Now that the pork tenderloin is in the marinade (extra-virgin olive oil, honey, soy sauce, and lots of garlic and score the meat before you put it in; after at least an hour in the marinade, broil or grill about 7-8 minutes on each side; cut into 3/4 inch medallions and grill/broil an additional 4-5 minutes on each side), and the broth is on the stove for tomorrow, it’s time to admit I thought this was going to be meme and open tab clearance day.
Then I sat down, and, well….
Enough of that heresy.
Gail brought this to the QTree on Tuesday, and IMHO, it is worth the time to have it on in the background while doing chores or walking on the treadmill. Lots of good information there.
Related to that interview, this was in an open tab from Monday:
Dumbphone Sales Are Soaring As People Revolt Against “Overwhelming” Smartphones
In a time when various “developed world” intelligence agencies are filling up petabytes of hard disk space with domestic phone recordings and tracking their own citizens who – in the pursuit of a “liberal” agenda – have been escalated to a greater terrorist threat than actual foreign terrorists, some people have had enough and are throwing their smart phones into the trash and replacing them with “dumbphones” instead.
One among them is seventeen-year-old Robin West, who according to the BBC is an anomaly among her peers: “she doesn’t have a smartphone.” Instead of scrolling through apps like TikTok and Instagram all day, she uses a so-called “dumbphone”.
Those readers who had a cell phone in the late 1990s are all too familiar with these; for everyone else these are basic handsets, or feature phones, with very limited functionality compared to say an iPhone. For the most part, you can typically only make and receive calls and SMS text messages. And, if you are lucky, listen to radio and take very basic photos, but definitely not connect to the internet or apps.
Robin’s decision to ditch her former smartphone two years ago was a spur of the moment thing. While looking for a replacement handset in a second-hand shop she was lured by the low price of a “brick phone”. Her current handset, from French firm MobiWire, cost her just £8. And because it has no smartphone functionality she doesn’t have an expensive monthly data bill to worry about.
“I didn’t notice until I bought a brick phone how much a smartphone was taking over my life,” she says. “I had a lot of social media apps on it, and I didn’t get as much work done as I was always on my phone.”
The Londoner adds that she doesn’t think she’ll ever buy another smartphone. “I’m happy with my brick – I don’t think it limits me. I’m definitely more proactive.”
According to BBC, dumbphones are enjoying a revival. Google searches for them jumped by 89% between 2018 and 2021, according to a report by software firm SEMrush. And while sales figures are hard to come by, one report said that global purchases of dumbphones were due to hit one billion units last year, up from 400 million in 2019. This compares to worldwide sales of 1.4 billion smart phones last year, following a 12.5% decline in 2020.
Well, there’s a switch.
In other news, Russell Brand took a shower and washed his hair.
Okay, what else have I got.
This was on the radio as I drove home from the store.
It’s not the best to which to dance.
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I always wondered about this.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1508813631311466496.html
Hard to know what’s really occurring in Ukraine, but I found this thread highly informative of so-called maneuver warfare being employed by Putin. I’m not at all versed in military strategy, but found this easier to understand than anything else I’ve read.
If it doesn’t seem plausible, I welcome your thoughts.
All the while this has been going on, our own govt has been misleading and misdirecting with fake news and fake intel.
IOW, our govt is helping Putin.
Change my mind.
I’m sorry. I don’t understand your comment. Are you saying our govt – by which I assume you mean the Biden administration – is misleading and misdirecting us because they INTEND to help Putin? Or that they are unintentionally helping Putin by their clumsy efforts to misdirect us?
I guess my response is our Biden gov’t is FUBAR. Who that helps is anybody’s guess!
The only people it helps is the Klaus Schwab Nazis.
They are constantly telling us lies about Putin and the Russian military operation. Trying to justify ‘helping’ Ukraine by sending money and weapons.
Yep. Keep an eye on that money for Ukraine’s new border fence. 640 million I think we are sending. But Ukraine is not going to be building any fences. Russia will be doing that.
Meanwhile there’s an article floating around some place saying that Biden took 1.4 billion (might of been more, doing it from memory) from Trumps wall and they are putting it to some fungible pot where the money will never be appropriately tracked.
These Demon Dems are monsters. Criminals. Pelosi Gambino POS Mafia of the lowest type.
Amen
I thought they spoke of billions for Ukraine wall? Poland created a wall in three weeks and it cost a drop in the bucket.
Yes we are being scammed . Watch what cut Clinton’s take? They are all getting a cut.
The Mafia is is funneling money out of the rich countries for their benefit. We will be the serves and our children grandchildren and generations to come. Evil does not describe them accurately. Hitler, Stalin, Mao were evil but this is on another level.
There was still ethical leaders in the world now they all gave in to evil. This is so much bigger this is against all of humanity or maybe only against European (white) Christians? Is it pay back? Some people think so but they have no idea they will be next.
How much of the money is a cut for the big guys? Can be a number of people in the World criminal organization paraphrased.
The big flag was when Zelensky said “west should move quick to the green deal” . Green deal to me signals diverting off money for the big guys.
Seems like a very good analysis to me.
Russia is doing exactly what we may have to so someday to remove Chinese influence from Canada, Mexico, or both. TAKE NOTES.
Now there is an interesting line of thinking…
My 2cents here. Just adds a few points to his para 5. Land Bridge to Crimea. Clear indicator they will not be giving up this land in the future. It is lost to Ukraine. Same goes with all border regions along the Donbas and Belarus. Those will become demilitarize zones. Ukrainian’s will be allowed back in and will likely be allowed civilian control govt wise in those regions, but Ukraine will not be allowed weapons in that new buffer zone as the Ruskies will keep a military presence there. Indeed the apparent stall of Russian forces was/is to both create and strengthen that new demilitarize zone and not at all an indicator that Russia got bogged down and ran out of steam.
Continuing on with Crimea, the other important thing they did was take land all the way up and about the Dnieper River at which time Crimea had their water turned back on that happened early in the first few days of conflict. This land will not be giving back either. In the event Ukraine tries to shut the water off further up river, Russia now controls the entry point of the Dnieper River and could effectively with much engineering stop the flow of water from coming into Ukraine. It’s unlikely though that would need to be done as it would take a huge engineer effort for the Ukrainians to stop flow further up river as it would for the Russians to respond to it.
A sperate point that he didn’t talk about was the stalled out convoy that was much in the news. Likely did this to draw Ukrainian forces out away from the populated areas by giving the Ukrainians a large target of opportunity to deploy against and thus Russians could engage them. While those trucks sat there, their soldiers were likely deployed well out to the flanks awaiting attacks. I wonder to what degree the Ukrainians took to that bait. I suspect not too much or whatever forces maneuvered toward it were hit farther out as soon as they cleared civilian built up areas. Essentially the convoy worked both as a feint & bait.
Thanks. Terrific info to add.
^^^ Gets it. 👍
#1 – water to Crimea. Historically Crimea is Russian land and people. Ukraine blocked the natural water flow. Not a very smart thing to do when the bully next door already had ample reasons to nail your azz. Which makes it all seem – like maybe – now, it couldn’t be – well, is it – an intentional provocation to produce the intended result, which just happened?
Or, WEF/Z/Azov/etc. could just be that prideful and dumb. You choose.
Spot on with regards to truck convoy. When you have air superiority you can do all sorts of gambits to draw out the enemy. Superior training, weaponry, numbers, supplies, etc. will provide the desired result.
Again, if Russia wanted the whole country, the style of attack would have been far different and they would now have it.
The fake news media is intentionally lying their azzes off. Some patriots and all normies alike need to wake up and stop referencing anything they say or print. Stop jumping in with their causes.
Reality works a lot better. Use your head and go with truth tellers like Col. Macgreggor.
I agree denying water to Crimea was inhumane and stupid. One does not do that if one wants peace. Ukraine did not want peace.
I was also wondering if Biden let the cat out of the bag when he said in Poland that our military was going into Ukraine? We might have wanted to send quietly some special forces in and he spilled the beans. One just had to look at the faces of our guys.
Remember that the water was cut off after the 2014 coup and Russian “invasion” of Crimea, NOT recently but over 6 years ago. NOTHING in or about Ukraine and this “war” is what it seems. Our MSM spin is so laughable that even a competent Call of Duty player could figure out what is REALLY happening.
Putin’s goal was NEVER about taking ALL of Ukraine OR threatening NATO. If he wanted to, he could have ALREADY made everything in Ukraine less than 6″ tall, and we or anyone else could NOT have stopped him, and this does NOT even involve nuclear.
I have said it before, Putin is there for OTHER reasons, Oil, security from bio labs and the like, to re establish water to Crimea, to root out and DESTROY the Azov brigade, to cripple that units ability ($$$) to be re armed or reconstituted, to free the slaughter in the Donbas, and just perhaps eliminate the criminal syndicate money laundering operation in Ukraine by a Soros installed puppet.
If Putin’s aim was WAR, and “world domination” as we were told, or genocide, or killing of civilians, he sure would have went about this DIFFERENTLY. I do NOT see Russian bombers carpet bombing the countryside. I see obviously targeted limited strikes.
Remember this, the first thing to do AFTER eliminating ANY enemy air defenses and C&C would be to KNOCK out infrastructure, roads, bridges, airports, train lines, communication, and water and POWER.
Gee, last I looked, the power and utilities, including phones and internet are STILL on in like 90% of Ukraine. The roads out are still there, as are airports, trains, bridges. WHY?
The ONLY places being hit are where the Ukrainian army has stashed ammo and weapons, and soldiers. I see there is no food or aid blockade either. Gee, ya think Hitler did that? NOPE. He LEVELED his way through Europe, the ONLY lines open were HIS supply lines.
Our Govt, the MSM, and the globalists tried to BAIT us into WW3. Thankfully we have SEEN this movie before, hell we JUST got out of the last attempt in Afghanistan and Iraq. Fool me once…
You are correct to much false flags from media and gov. coming out about Putin and Ukraine.
I heard the other day believe it was on Bannon “that Putin does not want Ukraine he does not want to pay all the pensions”. Would be to much of a burden financially.
One thing struck me about gas and oil. Russia leveled a good part of Ukraine and many Ukrainians are flooding Poland , UK , Germany and US maybe Canada also. This is a good start to clean out the country for oil exploitation and gas. Wonder if Russia is going to be the only beneficiary or Ukraine oligarchs?
See my post I just replied to you on in the other thread. Remember, and it is in the video, the oil pipelines from Russia to Europe currently run THROUGH Ukraine, and Putin was paying HEAVY levies on it.
It NEVER made sense to we WHY Putin would interrupt his OWN moneymaker, and piss off his customer base, until the bio lab stuff surfaced. Then it ALL made sense, as did Soros and the Cabal overreactions to try and start WW3.
The Globalists wanted Putin OUT, they wanted the oil for themselves AND to keep the $$ laundry OPEN for business.
Putin feels or WAS betrayed, and he felt se up, so he went and blew up the globalist plans, and now seems hell bent on exposing ALL the Globalist corruption. The Globalists wanted to start WW3 as a COVERUP, destroying ALL the evidence, AND ridding themselves of Putin. I am SURE they have someone in place in Moscow to “replace” him. Then THEY could have it ALL, Ukraine AND Russia.
Remember Soros cannot step FOOT in Russia, he would be shot on sight.
Yes I saw your post. Putin is Russia first and I can see if the Klaus Schwab of the world and Soros want him out that they would control the worlds oil or large part in Europe. Not only that also the grain. Russia was exploited before when USSR fell apart. The West did not tread them well. We see how this new development plays out when Trump gets back in.
BINGO. i think Putin trusts Trump more to be “fair”
Trump is an adult not deranged and he is fair
True
Remember that big blow up about the Russians” attacking malls north of Kiev?
Remember that some blogger posted the “info” that Ukraine was hiding weapons, artillery, and ammo at this abandoned mall, and then the Russians blew it into bits?
There you go, it was LATER found out the Russians FOLLOWED the Ukrainians to that mall (drones, satellites).
The stalled convoy was BAIT. When Ukraine tried to position weapons, and likely forces there to attack it, they were vaporized. “wounded duck” tactics WORK. They draw out entrenched and hidden, but STUPILY commanded, forces out into the open to attack, only to be obliterated.
Is ‘water’ part of the “you’ll own nothing and be happy”?
Ha!!!
Ukraine made two big mistakes
Would be the same if the Italian South Tyrolean who speak German and called Hans and Franz would be killed by Italian Nazis. They still hold on to their traditions in many ways.
You forgot one more mistake. Getting into bed with our corrupt govt here and the Globalists.
Yes that kept Ukraine in poverty and in danger .
BINGO!. Remember the article I posted and videos about all for oil? VAST oil reserves were found in a geologic survey in the Donbas region AND off the coastline of Crimea.
Ukraine was too poor to do their own wells and infrastructure to tap that oil.
The problems then started when Shell and Western companies were being granted contracts to do it for them. Enter Burisma, Hunter, and THAT is when Putin took Crimea.
In case you missed it
https://politicalprognosticator.politics.blog/2022/03/04/all-for-oil/
This explains a LOT I think there are 2 videos.
Yes and do not forget the grain they grow in Ukraine. My grain supplier tells me that the cost of grain will go up even though I get mine US grown but Ukraine and Russia are effecting the price and of course the oil here and fertilizer shortage.
I bought another bucket of grain just in case. The grain the way it is packed last 25 years. Will outlast me 🙂
The ukraine grain will only affect prices here because as their price goes up there, ours will too, and short supplies there will be met by OUR suppliers here making profit off the shortages.
it will almost be price fixing. Something like that happened in the Great Depression over milk.
We will see if how much of a price high we get and what else will go sky high.
NWO power fight…
Soros WEF CIA Gates Big Tech vs BRICs
Yup.
Money Quote: ” Maneuver war is more psychological than physical and focuses more on the operational than on the tactical level.”
And the results have to be demoralizing to the West.
Good.
I used to do cold plunging….in a 7 mil wetsuit, in Monterey Bay.
People have to learn how to wear a wetsuit properly, and it’s easy to overheat while you’re still on land, and it seems like the process was designed for contortionists, and can be painful [not to mention the other 70 pounds of gear you’re toting]….but once you climb into the 40-degree water of Monterey Bay, you can truly say “Neoprene is my Friend.“
Cold water. Hmmmm. Kinda glad I never took up that sport!
We’ve also been to the Channel Islands, Hawaii, Fiji, Honduras, and Puerto Rico. And in any of those places, they’ll ask you where you do most of your diving…..and when you say, “Monterey”, they shiver and stop asking you questions.
Metridium Fields — right off the breakwater. Light sand bottom, sprinkled arbitrarily with dark rocks the size of automobiles, On the rocks are white metridium anemones, sometimes covering most of the rock.
In case you’re wondering about such large anenomes being safe….as HHGTTG rates ’em, “Mostly Harmless”. This particular type of anenome has a large fluffy head because it combs almost invisible plankton out of the water and is not suited for consuming divers.
The flip side is, they are generally found where the water is green soup.
They look kinda tempting to eat, but I am thinking that would not be a good idea.
A quick internet search brought up nothing on their edibility and no recipes.
I, myself, would not be tempted to eat one.
I hit some pay dirt! Check this out.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/fried-sea-anemone-ortiguillas-de-mar-spain
Sardinians appear to like them, too.
https://www.greatitalianchefs.com/recipes/fried-sea-anemone-recipe
I was looking for that particular genus — which can be found in Europe. I’m pretty sure that not all are sought after — and both recipes explicitly note that the live critters sting.
Then, there’s always pickled seaweed…
With fronds like that, who needs anemones 😀
You and the Couch Commando.
GONG!
Giant covid molecules … “worlds within worlds”
Jumping through the hole in the ice after a bracing sauna at my Finnish grandparents home–that was some serious cold plunging for a final rinse off!!!
This is great. JUSTICE at long last!
Stormy Daniels and Michael Avenatti have been decimated by the Trump curse. ☠️
But really, their own actions and greed came back to bite them.
She hooked up with the wrong guy. Democrats wanted to scam POTUS. Wonder who paid Avenatti? Fallow the money.
Avenatti was motivated by pure GREED, IMO.
Avenatti saw what he thought was EASY pickins, Trump. TOOK the bait, hook, line and sinker.
Sleeze ball, Avenatti IS, he tried to screw (no pun intended) Stormy financially. Avenattis lost on both counts.
As Tucker would say, CPL – Creepy Porn Lawyer.
Yes indeed Avenattis the shyster Lawyer
Still think that “Have-a-naughty” is the correct pronunciation of his name.
I love it
“I never had an affair with her nor would I have wanted to even in her wildest imagination.”
Trump is not the kind of man who goes after a woman where everybody dips. Sure takes a man who is not choosy and does not have self value. She looks and act like a prostitute.
Insert meme, ” Trump is such a BadAss that hookers pay HIM!”
TO3080, Don Jr.
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The driver’s face tells me she doesn’t have any pants on.
^^^ Made scroll up just a bit. 
me too
Some details about this:
Scoop: FEC fines DNC and Clinton for Trump dossier hoax
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fec-fines-dnc-clinton-for-trump-dossier-hoax
More like “solely to try to make this go away ASAP.”
Yes, because this is a slap on the wrist for lying about how the dossier was funded, not about the dirty politics of creating the dossier in the first place.
This is all very interesting, because I don’t think this fine is going to provide legal immunity to the perpetrators like they MIGHT think it will.
I hope not! I’m glad they got fined, but the fines don’t get to the heart of the matter. It’s knowingly destroying a man’s reputation with lies. It’s lying to the American people by Hillary & co. and the media. It’s cheating. It’s the worst kind of dirty tricks, which amount to election interference. I’m sure laws were broken that I am unable to name.
They may be trying to diminish LATER fines by the FEC. That may be their strategy – to GET OUT IN FRONT of what they anticipate would be much larger later fines.
NO you were right the first time, they THINK that meager fine will get them out of the discovery phase of Trump’s RICO civil suit…NOPE I do not think this will work they way the thought it might, in FACT it leads to a civil judge not dismissing a civil suit, but having to GRANT it (and discovery) because of the fine. INNOCENT do not get fined, so it was NOT frivolous.
They will buy time, though – always one of their top tactics.
The proceedings in a civil suit are not subject to the same legal requirements or delays that are in a criminal trial.
That civil suit will be the least of their worries.
Yes, BUT, the civil suit opens discovery which CAN be used later (and WILL!)
I think this helps get evidence out in the public realm that could, in turn, aid the Durham investigations. X22 has talked about this lately and I think that is where this is really going.
EXACTLY
I am not convinced about Durham.
I tend to take everything with a grain of salt these days. We don’t know what we don’t know. We can only speculate about some stuff.
This should practically be an auto-post comment (& perspective) of Every Q-Tree discussion thread, imho 😉
True being cautious is prudent. Wait and see 🙂
BINGO. Now add this to the RICO suit Trump filled against the DNC and Clinton..in civil court. It is ALL about DISCOVERY for Trump does not WANT money, he wants EXPOSURE.
What about continue the farce into Trump’s Presidency and hampering him to work for the American people and good for the country? They still kept spying ot him while being President? Yes it is a slap on the wrist diverting the true criminality of the dems actions all the way through the 2020 elections.
Y’all need BABY STOATS.
Just sayin’.
How cute 😍
Yes, the rumors of Pfizer and the Oscars are not a “conspiracy theory”…..
FROM GAB.
party mode “off”
They have a drug for alopecia in the works, as do some other companies. So they just happen to sponsor the Oscars, and all of a sudden everyone knows about alopecia.
Funny how that works, isn’t it?
Y’all may not be aware of this. *I* certainly was not. I’m still a bit WTFH about it.
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Was not aware either. Timing involved?
This surfaced earlier in the week. The timing definitely is interesting.
Boom incoming. Another line to add to the snowball. D5.
Yup. NCSWC.
How does this make sense?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/canary-wharf-landlord-build-giant-biolab-former-financial-hub
I mean, financial hubs make a sick sorts of sense because if you get enough money together in one place, it will attract grifters like roadkill attracts flies. Then you get hierarchies of grifters, with high-flying grifters hiring subgrifters to do all the grunt work….none of which results in any net benefit to society, but gets a fair number of people who can barely tie their own shoelaces a way to have nice houses and cars.
But how do they expect to achieve that level of grift with biolabs?
In business, a “hub” refers to a whole lot of people who work in the same industry being in the same place. Believe it or not, STL is a financial hub. We have more financial institutions here than any city in the US other than New York. Most of them are wealth management, but that is the case.
According to the article, when the financial sector all started working from home, the neighborhood took a hit. So, they want to beef up the plant and life sciences hub that popped up un the same neighborhood.
Don’t ask how I know this stuff. Hubs were a big thing for me in a past life.
New Schlichter —
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2022/03/31/people-are-getting-tired-of-oneway-tolerance-n2605240
Looks like Putin blinked, dammit, just close the valve.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/03/30/russia-agrees-to-accept-euros-for-energy-payment-which-will-be-transacted-into-rubles-by-gazprombank/
Putin doesn’t just blink. He just found another way to benefit by doing something unobvious.
Couple of weeks shut off would have killed the green energy myth and woken people to the globo danger.
Those are our objectives, and not necessarily his.
I’m 90% convinced that europe would have caved at the eleventh hour.
Globos destroying America helps Putin and Xi. He’s no dummy.
Biden is the best thing that happened to Russia in forever.
Must include his puppet masters within that statement.
Oh yeah. Otreason and HIS masters, too. Crisis for Putin is opportunity for Putin.
So Euros to Rubles conversion via Gazprom bank for EU gas. Step back by Putin, but ensures Gazprom bank is not sanctioned and remains part of Swift. 1-1 draw.
No dollars. A WEDGE in NATO.
“The proposed scheme requires mandatory opening of accounts in Russian rubles in a Russian bank by a foreign buyer of Russian gas,” a government source told RBC. According to him, “the payment from the buyer to Gazprom will have to be made exclusively in rubles.” A source close to Gazprom confirmed the structure of the proposed scheme.
(c) RBC
The first step, they are paying in Euros instead of the dollar. Someone had to go first.
Excellent observation! The axe strikes NATO somewhere over the Atlantic.
Wonder why your avatar is missing & your animal designation…
If that comment was meant for me then I think from the Word Press perspective I am a visitor. I don’t believe I am ‘official’. At least that is my working theory. If that is not the case then I don’t know. To my knowledge I have never had a different avatar or a designation.
OK, I guess I assumed that your avatar usually matched the one that shows up when you like a post. Sorry for any confusion…
Whoops, I had a senior moment & confused Barker (Jim) & Baker (Robert)–My Bad! blush emoji 🙂
India and Russia have completed work on an alternative transaction platform, seen as a replacement for SWIFT, according to the Economic Times, citing sources.
The new payment system is likely to be installed at the headquarters of both the Reserve Bank of India and VEB. The new system is expected to be in place within a week and will be able to ensure “the smooth transmission of import or export documents for transactions in rupees and rubles.”
Hooray! A win against the phony cabal!
Wolfie… I believe we are seeing The Plan play out in real time. HAPPENIN’ daily… PetroDollar was Kissinger’s idea for the Cabal to control. Trump did the ground work with OPEC/SA. Putin, India… even XI… timing is everything… began with Putin/Ukraine…
Yup!
Verse of the Day for Thursday, March 31, 2022
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“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”
Romans 8:1 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD
Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.
I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow, that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.
Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.
With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.
Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me.
Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ.
AMEN.
I don’t think so.
Vile weed! 😀
Broccoli, at least, is good for you.
Dream report: This morning I woke up from a nap on the couch. It’s an overcast and rainy morning. I remembered a little of what I was dreaming.
Imagine a new white retro camper-like dowsized Zamboni machine only the driver sits in the rectangular box area, not outside on the back. There was some shiny chrome and some red. It also made me think of retro kitchen stoves.
Attached to the back were little open-topped train cars like a zoo ride where kids or adults might ride along. The engine up front was for selling ice cream and on waking, I am sure the ice cream would be topped with bacon! 🙂
The streets were clean and wide. They reminded me of that planned town in Reston. Parents and a little girl were taking a walk past the train and someone was telling me about a chicken sleeping under a truck with their three puppies. I recently saw a FB post about a Rhode Island Red chicken they call “Henny Penny.” hehe Henny Penny had laid her egg in the goat feed box. LOL
One of the dogs was named Porta-John. Ewww… I knew the puppies were cute though and not harming the chicken.
Good morning everyone!! 😅
PS: Thank you, God, for silly dreams. I want one of those ice cream engines.
Thank you for sharing 🙂
You’re welcome, singingsoul. I’m always happy when there are no bad dreams. We get enough of that while we’re awake. 😉
So true we seem to be living a nightmare good dreams are welcome for sure 🙂
More election comms?
This explains a lot. From Anon Conservative’s offerings yesterday, that I couldn’t get to until today.
Madison Cawthorn is busy putting a target on his own back. Supposedly, Kevin McCarthy had a little talk with him about the orgy thing. Now this found at Anon Conservative.
Madison Cawthorn says of DC, “Then there’s the kind of the whole espionage aspect that goes on in Washington. You know, so many people trade in secrets and there’s a currency in secrets. It’s wild… I don’t want the government to be involved in your life. I think they federal government should make sure we never lose a war, we have good roads and we have dominate trade deals. Aside from that, keep your hands off my life.”
And the NYT chimes in. He must be over the target, and most definitely not [CB]’s man.
Just guessing, Carl rove, Bushies AND lefties have targeted, set-up Cawthorn to fall
Can you even imagine what it must be like to be a decent human being in Congress? Living in the cesspool of Washington?
I need a shower having only thought about it!
The ‘orgy’ was probably his blackmail/compromise party … he didn’t realize he was the guest of honor
Could be.
Anon Conservative makes an interesting point about XVII.
The whole operation must have had one heck of a list of objectives, that’s for sure. The number of audiences targeted alone was impressive.
Hrmmm… that may change now that Hunter is going down.
For some reason the [CB] fears our former governor. Hmm….
That the wife allows herself to be used that way tells me that he is lucky he is rid of her. What ex does something like that? If he truly did what she claims that would have come out in divorce and before and he never be able to have custody of the kids. Wonder how old the kids are? That woman needs to go on with her life and not try to destroy the life of her children’s father.
As we now Know, the Bushes are BAD. Rove was W’s point man. All you need to know. Rove is NOT on our side, likely never was.
Satan’s Human Marshmallow.
Lol
The irony, really, is that Disney princess dresses are practically a must have for all the little girls I know. They even wear them to Church. Little girls – even some of the big girls – love to be princesses. There was a whole Big Bang Theory episode based around the women in the cast going to Disneyland and getting dressed up like CInderella, Snow White and Belle. They had an argument over who got to be Cinderella.
These dingbats are trying to trump mother nature. No no no no no.
And as you know, its not NICE to mess with Mother Nature! LOL
😀
BINGO, I bet some here are too young to have gotten that reference!
Yep. And then there’s the Geritol-for-lunch-bunch 😀
Present. LOL
Can we have a Primary do over, pretty pleeeeezzz?!??!??😢😢
I say that just about every time.
I wish. I voted for West and met a nice lady in the line who was Q literate. She asked me if I thought West stood a chance, I told her sure and then spouted about how upset I was with Abbott for stopping the sales of vodka just to virtue signal. She agreed about the Ukraine thing too.
Abbott has had warning signals for a while. He is not what it seems. I wondered why Trump endorsed him? Unless Abbott did what he always does fake who he is.
Shouldn’t Trump be able, at this juncture, after all he’s been through, to smell a rat already? He took back the Mo Brooks endorsement (which isn’t such a great look), he could do it for Abbott, right?
He needs to go with his gut not what people tell him
From the way back machine: “Let Trump be Trump!”
Yes
Yes. I just thought that retraction of an endorsement looked bad. A small embarrassment, that will definitely affect Brooks – but a bad look. He can’t be everyone’s savior, trying to offer them the opportunity to do the right thing. He needs to be ruthless, when given the reins again. Overt reins.
Sounds good to me 🙂
.. and run him out of town on a rail? … tar and feathers? …
Ladies and gentlemen, my fellow Patriots. SOMETHING is going on…it is now peeking out from behind the curtain, but it IS there.
too much in just the last week.
Hillary and her campaign fined for the “Steele dossier”
ALL the big 3 networks now reporting on Hunters Laptop, and NOT in a way that can be construed as “spin”
Brnovich of Arizona referring RINO Katie Hobbs for CRIMINAL charges (election fraud)
PA judge removes 5 PA school board members over mask mandates. ALL dems
WI judge holds RINO Speaker Robin Vos in CONTEMPT over Wi election records.
Rove and McConnell outed as behind the Eric Greitens take down in Missouri
21 states sue the Biden admin over mask mandates
Arizona RINO ducey signs bill banning abortion after 15 weeks
Biden’s Supreme court judge has her favorable record towards pedophiles outed
Zelensky seems to want to capitulate to Putin’s demands of neutrality and weapons
Fauci is FINALLY confronted by a UK reporter on his funding of coronavirus research (GOF ) in china.
Trump sues Hillary and the DNC over the Russia hoax in a RICO civil suit (for discovery)
Rep Madison Cawthorn outs Washington DC “orgies and cocaine use by the elites including sitting members of Congress.
McCarthy and Collins are further outed ass RINOS and uniparty in their reactions to both Madison Cawthorn’s allegations, McCarthy, and in Collins case her support for Kentanji Jackson DESPITE her pattern of leniency to child porn traffickers
This coupled with the Bio lab reveals in Ukraine and MUCH more seems to me to be if anything GAINING momentum, like a snowball heading down a slope.
The uniparty, Dems, RINOS, Globalists, and their minions are now being attacked on MULTIPLE fronts on things like
election fraud
Covid
Vaccine mandates
the Russia hoax
Biden’s corruption through Hunter
abortion
Ukraine
Meanwhile Biden and Harris and all the dems go on daily committing gaffs, and further distancing themselves from the mainstream on all the important issues.
Something is BUILDING. You can not only see it, hear it, but FEEL it, building like a crescendo to a climax.
These are just a quick peruse of what has been happening, feel free to add. But the more me add, you will SEE the pattern. someone or multiple someone’s are on the attack. We are no longer on defense, and “cracks” are beginning to form in the globalist firewalls. When EVEN CNN is beginning to report on some of these things, there is a definite winds change that WILL inevitably lead to a SEA change. Once critical mass is achieved and but ONE of the globalists firewalls cracks open, it ALL will fall, because it is ALL related and being done by ALL the same people. Once ONE crime is revealed, they ALL fall. RICO because they stupidly always use the SAME people and methodology to perpetuate their.
evil schemes. If even ONE key piece falls, like dominoes, they ALL fall.
Can you feel it? I can, I can almost taste it. If we sense it, imagine the PANIC that will ensue when the ENEMY realizes it. As Q said, once we ALL know, these people will NOT be able to walk down the streets, they will NOT be able to hide, and they will NOT be saved or bailed out.
PAIN for them is incoming.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ0ueFjfYl9nptgQDo0QQMR-pwXx_BFeMoQLQ&usqp=CAU
But, nothing is happening. /s
XVII said we would only see twenty percent of the operations. This is the tip of the iceberg, IMO.
Agreed, but MORE is coming!
“…But the more me add, you will SEE the pattern. someone or multiple someone’s are on the attack. We are no longer on defense, and “cracks” are beginning to form in the globalist firewalls….”
Patel Patriot found a really interesting nugget. (He searches thru the Federal Register, DOD, DOJ… public records.)
Patrick Gunnels on Patel Patriot’s show reads the ‘interesting finds’ Jon (Patel Patriot) starts an intro of the information @ 49 minutes and reads several other related laws ending @ 58 minutes with discussion going until @ 1:03 when he puts this DoD Instruction in the context of the timeline.
😍 😍 😍 😍 😍 😍 😍 😍 😍 😍 😍 😍 😍 😍
DoD Instruction 5525.07 ……………………… 👉MARCH 5, 2020👈
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE DEPARTMENTS OF JUSTICE AND DEFENSE RELATING TO THE INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION OF CERTAIN CRIMES
VERY interesting. March 5th 2020. Is THIS why a certain potato NEVER seems to set foot IN the WH, let alone the Oval office?
Here’s my supposium, take with a glass full of hopium:
By November elections, fauxpotus and his gang are exposed and ushered out.
REALPotus is reinstalled (Diamonds Must Be Returned!) and given four years.
The potus elections shift two years and now will be 2026, 2030 etc.
I think Trump will be given the remaining 2 yrs of this current term…. Then be allowed to run (and win) again in 2024.
(No reset or shift of election years)
That would be nice.
YES & get the maximum allowed presidential term in our current, post FDR, system!!!
Would have to be after this coming January 20 for that to be the case.
That’s almost ten months away.
in for a penny…
put up w/ a fractional year of “Bye-Done” for 6 years of Trump seems like good math to me!
Yeah, that’s not a bad thing, especially if Trump spends those six years unconstrained…which would be very different from the four years we’ve already seen!
The problem is going to be getting through those ten months.
And THAT is assuming this isn’t all just baloney.
Yup! P-Rex has some pretty interesting, fact-based, hopium-sounding analyses today. Maybe that Crow feast is yet incoming 😉
It will taste like bacon if it’s true.
Love it!!!
I like it! But I am biased.
I can live with that.
Wouldnt that be nice.
Seems like the fighting in the trenches is now being fought atop the furniture Errol Flynn style. Sucks if people are not watching. Just be aware the Cabal is fighting back and they intend on winning.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/30/politics/strategic-petroleum-reserve-release-oil-joe-biden/index.html
Biden releasing 1 million barrels a day from our strategic petroleum reserves. Reserve holds 600 million barrels and 60 million were released in Nov. Current release does not have a stop date but is expected to last at least 6 months to get him past the elections. Along the way there’s talk of fuel and even food rationing. How the Bidenese put this all together is anyone’s guess but be assured we won’t like it.
Fauci is back presumably just in time to bring back mandates and voter fraud. He needs more damage!
Illegal aliens already spilling across the border at record numbers are expected to swell to unimaginable of numbers. To spur this on we have a world famine spinning up and Biden so impatient that he is wanting to end Title 42 restrictions on people arriving at the border which by itself will spur huge numbers. Now estimates range to 40 to a possible 150 million by November. With that we have a clash of civilizations and Biden’s simple fix will to be declare martial law.
Now George P Bush is pandering to illegal aliens for an amnesty in his run off race for attorney general in the Texas. That’s an eye roll, but clearly he has expectations and if he gets away with it, its a clear signal for this to happen country wide.
Of course there are more, just can’t think of what they are right now.
Shouldn’t rule out Ukraine demonstrating how gullible people are. Makes me wonder if the slap incident at the Oscars wasn’t a further test of how gullible people are.
The left never sleeps, their evil knows no bounds, THAT has not changed. What IMHO HAS changed is that we are now not setting back and reacting to their schemes. WE are making THEM react for once, and they are NOT good at playing defense, they have never had to.
Remember what ultimately defeated Hitler was NOT the US entering the war so much as it was the lengths of his supply lines and how MUCH ground he had to defend. When we entered the war, it opened up not only a secondary front in which he had to defend, but MULTIPLE fronts as he had to devote resources across multiple fronts. The allies then exploited the inevitable gaps.
In essence attacking and taking ground was EASY. KEEPING the gains without ceding more and more back (defending) was HARD.
THAT is FINALLY where we have the Cabal, they have been on constant attack and taking for years. NOW we are counter attacking, and the Cabal cannot defend all they took.
You watch, IF we play this smart (whoever is in charge of doing this be it Trump, white hats, Putin, or a conglomeration of them,) The Cabal will have to spend more and more time defending to keep their gains and less and less attacking for new gains. Then again, IF smart, and strategic, we will begin to RETAKE more and more, while they LOSE more and more. Eventually we CAN gain enough that the Cabal will be forced to pick a very limited number to defend. We can in essence open up multiple fronts, and once their lines of defense collapse, and they WILL, we can overwhelm them. But we must be SMART.
Aim small, miss small, until we are ready was our strategy it seems. Now, it seems we are not just aiming small, but looking to take out “officers”
If I am right, this war will be the stuff of LEGEND. No more can we allow them to simply retreat and hide and plot their next attacks years later. We must DECIMATE them. Once a few key pieces fall, there will be an avalanche hitting them. Losing, like winning is a mentality.
Our side has been used to losing for so long, we FORGOT what winning was like. Trump gave us a taste, and taught us HOW to win again and NOT settle.
Once we got that taste, when the other side cheated to take that from us, we appear to have now decided that we LIKED winning, and want that back after a disastrous year. We want our winning back, and this time, once we get it, we will NEVER again give it up so easily. THAT is what the Cabal fear, and THAT is what they are going to GET.
There are SO many parallels to the American revolution it is not even funny. Remember we “took” what England gave us for 300 years, until one day, we did not take it anymore.
THIS will not take 300 years, it will not even take 3. WATCH.
YES!!!!
A new Bush. Coffin makers will be happy.
Lots of us deplorables are gonna get diabetes from all this sugar news.
Well, I’m up for a few cavities if it rids us of the Cabal once and for all!
Beautiful Springtime!
nice, Dora !
https://twitter.com/freedomfight369/status/1509161113652543488?s=20&t=N3nwT3iC2u4IyJiZhXJDEA
Yet MORE signs there is something afoot!
New new world order!
SFW… She’s made of sterner stuff than most of today’s “leaders”… and she’s not “dead”…
I’m more worried about Chuckles the Klown…
I wouldn’t be surprised if succession goes around him…
Why did it take so long for Jamaica, Barbados and Belize to jettison the Crown. Or whatever they did.
I believe it is now possible because of what TRUMP did early in 2017 (?) when he negated the British machinations in 1871… ymmv And I believe this is all part of The Plan. The Commonwealth is dissolved and broke. Ties in with what Putin is doing by revealing (to come) the DS/Cabal control hdqtr’d in Ukraine. I realize my opinion is definitely in the minority (certainly not the first time!)
very interesting…
Good by me.
The problem is I just did some research.
Apparently Jamaica and Belize haven’t kicked the Queen out. Barbados did so…at the end of last November.
It doesn’t appear that Jamaica and Belize have actually done so.
This is a bullshit meme.
Meaning they are now actually republics, presumably.
Though I suspect all are thoroughly corrupt, at least 6 on the 1-10 scale where Ukraine is a 10.
Whatever you might say about Wikipedia, it’s usually quick to react to changes like this.
Barbados became a republic at the end of last november.
Jamaica and Belize are still monarchies.
So this appears to be bullshit.
The Cash Farm and a Delaware Grand Jury?
Federal Prosecutors Open Investigation Into Hunter Biden Cash Farm in Ukraine, Kazakhstan and China
https://21stcenturywire.com/2022/03/29/federal-prosecutors-open-investigation-into-hunter-biden-cash-farm-in-ukraine-kazakhstan-and-china/
Cash farm… gosh, do they make small ones to fit on balconies? 😉 [Hunter’s is probably “high-drug-ponic”…]….
Wonder why they’re interesting in throwing the Bye,Done’s under the bus now… I’m always thinking “what are they hiding”… or maybe even who are they hiding…
And the “five sons” (I think it’s five) probably sit atop a mountain of grifters. Maybe merge that list with the list of RED Chinese puppets in government, and other crooks, and drain a lot of the swamp.
Just think, a sustainable solution. Cut the number of grifters and staff by, say, 70% and the energy, fuel, water, food, office supplies, and who-knows-what-all use would save a ton of money, and streamline government…. might even have enough to finish the wall and refund taxes, etc., too…
Ohh I’m sure!
Biden and his son have ALWAYS been set up to be the fall guys. SO is Kamala.
ANNND now we know why the MSM have turned sour on Hunter’s laptop. Trying to get ahead and seem “accurate”
Let me translate, the PARTY IS OVER, and that means more than just the Biden’s. There are plenty in Congressional powers including Pelosi that are going to be implicated. This is going to be GOOD. It is ALWAYS about the ill gotten money. FOLLOW the money.
Yes… I believe Obama and hil de beast, along with Kerry, Mittens and many others
Oh yes. This will START with Burisma, but Hunter had his fingers in MANY pies (eww..the vision..sorry did not mean it that way LOL) But I digress, Hunter is Rosemont Seneca, who funded Bio labs in at LEAST Ukraine. RS is ALSO linked to Obama AND Bein Capital,.. which is Romney. They are ALSO linked to money laundering in Cypres.
Yes… glad you’re in my foxhole PRex… I don’t recall as well as I used to 😉
I am not as good as I once was, i used to have an eidetic memory, but I do not recall as much as I used to. I do have moments though..wink
Indeed you do… 😉
TY.
…Biden family political dynasty.
^^ That IS DUMB.
BiteMe is the only politico Biden.
It IS more correctly, Biden CRIME Family.
Biden is the “bagman” for the DS Mafia … yes, he is criminal along with both sons (Hunter took up where Beau left off when he died)
Again ymmv
Absolutely.
Somehow the “Walrus” song comes to mind whenever Hunter is mentioned…
I am the Bagman
You are the Bagmen
Goo-goo-goo-joob…
(some of the verses after that would fit, but they’re already a bit off-color)…
Are there any “foreign military advisers” (probably US and UK) in Mariupol?
Sounds like the usual suspects, Blackwater (academi) mercenaries, are there as well.
https://www.transcend.org/tms/2022/02/the-blackwater-is-in-ukraine-with-the-azov-battalion/
Judging by the information from Mariupol, the enemy is practically finished off and now the remaining ones are being destroyed. Basurin said that foreign mercenaries will not have the status of a prisoner of war and, accordingly, will simply be disposed of, which is an absolutely correct decision.
https://t.me/intelslava/24056
Yes… and “they” are frantically trying to get a couple of VIPs OUT… but so far the three helos they have tried to use have been shot down! Wondering who these peeps are 😉
They will not be killed. Like the CIA did to captured spies, they will be used for horrible experiments. I am not kidding. They will wish they were dead.
Reddit is not real life!
That was a c/p from the link, I don’t understand the reddit connection.
The low end of the foreign fighters are just lefty volunteers who were ginned up on Reddit. The high end are NATO special forces.
I’d never considered their backgrounds, they all made a bad choice anyway.
Every time someone mentions Carl Rove, this image forms in my mind.
Accurate image it is.
— Obi Wan Kenobi
That’s more of a Yoda-ism.
That’s what I meant. I have oldbrain – sorry.
He should have used his head 😀
(Abby Normal 🙂 )…..
Comment lifted ,,,
“… In the past months we have seen how close to complete control of public opinion within its targeted audiences, the Empire has come. The actual history of events in The Ukraine, a history which in the past three decades has been openly rehearsed before us all, has been swept aside by the volume and intensity of media campaigns mounted by institutions that, as most people are aware, are so corrupt that the messages that they convey are almost certain to be the polar opposites of reality. Everyone ‘knows’ that the media lies. And yet everyone ‘believes’ those lies-whatever ‘belief’ may mean.
This has never happened before. In both 1914 and 1939 there was widespread incredulity of the official ‘lines.’ This incredulity seems to have been forgotten but it was there.
The problem that lies at the centre of Imperialism today is its cultural unipolarity- the universal power of the Hollywoods, and there are a few of them, in an era in which the reach of the media, all controlled in the final analysis by US Intelligence, is almost total.
Those who tell us that Putin is a neo-liberal with deep ties to the shock therapists and that the CPC is larded through and through with kleptocrats and corrupt regional ‘bosses’ are telling us nothing new. Or important. What is important- and the current Indian stance is a perfect illustration of this-is that these are alternative cultural, economic and military poles. Their existence as alternatives, challenging the Empire, is an earnest of the competition among and the divisions within the ruling class. Should those divisions be diminished to the point where they could be resolved institutionally, the final defeat of the people in the war against injustice and privilege would becomnne inevitable.
Look around you- the current political climate is Orwellian, the Two Minute Hates have been replaced by 24/7 Hates of Russia and Putin.
When the Snowden revelations came out the thought struck me that humanity was nearing a final stage in its evolution as a species with a central brain, like a beehive, in which the minds of every one of the billions of individuals who make up the species will be controlled by government.
Laura Ruggeri today at
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/03/31/is-russia-losing-the-information-war/
This is a part of what Ruggeri has to say:
“…The “information war over Ukraine” didn’t start in response to Russia’s military operations in 2022. It was initially unleashed in Ukraine. Since 1991 the U.S. spent billions of dollars, and the EU tens of millions, to tear this country apart from Russia, not to mention the money spent by Soros’ Open Society. No price was deemed too high due to the importance of Ukraine on the geopolitical chessboard. U.S. influence operations led to two colour revolutions, the Orange Revolution (2004-05) and EuroMaidan (2013-14). After the 2014 bloody coup, with the removal of any counterweight, U.S.-NATO influence turned into full control and violent repression of dissent: those who had opposed Maidan lived in fear – the Odessa massacre being a constant reminder of the fate that would befall anyone who dared to resist the new regime.
The promotion of Neo-Nazi tendencies intensified, together with the cult of Nazi collaborationist Stepan Bandera; members of terrorist organizations such as the Azov Battalion and other ultranationalist groups joined government and the Ukranian National Guard, the past was erased and history re-written, Soviet monuments were destroyed, Russian-speakers faced daily threats and discrimination, pro-Russian parties and information outlets were banned, Russophobia was inculcated in children starting from kindergarten. In 2020 alone ultranationalist projects, such as the “Young Banderite Course”, “Banderstadt Festival of Ukrainian Spirit”, etc. received almost half of all the funds allocated by the Ukrainian government for children’s and youth organisations.
Ukrainians who lived in the separatist People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk and couldn’t be targeted by influence operations were targeted by rockets, bombs and bullets: the former compatriots had been recast as enemies almost overnight. While all quality of life indicators revealed a marked decline, large segments of the population lived in a permanent state of cognitive dissonance: they were told that discriminating LGBT is wrong but discriminating Russian speakers is right, remembering Soviet soldiers who had fought Nazism in WW2 and liberated Auschwitz is wrong, remembering the Holocaust is right. Because cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling, people resorted to denial and self-deception, embraced whatever opinion was dominant in their social environment to seek relief….”
Fake news should have this printed at the top of every page…
“We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us.”
Aphasia can be caused by the COVID vaccine – The Burning Platform
In Bruce Willis’ case, I read a report, iirc… here at QTree…
he has been dealing with it for 7/8 years…
But it can be accelerated by the vaccine!!!
I didn’t mean to imply it can’t… 😉 just to say he already was sick…
Yes! Must push past that reality! AND logic is our bazooka!!! His earlier aphasia could have even been from prior vaccines, thus the sensitivity!!!
we are surrounded with their insidious deeds!
If indeed the clot-shot and the slab-jab create, encourage, or accelerate auto-immune diseases and/or activity, all HE!! will break loose.
I hope and pray that that is not the case, or that some antidote exists or is found (outside of BigPharma)…..
That’s what I think happened.
Very sad.
Do NOT be fooled by Creepy’s announcement, READ THE FINE PRINT:
Joe Biden’s Newest Plan to Combat High Gas Prices Is a Mix of Pointless Idiocy and Communism – RedState
With gas prices remaining at or near all-time highs throughout the United States, Joe Biden has a new plan to help bring them down. According to the White House, the president is weighing a release of one million barrels a day from the strategic petroleum reserves. Further, he’s looking at using the Defense Production Act to federalize companies and force them to produce materials for “green energy” products.
For context, the US uses about 20 million barrels of oil a day. Releasing one million barrels a day would translate to a savings of about 18 cents a gallon off the national average if it translated directly to the price of gas. It won’t, though. Much of the oil held by the government is no longer useable domestically because of environmental regulations. Instead, any oil released would be dumped into countries like China and India. That could possibly make a small dent in the global price of oil, but when you consider that the world produces 76 million barrels of oil a day, that one million barrels suddenly becomes even more irrelevant.
In other words, Biden’s ploy is completely useless. It’s also dangerous in that the strategic reserves exist to supply years of oil to the United States in the event of some kind of isolating event. They also exist for military use if oil can’t be otherwise garnered while fighting a war. Again, we are talking preparation for apocalyptic-type events, not gas prices being too high because of the left’s self-defeating green agenda.
Further, the Defense Production Act is not at all designed to operate as a communism cheat code for presidents who are too stubborn to change their damaging energy policies. If it’s not profitable now for American companies to go gangbusters producing “green energy,” it won’t be just because Biden makes them. Such a move would also spur more inflation as the supply of the products those companies originally produced will be reduced in order to make things Americans don’t currently want to buy.
The obvious answer here continues to be for the government to make it far easier for oil companies to produce domestically. That is the only way to gain a reliable increase of oil on the world market, thereby bringing down energy prices across the board. Lower regulatory barriers, unfreeze federal leases, and provide incentives for companies to invest in long-term energy infrastructure projects (i.e. provide guarantees they won’t be shut down a year from now after investing billions of dollars).
None of this is difficult. Well, unless you are a nearly 80-year-old geriatric who clearly doesn’t even run his own administration. In the end, these moves by Biden, if they come to fruition are simply meant to signal that he’s “doing something.” It’s the equivalent of shipping out at-home COVID tests knowing that the problem of spread was not a lack of testing. This is all Democrats ever do. When they aren’t directly destroying America’s prominence and strength, they are virtue signaling by taking pointless actions not meant to actually solve the problem.
So let’s drain our strategic oil reserves and go full USSR on American companies. What could possibly go wrong?
This is worthy of a coup. Period.
Or should I say counter-coup?
They’re just coup-coup….. (sorry)…..
They’ve already done it with many other strategic reserves (e.g. wheat, other grains, cf. a number of Gail’s posts)…
When the idjiots in DC and elsewhere start getting short-sighted (or moreso), it pays to look at who’s putting blinders on them… WEF, GEBs, Satanists (but I repeat myself), or any of a hundred other miscreants…….
Whatever happened to the view of “seven years”…. Of course, the WEF, et. al. wouldn’t know a Bible or the Torah if it fell on them…
Oh snap! She couldn’t get out of there fast enough…back to “Washington DC” you know where all the magic happens…don’t you losers worry, Maxine going back to “work hard”
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
She “grifts” her daughter about $500,00 a year as a ‘part of her campaign for reelection
Looks after her family, doncha know…
‘course she launders tons more for herself… 30+ yrs, she has been stuffing her pockets with our money…
…
For sure!
She talks to them as if it’s in the 50’s…when people actually believed that these high and mighty Pols were in DC moving and shaking things..the mask has fallen. Even these people know she’s a grifter and isn’t going to do a damn thing for them.
Amen
Comment lifted from int’l blog from poster I have read for some 15 years…
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Finally able to get through to Kremlin website for the link to Putin’s remarks. Here is the complete machine translation without any emphasis by me, although there are some passages deserving such treatment.
Coffee Has Major Health Benefits, New Study Finds — Best Life (bestlifeonline.com)
Heck, I could have told you that. If you’d have asked.
It can also have its pitfalls. Had to quit due to B12 anemia.
We have entered SILLY Season. Who is in charge of sanctions and who writes these scripts?
US Will ‘Allow’ India to Buy Russian Oil, Threatens Sanctions If New Delhi Buys Too Much: Report
https://sputniknews.com/20220331/us-will-allow-india-to-buy-russian-oil-threatens-sanctions-if-new-delhi-buys-too-much-report-1094368069.html
Reading between the lines.
India WILL BUY Russian oil, IF India wishes to do so. BiteMe sanctions ARE meaningless.
BiteMe’s lower level trade rep he sent to India ~three days ago FAILED to stop India from buying Russia oil.
Yes… what we are seeing in real time nations breaking the chains of The Cabal (holding the strings of “Empire of Lies” )
It’s a wonderful thing. May the woke mob in “finance” go down in the flames of the hell they deserve.
Yup!
India is smart. Obiden are a pair of idiots, surrounded by the same, kowtowing to crazy evil. This is not hard.
Wow that sounds so arrogant, I tried to find another source to see if that was really the wording.
All I came up with was this and it’s not much different.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/us-warns-india-others-against-sharp-rise-in-russian-oil-imports-official/articleshow/90558640.cms
Not a diplomat, my reply would be MYOB, on second thoughts MYOFB.
Right… 2nd one much better 😉
Caught an episode of Star Trek Next Generation last night, “The Perfect Mate”..
The focal character Kamala was a mesomorph, iirc, a woman born to entirely please & fulfill a man’s (sexual) fantasies/desires…creepy “coincidence”…
Very interesting.
This was probably copyrighted about 1991…
Hmmm. 1991…
Kamel-Hoe was probably working
onwith WilliBrown™ already back then….fascinating…
Via The Saker, who is Russian… and Orthodox Christian (been reading him also for as long as he has been blogging)
https://thesaker.is/sitrep-operation-z-2/
Lots of data here… and this excerpt on Ruble I found interesting
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And as for the Ruble, it has regained 100% of all its losses:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ruble-regains-100-its-loss-after-russia-invaded-ukraine-why
And in fact on many index it is now LOWER than before the conflict. Some index had it at 83 to 1 dollar on February 22, and it is now showing as 79-81 on many indexes to the great chagrin of the west.
In fact in the biggest face slapping irony, the Ruble is now being hailed in financial circles as the greatest performing currency in the world for the month of March.
White House Walks Back Statement That No One Is Walking Back Statements, Ripping Open Hole In Space-Time Continuum | The Babylon Bee
Spox peeps keep on giving… you can’t make up this kind of stupidity!
hahahah they’re so spot on
Where’s Eddy?????
Eddies in the Space/Time Continuum….
(apologies to Douglas Adams)…
Biden’s Labor Department nominee blocked. Three Dems vote No.
Sinema, Manchin and surprise vote Mark Kelly.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/03/31/labor-nominee-kyrsten-sinema-mark-kelly-joe-manchin/
https://twitter.com/AssetsDaily/status/1509560820493082634?s=20
translation please 🙂
Khazarian Central Banks will be destroyed
Thank you 🙂
I know nothing about digital currency… only know it will be the future
hopefully just not Exclusively!
No more PetroDollar… no more fiat currency (print as you go) probably no more paper
or at least no more Worthless paper…
TY for correcting! Yes
no correction, just my own version of hopium 😉
Wow, you guys. My special needs (autism etc) son just dropped in on me to pray for me & his future mother-in-law, for we both have diabetes & some health challenges related to that. This was a very spontaneous & powerful prayer time (& over the phone included his fiancée & her mother). God is on the move. Josiah was praying for our nation, for healing of the sexually abused & enslaved, deliverance & freedom for the innocent political prisoners, a return to biblical roots in our churches & nation, for truth to prevail, thankfulness for being grafted into the covenantal Vine along with Israel & so much more.
In the Kingdom of God my very special son has no disabilities. God is so good & I am periodically & unexpectedly blessed by this challenging, yet precious, son of mine!
God is on the move! Those things Josiah prayed about have mostly not been part of discussions between us, at least not lately. Those prayers really felt Holy Spirit driven as God was rising up in my son’s breast & His Heart was displayed in my son’s prayers.
What a miraculous & beautiful encounter!
In Jesus’ Love
Spent my last day in California in not so scenic Sacramento area. Swarming with homeless tent camps. But there were several streets where every other tent had a car. Not typical but more of an indicator of people loosing housing and hanging on to their last big possession. Not a good sign for sure.
These homeless populations in the big cities will eventually grow so large they will be able to organize and become a serious problem.
Just got a flash back to Sly Stallone flick, Demolition Man.
Breeding grounds if not hiding grounds for Soros armies like Antifa.
Wonders if any of these are illegal migrants or are they indigenous types.
Finds it interesting that we don’t hear much about the armies that already streamed across the border. Are they already slaving on Gates’s farm land? Something more nefarious?
Meanwhile gruesome focuses on abortion, trans ed for your kids, and banned books.
Part of our coverage of AUS lockdowns spilled over to the unrest happening in the Solomon Islands. Last we left it AUS had been allowed in to help quell the riots. Apparently this then allowed China to help out also as it was their business interests via what appeared to be belt and road that was at stake. That last part I don’t think we covered, likely for lack of reporting but at last it is over. The Solomon Islands have fallen to China. Next up Papa New Guiana according to this story.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18384/china-takes-over-solomon-islands
China Takes Over the Solomon Islands — And the Pacific
by Gordon G. Chang The story leaves these bullet points but describes more in the article.
At this point it seems like so much spilt milk. And the time for crying over it is set for a future date when we come to realize the loss.
My grandfather’s younger brother is buried in the Solomon Islands.
This is worrisome.
Well, guess who just opined on the “extra booster shot” —
http://www.msn.com/
9 hours ago
“2nd Covid-19 booster: Dr. Leana Wen weighs in”
http://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2022/03/31/doctor-leana-wen-covid-second-booster-tsr-vpx.cnn
Dr. Leana Wen, that dependable far-left tool, speaks about the “extra booster shot” that the FDA just granted an EUA to Pfizer-BioNTech and to Modera.
Dr. Wen isn’t ** quite sure ** that the extra “booster shot” will do any real good. Instead, she emphasizes the “importance” of getting the first “booster shot” (and this, of course, is done after one is “fully vaccinated.”)
@JohnBirchSociety
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For far too long, Big Government has operated outside of the limitations of the Constitution. As with any rule book, the limitations are only as good as those that are enforced. The Founding Fathers knew this and brilliantly included provisions in Article VI that we can use to rein in an out-of-control federal government.
Watch this video, “Rein In Big Government With Article VI, Not V,” as constitutional scholar Robert Brown explains how the Article VI solution is much better than an Article V Convention (aka a Convention of States or a Constitutional Convention).
at ~ 8 min, he says roughly the govt is corrupt because we allow it and elect it. His example was Pelosi getting 80% of vote in her district.
I say the election system is broke or corrupt and our votes do not count, our votes are being Dominion’d
Kind of a “chicken-and-egg” thing.
IMO, it was “our”* failure to conduct due diligence over the course of time, and in effect “allowed” the situation to happen.
(*When I say “our”, I do not mean “us Treepers”, per se; but the U.S. public, in general, going back nearly 150 years, IMO)
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” – Thomas Jefferson
@RealMarjorieGreene
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#TBT 1/20/21
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/21/marjorie-taylor-greene-files-articles-impeachment-/
That second pic makes her look like she’s Jay Leno’s twin.
(Just to be clear: Is that a compliment ??!)
Wow! TO3148, Il Donaldo Trumpo: a clip of Fauci way back when, saying that if you’ve had the flu you definitely don’t need a flu vac because “the most potent vaccination is getting infected yourself.” So what happened, Tony? (I bet “the science” changed. 🤔)
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House Republicans open new probe into Twitter, Facebook suppressing Hunter Biden laptop storyhttps://justthenews.com/government/congress/gop-reps-open-new-investigation-twitter-facebook-suppression-hunter-biden
I really, really, REALLY want to see this as good news, but I’m having trouble because I don’t trust these people. Also, I don’t think the Congressional investigatory process ever yields any results. (I’m probably wrong about that, but I can’t think of any.)
Maybe it will keep the spotlight on Facebook and Twitter and the Left’s lying ways, at least until they get their strongly worded letter from the committee and are allowed to proceed with business as usual. 😏
After everything Trump did to fix the Veteran Health Care System, Biden is going to essentially wipe that out in anticipation of meeting the needs of the massive flow of illegals heading to the border this spring and summer according to the administration.
Report: Biden Administration Considering Pulling Health Care from Veterans to Treat Illegal Aliens
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/report-biden-administration-considering-pulling-health-care-veterans-treat-illegal-aliens/
BAD MOVE.
Unethical
The Constitution, Article IV, Section 4:
Every person in the fake administration who is condoning taking doctors from veteran care and sending them to care for illegals, who are let in here illegally, should be hauled out of office immediately for violating their oaths of office to protect and defend the Constitution. They are not protecting and defending the citizens of this country. And now they are considering taking medical protections from those who DID protect and defend the country. IMO, no punishment is too harsh.
I’m a big fan of “pour encourager les autres” in proper times and places, and this strikes me as such circumstance.
https://wordhistories.net/2016/10/22/pour-encourager-les-autres/
I’m with you on that! I see no principles, no remorse, no concern, and no patriotism, just disgusting, self-serving behavior that also serves globalists. I’m DONE with these people.
And “punishment to deter” sounds so much better in French! 😄
[shaking head slowly with disdain]
That is what democrats do they are users build nothing just use.
Interesting analysis.
i may need to turn lawn into garden
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Remind me again, which country’s economy was sanctions going to devastate?by Pointman
Before the whole Russia/Ukraine bomb went off in everyone’s face, the Biden administration told the world that if Russia invaded Ukraine, then they’d impose harsh sanctions on it. That would deter Russia we were assured by all the major figures of the administration. Putin evaluated the threat, tokened the odds and after making some advance preparations, invaded anyway.
True to their word, Biden’s handlers laid down sanctions against Russia, but this wasn’t to be the usual stepladder of escalating sanctions to make Russia see the light. No siree Bob, this was to be the full bloody Monty of every sanction they could think of all dropped on Russia’s head from a great height in one go. The shock and awe version of sanctions.
In what they’re now very much beginning to regret, the US vassal states of places like Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, and most EU states rushed in to please their master by joining in sanctioning Russia enthusiastically. It goes without saying that distant places like Japan and Australia have huge national interests that forced them to intervene in a Russian war with the Ukraine on the other side of the world.
In tandem with this sanctioning orgy, a vicious propaganda campaign against Russia and all things Russia was launched in the West. Russian sportsmen were banned from events, Tolstoy removed from bookshelves, statues of Marx hidden from public view and even that fine opera singer Anna Netrebko was kicked out of her current gig for the mortal sin of being Russian.
The world stood back and waited for the Russian economy to implode and the ruble to become as worthless as a Confederate dollar. For sure, there was an initial impact on both when the sanctions were announced, but after a week they both stabilised for a number of reasons, not least of which was the Russians had anticipated the West’s move well in advance and had already put in place some very shrewd preparations.
After a week, the Russians were still in Ukraine rolling up the opposition army at their own leisurely pace and not even bothering to pick up calls from the WH. It started becoming obvious to all that the sanctions strategy simply wasn’t working, so in what seems to already be an ingrained reflex of the Biden administration, the solution to a patently failing strategy was to double down on it instead of having a rethink.
The way to make sanctions work was to compel all the rest of the world to join in. The two biggest countries who’d refused to condemn Russia nor implement any sanctions were China and India. A campaign of bullying against them began with open threats of dire costs and consequences if they didn’t do what the WH wanted. Usually diplomatic pressure starts with offering a carrot and then taking out the big stick if that fails, but the Biden administration prefers to do it the other way around. How to make friends and influence people.
If anything, China’s position hardened. People resent being bullied so by the time Biden eventually got around to offering China a carrot in a two hour long marathon video call, China told him to fuck off though it was nicely cloaked in diplomatic speak, a language the administration has yet to learn. India did the same so they’re now cranking up the sanctions machine against them both. I can’t see it doing much good since China is India’s biggest trading partner and Putin and China are settling into a new Cold War against the West.
Their new partner in the alliance Russia can supply the other two with all the oil and gas they need as well as other necessary things. When you consider Russia and Ukraine grow 30% of the world’s supply of wheat and 20% of its corn as well as huge quantities of fertiliser, rice and soy, sanctions won’t hurt them seriously.
Remember, that massive supply of food essentials used to flow to the West, but it’ll taper off as the long term contracts to supply expire and already Russia is indicating it won’t be renewing them. Why should they? Aligning with China and India gives them a combined market of three billion people to sell into while their enemies’ economies implode as a result. The West should be bracing themselves for the novel experience of food shortages in the near future. While I’m sure that’ll spur on a big drive for Europe to increase agricultural production, that’ll be made very difficult with the loss of all the massive amounts of fertiliser Russia used to supply.
Already, India has done a deal with Russia for a gazillion barrels of oil at a very juicy 20% discount to the spot market price.
So, what’s going to be the global effect of this major change of trade direction from Westwards to Eastwards? For starters, it’s solidified the membership of what I can only call the East Block. It now consists of Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Latin America, Central America, Africa, all of Asia except for an isolated Japan who’re desperately looking for ways to walk back its hasty jump into the sanctions club. They don’t have any domestic oil, which was the basic reason they attacked America in 1941.
The biggest losers are going to be western Europe. Inflation is officially running at 6% but the method of deriving that number was long ago fiddled with until it’s a highly dubious figure. My feeling is that it’s already significantly higher but when the tap of cheap oil, gas, minerals, food, fertiliser and other commodities from Russia gets turned off, it’ll sky rocket. As always happens with inflation, it’ll cause a recession and I think it’ll be long and hard. The EU saying they’ll eliminate their dependency on Russian energy by the end of the year is pure fantasy. End of the decade is more like it. A recent Bank of England study is projecting that Britain will have the biggest fall in living standards since the 1950s.
As for America, Canada, Australia and the rest of the merry band of sanctioneers outside Europe, the future holds a similar prospect. At end of February, America already has an official inflation rate of 8% (wink) and gas prices going through the roof mainly because of the administration devastating their own oil and gas industries to the point where the energy independence the country enjoyed two years ago has disappeared. It’s thrown them to the mercy of buying gas from abroad and unsavoury dictatorships like Venezuela. Someone has to prop up these filthy dictator’s economies, don’t they? So much for defending democracy.
Inflation degrades the buying power of a currency while at the same time prices on almost everything are rising. What’s going to exacerbate the currency devaluations is the Russians announcing they’ll only sell oil and gas for rubles to countries they consider “unfriendly countries”, which means those who imposed economic restrictions against Russia. This is a win/win move nobody anticipated. The exchange rate of the ruble shot up immediately on currency exchanges and the dollar plunged because it looks likely to knock the dollar off its golden perch of being the petro-dollar.
This would be a blow for Europe, which gets more than 40% of its natural gas imports from Russia. Also, there’s nothing to stop Russia really putting the boot in by charging those “unfriendly countries” a higher price than what they charge their East Block allies. Take it or leave it Jack, but either way that’s the way I’m pricing it just for you. They’ll take it because they don’t have any alternative. There’s even talk of the East Block setting up a brand new petro currency backed up by the oil price or even conceivably a basket of commodities like gold.
Just to add to the dollar’s woes, it’s status as the world’s reserve currency has taken a terrible blow with them freezing the Russian Central bank’s dollar deposits in America. The message taken away from that rather ill-considered move was a lot of other countries and large institutions thinking if they can do that to a huge powerful country like Russia, should I really be holding large amounts of cash or even assets in America’s financial system? The answer is obliviously no, so dollars are being quietly moved offshore to safer locations. The City of London, famed for its boast that your money is safe with us, is suffering the same steady withdrawal of funds.
How is Russia going to fare in the short and long term? The economy has certainly taken a knock but nothing on the scale of what’s currently happening in the Western block. Long term, their prospects are very good. They’re now in a huge trading block of 3 billion people and will be exclusively supplying it with as much energy and resources as it can produce. Unless America gets its energy policy out of the shambles it’s in, the ruble in its new form as a petro currency will go from strength to strength at the expense of the dollar.
Remind me again, which country’s economy was sanctions going to devastate?
©Pointman
Democrats and Rinos have never been known for their brilliancy.
Trump is the best even with miner flaws he cannot be topped as President.
Home from rehearsal. OMGosh. Wow are some of the voices out of shape. Note to self…back to Pilates. Ab control needs help.
Okay, tomorrow’s daily is scheduled…I hope Steve and Linda have a sense of humor about the one meme. It could be anybody’s names in it, but NOOOOOO. The meme maker had to choose those two.
Uh-oh. Now I’m afraid to look. 🙂
AWESOME
The father croc taking his child from the nest to the river
Croc found Hell-the-BEAST’s shoe…. what about the *cough* rest… pointy hat nearby??? Broom?