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Seems like such an obvious solution. We need a Conservative majority.

Until we muster up honest conservative majority, we’ll…

Stuff…

Ideally, below article(s) and such of interest, that caught my eye.

Grateful our ancestors broke the British chains, again, and again…

Thankfully, Trump is finishing off the Brits, Canucks… Along with NATO. Ideally UN.

Stay The Course. Trust Trump. Remember…

Never, Ever, forget what they did to us.

Celebrate America, Everyday!!!

Relax, It’s Saturday.

Night crew, your nickel.

KK

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cthulhu

Thoughts are with Kalbo.

Brave and Free

Yes, they are. 🙏

patfrederick

Amen!

Wolf Moon

Amen!

Firefly

Amen! 🙏

cthulhu

TheseTruths

Thank you for the placeholder, Kalbo. It is all that is needed. Prayers and good wishes for you and your family. 🙏

MarieUrsula

I concur. It is all that is needed.  🙏 

Valerie Curren

Amen!

Wolf Moon

Amen!!!

TheseTruths

Rand Paul:

Read this Fauci diary entry closely. Officials would not admit the vaccine was not stopping spread because it might weaken the legal case for mandates. That is not science. That is a cover-up to justify coercion.

Jeffrey A. Tucker:

August 13, 2022: we cannot admit that the shots don’t work because that would undermine our policy to force people to get them.

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scott467

Officials would not admit the vaccine was not stopping spread because it might weaken the legal case for mandates.

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There isn’t anything which justify ‘mandates’.

You can’t forcibly inject another human being with anything, ever. At least not unless he has been found guilty of a capital offense.

This was covered in the Nuremberg Trials and the Nuremberg Code.

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Brave Ai: The Nuremberg Code was established in 1947 following the trial of 23 Nazi doctors accused of conducting lethal medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners. 

While the code does not explicitly mention “injections,” its first principle mandates that the voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.
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And second, at least half the population won’t go on a date with a man anyway, no matter what the government says.

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patfrederick

i think if fauci were to face a just outcome, it should be LETHAL INJECTION. it would be poetic justice.

only make it acid and cut out his vocal cords so we don’t have to hear him scream.

(apologies, mamma’s in a mood this morning.)

Gail Combs

Lots of needles. Some Covid Hot Lots, some other stuff.

patfrederick

that would take too long and might not be painful enough Gail.

Gail Combs

AHHHhhhh but he does not know WHEN the really nasty shots will be coming.

pgroup

Nice shooting.

Sir ES

IIRC, Obozo trashed, in essence, the Nuremberg Code – much like trashing the Smith-Mundt Act in re abstaining from domestic propaganda.

It sure seems like he was playing the part of “teeing it up” for HRC to destroy America.

Coordinated collusion! The pandemic was supposed to last a LOT longer, to get full FDA approval.

Partners in crime! We dodged the bullet, thanks to VSG PDJT…

patfrederick

BASTARDS!

Gail Combs

And then the question becomes:

WHY does the DOJ want to MANDATE a shot that does not work?

MONEY?
Depopulation?
or both…

Wolf Moon

Power, too! It’s clear that they were worried about losing the power to force shots on people.

Aubergine

I think the power is the driver of it all.

I think megalomania is just another word encompassing many of the seven deadly sins, and it lies at the heart of evil men (and women).

Given absolute power over others, most often the result is corruption. The corruption in the case was on a massive scale at the Fauci level. But remember all the small town mayors, state governors, grocery clerks, and Walmart greeters that turned into tyrants when the opportunity arose. They were only “petty” tyrants because they were in lesser positions of power. How many of them, given Fauci’s reach, would have been exactly like him? Almost all, in my opinion.

One think Covid taught me is that unbridled sin simmers just under the surface of a whole lot of people who don’t know Jesus. And some who say they do. The world has gotten very far away from God, and Covid showed it.

Wolf Moon

Amen!

pgroup

The world has gotten very far away from God, and Covid showed it.

If by using ‘showed’ you mean ‘exposed’ I agree 100%.

Aubergine

Yes.

TheseTruths

End Wokeness:

Kamala reveals her 2028 agenda:

1. Eliminate the Electoral College

2. Pack the Supreme Court to 13

3. DC & Puerto Rican statehood

She always apears to be talking on a lower grade level to people, just like Obama did. They both use techniques to try to draw the audience along with them. IMO she comes across as addressing an elementary class, and she is insufferable. That’s in addition to her destructive, unAmerican policies.

I think she is angling for the socialists’ vote with this agenda. Might as well take the whole Dermocratic Party down with the DSA.

scott467

Will she at least commit to NO MORE WYMYN on the (not)Supreme packed Court?

If she expects to win my vote, she’s gotta give me sumpthin!

Wolf Moon

LOL!!!

TheseTruths

Not. a. chance.   :wpds_lol: 

cthulhu

There is something to be said about revising the number of justices on SCOTUS, as well as revising appellate courts.

There are currently 13 Courts of Appeals. 1-11 are specific states and territories, the 12th is the DC Circuit, which serves to grant “home court advantage” to the Federal Government in Washington, D.C. [which I find obscene], and the last is for certain technical matters (such as disputes between states).

These Circuits can be as small as the Third Circuit (Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Virgin Islands) or First Circuit (Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island)….or as expansive as the Ninth Circuit (Alaska, Arizona, Guam, California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and the Northern Mariana Islands).

The bulk of the Circuits were set up in 1891, with minor tweaks in 1893 (DC Circuit), 1929 (10th Circuit split out of 8th), and 1982 (Federal Circuit reorganized from smaller courts).

The West Coast has obviously changed its stature between 1891 and the present, while the rust belt has been on a long sad slope of decline. This has left the Circuits wildly unbalanced.

If I had my druthers, I would support a rebalancing of the Circuit Courts to result in 13 with approximately the same anticipated caseload. The DC Circuit should be utterly abolished, and its grounds sown with salt. This leaves us with the pleasant prospect of 13 SCOTUS justices, one from each Circuit.

Phase-in rules are left as an exercise for the reader…

scott467

I wouldn’t change nothing until the communists are wiped out.

Otherwise, it’s hardly different than changing getaway drivers in the middle of a bank heist.

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cthulhu

patfrederick

wait—while they’re still driving? because if they take the time to pull over, it loses a little something.

Aubergine

She’s condescending and patronizing and STUPID.

All I can think when she speaks is, how dare you talk to people like you are smarter than them, you absolute moron?

Sir ES

Her staff absolutely hated her – most ended up quitting early.

Same with the Hildabeast – both her staff and the WH Marines were abused daily.

TheseTruths

The Gateway Pundit reported this correction of her remarks.

Kamala Harris, a lawyer who was a heartbeat away from the presidency, doesn’t know how many district courts there are in the US.

The United States does not have 13 district courts.

The US has 89 district courts across 50 states (5 more in territories) and 13 appellate circuit courts.

Wolf Moon

“Kam Kom Korrected? Well the NERVE!!!” 🙃

TheseTruths

Nancy Guthrie Died ‘Shortly After She Was Taken’ – Pima County Sheriff’s Department Releases Ransom Notes
The first note asked for ransom money.

…A second ransom note sent a few days later claimed that Nancy had died and had been buried.

“Guthrie Family,We did not fully grasp the seriousness of her physical condition. We never intended to hurt her, that was not our intention. She perished shortly after she was taken. We believe it was heart related. She is buried in nature now. Nothing you could have done could have changed the outcome. We want your family to know this and hope you all can find peace. We are truly sorry,” the note read…

How horrific for the family to receive that. I wonder how things might have been different if the contents of that note had been released to the public.

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scott467

…A second ransom note sent a few days later claimed that Nancy had died and had been buried.

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That’s not a very good example of using leverage to get the ransom demand met.

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patfrederick

RIGHT???

scott467

She is buried in nature now.

___________

Could they be a little more vague next time?

If they were sorry, they would reveal the location of the body, so she could have a proper burial.

And at least one of the kidnappers / killers appears to be female, because it sounds to me like a woman wrote that note.

cthulhu

Buried in nature sounds like the corpse was naked.

scott467

Like Bensonmum.

Aubergine

I agree with you that a woman wrote it. I suspect she is the wife of one of the kidnappers.

I would bet good money that they fled to Mexico.

Wolf Moon

BQQM!!! Yes.

The woman’s involvement was likely predicated on “nothing happens to the old lady”. The reason she wasn’t just killed by the male accomplices – what you suggest – she’s married to one.

Perhaps she is a female friend or relative of any illegal who worked for or near the Guthries.

gil00

This is all pretty sick. Pima really fd up here.

Wolf Moon

Yup.

TheseTruths

Another side-effect of Ozempic drugs: temporal wasting.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2026/07/31/ozempic-temporal-hollowing/91113282007/

In the era of GLP-1 medications, like Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaroplastic surgeons say they’re seeing an increase in patients seeking a niche treatment in a high-risk area of the face. The issue? “Temporal hollowing,” or “temporal wasting” − which, they say, involves loss of volume in the temples, due to rapid weight loss.

…Though people rarely notice or think about temples, Dubrow says the fullness of that facial region communicates significant information. Slight changes in depth can make someone look older or even dehydrated, he says.

“It takes your face out of its youthful balance,” he says. “When you look at a youthful face − when you look at kids, babies − the temple area is very full.”

…Temporal hollowing can be treated a number of ways. The most common is with filler. Others may opt for surgical intervention, like a fat transfer.

But the temples are a “high risk area” for filler, Dubrow says. They’re full of veins and arteries. If something goes wrong, you could go blind. That’s why it’s essential to only seek filler − or any medical intervention for that matter − from a legitimate medical professional.

😱

…Dubrow also wants people to know temporal hollowing can be avoided altogether by losing weight gradually. When people on GLP-1s follow doctors’ instructions, it’s usually not a problem.

When people take matters into their own hands, that’s when they’re more likely to suffer from temporal hollowing.

“Don’t go too fast. Don’t try to go up in the dose too quickly. Do exactly what you’re supposed to do,” Dubrow says. Unfortunately, he adds, many people don’t.

“They’re getting them online − TikTok influencers, gym bros, chiropractors,” he says. “They’re sort of DIYing their GLPs. … They don’t really understand that it’s designed to slowly build up and get to a point where your food noise is gone, and you are in control of your appetite, rather your appetite being in control of you.”

I’m going to start noticing temples now…

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scott467

…Temporal hollowing can be treated a number of ways. The most common is with filler. Others may opt for surgical intervention, like a fat transfer.

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Quicker and cheaper to just use a hammer. Give yourself a good crack, it’ll swell up like you’re a teenager again.

Like a teenager who got hit in the temple with a hammer maybe, but still.

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patfrederick

  :wpds_lol:   :wpds_lol:   :wpds_lol: 

thanks, I needed that!

scott467

I’m going to start noticing temples now…

__________

Yep. I’m already scanning for temples like a Terminator.

scott467

That’s why it’s essential to only seek filler − or any medical intervention for that matter − from a legitimate medical professional.

___________

So I guess the local tattoo artiste is out of the question, then.

Seems like a legitimate medical professional would never inject your temple with anything in the first place.

Might use a hammer, though…

Like Maxwell did.

scott467

If something goes wrong, you could go blind.

___________

That could even be the thing that goes wrong.

The list just grows…

scott467

…Temporal hollowing can be treated a number of ways. The most common is with filler. Others may opt for surgical intervention, like a fat transfer.

____________

Just heat an Exacto knife over a flame to sterilize it, make a little incision behind the hairline so you don’t see the scar, and slide some Silly Putty in there.

Apply a dab of Neosporin and a Band-Aid to cap it off, and you’re good to go.

Easy peasy.

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cthulhu

Use a Thanksgiving turkey injector and everything will smell like rosemary and sage.

patfrederick

  :wpds_lol:   :wpds_lol:   :wpds_lol:   :wpds_lol: 

patfrederick

doctor doctor…stop…I’m cured!!!  :wpds_lol:   :wpds_lol:   :wpds_lol: 

Wolf Moon

Amen!

scott467

Do exactly what you’re supposed to do,” Dubrow says. Unfortunately, he adds, many people don’t.

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If they were doing what they’re supposed to do, they wouldn’t be taking Ozempic in the first place.

This is like handing an arsonist a book of matches, and telling him not to light any until he gets out in the parking lot.

If he lights your waiting room on fire on his way out, that’s kinda your own fault…

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scott467

When people take matters into their own hands, that’s when they’re more likely to suffer from temporal hollowing.

____________

Well there goes most of my best ideas.

scott467

They don’t really understand that it’s designed to slowly build up and get to a point where your food noise is gone,

____________

Well there’s the problem, Doc. If they would just kill their food before they eat it, it won’t make any noise.

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Aubergine

No shit.

“Food noise?”

These people are idiots.

“Doctor, my double Big Mac with extra cheese and mayo is just begging me to get three fried pies to go! What do I do?”

“Well, lardass, here’s a pill to make it be quiet.”

Good grief.

Wolf Moon

The entire idea of working hard to earn one’s meal – not just in the monetary sense, but in the bodily sense as well – is gone.

Aubergine

Yep.

Aubergine

““Don’t go too fast. Don’t try to go up in the dose too quickly. Do exactly what you’re supposed to do,” Dubrow says.”

How about not taking them at all?

How about getting some exercise, eating less junk and more healthy food? How about just not being a glutton?

These “miracle cures” for things all too often turn out later to have been very harmful. Pharmaceutical companies don’t give a shit about humanity, they care about money. Don’t be a guinea pig for mini-Mengeles and filthy-Faucis.

Wolf Moon

Amen!

Every drug one takes is a bag of side effects waiting to happen. The newer the drug, the fewer long-term, very serious side-effects are known.

AVOID!!!

Wolf Moon

Gotta say – “temporal wasting” and “temporal hollowing” sound like “cool” sci-fi problems to be dealt with on Time Tunnel, Star Trek, and Stargate.

TheseTruths

Why eating too much protein could shorten your life

…We’ve been told that protein makes us feel satiated, while studies published in the last two decades have suggested that the combination of strength training – either through lifting weights or push-ups – and a higher-protein diet can counter age-related muscle loss.

Yet some scientists believe that it’s the weights and exercise that are the most important thing for your ageing muscles. If you’re merely eating more protein, it will likely be making your health worse.

Research carried out by Professor Dudley Lamming, a world-leading expert on the subject from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has found that a high-protein diet without any exercise leads to insulin resistance and accumulating more body fat in just over four months, even if you’re consuming the same number of calories.

“A number of different studies have shown that the people who are eating more protein tend to have higher rates of developing cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and even potentially a shorter lifespan,” says Lamming.

So what’s going on?

Why too much protein could shorten your life…

“Our research, at least in part, suggests that when you consume an excessive amount of protein without performing more exercise, and so not using it directly for build-up of muscle, it results in more DNA damage,” says Wilbert Vermeij, who leads a research team studying the biology of ageing at the Erasmus University Medical Centre in the Netherlands…

Details at the link.

Gail Combs

Sounds like another attack on meat eating.

TradeBait2

I like Saturday AM. No homeschooling and Bible study starts later in the evening. I have time to “weigh” in on subjects like this.

You are correct IMO, Gail. It is an attack.

If you do not get enough exercise and resistance type work done with any nutrition plan you are hurting you health. Sedentary lifestyles kill.

With the Keto I have been doing I include stretching, exercises, walking and resistance work via dumbbells or good ole fashioned outdoors work. I am down 33 lbs. now and in much better physical condition than even 5+ years ago. I really do not want to lose much more weight, just get in even better shape. So I will probably increase the resistance work in the late fall and winter while increasing the good carbs a bit more.

With meat eating, for me it is about the variety. Don’t get stuck on the just one or two. Balance while adding in seafood, chicken, turkey. Always eat eggs – the yolks are critical to good health. Use real butter, extra virgin olive oil, whole milk dairy products (just limit the amounts), real mayo, etc. I never even look at how much meat/protein I eat each day – my body tells me what I need and want.

I am not strict with exact Keto “dieting”. I eat Keto breads/buns, Lewis makes some really good low sugar/high fiber Hawaiian and Sourdough as examples. I keep carbs under 30 per day. I can count on one hand the number of “carb” days I’ve had in the past 6 months and none exceeded 60 carbs. I do what I need to do to keep the dang sugar out of my system and stop eating the stuff that increases it so the fat will be burned instead. I go with healthy carbs from natural foods, none of the “processed” stuff. No “diet” foods. I will drink splenda, stevia, etc. sweetened coffee and tea. No sodas, been off them for decades. I season foods just the way I like them. Snacks are nuts, cheeses, berries, and low carb plant protein bars. You can eat all you want of those and still lose or maintain desired weight.

We have no desire for sweet foods anymore. That went away in the first month. I never go “hungry” anymore. If I get hungry, I eat. I just never eat less than a couple of hours before going to sleep at night. Typical cut off is around 7 PM for me.

The pharm solution is rarely the right solution. People are killing themselves and creating more Big Pharm. medical industry and funeral home income streams with that crap. if you need an appetite suppressant, there are good ones out there in capsule form that are all natural GLP1’s that include probiotics for gut health. TWC has one (Appetite) that I used for a month to assist and did not need afterwards. I have been an evening snacker forever. Not anymore, it got me over the hump while I removed the sugar. There are a number of others out there that are probably equally good.

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Wolf Moon

Amen to the eggs. Eggs, dairy and red meat are the rich B12 sources! Very important in the elderly. Vegans are at something like 80% having B12 deficiency. They need to get B12 from special yeast, and the few other good vegan sources – most do not.

Wolf Moon

I think the really high-protein diets they’re talking about are more like body-building.

When keto turns into body-building, or even worse, keto without exercise, it’s no longer keto, IMO. Yes, it reduces weight, but it doesn’t build or maintain muscle

IMO, staying away from high-carb, addictive, highly processed snacks (basically “chips” of any kind), is key.

TradeBait2

Yes – this. ^^^^

TheseTruths

Yes. What I took from the article is basic common sense to do things in moderation, and that if you’re not active, maybe you don’t need as much protein as you thought.

cthulhu

https://declanfinn.substack.com/p/fauci-the-murderer

Somebody, sometime, somewhere, is going to move him down the path to his eternal judgment.

PAVACA1

Yours Truly holds Dr. Anthony Fauci as being involved in the death of anyone who has died from adverse effects induced by the COVID-19 “vaccines” that they took; and in the death of anyone who has died from a COVID-19 virus infection.
Dr. Anthony Fauci is also involved in any ill effects on anyone who is shed on by COVID-19 “vaccines.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci is also involved with the ongoing negative side effects induced in the body of anyone who has ever taken a COVID-19 “vaccine.”

Aubergine

I think what we forget is, Fauci is 85 years old.

He’s on his way out the door of this Earthly plane, and there’s nothing he can do about that.

He could repent and throw himself on the mercy of Jesus. But I wouldn’t hold my breath on that, because he appears to think he is god.

I don’t seek vengeance because that isn’t my place, and not what God says I’m supposed to do. BUT it is the place of our leaders, who have a different standard set forth by God for their pursuit of justice while on this Earth. And they have failed us. Even Trump has said he won’t challenge Fauci’s pardon, which makes me…well, I have no words for what I feel about that.

TradeBait2

I agree. Our human MAGA leader has feet of clay like the rest of us. He may not challenge the pardon but others can and should. I pray it never happens, but if lost his marbles and it could be proven, i would not want his pardons from that point on the be valid either.

Autopens should not even exist at the POTUS level. Corrupt as all get out.

Wolf Moon

Amen!

IMO Trump will be solid long beyond this term. In fact, I think “Trump 2028” is extra painful for Demmunists to hear, just because of that level of Trump health.

patfrederick

Charlotte99
August 1, 2026 1:17 am

Sec Rubio: The International Criminal Court is an illegitimate international organization. They’ve made themselves illegitimate because they claim that even if you’re not a member of that court, they can come after you. What that literally means in the future is that American service members, political leaders and others could find themselves under indictment by this International Criminal Court.

To know a little bit about it, Jack Smith used to work there. We’ve now begun an effort to really try to bring that court to heel.

https://nitter.poast.org/Osint613/status/2083223923412357519#m

TradeBait2

I pointed this out years ago; including UN/WHO/etc. overreach previously. If you want Nuremberg type consequences for scumbags you subject yourselves to “international” justice. As for me and my house…

DO. NOT. WANT.

American justice only apply as We the People determine.

Trump, Vance, Rubio, Bessent, Hegseth et all. Could not be in better hands, America.

Sir ES

Yes!

The (“Plan trusted”) is advancing apace (from “Trust the Plan”).

Patience is quite difficult, but the payoff of forbearance is worth every effort.

Many have been waiting for *decades* to be present when our beloved REPUBLIC is restored.

That’s the goal, I think – a brand new re-constitution of basic moral and religious grounding, revisited from the words and ideas our Founding Fathers set to paper.

Independence 2.0 …

cthulhu

The ICC is an assault against US sovereignty — and, thus, an act of war.

Send in the Military, leave only rubble and corpses.

patfrederick

agreed

patfrederick

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Wolf Moon

OMG, I’m a gray squirrel!

Firefly

Me too! 😅😂🤣

Wolf Moon

Memory loves community – or something like that! 😂

patfrederick

Gail Combs

The question is whether we will see Article 5 [of NATO] activated against Ukraine for attacking Turkey. — GhostofBasedPatrickHenry
Remember Turkey is a NATO member and Ukraine is NOT … OOOooops.

Trying to find information on this outside of Badlands is difficult but not surprising. The Fake News does NOT want people to know Ukraine is attacking a NATO member state.

…..

Has the Ukrainian military gone mad? An attack on 13 ships… (I am blocked from this site.)

Amid Ukraine’s recent intensified crackdown on shipping in the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea, a Turkish-flagged coal bulk carrier was attacked by a drone off the Russian port of Novorossiysk on Wednesday…

UKRAINE Claims responsibility for killing innocent seafarers

Drone attacks on cargo ships in the Sea of Azov result in 5 Azerbaijani sailors dead and 4 injured, heightening international tensions.

..Casualties: Five sailors were killed, and four sailors were injured. There were a total of 25 Azerbaijani citizens on board the ships; the identities of two victims have been confirmed.

Responsibility: The Commander of the Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces, Robert Brovdi, stated that they struck five ‘illegally waiting ships’ during the night. Russia (Zaharova, Galuzin) linked the attack to Ukraine.

Turkish connection: The operator of the ‘Natra’ is Efem Ship Chartering, based in Kadıköy, Istanbul; the owner is Natra Shipping located in Tuzla…

The maritime front of the grain war

The fact that both targeted ships were heading to load grain in Rostov-na-Donu from Turkey summarizes the background of the attack. Ukraine is targeting Russia’s grain and fuel exports conducted by sea — particularly the tanker network referred to as the ‘shadow fleet’ and the grain shipments it claims are made from occupied territories — with both aerial and unmanned maritime vehicles. This campaign has extended far beyond the front lines… on May 30, a tanker and a fuel depot were set on fire at Taganrog Port. Turkish shipping has also been among the targets of this line: on March 26, the tanker ‘Altura’ of Pergamon Shipping was attacked near the Bosphorus, and on May 28, the Turkish-owned ship ‘Ant’ was struck off the coast of Odessa.

Experts indicate that this trend points to a maritime war increasingly involving civilian commercial vessels and seafarers from third countries. The narrow and shallow geography of the Sea of Azov permanently raises the risk of ‘collateral damage’ ..

RT: Turkish sailor killed amid fresh Ukrainian strikes on shipping

Kiev’s drones hit at least 13 ships in the Azov and Black Seas on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to the country’s drone chief

At least one Turkish sailor was killed and others wounded following a drone strike on a Türkiye-flagged coal bulker off Russia’s port of Novorossiysk on Wednesday, amid intensified Ukrainian attacks on shipping in the Azov and Black seas.

The Istanbul-registered MV Reyhan Sari was carrying coal from Russia’s Taman Port to Trabzon in Türkiye when it was struck by a UAV. A crew member working in the engine room died at the scene of the impact, Türkiye Today reported on Wednesday.

The ship was able to continue under its own power and reach waters off Samsun, two injured crew members were evacuated by helicopter and taken to hospitals in the city, according to a statement from operating company cited by the media.

According to Ukraine’s drone forces commander, Robert Brovdi, Ukrainian forces struck a total of 13 ships on Tuesday and Thursday in the Azov and Black seas, “one tanker, 10 dry cargo ships and two tugboats.

It was not the first time Turkish ships have been struck by suspected Ukrainian drones. In March, a Ukraine-blacklisted tanker belonging to a Turkish shipping company was struck by drones near Bosphorus after taking on oil at Novorossiysk.

BADLANDS: Ukraine Strikes Turkish Ships as Israeli Minister Warns of Possible Naval Clash With Turkey

A Russian-appointed governor in Kherson said Ukrainian drone strikes targeted 13 Turkish civilian vessels operating in the Black Sea, killing one Turkish sailor and wounding three others. Turkish authorities have not publicly confirmed the casualty figures, and the circumstances surrounding the reported attacks remain disputed. Russia has condemned the strikes as attacks on civilian shipping. Meanwhile, Turkish officials have not announced any military response.

Separately, Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli said Israel should prepare for the possibility of a future naval confrontation with Turkey, citing Ankara’s expanding regional posture and tensions over Gaza and the Eastern Mediterranean. Chikli argued Israel should strengthen its naval capabilities and strategic planning, though he did not indicate that a clash is imminent.

The developments come as regional tensions remain elevated over the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, with Turkey maintaining relations with both Ukraine and Russia while continuing to criticize Israel’s military operations in Gaza. Despite increasingly sharp rhetoric between Ankara and Jerusalem, the two countries are not in direct military conflict.

GhostofBasedPatrickHenry:

For the past few months, I have been speculating on the prospect of a naval conflict breaking out in the eastern Mediterranean between Israel and Turkey, with perhaps Ukraine, Greece, or Cyprus (or all three) aligning with Israel against Turkey….

Now we have Ukraine attacking at least 13 Turkish ships, killing a sailor, and the Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs, Amichai Chikli, warning that we may see a naval conflict between Israel and Turkey unfolding in the very near future…

The question is whether we will see Article 5 activated against Ukraine for attacking Turkey. That would certainly present a quagmire to navigate for the Uniparty regime..

Gail Combs

So there is AT LEAST one confirmed drone attack on a Turkish ship by Ukraine. With that as backgroundd:

BADLANDS: Rubio Meets Lavrov & Trump Withholds Funds as Ukraine’s New Army Chief Says “Russia Has No Right to Exist”

Ukraine’s newly appointed commander-in-chief, Lt. Gen. Mykhailo Drapatyi, declared that “Russia has no right to exist” while outlining his vision for Ukraine’s military. His remarks came as Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Manila, where Rubio said the Trump administration remains prepared to play a “constructive role” in helping end the wari, while cautioning there is no quick path to a negotiated settlement.

  :wpds_arrow: The diplomatic outreach follows the Trump administration’s decision to withhold portions of previously planned military assistance to Ukraine pending a review of US weapons stockpiles. US officials have said the pause is intended to ensure American military readiness while continuing to evaluate future support for Kyiv.

Rubio described his discussion with Lavrov as “good” and “frank” but declined to disclose details, saying diplomacy is best conducted privately. Russia has continued to state it is open to a political settlement while maintaining its previously stated negotiating positions, and Ukraine has reiterated that any peace agreement must preserve its sovereignty and territorial integrity.

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Ghost:
“… the new Ukrainian commander-in-chief is saying Russia has no right to exist, while projecting that the ethnic Russian people living in the Ukraine are invaders and haven’t lived there for over a thousand years.”

Trump to Block Release of Ukraine Financial Aid Package – Global ResearchGlobal Research – Centre for Research on Globalization

6 days ago –[President Donald Trump’s representatives] informed us that the money will not be available in many aspects until the next president is in office (…)

  :wpds_lol: 

I guess the DemonRats/Uniparty are being blocked from laundering campaign money thru Ukraine.
  :pepper:   :banana-mario:   :banana2: 

Wolf Moon

Honestly, I think officials in this administration are in greater danger of assassination by Ukrainian whackos, than they are by Iranian whackos.

TradeBait2

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patfrederick

why would ukraine provoke NATO?

Sir ES

Two thoughts come to mind:

First, NATO is dying – at the proper time, I believe the US will withdraw our alliance.

They are trapped for cash, with EU countries siphoning off the people’s money (usurping private pension funds for public / political use) for UKR.

Second, NATO is trapped, fully committed to “see it through,” and cannot backtrack. It’s a horrible position for NATO / EU, and UKR knows it.

Why not exercise that leverage?

NATO is an effete organization…

“Let’s see what happens.”

Sir ES

‘strapped for cash’

TradeBait2

Good analysis. I agree, NATO is dying. I look forward to the death certificate being issued.

barkerjim

Hope they close the eyes (5) first!!!

Aubergine

Hmmm.

If I were the See-Eye-Aye, or even President Trump, and I was tired of Zelenski’s bullshit, and I wanted a swift end to this conflict, what would I do?

Would I put in place some people to “encourage,” shall we say, attacks on a NATO ally? So that Article 5 would come into play? So that the United States could put an END to the war with prejudice?

Maybe I would.

Wolf Moon

(1) I’ve always regarded Ukraine as a poison pill for NATO. Turkey was a bridge too far, but Ukraine is a bridge farther.

(2) There are some countries and oligarchs that want WWIII. Ukraine is a nice starting place. It’s filled with corrupt nut-jobs, power-hungry demons, and laundromat operators.

(3) Russia’s strategy of patience is causing problems for Ukraine, and they need to incite things.

(4) Turkey is bottom of the pecking order in NATO. Ukraine is acting much like criminals do when they join a gang and want to move up in the pack.

TradeBait2

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patfrederick

hmmmmmmmm…

Mark41
August 1, 2026 7:42 am

More on the Lincoln Reflection Pool

So yesterday Jeanine Pirro, DC attorney, dropped the charges against Olympian David Hearn.

This is a total screw up IMO. With the constant coverage by the media that President Trump’s repair of the reflection pool was a total vanity screw up that didn’t work. It was the contractor’s fault and a waste of money. The administration rushed out to defend the repair and contractor.

A Grand Jury indicted Mr. Hearn for a felony for destruction of government property. Jeanine Pirro had stated there is a significant amount of evidence that justifies the indictment.

By dropping the charge yesterday just brings this whole story back in the media to give them more ammunition to bash President Trump and they will delight in doing so.

Pirro cited new evidence from the Dept. of Interior was the reason for dropping the charges.

With the amount of coverage this had in the media you would think the DOJ would have explored every possible cause of the problem, especially the contractor and Dept. of Interior before bringing charges. They really look bad with this now that they dropped charges. Rush to indict? Weaponized DOJ, President Trumps disaster-I can hear it now.

Hearn is probably a real leftist jerk, but I hate it when we give the left opportunities to bash the administration. I have always like Pirro, but I can’t believe the Dept. of Interior had evidence that something else caused the problem rather than Hearn, especially with all the media coverage this had.

JMO-morning frustration

Aubergine

This situation pisses me off.

I suspected from the beginning that a lot of the damage in the Reflecting Pool was just poor workmanship. But everybody is so pissed off and divided right now, knee-jerk reactions are the norm.

Our country is right on the verge of an explosion, in my opinion. People are so mad all the time it’s scary. I see it every day.

patfrederick

‘roid rage.

(steroids, not hemorrhoids)

Aubergine

Lol.

Although that Taco Bell parasite thing could be causing the latter!

patfrederick

montezuma’s revenge!

Aubergine

Preparation H does a booming business in Mexico, I’ll bet.

patfrederick

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Wolf Moon

American Neo-Gothic!

Marco’s AI pitchfork is pitch (im)perfect!

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patfrederick

maybe it needs to be 4 pronged for a reason.

Wolf Moon

Don’t want to poke anything with an STD while herding Donkey Coms!

patfrederick

deeper rot needs more prongs?

Valerie Curren

Isn’t one a pitchfork & the other (possibly) a potato fork?

Gail Combs

There are quite a few differences. Look at the barn and the roof of the porch.

barkerjim

https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/the-delicious-humiliation-of-the

The Delicious Humiliation of the Man Who Poisoned the World and the Ignominious Death of ‘The Science’.
It Was A Very Good Week for Humanity

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EACH DAY WE TAKE UP THE OFFENSIVE WEAPON OF THE WORD OF GOD – THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT – ONE VERSE OPENS THE DOOR TO THE CONTEXT OF THE CHAPTER MESSAGE

Verse of the Day for Saturday, August 1, 2026

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

John 3:16 (KJV)

COMMENTARY FOR JOHN 3

Christ’s discourse with Nicodemus. (1-21) The baptism of John of Christ John’s testimony. (22-36)

1-8 Nicodemus was afraid, or ashamed to be seen with Christ, therefore came in the night. When religion is out of fashion, there are many Nicodemites. But though he came by night, Jesus bid him welcome, and hereby taught us to encourage good beginnings, although weak. And though now he came by night, yet afterward he owned Christ publicly. He did not talk with Christ about state affairs, though he was a ruler, but about the concerns of his own soul and its salvation, and went at once to them. Our Saviour spoke of the necessity and nature of regeneration or the new birth, and at once directed Nicodemus to the source of holiness of the heart. Birth is the beginning of life; to be born again, is to begin to live anew, as those who have lived much amiss, or to little purpose. We must have a new nature, new principles, new affections, new aims. By our first birth we were corrupt, shapen in sin; therefore we must be made new creatures. No stronger expression could have been chosen to signify a great and most remarkable change of state and character. We must be entirely different from what we were before, as that which begins to be at any time, is not, and cannot be the same with that which was before. This new birth is from heaven, ch. #1:13|, and its tendency is to heaven. It is a great change made in the heart of a sinner, by the power of the Holy Spirit. It means that something is done in us, and for us, which we cannot do for ourselves. Something is wrong, whereby such a life begins as shall last for ever. We cannot otherwise expect any benefit by Christ; it is necessary to our happiness here and hereafter. What Christ speak, Nicodemus misunderstood, as if there had been no other way of regenerating and new-moulding an immortal soul, than by new-framing the body. But he acknowledged his ignorance, which shows a desire to be better informed. It is then further explained by the Lord Jesus. He shows the Author of this blessed change. It is not wrought by any wisdom or power of our own, but by the power of the blessed Spirit. We are shapen in iniquity, which makes it necessary that our nature be changed. We are not to marvel at this; for, when we consider the holiness of God, the depravity of our nature, and the happiness set before us, we shall not think it strange that so much stress is laid upon this. The regenerating work of the Holy Spirit is compared to water. It is also probable that Christ had reference to the ordinance of baptism. Not that all those, and those only, that are baptized, are saved; but without that new birth which is wrought by the Spirit, and signified by baptism, none shall be subjects of the kingdom of heaven. The same word signifies both the wind and the Spirit. The wind bloweth where it listeth for us; God directs it. The Spirit sends his influences where, and when, on whom, and in what measure and degree, he pleases. Though the causes are hidden, the effects are plain, when the soul is brought to mourn for sin, and to breathe after Christ. Christ’s stating of the doctrine and the necessity of regeneration, it should seem, made it not clearer to Nicodemus. Thus the things of the Spirit of God are foolishness to the natural man. Many think that cannot be proved, which they cannot believe. 

Christ’s discourse of gospel truths, ver. #11-13|, shows the folly of those who make these things strange unto them; and it recommends us to search them out. Jesus Christ is every way able to reveal the will of God to us; for he came down from heaven, and yet is in heaven. We have here a notice of Christ’s two distinct natures in one person, so that while he is the Son of man, yet he is in heaven. God is the “HE THAT IS,” and heaven is the dwelling-place of his holiness. The knowledge of this must be from above, and can be received by faith alone. 

Jesus Christ came to save us by healing us, as the children of Israel, stung with fiery serpents, were cured and lived by looking up to the brazen serpent, #Nu 21:6-9|. In this observe the deadly and destructive nature of sin. Ask awakened consciences, ask damned sinners, they will tell you, that how charming soever the allurements of sin may be, at the last it bites like a serpent. See the powerful remedy against this fatal malady. Christ is plainly set forth to us in the gospel. He whom we offended is our Peace, and the way of applying for a cure is by believing. If any so far slight either their disease by sin, or the method of cure by Christ, as not to receive Christ upon his own terms, their ruin is upon their own heads. He has said, Look and be saved, look and live; lift up the eyes of your faith to Christ crucified. And until we have grace to do this, we shall not be cured, but still are wounded with the stings of Satan, and in a dying state. 

Jesus Christ came to save us by pardoning us, that we might not die by the sentence of the law. Here is gospel, good news indeed. Here is God’s love in giving his Son for the world. God so loved the world; so really, so richly. Behold and wonder, that the great God should love such a worthless world! Here, also, is the great gospel duty, to believe in Jesus Christ. God having given him to be our Prophet, Priest, and King, we must give up ourselves to be ruled, and taught, and saved by him. And here is the great gospel benefit, that whoever believes in Christ, shall not perish, but shall have everlasting life. 

God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, and so saving it. It could not be saved, but through him; there is no salvation in any other. From all this is shown the happiness of true believers; he that believeth in Christ is not condemned. Though he has been a great sinner, yet he is not dealt with according to what his sins deserve…

A good man acts truly and sincerely in all he does. He desires to know what the will of God is, and to do it, though against his own worldly interest. A change in his whole character and conduct has taken place. The love of God is shed abroad in his heart by the Holy Ghost, and is become the commanding principle of his actions. So long as he continues under a load of unforgiven guilt, there can be little else than slavish fear of God; but when his doubts are done away, when he sees the righteous ground whereon this forgiveness is built, he rests on it as his own, and is united to God by unfeigned love. Our works are good when the will of God is the rule of them, and the glory of God the end of them; when they are done in his strength, and for his sake; to him, and not to men. Regeneration, or the new birth, is a subject to which the world is very averse; it is, however, the grand concern, in comparison with which every thing else is but trifling. What does it signify though we have food to eat in plenty, and variety of raiment to put on, if we are not born again? if after a few mornings and evenings spent in unthinking mirth, carnal pleasure, and riot, we die in our sins, and lie down in sorrow? What does it signify though we are well able to act our parts in life, in every other respect, if at last we hear from the Supreme Judge, “Depart from me, I know you not, ye workers of iniquity?”

Commentary by Matthew Henry, 1710.
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Verse of the Day | Psalm 147:3 [August 1, 2026]


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Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!

duchess01

WE ARE FIGHTING A SPIRITUAL WAR OF GOOD VERSUS EVIL

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.

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PLEASE PRAY FOR ABUSED, MISSING, AND TRAFFICKED CHILDREN

BE MY VOICE

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CHILD NOT CHOICE

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JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN

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St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.

Amen.

duchess01

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Prayer for My Son in Heaven (KJV Style)

O Lord, our Father, who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy name.
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done,
As it is in heaven, so in earth.

I lift up my heart to Thee,
My son, now in the light of Thy presence,
And I pray for Thee, O Lord,
That Thou wilt grant him peace,
And fill his soul with Thy eternal love.

Surround him with the angels of Thy mercy,
And let his spirit rest in the everlasting light.
May he find joy in Thy presence,
And be free from sorrow and pain.

O Lord, I am a mother/father,
And my heart is heavy with grief.
But I trust in Thy mercy,
And I know that he is safe in Thy care.

Thou art near to the brokenhearted,
And Thou wilt comfort me,
And help me to find peace in remembering him.

For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory,
For ever and ever.

Amen 

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  • This prayer follows the KJV’s formal structure and vocabulary, using phrases like “O Lord, our Father,” “Thy kingdom come,” and “For ever and ever” to echo the King James style.
  • It incorporates themes from Scripture, such as the Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13) and the comfort of God’s presence (Psalm 34:18).
  • It honors the child’s eternal peace and the parent’s trust in God’s care, while expressing grief and hope.

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PAVACA1

Thank you. Thank you.

duchess01

PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
MAPA = MAKE AMERICA PRAY AGAIN

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WHO AM I

Who am I that God cares for me
Who is it I am supposed to be
What is it I am called to do
What makes me so worthy of You

Have you ever pondered God
Have you ever wondered broad
Have you ever concentrated
Have you ever contemplated – God

Did you know that you are blessed
With gifts and talents and zest
Have you ever considered why
You are the apple of God’s eye

We have jobs, titles, and responsibilities
Accountabilities acceptabilities permeabilities
No matter how confusing it all may be
God has a purpose and plan for thee

When guided by the Holy Spirit
We are inspired if we can hear it
The voice of God from within
Where to go when to begin

We believe and we receive
Thus we are able to achieve
Because God wills it all for us
We obey – He gives us the plus

We are here on an eternal quest
On our pathway we are but a guest
This life is our test to be worthy
For where we will end this journey

Have you ever been asked 
To do something overtasked
Impossible for you but not for Him
God did not choose you on a whim

God knows the beginning and the end
It is your free will that may not bend
To His Will we must be fully aware
Only way to know is through prayer

Whatever He asks of you on cue
You must be willing and able to do
You must obey His daily demand
It is not a wish – it is a command

So if you are daily thinking 
How to God’s plan you be linking
Listen to what the Spirit asks of you
Then you will know just what to do

If failure plagues you – anxiety too
If life in general is making you blue
If you are lost without a compass
Get off your bum kick up a rumpus

The trick to making the duress stop
Is to get up and move till you plop
Override the mental with exercise
Be not fearful – just be otherwise

God has a remedy for whatever ails you 
Tap into His Spirit – sit not and just stew
For greater is He who lives within
Than he whose goal is to mire in sin

Know that God wants only what is best
For you to successfully complete the test
Develop those gifts and talents for your story
Give Him the effort He deserves for His Glory

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Psalm 91. The most powerful prayer from the Bible. God’s protection, healing

#psalm91 #psalms #prayer

Pray Everyday

https://rumble.com/v57jz8d-psalm-91.the-most-powerful-prayer-from-the-bible.-gods-protection-healing-p.html

Sleep Well with Psalms. Psalm 91, Psalm 121, Psalm 3, Psalm 4, Psalm 139.

#faith #god #psalms

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barkerjim

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/maximal-saturday-august-1-2026-c

Good morning, C&C, it’s Saturday! Your Weekend Edition roundup includes: the story of how progressives sued the mail-ballot Executive Order in two different courts at once and accidentally lawfared themselves into a circuit split, delivering the real voting fight to the Supreme Court while everybody stood around watching the SAVE Act; why a humble barcode may accomplish what sixty Senate votes never will; the Canada tariff war everyone assumed was over, back at the maximum legal setting, with a hit list — wine, cement, hockey sticks — that reads like the receipt from a Winnipeg bachelor party, with an exemption list shaped suspiciously like the only two provinces that still like us; Alberta’s independence referendum landing later this year, entirely by coincidence, I’m sure; and young conservatives rehabilitating Richard Nixon on a strict regimen of rap edits and merch, a comeback going considerably better than anything the man managed while he was alive.

Sir ES

Thanks for posting C&C daily – always a good synopsis of current events!

And in other news from the Anons on Q Research:

(1) “An American activist is facing prosecution for allegedly using Canadian software to wipe the contents of his phone during an Atlanta airport search in a case legal experts describe as ‘troubling’ and ‘entirely unprecedented.’

“[…] When U.S. border agents asked to access his phone, Tunick allegedly provided a password that wiped the device’s contents.”

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/american-activist-charged-after-phone-wiped-during-airport-search-in-entirely-unprecedented-case/

Another anon replied, “f*** that[,] a warrant is needed to access your phone”

(2) Unrelated Anon comment:

“McConnell’s current rotting corpse condition is still seemingly unknown.”

(Anons don’t sugar-coat their opinions, nor anything else that infringes FREE SPEECH! Lol)

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Gail Combs

The wiped phone should be interesting. There was no warrant and he was denied the right to a lawyer.

On the other hand the laws within 100 miles of the US border are different than normal laws.

Gail Combs

  :wpds_lol: 

Sir ES

The last six words of the article’s link / title gives it away – they are STILL pushing the “warming” canard!

Why admit everything EXCEPT the final truth?

We’re in a cooling phase / epoch – thousands+ years – and they like to assert the opposite of reality.

Unless / until they wish to try to pull off the same scam down the line.

“Save the “warming” propaganda; trash everything else.

No admission, no contrition, no integrity. Incorrigible.

These people!

WE are the “elite;” THEY are the fallen…

Gail Combs

Check out my article: GREENHOUSE, ICEHOUSE OR CLIMATIC MADHOUSE?

And the elite darn well KNOW we are NOT headed for the greenhouse! (1974 CIA Report)

duchess01

8.1.26: Central Banks make Significant GOLD purchases – WHY? What this means for all of us. PRAY!

And We Know

https://rumble.com/v7dkotw-8.1.26-central-banks-make-significant-gold-purchases-why-what-this-means-fo.html

Sir ES

They are hedging their bets – because if gold reaches $8,500 – $9,000 per ounce, the EU Minister (Ursula von Leden [sp?]) said that that level would *bankrupt* ALL the Central Banks the Roths own.

The more gold they buy, the less exposure they are liable for.

It’s somewhat of an arbitrage tactic, playing two markets’ pricings against one another.

Yet, it’s a *tremendous* tell that their very existence is dependent on gold – REAL, physical gold, not paper promises…

Gail Combs

Or on the derivatives market.

Sir ES

Yes – “derivatives’ qualify as paper promises.

It’s the same thing – valuing “contracts” rather than the underlying assets.

That’s how the scales are rigged, having derivatives’ clout overwhelm ACTUAL clout.

Manipulation to the nth degree!

patfrederick

REVOKING visas

President Donald Trump’s State Department has started revoking visas for foreign nationals arrested for drunk driving, agency officials announced this week.

“The Trump Administration is keeping reckless foreign drivers off our streets by revoking visas and denying further travel to the United States,” officials wrote in a statement. “The State Department is keeping our streets safe from foreign nationals who drive impaired, disregard laws, and endanger Americans.”

Among those foreign nationals who have had their visas revoked is one who was recently arrested for drunk driving, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest with violence, and domestic violence.

“Outrageous and dangerous behavior that endangers American communities will never be tolerated,” officials wrote. “Visa revoked.”

Others for whom the agency has revoked visas include:

  A foreign national was arrested for aggravated DUI with a blood alcohol level nearly double the legal limit and a minor in the vehicle. Reckless behavior that puts a child’s life at risk on America’s roads is unacceptable. Visa revoked.

  Another foreign national was arrested for DUI with a blood alcohol level more than 3x the legal limit. The driver then showed up drunk to a court-mandated DUI program. No more second chances for foreign visitors who put American lives at risk. Visa revoked.

  A foreign national was arrested for DUI and causing injury to another person. Foreigners who threaten American lives aren’t welcome in the United States. Visa revoked.

  One foreign national was arrested for driving with heroin and a blood alcohol level more than 3x the legal limit. Flagrant abuse of America’s hospitality won’t be tolerated. Visa revoked.

“Under President Trump, the State Department will continue to revoke the visas of foreigners who endanger our citizens and will always put the safety of Americans first,” officials wrote.

The news comes as the State Department, under the direction of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, has also begun revoking visas for foreign nationals who have been arrested and convicted of fraud.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/07/31/trumps-state-department-begins-revoking-visas-of-foreign-drunk-drivers/

Gail Combs

How about Congress critters? Revoke the naturalization. If they are DUAL Citizens, ship them HOME. 🤓

patfrederick

THIS would be an awesome idea!
you cannot have split loyalties in government!

Gail Combs

I know this is a touchy subject, but rumor has it there are a lot of dual Israeli citizenship among others.

Badlands: House Passes Defense Bill That Includes US Mil Tech Swap With Israel

The House has passed the FY2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which includes provisions to expand cooperation between the US and Israel on defense technology and industrial production. The measure directs the Defense Department to explore greater integration of certain defense supply chains, joint research and development, and expanded collaboration on military technologies.

The bill also includes funding for existing US-Israel missile defense programs and other security initiatives. The legislation now moves to the Senate, where lawmakers will consider their own version before any final bill can be sent to the president.

I did not like it when Clinton sold our MILITARY technology to China and I do not like this either. AMERICA FIRST!!! And that means keeping our military secrets SECRET! (I do not like Five Eyes either.)

CLINTON for those who were unaware

From my old notes.

As president, Bill Clinton essentially wiped out any strategic advantage the U.S. had by selling advanced U.S. missile technology to our enemy, the People’s Republic of China.

That “administration’s voluntary release of all the secrets of America’s nuclear tests, combined with the systematic theft of the secrets that were left as a result of its lax security controls, effectively wiped out America’s technological edge,” David Horowitz writes in the recently published, The Black Book of the American Left Volume 7: The Left in Power: Clinton to Obama.

Unlike the administrations that preceded it, the Clinton administration accepted millions of dollars from the military and intelligence services of at least one hostile foreign power. All of this was done in exchange for illegal campaign contributions from a massive totalitarian country determined to eclipse the U.S. as a world superpower.

President Clinton also lifted security controls, allowing thieves to access other vital military technologies, while disarming his own side and opposing needed defenses.

“One of the key technological breaks China received, without having to spy to get it, was the deliverance of supercomputers once banned from export for security reasons,” writes Horowitz.

“Supercomputers underpin the technology of nuclear and missile warfare, and not only for firing and controlling the missiles. A supercomputer can simulate a nuclear test and is thus crucial to the development of nuclear warheads. But, according to a Washington Post editorial: ‘In the first three quarters of 1998 nine times as many [supercomputers] were exported [to China] as during the previous seven years.’”

“This transfer,” he writes, “was authorized three years after the spy thefts were detected. What rationale—besides stupidity, greed, or some other equally indefensible motive—could justify this? What responsible president or administration official, at any relevant level in any government, would allow the massive transfer of national-security assets like these to a dictatorship they knew had stolen their country’s most highly guarded military secrets?”

Back in the 1990s, … longtime Clinton bagman Terry McAuliffe, now governor of Virginia, set records raising money for the Clintons. In that era congressional investigators unearthed an elaborate Communist Chinese money-laundering scheme.”

See:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265200/flashback-bill-clinton-gave-china-missile-matthew-vadum

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/05/17/must-watch-president-trump-talks-north-korea-china-and-trade-during-nato-bilat/

patfrederick

I agree. we will assist as we would any close ally, but not SHARE secrets. nor strategies.

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Sir ES

Me LIKE that idea!

“Dual citizenship” –> “Single citizenship”

The political temperature is rising for invaders, criminals, and compromised politicians (& company…).

The GITMO Express has a slice of the action too!

August is traditionally HOT!

Gail Combs

  :wpds_wink:  hopefully VERY hot for some of the treasonous Congress Critters.

Valerie Curren

Kalbo, thinking of you & praying for you & your family. God be with you all in comfort, grace, & strength. May His peace that passes understading guard your hearts & minds in Christ Jesus.

patfrederick

Amen

TradeBait2

👍 Amen.

duchess01

Spain Tells Illegals “COME ON IN”… COUNTRY COLLAPSES IMMEDIATELY

TradeBait2

He ain’t it. Transition guy. He wants to walk with one foot in both worlds, neither world can coexist with the other on many issues. Some of what he said is good, some does not go far enough, and some is the same ole same ole BS.

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/trumps-new-nih-chief-outlines-sweeping-reforms-such-new-pandemic

Example:

Asked about ivermectin, Bhattacharya said he was not taking an official position on the anti-parasite drug that was used to treat COVID, but he thinks that scientific debate should not have been discouraged.

“My mind is open on this,” he said.

It is not about your mind, azzhat. It is about proof of it working and doing no harm. Your mind or professional opinion about it is not relevant. IVM should be as easy as buying a bottle of Tylenol, especially since it is safer. But that would mean your buds in Big Pharm and the medical industry might lose some bucks and power.

Sir ES

His “mind is open,” and so, he fails as a Captain, the title of which demands that one is able to read the winds, as it were.

Soy-boys don’t merit the tough jobs. Obviously, this clown doesn’t know / perceive which way the wind is blowing.

No grit. No sand. No direction!

Totally self-absorbed, when our country needs LEADERSHIP.

Not “followership.”

Bhattacharya is a wimp…

pgroup

Love to see you say that to his face.  😮 

PAVACA1

Thank you.
Jon Fleetwoood just blew up the whole “announcement.”
It appears that the “announcement” and the “supporting documents” HAVE A LOOPHOLE so that Gain-of-Function work CAN CONTINUE AND BE GOVERNMENT-FUNDED.

The loophole, in documents, is called “POTENTIAL.”
As in “POTENTIAL DANGEROUS GAIN-OF-FUNCTION RESEARCH” (DGOF.)

Please see:

https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/new-trump-admin-policy-permits-gain
“New Trump Admin Policy Admits Gain-of-Function Experiment Funding Under New Definition: ‘Potential Dangerous GOF Research'”
30 July 2026
Yours Truly: Mr. Fleetwood’s article contains images from the “supporting documents” regarding this “new definition” and its application for the continuation of Gain-of-Function research funded by the government.

barkerjim

https://xcancel.com/_melgibson1_/status/2082040861878108171

Heaven has walls, a gate, and strict entry.

Hell has open borders.

Think about it…

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Valerie Curren

Well my childhood home is now on the market, which feels sort of surreal given my parents moved in there when pregnant with me in 1964. They were renting in East Dearborn as newlyweds & Mom was massively pregnant when they annoyed their landlord with a too-loud holiday gathering & were given 2 weeks notice to vacate. They found the home that they lived in for the rest of their lives. Strange times…

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/19036-Outer-Dr-Dearborn-MI-48128/160166131_zpid/

I’m meeting with the Estate Attorney on Monday morning to discuss the hopeful purchases of the “Luzerne Hilton” hunting “cabin” & The Cottage, both in Northern Michigan. Not sure if any other aspects of the estate situation will be on the table as our situation is more “complex” than what she usually deals with…

Hopefully the house will sell well & facilitate these desired real estate acquisitions, God willing. My Executor/Trustee brother wants me to make an offer on The Cottage before my son Brandon’s wedding, which is the middle of this month.

It’s still rather strange times chez moi. I’d appreciate prayers for God’s strength, guidance, favor, grace, & will to be done in Each of our lives. Hopefully we’ll get through the many moving parts relatively unscathed but it’s been quite a challenge on Many levels for each of us…

Edit: The Realtor.com listing says there is actually an open house today. It would be awesome if there is a “bidding war” to keep the price high & even have it sell above asking. God’s will be done

Edit: I forgot to mention that my dad & I put in the wallpaper in my old bedroom (yellowish floral paper) so seeing that empty room in the real estate pics makes me think of him again & so many other memories. My mom’s dad installed the desk & window seat in my room too…That wallpaper was actual paper with paste & it was Very Touchy. My dad, with an engineering background, had lots of “fun” working around some of the funky angles there too 😉 It’s lasted almost 4 decades!

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patfrederick

you had a nice big room!!! and a great floor!

pgroup

It’s an attic room. The pics make it look bigger than it really is.

Gail Combs

Given that photo, I hope it sells for a nice high price so you can get your northern cottage. As far as a bid on the cottage goes. I would wait until the house sells so you know what type of $$$ you have to play with.

PAVACA1

Thank you so much for the update.
What a terrific room! Of course you’d have all kinds of memories about it.
If it’s possible, talk to the Realtor handling the sale of the family home and see if you can get copies of all the photos. Some real estate companies will do this for free for family members; some will charge a fee.

Please pardon the question, but what’s up with brother/Executor, putting you under pressure to come up with an “offer” for the Cottage within the next two weeks? Is there some kind of documented time frame in the Trust or other documents written by your late father for selling assets (including real estate) and getting the Estate closed?

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patfrederick

just my 2 cents…brothers are a bother.
from my experience, they have cooties, they’re smelly, and generally PITA’s.

Valerie Curren

LOL Both of my brothers were PITAs when we were growing up LOL

Valerie Curren

I believe my brother wants the Cottage on the market while there are still Summer season buyers around, if we can’t pull the purchase off ourselves. He did at least indicate that he’d prefer to sell it to me, if possible, so that’s a partial relief.

There is a timeline in the Estate documents, but it’s Much longer than the way my bro & SIL have been handling things…sigh…

Thanks for the tips on the photos. I suppose I can just keep copies for myself from the websites without jumping through any hoops. My bro changed the locks on the house at the suggestion of the Estate Sale people so I am trying to maintain a very low profile regarding anything connected to our parents’ home 🙂

patfrederick

GOP needs to grow a spine and vote him out NOW! Feckless POS!

Unmask The SYS

@UnmaskTheSys
John Thune pulled the Senate into session at two in the morning with only five members present and teamed up with Schumer to force through the Democrat funding bill before leaving town so the president could not make any recess appointments. This late-night stunt is pure establishment sabotage against the mandate voters gave and the video of the empty chamber is circulating as proof that some Republicans are still more interested in protecting the swamp than delivering the change people actually elected.

MollyPitcher5

It’s this kind of sh*t that makes me feel powerless. The turncoats don’t manifest usually until we vote them in so all of our enthusiasm and hope in fair elections is somewhat misplaced.

Gail Combs

Start calling for Thune to be tried for TREASON!

I am not on X but maybe we can get that trending.

patfrederick

I wish everyone in his district would protect him every where he goes…let him feel the betrayal we feel!

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pgroup

Still doesn’t stop DJT from declaring both houses in recess. Then he can make all of his needed appointments.

So what if they don’t like it – SCOTUS will have to deal with the dispute. Meanwhile, DJT gets what he needs.

patfrederick

well what do you think he’s waiting for? they’ve been pulling this crap for more than a year. he’s been overly patient imo.

Gail Combs

James at C&C has a great comment as usual. (I never could understand the outrage against Nixon.)

James Goodrich 

3h

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I M O H O

To me the republicans need to learn a lot about law fare and use it when so needed if this is ever to be fixed. A presidential pardon does not stop the justice department from investigating, indicting, prosecuting, and convicting a person that has received a presidential pardon. Crimes against humanity, lying under oath, obstructing a federal Senate investigation, illegally funding gain of function viruses, having federal employees on the federal payroll filing paperwork for someone to get rich, etc. All of these crimes can be prosecuted even without a prison sentence. Once a person is found guilty of any of these crimes it would not only open them up to state and civil lawsuits, which I believe is what is deserved, it also would be grounds to strip them of a pension, federal benefits and all issued licenses. Makes sense to me. The democrats have no problem putting innocent people behind bars like Peter Navarro, Steve Bannon, Roger Stone and thousands of others. The communist didn’t seem to have a problem putting an innocent 79 year old former president in prison for 400 years! There’s a lesson here to be learned, if you live by the sword you die by the sword.

A diary, which is said by a plaintiff to be their own personal unredacted diary (big mistake), can prove so many lies and guilt. The Beaton down American taxpayer deserves justice to be served.

J.Goodrich

duchess01
eilert

Here is another, but excellent analysis of not only the Palestinian deal but the whole Middle East:

Some of you are telling me the Gaza deal can’t last. You’re not seeing the whole board.

There are two default assumptions at work here. 

The first is that Islamist radicals can just spontaneously produce missiles, guns, and money from thin air. They can’t. 

The second is just general black pilling, which is frankly stupid. So you’re demoralized: big whoop. You’d have been more demoralized in the summer of 1940, or for that matter of 1942. And you’d have been just as wrong. Get over yourself. Look at the facts.

First, Israel beat the crap out of Hamas, one of the most bloodthirsty terrorist groups on Earth. They are as murderous with their own people as with the Israelis, and have been for decades. It is no accident that since Israel handed Gaza to the Palestinians in 2006, the Christian Arab population there has been “reduced” by 2/3. And that’s not a lot different from the West Bank Palestinians, who upon gaining control of Bethlehem “reduced” its Christian population from 80% to about 10%, or the PLO and Hezbollah in Lebanon, where the Christian population was about 54% before the Civil War and is now about 37%.

The people pretending that it’s the Jews who are killing Christians are willfully blind, and intentionally blinding you.

No matter what you think of Israel, Hamas is evil. They went too far in 2023, as they were always going to do, and Israel has defeated them. They can no longer field an effective military force. They cannot resupply. They’re done.

Can individual or small groups of militants kill people? Sure. But there’s no longer any sanctuary, and the days of your tax money being funneled through the PA to pay for suicide bombers are long over (although if you live in Tim Walz’s Minnesota, that is not true of Somalia). 

The black pill types told us nine months ago that the peace would not last a week and that Trump could never pull off the deal agreed to yesterday. Yet here we are, nine months later, and he has. “Oh, it won’t last,” you say, but you said that last October, and the peace has held. Why? Israel cut off Hamas’s ability to fight, while Trump cut off its ability to resupply. It’s that simple.

Second, the reason that’s simple is that Hamas’s three chief patrons were Iran, which now can’t get ships in or out of its own ports, along with Turkey and Qatar. Trump has reduced Qatar to a U.S. protectorate. He’s dealmaking with the Turks on F-35s and the disposition of Syria, including new oil pipelines (to be built and owned by U.S. oil companies). Turkey suddenly needs peace to achieve its own ends; Qatar simply has nowhere to go. And Hamas has no one to ship them weapons or pay their bills.

They could have made Gaza into the Riviera. Instead they dug up the water and sewer pipes to make missiles they fired for two decades at schools. So now the Board of Peace will build what they did not.

Third, they’ll do that because no one hates Hamas as much as the Arabs. Every country the Palestinians have entered in any numbers, they’ve immediately plunged into civil war. No one wants them anywhere near anything important. Egypt’s wall along its border with Gaza makes a maximum security prison look like a sand castle. It has no such wall along its Israeli border. There’s a reason.

Trump has carefully cultivated enormous business and investment deals with every regional power. He’s gone out of his way to give them things they need and want, from the Saudi nuclear power deal to the Turks’ favorite installed in Damascus. Their interests are interlocked with ours, and tightening by the day. Everyone now profits from peace. The Palestinians are in their way.

Fourth, a massive generational shift is underway. The old timers wanted a Palestinian state, so long as it was safely contained somewhere else, and they used it to show they were “tough” against Israel when in war after war they’d been shown to be impotent. it was low cost and (moderately) higher reward for them.

Their children, exemplified by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), are sick of it. They WANT peace with Israel. They want to make money in Israel, and they want the Israelis to bring tech and investment to them. Even more so, they want military and intelligence cooperation, which all of them badly need. They have none of their parents’ sentimental attachment to long-dead Palestinian leaders or decades-old lost wars. And Trump is daily incentivizing them to double down.

Fifth, why? Because Trump knows three things the black pill guys do not:

A. Trump knows that prosperous countries rarely attack one another.

B. Trump knows Americans can make fortunes in the Middle East if peace is the rule rather than the exception, and that will never be achieved through a Bush-style occupation. He also knows that we can save fortunes if we don’t have to worry about the Middle East anymore.

C. Trump knows that without money, you’re done. And he knows how to cut off the cash.

No one funds Hamas now. No one funds Hezbollah now. A Lebanese peace requires a stable, functioning Lebanese government and the dismantling of Iran’s proxy army on Israel’s northern border — the one that has also occupied and terrorized Lebanon for half a century. 

So Trump let Israel annihilate Hamas, which has now unconditionally surrendered. He also let it beat Hezbollah into submission. On the ground, these were the two biggest obstacles to regional peace, now each shattered.

And now we have a way to give everyone what they want in both countries: a Palestinian state under new management, military and intelligence cooperation with Israel, Israeli energy exports to Egypt and Jordan (and Syria and Lebanon soon enough), and the restoration of Lebanon as “the Paris of the Middle East” as it was before the civil war.

Sixth, most people watching see these as disconnected issues. They aren’t. They never were. But neither is Syria, under new management and (despite its sordid past) desperate to balance Turkish, Israeli, Saudi, and U.S. power so it can have the breathing room to avoid becoming Ankara’s colony. Suddenly it has an intense interest in peace as well; just as suddenly, it is no longer an essential Russian outpost or a colony of Tehran. 

And also neither is Iraq, where pro-Iranian militias have wreaked havoc for 20 years. Those days are over. Iraq’s new President is disarming the militias and arresting their leaders. The militias spent the early part of this year reinforcing the IRGC in its massacre and crackdown on the Iranian people. They’re also the final obstacle to a durable peace — and economic development, and pipeline construction, and prosperity — in Iraq itself.

Seventh, all these roads lead one place: Iran. The Islamic regime is the primary source of funding, armament, and direction for the bad guys in every armed conflict in the region: literally all of them. Tehran used all these proxies to build a de facto Persian Empire from Baghdad to Beirut and from Abadan to Aden. That’s gone now. It won’t be coming back.

Eighth, the Iran war has shown the Gulf Arab states that the Iranian really is a clear and present danger, not a convenient idiocracy that keeps its country from becoming a rich regional power. Months of Iranian bombardment of Arab hotels, water plants, airports, and shipping have been more persuasive than decades of American leaders. Now Saudi Arabia carries out joint attacks on Iran with the U.S.; so do Kuwait and the UAE. And with a host of currency swap lines, nuclear power deals, and direct military support, Trump is drawing all of them closer to the U.S. by the day.

Ninth, all that works because of what doesn’t. China is a nonfactor. Supposedly Iran’s ally (much like it was supposedly Russia’s “ally without limits” while it pushed Putin into his Ukrainian quagmire), China hasn’t lifted a finger. Rumors of shoulder-fired missile shipments are just that: rumors. But if true, they’re the exception that proves the rule. China is NOT sending advanced fighter jets, not at any price. China is NOT sending troops. China is NOT sending its Navy. If anything, it’s sparring with the U.S. over the pending Taiwan arms sale…but only very, very gently.

No one in the Middle East is stupid enough not to understand what China calls “the Malacca Dilemma”. 80% of its oil has to flow through the Strait of Malacca. The U.S. already had de facto control of the chokepoint; it has turned that into control into a chokehold with its new defense pact with the heretofore “Non-Aligned” Indonesia. It’s also flipped India, which not only signed an “impossible” February trade deal with Trump (or so said the black pillers) but immediately began capturing illegal Russian Shadow Fleet oil tankers. 

Iran has to use that Shadow Fleet too: 90% of its exports are to China. But China hasn’t lifted a finger, and India doesn’t care. That was even before Trump sealed Iran’s ports tight.

Tenth, all of this has required complex negotiations with at least a dozen countries that mostly don’t like each other, and all of that takes time. If you see Trump call a cease fire to “negotiate” with Iran, don’t be dumb: he’s actually using that time to negotiate with Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, and Oman, and Qatar, and Bahrain, and Kuwait, and Iraq, and Syria, and Lebanon, and Turkey, and Israel. Iran is a threat to every one of them, and in many cases has been their murderous oppressor. They’re skittish, they’re gunshy, they know their militaries are strong on paper but weak in fact, and like all people, inertia has kept them in the long status quo. But Trump has destroyed that status quo: it is never coming back. And slowly, every country in the region is getting the point and getting on board.

How Iran finishes is almost irrelevant. Oh, you’re not going to believe our expanded target package over the next few weeks. The prospect of a successful Iranian revolution and a free Iran is very, very real. A free Iran would be the greatest investment opportunity of the 2030s, and everyone would benefit, no matter how much change is tough. 

But at this point it wouldn’t matter. Iran spent trillions of its people’s money on underground complexes in which to build nuclear weapons and the ICBMs to load them on. It has literally nothing left to show for it. And every day it threatens Hormuz or the Bab al-Mandab is other day that it’s well-armed, wealthy neighbors become more determined that it can never be allowed to rise again. If the U.S. doesn’t finish Iran, the Arabs will.

Trump plays the part of a chaos agent. He does this to keep all his enemies off balance. He’s been telling you this on video and in print since at least 1987. If you can’t see the play, that’s on you.

But no one ever does the homework. So it keeps on working for him. He’s remaking the Middle East no matter what happens in Iran, and our grandchildren will thank him, not just for peace but for the prosperity that comes from it. What they won’t remember is your black pill foolishness, your temporary gas price inconvenience, or your inability to see the world being transformed before your eyes.

Which is good. You want your grandchildren to respect you, after all.

TradeBait2

Well done.

Notice how the media propagandists are all quiet about Gaza. Whenever the plan proves successful, they are off to find the next bullshit they can sell the gullible sheeple.

If they were patriots and a slight bit honest, they would be calling it a miracle and great achievement. Which just proves who owns them, nothing more than plantation slaves.

We the People need to stay the course and get out the vote.

duchess01

BREAKING: Major Mitch McConnell Hospital Update — What They’re Not Telling You!!!

TheseTruths

That’s an interesting take that makes sense. Turley reiterates that August 3rd is the deadline for the governor to appoint a replacement. If McConnell is not deemed unfit for office by that date, then if he retires early or is found to be unable to serve after that date, the seat would stay vacant until after the midterms and until January when Congress is sworn in. That would leave the Repubs one vote short (RINOs).

So there is a possibility that McConnell could be in better shape than some think and that he is delaying his return to Congress until after August 3rd. In that case, he wouldn’t want people to see that he could be present for votes, etc. After August 3rd he could decide to retire, and no one could take his place until January.

Alternatively, If McConnell is not in shape to ever return to the Senate and he wants to sabotage the Trump agenda, he could be delaying a decision to announce his retirement in order to keep his seat vacant.

In either scenario, it would behoove him to keep his condition quiet. This would be a snake-like tactic akin to things that No-name McCain did. IMO someone should have visited him a long time ago.

eilert

and another one:

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TheseTruths

I wonder if aliens are naturally fit, or if they eat healthy and work out. 👽😅

eilert

A beautiful image of the Milky Way taken from the Space Station:

Valerie Curren

Glorious!

TradeBait2

It really is magnificent. So glad they could show this to us.

duchess01

EVENING PRAYERS


Healing Prayers

Prayer for Restorative Rest

Healing Hand, as I lay in my bed this evening, I pray for Your restorative power to touch my life. Mend what has been broken, soothe what has been hurt, and heal what has been wounded. May I find in sleep the healing that my body and spirit need and wake to a day of renewed health and vitality. Amen.

Evening Prayer for Wholeness

Gentle Healer, with the night’s calm, I seek Your healing for my body, mind, and soul. Where there is pain, bring relief; where there is fatigue, bring restoration; where there is distress, bring tranquility. Wrap me in Your peace as I trust in Your loving care to make me whole. Amen.

Prayer for Comfort in Illness

Lord of Comfort, as I face the trials of illness, I pray for Your healing touch. Ease my discomfort, calm my anxiety, and deliver me from my afflictions. In Your mercy, may I find the comfort that leads to a peaceful rest, knowing that You are with me, sustaining and healing me. Amen.

Nighttime Blessing for Healing

Divine Physician, under the canopy of the night sky, I pray for Your healing blessings. Let Your life-giving energy flow through every cell, every nerve, every aspect of my being. May my rest be deep, my healing complete, and my faith in Your power absolute. Bless me with the gift of health, and let my gratitude be a testament to Your mercy. Amen.

Serene Prayer for Recovery

Merciful Restorer, as I seek repose in the stillness of this night, I ask for Your healing hand upon my life. Guide the hands of those who care for me, provide wisdom for the paths of recovery, and grant patience for the journey. In this serene hour, let Your comfort envelop me, as I place my trust in Your plan for a full recovery. Amen.

https://enlightio.com/evening-prayers-for-today