-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
https://endtimes.video/bible-predict-no-pope/
https://endtimes.video/media/bible-p...mhfm-video.jpg
21:58 video runtime
https://endtimes.video/bible-predict-no-pope/
Did The Bible Predict 70 Years Without A Pope?
July 24, 2022
vaticancatholic.com - English Channel
Bible & Apologetics | Faith & Doctrine | Featured Videos | Prophecy & The Apocalypse | Spirituality & Prayer | Vatican II Church Is Not Catholic | Where Is The Catholic Church?
This is one of the most important videos we have ever published. We hope that people watch it and share it.
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
This sounds like a wonderful opportunity for young people. The whole atmosphere at most secular secondary education facilities is just horrible. The tuition includes housing. What a concept!
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/p...ion-15k-a-year
washingtonexaminer.com
Catholic college aims to provide degree and trade certificate for $15K per year
Jeremiah Poff
LISTEN to audio of this article - press arrow HERE
A novel Catholic trade college is on track to open in Ohio next year, aiming to teach students a skilled profession while earning a bachelor's degree and deepening their faith.
Once students graduate from the Catholic College of St. Joseph the Worker, they will have earned a bachelor's degree in Catholic studies while becoming carpenters, electricians, masons, or heating, ventilating, and air conditioning technicians.
EDUCATION CULTURE WARS COME FOR 'WOKE' CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
"We're forming these students so that the head, the heart, and the hands are all combined and working together," said Mike Sullivan, the college's first president.
In an effort to unburden students from debt, the cost of tuition for the three-year, in-person program in Steubenville is $15,000 a year, including housing. Students are paid a salary when they train, so they can graduate with the financial freedom to start their families and be productive members of their faith communities.
"A fundamental aspect of our mission is to empower students to grow up quickly and not perpetuate adolescence throughout college," Sullivan added. "We want them to grow up and take responsibility for themselves and for their lives so that when they're finished with their degree, they can get married and get started with a family and be productive members of society."
Keeping tuition low and affordable was a key part of the vision of the college in an era in which the average student loan borrower holds over $32,000 in student loan debt and U.S. borrowers hold a collective $1.7 trillion in student loans.
"It is profoundly hypocritical for a college Catholic college to promote family life and tell students the family is the basis of culture, that it is the path to restoration, and then set them on a financial path that tends them away from that beautiful truth that they teach," Jacob Fareed Imam, the college's vice president of finance, told the Washington Examiner.
The college was founded by a group of Catholic men led by Imam, an Oxford University doctoral candidate; Sullivan, a local entrepreneur and contractor; and Alex Renn, the college's vice president of operations. They say their goal is to "produce faithful Christians who are virtuous citizens, intellectually formed, and capable of building up the church in their communities."
They want the college to help address the worker shortage for skilled trades while instilling honor and virtue in professions such as carpentry that date back to Jesus Christ himself. Catholic tradition teaches that St. Joseph, the foster father of Jesus and the college's namesake, was a carpenter who passed his trade on to his foster son.
Imam told the Washington Examiner that the idea for the college came from a conversation he had with a friend who worked in the admissions office of a Catholic college. The friend, Imam said, was feeling guilty about his role in assisting prospective students with obtaining loans, knowing they would be saddled with debt for the next several decades and thus inhibiting their future career and family prospects.
College of St. Joseph -7.jpg
A carpenter at the workshop of the College of St. Joseph the Worker in Steubenville, Ohio.
Credit: College of St. Joseph the Worker
With that in mind, 2 1/2 years ago, Imam sought out Sullivan, a Steubenville local who owns a contracting company specializing in cabinetry and home renovation. Sullivan says he always wondered "why we don't have a good solid Catholic trade school."
"It's difficult to get skilled tradesmen with a solid character, and the character formation is sometimes really lacking in many cases," he told the Washington Examiner. "I've always sort of seen a vacuum there that could be filled very easily with a school model like this."
20220520_094727.jpg
The workshop where students will learn various trades at the College of St. Joseph the Worker in Steubenville, Ohio.
Credit: College of St. Joseph the Worker
The college plans to welcome its first students in the fall of 2023 and is already accepting applications. Once accepted, students will attend the college in person for three years.
The college has three possible tracks that incrementally build on each other.
In the first track, a student begins with a "gap year" or year of "discernment," in which they will be empowered to sample the various trades to find out if such a career is right for them. Those who chose discernment can either leave the school with a "craftsmanship certificate" or continue through the college's three-year bachelor's program, which is the second track.
The third and final track transitions students who have completed the bachelor's program at the college's campus in Steubenville to an apprenticeship with a skilled tradesman anywhere in the country while still taking a handful of online classes through the college.
The combined bachelor's and apprentice track takes a total of six years.
The founders of the college see the bachelor's degree as a key way of convincing skeptics to take a look at their programs, even as cultural attitudes on education encourage high school students to only consider college as their next educational step.
"So you've got a student who wants to pursue the trades, but maybe his parents want him to pursue a BA ... and then the other side of that is the BA is going to be a solid foundation for the way they live their life and set [the student] up so they're really conversant with family life, economics, politics, and the Catholic theological tradition and philosophy," Sullivan said.
The college charges $15,000 per year for in-person classes, which includes housing. The additional apprenticeship years cost $5,000 each for a six-year total cost of $60,000. In the meantime, students are earning a salary for their work.
"What you find when somebody is in debt is that they are not free," Imam said. "You just don't have the funds to be able to start what you have dreamed of starting. You don't even have the freedom to dream of starting something in the same way. We just find that to be critically un-American, let alone critically un-Catholic."
While the low cost of attending the College of St. Joseph the Worker and the accompanying "paid to train" factor was an important part of Imam's vision for the school, it was also about, as he says, destroying the "stigma" around the trades, which he says is a reflection of the Christian ethic.
"[Jesus Christ] is the first time that you find in a major religion someone giving the dignity to manual labor," Imam said. "His path really did transform our view of manual labor, and I think as the society has grown less Christian, we've forgotten that truth."
The traditional trades and other skilled jobs have encountered an ever-growing labor shortage. One estimate from the National Electrical Contractors Association showed that for every 7,000 new electricians entering the workforce, 10,000 retired. Imam credits this somewhat to globalization, but he said the need for skilled tradesmen has never been more acute.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
"I think many people are just starting to return to the trades, in part because it's the one thing that is absolutely local that cannot be exported," Imam said. "You can export so much production, but you have to build the home here, [and] you have to erect the building here. You can't do that anywhere else. It needs to be done here."
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
https://rumble.com/v1d9ckz-banks-ref...e-43864381a673
embedded video
Financial Consultant Catherine Austin Fitts shares how banks are refusing to give customers their own cash without having several "Know Your Customer Interviews" with their bank officials.
WATCH THE FULL EPISODE HERE:
⏯️https://live.childrenshealthdefense....ion/TqnVp1jtSq
Watch FULL EPISODES of ‘Financial Rebellion’ With Catherine Austin Fitts on CHD.TV
Live Every Thursday 6:00am PT // 9:00am ET
➡️ https://live.childrenshealthdefense....cial-rebellion
_______________
banks and credit unions are making more and more difficult to withdraw cash and more and more businesses are forcing digital purchases / payments ONLY.
Lets have some constructive tips to fight this confiscation of our money.
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Mv8W-VwKLI8
VIDEO Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis exposes so-called “gender-affirming care.”
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Mv8W-VwKLI8
about 30 second video
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
SAINT OF THE DAY Saints Joachim and Anne, the parents of Mary the Mother of God, are celebrated today. The couple's faith and perseverance during years of a childless marriage prepared them for their sinless daughter, who would give birth to Christ. Apocryphal sources suggest that Joachim was a wealthy member of the tribe of Judah (David’s line). Eastern Rite Catholics have a particularly strong devotion to Joachim and Anne, with the saints' intercession being invoked by the priest at the end of each Divine Liturgy. READ
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/s...nd-joachim-313
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/i...nne_26July.jpg
On July 26 the Roman Catholic Church commemorates the parents of the Virgin Mary, Saints Joachim and Anne. The couple's faith and perseverance brought them through the sorrow of childlessness, to the joy of conceiving and raising the immaculate and sinless woman who would give birth to Christ.
The New Testament contains no specific information about the lives of the Virgin Mary's parents, but other documents outside of the Biblical canon do provide some details. Although these writings are not considered authoritative in the same manner as the Bible, they outline some of the Church's traditional beliefs about Joachim, Anne and their daughter.
The “Protoevangelium of James,” which was probably put into its final written form in the early second century, describes Mary's father Joachim as a wealthy member of one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Joachim was deeply grieved, along with his wife Anne, by their childlessness. “He called to mind Abraham,” the early Christian writing says, “that in the last day God gave him a son Isaac.”
Joachim and Anne began to devote themselves to rigorous prayer and fasting, in isolation from one another and from society. They regarded their inability to conceive a child as a surpassing misfortune, and a sign of shame among the tribes of Israel.
As it turned out, however, the couple were to be blessed even more abundantly than Abraham and Sarah. An angel revealed this to Anne when he appeared to her and prophesied that all generations would honor their future child: “The Lord has heard your prayer, and you shall conceive, and shall bring forth; and your seed shall be spoken of in all the world.”
After Mary's birth, according to the Protoevangelium of James, Anne “made a sanctuary” in the infant girl's room, and “allowed nothing common or unclean” on account of the special holiness of the child. The same writing records that when she was one year old, her father “made a great feast, and invited the priests, and the scribes, and the elders, and all the people of Israel.”
“And Joachim brought the child to the priests,” the account continues, “and they blessed her, saying: 'O God of our fathers, bless this child, and give her an everlasting name to be named in all generations' … And he brought her to the chief priests; and they blessed her, saying: 'O God most high, look upon this child, and bless her with the utmost blessing, which shall be forever.'”
The protoevangelium goes on to describe how Mary's parents, along with the temple priests, subsequently decided that she would be offered to God as a consecrated Virgin for the rest of her life, and enter a chaste marriage with the carpenter Joseph.
St. Joachim and St. Anne have been a part of the Church's liturgical calendar for many centuries. Devotion to their memory is particularly strong in the Eastern Catholic churches, where their intercession is invoked by the priest at the end of each Divine Liturgy. The Eastern churches, however, celebrate Sts. Joachim and Anne on a different date, Sept. 9.
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
I tuned in for the first time in a few weeks today, July 26, to the live trunews.com show with Rick Wiles and Doc Burkheart. They were preachung their "Miracle Money" challenge giving his listeners a challenge that they need to increase their faith and give them the experience of realizing that God personally knows and loves them because God has sent them an unexpected money blessing because they first gave money to his "ministry."
I feel sad that these two men have lowered their form of preaching to this "bunk" distortion of the true gospel and words of God and Christ's apostles in the bible.
They were doing good comentary on the "corona crazy" news and good coverage on Ukraine and other news but then they decided to USE the impending nuclear war threats and war with Russia threat and leverage that frightening prospect into his version of the "prosperity gospel" or Seed faith" this old error is going by these days.
Here is a Catholic take on the real meaning of faith and blessing. The only real blessing is that counts is to live God and grow in faith in Christ and check out of this wicked world with your soul intact and on your way to Heaven.
Here is that TruNews for today, July 26, 2022.
https://www.trunews.com/stream/are-you-remnant-ready
Here is Catholic apologist, Trent Horn, explaining the real meaning of giving to others, love, joy, forgiveness, mercy, kindness to others, and the corporal works of mercy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUBi1shmwek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUBi1shmwek
16:50 video runtime
Why the “prosperity Gospel” is bankrupt
20,945 views
Oct 27, 2021
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_xHcXmDa48
A Refutation To The Insidious "Prosperity Gospel"
98 views
Nov 17, 2021
5-Minute Catholic Apologetics
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
https://www.churchmilitant.com/video...vid-conspiracy
embedded video
[SIZE=4]Catholic COVID Conspiracy
The Vatican and Pfizer.
[/SIZE]
13:50 video runtime
January 19, 2022
________________________________
Dachsie comment:
I just discovered this video today. July 26, 2022
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
catholicvote.org
The Loop email
WEDNESDAY, JULY 27
NATIONAL GUARDSMEN PUNISHED Republican lawmakers are calling on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to rescind a mandate that has cut pay and benefits for nearly 60,000 Guard and Reserve troops who have refused to submit to COVID-19 shots. "As a congressman and National Guard colonel - who has had COVID-19 and been vaccinated - I can't imagine a more reckless decision than to reprimand tens of thousands of National Guard members who have answered the call of duty," stated Rep. Mike Waltz, R-FL. READ
FEDS LAUNCH ‘RACISM’ PROBE AGAINST TESLA The Biden administration’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has launched a systemic racism probe against Tesla, Elon Musk’s auto company. The news comes after California officials in February said African-American workers complained of a lack of representation in Tesla’s executive positions. The Biden administration has faced criticism for favoring electric car development by companies like Ford and GM while snubbing Tesla, which is the world’s leading electric car manufacturer. Musk has called himself an opponent of the “far-Left.” READ
PRO-LIFERS REJECT INDY ABORTION BILL Hundreds gathered at the Statehouse in Indianapolis, Indiana on Tuesday to encourage pro-life lawmakers to stand with preborn children and their mothers by voting against Senate Bill 1. The bill claims to be an abortion ban but would fail to hold anyone accountable for illegal abortions. The bill “simply is not what we have worked for for 50 years, and following a complete Roe-reversal, it’s unacceptable,” said Indiana Right to Life President Mike Fichter. READ
INFLATION HURTING RURAL AMERICA MORE A new report from Iowa State University found that rural Americans are suffering even more from inflation than city-dwellers are. “Rural households are more vulnerable to inflation,” the report showed. Expenses rose by 18.5% overall between 2020 and 2022. “Earnings were not able to keep pace with inflation, rising by only 6.1%. The net effect cut rural discretionary incomes by -49.1% between June 2020 and June 2022… Expenses now consume 91% of rural take-home pay.” READ
BIDEN ADMIN ‘REDEFINES’ RECESSION In anticipation of another upcoming negative economic report, President Biden and several administration officials have been doing their best to reframe an expected recession – including by proposing a new definition of the word. “Officials say prolonged COVID-19 factors, coupled with the war in Ukraine, have muddied economic projections and claim that assessing the speed of the post-pandemic economic recovery means examining a variety of economic signals, not just total GDP,” the Daily Wire reported. READ
CT TRANSIT DUMPS ELECTRIC Just one day after officials promoted the passage of the Connecticut Clean Air Act, CTtransit, the Connecticut Department of Transportation’s bus service, has pulled its entire fleet of electric buses due to one of them bursting into flames. The electric vehicles have been replaced with traditional diesel-powered buses. An electric bus caught fire in a Hamden parking lot on Saturday morning, resulting in two workers and a firefighter being sent to the hospital. READ
SOROS PLANNING HISPANIC MEDIA TAKEOVER Rep. Mayra Flores, R-TX, is warning Hispanic voters against liberal billionaire George Soros’ likely takeover of 18 Spanish-language AM and FM radio stations ahead of the 2022 elections. “He wants the Hispanic community to forget about God and family values,” Flores said Monday. “I’m calling on the Hispanic community. Fight for your abuelo’s values — fight for your parents’ values that were instilled in you that live in us, and instill those values into your kids and into your grandkids.” READ
COACH STANDS FIRM FOR LIFE Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh doubled down on his pro-life remarks from a week earlier, despite pro-abortion commentators’ attacks against him. “I’ve told [them] the same thing I tell my kids, boys, the girls, same thing I tell our players, our staff members. I encourage them if they have a pregnancy that wasn’t planned, to go through with it,” Harbaugh said in an ESPN interview this week. “Let that unborn child be born, and if at that time you don’t feel like you can care for it, you don’t have the means or the wherewithal, then Sarah and I will take that baby,” he added, referring to his wife. READ
UK COURT RULES AGAINST PARENTS The parents of 12-year-old Archie Battersbee have lost an appeal against a decision to remove their son from life support. The U.K. Court of Appeal judges ruled on July 25 that the youngster could be disconnected from a ventilator after some preliminary testing suggested “brain stem death.” Following the ruling, Bishop John Sherrington of the Diocese of Westminster said: "The sad case of Archie Battersbee's condition is very distressing. The Catholic Church requires moral certainty before it recognizes death.” READ
ABORTION MYTHS In the immediate aftermath of the overturning of Roe vs. Wade, pro-abortion activists claimed that women would be denied treatment for an ectopic pregnancy, in which the child has implanted in the mother’s fallopian tubes. Journalist Alexandra DeSanctis cuts through this rampant piece of misinformation by detailing how every state pro-life law handles ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage. READ
CATHOLIC 101 Are there too many rules in Catholicism? Msgr. William J. King writes, “In a sense, the question is like asking why a car’s GPS system keeps telling the driver when to turn right or left: Is it providing guidance or giving a rule?” READ
SAINT OF THE DAY St. Panteleon (died c. 305) was a physician who once abandoned his faith, but upon his return gave his fortune to the poor and provided them with free medical treatment, including praying with and for his patients. When other physicians denounced him to the anti-Christian authorities, he offered a contest between himself and the pagan priests at his trial. While the pagan priests were unable to heal a paralyzed man, St. Panteleon cured the man by simply mentioning the name of Jesus. Many conversions are attributed to this miracle, but nevertheless he was tortured and killed for his faith. St. Panteleon is the patron saint of bachelors and physicians. READ
DAILY PSALM “God is my refuge on the day of distress.” (Psalm 59:17) READ
DAILY READINGS Today's Mass readings. READ
WITNESS The recently retired Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix used to pray the Rosary outside the abortion facility where Mayra Rodriguez worked. She eventually quit Planned Parenthood of Arizona because of the cruel things she witnessed. But she also credits Olmsted’s witness: “First time I saw him pray the Rosary was outside my former place of work back in 2002," she said. "He prayed for me since then. He is a big part of my story.” SHARE
https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?ur...SvgS.9vB7w--~D
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x0CNUaIyIE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x0CNUaIyIE
4:28 video runtime
Senator Rubio asked a perfectly logical sounding question.
The interviewee, Gina K. Abercrombie-Winstanley, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at the State Department, gives the perfect example of the ideal Democratic administration bureaucrat. Lots of abracadabra hand movements and lots of mumbo-jumbo words making absolutely no sense at all and of course never giving an intelligible answer.
I think the ostensible "answer" was something like 'we are able to identify and focus on the "underserved communities" because the State Department has made an administrative rule that has defined "underserved communities" and any entity that is not thus identified in the official regulation is not an "underserved community."
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
https://mailchi.mp/cplaction/xupg8jp...2?e=38a1706540
Teacher Licensing Article (PDF)
https://cplaction.com/wp-content/upl...ng-Marxism.pdf
Child Protection League Action of Minnesota
United States
PO Box 463
Mankato, MN 56002
cplaction.com
https://cplaction.com/wp-content/upl...and-boy-5f.jpg
About Us
The Child Protection League (CPL) is committed to promoting the welfare of children and protecting them from exploitation, indoctrination and violence. We educate citizens on issues that protect or threaten the safety of children.
CPL supports the rights of children to:
Freely express their political beliefs, moral standards, and faith
Experience personal, physical privacy and modesty in bathrooms, showers, locker rooms, and living spaces separated by biological sex
Experience safe classrooms with common-sense disciplinary policies
Personal data privacy
Have their safety, education, and healthcare protected and directed by their parents
Receive an education free from political biases and unscientific ideologies
For more details, download our CPL Brochure (PDF).
Download our CPL Brochure Spanish version (PDF).
PO Box 463, Mankato, MN 56002 / 888-538-3188 / contact@childprotectionleague.com
Coming soon to Minnesota
Teachers must demonstrate a Marxist worldview
to obtain their teaching license
This is a downloadable pdf file.
I will post some excerpts here.
"The new standards will embed basic Marxist principles and practices such as critical race theory (CRT), fluid sexual identity, and gender politics into all Minnesota schools.
Standard Marxist practices and dogma divide people into opposing groups so that students and teachers must view themselves not as individuals, but as members of groups—oppressor groups or oppressed groups, and oppressed groups must be liberated from the exploitation of their
oppressors."
...
"Teachers must:
• Help students develop social identities based upon their social grouping.
(Group identities will usurp individual identities);
• Comply with the construct of “multiple identity formation”
(This means they must identify which identity groups a student belongs to, the scale of
power assigned to each identity group and how their ‘identities’ intersect. This is called
“intersectionality.”);
• Incorporate “Social and Emotional Learning” (SEL) into all classes
(SEL seeks to transform the values, attitudes, and beliefs of students and achieve full
compliance with equity and gender ideology.);
• Understand “systemic trauma,” including racism and micro & macro aggression
(Trauma is presumed to have been inflicted upon victims from the oppressor classes);
• Be “inclusive” to reflect “diversity of cultures”
(Teachers will have to affirm homosexuality, transgenderism, sexual identity (gender as a
choice not biology), and the absence of moral standards for sexual practices which will set
the stage for the normalization of pedophilia);
• Fully affirm and incorporate identity politics into the school, including race, gender,
gender identity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, economic status, and ethnicity;
• Focus on implicit bias and systemic racism, including “white privilege”;
• Prioritize materials from “traditionally marginalized voices that offer diverse
perspectives on race, culture, language, gender, sexual identity, religion, nationality,
migrant/refugee status... and other identities traditionally silenced or omitted from
the curriculum.”
(Identity politics will drive curriculum content);
• Teach materials that “empower learners to be agents of social change and promote
equity.
(“Equity” means required equal outcomes, not equal opportunity. Marx said it this way:
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”);
• Train students in social activism through service learning;
• Connect students with local and global political activists;
• Understand that Minnesota’s laws were created to oppress by race, class, gender,
sexual orientation, language, and nationality;
(This is the Marxist interpretation of history through presumed identity group power.)
• Understand white supremacy, and how racism operates institutionally
(The Marxist assumption that our institutions are fundamentally racist);
• Understand “enthnocentrism” and “eurocentrism” as undermining “equity.”
(“Eurocentrism” and “ethnocentrism” form the core of America’s cultural, religious, and
political heritage and are presented as racist and oppressive. Young people are being
stripped of their history and instead are being told their heritage is oppressive: racist,
“white” and “heteronormative.”) "
...
"...to be incorporated into the instruction. Italian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci, said that people are “trapped in a prison-house of language.” Because language determines how people think, he emphasized that we must change the language of the culture in order to usher in the Marxist revolution.
"
...
"In summary, the new licensing standards will force every Minnesota teacher and school to become Marxist revolution indoctrination centers."
[/SIZE]
See short video embedded about this organization on
page
This video is also viewable on Rumble.
https://rumble.com/v174m2w-child-pro...hat-we-do.html
Child Protection League: Who We Are and What We Do
Child Protection League Published June 2, 2022
6:13 video runtime
https://cplaction.com/about-us/
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
FBI Scrambles To Protect Biden Crime Family
https://theinfowar.tv/watch?id=62e149852a02302e3f64e8be
7:35 video runtime
28,835 views
·
Jul 27, 2022
Bowne Report
According to the propagandized hype, federal officials claim the investigation into Hunter Biden regarding various tax violations and/or foreign lobbying violations has reached a "critical stage". But after the FBI sat on the laptop and have repeatedly meddled in the last three Presidential elections as lapdogs for the Democratic Party and the Clinton Foundation. The "critical stage" will merely take the form of the DOJ and the Fed's propaganda rollout of the slap on the wrist Hunter Biden is likely to receive. If the Feds actually looked at the evidence from the laptop millions have seen already, Foreign lobbying violations could easily pinch Joe Biden and his brother James Biden.
So Senator Chuck Grassley wrote a damning letter to the FBI and the DOJ calling them out on their growing track record of flagrant abuse of power. It read like a letter to a hostile foreign country rather than to our own national security institution and the highest justice department in the land.
[B]Grassley wrote [B]"First, it’s been alleged that the FBI developed information in 2020 about Hunter Biden’s criminal financial and related activity. It is further alleged that in August 2020, FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten opened an assessment which was used by a FBI Headquarters (“FBI HQ”) team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease. Based on allegations, verified and verifiable derogatory information on Hunter Biden was falsely labeled as disinformation.... the allegations provided to my office appear to indicate that there was a scheme in place among certain FBI officials to undermine derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation. Importantly, it’s been alleged to my office that Auten’s assessment was opened in August 2020, which is the same month that Senator Johnson and I received an unsolicited and unnecessary briefing from the FBI that purportedly related to our Biden investigation and a briefing for which the contents were later leaked in order paint the investigation in a false light."
Jonathan Turley further spoke on the escape route already laid out for the Biden crime family.
Everyone knows that Hunter Biden will walk. The system is completely corrupt. In fact, Donald Trump's Vegas odds of being indicted by Garland's DOJ compared to Hunter Biden's are laughable.
Dachsie note: I forgot to include the video link but did add it 7-28-22
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/-co...m_source=email
(The videos are embedded in this C and C posting of yesterday at the above link. I also attempted to post the Tweet Twitter link below the line below.)
Joe Biden excreted two videos yesterday to reassure everybody he’s back in the saddle after his covid infection. In the second video, he dumps on Trump, calling him a coward and insisting you can’t be an “insurrectionist” and also “pro democracy,” whatever that means. It’s anti-American:
Twitter avatar for @TheDemocratsThe Democrats @TheDemocrats
“You can’t be pro-insurrection and pro-American.” —@JoeBiden
Image
July 26th 2022
1,088 Retweets5,006 Likes
Did you notice that in the clip, Biden never blinks? Not one time during the whole clip. Watching it again and try not to blink along with him. My eyes water every time I try. How does Biden do it? He’s not blinking OR squinting.
His unblinkiness seems to have started sometime yesterday — after his first video. Someone did a side-by-side comparison of both Biden videos, where he blinks in one but not in the other. He also did a wardrobe change between videos.
Twitter avatar for @FiveTimesAugustFive Times August @FiveTimesAugust
Here’s the two videos back and forth. Pay attention to his physical appearance and his voice. Again, both supposedly from today, both only a few hours apart. What the hell is happening here?
Image
July 27th 2022
3,340 Retweets7,461 Likes
I don’t want to go down a rabbit hole here, but compare the two outfits. Blinkey Joe is better dressed than wide-eye Joe. You have to admit it’s weird.
_____________________________________
Thread
See new Tweets
Conversation
Five Times August
@FiveTimesAugust
·
Jul 26
Two videos posted within a couple of hours of each other. I mean… you tell me what’s going on here…
Image
Image
Five Times August
@FiveTimesAugust
Here’s the two videos back and forth. Pay attention to his physical appearance and his voice. Again, both supposedly from today, both only a few hours apart. What the hell is happening here?
https://twitter.com/FiveTimesAugust/...m_medium=email
Thread
See new Tweets
Conversation
Five Times August
@FiveTimesAugust
·
Jul 26
Two videos posted within a couple of hours of each other. I mean… you tell me what’s going on here…
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FYoMO07X...g&name=360x360
6:00 PM · Jul 26, 2022·
Dblms
@tweetdblms
·
Jul 26
Replying to
@FiveTimesAugust
Quote Tweet
Greg Kelly
@gregkellyusa
· Jul 26
The normal Human Being BLINKS their eyes 15 to 20 times a minute. On the other hand, there's @joebiden
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joN8cP9cCJY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joN8cP9cCJY
This could be the greatest episode of corruption in US history: GOP lawmaker
5:33 video runtime
Fox Business
1.93M subscribers
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., demanded DOJ open an internal investigation, following whistleblower allegations that the DOJ and FBI illegally suppressed information on Hunter Biden, claims the FBI is 'smearing' GOP senators on 'The Evening Edit.'
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFm_Q1kCXlw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFm_Q1kCXlw
Smash 'em while they're down.
Tucker Carlson: There is nothing scarier than this
Fox News
9.72M subscribers
WARNING—Graphic footage: Fox News host Tucker Carlson voices his concerns about the FBI's treatment of the Hunter Biden case compared to the treatment of Trump over January 6 on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fze0btPLCBc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fze0btPLCBc
Hunter Biden Is Compromised’: Matt Gaetz Grills DOJ Official On The President’s Son
5:12 video runtime
Forbes Breaking News
14 minutes ago. July 28, 2022
At a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) grilled DOJ Official Matthew Olsen on Hunter Biden.
Thank you, Congressman Gaetz, for using DOJ Official Matthew Olsen to play off of to further expose the traitors to the USA, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, and Mathew Olsen. These disgusting entities are not as useless as they appear.
The main compromised entities and threats to USA national security are the DOJ and the FBI. The truths exposed in these theatrical plays on the House Floor bring hope that the rule of law will be restored and the republic will be saved.
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
In the 07/28/2022 edition:
For ‘Access to the Sacred Circle of Spirits’: Francis participates in Native American Smudge Ceremony
https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?ur...XQbEZ4UIrA--~D
https://novusordowatch.org/2022/07/f...udge-ceremony/
For ‘Access to the Sacred Circle of Spirits’: Francis participates in Native American Smudge Ceremony
Posted on Jul 28, 2022 04:40 pm
Blowing smoke in all directions…
For ‘Access to the Sacred Circle of Spirits’: Francis participates in Native American Smudge Ceremony
His hand on his heart: Antipope Francis follows the instructions of the Native American “sage” Raymond Gros-Louis
Under his pseudonym “Pope Francis”, the Jesuit apostate Jorge Bergoglio is currently on an extended “apology tour” for Native Americans in Canada.
On his first full day in the land first evangelized by Jesuit missionaries in the 17th century, this past Monday, July 25, Bergoglio attended an indigenous “healing dance” performed for “Mother Earth”, the nature goddess which the false pope himself also adores or venerates The names “Mother Earth”, “Gaia”, and “Pachamama” are synonyms for the same false deity whose worship the post-Catholic Vatican now promotes under the guise of caring for God’s creation. (Francis’ 2015 encyclical letter Laudato Si’ provides the intellectual underpinnings for it.)
On July 27, however, things got even more interesting when Mr. Raymond Gros-Louis, a member of the Huron-Wendat Nation’s “Circle of Sages”, performed a smudging ritual “to the four directions”. He pointed out that the ceremony was specially adapted to Francis, who, he noted, has difficulty with smoke. Wearing a headdress that made him look like a cockatoo, the “sage” then presented the false pope with two gifts to enable him to participate in the ceremony: a wild turkey feather and some sweetgrass.
As he began with the smudging ritual, Gros-Louis explained (translation taken from this video):
We’ll do a virtual circle… even when we’re not in person, we can do things in spirit. And we’ll open a circle here today in spirit. And from that circle we can visualize a sacred fire. Because sacred fire unites everything that exists in creation. So we’ll put virtual tobacco in that fire as well. And we will honor earth, wind, water, and fire. We will honor the mineral aspect, the vegetable aspect, and the human aspect. I will ask the east direction to open its door so we can have access to that direction. I’ll ask the southern direction to open its door as well, to have access to that direction. I will ask the western direction to open that door, the grandmother door. We’ll honor the northern direction, the direction of grandfathers….
I’ll open the four directions. I will whistle four times. This is a wild turkey bone I’ve had for about 20 years, and I use it in my ceremonies. Before I do that, I’d like for you to put your hands on your heart, each one of you. The heart can be like a talking stick. But that’s where the Creator put wisdom in humans. And we often need to remind ourselves of this. It’s an important gesture to connect ourselves with that wisdom.
After blowing the bone whistle We’ll do a virtual circle… even when we’re not in person, we can do things in spirit. And we’ll open a circle here today in spirit. And from that circle we can visualize a sacred fire. Because sacred fire unites everything that exists in creation. So we’ll put virtual tobacco in that fire as well. And we will honor earth, wind, water, and fire. We will honor the mineral aspect, the vegetable aspect, and the human aspect. I will ask the east direction to open its door so we can have access to that direction. I’ll ask the southern direction to open its door as well, to have access to that direction. I will ask the western direction to open that door, the grandmother door. We’ll honor the northern direction, the direction of grandfathers….
I’ll open the four directions. I will whistle four times. This is a wild turkey bone I’ve had for about 20 years, and I use it in my ceremonies. Before I do that, I’d like for you to put your hands on your heart, each one of you. The heart can be like a talking stick. But that’s where the Creator put wisdom in humans. And we often need to remind ourselves of this. It’s an important gesture to connect ourselves with that wisdom.
After blowing the bone whistle fo We’ll do a virtual circle… even when we’re not in person, we can do things in spirit. And we’ll open a circle here today in spirit. And from that circle we can visualize a sacred fire. Because sacred fire unites everything that exists in creation. So we’ll put virtual tobacco in that fire as well. And we will honor earth, wind, water, and fire. We will honor the mineral aspect, the vegetable aspect, and the human aspect. I will ask the east direction to open its door so we can have access to that direction. I’ll ask the southern direction to open its door as well, to have access to that direction. I will ask the western direction to open that door, the grandmother door. We’ll honor the northern direction, the direction of grandfathers….
I’ll open the four directions. I will whistle four times. This is a wild turkey bone I’ve had for about 20 years, and I use it in my ceremonies. Before I do that, I’d like for you to put your hands on your heart, each one of you. The heart can be like a talking stick. But that’s where the Creator put wisdom in humans. And we often need to remind ourselves of this. It’s an important gesture to connect ourselves with that wisdom.
After blowing the bone whistle four times, Gros-Louis concluded:
I ask the western grandmother to give us access to the sacred circle of spirits so they can be with us, so we can be united and stronger together.
SNIP enough of this disgustingness!
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1OTz1ttWr8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1OTz1ttWr8
Mysteries of the Messiah Session 1 | Video Bible Study with Rabbi Jason Sobel
22::08 video runtime
HarperChristian Resources
10.7K subscribers
Do you have an incomplete picture of God?
Many Christians view the Old Testament as a collection of archaic stories and out-of-date teachings. But the reality is that every page of the Old Testament reveals divine mysteries about Jesus, the Messiah, that still apply today! In this six-session study, you will see that God's Word--written by many people over thousands of years--is not a random selection of stories but of intricate connections to the Messiah. Messianic Rabbi Jason Sobel will connect the dots, helping you see in "high definition" what God intended.
Sessions include:
1. Finding Jesus in the Story of Creation
2. Finding Jesus in the Story of the Patriarchs
3. Finding Jesus in the Story of Joseph and Judah
4. Finding Jesus in the Story of Moses
5. Finding Jesus in the Story of Ruth and Boaz
6. Finding Jesus in the Story of David
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG3-XCOuNQ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG3-XCOuNQ0
"I've Delivered": Emails Reveal How Joe Biden Met With (at least) 14 of Hunter’s Business Associates
10:54 video runtime
Facts Matter with Roman Balmakov
801K subscribers
Watch the Real Story of Jan 6 https://ept.ms/3Os10t8
Epoch TV:
https://ept.ms/3Os10t8
Mexican Business Dealings:
https://ept.ms/3SbMite
https://ept.ms/3Bt651a
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
Robert Fitzpatrick offers this class for parents and teachers who want to tell the whole truth about multi-level marketing schemes, or "direct selling."
embedded audio- 21:55 runtime
embedded comedy video about door to door selling
also on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3eD0imnhQ&t=6s
https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?ur...fBRnlw9EEw--~D
Listen to this free audio Lesson 1
https://www.ponzinomics101.com/episodes/directselling
Ponzinomics 101
Home
About The Show
Episodes
Subscribe
Contact
Subscribe
Ep. 1 - The First Lie: What is Direct Selling?
Whether it’s selling leggings, make up, or knives, we hear about business opportunities to make full time pay for part time work. Are they too good to be true? Multi-level marketing companies such as LuLaRoe, Mary Kay, and Cutco Knives claim to be direct selling opportunities. What exactly is direct selling?
Listen to full episode :
Scroll down to read this episode’s transcript.
Resources:
Robert’s book: Ponzinomics
Robert’s Website: Pyramid Scheme Alert
Melissa’s Podcast: The Teacher As
The Teacher As… Episode 66: The Teacher As Anti-MLM Advocate
Transcript:
Robert FitzPatrick 0:16
Welcome to Ponzinomics 101. I'm Melissa Milner. I'm a 30 year veteran teacher and host of The Teacher As... Podcast.
Robert FitzPatrick 0:24
And I'm Robert Fitzpatrick, author of the book Ponzinomics, the Untold Story of Multi-level Marketing.
Robert FitzPatrick 0:31
We are hosting Ponzinomics 101, a monthly educational podcast, for anyone who would like to learn more about multi-level marketing and why it should be avoided.
Robert FitzPatrick 0:41
We hope this podcast will be a resource for teachers and parents and provide valuable information that is not currently being taught in our public schools, colleges and universities.
Robert FitzPatrick 0:54
If you are a teacher who has created lessons about MLMs, and you're willing to share your work with other teachers, please go to our website, ponzinomics101.com to contact us. If we get enough lessons from teachers, we may start a Teacher Resources tab on our site to share the great work we are all doing. In addition, if you use Robert's lessons from this podcast, in your classroom, or with your own child, and you might have even tweaked his lesson, we would love to hear from you to know what you did with the lesson and how it went.
Robert FitzPatrick 1:27
The best defense is awareness. Be informed, think, question everything and keep your mind engaged.
Melissa Milner 1:37
You and millions of others are being invited to join multi-level marketing (MLM) companies to sell products, to become self employed, be your own boss, and to have unlimited opportunity. Everybody, teachers, parents and students all get the same invitation. And millions are accepting to become quote, direct sellers. What is it all about? Robert explains direct selling in this lesson. On the Ponzinomics 101 website, we have the transcript of this episode and other resources. We hope parents and teachers will share this lesson at home or in the classroom. It can be linked in a Google Classroom assignment, or whatever digital platform your school uses, with pre-listening questions and post-listening questions for students to complete that could lead to discussions in groups. Another teaching option would be the whole class listens together, and the teacher stops at a few key moments for turn and talk opportunities. Part of your prep could be to listen to Robert's lesson and maybe print out the transcript for the lesson and highlight and annotate your turn and talk moments and discussion questions. I absolutely see this lesson as a resource for concerned parents as well to share with their child who is maybe in high school or college. Until this is taught in all schools everywhere. Parents are the main source of teaching our youth about the dangers of MLM. Here's Session One, invitation to quote direct selling.
Robert FitzPatrick 3:11
So, this discussion begins at the very beginning, which is about the term direct selling. Whatever the multi-level marketing product is cosmetics, vitamins, supplements, clothing, life insurance, hobby supplies, weight loss powder, and whatever the income promises by the multilevel company, whether it's you can become a millionaire, or it's a side hustle, extra money gig. However it's portrayed, it's always presented as direct selling. Multi-level marketing describes itself as a type of direct selling. So before MLM can be understood, we need to know what direct selling is. It's been around forever. It sounds simple. Most of us sort of assume we know what it means. But do we know what it involves? And what it requires when we say yes to the invitation to do direct selling? So first, we start with questions.
Robert FitzPatrick 4:22
The first question is the most obvious one, even before you get into the actual nuts and bolts of direct selling is the word selling. Are you experienced and knowledgeable in the business and the work of selling? Many people are averse to selling or have never done it? And so this is a valid question and maybe the most important question even before you knew what all was involved is would you even be interested and qualified to begin with? Is this an area of work you're particularly interested in or considering as a life career or a career change? Do you know what the costs are, time requirements, the profit potential, or the needed skills for success in direct selling? That's what we're going to look at now. What's direct selling? Well, the FTC, the Federal Trade Commission, actually offers a very simple definition. Direct Selling, according to the FTC, is person to person selling in locations other than a retail establishment, such as social media platform, or in the home of the salesperson, or the prospective customer. So it's selling, but not in a store, and not with mass advertising and ordering. It's one on one, you and the customer, one sale at a time. That's direct selling.
Robert FitzPatrick 5:49
So the second question, I think anybody would ask him on any kind of a business proposition, because these invitations to multilevel marketing are business propositions, "How do you get paid? How do you get paid and direct selling?" Well, like in any other work, you would need to know before you get started, how you get paid. In direct selling, it's not with a salary, or wages, it's take home profit. Take home profit is the money received from customers, when they buy your product, minus the cost to you as a salesperson to acquire the product you're selling. Then subtracted from that are all the costs you incurred in doing the work and making the sale. That might include your computer, car, your telephone, marketing materials, advertising, internet costs, meals, it might also include childcare, travel, training, tax prep. After these costs are deducted, that's what you get to keep to live on and spend as you wish, after doing all the work. That's take home profit. What are the requirements, in direct selling to take home profit? What's required for you to be able to make this successful? That would start with you. Do you have skills, the aptitude and the knowledge, any work would have the same first requirement. And there are thousands of books offered on the special skills for selling. The type of personality best suited for it, the special attitudes and mental habits that support selling. Most people are not in sales because they don't have the specialized requirements or they don't want to have them. So they're not in sales. But there are these special skills, aptitude and knowledge that are required.
Robert FitzPatrick 7:48
Then there's the product. For direct selling, you need a product that is already needed and wanted for something or something new, that meets a special need, and that not everyone else is also selling. Something unique or unusual or available only from you. And maybe only a few other salesmen like you. You're out there by yourself. You're selling from your house or your apartment. You can't just sell what everybody else sells, you need something different. And after that the product that you have that special or different or new and that people already need or want, it has to be competitively priced. If somebody could get the same or similar product at a lower price, or even the same price as you're selling it for, you're at a disadvantage, a special product at a competitive price.
Robert FitzPatrick 8:42
And then you need a profit margin. Now, this is something if you've not been in sales you might not think about or know about. But the margin we're speaking about here is the margin between what you buy the product for as a salesperson, and what you sell it for. That margin is what will cover all your time and costs and then leave enough to make your time and effort worthwhile. The profit margin in direct selling needs to be very high because the costs of selling and the time requirements are very high. They don't have to be high in a department store or a grocery store because the customers already come in and they're coming in and huge numbers and so on. But if you're going to the customer one at a time, you need a very large profit margin per sale to cover all your costs and all your time and to make it all worthwhile to you. You have the skills, you have the product, it's competitively priced, and there's a big enough margin for you to go out and spend that much time finding people now you need ways to find enough customers because a lot of prospecting is required to find enough customers who will buy over and over again from you. This might be done with advertising, your advertising. It might be done by just playing knocking on doors, social media promotions, staying in regular communications with each new customer. All of these will be involved in finding and keeping customers. So you need good ways, economical ways, efficient ways to find enough customers for you to sell enough product to make this worthwhile.
Robert FitzPatrick 10:34
Then you need some protection because you've now invested a lot you've bought product, you've cultivated customers, maybe you've leaned on friends and family to become your customers. You're putting in a lot of effort. You've committed yourself. You need protection because the customers you find you need to keep. This might involve a territory of your own, or a product that no other salesman like you has, so customers will come back to you. This protection requires an agreement with whomever you're buying your product from, your supplier, that guarantees restrictions on the number of salespeople, or granting you complete exclusivity in an area. That way, the money, the time that you invest will keep coming back to you. And then you need something that you may not see in business school. So you need something that is often called tough skin. Because, truth is, selling is going to involve a lot of rejections, even insults, or just being ignored. Beyond skills, there is a kind of personal ability and willingness that's needed to take rejections. Not everybody is set up for that. For every sale, there's going to be a lot of "NO"s. And if "NO"s are something that are particularly abhorrent to you, upsetting, that's going to be a problem for selling. So tough skin against rejections, insults, or just being ignored. Remember, as we said this is take home profit. This is you, in your home, on your own, by yourself, independent, with a product, selling one at a time. You need the ability to just do it. Day after day. Self initiative each day to do prospecting, selling, managing costs and products and promoting yourself. There's no boss, nobody's watching. Nobody cares. It's just you. You have no personal manager. There's no clock to punch. It's just you doing it day after day. That's a skill. That's an ability. Not everybody has it. It's an aptitude. And it's a requirement.
Robert FitzPatrick 10:34
So now we know a bit about what direct selling is. We know its definition. And we've got an idea of what's required for it to work. Let's go a little further about direct selling. What is it? How do people think about it? You're going to be a direct seller. What does that actually mean? You're not a teacher, you're not a lawyer. You're not a civil servant. You're a direct seller. How is that seen by other people? It does have a history. It's been around for a long time. And I think it's proper to say this that direct selling has always been understood as one of the toughest of jobs, on a personal level, for the reasons we just walked through. And financially, it is regarded as one of the most difficult to make money in, for the reasons we just walked through. The biggest obstacles are insecurity. You don't make a sale, you don't get paid. And the personal initiative requirement, it's all up to you. And then there are these costs. And they're often unknown as you begin. The cost to find customers, and then to maintain protection from competition. All of this goes into why direct selling has this reputation of being very tough, tough on the person and tough to make money on. I think it's also fair to say this, that those who knock on doors and personally try to get us to buy stuff are often depicted negatively. There aren't too many sales people heroes in literature, in plays. Think of descriptive terms. Like it looks like a salesperson making a pitch, the fake smile. That's the reputation. The work definitely requires special determination and independence, not to get discouraged by difficulties, by the high risk and the poor reputation.
Robert FitzPatrick 12:59
So there's some other things to look at too if you've received this invitation. Somebody telling you, "Don't you want to become a direct seller at this great opportunity." There is some history behind direct selling too. In the United States, it mostly disappeared when big box stores emerged and retail stores were everywhere. There was a time in the United States when many products were simply not available to everybody everywhere. So salespeople provided a tremendous service. They came to you with these various products. People used to buy from catalogs for the same reason. The store wasn't in their area. But now, big box stores are pretty much everywhere. And on top of that is online selling, you don't even have to get out of your house. And virtually anything you could ever want, comes right to you. That affects direct selling. Notice there are no door to door salespeople. Have you seen one lately? They used to be around? You don't see them now.
Robert FitzPatrick 15:10
And then the question that is again, a common sense question that many people when solicited or invited to multi-level marketing, don't think to ask. What products are still sold by direct selling. In other words, what products are best sold this way, as opposed to being in a big box store or online? Are there any, in the home, one on one? Which is what you're going to be doing as a direct seller. There are some: home improvements, for example, siding, roofing, solar energy, landscaping, these are often sold directly by the person doing it comes to you talks to you. And then there are a few financial products, insurance for examples. But this is often going online now as you see all these constant advertisements for insurance. Some of them are very funny on TV. You don't need a salesperson you're already sold, you can go online and sign up. And financial services, investment, stocks, often there's an agent that will come and talk to you. But even that you can do online, you don't really need salesperson for that either.
Robert FitzPatrick 17:36
One more thing, we should probably bring it up to date, what's the current status really of direct selling of the selling we've just described? You don't need data here, or special research on this question. These are common sense questions I would call them. Yet in the pitch that is often made for multilevel marketing, people don't ask them and don't think to ask them. Let's put a few of them out there that keep you engaged in in determining what's best for you here. When did you last buy something directly from a personal salesperson offering a product or service that you couldn't have gotten more easily in a store or online? In today's time, who has time anymore for personal sales, presentations, when the information needed is available online? Even YouTube? Can you get online to get a complete presentation offered to you or a demonstration on YouTube? So who has time for some to make an appointment and have someone come to you? How many people are even at home enough to listen to salespeople? How many people would let a person, a salesperson into their home these days, unless they already know them or even know them well. So you can see that direct selling has a reputation from a past era, that in today's time, where people are often not at home, don't really want to hear from a salesperson for a product they don't need them for, or if they are at home they just don't have time to dedicate to this.
Robert FitzPatrick 19:13
And perhaps another final factor might be this. We are inundated, all of us, with commercial messages day after day after day. Advertising. It starts when you're a child and never ends. Now someone invites you to become a direct salesperson and engage in direct selling. That's what you're going to be doing for money now. Not whatever else you're doing, or in addition to all that this is what you're going to be doing. And you might ask that question, "Who even wants to hear from salespeople today?" I mean, "Is this really a viable thing?" That's what all of these questions come down to? You need to know what direct selling is long before they get into how much money you can make, how wonderful the product is and so on, these basic questions, but maybe it would begin with who even wants to hear from salespeople these days, but that's what you would be invited to go and do.
Robert FitzPatrick 20:11
So we'll end with that. As an intro, it's enough for a person if they got this far, they would be so well armed to make a decision for themselves properly. If they didn't ask these questions, they might have gone forward either without information or with misinformation with an impression based on the past, or an impression that simply doesn't even exist and never existed. I hope this first session here can equip you to begin your thought process so that when these solicitations come in, or to some member of your family, you're ready to critically examine them and come up with the right answer for you.
Melissa Milner 20:57
If direct selling is so difficult and risky, and it requires rare personal attributes of self starting, persistence, communication skills, and ability to take rejection, plus management of time, accounting, and other business factors, and if it has been mostly replaced by stores, advertising, and online selling, why do millions of people sign up for multi-level marketing, which describes itself as direct selling? Is MLM direct selling or something else? If it's not direct selling, what is it? Robert will teach about this in our next episode?
Melissa Milner 21:37
Please remember to check us out on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @ponzinomics101 and check out our website www.ponzinomics.com. We hope you spread the word about this podcast because the best defense is awareness. Thanks for listening
Go to the link and pick up Lesson 2 as well HERE
https://www.ponzinomics101.com/episodes/realitycheck
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
https://static-3.bitchute.com/live/c...NS_320x180.jpg
https://www.bitchute.com/video/upjJ8reHAKNS/
The Raw Deal (29 July 2022) with Michael Ogden
1:56:11 video runtime
First published at 13:16 UTC on July 30th, 2022.
channel image
Jim Fetzer
Begins with discussion of the Alex Jones' trial for damages and why Jim thinks he may be throwing the case. When Jim' name was mentioned, the witness (who appears to be one of Alex's producers) said he was a professor at the University of Minnesota, who had written a book, Nobody Died at Sandy Hook. When asked if anyone else contributed, she said "James Tracy" and they turned to James Tracy. But if he wanted to show that his statements that Sandy Hook was a hoax were reasonable, she should have explained that he brought together 13 experts (including 6 Ph.D.s) who concluded the school had been closed since 2008, that there were no students there, and that it was a FEMA drill for which they even found the exercise manual, which was published in the book. That would have knocked the socks off the jury! Not good. And Jim's blog has been taken and his bio-sketch page on amazon used to smear him at a time when many who are following the trail may want to know more about him and his research on Sandy Hook. Guest today Michael Ogden has a book, A World of Lies, Collusion and Conspiracy, which covers a wide range of controversial subjects, on most of which Jim agrees. But he also defends Flat Earth and denies the reality of nuclear weapons, so Jim is bringing him back on Monday to discuss these topics especially with two experts. Look forward to the fireworks!
__________________
Dachsie comment:
Guest today Michael Ogden has a book, A World of Lies, Collusion and Conspiracy, which covers a wide range of controversial subjects, on most of which Jim agrees.
The first part of Mr. Ogden's presentation was very good. He explained how the same kinds of deceptions such as related to false flag events was going on in ancient times as well and he gives the basic reasons why these manipulations and deceptions work.
But in the second half things got very rough due to the main Revolution Radio ad break in the middle that the guest was disoriented by and not told about before the show, so this created a rough interruption and stopped the smoothness of this man's presentations. Also I felt like Dr. Fetzer was interrupting and argumentative while he was telling the guest that he was free to go forward and not worry about the time and that his show was a free
speech platform.
The show fell apart when Mr. Ogden's revealed his beliefs in "flat earth" and "nukes do not and never have existed" and then went on to refute "Darwin."
Dr. Fetzer is going to have Mr. Ogden back very soon on his show to "discuss" those three controversial theories. I will not watch that show because it just will be raised voices and a disharmonious experience for all.
I had thought I wanted to hear more from Mr. Ogden but not so much anymore. He laid the groundwork in the first part of his talk but for the specific purpose of dropping the flat earth and no such thing as nukes ideas that do not at all flow from the true ideas he set out at the beginning and I think, in fact, contradict those true sounding concepts.
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
I guess because I am on the "receive notifications" for Joshua Phillip "Crossroad" show, though I am not currently a paid subscriber to Epoch Times. (I was for a one month trial in the past and decided to drop the subscription.)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-re...ent=07-26-2022
Anyway I was sent a link to the FULL January 6 documentary that everyone is praising so that is it.
Hope it works for you.
Full runtime of Jan. 6 documentary is 1:42:17
I am watching now. Very high quality production value. I think this film could be a major game changer against the Deep State perpetrators of the evil January 6 event.
It is amazing to me how the Capitol Police showed themselves to have turned in to brutal tyrannical unprofessional thugs, like overnight. I've always respected police but not so much after watching this movie. If it is possible for every one of those Capitol Police to be identified, then I think each one of them ought to be fired from their job and blackballed so they never work again in legitimate employment ever again, if not put in prison for a very long time.
We have to just pray to bring down this corrupt entity that took over our country. This is true Satanic wickedness in high places referred to in Ephesians 6.
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
Eucharistic miracle in Guadalajara, Mexico
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=747s-WgS7a0&t=0s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=747s-WgS7a0&t=0s
5:48 video runtime
Heart Beating Eucharist, Mexico! Further Analysis Reveals Amazing Similarity to Heart Ultrasound
Mother & Refuge of the End Times
79.6K subscribers
Viral video of the miraculous heart beating Eucharist is photographically analysed and compared to ultrasound of heart beating. The results are staggering! It seems as if the heart beating Eucharist is portraying blood pumping through the valves within the chambers of the heart! Further scientific analysis needs to be done!
The miracle took place on the 24th of July, 2022 in Mexico.
_
John 6:51
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM9gC2Ssf9A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM9gC2Ssf9A
Mic'd Up — Catholic Perspective on Aliens
52:51 video runtime
In this week's free Mic'd Up, David Gordon interviews Dr. Paul Thigpen, author of Extraterrestrial Intelligence and the Catholic Faith: Are We Alone in the Universe With God and the Angels?
Check out Dr. Thigpen's book here:
https://www.churchmilitant.shop/?prod...
Church Militant
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeQAxtRZYJA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeQAxtRZYJA
FrancisChurch Is Not the Catholic Church! Don't Let "Pope" Francis Fool You!
Jeremiah Alphonsus (This YouTube reposted this What Catholics Believe show in the last few days of the month of July 2022)
1:57:15 video runtime
Nothing is wrong with the actual Church, as the actual Catholic Church is the Mystical Body of Christ and thus spotless. But everything is wrong with the New Order (Novus Ordo) religion, the counterfeit church founded at V2 and now led by the diabolical Francis. Understand: Popes must be Catholic. As a manifest heretic, Francis is not an actual Catholic. Therefore Francis cannot possibly be an actual pope. Francis is indeed a leader, but what he leads is the New Order religion. This new religion is a diabolical counterfeit of actual Catholicism, as proven anew every day, while the actual Catholic Church is once again in the catacombs.
The footage within this video is from the following:
The Crucifixion of the Catholic Church
https://youtu.be/5e1qRzoGoZw
Modernism’s Legacy of Perversion
https://youtu.be/EFBvAboXuUw
From this channel:
What Catholics Believe
https://www.youtube.com/c/WCBOhio/videos
The latest episodes are to be seen at:
https://rumble.com/user/WCBOhio
They got too real for Youtube, hence new episodes are only there.
Also see:
https://wcbohio.com
Along with:
The Popes Against Modern Errors: 16 Papal Documents
https://www.amazon.com/Popes-Against-...
Iota Unum: A Study of Changes in the Catholic Church in the Twentieth Century
https://www.amazon.com/Iota-Unum-Chan...
The Rhine Flows into the Tiber: A History of Vatican II
https://www.amazon.com/Rhine-Flows-in...
Also see all of the following:
Traditionalists, Infallibility and the Pope http://www.traditionalmass.org/images...
Resisting the Pope, Sedevacantism and Frankenchurch http://www.traditionalmass.org/images...
Resistance And Indefectibility http://www.traditionalmass.org/images...
The Loss of Ecclesiastical Offices – Part I: Is Holy Church Unprotected? https://wmreview.co.uk/2022/02/23/los...
Sedevacantism: How to Tell Aunt Helen http://www.traditionalmass.org/images...
Is Sedevacantism Really "Untenable"? https://youtu.be/WL5Ef7Zgro0
20 Comments
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
A word from Bishop Williamson
https://5g34l.r.ag.d.sendibm3.com/mk...IP6B56fJ_qL2GT
https://img-cache.net/im/3092419/7a1...OM3GjWR3ibQnm1
ELEISON COMMENTS DCCLXXXV (July 30, 2022) : SOCIODYNAMICS QUESTIONED
If “sociodynamics” is not yet a word to be found in any respectable English or American dictionary, it is nevertheless a reality parallel to aerodynamics. For just as there are objective laws of aerodynamics which must be carefully observed if any new make of aeroplane is not to crash immediately after it first takes off, so there are objective laws for the launching and survival of any society of human beings if that society is to survive and not crash to the ground. Now Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was a brilliant American lawyer who played a leading part in the founding of the new nation of the USA in 1776, and, unless it is a spurious quotation, he said how new that nation was going to be – “We are going to show the world that it does not need cardinals or kings.” In other words, men can rule by themselves without divine authority, religious or civil, to back them. In brief, human government does not need God.
Thus at the heart of the new nation’s Constitution was the principle of dividing its government into its three branches, legislative (making of laws), judicial (judging by courts) and executive (applying the laws), so that, in the absence of a Higher Being to control government activity, each of the three human branches of government could act as a check upon the other two. Now from 1776 onwards, it cannot be denied that the new nation was so flourishing and prosperous that the 20th century has come to be called by many “the American century”, meaning to say that the USA then emerged as the leading nation of the world by its economic and political power, admired and imitated all over the world. Yet in the 21st century few serious observers can deny that in 2022 its President is essentially inapt for his high office, having been elected by a stolen or fake election. And that nation is on the brink of civil war. What went wrong ?
A number of friends of the USA are asking themselves the question. For instance in an interesting article by Jeffrey Tucker https://www.theepochtimes.com/suprem..._medium=search ,
Supreme Court Targets the Real Enemy
there has been emerging inside the USA a fourth branch of government, growing in size, scope and strength, taking on a power of its own. It is now, he says, an unelected bureaucracy with some 432 agencies, employing nearly 3 million people who cannot be fired or controlled. For Tucker, the existence and harmfulness of this bureaucracy has been highlighted by a recent decision of the Supreme Court against one of the bureaucracy’s agencies, the Environmental Protection Agency, which the Court decided was overreaching its powers.
For Tucker, this was an admirable case of the nation’s judicial power holding in check its executive power, fully in line with the nation’s Constitution. However, as another example of an agency of the same kind, escaping unduly from Constitutional control, he quotes no less than the Federal Reserve, legislated into existence in 1913 by Congress, but coming since then to govern the entire economics and politics of the USA (see these “Comments” for March 7 and May 23, 2022). Does Tucker realise what he is saying ? If he is right about these unConstitutional agencies, then for more than a century the main life of the USA has been doing an end-run around the Constitution of 1776, to evade its famous “checks and balances”.
But is that surprising after all ? Scripture says, “Better a live dog than a dead lion" – Ecclesiastes IX, 4.
All the more: better a pack of live dogs than a piece of paper. It was live judges on the Supreme Court who in 1973 discovered in the USA Constitution the “right” to abortion, live judges who in 2022 found that it is not there after all. It all comes back to live human beings. Who has the power to hold them in any real kind of check or balance ? “One Nation under God” used to appear on American coins. It is from God that came whatever once made the USA great, in any real sense in which it was truly great. And if the USA, or any other country, will not turn back to God, its human beings will tear it apart.
Kyrie eleison.
The rule of cardinals, kings may fail, of course, But human authority must have in God its source.
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ySoi3WpvzU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ySoi3WpvzU
They are now having to face the reality: Art Del Cueto
Fox Business
1.93M subscribers
National Border Patrol Council Spokesperson Art Del Cueto discusses how Washington DC Mayor Bowser is asking for the National Guard to handle the migrant surge on ‘Fox Business Tonight.’
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-...tm_source=push
The Lockdowns Kicked Off this Depression
The Lockdowns Kicked Off this Depression
By Jeffrey A. Tucker August 1, 2022 Economics 6 minute read
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL
If you were on vacation last week, good for you. You missed one of Congress’s greatest-ever scams. They just approved some $750 billion (do these numbers even mean anything anymore?) to “transition” us from fossil fuels and coal over to reliance on the wind and sun, and also to subsidize a bunch of chip manufacturers because American companies screwed up their inventory control two years ago.
The worst of the two bills is called the Inflation Reduction Act. Shameless!
The details of this don’t matter as much as the big picture. What you have in Congress and the presidency right now is exactly what one might expect from an empire in decline. Special interests are tapping the petty racketeers in political power to pillage as much of American prosperity as possible before they are swept out of office in November.
Think of a criminal band that has entered a majestic home. They are grabbing as much as they can before the owners come home. If it is not nailed down, it is going straight into the satchels and put on the truck to be carted away.
Actually, it is worse than that. What Congress is doing today with its out-of-control trillions in spending is robbing generations hence of a chance for prosperity. We will be left holding almost nothing to hand on to our kids and grandkids. Most of all, what’s being stolen is hope for the future.
The last two days have been consumed with a discussion about whether we are in a recession or not. They want to change the conventional definition, just as predicted. The only piece of data to which they can point is the low unemployment rate while failing to indicate that labor participation itself has not recovered from 2020 and continues to fall dramatically.
https://brownstone.org/wp-content/up...PM-800x736.png
It appears as if we’ve lost 40 years of progress in a mere two and a half years. This is not an exaggeration: real personal disposable income has been falling since May 2021, the longest period of decline since the Second World War. It follows an explosion in printing-press faux wealth in 2020 that went as quickly as it came.
https://brownstone.org/wp-content/up...AM-800x729.png
What is the effect of this? Sure, it could pull back the rate of inflation a bit, maybe. Mostly, however, it further wrecks the abysmal bond market which has been performing worse than at any point since the Civil War. That is what one might expect from a Fed policy moving from zero or negative rates to positive rates. It’s time for a return to reality.
It has also locked up the consumer end of the housing market. People only a year ago were flipping houses like crazy, driving up prices as never before and absorbing vast amounts of upside inflationary potential. But now 2% rates on 30-year mortgages are soaring to 6% and higher, meaning that no existing owner can afford to sell and buy without taking a huge haircut. As a result, we are facing a massive supply curve shift to the left: soaring prices plus falling demand. The industry is in quite a panic.
https://brownstone.org/wp-content/up...PM-800x764.png
But that’s just the start of it. Credit card debt is up and defaults also, as real incomes are falling dramatically. Business investment is down. Consumer confidence has crashed to lows never before seen, even as trust in government will soon be in the single digits.
Very crucially: the last time the Fed squeezed the life out of easy-money policies in the late 1970s, we also had a new emphasis on economic growth. Yes, a recession resulted but under the influence of pro-growth economists, the whole country embarked on a different path. That was the path of growth and hope.
That is NOT happening now. On the contrary, the Fed is driving the recession at a time when the ruling class has decided that the rest of us should be poor and hungry, driving Flintstone cars and foraging for food. The result, for now, is shocking stagflation. But we don’t even have a word yet for what might be coming. Depression is already used. How do you describe high inflation plus a manufactured depression?
Let’s go with the White House term: transition.
Still, the New York Times assures us that this massive spending bill will help the government achieve its great climate goals. After all, they say, the average temperature has risen by 2 degrees Fahrenheit over the last 100 years, which, they further assure us, is the fault of industrial prosperity. To be sure, the average person only lived 30 to 40 years in 1800. During the same century that these people claim we’ve been burning up the planet, our average lives lengthened from 40 to 75 years.
Even granting the sketchy claim that your day trip and barbecue grill are causing the planet to overheat, one might suppose that life extension would be celebrated as a good thing rather than a climate catastrophe that cries out for the wholesale dismantling of industrial civilization. And what happens if the plan to lock down every two years in order to save the planet doesn’t work out as planned? Who will pay the price?
But truly, there is no making sense of these people anymore. They are ready to shell out hundreds of billions to take over arable acreage with solar panels even as we face a food crisis, and festoon the countryside with bird-slaughtering windmills rather than permit more pipelines and refineries to open.
The emergency of our times is undeniable, as is the solution of putting a hard stop on the insanity of government spending, money printing, mandates, controls, and impositions that are killing economic growth and shortening life spans. But it is no longer clear whether the current regime has a connection to reality at all. The current plan seems to be to wreck as much as possible before they are all swept out of office.
Putting it all back together again will require herculean efforts, an about-face on policy we’ve never seen in our lifetimes.
It was all kicked off by the most draconian and destructive public-health policy on record, one that utterly shattered the liturgy of life, took away education for the kids who were forced to learn alone with masks, shuttered churches and civic meetings, mandated shots on an unwilling population, demoralized the labor markets as everyone was forced to take their place as essential vs nonessential, broke long-established market relationships, blew the federal budget many times over, and generated a savings-wrecking inflation that has utterly transformed expectations for prosperity and progress.
Many of us despaired in the dark days of March 2020 concerning what could be coming. We could not have imagined half of it. Even now, even as mainstream media reports are starting to report on the overdoses and educational losses and collapsed public health, and economists are sounding the alarm about the future of enterprise itself, few are willing to admit the root cause. The lockdowns kicked off this hell.
Jeffrey A. Tucker
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQtiBOIw_LE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQtiBOIw_LE
3:45 video runtime
US farmers getting hit from all sides over Biden inflation: GOP senator
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vukX-7XLBWU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vukX-7XLBWU
David Hogg was sneaked into a Judiciary Committee hearing and had to be escorted out after demonstrating disruptive behavior. Congressman Jordan asked some lying woman who is the Democrat head of that committee and she said she did not know who brought David Hogg into the meeting against Committee established rules.
The Dems are really disgusting in their disrespect for order in the House of Represenatives.
I do not know who that woman (Ms. Lofgren) was but it is sad that she is willing to make herself look grossly inept in order to cover her obvious repeated lying.
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IvaihqezQw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IvaihqezQw
[B]'He Lied To Me, Lied To America': Chip Roy Lambasts Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas Over Border Security[/B]
5:31 video runtime
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
https://www.projectveritas.com/news/...de-on-militia/
FBI Whistleblower LEAKS Bureau’s ‘Domestic Terrorism Symbols Guide’ on ‘Militia Violent Extremists’ Citing Ashli Babbitt as MVE Martyr
August 2, 2022
Leaked document is labelled as “Unclassified/Law Enforcement Sensitive” that is for “FBI Internal Use Only.”
Under the “Symbols” category of the document, “2A” is listed with the following explanation: “MVEs justify their existence with the Second Amendment, due to the mention of a ‘well regulated Militia,’ as well as the right to bear arms.”
“Revolutionary War imagery” such as the “Gadsden Flag” and the “Betsy Ross Flag” are cited in the document under “Commonly Referenced Historical Imagery or Quotes.”
[WASHINGTON, D.C. – Aug. 2, 2022] Project Veritas released a newly leaked document today provided by an FBI whistleblower, which shows how the Bureau classifies American citizens it deems to be potential “Militia Violent Extremists” [MVEs].
In the document, the FBI cites symbols, images, phrases, events, and individuals that agents should look out for when identifying alleged domestic terrorists.
https://images.ctfassets.net/syq3snm...fbi1.jpg?w=800
https://images.ctfassets.net/syq3snm...fbi2.jpg?w=800
The “Unclassified/Law Enforcement Sensitive” document says it is for “FBI Internal Use Only.”
Of note, under the “Symbols” section, is a prominent citation of the Second Amendment, where it explains that “MVEs justify their existence with the Second Amendment, due to the mention of a ‘well regulated Militia,’ as well as the right to bear arms.”
Right below that, under the “Commonly Referenced Historical Imagery and Quotes” section, Revolutionary War images such as the Gadsden Flag and the Betsy Ross Flag are listed. Each flag displayed in the document comes with a brief description of what it means.
Under the “Common Phrases and References” section of the leaked document, Ashli Babbitt is cited as a person that MVEs consider to be a Martyr.
The same document also refers to Ruby Ridge, Waco, and even Timothy McVeigh, tying in traditional American ideas and symbols with radical and/or violent events in the past.
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
https://www.americaoutloud.com/resto...ican-republic/
americaoutloud.com
Restoring the Once-Great American Republic - America Out Loud
Dachsie comment:
I should have posted this article in the general Religion / Philosophy section of the forum.
This philosophy does not comport with traditional Catholic religion and philosophy. However it does point out some truthful information.
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Dachsie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joN8cP9cCJY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joN8cP9cCJY
This could be the greatest episode of corruption in US history: GOP lawmaker
5:33 video runtime
Fox Business
1.93M subscribers
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., demanded DOJ open an internal investigation, following whistleblower allegations that the DOJ and FBI illegally suppressed information on Hunter Biden, claims the FBI is 'smearing' GOP senators on 'The Evening Edit.'
Senator Grassley and Senator Johnson vs Biden DOJ, FBI ~ UncoverDC by Tracy Beanz
By
Tracy Beanz -
August 2, 2022
https://i0.wp.com/uncoverdc.com/wp-c...96%2C391&ssl=1
Chuck Grassley has been sending lots of letters to the DOJ. Any reporting about these letters has been limited to surface-level discussion about their contents; whistleblowers have come forward from within the FBI. They have shared information that top-level officials have politicized the decision-making process while deciding when to launch investigations into high-profile political targets. Of course, you haven’t seen any of this in “mainstream” media, outside of Catherine Herridge for CBS. The reason for this is simple; if anyone dared to pull back even one layer on this onion, they would realize that there is something much, much bigger at play here.
Lucky for you, I am a professional onion peeler and am all too happy to take on the task.
This story is about more than a few random whistleblowers stepping forward to allege political corruption at the DOJ while using the names of those accused. This story began more than two years ago, as Senators Grassley and Johnson took on the daunting task of actually investigating Hunter Biden’s ties to Burisma, how that looped into Ukrainian corruption, and how Biden was involved.
Remember, this began as the sham impeachment trial of President Donald Trump was ongoing. The impeachment was launched because people in the Washington establishment have so much to lose should their Ukraine slush fund end. They couldn’t risk the truth about Ukrainian involvement in Spygate and the 2016 election coming out. Dirty Democrats, NGOs, and Republicans alike wanted nothing more than to taint the Biden/Ukraine story as the ramblings of a President guilty of pay-to-play. They figured it would grant them the ability to cast out all information that could potentially be released in the amount of time people cared. If the Ukraine cow stops producing milk, the soulless and corrupt order ceases to be fed. If the numerous dirty dealings perpetrated in Ukraine by government officials, NGOs, and private citizens came to bear, they’d run out of jail cells to house them all in.
If the world found out, say, that the United States was using Ukraine to run secret dirty bio-weapons labs, or if they found out that George Soros had most of his major operations there, or that the children of politicians were laundering money through energy companies to do the bidding of China, or that Ukraine was an arm for part of the “Russiagate” scandal that destroyed two years of a Presidency and split the country in two, or, or, or… Well, you could see why that may pose a bit of an issue. However, Grassley and Johnson wanted to know what was happening with Hunter in Ukraine, so they launched an investigation to find out.
And boy, did they find the motherlode.
To keep this article somewhat surface-level and easy to digest, I will only say a few words about their investigation. You can read this report to see the sordid details for yourself. (Also, note that I personally interviewed Andrii Telezhenko for a piece about Blue Star Strategies published here) But, essentially, their months-long investigation uncovered the Biden family and Democrat corruption better than any other “official” investigation has, and when the democrats on the committee realized that two untouched and trusted Senators were running right to “friendly” media to get said information into the press before the election, they needed to take action.
And take action they did. The plan was really simple.
- Use the media to fabricate stories about anyone with credible information as the targets of “Russian Disinformation” campaigns. Make sure to quote anonymous intelligence officials to have the stories seem more credible.
- Have the Speaker of the House reach out to the FBI, expressing her grave concern at the recent reports in the press (with a classified attachment) asking for a “defensive counterintelligence briefing” for all members of the House and Senate regarding “foreign efforts to interfere in the 2020 election”
- Have minority members on the Grassley Committee request said briefing for their respective committees responsible for the Hunter Biden investigation.
- Have the FBI give the briefing.
- Use the briefing (and mischaracterize it) to write more fake stories in the press that the entire Hunter Biden story was a product of Russian disinformation.
Plan complete.
That is exactly what happened. Never mind that the Grassley/Johnson committee wasn’t using seedy dossiers from paid foreign FBI informants to gather its intelligence; instead, using documents from the Obama Administration and other government organizations, along with a powerful Democrat lobbying firm (one time a government subpoena was used for what was actually intended.) Pish posh. It was Russian Disinformation, damn it. And now, United States Senators were affected. The horror.
Here is a timeline, and again, this is very surface level, so I don’t lose all of you in minutiae that would make your heads spin.
July 13, 2020: Pelosi sends a letter to the FBI asking for the defensive briefing after Politico and The Washington Post published stories about Giuliani, Grassley, and Johnson being the targets of a Russian disinformation campaign involving Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Joe Biden. The letter contains a classified attachment, which was unavailable to Grassley and Johnson at the time, although the press reported on some of the content. The reports cite Andrii Derkach as the agent of Russia. Derkach was a member of the Ukrainian parliament and denies working for Russia. Giuliani relied on information from Derkach; however, the Committee did not.
July 16, 2020: Gary Peters and Ron Wyden, both ranking members of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the Senate Committee on Finance, respectively, send a letter to Johnson and Grassley requesting a briefing from the FBI, citing the Washington Post article as some of their reasoning.
July 28, 2020: Johnson and Grassley write their own letter denouncing the Democrat efforts to taint their investigation as Russian disinformation. In it, they say, in part:
“We also find it interesting that your letter to us was soon followed by a letter from Senate Minority Leader Schumer and Speaker of the House Pelosi, asking the FBI for a briefing on the same matters. Although we were not provided a copy of that letter and its classified attachment, news reports regarding the alleged classified portion suggest that it continues to falsely accuse us of having received information from foreign nationals about former Vice President Joe Biden, including audio tapes. Not only is that an apparent classified leak, but that allegation is false, and you know it because we told you it was false right after those reports were published.”
August 6, 2020: FBI gives the committee a briefing as requested by the Democrat members. In it, no specific information is given on how the committee may be targets of Russian disinformation.
August 8, 2020: Johnson publishes a lengthy, passionate, and specific “open letter” describing in detail the reasons for the committee investigation, what his committee had found in the past in regards to actual foreign interference in our elections, and the story of Ukraine. It also contains an addendum that calls out and responds to the reason for the August 6 briefing, a targeted campaign by members of government and the media to taint the investigation’s results into Hunter and Joe Biden and their involvement with Burisma. I highly recommend you read this letter in its entirety.
September 23, 2020: The Grassley/Johnson Committee releases its first report entitled “Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concerns.”
October 14, 2020: The NY Post publishes the Hunter Biden laptop story. As a result, social media censors the story completely. Legacy media attacks it as “Russian disinformation” and sets the internet ablaze. Numerous media and other accounts are banned from social media for reporting on the story.
October 19, 2020: Fifty current and former “intelligence community” officials sign an open letter to the public stating their belief that the Biden laptop story is Russian disinformation. This letter is used as a tool by the government moving forward to censor the American public in their discourse on social media and craft a narrative about the dangers of “misinformation.”
November 18, 2020: The committee releases a supplemental report to the original, which contains more detail and information. (Read these. You are doing yourself a disservice not to.)
July 20, 2021: Johnson sends a letter to Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz, asking him to investigate the August 6, 2020 briefing and the lead-up to it. In the letter, he reminds Horowitz of how the DOJ used briefings to spy on the Trump team.
March 28, 2022: Grassley gives a prepared floor speech, combatting in part the “Russian disinformation” campaign perpetrated on the investigation to cast doubt on the results. He also uses floor time to detail the investigation’s results.
That brings us right up to where the whistleblowers started talking to Grassley and Johnson in May of 2022. They have been actively investigating and confronting this for years. They were well aware that there was a wide-ranging and deeply embedded plan to taint any and all information uncovered about Hunter and Burisma, along with Joe Biden’s role in it all. And, to no one’s surprise, it encompassed senior members of the DOJ.
The first letters written by Grassley regarding the whistleblower information came on May 31, 2022. The whistleblower alleged partisan action by Timothy Thibault, a man serving as the Assistant Special Agent in Charge at the Washington Field Office. Grassley writes in his letter that Thibault has partisan social media posts, something you aren’t supposed to do in a position such as his. But what else is Thibault responsible for? Well, he served in a “highly sensitive role that includes threshold decision-making over which Federal public corruption matters are opened for investigation.” Ya don’t say!! I wonder what he may have been responsible for doing or not doing when it came to the Biden crime family. I wonder if he could potentially have delivered a defensive briefing to the committee regarding the potential that Russia was targeting sitting Senators. Additionally, this guy traveled to the same seminar as Bruce and Nellie Ohr in February of 2016 while Nellie was funneling fake news into Fusion GPS. Interesting. Do you think any of the following information Grassley was seeking ever came?
https://i0.wp.com/uncoverdc.com/wp-c...96%2C326&ssl=1
Grassley also fired off another letter to DOJ IG Michael Horowitz demanding yet another investigation into this transgression. In his statement, he encouraged other whistleblowers to march right up and feel safe sharing information about the misdeeds of our DOJ. I suspect that he already had a few more in the pipeline ready to go, and that statement was to provide cover.
With all of this background, let’s fast-forward to this month. On July 25, Senator Grassley fired off yet another letter to Christopher Wray and Merrick Garland. In it, he references the letter from May and gets right to the heart of the matter. The second paragraph states the following:
“The information provided to my office involves concerns about the FBI’s receipt and use of derogatory information relating to Hunter Biden, and the FBI’s false portrayal of acquired evidence as disinformation. The volume and consistency of these allegations substantiate their credibility and necessitate this letter.”
Imagine my shock! I am not shocked, and now neither are you. You have the background no one else has bothered to cover. The letter goes on to name FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten. Whistleblowers allege that Auten opened an assessment that the FBI Headquarters used to “improperly discredit” negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation, which in turn caused investigative activity to cease. This next part is just too good, so I will let you read it yourselves. Go on, take a moment.
https://i0.wp.com/uncoverdc.com/wp-c...91%2C737&ssl=1
And just to put some icing on this pretty little cake, guess who allegedly made the decision to close an avenue of investigation into Hunter Biden? ASAC Thibault. The first named official from the May letter. Grassley goes on to demand a litany of information from Wray and Garland, most (if not all) of which will be ignored. We have one more step before I tie all of this into a nice little bow for you.
One day later, Senator Johnson fired off his own letter to Christopher Wray, Merrick Garland, Michael Horowitz, and Avril Haines, the Director of National Intelligence. Page two of his letter is below for your entertainment.
What is happening right now is the result of a two-year quest to ferret out who was behind the plot to squelch any real expose of the criminal actions of Joe and Hunter Biden. Carefully crafted and patiently constructed, these letters are strategic. These are puzzle pieces that have been placed together over a period of years, as the country has caught up to the fact that “misinformation” is a term the left and establishment use to dismiss their corruption.
Separately, it may be the tipping point at an FBI and DOJ where “woke” ideology and politically driven criminal prosecutions have gotten to such a point that they try the souls of honest men. We haven’t gotten “whistleblowers” like this before, especially in a climate of retaliation as we have right now. It may be the early beginning of the end of the nightmare of corruption at the DOJ. It may be the early beginning of the end of the stranglehold on the truth about the widespread corruption cash cow in Ukraine, as our world hangs on the brink of war.
It is the quest of two men determined to hold accountable anyone who tarnished them and who actually care about corruption.
If you took the time to read Senator Johnson’s open letter, you know what this corrupt machine did to him. You know the loop of the intelligence community now operating as our media. You know the tar and feather of his reputation. You know how the powers that be manipulated the public psyche before an election they knew he would lose anyway in order to keep their crimes a secret.
Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley know every last bit of the truth about the man in the oval office, his corrupt family, and the corrupt administration that served before President Trump. They know everything about the fake impeachment and why.
Ukraine is the political cesspool that will bring it all down. It’s why all the desperation. It’s why all the shoddy reporting. It’s why all the hastily put together nonsense that everyone can see right through. If you need a good refresher on how Ukraine even ties back to 2016, listen to this podcast where I sum it all up. Ukraine is everything. If they lose control of the Ukraine narrative, they are going to lose it all. Look no further than the absolutely crazy way they are handling Russia to see I am right. Russia has it all regarding Ukraine information, and they are currently using their time at UN meetings to dangle it out like a carrot on a stick.
I often chastise elected officials for sending letters. The FBI never responds. The DOJ never responds. There isn’t ever any accountability. The only thing that makes me think differently about this particular topic is that these men have never stopped. Not while in the minority, not while being destroyed in the public square, not through any obstacle put before them. They are out for revenge. They are out for justice. They are out for what is right.
I think they are going to get it.
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
https://i.ytimg.com/an_webp/XpEBpU8v...12-zTQBk0oePQw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpEBpU8vWU4
The Vortex — Bring Back the Inquisition
6:32 video runtime
Aug 2, 2022
Church Militant
TRANSCRIPT
800 years ago, in 1232, Pope Gregory IX established an ecclesiastical tribunal whose chief aim was the rooting out of heresy. Bring back the Inquisition but with one caveat: Most, virtually all, of the current hierarchy is not allowed to serve on it. Indeed, certain hierarchs would be the objects of the tribunal, not the inquisitors.
The point of the inquisitions (plural, because there were different ones, and the Protestants had their own after the revolt in the 16th century) was to not just bring a heretic back from his ways, but failing that, to prevent him spreading his errors to others. Seen in that light, the Inquisition was largely about justice. Innocent souls have a right to the truth and a right to be protected from falsehoods.
That was the driving force behind the Church's Inquisitions. That is why we need them back again, removed from any taint of the hierarchy, because it is precisely from certain hierarchs that the innocent need to be protected. Viewed again from the perspective of justice, we can't think of anything other than an Inquisition to mete it out properly. The complicit, cowardly bishops, as well as the crooked and corrupt ones, will not confront those who bring a scourge to the people of God.
Innocent souls have a right to the truth and a right to be protected from falsehoods.
What they permit, what they advance, what they will not confront destroys faith in the minds and hearts of those with weaker faith. It is insufficient for those who have stronger faith (or naive faith) to sit back idly and throw around high-sounding platitudes like, "The Church has been here before; we'll get through this as well." That is only true corporately speaking. It is an abomination to say that in disregard for the individual souls damaged and wrecked by all this scandal.
And please, do not say to such as these, "Don't leave Jesus for Judas." That is true, of course; but you should thank God on your hands and knees that you have been given the gift of faith to such a degree to understand that. Others have not. They need you to take up arms and defend them, not go all "academic" on them. And precisely to the point, if you really believe that, then why aren't you doing your part to confront Judas, to defend them in the open?
Many in the Church these days are little else than selfish enablers, barely registering above the low bar of "professional Catholic," as Pope Benedict declared. You have your faith, you say, and nothing shall disturb it. You have your faith, but where are your actions in defending the innocent?
You can promote your own private little endeavors in the friendly confines of your local Catholic bubble, but where the rubber hits the road, where a soul's mettle is tested, where you are tried by fire and forged in divine justice is your willingness to lose everything you have, everything you have built to announce the fullness of the truth in defense of those who have a weaker faith. But for most Catholics today who count themselves as faithful, that is a bridge too far.
It's impolite; it's rude; it's "unnecessary." Leave us, they say, in our comfortable Catholic existence, a world we have crafted with a modicum of sacrifice, but, of course, always on our terms. To criticize a bishop openly in harsh-but-truthful terms, that's too crass. Tut-tut. Speak in charity, they say, failing to see that defending those of weak faith and in pained distress over the scandals of the Church is charity — charity in action. It is the very definition of faith and good works.
Many in the Church these days are little else than selfish enablers.
Are we to think for a moment that God Himself does not want the evil confronted, called out, exposed for the sake of the souls being lost because of it? Have you not heard what the Holy Spirit Himself inspired the Apostle to command the Ephesians: "Try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. Take no part in the fruitless works of darkness, rather, expose them"? How does the Devil seduce a believer, one with faith? He does not tempt him so much in the ways he tempts the worldly, through the flesh. It is, rather, through the mind; through pride. He doesn't wipe away his faith or even so much diminish it, per se. Rather, he distorts it, making it fruitless.
With the hierarchy, many of whom do not accept the Faith, don't believe in the Deposit of Faith; he leads them to Hell by assuaging their consciences through substituting worship of the second commandment over the first. But for those who do believe, how best to destroy them in the fires of Gehenna? By having them bow down in all self-righteousness, bow down to the first commandment in neglect of the second. I have faith; those others should respond likewise. Thus, they condemn themselves out of their own mouths.
And when John the Baptist came to them preaching repentance and love of their neighbor, the well-heeled and self-righteous took offense. Both commandments were too much. No one attains eternal life by looking the other way in the face of evil to the neglect of souls. Those who do, Catholics who, in the secret of their hearts, count themselves as superior because they perform various works, need to go and learn the meaning of the words "How can you say you love God Whom you don't see, when you do not love your neighbor whom you do see?"
You cannot avoid the almost always uncomfortable conflict with evil and ever hope to see God's face. You must be a lover of truth, not a self-deceived lover of self.
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/-co...m_source=email
Coffee & Covid ☙ Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Jeff Childers
Remember how the Biden Administration and his corporate media allies scolded everyone last week for using the regular definition of “recession” and swore that the “real” definition was much more nuanced, and since employment was so strong we were obviously in a fake recession, and things are really quite awesome? Remember that?
Bloomberg ran a story yesterday headlined, “Amazon Shrinks Staff by 100,000, Joining Netflix and Google in Hiring Slowdown.”
Haha, “shrinks staff,” these people kill me. You’re not fired. Just shrunk!
And “hiring slowdown!” Hahahaha! When a democrat is infesting the White House, you can fire ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND employees and the good little media doggies will roll over, beg for a treat, and call it a “hiring slowdown.” Fired slowly.
Calling a 100K layoff a “hiring slowdown” is like saying a rocket that exploded in midair “experienced an acceleration reduction.” My eyeballs rolled so hard it peeled part of my scalp off.
Just within the last few months, Bloomberg has also reported double-digit layoffs for lots of major companies: Carvana (-12%), Coinbase (-18%), Compass (-10%), Gemini Trust (-10%), GoPuff (-10%), Microsoft (-1%), Niantic (-8%), Peloton (-20% of corporate staff), Redfin (-8%), Robinhood (-9%), Rivian (-5%), StitchFix (-15%), Tesla (-10%), Unity Software (-4%). Companies that Bloomberg has reported having announced hiring freezes or reductions this year include: Apple, Lyft, Meta, Netflix, SalesForce, Spotify, Twitter, and Wayfair.
So, it’s just going great! Great employment numbers.
Amazon’s reductions are a little worrisome, in that the reason for the layoffs is shrinking inventories due to increasing supply-chain problems that Amazon apparently doesn’t expect to resolve anytime soon. And Amazon should know. It’s not critical, not yet, as the online reseller still has 1.5 million worldwide employees and remains the largest big-tech employer. But the 100K layoff figures are just for the first quarter of this year, so it’s not clear how many additional employees have been terminated in the most recent second quarter. Either way, it’s sure not going the right direction.
But it’s not a recession. Be positive!
-
Re: Jesus Christ, The Way, The Truth, and The Life
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/ne...m_campaign=usa
LifeSiteNews
USA
News
Video
Commentary
Resources
Subscribe
Donate
message
News
New documentary explains how tyrants use fear as a weapon to control the masses
‘If I can keep you in a state of fear,' executive director Doug Barry explained, 'we can get you to do things. We can get you to move in certain ways. Essentially, we can load you onto a boxcar.’
Featured Image
Vimeo
Patrick
Delaney
1
Tue Aug 2, 2022 - 5:47 pm EDT
Listen to this article
0:00 / 10:54
BeyondWords
You’re invited! Join LifeSite in celebrating 25 years of pro-life and pro-family reporting at our anniversary Gala August 17th in Naples, Florida. Tickets and sponsorships can be purchased by clicking here.
(LifeSiteNews) — A unique new video seeks to examine the psychological, spiritual, and even biological means by which dictators, tyrants, or other rulers throughout history have gained or expanded their power over societies, often leading to violent despotism and even genocide.
“Doomed To Repeat It” was directed by Catholic media personality, actor, and apologist Doug Barry. The founder of RADIX, who is best known for his one-man performance of the Passion of Christ, told LifeSiteNews the purpose behind the film was to raise awareness regarding “the number one” method “tyrannical, power-hungry individuals use to gain power, increase their power, and oppress people, [and that] is fear.”
And there is even a biological foundation for why persistent fear is so effective for controlling populations.
Psychologist Dr. Joe L
embedded video of "Doomed to Repeat It"
50:28 video runtime
video also viewable on Rumble
https://rumble.com/v1ejvgj-doomed-to...full-film.html