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Ongoing Coup

What’s next? So much damage has been inflicted to date. It’s perfect timing to launch a nuke, so to speak. An enemy of war doesn’t let up while they think they’re winning. Instead, they double-down with crushing blows to ensure a win.

We are living through a pivotal time in American history. A Takeover attempt.

It has become crystal clear. We are right in the middle of a coordinated Takeover for power. And we have been for many years. What’s different now? “They” are “all in”. Right now. 2020.

If we lose to those who are attempting this Takeover, America will be lost forever. It will transform into something very different from what you perceive today, or have perceived in the past. At least that’s my opinion.

They were sure that the deal would be sealed NOV-2016. After 8 years of Obama sewing the seeds, watering and fertilizing… and decades of multi-pronged indoctrination, the HildaBeast would have completely enabled an extreme-left ChicomMarxiGlobalistTakeover – forever changing our nation.

Instead, they were stunned. A rag tag bunch of Deplorables came out in numbers to vote for a charismatic orange man who seemed to stand for American independence. From that day forward, a daily thrashing ensued. Attacks from all their guns. Amazingly, the orange man fought back. A highly unexpected move from the CMG’s.

Every day since, we have witnessed an unbelievably relentless onslaught. Everything they tried has failed. However the orange man has been bloodied and bruised. They smell blood in the water. They have pulled all the stops, so to speak. They’re all in. Right now. 2020. Must. Crush. Orange Man (and anyone not in lock step with the CMG’s.

I have never lived through such troubled times. I’ve never seen such coordinated effort to take out the political opposition. I feel it in my bones. This is big.

So I finally get to the question of the day. Is a mass casualty false flag event coming next?

Why do I ask that question? Because they are all in for maximum disruption. Chaos. Just look what has happened so far this year, which is barely half over.

The economy is in ruins (the real effects soon to be felt).
More people out of work than the Great Depression.
Opportunistic multi-month lock-downs of the American people have successfully destroyed the middle class, their businesses, and have taken away their bread-and-circuses.
The biggest wealth transfer in human history from the middle class to the extremely wealthy.
An opportunistic and pre-planned coordinated multi-frontal attack on the Police and lawn-and-order.
The highly energized attempts to incite a race war (ongoing).
A stunningly coordinated mainstream media inflaming every and all battles against the orange man and his supporters, at any and all costs.
50% (or more) of the population apparently ready and willing to fall in line with the CMG’s and the “new life” that awaits them in Utopia.
50% (or less) of the population increasingly agitated and upset about what has been happening, many of whom are beginning to see what’s going on behind the curta

I worry about what they’ve planned next. Do you?

Prayer for Saturday, June 13, 2020

Ephesians 6:14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place

Ephesians 6:14, shows that standing, that is, maintaining our ground, not yielding or fleeing, is the grand aim of the Christian soldier. Translate as Greek, “Having girt about your loins with truth,” that is, with truthfulness, sincerity, a good conscience

Prayer for Saturday, May 23.2020

Isaiah 26:5-6

26:5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.
Isa 26:6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

The weakest foot may trample on the proudest foe, when God has laid him in the dust. God levels the path of the just. However difficult your path, dare to believe that you are being directed in righteousness God cannot make mistakes.

We are in a silent/irregular war against an invisible enemy

How far does the government have to push before you’re jolted awake from your slumber?

Irregular warfare is far more varied than conventional conflict: hence the importance of an intellectual framework that is coherent enough to provide guidance, and flexible enough to adapt to circumstances.

American counterinsurgency practice rests on a number of assumptions:

-that the decisive effort is rarely military (although security is the essential prerequisite for success);

-that our efforts must be directed to the creation of local and national governmental structures that will serve their populations, and, over time, replace the efforts of foreign partners; that superior knowledge, and in particular, understanding of the ‘human terrain’ is essential;

-and that we must have the patience to persevere in what will necessarily prove long struggles.

Insurgency, however, can and will flourish in the modern environment.

The strains created by globalization, by the collapse of weak state structures, by demographic, environmental, and economic pressures, by the ease of cooperation among insurgent groups and criminals, and by the appearance of destructive radical ideologies, all augur a period in which free and moderate governance is at risk.

Insurgency is the organized use of subversion and violence to seize, nullify or challenge political control of a region.

As such, it is primarily a political struggle, in which both sides use armed force to create space for their political, economic and influence activities to be effective.

Insurgency is not always conducted by a single group with a centralized, military-style command structure, but may involve a complex matrix of different actors with various aims, loosely connected in dynamic and non-hierarchical networks.

To be successful, insurgencies require charismatic leadership, supporters, recruits, supplies, safe havens and funding (often from illicit activities).

They only need the active support of a few enabling individuals, but the passive acquiescence of a large proportion of the contested population will give a higher probability of success.

This is best achieved when the political cause of the insurgency has strong appeal, manipulating religious, tribal or local identity to exploit common societal grievances or needs.

Insurgents seek to gain control of populations through a combination of persuasion, subversion and coercion while using guerrilla tactics to offset the strengths of government security forces.

Their intent is usually to protract the struggle, exhaust the government and win sufficient popular support to force capitulation or political accommodation.

Consequently, insurgencies evolve through a series of stages, though the progression and outcome will be different in almost every case.

Reread the above “bolded” portion and think back over the past few months. A small number of well-placed experts have manipulated events in such a way as to completely disrupt normal life while convincing the majority of the population to voluntarily relinquish their livelihoods, social lives, family contacts… all in the name of safety and the “common good”.

You’ve somehow managed to convince yourselves that the people whose lives are affected by a virus are MUCH more important than the people whose lives are being destroyed (and in many cases, leading to death) by the effects of a worldwide economic shutdown and impending worldwide depression the likes of which no one has ever seen before.

At what point will you start QUESTIONING what’s going on? How far does the government have to push before you’re jolted awake from your slumber? How far are you willing to go with this?

Freedom vs Liberty

the same liberal cult that wants to make us un-free also tries to take away personal responsibility, replacing it with government force.

The sad truth is what fuels the anti-liberty agenda of the liberal cult: masses of fools simply won’t know what they’ve got ’til it’s gone.

And it’s a really big deal when somebody takes yours away. But if you inherited it, and never were without it, you don’t really appreciate it, and just think it’ll always be there.

Social is good doers and busybodies want to have power over that which is not their property. They are the ones who infringe on others freedom via property right violations. They say; “it becomes my business if you actions infringe on my freedom. You may think you have an unbridled freedom to do whatever you want, whenever, but you will have to accept the responsibility for what may follow from your selfishness. We have to reach an accommodation, an agreement. That’s called compromise, and is what community and being a good neighbor is all about.”

My response is; ” I don’t compromise my liberty. If it is not your property, it is not your business.”

The doo-gooder response will be along the line of; “So you can defecate upstream in the water I have to drink? I don’t think so.”

It happens everyday.

Such thinking as yours pushes responsibility from you for you to others.

For instance, I once went backpacking along pristine Lake Superior. Others who got the mandatory lecture from the park ranger were appalled the ranger recommended filtering your water. In defense the park ranger put the burden on the drinker saying, you don’t know if a beaver just peed in the water around the bend or a dead moose is decaying in the water just out of sight.

If you own the water as it flows along your property, it is YOUR responsibility to make sure it’s purity meets your high standards.

Liberty is bounded by attendant responsibility; freedom is not.

Consider, for example, that the word “freedom” is rarely used in our organic charters, and in the published arguments for and against their ratification. Instead, when natural rights are concerned, the word “liberty” is used, to denote a latitude tempered by the responsibility not to violate the equal rights of others.

The quintessential example of the word freedom in our organic charters comes, of course, from the First Amendment guarantee that “Congress shall make no law… abridging freedom of speech, or of the press…” That admonition secured a pair of civil liberties against prior restraint. It does not refer to the right of speech or of the press, which are bounded by the equal rights of others, but rather secures the boundless freedom against government intervention before the fact.

That is to say, freedom of speech is the entirely limitless latitude to say anything at all without restriction beforehand. The right of speech, a facet of liberty, is the latitude to say that which does not necessarily violate the equal rights of others.

So imagine I say something defamatory about you that destroyed your reputation and ruined your livelihood. When you sue me in a court of competent jurisdiction and win a judgement against me, that court is providing remedy because I trespassed beyond the natural definition of liberty because my latitude of speech violated your rights. But that court had to allow me to make the defamatory statement before it could act. If it punished me before I uttered the defamatory words, it would have violated my freedom of speech, because freedom is unbounded and absolute.

My freedom to swing my arm has no limit, but my right to swing my arm usually ends at your nose… unless you are presently violating my right to my life, liberty, or property, at which point I have every right to punch you and more.

Freedom is liberty’s amoral cousin.

Freedom and responsibility go hand in hand. This is why the same liberal cult that wants to make us un-free also tries to take away personal responsibility, replacing it with government force. Patriots do the opposite of that. And this is a fundamental difference between the two camps.

Liberty requires taking responsibility for one’s personal well being and one’s own actions.

Liberty is like money and sex: it only seems like a big deal when you aren’t getting any of it.

Revelation 6:12-14?

The Hawthorne area had been mined since the 1850’s, and the studied geology, high level of earthquake activity, & prolific geothermal eruptions in region should have been enough to indicate it would be a bad choice to store millions of pounds of explosives on top of it.

¹²And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;

¹³And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

¹⁴And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

A magnitude-6.5 earthquake rattled western Nevada just before sunrise May 15, 2020 waking up people at 4:03 a.m. local time, well before their morning alarms went off, according to news reports.

This is the strongest earthquake to shake Nevada in 65 years. As of 5 a.m. local time, six magnitude-4 or higher aftershocks had already rocked the region, including a magnitude-5.1 aftershock just 23 minutes later, at 4:26 a.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

The earthquake struck 34.7 miles (56 kilometers) west of Tonopah, Nevada, near the California-Nevada border, about 120 miles (193 km) southeast of Carson City. Shaking was felt as far away as Sacramento and Reno. People also reported feeling shaking in Las Vegas, about 200 miles (330 km) southeast of the quake’s epicenter. So far, there aren’t any reports of injuries.

The earthquake originated 1.7 miles (2.8 km) underground, in the shallow crust of the North American plate. The USGS has classified it as a strike slip fault, which happens at vertical fractures when the rocky plates that make up Earth’s surface move horizontally. To visualize this movement, place two fists together and move one backward, or watch this 1-second USGS video.

The earthquake happened within Walker Lane, an active seismic zone located along part of the California-Nevada border. The Walker Lane zone is a hotspot; it contains up to 25% of the motion where the North America and Pacific Plate interact, USGS said. The remainder of that motion largely happens in the San Andreas fault system.

Over the past 50 years, about two dozen magnitude-5 or higher earthquakes have hit within 62 miles (100 km) of today’s spot, largely to the west and south, USGS reported. In roughly the same region, for instance, a magnitude-6.8 earthquake struck in December 1932 and a magnitude-6.5 quake hit in January 1934.

I have a contact that lives in the vicinity who made the following email report;

“Yeah, I was sitting at my computer facing due East, and I felt it coming at me from out of the Southeast. The hanging lights confirmed that with the direction of their swing. It had the rolling “feel” of a shallow quake with some pretty good force pushing it.

My best first guess for origin was the Hawthorne, NV area, and at a force over 6.0, since Hawthorne is about 130 to the Southeast, the felt force & the distance would just about be right for the way it felt passing thru here.

Hawthorne always concerns me, since it is built right over one of the thinnest surface crust areas in North America, and is also one of the largest repositories for ordinance & high explosives in the U.S. The Hawthorne AAD* is 226 sq miles of explosive bunkers, of which about 200 Sq Mi are in actual use the last time I read the published stats. The actual bunker count is numbered at 2,427, and they claim status as “The Worlds Largest” ordinance depot. They did supply the majority of the ordinance used to fight WWII, so there is that.

The origin of Hawthorne AAD might be seen as beginning with the Black Tom Depot explosion in New Jersey in 1916. Then the Morgan Munitions Depot explosion in 1918, also in New Jersey. There was a popular belief that German sabotage might have been the cause. The Germans did have motive, means, & opportunity, but when an explosive depot cooks off, there isn’t much left in the way of forensic evidence, and no case was ever made to a positive conclusion. Then in 1926 The Lake Denmark Naval Ammunition Depot blew up, also in New Jersey. These were all massive explosions that killed or injured people at great distance.

Congress got involved, and passed a pretty open ended mandate, that a Depot be commissioned in the West, and no farther that 1,000 miles from the coast, which would put in play the entire State of Nevada, and about half of Utah to boot.

I’d guess the final location decision in 1930 was made on a Friday afternoon, by a mid level D.C. bureaucrat, who just stuck a pin in a map & called it good. Watching the news these days, I really don’t think things have changed that much.

*Hawthorne Army Depot (HWAD) is a U.S. Army ammunition storage depot located near the town of Hawthorne in western Nevada in the United States. It is directly south of Walker Lake. The depot covers 147,000 acres (59,000 ha) or 226 sq. mi. and has 600,000 square feet (56,000 m²) storage space in 2,427 bunkers. HWAD is the “World’s Largest Depot” and is divided into three ammunition storage and production areas, plus an industrial area housing command headquarters, facilities engineering shops, etc.

Maybe it’s the beginning of the promised apocalypse?

What we have learned – Part 2

I have learned that we have far more sheep than I had originally thought. The sheer amount of people posting on Fakebook that support our government and their actions, and many of them think they haven’t done enough, and are begging for more.

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.” Edgar Allan Poe

10 lessons:

1. The numbers are wrong

2. Don’t trust the government

3. It’s all about money

4. Don’t trust the government

5. Much to do about nothing

6. Government idiots abound

7. Don’t trust the government

8. We have a country full of mice, not men

9. Have a good stock of books

and finally…..

10. Don’t trust the government

I have learned that my government is far worse than I imagined. I used to believe, “They would never do that, they may posture about doing it, political chest thumping, but when push comes to shove, they really wouldn’t.”

Now I know, “Yes, they would!”

Many (most?) people want to be governed. The prospect of objectively looking at those who govern us and concluding “they’re full of shit”, and that we should decide for ourselves what to do is absolutely terrifying to many people.

The people I thought were self-sufficient and self-reliant have proven themselves. That’s refreshing. Some people I had thought were intelligent and rational have proven they aren’t that way when something like this happens. And by “like this” I don’t mean the pandemic but the government overreach.

It has taught me that the mentally ill, drug addicts, alcoholics, etc. are going to be even more dangerous in a post-SHTF world than they are in a normal world. Crime has slowed down with everyone staying home, except for the aforementioned groups (and those who like to hit their spouses). While police are going to less calls and dealing with less “routine” stuff, what they are seeing is more dangerous and more unpredictable.

I think it has also taught me that the older people who are the most at risk tend not to give a shit about pandemics, while many of the younger people who have very little risk are freaking out.

Not sure if it’s age, perspective, wisdom, or what. I see people in the 65+ age group out and about regularly with no Personal Protective Equipment, but most of the 18-30 crowd look like they are going to perform some kind of medical procedure just to gas up their cars.

I never honestly imaged an armed insurgency against our government. Now, I can see it is only a breath away. A few more rights ignored/denied and I can honestly say I see bullets starting to fly. I have also learned that there would be a substantial number of Americans firing those bullets. And those not initially firing themselves, would probably be wishing them well as they fly by.

I don’t think our government has realized the Can Of Whoop-Ass they have potentially unleashed with their recent ill-conceived decrees and incompetence.

Once the Whoop-Ass has escaped the can, there is no police force in America that could do a damn thing to stop it. The military could, but I honestly think most of them would be on the Whoop side rather than the Ass side.

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We hold these truths

The denizens of the Deep State, (and I would sadly include many of the Executive Branch, including Atty General Barr), have, most certainly, become destructive of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

For those who have continued to believe that sooner or later there would be justice done and the swamp drained… guess again peons.

The US attorney general said Monday he did not expect to investigate either former president Barack Obama or former vice president Joe Biden over the 2016 Russia election meddling case, despite President Donald Trump’s call for a probe.

“We cannot allow his process to be hijacked by efforts to drum up criminal investigations of either candidate.”

This, after saying; “original investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election was a “grave injustice” to the president and based on “utterly baseless” suspicions.”

For those who slept through, (or never had), Civics class;”We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.”

The denizens of the Deeps State, (and, sadly, I would include many of the current Executive Branch, including Atty General Barr), have, most certainly become destructive of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They have perpetuated a two-tier system of jurisprudence, one for the elite, ruling class and another, inferior one for the peasants. The republic, as envisioned and produced by our Founding Fathers is, without further doubt or discussion, one of the walking dead.
It is time to either accept our fate as chattel of the state or withdraw consent and institute new government as is described in the Declaration of Independence.

What have we learned?

I was/am amazed at how easily the masses can be controlled. I had no idea it would be that easy.

Well, if nothing else, I have learned a few things during the last few months that Covid-19 has been “all the rage”.

At the start of this thing, I figured there would be some things to be learned from it all. Here’s my preliminary list:

Having pandemic supplies will not do a thing unless you and your whole family stay home alone and nobody comes to visit. I realized, that’s just not me, even though I’m a bit of a hermit.

It’s also not realistic for the majority of people to do this long term. Sorry, but if something really nasty comes along, I will probably die because even if I stayed home, wife won’t. Besides, I’m not staying at home forever out of fear. That’s a life I’m not willing to live.

Getting truthful information is nearly impossible, even without a comm shutdown! I doubt HAM radio operators got any better information than I did on the idiot box or internet.

Trying to sort thru all of it was a mind trick. Now, I’m just angry because I don’t believe the media, I don’t believe the politicians of either party, I don’t believe the medical experts… I flat-out don’t believe anybody! At this point, I’m just thinking……..BRING IT ON!

I was pretty stocked up on food and still am, but I do get bored cooking and planning every single meal.

I also didn’t realize how important fresh veggies were to my mental health. Canned and frozen veggies get monotonous really quickly. I don’t think I’ll ever underestimate fresh celery, lettuce, spinach, tomatoes and mushrooms again.

Also, even though we have lots of freezer space and when your spouse still gets carry-out fast food, when you cook every meal at home,even for just yourself, that food disappears rather quickly.

Watching YouTube videos and reading books on how to cut hair doesn’t hold a candle to actually cutting hair.

I learned I need to get my dog grooming supplies cleaned up and that cutting hair will have to be a learned skill. Combs! I need to get some combs!

I learned which of my family and friends are or aren’t fearful of these sorts of things. The majority of our friends and family are not fearful.

Are they (and I) stupid, stubborn, fed up, all of the above?? Who knows? Only time will tell. But any fear I may have had has morphed straight into anger because at this point, I think this is all a big farce and and experiment in social engineering.

I was/am amazed at how easily the masses can be controlled. I had no idea it would be that easy.

However, after this thing blows over, I don’t think it will be so easy in the future. At least, that is my hope!

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Prayer for Saturday, May 16, 2020

Put on the full armor of God

Ephesians 6:10-18

10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15 and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. 18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.