Get Woke, Go Broke: Netflix Massacre – 300 Employees Axed in Largest Layoff Since Subscriber Downturn

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I generally do not applaud such news but these woke companies have so disabused their customers, this is well deserved. They can shove their relentless poisonous propaganda back down the hole they crawled out of.

Jedimaster Trump tweeted to P Smith

So not Cuties…

I am shocked that the population is not 80% African American, 45% Gay, Transgender, and 100% in support of Grooming Children…

No wonder Netflix swung from 700 a share to 170…

Maybe they should try catering to the actual population Demographics and Sensibilities

Netflix Massacre: 300 Employees Axed in Largest Layoff Since Subscriber Downturn

By: David Ng, Breitbart, 23 Jun 2022:

The bloodletting at Netflix continued on Thursday as the far-left-wing streamer axed an additional 300 employees worldwide, or about 3 percent of its workforce — the company’s largest layoff since its subscriber downturn in the first quarter.

Netflix handed out pink slips to 216 staffers in the U.S. and Canada, with the remainder of the cuts coming from other regions throughout the world. according to an official statement sent to multiple news outlets.

In May, the streamer laid off 150 employees, or 2 percent of its workforce, as part of its ongoing efforts to cut spending amid a catastrophic subscriber forecast for the months ahead. Netflix said it could lose up to 2 million subscribers in the coming months after unexpectedly losing 200,000 customers in the first quarter of the year.

Reed Hastings, chief executive officer of Netflix Inc., speaks during a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, June 27, 2016.

Those layoffs were preceded by smaller staffing cuts in Netflix’s animation department and in-house fan site, Tudum.

Netflix leaders described Thursday’s layoffs as ” very hard for everyone – creating a lot of anxiety and uncertainty.”

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FROM THE HOLOCAUST TO SURFSIDE — The amazing story of the Champlain condo collapse in Surfside, FL.

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ISRAEL SHOWCASED is a project of The United West featuring the accomplishments and global contributions of Israel, to the world.

FROM THE HOLOCAUST TO SURFSIDE – A short documentary by The United West about an elite team from Israel’s National Rescue Unit, in the search and recovery efforts at the Surfside, Florida building collapse. The United West team, with Suzi Gold as Host, showcases the turbulent history of the Jews and their continued resilience to overcomes all obstacles and share their experience and talents with all mankind.

Please watch and share this story which features first-time interviews inter-cut with the actual 911 call, in real time! The Surfside unspeakable tragedy, ironically, will uplift you as you watch this story and listen to the survivors and rescue team members.

BACKGROUND ON THE SURFSIDE, FL. BUILDING COLLASPE:

On Thursday, June 24, 2021, at approximately 1:25 a.m. EDT, Champlain Towers South, a 12-story beachfront condominium in the Miami suburb of Surfside, Florida, United States, partially collapsed. Ninety-eight people died. Four people were rescued from the rubble, but one died of injuries shortly after arriving at the hospital. Eleven others were injured. Approximately 35 were rescued the same day from the un-collapsed portion of the building, which was demolished 10 days later. The main contributing factor under investigation is long-term degradation of reinforced concrete structural support in the ground-level parking garage under the housing units, due to water penetration and corrosion of the reinforcing steel. The problems had been reported in 2018 and noted as “much worse” in April 2021. A $15 million program of remedial works had been approved before the collapse, although no main structural work had been undertaken. Other possible factors include land subsidence, insufficient reinforcing steel, and corruption during construction.

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Mexico: Shelter for Muslim Migrants Opens at U.S. Border, in Tijuana

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What could possibly go wrong? Well, so far this year, 50 people on the terror watch list have been apprehended crossing the border. Celebrate diversity!

Shelter for Muslim migrants opens in Tijuana

by Salvador Rivera, Border Report, June 20, 2022:

TIJUANA (Border Report) — A shelter for Muslim migrants opened over the weekend in Tijuana, the first of its kind in all of Mexico.

The Latino Muslim Foundation, based in San Diego and Tijuana, raised half a million dollars to make the facility a reality….

“Being on one of the largest borders in the world, this is a source of pride that we’re here able to help people arriving at the border,” said Sonia Tinico, president of the Latino Muslim Foundation. “We’ll be able to provide shelter for Muslims who are seeking to get to the U.S. or Canada.”

Tinico said migrants will be offered housing, medical care, meals and legal services inside the 8,000-square-foot facility.

“They can pray here and have halal meals that don’t have pork since we don’t eat pork,” she said. “We’ll have separate areas for women and men.”

Tinico also stated the migrants will be offered psychological and dental assistance along with workshops to help asylum-seekers get familiar with North American culture and customs….

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“Without Logos, the West is lost”

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Western society is crumbling as it loses the vital link between faith and reason.

This book provides a wonderfully accessible overview of the evolution of a concept which has been the key to the development of Western civilisation, or we might better say is the hallmark of Western civilisation: the mutual interplay of faith and reason. Gregg shows how this key was sought by the Greeks, found by Judeo-Christianity, and progressively lost during the Enlightenment. He examines the kinds of pathologies which are produced by both faith and reason respectively when they are decoupled from one another.

Gregg starts out with “The Speech That Shook the World” — the Regensburg Address of Pope Benedict XVI in 2006, in which Ratzinger warned of the danger of the uncoupling of faith and reason. The fact that Ratzinger hit the nail on the head with his words here were — sadly — borne out by the violent (and sadly in some cases fatal) reaction of fundamentalists across the Islamic world. But Ratzinger’s words were for the West as much as for anyone else, for the integration of faith and reason which had been the hallmark of the West has been in crisis for a long time now, and the disasters of recent Western history are the bitter fruit of that crisis.

Ancient Greeks

Western civilisation begins with a Greek word and concept: logos, which refers to rational order — one we embody in words. This is in a way the Greek discovery, and it unleashed their philosophical speculations. The irrationality of the gods of Greek religion always seriously trammelled philosophical speculation. Vastly different was the religion of the Jews with its supremely rational God, and the advent of Christianity revealed fully the hidden depths of this rationality (the logos was made flesh) and on the rationality of God is founded the rationality (and freedom) of man.

In the thought of St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), this synthesis of faith and reason is brought to a supreme realisation. At the very same time, however, significant fissures between faith and reason began to appear in the incipient rationalism of the Latin Averroists as well as the incipient fideism of elements within the Franciscan order.

Various developments

Gregg prefaces his discussion of the great disjunction between faith and reason which takes place in the Enlightenment with an important proviso. He cautions the reader against an overly simplistic dismissal of all of Enlightenment thought tout court as anti-Christian. He is at pains to point out that much of the Enlightenment movement was quite compatible with Christianity, citing the historian Ulrich L. Lehner as saying “only a small fraction of Enlighteners were anti-religious; the overwhelming majority were interested in finding a balanced relation between reason and faith.” He points out the critical engagement of many Catholic intellectuals with the Enlightenment.

Gregg also reminds us that there was not just one Enlightenment, but several, and they differed in their attitude to the faith. The Scottish Enlightenment for instance involved a number of particularly religious men, such as the Presbyterian minister Thomas Reid (1710–1796). The leaders of the American Enlightenment similarly, despite their declarations of separation of Church and State, were mostly very well disposed towards religion in general, and Christianity in particular.

This was, however, not the case in the French Enlightenment. Gregg quotes Joseph Ratzinger’s distinction between “the Anglo-Saxon trend [in Enlightenment thought], which is more inclined to natural law and tends towards constitutional democracy,” from that associated with Jean-Jacques Rousseau, which “ultimately aims at complete freedom from any rule.”

New religions

And even though the work of such Englishmen as Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton and John Locke never shares in the French animus against Christianity, they mark a decided shift away from metaphysical speculation in favour of utility and the empirical and so pave the way to scientism and the two great secularist ideologies of the nineteenth century: Marxism and liberalism. Ironically, although these two systems are prefaced on a rejection of religion (though in a much more virulent manner in Marxism), Gregg points out the quasi-religious character of both:

Like Judaism and Christianity, Marxism has its own canon of sacred books — the works of Marx, Engels, and Lenin, among others — which its adherents study as Jews and Christians study the scriptures. Marxists join a church-like organisation — the Party — with its own faithful (party members), clerical hierarchy (the Central Committee, the Politburo, the general secretary), theologians (Marxist theoreticians), saints (Che Guevara or Lenin, whose embalmed body is venerated in a shrine), and doctrines from which party members may not stray without compromising their orthodoxy.

Even the intellectuals that John Stuart Mill envisages overseeing the implementation of liberalism function as a kind of “clerisy”. It took Nietzsche of course to bring things to their logical conclusion: with the disappearance of God also goes any claim to objective truth (a delusion for the herd), and all we are left with is the will, and in particular the will to power.

Faith alone

In a sense, Nietzsche marks the culmination of the rationalist pathology stemming from the decoupling of faith and reason. The faith side of this binomial has a pathology of its own: fideism. In chapter five, Gregg discusses the origins and implications of the fideism which has come to dominate (as Ratzinger warns in this Regensburg address) the world’s greatest bastion of fideism, which is Islam.

He describes the fateful showdown which took place in Islam between the ninth and twelfth centuries, in which the pro-reason school — the Mutazilites — were defeated by the fideistic, voluntaristic school of the Ash’arites. The implications of this defeat went far beyond Islamic theology, into every aspect of the Islamic worldview, and in a dramatic way into political thought: the perceived mode of divine rule sets the standard for political rule, and so if God’s power is envisaged as tyrannical and mankind’s correct attitude is one of submission (“Islam” means submission) then similarly, political power is conceived of as despotic over a submissive population.

Gregg does not despair for Western civilisation. Decline, he thinks “ is not inescapable”. He considers that those who conceive of a reason as closed to faith must acknowledge that this view created Marx and scientism — with all the destruction they have wrought on the world. On the other hand, those more sympathetic to faith must acknowledge that the Enlightenment has been part of a bulwark against the kind of fideism which has come to dominate the Islamic world. But above all, there will be no recovery without the rediscovery of what made Western civilisation in the first place: the interplay of faith and reason. “Without Logos, the West is lost.”

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$30K a year, and my kid can’t tell the difference between a boy and a girl

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Parents must hold their local school systems accountable for what is taught to their children.

Everything has a price.

Like every American family, our family runs a constant cost/benefit analysis on our lives. There are the small decisions: is it worth the time to drive to Target for the cheaper diapers? Or should I just get the pricier ones at the grocery store? And there are the bigger ones: like, should I live in the suburbs and pay lower taxes but more for car expenses and gas? Or flip that decision?

For our family, one of the toughest decisions was where to send our kids to school. We could send them across the street to the poorly performing public school for free. They’d meet a wide variety of kids and learn some valuable self-advocacy skills, but they would not be academically challenged. For $30k, I could send them to the nearby private school, where they’d benefit from engaged teachers, kids, and families. We’d have to drop the music lessons and fancy trips, but hey — I don’t like Disneyland anyway.

So, with some scholarships, sacrifices, and family assistance, we made the choice to send our kids to a fancy private school. The benefits have been great: warm, caring, patient teachers; outstanding academics; beautiful buildings; even a pretty good lunch. But there’s been a hidden cost, beyond the incredibly painful tuition bills: my kids can’t tell the difference between a boy and a girl.

This seems shocking, I know. How can a concept so obvious, so instinctual that nearly every 2-year-old on the planet can master it, be an idea that my very expensively-educated children don’t understand?

Simple-minded educators

Because some teachers don’t understand it. Because some administrators don’t understand it. And this is where I have to remind myself of something true: half the world is dumber than average.

I know this sounds incredibly snobby. I know this sounds judgmental and awful, but this is true. And this fact helps me take a breath, find some compassion, and slow down.

These teachers are good people. They are kind. They like kids, and want the best for children. They believe that education can make the world a better place. And additionally, they were hired for their people skills: they are empathetic, good communicators, patient, and open-minded. Those are exactly the skills my tuition dollars are paying for.

But these teachers are not well-trained critical thinkers. They were not hired for their ability to analyse complex research studies, nor to follow the various paths of different complex scenarios. They are not philosophers, ethicists, or religious scholars. They are not lawyers or developmental psychologists. They are not endocrinologists or pediatricians. They are experts at connecting to kids and explaining the types of K-12 content that kids should learn. Thank god for teachers and their talents and skills. Our society needs them. But they are not the experts here. They are just trying to do their jobs.

So when faced with the concept of “gender identity” — the idea that “people have an innate feeling of being female or male,” the typical teacher will say “Sure — that makes sense. I’m female, I know it. That’s not a controversial idea.”

When faced with the diagnostic definition of “gender dysphoria”, the idea that “some people have great distress with their biological sex, and wish they were the opposite sex,” these teachers say, “Sure — I know about Jazz Jennings and Caitlyn Jenner. That’s a real thing.”

When faced with the fact of “Disorders of Sexual Development” (formerly known as Intersex conditions), the scientifically observed and natural phenomena of various biological sexual characteristics and markers, teachers say, “Yep — I learned about that once.”

And when urged to consider the negative impacts of the difficulty of being an outlier, and the impacts of social isolation and/or ostracism, the teachers say, “Not on my watch. My cousin was gay and poorly treated. I won’t let any of my kids be bullied or left out.”

So when teachers combine all these ideas and impressions and blend them into their natural “be nice” personalities and “open-minded” natures, they are primed to become believers and advocates of transgender ideology. If Johnny likes skirts and thinks he’s really a girl inside, who are we to judge? We really can’t blame the teachers. They were born this way.

So our society has laid yet another burden of expectation on teachers. They must educate kids, they must socialise kids, they must address and resolve the emotional and behavioural dysfunctions of these kids. And now they must be responsible for nurturing, protecting, and advocating for the “internal feeling of being female or male” for a kid, otherwise they’ll be held responsible for the kid’s ostracism.

This is nuts. These teachers don’t stand a chance.

To the top

So we can’t fight the teachers. We’ve got to get the administrators and school boards to stop, listen, and think. These people were hired to be critical thinkers, to balance different opinions, to consider the different consequences of different choices. They still aren’t likely to read the studies or think through the ethical or philosophical consequences of different complex scenarios, but they are primed to consider one thing above all: legal threats.

Right now, principals and school boards are hiding behind the guidelines that WPATH (an activist-led organisation), the American Psychological Association, the National Association of School Psychologists, and the National Association of Secondary School Principals have created. These organisations have good intentions, but they are also human and flawed (and remember — half their members are below average). Even the ACLU seems to have lost its mind on this topic.

I suggest American parents adopt the “Maya Forstater Approach.” This strategy, based on the case in England, relies on fundamental and constitutional American legal rights: free speech and free religion. I don’t care if you haven’t been to church ever. This is what you say to your school board:

“For scientific, religious, and social reasons, I do not believe that you can change your sex, and I do not want my children to be taught “gender identity”, the belief that you have a gendered soul, and that your gender soul feelings trump your biology. How is your school protecting my family’s religious beliefs and our right to be free from compelled speech?”

Ask your school’s principal this question every Fall. Send it as a statement to your kids’ teachers every fall. Tell them to inform you of any lesson on gender identity before it happens so that your children can have a substitute lesson. Ask them what their policy on requesting pronouns is, so that your child does not feel compelled to use certain speech. Ask them how they balance different opinions on this topic in the community.

I can guarantee you they do not see this as a religious issue, but as a social justice issue. Say the magic words “freedom of religion/freedom from religion” and “freedom of speech” and see if that works. We’ve got a long history of protecting underdogs in this country, and right now the culture glorifies the status of victim. Use this knowledge wisely.

And here’s the thing: this is going to cost you. Be ready. Do the cost/benefit analysis. Whether your kids are getting a free public education or an expensive private one, when you ruffle the feathers of the principal, the winds blow. Then again, if you remain silent, your kid may not understand that sex never changes. Be prepared. Everything has a cost.

This article has been republished from Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT).

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True The Vote & Protect America Now Launch ProtectAmerica.vote

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New partnership will equip sheriffs, inform citizens, and protect our elections.

True the Vote and Protect America Now have joined forces in a new partnership to help protect American elections.

ProtectAmerica.vote is an initiative that will provide local sheriffs with information, resources, and tools to support election integrity in their county.

Today, ProtectAmerica.vote released the following Action Plan:

1. CONNECT CITIZENS AND SHERIFFS
Voters are understandably confused by constantly changing election rules and increasingly frustrated by lack of leadership. Put simply, they don’t know where to turn should the election processes break down. Our goal is to unite citizens and their sheriffs to work together, ensuring the real voice of America’s vote is heard loud and clear.

2.  EMPOWER SHERIFFS
Starting immediately, ProtectAmerica.vote will provide local sheriffs with the information, resources, and tools to have real-time eyes on voting in their counties:

  • Providing information on election laws specific to their state
  • Developing a grants function to provide technology and support for visibility into allegations of violations as reported throughout their county
  • Promoting programs to support citizens and uphold election integrity

3.  OPEN LINES OF COMMUNICATION
Operate a National Election Integrity Voter Hotline to help citizens in getting information and reporting problems. The hotline will be connected to sheriffs’ offices for quick evaluation of incoming information.

4.  PROMOTE PUBLIC SERVICE MESSAGES

Beginning August 1st, ProtectAmerica.vote will begin an informational campaign to educate voters state-by-state through multiple mediums, including television on election processes and laws.

Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of True the Vote, said “Over 80% of Americans are concerned about the lack of integrity in America’s elections. Voters want to be helpful but aren’t sure where to turn in times of trouble. ProtectAmerica.vote will connect citizens and sheriffs, opening communications to support local law enforcement to engage if the need arises.”

Sheriff Mark Lamb, founder of Protect America Now, said “A sheriff’s primary duty is to the protect the rights of their constituents, which includes their rights as voters. ProtectAmerica.vote aims to solve this problem and bridge the gap between voters and local law enforcement. Our work will ensure we have secure elections in this country.”

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What Does God’s Judgment Look Like?

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God, The Rewarder

One meme I heard a long time ago, likely from a song or poem, is: “God’s in His heaven, all’s right with the world”.  This is at best, a ‘half-truth’.  Yes, God is in His heaven (plus everywhere else in the universe), but all is definitely NOT right with the world.

Likely a majority of non-Christians doubt the existence of God, but how many Christians actually believe that God exists?  How many believe He is ‘in control’?  And if they do, exactly what would they mean by God being ‘in control’? Would that mean they believe He is ‘making everything happen’ that we see occurring in this troubled world?  That would be an easy ‘out’, a way for lazy Christians to ‘blame God’ for all the troubles and misery we see, but who fail to study the word for themselves and learn about Who and What God truly is.

One of the basic tenets of Biblical faith, without which one cannot please God, is believing that God IS and is a REWARDER of them that diligently seek Him (Hebrews 11:6 KJV).  That reward language sounds pretty good, right?

It seems that, possibly as a result of the ‘prosperity gospel’ that has become so popular in the past 30-40 years, many Christians can easily accept and believe that God is ‘the rewarder’, a sort of supernatural ATM machine, whereby one can simply put their ‘glory card’ in, punch in some number and wait for God to dole out the ‘cash blessings’.

Many who follow the prosperity teaching/teachers seem to consider the amount of money one accumulates in life to be an indicator of true prosperity.  However, the Apostle John, in his third letter, written to a believer named Gaius, said: “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.” (3 John:1 KJV).  But one must ask oneself, just what IS ‘soul prosperity’?  Since the soul is composed of the mind, the will and the emotions, money is not likely a large factor in the prosperity of the soul.  In fact, John seems to be saying that true prosperity is linked to the prosperity of the soul rather than the amount of money one has.  (Watch for a future article, “What IS Soul Prosperity?”).

Please do not misunderstand me.  Even though I truly believe that God is the ‘rewarder’, there are certain conditions that must be met in order to receive anything from God, and one of them is having, and properly using, faith.  You cannot please Him without it and you will never know Who He is until you have developed your faith to a certain level.  How do you do that?  By reading, and reading, and reading God’s word until it becomes a living part of your being.  Paul told us: “So then faith cometh by hearing ang hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17 KJV).  Read the passage from Hebrews 11:6 again and notice the part where it mentions “diligently seeking Him”.  One must seek God and NOT the reward.  Trying to use Christian, godly faith as a supernatural ATM card does NOT qualify as proper use of faith.

I thoroughly believe that, without God, one will not only be in an eternal unsaved state, but will also NOT prosper in this world.  But Satan claimed to have the authority to give the empires of this world to whom he chooses, meaning his followers, the unsaved (See Luke 4:5-7 KJV).  Is that not some form of prosperity?  Since Jesus did not refute that claim, does that sound like a contradiction?  I often quote the famous objectivist author, Ayn Rand, who penned the popular novel, “Atlas Shrugged”.  In it she states: “Contradictions do not exist; Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises.  You will find that one of them is wrong”.  If one of your premises is that the amount of money one has (empires of this world)  equates to true prosperity, then you will NOT see a contradiction in the statements above.  However, if you  sense a contradiction there, you should definitely examine your premises very carefully.

God, The judge

From Actions to Evidence to Warning to Judgment

Another tenet of Biblical faith that is seldom discussed in religious circles is that God is also the JUDGE of all the nations of the world.  He is obviously keeping excellent and very detailed records of all deeds done by both individuals and nations.

In a ‘rule of law’ country, a human judge receives evidence from prosecutors, who receive the same from police; this evidence can then be used to determine whether a person should be charged with a crime, or released.  If charged, it will then be used to determine the guilt or innocence of those accused of wrongdoing.  Sometimes that determination is made by a lone judge, sometimes by a jury of one’s peers.  In either case, in the human system, justice is NOT  always served and innocent people are sometimes imprisoned and/or guilty people go free.  But God is NOT a human judge and thus is NOT prone to punishing an innocent person, nor will He allow a guilty party to go free.

While ‘human judgment’ is witnessed every day in almost every nation, the world has not yet seen true ‘worldwide judgment’ from God, based on the evidence He has of the actions of people on this earth.  However, that does not mean that He has not been collecting and storing that evidence 24/7/365.

All sin is abhorrent in God’s eyes and He will tolerate certain levels of sin for only so long.  When His ‘red line’ is crossed, judgment will follow.  We have witnessed many acts of judgment of certain nations for their actions that seemed to be horrific but none of them qualified as widespread or worldwide judgment.  One example is the judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah, followed by their utter destruction.

We know there will be a “Day of Judgment” when all deeds done by all men are examined and the eternal destiny of all people is determined.  But there are also times when God forcefully intervenes in the world and brings sudden judgment for offenses He deems worthy of such.  Case in point: God judged the nation of Egypt when they refused to release the Jewish people from slavery (Acts 7:6-8 KJV), and it did NOT end well for Egypt.

But are there events of God’s judgment that we know of in this current time?  I believe so.  There is much evidence of deadly storms and other ‘seemingly natural’ weather events that have left many dead and entire cities devastated in their wake.  Now, those who believe God is in control might also be some of the ones who do not believe that God was responsible for any of those events.  But the evidence of them, especially in correlation with actions taken by the US government that negatively affected Israel on so many occasions, many times within hours of the government’s actions, would indicate that, yes, God does act in judgment when His red lines are crossed.  And His red lines regarding the treatment of Israel are set and unchangeable.  He informed the world of His policy for treatment of the ‘apple of His eye’, the Jewish People.

The Jews, The Gentiles and The Church

The Jewish People

There are three groups of people(s) on this earth that God has historically dealt with.  He has placed many clues throughout His word as to how His dealings with them will go.  The first group is the Jewish people.  Having been chosen as His earthly people who sprang from Abraham and from whom the oracles of God were received, He has called the Jewish people, “The Apple of My Eye”.  I am sure that many people have no idea what that term really means, but it has nothing to do with real apples.  In ancient times, the center of the human eye was called ‘the apple’ because of its round shape.  It is also the most sensitive part of the eye.  To touch that ‘apple’ was very irritating and possibly dangerous to one’s eyesight.

God, in calling the Jewish people ‘the apple of His eye’, is stating that, to touch that ‘apple’ will cause Him serious aggravation and will evoke a possibly serious response from Him.

God has provided His policy, His expectation, of the treatment of the Jewish people, the Apple of His Eye, by all the inhabitants of the world, including Christians.  That policy is stated in Genesis 12:1-3 KJV, and can be directly linked to the judgment that will occur when that policy is contradicted by either Gentiles or Christians.

The Gentiles

These are the people of the earth who are neither Jews nor Christians and who are considered ‘infidels’, unbelievers having or exercising no faith in God.  Not only are they the ‘faithless’, they have been responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews and Christians, and have persecuted God’s people for millennia. There will be Gentiles on earth up to the Millennial reign of Jesus.  These people are completely separate from Jews and the Church and were spoken of by the Apostle Paul, ”That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world” (Ephesians 2:12 KJV).  They will face serious judgment from God when His time is right.

The Church of God

The Church is the “Body of Christ”, those people who have accepted the redemption from sin and its penalties, offered to all people through the sacrificial work of Jesus Christ, the Messiah.  All Christians are to respect and favor the Jewish people for several reasons.  First is that through them we were given the Oracles of God (Romans 3:1-3 KJV).  Through the obedience of the Jewish disciples of Christ, those oracles were passed on to the Gentiles for their redemption and edification.  Anyone that God claims as His ‘special’ people’ are to be honored as such.  The fact that our saviour, Jesus of Nazareth, was and still is a Jew, makes our salvation the result of the work of one man, and Him a Jew.

I doubt there are few true believers who cannot quote Genesis 12:1-3, but how many are aware of the seriousness of God’s words in those three verses?  The King James version says there is a ‘blessing for blessing’ and ‘curse for curse’ involved based on how a person, or a nation, treats the Jews, but it goes much deeper than that.  Some have called it a like for like blessing and curse, but the truer meaning of the words speaks differently.  The KJV says: “And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse (Strong’s 779) him that curseth (Strong’s 7043) thee:”, but a  better and more accurate translation (my translation) of verse three would be: “And I will bless them that bless thee, and him that disrespects or makes light of thee, I will utterly despise and destroy.” It boils down to a person making light of, or disrespecting, Abraham is in effect, disrespecting and making light of God Himself.  This is the same as mocking God and we are told in Galatians 6:7, “Be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap”.  Remember, every word you speak is a ‘spiritual container’ of what is in the heart.

God does NOT mince words and when He is speaking to Abraham in this passage, He wants us all to know His true feelings on the matter.

So, what does all this have to do with the appearance of judgment?  Hang on, I am going somewhere with this.

What Does God’s Judgment Look Like?

The American Condition

One of the recent presidents of our nation publicly stated that the United States is NOT a Christian nation, and as much as I dislike that person, he was right to a certain extent.  The people of this nation were once God-fearing, God-worshipping people with high moral standards. This was certainly the case in years past when we were considered a “Christian Nation” by nearly every other country in the world,  but that has all changed now, and NOT for the better.  Our country is failing in nearly every category that can be measured.

Former US President Obama endorsed gay “marriage” in 2012; the Supreme Court redefined marriage in 2015.  Recent polls taken in the US indicate that a large number of young Americans who claim to be Christians express support for much of the LGBTQ agenda and are turning their backs on Christianity because they disagree with any teaching from the Bible against homosexuality.  This is an indication that they no longer believe God’s word (Romans 1:27-32 KJV), but instead believe that God’s word is irrelevant in determining the behavior of people.

This wrong belief places such people in the same position as those in Noah’s time when men did what they thought was right, not what God had commanded them to do and they had nearly corrupted the whole of mankind; as a result of their disobedience to God, their judgment was death by the flood of Noah.

The wisdom found in the Proverbs provides many clues as to why a nation fails.  Consider Proverbs 6:6-19 KJV: “Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.  How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.  A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.  He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy. These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.”

If you cannot see a detailed description of the declining moral status of the United States in these words, you are not looking closely enough.  The United States is currently in the worst moral condition since we became a nation more than 230 years ago.  The psalmist said: “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own” (Psalm 33:12 KJV).

If it is a ‘truth of God’ that the nation whose God is the Lord is blessed, then the opposite is also true: Cursed is the nation that  rejects and forsakes God.  This nation is standing on the brink of catastrophe, calamity and chaos.  It matters not where these will come from, only that they are coming as certainly as night follows day.

The ’If – Then’ Condition

In computer programming, there is an “if – then” condition in which, an “if” statement, requiring some specific condition, must be met before another desired result (other action) can successfully occur.  Remember that programming is based on ‘logic’, and trying to get any program to function as desired without using that logic will always result in failure.

If a national acceptance of God brings blessing on a nation, then  a national rejection of God will bring cursing, or judgment on that nation.  This is truth and logic at work and it cannot be read any other way.  The only way the cursing from God can be avoided is through national repentance, and only then if God’s red lines regarding Israel have not been crossed.

Cancellation of Blessings

The Disrespect of Abraham

The US government could easily be accused of ‘disrespecting the offspring of Abraham’ many times during seven of the past eight presidential administrations. There are many instances of America inching up to, if not actually crossing’, God’s redlines:

  • America ‘forcing’ Israel to cede its land to foreigners (many instances in the past 30 plus years)
  • America ‘forcing’ Israel to abandon building on Israeli land while allowing foreigners to do so (ongoing issue)
  • America paying the Palestinians, the known enemies of Israel, to terrorize and murder the Jewish people (US aid to the Palestinian Authority)
  • America, after relocating the US embassy to Jerusalem now trying to reestablish the former US Consulate in Jerusalem that was nothing more than a front for Palestinian sympathies by the US government

The Approach of Judgment

We are seeing events, not just in the US, but around the world, that indicate we are getting closer daily to the judgment of God on this world.  Many nations, indeed most of those in the United Nations, have aligned themselves against Israel and thus against the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

The once covert, but now open, actions of those nations to belittle and condemn Israel for her actions in defense of her people are showing a hostility that mirrors to some extent, the tirades of Iran in seeking the destruction of Israel and the US.  Their leaders are setting themselves and their countrymen into a battle alignment against Israel and God.  If their actions continue they will soon face God’s anger and judgment as He defends Israel against all her enemies.  What form that judgment will take is unclear at this point.

But, the entire world is beginning to see signs of a coming famine, food shortages caused by both natural and human sources that could easily kill millions, perhaps hundreds of millions, of people.

But  what about the actions of the US leaders and her people?  How close could that judgment be for us?  And what form could it take?  God is not limited in His use of either natural or supernatural forces to execute His judgment.

As stated earlier, God hates ALL sin, whether it be personal or national, and He will judge ALL sin  when His time is right.  We are seeing a massive increase in both personal and national sin.  We are on the verge of witnessing a true state of ‘lawlessness’ in the US that will cause both personal and national devastation and chaos.

In the US we are already seeing signs of impending trouble that could be catastrophic.  Based on the US interfering in the decisions of a sovereign nation, Israel, causing them to be more open to hostility and attack from her neighbors who swear to destroy them, and want to take over the Promised Land for themselves, could that same fate befall us?  Consider these issues:

  • China buying American “Bread basket” farmland
  • China buying American meat packing and food processing companies
  • China buying American news outlet
  • China ‘owning’ American politicians through intimidation and bribery

It has been widely and  long accepted by the American people that China is NOT our friend.  She is currently building up her considerable military arsenal with the goal being to defeat America in a military confrontation, should that event occur.

In addition to the dangers of confrontation between the US and her enemies, we are witnessing a rise in sins against God and His principles.  He clearly spelled out those principles in thousands of verses in the Bible, and there was a time when nearly every mother and father raised their children based on them.  Parents actually read the Bible to and with, their kids and introduced a foundation of truth and wisdom for them to live by and prosper.

Now, the Bible is nearly forgotten as parents prefer to leave the raising of their most precious assets, their children, to others; these ‘others’ have no inherent affection for their kids and are instilling in them satanic principles rather than godly wisdom.  In Hosea chapter eight, the prophet was  talking to the Jewish people about their idolatry, worshipping idols made by hand.  He called their actions, “Sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind”.  Those parents who pass off the responsibility of raising their children by godly principles are a perfect example of sowing the wind.  I suggest you read the entire sixth chapter of Hosea to understand the result of such foolishness.  It produces children who resemble those described by Paul in Romans 1:29-31 KJV and the whirlwind WILL come.

On the national level we see our government ordering its embassies around the world to promote the ungodliness of that agenda by flying the LGBTQ flag at the embassies:

U.S. State Department: Offending the World All Pride Month Long

God, who inspired Francis Scott Key to pen the words of our national anthem, must be appalled at such lunacy.

So, What DOES God’s Judgment Look Like?

As stated earlier, God, who OWNS the earth and everything in it (1 Corinthians 10:26 KJV), is not limited in His methods of bringing judgment.  While many may think of judgment as a terrorist attack, a nuclear attack or a bioweapons attack, in fact it can take a form that most would assume to be a ‘completely natural phenomenon’.

Consider the current issue with a shortage of oil, thus producing a shortage of every kind of petroleum-based fuel such as natural gas (LPG), gasoline and diesel, not to mention a shortage of fertilizer.  Even though these issues may seem to be the result of stupid political decisions, and for the most part, they are, they could as easily be God’s way of pronouncing judgment.  After all, without these resources, farmers cannot plant food that will yield enough to feed the people; starvation results and when that occurs, people will go to any length to get food for their families, up to and including attacking anyone who has food.  This type of action will lead to a state of anarchy and chaos.

If you will allow me, the political actions taken by the US toward Israel has allowed her hostile neighbors to attack the Jewish people and steal their land and goods, so, based on the Genesis 12:1-3 policy that God enacted toward the world in their interactions with Israel, what would be so strange about God allowing/causing the same fate to fall on those who caused Israel to be harmed?  Neither the United States of America, nor any other nation, is exempt from God’s commands or His judgment

The Warnings

Every day, I read more warnings from financial analysts/experts who say a market crash, likely on a worldwide scale, is imminent.  Such a crash would bring almost instant suffering to the American people.  Those who issue such warnings have been extremely accurate with their predictions in the past.  If they are correct, financial collapse could easily be a means of judgment from God.

I have no way of knowing how God will bring His judgment on the world, other than the words in Revelation that speak of the judgments that will occur after the rapture of the Church occurs, but I am more concerned about the judgment that is likely to hit BEFORE the rapture.  No matter what form it takes, it will not be pretty especially for those who choose evil over  good or Satan over God.

Conclusion

We must be constantly prepared for anything that may occur in these perilous days.  Even though judgment is never a pretty sight and one that will make many fail to survive through them, we know that God has not appointed us to wrath (1 Thessalonians 5:9 KJV), we must also consider the words found in 1 Peter: ” For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?”.  Paul also told us: “ For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world” 1 Corinthians 11:31 KJV).  We are encouraged to always judge ourselves, our actions and our words by comparing them with Gods qword.  If we do this faithfully,  regardless of the form God’s judgment takes, we will only be bystanders and onlookers when the judgment falls on the ungodly.  If we diligently seek to remain in that safe shelter where God IS, we are promised the judgment will not affect us: “Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked”  (Psalm 91:8 KJV).

Read the entire 91st psalm and cling to the words there and do NOT fear the judgment when it appears.  Though a thousand may fall at our side and ten thousand at our right hand, we will still be standing and looking for the rewarder and the reward!

Maranatha!

Blessings!

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VIDEO: Utah Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Becky Edwards EXPOSED

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Project Veritas Action has published undercover footage of U.S. Senate Candidate, Becky Edwards (R-Utah), speaking candidly about her intention to “stand up” for abortion.

Here are some of the highlights from today’s video:

  • Project Veritas Action published undercover footage of U.S. Senate Candidate, Becky Edwards (R-Utah), who is seen expressing her willingness to “stand up” for abortion.
  • In the footage, Edwards is approached by a Project Veritas Action Undercover Reporter who initiated a conversation about support for abortion and Edwards says, “I can absolutely guarantee you, I’m your best bet and the only candidate who has even said anything other than, ‘joyful, happy, yay, answer to prayer,’ on what we’re seeing on [overturning] Roe.”
  • Edwards then says, “I’m going to stand up” in reference to abortion. She goes on to expresses her concern for Utah’s trigger law: “…and we have like a trigger law here in Utah that basically is going to make things really – I’m deeply concerned.”

You can watch the full video HERE.

In the footage, Edwards makes comments critical of states with similar laws planned to take effect. “No, no! Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, what the heck? Idaho even!”

Edwards is running to unseat incumbent Senator, Mike Lee. At the time of this writing, Edwards has not responded to a request for comment.

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America’s Enemies Cheer as Pentagon’s Descent into Wokeness Continues

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Recent stories show the ideological subversion of the Pentagon is continuing.

We start with a look at the Navy’s professional reading list for personnel.  Last year, it led off with Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be an Anti-Racist” and other books which preach Marxist Critical Race Theory and the evils of white supremacy.  These books attacked free enterprise and supposed mass incarceration, and promoted Left-wing sexual agendas.  Contrary viewpoints and America’s founding values were not on the list.  The CRT readings taught service members to hate the country they’re supposed to be defending.  Moreover, they did nothing to advance service members’ understanding of their profession or enhance their war-fighting skills.  However, these books no longer appear on the list.  They were taken off after several Republican members of Congress expressed outrage.

Subversion may have been interrupted in the Navy, but it’s going full bore at West Point.  Critical Race Theory, with its tenets of white privilege and systemic racism, is being taught at West Point, according to official documents and course materials obtained in a records request.  The materials teach cadets “modern day slavery” still exists in America as we speak.  They also teach the astounding view that white people are the primary beneficiaries of civil rights legislation.  Students will graduate with an understanding of queer theory, “white rage”, and that the Republican Party is the home of white supremacy.  That will come as a shock, I’m sure, to Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina who is both Republican and black.

The Air Force is setting aside time and creating a safe space for service members to express their feelings and partake in “healthy conversation” to create “trust and belonging”.  Kumbaya!  I wonder what the Air Force will do when somebody speaks up and says all this Woke stuff is for the birds.

The Navy put out a video cautioning its personnel to be sure to use preferred pronouns.  In the Army, training on pronouns and gender identity is mandatory.  In addition, officers are coached on when to offer gender transition surgery to the soldiers serving under them.

The Air Force wished its members “Happy Pride Month!” in June.  The Marines and Space Force tweeted out similar messages.  But Pride Month celebrations didn’t stop the Air Force from cancelling Drag Queen Story Time for children at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.  A spokesman said the event didn’t go through the vetting process, so here we have another instance showing it’s possible to push back and stop some of the nonsense.

Now let’s pause and ask what’s motivating all this Wokeness and subversion at the Pentagon.  One theory holds the top brass are committed left-wing ideologues, birds of a feather with the extremist Biden administration which is using the whole of government to push Woke agendas.  A former Marine Lieutenant Colonel, however, is of the view high-level officers are just playing along with the politicians because the officers need Congress to promote them to top general positions.   A China expert, meanwhile, has written about the People’s Liberation Army’s “All-Army enemy disintegration work”.  [Kerry Gershanek, Political Warfare: Strategies for Combating China’s Plan to “Win Without Fighting”, at p.23]  Disintegration work derives from Sun Tzu’s maxim about defeating the enemy without having to fight them.  Subverting the Pentagon through Woke ideology fits right in.   Personally, I would say all three drivers are at work.

I’m encouraged by the fact people are starting to push back and trim the Pentagon’s Woke sails, as I noted previously.  In addition, Republican lawmakers are introducing measures to defund the military’s social justice initiatives and to keep the military from spreading its Woke agendas to military contractors.   But it’s easy to introduce bills and placate the conservative base that way.  The real question is how hard the bills’ sponsors will fight for their reforms.  I hope, in addition to introducing legislation, Republicans will haul top Pentagon brass up to Capitol Hill for hearings if Republicans take over the House or Senate in November.  The Pentagon needs to be pressed on how it makes sense to teach soldiers to hate their country and whether the Pentagon has any evidence America’s enemies care what pronouns American soldiers prefer.   If there are no such hearings, we’ll know Republican lawmakers aren’t serious.  And hearings should just be the start of fixing the damage that’s been done.

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No One Will Come

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International agreements involving the abdication of strategic assets in exchange for vague ‘assurances’ of future support are not worth the paper they are written on.

We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow – Lord Palmerston in the House of Commons, March 1, 1848.

For what is a binding peace [agreement] among sovereign nations when one of the attributes of sovereignty is the right to change one’s mind? — Henry Kissinger, in “White House Years”.

Recently, I had occasion to attend a dinner at which the keynote speaker was Yossi Cohen, the former director of Mossad, Israel’s external intelligence service. The focus of Cohen’s wide-ranging and thoughtful address was the impact of global events on Israel’s strategic security.

No one came to save a single infant…

Although he touched only briefly on the ongoing war in Ukraine, what he said was perhaps more significant and incisive than his observations on topics to which he devoted most of his time—Iran, the Arab world, the Russian deployment in Syria, and the United States.

After giving a brief tour d’horizon of the combined military might of NATO (on both sides of the Atlantic), he pointed out poignantly, that despite this potentially awesome prowess, “no one came to save even one Ukrainian baby.”

Indeed, for Ukrainians, the situation must be particularly galling. After all, it was barely twenty years ago that the Budapest Memorandum was signed, in which Russia, the US, and the UK pledged to refrain from threatening or using military force or economic coercion against Ukraine and undertook—among other things—to respect Ukrainian independence and sovereignty in the existing (1994) borders.

Clearly, there have since been blatant Russian violations of the Memorandum, notably with the 2014 annexation of Crimea and even more so with the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Western democracies are unreliable

In a caustic review of Ukraine’s fate—and the chain of events that led up to it—Erielle Davidson of George Mason University berates the “stark failure of the Budapest Memorandum..  In it, she recounts the “host of lessons that might be drawn from the collapse of the Budapest Memorandum.”

She writes: “… Western democracies are unreliable and fickle. International agreements involving the abdication of strategic assets in exchange for vague ‘assurances’ of undefined future support are not worth the paper they are written on.”

She notes: “Ukraine, despite having a strong historical foe on its borders, made real sacrifices for the fanciful Western ideal of denuclearization. But once it paid that price, those who had pushed for the deal largely hung the nation out to dry.”

Extending the scope of her analysis of Ukraine’s experience, Davidson continues”: “Ukraine is not the only country the U.S. and European countries have insisted make dangerous concessions for paper peace with an undemocratic, bellicose neighbor.”

Demanding Jerusalem repeat Kiev’s mistakes?

She then goes on to trace the pertinence of the events in Ukraine for the situation Israel is facing in the conflict with Palestinian-Arabs and the wider Arab world.

She observes: “…this has been the entire blueprint of Western democracies’ approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: push the Israelis to cede strategic territorial depth in the hopes that governments run by terrorists will behave. In exchange, Israel would ride a brief wave of Western plaudits and vague assurances of assistance, if the Palestinians were to seek to destabilize or attack the smaller Israel.”

According to Davidson: “An Israeli deal with the Palestinians would surely be met, like the Budapest Memorandum, with fanfare and goodwill in the short term. The world, supposedly, would have become a more peaceful place. But little-remarked upon are the long-term consequences for the party that sacrificed its own security policy on the altar of quixotic Western delusions.”

Thus, as she asserts: “… Ukraine’s concessions in the 1990s are hardly remembered today… Thus, the Ukrainian war also represents the failure of a Western peace process—a failure that our ally Israel should certainly remember when an unchastened American and European foreign policy establishment inevitably asks Jerusalem to repeat Kiev’s mistakes.”

Israel: The failure of international guarantees

Indeed, in a paper entitled When International Agreements Utterly Failed, David Makovsky, distinguished fellow at The Washington Institute, analyzes the events that led to the 1967 Six-Day War, which erupted after Egypt closed the Tiran Straits to Israeli navigation. This comprised a critical blow to Israel, which at the time relied on strategic oil imports from Iran supplied via the Straits.

Significantly, for the purposes of this discussion, Israel believed it had secured a guarantee of freedom of navigation through the Straits from the US and the international community in 1957—when it withdrew its forces from the Sinai peninsula following the 1956 Sinai Campaign. Moreover, Israel declared that any future closure of the Tiran Straits to Israeli shipping by Egypt would be considered a clear casus belli. Despite this warning, on May 23, 1967, Egyptian president Abdul Gamal Nasser ordered the closure of the Straits to Israeli vessels.

Israel dispatched foreign minister Abba Eban on an urgent trip to Paris, London, and Washington, to urge the international community to re-open the Straits and avert war. However, Eban encountered an apathetic, obtuse and cynical international response. For example, even though the then French president, Charles De Gaulle conceded that a commitment had been made to Israel to keep the Tiran Straits open, he curtly dismissed the pledge, declaring, “that was 1957…now [is] 1967.”

No guarantee can guarantee a guarantee

Accordingly, Israel’s strenuous diplomatic efforts to persuade the western powers to pressure Cairo to reopen the Straits proved to no avail.

Along with the closure of the straits, Egypt began mobilizing forces along Israel’s southern border –thus triggering Israel’s preemptive strikes against Egyptian positions and airfields that heralded the outbreak of the Six-Day War.

In his paper on failed international guarantees, Makovsky remarks: ”   we should not forget one of the enduring lessons learned from the run-up to the conflict. Namely, that agreements need to stand on their own merits and cannot be based on abstract international guarantees about the future“; and laments: “When the political context changed …the guarantees evaporated.”

Clearly, this vividly underscores the merits of Henry Kissinger’s characterization of the anarchic international system (see introductory excerpts)—i.e. that sovereign nations have the right to change their minds at will, making any international agreement/pledge potentially ephemeral by its very nature.

Indeed, as the late Menahem Begin once reportedly remarked to US Foreign Secretary Cyrus Vance a decade later: “In the whole world, there is no guarantee that can guarantee a guarantee.”

No one will come…

For Israel, the message is starkly unequivocal.

It must remember that should it cede vitally important strategic territory at the behest of foreign governments, this could well tempt its adversaries to launch a deadly assault on it, being far more vulnerable and exposed than before. Moreover, it should remember it can expect scant support from other countries, which will be reluctant to come to its aid.

For, as Yossi Cohen warned in his address, if Israel is attacked, it must be prepared that “no one will come.”

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Marxist Attorney General & Leader of Department of Injustice in Ukraine

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Merritt Garland, the unlawful Attorney General who leads the Department of Injustice went to Ukraine.

Following is what this extreme hypocrite told reporters speaking about alleged war crimes,

“We and our partners will make sure those responsible will be held accountable.”

REALLY!

What about these people being held accountable for their crimes?

  • The lawless rioters, looters, murderers in BLM and Antifa who were encouraged by Democrats like Kamala Harris and Maxine Waters to destroy cities and harass Republicans after the George Floyd incident? Have they been held accountable?
  • The millions of illegal aliens including criminals and terrorists streaming across our southern border over last 15 months in violation of our existing immigration laws – have they been held accountable?
  • The FBI operatives who along with BLM and Antifa agents encouraged people to storm the capitol on Jan. 6th, 2021 – have they been held accountable? Why haven’t the political prisoners detained been treated humanely and with Due Process?
  • The unarmed woman murdered by a BLM sympathizing Capitol Police Lt and another woman who was trampled and a D.C. Municipal Police Officer beat her while she was on the ground and refused to call for an ambulance and the woman later died – have they been held accountable? It is a lie that any law enforcement officer died as a result of protestor action.
  • Why has Garland not been concerned about protestors outside the homes of SOCTUS Justices?
  • Why has Garland totally politicized the FBI and its agents under his supervision?
  • What about Garland calling parents peacefully protesting at School Board meetings “domestic terrorists” and calling for their arrest?

Holding Democrat, socialist, leftists criminals accountable is NOT on the agenda of Merritt Garland – quite the opposite – he and the Department of Injustice shield them. They have removed the blindfold from the Lady of Justice. They are no longer objective and we have a 2-tiered system of INJUSTICE.

How can the chief law enforcement officer of the land allow such lawlessness to happen without taking any action or conducting total whitewashed “investigations”?

Thank God and POTUS Trump that this evil man was not confirmed for the SCOTUS.

His actions/inactions prove he is a prominent member of the anti-Constitution Deep State.

As always comments are welcomed.

Remember, “Tyranny Hates to Be Questioned”

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BREAKING NEWS: MindGeek Layoffs & Leadership Resignations!

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With the help of thousands, we got mainstream companies to stop running ads on their flagship website – that was 50% of their revenue! We’ve impacted their payment processors & their distribution partners, getting nearly all “respectable” companies to cut ties with them. Together, we have moved governments to take notice and we expect criminal charges soon!

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Change takes time, but this is happening faster than most thought possible. If we can keep the momentum going, it means:

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Chevron CEO Fires Back at Biden, Slams His Attacks And ‘Political Rhetoric’ in New Letter

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The Democrat USG is out of control – destroying our economy, our freedoms, our every way of life.

In the wake of Democrat-induced hyper inflation amid massive government spending, the Biden regime has gone on the attack against ……. business.

In this case, Chevron has responded, which is mighty brave. Speaking truth to power makes you an an enemy of the Biden regime — a suicidal act.

Biden last week blamed oil companies for contributing to high prices — arguing they aren’t refining enough oil after previously claiming they aren’t drilling enough on existing federal leases and slamming companies such as ExxonMobil and Chevron for reaping massive profits as global prices rise.

Wirth pushed back on Biden’s portrayal of the companies as responsible for soaring gas prices, which last week hit an all-time average of more than $5 per gallon.

Chevron CEO Fires Back at Biden, Slams ‘Political Rhetoric’ in New Letter

By: Jack Phillips, June 21, 2022

The CEO of Chevron sent an open letter to President Joe Biden after Biden sent a letter suggesting that oil companies could face consequences and accusing them of not doing enough to increase refining capacity.

Mike Wirth, in the letter, called on the White House to end its hostilities toward the oil industry, saying there needs to be a change in its approach and policies before gas prices can drop.

“Addressing this situation requires thoughtful action and a willingness to work together, not political rhetoric,” Wirth said, adding, “Your Administration has largely sought to criticize, and at times vilify, our industry.”

More than a week ago, Biden attacked oil companies and claimed they’re making record profits before urging them to increase oil production to alleviate record-high gas prices. Targeting ExxonMobil specifically, Biden accused them of making “more money than God” and not drilling enough during comments he made in May.

Soaring Gas Prices

In recent months, Biden has taken criticism as regular gas prices have eclipsed the $5 per gallon mark. AAA data shows that prices fell for several days before rising again this week to $4.96 per gallon.

Since Biden took office, gas prices have been steadily increasing as the president issued a number of energy-related executive orders, including suspending new oil drilling leases and ending the Keystone XL pipeline.

“The U.S. energy sector needs cooperation and support from your Administration for our country to return to a path toward greater energy security, economic prosperity, and environmental protection,” Wirth said in the letter, adding that Chevron has increased production in recent years.

Oil companies “need clarity and consistency on policy matters ranging from leases and permits on federal lands, to the ability to permit and build critical infrastructure, to the proper role of regulation that considers both costs and benefits,” Wirth added.

“Most importantly, we need an honest dialogue on how to best balance energy, economic, and environmental objectives–one that recognizes our industry is a vital sector of the U.S. economy and is essential to our national security,” he said. “We can only meet these challenges by working together.”

When asked about the letter, Biden didn’t appear to try and tone down the tensions.

“I didn’t know they’d get their feelings hurt that quickly. We need more refining capacity. This idea that they don’t have more oil to bring up and refine is simply not true,” he told reporters.

Last week, ExxonMobil responded to Biden’s letter and said it had invested $118 billion in new oil and gas supplies compared to a net income of $55 billion.

“We kept investing even during the pandemic, when we lost more than $20 billion and had to borrow more than $30 billion to maintain investment to increase capacity to be ready for post-pandemic demand,” the company stated.

U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is slated to meet with oil industry executives on Thursday to discuss ways to reduce energy prices.

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Head of Islamic Child Rape/Trafficking Gang Served as a Council Welfare Rights Officer While Raping Young Girls

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Rest assured, this news story will die a quick death.

This is what we have been up against for well over a decade. Twenty-plus years later… this has been going on for decades, Muslim gangs sex trafficking upwards of a million non-Muslims British tweens and teens.

Anyone who spoke against this unfathomable evil was targeted, smeared and, in my own case, banned from the UK.

More Muslim child rape gangs here and here.

“Passed around like meat”

“I lost count of how many men I was forced to have sex with.”

Close to a million British non-Muslim tweens and tweens were treated with the same callous scorn and inhumanity in the cause of sharia and “islamophobia sensitivity.”

Here is what is never addressed. The underlying belief is the same: non-Muslim women exist for the pleasure of Muslim men. It’s in the Quran: Muslims can take “captives of the right hand” and use them for sex (4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, 70:30). And as long as it is not addressed, there will be more and more of these Muslim rape gangs, aided and abetted by hopelessly compromised British officials.

GROOMING GANG LEADER SERVED AS A COUNCIL WELFARE RIGHTS OFFICER WHILE RAPING YOUNG GIRLS

By: Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart, June 21, 2022:

The head of an infamous Pakistani child sex grooming gang has been revealed to have been serving as a welfare rights officer for the local government council, a major child sex abuse report has revealed.

Shabir Ahmed, who led the Muslim Rochdale child rape gang, has been identified as “Offender A” by Sky News in a child sexual exploitation in Oldham report this month, which showed that while he was abusing children, he was employed by the local Labour-run council. Despite the Greater Manchester Police force being aware of allegations against Ahmed and his position as a welfare officer for the council, the police force failed to notify the council
The convicted paedophile, who was jailed for 22 years for preying on vulnerable girls in the Northern English city of Rochdale, and for raping a young Asian girl 30 times for over a decade, was also revealed to have been dispatched by the council to the Oldham Pakistani Community Centre, where he would have had access to young children.
The report stated that if police had informed his employers of the rape allegations “it may have potentially avoided the tragic abuse of other children.”

Though the report claimed to have found no evidence of a coverup, it said that “some children had been failed by the agencies that were meant to protect them because child protection procedures had not been properly followed.”

For instance, some girls who were being drugged and violently raped were told by social workers that they were “putting themselves at risk,” rather than being protected from their abusers.

The current leader of the Oldham Council, Amanda Chadderton, said: “We fully accept the findings of this independent report. It highlights clear failings, where our services at the time were not good enough to protect vulnerable young people suffering the most awful abuse.

“For that, I am deeply sorry… I do hope, however, to offer some reassurance that, as a council, we haven’t stood still since the time period the review refers to.”

As has been seen in previous reports, fears of stoking racial tensions among the Greater Manchester Police force was a persistent issue.

The ‘Messenger’ service, which was established in 2006 to safeguard children from sexual abuse through a partnership of the local council, social workers, the children’s charity Barnardos, and the Greater Manchester Police was shown to have downplayed the role of ethnicity in the mostly Muslim Pakistani rape gang epidemic in the area.

According to the report, a 2012 “media strategy” developed by the service “articulated a concern that there could be assumptions in the media and the public at large that child sexual exploitation was carried out by men from ethnic minorities against White girls, which could create community tensions, and that Oldham’s Asian community could feel it was disproportionally associated with child sexual exploitation

“There were also, throughout this period, legitimate concerns by both the council and the police that the high-profile convictions of predominantly Pakistani offenders across the country could be capitalised on by a far-right agenda and lead to the victimisation of the Pakistani community,” the report added.

Despite this, the report claimed that the local council had not shied away from highlighting the role of Pakistanis in the grooming gang abuse of young girls, highlighting a blog post from “Leader A” of the Oldham council in 2014 and 2015.
“Anyone who shies away from accepting that in Rotherham, Oxford, Rochdale and here in Oldham – and that this particular form of abuse is predominantly Pakistani men targeting white girls – is not helping the victims, and nor is it helping the Asian community at large,” a blog post from unnamed councillor stated.

The report also highlighted the case of Sophie (not her real name), who began being abused by “predatory males” at just 12-years-old. The report claimed that there were “at least” two occasions in which safeguarding procedures should have been initiated to protect the young girl.

Despite authorities having “sufficient information” to begin investigating a rape in 2006 by convicted paedophile Paul Waites, the girl was told to come back with an adult and when she “was not drunk” by a desk officer.

As she left the station she was picked up in a car by Sarwar Ali after she asked him for directions. Ali then took Sophie back to his house where he raped the young girl.
Then, a taxi driver who promised to help her out of the situation, Shakil Chowdhury, took her instead to a house where she was raped by him and four other men.
The report stated that if police officers had offered an appropriate response required to protect her” she would have been “spared the ordeal she was subsequently subjected to”.

Responding to the findings, Stephen Watson, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, said: “I want to offer my sincere apologies to everyone affected by the events considered in the report.

“Our actions fell short of the help that they had every right to expect and were unacceptable. I am sorry for the hurt and ongoing trauma they have suffered because of what happened to them.

Former Greater Manchester Police detective turned grooming gang whistleblower, Maggie Oliver said: “Another day, yet another report about the failures of a police force to protect the most vulnerable in our society, even when there is irrefutable evidence to prosecute offenders and safeguard children.

“This report yet again clearly evidences catastrophic failings by the force and their repeated attempts to cover up and hide these failings both from the victims and from the public they serve, and that is extremely worrying.”

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WATCH: Trump Says Biden a Horrific ‘Combination of Jimmy Carter and Herbert Hoover’

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And we still have 2 plus years left to go. If President Biden’s dangerous and incompetent foreign policy precipitates World War 3, then he will have surpassed President Buchanan for the title of worst POTUS in American history.

WATCH: Trump Says Biden a Horrific ‘Combination of Jimmy Carter and Herbert Hoover’

By: The First, June 21, 2022

Donald Trump ripped Joe Biden during a speaking event this week, calling the President a horrific combination of “Jimmy Carter and Herbert Hoover.”

“Joe Biden is the worst president in the history of our country. He is now turning out to be a combination of Jimmy Carter and Herbert Hoover. Has anyone looked at the stock market lately?” asked Trump.

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