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Oggi in Italia: The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian and the Appia Antica

The Appia Antica, also known as the Appian Way is one of the most important roads constructed in ancient Rome. It was built around 300 BC and it is the reason that we have the saying “all roads lead to Rome.” 

 It was built in the traditional Roman way, laying down a foundation of sand and smaller stones and finishing with large paving stones which, when set in place, were virtually immovable.  

Yes, walking on this road feels very historic...when you think that you are walking on something built over 2000 years ago.  As I travelled a section of this road, on my way to the Catacombs of Saint Sebastian, I was moved to think that 2000 years earlier Peter would have traveled this road, on his way out of town.  Tradition teaches that he was fleeing Rome to avoid the vicious persecution that was being leveled against Christians by the Emperor Nero.  According to this legend, Peter had a vision...he met Christ on the road, going in the other direction, back to Rome. 

 There is a church located at the spot where this supposedly happened: the Chiesa di Santa Maria in Palmis, better known as

Chiesa del Domine Quo Vadis

( literally, the Church of "Lord, Where Are You Going?") 

It is called Domine, Quo Vadis—an odd name for a church, until you hear the parable behind it. Apparently, Peter, finding his way blocked by Jesus, asked,  "Domine, Quo Vadis?"  This is Latin for 'Lord, where are you going?    The vision of Christ is said to have replied, "To Rome, to be crucified a second time," whereupon Jesus disappeared, leaving his footprints in the road's flagstone as a sign. Supposedly, there's a cast of the footprints inside the church. Peter, moved deeply by this vision, turns around and heads back up the Appia Antica, enters the gates by which he had fled and returns to Rome, where he is sentenced to death.  Upon facing the cross upon which he is to be crucified, Peter declares that he is unworthy to be crucified in the same manner as his Lord, so the Roman soldiers obligingly crucify him, upside down.

Paul also traveled this road, on his way to Rome, accompanied by Roman guards.  He had gotten into a disagreement with the Jews in Jerusalem and was arrested. Rather than have his case heard by a corrupt judge in Jerusalem, he appealed to Caesar, and to Caesar he was sent. He spent several years in Rome under a semi-house arrest..but there is evidence he  was allowed relative freedom and also went one or two more missionary journeys that again took him to Jerusalem. Finally, after the famous fire in Rome, tradition has it that he was executed..likely by beheading. In case you’re not familiar with this story. It is said that Nero fiddled while Rome burned and that he likely ordered the fires started in order to clear out a section of the city for his next building project. When the rumor began to circulate that he had started the fire,  his diabolical mind came up with an alibi to blame the Christians. This went over pretty good, as the Christians were everyone’s favorite group to hate at the time (sound familiar?).  Thus was unleashed the worst series of persecutions to date and the resultant martyrdom of Peter and Paul.

Traveling along this road, you will find many graves, and tombs, as it was a rule that bodies had to be buried outside the city. You will also find many historic ruins.

Here is the MAUSOLEO DI CAECILIA METELLA, located at the third mile of

the Appia Antica. 

 The Roman noblewoman to whom the tomb was dedicated was connected to two of the most illustrious Roman families of the late republican period: her father, Quintus Caecilius Metellus, was consul in 69 BC and between 68 and 65 BC; her husband was consul and Member of the First Triumvirate together with Caesar and Pompey in 59 BC.  In the Middle Ages the mausoleum was incorporated as a tower into the castle of the Caetani family and a small village grew up around it.  High tolls were collected which resulted in two alternate roads being constructed to avoid the tolls, but left us with the Appia Antica, in tact and unaltered by the pressures of a mainly traveled road.  Today the road is still open and passable by cars, but I did see a few unfamiliar drivers hesitate before proceeding over the bumpy 2000 year old sections.

After Peter and Paul’s death, the believers began to make pilgrimages to their burial place to pray. Eventually, tradition has it that their bones were brought to the site of St. Sebastian’s Catacombs.  There is no evidence that the bodies were there, only “graffiti” on the wall of the chapel that indicates this was a very important place which was associated strongly with these two apostles.  

I learned that there are over 12 kilometers of underground labyrinths, just in the Catacombs of St. Sebastian.  These catacombs got their name here at St. Sebastian’s.  The word for combs means quarry.  Catacombs literally means “near the quarry” according to our English speaking guide.  So this was the original catacomb, from which the name began to be associated with underground tombs.  It was started as a quarry. Later, three families used the hollowed out quarry as a place to build three mausoleums which were used by their families for over 100 years. Next, the Christians began to dig tombs in the area.

Again, because all burials had to be done outside the city, this road would have been strewn with places where the dead would be buried. Unfortunately, the Christians, wanted a place to bury the poor...cremation was not practiced at this time in Rome... they began to get creative and thus the idea of digging underground tombs was born. This area was especially good for making catacombs because the particular type of lava rock here was easy to dig out yet very stable. 

 It is said that Paul was buried here, but there is no concrete evidence to prove this. Saint Sebastian was buried here after being sentenced to death for his faith. 

Here is the story of Saint Sebastian, taken from the Catacomb museum. 

Apparently  Sebastian joined the military to try to help Christians covertly.  He was promoted to Captain of the Praetorium Guards by Diocletian. When it was discovered that he was a Christian, he ordered executed by firing squad by the Emperor Maximian, thus the figure of St. Sebastian is always depicted with arrows going through his torso.  After his burial at this place, Christians began to make pilgrimages to his grave to pray.  Eventually a church was built and Saint Sebastian's remains were moved into this church, to make a place where the many visitors could come to pray. 

The church also houses the very last work of the Gian Lorenzo Bernini which he completed in 1679. The bust, Salvator Mundi, was inspired by his favorite subject, Jesus.  By the end of the 19th century this extraordinary work had all but disappeared.  It was unknowingly stored away at the monastery, where it collected dust until 2002, when an art historian discovered some very old letters that referred to a bust located at the monastery of St. Sebastian.  It took sometime to unequivocally identify this as the last work of Bernini! It was just restored, put on display and revealed to the public in 2004! I was captivated by the sheer beauty and grace of this sculpture masterpiece.  Incidentally, it was originally created for the Queen of Sweden but she turned it down!!! Her loss is our gain!

I tried to research why the inscription over the niche is attributed to Scipio Borghese... I haven’t found anything yet, but after visiting the Borghese Museum today, can I just say, this man owned or set out to own every masterpiece created or discovered in his day!  The museum would take weeks to really see everything!  

We weren’t allowed to take pictures in the actual catacombs but they were filled with Christian iconography...mainly the fish, which represented an acronym for the Greek Ichthus: 

Ίησοῦς Χριστός, Θεοῦ Υἱός, Σωτήρ" Which literally meant "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour".  With one picture, Christians were covertly giving a confession of their faith!

There were also marking of the  chi-rho..the first two letters of the word Christ.

 and the dove.  As you can see, the early Christian writings focused on the person of Christ. What was missing???

The cross. At this time, the cross was a symbol of tortuous execution and of complete humiliation and horror...a punishment reserved for the lowest of criminals..and not something that Christians would have been anxious to embrace as a religious symbol.  

In addition to the wonderful ruins, churches and museums along the Appian way, there are also a fair amount of lovely little restaurants and cafes...So...after a long trek up the Appia Antica...stop for some much needed rest, relaxation and food! Bon Apetite!

Ciao! from the Appian Way.

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Can We talk about Israel?

Please take a look at this article.

During the Six-Day War, Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats attack the USS Liberty in international waters off Egypt’s Gaza Strip. The intell

It’s is a little piece of Israeli/American history you may have never heard about. Why, you ask, would Israel openly attack a clearly marked American ship, and why did secretary of defense Robert McNamara call off a rescue operation nor

try to stop it? Well no one knows for sure but the men who were there know that the intent of the attack was to sink the uSS Liberty to the bottom of the sea, leaving no witnesses (dead men tell no tales). If you haven’t heard of this; there’s a reason. The press and the 179 survivors were given a stern gag order not the report or talk about it. 50 years later many are still bitter and talking to whomever will listen. If the Liberty had sunk, many say Israel was going to blame the attack on Egypt, with McNamaras full permission and knowledge, and this 9-11 event would have launched America into war with Egypt. This wouldn’t be the first or last time a nation-state false flagged it’s country or another country into a war.

Try to understand that Isreal, the biblical Israel, is a people and a land…The nation-state by the same name is a government and it is as corrupt as our government and would like nothing better than to have the excuse for all out war…and the excuse to completely destroy Gaza. In addition, they would love for us to fund and fight this war with them. None of the facts of the recent attack add up. Please understand that Israel has a state of the art surveillance system unequaled in the world! They no doubt know when a sparrow

Falls to the ground and dies in Gaza. It’s just not believable to me that they missed, completely missed!… an air, sea and ground invasion of their country…

More likely, this was a planned incursion the Israeli government was well aware of (maybe even facilitated) for the purpose of false flagging the West into war. We are supposed to Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. The Palestinian crisis in Gaza should never have happened. Here are some

Facts you may not know about these so called animals who reside in the Gaza Strip. They live in the worlds largest internment camp. It is completely walled off. They can’t go south to Egypt..the border is closed. They can’t enter Israel, unless they have papers which very few do. They can’t sail away because if they venture past their allowed fishing waters and they enter Israeli waters and will be blown to smithereens. It’s a place of zero prospects and zero hope…Is it any wonder it is a breeding ground for terrorists? Somehow I think cutting off the food, water and electric for these 2 million people, and calling them all animals, is not going to result in peace.

It’s not surprising they are calling this attack “Israel’s 9-11.” Remember what 9-11 did for us? It got us caught up in a war, forever changed our way of life and decimated huge portions of our freedoms. I’m viewing everything I see on TV with skepticism . Remember the Syrian girl (we now know was an actress) who testified before Congress after 9-11, that the terrorists in Iraq took the incubators and left the babies to die on the cold floor (tears flowing). That one testimony and the suspicion of WMD’s took us to war with Iraq, only to find out 10 years later there were no WMD’s and no babies taken out of incubators. It was a complete lie and the Syrian girl was a paid actress. The whole thing was a trillion dollar provocation…we went to war, it cost us many sons and some daughters and trillions of dollars that were funneled to military contracts, with huge portions trickling into the back pockets of the Bushes and other bad actor politicians. This is the way of 21st century war. I can clearly see how God could use this very corrupt war making machine to bring about His war to end all Wars, I just can’t be sure what our role as Christian’s is. The only scriptural advice I have is “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.” Therefore i refuse to beat the drums of war. There isn’t a good side…both sides are evil. And please don’t misinterpret my remark. The Israeli people are not evil. They are innocent victims of their corrupt nation-state, just as we are victims of ours. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and the world, and don’t fall for propaganda that makes one side look like animals…

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Can we have a chat about the CDC and their newborn injection requirements?

Can you really trust the organization tasked with vaccine safety, the CDC?

This is the organization formed to fight malaria, that decided mass spraying of DDT on children was a good thing.

One commenter of this video said, “I was exposed to DDT as a child and have experienced a lifelong illness, psoriasis, which has only begun to be managed for the past 14 years with TNF alpha blockers and IL-17a inhibitors after it had bloomed into psoriatic arthritis. Before that, I was given a steroid, hydrocortisone which over 30 years caused osteoporosis and osteoarthritis. I am permanently disabled from my parent's trust in the government.”

30 years from now, what will children exposed to the toxins in today’s vaccines say about the lifelong effects of these things in their quality of life? 

Did you know that before you leave the hospital with your newborn, before they are 24 hours old, the CDC is already demanding that they be injected with the HepB vaccine.  Now keep in mind that Hepititus B is a disease which according to the CDC is transmitted  when blood, semen, or other body fluids from a person infected with the virus enters the body of someone who is not infected. This can happen through sexual contact; sharing needles, syringes, or other drug-injection equipment; or from mother to baby at birth.  For most moms and families, is this disease actually a risk for your baby????  Then why are they force feeding this vaccine into infants...not one dose, not two, but THREE doses by the time they’re 15 months old?

“Given the low risk to most newborns of Hepatitis B infection, the routine screening during pregnancy to identify at-risk newborns and the availability of HBIG treatment for exposed infants (that is 75 percent effective at preventing chronic infection), coupled with the lack of studies to determine the safety of vaccinating pregnant women and infants, what was the scientific medical rationale underlying the CDC’s decision in 1991 to recommend that all newborn babies be vaccinated?

The simple answer is that there wasn’t one. The ACIP’s recommendation was not based on science, but on the CDC’s desire to achieve its goal of eliminating transmission of HBV by achieving high vaccination rates. Indeed, the CDC was actually quite explicit about this at the time.

The stated reason why the CDC wanted to vaccinate all infants was not because all infants were at risk of infection, but simply because its strategy to vaccinate high-risk populations was failing.” CDC’s ‘Universal’ Recommendations for Infant Hep B Vaccine Not Based on Science, But Assumptions

So, let’s do a cost/benefit analysis of the decision to submit to the CDC’s demands for your infant:

We just determined, that unless you, your spouse or your care givers are at risk of being IV drug users,  your baby’s risk of getting HepB is basically ZERO!  Ok, so maybe you want the benefit of knowing that your future teenager, who may or may not engage in risky behavior, is protected. 

Benefit: Your child is hypothetically forever protected for Hepititus B despite the fact that they have a ZERO risk fo infection until they’re old enough to engage in risky behavior. In reality, apparently the vaccine isn’t even 100% effective at conferring immunity and studies have even suggested that the 95% effective rating that is claimed by the Pharmacuetical sponsored studies is “inflated.”  Well, I wonder why they might be tempted to “inflate” or “fudge” their study results???  Isn’t there a government agency responsible for checking this stuff out and making sure the pharmaceutical industry is being honest....since they have been given complete legal immunity from lawsuits?? Congress is supposed to be conducting impartial studies to make sure the vaccines that are being produced by the pharmaceutical industry are safe AND effective.  Guess how many independent studies and reports have been conducted  and filed by congress since they conferred complete immunity for the vaccine producers in the 1980′s and were tasked with oversight?  ZERO. Read about it here: ICAN and RFK,Jr. Call out DHHS for Vaccine Safety Violations

So what are the possible costs/risks associated with this vaccine?  Here are the listed side effects and possible adverse reactions which have been associated with the vaccine: 

The package insert for Merck’s Recombivax lists the following: Anaphylactic/anaphylactoid reactions, bronchospasm, urticarial, arthralgia/arthritis (usually transient), fever, urticaria, erythema multiforme, ecchymoses, erythema nodosum, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), lupus-like syndrome, vasculitis, polyarteritis nodosa, gastrointestinal disorders, elevation of liver enzymes; constipation, Guillain-Barré syndrome; multiple sclerosis; exacerbation of multiple sclerosis; myelitis including transverse myelitis; seizure; febrile seizure; peripheral neuropathy including Bell’s Palsy; radiculopathy; herpes zoster; migraine; muscle weakness; hypesthesia; encephalitis, Stevens-Johnson syndrome; alopecia; petechiae; eczema, arthritis, pain in extremities, increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate; thrombocytopenia, irritability; agitation; somnolence. optic neuritis; tinnitus; conjunctivitis; visual disturbances; uveitis, syncope; tachycardia.

The package insert for Glaxo Smith Klein’s Engerix lists the following: Dizziness, headache, injection site erythema, injection site induration, injection site swelling, upper respiratory tract illnesses, lymphadenopathy, anorexia, agitation, insomnia, somnolence, tingling, flushing, hypotension, abdominal pain/cramps, constipation, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, erythema, petechiae, pruritus, rash, sweating, urticarial, arthralgia, back pain, myalgia, pain/stiffness in arm, shoulder, or neck, chills, influenza-like symptoms, injection site ecchymosis, injection site pain, injection site pruritus, irritability, malaise, weakness., herpes zoster, meningitis, and thrombocytopenia. Allergic reaction, anaphylactoid reaction, anaphylaxis. An apparent hypersensitivity syndrome (serum sickness-like) of delayed onset has been reported days to weeks after vaccination, including: arthralgia/arthritis (usually transient), fever, and dermatologic reactions such as urticaria, erythema multiforme, ecchymoses, and erythema nodosum. Encephalitis; encephalopathy; migraine; multiple sclerosis; neuritis; neuropathy including hypoesthesia, paresthesia, Guillain-Barré syndrome and Bell’s palsy; optic neuritis; paralysis; paresis; seizures; syncope; transverse myelitis. Conjunctivitis, keratitis, visual disturbances. Earache, tinnitus, vertigo. Palpitations, tachycardia, Vasculitis. Apnea, bronchospasm including asthma-like symptoms. Dyspepsia. Alopecia, angioedema, eczema, erythema multiforme including Stevens-Johnson syndrome, erythema nodosum, lichen planus, purpura. Arthritis, muscular weakness. Injection site reaction. Abnormal liver function tests.

Wow, that’s a mouth full! 

So let’s encapsulate this:  The CDC is demanding you inject your hours old infant with a vaccine that will go directly into their bloodstream and possible cause permanent neurological damage, not because your baby is at risk of getting HepB, BUT because they want to rid the world of this nasty disease and your infant is just another statistic to them, interfering with their ambitious goal of 100% vaccination rate.   Remember this is the same CDC that sprayed children of my generation with DDT...the same institution that demanded Covid Vaccinations, knowing full well they were untested and most likely would not prevent disease.  Today there are 35,000 deaths reported on the CDC VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) and 4900 miscarriages, because poor unsuspecting pregnant women were coerced into getting the vaccine.  These are 4900 lives that will never have a chance to grow or learn or go to school because of a CDC sanctioned vaccine.  Just keep this in mind as you make decisions about your newborn.

Now lets talk about Vitamin K.  The hospital is going to INSIST you get this injection for your newborn as well.  There is a scary bleeding disease that they might get due to a deficiency of this vitamin.  It appears that the CDC again partnering with pharmacuetical companies has jumped on the Injection ONLY bandwagon.  But statistics show that an oral supplement is just about as effective and doesn’t have the added danger of injecting something directly into the childs body, passing the normal protective elements of the digestive system and going straight into the blood.  If is very unlikely that the baby will develope the severe form of this disease unless the mother is taking certain types of anti-siezure medication, but nevermind, it’s another injection, demanded by the CDC and of course a big money maker.  

So, logically I’m thinking anytime you can give a child a supplement rather than an injection, it’s a no brainer for me. But here’s the statistics of oral vs. injections of vitamin K.

How common is late Vitamin K deficiency bleeding (Late VKDB)?

Late bleeding (after the first week of life) is the most dangerous kind of VKDB (Shearer 2009).

When infants do not receive any Vitamin K at birth, statistics from Europe show that 4.4 to 7.2 infants out of 100,000 will develop late VKDB.

When infants receive 1-3 mg of oral Vitamin K once at birth, anywhere from 1.4 to 6.4 infants out of 100,000 will develop late VKDB.

When infants receive 1 mg of oral Vitamin K at least three times during infancy (typically at birth, one week, and four weeks), about 2.6 infants out of 100,000 will develop late VKDB.

When infants receive 2 mg of oral Vitamin K at least three times during infancy (at birth, 4 to 6 days, and 4 to 6 weeks) or 2 mg of oral Vitamin K after birth and 1 mg of oral Vitamin K every week for three months, statistics from Germany, Switzerland, and Denmark show that somewhere between 0 to 0.9 infants out of 100,000 will develop late VKDB.

When infants receive the Vitamin K shot at birth, anywhere from 0 to 0.4 infants per 100,000 get late VKDB. The shot doesn’t prevent every case of late VKDB, but most countries report incidence rates of zero or close to zero. For example, between 2006-2008 in England, there were four cases of late VKDB out of 1.7 million births (0.24 per 100,000).

This quote comes from a very sharp lady who has done a very in depth study of the vitimin K deficiency issue.  Here is a link to access all her data. 

My plea to new or upcoming moms.  Please, Please do your research and prepare yourself BEFORE your baby is born and before each of their well-baby visits.  Otherwise, the nurses and doctors, (programmed by CDC information which is tied to and funded by kick backs from mega-pharmacuetical industrial complexes) will coerce and frighten you into making decisions for which you are totatly unprepared.  I am NOT an anti vaxxer...I am an against the CDC vaccine schedule,  which has not been determined to protect or enhance the health of newborns but instead designed to fund and reinforce the need for a government agency that has long since outlived its original purpose. 

That being said, I totally respect each individual family’s choice for their child. These are hard times to raise a child and as a parent you are ultimately responsible for the health and safety of your child. Don’t let the doctors and the goverment take that responsibility from you. It is yours and my prayers are with you as you make these hard decisions for your child. 

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The Raven vs. Little Town of Bethlehem

It was December 25, 1997. We were taking our traditional ride through the country looking at the lights, after a full day of Christmas presents and food and family time.  We pulled into St. John’s Episcopal Church in Ellicott City,  to look at the live Nativity first.

My heart was heavy, but it shouldn’t have been.  It was a beautful day, but punctuated by this deep down feeling that things weren’t right anywhere, not in our family and definately not in our world.  The county was blanketed in the most beautiful covering of snow, and it was just getting dark, so the surface of the snow was reflecting the moon and other lights.  It was quiet and peaceful, when we turned on the radio to hear Dr. D. James Kennedy introduce what I have come to believe is one of the most inspirational Christmas sermons I have ever heard.  

He contrasts the utter bankrupt unbelief of Edgar Allen Poe, as brilliantly represented in his poem, The Raven.  

This is the dark shadowy backdrop of his perfect word painting of the simple faith of the Right Reverend Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts for the Episcopal Church. who looking down on the dark but peaceful little town of Bethlehem, penned an inspirational poem on Christmas Eve, 1865, from the Holy Land.   This poem would later become a nationally sung traditional Christmas carol.  

Dr. Kennedy pretty much nails it!  His performance of Poe’s classic, is not only a commanding performance, its a perfect interpretation of the mood and intentions of the author.  With this as the dark backdrop, he then goes on to deliver a flawless representation of the glorious hope of the gospel message.  

As I listened, I was transported from the darkness of this present world to brilliant light of the gospel of Jesus Christ in all its hope and glory.  I have been on a mission to find the sermon and I’ve finally found it.  I listened yesterday for the first time in 25 years. It had the same effect.  I can only pray that my link will work and that you will take the time to listen to this epic sermon. It’s my Merry Christmas blessing to you.  

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The Raven vs. Little Town of Bethlehem

It was December 25, 1997. We were taking our traditional ride through the country looking at the lights, after a full day of Christmas presents and food and family time.  We pulled into St. John’s Episcopal Church in Ellicott City,  to look at the live Nativity first. 

My heart was heavy, but it shouldn’t have been.  It was a beautful day, but punctuated by this deep down feeling that things weren’t right anywhere, not in our family and definately not in our world.  The county was blanketed in the most beautiful covering of snow, and it was just getting dark, so the surface of the snow was reflecting the moon and other lights.  It was quiet and peaceful, when we turned on the radio to hear Dr. D. James Kennedy introduce what I have come to believe is one of the most inspirational Christmas sermons I have ever heard.  

He contrasts the utter bankrupt unbelief of Edgar Allen Poe, as brilliantly represented in his poem, The Raven.  

This is the dark shadowy backdrop of his perfect word painting of the simple faith of the Right Reverend Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts for the Episcopal Church. who looking down on the dark but peaceful little town of Bethlehem, penned an inspirational poem on Christmas Eve, 1865, from the Holy Land.   This poem would later become a nationally sung traditional Christmas carol.  

Dr. Kennedy pretty much nails it!  His performance of Poe’s classic, is not only a commanding performance, its a perfect interpretation of the mood and intentions of the author.  With this as the dark backdrop, he then goes on to deliver a flawless representation of the glorious hope of the gospel message.  

As I listened, I was transported from the darkness of this present world to brilliant light of the gospel of Jesus Christ in all its hope and glory.  I have been on a mission to find the sermon and I’ve finally found it.  I listened yesterday for the first time in 25 years. It had the same effect.  I can only pray that my link will work and that you will take the time to listen to this epic sermon. It’s my Merry Christmas blessing to you.  

 https://soundcloud.com/peggy-neilson/o-little-town

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The Depression: a story from my family

I teach history even though I’m not very gifted at remembering exact dates, times and names. That’s why it’s so important for me to write down and record my family’s history.  History is a collection of the stories that have come down to us from our ancestors.  As historians, each of us, is tasked with remembering these stories and accurately telling them and writing them down for posterity’s sake so that those who come after us can learn from lives. One of my favorite school projects is having my students interview a family member and write their history and then display it in a poster. I have learned so many things from these amazing stories that they have shared with me over the years! 

This is a cool story about my grandparents experience in 1925 when the banks were all shutting down due to the depression.  As dad recalls this story he received from his brother Rocco who went with my grandmother to the Kingwood Bank, sometime in 1933.  My grandfather was in the construction business, building roads around the area and he had just received a $5000 payment from the government.  My grandmother took the check up to the Kingwood Bank, on the corner of E. Main and Price Street in Kingwood.  Banks had been failing all over the country so my grandmother was concerned. She asked Felix Elliot, a manager at the bank, if he was sure that the bank wasn’t going to close because she had a large payroll that needed to be met that week.  Rocco remembers that he said, “This bank is as solid as a rock, it’s not going to fold.” Very shortly after that, and before the check had cleared the bank, Kingwood Bank closed its doors forever.  Grandpa was a smart man about money and he didn’t have all his “eggs in one basket” as they say.  He made his payroll from the Albright National Bank which he was a key stockholder in.  Meanwhile, he had taken out a small loan years earlier to complete the construction of their home, which had begun in June of 1925.  

Our family home a classic Italian style stone home, much like the home of Sergio and Annelise Rinaldi Tufi which I visited in Capranica, Italy. Italian homes are sturdy, boxy and always dressed with hand cut stone.  The Italians are known for their master craftsmanship in stone work. 

This is a picture of the house my grandfather and grandmother built. Below is just one small example of the stone work. I wish I could take a picture of the one high up on the dormers. The Italian stone masons (Luige Annonio, Rocco Pesigna, Tibaldio Cesta)  who dressed our family home, incorporated some river rocks from the Cheat River just to personalize this job. My family first came to Albright (by the Cheat River) and that’s where they were first engaged in a business partnership with Staley Albright. I can imagine, but don’t know for sure, that my grandfather probably asked them to incorporate some of those beautiful smooth river rocks into his new home. Below is an up close example of their artistry on our home.

Italians are also big on fresh air so every home has porches which were mainly used for dining alfresco. Everyone in Italy eats outside, when the weather permits!

Back to the story. The Kingwood Bank was now in default. They had my Grandparent’s $5000, but my grandparents owed them $2500 on the loan they had taken out in 1925. The bank executed a foreclosure on that loan and was going to sell the  house for the $2500 still due.  Granddad engaged the services of attorney Cramer Gibson and negotiated to have this loan wiped out, against the $5000 that had been deposited, but because the bank never became solvent, my Grandparents never did get the remaining $2500 due to them. 

Here’s a picture of the document that backs this story. 

The Albright National bank never folded.  Here’s the story of why.  The primary stockholders of the bank, including my grandfather, refrained from panic and refused to withdraw their holdings in the bank.  Because of this, the Albright National bank remained solvent, while most small banks were folding. Sometime after this, the stockholders of the bank had a meeting and they had a vote to decide whether to move the bank to Kingwood, which was the county seat, or leave it in Albright.  There were quite a number of stockholders who voted to keep it in Albright, but Staley Albright, Doctor Watson (the doctor who delivered my dad and all his siblings) and my grandfather voted to move the bank to Kingwood. My dad’s brother, Joe Marrara, was there at the meeting. He saw many hands go up voting to keep the bank in Albright, and only three hands that went up to move the bank to Kingwood.  The decision was made based on those three hands, to move it. He asked his dad, how come they decided to move when their were more hands up voting to stay.  My grandfather said, when you get a little older you’ll understand about these kind of things...(the three hands represented more stock than all the rest of the hands together.)  Years later my Uncle Joe would serve on the board of the Albright National Bank.  This bank would continue to serve the financial needs of the community for many more decades, before merging with WesBanco.  

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Timeline of Russo-Ukrainian History and NATO Expansion

The following is a recap of some key events from history that you probably will not hear on the news.  These events give a background from the Russian perspective.  Russia’s side of the story has been cut off by an “Iron Curtain” in the media: total media black out of what’s been going on in the Donbas region, Odessa and Crimea.  That’s because they are promoting a narrative and hoping to manipulate the masses into their preferred way of thinking.  This timeline may seem to be biased against Ukraine and for Russia, but the only reason I have not reported on the abuses on the other side, is because those abuses have been trumpeted and amplified worldwide.  Everyone knows what the Russians have been doing...or do they?   If you are jumping on the “Let’s go destroy Putin” bandwagon, would you consider just reading through some of the history.  The media has been brain washing the American public for years to convince them that Russia is the evil empire.  No doubt the Soviet System was an evil empire, but Russia and the Russian people are NOT the evil empire.  Take a look at these facts. They are not opinions so you can’t disagree with them. You can fact check them, but you’ll need to look deeper than the first page of Google which has algorithms in place to keep the misinformation flowing. I challenge you to find anything in this timeline that is inaccurate.  If it’s not true, then I will remove it. 

1774:  “Russia rescues Crimea from the Muslim Ottoman Empire. They were defeated by Catherine the Great. Crimea was traded to Russia by the Ottoman Empire as part of the treaty provisions and annexed in 1783. The Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca forced the Sublime Porte to recognize the Tatars of the Crimea as politically independent. Catherine the Great's incorporation of Crimea in 1783 from the defeated Ottoman Empire into the Russian Empire increased Russia's power in the Black Sea area. The Crimea was the first Muslim territory to slip from the sultan's suzerainty.” (see reference)  Keep in mind that Russia annexed Crimea and has occupied it longer that the US has had Texas. 

1783:   The first eleven ships of the Imperial Russian Navy reached the Russian constructed Sevastopol Bay. The port is one of the few warm deep water ports available to Russia in the Black Sea. It has been a strategic warm water naval base for Russia ever since. 

1853-6: Crimean War between Roman Catholic French, Protestant British and Muslim Ottomans all ganged up and fought together against and the Eastern Orthodox Russians over treatment of believers in Palestine. Russia lost some territories but never gave up their base in Crimea.

1931-34: The Holodomor: This event started with a mass shortage of food brought on by the Soviet collectivization of peasant farms which so disrupted the food supply, that mass starvation broke out in all of eastern Europe, including both Ukraine and Russia, but Ukraine’s crisis was exacerbated by policies from the Kremlin (Soviets) which purposely denied aid, and worsened the crisis.  Their purpose was to break the will of Ukrainian nationalism and make them more compliant to the Soviet system.  This event is a national wound so deep that it still infuriates most ethnic Ukrainians today and causes them to associate evil intentions with all things Russia.

1941-42, Red (Russian) Army soldiers and Black Sea Fleet sailors defended Sevastopol from Nazi troops for 250 days and nights before suffering defeat again at the hands of the Nazis. 

1948: “From 1948 onwards, Sevastopol enjoyed the status of a special city within the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic, part of the Soviet Union.

In 1954, then-Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev handed over Sevastopol, together with the rest of Crimea, to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic – another part of the Soviet Union. The change had little significant effect upon Sevastopol, which, as one of the Soviet Union’s key military bases, continued to be run by the Soviet Defense Ministry in Moscow.” (See Reference)

1990: The first concrete assurances by Western leaders that NATO would not expand east, began on January 31, 1990, when West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher “opened the bidding with a major public speech at Tutzing, in Bavaria, on German unification. He made clear “that the changes in Eastern Europe and the German unification process must not lead to an impairment of Soviet security interests.’ Therefore, NATO should rule out an ‘expansion of its territory towards the east, i.e. moving it closer to the Soviet borders.’ Not once, but three times, Secretary of State, James Baker tried out the “not one inch eastward” formula with Gorbachev in the February 9, 1990, meeting. He agreed with Gorbachev’s statement in response to the assurances that “NATO expansion is unacceptable.” Baker assured Gorbachev that “neither the President nor I intend to extract any unilateral advantages from the processes that are taking place,” and that the Americans understood that “not only for the Soviet Union but for other European countries as well it is important to have guarantees that if the United States keeps its presence in Germany within the framework of NATO, not an inch of NATO’s present military jurisdiction will spread in an eastern direction.” (see reference below)

1997: “Under the Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership signed by Moscow and Kiev in 1997, Russia recognized Sevastopol’s Ukrainian status and the inviolability of Ukraine’s borders, while Ukraine granted Russia the right to retain the Sevastopol naval base and to keep its Black Sea Fleet in Crimea until 2017.” (See reference) 

“So what does the Russian Black Sea Fleet consist of? Besides the fleet headquarters and command in Sevastopol, there are: the 68th Coastal Defense Brigade; Navy Arsenal No 17; the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade; the 247th Independent Submarine Division; the 854th Coastal Missile Regiment; a separate marine engineering battalion, a communications hub; the 30th Surface Ship Division, consisting of the guided missile cruiser Moskva, guided missile hovercrafts Bora and Samum, a brigade of auxiliary ships, a brigade of assault landing ships, a brigade of missile boats; a naval air assault squadron, a composite air regiment; a radio electronic support brigade; arsenals, depots, repair plants and training schools for junior officers.

A total of 25,000 servicemen, not including civilian staff, are employed at the fleet’s facilities. When the families of these servicemen are taken into account, this figure grows to more than 100,000 people.

Under the May 31, 1997 agreement between Russia and Ukraine on the status and terms of the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s presence on the territory of Ukraine, at any one time there can be 388 Russian vessels (including 14 diesel submarines) in Ukrainian territorial waters and on land and 161 aircraft on leased airfields at Gvardeyskoye (north of regional capital Simferopol) and Sevastopol.

These figures are comparable with the size of Turkey’s naval force, though in fact the number of Russian vessels and aircraft in Crimea does not approach this figure.

The original agreement was signed for a period of 20 years. It was envisaged that it would be automatically extended for subsequent five-year periods unless one of the sides, in writing and a year in advance, notified the other of a decision to terminate the agreement.” (See Reference) 

1999: Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland joined NATO. 

2000: Putin suggests that Russia be invited to join NATO, as he saw his country as European in culture.  We don’t know what Bill Clinton’s actual response was, because Putin only alluded to it, saying the American people would never accept them.   American press agencies have promoted a very deliberate anti-Russian agenda, to the point that today, the American people truly believe that Russia (which is not the USSR) is the evil empire.  (see reference)

2004: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia added to NATO.

2004: Ukraine experiences a color revolution eventually called the Orange Revolution. “The Orange Revolution also had a profound effect on the way Ukrainians perceived themselves and their national identity. For the first thirteen years of independence, the political, cultural, social, and economic boundaries between Ukraine and Russia had remained blurred. Most people on both sides of the border continued to regard the fates of the two nationally separate countries as inextricably intertwined. This changed dramatically in 2004 when millions of Ukrainians mobilized in defense of free elections.” In effect, the country before this time saw itself as one, Russians and Ukrainians living in one country, peacefully together. After this event, the country became polarized and began fighting against each other. At first this was subtle, but eventually erupted into a civil war, ten years later. Many people believe this revolution was organic and rose up from the populist sentiment for fairer elections. What most people don’t know is that this was a finely tuned, coordinated revolution that was financed and facilitated by outside forces. Poor Ukraine; they were used like a pawn in a bigger game of international chess.   Please read this article from the Guardian, to find out exactly who did what in Ukraine, written in 2004. US Campaign Behind the Turmoil in Kiev

2008: William J. Burns, then the American ambassador to Moscow, wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice: “Ukrainian entry into NATO is the brightest of all redlines for the Russian elite (not just Putin). In more than two and a half years of conversations with key Russian players, from knuckle-draggers in the dark recesses of the Kremlin to Putin’s sharpest liberal critics, I have yet to find anyone who views Ukraine in NATO as anything other than a direct challenge to Russian interests.” (see reference)  Keep in mind, this stern warning occurred well before US interference in Ukraine’s elections in 2014.  

2009: Albania and Croatia joined NATO.

2010:  A second agreement, signed in Kharkiv in 2010, extended the duration of the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s presence in Sevastopol till 2042. Russia paid Ukraine $98 million a year for leasing the naval base in Crimea. Furthermore, under the Kharkiv agreement, Russia granted Ukraine a discount on gas.” 

2013: Victor Yanukovych reversed directions from negotiating with the European Union (in the west) and began negotiations with Russia in the East. “Yanukovich was offended when he found out Kiev would not be offered a firm prospect of full membership of the EU; he felt Ukraine was being treated as a lesser country to “even Poland”, with which it shares a border.” The EU also refused to make the concessions that Ukraine desperately needed in the way of monetary loans to avoid bankruptcy. Mykola Azarov, Yanukovich’s prime minister, who was an enthusiastic supporter of Ukraine’s deal with the west, apparently changed sides.  “He was on the streets of Kiev explaining the change of direction to pro-Yanukovych supporters. ‘So-called leaders tell us fairy tales about how, once we had signed, we would be able to travel to Europe without visas. Nothing of the sort. To get that we would have to fulfill a whole raft of conditions,’ he said.”  (see reference) 

2013:   The 30 November 2013 nighttime assault on the Maidan demonstrators: snipers shot and killed innocent protesters in Kyiv. Russian’s were immediately blamed for the killing and this was the spark that kicked off civil war. Both American scholar Gordon M. Hahn and Ivan Katchanovski who wrote investigative books on the subject of “the snipers” came to the same conclusion, “The massacre was a false flag operation, which was rationally planned and carried out with a goal of the overthrow of the government and seizure of power. It [his investigation] found various evidence of the involvement of an alliance of the far right organizations, specifically the Right Sector and Svoboda, and oligarchic parties, such as Fatherland. Concealed shooters and spotters were located in at least 20 Maidan-controlled buildings or areas.” In other words, the protesters were shot by their own troops, who then blamed the Russian in order to gain support for their side.  (see reference) 

 Despite the media’s fact checkers claim that there is no Nazi problem in Ukraine, the facts are that the military is now being led by “far right” Nazi’s (left over militia from WWII) who want to purge the country of Jews and Russians.  “The Ukrainian military had little enthusiasm for fighting its own people, so the government formed new National Guard units to do so. The Right Sector formed a unit, and these Nazi militia also dominated the Azov Battalion, which was founded by Andriy Biletsky, an avowed white supremacist who claimed that Ukraine’s national purpose was to rid the country of Jews and other inferior races. It was the Azov Battalion, which was incorporated into the National Guard in 2014, that led the new government’s assault on the self-declared republics in eastern Ukraine and retook the city of Mariupol from separatist forces.”  It is CLEAR that Ukraine has a Nazi problem. (see reference)

“Hahn downplays U.S. heading of the coup. But shortly before the coup, the CIA secretly trained in Poland the Right Sector founder/leader Dmitriy Yarosh (“Dmytro Jarosz”), who headed Ukraine’s snipers.” This fact seems to point to the US as facilitators of this false flag... This was all being observed by Putin.  (See reference above)  

2014: February Euro-Maidan “protests” The Democratically elected president of Ukraine is overthrown in a violent coup.  We have clear evidence that Victoria Nuland, U.S. President Barack Obama’s central agent was overseeing the coup, at least during the month of February 2014 when it climaxed. She (acting on behalf of US intelligence agencies and the State Department) was crucial not only in overthrowing the existing Ukrainian Government, but in selecting and installing its rabidly anti-Russian replacement. “The January 27, 2014 leaked phone-conversation between her and America’s Ambassador in Ukraine, Jeffrey Pyatt was a particularly seminal event, and it was uploaded to YouTube on 4 February 2014.” In this call, “she instructed Pyatt to choose the rabidly anti-Russian, and far-right, Arseniy Yatsenyuk. This key event occurred 24 days before Ukraine’s President Victor Yanukovych was overthrown on February 20th, and 30 days before the new person to head Ukraine’s Government, Yatsenyuk, became officially appointed to rule the now clearly fascist country. He won that official designation on February 26th. However, this was only a formality: Obama’s agent had already chosen him, on January 27th.” All this was clearly known in international circles, clearly observed by Putin, and it was the straw that broke the “camel’s” back.  Putin would not stand for Ukraine to fall under the complete control of NATO’S  power. He would not stand idly by and watch a coup and he would NEVER allow Ukraine to join NATO and possibly be host to bioweapons and nuclear arms within spitting distance of Moscow.  US State Department officials had been warned about this for 2 decades and had to be aware of this fact, therefore, it seems very clear that bad actors within the US were not only behind this coup but were also purposely baiting Putin and Russia into an armed conflict...i.e... the US planned this whole thing. (see reference) 

2014 March: Putin invades Crimea and annexes it to protect the very strategic military installations there. 

2014: May 2nd: “over 40 anti-Kiev Ukranian pro-Russian protesters were burned alive in the Trade Unions building in Odessa, Ukraine…Now, while the sequence of events leading up to the fire may be unclear, the insinuation that the pro-Russian protesters barricaded themselves in and burned themselves alive is ridiculous. It also flies in the face of all the videos and available photographic evidence.

The number of murdered people may be as high as 300. Many of the victims, especially children and women, were hacked with axes and clubbed to death with wooden sticks in the basement of the Trade Unions House. Provocateurs dragged people into the building, where it was possible to kill them with impunity, with great relish, and without witnesses. Fire inside the building was directed in order to hide the mass murdering of Ukrainian citizens.”  Please be careful if you follow this link to the whole story. The photographs are extremely disturbing and the evidence points to deliberate abuse and murder. This was one of the worst atrocities of the civil war thus far and it was Pro-Russian Ukrainians who were killed and pro-Ukrainian, far right Nazi forces who committed these war crimes. This was just one a many occasions of innocent Russian Ukrainians being murdered by the Nazi infiltrated Ukrainian military, but this fact is being covered up and hidden from the public.  (see reference) Warning about this link...it’s extremely graphic and disturbing. Please avoid if these kind of images might be traumatizing to you. 

2017:  Montenegro joined NATO.

2020: North Macedonia joined NATO.  

Watch interactive map of NATO expansion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjERg9j-fx4

2022: 24 February 2022, Russia begins military invasion of Ukraine, claiming their goal is to “free the Donbass Russian dominated areas of Ukraine, “de-Nazify” Ukraine and take control of dangerous bio-warfare labs which they deem as a threat to national security. 

2022: The American press goes straight up Goebbels in its coverage of the conflict in Russia.  Every station reporting the same “beat the drums of war” talking points. Putin is painted as an unstable, resurrection of Hitler and  Ukraine is the poor underdog, fighting in the streets for their country. Ironically the streets of Ukraine have been completely subdued and controlled now by Nazi forces within their own military. Ukraine was led to believe that the US would jump in with both feet to help them, but everyone know we will not.  First we won’t because Joe and his “friends” are actually served well if Ukraine is destroyed and all the evidence of money laundering at Burisma and the dirty little secret bio-weapons labs will just be lost to the chaos.  Second, we won’t go in because doing so would launch a hot war with a nuclear power, something we are not prepared to do right now.  No, Ukraine was baited into facilitating this civil war in the hopes that the US would “save” them. Putin was baited into invading by the atrocities being perpetrated against Russians in Ukraine, by the prospect of NATO missiles at his door step and by the threat of losing one of his most strategic naval bases.  Meanwhile Lockhead Martin,  Boeing, Northrup Grumman, Raytheon and all the rest of the military industrial complex are raking in the Billions and no doubt rewarding their puppets in DC for making it all happen...once again. 

“War is a racket.” US General Smedley Butler

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The Role of Counter Intelligence In a Military Coup

I'm really excited to share this information.  First, I'm proud that I came to this conclusion before listening to the attached podcast by Mike Adams.  It occurred to me after listening to Steve Pieczenik yesterday on Alex Jones. 

https://www.infowars.com/posts/is-this-dr-steve-pieczeniks-last-appearance-on-infowars/

 I realized I've been looking at this from all the wrong perspective, and it's no accident that I've been seeing it this way, because I believe that this is the way that Trump's team has wanted to portray themselves.  I've been visualizing Trump as a lone warrior in the swamp, on the defensive, trying to stop an illegal coup on the left. He is repeatedly portrayed as a mindless bumbling idiot who is kind of like a loose cannon, bumping all over the place and having to be controlled and “handled” by his patient staff.  WHAT IF they meant to portray this image to the fake news. 

  “There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.” ― Lao Tzu 

  In order to help you understand fully what I’m talking about I have to explain “Q.”  I've avoided this point of view because I have always been wary of "Q."  Who or what is Q?  The prevailing thought is that Q is a consortium of generals (white hat operators) who saw the rising role of the military industrial complex and it’s subsequent murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and committed to take this cabal down.  These generals have been replaced over the years, as one passes away, always leaving a core of 200 generals operating down through time.   They have been planning a coup to take this evil down for 50+ years. These white hat operators began making cryptic drops of information that can be traced back to  Oct. 28, 2017, but perhaps there were earlier drops that the mainstream knows nothing about.  Q should be distinguished from Q-Anons, in that the Anons, are people who have taken these cryptic drops and began to interpret the clues and disseminate them out to their followers.  Many people have jumped on the Anon band wagon, but many people call their rhetoric “hope-porn.”  I basically stayed away from these groups because I didn’t trust any information that was coming from a nameless, faceless source.  Then General Flynn posted a video on Twitter of his family saying the Pledge of Allegiance and quoting the Q motto, “Where we go one, we go all.” 

His account has been cancelled by Twitter, but here’s a CNN article about the tweet. 

When I saw this, I began to sit up and take notice.  Because of his endorsement, I believe that Q is a real force and they are the good guys.  Does that mean that everything Anon’s have put out has been true, NO. But that’s because while Q has been doing drops to keep Trump’s faithful followers from being utterly demoralized by the mainstream media’s disinformation campaign, (hear me on this because THIS the important premise of this article) Q HAS BEEN ENGAGING IN COUNTER INTELLIGENCE AS WELL, and they have been using their faithful followers to push that information out.  Why would they purposely misinform their supporters?  BECAUSE, this is the coup... an underground military operation that has been in the works since way, way before Donald Trump. In fact, THEY recruited him.  This is a coup, to take back the Republic from enemy hands, which have been slowly taking over more and more of the government.  In order to be successful, they HAD to manipulate the enemy to underestimate their Commander and Chief... not to mention subverting attention away from where the real action was happening, by sending followers on wild goose chases at times.  Anons became a powerful counter intelligence tool for Q to use to manipulate the enemy and in this way, they have played a crucial role in the success of this operation without knowing it.  

If there are two entities that the left loves to HATE ON it’s Q-Anon’s and Alex Jones.  They watch these two phenomena like a hawk.  Whatever Anons are saying and whatever Alex Jones is saying, they believe this is coming straight from intelligence inside Trump’s inner circle.  That’s why there is a barrage of media hit pieces designed to discredit these two sources.  Alex Jones was de-platformed and  cancelled by big tech years before they turned this on the rest of us.  It’s a miracle his media organization has survived, but survive it has.  

  Anyway, back to my explanation of Q.  The Q version of what's happening here is that our country has been slowly taken over by a underground network of bad operators empowered by the intelligence agencies, funded by illegal activities and protected by the pseudo government or Deep State as it is referred to.  The cancer has reached the pinnacle of its success by openly and brazenly stealing the presidency right in front of our eyes.  Past presidents tried to take this on. JFK was murdered for trying, Ike Eisenhower alluded to it in his "undue influence" speech, and Reagan may have been close to going after it before the assassination attempt.  So I'm coming around to realizing that Q's general platform is likely true.  In that case, this isn't that Trump is defending himself from an illegal coup. This is Trump, the finisher, following an intricately planned play book to retake the republic.  This is the counter coup, and it’s been in the works for a long time.  Understand, they knew that the election was going to be stolen and they had to stand down and let it happen, because before they could reveal the evil that the enemy was doing, they had to let it reach a pinnacle of that evil to help open the eyes of the American people.  This seems like a cruel punishment for those of us who just wanted to celebrate the victory of our president and go to the inauguration and enjoy another 4 years of his leadership...but we are all a part of the operation now and we have to “hold the line.” Do not be demoralized by the left into thinking that you’re crazy or that Biden is the president elect.  This whole operation on the left is depending on an international gas-lighting operation that is trying to deceive the whole world into thinking that this election was legitimate and that Joe Biden is now the “legitimate” leader. It’s all a lie. 

Last week’s march on the Capitol was not a fiasco caused by Trump. It was an intricately planned military operation designed to draw the rats out of the sewer.  The entire thing was surveilled and recorded.  The left purposely planned to bring in insurgents dressed as Trump supporters to attack the Capitol, in order to 1. get sympathy for Joe Biden and the Democrats as the innocent victims of violent insurgents and 2. to paint Trump as inciting violence and therefore unfit to lead. Notice, they tried to remove him the next day using the 25th amendment.  MEANWHILE, the geniuses on Trump’s team hijacked their hijacking and went in with special ops to retrieve key laptops from the Speaker and other treasonous Congressmen and women.  Please take a look at these two clips showing our white hat special forces guys (recently reorganized by Trump as another branch of the military directly reporting to him..BRILLIANT)  

Here the are   entering the Capitol 

and inside deploying to their designated    offices to complete the “laptop mission.”  Does that sound like a President who’s laying it down? Does that sound like someone who’s given up?  

 What’s really cool, is Trump supporters,  by showing up in those huge numbers, were a part of the plan, without even knowing it.  After the insurgence took place, Trump had to announce that everyone needed to disperse peacefully. This is one of the requirements that must be fulfilled before the In-surrec- tion Act can be invoked.

        “To be used, the In-surrec-tion Act says, “he (POTUS) shall, by proclamation, immediately order the insurgents to disperse and retire peaceably to their abodes within a limited time.” 

 Are you getting the picture here?  On the surface, this looked like a bumbling attempt by Trump to get his followers to overthrow the government (Trump knows his followers AREN’T those kind of people.)  but the media and the Trump haters don’t know this.  Brilliant counter intelligence going on here.  Follow me...Now the LEFT is so scared of those horrible, violent, racist Trump-sters (as they derisively call us) that they INSIST on military backing in DC.  Trump responds to their request by declaring State of Emergency, which allows for the deployment of troops (18,000 and counting) to the nation’s capital, all under the guise that they are protecting Biden and HIS inauguration. Meanwhile, the Insurrection Act has been signed, and under this and the Emergency Declaration, the military and FEMA are in charge.  The men at the helm are both Trump appointees who you can bet were strategically placed there for such a time as this.  (Please listen to the Mike Adam’s Podcast linked here for a detailed explanation of this).  

Meanwhile, over on Info Wars, Alex Jones has been acting very strange. People who don’t know him very well, or haven’t been listening for very long, might not pick up on it, but I’ve been listening on and off for so long, I feel like I could predict his words before they come out of his mouth...suddenly he’s changing his tune A LOT.  Everyday seems to be a bashing of Q and Q-Anons...Alex seems to have inside knowledge that the president may be giving up...he’s ranting and panicking and belying the military presence in DC as Biden’s attempt to try and turn us into a military state.  He goes on and on and on but something is wrong... Then yesterday, his argument the Steve Pieczenik..it was all so staged in my mind.  It occurred to me that Alex is being recruited to push out the narrative to keep the left (who THINK anything Alex Jones says is coming from the inside) will be dissuaded from any worries they might have had about the military presence in DC. Info Wars and Mike Adams were being used for counter intelligence.  Now you might ask, how can we trust anything Mike Adams says.  Well first of all, he’s one of the good guys who has been fighting corruption in the CDC, Big Pharma and the health industry for YEARS.  I strongly recommend you listen to his podcast linked above because you will instantly be able to see the difference between this podcast, which is the real Mike Adams, and the fake one he put out a couple days ago, regarding Pentagon push back.  The real Mike Adams would never put something out there as absolute fact unless he was privy to the information personally.  His normal approach is to describe the different arguments, critically analyze them and them give people the possible scenarios and which one he thinks is most likely. That’s what he is doing in today’s podcast...completely different from the one he put out two days ago.  So why would the good guys want to make the left believe that the Pentagon is not with Trump? Simple?  Because they will not worry about the Insurrection Act anymore and they won’t be concerned about the growing military presence. Counter intelligence at it’s best. 

Bottomline, on Saturday when certain key individual began pushing out the intel that Trump had signed the Insurrection Act, I responded by wrongly thinking, THIS IS IT!  An emergency broadcast is soon to follow.  However, although the act has been signed, it won’t be made public until the absolute right moment.  Think about it, if they had made it public on Monday, they wouldn’t have had the troops in DC ready to meet with the push back that will surely come when the general public realizes that Joe Biden is not going to be president. They are ready now, but there are probably a LOT of things most of us are still not privy to.  We may continue to be used to push our narratives that we think are true, that are really just moving pieces on the chess board, to prepare for the next thing.  The only role we can have now is to prepare for the obvious fact that there is going to be rough spell coming with possible shut downs, black outs and maybe even a false flag attack.  The left has already revealed their next card, in that they are trying to gin up a militia insurrection at the state capitols this weekend.  I hope no one is foolish enough to participate in this one...our president has told us to calm down and stay home...don’t let them use Trump supporters for this.  The last thing we want to do is spur on a civil unrest, before the geniuses on the inside have sprung their incredible trap on the Deep State. 

That being said...

No plan is perfect or invincible.  We have no idea who will win this battle, but we KNOW WHO WINS the war!  Our hope is not in Donald John Trump, but in the Lord and of HIS government, there shall be no end.  Keep thinking critically about everything you see and hear. Don’t believe a single word the mainstream press is putting out and question everything that is coming at you from all the other sources.  Here are some of the things for which I am absolutely certain of (that means 99% at this point)

1. Donald Trump will not commit treason by surrendering the country to a known CCP asset

2. Donald Trump is the CEO of a multi-billion dollar empire and didn’t get there by being dumb and bumbling

3. The Insurrection Act has been signed and is in play

4. We will be looking at a pretty incredible piece of history over the next 7 days...

Stay alert and hopeful! 

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Tired of Being Called Dumb and Anti Science Because I don’t support masks.

First the New England Journal of Medicine agrees with me.

New England Journal of Medicine: Wearing a Mask - Common Sense Evaluation

We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. In many cases, the desire for w

AND The Association of the Physicians and surgeons: scroll down to the part on “filtration.”

Mask Facts - AAPS | Association of American Physicians and Surgeons

curated by Marilyn M. Singleton, M.D., J.D. Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Note: A COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) particle is 0.125 micrometers (μm); inf

Lastly, I’ll leave you with these words from an OSHA certified instructor. He posted this on his Facebook, but it was apparently removed because it “violated community standards.” The only thing these words do is refute the current narrative. I unfortunately can not link his post, but I had copied and pasted his words in an email which I share which you here: “From an OSHA Inspector named DW Blackstone:

I wanted to put this out there. I have worked in a clean room for 23 years and 10 years on Submarines before that. OSHA is the standard that you have to live by in these environments. So for the people that are going to say, listen to the experts, OSHA would be those experts on face masks. Please read the following with an open mind. Not going to change the mind of the hard core believers, but it would be nice for those people to not attack us that are not, as not caring. Not going to debate this, just putting it out there.

For all you mask wearers (especially those of you who think wearing it outside is NOT stupid 🤦🏼‍♀️). I know I’m about to burst your “google doctor degree” bubble, but here goes nothing.

So Masks?

I am OSHA 10&30 certified. I know some of you are too. I don’t really know WHY OSHA hasn’t come forward and stopped the nonsense BUT I want to cover 3 things

• N95 masks and masks with exhale ports

• surgical masks

• filter or cloth masks

Okay, so upon further inspection, OSHA says some masks are okay and not okay in certain situations.

If you’re working with fumes and aerosol chemicals and you give your employees the wrong masks and they get sick, you can be sued.

• N95 masks: are designed for CONTAMINATED environments. That means when you exhale through N95 the design is that you are exhaling into contamination. The exhale from N95 masks are vented to breath straight out without filtration. They don’t filter the air on the way out. They don’t need to.

Conclusion: if you’re in Target and the guy with Covid has a N95 mask, his covid breath is unfiltered being exhaled into Target (because it was designed for already contaminated environments, it’s not filtering your air on the way out).

• Surgical Mask: these masks were designed and approved for STERILE environments. The amount of particles and contaminants in the outside and indoor environments where people are CLOGGING these masks very, VERY quickly. The moisture from your breath combined with the clogged mask will render it “useless” IF you come in contact with Covid and your mask traps it, YOU become a walking virus dispenser. Everytime you put your mask on you are breathing the germs from EVERYWHERE you went. They should be changed or thrown out every “20-30 minutes in a non sterile environment.”

• Cloth masks: I can’t even believe I’m having to explain this, but here it goes. Today, three people pointed to their masks as they walked by me entering Lowe’s. They said “ya gotta wear your mask BRO” I said very clearly “those masks don’t work bro, in fact they MAKE you sicker” they “pshh’d” me. By now hopefully you all know CLOTH masks do not filter anything. You mean the American flag one my aunt made? Yes. The one with sunflowers that looks so cute? Yes. The bandanna, the cut up t-shirt, the scarf ALL of them offer NO FILTERING whatsoever. As you exhale, you are ridding your lungs of contaminants and carbon dioxide. Cloth masks trap this carbon dioxide the best. It actually risks your health, rather than protect it. The moisture caught in these masks can become mildew ridden over night. Dry coughing, enhanced allergies, sore throat are all symptoms of a micro-mold in your mask.

-Ultimate Answer:

*N95 blows the virus into the air from a contaminated person.

*The surgical mask is not designed for the outside world and will not filter the virus upon inhaling through it. It’s filtration works on the exhale, (Like a vacuum bag, it only works one way) but likely stops after 20 minutes, rendering it useless outside of a STERILE ENVIRONMENT (correct Becky, they don’t work in a bar, not even a little bit).

*Cloth masks are WORSE than none. It’s equivalent to using a chain link fence to stop mosquitos.

The CDC wants us to keep wearing masks. The masks don’t work. They’re being used to provide false comfort and push forward a specific agenda. For the love of God, research each mask’s designed use and purpose, I bet you will find NONE are used in the way of “viral defense.”

Just like EVERY Flu season kids, wash your hands. Sanitize your hands. Don’t touch stuff. Sanitize your phone. Don’t touch people. And keep your distance. Why? Because your breath stinks, your deodorant is failing, your shoes are old and stink, that shirts not clean, & I like my space. Trust me I can hear you from here. Lots of reasons to keep your distance and work on body hygiene. But trust me, the masks do not work.

*Occupational Safety & Hazard Association sited.

The top American organization for safety.

They regulate and educate asbestos workers, surgical rooms, you name it.

I know, facts suck. They throw a wrench into the perfectly (seeming) packaged pill you are willingly swallowing. Facts make you have to form your OWN OPINION, instead of regurgitating someone else’s, and I know how uncomfortable that makes a lot of you. If your mask gives you security, by all means wear it. Just know it is a false sense of security and you shouldn’t shame anyone into partaking in such “conspiracies.”

If select politicians stopped enforcing it, no one would continue this nonsense....

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This is art from the VATICAN!!!! It’s not pornography...there is a difference!

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This is classical Art!!! Not pornography!! Ah...there is a difference.

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Vengeance or Reconciliation

There are prisons which we can’t see, that we can get locked into, without even knowing it.  

There’s a fantastic documentary that you should take time to watch, if you haven’t yet.  It’s called, The Sixteenth Man.  It tells the story of how Nelson Mandela used sports, compromise and a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to bring a fractured nation together, avoiding a bloody civil war.  Although he wasn’t a perfect leader, I think he should be remembered as a very great man. Despite his lack of setting a good economic foundation for his country, he did make key decisions that changed the life of every South African, and most likely avoided the shedding of mass amounts of blood.  When you examine the history of apartheid and look at the conditions that blacks in South Africa were living under at the time that Nelson Mandela went from the prison to the presidency, you likely would be appalled.  Here is a man who was the first black president, as a result of the first election that included all South Africans, black and white.  When he came to power, his people wanted blood.  They wanted vengeance in the name of justice. But instead, he chose Truth and Reconciliation.  

Justice or Mercy

Have you ever been wronged, I mean really wronged.  Have you ever felt you were the innocent victim of an attack, whether physically or verbally.  I can imagine that all of us can relate to greater or lesser degrees.  I’ve never had a violent crime perpetrated against me. I can’t even imagine the outrage, the anger, and possibly the hatred that one might feel for the person who murdered or injured someone you loved, or even yourself.  But I have had hurts, times when I felt attacked and the first thing I want is TO BE HEARD. I want to get my version of the story out there, to make the person who hurt me understand what they did, to see them apologize, and maybe even pay restitution, emotionally or in some other way for what they did. 

 As you know if you’ve ever been in a disagreement with your spouse, there are always two sides to the story.  Your story almost never matches theirs.  As the spat gets more and more heated, you each move farther and farther apart, until you are at opposite corners. Neither can see the others side because at this point you’ve been pushed by your own self-seeking need for justice to opposite sides of the room.  At some point, if someone doesn’t lay aside justice and pull out mercy and grace, you will remain at odds... Little things can lead to bigger things, and two people can find themselves in divorce court.  

Maybe you get counselling or seek someone to arbitrate for you.  Perhaps they ask you, What is it you want from this person?  What will be enough?  Hmm...an apology, an acknowledgment, you hurt me, you were wrong, etc.  Perhaps, your spouse says the same thing.  Through arbitration you come together, they apologize, repeating the words the arbitrator has instructed and then you do the same.  If you were the victim of a crime, maybe justice would be seeing person tried and convicted, jailed or maybe even put to death.  Justice has now been done.  What next?  Do you go on as if it never happened?  Do you the have peace?  I think not.   When we make our peace contingent on another person’s behavior...we have just put ourselves in a victim-hood prison, and sentenced ourselves to a life filled with offences, and absolutely no peace or unity.

Acting Justly vs. Exacting Justice

Here’s why: because justice is different than “acting justly, or doing justly,” (Micah 6:8)  Getting justice, is something that someone else does, or is something done to them, in the name of obtaining justice. The fact is, that when the family leaves the courtroom and the murderer is put in jail, the family obtain a measure of justice, but they may still live in prisons of their own bitterness if they haven’t embraced mercy and forgiveness for the perpetrator.  And, worse yet, what if the guilty man goes free...no justice...no peace...no unity...a prison of bitterness???  In this imperfect world that we live in, there are always going to be injustices, but we don’t need to obtain justice to be able to experience peace. The option of choosing grace and forgiveness is always there.

Truth and Reconciliation or Retribution?

 As I said before, you cannot  make your peace and unity contingent upon another person’s behavior or some kind of legal outcome? Nelson Mandela knew this truth. He said,  “As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.”  He had been in prison for 27 years!!! He could have left prison, if he had given up the fight to end apartheid, but he didn’t give up.  His kids grew up without him, and his wife lived as a single mom.    How would one obtain justice for that? How much punishment would you exact to make up for 27 years?  The answer is, no amount of actions could make up for it...justice would never lead to real freedom.  He knew that and he left his cry for justice in the prison cell.  He came out ready to bind up the wounds of his nation, instead of ready to exact punishment on his white oppressors, and that was a powerful decision that saved the lives of countless blacks and whites in his country. 

He did two major things in the early months of his administration that were brilliant and game changing.  The first thing he did was to form something called the TRC, (The Truth and Reconciliation Commission.)  The goal of this commission was to allow victims and victimizers, blacks and whites to come together and tell their stories.  The goal was to get to the truth and to reconcile the races.  Participants were promised immunity from prosecution.  Now, some have argued that the government didn’t follow up with prosecutions of those who refused to participate and with the recommendations of the commission, but if you go online you can access 1000′s of testimonies... Blacks and whites who both did atrocities to one another, coming together, getting their voices heard, forgiving, reconciling, and leaving the prison of Justice and Bitterness behind. 

Little Symbols Can Lead to War

The second thing he did was to embrace the country’s Rugby team which had been banned from competitions due to apartheid and was just being allowed to participate once again. The Springboks had long been a symbol of White South African privilege. Black people hated the Springboks and would actually go to the games just to cheer for the opposite team.  His cabinet wanted him to dismantle the Springboks, and form a new team to go with the new South Africa. He refused to do this.  He took a LOT of heat for it, but he could see that this team was a powerful symbol.  He told his advisors, “These little symbols could take us to war.” So instead of exacting restitution and insisting on justice, .He made friends with his “enemy.” He embraced the team, wore their jersey to the game, visited them in their practices, encouraged them, learned all their names and addressed them personally.  The team was a complete underdog in the league that year. They were in last place,  but spurred on by the encouragement of their new president, they went on to the finals and then won the world championship after two grueling overtimes. The country rejoiced as one, in a moment so unifying and healing for the whole nation, that South Africans still weep when they talk about it.  The team called him their “16th Man.” (Watch the documentary, it’s amazing!)   In the movie, there is a black South African man who tells the story of how he was eaten up by hatred for his white oppressors and how he was delivered from that hate, not by justice, but by a mindset change that HE made. 

Are You Helping or Hurting the Cause?

I was watching a video of a young Christian Black woman today.  She looked right through the screen at me and ask me a couple hard questions.  “Are you, (being white), afraid to tell me, (being black), the truth? Are you afraid if you tell me the truth, you will be called a racist?” She went on to explain that only the truth can set someone free, and if we as white people are skirting the truth, and failing to speak it, because of our fear of being called racist, then we are contributing to the problem.  This was like a gut punch to me.  I’ve been speaking out politically about what’s clearly going on here...but I really haven’t addressed the root issues..I really haven’t spoken openly about the spiritual reasons for why I can’t support the #BlackLivesMatter movement. The spiritual reason why I can’t support BLM is because this organization is promoting the kind of justice which is really vengeance and they are threatening that if there in no “justice” there can be no peace.  I know from personal experience that seeking this kind of justice is mutually exclusive to unity and peace. Therefore I can’t support this idea, I believe it is driving wedges between people, not uniting them. 

 I have a question for white American Christians, riddled by guilt for an institution you had nothing to do with.  Are you, by supporting the ideas of #BLM helping your black brothers and sisters find true peace and unity, or are you actually interfering with the true healing and peace that God wants to bring them?  That’s a tough question.  I have been confronting it in myself, because while I have no problem calling out the bad politics surrounding this issue, I feel really uncomfortable talking about racism.

An entire segment of society is being demonized and everyone is scrambling to make sure they’re on the “right” side. It becomes “us” against “them” (the racists).  Instead of all the virtue signaling and demonizing of racism, is there something we could be doing that would actually help the process? If we’re not careful, we will be reinforcing the bitterness and a victim mentality, which will never bring about the change of hearts, we truly seek.  

Let’s take a look at the root of racism which is prejudice. Prejudice is pre-judging by what you see on the outside instead of by the content of the heart or character as Martin Luther King described in his “I have a dream” speech.  This is explained in I Samuel 16:7, “ But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart’.”

According to the Bible, prejudice is a HUMAN problem, not a white problem, and not a black problem.  Prejudice is a sin problem and all of us were born with sin, none of us, except Jesus, is exempt. Instead of making this a me/them issue, where we are demonizing a certain group of people as being racist, and making sure we’re on the other side.  If we really want blacks and whites to heal, shouldn’t we all start being really honest about the things that divide us. You can’t stop a racist from being racist by demonizing them, you can only do this by understanding them, and combating the ignorance with the truth of God’s Word.

Truth and Reconciliation

I felt like something I could do to humanize this problem and to break out of this “us against them” mentality, would be to make a confession.  You see, I’m guilty.  I’m guilty of prejudice, of prejudging people based on what they look like, what they’re wearing, their education level, the way they carry themselves, and a million other things, and I’ve prejudged people based on their ethnicity.  I don’t think I can help it...when I look at someone, I judge.  I decide whether or not I’d like to get to know them or whether I’d like to avoid them.  I happen to think that all of us are prone to choose people who are like us..people who share our views...think like us...come from the same economic status as us... To the degree that we override this selfish, me-centered tendency, the Lord blesses our lives with a diversity of relationships. 

I can apologize for these things, but they are automatic things that happen when I come into contact with people. I’m not a perfect example of Jesus yet,  therefore my first impression very often is going to come from the outside of the container and not from the inside.  But, there’s something that helps me break out of this prejudicial thinking, it’s relationships.  Relationships break down barriers and allow people to enter into communion with one another. It’s very hard to hate anyone, if you know their story and you have a relationship with them.  If we really want to judge people on the content of their character and not on the outward appearance, we are going to have to be in relationship with them. We can’t be in relationship with people if we are demonizing them. 

That being said, it’s easy for me to love my black friends. They are unique, gifted, amazing beautiful people.  But I have to confess, I’m still struggling with loving those I don’t know.  I can’t promise you that when I go to serve at the homeless shelter in our city and I’m walking up the sidewalk and a group of young black men is approaching me, I’m not going to hold my purse a little closer.  I would like to believe that eventually I could be like Jesus and be able to look at someone and see straight into their heart, but there is still some fear that dominates my thinking.  The point I’m making is that we all judge...all of us...and all of us have probably been guilty of some type of ethnic prejudice.  Instead of virtue signaling, and encouraging division, maybe some confession would help.  Instead of leading our black brothers and sisters down the path of justice seeking, maybe our candid confessions and stories could help us all find a path forward that would lead to more unity and honesty.  I for one am so brokenhearted about some of the stories I’ve heard of prejudices.  Is there some way we can begin to address the ignorance in others in a way that doesn’t push them away and demonize them. The only way to do this is to recognize that in all of us, there is the potential for prejudice. I think we would be less condemning, more understanding, and we would be modeling the kind of humility and grace that would encourage dialog, relationships and healing in the black and white community. 

 Relationship is the Key

As Christians, we’ve been given the most powerful relationship available. It’s a relationship with God through his Son, Jesus Christ.  This relationship makes available to us the Holy Spirit of the Living God.  God actually comes to dwell in us and with us.  Just as Christ’s death on the cross broke down the barrier, the wall of separation between man and God, this same Spirit cancels out the separation between Jews and Gentiles, Greeks and Scythian, and all other ethnicities. If we are in Christ, we are one big family.  It’s not a perfect family...it’s got dysfunctions, and we don’t always get along...and sadly, we still pre-judge each other, BUT we are family and families have to stick together! 

 I guess the thing that was so harmful about segregation and apartheid was that It was an artificial wall of separation that kept whites and blacks from knowing one another, and  from relating to one another. Without this relationship, we can never break down the walls.  Praise God, Jesus has broken down the wall that separated us from Him and now we have the power to break down walls through relationship.  Our pastor said this week in church, “I could persuade you to my political views, but if you are without Christ, you’re still lost...still headed to a Christ-less eternity.” This is the most important relationship and the most important decision you can possibly make.  Jesus took the punishment for all the sin of man to satisfy the divine JUSTICE of God and so that you and I could receive mercy and grace, forgiveness and eternal life.  Without this relationship, you can never hope to have anything healing to bring to this broken world.  

What we do here, as individuals, may not save our nation from the path of destruction we appear to be on, but it could save one life.  Will you be a bridge of reconciliation, leading angry people to the saving, freeing forgiveness that only Christ can bring. It will require speaking the truth about justice and forgiveness, in love. I believe that is the RIGHT side of history.  

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Coronavirus Chronicles: Two Weeks In-You have now entered the Twilight Zone

3/28/20

Has it been two weeks??

Indeed, it has been 2 weeks since our country declared a national emergency. In this time I have seen some disturbing things. Women in physical altercations over the last package of toilet paper:

Reports of people standing in line for hours for the privilege of just getting one package of the same commodity. 

I’ve seen Italians singing from their balconies to keep their spirits up.  The reality is that many in the cities are cooped up in small flats, forced to look at their four walls, or drinking in the little bit of fresh air and sunshine from their tiny terraces. 

We live in a rural area, so we may venture outside anytime we desire. I can’t imagine how difficult it would be if we couldn’t...

There have been endless memes about this situation, lots of jokes and laughter.  

I guess it is true what the Bible says, “A merry heart makes good medicine.”  The laughter certainly helps. 

Each day, for me is started scrolling social media, reading bits and pieces of the news and then checking the worldometers live corona virus update. I check the U.S., then I check New York and then I check Italy, sincerely hoping to see their numbers changing to a downward trajectory.  I recognize that this daily morning behavior is not serving me well...but thus far I have been unable to pull myself away from the endless glut of news and statistics. 

 We have all learned a new hashtag: #flattenTheCurve

The idea is to slow the spread and protect our healthcare workers from a living hell: a health care system on complete overload. 

I have read and listened to these worker’s stories and my heart has broken for what some are going through.

The numbers are still rising exponentially and New York City is exploding with many new cases and many deaths everyday. Healthcare workers there are already reporting overload. They are rapidly expanding hospital bed capacity by setting up emergency centers and for the mounting number of deaths: emergency morgues. 

In Italy, it is so much worse.  Just when we had hopes of their numbers trending down, yesterday’s number of deaths in one day (March 27, 2020)  hit an all time high of 919!   The good news is that daily new cases is starting to trend down.

Culturally I see some hope.  Families are hunkering down and adjusting to this new “normal.”  I took a bike ride and saw unusual things: people sitting in their front yard playing with their children, people talking walks as a family, siblings playing together... People are rediscovering the art of staying home, cooking meals, playing board games. Some have even taken to calling it 

I hasn’t been a vacation for me. Our school prepared us for distance learning and with only 2 days to prepare we dove into 100% teaching our students online. My day is filled with making assignments, shooting videos, responding to emails, grading papers and returning them all on Google Classroom. I usually spend more time each day at this than I would when I worked at school, but its been a blessing to have meaningful work to do from home and the security of a paycheck. I’ve also seen some really unhinged people, mostly from Hollywood and Democratic congresswomen...

I’ve also seen some incredibly beautiful attempts to bless American by some in the entertainment business and those in ministry. 

I spent list Monday morning worshiping with Michael W. Smith in a Facebook Live concert. It was like a little piece of heaven visiting me in my day. John rich, a country music star, hosted some great music from his living room, along with some great stories. I’m discovering I need to start my day out right with God, before hitting the news feeds.  Everything works so much better when I do!  

I haven’t had much time for any home projects but I am making extra time to be in God’s word and in prayer. This pandemic thing has only served to remind me even more how disparately I need God, every hour, every minute.  To totally rely upon God is one of the things I am meant to learn through this. 

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Coronavirus Chronicles: National Emergency

On March 14, I sat down with my journal and responded to a deep felt need to record what was happening, if for no other reason, for my posterity.  I felt a deep sense that history was being made around me and that I needed to remember it.  With that in mind I decided to blog these journal entries, so that they would be in more than just one place, and perhaps for the benefit of other readers.

3/14/20 

Today marks the beginning of a national emergency, declared by President Donald J. Trump, our 45th president.  Today marks the beginning of a national call to social distancing, a sort of voluntary social isolation, which, it is sincerely hoped, will “flatten the curve” of infections in this country, which are currently doubling every 2 1/2 days.  So far, more drastic measures  have not stopped the progression in Italy, where my family are feeling the effects and concerned not only for the safety of their families but the future of their nation.  someday, maybe one of my posterity will come upon this journal and will read these words, so I want them to have a full understanding of the things that are happening.  

I have been studying and looking at the possibility of a global pandemic for many years now, something that led me to prepare a pandemic emergency kit more than 6 years ago.  It was at that time that the Ebola epidemic in Africa was happening.  Because we live in a world where “health” organizations are partnered with military laboratories tasked with studying and developing possible weapons of a biological nature, we have lived in the inevitable reality that this technology would one day find itself in the hands of careless or worse yet, nefarious individuals.  It has been my opinion that this kind of pandemic, has been a disaster just waiting to happen for a number of years now.  However nothing could prepare me for just how quickly normal life would simply give way to a new normal, which is NOT normal at all.  

Grocery stores are emptying and people are in semi-panic mode, and we aren’t even in the thick of the pandemic yet.  We currently have 2300 diagnosed cases, probably a fraction of the actual cases and 50 deaths.  The math is undeniable, but just like my experience with the flood of 1985, people have a general reluctance to believe bad things are happening and so just like then, people were saying, “Nothing like this has ever happened before so I don’t believe it will happen now.”  It reminds me of the Israelite's who refused to believe Jeremiah’s very stern and very depressing news. Everyone who did not listen to his advice to flee the city, were killed.  Things aren’t quite so cut and dried here.  So many different voices and so many different opinions are invading our social media pages.  I have been influenced the greatest by the simple math.  Looking at the stats in Italy, I came to the conclusion that this was a serious threat to not only our health, but also to the socio-economic fabric of our nation.  Just as in the past, many people are unwilling to really face what is coming.  Even I am hoping are a miracle that will change the “math” of this infection rate.  

But a second consideration has entered my mind that has convinced me that this event is a divine intervention, a giant wrench thrown by God into the works of our present culture, which has been dropping further and further into the toilet.  I recall thinking that this decline has been exponential in the last couple of years.   Each week has brought a new low that no one would have thought possible, even 5 years ago. 

Who would’ve thought that in the past year we would have been forced to look at disgusting images of trans-gendered men, dressed provocatively, who had been invited to dance and carry on in public libraries for the so called “benefit” of young impressionable children and in the name of inclusiveness and political correctness. 

 I’ve heard story after sad story about middle-schoolers on my husband’s bus who have decided to change their genders?!!! Then there’s the disgusting memory of the Virginia governor rationally and unemotionally discussing the possibility of legally allowing mothers to decide to terminate their full-term, born alive babies, if they no longer wanted them.  And this is just scratching the surface of what we have been seeing.  

Could there be any doubt that we, as a culture, have offended a holy God, and should we think that He would sit back forever and do nothing?  I asked myself, wasn’t it my voice that could be heard praying countless times, “How long Lord, will you turn a blind eye to the wicked and the injustice? How long will evil continue to control our world?” Just this morning, as I poured over my thoughts and worries about this pandemic, He reminded me of my prayer.  Of course, How could I not see it! When God’s people, yes even when humanity starts going off the rails, God is always there with a disaster, a plague, an invasion...to bring people to their knees. And, as in times past, we would do well to remember that what looks like the worst possible thing that could happen, is often God’s way of putting things right.  People are referring to this as a divine reset.  I for one am in need of a reset... I’ve been way too busy and too distracted for too long. 

So, its time to trust and seek God with everything we’ve got.  I believe our world is about to be rocked and this could be just the beginning of the birth pangs. I’m totally conflicted about this thought. On the one hand, I loved my life. I wanted to go on doing what I was doing, and enjoying this season. I didn’t want anything to change.  Yet, on the other hand, my heart has been aching for God, for His courts, His sovereignty, for His Spirit to put things right in this upside-down world.  Frankly, I’ve been so tired of being too busy.

I want to pray, Lord Jesus come, but not before all my family is trusting Him. I want His justice, but I’m just as needy for His grace as the next human being, because we are all just sinners in need of grace, in need of His salvation. So I am conflicted. I want to pray, turn this plague away from us, but if I haven’t learned the lessons I need to learn, if we haven’t learned them, won’t we be right back where we were...leading our busy lives where God only enjoys a back seat.

So, in the end I pray, “Lord prepare me for whatever your will is. Do not give me a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind. Help me to be a light, pointing people to you. I don’t feel I have enough faith or strength to fulfill this desire, so God, You will have to increase my belief and ‘help me with my unbelief.’’  

THE LORD’S WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in Heaven. 

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WHO OR WHAT STARTED THE WUHAN CORONAVIRU$ EPIDEMIC?

A must read article...but a warning.  It’s long, detailed and difficult to read. But if you’re interested in getting the detailed story, well worth your time. This is an article written by Professor Anthony Hall, orginally printed by Zer0 Hedg3 (banned on twitter and facebook) and re-released by inf0 War$ (also banned by everyone).  I’m linking it here but apprehensive about the fact that it will probably be shadow banned as well. But it’s worth a try. 

Linked here

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230 Years of Fear Mongering:  there’s nothing new under the sun

So I was planning to post this blog with pictures and no words, but us usual, I couldn’t restrain my words from spilling out.  These pictures come from a recent lesson I taught on Climate Change.  The articles speak for themselves. Here we see that the NAVY (so we have to believe them) predicted we would be “ice free” by 2016....

But wait!!! Back in 1978 ( I was still in college and gullible enough to believe everything I read in the newspaper) we were warned that the present cooling trend had “no end in sight!”  Hmm...

Ah, I remember those cool days...  25 foot snow drifts on Evan’s curve... slapping on the boards in November for my first ski of the season... We thought those days would never end. In fact we feared that one day we would have no summer at all!

Fast forward a decade...now it’s the seas...they are a rising...oh what to do?

Alas, our children may never know what snow is!!!!

Oh my, in 2014 we were led to believe we had 500 days to avoid “climate chaos.”

Oh remember this one from back in the days of Earth Day celebrations? Making posters, “SAVE THE TREES!” We had no idea what was fact and what was fiction...we just obediently followed our teacher’s instructions.  Was this when the Malthusian idea of over population re-rooted itself into the American (and world) psyche?  In 1967, we feared that overpopulation would cause us all to be exterminated in a “cloud of blue steam” by 1987!!! Not surprisingly, we passed Roe v. Wade 6 years later and now some 60 million lives have been systematically eliminated, and all their offspring and intellectual potential flushed down the toilet. But who knows, proponents say it may have saved us from world extinction as a species! I don’t know about you, but being a history teacher, it sort of reminds me of the Mayans and the followers of Mollech, sacrificing the weakest or their populations, for societal favor with the gods...or the Spartans, leaving their unwanted babies on the hillside to starve, so as not to “weaken” the general populace. 

This man has made millions from the global crisis agenda, and stands to make millions more, from the company he’s highly invested in, the company that makes those smart meters...the ones our power companies have been requiring us to use...the meters that will allow outside forces to “meter” your use of power...tell you how warm or cool you can keep your house and maybe even WHEN you will be allowed to have power in the future. Hmm...who’s going to make those decisions?

Oh, and if a member of the British Royal family says it, it must be true.

Oh, I forgot, while we were worrying about rising sea levels, overpopulation, ice disappearing or earth getting too cold, and pollution destroying the sea, we had to add another worry: THERE’S A HOLE IN OUR OZONE!!! Wait, what? This sounds bad, REALLY bad!

So glad this one didn’t come true, since my daughter lives there!  And if this had happened, I could say goodbye to my dream of seeing “Hamilton” at a NYC theater some day.

And who knew it was “already too late to avoid a long period of famine” back in 1967.  I’m pretty sure the obesity epidemic in our country today is making Paul Erlich feel pretty dumb.

Um...no words.

Don’t get me started on government agencies, and how me MUST trust their take on everything, because they would NEVER lie to us,...right? (Gulf of Tonkin, JFK, Martin Luther King, 9-11, Anthrax attacks)  

 People have been fear mongering on the basis of overpopulation, since the 1700′s when Thomas Malthus first voiced this fear in his doomsday theory that alluded to the idea that overpopulation would always result in famine and death.  He surmised that the world had a limited capacity and that as populations rose; poverty, famine and death would increase to correct for overpopulation.  In the natural world, this theory works pretty well.  The polar bear population will only grow in relation to the supply of seals, if there are too many bears per seals, bears will starve and die.  It works pretty well in most natural settings.  The problem is, human beings are not animals. We hare beings created in the image of God with intellect and imagination and a natural curiosity to figure out how the world works. What Malthus never anticipated was the application of science (human intellect figuring out how stuff works)  to industry: technology. He never saw the industrial revolution coming.  The minds of mankind, set free to explore and experiment, have been able to solve the problems of poverty and famine in unique and various ways.  If it weren’t for our bigger problem, sin and corruption, there would not be any hunger left in our world.  But sadly, governments are still involved in Malthusian like attempts to contain the populace and control it.  In the name of that Malthusian thinking, 3-4 million Irish were left to starve to death during the Irish Potato Famine, with the rationale being that the Irish had over-populated and the famine was just a natural consequence of that over population.  This, of course, was ridiculous and very sad.  Of course, that could never happen in our modern world, right?  Well don’t be so sure.  Look over the fear mongering that has been taking place in our country for the last 60 years... What has been the result?  We turned a blind eye when Roe vs. Wade legalized the slaughter of innocent babies (you know in the back of most minds was the idea that at least we wouldn’t be overpopulating our world with a lot of unwanted babies) ...and now we are actually debating whether or not a mother can kill her baby after it is born, if she decides she doesn’t want it.  And on the other end, we have totally bought in to the right to die movement. Just wait until we’ve gotten used to that, we’ll be debating if we still have the right to live if the government doesn’t think our life is viable, or useful.... Planned Parenthood has been selling fetal tissue, organs and whole baby’s bodies like they are fetal pigs being used for a high school lab experiment and no one cares.  Is it no surprise we have politicians calling for climate “denial” to be a crime, comparing these people to the “flat earthers” of the Middle Ages. They have even worse fates for anti-vaxers, they propose that they should be denied healthcare, education, and even the right to raise their own children as they see fit.  This is the mentality of the left leaning, Fabian socialist progressives, who would sell out our country in the name of saving the earth from a climate change disaster!!!. 

 Little things can become so much bigger than you could possibly anticipate.  What’s wrong with a Climate Accord limiting the amount of fossil fuel we use...its for the earth!!!  Here’s whats wrong with it and here’s why it is one of the most dangerous movements in our world today.  As soon as we sign our national sovereignty over to an un-elected board of bureaucrats, giving them the right to decide for us how much energy we should produce and use, we’ve signed on to something that fundamentally changes our world.  Nations become second to a world organization, controlled not by duly elected individuals committed to rule of law and justice for all, but to leaders who will have no accountability to the people whatsoever.  If you think our politicians are corrupt and ignoring the rule of law now, under a system that was designed to check their power...just wait till that system is thrown out the window and we hand our sovereignty over to the likes of a Paris Climate Accord.  Trump is right to withdraw.  I’m sure Europe had no idea they were signing over their “nationhood” and national sovereignty when they made the seemingly sensible economic decision to join the European Union.  It all seemed so logical, until they began to reap the effects of an un-elected band of globalist elites manipulating currency and making decisions that improved the bottomline of the Euro, while absolutely decimating countries like Italy and Germany, not to mention the UK who has been trying to BREXIT for nearly 4 years now!!  Be careful who you bed down with...as my grandmother used to say, you may get up with fleas... or worse yet, you may never get up at all.  Western Europe’s borders are practically non-existent, and their cities are overrun with migrants, homeless, criminals, and worse.  Europe, as we know it, has been fundamentally changed and may not recover.  Unless you want that kind of fundamental change here, you better think twice about buying in to any “accords” that propose to control our economy or anything else.  America is the greatest experiment in liberty that history has ever known, and it will never fail from without, just as Lincoln said.  It will fail because its people made little compromises with their freedom in exchange for safety or out of fear.   

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Watch Joe Biden Brag About Bribing Ukraine To Fire The Prosecutor Investigating His Son’s Company

This article has been reprinted from thefederalist.com, SEPTEMBER 24, 2019 By Erielle Davidson

The media has had a field day over new hearsay accusations that President Trump was wrong to ask Ukranian leaders to investigate political corruption related to Joe Biden. Predictably, several House Democrats have used this news cycle to again demand Trump’s impeachment.

While the whistleblower complaint is based on hearsay, we do know that Joe Biden, while serving as vice president, pressured the Ukrainian government to fire the prosecutor who was investigating his son’s company. Hunter Biden joined the board of Ukrainian national gas company Burisma in 2014 while his father was managing the United States’ Ukraine policy and despite zero personal experience in the field. At the time Hunter Biden joined its board, Burisma was embroiled in allegations of corruption, allegations serious enough that Ukraine’s prosecutor general launched an investigation into the company.

Joe Biden was so proud of his role in the prosecutor’s removal from investigating the company paying his son $50,000 per month merely to serve on its board that he actually bragged about it in a 2018 speech at an event for the publication Foreign Affairs. In this speech, Biden boasts his threat to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loans from Ukraine if they did not agree to fire the prosecutor who happened to be investigating the company giving his son a cushy sinecure.

The prosecutor was fired, and the investigation was dropped six months later. While the investigation was just reopened last year, it has been a slow-moving process that has turned up little. At the time Biden pushed for the firing of Viktor Shokin, the prosecutor general, Shokin had plans to question Hunter Biden.

Watch Biden brag about his role in having the prosecutor fired below:

The relevant portion of the speech is transcribed below.

I remember going over and convincing our team, others, to convince that we should be providing for loan guarantees. And I went over, I guess, the 12th, 13th time to Kiev. And I was supposed to announce that there was another billion-dollar loan guarantee. And I had gotten a commitment from Poroshenko and from Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor. And they didn’t.

So they said they had—they were walking out to a press conference. I said, nah, I’m not going to—or, we’re not going to give you the billion dollars. They said, you have no authority. You’re not the president. The president said—I said, call him. (Laughter.) I said, I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars. I said, you’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a b-tch. (Laughter.) He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.

Erielle Davidson is a Staff Writer at the Federalist and a law student at Georgetown University Law Center. She currently serves as a Fellow at the Center for International Law in the Middle East (CILME) at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. She writes about Israel, the Middle East, and related issues. Find her on Twitter at @politicalelle.