“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
Today’s fantastic open thread by DePat includes the admonition of Gen. Michael Flynn to get involved on the local level. Go read it here.
I have taken those words to heart, because frankly, the local elected officials in my county are comfortable, resistant to change, sure in their authority, and unwilling to grapple with the reality of our national situation.
Last night I attended a Republican women’s club meeting. This group is growing, but it remains mainly a cozy group of older gals and their mates who are tightly knit together by family and friend connections that go back generations.
They like the timeworn monthly auction of some dessert as a small fundraising activity. They like the “covered dish” potluck that comes before the general meeting. They like that the schedule is strictly adhered to and any questions of candidates and guests comes after the meeting when people linger.
In other words, there is almost no public airing of the issues.
Most of the local candidates run unopposed. They say all the right things that a small Texas town would like to hear: Transparency, gutting the Good Ol’ Boy network, open debate, and so on. None of that, of course, ever occurs.
It’s a social club. In nearly a year of membership, I have never been contacted to volunteer for any activity or event. I am almost studiously ignored because I am a nobody, who though I know many members, has no filial connections to anyone.
Now, it’s not all bad. There are a couple new members who are on fire with the desire to save our nation. Younger, too. I met a couple of them last night. They’ve been making a noise at the weekly county commissioners court and the paper has been doing an okay job of reporting.
Thankfully, one of the new members set up an email account for others to comment, ask questions, and receive information.
After the meeting, I was able to meet in person with them. We agree that the overriding issue is the global takeover of our nation using medical tyranny. We see the mountain of sleepiness that pervades the local GOP, and the unwillingness to come to grips with our national and hence, local, situation.
One extremely concerning incident happened last night. I noticed that the members seemed to have a minder. A young woman I had never seen before but who was very outgoing and outspoken.
After hearing us speak amongst ourselves for a few minutes, she told us that we needed to focus on local issues and not national issues.
I immediately took issue with her. She dissembled. Something was not right. I am almost positive this person has been assigned to gauge the political climate amongst the local GOP. My new friends seemed to trust her. We shall have to talk…
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT
This morning, in solidarity with those who are fighting for the life of our nation, I attended the local County Commissioners Court. Below is my statement. I will also post the additional resources that I requested be read into the record.
Good morning everyone. I’ve been following how our county has handled the Covid Crisis. I listened in on numerous Zoom meetings while our county, in conjunction with state and federal authorities, mandated an emergency lockdown.
As “Fifteen days to flatten the curve” mutated into mask mandates, widespread testing, extended lockdowns, contact tracing and now vaccine mandates for children, I was not alone in suspecting that something other than the Sars-Cov2 virus was at work.
Without going into too much detail (although I will present for the record many sources of information) it is apparent that the virus, for which over 99% of those without a co-morbidity recover, is not the real threat.
Dr. Simone Gold, of America’s Front Line Doctors has said that the crisis is not about a virus, it’s about control. One of the most unfortunate things we are experiencing is that many Americans have been slow to understand what is happening to our nation. This includes local officials who have been elected to represent We the People.
This could be, perhaps, because we have been conditioned through the Big Government corporate media to accept whatever is presented by experts, so-called. Because the independent media has been able to counter the lies coming from both the media and our own government, there is a plethora of information that counters the official narrative, which is increasingly fractured and lacks both Science and Truth. To say “I didn’t know” or “I was just following directives” is no longer an adequate defense.
Klaus Schwab, the Founder and Executive Director of The World Economic Forum, has stated:
“The pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world.”
This is the Great Reset, the mechanism by which globalists, communists, and tech giants seek to remake the world into a transhumanist utopia in which “You will own nothing and you will be happy.”
If you are a seasoned Christian, you see this for what it is, another iteration of the Tower of Babel.
I have read in the local paper, as week after week, the County Commissioners Court reeled off the so-called statistics about the Covid virus in our county. And week after week, the emergency proclamation is allowed to continue.
These are psychological techniques that are designed to engender a state of fear amongst the population. Now that we have been apprised that the PCR tests, upon which much of the Covid statistics have been predicated, are notoriously unreliable and will be abandoned after December, I wonder why the Court has not corrected the record regarding statistics that are most probably bogus.
Official. But bogus.
It has already come to light that hospitals and doctors are receiving additional federal funds for Covid diagnoses and treatment protocols, which are proving harmful rather than helpful, and which is degrading the moral integrity of our medical community.
Upton Sinclair once said, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
I attended a Republican women’s meeting last night and listened to several candidates for public office introduce themselves. Not one of them spoke of election reform. Not one of them mentioned the ongoing attempt to reset our nation in accordance with a globalist agenda.
Later I spoke with one of the members, who told me that we must focus on local issues and not national issues.
Can this possibly be true? That Republicans in the great State of Texas should not be concerned with the usurpation of our sovereignty?
Unless we begin to stand firm at the local level for the Constitution of the United States of America and our rights as a sovereign people, we will be crushed from the top down.
It is up to us to begin to resist this globalist takeover. From the bottom up we must reaffirm what it means to be a sovereign people who revere our constitutional rights and protections. We are relying upon our elected officials to stand strong in the face of State and Federal pressure.
Sophocles said, “All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil.”
I will leave you with this quote from a friend:
“If you weaken and falter in your patriotic duty—and you will—in defense of your own freedom, and the freedom of us all, then look to your parents, your ancestors, and all those who went before—who in all their imperfection, gave you the freedom with which you were born. Yes, it is possible, for you too, to make a stand.”
I ask that the County Commissioners declare our county free from any state or federal proclamations of emergency status. I ask them to reopen each and every county office in a normal manner, and to drop any pretense of declaring mandates of any kind that violate our rights and freedoms as detailed in the Constitution of the United States.
I also submit this resource list to be added into the record of this meeting. Thank you.
NOTICE THE QUOTES?
You will notice, of course, that I got my quotes from here, this wonderful place that is dedicated to leaving behind TRUTH. It’s all of you here who have gotten me up off my duff and into the fray.
It’s not easy. I want to RETIRE and enjoy what life I have left. I am way too busy in my day-to-day life to do this, but I think of those who have gone before me, and those who are going after me, and I cannot sit silent.
Every little thing we do has an effect. It goes out into the universe and reverberates. I give my love and thanks to every one of you here who contributes so greatly to the information war we are engaged in.
Incidentally, the Commissioners Court judge proceeded to give new Covid numbers at the end of the meeting, denying that it was fear-mongering. Of course the numbers are up (we’re in flu season!) and he even shared that someone he knew DIED OF COVID! Oy.
“I’m not here to awaken the sheep. I’m here to awaken the lions!”
Dr. Simone Gold, Founder, America’s Front Line Doctors
It’s Friday and the winds of change are blowing hard. The question seems to be in which direction. Personally, I think they are blowing in the direction of a Great Awakening and freedom from tyranny. Of course, those don’t happen without a fight.
LEVIATHAN SURFACES
“The hidden is becoming the seen.”
David Icke
I was listening to a David Icke interview the other dayj (I think it was with Alex Jones but not sure and can’t find at the moment). Very interesting conversation. He believes that Mr. Global is attempting to rush through their power grab because they “have broken the surface” and are exposed.
He says the rush is to get technological power over us before everyone wakes up.
Too late. Enough of us are awake.
I WILL NOT COMPLY
“They can’t deliver without the acquiescence of the people.”
David Icke
Moreover, Icke gives a glimpse about global Covid restrictions. He says Mr. Global is having to back off on restrictions to pretend they are authorizing what people are already doing.
Icke further says the system is beginning to unravel. He implied there are those within the system who are just waiting to come forward.
Mass non-compliance is key to furthering the winds of freedom. I will say, right here, that the Covax being mandated on children, ages 5 to 11, is another nail in the coffin of the globalist dream of world domination.
PARENT POWER!
Sorry, but America’s mamas are vicious enemies of those who seek to harm their children. Trust me, you do not want to tangle with them. Just ask the local school boards across America. The local commies can’t even stand up to bosom-heaving moms, let alone ticked-off dads. You can take your mRNA shots and shove them where the sun don’t shine.
Go here to watch a single mom in Beverly Hills who isn’t backing down. She knows what we are up against, but she loves freedom and understands the stakes.
DID I SAY NAIL?
That gets me to today’s drink special, the Rusty Nail. A concoction from 1937, the Rusty Nail is one of the world’s most famous after dinner drinks. Ya gotta watch the bartender below. He’s got a rollicking good story about his run-in with a World War 2 vet who ordered a Rusty Nail.
Drambuie, which is a scotch whiskey liqueur with heather honey and some other herbs (of course it’s a closely-guarded secret), is a major player in this two-ingredient drink. Yes, just two ingredients: Scotch whiskey and Drambuie.
Love the name, which is Gaelic for “the drink that satisfies.” My in-laws were known for knocking back a couple Rusty Nails in their day. The Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Rat Pack crowd kept the Rusty Nail as a Thing well into the 1970s. It’s fallen into disfavor now, but I think we could all use a little nostalgia. I sure do miss those loved ones who have passed beyond our sight.
Let’s raise a glass to the man (or woman)!
HOUSE RULES
“Useful,” and “necessity” was always “the tyrant’s plea.”
C. S. Lewis
There’s useful and necessary. The Covax is not useful or necessary. Wolf’s rules of civility are both. Go here to review them. It’s the guide that keeps us able to disagree, even vociferously, and still remain united. If you need to brawl, the Utree is the place to go. To reconvene if this site hits a wall, go here.
Wolf has our bases covered. God bless him. God keep him. God make His face to shine upon him!
THE DEVIL HAS NO KNEES
We have an ace in the hole regarding those who bow down to and serve the devil:
“In fighting those who serve devils one always has this on one’s side, their masters hate them as much as they hate us.”
C. S. Lewis
The likes of Fauci and Soros and Schwab are fast losing the use they served for the devil. Watch them be eaten up. As the saying goes, “The devil eats his own.” Ask Herod.
The threatened Dark Winter (again) is nearly upon us. We will link arms and meet it together and watch history being made upon this world stage. We may be bit players (and thank God for that) but we have a front row seat.
Justice will be served.
The tech dystopia will crumble and those who attempted to bring it forth will crumble with it. They will be ground to dust as Providence dictates.
ODDS AND ENDS
Here’s an upcoming strike against vaccine mandates. Let’s participate and show our support for those like our own Steve who are struggling with possible job termination over the Covax.
“RELIGIOUS SERVICES, protected by the 1st amendment, are NOT provided to Jan 6ers. Neither are in person classes or other activities available to the rest of the jail. An inmate named Ryan Samsel, instead attempted to organize his own bible study inside the pod, until he was viciously BEATEN and LEFT FOR DEAD by correctional officers. He suffered a broken eye socket and brain damage as a result of the vicious attack. He’s now permanently blind in one eye. On another occasion, Scott Fairlamb was confronted by an officer in the middle of the night, and his life was threatened, once the officer’s body cam was disabled. Many, like myself, are afraid they could be the next victim.
And last but not least, we experience racism from many guards on a daily basis, being the ONLY WHITE REPUBLICANS in the entire jail. The false narrative is has been passed around the jail and to corrections officers that we are “white supremacists” (we are NOT). The inmate population is predominantly black, so we are at risk being here because of this false narrative. The guards are mostly liberal migrants from Africa who have been conditioned to hate us, and hate America. Jan 6ers have been mocked, beaten and ridiculed by guards for singing the National Anthem. The Corrections Officers despise our politics and the love we have for this country. At one point, an officer even yelled “FUCK AMERICA!”, and threatened to lock us down FOR A WEEK if we attempted to sing the National Anthem again.“
Here’s a 5-part series on the art of brainwashing by Randi Engel. Meticulous research. Part 1 here.
A short but thorough explication of Brainwashing tactics. Can share with normies.
OK, to be honest I had Zero plans to write this post when I woke up “today”. In fact I’d been hoping to take advantage of my solo weekend to wrap up a post or two I’ve had in draft mode for months, but it appears that they’ll have to still wait. My hunters will be home soon…
This journey started out by reading Carl’s beautiful Sunday post.
Being very moved by the teaching he shared I wanted to look up the source material by John Piper AND finally came to a page that appears to contain much, or even all, that Carl shared, here:
In the course of searching for the actual message, & not just other people’s blog posts about Piper’s teaching that was apparently given at some type of conference, a few interesting links popped up. One looked to be addressing how seemingly Piper weighed in on the 2020 election & from the couple lines of text visible at the search may have spoken against Trump. I was curious so went to read that article too.
What a surprise to discover that the article was more about promoting the vax from the pulpit rather than steering people away from Trump during the stolen election. Hmmm
OK, so this post is NOT trying to attack John Piper as a man, a Christian, nor as a theologian. I’m trying to steer clear of my own biases, which is obviously impossible. In reading the search engine thumbnail descriptions it appears that Piper is affiliated with the Baptist church, which makes my “legalism radar” perk up. I’m just being honest, I have issues with legalism that go way back & have a (possibly misplaced) perception that Baptist takes might hover in the legalism domain…so grain of salt going forward here…
Here are a couple places where I’ve addressed legalism, & the other end of the spectrum, the prosperity gospel, for context on some of my thinking in these arenas…
So, back to the issue at hand. I like to think of myself as a Truth-seeker AND a Truth-teller. So let’s see if we can unearth some Truth in the controversy before us, namely shilling for the vax from the pulpit. Whom the Son sets free is Free indeed!
Let’s look into John Knox’s Not The Bee article a bit first. Per his opening remarks he appears to be a Conservative Christian, who is perhaps comfortable with MAGA & Trump’s leadership.
“I’m not here to slander John Piper. He’s a brother-in-Christ and a man who has, by all accounts, picked up his cross daily to preach the hope of Christ and Christ crucified to a broken world.
With that being said, Piper has come to some odd conclusions in recent years, starting most notably with the idea that voting for the worldly bravado of Donald Trump was just a [sic] morally wrong as the utter institutional corruption, unfettered support of abortion, and woke totalitarianism of Joe Biden.”
Let’s dive into Piper’s perspective without immediately referring to Knox’s take & see what might jump out…
Here is his opening & yikes he’s seeming like a Pro-vaxer from the outset, not just pro-freedom (in Christ).
“My aim in this article is to encourage Christians to be vaccinated, if they can do so with a good conscience and judicious medical warrant.
The people I have especially in view are those who are not vaccinated because of fear of being out of step withpeople they respect, and in step with people they don’t admire. My message to them is simple: You are free.
So, I am not talking directly to everybody. If the shoe fits, put it on, check your conscience, consult your doctor, and go get vaccinated. If it doesn’t, go tearfully and cheerfully on your way. Tearfully, because over 4.5 million people have died from COVID-19 worldwide (including over 700,000 Americans). And cheerfully, because Christ makes it miraculously possible to love people by being “sorrowful yet always rejoicing” (2 Corinthians 6:10).”
So I’m pretty close to an anti-vaxer for numerous reasons now. It would be nearly impossible to read consistently here at The Q Tree & not be Extremely Concerned about the many & manifold dangers of the so-called Covid vaccine. Obviously Piper is coming from a very different worldview, though we Might be somewhat similar in our Christian biblical foundational viewpoints. Some of what he said above strikes me as manipulative, which is a big red flag to me!
Below is a comment written before the Plannedemic was on the scene with some vaccine concerns I expressed elsewhere, for perspective, but we’ll just stick with the Covid “vax” concerns today:
So Piper cites a number of sources that all seem to show that being unvax’d is Way more dangerous than being vax’d. Obviously here at the Q-Tree we consider material much more wider afield & also take into account the numerous reports, medical, scientific, & anecdotal that expose Much of the danger of the clot shots. It appears that Piper is unaware of this alternative & alarming material. Here’s his take, shudder:
When people respond to this increasingly clear reality by pointing to untrustworthy and disreputable government and medical leaders, I respond, “That’s a non sequitur.” The team called “vaccination” just made a first down, even if monkeys are holding the chains. For friends around the world who don’t know American football, that means a win is a win even if all the coaches and referees are incompetent.
Piper’s take on freedom is interesting & I encourage you to read it for yourself. He then lists a series of considerations to ponder as one decides for the shot or not. He doesn’t elaborate on those issues, even the implications of fetal cell lines, though he does link to a YouTube video on the topic. I have no idea if Piper is a pro-lifer or not, but at least he brings up that fetal tissue issue, though by implication doesn’t apparently consider it an impediment to Christians taking the “vax”. He appears to have made up his mind to take the shot & seems to be freeing, or even persuading, his parishioners to do the same–concerning!
Now let’s consider Knox’s other cited material that is opposed to Piper’s take before returning to Knox.
James White, the author of the above, pulls no punches & calls Piper out for his writings AND remarks on the election & the shot! Here is White pointing out what many Q-Treepers might consider to be quite obvious.
God’s ownership of our bodies implies our own stewardship thereof, which is why many of us take serious issue with experimental genetic therapies with record-breaking reports of adverse reactions, including death, with no long-term studies relating to safety (cancers, fertility), for a disease with an average mortality age above life expectancy and a mortality rate of less than 0.5%.
Further from White, bold is my take:
…there is the arrogance of the secular worldview that actually leads man to believe he is wise enough, while remaining in rebellion against his Creator, to meddle with the very essence of his being (genetics). When such arrogance is joined with a lust for power and dominion, it becomes deadly.
So the bulk of the article, comprising numerous biblical citations about freedom, is not the issue. Instead, the problem is found in the section that reads like a Pfizer promotional advertisement, and then the application portion at the end.
White’s wisdom & Piper’s naivety are on display in this next quote from White (not italicised to preserve his presentation):
“From late October of 2020, as word about the technology that is behind the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines came out, I have stated that I would consider use of these vaccine [sic] once three and five year safety studies had been completed. Prior to 2020, this would have been considered a sober, even mundane position to take. You do not do genetic manipulation at “warp speed,” especially when the threat you are seeking to counteract is one that almost always requires multiple co-morbidities and results in an age of death equal to or above life expectancy. But we do not have such data, and with how this one particular disease has been handled, we have good grounds to wonder if we will ever have geniune [sic] data in the future. The VAERS database, maintained by the CDC, has catalogued record numbers of negative results from the vaccines, so it is now regularly dismissed as “untested” (the irony is palpable) by the media. The amazing reality that we are now counting deaths with the Covid-19 as the same as deaths from Covid-19 has resulted in massively inflated numbers, numbers Dr. Piper repeats without comment, and uses in his final argumentation as well. The fact is we are playing with dangerous and unknown long-term impacts with these types of experimental1 therapies. Dr. Piper does not even acknowledge this reality.”
Here is the material for the footnote #1 above & a reference to further work by White (an 8 page pdf). This appears to be a level of truth AND integrity to be much admired & emulated, yet too rarely seen!
1 Yes, they remain experimental. The FDA approved the Pfizer jab without public comment, fundamentally altering the entire process. Video exists of Anthony Fauci in 2019 (Milken Institute found on CSPAN2) lamenting how long it would take to get these kinds of vaccines approved. Given his own role in the Wuhan lab, gain-of-function funding, etc., the reality of the situation is clear.
“Many studies are now showing efficacy rates below 50% and dropping for these vaccines. But the UK report is even more dangerous. We are now seeing that the vaccines are inhibiting the natural ability to produce antibodies against not just the well-known “spike protein,” but against the shell of the virus as well. Our bodies provide not only a much more robust immunity (as all studies are showing, and which Dr. Piper misrepresented when he said natural immunity is “as effective as vaccination immunity” when it is actually 13 to 27 times greater), but it is a much wider immunity, responding to more of the structure of the virus. This study is telling us that vaccination degrades our natural immunity, leaving us even more exposed to future infection.”
And this treat from White on Piper!
“He then provides one of the most disappointing lines in the article: “You have pondered the likelihood and unlikelihood of conspiratorial conjectures.” Without defining his meaning, or providing examples, Piper does us no favors. Is the recognition of the cooperation of Big Tech and Big Pharma with the extreme leftists in political power resulting in the transfer of literally trillions of dollars of wealth a “conspiratorial conjecture”? Are the banishments from social media of medical experts who are warning about dangers fictional? We are not told.”
Winding down toward his conclusion White displays both insight AND wisdom:
“It is undeniable that the vaccines are not a solo issue. They are coming to us after mask mandates and church closures and pastoral imprisonments and before the next onerous demands from governments drunk on the power that inevitably comes from the rise of secularism. The secular state is far worse than the ancient pagan context of Rome (which was bad enough), for by its very definition it must be ultimate in all things as there is no Creator. Why Piper does not see the role the vaccines play in the overall demands of the newly empowered totalitarianism I cannot say, but it is not the first time he has missed the role a particular element plays in the whole. Mean, arrogant tweets are, in the overall scheme of things, significantly less important than the fact that the Biden regime is intent upon forcing your children to celebrate drag queens and likewise just as intent upon taking control of every aspect of your life to force you to live in denial of the lordship of Christ. What Piper has missed, badly, is the role these vaccinations play in a much bigger, much more basic movement into a technologically based, chemically and medically controlled secular totalitarianism.”
Obviously it is easier to resonate with White, at least for me. So let’s return to Knox. Piper is presented as
“…either unable or unwilling to see past the veneer of Everything is Fine™ that’s been peddled by the leftist politicians, the woke media, the “progressive” academy, and the neo-Marxist Big Tech offices.”
Knox reminds us to consider the source AND question conclusions drawn from faulty data & assumptions:
“As a math professor once told me, even if your calculations are 100% correct, your solution will be insanely wrong if your starting premises are off!”
Honestly I did enjoy reading all three pieces. Knox was my intro to the other two & his framing & take is invaluable. Piper was who I’d been searching for in appreciation of the Wonderful Teaching Carl shared with us today (now yesterday). Piper was shallow on facts but deeper on scripture in his writing compared to what the other two shared, but both Knox & White were addressing Piper’s factual fallacies more than his biblical prowess. Because I was reading Piper’s article as more of a vax skeptic, I found some of his scriptural insights to work on me in the opposite way than where he was going in his applications. White was factual, truthful, & masterfully insightful on both human nature & the creeping totalitarianism in our societies. I resonated with his take & hope to read further of how he also might “rightly divide the Word of Truth”!
I guess I would prefer to just hear from Piper on scripture, not social issues. Because White & Knox are seemingly aligned with my worldview they are more comfortable reads to me when addressing social &/or cultural concerns. Knox is an easier, quicker read, so he’s a good place to start. White dives in deep & dispenses truth, wisdom, & integrity quite liberally. Piper would do well to stick to biblical truth & could expand his sources of information so he has a better grasp of what is Really happening in the world today.
Now let’s turn to the reason for this post’s title, since many Shepherds (pastors & other leaders) are seemingly leading their flocks of Sheep to the metaphorical, if not literal, slaughter.
I’m going to share Ezekiel 34 in a moment, but this is how thinking along those lines developed, in the comments section on this excellent post by Wolfmoon:
There are markers in the vaccine, AND they are testing (using useless PCR) for infection, AND they are taking DNA.
All bases are covered. The sheep will see the “testing for viruses” part and be satisfied. The lions will see the markers and the DNA theft and walk majestically away.
They are flailing around trying anything they can think of to trick the lions into submission.
But I am a lion, and not subject to such gaslighting trickery.11 Reply
EXACTLY! That’s what I’m thinking. The small cheese was the vaccine in as many as possible. The BIG CHEESE was “everybody gives their DNA to the globonazis just to travel”. The really big cheese behind the scenes is “now we can modify and study every single person like a lab animal”. When we talked about being “controls”, they rubbed their hands in glee. “We can use that! We can surely use that!” The trick THERE is to foil that plan – to say “No, KlauSS. No DNA for you!”
One of the things they would surely be testing for would be immune function. Shedding. OMG. There is so much modification and study of us possible.
cleverly disguised as “peace and safety” for all !
and coming soon…
marker
sounds like mark.
but we’re not quite there just yet.
the UN’s Sustainablity crap + the 2030 Agenda + the WEF + the Vatican + the Covid/Climate Change tyranny…and the global compliance to all of that…is creating Alinsky style chaos.
they will need all the chaos they can manufacture…so that…
the machiavellian psychopath man of universal “peace” can show up, and quell all the chaos…
by then, ppl of the global village will have become rendered compliant enough so as to readily take the mark which will require, not just relinquishing our privacy, but something much worse : our souls.
to worship that man of lawlessness, perversion & lies.Last edited 7 days ago by smiley29 Reply
We would be stronger if the Church leaders around the globe including Pop would stand with God’s people. They are not for a second time in history the past 80 years. They failed God and humanity and will be judged more harshly for selling out God and Christ for a lousy bag of silver.4 Reply
The whole 34th chapter of Ezekiel is profoundly applicable Right Now!
Ezekiel 34 New International Version The Lord Will Be Israel’s Shepherd 34 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Woe to you shepherds of Israel who only take care of yourselves! Should not shepherds take care of the flock? 3 You eat the curds, clothe yourselves with the wool and slaughter the choice animals, but you do not take care of the flock. 4 You have not strengthened the weak or healed the sick or bound up the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally. 5 So they were scattered because there was no shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild animals. 6 My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. They were scattered over the whole earth, and no one searched or looked for them.
7 “‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: 8 As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, because my flock lacks a shepherd and so has been plundered and has become food for all the wild animals, and because my shepherds did not search for my flock but cared for themselves rather than for my flock, 9 therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: 10 This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against the shepherds and will hold them accountable for my flock. I will remove them from tending the flock so that the shepherds can no longer feed themselves. I will rescue my flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them.
Let’s add the rest of Ezekiel 34 (that wasn’t included in my original comment above) for perspective:
11 “‘For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself will search for my sheep and look after them. 12 As a shepherd looks after his scattered flock when he is with them, so will I look after my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness. 13 I will bring them out from the nations and gather them from the countries, and I will bring them into their own land. I will pasture them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines and in all the settlements in the land. 14 I will tend them in a good pasture, and the mountain heights of Israel will be their grazing land. There they will lie down in good grazing land, and there they will feed in a rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. 15 I myself will tend my sheep and have them lie down, declares the Sovereign Lord. 16 I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak, but the sleek and the strong I will destroy. I will shepherd the flock with justice.
17 “‘As for you, my flock, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will judge between one sheep and another, and between rams and goats. 18 Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of your pasture with your feet? Is it not enough for you to drink clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet? 19 Must my flock feed on what you have trampled and drink what you have muddied with your feet?
20 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says to them: See, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. 21 Because you shove with flank and shoulder, butting all the weak sheep with your horns until you have driven them away, 22 I will save my flock, and they will no longer be plundered. I will judge between one sheep and another. 23 I will place over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he will tend them; he will tend them and be their shepherd. 24 I the Lord will be their God, and my servant David will be prince among them. I the Lord have spoken.
25 “‘I will make a covenant of peace with them and rid the land of savage beasts so that they may live in the wilderness and sleep in the forests in safety. 26 I will make them and the places surrounding my hill a blessing.[a] I will send down showers in season; there will be showers of blessing. 27 The trees will yield their fruit and the ground will yield its crops; the people will be secure in their land. They will know that I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hands of those who enslaved them. 28 They will no longer be plundered by the nations, nor will wild animals devour them. They will live in safety, and no one will make them afraid. 29 I will provide for them a land renowned for its crops, and they will no longer be victims of famine in the land or bear the scorn of the nations. 30 Then they will know that I, the Lord their God, am with them and that they, the Israelites, are my people, declares the Sovereign Lord. 31 You are my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, and I am your God, declares the Sovereign Lord.’”
Footnotes
Ezekiel 34:26 Or I will cause them and the places surrounding my hill to be named in blessings (see Gen. 48:20); or I will cause them and the places surrounding my hill to be seen as blessed
VC housekeeping note, footnotes from Bible Gateway show up as numbered here though they are lettered within the biblical text, please make adjustments (a=1, etc.).
I was going to expound on that passage but I think at this point it might be best for the Word of God to speak to your own heart as He wills…
Here is an example of a church that has gone overboard in the wrong direction, way beyond Piper’s vax persuasion. They wouldn’t allow the unvax’d to enter nor apparently work there, even those with medical or religious exemptions. I really hope the majority of the remaining flock got saline instead of the real clot shot!
Closer to home there have been disturbing trends. Our old home church seemed to go pretty overboard on Covid craziness. Earlier we visited to support a family member’s music ministry. At that time masks were strictly & personally enforced by deacons or elders, significantly impeding worship AND fellowship. They had Covid stations w/ hand sanitizer & masks positioned by entrances & strategically elsewhere in the building. Thankfully, over the summer the restrictions were relaxed as in people were encouraged to wear masks rather than “required”. At our daughter’s wedding there in August only a very small minority, like 2% of attendees, were pretty consistently masking.
My parents’ very large & prosperous church went through a season of only having online services. They spent exorbitant amounts of money to install various health measures including outfitting multiple gathering rooms w/ microbe killing lights, I believe. Since they also operate a Christian School they may have been proceeding with an abundance of caution. The online services were a blessing to my parents who may continue to do church that way when health or weather issues make attendance an hour away from home much more challenging. More churches having an online presence AND broadcasting services can be one of the seeming few positive changes since Covidiocy has mesmerized global sheep & tantalized totalitarians!
My husband has been very activie in music & leadership in a local church that might best be described as “seeker-friendly” & more youth oriented. This church is part of an extended church plant ministry in Michigan & most of the leadership are on the young side too. Michael, my husband, got one of our sons involved in music ministry there & our daughter-in-law was active in the children’s ministry. M & son got quite close to a Conservative Christian church employee who grew increasingly frustrated with various “woke” aspects of leadership that he was unable to sway whatsoever, even though he was on the church board. He finally moved out of state, largely to escape what was becoming toxic church culture.
Our son chose to leave because he couldn’t stand the mask mandates that were pretty heavy-handed for many months. Our daughter-in-law lost her motivation when they shut down all of the children’s ministry areas due to Covid lies. This church has had an extensive youth & children’s ministry & much outreach to the community. What had been a welcoming atmosphere, complete w/ complementary coffee & treats, turned into a desert of fear, in so many ways. Talk about serious mixed messaging…
My husband’s experiences with music there were becoming so frustrating compared to pre-covid freedoms. Significant enforced masking. No access to normal musician hang out rooms before or between services–much interpersonal ministry had occurred spontaneously in that environment previously. No longer were refreshments provided for the worship team (nor the church at large, for that matter). In fact they often had to wait in their cars when they weren’t on stage or in the service. Michael would hit a nearby drive-through & pick up cheap breakfast food to share with his team but it wasn’t even close to the same.
I attended service there at Easter & M had to RSVP so the church would have a head count & not get overcrowded. I’m not sure if they were attempting to limit numbers due to “social distancing” or what. Our son wasn’t able to make the RSVP cut so he stayed home on Easter, again. I refused to wear a mask & nobody called me on it, which was a relief. There were Many empty chairs so our son could likely have come too but the “restrictions” made the concept of joyfully coming into the House of the Lord pretty foreign–Tragic! Compared to the previous Easter, when virtually All Michigan churches were closed, this was an “improvement”. What a very twisted way to disrupt the celebration of Jesus’ Resurrection, the very lynchpin of the Church’s existence. Surely just accidental tyranny–NOT!
Although my husband Loves being a part of that music ministry AND has developed a number of quality relationships that have extended beyond just fellowship within the church walls, he has stated on numerous occasions that if that church ramps up the Covid crap again he is going to have to leave.
Churches bowing to government lies, tyranny, AND deception is transforming the natural areas of ministry that should be unfettered and subject to the leading of the Holy Spirit, Not the permission of The State! To see a pastor, like Piper, shilling for the death shots is beyond horrifying to me. Having ubiquitous masking & promoting fears & isolation & a lack of human contact (touch, hugging, holding hands to pray, shaking hands to greet others, laying hands on others in prayer &/or fellowship, facial expressions, etc.) are all destructive of the church & in effect are putting the Light of Christ under a metaphorical bushel.
Early in the Scamdemic when our dictator in the Governor’s mansion (Gretchen Half-Whitmer, to quote Trump) banned churches from being opened, or even people leaving their own households, we had a House Church service in our home. People from Four different households attended (family & pending family) and we were technically in violation of some illegitimate “mandate”. It was joyful, liberating, moving, godly, AND surreal. I wondered if we were, as a society, on the cusp of seeing the church driven underground, like in China or ancient Rome. Honestly our home church service was more meaningful & powerful with God’s presence than Any church building service I’d experienced in Many Years (my issues, not necessarily the church’s “fault”).
If driven underground The Church, The True Bride of Christ, will survive AND thrive…& suffer significantly…
In contrast to some of the above, other family members have been blessed to discover a vibrant & growing church about an hour away that did not bow the knee at Any level to the “pandemic” paralysis. Apparently this church has been on the front lines in fighting against illegitimate powers & even has some legal eagles in the congregation that have contributed significantly to clipping the Nazgul’s wings (Gretchen Whitmer). Standing up to tyranny may be One of the key factors why this church is growing so much right now.
I went to the church’s website to see if any of their Covid “activism” featured prominently, and it did not. Here is a link to an article from earlier in the scamdemic that quotes the pastor & gives context to his decision to keep their church open against manifest pressure from the system. It’s interesting given our hindsight view on much of what was happening then.
Another distant family member, on the other side of the state, has recounted how her small community church has fared during the Covid manufactured “crisis”. Her church stayed mostly open, didn’t mask, & didn’t do social distancing. Many people got sick AND now have natural immunity. Many congregants are well-versed in alternative healing approaches to Covid & have been helping to bring healing to their community whenever the illness kicks in. I’ve shared some of her approaches here before & hope to do so more fully in another post…eventually.
Alarmingly on Detroit area TV there are a number of pastors featured prominently in Michigan propaganda pieces trying to still convince the masses of the importance of taking the clot shot. Every time I see one I think of Margaret Sanger’s desire to keep the “uppity” “undesirables” from thinking for themselves & not getting abortions. Basically the de-population agenda is still finding “spiritual shills” to sell their snake oil!
OK I went looking at Michigan.gov to see if I could find an example commercial featuring a faith leader & found this document on fetal cells & the “vax”. At the bottom are links to various faith organizations statements on the topic. I would guess the state isn’t linking to anyone who objects to the “vax” but am not taking the time to check. All of the links say Catholic or Vatican except the Charlotte Lozier Institute.
It looks like in order to view one needs to download the file. The top one tries to convince pregnant women the shot is safe. The seventh video features one of the pastors lamenting people dying alone. From the second from the bottom on page 2, link below, there is a spot on “keeping the faith”.
Just even considering this material makes me feel like I need to take a shower. This is like the PR campaign to convince people to willingly enter the Nazi cattle cars & showers, bringing about their own destruction!
Here’s an example of the kind of pastoral leadership I would much rather see!
Here’s the larger scene preceding that one:
I’ve spoken/written numerous times about movie-quoting as a language in our family, including at my inaugural Q-Tree post immediately below. Comments are closed now, but well worth reading. If someone might care to comment there is a copy of that post on my main blog, Special Connections, also below.
Oh for a protective, patriotic pastor’s heart to arise in these dark days! Here is a possibility. I haven’t watched this video in full just share it for your consideration…It’s almost 2 hours & from earlier this month. Interestingly You Tube won’t allow that video to embed…hmm…just a glitch in the matrix surely!
Here is an appropriate warning from scripture for those who presume to teach others.
James 3:1 Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly
I went looking for some scriptures that might be applicable & encouraging in these dark days, here is truth!
2 Samuel 22 New International Version
David’s Song of Praise
22 David sang to the Lord the words of this song when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. 2 He said:
“The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; 3 my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield[a] and the horn[b] of my salvation. He is my stronghold, my refuge and my savior— from violent people you save me.
4 “I called to the Lord, who is worthy of praise, and have been saved from my enemies. 5 The waves of death swirled about me; the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me. 6 The cords of the grave coiled around me; the snares of death confronted me.
7 “In my distress I called to the Lord; I called out to my God. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came to his ears. 8 The earth trembled and quaked, the foundations of the heavens[c] shook; they trembled because he was angry. 9 Smoke rose from his nostrils; consuming fire came from his mouth, burning coals blazed out of it. 10 He parted the heavens and came down; dark clouds were under his feet. 11 He mounted the cherubim and flew; he soared[d] on the wings of the wind. 12 He made darkness his canopy around him— the dark[e] rain clouds of the sky. 13 Out of the brightness of his presence bolts of lightning blazed forth. 14 The Lord thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded. 15 He shot his arrows and scattered the enemy, with great bolts of lightning he routed them. 16 The valleys of the sea were exposed and the foundations of the earth laid bare at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of breath from his nostrils.
17 “He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he drew me out of deep waters. 18 He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes, who were too strong for me. 19 They confronted me in the day of my disaster, but the Lord was my support. 20 He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me.
21 “The Lord has dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he has rewarded me. 22 For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I am not guilty of turning from my God. 23 All his laws are before me; I have not turned away from his decrees. 24 I have been blameless before him and have kept myself from sin. 25 The Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness[f] in his sight.
26 “To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless, 27 to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the devious you show yourself shrewd. 28 You save the humble, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them low. 29 You, Lord, are my lamp; the Lord turns my darkness into light. 30 With your help I can advance against a troop[g]; with my God I can scale a wall.
31 “As for God, his way is perfect: The Lord’s word is flawless; he shields all who take refuge in him. 32 For who is God besides the Lord? And who is the Rock except our God? 33 It is God who arms me with strength[h] and keeps my way secure. 34 He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; he causes me to stand on the heights. 35 He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze. 36 You make your saving help my shield; your help has made[i] me great. 37 You provide a broad path for my feet, so that my ankles do not give way.
38 “I pursued my enemies and crushed them; I did not turn back till they were destroyed. 39 I crushed them completely, and they could not rise; they fell beneath my feet. 40 You armed me with strength for battle; you humbled my adversaries before me. 41 You made my enemies turn their backs in flight, and I destroyed my foes. 42 They cried for help, but there was no one to save them— to the Lord, but he did not answer. 43 I beat them as fine as the dust of the earth; I pounded and trampled them like mud in the streets.
44 “You have delivered me from the attacks of the peoples; you have preserved me as the head of nations. People I did not know now serve me, 45 foreigners cower before me; as soon as they hear of me, they obey me. 46 They all lose heart; they come trembling[j] from their strongholds.
47 “The Lord lives! Praise be to my Rock! Exalted be my God, the Rock, my Savior! 48 He is the God who avenges me, who puts the nations under me, 49 who sets me free from my enemies. You exalted me above my foes; from a violent man you rescued me. 50 Therefore I will praise you, Lord, among the nations; I will sing the praises of your name.
51 “He gives his king great victories; he shows unfailing kindness to his anointed, to David and his descendants forever.”
8 “But if I were you, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before him. 9 He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted. 10 He provides rain for the earth; he sends water on the countryside. 11 The lowly he sets on high, and those who mourn are lifted to safety. 12 He thwarts the plans of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success. 13 He catches the wise in their craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are swept away. 14 Darkness comes upon them in the daytime; at noon they grope as in the night. 15 He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth; he saves them from the clutches of the powerful. 16 So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.
17 “Blessed is the one whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.[a] 18 For he wounds, but he also binds up; he injures, but his hands also heal. 19 From six calamities he will rescue you; in seven no harm will touch you. 20 In famine he will deliver you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword. 21 You will be protected from the lash of the tongue, and need not fear when destruction comes. 22 You will laugh at destruction and famine, and need not fear the wild animals. 23 For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you. 24 You will know that your tent is secure; you will take stock of your property and find nothing missing. 25 You will know that your children will be many, and your descendants like the grass of the earth. 26 You will come to the grave in full vigor, like sheaves gathered in season.
27 “We have examined this, and it is true. So hear it and apply it to yourself.”
I’m searching for scriptures based on the word “rescue” AND there are Many. Here are more that leap out to me: Psalm 18; Isaiah 35; & II Peter 2. Also the many shared below!
Psalm 35:10My whole being will exclaim, “Who is like you, Lord? You rescue the poor from those too strong for them, the poor and needy from those who rob them. ”In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
Isaiah 46:4Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
Isaiah 50:2When I came, why was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Was my arm too short to deliver you? Do I lack the strength to rescue you? By a mere rebuke I dry up the sea, I turn rivers into a desert; their fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
Isaiah 51:11Those the Lord has rescued will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
Jeremiah 15:20I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to rescue and save you,” declares the Lord. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
Ezekiel 34:10This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against the shepherds and will hold them accountable for my flock. I will remove them from tending the flock so that the shepherds can no longer feed themselves. I will rescue my flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
Ezekiel 34:12As a shepherd looks after his scattered flock when he is with them, so will I look after my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
Ezekiel 34:27The trees will yield their fruit and the ground will yield its crops; the people will be secure in their land. They will know that I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hands of those who enslaved them. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
Daniel 3:28Then Nebuchadnezzar said, “Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who has sent his angel and rescued his servants! They trusted in him and defied the king’s command and were willing to give up their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
Zephaniah 3:19At that time I will deal with all who oppressed you. I will rescue the lame; I will gather the exiles. I will give them praise and honor in every land where they have suffered shame. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
Acts 12:11Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know without a doubt that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from Herod’s clutches and from everything the Jewish people were hoping would happen.” In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
Acts 26:16-18 New International Version
16 ‘Now get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen and will see of me. 17 I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. Iam sending you to them 18 to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
As you can see from the numerous scriptures shared above God’s Word is full of hope for us all! Please dive in for yourself & see how God might speak directly to you in your hour of need from His Word!!!
Here is the passage I was originally searching for, Absolutely Applicable to pastors, leaders, AND to us all!
Proverbs 24:10-12 New International Version
Saying 25
10 If you falter in a time of trouble, how small is your strength! 11 Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter. 12 If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay everyone according to what they have done?
God grant us the wisdom, grace, AND strength to speak the truth in love AND to rescue those who are “staggering toward slaughter”.
Well God Bless you AND thank you for reading along with these thoughts today. I hope you are encouraged, inspired, AND challenged to go forth boldly proclaiming grace And truth. In Jesus Love, Valerie
VC note on use of AND throughout. This is a bit of an inside joke at The Q-Tree as Wolfmoon is fond of using the term “AND logic”, as in many times things aren’t either or but more like both AND…
PS, if this post has blessed you an earlier post reflecting on God’s intervention in our battles is below:
“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.”
Thomas Jefferson
Welcome back! Wolf’s Pub is open for business, and it’s a smart crowd we have today…and every day.
Today I honor my son-in-law, a hard-working and all-around great guy who happens to have had a birthday yesterday. Though he’s a Scotch man, he also enjoys gin, and his favorite is Bombay, that iconic British gin that was launched in 1960 but has roots in the 18th century.
Now, I’m a Beefeaters partisan, but Bombay is more than acceptable. Here’s a history of gin in general, and then here’s a nice little riff about the original Bombay gin. It’s a lovely and smooth gin, wonderful with tonic or in a Gimlet or Martini.
As I’ve noted before, gin puts me in a nice cellophane bubble. And honest-to-God, the times we are living in is enough to drive the best of us to find refuge in a bubble. Now, it’s okay to pop into a bubble on occasion, so let’s enjoy a Bombay gin in whatever cocktail we prefer. The bar is open, the company is stellar, and I heard there’s some appetizers floating around somewhere.
POPPING THE CELLOPHANE BUBBLE
“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.”
Abraham Lincoln
It’s time. We’re not gonna take it anymore. Klaus Baby and his CCP attack dogs have underestimated the American people. Our DNA cannot be corrupted. It’s 100% Grade A FREEDOM. Fauci can stuff it.
Do you remember when Tipper Gore and her sidekick, Al, went after rock music? Here’s a little history. Fun to watch Dee Snider take those POS to the cleaners.
Here’s the full hearing in Congress with Dee Snider. In light of what is happening today, I am soundly on the side of Twisted Sister. 😊
This is how we take them on. They deserve to be mocked and ridiculed and outed as the insufferable tyrants they are. Snider had it right.
HOUSE RULES
I feel very little obligation to give the time of day to our foreign and domestic enemies. They will see justice. We will not forget. Every big business that fired one of us for choosing to remain unvaxxed will be remembered. Every business that forced their employees to be masked and vaxxed will be remembered. Every doctor and nurse and hospital that pushed the deadly Covid protocol and denied therapeutics to patients will be remembered.
It is not going to go well for any of them.
This is America. And we are a genial and friendly lot. We have a long fuse. We forgive easily. We do our best to be polite and open-minded, just like here at the Qtree. Wolf’s rules are helpful to review.
But there comes a time when blatant evil and greed must be confronted. The Utree is just such the place to confront others. It’s also a place to reconvene when the enemies of mankind attack us here. We make nice here and we make war over at the Utree.
THEY SEEK TO DEMORALIZE OUR CHILDREN
I went Christmas shopping the other day. The scuttlebutt is that the shelves will be empty and stock low for the holiday season. I wanted to get a jump on it. Here’s a few of the ways that the enemies of our people seek to corrupt our children and shove their attacks in our face.
Let’s concentrate on dolls. First, note the eyes in the following dolls. Unnaturally large and vacant. There’s even dolls that have crossed out eyes, as if the doll is dead or almost like a zombie.
Fishnet stockings and a corset???
Notice the little doll that looks hypnotized or traumatized.
Have you noticed the fishnet stockings and corset on the little girl figure?
I wonder if there is some significance to the dots we can see reflected in the dolls’ eyes?
The features and clothes and expressions are all…off. It seems subtle until you actually take a moment to really study these toys. Degradation. Sexualization. Objectification.
Tip of the iceberg.
Just take a stroll down the toy isles. The occult is staring us in the face. It’s everywhere. Zombie dolls. Transhumanism, cyborgs, and on and on.
Walk through the kid section at a bookstore. There is more about witchcraft there than in the adult section.
IT’S TIME
“Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.”
Mikhail Bulgakov
We all know it. This cannot continue. We have to get involved. I’m going to begin raising a stink with the retailers like Walmart who carry these toys. The toys and the ideology behind them are disgusting and anti-human.
What shall I say?
They are designed to demoralize and corrupt our children, to hand them over to the devil. Parents in our public schools are also aware of what is going on with the curriculum. Our precious children are being taught Critical Race Theory (CRT) and introduced to perverted sex, and their parents are being attacked by our own government for opposing the evil teaching. Children are being taught to look at everything through a godless, satanic and communist lens.
I’ve decided I’m going to make a stink. I’d rather sit in my garden, but in all good conscience, I cannot.
Wolf needs to take care of health matters – both HIS and THE SITE’S. This should not significantly impact things here in the short term, and in the long term, it will improve things. However, this means that Wolf’s appearances on the site will be even more unpredictable than they already have been.
The remainder of this post is just a vague and largely unnecessary explanation of the matters.
My Health
First of all, I have greatly appreciated Duchess01‘s various prayers for bakocarl and myself! These prayers have been very effective.
I also appreciate all the other people who have been praying for me, both here and on Marica’s site! God Bless you and thank you!
One of the most important results of these prayers was to convince me to do needed things, instead of putting them off ONE MORE DAY WEEK MONTH YEAR.
And because GOD wants things to move, THEY’RE MOVING.
Thus, because I’ll need to spend time doing all of the ridiculous things that being healthy entails these days, particularly when dealing with the healthcare system, you will see me a bit less during “office hours”.
Know that I’m still around – I may just be coming around at different times.
Site Health
It turns out that we are having some kind of growing pains. Because of that, I’m going to have to increase the percentage of BUDGET that is going for RENT instead of being stashed into the RAINY DAY FUND.
We will remain IN THE BLACK.
However, we need a bigger condo, or even a single-family abode.
I will thus be spending MORE TIME setting up those things, too.
Wish me luck!
JP’s Magnesium
I have to put in a free plug for a magnesium supplement called Magnesium Breakthrough, which I learned about HERE:
At the end of the video, JP talks about this new magnesium supplement he is fronting. As a certified acolyte of Mg, the element that saved me from long haul, I am a fan of this stuff already. Yes, this stuff which I will admit I have never purchased nor tried. No – I have not tried this particular supplement, but I have been pushing Mg supplementation for the last 2 years, and this stuff looks pricey but good.
Here is why I’m super-convinced.
Let’s look more closely at that label, shall we?
Yes, there is Vitamin B6 and manganese in there, too, but the kicker is that there are so MANY of those fancy, super-bioavailable forms of magnesium, that they crammed into there.
If this shit got any more boutique, they would have to serve you champagne and hors d’oeuvres while shopping.
I could argue that many if not most of these niche forms of magnesium are the same basic type of chelated magnesium as “Magnesium Chelate” (top of the list). In my opinion, there’s not a massive difference in bioavailability between them, although YOUR BIOCHEMISTRY MAY VARY.
However, Sucrosomial Magnesium Oxide is different, and it has been proven to be highly bioavailable, which is uncommon for ANY form of magnesium oxide. It’s even more bioavailable than some of the chelates, which is startling.
And with 7 different kinds of magnesium, (a) something is going to work great for you, and (b) they are all going to max out at different times, with different half-lives, so you are going to get a nice spread in the availability. I use 3 kinds already – 7 is surely even better.
Just don’t turn it up to 11, JP!!!
SO – bottom line – if you’re thinking about upping your magnesium, you may want to check this “Magnesium Breakthrough” stuff out.
I guarantee it’s better than “Vaccine Breakthrough” – or “your money back”!!! LOL!
And with that – I bid you all a great Thursday. STAY HEALTHY. I will be doing it, too!
“As Goliath gets exposed from within, the hunter becomes the hunted.”
James O’Keefe
Welcome back to Wolf’s Pub! Don’t mind the snarl. It’s just I think America is about FED UP with the globalist/communist/Satanist crap. It won’t be too long now. Their second “Dark Winter” is almost upon us. They will see what we are made of.
We are awake. We are looking for the whites of their eyes.
I have supreme confidence in our victory, because I have supreme trust in the LORD God Almighty. It is the LORD who will smite them all with the “breath of His mouth.”
Sooner or later.
If later, we will endeavor to prep the target. Southwest Airlines pilots and employees, a rumbling from within American Airlines, and the Chicago Police Union, not to mention the moms and dads at local school board meetings are becoming a very loud chorus of resistance to those who hope to enslave us.
Hey, this is nice, too:
MILITARY MOMS ARE LIKE SCHOOL MOMS
This very long crowd-sourced documentary (four hours) is really hundreds of vignettes of military and other first responders who are struggling with the vaccine mandates and other issues regarding our woke military and institutions. It is heartwrenching. At the 27-minute mark you see a lone solider in Afghanistan who is in a firefight and has been abandoned. It got to me so deeply I can hardly think about it without weeping.
I want to say one thing about the military. The military as a whole is patriotic and on our side. It is the woke officers and the lap-dog sycophants that are the problem. If there is one group that merits your prayers this day, it is the military men and women who serve our nation.
If Duchess is willing, would she add a prayer that we can all pray together for our troops?
IN A MEME MOOD
To be honest, I am basically living in two rooms right now. Five rooms are being remodeled. There is drywall dust in my nose and all over the floor, walls, windows and counters. Stuff is piled everywhere. Contractors are running my household. So, please excuse me if I make the rest of this opener a series of memes, while I sit back with a military-themed cocktail: The Guard Duty. See below after the memes.
HOUSE RULES
I sense a definite maturing of the Resistance. The enemies of mankind are pushing things to a sharp point. They will go until they are stopped.
On the positive side of that, petty differences within the Resistance seem unimportant. We have our differences. We state them. We move on. Wolf’s rules are here just in case any newbies would like to review them.
The Utree is the refuge for brawlers and when the enemies of mankind attack us here. We can reconvene there and continue on. They aren’t going to shut us up.
ON TO THE MEMES
GOD BLESS ALL ON GUARD DUTY NOW
In honor of all soldiers who have ever pulled guard duty, here is a drink guaranteed to keep you up and at ‘em. According to Veteran Life,
“If you’ve ever served in the military, at some point you have had to stand guard duty or watch in the middle of the night. Whether as the firewatch during boot camp or Midwatch on the bridge of a ship, you’ve stood and stared into the darkness, imagining you see things moving in the shadows, cursing your luck, and questioning your life choices.”
“I CANNOT emphasize enough, how desperate they are to contain a mass awakening. When people realize our entire history, our reality, our medicines, our media, and more has been managed and policed by an elitist empire that wages war on us and God then there will be no going back.”
Joel Brown
Welcome to Wolf’s Pub! It’s Friday, but lately it hasn’t seemed like the weekend, you know? It’s like the weekend has its own set of busyness, like catching up on chores, shopping, helping family and friends, and so on. There’s never a moment, anymore, to just kick back and relax.
Tequila Sunrise
But relax we must. And when Joel mentioned a mass awakening, it came to me that we need a sunny morning cocktail this day. In honor of all those who are just now awakening to the truth of our situation, I toast you with the Tequila Sunrise. But first, to the business at hand.
A RUINED MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT…ALMOST
It seems that in the time of Covid, we have to be our own physicians. We simply cannot trust what the medical establishment has become. They do not take their oath seriously.
Well, here are some brave and moral doctors who do take their oath seriously. And we should be ever so grateful that they have withstood the pressure of demonic oppression to stand up for us and provide healing alternatives to the deadly CDC protocols that permeate most hospitals and doctors’ offices today.
We will be able to rescue our institutions, I think. Some will need major surgery, but there really are good guys in the world working to help humans rather than hurt them.
“Let the hunters get hunted.”
Dr. Zev Zelenko
“To hold on to the position of denying compassionate care to patients, and to create fear, suffering, hospitalization, and death is immoral. It’s unethical and in civil court, it’s illegal. And all of you will be hunted. Every single one of you listening right now will be hunted and justice will be served. These are considered crimes against humanity.”
Dr. Peter McCullough
“So the phrase that’s used is “scientism versus science.” And the observation is that science, historically, has tended towards priesthood, with high priests that are empowered to determine truth.”
Dr. Robert Malone
“Well, the Chinese have been sinking their teeth into us for a long, long time because we are the seat of liberty.”
Dr. Peter Breggin
“Basically, everything your government has told you about this virus, everything you need to do to stay safe, is a lie.”
Dr. Michael Yeadon
“Since January 1, in the laboratory, I’m seeing a 20 times increase of endometrial cancers over what I see on an annual basis.”
Dr. Ryan Cole
“In my opinion, I think you have to look at your worldview—if you think we’re fighting a virus, you’re going to act like a victim. If you think we’re fighting a war, you’re going to act like a warrior.”
Dr. Lee Merritt
“Mountains of data have emerged from many centers and countries around the world showing the miraculous effectiveness of Ivermectin. It basically obliterates transmission of this virus.”
And here is a chilling video report from a Greek Orthodox priest who recounts what happened when a priest-monk took the death jab. It has to do with the fetal cells. Don’t miss it.
It seems entirely possible that there are aborted fetal cells present in the vaccines, according to this National Pulse article.
So to another iconic cocktail, the Tequila Sunrise. Memorialized by the Eagles, the 1970s version of the cocktail is widely held in derision today as too sweet and somewhat tacky. Piffle.
According to the Saucey blog, the Tequila Sunrise is the perfect morning cocktail:
“We don’t often think of tequila as a popular morning drink, either. But that’s why the Tequila Sunrise was invented.
As the name suggests, this drink is best enjoyed when you first wake up. The drink literally looks like the sun rising. The bottom half of the drink has a beautiful orange-red hue, while the upper half of the drink transitions to a bright yellow.”
Watch here as the 1930s version goes up against the 1970s version. Both come up short and the bartender and his girl improve upon both:
Our bartenders are standing by to concoct whatever version suits you!
HOUSE RULES
One of my best friends in this world can drink any liquor and keep control, except for tequila. It does something to her. I remember once…well, I better not trumpet it out there. But we had a wild early afternoon some years ago. A designated driver had to take her home and have her husband put her to bed in the middle of the day. I’ve never let her live it down. 😊
Anyway, we are civil and discreet here at the Qtree. Wolf has kindly explained the rules, which keeps things on an even keel. Knock down, drag outs belong at the Utree, which also doubles as a place to reconvene when things crumble here.
Now back to business.
THE ENSLAVEMENT SYSTEM IS CRUMBLING EVEN AS THEY IMPLEMENT IT
Naturally, the elites are full steam ahead with their plans to make us weak via hunger and lack, as well as turning us into transhuman zombies. However, they have lost the ability to control the narrative and hide behind their media lies.
They really are a ridiculous lot, even with their money and power.
The Blow Hoe’s step-daughter and friend
They are most certainly not the grownups. They fancy themselves, I suppose, as visionaries, but their visions are devoid of humanity and dignity. The real grownups will be taking their candy away soon, and discipline will commence.
Natural News is following the supply chain collapse here.
Zero Hedge thinks we’ll be in the supply chain crisis until 2023. Ugh.
Christian, the Ice Age Farmer, is preaching food security. He has a good understanding of how and why there are big problems for global food production and availability. Here’s a 25-minute video that gives a good 30,000-foot view of the situation and he’s positive for a reason. Once people have empty bellies they will be more willing to listen to the truth:
https://youtu.be/br2zz_v8wWg
TRUMP WRECKING BALL!
From Ellen Caroline on Telegram
Our real President has been on a roll. We are hearing from him daily and things are beginning to shake out. The audits are getting huge pushback, but NO ONE IS GIVING UP. We push till we win and get all 50 states audited.
Steve Bannon doesn’t play Pelosi’s game. He’s not showing up to be interrogated.
Parents Against Critical Race Theory are not intimidated by the feckless Merrick Garland and his gubmint goons. Nor should they be. The move to intimidate and suppress Mom Power is the dumbest thing they’ve done yet. I mean, it’s insect-level stupid.
“We may, indeed, conform to the world in certain matters, in certain things and customs that do not interfere with duty; but in the matters that concern our duties towards God, His holy Church, our soul, our salvation, our eternity, he conforms to the world and its spirit condemned by Jesus Christ, who allows himself to be enslaved by its laws and maxims, which are in direct opposition to the Gospel, shows himself, not a freeman, but a mean cowardly slave.”
In case you missed the Glow Worm’s ties to all things Left, go here for some juicy tidbits.
FAKE JOE BIDEN!
“Truman Show Presidency.”
Jack Posobiec
Biden and his fake sets are just precious. Let’s Go Brandon! I have noticed that my liberal relatives either express hatred for both Trump and Biden now, or they don’t mention politics at all. At all. Gotta laugh. Imagine being ideologically stuck with a dementia patient who likes to touch kids or his sidekick the Blow Hoe.
For God & Country Patriot Double Down 2021 is set to premier in Las Vegas, Oct. 22-25. Looks like so much fun. Code Monkey Z will be there as well as Jim Watkins, George Papadopolous, and Sheriff David Clarke…and many more! Tickets available.
As we have been repeatedly warned – even by the VERY ENEMIES who are attacking us (i.e., KlauSS “Hog-Jowls” SSchwab and the WEFFEN SS), there was going to be a “cyber war” this summer – obviously timed to deal with the “fall” of the FAKE ELECTION and the CHINA VIRUS. Thus, between the CHINAZIS and …
It’s instructive to go back and look at it.
What you will see is an historical record of the increasing attacks on both this site and (by extension) our hosting company, who I always refer to as COUGHCOUGH.com, just to keep the attack surface a bit smaller, every time I don’t post their name.
Even if you know who it is.
Now, however, I would like to talk about our hosts a bit more, still not quite saying their name out loud.
Please continue to pray for them. They are in a tough spot. As will become VERY clear.
Since we began having serious problems on the site, I learned much more about how exactly we are being hosted. Even though we have upgraded our plan, we are still not hosted as “nicely” as I would like. I may spring for an even nicer plan.
Without going into the exact reasons, it is literally impossible for our server to be secure against intrusion by both American and “other” spy agencies and militaries. Thus, as soon as I became aware of the facts of our hosting, I realized that this site is simply not secure against state-level hacking and control.
That would include both the good guys and the bad guys.
Just as an ASIDE, when we were on WordPressDotCom, the “good guys” (or whoever was behind Q) actually “proved” to me that they were “in control” of our site in some fashion.
In fact, they actually did this SEVERAL TIMES. Here is what I posted after one of them.
While I am under no obligation to keep their “methods” secret in that regard, I choose to do so, so you’ll just have to take my word for it. They seemed to be watching everything we were doing at the time.
Back to the present.
We not only have to contend with hackers trying to come into our server from the outside – we have to contend with insiders in the back room at the server location.
At the time of my previous CALL TO PRAYER for our hosting company, that company began to notify customers that they had a “security problem” – which we all knew meant they had been hacked. The question was HOW BADLY.
During the last few weeks, I was notified that an email address was compromised. I don’t particularly care about that, because in the same way that people who have discovered the Kingdom of Heaven are excited about “things going there” (meaning they are not afraid of dying, and are “living for the Lord”), I’ve always lived with the “excitement” of my identity being revealed as one thrilling possible future. The deal there, is that this is a lot easier for me, than it is for thousands of other people, most of whom are on the other side.
What I’ve done, throughout my life on social media, is to tell all kinds of shock-and-awe stories – every one of them horribly true, down to the finest details – without giving enough details to make it obvious who I am, or who I was talking about. A lot of people in government obviously knew, but quite frankly, BOTH sides were well-served by keeping my identity concealed. The good guys learned a lot from my tales, the bad guys learned where they had been exposed, but since WE THE PEOPLE learned the most, the whole shebang evolved relentlessly toward what might be called “The Great Awakening”.
Sometimes, I tell people that I “mined” my social media with truth about the other side. I made my own secret identity something like a pin in a grenade. Pull it out, and bad things happen. Leave it in, and everybody muddles along, so both sides live to fight the next day.
The thing is, we are NOW getting to the point where the crimes of the other side which have been exposed by everybody else, are really approaching the size of MY OWN NUKES. There are all kinds of interesting futures now. I think there is more chance the other side will make more mistakes.
My feeling? Best to let GOD decide how this works out.
So – I’m not too concerned about what happens with me, but I AM concerned for our wonderful hosting company.
What happened to them is INTERESTING, and thanks to T3, I dug into it and found out that – TA DA!!! – I was right about state-level actors “in the back room” at our hosting company.
I am just going to give you a bunch of links, and then discuss this again without naming our hosting company.
The Daily Dot (leftist “scandal” rag – obviously not pushing anything I know!)
Most of this is just a kind of “fear porn” led by the left, including phonies like Ali Alexander, who are used to model fear reactions to good, honest, decent people. It’s all very “Alinsky”.
Just like the January Sixth bullshit, in the long run, this will be bad for the left and the derp state, and I will explain why in a bit.
One of the BEST parts, however, was the THIRD item revealed by the Daily Dot.
Now, I have not dug into this (as in finding and sifting through the data) to verify that we’re on the list of sites with subpoenas, but we certainly should be. The fact is, I am one of the few people I know for CERTAIN has subpoena-worthy stuff on a COUGHCOUGH.com-hosted site, including evidence of people with prior knowledge of the January Sixth “Buffalo Jump”. These are presumably people with FBI, CIA, Pentagon, or other government connections.
It was only a matter of time before BOTH sides would want to get as much information as they could, about what I knew. See, for example what I reported HERE…..
The Prelude: CUE THE MUSIC! The First Message: To all who may be locked out at this time PLEASE go to THE U TREE and post a comment – EVEN if it goes into moderation. I will get you out of moderation, and we will get you into here. This strategy has worked for everybody …
Thus, it’s very likely that SOMEBODY wants to know WHO has been monitoring our site, because it was only a matter of WEEKS after I revealed our knowledge of people having foreknowledge of the Buffalo Jump in November of 2020, that somebody made efforts to get people “in deep” where that data was. I was very impressed – those were very likely either “Team 1” or “Team 2” people who found it and got in there. It could have been NSA or CIA. It could have been Anonymous. But THAT was “back then” – long before the “main hack in question”.
Now, there are also the Gilead and Pfizer angles. We have been HARSH on both the mRNA vaccines AND remdesivir on this site.
“When the people have any power to object to a socialist solution, a deniable 5% fait accompli is always more desirable to socialists than a negotiated 50% solution, because they can always negotiate on the remaining 95%.” -Wolf Moon When I first heard about a case of a miscarriage by a pregnant doctor, due to …
I have been a poor and rotten servant of the Lord during my too long and too miserable life. I have made innocent women cry. I have led others astray. I have turned away from those in need in their time of need, and I have lied to myself and to God about why I …
These companies have a lot of money, and they have friends like China and Israel, to say nothing of China Joe Biden. These companies – or China – or Israel – could also be behind the Anonymous hack.
Yes, sadly, Israel has made a horrible mistake, IMO, to get in bed with crooks and con men, but that’s pretty much the state of things. When this site stands up for ISRAELIS being KILLED by the foolish jab, shame upon those who would try to stop us.
I would normally NEVER put Israel on the list of “usual suspects”, but at this point, you never know. They’ve gone total “vaczi”. Not as bad as the Aussies or the Euros, but BAD. The only reason we have not seen more brutality in Israel is the compliance, and the bad internal optics of beating the shit out of religious Jews.
It’s one thing to have Nazi health policies. It’s quite another to beat down Jews in Nazi style.
They have the same leftist, socialist, rogue IC, 4th branch, deep state problems that WE have.
Now – let’s talk about “Anonymous”.
Anonymous is the Oathkeepers of cyber.
Anonymous is CONTROLLED by the FBI.
I want you to understand that. “Anonymous” is NOT an independent hacker group. It was taken over by the FBI long ago, and now they “white knight” for the “black hat deep state”. Or maybe they “black knight”. Whatever. They are BUTT-BOYS of FBI.
It is VERY much like the Oathkeepers situation – a pied piper group – only more secret, so that FIB has more flexibility in how it uses Anonymous.
This is how the Biden administration attacked the right, after they got us all on Epik.
Yup. This is FIB creating plausible deniability for themselves to feed our information to THEIR left-wing attack dogs.
My advice?
Don’t be afraid. Be PISSED.
Things are going to get very interesting here.
LET THERE BE INTERESTING TIMES.
They will be MORE interesting for the other side. And in the long run, the Biden administration HACKING its enemies on Epik needs to be punished in the MINDS OF AMERICANS with disgust, righteous anger, and disrespect.
Fuck these assholes. We BLAME them, and we BLAME THEM until everybody thinks they’re SCUM.
Welcome back to Wolf’s Pub. Friday at last! I’ve been hearing that we shouldn’t be buying stuff from China. Seems like it has become a conservative mantra lately.
That would be nice, but as a seasoned shopper, I have to tell ya, IT’S DAMNED HARD TRYING TO FIND STUFF NOT MADE IN CHINA.
Walmart is among the worst of the worst. They sold their corporate soul to China years ago, and every single Walmart is stuffed to the brim with CRAP FROM CHINA. Once in awhile Walmart pretends to care about American-made goods and American jobs by featuring some item that is actually Made in America.
They usually put it on the end cap or the middle of an aisle and that constitutes their virtue-signaling for the average sleepy shopper.
DISGUSTING. Walmart and the other multi-nationals left us for China long ago. They are content to let serfs and slaves produce the goods they provide to American consumers, because they don’t want to pay the worthy laborer for his hire.
They will tell you that Americans demand cheap goods and they are simply providing what consumers demand, but I don’t see it that way. If American companies paid good wages to produce their goods in America, then Americans could easily afford and purchase goods made here.
In fact, I would say a majority of Americans would happily pay more for goods that they knew were being produced in America, with quality materials and American know-how.
Is any American happy and content that upwards of 80% of our medicines are produced in China?
In fact, if you want to purchase something made in America, you have to seek long and hard. Amazon seems reluctant to tell us where many of the products they sell originate.
Well, I’m at this point: From Anywhere But China (FABC)
But we need help to get there. Pressure MUST be put on the companies that locate and do business with China. Something needs to be organized, like rolling boycotts of certain companies. Imagine if a large number of Americans stopped shopping at American Walmarts for two-week periods.
What if we stood outside the Walmart in our town and protested with signs once a month or so? We could educate the public about the slave labor in China and how Walmart couldn’t give a rip about the slaves that make the goods we buy, or the jobs they’ve taken away from us.
What if we all stopped shopping for weeks at a time at Amazon?
I have already stopped buying all my linens from other sources. I buy exclusively from Mike Lindell’s My Pillow. He’s also got an online presence with goods Made in America by Americans.
Christmas is coming. I think it’s time to purchase a boatload of My Pillow towels and linens for my liberal family. I know they will appreciate the quality of the items. 😊
AMERICANS CAN DO!
We’ve got to be more entrepreneurial. I know that we’ve all had good ideas for a business. We might know someone who only needs a little crowd-funding to get an American business up and running. Even now, even in this tyrannical takeover.
Let’s go the extra mile. Every little thing we can do will add to the effort. Victory is in our sights.
Americans can accomplish anything.
THE COVID RELIGION
It’s falling apart. The Covid Commandments change from one day to the next, and even the most devoted adherent is experiencing cognitive dissonance.
That damned mask is understood as a sign of unholy submission to the Covid Religion. The High Priest of Covidism (Fauci) has now deemed masks effective for school children. His Priestess (Walensky) has deemed it the First Commandment to take the Holy Jab.
Big Pharma will have to swallow the medicine of mass correction. Let us endeavor to help them purge themselves of the greed and diabolical evil that infects their body.
They don’t own our hearts, our minds, or our bodies.
HOUSE RULES
We don’t owe Big Pharma a thing. But around here we owe each other civility and perhaps even the benefit of the doubt. To review the rules go here. They keep us real.
The Utree is useful for cranky moods, and for reconvening when needed. And frankly, we need it for reconvening much more than the cranks.
TIME FOR REFRESHMENT
Today’s drink special is the Moscow Mule. Ah yes, that iconic cocktail that purported to begin with a copper mug from Moscow, a man trying to sell his ginger beer, and the owner of the Cock and Bull bar in Los Angeles.
As is common with alcoholic cocktails, its history is shrouded in mystery. Read here for three theories of the Mule’s genesis. I prefer the first, which actually includes a Moscow connection.
“The Moscow Mule origin has been questioned time and time again. One theory speaks of a woman named Sophie Berezinski, a Russian-born woman attempting to immigrate to the United States in 1941. You see, Sophie was moving continents with little to no possessions to her name other than 2,000 pure copper mugs.
Sophie’s father was apparently the owner and operator of the Moscow Copper Co. in Russia. Sophie had the bright idea of copper-made mugs, and designed the original version herself. Her father saw to it that Sophie’s design was stamped out in the factory, and 2,000 copies of her mug were made.
At this time, America was seen as the land of opportunity. Selling 2,000 copper mugs in Russia was not something that Sophie or her father were capable of doing. They decided that Sophie and her husband would travel to the USA with the 2,000 mugs, and would do whatever they could to see to it they were sold.
The land of opportunity proved less than fruitful, and, after a few months of sitting on the thousands of mugs, Sophie’s husband became ready to throw in the towel. He gave Sophie the ultimatum of either finding a buyer for the mugs, or throwing them out once and for all.
Not ready to abandon her goal, Sophie set out on foot and began walking door to door through Los Angeles. She approached every bar, lounge and restaurant she could find, in hopes she could convince an establishment owner to invest in some or all of the copper mugs.
It was on this day that Sophie wandered hopefully into the Cock ‘n’ Bull; a pub in Ocean Park, close to Santa Monica and Venice Beach…”
Here’s a lovely site that is actually dedicated to the Moscow Mule, a cocktail originally made with Smirnoff vodka, ginger beer, lime juice and a copper mug.
Here’s a fun video about the Moscow Mule, and the bartender is already a bit toasty:
I had a taste of a Moscow Mule last night. Sweet, tart, refreshing. No wonder it has stood the test of time. A toast to Sophie from Moscow and her copper mugs!
ODDS AND ENDS
The Audits are all important, even though Covid sucks all the air out of the room. Denninger lays it out very succinctly here. It’s very short. A must read. Where do we go from here? Keep up with Seth Keshel and The Professor’s Record for good updates and inspiration. These warriors will never give up and neither shall we.
If you want a good laugh, do watch this Jewish fairytale, An American Pickle. It’s streaming on HBO. Just a great comedy, with plenty of social commentary. Not a fan of Seth Rogan, but he does himself proud in this film. Lost count of how many times I laughed out loud. It’s about family and honoring family.
Well, they can lock us out of The Q Tree, but they can’t stop the truth from getting out.
Enjoy a post first over on The U Tree and now HERE.
Here is a quickie in my WAR ON REMDESIVIR.
Fellow Treeper barkerjim dropped an interesting document today, from back in July, which showed the NIH mentioning black sheep IVERMECTIN on the same page as REMDESIVIR.
Such a beautiful misdirection. These guys are MAGICIANS.
This is a perfect example of my postulate that fighting FOR ivermectin will not yield results for restoring real science as fast as fighting AGAINST remdesivir.
In fact, I would go so far as to say that the enemy realized that getting us to fight FOR the saving drug would keep us from expending our energy fighting AGAINST the murdering drug that kills us off and gives them money for doing it.
You may recall my previous posts about remdesivir.
My next piece was going to be an expansion on Karl Denninger’s recent post which places remdesivir/ivermectin and remdesivir/hydroxychloroquine in the context of Anthony Fauci and the disturbingly similar case when he was “all about AIDS” – namely, AZT/bactrim.
YES. As Cthulhu has said before, “This is not Fauci’s first rodeo.”
Before there were hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin as innocent victims – good Samaritans accused falsely before the world – there was BACTRIM.
And there was FAUCI on all of them. AZT played the murderous part of remdesivir long before we forgot that “miracle drug”.
However, this new information from barkerjim’s drop right here needs to get out right away. The Q Tree site was brought down YET AGAIN as I started working on this, and again when I resumed, so I know it’s critical stuff. The ChiComs have a huge investment – both financial and military 4GW – in the American-killing drug remdesivir. They WILL protect it.
We know from doctors and scientists quoted in my first two articles, that remdesivir has a horrible track record – shocking, really – of renal toxicity. Studies of the drug against Ebola were TERMINATED because it was killing people in the hospital.
How déjà vu.
But here it comes again.
I read the same study results that the above celebratory announcement was made over. Those results were nothing to cheer about, with shot kidneys just the horrifying icing on the death cake. In my opinion, the results were far WORSE than any prior results for hydroxychloroquine. The results – to me – made HCQ look EXCELLENT in comparison.
Yes – by controlling what is acceptable science and what is not, Fauci was able to force the world to field a BAD, DANGEROUS DRUG that made money for Gilead, over a safe, mildly (but critically) effective drug, that made money only for the generics industry, and a French company.
And to top it off, Fauci USED Trump, who could do absolutely nothing about it, to take a KILLER drug into market as the ONLY way to treat his little pandemic.
So let’s take a look at that page dropped by barkerjim. I have captured it as SIX IMAGES.
As you can see by our comments on The U Tree, most people will look at this table and think they are seeing positive and reasonable behavior by NIH. Adverse events are being discussed, and it appears that things are “even-handed” between different drugs.
And that is EXACTLY the style in which EVIL ABOUNDS IN WASHINGTON, DC (or Atlanta). Good and evil are forced into compromises where GOOD LOSES and EVIL WINS – but the result is called “meeting in the middle”.
CLOSER INSPECTION of the table gives you this, under Adverse Events for remdesivir.
Nausea
ALT and AST elevations
Hypersensitivity
Increases in prothrombin time
Drug vehicle is SBECD, which has been associated with renal and liver toxicity. SBECD accumulation may occur in patients with moderate or severe renal impairment.
Each 100 mg vial of RDV lyophilized powder contains 3 g of SBECD, and each 100 mg/20 mL vial of RDV solution contains 6 g of SBECD.
Clinicians may consider preferentially using the lyophilized powder formulation (which contains less SBECD) in patients with renal impairment.
This is some of the most remarkable “medical misinformation” I’ve ever seen. It’s truly a work of art.
NIH has HIDDEN – completely hidden – the pronounced renal toxicity of remdesivir. They have hidden it COMPLETELY. It’s GONE. What you are seeing there – the talk about renal and liver toxicity – is a BLAME-SHIFT to a substance that is used WIDELY in intravenous formulations, called sulfobutylether-β-cyclodextrin, or SBECD for short.
This substance is an EXCIPIENT.
An excipient is a substance that is used to MIX with a drug, and take that drug into a form where it can be ADMINISTERED easily. Thus, an excipient may DISSOLVE the drug, or help to dissolve it, into a liquid form. It may help POWDER the drug, so that it can be pressed into tablets or filled into capsules.
Excipients are often considered “inactive ingredients”, even though – YES – they very much can change the effective amount of a drug that the patient gets.
If I had to describe SBECD as something, it would be as a DETERGENT FOR DRUGS. It’s a kind of SOAP made from a cyclodextrin, instead of from some kind of fat or lipid.
Cyclodextrins are rings of sugar molecules that falls somewhere in between being a smaller chain sugar (like sucrose) and a starch. Cyclodextrins have lots of uses, because they form tubes that act like waffle cones for other molecules. Febreze uses cyclodextrins to trap molecules which have unpleasant odors, at the same time that they release more pleasant ones. A genius application, quite frankly.
Thus, if you make a SOAP that has a little waffle cone for drugs, you can EASILY get drugs to dissolve into a concentrated liquid form by using that soap.
See those sidechains hanging off the cyclodextrin ring? Those are the “SBE” part of SBECD. They are typical of DETERGENTS.
This SBECD stuff and things like it are VERY useful for delivery of drugs. AND they’re relatively safe, too. They are rapidly excreted through the kidneys. Yeah, you don’t want a SOAP piling up in your blood if your kidneys are not working, and THAT is the fact that is being TWISTED by NIH when they say:
Drug vehicle is SBECD, which has been associated with renal and liver toxicity. SBECD accumulation may occur in patients with moderate or severe renal impairment.
Did you catch that sleight of hand? I’m gonna show it to you.
What exactly is causing the renal problems in the FIRST PLACE that you MAY have to be careful about, so that you don’t build up the excipient FOR IT, which MAY constitute a FURTHER risk?
REMDESIVIR.
It’s a crafty little lie. If you have good kidneys, you don’t have anything to worry about with this SBECD crap. But if you have bad kidneys, the LEAST of your problems is SBECD buildup. It’s the remdesivir IN the SBECD that’s gonna kill you.
Weakened kidneys do NOT need to be hit with remdesivir.
Which doesn’t even work ANYWAY. Except to keep people LONGER in the hospital.
Now what you SHOULD be getting, when they administer remdesivir, at the point where the VIRUS is basically gone, and you’re dealing with spike protein damage, cytokine storm, and all that nasty crap, are antiinflammatory, antithrombotic, and immunomodulatory drugs. Even HCQ (a known antirheumatic) at reasonable doses had some antiinflammatory effect in late-stage hospitalized COVID cases, although steroids and other things work better.
When the virus is basically gone, and a bunch of its CRAP is left behind, there is no point administering a toxic antiviral like remdesivir, other than to send money to Gilead Pharmaceuticals and their Deep State friends.
Now, let me stop here and validate this stuff.
HERE is a link that explains how SBECD can be filtered out of blood ANYWAY if a patient has renal impairment.
Do you see what that means? SBECD is a nothingburger. It’s a DEFLECTION.
The renal problems of remdesivir are never mentioned, by quickly bringing up the risks of the excipient due to the unmentioned damage BY remdesivir.
What NIH did here was to quickly point their finger at THE OTHER GUY and said “HE DID IT!”
This is pure politicized science, where the politics is to defend the drugs and vaccines that enable the shared profits of both the Deep State and the companies that NIH, CDC, and NIAID are in bed with.
Let’s go back to that link I just gave you. THIS part of the conclusions comports very nicely with the reality of SBECD as a widely used excipient.
The finding that SBECD can be effectively removed by CVVH is clinically important, because some cyclodextrins have been associated with hepatotoxicity or nephrotoxicity due to vacuolation [3]. Although our study was small, no evidence to suggest SBECD as a cause of hepatotoxicity or nephrotoxicity was demonstrated in our study patients. This finding is consistent with other SBECD safety studies in humans [3,18]. Additionally, animal studies have only been able to demonstrate cyclodextrin toxicities when dosages more than 50-fold greater (3,000 mg/kg) than those used in humans were administered [3,19,20]. Unlike other cyclodextrins used in these animal studies, SBECD undergoes only minimal tubular reabsorption and limits concentrations within the intracellular tissues of the kidney, potentially reducing the risk of nephrotoxicity. Nevertheless, the FDA labeling for voriconazole recommends that IV therapy be avoided, if possible, in patients with a CrCl <50 ml/min [5]. Our data suggest that IV voriconazole can be safely administered in this population if the patient is concurrently undergoing CVVH.
Delafloxacin, a fluoroquinolone, has activity against Gram-positive organisms including methicillin-resistant S aureus and fluoroquinolone-susceptible and -resistant Gram-negative organisms. The intravenous formulation of delafloxacin contains the excipient sulfobutylether-β-cyclodextrin (SBECD), which is eliminated by renal filtration. This study examined the pharmacokinetics and safety of SBECD after single intravenous (IV) infusions in subjects with renal impairment. The study was an open-label, parallel-group, crossover study in subjects with normal renal function or mild, moderate, or severe renal impairment, and those with end-stage renal disease undergoing hemodialysis. Subjects received 300 mg delafloxacin IV or placebo IV, containing 2400 mg SBECD, in 2 periods separated by ≥14-day washouts. SBECD total clearance decreased with decreasing renal function, with a corresponding increase in area under the concentration-time curve (AUC0-∞ ). After IV delafloxacin 300 mg administration, SBECD mean total clearance was 6.28 and 1.24 L/h, mean AUC0-∞ was 387 and 2130 h·μg/mL, and mean renal clearance was 5.36 and 1.14 L/h in normal and severe renal subjects, respectively. Similar values were obtained after IV placebo administration. In subjects with end-stage renal disease, delafloxacin 300 mg IV produced mean SBECD AUC0-48 values of 2715 and 7861 h·μg/mL when dosed before and after hemodialysis, respectively. Total SBECD clearance exhibited linear relationships to estimated glomerular filtration rate and creatinine clearance. Single doses of IV delafloxacin 300 mg and IV placebo were well tolerated in all groups. In conclusion, decreasing renal function causes reduced SBECD clearance and increased exposures, but SBECD continues to exhibit a good safety and tolerability profile in IV formulations.
“In conclusion, decreasing renal function causes reduced SBECD clearance and increased exposures, but SBECD continues to exhibit a good safety and tolerability profile in IV formulations.“
Now, the above is not the only “New York Times” style trick that NIH plays here.
Let me list, without going into long-winded explanations, my additional favorites.
The table authors note that clinical drug-drug interaction studies have not been done, but nonetheless, they say “CQ or HCQ may decrease the antiviral activity of RDV; coadministration of these drugs is not recommended.1” – with a hanging reference.
For three OTHER potential drug interactions, communications from Gilead are cited as sufficiently exonerating. One is a non-competing generic steroid (dexamethasone) and the other two are patented big pharma antivirals from corporate “frenemy” Genentech. The interaction and “C-level mind-melding” between these two companies is very interesting. Look who just went from one to the other. Interesting times.
Some crafty shade is thrown at ivermectin by citing a possible adverse event risk and then retracting it, lawyer-style: “Neurological AEs have been reported when IVM has been used to treat parasitic diseases, but it is not clear whether these AEs were caused by IVM or the underlying conditions.” Meanwhile, the DEMONSTRATED risks of remdesivir are not even mentioned.
Bottom line – NIH is protecting Gilead on the toxicity of remdesivir, and they used FAKE NEWS tricks to do it. I keep telling people – science journalism is bad, and science governance is WORSE. It’s been CHINATIZED and OBAMATIZED.
