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
You have probably noticed that cultural issues are bitterly dividing our nation right now. Bud Light, Target and other companies that have taken controversial stands on cultural issues have been dominating the headlines for weeks, and now the month of June is here. An entire month is set aside to celebrate “Pride”, and you can’t escape it even if you wanted to do so. Rainbow colors will constantly remind us of what we are all supposed to be celebrating, and there will be gatherings and parades in cities from coast to coast. Today, Pride Month has become one of the most prominent holidays in the United States, but it actually hasn’t been around that long. In fact, the very first time it was officially recognized by the White House was in 1999…
June is Pride Month, commemorating the Stonewall uprising, which began on June 28, 1969. Though the first Gay Pride Liberation March took place in Manhattan in 1970 to commemorate the one-year anniversary of Stonewall, it took 30 years for Pride Month to become official, in a 1999 proclamation from former President Bill Clinton.
I was stunned when I read that, because it seems like Pride Month has been around forever.
And this June it will be celebrated in virtually every single nation on the entire planet.
For the next 30 days, it won’t be too difficult to distinguish those that support “Pride” from those that don’t support “Pride”. People will be letting us know what they believe by what they wear, what flags they fly, what celebrations they attend, what they put on their social media profiles, and by the opinions that they share with others.
Needless to say, the Biden administration has very strong feelings about the month of June. The following comes from the proclamation that the White House just released to commemorate Pride Month…
In June 1969, a courageous group of Americans rose up to protest the violence and marginalization they faced in what became known as the Stonewall Uprising. Police had raided the Stonewall Inn — a gay bar located in New York City — and for the next six days they clashed with LGBTQI+ protestors, who bravely stood their ground. Their courage sparked a civil rights movement for the liberation of the LGBTQI+ community and changed our Nation forever.
During Pride Month, we honor a movement that has grown stronger, more vibrant, and more inclusive with every passing year. Pride is a celebration of generations of LGBTQI+ people, who have fought bravely to live openly and authentically. And it is a reminder that we still have generational work to do to ensure that everyone enjoys the full promise of equity, dignity, protection, and freedom.
Of course this comes at a time when LGBTQI+ issues are already creating a firestorm of controversy.
In recent weeks, conservatives all over the U.S. have been boycotting Bud Light after the company partnered with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney to celebrate “365 days of girlhood”.
The sales volume of Bud Light dropped 29.5% in the week ending May 20 as compared to the same period last year, according to data provided to Newsweek by Bump Williams Consulting and Nielsen IQ.
But instead of reversing course, Bud Light has decided to double down…
Bud Light announced Tuesday that it is donating $200,000 to the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce in support of its Communities of Color Initiative, as the company continues to struggle in the wake of the Dylan Mulvaney scandal.
The once most-popular beer brand in America continues to hemorrhage market value in the wake of its April partnership with trans Dylan Mulvaney.
Millions of conservatives are also boycotting Target, and this has caused the stock price of the company to fall precipitously…
Target shares dropped again on Wednesday as the retail juggernaut continues to suffer after LGBTQ Pride products outraged some customers across the nation.
Target shares dropped another 2.14%, marking the ninth straight decline, as tracked by Dow Jones Market Data Group.
Since widespread backlash over Pride merchandise polarized the nation, Target’s market value has fallen over $13 billion to $60.44 billion as of Wednesday’s closing price. The company’s market value was over $74 billion earlier this month.
Of course it isn’t just big corporations that are causing controversy.
This week, a wildly popular Christian television show called “The Chosen” came under fire after it was revealed that they had a “pride flag” openly displayed on set…
The popular TV show “The Chosen” defended having a pride flag on set after facing criticism on social media, according to its Twitter posts on Tuesday.
Jon Root, a Christian conservative commentator and Turning Point USA contributor, tweeted out screenshots Monday of a behind-the-scenes YouTube video showing a pride flag on the set of the TV show, which portrays the life of Jesus and his ministry, and asked why the pride flag was there. The Chosen Twitter account replied to Root Tuesday, saying that “we will work with anyone on our show.”
The “pride flag” was created in 1978, and so it is less than 50 years old.
But this June it will be displayed far more prominently in the U.S. than the American flag.
And it will be flown at the White House and at U.S. government buildings and embassies all over the world.
Never in our history have we flown another flag, and it should deeply alarm all of us that this “symbol of defiance” will be proudly displayed by thousands upon thousands of institutions from coast to coast.
Unfortunately, most of those that are flying this flag never even give much thought to who they are defying.
So let us hope that millions of Americans wake up and realize what is truly going on, because time is quickly running out.
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About the Author: My name is Michael and my brand new book entitled “End Times” is now available on Amazon.com. In addition to my new book I have written six other books that are available on Amazon.com including “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”. (#CommissionsEarned) When you purchase any of these books you help to support the work that I am doing, and one way that you can really help is by sending copies as gifts to family and friends. Time is short, and I need help getting these warnings into the hands of as many people as possible. I have also started a brand new Substack newsletter, and I encourage you to subscribe so that you won’t miss any of the latest updates. I have published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and the articles that I publish on those sites are republished on dozens of other prominent websites all over the globe. I always freely and happily allow others to republish my articles on their own websites, but I also ask that they include this “About the Author” section with each article. The material contained in this article is for general information purposes only, and readers should consult licensed professionals before making any legal, business, financial or health decisions. I encourage you to follow me on social media on Facebook and Twitter, and any way that you can share these articles with others is definitely a great help. These are such troubled times, and people need hope. John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” If you have not already done so, I strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.
Maybe a pride flag on camera equipment shouldn’t discount the work ‘The Chosen’ is doing. The show’s unwillingness to do anything but endorse the flag on set, however, does.
Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced additional security assistance to meet Ukraine’s critical security and defense needs. This authorization is the Biden Administration’s thirty-ninth drawdown of equipment from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021. It includes key capabilities to support Ukraine’s air defenders as they bravely protect Ukraine’s soldiers, civilians, and critical infrastructure amid Russia’s continuing air strikes killing civilians across Ukraine. This security assistance package also contains artillery, anti-armor capabilities, and ammunition, including tens of millions of rounds of small arms ammunition, valued at up to $300 million to help Ukraine continue to defend its sovereign territory.
The capabilities in this package include:
• Additional munitions for Patriot air defense systems;
• AIM-7 missiles for air defense;
• Avenger air defense systems;
• Stinger anti-aircraft systems;
• Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
• 155mm and 105mm artillery rounds;
• 105mm tank ammunition;
• Precision aerial munitions;
• Zuni aircraft rockets;
• Munitions for Unmanned Aerial Systems;
• AT-4 anti-armor systems;
• Over 30 million rounds of small arms ammunition;
• Mine clearing equipment and systems;
• Demolition munitions for obstacle clearing;
• Night vision devices;
• Spare parts, generators, and other field equipment.
The United States will continue to work with its Allies and partners to provide Ukraine with capabilities to meet its immediate battlefield needs and longer-term security assistance requirements.
According to DOD, Since the start of the Biden regime, the United States has committed over $38.3 billion of taxpayer’s money in security aid to Ukraine. Of this total, over $37.6 billion has been allocated since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
Since the beginning of the Biden administration in 2017, the United States has committed over $38.3 billion in security assistance to Ukraine.
National Security Council (NSC) spokesman John Kirby said during a press conference Wednesday that the United States will “continue to support Ukraine and help give them the things that they need to better defend themselves as part of all that effort”
Fox News host Harris Faulkner drew condemnation from some fans of the network on Wednesday when she said the company will be forced to incorporate the left’s diversity, equity and inclusion agenda into its business model.
The network is already on thin ice with many current viewers and lost almost half its audience after executives made the decision to oust host Tucker Carlson in April.
More viewers vowed to leave for good after Faulkner said on “Outnumbered” that Fox News might no longer have a choice but to let identity politics guide its business practices.
As she discussed the current backlash against Chick-fil-A, Faulkner laid no blame on the company — a longtime favorite of Christians and conservatives — for its public commitmentto DEI.
The chain has had a vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion — Erick McReynolds — for nearly two years.
But his position and the company’s stance on hiring based on race, gender and sexuality have gotten attention now as Americans have watched formerly great corporations take “wokeness” way too far.
Per Faulkner, Chick-fil-A had no choice but to paint itself as a champion of DEI policies. She also said Fox News might be next.
“Many states are mandating it now,” she told viewers of DEI policies. “I mean, here at Fox — other corporations — there will be things they’re gonna have to change because the state of New York requires it.”
Her comments begin about 2:00 in the video below:Watch the latest video at foxnews.com
Of course, Fox News does have a choice in the matter.
The company has been the go-to network for conservatives since the late 1990s but has stayed entrenched in New York City since its founding.
Throughout the city’s struggles with crime and in spite of its standing as a one-party sanctuary city that overtaxes people and companies, Fox News arguably has shown more loyalty to New York than it has to viewers.
Many people are shaking their heads in disbelief as to how far corporate America is going to force an aberrant lifestyle on consumers across America and parading it as though it’s normal. Target, Kohl’s, the L.A. Dodgers, North Face, PetSmart, Disney+ and more are part of this movement, including churches inviting drag queens into their pulpits.
What’s really going on here? To answer that question, Crosstalk welcomed back Robert Knight. Robert is a former Los Angeles Times news editor and columnist for the Washington Times and contributes to other publications as well. Robert has held senior positions in a number of pro-family organizations. He’s written several books including The Coming Communist Wave: What Happens If the Left Captures All Three Branches of Government, Liberty on the Brink, and Crooked: What Really Happened in the 2020 Election and How to Stop the Fraud.
Robert has penned an article for the Washington Times called: LGBTQ’s False Religion Paints in Rainbow Colors of Sexual Anarchy and Criminalization of Dissent. While many might view the activity described by the title as depraved, deviant or immoral, Robert described it as false religion–an atheistic paganism.
He began his defense of this view by informing listeners about the formation of the LGBTQ+ rainbow flag. It was designed by a drag queen/gay activist in 1978 with the idea that rainbows stand for tolerance, diversity, love, etc. Robert described how it’s just the opposite because under the LGBTQ+ ethos, no one is a sinner. This means no one needs to repent of anything and to claim people do makes you a hater and a bigot. This leads some to the conclusion that Christianity needs to be replaced by the religion of LGBTQ+.
This is a dangerous lie because in telling people they don’t have to repent means they miss out on the redeeming love of Jesus.
What about those who feel you can have it all by identifying as gay and still be a Christian? Robert indicated that means you believe there are sins but not in the area of sexuality. That category of behavior is exempt so you feel you can do anything you want.
This making up of the rules is the essence of satanism. In fact, many satanists will tell you they don’t believe in Satan any more than they believe in God. They simply believe in the idea of doing whatever they want/making the rules and they use Satan as the symbol of their freedom to do just that.
This is the foundational basis of this program that also included listener input as they brought their thoughts to the discussion as well.
The FBI does have in its possession a document that alleges President Joe Biden’s involvement in an international family pat-for-play scheme, Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky said in a statement on Wednesday afternoon.
The chair of the House Oversight Committee is investigating the Biden family over claims it profited from then-vice president Biden’s time in the Obama administration.
The committee previously connected numerous members of the Biden family to an alleged scheme to wash money from businesses in countries such as China and Ukraine, among others.
Hunter Biden was among those Comer and other House Republicans said benefited from the alleged scheme.
The investigation signaled there was a mystery Biden who was also paid.
According to a statement he released on Wednesday, Comer said FBI Director Christopher Wray committed to letting the committee view a document that shows Biden’s involvement.
Wray has dodged a House subpoena but did say lawmakers could come to see the document in person at the FBI headquarters, Comer said.
In his statement, Comer threatened to find Wray in criminal contempt of Congress if he does not produce the document in person.
“Today, FBI Director Wray confirmed the existence of the FD-1023 form alleging then-Vice President Biden engaged in a criminal bribery scheme with a foreign national,” Comer stated.
He added:
“However, Director Wray did not commit to producing the documents subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee. While Director Wray — after a month of refusing to even acknowledge that the form existed – has offered to allow us to see the documents in person at FBI headquarters, we have been clear that anything short of producing these documents to the House Oversight Committee is not in compliance with the subpoena.”
The statement concluded, “If the FBI fails to hand over the FD-1023 form as required by the subpoena, the House Oversight Committee will begin contempt of Congress proceedings.”
🚨On my call with FBI Director Wray, the FBI finally confirmed the existence of the FD-1023 form alleging then-VP Joe Biden engaged in a criminal bribery scheme.
Anything short of producing these documents to @GOPoversight is not in compliance with my subpoena.
NBC News reported FD-1023 “describes an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions.”
Wray has said he is prevented from sharing the document by Justice Departmentpolicies on protecting “confidential human source information.”
NBC News further reported Comer and GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa each spoke to Wray via telephone on Wednesday afternoon before the statement was released.
A bureau representative told NBC News the FBI is “committed to cooperating with the [oversight committee] in good faith.”
We are in far more trouble than most people realize. In recent months, our rapidly growing economic problems have gotten a lot of attention, and without a doubt our economy is heading into really hard times. The greatest debt bubble in the history of the world has started to implode, and the end of this “mega-cycle” is going to cause an immense amount of pain. But if every other element of our society was strong, we could survive that. It may surprise a lot of you to hear me say that, but it is true. If all that we were facing was an economic collapse, it would cause an enormous amount of turmoil in this country but we would make it through.
Unfortunately, we are not just facing an economic collapse.
I like to call what we are facing “the everything collapse”, because virtually every element of our society is steadily breaking down right in front of our eyes.
So once our economic and financial systems implode, it won’t just be a matter of patching them up and returning to “normal”, because “normal” doesn’t exist anymore.
Let me give you an example of what I am talking about. The president of Giant Food just admitted to the Washington Post that theft at his stores is completely out of control…
Giant Food president Ira Kress said that theft and violence have risen significantly over the past several years.
“To say [theft has] risen tenfold in the last five years would not be an understatement,” Kress noted, according to the Washington Post, which also reported that the man said that violence has “increased exponentially.”
Giant has more than 160 locations, with stores located in Maryland; Virginia; Washington, D.C.; and Delaware, according to its website.
When I was much younger, I would often shop at Giant Food.
In those days, I never witnessed a single shoplifting incident.
But now systematic looting is happening on an industrial scale all over the nation. In fact, I recently wrote an entire article about the fact that theft is now costing U.S. retailers about 100 billion dollars a year.
Meanwhile, other forms of crime are spiking as well. Sadly, violent crimes are increasingly being committed by kids that are extremely young…
As soon as he confronted the masked youth who seemed to be trying to rob him with a gun last week on Irving Street in Northwest Washington, Ryan Cummins knew the assailant was young.
“When I shoved him, he weighed nothing,” Cummins said in an interview…
Police said the youth they arrested on Saturday in Cummins’s case and two nearby robberies is even younger: 11. He is among the youngest arrested in the District this year in an armed robbery…
Did you catch that last part?
That kid was “among the youngest” arrested for armed robbery this year.
So how old was the youngest?
On the west coast, conditions are even worse.
The following is how one San Francisco resident named Seema Gokhale recently described what living in the heart of the city is like these days…
Speaking with Fox News Digital, Seema Gokhale who lives near the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood expressed, “It really feels post-apocalyptic. Something needs to be done. We have to make this a livable place. I describe it as a hellhole right now. If I wasn’t a homeowner and hadn’t grown up in the area and there wasn’t a strong job market in the area, I would leave.”
“I walk by people regularly and it feels horrible,” she said as drug addicts have “needle tracks all over their arms and legs and toes. I see people with rotting limbs because they’re living on the streets.”
“It honestly feels like I’m in a place that’s been in a zombie apocalypse. It’s like a dystopia. It really feels like a dystopian reality right now where I see boarded-up storefronts. I see people defecating on the streets,” Gokhale detailed.
Sadly, this is the direction that the entire country is going.
Up in Portland, voters are completely and totally fed up with the rampant social decay that has been steadily growing all around them…
Months of stepping past sidewalk homeless camps and open-air drug markets have taken their toll on residents of Portland, Oregon.
Voters there have delivered a stunning rebuke to officials of the Democrat-run hipster city, with three quarters calling homelessness ‘an out-of-control disaster.’
The survey, commissioned by People for Portland, a conservative advocacy group, found that more than two thirds of voters wanted to clear the streets by forcing drug addicts into rehab.
But no matter what our politicians do, the social decay gets worse with each passing year.
And that is because our entire culture has been completely transformed. According to one recent survey, only 16 percent of Americans now attend church at least once per week…
The number of Americans who attend church once a week fell from 19 percent in 2019 to 16 percent last year, says the survey of some 6,600 adults across all 50 states.
This means that 84 percent of us do not attend church at least once per week at this point.
If we could go back and tell Americans from 100 years ago this, they would be absolutely floored.
Of course the truth is that we are a completely different country than we were 100 years ago.
Many of us like to think that we are superior to every generation that has come before us, but the reality of the matter is that just about every aspect of our society is rapidly getting worse.
If we are having this much difficulty keeping order now, what are things going to look like once our economic and financial systems have fully imploded and tens of millions of Americans are deeply suffering?
You might want to think about that, because “the everything collapse” is only going to pick up steam in the weeks and months ahead…
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About the Author: My name is Michael and my brand new book entitled “End Times” is now available on Amazon.com. In addition to my new book I have written six other books that are available on Amazon.com including “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”. (#CommissionsEarned) When you purchase any of these books you help to support the work that I am doing, and one way that you can really help is by sending copies as gifts to family and friends. Time is short, and I need help getting these warnings into the hands of as many people as possible. I have also started a brand new Substack newsletter, and I encourage you to subscribe so that you won’t miss any of my articles. I have published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and the articles that I publish on those sites are republished on dozens of other prominent websites all over the globe. I always freely and happily allow others to republish my articles on their own websites, but I also ask that they include this “About the Author” section with each article. The material contained in this article is for general information purposes only, and readers should consult licensed professionals before making any legal, business, financial or health decisions. I encourage you to follow me on social media on Facebook and Twitter, and any way that you can share these articles with others is definitely a great help. These are such troubled times, and people need hope. John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” If you have not already done so, I strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.
The apostle Paul knew something about challenges. His circumstances in the context of his letter to the Philippians were terrible enough to create confusion and frustration if not viewed from the eyes of faith! Scripture tells us that Paul was an active man. His travel was constant, his work unending, and his time stretched thin. Yet as he penned his letter to the Philippians, he found himself in chains.
Surely this was a mistake. It had to be. Didn’t God need him traversing the cities sharing the gospel? This just does not make sense from our human perspective. Yet God’s plan was perfect in its timing and circumstance and in the role it played, as the most unlikely converts in that day were now a captive audience. Yes! God planned to advance His gospel in a way no believer could imagine. As Paul wrote in Romans 8:28, “We know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.” The Holy Spirit inspired Paul to write these words from a heart that had experienced this truth firsthand.
Some may think Paul’s circumstances indicated that the Lord had relegated him to the sidelines during this most dependent and needy stage of the church age. Jesus had returned to His Father’s side, the Church was in its infancy, and Paul was isolated from his spiritual children. How could this be part of God’s perfect plan?
Having established that his imprisonment had actually served to advance the gospel (Phil 1:12), Paul went on to carefully explain in what ways this was true.
What may have felt like a frightening turn of events from the perspective of his followers was truly a providential blessing.
Paul and his preaching abilities were not wasted, and God was not in error! Something meaningful was taking place despite Paul’s confinement. A small seed of truth was finding new fertile ground in a small prison cell.
Caesar Augustus established the palace guard and maintained peace in the Roman Empire. It was customary that a prisoner would be handcuffed to a guard while confined. This ensured that escape, as well as privacy, was impossible. However, just as Paul could not distance himself from the guard on duty, neither was the guard to have a respite from Paul! Paul literally and providentially had a captive audience as he continued to share the gospel while in prison.
These men, who otherwise may never have heard about God’s salvation plan, found themselves front and center in Paul’s new ministry. Soon, the whole imperial guard learned that Paul’s imprisonment resulted from his passionate preaching of the gospel. They were eyewitnesses and perhaps the first readers of the inspired Word of God as Paul labored over his letter to the Philippians. Never more than maybe eighteen inches away from the proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ, these men could testify to an amazing and unexpected plan for their own salvation!
Paul’s arrest and imprisonment in chains did not change his calling.
No human obstacle can stop the work of God.
Paul accepted God’s sovereign will and sought to be an instrument for the Lord. He established a jail ministry and continued the mission he had been given. His circumstances were less than ideal, and the audience was reduced, yet his message remained the same: salvation is found in no other name than Jesus.
Paul could have protected himself in jail by staying silent. After all, although his audience was close enough to hear and receive the gospel, they were also near enough to reject it with a physical reminder of their displeasure! Paul’s time in jail was difficult, and he likely bore the marks of his new and dangerous mission field. Yet he chose to trust the Lord and share the message of God’s love.
We can glean much instruction from Paul’s response to his imprisonment. Maybe your audience isn’t as big as you’d like, or your realm of influence has much smaller borders than you desire. Just be faithful to tell others about Christ. Perhaps your career hasn’t flourished as you anticipated. Continue to point people to Jesus at every opportunity. Maybe you are discouraged because you share a home with one who vehemently rejects the gospel.
God does not forget His people, and He is always at work.
Paul was given a captive audience who otherwise would never have listened. It could be that God has placed someone specifically in your life for the sole purpose of hearing the gospel from you.
Paul’s imprisonment impacted his followers as they became emboldened by his example. An arrest that was meant to silence and intimidate actually strengthened countless believers to increase their evangelism. The gospel went forth even stronger as a result of Paul’s incarceration.
No doubt, Paul’s letter was read publicly and was repeatedly cherished as the Philippian believers realized that his circumstances did not diminish his faith. Because of Paul’s unwavering trust in the Lord, others became more courageous. God was not only faithful to Paul’s ministry but was using it as a means to build up the ministry of others.
Those called to preach the gospel must have true courage that will not falter in the face of persecution.
Through Paul’s influence, though significantly decreased by human reckoning, many others found that their ministries began to flourish. If Paul could be faithful in his chains, his spiritual children could be faithful in their freedom. If Paul could retain his joy in the harsh reality of confinement, indeed joy could be found no matter the circumstance!
In Philippians 1:7, Paul reveals that God is at work through the defense and confirmation of the gospel. The work of the gospel is defended when it is explained to unbelievers. Confirmation of the gospel happens in the hearts of Christians as their faith is built up even stronger. Paul revealed that through his imprisonment, the gospel was at work by encouraging believers on the outside as well as granting eternal hope to those on the inside.
It is incredible to think that the guards would have likely missed out on the good news if not for Paul’s imprisonment. You could say that his chains actually freed him to share with Roman soldiers who would have otherwise been out of reach. God can use any circumstance to pave the way to ministry!
What about your life? In what ways can you be faithful today? Maybe your opportunities seem minor or inconsequential, but rest assured God is using your life in ways beyond your understanding. Just like Paul, God will use you to be a light to those nearest to you, and He will use your example to bless those who are watching. God always has an amazing plan and is always doing more than you see. Be encouraged!
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)
Of all the stars in the sky, the polestar is the most useful to the mariner. This text is a polestar, for it has guided more souls to salvation than any other Scripture. It is among promises what the Great Bear is among constellations.
Several words in it shine with peculiar brilliance. Here we have God’s love with a “so” to it, which marks its measureless greatness. Then we have God’s gift in all its freeness and greatness. This also is God’s Son, that unique and priceless gift of a love which could never fully show itself till heaven’s Only-begotten had been sent to live and die for men. These three points are full of light.
Then there is the simple requirement of believing, which graciously points to a way of salvation suitable for guilty men. This is backed by a wide description—”whosoever believeth in him.” Many have found room in “whosoever” who would have felt themselves shut out by a narrower word. Then comes the great promise, that believers in Jesus shall not perish but have everlasting life. This is cheering to every man who feels that he is ready to perish and that he cannot save himself. We believe in the Lord Jesus, and we have eternal life.
It should be clear by now that unchecked anxiety isn’t good for you. It’s a sin expressly forbidden by the Lord, so there is the spiritual cost to consider. But it’s also harmful to your health, your productivity, and your relationships. It wreaks havoc throughout your life, and as we saw yesterday, it strangles your mind.
The first few verses of this beautiful psalm of praise by David show us 3 practical ways in which we can honor our Lord daily. Following these 3 steps will strengthen and enhance our walk with Jesus. They are:
Praise Him every day
“Every day I will praise you and extol your name for ever and ever” (vs 2)
There is so much to praise God for and we should be lifting our praise to Him every day. Let us start our day with praise and end it with praise! Let us praise Him as we walk the streets, as we sit at our desk and as we travel. Praise is contagious and soon others will follow your example.
Illustration – I remember a Christian leader saying that as he was traveling in the bus one day and enjoying the beautiful scenery around him, he couldn’t help humming the powerful hymn ‘How Great Thou Art’. The person seated next to him soon turned and said, ‘Feels so true doesn’t it’? A short while later, a few others in the bus started humming the great hymn! That’s the power of praise!
Have you praised God today? Read the rest of the Psalm (21 verses in all) and list down the many reasons David praised God ‘EVERY DAY’.
“My mouth will speak in praise of the Lord” (vs 21)
Meditate on His works
“I will meditate on your wonderful works” (vs 5b)
The works of God are revealed in His powerful Word. We also see them in creation, in our own lives and in the lives of others. Let us meditate on His Word and His works. Meditating on His Word and His works lifts our faith whenever a new challenge comes our way.
A preacher once mentioned that meditating on God’s Word can be compared to a cow ‘chewing the cud’. As the cow receives help with its digestion when it chews the cud, so we too can receive all the strength contained in God’s Word as we spend a few minutes or more, meditating on it. It is interesting to note that The Collins English Dictionary describes the term ‘chewing the cud’ as follows – ‘to reflect or think over something’.
“Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long.” (Psalm 119:97)
Proclaim His Great Deeds
“.. I will proclaim your great deeds” (vs 6b)
What has God done for you recently? How did He bring you to salvation? Have you been telling others about His blessings to you? Have you been sharing them with your children? I rejoice in the fact that my 2 sons aged 12 and 10, love to hear my stories about God’s interventions in my life and ministry. In fact, they often ask for repeats!
“One generation will commend your works to another; they will tell of your mighty acts” (vs 4).
Why should we proclaim God’s great deeds? We need to do it “so that all men may know of your (God’s) mighty acts” (vs 12).
Last week, at our midweek service, I was praying at the altar with a young man over a burden he was carrying in a very personal area of his life. As I shared my own testimony in that particular area of life and how God came through for me, his eyes lit up and he shouted, ‘Yes, I now believe God can do it for me too”!
There is power in proclaiming ‘His great deeds’, more so, when we tell people about His mighty ‘saving grace’ in our lives! They just might want what you have!
Prayer: Lord help me to honor you every day by praising you, meditating on your works and by proclaiming your great deeds. Amen.
Devout Catholic and noted child sniffer Joe Biden issued a proclamation Wednesday marking “Gay Pride” month that defends child sex change operations and treatments, supports pornography targeting children in school libraries and claims that his heart is “heavy with grief for the loved ones we have lost to anti-LGBTQI+ violence” without noting the Christians murdered in a school shooting by a transgender person last March.
Biden said he is using the full force of government to ensure sex change mutilation operations for children (what Biden euphemistically calls “medically necessary health care”) and to force women and girls to compete against men pretending to be women in sports competitions, “…I have taken unprecedented steps to support LGBTQI+ youth…The Department of Justice is combating laws that target transgender children, and the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services have proposed new rules to protect LGBTQI+ Americans from discrimination in health care, at school, and in sports.”
Biden’s strong defense of the radical extremist LGBTQI+ agenda comes as many Americans are rising up against that agenda, with schools, hospitals and corporations being held to account for targeting children and marginalizing women and girls.
Biden has the audacity to sign the proclamation “in the year of our Lord”.
In June 1969, a courageous group of Americans rose up to protest the violence and marginalization they faced in what became known as the Stonewall Uprising. Police had raided the Stonewall Inn — a gay bar located in New York City — and for the next six days they clashed with LGBTQI+ protestors, who bravely stood their ground. Their courage sparked a civil rights movement for the liberation of the LGBTQI+ community and changed our Nation forever.
During Pride Month, we honor a movement that has grown stronger, more vibrant, and more inclusive with every passing year. Pride is a celebration of generations of LGBTQI+ people, who have fought bravely to live openly and authentically. And it is a reminder that we still have generational work to do to ensure that everyone enjoys the full promise of equity, dignity, protection, and freedom.
Today, our Nation faces another inflection point. In 2023 alone, State and local legislatures have already introduced over 600 hateful laws targeting the LGBTQI+ community. Books about LGBTQI+ people are being banned from libraries. Transgender youth in over a dozen States have had their medically necessary health care banned. Homophobic and transphobic vitriol spewed online has spilled over into real life, as armed hate groups intimidate people at Pride marches and drag performances, and threaten doctors’ offices and children’s hospitals that offer care to the LGBTQI+ community. Our hearts are heavy with grief for the loved ones we have lost to anti-LGBTQI+ violence.
Despite these attacks, the LGBTQI+ community remains resilient. LGBTQI+ Americans are defiantly and unapologetically proud. Youth leaders are organizing walkouts at high schools and colleges across the country to protest discriminatory laws. LGBTQI+ young people and their parents are demonstrating unimaginable courage by testifying in State capitols in defense of their basic rights.
They are not alone: My entire Administration stands proudly with the LGBTQI+ community in the enduring struggle for freedom, justice, and equality. And we are making strides. On my first day in office, I signed a historic Executive Order charging the entire Federal Government with protecting LGBTQI+ people from discrimination — from health care to housing, education, employment, banking, and the criminal justice system. Last December, surrounded by dozens of couples who have fought for marriage equality in the courts for decades, I had the great honor of signing into law the landmark Respect for Marriage Act. This bipartisan law protects the rights of same-sex and interracial couples — like caring for one’s sick partner and receiving spousal benefits. Deciding who to marry is one of life’s most profound decisions, so we etched a simple truth into law: Love is love.
Meanwhile, I have taken unprecedented steps to support LGBTQI+ youth. During Pride Month last year, I signed an Executive Order charging Federal agencies with combating the dangerous and discredited practice of so-called “conversion therapy.” I also directed agencies to help end the crisis of homelessness among LGBTQI+ youth and adults and to address discrimination that LGBTQI+ kids face in foster care. The Department of Justice is combating laws that target transgender children, and the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services have proposed new rules to protect LGBTQI+ Americans from discrimination in health care, at school, and in sports. I also established the White House Task Force to Address Online Harassment and Abuse to develop concrete actions to prevent and respond to online harassment and abuse, which disproportionately target LGBTQI+ people. Additionally, my Administration made it easier for LGBTQI+ youth to access vital mental health support. Now, by calling the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and dialing the number 3, LGBTQI+ youth can speak to counselors who have been specifically trained to support them.
This country is stronger and more just when America’s leaders reflect the full diversity of our Nation, so I have appointed a historic number of highly qualified openly LGBTQI+ judges and public servants at all levels of the Federal Government. Our Armed Forces are most capable when all patriots can serve their country, so I protected the right of transgender people to once again serve openly in the military.
But there is more to do, like passing the bipartisan Equality Act, which would strengthen civil rights protections for LGBTQI+ people and families across America. We must also address the disproportionate levels of homelessness, poverty, and unemployment in the LGBTQI+ community and end the crisis of violence against transgender women and girls of color. We must support LGBTQI+ activists around the globe who are standing up for basic human rights and LGBTQI+ survivors of gender-based violence. And we must end the HIV/AIDS epidemic once and for all. Our collective freedoms are inextricably linked: when one group’s dignity and equality are threatened, we all suffer. This month and every month, let us celebrate the pride that powers the movement for LGBTQI+ rights and commit to doing our part to help realize the promise of America, for all Americans.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2023 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Pride Month. I call upon the people of the United States to recognize the achievements of the LGBTQI+ community, to celebrate the great diversity of the American people, and to wave their flags of pride high.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-seventh.
Target’s Marketing VP Also Works For Organization Pushing Transgender Agenda In Schools According to Fox News, the vice president of brand marketing for Target, Carlos Saavedra, is also a treasurer for the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). GLSEN has pushed for schools across the country to enact policies that forbid parents from being made aware of their childrens’ gender identities at school, as well as pushing schools to include explicitly sexual books in their libraries.
The Great Student Loan Nonpayment Boondoggle Is Over And Household Spending Is About To Collapse In the small print detailing the end of the debt ceiling melodrama which, as we explained, is a farce as it boosts inflation-adjusted spending contrary to Republican promises, there was some actual news: the great student loan boondoggle is about to come to a screeching halt, after a three year “emergency pause” which redirected tens of billions in dollars away from mandatory student loan repayment to other forms of discretionary spending.
Big Tech Corporations Continue Hiring Foreign H-1B Visa Workers After Mass Layoffs of Americans Since the start of the year, hundreds of thousands of Americans in tech jobs have been laid off, with about 12,000 cut at Google, 10,000 out at Microsoft, close to 20,000 laid off at Amazon, and 10,000 cut from Meta Platforms which owns Facebook and Instagram. Just weeks after announcing such layoffs, though, the same tech corporations continued hiring foreign workers on the H-1B visa program — known as the “outsourcing visa” to many Americans.
FBI Director to Face Contempt Charges for Refusing to Turn Over Biden Bribery Document The Republican Majority on the House Oversight Committee announced it would be taking further action against the Biden FBI on Tuesday after the agency again refused to provide unclassified documents responsive to a committee subpoena regarding an alleged criminal bribery scheme between then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national.
Experts, top AI CEOs including Sam Altman raise ‘risk of extinction’ from AI Top artificial intelligence (AI) executives including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday joined experts and professors in raising the “risk of extinction from AI”, which they urged policymakers to equate at par with risks posed by pandemics and nuclear war. “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” more than 350 signatories wrote in a letter published by the nonprofit Center for AI Safety (CAIS).
‘Satan’s Crown Jewel’: Abortion Is The Culmination of Secular Thought It should not be surprising that people who hate God also hate the family model that he instituted. As secular worldviews begin to dominate a culture, the family unit is always the first to be attacked, especially the vulnerable members who benefit the most from Christian influence. Consequently, every key element of the family gets attacked.
Undermining National Sovereignty: Efforts To Stop UN World ‘Health’ Power Grab Accelerate Amid a major power grab by the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) seeking to further empower the global agency, lawmakers and leaders across the United States are stepping up efforts to protect self-government, national sovereignty and the rights of all Americans. In fact, many in Congress and beyond say it is time for the U.S. government to defund and even withdraw from the WHO once again.
Does CUNY School of Law support ‘revolution’ against America? The commencement speech by City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law graduate Fatima Mousa Mohammed, delivered on May 12, alarmed not only Jews, but also patriotic Americans. They were outraged not only by her vicious lies against the State of Israel, but even more so by what seemed to be a call for the destruction of America. Some are calling for the school to be defunded.
The Empire Strikes Back Muslims now heading Scotland & London; political correctness and Israel. Is such a Muslim ascent to rulership a harbinger for all of Europe? The election of a Muslim as First Minister of Scotland and head of its government, has come as quite a shock to the British public in general, though few would probably admit it.
THE TYRANT OF TURKEY: Could Erdogan’s win have prophetic implications? Is it troubling that Russia and Iran were the first to congratulate Erdogan? You bet it is. Putin called Erdoğan his “dear friend.” Turkey is geographically important, strategically positioned at the crossroads of Europe, Asia and the Middle East, just south of Russia and just north of Israel. Turkey is prophetically important. The first several chapters of the Book of Revelation were written to people living in ancient Turkey and those prophecies came to pass. What’s more, Turkey plays a key role in another major biblical prophecy that will come to pass in the “last days” of history before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Erdoğan, Turkey keeps moving steadily – and increasingly rapidly – to the dark side.
Mpls. security expert says leftist groups use Taliban-like tactics to intimidate opponents “Uptown is like a ghost town now,” one woman out walking with her friends told Alpha News. “There’s no businesses open around here as much. A lot of places have closed. A lot of homeless people,” another added. Once bustling blocks of entertainment and retail space can seem empty and quiet today. Commercial real estate firm Colliers reports a 29.3% current vacancy rate among office space in Uptown.
Marines brutally beaten by mob of teenagers A mob of teenagers attacked at least two United States Marines over Memorial Day weekend in San Clemente, California. Video of the incident shows dozens of teenagers beating two self-identified service members as they curl up in the fetal position in an attempt to shield themselves from a flurry of punches and kicks. “This is considered an assault with a deadly weapon because of the amount of suspects we are investigating,”
Yet another major retailer faces backlash over LGBT clothing for children Shoppers are criticizing Kohl’s after the department store became the latest major retailer to sell LGBTQ clothing for infants and young kids. Various social media accounts posted a plethora of Pride Month merchandise, including a “Baby Sonoma Community Pride Bodysuit set” designed for 3-month, 6-month and 9-month-old kids. The outfit depicts what appears to be a lesbian couple with a dog and three children, including a young boy in a wheelchair. One of the adults in the drawing carries a progressive pride flag
Unsinkable No More: China’s Hypersonic Missiles Challenge US Navy Chinese researchers are claiming that the world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, could be demolished with absolute certainty using hypersonic missiles. The researchers conducted a war game simulation, which showcased China’s military sinking the carrier fleet by launching a relentless onslaught of 24 hypersonic anti-ship missiles across 20 intense battles. Their findings challenge the previously held notion that the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier fleet is invulnerable to conventional weapons.
Sudden cloudburst hits Waihi Beach, causing severe flash floods, New Zealand A sudden cloudburst on Monday afternoon, May 29, 2023, led to flash flooding at Waihi Beach in the western Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, resulting in evacuations and significant damage. Approximately 60 mm (2.3 inches) of rain fell during the burst, causing floodwaters to reach waist height at their peak.
Maryland Cooks Up Green Hydrogen Scheme For Fuel Cell Buses The largest self-sustaining bus depot in the entire US is coming to Montgomery County, Maryland, featuring solar arrays and on-site green hydrogen production. That may not sound too exciting if you can afford to buy the latest shiny new electric car, but it is exciting for underserved communities in the area. County officials are counting on the green hydrogen-fueled fleet to fill gaps in the transit network and achieve equity goals.
Robusta Prices Hit 12-Year High As El Niño Threat Sparks Shortage Fears Vietnam and Indonesia are experiencing extreme weather that could affect coffee production. This has pushed robusta coffee prices to more than decade highs. An emerging El Nino ahead of a Northern Hemisphere summer could worsen coffee production at the end of the Northern Hemisphere growing season later this year.
Zero Young Healthy Individuals Died of COVID-19, Israeli Data Show ….Such an admission affirms what many skeptics have been saying all along about the fact that COVID was never a threat to healthy people. The disease was blown entirely out of proportion, in other words – if not completely fabricated as a cover story for just another flu season combined with new health-destroying government tyranny such as mask mandates and forced lockdowns.
TSA is testing facial recognition at more airports, raising privacy concerns A passenger walks up to an airport security checkpoint, slips an ID card into a slot and looks into a camera atop a small screen. The screen flashes “Photo Complete” and the person walks through — all without having to hand over their identification to the TSA officer sitting behind the screen.
Elon Musk’s Neuralink Gets FDA Approval to Study Brain Implants in Humans Neuralink, Elon Musk’s neurotechnology company, recently obtained approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct a clinical study of brain implants in humans. This marks the first in-human clinical study for the company.
Criminals ‘Can Find Everything’ About You, Warns Surveillance Expert Artificial intelligence (AI) has advanced to such a level that criminals can now surveil and know “everything” about their targets, including predicting where the targets could be at some point in the future, experts warn.
Dallas School District Installs AI Surveillance to Monitor Student Behavior Here’s a chilling news item reported by the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity: Last week, the Dallas Independent School District was boasting about its new pilot project, undertaken along with the company Davista. The pilot project, the school district says, uses AI to extensively monitor each student and then sound the alarm if a student deviates from his “baseline” behavior.
US still maintaining biological experimental facilities in Asia-Pacific, Africa Despite heavy criticism, the United States of America (USA) biological and medical agencies and enterprises continue maintaining experiments and activities that may pose a threat of a biological leak. These activities have a vast geography stretching from Central and Eastern Europe to the Asia-Pacific Region. It is noteworthy that the aforementioned experiments seem to have no stop signs on their roads.
Target Faces Bomb Threats Amid LGBTQ Controversy taff and customers at several Target locations were evacuated on Friday after bomb threats were made at select stores across the country as controversy continues to grow over the company’s LGBTQ+ merchandise.
REVEALED: Target tells employees only ‘extremists’ are concerned with sexualization of children As Target faces backlash, resulting in monetary losses over its Pride collection, the company has sent an internal memo stating that those who worry about the sexualization of children are extremists. The line includes clothing and accessories for children, including shirts that read “Queer! Queer! Queer!” and onesies about how trans is beautiful.
Biden’s ex-nuclear official played key role in blasphemous drag ‘nuns’ group The disgraced former Biden administration official, Sam Brinton, reportedly used to serve as the principal officer for Washington D.C.’s chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence…Brinton was also present at an explicit Easter Sunday event in San Francisco in 2019, where scantily clad men mimicked Christ’s crucifixion and poll-danced on a cross.
WHO releases draft Pandemic Treaty with COP to ensure implementation and compliance A week ago, a draft text of the Pandemic Treaty was released. The text titled ‘Bureau’s text of the WHO CA+’ was drafted by the Bureau of WHO’s Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (“INB”). Which governments have been negotiating the draft? The World Health Organisation would lead us to believe 194 countries have been involved. But this is misinformation. It would appear none of our governments have been involved. So, who is WHO’s Bureau?
Operation Warp Speed? Pfizer patented the spike protein for a coronavirus vaccine over 30 years ago In 1966, the very first COV coronavirus model was used as a transatlantic USA/UK biological experiment in human manipulation. The common cold, coronavirus, was turned into a chimaera in the 1970s. In 1990, Pfizer filed the first spike protein vaccine. In 2002, a weaponised coronavirus was patented. In 2003, SARS-CoV-1 was released into the world.
EMA admits COVID Vaccination causes Infertility The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has finally admitted that Covid-19 vaccination can have an adverse effect on female fertility. The admission comes months after it was revealed in confidential Pfizer documents revealed that shedding of the Covid-19 vaccine is possible by skin-to-skin contact and/or breathing the same air as a vaccinated person, and can, unfortunately, lead to menstrual cycle disruption among women and miscarriage among pregnant women.
Disneyland Hires Man In Dress to Greet Little Girls At Bibbidy Bobbidi Boutique A video that was uploaded on Twitter by Jason Jones shows a grown man wearing a dress at Disneyland’s Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique. In the video a man who clearly has a mustache is wearing a dress and greeting little girls as they walk into the dress boutique.
People have noticed that the chicken giant has a DEI department, and that’s a problem.
Nate Jackson
Chick-fil-A made the news yesterday for something that seems to have begun way back in 2020. What gives?
The company promoted Erick McReynolds to VP of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, though he’s been a DEI official since 2020 and has been with Chick-fil-A for 16 years. In any case, social media users noticed it yesterday and hammered Chick-fil-A.
The beloved chicken-sandwich company has an entire page of its website dedicated to dressing up the noxious Marxist notions of DEI in flowery language about being “better together.” In fact, the site says, “Chick-fil-A, Inc.‘s commitment to being Better at Together means embedding Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in everything we do.”
That’s precisely the problem with DEI initiatives — they embed Marxist division, struggle, and ultimately hate into everything.
Yet Chick-fil-A is hardly alone and none of this is new.
According to Christopher Rufo, “Every Fortune 100 company has now adopted ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ programming.” He acknowledged that “some of these programs are benign,” and companies often do it “out of pressure to conform.” Nevertheless, most of the time, it’s a method “to promote the most virulent strands of critical race theory and gender ideology.”
While DEI as an industry has been growing for years, as we noted back in March, USA Today reported that “DEI job postings increased 123 percent between May and September 2020.”
Hmm, what happened in May 2020? Oh, that’s right — the martyrdom of George Floyd, a black thug who died under the knee of a white Minneapolis cop. Derek Chauvin was found guilty on every count for Floyd’s death and is currently serving a 21-year sentence.
But that didn’t quiet the Black Lives Matter mob, which rioted and burned cities, as well as extorted corporations around the country. The race-baiting racket is a lucrative one.
Chick-fil-A has long been a particular target of leftist haters, primarily because of the company’s founding family’s stance supporting traditional marriage — well, before the company abandoned donations to organizations that support traditional marriage. Given that DEI has become a weapon of the Rainbow Mafia, it’s perhaps little surprise that Chick-fil-A adopted a DEI department as a shield. Perhaps Rufo is right, and this is “benign” and merely “out of pressure to conform.”
Then again, Chick-fil-A responded to Floyd’s death by fully jumping on board the “racial reckoning” bandwagon. Part of that 2020 shift was elevating DEI to “everything we do,” which is alarming.
Regardless of Chick-fil-A’s intent, DEI is rife with Marxist ideology, and it’s playing with fire at this point to even use the words the Left has so grossly redefined and misdefined.
The challenge for Chick-fil-A and for all Americans is to work together to achieve common goals, including tolerance of opposing views and free speech to express those views, while rejecting the Left’s incessant efforts to drive wedges and divisions between us. The words diversity, equity, and inclusion as properly defined can all be good things. Yet because of the Left’s radical efforts, we tend to prefer arranging the letters differently so the acronym spells DIE.
On a final note because boycotting Chick-fil-A has already entered the conversation, we’ll note a fundamental difference in Right and Left. The Left boycotts companies to either force submission to and embrace of its agenda, or to destroy any business that resists. The Right boycotts so companies will stop politicizing everything at the behest of the Left. All conservatives want is companies that serve everyone without hating some of us.
Either way, conservatives are portrayed as the bigots — worthy of being boycotted because we’re intolerant, or intolerant because we’re boycotting. And the Left is much better at boycotts than the Right. The fundamental motivation has a lot to do with it. Hatred is, after all, a powerful motivator, and the Left is driven by hate.
Donald Trump brought up the issue again yesterday, and Joe Biden’s ongoing border catastrophe makes it all the more urgent.
Douglas Andrews
The number one issue in American politics is still “the economy, stupid,” and each candidate in the Republican field had better be able to talk compellingly about it between now and November 5, 2024.
Beyond that, though, it’s immigration. And more particularly, illegal immigration — of the sort that has encouraged more than six million mostly male, mostly low-skilled individuals to “surge” into our country during the brief and ruinous tenure of the open-borders Biden administration.
And, again, our candidates had better be able to talk about it.
One of those candidates — the runaway Republican front-runner, Donald Trump — was talking about it yesterday, in fact, when he vowed that if he returns to the White House he’ll sign an executive order ending birthright citizenship for children born to illegal aliens. As The Washington Times reports:
Mr. Trump made the announcement on his social media platform, Truth Social, saying it was time to stop “a reward for breaking the laws of the United States.”
“The United States is among the only countries in the world that says that even if neither parent is a citizen nor even lawfully in the country, their future children are automatic citizens the moment the parents trespass onto our soil,” the former president said.
Almost immediately, the leftists snatched up their “14th Amendment” megaphones and began parroting the language that says, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
Case closed, right? Trump is just firing for effect, right?
Wrong. There’s a very strong constitutional case to be made against birthright citizenship — a case built on the original intent of the 14th Amendment. Our Mark Alexander, in fact, made the case13 years ago, and his exhaustive argument is no less compelling today.
Trump went on to call the Left’s legal case for birthright citizenship “a myth and a willful misinterpretation of the law by open borders advocates.” And he’s right. As constitutional scholar Matthew Spaulding argued in a 2018 piece titled “The Case Against Birthright Citizenship”:
Democrats and Republicans alike have raised the banner of the 14th Amendment: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the States wherein they reside.” They claim this means anyone born in the U.S. has a constitutional right to citizenship. But a closer look at the language and history shows this is not the Constitution’s mandate and should never have become national policy.
The crucial phrase is “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” As originally understood when Congress proposed the amendment in 1866, that referred not merely to the obligation of following U.S. laws but also, and more important, to full political allegiance. According to Lyman Trumbull — who was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a co-author of the 14th Amendment — being “subject to the complete jurisdiction of the United States” meant “not owing allegiance to anybody else.”
Nonetheless, “The amendment has been interpreted to mean that those born in the United States are citizens of the United States,” reports Steve Benen, a constitutional illiterate at MSNBC. “Trump, evidently, intends to return to the White House and sign an executive order to end the constitutional guarantee.”
Except that there’s no “constitutional guarantee” of birthright citizenship.
“Right off the bat, there’s an obvious legal problem,” Benen writes. “Presidents don’t have the authority to announce that certain parts of the Constitution no longer count because they say so. Were the Republican to make such an attempt, a difficult legal fight would soon follow.”
Benen is wrong about many things, but he’s right about one: that a difficult legal fight would follow any attempt by the Republicans to curtail the Democrats’ cynical effort to grow the size of Brown America and thereby — so the thinking goes — grow the size of their otherwise shrinking electorate.
But in the meantime, why can’t a sitting president issue an executive order to end a policy that he — and the majority of the American people — find objectionable? Executive orders are unappealing, of course, because they don’t have the permanence of legislation, but when you’re fighting for your country, you use whatever tools can help you enact the desired policy or move the argument forward. In this case, an executive order would do both.
Besides, it would — strategically, no doubt — force the issue into the courts, where an originalist majority at the Supreme Court might set the record straight.
Think about what’s at stake. As Andrew R. Arthur, a resident fellow in law and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies, notes: “No country in Western Europe offers birthright citizenship without exceptions to all children born within their borders. Many countries, including France, New Zealand, and Australia, have abandoned birthright citizenship in the past few decades. Ireland was the last country in the European Union to follow the practice, abolishing birthright citizenship in 2005.”
Further, Arthur writes, we’re absorbing a terrible financial burden: “The costs of births for the children of illegal aliens is staggering. The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) estimates that in 2014, $2.35 billion in taxpayer funding went to pay for more than 273,000 births to illegal immigrants.”
Ultimately, the legality of birthright citizenship depends on what the meaning of the word “jurisdiction” is. And while those on the Left keep using that word, we don’t think it means what they think it means.
Bidenomics is unretiring people, Texas bans DEI at colleges, another Gascon-approved murder, and more.
Thomas Gallatin & Jordan Candler
Cross-Examination
Bidenomics is unretiring people: Americans getting hardest hit by Joe Biden and the Democrats’ spending-induced inflation are retirees. Sustained high inflation has increased consumer prices by 4.9% over last April, and housing costs have jumped 8.1% over last year. Cumulative inflation since Biden took office is more like 16%. These rising costs have caused an increasing number of retirees to reenter the workforce, 55% of whom specifically cited the need for more money as the reason. Furthermore, according to a recent survey, one in six retirees is considering getting a job. The economic downturn has also negatively impacted retirees’ investments, with markets losing over $12 trillion in wealth last year. Over a third of people 65 and older say their financial situation is worse than it was the previous year. Thanks, Joe.
Texas bans DEI at colleges: On Monday, the Republican-controlled Texas legislature followed through on one of Governor Greg Abbott’s target issues: ridding the halls of higher education of Marxist-driven “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) policies. Senate Bill 17 bans state-funded universities from creating DEI offices filled with DEI employees. According to Republican State Senator Brandon Creighton, “With this bold, forward-thinking legislation to eliminate DEI programs, Texas is leading the nation, and ensuring our campuses return to focusing on the strength of diversity, promoting a merit-based approach where individuals are judged based on their qualifications, skills and contributions.” This is a big win for conservatives, as Texas follows Florida’s lead in addressing this inherently anti-American ideology that has overtaken college campuses.
Musk pulls Twitter out of EU’s pro-censorship project: Following through on his commitment to promote free speech on his social media platform, Elon Musk pulled Twitter out of the European Union’s speech-squelching “Code of Practice” program. The EU created the pro-censorship program under the guise of combating “disinformation” online. Unsurprisingly, EU leadership was none too happy. “You can run but you can’t hide,” warned EU International Market Commissar Thierry Breton. “Beyond voluntary commitments, fighting disinformation will be legal obligation under #DSA as of August 25.” He then added, “Our teams will be ready for enforcement.” Those who want to control thought hate freedom. Thankfully, Musk is refusing to bow to their authoritarian demands.
Another Gascon-approved murder: It’s a simple reality that only fools refuse to accept — if bad behavior is not checked, it will only result in more bad behavior and get worse. If criminals are not held liable, then they will continue to commit crimes. Evidently, George Soros-backed Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon has never accepted this simple reality. And thanks to his foolishness, another innocent person has been murdered. Back in 2020, following the near-fatal stabbing of a construction worker, Stefen Sutherland was charged with assault for the crime, but he ended up doing no prison time thanks to Gascon. The DA was warned that Sutherland was dangerous, but rather than charge him with attempted murder, Gascon sought to send him to a mental health facility, effectively giving him only a slap on the wrist. Well, now a woman is dead, and Sutherland has been charged with murder for allegedly shooting her to death. If Gascon had properly charged Sutherland the first time, this woman would still be alive. When the guilty go free, the innocent suffer.
Headlines
Comer vows to hold Wray in contempt, says FBI won’t share Biden bribe tip (NY Post)
White House cuts another top Biden nominee amid mounting opposition (Fox News)
Utah Rep Chris Stewart to resign from House, shrinking GOP majority (Fox News)
Dodgers’ Blake Treinen blasts organization for honoring Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (Fox News)
Blue Jays player ripped after apology for sharing video endorsing Target boycott (Fox Sports)
Target’s VP for brand management serves as treasurer for LGBTQ group promoting secret child gender transitions, LGBTQ books in schools (Daily Wire)
Nine teenagers arrested over brutal assault of three U.S. Marines (Daily Wire)
Arrest made after months of silence in New Jersey GOP councilwoman’s murder (Daily Wire)
Biden admin unveils $1.5 million effort to “empower” female climate activists in northern Kenya (Free Beacon)
Beijing snubs U.S., rejects meeting between top military officials (Daily Wire)
Policy: Social Security reform must be realistic (National Review)
Humor: Chick-fil-A to serve only dark chicken meat per new diversity, equity, and inclusion guideline (Genesius Times)
The radical Left knows it truly wins when parental rights are completely taken away.
Emmy Griffin
Controlling the shaping of our children is of paramount importance to radical leftists. They aren’t hiding the ball either.
Take, for example, ex-Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe articulating this campaign-fatal phrase: “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” Or First Lady Jill Biden: “All books should be in the library. All books. This is America. We don’t ban books.” Or Chelsea Clinton: “Over 50 percent of the attempted book bans last year involved books with LGBTQ+ characters & themes. Books are a vital way that children, adolescents and adults learn about themselves and our world.”
In other words, parents should have no say in what books their children are reading. If parents send their children to public school, they have lost all rights in directing their education. They have capitulated that right to the state and the discretion of government-employed teachers.
Not all public school teachers are going to put inappropriate or controversial books in the hands of young children. However, there are a growing number of them who are more than willing to do just that. Teachers have assigned in-class reading books that range from encouraging disrespectful behavior toward parents to rudeness toward others to discussing body image to sexuality to abandoning the morality that had been carefully cultivated by parents.
In April 2022, the School Library Journal (SLJ) and National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) created a summer reading list for middle schoolers and high schoolers. They replaced 10 classics with 10 modern books of varying repute that were very leftist in messaging, many dealing with CRT and some dealing with LGBTQ+ themes. Why would they replace Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë with The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas? It’s simple: They want those ideas to influence the culture. The Left isn’t banning books; it’s replacing good books with woke mind candy.
But this is tame compared to other deviant and demented literature being foisted on children.
Parents of all stripes have been calling for book bans on inappropriate material. In The Spectator, Amber Athey discusses in graphic detail the main books in question — Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison and Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe. As Athey articulates, “The left’s spin on ‘book bans’ … deliberately oversimplifies the issue — and leaves out the fact that the most challenged books contain sexually explicit content that is obviously unsuitable for children” (emphasis added).
These books talk about sex acts.
Because the radical Left has its hooks in the public school institution, parents are left with no other recourse besides direct attacks. They are suing schools for promoting, reading, or making available in the school libraries books that are inappropriate. Parents are going to school board meetings and raising a ruckus, demonstrating exactly why they are against the material their children are being forced to imbibe.
Athey also points out that in spite of the attempts to downplay or belittle parents’ complaints, “The passages contained in those books are so obviously inappropriate for minors, particularly without parental consent, that even leftists who otherwise oppose the ‘book bans’ have balked when confronted with them.”
Chelsea Clinton was right when she said, “Books are a vital way that children, adolescents and adults learn about themselves and our world.” But if the only choices offered pervert the growing minds and hearts of our kids, then the books — and the ideas they present — are not vital; they’re fatal.
Yet the Left has the power and is using it accordingly. It even has its own woke virtue-signaling market. There is a section on the Etsy website that features a graphic tee with a shelf of books with varying titles and the phrase, “I’m with the banned.” All the titles are great works of literature that were banned at various times. Then, stuck in the middle, is Lawn Boy. This shirt design is at least honest enough to include a title that is currently at issue. The other versions are not.
The Left and those who are carrying the “conservatives are the book banners” narrative are hoping most people are ignorant enough to overlook the discrepancy. It’s a manipulative and clever marketing strategy and one that the radical leftists are employing on the larger political scale. Conservatives, concerned parents, and those who oppose the radical ideological agenda that the Left is pushing are painted as puritanical and ignorant.
This battle of the books is a metaphor for good vs. bad ideas and who has the power in society. If the Left can reduce the question of who has authority over children and their education to demeaning parents over books, then it has already won. If parents keep their eyes on the larger, more sustainable solutions for their children — such as school choice, homeschooling, and steadily and practically declaring and demonstrating that they are the authority over their children — then the Left loses.
“Good business decisions”? A “great thing for our brand”? “The right thing for society”?
Samantha Koch
Famously and ironically pointed out by former President Barack Obama during his 2009 inauguration, “Elections have consequences.”
This quote has been used numerous times since then to point to failed policies and weak politicians that have led to a lower standard of living, failed educational standards, illegal immigration issues, high crime rates, and countless problems that leave voters holding the bag when dealing with the consequences.
However, in a day and age when literally everything has become a means of making a political statement — from where you buy your socks to the state you live in — we are learning that we are not only voting with our ballots but with our dollars.
Just a few weeks ago, on what will go down as a momentous day in Bud Light history, Dylan Mulvaney sat down with an armful of the brand’s beer cans to celebrate his “365 days of girlhood.” In response, Americans came together to send an anti-woke message to Bud Light and any other corporation that chooses to push woke ideology into every facet of American life — we can and we will counter their political statements in business with a political statement in transaction.
Since then, Bud Light has continued to plummet in all areas of business, from revenue to market value to product demand. Weeks later, the company can’t get even past loyal customers to take its product for free. That’s saying a lot, as rampant theft is sweeping through all major U.S. cities, and even thieves don’t want to be seen pilfering this product.
The future of this brand is uncertain, to say the least, as it is unclear if the public will ever offer the opportunity to recover.
Consumers have taken their hard-earned money elsewhere, withholding their support of a company that chose to push ideas that do not align with their personal values. It’s solid proof that a boycott can have an absolutely devastating and irreversible affect on an entire corporation.
So, you would think that companies on the outside looking in would think twice about doing the same as Bud Light.
However, Target not only did not seem to get that memo, but its decision-makers have also been significantly more aggressive than a TikTok video featuring a singular controversial character.
With the upcoming “Pride Month,” Target decided to not only release an entire clothing and accessory collection geared toward celebrating LGBTQ but to put these items on display at the front and center of every store. The message is loud and clear: Target does not believe that its customer base has the will or the discipline to give it the Bud Light treatment. Also, it came to light that several accessories included in this collection came from an intentional partnership with a self-proclaimed Satan-worshipper based in the the UK whose Instagram account and product brand fall under the name “Abprellan.” Amongst the items from the Etsy-shop owner is a pin that says “Satan Respects Pronouns” displayed on the head of the demon Baphomet, and another of a guillotine with the words “Homophobe Headrest.”
Target CEO Brian Cornell dismissed the backlash against the woke direction of corporate America, saying, “I think those are just good business decisions, and it’s the right thing for society, and it’s the great thing for our brand.”
Interesting choice of words considering these same business decisions may end up being the end of Bud Light.
This position from Target’s CEO on the issue might seem surprising — until digging further into who is truly influencing the alliances of this company. The risky decision to double down on this commitment to the LGBTQ mob likely stems from the fact that Target is not only in the business of selling Pride Month clothing (as it has openly done for over a decade at this point) but it also donates to and bolsters an organization called the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, or GLSEN.
GLSEN dedicates its time, energy, donations, and resources to facilitate gender transitions in schools for children, providing instruction on how to keep these transitions a secret from parents. It also helps infuse gender ideology into every subject in K-12 schools, and it funds legislation protecting the predatory practices of activist teachers, counselors, and doctors to be able to push children down this path, with little to no parental involvement whatsoever.
Target reportedly has not only proudly donated over $2 million dollars to this organization, but, according to Fox News, it has been exposed that the vice president of Brand Marketing at Target, Carlos Saavedra, is the treasurer for this anti-parent, pro-child-mutilation, groomer-protection group.
What this means for consumers who believe that children are not mentally, psychologically, or emotionally mature enough to commit to a certain “identity,” or to choose to sterilize their bodies at their young age, is that every time you choose to purchase home decor, clothing, or food for a family dinner from Target, you are simultaneously funding the very movement and policies that you are fighting your local woke school board to eradicate from the education system.
When businesses such as Target, Kohl’s, The North Face, and other woke enthusiasts choose to abuse the reliance families have on their stores by forcing customers to support their causes with every purchase of items they need in their homes, they have firmly indicated that they can no longer be trusted.
Target has officially shifted from being one of the world’s largest retailers to one of the world’s largest far-left activist organizations.
The reality is that our budgetary debates are generally about shifting deck chairs on the fiscal Titanic.
Ben Shapiro
This week, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and President Joe Biden cut a deal to raise the debt limit. The breakthrough came after three months of Biden pledging not to even negotiate over the debt limit. Instead, Biden was forced to concede to a 1% cap on increases for non-military spending, a cutback on IRS funding, a clawback of some unspent COVID-19 allocations, and addition of work requirements for some federal aid. The compromise deal was indeed far less than House Republicans had demanded, as Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., tweeted, “After factoring in a small cut to discretionary spending over the next 2 yrs, we are still talking about ~$6T more or less in spending bc of large increases in spending elsewhere. … Govt grew massively over the past 3 years. This growth was supposed to be emergency funding only during COVID. During this time, govt grew 40% or by $2 trillion from 2019 to 2023. We went from spending just over $4T to spending just over $6T.”
Every word of that critique is true. Compared to conservative ideals, the compromise bill is indeed a flaming bag of fiscal manure. But conservative ideals weren’t on the table. Biden is the president. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. — thanks in large part to the tender 2020 ministrations of President Donald Trump in the Georgia Senate runoffs and his further interference in the 2022 Senate races in Georgia, Arizona, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania — is still the Senate majority leader. This means that Republicans were never going to get a big win on budgetary matters.
For that matter, Republicans couldn’t even get a big win on budgetary matters from 2016 to 2018, when they controlled both houses of Congress and Trump was actually president. In fact, Trump campaigned in 2016 against changes to entitlement programs, which represent the biggest driver of our national spending addiction — some 62% of federal spending annually. Combine that spending with 10% of our spending on net interest and another 13% or so on defense spending, and the discretionary outlays at issue represent under $1 trillion. That’s a lot of money, to be sure, but making serious cuts to that number would still put our budget in the $5 trillion range.
The reality is that our budgetary debates are generally about shifting deck chairs on the fiscal Titanic. By 2053, we will be dedicating in excess of 21% of our national budget to debt service alone. Mandatory spending will constitute 58% of our spending. We aren’t going to cut our way out of this problem by targeting discretionary spending in the main.
But nobody will touch the real drivers of our budgetary bloat and economic stagnation — Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. To do so would risk the wrath of entrenched interests in the United States. So instead, we’ll simply increase the size and scope of federal spending, placing an unsustainable burden on our economy and then eventually mandating vastly increased taxes or serious austerity measures. There is no third path forward.
Our politicians know this. But they’re in the business of kicking cans down the road while posturing over the placement of the deck chairs. The iceberg looms, but their reelection efforts rely almost completely on ignoring its presence as we bear down, full speed, on our fiscal doom.
Douglas Andrews: House GOP Moves to Hold Wray in Contempt — The FBI director has repeatedly refused to cough up a document allegedly implicating Joe Biden in a bribery scheme.
Mark Alexander: Profiles of Valor: Humbert Roque Versace — “The enemy was unable to break his indomitable will, his faith in God, and his trust in the United States of America.”
In Brief: Obergefell and Legalizing Polygamy — The logical consequence of the Supreme Court’s marriage ruling was always going to expand further.
Veep Thoughts With Kamala Harris (Vol. 9) — Harris recently discussed the HBO comedy series “Veep” with Stephen Colbert. “There are bits of it that are actually quite accurate,” she said without a hint of irony or self-awareness.
Disney Blasted for Hiring Man in Dress to Greet Girls — Conservative critics are once again slamming Disney for shoving “woke” agendas down the throats of children — this time by allowing an apparently male employee to wear a costume dress and makeup.
‘Only Fans’ Models Are the Most Dependent — Several young women who are Only Fans models believe they are truly living a liberated and self-reliant lifestyle. But are they really liberated? Or are they more dependent than any other women in society?
“We need to stop drilling for fossil fuels completely … or we will continue to have these severe weather events that we have been having for quite some time because of the warming of the planet.” —Congressman Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) (“Humanity runs on oil and gas. You cannot declare war on oil and gas without war on humanity itself.” —Jesse Kelly)
For the Record
“I agree with every single critique of the shortcomings of the debt limit deal. In a rational world, we wouldn’t just be fighting over discretionary spending, we’d be restructuring entitlements. We don’t live in that world.” —Ben Shapiro
“For those who don’t remember what the Constitution says, which is most of our elected representatives, it does not authorize a great deal of what the federal government spends our tax dollars to do.” —Nate Jackson
Re: The Left
“The people protesting Target and Bud Light are having a pivotal effect. Both have lost billions due to their outrageous promotion of transgenderism. Lawmakers in many states are presenting anti-child-mutilation legislation. Transgender activists are loud and oftentimes violent, but they do not represent the vast majority of Americans. God willing, the transgender ideology has hit its threshold and will wane into the preposterous footnotes of American history. That doesn’t mean those of us who see transgenderism for what it is should rest on our laurels.” —Emmy Griffin
“The Bud Light and Target controversies appear to indicate that the public’s level of anger and frustration at having the LGBTQ agenda shoved down our throats and aimed at our children has reached new levels. Boycotts like this are very hard to sustain. New controversies arise and people move on. … But here’s a goal that every Target customer who shares our values can legitimately achieve: Do not shop at Target during June ‘Pride Month.’ Don’t give them a dime. Nothing. Zero. Zilch. Nada.” —Gary Bauer
“It was only a few years ago that the #MeToo movement was in full swing. Democrats seized on a few high-profile cases of abused women, and the movement began. It quickly became a veritable war between the sexes, and at its height, Democrats were demanding that we ‘believe all women.’ Today, they can’t even define what a woman is.” —Peter Lemiska
“If we have lost our will as a nation to define what’s right and to do it, then we have lost our way in a world that is increasingly being dominated by China, whose president, Xi Jinping, may have correctly diagnosed us as a nation in ‘decline.’” —Cal Thomas
Insight
“An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.” —Henry Clay (1777-1852)
Beatrix von Storch is vice-chair of the AfD party in the German parliament
While the Biden Regime is funding “Climate Pollution Reduction” with $5 billion from its laughably named “Inflation Reduction Act”, BlackRock Investment expects to do $100 trillion in business thanks to the so-called Green New Deal. The recent German Green corruption scandal revealed how BlackRock execs, climate activists and taxpayer-funded “non-governmental” organizations are undermining our democracy in a trillion-dollar bid to wreck the economy while getting filthy rich.
The Biden Regime has hired BlackRock execs Brian Deese to serve on the National Economic Council, Adewale Adeyemo to head the Treasury Department and Michael Pyle as chief economic advisor to Vice President Harris. Deese, Adeyemo, and Pyle all previously worked for the Obama administration. A guest post by MP Beatrix von Storch:
Swedish financial entrepreneur Ingmar Rentzhog is not only a consultant to BlackRock and JPMorgan, but also the “discoverer” of Greta Thunberg. What a coincidence! Greta Thunberg’s very first protest in August 2018, when she sat in front of the Swedish Riksdagen with a cardboard sign, was professionally hyped by Rentzhog and his media team, with photos, videos and English-language press blurbs. What was staged as a spontaneous protest by high-school students was actually a PR campaign planned by a BlackRock communication consultant, in order to turn the autistic young girl into an world-wide icon and poster child for “climate change.”
“The time was ripe to give the climate crisis a human face,” Rentzhog said. Greta posed with the message “We don’t have time”, which just happens to be the name of Renthzogs non-profit. His philosophy: “There’s no conflict of interest between saving the climate and making money.”
The recent scandal in Germany has revealed how the economics ministry run by Green “vice-chancellor” Robert Habeck was infiltrated by a billion-dollar network of NGOs, foundations, think tanks and lobby organizations financed by Wall Street billionaires like Bill Gates and Larry Fink.
The establishment of a $1 billion “Climate Finance Partnership” in 2018 was a milestone in this development, a partnership between BlackRock, the governments of Germany, France and Japan, and large US foundations, such as the Hewlett Foundation.
BlackRock owns shares in 17,000 companies and manages $10 trillion in equity capital – one-tenth of global GDP. Together with the two other major mutual funds, Vanguard and State Street, the “big three” control 88 percent of top US corporations.
The reason Big Finance is all in on “climate change” is the enormous profits it offers: BlackRock Investment Institute estimates the total investment needed to achieve “world climate goals” at $50 to 100 trillion – that’s as much as of the entire global economy. The “Green New Deal”, which BlackRock Investment Institute describes as a “once-in-a-lifetime investment opportunity”, will thus be the largest redistribution of wealth in history.
In 2018, BlackRock announced that it would increase the volume of its “sustainable investment” funds from $25 billion to $400 billion in the next decade.
At the same time, BlackRock expanded into the field of climate policy with a lucrative consulting business. First, BlackRock advised the European Central Bank on where to invest, then the EU Commission inked a consultancy contract with BlackRock 2020 to implement the “Green New Deal” in the banking sector. BlackRock was thus in charge of both “climate policy” and “sustainable investments”.
It was a perfect hustle – except for one unpredictable variable: democracy. The market for “sustainability” and “Green infrastructure” depends virtually 100% on politics. The production of wind turbines, solar panels, heat pumps and electric cars is not driven by market demand, but by subsidies, bans, regulations and other government red tape.
In February 2022, BlackRock Investment Institute warned that “If governments do not continue their commitment, the invested capital may go to waste.” The big uncertainty factor is elections, because with every change of government there is the possibility that the climate laws will be withdrawn.
Klaus Schwab and the Unholy Alliance of Big Finance and Big Climate
In his infamous book “Covid-19: The Great Reset” June 2020, Klaus Schwab described his vision of Big Finance working hand in hand with left-wing activists: “Let’s imagine the following situation to illustrate the point: a group of green activists could demonstrate in front of a coal-fired power plant to demand greater enforcement of pollution regulations, while a group of investors does the same in the boardroom by depriving the plant access to capital.”
The unholy alliance of Big Finance and Big Climate that Schwab invoked has now become a reality. German industrial giant Siemens experienced this painfully when it was attacked by both Greenpeace and BlackRock over a deal with an Australian coal producer.
The head of Greenpeace at the time was Jennifer Morgan. Although Greenpeace does not publish its donors, a list of large donors can be reconstructed from the financial reports of the foundations. Front and center: BlackRock partners and Hal Harvey funders, the Hewlett Foundation and the Packard Foundation. The major shareholders of Hewlett-Packard are BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street. In addition, sums flow directly to Greenpeace through Harvey’s Climate Works Foundation.
When the Green party came into office after the 2021 German elections, US citizen Jennifer Morgan was awarded German citizenship in an expedited process so she could go to work for German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, as ”Climate State Secretary”.
Morgan previously worked as speech writer for Angela Merkel 1996-97 when she was Environmental Minister and has served a director at the World Resources Institute, whose largest donors include the MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She is also an Agenda Contributor at Schwab’s World Economic Forum.
Penetrating the Cabinets
Along with BlackRock, one of the most aggressive spokesmen for this movement is British hedge fund manager Christopher Hohn, who manages assets of $22 billion. Hohn sponsors Harvey’s European Climate Foundation, which also finances Graichen’s Agora think tank. Hohn’s Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) pledged $7,000,000 to the Center for Climate Integrity (CCI) and is the largest sponsor of radical climate sect Extinction Rebellion, which doesn’t stop at violence and sabotage.
Christopher Hohn’s legal counsel was Friedrich Merz, the head of the German “opposition” party, Merkel’s Christian Democrats, who went on to become Chairman of the Board of BlackRock Germany. Extinction Rebellion‘s other source of funding is the Climate Emergency Fund which was founded by Trevor Neilson, the former head of communications at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The wealth of the Gates Foundation derives from the sale of Gates’ Microsoft shares to BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street.
Gates’ Breakthrough Energy project is supported by the BlackRock Foundation. “Breakthrough Energy” was founded in 2015 to promote “sustainable energies” to reduce greenhouse gases. Gates thanked BlackRock CEO Larry Fink for his “very serious discussions” to enlist the support of other major companies.
Gates and Fink demonstrated their cooperation in a joint Bloomberg interview in September 2021, identifying the “Green Premium” as the main obstacle to the goal of “net zero”.
The “Green Premium” is how they describe the fact that green energy and products are too expensive, and therefore not -competitive in a free market. Fink has stated on previous occasions that it’s up to governments to create more demand for “Green” products and thereby make them profitable for financial investors like BlackRock. And that’s the rub:
Because in the end, the taxpayers will have to foot the bill for the “Green Premium”.
The gigantic expansion of wind power and LNG terminals, the destruction of cheap competition by phasing out coal and nuclear power, and the ban on internal combustion engines, oil and gas heating have the purpose of making BlackRock & Co.’s investments profitable. The driving force behind it was Hal Harvey in the USA and Patrick Graichen in the German economics ministry. But they are not alone. To make the Green scam work, it is key to “penetrate the cabinets”. Therefore, the network has posted its people at many strategically important points.
In Germany, it is not just the numerous Graichen friends and relatives, but also Jennifer Morgan in the Foreign Ministry and Elga Bartsch in the Federal Ministry of Economics. Elga Bartsch was responsible for climate and monetary policy at the BlackRock Investment Institute until the summer of last year, when ”Economics and Climate” Minister Robert Habeck brought her to the ministry and put her at the head of the policy department.
The German climate corruption scandal has revealed the blueprint of how the global financial industry is in cahoots with the climate change crazies at the expense of the taxpayer. It is time to smoke out the rest of the network, from Berlin and Brussels to Washington DC and Wall Street.
Beatrix von Storch is Vice-Chair of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the German Bundestag
Independent medical scientists who are not dependent on a Big Pharma salary or research grant, a minority of medical scientists as Big Pharma reportedly is the source of 70% of medical research grants and provides support to friendly medical schools, have provided conclusive evidence that the Covid-19 “vaccine” is responsible for many deaths and health issues. The unprecedented phenomenon of vaccinated children dying in their sleep, of athletes and entertainers dropping dead on the field and stage, along with the same happening to people in all ages of life is being dismissed by the medical establishment at work covering up for itself as just a coincidence. The whore media refuses to report the findings of independent scientists or investigate the large numbers of deaths and health injuries following the Covid mass vaccination.
In the face of the evidence that the “vaccine” is dangerous, Medicare continues to urge vaccination as do pharmacies. What explains such reckless and irresponsible advice in the face of the evidence?
What explains the appearance of the Covid virus, engineered in labs with NIH grants, practically simultaneously in every country of the world?
What explains the same Covid protocols everywhere except Brazil, India, and Africa–the lockdowns, masks, mass vaccinations, and never-ending production of fear?
What explains the urgency of the mass vaccination campaign in the face of the mounting evidence that the vax was ineffective and dangerous?
Why were Covid “vaccines” and test kits in production prior to the appearance of the virus?
What explains the censorship of medical scientists? Why were alternative explanations and alternative treatments unwelcome and prohibited?
What explains the punishments of doctors who saved lives with HCQ and Ivermectin? Why did doctors lose jobs and licenses for saving lives?
In the face of a virus claimed to be deadly, why were treatments outside the protocol treatment banned as dangerous. Both HCQ and Ivermectin have safety records stretching back decades, yet were declared too dangerous to be used in emergency situations to treat an allegedly deadly virus. But a dangerous untested “vaccine” was not too dangerous to be used?
Why does the effort continue to censor and suppress the truth and to discredit distinguished scientists who establish the actual facts?
Why did the entire medical systems of the Western World completely fail, and why do they continue to fail, providing no explanation for the rise in excess deaths following vaccination and no help for those injured by the vax?
Why have medical officials and the media lowered an iron curtain between the facts and the people?
These and other questions point to the fact that the “Covid pandemic” and the response to it were orchestrated for a purpose of purposes. Was it Big Pharma’s profits? Was it to advance government’s intrusions on civil liberties? Was it population control? Was it a mass experiment on the human population with gene-altering mRNA technology? Was it to advance the World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset”?
Without an honest media and honest medical societies, we will never find out. Congress can hold hearings, as Senator Ron Johnson has, but they go unreported by the presstitutes.
It appears that accountability has been blocked. So expect another pandemic. Bill Gates, who is suspected of having a heavy hand in devising the “Covid pandemic,” has already promised us another. How can anyone know of a pandemic in advance?
Below are some recent findings that go unreported by the whore media and are denied by the Big Pharma-dependent medical establishment:
After Much Death and Suffering the Truth about the Covid-19 “vaccine” is Creeping Out
Even Big Pharma marketing agent FDA admits “vaccinated children aged 12 to 17 face a heightened risk of myocarditis, a form of heart inflammation, and a related condition called pericarditis.”
Died Suddenly: COVID-19 Vaccinated Pregnant Women Continue to Die Unexpectedly From Perinatal Complications. Stillbirths, Blood Clots, Bleeding, Infections and More
Americans do not understand that the medical profession is dominated by Big Pharma and operates for the benefit of Big Pharma’s profits. According to reports, 70% of medical research grants come from Big Pharma which gives pharmaceutical corporations enormous power over the content of medical journals. Big Pharma has succeeded in getting legislation that is driving doctors out of independent private practice and forcing them to become employees of corporate medicine where they have to follow protocols essentially handed down by Big Pharma. The unavoidable fact is that the US medical system is run for the benefit of Big Pharma’s profits. Regulatory authorities such as FDA, CDC, and NIH are marketing agents for Big Pharma. The media is dependent on pharmaceutical advertising revenues. Consequently, Americans are kept in the dark about what has, and is, being done to them.
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