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I have to put up a brief post about CJ Hopkins' latest, a piece he titles "The Year of the Gaslighter."  In it he points out that all the fuss about the revelatory "Twitter files," you know, all the stuff about how much the FBI has had its hands in censoring people on Twitter -- all that fuss is really just a limited hangout , and an audacious one at that. A limited hangout is when authorities of some stripe tell you they've uncovered something really nasty for you to get all riled up about and to just feel assured that they're on the job of getting to the bottom of this or that nefarious activity and they go out of their way to show you all the things they want you to see, stuff you thought they wouldn't show you but they actually do because as the real good guys they are they are on your side  and want to get at what the bad guys are doing too and they'll really get going doing something about it... ...While at the same time keeping you from se...

I have to add a bit related to my post from just yesterday about the great and grand thing freedom of speech . I blogged about it to introduce my most recent home page piece , and some of it was about the most prominent social media platform Twitter.  After I made that post Elon Musk finally started releasing internal memos about what the US government was doing to censor damning information about a candidate for US president, namely Joe Biden, to give him a pronounced advantage in winning that election. It related to the clear and obvious corruption of the Biden family while he was a top executive official, information that would have severely compromised his chances to win the presidency. This breaking news has been met with complete silence by the mainstream news media outlets, all of them have gone dark on it since the release. More information will be forthcoming. Their silence is speech . If legitimate journalistic enterprises are committed to speaking about truthful things ...

There seems to be a lot of talk these days about this thing  freedom of speech. I know lots of Americanists have been obsessed with this thing for quite some time, but the bleating about it these days seems to be much louder, especially since huge celebrity commercial emperor Elon Musk has supposedly liberated the largest social media platform around. He's fired all the people who spent their workday seeing who's posting objectionable things and checking to see if those things are influencing too many people. If so, ::click:: you're outta there. No freedom of speech for YOU. I don't know about you, but it seems to me you don't really need government to say whether or not you are allowed to say something. The disciples said a ton of stuff about Jesus all the time, and they were put in prison for those things all the time, but they could still say stuff about Him . Roman emperors sent early Christians into the ferocious wildlife arena at dinnertime, and it seems to me...

There's a show on the NBC network called American Greed . Every episode showcases some crook who'd spent years hoodwinking a whole bunch of people, separating them from gobs of their money in sometimes very insidiously imaginative ways. The show's appeal also comes with the inevitable instances when they do something tremendously stupid leading to their prosecution in some form or another. It is certainly greed that is involved, but a far worse crime is the deeper motivating force: pride. This is the idea that virtue-signaling out of one's rear end is too intoxicating never mind what kinds of immoralities must be in the mix to do that. Recently the head of a crypto exchange was exposed as his multi-billion dollar money laundering operation went belly-up. Funny, at about exactly the same time this was unravelling another whiz kid showcased everywhere a few years ago as the next Somebody-Previously-Super-Famous was sentenced to quite a lengthy prison term for her widely b...

These days I'm seeing a lot of posts and writings about how the Christian is supposed to behave around this time, when "THE-MOST-IMPORTANT-ELECTION-OF-ALL-TIME" is imminent. Some of them have a few decent things for anyone to consider, most however are all about how devout the Catholicist  should be in contributing to Cain's Legacy -- however pointless it truly is in the eternal. In my devotional this morning I decided to read a chapter posted for me from my web devotional site, a passage that may seem to indicate we're supposed to dutifully vote in civil elections and pay excessive tribute to appease potentates and all the rest of it. It was the second chapter of Timothy's first letter . Please read it yourself. You'll see it says nothing about what many dedicated Romanists think it does, what they take from it to screech at us that we are supposed to do everything the reigning potentate says to do. Are we supposed to respect those potentates -- who indee...

I've been seeing a number of videos from the UK showing climate alarmists in bright construction safety vests lined up sitting on a street blocking traffic. The idea surely is you should not be driving your vehicle because it uses fossil fuels so they're there to forcefully make the statement. The worst of those videos feature people pleading with the police officers nearby to remove them and those officers do nothing. Another shows an officer letting the protestors know if they need anything like a cup of water to just let them know. Amazing. I'm just not sure any of these people realize that someone's life might be on the line, for instance someone needing to get to the hospital but can't because of the traffic caused by these people. Some videos, however, feature individuals taking things into their own hands, getting out of their vehicles, and trying to physically drag these people off the street. It is comical because after being dragged away, the protestor jus...

Last night I could not sleep, so for a bit I got up and did some web searching, but I was up during the time that Saturday Night Live was on the television, at least at the time it had been on in the past. Sure enough I'd noticed it was on at that time, from 11:30 to 1:00. I had not seen any part of an SNL show for many years, yet over those years I'd heard some things about it particularly related to its more controversial skits. So last night I thought I'd take a peek, just to see what it was like now. When I switched to the right channel a gal who I thought I heard called "Willow" did some singing. The song was the typical edgy one SNL has always been known to present from their musical guests, but the second one she sang a bit later in the show was just a stream of incomprehensible yelling and screeching into the microphone. What I found interesting is after each song she smiled and bowed to the audience, almost as if to virtue-signal "Look at me, just so...

All kinds of 9/11 remembrances are being pronounced everywhere today, as they always are on September 11ths. Today it seems I'm seeing quite a few more "Never Forget"s everywhere, might be just because I'm noticing them more. And they are everywhere , on just about every web page, on my Twitter feed everyone is posting pics of the twin towers with those words -- I'm even seeing them outside of churches, and they're likely inside when they mention it in their services. I think about that. "Never Forget." Why? I mean, thinking about what happened and praying for the families and working hard for very good things for everyone all around is a very good thing, but I wonder. Does "Never Forget"ing mean actually looking closely at what actually happened on that day, and why? One of the things the operatives who arranged it did was catastrophize the imagination . It is one of the weapons in the arsenal of human sacrifice activity -- keeping the pop...

Remember that story about the scorpion that needed a lift to get across the stream? The frog was so nice to comply, under one condition, that the scorpion did not sting the frog along the way. The scorpion agreed, only to lethally sting the frog halfway across. As both start to sink to their deaths, the bewildered frog asked the scorpion, "Why did you do that? Now we both will die." To which the Scorpion replied, "It is what I do." The agents of Cain are scorpions. They must commit human sacrifice as a matter of habitual practice. They do it all the time. They must -- it is what they do . You can see how it works by simply reading one brief passage in Scripture, the fourth chapter of Genesis. Here's how that story goes: Cain sacrifices a human being, his own brother even, and because it was such an evil act God sends him out of His presence forever. God does, however, commission him to run the city holding seven-fold strength prosecutorial capacity -- yes, Cain ...

From what I hear, tonight US President Joe Biden is supposed to give some major speech, something about bringing back the soul of the country or something. His people have so effed up the country, here's to hoping it is about healing and reconciliation. To that end here's what I'm expecting him to say, after all the introductory pleasantries: "I am completely rescinding all the massive federal payouts that really amount to robust racketeering activity. All the insane corporate welfare payments, all the 'inflation reduction' climate change hysteria giveaways, and especially anything related to things like student debt relief which is so brazenly unfair. (And I won't let the horribly exploitive universities off the hook either, they're just as much rackets as any of them.) I apologize for thinking just dumping money in people's laps would fix things. I just encourage people to work hard and try to do as well as you can, and for the states to do their ...