“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
Trump is scheduled to speak at 7 p.m. from Avflight Saginaw, an aviation company located at the MBS International Airport in Freeland. Thursday’s event is the president’s first campaign rally in the state this year, coming while polls show the race tightening in Michigan.
So, just where is Freeland? If Michigan is a mitten, it’s between the thumb and index finger on the fleshy part.
The place was home to Native Americans long before the arrival of settlers of European ancestry. In the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw, in which the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Pottawatomi ceded a large portion of land including Saginaw County to the United States federal government. In that treaty, within the ceded territory, several tracts were reserved for specific groups of Chippewa. One such tract, Black Bird’s Village, consisted of 6,000 acres (24 km2) on the Tittabawassee (named as the Tetabawasink river in the text of the treaty), very near to the present location of Freeland.[5] [6] [7]
In the 1850s, lumbering outposts developed in the area, one of which was called “Loretta”, which was given a post office named “Jay” in April 1856. The office was named for the first postmaster, Jefferson Jaqruth. This outpost was very nearly at the geographical center of Tittawabasse Township. Another settlement was placed just a little to the north. in 1867, one resident of the second locale, George Truesdale, instigated moving the post office from Loretta to his settlement, which retained the name of Jay for several years afterwards.
The name of Freeland comes from “Mammy Freeland” who operated a popular tavern on the river, frequented by lumbermen and rivermen, who came to refer to the entire settlement as Freeland. The name of the post office was changed to Freeland in January 1879. It was also a station on the Pere Marquette Railroad. By another account (Moore), the Freeland family name was prominent in business and politics of the area.
During World War II, the airport was used to hold German prisoners of war.
That last bit could be useful at some trivia night.
No mention of hockey, though. Shows who is updating the wiki pages. I mean, this description screams “WORKING CLASS SMALL TOWN” in the most basic and stark of terms. This is about the most picturesque photo I can find of the place in the midst of old houses and McMansions for sale. Talk about being unpretentious.
From Freeland earlier:
I’ll add live links to this post during the late afternoon as they become available.
Yes, it will…especially since President Trump is actually demonstrating how to achieve peace in places there rarely has ever been peace that wasn’t forced. That’s a definite switch from previous winners.
What happens when CA is in serious debt and lost priority aid from the FED gov due to sanctuary status (illegal)? What happens when CA is in serious debt and all attempts to obtain a bailout from [Pelosi inserted and pushed] C19 aid package(s) have failed? What happens when CA is in serious debt and decides to implement resident overreach by extending statewide shutdowns [incurring massive economic [further] pitfall]? Average number of fires in CA per year [last 20][June – Dec]? Average number of fires 2018, 2019, 2020 [June – Dec]? Outside of standard deviation? Stated cause(s) of fires? Heat? Average temperature(s) of CA per year [last 20][June – Dec]? Outside of standard deviation? Power line(s) [source]? What changed? What CA programs re: fire prevention [forest – brush] have been severely cut? What other cuts have impacted fire prevention & safety? http://www.cpf.org/go/cpf/news-and-events/news/budget-cuts-sacrifice-firefighter-and-public-safety/ How do you obtain FED money? Declare a State of Emergency and request billions in assistance? Welcome to CA. Q
THE SWAMP RUNS DEEP. Sometimes you cannot tell people the truth. You must show them. Only then, at the precipice, will people find the will to change [to participate]. We, the People, have been betrayed for a very long time. WILL YOU STAND? FOR GOD AND COUNTRY. FOR FREEDOM. FOR HUMANITY. WHERE WE GO ONE WE GO ALL !!! Q
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I would propose that we make this Joe Biden’s theme song, but it would insult one of the best dance songs of all time.
https://youtu.be/BJs_L7yq5qE
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As usual, this is the daily thread, the place to put all information that needs to be out there – Q drops, Q drop decodes, riot information, rumors about MAGA rallies starting up again, news flashes, Chy-na flu updates, fashionable mask photos, satire, memes, and of course cute animal videos.
In the meantime, the short and sweet version of “THE RULES” is here borrowed from Tuesday:
The discourse on this site is to be CIVIL – no name calling, baiting, or threatening others here is allowed. Those who are so inclined may visit Wolf’s other sanctuary, the U-Tree, to slog it out.
This site is a celebration of the natural rights endowed to humans by our Creator as well as those enshrined in the Bill of Rights adopted in the founding documents of the United States of America. Within the limits of law, how we exercise these rights is part of the freedom of our discussion.
Fellow tree dweller Wheatie gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Since it is almost the weekend, the reminders are in place to not swing from the chandeliers, wash your hands and face, and be nice to the liberals whether they deserve it or not. Making your bed, OTOH, is optional.
27“But I say to you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. 29To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also; and from him who takes away your coat do not withhold even your shirt. 30Give to every one who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. 31And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them. 32“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. 33And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. 34And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive as much again. 35But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the selfish. 36Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful. 37“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; 38give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For the measure you give will be the measure you get back.”
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin. – Romans 3:19-20
When we read this terrible description of the human race as God sees it, it is almost impossible for us to believe that God is not going to say, Enough! Wipe them out! If all he sees is wretchedness, misery, evil, deceit, hypocrisy, vulgarity, profanity, slander, and all these evil things that are in every heart — every one without exception — our natural instinct is to say, “Then God doesn’t want us”.
The amazing thing is that in addition to this verse, God says that He “so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” God did not send the Law to destroy us (and this is very important); he sent the Law to keep us from false hope.
The worst thing that can happen is to be going down a road to an important destination and think we are on the right track and spend all the time necessary to get there only to discover that the road peters out into nothingness. We find we have been on the wrong track and it is too late to go back. That was what was happening. So God, in his loving kindness, has given us the Law to keep us from taking a false path. Though the Law condemns us, it is that very condemnation that makes us willing to listen, so that we find the right path.
Paul says the Law does three things to us: First, it stops our mouth: We have nothing to say. We can always tell someone is close to becoming a Christian when they shut up and stop arguing back. Self-righteous people are always saying, “But — but this — but I — yes, but I do this — and I do that”. They are always arguing. But when they see the true meaning of the Law, their mouth is shut.
Second, Paul says, the whole world is held accountable to God. That makes us realize there is no easy way, no way by which death suddenly is going to dissolve all things into everlasting darkness, forever forgotten. The whole world has to stand before God. Hebrews puts it so starkly, It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment (Hebrews 9:27 KJV).
Finally, the Law reveals very clearly what sin is. What does the Law want of us? Jesus said that all the Law is summed up in one word: Love. All the Law asks us to do is to act in love. All these things the Law states are simply loving ways of acting. When we face ourselves before the Law, we have to confess that many, many times we fail in love. That is what the Law wants us to see, because, then, when all else fails, we are ready to listen to what follows.
God loved us enough to shut up all other ways — to block them out and tell us they are wrong and they do not lead anywhere — so that we give up trying to make ourselves good enough to belong to Him. He gave us the only way that has ever been provided, a righteousness that is given to us, that we never earned, but which is ours because we believe and trust in the Lord Jesus.
History repeats itself (today). RE: IRREGULAR WARFARE RE: TACTICS DEPLOYED v AMERICA Compare & Contrast Then v Now https://www.britannica.com/topic/SA-Nazi-organizationSA-Nazi-organization” target=”_new” title=”archive” id=”archive_today”> Then: methods of violent intimidation deployed by SA Now: methods of violent intimidation deployed by Antifa? Then: battles raged in the streets [book burning, flag burning, destruction, hate, anti-police, etc] Now: battles raging in the streets controlled by [D] party sympathizers [anti-republic]? Then: physical assaults of political opponents Now: physical assaults of political opponents? Then: voter intimidation in National and local elections Now: voter intimidation in National and local elections [coming 11.3]? Then: project anti-fascist platform: reality: conform/obey strong-arm tactics deployed to silence opposing views Now: project anti-fascist platform: reality: conform/obey strong-arm tactics deployed to silence opposing views? Then: radical anti-capitalistic platform (socialism) Now: radical anti-capitalistic platform (socialism) push? Then: force economic destruction as recruiting [division] tactic to drive enlistment rate Now: [D] party gov/mayor(s) close state(s) force economic hardships [C19]? Then: SA carried out unchecked street violence against Jews and Nazi opponents Now: [D] gov/mayor(s) carried out unchecked [deliberate non_prosecution orders 24-hour release] of Antifa rioters arrested [street violence – block-by-block takeover(s)]? [D] gov/mayor(s) release of violent criminals [many thousands] from prison(s) under guise of C19? https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-propaganda Use of propaganda by Nazi Germany Use of propaganda by MSDNC / Social Media (control of narrative – terminate opposing message (censorship-kill)) Soros history Assault on America. Ask yourself, why are [D] party leaders refusing to condemn the violence? Ask yourself, why are [D] party leaders refusing to seek a unified republic? IT WAS NEVER ABOUT THE VIRUS AND ALWAYS ABOUT THE ELECTION Was the Nazi party ever truly destroyed (eradicated)? Did the belief carry-on [re-deployed]?
The Democrats, together with the corrupt Fake News Media, have launched a massive Disinformation Campaign the likes of which has never been seen before. They will say anything, like their recent lies about me and the Military, and hope that it sticks… But #MAGA gets it!
I couldn’t find a video of an orchestra playing this, but since the storms are lined up…. (Still one movie that’s real, but unrealistic at the same time.)
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Fellow tree dweller Wheatie gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
In addition, it is requested that there be no swinging from the chandeliers, celebratory gunfire, messing around with the nuclear weapons, and, please, everyone wash your hands.
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Ridiculing the other side, on the other hand…well….
25Now concerning the unmarried, I have no command of the Lord, but I give my opinion as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy. 26I think that in view of the present distress it is well for a person to remain as he is. 27Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek marriage. 28But if you marry, you do not sin, and if a girl marries she does not sin. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that. 29I mean, brethren, the appointed time has grown very short; from now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none, 30and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no goods, 31and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the form of this world is passing away.
PSALMS 45:11-17
10Hear, O daughter, consider, and incline your ear; forget your people and your father’s house; 11and the king will desire your beauty. Since he is your lord, bow to him; 12the people of Tyre will sue your favor with gifts, the richest of the people 13with all kinds of wealth. The princess is decked in her chamber with gold-woven robes; 14in many-colored robes she is led to the king, with her virgin companions, her escort, in her train. 15With joy and gladness they are led along as they enter the palace of the king. 16Instead of your fathers shall be your sons; you will make them princes in all the earth.
LUKE 6:20-26
20And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: “Blessed are you poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. 21“Blessed are you that hunger now, for you shall be satisfied. “Blessed are you that weep now, for you shall laugh. 22“Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude you and revile you, and cast out your name as evil, on account of the Son of man! 23Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets. 24“But woe to you that are rich, for you have received your consolation. 25“Woe to you that are full now, for you shall hunger. “Woe to you that laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep. 26“Woe to you, when all men speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.
As always, prayers for the fight against that which seeks to enslave us are welcome.
Please include: President Donald Trump, the Q team, our soldiers in the field, special forces, tactical units, members of the Cabinet, first responders and those working behind the scenes.
Winston-Salem is called the “Twin City” for its dual heritage. “Camel City” is a reference to the city’s historic involvement in the tobacco industry related to locally based R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company’s Camel cigarettes. Many locals refer to the city as “Winston” in informal speech. Winston-Salem is also home to many colleges and institutions, most notably Wake Forest University and Winston-Salem State University.
Camels a day early, let’s see….
The last time I saw somebody with a pack of these, I was in Italy.
Just like so many places in the historic south, the housing was built high to avoid the fumes from the horse droppings.
Salem The origin of the town of Salem dates to January 1753, when Bishop August Gottlieb Spangenberg, on behalf of the Moravian Church, selected a settlement site in the three forks of Muddy Creek. He called this area “die Wachau” (Latin form: Wachovia) named after the ancestral estate of Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf. The land, just short of 99,000 acres (400 km2), was subsequently purchased from John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville.
On November 17, 1753, the first settlers arrived at what would later become the town of Bethabara. This town, despite its rapid growth, was not designed to be the primary settlement on the tract. Some residents expanded to a nearby settlement called Bethania in 1759. Finally, lots were drawn to select among suitable sites for the location of a new town.
The town established on the chosen site was given the name of Salem (from “Shalom” meaning “Peace”, after the Canaanite city mentioned in the Book of Genesis) chosen for it by the Moravians’ late patron, Count Zinzendorf. On January 6, 1766, the first tree was felled for the building of Salem. Salem was a typical Moravian settlement congregation with the public buildings of the congregation grouped around a central square, today Salem Square. These included the church, a Brethren’s House and a Sisters’ House for the unmarried members of the Congregation, which owned all the property in town. For many years only members of the Moravian Church were permitted to live in the settlement. This practice had ended by the American Civil War. Many of the original buildings in the settlement have been restored or rebuilt and are now part of Old Salem Museums & Gardens.[8]
Salem was incorporated as a town in December 1856.[9] Salem Square and “God’s Acre”, the Moravian Graveyard, since 1772 are the site each Easter morning of the world-famous Moravian sunrise service. This service, sponsored by all the Moravian church parishes in the city, attracts thousands of worshipers each year.[10]
Winston In 1849, the Salem congregation sold land north of Salem to the newly formed Forsyth County for a county seat. The new town was called “the county town” or Salem until 1851 when it was renamed Winston for a local hero of the Revolutionary War, Joseph Winston.[11] For its first two decades, Winston was a sleepy county town. In 1868, work began by Salem and Winston business leaders to connect the town to the North Carolina Railroad.[12] That same year, Thomas Jethro Brown of Davie County rented a former livery stable and established the first tobacco warehouse in Winston. That same year, Pleasant Henderson Hanes, also of Davie, built his first tobacco factory a few feet from Brown’s warehouse. In 1875, Richard Joshua Reynolds, of Patrick County, Virginia, built his first tobacco factory a few hundred feet from Hanes’s factory. By the 1880s, there were almost 40 tobacco factories in the town of Winston. Hanes and Reynolds would compete fiercely for the next 25 years, each absorbing a number of the smaller manufacturers, until Hanes sold out to Reynolds in 1900 to begin a second career in textiles.
So, Winston-Salem actually started life as two different cities and was combined by the post office, actually, in 1880
In the 1880s, the US Post Office began referring to the two towns as Winston-Salem. In 1899, after nearly a decade of contention, the United States Post Office Department established the Winston-Salem post office in Winston, with the former Salem office serving as a branch. After a referendum the towns were officially incorporated as “Winston-Salem” in 1913.
The Reynolds family, namesake of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, played a large role in the history and public life of Winston-Salem. By the 1940s, 60% of Winston-Salem workers worked either for Reynolds or in the Hanes textile factories.[13] The Reynolds company imported so much French cigarette paper and Turkish tobacco for Camel cigarettes that Winston-Salem was designated by the United States federal government as an official port of entry for the United States, despite the city being 200 miles (320 km) inland.[13] Winston-Salem was the eighth-largest port of entry in the United States by 1916.[13]
In 1917, the Reynolds company bought 84 acres (340,000 m2) of property in Winston-Salem and built 180 houses that it sold at cost to workers, to form a development called “Reynoldstown.”[13] By the time R.J. Reynolds died in 1918, his company owned 121 buildings in Winston-Salem.[13]
I’ll add live links to this post during the late afternoon as they become available.
Cover image:From the 9-11 Memorial FDNY Remembrance Wall, bronze, designed by Viggo Rambusch. The full wall can be viewed here.
And in that spirit, from the Labor Day press conference:
TRUMP: "I'm not saying the military's in love with me. The soldiers are. The top people in the Pentagon probably aren't because they want to do nothing but fight wars so all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else stay happy" pic.twitter.com/YYEbjRuZyb
Given the anniversary coming on Friday, this one seems appropriate:
And a reminder to take the pledge:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”
And now for the nitty gritty of the Q Tree 5 minute, stand up, Tuesday morning meeting version of the Daily Thread.
The discourse on this site is to be CIVIL – no name calling, baiting, or threatening others here is allowed. Those who are so inclined may visit Wolf’s other sanctuary, the U-Tree, to slog it out with anyone who happens to still be hanging out there.
This site is a celebration of the natural rights endowed to humans by our Creator as well as those enshrined in the Bill of Rights adopted in the founding documents of the United States of America. Within the limits of law, how we exercise these rights is part of the freedom of our discussion.
Fellow tree dweller Wheatie gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:
1Now you are walled about with a wall; siege is laid against us; with a rod they strike upon the cheek the ruler of Israel. 2But you, O Bethlehem Eph’rathah, who are little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days. 3Therefore he shall give them up until the time when she who is in travail has brought forth; then the rest of his brethren shall return to the people of Israel. 4And he shall stand and feed his flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God. And they shall dwell secure, for now he shall be great to the ends of the earth.
As always, prayers for the fight against that which seeks to enslave us are welcome. Via con Dios.
This Labor Day Stormwatch Monday Open Thread is VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KMAG/KAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Yes, it’s Monday…again.
But it’s okay! It’s a Holiday!
You can go back to bed:
Or have a nap:
Free Speech is practiced here at the Q Tree. But please keep it civil. Discussion of Q is not only allowed but encouraged. Imagine that! We can talk about Q here and not get banned.
Please also consider the Important Guidelines, outlined here. Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.
Our President is fighting for us night and day…please pray for him.
Wheatie’s Rules:
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
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For your listening enjoyment, I offer this composition from Elephant Music, titled ‘Starlings’:
This year, Labor Day is at a time when our country is trying to get back to work.
America wants to work. And we don’t want to have to wear a mask to do it.
Let’s get back to when it was No Mask Required!
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Wheatie’s Word of the Day:
Facinorous
‘Facinorous’ is an adjective which means…atrociously wicked, vile or sinister.
Used in a sentence:
The child trafficking rings are finally being busted and taken down…along with the facinorous pedophiles who have been doing unspeakable things to our children.
6 When Jonah’s warning reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust. 7 This is the proclamation he issued in Nineveh:
“By the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let people or animals, herds or flocks, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink. 8 But let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence. 9 Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.”
10 When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.
This Superlative Sanctuary Sunday Open Thread, with full respect to those who worship God on the Sabbath, is a place to reaffirm our worship of our Creator, our Father, our King Eternal.
It is also a place to read, post and discuss news that is worth knowing and sharing. Please post links to any news stories that you use as sources or quote from.
In the QTree, we’re a friendly and civil lot. We encourage free speech and the open exchange and civil discussion of different ideas. Topics aren’t constrained, and sound logic is highly encouraged, all built on a solid foundation of truth and established facts.
We have a policy of mutual respect, shown by civility. Civility encourages discussions, promotes objectivity and rational thought in discourse, and camaraderie in the participants – characteristics we strive toward in our Q Tree community.
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In The Q Tree, we’re compatriots, sitting around the campfire, roasting hot dogs, making s’mores and discussing, agreeing, and disagreeing about whatever interests us. This board will remain a home for those who seek respectful conversations.
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The Storm is upon us. Please remember to Pray for our President.
AND WHAT TIME IS IT? TIME TO DRAIN THE SWAMP!!!
It’s time to replace a failed and CORRUPT political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American People. ~ Candidate Donald J. Trump
Also remember Wheatie’s Rules:
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
And,
On this day and every day –
God is in Control . . . and His Grace is Sufficient, so . . . Keep Looking Up
Hopefully, every Sunday, you can find something here that will build you up a little . . . give you a smile . . . and add some joy or peace, very much needed in all our lives.
“This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn nor weep.” . . . “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
Awakening or Cleansing?
wheatietoo September 4, 2020 at 00:53
“20/20 vision” has long been used to refer to ‘perfect vision’…right? What better time to have the Great Awakening than in the year 2020.
I don’t know if Wheatie was referring to a spiritual Great Awakening or also included an awakening of the general populace to the depths of corruption in our nation’s and world’s governments. (or verse vica)
Be that as it may, her post got me thinking about how beneficial a spiritual great awakening would be to us today.
In many ways, before the Great Awakening, Christian worship had become more formal and less personal, relying on a minister and church rites and formalities for their worship. Christians were feeling complacent with their methods of worship. Many began to crave a return to religious piety.
The Great Awakening reinvigorated Christian worship in America at a time when it was steadily declining. Ordinary people were encouraged to make a personal connection with God.
Although the details of the Great Awakenings are varied (most say two Awakenings, some say three), their messages served the same purpose: to awaken and reenergize the waning Christian faith and return to worship practices that directly involved the people of the day.
At the present, I don’t know of any general worship movement away from the personal and toward the formal, but for years there has been a general movement away from God, and toward “other gospels”, more secular emphasis, social wokeness influence and even involvement with spirits, witchcraft and devil worship.
Yes, we could benefit greatly from a revival now. The time is certainly ripe for that.
“If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
And then Wheatie’s road made me think of “From Here to Eternity”, not James Jones’ fictional novel (although there are definite parallels there), but an allegory to reality, with our present broad, evident road dwindling in the future to a pinpoint, leading to the Narrow Gate into eternity.
The road we see at the present is broad, encompassing all the paths available to us these days, both beneficial and harmful, that we may willingly or become enticed to travel down.
As the road advances into the future, we see human refuse off to the side . . . those who have chosen not to travel The Way, until it ultimately reaches the Narrow Gate.
Dora, not to be outdone by Wheatie, adds that the Lord “will clear his threshing floor and gather His wheat into His barn, but the chaff He will burn with unquenchable fire” (Mt. 3:12). This sorting-out process has been taking place, to one extent or another, throughout the Church’s history, but now it seems to be intensifying or approaching a climax. Not only do the tragic and degrading trends within our society and the larger world suggest that things cannot continue as they are for much longer; the various difficulties and divisions with the Church—most especially those involving the sexual abuse scandal—strongly suggest that a painful but necessary purification process is underway.”
All of this is true, and whether by Revival or Cleansing (or both), we now find ourselves at what I believe will prove to be a momentous crossroads in history.
Wheatie, obviously working overtime, adds “In this world you shall have tribulation. But have confidence, for I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33)
As we look around our country and the world, we should not fear that the widespread corruption will engulf us to our destruction. We are not of this world. The godless world has and will be judged to its own destruction. The war has already been won and the victory is ours.
“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many dwellings; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know.”
Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?”
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American People...Our campaign represents a true existential threat, like they’ve never seen before.
Then-Candidate Donald J. Trump
Lawyer Appeasement Section
OK now for the fine print.
This is the WQTH Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Poltical correctness, but civility is a requirement. There are Important Guidelines, here, with an addendum on 20191110.
We have a new board – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation.
And remember Wheatie’s Rules:
1. No food fights 2. No running with scissors. 3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone. 4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns. 5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded. 5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty. 6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy. 7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire. 8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.
(Hmm a few extras seem to have crept in.)
The Mandatory Coin
Thought of something in the nick of time. (This will probably post a few minutes late.)
One of the products of the California Gold Rush was the twenty dollar gold piece. I’ve talked about those a few times. But there was another, lesser known item, the one dollar gold piece.
These were tiny! Imagine that a 20 dollar gold piece was somewhat smaller than a silver dollar (but much heavier). A twentieth of that…well, that would have to be less than half the size of a dime! And indeed it was. (Now, it wasn’t less than half the width of a dime, but rather, less than half the volume of a dime. If the proportions were the same, it would have to be less than 4/5ths the diameter and less than 4/5th of the thickness to be less than half the volume of a dime. But even that looks tiny.)
There were three major varieties of these coins. From 1849-1849 was what we call today Type I.
Type I $1 gold piece. In 1849 there were three different variations, open and close wreath (this looks open to me) and somewhere on some of the close wreath coins James Longacre’s initial L appears very small, This was continued into 1854.
Type I was 13 millimeters across, making it barely half the width of a quarter.
My apologies for how wretched and worn that coin looks, but it seems to be rather difficult to find a picture with both sides of the coin in it and I’m pressed for time!
Type II is by far the hardest and most expensive to collect, it ran from 1854-1856, and is also known as the Indian Princess. They made the coin thinner so they could make it wider, it’s now 15mm across.
I said it was called the Indian Princess…but no Indian Princess ever wore an ostrich feather headdress. (Yes, those are ostrich feathers.)
This final coin is of course the easiest to locate, and there’s only about $100 worth of gold in it, so most here can probably manage to find one.
These were very popular as Christmas gifts. When it was discontinued in 1889, that job fell to the quarter eagle (i.e., the $2 1/2 gold piece).
During this entire period of time the US was also issuing silver dollars or trade dollars (special heavier dollars made for trade with China). In 1873, in fact, all three types of coins were minted as that was the year the Liberty Seated dollar was dropped and the Trade Dollar begun, also for a while in the late 1870s and early 1880s both Trade and Morgan silver dollars were being made.
So yet another way to have a dollar in your pocket that maybe some of you were unaware of!
Important Reminder
To conclude: My standard Public Service Announcement. We don’t want to forget this!!!
Remember Hong Kong!!!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=L3tnH4FGbd0%3F
I hope this guy isn’t rotting in the laogai somewhere!
中国是个混蛋 !!! Zhōngguò shì gè hùndàn !!! China is asshoe !!!
I have been on the Martin Gugino story since nearly the beginning, when I created this screenshot from an original video at exactly [TIMESTAMP]: Fri 05 Jun 2020 12∶52∶17 AM EDT.
I then blew it up 3X and focused in, taking another screenshot of the expanded screenshot, at Fri 05 Jun 2020 01∶02∶34 AM EDT.
From that moment on, #GuginoGate has been a FIGHT in my battlespace, and has escalated to international confrontation – as well it should.
THERE IS NO BACKING DOWN FROM THE TRUTH.
Not for this Wolf.
I had hoped to do a definitive piece on GuginoGate, and while planning it, I realized there would likely be many small pieces, missed at first, to be added later. THUS, I’m going to steal one of Daughn’s favorite tricks, and present this as a TIMELINE. Timelines are easy to update, yet stay coherent and relevant. They present the full story, and they are useful like crazy to other researchers – as was my early observation simply QUESTIONING the Gugino narrative, and providing a visual reason WHY.
So here we go – a TIMELINE OF GUGINOGATE. All times are Eastern Daylight Time (NYC).
I will start not at the moment of Gugino’s actions, but rather at the point where the PUBLIC became aware of them.
UPDATE
Thanks to a great comment by Dep Pat, now an article, I have decided to get this thing back out of the Drafts folder and publish it. WE have the goods. NOW is the time to get them out.
Click on the article link to see how GuginoGate was revealed to be a great example of REALITY HACKING.
I have preserved this tweet as an image, in case it is ever deleted.
If you go to look at WBFO’s managed timeline of replies to this tweet, you will see *EXCEPTIONAL* grooming of the responses. Only a very few, selected responses remain. Only a very few, very weak tweets contradicting the “MSM narrative” of Gugino are seen, and effective responses to those tweets are left in place. Absolutely no replies suggesting fraud or trickery are seen, even though (see below) we know that such responses began within a few hours elsewhere.
Indeed, among the early responses, only this thread of updates and replies by WBFO itself remain, ENDING IN A FUNDRAISING PITCH.
Note that the political payday began IMMEDIATELY – that night – June 4. This creates a new question – were WBFO and other media left-activists ready to pounce on the Police Commissioner with this “reporting”? Worse still, was there any collusion with Democrat government officials – possibly deniable?
Note the close association of WBFO and NPR (Twitter profile logo). This will become extremely relevant.
11:42 PM
Kim Dotcom tweets about the Desmond/Gugino footage, characterizing it as “attempting to shake hands”. This is the video from WBFO that I analyzed.
A peaceful man who just wanted to shake hands with Police officers, a gesture of respect, was pushed to the ground, smashed his head on the concrete, blood coming from his ears, unconscious, and Police just keeps walking like nothing happened. Insane USA. https://t.co/ApFigpMqcx
Here is the video’s introductory image, which shows the initial phone positioning quite well, with excellent resolution.
JUNE 5
12:25 AM
New York Times is already fronting the story.
Two police officers in Buffalo, New York, were suspended after shoving a protester in this incident that was caught on video. An official said the man was hospitalized with a head injury.
As a follower of Kim Dotcom on Twitter, I see his late tweet of the WBFO/NPR footage.
I watch the footage for the handshake, but it’s clearly not a handshake, because something is in his extended right hand. Interestingly, it appears that his hand and arm motions are designed to appear plausible in TWO NARRATIVES:
Trying to shake hands with two cops
Trying to “do something” with the cop’s belts
I will come back to this later.
My initial theory is that Gugino is FILMING the cop weaponry, so that ANTIFA or other [probably violent] leftists engaging the police can see what the police are carrying in real time. I’m also thinking that this is a form of “bird-dogging” as described by associates and underlings of Robert Creamer, such as Scott Foval, in undercover videos from Project Veritas. The waving at the cop belt is meant to provoke the police, since they are trained to NEVER let people grab at their belts, and to react swiftly if people DO grab (or even point closely) at their belts.
1:30 AM
I tweet about my observations.
Watch how ANTIFA or some other violent group gets REAL TIME intel on cop armaments, and BIRD-DOGS THEM at the same time. They send an old guy up to engage the marching cops, and he walks up to them filming. At the right moment, he makes his move, and films tac belt & weaponry. pic.twitter.com/33hVpPsqXm
I also point out that Kim Dotcom calling this “offering to shake hands” was quite disingenuous.
Kim Dotcom tried to pass this off as the bird-dogger walking up to shake hands with the cops, but it was pretty clear that he had something in his hand. Not cool that Dotcom tried to gaslight us.
Note by what I say in the second tweet, that I have at this point ALREADY seen theories that the blood on the ground was somehow STAGED, but I am not contending for those theories – just mentioning them.
2:00 AM
Sundance is already spotting the problematic hand-motions – one way or another they are “not innocuous”. Sundance is leaning toward a new theory – radio skimming.
Watch the old guy's right hand closely. This was not innocuous. He's attempting to either record the police tactical belt, and/or skim the radio… Watch it a few times; you'll see. https://t.co/eV3GaoWRqR
Sundance’s Twitter post includes a long thread outlining the radio-skimming theory. My initial reaction is to admit the radio-skimming theory as being, OVERALL, just as reasonable as the tactical-belt-video-capture theory.
7:00 AM
By daybreak, I’m already receiving flak on this, which will grow to be more than I’ve gotten in YEARS. Example:
Nothing wrong with me – and I don't engage in YOUR malicious pretense that a bird-dogging hoaxer trying to score phony media points is some innocent old gent. You THINK with your feelings – your "good lies". Yeah, you're a "good person" to socialism, but you promote LIES. pic.twitter.com/wSGfwDTBoq
I found it interesting at the time, that Buffalo’s mayor was taking steps to keep the police placated and to stay on their side. Clearly he was not ready to go down the road of some Democrat mayors, turning on their police forces.
Alert viewers of the video are already pointing out the suspicious use of medical tubing on the inner mask of Gugino’s double mask, and positing more strongly that it was a STAGED event.
Gugino is also spotted talking on his phone soon afterward. This is normal for a simple bonk of the head – it is absolutely not normal for blood running out of the ear. Something is wrong here.
Note that the Twitter user who spotted the tubing is being responded to with the artful deception that “it’s just two masks”. This is a partial truth – yes, there is a second mask – and it’s clear on closer inspection that the “second mask” is a real but modified mask that is used as a plausible architecture to get tubing into play and then get it to the ears.
This is why it’s important to understand how PLAUSIBILITY is used as a weapon by the left, to create compelling LIES.
6:00 PM
Sundance posts a DEFINITIVE article on Gugino, collecting numerous threads, which is then used as background by all researchers, including (undoubtedly) OAN. This will prove critical later.
Sundance’s article includes the RED MEAT PHOTO of Gugino talking with video submitter Mike Desmond, a reporter for WBFO/NPR before the incident, but does not identify Desmond as the man in the picture.
JUNE 7
There is now a MASSIVE online response, including both AI bots and live leftists. Whoever or whatever is noting here that Gugino’s fall does not look natural, that user is double-teamed by deniers – one live, one likely a bot.
This is the day that all hell breaks loose, and attacks between corporate media entities begin.
OAN’s Pearson Sharp does a 5-minute segment on Gugino – this creates a MASSIVE frenzy on the left.
8:30 AM
Trump tweets about Gugino, with attribution to OANN TV coverage, and the left descends into paroxysms of angst.
Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur. 75 year old Martin Gugino was pushed away after appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment. @OANN I watched, he fell harder than was pushed. Was aiming scanner. Could be a set up?
MSNBC Producer Kyle Griffin attacks OAN reporter Pearson Sharp with “Muh Russia” conspiracy theory angle.
The OANN reporter behind the false report that led to Trump's tweet is a Russian national who also writes for Kremlin-owned Sputnik, according to The Daily Beast.https://t.co/ugqxgK6Igz
A hit job on Trump, attempting to discredit Trump’s tweet by linking it to Sundance and The Conservative Treehouse, is launched by Will Sommer of The Daily Beast.
I cautiously ask for more information about who Gugino is talking to in the photo of him with Mike Desmond. I don’t yet realize who it is – I think it’s somebody I know in a completely different context, which would constitute a major national security problem.
If anybody has more or better pictures or video of the bystander he's talking to in this photo, please post. pic.twitter.com/57w6ShSrot
Trump's theory that injured Buffalo protester Martin Gugino is a high-tech antifa spy comes from The Conservative Treehouse — one of the most bizarre, but surprisingly influential, parts of the conservative internet. https://t.co/r3vQy97uEx
I am already starting to realize – in part thanks to Will Sommer’s criticisms of the “wanding” theories (quite ironic) that:
Gugino’s “wanding” was clearly provocative / malevolent in nature, and
Kim Dotcom shilling on “handshake offer” is also very bogus, but
theories of it are sketchy and could be wrong, so
what if BOTH wanding and handshake lie are a kind of Hegelian misdirection, meaning
wanding was designed to provoke the cops and create misdirection, and
the “bridge too far” of stage fakery on blood is the real hoax?
Thus, I began a reply thread which led me to the key experiment. Here, I am only describing a “gedanken experiment” – this will later become an ACTUAL experiment.
Exactly. At first I thought a blood-to-ear hoax was a bridge too far, but I can actually make the trick work with stuff I have on hand RIGHT NOW. It's actually very ingenious.
The too-fast, too-soon, over-and-done flow is key. Flow is from a static pool, driven by gravity.
cc: @TheLastRefuge2. Here is how it works. An inner mask w/ med tubing ear loops creates plausibility for med tubing. That inner mask holds a thin bladder of blood, probably from a lefty nurse draw, with 2 openings at the top *when standing* – 1 to ear tube, 1 to air inlet.
It is the act of falling itself to a back-down horizontal position that activates blood flow. Ear is above chin before fall. Ear is below chin after fall. This can also explain somebody's observation that blood appeared in the ear in one frame BEFORE HITTING THE GROUND.
The beauty of this device is that there is nothing to it other than the inner mask w/ hidden pouch – THE ENTIRE DEVICE – easily separated and pocketed as a bloody mess, then tossed in medical rubbish. It is almost undetectable, its function camouflaged by the tubing ear loops.
The whole thing is a stage prop, hidden by 1.5 masks and plausible ear loops, almost fool-proof because the mechanism is so simple – GRAVITY. If the drainage is complete, even the emptied inner mask arouses no suspicions if the pouch is well designed and concealed btw. layers.
We will come back to this later, when I add a tweet about the ACTUAL experiment, done because somebody wanted me to do a video demo.
Clearly, I am not going to do a doxxing video through Menshevik YouTube, but I did something even better – a HOME EXPERIMENT that anybody can do.
7:30 PM
OANN tweets about their Gugino coverage.
Startling new details reveal Martin Gugino may be an anarchist with ties to radical left-wing terrorist group Antifa. Video from before the event also suggests he was actually trying to provoke police. One America's @PearsonSharp reports.@realDonaldTrumphttps://t.co/gqnqXJje99
This is when I realize the full extent – the ingenious nature of the stagecraft. Follow along.
12:30 AM
I just did an experiment that worked perfectly, so you can prove it to yourself.
Take about 18-22 inches of 1/4-inch clear plastic tubing. Hold the two ends UP, together, and pour water into one end until the tubing fills with water. Keep the two ends both pointed UP.
The tubing will curl to help hold itself in place. Placing your chin in the center of the "U", curl the two ends behind your ears and over the tops of them. The water will still fill the tubing, but the tubing should hold on like you're wearing glasses. Reverse it if not.
On a waterproof floor like linoleum, fall *smartly* backward, leading with the side where you want the water to spill. The acts of looking and leading will direct the water to that side. Fall all the way back, butt, hips, back, head, with head hitting and resting on the floor.
Stay down for a few seconds, then get up. Look at the floor. There should be a small puddle of water of the same size and shape as was seen next to Gugino's ear.
This method is even better, because no special bladder is needed – it uses the delivery tubing as the reservoir.
Given that this method is so simple and elegant, fits the path of the "inner mask" tubing in the video, and could easily be practiced, plus it leaves so little evidence after the liquid drains, this is now my preferred theory – inner mask lower tubing section as reservoir.
Sure did. Just remember – lying about medical conditions is – COUGH – child's play (Munchhausen syndrome). What is even more remarkable is that an ADULT can do it *through* a child (Munchhausen by proxy).
Head injuries are very easy to malinger on – as easy as walking off.
My buddy Michael then swoops in with the napalm. Then I TAUNT on defunding NPR. Watch how ShadowGate defends, including “pretending not to know” what I’m talking about, but then gets blown away by multiple logical thinkers.
.@OANN needs to stick to this story – it's going to get YUGE. There is a reason CANKLES jumped in. The left knows that the Trump lion and OAN has their favorite pet dog by the tail.
HINT – where did you *always* hear the word "DEFUND" before it was "defund the police"?
I think the big story is THIS GUY. I initially thought I knew who Gugino was talking to, before the incident. If it would have been that person, it would have been a big shocker, and would have had serious IC implications. HUGE story. Very dangerous. So I asked. pic.twitter.com/t0K1kx48CS
Somebody answered my question somewhere – they said it was the same guy who shot the video. Mike Desmond of WBFO/NPR. And oddly he does look like who I thought it was, but only from the side profile.https://t.co/t2h3JHbC00pic.twitter.com/LIIoqCphXZ
THIS is why the story is so radioactive, IMO, and OAN is taking so much heat, undeservedly.
If there IS hoaxing and/or left-rad comms activity involved here, this reporter becomes a MATERIAL WITNESS at the very least – and it could be much worse.
There must be consequences for hoaxing at all levels, from Ferguson to Jussie Smollett to #GuginoGate. We particularly need to scare off hoaxing designed to be amplified by the media. The idea that it's "just a prank" is serving as an escape clause that needs erasure.
Good grief, to say nothing of the "Muh Russia" Hoax which tried to FRAME A PRESIDENT. Hillary Clinton is STILL using that one! If there are no laws which touch MA CANKLES for her role in THE HOAX, then there need to be new laws written AFTER the #ObamaGate hoaxers go down.
Agreed. BIG. They're deploying a lot of what appear to be AI psych-bots. I think this is what @laralogan may be talking about. The DEM PAC admits to AI bots boosting anti-@realDonaldTrump, but I believe they are also subtly acting against our side, too.https://t.co/RubVnsuYuH
PS – I just did a test of this theory using 21 inches of 1/4-inch plastic tubing filled with water, and it worked perfectly to deliver a Gugino-sized puddle, so I'm able to remove the reservoir and just use the tubing, leaving almost no evidence.https://t.co/FqfgIpjZvv
A critical post. The blood looked “off” to me – I was not alone. Note also that Sundance’s tweet is a DIRECT response to Trump’s tweet, made the previous day.
ER tech for yrs. Many red flags on this that make no sense from start. But dead giveaway w no getting around it and no legit reason for it -WRONG COLOR BLOOD. Not even touching on other red flags this was staged. Wrong color blood=fake.
Others are calling out problems with the blood hoax, but in the end, it’s all the same. Honest skeptics vs. paid ShadowGate insincere questioners.
JUNE 11
The Atlantic publishes a hit piece on OAN’s Chanel Rion, stepping up the game by a flanking strike on OAN’s most well-known and recognizable reporter. Note that Rion was mercilessly effective on Biden’s Ukraine corruption, and thus the Biden campaign is part of this strike.
I immediately link this back to Pearson Sharp’s reporting on GuginoGate.
Here's 'sup. @OANN's @PearsonSharp is on #Gugino like white on rice, and the left is freakin' cuz that NPR reporter who filmed was (IMO) likely in on the hoax. IMO the belt-waving w/ phone was phony provocation – media blood hoax was goal.
You can see that my thinking has evolved at this point in time. “The Wave” – meaning Gugino waving his phone at the cop’s belt – may have been totally ineffective and PHONY in terms of being either filming or skimming – only FBI investigation can really ascertain the truth there. However, the MOTION of “the wave” was likely to have been VERY intentional – a means to bait the police into a blood hoax.
Note also that Twitter highly restricted engagement on this tweet.
11:30 PM
The Daily Caller publishes sourced (but sources not revealed) allegations that Gugino suffered skull fracture and brain injury (can’t walk), per his lawyer. I do not see this.
75-Year-Old Protester Pushed To Ground By Buffalo Police Suffered Brain Injury, Lawyer Says https://t.co/PH8qC1zL4i
In the morning, Pearson Sharp issues a devastating televised response to the “mainstream” Fake News media, challenging them to point out any factual inaccuracies in his reporting.
I realize that the “dual plausiblity” of the motion at the cop belts was not just intended to fraudulently provoke the police, but to actually provide a phony narrative of “shaking hands”. This raises the question of whether Kim Dotcom was tricked into supporting the phony handshake narrative by a phony tip, or whether he was a knowing part of the scam.
I lean to KNOWING at the point of editing this timeline.
JUNE 15
The relationship of Desmond and Gugino gets major scrutiny. It turns out to be much deeper than just chatting by chance.
When I started at the Courier-Express, I sat next to Mike Desmond, who took that video in Buffalo. Turns out the man at the center of it is Mike's high school classmate.https://t.co/pzttqSjEaj
I immediately question this information, which came through Gugino’s attorney. My suspicion is a tiny possible fracture and malingering very typical of union worker’s comp scams.
Gugino is a SCAMMER. REALITY CHECK. After all these lies and scammy statements, take nothing from these people at face value.
I'm betting Gugino and Desmond are both going to the mat on lies to protect NPR from the hoax. Gugino waved hand like failed handshake (far, Kim Dotcom shill) AND skimmer wave (close, for cops). Provoked a shove, tubing rig obvious and works (check my timeline).
I posit that the Brady piece is “cushioning the fall” for Desmond and Gugino.
This might be termed "cushioning the fall". They did this when it turned out that Loretta Lynch was a family friend of Eric Holder. Before the news of that scandal got out through Orly Taitz, the leftist media pimped a fluff version of the relationship through Chicago Tribune.
NPR gets into trouble AGAIN in a different incident. Follow the thread.
This story went from bad to worse. First, local news (@WLK) said police were interested in interviewing a driver who struck a protester. @WLKY purposefully omitted the first part of the video showing protesters attacking the driver.pic.twitter.com/kUnw7BlpTb
This is when I set aside timeline construction. Tweets about my experiments were not added yet – so I just added them now in preparation to publish. I did the BELOW yesterday (9/3/20).
Post-GuginoGate NPR Follies
Once I realized just how FAKE NPR could be – how DEFUNDING NPR is not only a duty, but a requirement – in fact, how PROSECUTING NPR is a more rational response – I began to see how NPR cheats and lies everywhere.
For example, NPR / PBS put out propaganda – a “wear a mask” “public service” announcement – which literally LIED about the hypoxic effects of masks. That one involved a soy-boy saying masks don’t affect oxygen, while showing a PPE-encrusted doctor in a mask, who is showing an oximeter reading “99” and shrugging.
That is not SCIENCE – that’s PROPAGANDA. I have done the experiments myself, and shown that masks not only lower blood oxygen in a periodic way which alternates with “recovery breathing” – they result in cumulative cognitive defecit.
See my results, and how you can demonstrate it to yourself, HERE:
Do the experiment yourself – I challenge you. THAT is science.
All this – HIDDEN by NPR / PBS – because the politics of “wear a mask” and “obey stupid orders” is more important.
But wait – there’s more.
NPR has now enlisted the great (and I still love the guy) Rick Steves to do a documentary about the dangers of fascism, based on his travelogues from Europe – which are always wonderful.
Full disclosure – I have a Rick Steves section on my bookshelf. He’s a hero, even if he’s a bit of a lefty and “political pilgrim”. So he’s getting a lot of benefit of the doubt here.
Steves’ point about “leaving the baggage at home” is actually a very good one. Understanding other places and cultures is immensely facilitated by doing this. HOWEVER, I find that REMEMBERING what my baggage looks like and what is in it, allows me to decipher and understand even more deeply.
Now – let me just start off by saying that I WELCOME but have absolutely no deficiency of warnings about the dangers of “fascism”. I was raised on stories of Hitler, to the point that almost everybody who knows me, but who doesn’t believe that oppressive government is a danger in America, says the exact same thing, in these exact words – “Your mother brainwashed you about Hitler!”
Oh – people have no idea. It’s not just “Hitler is bad, and it could easily happen to America, too.” It was WAY beyond that. Someday, I’ll get into the details.
One of the most important ideas, however, was this. Whenever I probed my mother for a way to stop “Hitler or anything like him” from coming to America – asking my mother WHY Germany allowed Hitler to take power, she was resolute. It was ALWAYS the same answer – it was because of communists rioting in the streets. Communist violence was what was needed to make the German people “reach” for the stupid solution of Hitler.
Anybody who thinks “Trump is Hitler” is an idiot, and a victim of propaganda. Trump’s own daughter is married to an orthodox Jew, who Trump trusts like a son. SPARE ME.
Oh, trust me – I know who the “dumb but still somewhat cunning” real Nazis are. I keep my eye on those people on Gab, and maybe you understand why. But those are not the real danger now. The real danger is their antithesis – the people who are also victims of different propaganda – who DREAM of conflict with an antithesis that they themselves are “tasked to create”, albeit somewhat unknowingly.
Extremism gins up its antithesis. Smart, cunning, and devious extremism gins up its antithesis FASTER and more obviously, to promote itself.
Trump’s “both sides / both fine and not fine” recognition evidences true understanding.
Biden’s furthering of the “fine people hoax” evidences devious understanding. Biden knowingly promotes the furthering of violent and destabilizing extremism.
The Rick Steves documentary fails to fully understand the role of international communism – socialism – leftism – whatever – in generating fascism. Absolutely NOT MENTIONED. And there is no way he could have gotten an NPR gig on this if he DID mention it, but – well – that’s life in media land.
Communism tries to sell its own paltry benefits and massive downside under the guise of “anti-fascism” – in America’s case, before there really IS any fascism. Again, “ginning up” or “spinning up” an antithesis is what they’re doing.
I hope you all are beginning to see the danger. Calling out an alternative form of socialism, set up as an empowering antithetical co-target by a different form of socialism, is simply a dirty trick designed to work on “feeble” minds – where feeble are people who may be highly educated and even clearly smart, but who have not been exposed to ALL FORMS of socialist trickery.
“He did it!” “No, HE did it!” “No, SHE did it!” And thus, true popular government is DESTROYED.
It is very UNSAFE for us to condemn “fascism” without condemning the communism/socialism which promotes other useful front movements like “anarchism” (violence) and “fascism” (national socialism) as TOOLS.
If we condemn fascism and not communism, we are DECEIVED.
So – back to the story – Rick Steves is now a TOOL of what I call our new “anti-national” socialists. Sure, he’s very much on the money talking about the dangers of fascism, but (1) it ain’t Trump, and (2) he’s missing the CAUSE of fascism that will gin up new/old forms of fascism over and over and over again, so that we play whack-a-mole with EFFECTS instead of CAUSES.
NOTE – Rick Steves never SAYS Trump is fascist, but there is a kind of “pregnant vacuum” that sells DVDs, let’s just say. It may even be that Steves editorially REFUSED to point at Trump, and I would applaud him for that, because the REAL fascist is going to be somebody else. But still, it’s very clear that his documentary will fuel the thinking of “Trump = Hitler” types.
That is just wrong. NEOCONS strike me was the best and most fertile ground for a real form of American fascism. But it could even be something else – an emergent alt-neocon wing which “gets” the role of communists but does not “get” restraint and rule of law – which embraces draconian measures against leftists. THAT is where Rick Steves is very useful for people to BONK THEMSELVES ON THE HEAD and say “am I embracing fascist methods against other forms of socialism?”
Same problem, a different way.
We have to keep things in BALANCE, which is HARD. If you’re thinking that Chris Wray’s statement about going after criminal behavior and not ideology is dumb, think again. He gets heaps of praise from me for that one. He GETS the DANGERS. And it is dangerous.
And yes, I could add CHURCHES, SATANISTS, MASONS, BANKERS, ROYALS, and other groups [COUGH] to this drama, particularly in Europe, where transnational groups have always been at an advantage – or disadvantage, in times of persecution – but then we get into a level of complexity that we don’t need right now. Let’s stick to POLITICS and PROXIMATE CAUSES.
Bottom line – ideologically – NPR = ANTIFA. Watch the Rick Steves programming – you will see exactly what I’m saying. The script does everything to glorify “antifascist” as an ideal. That’s dangerously close to ANTIFA, for y’all paying attention. It’s “armchair Antifa propaganda” for liberal PBS viewers.
I know that’s hard to accept, but if you’re having difficulty, then try NPR = KPD.
Think of it this way. WOLF here is an “anti-fascist”. But I’m not ANTIFA, and I refuse to virtue signal on this without anti-virtue-signaling the other way, to media denigration, as an anti-communist.
It’s time for the PEOPLE to put a stop to this manipulative nonsense.
European-born political extremism serving their traditional elites has no place in America. Americans have long felt REPULSION at hoaxing, and it’s time to admit, that repulsion is NOT a bad thing.
Maybe the “common wisdom” seeded to us that “if fascism comes to America, it will be called Americanism” was a LIE fed to us by the ANTI-NATIONAL LEFT and ENEMIES OF AMERICA.
Forget WHO said it. Human authority itself is a kind of lie.
