censorship and thought control, but the Technocracy.
Reports are also out that many different transporation companies (trains and airlines), businesses and corporations, and schools and colleges will make the vaccine mandatory. Even Ticket Master has promised not to let you attend a public venue without showing your COVID-19 vaccine credentials.
Ontario’s Health Minister, David Williams, laid out his plans to force vaccines through private companies. Williams says, “What we can do is to say sometimes for access or ease of getting into certain settings, if you don’t have vaccination then you’re not allowed into that setting without other protection materials.”
He went on…
“What may be mandatory is proof of … vaccination in order to have latitude and freedom to move around … without wearing other types of personal protective equipment.”
But what many people don’t know is that the technological strides have already been made to implement the COVID-19 vaccine credentials under the skin. However, there’s no indication per se they’ll be in the right hand or forehead (give it time).
The solution to a populace who wants “freedom to move around” without the cumbersome burden of Nazi-style vaccine papers is to just store the data under the skin. The method was created and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
MIT says, “In areas where paper vaccination cards are often lost or do not exist at all, and electronic databases are unheard of, this technology could enable the rapid and anonymous detection of patient vaccination history to ensure that every child is vaccinated.”
The technology is simple. It’s the creation of “a new dye, which consists of nanocrystals called quantum dots, can remain for at least five years under the skin, where it emits near-infrared light that can be detected by a specially equipped smartphone.”
MIT reports, “By selectively loading microparticles into microneedles, the patches deliver a pattern in the skin that is invisible to the naked eye but can be scanned with a smartphone that has the infrared filter removed. The patch can be customized to imprint different patterns that correspond to the type of vaccine delivered.”
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