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
To God be the glory, great things he hath done! So loved he the world that he gave us his Son, Who yielded his life an atonement for sin, And opened the life gate that we may go in.
Refrain Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, Let the earth hear his voice! Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, Let the people rejoice! O come to the Father through Jesus the Son, And give him the glory, great things he hath done!
O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood! To ev’ry believer the promise of God; The vilest offender who truly believes, That moment from Jesus forgiveness receives.
Great things he hath taught us, great things he hath done, And great our rejoicing through Jesus the Son; But purer, and higher, and greater will be Our wonder, our transport, when Jesus we see.
In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, holiness unto the Lord, (Zechariah 14:20)
Happy day when all things shall be consecrated, and the horses’ bells shall ring out holiness to the Lord! That day has come to me. Do I not make all things holy to God? These garments, when I put them on or take them off, shall they not remind me of the righteousness of Christ Jesus my Lord? Shall not my work be done as unto the Lord? Oh, that today my clothes may be vestments, my meals sacraments, my house a temple, my table an altar, my speech incense, and myself a priest! Lord, fulfill Thy promise, and let nothing be to me common or unclean.
Let me in faith expect this. Believing it to be so, I shall be helped to make it so. As I myself am the property of Jesus, my Lord may take an inventory of all I have, for it is altogether His own; and I resolve to prove it to be so by the use to which I put it this day. From morning till evening I would order all things by a happy and holy rule. My bells shall ring—why should they not? Even my horses shall have bells—who has such a right to music as the saints have? But all my bells, my music, my mirth, shall be turned to holiness and shall ring out the name of “the happy God.”
“… for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith, of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire, may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.” 1 Peter 1:6b-7
Untested faith may be real faith, but it is sure to be immature faith. It is likely to remain immature as long as it never faces difficulties.
When all things seem against it, faith often prospers. Storms are faith’s illuminators. When a calm reigns on the sea, spreading a ship’s sails is futile because the ship will never leave its harbor. However, when the howling winds rush forth causing the water to crash intensely around the ship, even though the vessel may rock and its deck may be flooded by the waves, it is only then that it will progress towards its destination.
No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that which springs amid the desert sand. And no faith is so precious as that which lives and triumphs through adversity. Tested faith brings experience. You would never have believed your own weakness had you not needed to pass through trials. And you would never have known God’s strength had His strength not been needed to carry you through. Faith is precious, and since they may build faith they are precious too.
This shouldn’t, however, discourage anyone who is young in faith. You’ll face enough trials without even looking for them! These faith building tests will be measured out to you in due time. Meanwhile, if you currently lack experience, thank God for what grace you’ve received and praise Him for the degree of holy confidence you’ve attained so far, while honestly asking Him to bring you even more. Continue to walk in faith, and, through success and adversity, you will have more and more of the blessing of God until your faith is powerful enough to move mountains!
Question: What trials have you faced lately, and how could they be working to mature your faith?
Originally written by Charles H Spurgeon Updated to modern English, by Darren Hewer, 2008. Used by Permission
“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.: Isaiah 43:2
I have a wonderful admiration for firefighters. Their acts of bravery, showing initiative and capability in their rescues is inspiring.
My dad was a courageous and heroic fireman; he willingly risked his own life to save others. My childhood memories are still very vivid and I keenly remember when my mom used to take me to Central Fire Station #1 for weekly visits while my dad was on duty. Sliding down the fireman pole, standing on the back of the bright red fire truck, playing with Sparky the Dalmatian and giving him his favorite treat out of the Chiclets gum machine. I can still smell the aroma of spaghetti in the firehouse kitchen while the firemen sat around the table, playing cards and reflecting on their day.
One incredible story my dad shared is when he rescued a woman who was wedged inside a burning house. The Christmas tree had caught on fire, and the home was completely engulfed in flames. Working for approximately 30 minutes to free the trapped woman, he ran out of oxygen. He was doubtful they would survive, but miraculously the Lord sustained them and they both made it out. He gives God the glory for delivering him though many treacherous situations.
The promise in today’s scripture still applies to us today. The prophet Isaiah penned these words to the nation of Israel to comfort and assure God’s people. All of us have experienced the “heat” of trials. It is through these places of fire that God has made some of his most faithful servants. Many great testimonies will include “while I was in the fire” in recounting how God refined them and that it was “in the fire” where God lifted them up. King Nebuchadnezzar had three Jews thrown into the fiery furnace for refusing to bow to an idol god. When he looked into the furnace, he saw four men “walking in the fire” (Daniel3:19-25). “And the fourth man looked like the Son of God.”
Jordan St. Cyr, writer and singer of “Fires”, reminds us that we don’t have to be afraid. Through God’s unfailing love, endless mercy and compassion we can be victorious even when the smoke billows higher and higher. We will all have troubles, but Jesus will always walk through them with us.
Dear Lord, thank you for helping me walk through the fires even when I am afraid. Help me to rely upon your promises in the Bible during challenging times, and rest in the full assurance of your love. May you be glorified in all situations. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
America’s Reichstag Moment Why was the January 6th riot allowed to happen in the first place? The Nazi party used two events to cement its political power prior to World War II. One was the killing of Ernest vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan in London in November 1938. The other event the Nazis used to consolidate their power was the burning of the Reichstag in 1933. Had the January 6th riot actually been what Democrats and the media have been trying to sell—namely, a deadly attack on members of Congress and the police, the Democrats would have been gifted the ability to ban the “MAGA wing” (whatever that is) of the Republican Party. Like Hitler in November of 1938, the attack with some bloodshed would have been an outstanding pretext to crack down on their enemies, namely the tea party/MAGA grassroots portion of the party.
What Would Happen If American Elites Told The Truth? There seems to be a considerable amount of social pressure urging us to abandon our better judgment, not for the sake of reason, but for cooperation. Any mature person notices the obvious discrepancy between what we see with our own eyes and what our country’s elites tell us.
Proud Boys J6 Sedition Trial Halted After Leaked Chat Logs Show FBI Agent Said Her Boss Ordered Her To “Destroy Evidence” The feds’ political persecution of the Proud Boys took a wild turn after unintentionally leaked chat logs from FBI Special Agent Nicole Miller revealed she said she was ordered by her boss to “destroy” “338 items of evidence.” The leaked chats also suggest Miller failed to reveal relevant communications to the defense, potentially spied on privileged attorney-client communications and was asked by another agent to “edit out that I was present” during a meeting with a Confidential Human Source Informant.
After the kidnapping of 4 Americans, Mexico’s president blasts US demand for drugs Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador lashed out at Republican U.S. lawmakers who have proposed sending troops into Mexico, telling them that the United States should concentrate on curbing its rampant appetite for illegal drugs. “Why don’t you take care of your young people? Why don’t you take care of the serious problem of social decomposition? Why don’t (you) temper the constant increase in consumption of drugs?” López Obrador asked Thursday at his daily news conference.
The day after Israel’s judicial overhaul Proponents and opponents alike agree the reforms will fundamentally change the country; the warring sides, however, have drastically different visions on what those changes will be
Ukraine: Russia suffered more than 500 killed and wounded in one day at Bakhmut More than 500 Russian troops were killed or wounded in a recent 24-hour period during the battle for the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, a Ukrainian military spokesman said on Saturday. Pro-Moscow forces have been fighting for months to take Bakhmut, in the eastern Donbas region. Both sides admit to significant losses and the exact numbers are difficult to verify.
Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano erupts, covers villages in ash Indonesia’s Mount Merapi, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, erupted on Saturday, spewing out smoke and ash that blanketed villages near the crater. There were no immediate reports of casualties, the country’s disaster mitigation agency said. The Merapi Volcano Observatory estimated the ash cloud reached 9,600 feet (3,000 meters) above the summit.
California county used cell phone tracking, stakeouts to monitor churchgoers during COVID lockdown: report Members of a Christian church in California’s Santa Clara County were hit with hefty fines and surveilled via stakeouts, cell phone monitoring, and other measures “reminiscent of totalitarian regimes” after their church defied the county’s draconian COVID-19 lockdown rules in 2020, according to a March 5 report by independent journalist David Zweig.
Biden’s woke proposed 2024 budget would fund veterans’ ‘sex changes’ President Joe Biden’s new 2024 budget plan, released on Thursday, places heavy emphasis on advancing the administration’s “equity and equality” programmes, proposing to funnel some of the $137.9 billion discretionary budget for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) towards “providing gender affirming care to the Nation’s veterans.”
European Youth Resist Mass Surveillance Intended to “Protect Minors” Two-thirds of European teenagers oppose the European Commission’s proposed child-protection law that would mandate internet providers to monitor personal messages, according to a recent Episto poll published on March 7.
China Boosts Defense Budget Despite Modest Economic Growth Prospects China’s defense budget is poised to witness a 7.2 percent increase this year, surpassing both last year’s and the country’s total projected economic growth. The revelation was made on March 5 at the opening of the National People’s Congress (NPC) in Beijing, according to reports byReuters.
Tropical Cyclone “Freddy” stalls on the coast of Mozambique, delivering catastrophic amounts of rainfall Tropical Cyclone “Freddy” is delivering potentially catastrophic amounts of rainfall over the Quelimane region of Mozambique as the storm stalls just 30 km (18 miles) offshore with winds of 175 km/h (110 mph). Over the past couple of weeks, heavy rains and floods in Mozambique claimed the lives of at least 117 people.
2nd Biggest Bank Failure In U.S. History – “We Found Our Enron” – “On The Verge Of A Much Bigger Collapse Than 2008” The wait for the next “Lehman Brothers moment” is over. On Friday, we witnessed the second biggest bank failure in U.S. history. The stunning collapse of Silicon Valley Bank is shaking the financial world to the core. As of the end of last year, the bank had 175 billion dollars in deposits, and approximately 151 billion dollars of those deposits were uninsured.
India’s oil deals with Russia dent decades-old dollar dominance U.S.-led international sanctions on Russia have begun to erode the dollar’s decades-old dominance of international oil trade as most deals with India – Russia’s top outlet for seaborne crude – have been settled in other currencies.
As Arizona Looks to Defund Border Security, Cartels Move Smuggling Efforts West Since Gov. Katie Hobbs was sworn into office in January, the number of foreign nationals illegally entering Arizona has increased primarily in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Tucson Sector. And as several factors, including Texas expanding border security efforts, are resulting in illegal border crossings increasing further west, law enforcement officials say Arizona can expect greater numbers.
We had been driving across the Sierra Nevada for less than an hour when an eerie fog settled over the winding road filled with switchbacks. We were on our way to a speaking engagement in Fresno, California, and the higher we drove up the eastern slope of this great mountain range, the thicker the veil became. We could scarcely see more than 8-10 feet in front of us.
We eventually started our descent down the western side, and the dense mist slowly dissipated. It was not so much that the fog was melting away, but that we were driving out of it. From our vantage point, the vapor shroud was lifting the closer we got to our destination.
Similarly, the closer we get to the end times, the clearer God’s revelation becomes. From a distance, it is difficult to see how the prophecies of Scripture will unfold. The sixth century BC prophet, Daniel, experienced this sense of bewilderment as God revealed to him details about the future Tribulation period and coming Messianic Kingdom.
Daniel and his contemporaries could not possibly have understood all the details in the prophecies God gave him. “Although I heard, I did not understand,” Daniel wrote. He wondered, “What shall be the end of these things” (Daniel 12:8)? God explained to Daniel that as knowledge increases, people will “run to and fro” trying to figure out what God’s revelation means (Daniel 12:4). Two hundred years before Daniel, the prophet Amos said something similar.
For thousands of years, people have wandered “from sea to sea, and from north to east,” they have “run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord,” but have been unable to fully comprehend how God’s prophecies will come about (Amos 8:12). However, as time passes, and knowledge increases, we will be able to understand God’s prophetic Word better than Daniel or Amos did. The fog of uncertainty will lift, and things will make more sense.
We are living in unprecedented times, prophetically. The stage is being set like never before as we draw closer and closer to the Rapture. Prophecies that seemed far-fetched, even impossible, are now easily understood. How can the Antichrist possibly track every human being on earth? That is where digital ID’s and central bank digital currencies come in. How can the Antichrist die and come back to life? That is where artificial intelligence and the transhumanist biodigital convergence explain the mystery. How can the Antichrist desecrate the temple in Jerusalem, when there was no Israel on the world map for more than 1,800 years? The reestablishment of Israel as a nation in 1948 answers that question.
Many of the prophecies of Scripture have been sealed until “the time of the end” (Daniel 12:9). As we approach that time, the fog is lifting. Students of Bible prophecy today can look back over history and see the significance of much of what Daniel and other prophets predicted in God’s Word. For those with ears to hear and eyes to see (Revelation 13:9), the signs are everywhere.
As the fog lifts, the scenery is beautiful because it reminds us that God is working out His plan precisely as He said He would. At the same time, the landscape can be unsettling as we see more clearly, especially for those who do not know the Lord.
Have you trusted in Jesus Christ, and Him alone, as the only One who can provide the free gift of eternal life? If not, do so today! If you have, are you eagerly waiting for the Lord’s return (Philippians 3:20–21)?
The House and Senate have already unanimously passed a bill requiring the Biden administration declassify intel on the origins of COVID. Democrats and Republicans all working hand-in-hand and agreeing 100% on something … imagine that! So, hey, let’s have it. Let’s have the intel. Where is it?
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Rep. Ronny Jackson told ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ that the House COVID committee is discovering that the sped-up vaccine approval was for political reasons, not safety concerns. The Texas Republican and physician told Johnny Joey Jones, Sunday, that the Biden administration pushed the FDA to approve the vaccine sooner than they should have.
REP. RONNY JACKSON: Well, the Biden administration sped it up. People from the EOP were pushing people at the FDA. Dr. Gruber actually resigned in protest because she said ‘this is not how this process is supposed to work. We cannot review all this information in this short period of time. It’s unsafe.’ And Joey, they had set the date for January of 2022. Mind you, the process didn’t even start until July 16 of 2021. And after Dr. Gruber left, you know, when they approved it, they approved it in August 23rd of 2021, five weeks after it started, five weeks after the process. It was approved in five weeks. It was supposed to take, you know, initially 10 to 12 months and then six months with the expedited process…
Here’s the kicker. Why did they do that? Because they had been talking for some period of time about vaccine mandates. The Biden administration knew that they were going to have a real problem trying to push vaccine mandates, using a vaccine that was being administered under emergency use authorization. They started talking about the military, about, you know, health care workers. And so that’s what they did. The day after it was approved on August the 24th, DOD secretary mandated it for all members of the military, and CMS followed right after that. There’s a lot here.
Vladimir Zelensky is ungrateful for Washington’s support and his war aims are unrealistic, officials have told the American news outlet
The US and Ukraine are increasingly at odds over how Kiev intends the conflict with Moscow to continue, and eventually end, Politico reported on Sunday. President Joe Biden’s insistence that Ukraine will decide when to seek peace might not remain “tenable” for much longer, US officials reportedly believe.
Ukraine’s refusal to abandon the encircled city of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) has caused some Biden administration officials to worry that it is “expending so much manpower and ammunition” that it could be unable to mount a counteroffensive against Russian forces elsewhere, Politico claimed.
Although the Pentagon has suggested that holding the city is not strategically important for Ukraine, “Kiev has, for now, ignored Washington’s input,” the report stated.
The dispute over Bakhmut’s value has been reported by US media already, but it is just one area of disagreement highlighted by Politico. President Vladimir Zelensky’s attitude towards military support from the US is another. While the US has given Ukraine tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons out of a $113 billion fund, Zelensky has repeatedly demanded more.
“There have been grumblings about the constant requests and, at times, Zelensky not showing appropriate gratitude,” Politico wrote, citing two anonymous White House officials.
Biden has repeatedly stated that the US will keep American weapons flowing into Ukraine “for as long as it takes,” and that Kiev alone will decide when to sit down to peace talks with Russia. However, officials reportedly worry that Zelensky’s promise to capture Crimea – which voted to join Russia in 2014 – will only “extend the war,” and could trigger “a dramatic escalation from Moscow.”
Politico’s report is not the first indication that Washington doesn’t back Zelensky’s plans for Crimea. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley warned in January that attacking the Russian peninsula would be “very, very difficult,” while the Pentagon has reportedly been telling Congress that Ukraine lacks the capability to launch such an operation in the first place.
“Biden continues to stick to his refrain that the United States will leave all decisions about war and peace to Zelensky,” Politico wrote. “But whispers have begun across Washington as to how tenable that will be as the war grinds on.”
Ukraine’s decision-making has also been called into question by US intelligence agents, who told the New York Times last week that a “pro-Ukrainian group” was behind the September 2022 attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines. Although the spies stressed that Zelensky’s government was not involved, Politico claimed that the Biden administration has signaled to Kiev that “violence outside of Ukraine’s borders will not be tolerated.”
The New York Times article contradicted earlier reporting by journalist Seymour Hersh, which blamed the explosions on the Biden administration and CIA. Moscow described its publication as a “coordinated hoax” aimed at shifting blame away from the US and toward Ukraine.
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The collapse of
Silicon Valley Bank
is a result of a massive market bubble finally popping.
Wall Street commentators agree the Fed has had a hand in the chaos via its aggressive rate hikes.
“It is not a stretch to say that this episode is emblematic of the higher-for-longer rate regime,” Deutsche Bank analysts said.
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank is the natural result of the “everything bubble” that’s engulfed markets in the last decade finally bursting. And now that a new rate environment is upon us, the market should expect more of these chaotic episodes.
“What do you get when you see one of the biggest hiking cycles on record, alongside one of the most inverted yield curves in history, at the same time as seeing one of the biggest tech bubbles bursting in history, coupled with runaway growth in private markets,” Deutsche Bank analysts wrote Friday.
They continued: “The answer is that you get nights like yesterday where SVB Financial Group closed 60.41% lower on the day, wiping out $9.6 billion in market value. It is not a stretch to say that this episode is emblematic of the higher-for-longer rate regime we appear to be at the start of.”
SVB’s steep losses on its bond portfolio — the announcement of which kicked off its decline in the middle of last week — were a direct result of the Fed’s aggressive rate hikes over the last year, as its holdings of longer-term Treasuries and mortgage securities cratered in value with rising interest rates.
It marked the conclusion of a so-called everything bubble that central bankers help blow up by keeping rates artificially low, pumping the market full of liquidity, and generally making conditions so favorable for asset prices that they seemed like a can’t-lose investing proposition.
SVB is merely the latest casualty of that era coming to an abrupt end, and it illustrates the problems for investors and firms that saw huge success in an unprecedented period of loose financial conditions. As rates rise, and less risky investments start offering attractive yields, more and more money is going to be pulled from things like high-growth tech stocks, crypto, and privately held start-ups.
So to recap: the Fed both inflated this bubble and now wants to pop it.
This week, legendary investor Jeremy Grantham slammed the central bank for creating bubbles with its policy, calling its influence over markets a 36-year-long “horror show.”
“They’ve engaged in policies that drive up the prices of assets, other things being even, and create spectacular overpriced bubbles. They then break because that’s what bubbles have to do. They simply break off their extreme overpricing, and we pay a very tough price,” Grantham said in a recent interview with Bloomberg’s What Goes Up podcast.
Other Wall Street commentators have also slammed the Fed’s aggressive response to inflation, warning that an epic stock market crash is now a given as the huge bubble the central bank itself created looks poised to burst.
The risk of a crash is higher after Fed Chair Powell this week signaled steeper rate hikes into 2023, according to Mohamed El-Erian, and stocks could crash as much as 20%-30% over the next few months, according to Morgan Stanley strategists and markets guru Larry McDonald.
“We’ll have to see how this story develops but something always breaks hard during or after a Fed hiking cycle. Is this another mini wobble on this front or the start of something bigger? Tough to tell but I would be stunned if there weren’t many more casualties of this boom-and-bust cycle. Don’t forget, we haven’t been in recession yet,” Deutsche analysts warned.
‘Gutfeld!’ co-hosts react to a recent study that found, for the first time in a century, a decline in the average IQ of Americans. #foxnews #fox #gutfeld
Tucker Carlson met with his former fellow host at FOX News, Clayton Morris, at his online show ‘Redacted.’ In this interview that was released on Saturday, they discussed many things including the Jan 6 tapes and all that transpired before and since that time.
Tucker Carlson at one time hosted FOX and Friends Weekend with Clayton Morris and Abby Huntsman. Tucker eventually went on to do his own cable news show at FOX News that is the top show on cable news. Abby Huntsman left FOX to become a host at The View, a toxic far-left morning show, and Morris started Redacted.
His guest this week was Tucker Carlson.
The two discussed the January 6 protests and media lies from that day.
At the 28:00 minute mark below Tucker started to really get into the Jan 6 files. He shared that his team asked for the files. Speaker McCarthy, who Tucker says he’s never been a fan of, provided the files. “For the record, I have been highly, highly critical of Kevin McCarthy”, Tucker shared.
Of the relevant footage, we’re not aware… I don’t think there is anyone who could have manipulated it…
The two things I know is no one got in our way… We ran all of our clips by Capitol Police before putting on TV… only in one case they said we don’t want you to show the details of this door…
I thought the whole thing was ridiculous, this security risk bullshit…
The main problem we had is we didn’t have facial recognition software. So I’m allowing for, we missed stuff, I’m sure we missed a lot of stuff. We did our best and we spent a long time doing it…
But what we couldn’t do, which is the main thing I wanted to do, is show that there were FBI agents in the crowd. And there were, the FBI’s admitted that. But it’s obvious to me they played a pivitol role.
Ray Epps, CLEARLY was working for somebody. He’s not a pure civilian. He encouraged violence and then the Jan 6 committee, Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney, Bennie Thompson, Adam Schiff, they all defended them, as their friend. He’s not an insurrectionist, he’s an ally. How do you explain that? It violates common sense…
The Ray Epps thing isn’t organic, sorry…
The core claims about January 6 were a lie. It’s not a violent insurrection, a deadly insurrection. It’s a violent political demonstration. One of many in the year that took place from January 2020 to January 2021…
Clearly Nancy Pelosi wanted this to happen…
Anything you’re not allowed to ask questions about is something you should ask more questions about.
SPEAKER MCCARTHY REACTS TO THE COLLAPSE OF THE SILICON VALLEY BANK
MARIA BARTIROMO: I want to first get your take on Silicon Valley Bank
. We are waiting on some conversation from legislators and lawmakers. I know you’ve been in touch with them. What are you expecting before the market opens tomorrow morning?
KEVIN MCCARTHY: Well, I have talked with the administration from Jay Powell and Janet Yellen. They do have the tools to handle the current situation. They do know the seriousness of this. And they are working to try to come forward with some announcement before the markets open. I’m hopeful that something can be announced today to move forward. This bank is a unique bank where they do have assets, they have an amazing clientele. It’s something that could be very possible that someone to purchase this bank, I think that would be the best outcome to move forward and cool the markets and let people understand that we can move forward in the right manner.
MARIA BARTIROMO: Yeah. I want to just point out that there’s a lot of nervousness after Bill Ackman tweeted that we’re going to see a run on banks. But I think it’s very important to take note that after the 2006 2007 financial collapse, the banks shored up their capital and the banking system is very well capitalized. It’s very important to get that out into the middle of all of this chaos. Do you expect a larger bank to acquire Silicon Valley Bank?
KEVIN MCCARTHY: That is that is a great potential. It’s something that they should look at. This Silicon Valley bank at Silicon Valley Bank has a lot of assets. It’s just where the capital is currently at. So it is attractive for someone to want to purchase it. It’s just a timeline of where to move forward. And the administration has tools to deal with this. So I wouldn’t live off somebody putting something on Twitter. Let the actions of the administration take work here before anybody goes to any positions in their own bank.
GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS SAYS SILICON VALLEY BANK REMINISCENT OF GOVERNMENT FAILURES IN THE FINANCIAL CRISIS
MARIA BARTIROMO: Governor, I want to get your take on what appears to be another emergency unfolding this morning, and that is around the Silicon Valley Bank and its failure. You took on the insurance crisis in Florida last year tackling what was becoming a property insurance issue. How worried are you about Florida banks and the potential for a run on these banks? With the Silicon Valley failure.
GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS: So I don’t have any specific information about any Florida bank. Similar to Silicon Valley Bank. And hopefully that that remains the case. You know, Maria just appears to me I mean, this bank, they’re so concerned with DEA and politics and all kinds of stuff, I think that really diverted from them focusing on their core mission. I also look at it and say, we have such a morass of federal regulations. We have a massive federal bureaucracy, and yet they never seem to be able to be there when we need them to be able to prevent something like this. And so we’ll see what they do going into tomorrow. But I think it’s just very disappointing. Kind of reminds me of stuff that we saw in the financial crisis or in Bernie Madoff, where you had warning signs and yet the government that this is supposed to be their job and they always seem to whiff when it counts.
GOVERNOR KRISTI NOEM GETS SERIOUS ABOUT THE THREAT CHINA POSES TO AMERICANS
MARIA BARTIROMO: Well, you are being tougher on the CCP than President Biden is, which is why we’re constantly questioning this soft approach on this dominance from China. It’s interesting. I’m glad you mentioned the the bomber, because that has been the path, whether it’s the balloon over our military installations, where there are nuclear facilities or buying up land close to these military installations. What is the goal here?
GOVERNOR KRISTI NOEM: Well, the goal is to control us and to destroy us. That China recognizes that the only way that they can have world dominance is to take out the United States of America. We stand in their path and they will use their own enemies, such as Russia or North Korea or Iran, to partner in unique ways to destroy us. So we need to wake up every single day recognizing what they’ve been doing for generations. I’ve been involved in policy for 25 years. I was served on the Armed Services Committee while I was in Congress. I recognized and saw them buying up our fertilizer companies or chemical companies, buying our processing systems there, buying our food supply so they can control us, not only manipulating their currency, stealing our IP, now they’re purchasing our land so they can have a foothold right here in the center of the United States of America to conduct surveillance on our on our defense systems. It’s alarming and it’s very strange for South Dakota to have to be this aggressive. But when you have a lack of leadership in the White House, we have to do what we can do to protect our people.
REP JAMES COMER DISCUSSES WHAT HE’S LEARNED FROM HUNTER BIDEN’S BUSINESS DEALINGS AND WHAT HE EXPECTS FROM THE UPCOMING DEPOSITION OF KATHY CHUNG
MARIA BARTIROMO: And I’m back with the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Congressman James Comer. Congressman, talk to us about Kathy Chang. She’s coming in to get deposed by your committee. What are you expecting?
REP JAMES COMER: Well, we’re going to have a transcribed interview with Ms.. Chung. We have a lot of questions about her role in moving documents. We all know now that Joe Biden had mishandled classified documents in at least five different locations. We know from text messages and emails she got the job to help with the Biden family moving documents at the recommendation of Hunter Biden. Given Hunter Biden what we see from bank records and from the emails and text messages with all the influence peddling he’s done, we wondered why was Hunter Biden so concerned about Joe Biden’s document? So we have a lot of questions for Ms.. Chung, and she’s fortunately going to come in voluntarily and we’ll have an opportunity to hopefully get some answers.
If you think about it at all, can you come up with any good reasons why our country has involved itself in the Ukraine war?
To defend democracy, many say?
An emptier platitude does not exist in the vast slippery lexicon of spin.
To thwart Russia’s imperial overreach?
You apparently have no clue about Ukraine’s history, ancient or modern.
To incite an overthrow of the wicked Putin by his own people?
The Russian president is more popular there now than even John F. Kennedy was here in 1962.
Oh, I know, I’m just parroting Russian propaganda by saying that. Isn’t that what they always say when you confront them with an uncomfortable truth about the war in Ukraine?
Meanwhile, Western “intelligence” sources and their mainstream media mouthpieces have been saying for about a year now that Russia was running out of ammunition. Well, they still have plenty of it, as the Ukrainians can painfully attest.
It’s actually the Ukrainians who are running out of ammo, which is why the U.S. and its NATO allies are looking under the couch cushions for any spare ammo they can find to send them.
Two Reasons, Both Bad
There actually are no good reasons for what we are doing in Ukraine, only bad reasons.
Mainly, stoking the war there diverts Americans’ attention from our own problems, which is to say the titanic failures of America’s political establishment.
The USA is falling apart from a combination of mismanagement, malice and negligence.
Our economy is a tottering scaffold of Ponzi schemes. Our institutions are wrecked. The government lies about everything it does. The news industry ratifies all the lying. Our schoolchildren can’t read or add up a column of numbers. Our food is slow-acting poison. Our medical-pharma matrix has just completed the systematic murder and maiming of millions. Our culture has been reduced to a drag queen twerk-fest. Our once-beautiful New World landscape is a demolition derby.
Name something that hasn’t been debauched, perverted, degenerated or flat-out destroyed.
And so the “Joe Biden” show is busy ginning up nuclear war hysteria because that’s all it has left for manipulating public emotion. The COVID-19 derangement lost its mojo in 2022 and the population has only just begun to grok the all-causes death disaster underway courtesy of Pfizer and Moderna (and the CDC with the FDA).
Do It for the Children
Did you notice, by the way, that the CDC just added those unapproved, still-experimental shots to the childhood vaccine schedule, considered official “guidance” that is followed by virtually every school system in America. Rochelle Walensky did that despite massive evidence that the “vaccines” damage children’s hearts, nervous systems, reproductive systems and immune systems.
Do you know why Ms. Walensky did that? Because adding the mRNA shots to the childhood schedule supposedly confers permanent immunity from legal liability for the drug companies, even after the current emergency use authorization (EUA) runs out.
The catch to that cozy arrangement is if there is any fraud committed on the public in the release and administration of those products, the companies lose their immunity and can be sued until there is nothing left of them but the paper clips. Plus, the executives may be liable for criminal prosecution. Hard time.
One Brook Jackson, a technician involved in the sketchy Pfizer drug trials, and who directly witnessed the procedural violations as they occurred, is currently suing Pfizer under the False Claims Act (31 U.S. Code § 3729) saying that the company defrauded the government.
Pfizer’s lawyers have asked the judge to dismiss the case on the grounds, they said in court, that “We did not defraud the government. We delivered the fraud that the government ordered.” So now millions of schoolchildren in this land will be subject to compulsory harmful mRNA shots in order to cover the Pharma companies’ multibillion-dollar rear ends. Doesn’t that sum up our national predicament nicely? Way to go, Rochelle. Don’t think nobody noticed.
Something to Ponder
It’s also worth pondering whether we are neck-deep in the Ukraine morass because Volodymyr Zelensky is blackmailing “Joe Biden” over the mysterious Biden family business operations that took place there directly following the U.S.-orchestrated Maidan revolution that overthrew Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014.
Remember “The Big Guy’s” earnest efforts to get rid of the Ukrainian state prosecutor who was looking into the affairs of the Burisma gas company that invited Hunter Biden and his associate Devon Archer onto the board of directors?
Of all people in Western Civ… these two Americans… with no knowledge of or experience in the natgas industry. Weird, a little bit. Do you suppose Mr. Zelenskyy still has the prosecutor’s files in his possession?
I’m just throwing that out there. I have no idea, but it’s good to think outside the proverbial box. The mainstream media certainly don’t.
Complete Media Silence
Then, of course, there is the bizarre matter of the Nord Stream pipelines caper, lately disclosed by the scrupulous reporter Seymour Hersh as a U.S. naval operation. We blew them up. Four EU member nations (also U.S. NATO allies) held a combined half-ownership in the pipelines (the other half held by Russia).
European industry and households depended on a steady supply of that reasonably priced gas to continue modern life there. Both President “Joe Biden” and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland promised the news media (and the American public) that the pipeline would “be no more” if a Russian military operation crossed into the Donbas.
Well, sonofagun, the pipelines were “no more” as of last September. Of course, the mainstream media have completely ignored this story. If that doesn’t tell you about the state of modern journalism, I don’t know what will.
Was that an injury to Russia? Well, yes, though Russia has found workarounds for selling its natgas elsewhere than northern Europe. Do you realize, though, that it was every bit as much an act of war against our supposed allies?
None of the NATO countries with a stake in the North Streams have made a peep so far about the shocking disclosure. Which may lead a casual observer to ask whether Western Civ has gone plumb insane. Maybe so, in which case perhaps it deserves to suffer.
After a while — not such a long while, either — modern life will be but a memory in northern Europe.
No More NATO?
Somehow the specter of unintended consequences looms over all this mischief. My guess is we just haven’t seen them yet… and when we do, they will be ferocious. For starters, NATO will be another thing that is no more.
And our country will have to go about our blustering war-hawkery without any back-up or convenient staging areas for fomenting more shenanigans in a faraway region where we have no real national interest, just a certain zeal for creating unnecessary trouble and hardship in a world that already has more than it requires.
Remember what his old boss, Barack Obama, said about the former veep: “You can never overstate Joe’s ability to f*** things up.” What a prophet that man is!
Under “Joe Biden,” the USA has been slip-sliding sideways and backwards into a realm of darkness unimaginable a few years ago. And he’s had plenty of help from establishment Republicans, so this isn’t an entirely partisan affair.
But now, something is heaving through the public sensibility, as spring marches north in America. It feels like a sharp change in attitude, a refusal to continue acting like a reality-optional society. It’s crackling through the air like a rumor of liberation in a hostage crisis.
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