Things Are Coming to a Head

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By Charlie Johnston

This is Joe Biden’s America:

In Chicago, State’s Atty. Kim Foxx declines to press charges against five men arrested in a fatal gang shootout; In Washington, D.C. some 500 people continue into their ninth month of solitary confinement for “parading” in the Capitol.

In Arlington, Texas, a school shooter is released the day after the shooting on $75,000 bond while it is unknown whether all his victims will survive; In Washington, D.C. the Justice Department has ordered the FBI to go after parents who criticize local school boards.

On America’s southern border, illegal aliens are allowed, even encouraged, to freely come in (and hopefully vote Democrat); In Afghanistan, perhaps a thousand Americans were left behind in our disastrous retreat, with no serious effort (except by some private entities – which the government has tried to stifle) to get them out – no worries, too many of these were Republicans.

The Supreme Court ruled that there was not sufficient cause to issue an injunction against the Texas Heartbeat Law. A District Court judge in Texas (an Obama appointee) ruled that there was sufficient cause, overruling the Supreme Court. Talk about the cart before the horse! This ought to be a clear enough provocation to raise the ire of even the feeble John Roberts-led Supreme Court. If District Courts can now overrule the Supreme Court, so long as it serves leftist aims, our courts are utterly impotent in protecting civil liberty.

Joe Biden, the man who fraudulently occupies the White House, unconstitutionally ordered everyone to get the frankenshot gene therapy (which also violates the Nuremberg protocols) and bragged about it in a Chicago area appearance this week. He said that his mandates caused more people to “choose” to get the shot – just as people usually “choose” to give their wallet to a bandit with a gun in their face. Ninety years ago, Josef Stalin chose to improve Soviet harvests by forcibly starving millions of Ukrainian farmers. It extended famine – but the farmers who survived all did it Stalin’s way – which was the whole point. Now Joseph Biden seeks to improve health care by forcibly firing thousands of health care workers. It creates a critical shortage, but those left in the profession will do it his way – which, again, is the whole point.

Six thousand teachers protested the shot mandates last week, chanting “F… Joe Biden.” Seventy-two percent of black folks who live in New York are no longer allowed to eat in restaurants – because they have refused the frankenshot. There is now serious talk of requiring frankenshot passports for any travel between states.

I am not generally given to accept anecdotal evidence as decisive – but there are situations where it is. The most important is when the lie is big enough, the censorship is overwhelming against dissent, and active dissenters are punished by the government. The censorship and punishment of dissenters is enough for me to reject whatever narrative is being pushed by the censors and enforcers. But there is a self-defeating, practical flaw in the imperators’ insistence on pushing a big lie. When it is so big that normal people, in their own experience, see it for what it is, all it does is collapse whatever vestiges of confidence are left in institutions. That is why CNBC host Sara Eisen pressed Anthony Fauci on the reliability of his assurance on the rarity of “breakthrough cases” (cases where people who have gotten all the shots get Covid anyway). She asked because that applies to her and much of her family who are now fighting Covid cases.  I, personally, now know five otherwise healthy people who have died within weeks of getting the jab. I only know one who died of Covid. Even though many silly people attribute a sudden decline or medical problems that arise almost immediately after taking the jab as something else, as this continues to grow, the scales are going to fall ever more rapidly from those same people’s eyes. If a tidal wave is looming off your front porch and officials are telling you it is just a light rain, reality will intrude soon enough, however desperately you want to believe the officials.

There is a price to be paid when officials choose to live by lies. It may unfold in slow motion, as people react in astonishment as institutions they once trusted increasingly gaslight them and even punish them for noticing. Eventually, though, it reaches critical mass. In the best-case scenario, people just cease to listen to officials at all. In the worst case, widespread civil unrest grows into outright revolt. We are VERY close to ‘eventually’ right now.

How many people do you know who have died or have suffered major medical problems shortly after taking the jab? How many people do you know who have been fired or otherwise forced from their jobs for refusing the experimental gene therapy shot? When the bitter-enders say it is “just a vaccine,” I can only think, “Idiots!” It is genetic therapeutic approach that has never in history been used on humans before, has never had any long-term studies done in humans, and the long-term studies in animals have all been failures and, in most cases disasters in which all the animals died within a couple of years. When I hear Churchmen say that we have to consider the “common good,” I can only think, “Idiots!” How is it the common good to use a therapy that was never used on humans and has killed almost all its animal test subjects? I am horrified to find that most top religious authorities don’t even want to examine the evidence, but just do what the credentialed class tells them. I used to mistrust the Russian Orthodox Church because, when the Soviets came, they caved to temporal authorities with almost eager desire, even spying on the very people they were supposed to shepherd – for dissent against the party line. But I guess that all religious institutions, when composed of too many leaders without chests, fold like cheap suits when they are too lazy to do serious research and become too enamored of the paper and paste of temporal influence to care much about the riches that await those who live heroic fidelity.

Last December 14 I posted an article entitled, “The Beginning, Not the End.” I said, at the end of it, that the American Republic died on Dec. 11, 2020 when the Supreme Court refused, on faulty procedural grounds, to even look at the evidence of massive vote fraud. That is the only thing I got wrong in that piece (for which even some of my close friends accused me of being too alarmist at the time). Actually, Dec. 11 was the day our case became terminal. Now the question is whether we will just get a death rattle of the republic or will we have a revival and a new birth of freedom in this now-benighted land? Many people do not yet realize that America has become as internally restrictive as the old Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and Communist China were and are. That is because the old system of freedom under God was so big that it takes time – and surrender – to fully get people under the heel of the tyrants. But the tyrants are steadily working at it. Do you know what one of the great historical facilitators of tyrannical takeover is? The smug belief of the short-sighted that, “it can’t happen here.”

In the semi-comic religious song, “Noah Found Grace in the Eyes of the Lord,” at one point Noah says, “Lord, it’s beginning to pour,” to which God responds, “Noah, hurry up and shut the door!” All the tyranny, lies, deceit, and censorship are close enough to critical mass that we will soon reach a flashpoint. My advice to you is to hurry up and shut the door on the ark carrying your friends and family who have not drunk the cultural Kool-Aid.

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I call on police officers throughout the country to pray carefully now. Soon, you will have to make some serious decisions. Watching police authorities in Canada, England and especially Australia, mace and beat up little old ladies and children who resist Covid tyranny has horrified me. A year ago I was confident that in any such eventuality, the police would stand with the people they serve, their friends and neighbors, rather than viciously carry out the ugly edicts of their government overseers. This last year has badly shaken my confidence on that score.

I have had some heartening evidence that, despite the degeneration of police morality in the above-mentioned countries, there is still hope we will hold the line here. One cop I know told his superiors over a year ago, when the Covid nonsense first began, that he would continue to do the extra work he had taken on for the department, but he would NOT enforce any Covid restrictions – and if that was a problem they should just tell him and he would turn in his resignation. They left him alone. Another cop, was asked at a gathering of fellow officers,  what he would do if a vaxx mandate came. He cheerfully said he would get another job. At almost all of my talks, there is usually at least one cop in attendance and often quite a few.

Officers, I deeply respect the work you do in good times. Two members of my family are in law enforcement. When crunch time comes, remember that almost all of your overseers already hate you and are glad to throw you to the wolves. If you alienate the ordinary people who love you, you will become the single most bereft people in the land. Every department has a few bad apples. Active officers know who those bad apples are. It will no longer be enough to just ignore them. You will have to ostracize them, or you will be spattered by the tar of their vicious misconduct.

Everyone, pray to St. Michael for our noble, local police officers.

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In case any of you were deceived by Frances Haugen, the purported “Facebook whistleblower,” her complaint is that there is not enough censorship of views she does not agree with on Facebook. I smelled a rat as soon as it was announced that she would appear on an establishment press outlet. The legacy press does not give a platform to anyone who supports liberty and open discussion. Sure enough, she wants to clamp down harder on conservatives and Christians. They set it up this way in the hopes that they could dupe conservatives and Christians who are angry with social media into further silencing themselves. Always read the fine print in these times.

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In my last piece, I drifted into error on when Jesus knew He was God. It was kind of idiotic, because I have covered this ground before while maintaining full fidelity to Magisterial teaching.

I erred in this one because I drifted into suggesting that Christ was ignorant of His divinity for much of His formative period. In prior discussions of the matter, I have noted that I believe Christ set aside His knowledge in order to genuinely grow in His human nature. St. Thomas Aquinas, as usual, said it far more elegantly and concisely than I can: “What He knew from His divine nature, He suffered Himself to learn in His human nature.”

The Catechism covers the subject more technically from Paragraphs 470-483.

While this drift into error was a mistake, I have provoked more than a little controversy on several subjects these last few weeks. That is intentional. For almost the first thousand years of Christianity, there was a lot of often passionate and spirited debate on doctrinal matters. While that meant there was no little error, it also meant that people thought seriously about it and had to defend their position. I want to provoke something similar now, for after centuries, we have become so smugly certain of some things that we are poorly armed to defend the faith from serious assaults – because we are not challenging our own assumptions and thinking seriously about it. I would not leave you unarmed.

The reactions were along the lines I expected. Some were shocked that others could see things differently than they did. Some relied on conditional or ambiguous statements from authority to declare absolute certainty that their interpretation was both correct and the only possible interpretation. Others denied absolute facts in order to support things that they want to believe. Still a few others pretended to an erudition they did not have to try to settle matters. I largely left much of it alone. I was tempted, when one commenter described an ancient Magisterial discipline as a mere “idea” to jump in, but I let it ride. I particularly loved the questions Steve BC started asking. They were serious and insightful without straying far afield from formal Magisterial teaching.

There is nothing wrong with having a different take than other faithful people you respect have. Many saints who were contemporaneous with each other found themselves passionately defending opposite ends during the great doctrinal disputes. There is not even anything wrong with being wrong for a time. That is the price you pay for going deeper. The only wrong here would be to stubbornly keep to your interpretation after discovering defined Magisterial teaching refutes it. It is sufficient to be docile to defined Magisterial teaching once you know it, but it is much better to dive deeper then and find why the Magisterial teaching is true.

Some nervously said we should not dig at all, just accept. Remember St. Paul’s injunction in 1 Corinthians 12:13-31. We are all members of the one Body of Christ. In that Body there is great and true diversity. Not all have the same calling, but we are all edified by each of the members living their calling truly. If you say we should not split hairs, would you oust Sts. Thomas Aquinas, Augustine, and most of the Fathers of the Church because that sort of philosophical and theological inquiry was exactly what they specialized in? If you say we should not engage in mystical speculation, would you dismiss Sts. Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, Padre Pio and Faustina from the canon? If you are called to be an arm and not a foot, you are not obligated to do the things a foot must, in fact, it is best avoided. But take care lest you start condemning a foot for doing a foot’s job, instead of the job of an arm which you are called to and prefer. We all benefit from each member doing its job with fidelity.

I want you to think harder, to meditate more deeply because things are going to get worse. If you have not closely considered your faith – and your assumptions – when the assault rises to its most furious level, you risk losing that faith to despair rather than deepening it. I don’t mind a whit if people I love disagree with some of my interpretations. Do you notice that when I am being speculative, I almost always note that “I might be wrong”? The only way to explore new territory is to actually explore it – and sometimes you are going to go up some blind alleys. Shoot, the very groundwork for my eventual conversion into the Catholic Church was my relentless reading and re-reading of the whole Bible, and then my study of the historical cultural norms of the times in which they were written so that I could understand better what the original listeners heard beyond what it means to a 20th and 21st Century person. I used to begin RCIA every year when I was teaching it by telling inquirers I collected heresies – and would give five dollars to anyone who could come up with one I never heard of or, likely, even once believed. It gave them permission to explore what really troubled them and was really an invitation to them to cast out into the deep.

I am sometimes wrong – but my rock solid foundational convictions are that there is no error in God, who is truth, itself, and that truth will stand the test of examination. In fact, Truth welcomes it. If you don’t believe me, read Job again with fresh eyes. There is nothing wrong with sticking with what is simple. But for those who are called, what I am doing is inviting you to join me in casting out into the deep.

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We are in the second week of our fall fundraising drive for CORAC. We are now up to almost $15,000 raised on a goal of $50,000. Over a third of that has come from a wonderful woman in Alabama who tithed part of a recent inheritance she received. God bless her!

Some have asked anew what exactly CORAC is. A good question, as we are most certainly not a conventional activist group. CORAC is primarily a fraternal group that is committed to the traditional American and Judeo-Christian values of faith, family and freedom. First and foremost, it is a way to join a community of like-minded people who are open to discussion and dissent, so long as it adheres to the fundamental mission. In these times, when you have to self-censor at work, among family and friends, it is as refreshing as a wilderness waterfall to be able to talk freely about what is on your mind and in your heart without fear of being ostracized. We are a healthy family, often with disagreements, but without rancor or the desire that you should be forced to shut up. We seek to build each other up rather than tear each other down.

We engage in occasional activism, demonstrating in support of first reponders, conducting prayer rallies at various government offices. Since I am not big on directives, we are very open to letting you do what you love and, in fact, connecting you with people who are interested in the same. We engage in education on subjects that are useful to all. Your priorities do not have to match my priorities, so long as they are consistent with our mission. If you want to organize people to work to reform schools and protest, I encourage it and am glad to connect you with people who want to help and do the same. Whatever it is that supports those traditional American and Judeo-Christian values, we have people in our family focusing on it. I do not want to stifle people’s noble creative ability by rigidly directing what they must focus on; rather, I want to ignite that creative capacity in service to the larger organization and our communities. When you look at something wrong and say, “Someone should do something about that,” we give you the means to actually do something about it and help you find people who want to work with you.

We engage in educational activities that will be useful if times stabilize and vital if they keep disintegrating. We focus now on teaching natural medical techniques; developing means of surviving and thriving where you are with traditional home skills; keeping the channels of communication open by establishing a network of ham radios across the country (governments cannot shut down radio signals) and more accessible means of keeping people in touch at the beginning of any crisis; prayer teams that are uniting Catholics and Protestants throughout the country in building up the City of God and providing CORAC with a foundation of prayer. We will soon add an education team to help people work together to give their children a solid education no matter what the state of our culture or society.

In many of my talks, I have spoken of how the world will be transformed by the visible Triumph of the Immaculate Heart. People often ask me what that world will look like. I answer that it will be an entirely ordinary world, a place where we will have jobs and governments, bills and families, but a world transformed by love of God and love of neighbor. I tell them it will be similar to the idealized town of Mayberry in the old Andy Griffith show. At bottom, what CORAC is is Mayberry now. Whether you can participate a lot or just a little, whether you want to organize something or just learn some new skills (all classes and demonstrations are free of charge – though some may require materials – none of which we profit from. We won’t buy your radio or your homeopathy kit, but we are glad to teach you how to use them), or just want to spend some time visiting with friends where you don’t have to worry about being canceled, CORAC is a place you can do all of this and more. It is free to sign up and free to participate. We are entirely supported by donations (and some sales of CORAC-branded merchandise – but that is so small it doesn’t amount to much of anything). Thus, if you can, donate the largest amount you can by going here – and if you choose to become a monthly donor, we will send you a CORAC Rosary – complete with a little metal squirrel on it.

So what is CORAC? Simple…Mayberry Now!

(If only I could whistle, we would have a great theme song, too!)

Come join me on Gab. Look at Charliej373 or the CORAC group. If you send me a friend request on Facebook, I rarely go there anymore, but follow me on Gab and I will follow you back.

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Next Saturday, Oct. 16, I will speak in Estes Park, Colorado at 1 p.m. Before that, Region 12 is sponsoring a pilgrimage beginning at St. Catherine’s Church (sometimes called the Stone Chapel) at the foot of Mt. Meeker. All are welcome. To sign up, go here. I hope to see you then!

Mt. Meeker Now! (or something like that).

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327 thoughts on “Things Are Coming to a Head”

  1. I’m grateful beyond measure that we are VERY close to critical mass being reached. It’s in the air so that if it actually had a smell and a taste, you could smell it and taste it. I will only be surprised if widespread civil unrest bypasses outright revolt. Not saying I want the outright revolt; I just don’t see how it can be avoided.

    Oh yes, idiotic AND repulsive are the ways of even our religious leaders, such as that revealed in the insane line, “Being vaccinated is an act of love.”

    As you call upon our nation’s police officers to pray, Charlie, I gladly lift up those officers throughout this nation while praying the St. Michael Prayer.

    Love, Love, Love the invitation and exhortation to dig deeper in our thinking!

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    1. Oh, I love that St. Joan of Arc poster! I keep being reminded that I was (we were!) born for this time. Holy Spirit must know I need that constant reminder! 🤔😂

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  3. The injection mandate has finally found me. My company, a relatively small contract development and manufacturing (CDMO) biopharmaceutical outfit who I have been with since the very beginning 18 years ago, was purchased this summer by a global CDMO. This company this week, in deference to Biden’s executive order, has mandate that all employees be injected. Waivers, medical or religious, must be submitted by Oct. 22. I had a medical waiver that one of CORAC’s doctors graciously provided me, but since the doctor was not licensed to practice in my state the waiver was not accepted. I now have an appointment early next week with another Catholic doctor in my state and am hoping for the best. I have a religious waiver notarized and ready to go, but that will be my last resort; I think medical waivers are stronger than religious. God has blessed my family with some significant financial resources from a recent property sale that we had intended to use later for another property purchase, but it may be used instead to keep us afloat for a while should I be out of work.

    It’s one thing to have heard Charlie foretell a time when we would be forced to make decisions we never imagined we would have to take. It’s another to actually experience it. Thank you Charlie for your warnings and preparing us for this time. I don’t know that I would have been ready to commit to a radical dependence on God otherwise. I trust that God will provide for my family as I take the next right step.

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    3. Well, my co-workers’ wife (a teacher somewhere in Chicagoland ) applied for a medical exemption and it was granted, however, after 2 months it was revoked because they added new criteria or something. So ultimately she got the vaxxx. In my case a religious exemption worked even though it was submitted within one of the Catholic agencies under Mr. Cupich. Since Mr. Cupich mandated his priests to decline any religious exemptions and the Catholic agency also requires a confirmation/signature of a religious authority to be submitted with the application (lol), I applied as an individual Christian , stating as such I cannot provide any authorized signatures of any religious authority. (If one can identify oneself as of a different sex, so without a doubt a Catholic can identify himself/herself as an independent Christian. Additionally, I do not formally belong to any parish here in the US.). I guess Mr. Cupich’s commission had to swallow that. I already envisioned a scenario of suing Mr. Cupich. I must add I also run a side small business so I was not as pressed as I guess everybody else. I was pleasantly surprised they granted the exemption, but on a second thought I think it was probably done out of cowardice rather than out of charity.

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      1. Hi Littlelight. I did consider it, but I wasn’t sure if it would help or hinder. I don’t know this new company very well, so I chose the conservative approach.

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    7. Folks facing vax mandates at work, go to his Facebook or his webpage and read Christian lawyer Jeff Childer’s “Coffee and COVID” writings for today Monday October 11. He’s got a great column of suggestions on how to handle this, including document everything, use the correct terms, don’t quit let them fire you, get ready for lawsuits afterwards, etc.

      Webpage: https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/?fbclid=IwAR0N639h-AcbLn-ffCIQEmab5JrhkjWsFpda5ofbecFheFzoBl7lt59WKw4

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      1. Did you read the 9th’s post about ending abortion because of how the left took over the narrative of your body needs to take the jab for the greater good. Oh, this is an excellent article. Thanks for posting hopenjoy.

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  4. Dear Charlie,
    I believe I will keep it simple. We will continue to attend daily mass and continue to pray. I will certainly follow through on my responsibilities to the best of my abilities.
    Prayers for all who are here ~ katey in OR 🙏🏽✝️💙

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    1. Katey, I truly believe that prayers are the most powerful thing we can contribute. It’s no simple matter! God bless you for your faithfulness!

      (I think that is one of the big reasons the Carmelites are being forced out–I’ve never known their prayers to fail!)

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  5. Another great piece. Thank you, Charlie. I also appreciate the squirrel in the picture of St. Catherine’s Church. 🙂

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    1. You win the prize, Audiemarie!. I was waiting to see who would be first to notice the little chipmunk on a rock in the foreground of the Chapel. I couldn’t find a pic with a squirrel in it, so I settled for a chipmunk, which is surely a first cousin to the squirrels! Send me an email to charliej@coracusa.com with your mailing address and I will send you out one of the CORAC Rosaries.

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      2. Gray clouds behind the chapel–storm in the area despite the sunshine? I really would like to see that chapel but the wedding of the first grandchild to get married is that afternoon. I hope to see a video of the talk.
        The happy news that I just received: The Texas Heartbeat Act is back in full effect! Moments ago, an appeals court blocked the previous anti-Life ruling in the Biden administration’s attack on our law.
        That and the Rosary Coast to Coast this weekend looks to me like another God moment-in-time.
        Virgo potens, ora pro nobis.

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        1. Congratulations on the wedding of your grandchild, Joyful. How blessed is this couple to have such a grandmother as you who have their back in prayer! Joining with you in prayer for them while praying for all marriages.

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          1. Thank you, Beckita. They are starting their journey in the tough times and they are young enough to not be set in their ways. I think that makes them more open to God’s ways. I have noticed that some of the children of the families in my circle are answering the calls to their vocations at younger ages than before–in their early twenties.

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  6. My grandmother, Honey, died last year at age 101, five days after being given the shot. She had dementia and had no say in the matter. And my cousin’s father in Texas mysteriously and suddenly died of a stroke at age 70. I suspect though can’t confirm that he, too, was jabbed. Personally, I know of no one who has died from the coronavirus.

    And for those here who don’t know, I have ceased providing my services to a rural South Dakota healthcare system because of their unethical approach to both the viral infection itself and their grossly unethical promotion of these deadly drugs.

    I’m waiting for a call from them when their other providers, who strongly advocated for the shots to their patient and who unquestioningly and foolishly received the injections themselves, start dropping like flies.

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    1. It is a hard pill to swallow, yet I see/hear more evidence of the same daily in casual posts and mentions. Truly diabolic in nature.

      My dear sister, a nurse, felt as if she was on the brink of death in the summer of 2020 and refused to believe that this illness was not all it was claimed to be and was living proof. Fast-forward one year later and it is being widely reported that the medicine given to treat CV, Remdesivir, was very likely the culprit in making patients deathly ill.

      She toes the line at work and does so with the heart of mind of best practices, as her family’s sole breadwinner. It is heartbreaking to me! She is my big sis and so much more intelligent than I. Oddly instead of “intelligent” I began to type *worldly* and stopped to think, that’s it! Or at least a big part of it. She is a practicing Catholic too! Sigh.

      Lord have mercy. ❤

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      1. Jen, yes!!! Several months ago I read that Remdesivir combined with Dexamethasone was a deadly cocktail because of its effect on heart and, particularly, lungs. This prompted me to review Father’s chart notes from his hospitalization with “pneumonia” 2 weeks after covid. For a week, it was baffling to the medical team as to why they could not bring down his 7L oxygen need. (This was the early phase of covid when I think well meaning docs, who actually problem solve in patient care, were sincerely trying to figure out good care and after care practices.) Now I understand why the need for intense oxygen supplementation. For a long while I’ve been a firm believer in asking God to bless whatever medicines, supplements, etc. that we consume that they do the good intended and that side effects are none.

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        1. “For a long while I’ve been a firm believer in asking God to bless whatever medicines, supplements, etc. that we consume that they do the good intended and that side effects are none.”

          I love this, Beckita!! I believe in this, too. But you are the first person I can think of that put this thought into clear, crisp, wonderful words!

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        2. Yes, Beckita, your last sentence! That’s exactly my prayer as I pray for my husband each evening with blessed oil, that negative side effects of radiation will be eliminated.

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      2. My perception of time is badly skewed. Honey died earlier THIS year.

        Interesting about the resdesivir. Antivirals are barely effective anyway – but I wouldn’t have expected they could worsen the problem.

        Your sister sounds lovely, Jen. (I’m partial to nurses — always have been!)

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    3. I’m so sorry, Patrick. For all of it.

      My grandmother died this year after the stab, and as our patients got stabbed many of them died after about 2 weeks. It made them sick for the first few days after, and from that point they never fully recovered their prior capabilities or health. But no one really cared because old people in nursing homes are just there to die anyway, right? Lord, have mercy. The nurses knew. The Administration… well, they saw it but continued to scratch their heads.

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      1. They inject the innocent elderly with a few milliliters of a substance, and shortly thereafter they suffer for days and then never recover their full faculties….or they die.

        As wicked as this is, it is also stunning that it’s allowed to continue month after month.

        Lord, have mercy, Briana.

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        1. Yes, Lord have mercy! However, I just watched a video with 3 doctors spilling the beans and they spoke of all kinds of conferences with “good guys” including one coming up called “Health Freedom for Humanity”. The doctors said there will be a new system arising!

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          1. Annie, folks here have often talked about things boomeranging back against those who are hatching these evil plans and narratives. I believe the System and the Evils are going to find out they have lost when they thought they were winning. We have needed a new healthcare system for a long time. God and the people who are getting fired or resigning are even now forming the seeds of that new and more *human* healing approach.

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  8. Charlie, the link to the “Sara Eisen pressed Anthony Fauci” goes to an American Thinker article that doesn’t directly mention that subject at least not that I can see. Also do you have citations for these studies demonstrating that in animal trials, death was imminent within 2 years? I am not a kool-aid fan but I personally don’t know anyone who received the vaccine and has died as a result; I do know, however, my aunt died due to this viral infection’s complications, her son is suffering major health deterioration after infection, another 4 deaths on my husband’s side of the family due to the viral infection; 3 deaths in my mother’s parish have occurred just this week due directly to COVID infection; none of these deaths were vaccinates. Currently, my sister-in-law and my brother are fighting the infection; my brothers oxygen level is dropping below 90% and he is in rough water. They were strong proponents against the masking and vowed not to get the vaccine. It’s pretty real to them. This injection is by no means a panacea and I know I can not possibly see the whole picture from my perspective but I am trying to gather the evidence I have personally, and as long as we’re discussing anecdotal evidence, thought I would mention it. It’s a rotten time for clarity. If any one person has it here beyond a shadow of doubt and actually has hard numbers with decent citations without confounding variables, then I offer myself as a pincushion. Better do it sooner than later because I guess I’ll be checking out in less than 2 years since I got the injection last April.

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    1. I understand, Joy. I have covered all this before and I really can’t post new links ad nauseum every time I speak of these things, especially when some of the big tech censors busy themselves taking down old links. Yet I understand the confusion. I’ll give you this one here. The frustrating thing is that now, enough info is available through simple research and logic. Sweden, which minded its own business and mandated nothing now has one of the flattest hospital and death rates in the world. India, which used Ivermectin (which is derided here in the media as “horse de-wormer”) as its main treatment now has one of the flattest death and hospitalization rates in the world. Israel, the most “vaxxed” country in the world is one of the major world hot spots for Covid now. Singapore, almost as heavily vaxxed as Israel has seen an astronomical spike in cases. Vermont has seen a new spike – and 67% of its hospitalizations are from among the fully vaxxed.

      This is all compounded by the intentional confusion being set up by officials – both public health and political. They suppressed effective therapies, even outlawing them in some cases, that are working phenomenally in other countries. They used therapies that made things worse. Putting someone on a ventilater is usually a death sentence when Covid is involved. Using Remdesivir makes things worse more often than it makes them better. Then when the treatments kill people, they claim it was Covid. If you want the best short course with a ton of links, I suggest you go to our own Steve BC’s site, “Steve’s Front Porch,” which has covered the problems extensively. In one case, one of our CORAC members contacted Steve because a relative was in critical condition – and the doctors were floundering. After listening to the symptoms, Steve suggested a possible answer – which turned out to be correct – and the man’s life was saved. Otherwise, he would have been reported as a “Covid death.” The VAERs reported deaths alone, which are 30,000 percent higher than ever allowed for a real vaccine, are stunning and shuffled away as much as possible.

      I am rather fatalistic about this whole thing. I know it is an unfolding disaster of epic proportions, but I gave up trying to convince anyone several weeks ago. Now it is just a matter of working to assemble the ambulances to deal with the fallout as this becomes obvious to all. For you, do the best you reasonably can with what you can determine on your own. I watched network news for the first time in ages tonight, and I see why so many people are in chaos. It was all what a miracle the “vaccine” is and how stupid those anti-vaxxers are, without even a hint of a nod to raw data. Fortunately, God does have a plan – and everyone who tries to do the best they reasonably can, even if they were wrong – will be rescued. But yes, it does frustrate me to no end that many good people will die needlessly before we, as a culture, realize how badly we have messed this thing up.

      Thanks for alerting me about the “Sara Eisen” link. I accidentally gave the same link I had used on a prior note. I will fix it as soon as I finish here.

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      1. Charlie, you said the following in this post: “My advice to you is to hurry up and shut the door on the ark carrying your friends and family who have not drunk the cultural Kool-Aid.” I have to admit that this left me depressed and sad. I have several members of my family and numerous cousins and friends who are vaxxxed, having swallowed the Kool-Aid Narrative in full. I pray often for them, and so far they have been ok. However, they are still asleep with a cup of Kool-Aid in hand. I so much don’t want to close the door on them, yet you are correct that there is nothing I can do – they will have to red-pill themselves based on their own experiences with their own health and the health of others they know. I hold out a small hope that my work on solutions to ameliorate the bad effects of the vaxxxes will help some vaxxxed people reduce or postpone health issues from the vaxxxes they took, but it’s a small kit bag in the back of a very large ambulance. Sigh.

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        1. Steve, that was my point of pause too.

          I know the door is closing. I can feel it. I can see it daily with God’s timing in my own life, the lining up of situations to get me out of this state (NJ) at what feels like it’s going to be the skin of my teeth.

          My children are choosing to stay.

          They are old enough to do as they please and too young to fully grasp the magnitude of what is going on ( and isn’tit hard for us to even grasp that?).

          My hope is that my move will give them a place to run to– if they can get out.

          I’m praying with you for your family.

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          1. Same here, my dear.
            I am the only un-shot person in my immediate and extended family.
            We moved out of the big city a few years ago and I hope we can
            offer a place to whoever might need it.
            My one hopeful thought is that surely there will be survivors of the mRNA,
            just as there were survivors of plague and smallpox.
            I pray daily to the Holy Spirit for eyes opened all over the world.

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          2. “My hope is that my move will give them a place to run to– if they can get out. ”

            I love this, it is beautiful.

            Awhile ago Spirit Daily linked a version of The Little

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            1. (I should know not to use a mobile device, ugh. Sorry)

              …The Little Flower’s morning offering. I copied it and loved it. I did not understand why that particular translation was so special, until I lost the link (luckily I printed it out) and despite searching, could not find it. (I will find it later, but from memory it was this line: “Because we ARE to be gathered there [Heaven] for all eternity. So be it. Amen.” The emphasis is mine. The context of “we” is her loved ones and herself, whom she is praying for.

              Other versions of her prayer used different words, which changed the entire overall meaning to give the entire prayer LESS hope. I couldn’t believe it. But the more I searched, it was true.

              I realized the line she prayed: “Because we are to be gathered there [Heaven], for all eternity. So be it. Amen.” was another example of The Little Flower bold, expectant faith in God’s Mercy. The people who translated her put their view on it (not as bold). It’s a guess on my part, but it seems that most translators thought it too presumptuous. Except for that one translation. I don’t have it in front of me, but I will post it later.

              Anyways, why is this relevant? It has been an enormous consolation to me. Things don’t always work out lovely here in this vale of Tears, in spite of our best (puny) efforts. But this hope is something no one can take away. God has a special heart for a parent’s or kid’s prayers.

              So like you, and a gazillion other Moms (?kids) out there who are of good will, I want my kids in God’s will and therefore happy and sure would love to have dinner, share life with them, etc. But if that can’t be, for whatever reason, what a thought: “Because we are to be gathered together for all eternity. So be it. Amen” +TY Little Flower+

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          3. Briana Elizabeth, we escaped from New Jersey last December. My wife and I spent most of our lives there and our children were born and raised there. Two years ago our daughter and fiancé moved to West Tennessee. It was difficult, but we felt there was a purpose in their move.

            Last year I lost my job in part due to the market conditions of the pandemic. We could no longer afford the expense of living in Jersey and we could not stand the oppressive political climate there. After selling our house we moved in with our daughter and son in law and have never looked back. Life here has been a breath of fresh air. Not sure when our son may join us, but all in God’s good time. He very well will him to remain back in South Jersey.

            I guess I want to say that change can be very difficult, but do not be afraid to step out in faith. You may be surprised what God has planned for both you and your family. Stay prayerful and find a good parish.

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        4. Steve and Everyone, we can carry our lost dear ones in our hearts of prayer. I’m getting ready to scoot out the door for a drive out of town to a funeral. I’ll share much more later…

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          1. What came to mind this morning while reading your comment, SteveBC, was a passage from Charlie’s writing (https://asignofhope379.com/2021/02/23/an-expensive-but-fruitful-breakdown/) which I also just used in replying to Pawel:

            “I know a lot of people are very fearful about their loved ones who are getting the gene therapy vaccine. Don’t be. Remember that nothing is lost in God’s economy. Let me tell you what I think is going on here.

            God intends to bring all back to Him who are willing. Last year, in a Tower of Babel moment, we were hit with a serious virus that, even so, was within the normal range of such things. It had some unusual characteristics that made it deadly to a small but identifiable portion of the population. We went into a frenzied mass of raw panic, characterized by ever-changing advice (Don’t wear masks! Wear masks! Wear two masks!) – and this contradictory kaleidoscope of misinformation was from public health authorities. Ambitious little tyrants started issuing broad commands to shut down the economy, destroy people’s lives and livelihoods, leave old folks to die alone and uncared for while their loved ones were begging to see them. This was all for “our own good.” We quarantined the healthy while confining the sick to absolute viral incubators. Here in the City of Man, we relied on everything but ordinary prudence and God. God is not mocked by our officious little power games and ego trips.

            Yes, I do think this experimental gene therapy being called the Covid vaccine will be the greatest medical disaster in history.  Yet God is always responsive to the call of those who truly wish to come back to Him. He does not will the destruction of even the rebellious and is ever glad to take them back. When the Israelites in the desert began to grumble and speak vile things about Moses and God, God sent them a plague of poisonous snakes to punish them. Yet when the people cried out and repented, God told Moses to make a fiery snake and mount it on a pole – and when the repentant people bitten looked upon it, they would not die from their snakebites (Numbers 21). That serpent on a pole became the symbol, even in these times, of true medicine. So, yes, I think a lot of people are going to be bitten badly by this gene therapy “vaccine,” but I also think that all who took it in good faith and suffered serious adverse reactions before we knew how bad it would be will become martyrs to the Lord and will intercede for us both here and in heaven. Once it is clear how bad it is, everyone who repents and calls on the name of the Lord will be healed. And then we will know once again where our only true source of security lies and will once more turn to true medicine rather than the shifting kaleidoscope of politicized medicine that stalks the land, changing only to augment the power and influence of the few rather than the good of all. Some will NEVER call on God and, so, be lost.”

            Let’s keep praying, Everyone, for our own family members and for each other’s family members, that In God’s Way and Timing He will draw each lost one back to Himself via the graces procured in prayer an fasting.

            (Jesus we trust in You.)

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        5. Steve, I disagree with your statement: I hold out a small hope that my work on solutions to ameliorate the bad effects of the vaxxxes will help some vaxxxed people reduce or postpone health issues from the vaxxxes they took, but it’s a small kit bag in the back of a very large ambulance. Sigh.
          I see your contribution of your ” loaves and little fish” as the means that healing can come through the gift of the multiplication by a miracle, if or when God so “chooses.” I have been telling the ones who are vaxxed that, if they need information, your website is a good source. My hope is that their Kool-Aid turns into a strong, hot cup of coffee. 🙂 I hate shutting the door on those I love but I hope my trail of breadcrumbs will lead them to healing. I have to tell them of the hope I have for them.

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          1. JoyfulHope, you are living up to your name. I do my work on this because I do believe it will help. There is a line in the movie “The Day After Tomorrow” when a voice off-screen says, “Save all you can.” So I do my work. And I pray for those I know who have taken the vaxxxes. But sometimes it feels like pushing on a string, and when I get hit with the occasional realization of how far gone into the Narrative so many are, it can be – for a moment – rather discouraging. Charlie’s talk of ambulances hits close to home when we are dealing with this issue. Thank you for your encouragement. 🙂

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        6. Yes, Steve, My heart is aching for all my family and friends who have taken the vax and I pray for them constantly. At this point, all argument is past. They have done what they have done and I pray and pray that all our grandchildren will be spared. 😢🙏🏽 Yes, with tears.
          And other prayers…a large building, an old granary turned business mall, in Mt. Angel, burned, is still burning 🔥 We have a friend who owns one of the businesses and his is totally gone.
          So many prayers 💔
          Jesus, Mary and Joseph, hear our prayers.🙏🏽✝️💙 katey in OR🙏🏽💕✝️

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          1. Yes, Katey, you’re right, all argument is past, until they wake up on their own. Nothing for them will ever be the same, no way we can ever go back to what it was.

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        7. I truly, truly believe that we are coming upon the age of great and magnificent miracles of the Lord.

          The Lord will intervene in the lives of the vaxxed and all will know the Lord healed them. They will need to repent as Charlie said. And perhaps the prayer he will post will be an instrument for healing.

          There are many graces available but we have to ask for them. Be audacious in your desire to ask for healing for those in your care. Jesus wants to answer our prayers. He loves the prodigal sons and daughters more than we ever could.

          Pray the surrender Novena over and over so that it becomes habit.

          Praise God for all that each of you do to help others!

          Thank you for your example and witness!

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          1. LittleOne, you are absolutely correct. There will be massive miracles. But it is my very tentative belief that for a miracle to happen for a person, he or she will have to exercise their free will first and turn to God and ask for help. I have a brother who ridicules God and related subjects and has gotten two injections of vaxxx. All I could do was to ask him please, if he ever found himself before God, to not turn away but to ask for help, to say yes to God. After many emails back and forth, he eventually decided to humor me and said OK, he would do that. Now, I suspect he would normally not consider anything like that, but I truly believe that he *will* remember me and my request at that crucial moment. And all those other members of my family who were party to those emails got the same message. In the long run, that effort may prove to be the best thing I ever did for my family.

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            1. This is Beautiful, SteveBC. Your act of love will not be forgotten by The Lord, who loves your loved ones more than you. As Charlie once told me: “Never underestimate God’s tender mercy.” Amen!

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      1. Good morning ~
        I was so distressed by the thought of the children ~ ALL children ~ receiving this medical treatment that I woke in despair and prayed, saying that it was more than I could pray for and then I was reminded that GOD is in control and I am not and I immediately arose and prayed a “flying novena” for all children.
        Protect them, O Blessed Virgin Mother! Protect them from death by injection.🙏🏽Protect our innocent children from the well-meaning as well as the evil ones.✝️💙😔
        Lord, hear our prayer. 🙏🏽
        Katey in OR

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        2. Oh Katey, I hear you! My Divine Mercy prayer has been: “For the sake of His sorrowful passion have mercy on Your children and on the world.” The realization came to me that, unless the Lord intervenes, there are going to be many, many orphans. I am praying that He keeps me alive so that I can “mother” as many as possible. 😥

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          1. I commented to friends the other day about how I sense we will be offering a home to “extras”. I don’t know how or why or who but I am placing my trust in the Lord.

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          3. Jewel, you have hit what I believe will be a *major* issue by this time next year. But you’re not thinking broadly enough. However many parents die, leaving their young children we hope to people like you, we all need to be aware that about as many adults (and some children) will be terribly incapacitated and need considerable ongoing care. It won’t be just children who will need care.

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            1. I asked that of some friends this morning, SteveBC. Is there something the health and wellness team is doing to offer suggestions for us mother ambulance drivers? While reading an account of a younger man getting cancer now after the jab, when there is only us, what do we give them to help? If there is someone in terrible pain from cancer or whatever, what do we need to have on hand. Your statement -will be terribly incapacitated and need considerable ongoing care, is overwhelming. Obviously the H & W team can’t address all situations but maybe a few small suggestions. We have leftover everclear from the tincture class. I figure if someone gets mauled by a bear it would come in handy as a disinfectant and pain killer. I am so far out of my depth here. It will definitely have to be a cast ALL of my troubles on the Lord and to not borrow tomorrows troubles. I watched my mother die from cancer. Not something ya want to do without strong meds for them.

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              1. HttP, I just sent out the invitation for our next H&W team meeting. Feel free to bring up this concern at the meeting, because it is quite worthy of discussion.

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                  1. Ha! Apparently when I sent the invitation this morning, I misspelled your email address. I just resent it; let me know if I got it right this time. 🙂

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        5. I am very concerned about the children as well. I can rarely be shocked these days, but I can feel great sadness about what is being imposed. I also think about how much Darkness is growing all around us. Charlie summed up a lot of the madness. No, no one could imagine it would ever “happen here”. That goes for all of the (previously) free word. My heart breaks for Australians. They are living a true nightmare.

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          1. And the nightmare, as evidenced in Australia, is like a plague that is vigorously trying to envelop all of us. However, this plague is being viciously imposed by so-called leaders and it is not biologically based. Yet so many do not see the tyranny developing at an increasing fast pace.

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      2. For the Sake…. yep, it was all laid out, the whole plan. BUT this doctor/psychiatrist says now we fight back!! Not violence, but be like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, take brave risks. Maybe that’s another way to say what Charlie advocates, do something!

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    1. Hey Rick, thanks for asking. I do know that there has been a shift in the regional coordinator for your region. The former coordinator is doing other great work for CORAC and the new coordinator, a great man, is just settling into his new position. There’s also been a shift to new emails for CORAC leaders. How long has it been since you last emailed, Rick, and are you using the email which is found on the interactive map on this page: https://corac.co/get-involved/ ? We’ll get you connected.

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      1. Beckita, I too am in Region 3 and asked to join two weeks ago. My wish is to be included in the Prayer Team and have been following the prayer intentions for October. Will continue this way until directed otherwise. Thank you, Brenda

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  13. “but my rock solid foundational convictions are that there is no error in God, who is truth, itself, and that truth will stand the test of examination. In fact, Truth welcomes it. ”

    He is quite the bees knees, isn’t He?
    When , in the depths of sin, we approach Him in debate, with ALL frankness, much of it ugly and disgusting, He lovingly hears us and teaches us. Continue long enough and it leads to repentance and His way, gladly too!.

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  14. Via Sundance at CTH, via two pictures, is a perfect example of “why” institutions have destroyed their authority and legitimacy.

    these people are thugs; may they reap what they have sowed.

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    2. Those contrasting statements are almost identical to the CEO of the company one of my daughters works for. She quoted his first sentiment indicating they’re willing to engage all opinions on her rel. exemption form, but a few days later, lo and behold came a stronger toe the line or else. The latest missive from HR is we will be contacting you soon to further discuss your request. She’s already applying elsewhere just in case. How apropos Year of St. Joseph, patron of workers pray for all in need.

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    3. The tyranny in Lithuania is abhorrent. CD has a post below that everyone should read. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1440910274962333696.html

      Cancelling people from food and water because they are not vaxxed–how much more diabolical can it get before souls RESIST and protect their fellow humans. How Godless has mankind become!

      Repent, Fast, and Pray for the illumination of hearts and minds.

      I hear you BC, where I live, I can count on one hand people who have NOT drunk the kool aid. This generation will receive a huge wake up call soon–God Willing!

      How much longer Lord?

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      2. And it’s happening in so many countries all over the world. We easily lose sight of this because of our national news cycle being packed with crazy town oppression stories. We are smack dab in the midst of a worldwide civil war being fought on cultural lines… and that’s actually GOOD news from the perspective that the only way out of it is though it. Evil DOES and WILL exhaust itself.

        Littlelight’s sharing of “Be Thou My Vision” comes to mind, as does John Henry Newman’s lyrics to “Lead Kindly Light.” I love the school bus at the beginning, bringing to mind the care of our children. I would love to see the video be of ambulances and rescue people working though the darkness.

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        1. Beckita, I’m glad you mentioned the sharing of “Be Thou My Vision”. I loved it so much that I put the link into an email to myself (which I often do to save links from here). Whenever I want to hear it, I just click on it and listen while I read. Beautiful rendition!

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    4. Timothy, this goes along with the whole vaxxx propaganda process.
      Here in IL it has been going in this order:

      1. Get the vaxxx, save the planet!
      2. Get the vaxxx, and you will be automatically enrolled in $ 1 million dollar lottery and also a lottery with a free college tuition for you kid.
      3. Get the vaxxx, while you are still having time to save yourself and others from the Delta variant!
      4. Gov. Pritzer copying one week later Mr. Cupich, mandates the vaxxxination.
      5. Biden steps in with his federal mandate.
      6. Between Cupich/Pritzekr/Biden and basically almost now, HR uses this strategy:
      A. First they communicate everybody has to get the vaxxx without mentioning any possibility of
      any exemption.
      B. About three weeks before the deadline they send out a pressuring bullying letter with mentioning shortly between the lines about possibility of an exemption. At this point all or almost all co-workers, got at least 1 shot. (One co-worker had what was diagnosed a stye eye,some time after 2nd Pfizer shot, his left eye was completely closed for a few days, I suggested to him it actually might be a side effect of the vaxxx attaching a llink of a twitter account where people complained they got this kind of reaction after the jab. All in all he didn’t want to take the vaxxx but under HR pressure he did).

      7. Now, after kicking people left and right, the commercials on TV turned into presenting crying doctors begging people to get vaxxxed.

      Just curious what point 8 is going to be.

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      1. Ugh. I remember reading, oh about a year ago, iirc it was in that New York paper (?Post)that runs conservative articles, anyways, it was how the brilliant [sic] elite were perfecting a handful (?ten) psychological manipulation tactics to push on peeps emotions to manipulate them into taking the vaxxx. There was one for pretty much all the human emotions, guilt, anger, fear, pride, do-goodery, etc. It’s truly disgusting. Well, it’s actually much worse than that, as we know.

        They tell us what they are going to do, then do it, and still there is mass hypnosis.

        +Jesus, I trust in You+

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  15. JESUS = GOOD NEWS! 😉

    https://texasrighttolife.com/texas-heartbeat-act-regains-full-effect-per-appeals-court

    https://www.wnd.com/2021/10/6th-circuit-gives-hands-religious-rights-victory-vaccine-mandate-fight/

    https://www.crisismagazine.com/2021/saints-make-the-nation

    Vatican Commie Clerics in Lock-Step with Global Re-Set Agenda!
    https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2021/10/08/vatican-foreign-minister-calls-fiscal-redistribution-fight-inequality/

    Now! When are catholics gonna WAKE-UP to the FACT that Democrats are NOT their friends.
    https://canadafreepress.com/article/black-americans-are-seeing-biden-for-who-he-is

    Blue States are almost there …then……!!???
    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1440910274962333696.html

    YUP!
    https://www.theburningplatform.com/2021/10/08/the-mark-of-the-beast/

    https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/10/08/jobs-creators-network-biden-weak-worst-jobs-report-year/

    https://technologymanias.com/2021/10/capitol-police-whistleblower-delivers-scathing-rebuke-to-two-of-its-senior-leaders-on-jan-6.html

    All part of satan’s Agenda ;-(
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/dea-fentanyl-meth-seizures-southwest-border

    USA Invaders don’t need a Trojan Horse:
    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/10/an-afghanistan-grows-in-wisconsin

    https://nypost.com/2021/10/07/justin-trudeau-mocked-after-using-2slgbtqqia-acronym/

    https://www.theblaze.com/
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com
    https://www.townhallmail.com/

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!

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  18. Today is the anniversary of the apparition of Our Lady of Good Help in Champion, WI. I was at the shrine one year ago today (both Oct 8 and 9. ).

    https://championshrine.org/

    I’ve included some pictures of the Shrine below which are from my 2020 visit.

    There was a devastating fire in that area in Peshtigo, WI, on October 8, 1871 — the deadliest in U.S. history. This is the same day of the Great Chicago Fire. However, there are two miracles that occurred: one is a Eucharistic miracle and another involving people who survived the conflagration in a small wooden church.

    https://rosaryworkshop.com/RDPF-Fire-1871-2Miracles.htm

    In the pictures below, the chapel (which is the third construction) is built directly over the site of the apparition of 1859. The image of the statue of Our Lady with kneelers and candles before her is in the basement below the church. This is the very site of the apparition.

    Our Lady of Good Help, pray for us!

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      1. It IS a wonderful and peaceful place. The locals gently corrected my mispronunciation: It’s PESH’-teh-go, not Pesh-TEE’-go. There is an interesting story attached to my visit. After ~2,700 miles and many weeks of travel, I had deviated dramatically from my initial timetable. But I had allowed myself the flexibility to spend more time at one location if I wanted. In fact, I had actually arrived about a week later than I expected.

        So I initially arrived on October 8. Spent the whole day at the shrine – prayer, mass, lunch, bookstore, Rosary, healing service. Calm blue skies. A perfect day. Next morning, I left my B&B on Lake Michigan early and was gonna shoot straight away to LaCrosse to the Guadalupe shrine there. But I passed by a little sign that indicated the Good Hope shrine was a mere 2.5 miles away. And I thought, “I can’t just ignore this and drive by! I’ve got time to pop in one more time. How long before I ever come this way again?” I arrived right during the homily and, to my momentary astonishment, this very day, October 9, was the anniversary of the apparition. I couldn’t stop smiling at how God arranged everything so that I would land precisely on that day! To me, I put the odds close to 1/365. To God? 100%.

        October 9 was a cloudy and very windy day. An adjacent farm field had clearly just been fertilized (I offered it up). I prayed a rosary at the area honoring our military (pictured above). After finishing my prayer, I was walking back to the truck in the parking lot, ready to head to LaCrosse. There was a gardener in a golf cart and I backtracked and asked him, “Say, do they know where the apparition site is? Is it near here?” He pointed at the church that I had been in several times and said, “Yes. They know the exact spot. It’s in the basement below the church. The entrance is right over there.”

        Palm-to-Head slap!

        I was here for two days and I didn’t know this?! I have no idea how this information evaded me, but boy was I grateful that I asked!

        I ended up staying in the basement at the apparition site for another hour.

        Very memorable trip. 🙂

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  20. I will keep it simple. I have and believe by Faith, the Magisterium of Holy Mother Church and The Holy Bible. My opinion means nothing. And by the grace of God and much study, I can defend the Faith and will until Jesus brings me home.

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  21. Just a prep note: Sitting in my wheelchair, I was able to fill 20 one gallon Hefty Ziploc storage bags with water and put them in coolers for storage in the garage. Space saving and worked well. I placed a note on the coolers with date, so that in six months, if necessary, I can rotate new fresher water in and take stored water out to the garden. or whatever…….

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  22. Sorry to say this, but with this utter moral and political nonsense we are and for long have been witnessing to, mishandling the current pandemic by those in power appears to be a blessing in a disguise and once people lose confidence even in the healthcare authorities they will be more likely to open to God and His graces and will be more likely to think for themselves. But unfortunately it is going to take a train crash at full speed as presented by Charlie in the headline picture.

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    1. And as mentioned by Charlie more than a few pieces ago, once people see the truth for what it is, God will draw good from the evil, for when people know their utter poverty, their n.e.e.d. for God and tun to Him for Mercy… well, consider this again:

      “I know a lot of people are very fearful about their loved ones who are getting the gene therapy vaccine. Don’t be. Remember that nothing is lost in God’s economy. Let me tell you what I think is going on here.

      God intends to bring all back to Him who are willing. Last year, in a Tower of Babel moment, we were hit with a serious virus that, even so, was within the normal range of such things. It had some unusual characteristics that made it deadly to a small but identifiable portion of the population. We went into a frenzied mass of raw panic, characterized by ever-changing advice (Don’t wear masks! Wear masks! Wear two masks!) – and this contradictory kaleidoscope of misinformation was from public health authorities. Ambitious little tyrants started issuing broad commands to shut down the economy, destroy people’s lives and livelihoods, leave old folks to die alone and uncared for while their loved ones were begging to see them. This was all for “our own good.” We quarantined the healthy while confining the sick to absolute viral incubators. Here in the City of Man, we relied on everything but ordinary prudence and God. God is not mocked by our officious little power games and ego trips.

      Yes, I do think this experimental gene therapy being called the Covid vaccine will be the greatest medical disaster in history.  Yet God is always responsive to the call of those who truly wish to come back to Him. He does not will the destruction of even the rebellious and is ever glad to take them back. When the Israelites in the desert began to grumble and speak vile things about Moses and God, God sent them a plague of poisonous snakes to punish them. Yet when the people cried out and repented, God told Moses to make a fiery snake and mount it on a pole – and when the repentant people bitten looked upon it, they would not die from their snakebites (Numbers 21). That serpent on a pole became the symbol, even in these times, of true medicine. So, yes, I think a lot of people are going to be bitten badly by this gene therapy “vaccine,” but I also think that all who took it in good faith and suffered serious adverse reactions before we knew how bad it would be will become martyrs to the Lord and will intercede for us both here and in heaven. Once it is clear how bad it is, everyone who repents and calls on the name of the Lord will be healed. And then we will know once again where our only true source of security lies and will once more turn to true medicine rather than the shifting kaleidoscope of politicized medicine that stalks the land, changing only to augment the power and influence of the few rather than the good of all. Some will NEVER call on God and, so, be lost.”

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  23. Very good Charlie. The sooner people realize this is planned genocide the better. You will also find that the CDC itself only recognizes someone as fully vaccinated two weeks AFTER the second shot was administered. And since most of the jab deaths are occurring during the first week , the death is considered as a unvaccinated person , and wont go into the books. Incidentally , my brother in law , the ER doctor has told me under no circumstances should anyone let a doctor give their loved ones Remdemisvir. He is a subcontractor type doc and goes to several hospitals in my area. He said all the hospitals are on the verge of collapse. Many quitting. Indeed we are close.

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    2. John, if this is true that most of the jab deaths are occurring during the first week and the death is considered as an unvaccinated person , and won’t go into the books since it takes TWO WEEKS – AFTER – SECOND SHOT to be considered vaccinated, you just explained why here in IL supposedly over 90% deaths are attributed to the unvaccinated. What a creative accounting using as units dead bodies instead of dollars. Auschwitz 2.0 . Thank you for your insight.

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  24. PRAISE GOD! Little Christopher Ramirez found SAFE! Happy and laughing, 6.5 miles away (as the crow flies.) Chritopher is three years old. He ran after the dog 3 days and three nights ago, only about 7-10 miles from me. Wonder what stories he could tell? Thank you, Jesus, Mary, and all the Holy Angels who helped keep him safe!

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  25. JESUS = GOOD NEWS! 😉 PM

    Remember when Pope Benedict XVI refused to do Photo Ops with Politicians lest he promote Scandal in The Church! SanFran Nanny & Friends will use these photos in Campaign Ads to show BoobLand USA how “Down with The Agenda” PF is ….. last week a saw some Poll that claimed that PF has 83% Catholic approval ……. ;-(
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/10/09/pope-francis-welcomes-nancy-pelosi-in-the-vatican/

    https://stream.org/american-christianity-needs-a-reality-check-and-a-backbone/

    SIGNS!?
    https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Diesel-Stockpiles-Are-at-a-20-Year-Low-as-U-S-16518601.php

    https://www.nationandstate.com/2021/10/08/over-1000-crew-members-are-stranded-on-abandoned-cargo-ships-globally-without-pay-or-food/

    https://summit.news/2021/10/07/former-border-patrol-head-biden-paying-5-million-per-day-to-not-build-a-wall/

    https://thepostmillennial.com/fbi-program-teaches-agents-to-deconstruct-identities

    https://gunfreezone.net/federal-government-indoctrination-through-schools-was-always-the-plan/

    https://summit.news/2021/10/08/rand-paul-warns-americans-to-be-afraid-of-your-government-says-watchlists-of-dissenters-already-exist/

    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/lifes-beach-until-tsunami-hits-four-waves-nobody-cares-aboutyet

    https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brad-wilmouth/2021/10/08/cnn-tries-blame-pro-gun-states-crime-new-york-california

    YUP!
    https://townhall.com/columnists/wayneallynroot/2021/10/09/we-all-know-biden-is-not-in-charge-so-who-is-really-running-the-country-the-answer-will-shock-you-n2597192

    https://www.libertystorch.info/2021/10/09/destruction-tests-are-destructive/

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2021/10/dems-use-threat-trump-justify-any-power-grab-daniel-greenfield/

    https://granitegrok.com/blog/2021/10/im-calling-on-governor-sununu-to-defend-new-hampshire-parents

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!

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    1. Crewdog, regarding Pelosi’s audience with Pope Francis, a rumor has it that at the end the pope and madam speaker prayed:
      “C19 vaxxx we trust in you!,
      C19 vaxxx we trust in you!,
      C19 vaxxx we trust in you!,

      and yes, for the forth time to make it more efficient (beat that Faustina!)

      C19 vaxxx we trust in you!”.

      It is also rumored that should this prayer of vaxxxodus not work, next time they will boost it with the fifth “C19 vaxxx we trust in you!”.

      Sorry if that was too silly.

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  29. Hi, it’s Lilia from Italy.
    I would like to tell you how my Country has become a dictatorship. After suffering lockdown, limitations to circulations between regions, but also between provinces and even towns, after the enforcements of a number of rules, often contradictory, to go to shops, restaurants, bars, beaches, after mask mandates imposed everywhere, even for many months in the open air and still in schools from 6 yrs old up, now from October 15th the covid pass is required to go to work, whatever the job all over the country. To have the covid pass, you must be either vaccinated, or having had the covid (but only six months earlier, otherwise it is not valid) or you must have a covid test in a pharmacy every 48 hours at the minimum price of 15 euros each.
    Every worker in every field, otherwise you are suspended without pay.
    But for some workers it is worse, those working in the health field, albeit administrative employees, as my husband, must get the vaccine , otherwise they are suspended without pay.
    So, we are waiting for my husband to be suspended because he is not vaccinated and we are quote scared because at 56 in this economico crisis he might not find another job.
    On a symbolic note, on October 15th, a sculture named “The Door to hell” by the french artist Rodin, will be exposed in the Quirinale, the presidential palace in Rome, the seat of the Presidente della Repubblica.
    It’s been weeks that people are protesting in many cities and towns in Italy, thousands of them, but the media are almost completely ignoring the protests. If they speak about them, it is only to say there were merely a few hundreds people, instead of thousands. Or worse they write that the protestors were violent, when often there were just a few infiltrated people who caused trouble and the others were peaceful.
    Our currently premier is Mario Draghi (translation: Dragons), the former ECB banker. He told on tv that those who do not get the vaccine will die and make others die. The media give little or no space to dissenting doctors. Two of them recently died “suicidal”: Dr. De Donno and Dr. Lesmo.
    The government says 80 per cent of the population got vaxxed. In my family only six of us did not.
    The pope and his minions go on saying “getting the vaccine is an act of love”. It gets repeated in many parishes. A meme says “an enforced act of love is called rape”. Yesterday your Nancy Pelosi came to visita the Pope. Every time a democrat comes to Italy, we fear for the worse.
    I could write many other things but I do not wish to annoy you.
    I ask prayers for my Country as I pray for you and the whole world.
    Lilia

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    1. Thank you for updating us, Lilia. Many here have been watching beloved country as the news unfolds with videos of some of the demonstrations. You, your countymen and and your country remain in my payers.

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    3. Lilia, it is wonderful to hear from you again. I’m sorry for what is going on in Italy; I will pray for you, your family, and your country.

      By the way, how is your son doing? He must be getting tall now. 🙂

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    4. Liliae, thank you for filling us in on your current circumstances. Please keep us posted and share with us what is happening to you and your wonderful country. At the very least, it will remind us to pray for you.

      It is my belief that the second American Revolution must occur first, before your first Global Revolution can gain serious traction back toward freedom. Our revolution is close here, but not quite yet.

      In the meantime, you and your husband and your countrymen and women *must* *hold* *until* *relieved*. Help is coming, but until it arrives, you *must* hold the line. You must FIGHT!

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  30. God speed Lilia. I have seen the wonderful people of Italy pushing back against the dragon. May the Lord protect them all.
    Yes, very hard to watch our Pope support, greet, defend the great evil.

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  31. This brave physician (who lost his job because of how he was giving treatment to C patients) gave a fabulous talk about what is going on in the world . He gives data and at the end he recommends the book that give about 1,000 references of fact that show all that is going on right now was planned several years in advance. I think that this book is a must read. I just ordered it. Just get to the last 15 minutes of so to find the name of the book.

    https://odysee.com/@WanderingCitizen:7/Winning-the-War-Against-Therapeutic-Nihilism—Trusted-Treat:d?r=Gow5wV5Bp66pAqbk7ZiGk4HHdnfNHuir&fbclid=IwAR1WqpqnXXaicKjadr00Pjjptl52DPcaca2jhO7FEdckWHpgNHr_D4i5GS4

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  32. JESUS = GOOD NEWS! 😉

    https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/local-news/remembering-the-miracle-of-the-great-peshtigo-fire-and-the-anniversary-of-the-apparition-of-the-virgin-mary/
    https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/bible-found-opened-to-psalm-106-and-107-one-of-few-objects-to-survive-deadliest-fire-in-us-history/596984

    That Evil GOP Guv making BlueState Democrat Tyrants Look-Bad!
    https://www.floppingaces.net/most-wanted/covid-cases-in-florida-are-down-88-in-the-past-1-5-months-with-no-new-statewide-policy-no-mask-mandate-or-vaccine-passports/

    Remember some weeks ago I pass on a post from Team America about FEMA putting out a bid contract for food supplies in ALL FEMA Regions covering Sep 21-Dec 22?
    Looks like besides all the other Gubermint Induced Disasters we are now compeating with Gubermint over food supplies ;-( Oh! Ya wan a FEMA Food Hand-Out? Gotta show your Vaxx Passport …… Pure Evil confronts US!!
    https://thepostmillennial.com/bidinflation-americans-spending-extra
    https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/breakfast-inflation-strikes-oat-prices-hit-record-highs

    https://usamediatimes.com/news/entertainment-arts/bacon-prices-hit-record-high-during-pandemic/

    https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/us-heating-oil-supplies-lowest-decades-ahead-winter

    Wars, rumors of wars, famine, pestilence & DeepFake “News” … & Killer Drones…
    I can’t help but wonder what St John was really seeing in those Revelation Visions of the Future!
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/deepfake-technology-60-minutes-2021-10-08/

    FDR closed the Banks, outlawed the possession of Gold bullion and ordered that Gold coins be pulled out of circulation. In the mid 60’s Silver coins were no longer minted.
    Today! None of the Coins in your pocket have any intrinisic value and your Greenbacks are backed up by DC Hot Air ;-(
    One day in the not too distant future I expect to see banks closed and the contents of “Safety” Deposit Boxes confiscated!!
    https://off-guardian.org/2021/10/01/programmable-digital-currency-the-next-stage-of-the-new-normal/
    https://schiffgold.com/guest-commentaries/one-ring-to-rule-us-all-a-global-digital-fiat-currency/

    https://mises.org/power-market/government-spending-cannot-stimulate-economy

    https://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2020/06/like-dance-band-on-titanic-band-plays-on.html

    https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/10/10/gavin-newsom-signs-law-requiring-gender-neutral-aisles-in-toy-stores/

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!

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  33. To push back a little bit on the idea that these COVID vaccines are *extremely* dangerous:
    If it were the case that a large amount of people who were perfectly healthy were dropping dead due to it, would not a large amount of doctors be sounding the alarm?

    I tend to think that a large majority of “your neighborhood” doctors and nurses are not in the business of trying to sell any certain narrative or coverup anything.

    It seems reasonable that there are risks associated with vaccination, as with most medical interventions, but it seems to me that to claim evidence of extreme dangerousness would include proposing a decently sized conspiracy amidst ordinary doctors and nurses.

    But of course, believing that they aren’t extremely dangerous for most does not mean we ought to force people to get them. I don’t think forced vaccination ought be supported. It must always by true informed consent.

    (Now, none of this rules out the these medical interventions could have a medium to long term extreme negative effect that we haven’t seen yet. But again, we wait for the data and evidence in regards to that.)

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    1. To push back against your pushback. It is not a “vaccination.” It is an entirely novel gene therapeutic that has never been used on humans before, failed almost all its animal tests, killing most of the animals. It is delivered via a syringe. It is a familiar way to deliver something completely different from anything ever used before. When doctors are warned by medical boards that they will get their license pulled if they criticize the shots; when thousands of medical personnel refuse the shots and are fired for it; when the VAERs system already has recorded over 16,000 deaths that are known shortly after a shot (and also says that, at best, it only records 10% of all incidents – which means that there are at least over 160,000 deaths so far), when Twitter suspends the account of a mother who reported the vaccine death of her son, recorded by the local coroner as such, as misinformation; when Project Veritas released undercover video of doctors and scientists who push this stuff privately talking about how bad it is; – if you want to continue to believe what the government, social media, and medical personnel and scientists who risk losing their jobs if they dare say otherwise are telling you, have at it. But if someone has to lie, coerce, threaten, censor any dissent to get me to do it “for my own good,” it is not my good they are concerned about. And while looking at the common good, I’ll share this chart with you of just ONE comparison.

      Enjoy the consequences of your choice and I’ll enjoy the consequences of mine.

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        1. Hi STJUDITHWANTTOBE,

          Maybe to put you at ease a little bit in regards to the chart of deaths in Israel. If we zoom out and get the full picture, here is the chart/data we are looking at:

          https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c0RFDYjQp0T-bUly1mMO4oN3xcAZyf_J/view?usp=sharing

          The good news is there is nothing out of the ordinary about this. The rise in deaths that follow at the end of July and early August follows a rise is cases the preceded it by about 7-10 days. That is exactly the delay between rise in cases and deaths that we’ve seen everywhere.

          That is why we need to be aware of correlation and causation. Just because one thing precedes another thing does not necessarily means the 1st event caused the 2nd. It might have, but we need to dig.

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          1. It seems you haven’t read Charlie’s latest piece, Philip. Two key few excerpts:
            “I will not put up any links with this article. The disorders created by the shots are so common and growing that to miss them now you have to intentionally be turning your head in the other direction. I have no patience left with the “correlation is not causation” crowd. In statistical analysis, vast departures from statistical norms are early warning of potential causation. When the statistical aberration from the norm of deaths is over 30,000 percent higher than normal (as it is with this shot), you have to be intentionally blind not to be terribly alarmed. When you find that those numbers are actually suppressed by defining “unvaccinated” as up to two weeks after the second shot – so doctors don’t report so many adverse events and so they can say the dead were “unvaccinated” rather than died shortly after taking the shot, there is nothing I can say to keep you from going off that cliff. Today, anyway, you will have to do your own research – and if CNN, the other networks, the CDC (which has been proven to have lied repeatedly throughout all this) are your only go-to sources, well, we each will pay the price for the decisions we make. Mine is a loss of liberty. Yours is a loss of health. All of ours is the loss of a constitutional republic.”

            And…
            “The fearful thing is that, despite the massive numbers of disorders (death, clots, heart problems) popping up from this already, these are only the short-term disorders. In the animal studies, as common as short-term disorders were, it was the long-term disorders that killed almost all of the animals. The injected spike proteins tended to intensify future infections and to constantly attack the soft tissue of internal organs. Most animals died from long-term pulverization of their lungs. We won’t see the long-term disorders start to kick in in a significant way for another six months. Ah, but as one genuinely well-intended doctor told me, while conceding what a disaster the animal studies had been, public officials had assured him that they had solved the problems. If they did as good a job with the long-term disorders as they did with the short-term disorders, nearly everyone who got the shot will die over the next three years, without divine intervention. Whistling past the graveyard with a lot of happy talk will not change that. Safe and effective, indeed! But divine intervention is a reality in crisis.”

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            1. Hi Beckita!

              I am really looking forward to reading Charlie’s latest reflection and I actually have it open to hopefully read this weekend. (I have 4 kids under 3 years old…so you know…!!)

              The truth of that matter is I could be wrong, and I’m perfectly fine with that. Discovering the truth of reality is hard and humbling. Again, as Charlie has said, we ought aim to be true rather than right.

              The thing to remember is this is a question of a sliding scale. A medical intervention can be mildly harmful, moderately harmful, and all the way up to dangerously harmful (and everything in-between). A person must then weigh the pros and cons of a certain medical intervention as there are no “risk free” choices in life. Life is risky and we do all die one day. (Again, just to note, I vehemently oppose forcing someone to receive these medicals treatments. Informed consent is a must, even if these were 99.9% risk-free.)

              The reason why I have the belief that I do *right now* is I have not personally seen evidence presented that would support the claim that this medical treatment is incredibly dangerous. I think one could make an argument that it is mildly harmful to some age groups of people. One then weighs those risks against the risks of other choices.

              ——

              Since the natural question is, okay, what about all the evidence? I’ll just keep it simple for where I’m personally at:

              𝟏) 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐲/𝐎𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞: I live in one of the more recognizable cities and greater suburbs area in the US. Myself (who works in ministry), my wife (who works in health care and in ministry), and all those we know (which is a good amount because of over 25 combined years in ministry) have had no experience of perfectly healthy people suddenly dropping dead. If you run the statistics, if this were a common occurrence, it would be reasonable to say that we should personally know at least 1 case of this, even if it is a “close friend of one of our friends”.

              𝟐) 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐬: As I mentioned above, over 40,000 people got the actual mRNA treatment and not the placebo in all these trials. Why did we not pick up on any safety signals of perfectly healthy people dropping dead if this is common?

              Anyways, just my thoughts at this point. Again, if we can get data where we account for all the reasons that people have died over this past year, and we still have a large excess of deaths, and these excess of deaths are primarily appearing in those that received the mRNA treatment, that would perk my interest.

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              1. Well, Philip, you’ve touched on what has precisely been one of my points. Who has “time” and “expertise as a professional researcher” as well as “understanding of the medical concepts” and “experience reading statistical data.” (From my studies while earning a graduate degree (at least it was the case 45 years ago) one of the primary courses demanded in the graduate program was “Statistics” and a whole lot of energy and time was spent studying “how to lie with statistics.” This is particularly critical when we have a culture saturated in propaganda, while people with power are living by lies, proliferating lies and we’re talking LIFE and DEATH with these jabs. No little thing.

                Bottom line for me in considering the above, Phil: I am a fool not to listen to those, like Charlie and SteveBC (men of honesty and integrity have spent literally hours and hours wading through research and reports) who have the time, expertise as researchers, understanding of virology concepts, and experience in reading stats. I’m simply too limited to pretend to expertise concerning the dangers of the vaxx… and, again, what the heck are we doing in the life-taking, harm-causing dangerous waters of vaxxine territory when there are cheap and effective drugs which eradicate the covid virus? Look to India and Mexico with vastly widespread effective use of Ivermectin. We DON’T need the vaxx and it IS causing death and harming people.

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                1. “𝐵𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑜𝑚 𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑣𝑒, 𝑃ℎ𝑖𝑙: 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑎 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒, 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑣𝑒𝐵𝐶 (𝑚𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠) 𝑤ℎ𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒, 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑠.”

                  I 100% respect that. We each need to have the self-awareness to make these sorts of informed decisions. As you say, the medical and statistical side of this is *incredibly* complicated. And it is easy to lie, be misled, or misunderstand data and statistics. So we need to be aware of that. (I am a self-aware non-statistical expert!)

                  That is how I’ve come to my current view, by listening and reading as many different opinions as is reasonable for my state in life, by smart people both inside the medical fields and outside of them.

                  Maybe a useful thing is we won’t have to wait long to test Charlie’s hypothesis as he did mention that he expects “nearly everyone who got the shot will die over the next three years”. (citation: paragraph 4, “Deliver Us From Evil”)

                  That is an easy hypothesis to test since we won’t need any statistical “magic” to see that! Even if it is 25% of those that received the shot die, that is easy to see.

                  Either way, our trust must be in the Lord. Whatever happens, His grace is present and sufficient.

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                  1. I said, without divine intervention. My expectation is that we will see a catastrophic cascade – one that is showing itself in early stages now, and that as people realized they have been badly hosed, they will turn to the only real source of security we have. Then, the cascade will slow to a trickle.

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                    1. You are 100% correct, if it truly is 30,000% more dangerous than your normal safety signal on a drug…I mean that is HUGE!

                      We get worked up when something is 5-10x more likely to happen, but 300x times. Wow!

                      So you are right, no one would be able to deny something catastrophic like that. I am skeptical that it would be that bad, but I could see a situation where this is slight rise in excess deaths that we are trying to tease out.

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                    2. A major talking point on the left is that anyone can report to the VAERs system – so it is unreliable. What they leave out is that it must be verifiable. If you cannot establish that there was such a person, that he got the shot, and suffered a particular adverse reaction after it, it does not get listed. With increased awareness of the existence of the VAERs system this year, I was completely down with the idea that we might have a better percentage being reported in the case of the Covid shots (The CDC and FDA estimate that those events reported to VAERS only constitute from 1 to 10 percent of all cases. This is why they have such a relatively small threshold of 50 deaths for going back to the drawing board: they assume that those 50 deaths actually represent 500 to 5,000 deaths). Of course, the reported, verified deaths with the Covid vaccine are now over three times higher than the assumed actual death toll following previous traditional vaccine stoppages. But with Project Veritas recent undercover video showing that federal officials are going to great lengths to actively try to suppress reporting of adverse events, it may be significantly underreported. Certainly, redefining “unvaccinated” to mean anyone who has not survived until two weeks after the second shot massively understates the problem. It is easy to be confused by all this because it has been a case of frantically changing metrics and moving goalposts for over a year now. I can “solve” the problem of redlining my car’s engine by painting over the redline and moving it from 6000 rpms to 9000, but that will not keep my engine from blowing – only give me a false sense of security.

                      It truly was 30,000 percent beyond the previous threshold before officials started frantically trying to suppress any new reports.

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                    3. Charlie and Philip,

                      Thank you for this conversation! I printed it out….

                      Nance,

                      I’m kinda in the same boat as far as whether or not our home would be a refuge. When we moved into an older home earlier in the 2000s, I told the Lord that if he wanted our home to be a refuge for those who needed it or to welcome more babies, then that was good. We housed extended family during the years we lived there and welcomed 3 more babies. We moved to this current house in 2011. I told the Lord the same. We’ve since housed family, friends and welcomed another baby. I have no idea if our home will be a refuge in the future/ongoing crisis. We don’t feel called to go anywhere else at this time. I’m preparing to house and feed people just in case that is what comes.

                      Praying for all here!

                      Becky-TN

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              2. Okay Philip, however obliquely, you have answered one of my questions. You may be sincere, but your “method” would result in an unending series of thalidomide holocausts in which no one would even know there was a problem until a full-scale disaster had already unfolded. As you have continued, it has become clear that you do not understand the sequencing and protocols – or even the fundamental purpose of clinical trials at all and have no grasp of the role of statistical analysis in analyzing unfolding dynamic scenarios in which there are substantial variables and unknowns.

                First, medical clinical trials are NOT designed to prove the dangers of a widespread practice. Rather, they are required to prove the safety of a new therapy before allowing it into widespread practice to begin with. They start with animal trials. Before any experimentation with humans is even allowed, there must be substantial success in animal trials. Complete fail here – the animal trials were almost universal failures – an occasional okay spot in a sea of disaster.

                Second, human trials may not begin until there is substantial success in animal trials. An exception can be made if there is a genuinely critical emergency in which no other effective therapy is easily available. Failure on all counts here. A) a disease with over a 99% survival rate for all but the very oldest and sickest does not constitute such an emergency. B) the cheap and easily availability of hydroxy-zinc protocols and ivermectin have worked to almost completely suppress the most dangerous symptoms of the disease wherever they are used – India, Africa and Sweden – but inexplicably have been forcibly suppressed and even outlawed here in the States. The basic justification for emergency use authorization is completely non-existent. C) in any such emergency trial, all data must be entirely transparent so that the conclusions drawn flow freely from all the evidence rather than the evidence being shaped to support a pre-conceived conclusion. In this case, both government officials and media have collaborated to censor any information that does not support their favored conclusion and doctors who dissent have their very medical licenses threatened or revoked. Complete and comprehensive failure on all counts.

                Third, once human trials begin, all subjects must be volunteers. No person can be coerced into participating in a clinical trial for an experimental therapy. Notwithstanding that this experimental trial did not clear ANY of the hurdles for human trials to begin, even the minimal standard for human trials has been turned on its head. Rather than making such a trial completely voluntary, the government seeks to make it mandatory on all persons. Both a complete failure AND a violation of the Nuremberg Protocols.

                Now, for the proper use of statistical analysis in predicting early warnings of long-term dysfunction. In an ongoing, dynamic situation where the long-term consequences are not known, statistical analysis is used as a predictor of probable long-term dysfunctions. This completely bypasses the correlation/causation conundrum because, at the early stages causation is very difficult, sometimes even impossible, to establish. Yet it is unacceptable and irresponsible to wait for extensive disaster to reveal itself because, by then, the damage is irreversible. What is most commonly used is a “variation from norm” analysis when compared to similar situations where a protocol for the acceptable norm is established. This is important because, even when there is a substantial variation from norm, it is usually a statistically small number of people affected. That is important because, even while early adverse events that are wildly out of whack are contained to a small subset, the variation from norm is a very reliable predictor of a potential cascade of much larger long-term adverse reactions. This is why experimental therapies with substantial variations from norm are sent back to the drawing board rather than allowed to continue, until they are refined enough to work within historical norms. Catch and contain the problem while it is still small rather than waiting for absolute disaster or absolute proof.

                The experimental gene therapy shots have failed on every metric. But even under your very loose, gauzy standards that have never been the norm for experimental standards, they fail. You cite the personal, observational evidence and that there is none in your suburb. Notwithstanding that doctors are likely to lose their license or be severely ostracized if they actually reported such data, you are still wrong. There is the small subset of prominent celebrities known to most people – and it is always useful to look at reportable adverse events there. Start with former wrestler Marvin Hagler and baseball star Hank Aaron, both otherwise healthy who died within days of taking the shot. Then there is Eric Clapton, who suffered paralysis after taking the shot. Then there is Australian gold medal swimmer Madi Wilson who developed lung and chest problems for which she had to be hospitalized and may end her career. These occurred after she was double vaccinated. She blames it on Covid, not withstanding that it did not happen until shortly after her second shot. There is NBA player Brandon Goodwin who developed blood clots after the vaccine – whose season is over now.Other examples are abundant, though you have to screen shot them as quickly as possible, for search engines bury them down the memory hole as quickly as they can. Perhaps your community is an outlier, but when information is being suppressed as quick as it becomes available that is a risky proposition to believe at best.

                You may very well be entirely sincere in your belief that you are being objective and scientific, but that does not change the fact that your method turns every standard protocol in such matters on its head. I don’t think you have cited a single horse you have not put a cart before. Your method, as you have described it, would never notice a problem at all until it had become a complete disaster – and defies both logic and what was standard scientific practice before the Covid panic arose. If you are sincere, I suggest you go back to the drawing board on your knowledge of logic and evidence. I am not being snarky, but entirely sincere. You have succumbed to the most dangerous form of sophistry in your analysis, positing things that sound reasonable on the surface but, upon deeper examination, violate basic rules of logic and evidence. If you are not sincere, but just trying to confuse matters, I must give you your due. You are as good as any I have seen at trolling.

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                1. Thanks for the substantial response Charlie;

                  I fully admit I am no medical expert here. I will claim no special expertise when it comes medical trials, the history of medical trials, and the like (though gathering a basic understanding from someone who does study medical trials for a living helped me to have at least a basic understanding).

                  I think you are exactly correct that “variation from norm” is exactly what we ought be most interested in.

                  Obviously, you are correct that the initial results from the clinical trials “are not everything”. That is why continued phase 3 trials and continued observation is important.

                  My primary question is why did we not see a heightened “variation from norm” in regards to deaths in the clinical trials? Based on your studies, would it simply be because the 40,000 persons is too small of a sample size or that none of this would appear in a significant way in 3 months? Most likely the hypothesis would be a combination of both?

                  —–

                  For our discussion, the good news is if the hypothesis you are proposing is that “nearly everyone who got the shot will die over the next three years” (from the piece 𝐷𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑈𝑠 𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐸𝑣𝑖𝑙), that will be evidence that none could deny. Even someone as hard-headed as myself!! 🤪
                  Gosh even a 25% death rate in the mRNA group would be undeniable.

                  Hey, in the end, our trust is in the Lord who reigns over all; His grace is ever present and sufficient!

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                  1. One of our team leaders ran pharmaceutical trials for new drugs for a decade before getting more involved in faith issues. She is appalled at the trashing of all norms that have been done on this to promote these shots.

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                    1. “𝑂𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑚 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑟𝑎𝑛 𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑑𝑟𝑢𝑔𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑒𝑠. 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑠.”

                      Based on my thoughts thus far, you might be surprised that I too would be appalled at medical norms that may be disregarded for “emergency’s sake”. Obviously, there would seem to be gradations of regulatory and testing that is done, but if things get skipped that have a moderate probability in exposing or confirming the safety of a medication, that is done at great peril. It would definitely be great hubris for someone to skip it pretty much guessing that it wouldn’t reveal any negative effects.

                      Now, it could very well be the case that these medical experts and regulators get lucky that the mRNA treatment does not end up being extremely dangerous. That obviously does not justify anyone’s contempt for another person in mocking them, forcing them to take it, or skipping necessary medical testing and burdens.

                      If these modified norms of testing medical interventions is used in any situation even less dire than this virus was (which I personally rate the COVID threat a 5 out of 10; take it seriously, but it isn’t the end of the world), then I will definitely be one that is up in arms demanding that that be ended immediately.

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                2. Charlie, this is an excellent summary of many things that I’ve read over the past several weeks/months. Might you consider making it an easier-to-find stand-alone post?

                  God bless and keep you and all ~
                  Sister Bear

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                  1. Actually, Sr. Bear, even as I finished it I thought that I needed to do just that. And now that we have gotten to the heart of what was concerning Philip, I need to make sure people understand what I mean by divine intervention and how comprehensive it can and will be. I think I will leave the prayer up for a few more days and then follow up with a piece that covers this more deeply and, I hope, consolingly without compromising the reality.

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          2. Well, Phillip, we can hope and pray for the best. The real problem I have is that the people in power have shut down the debate and have done all they can to hold back information. The insistence on not using anything other than the inj. s to fight a virus also is a very big concern for me. I have a brain and can decide for myself what the risks are! We can debate forever (at this point in time) what may or not be the short term and long term outcomes of these “emergency” inj.s (which supposedly had sudden success after years upon year of dismal failure), but individual liberty is being eroded quickly. I think this is obvious on so many levels. For me that is the ultimate problem and shows the trajectory of the world. It is all moving toward tyranny and a communist type economic and social structure. I do not understand how any American citizen could embrace a structure that has always failed miserably. Christ gave us free will. In no way can a Christian cooperate with a godless system in which all decision are made for us. The reset which Francis seems to accept and even desire has been packaged to look heavenly, but we do not get to Heaven until we die and actually may arrive, if we are true to Jesus Christ. I reject that my free will is being trampled and that rights that were once considered inalienable are now being challenged by leftists who are backed by big money and fancy talkers. It is the Big Lie.

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            1. I actually did not ready any of the comments before I posted my reply to you. It seems there have been many. Discussion and civil debate are always good. That is the way a democratic republic should go. I guess we should enjoy it while it lasts.

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            2. “𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑚 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑢𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑏𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑗. 𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑎 𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑏𝑖𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒. 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑦𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑘𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒!”

              I couldn’t agree more! I am so disappointed by the suppression of respectful discussion in the public space. People seem surprised by the fact that when people talk with each other a lot that “not fully true information gets spread” (i.e., what has popularly been called “misinformation”).

              Human “misinformation” has been around since the beginning of the creation of man. We are just living in an information age so it gets exaggerated. But censorship and suppression is not the right answer.

              And yes, not respecting people enough to tell them the risks and let them make an informed decision does not seem to me what God would desire in loving another human person.

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              1. With all due respect, Philip, in reply to this observation: “Human “misinformation” has been around since the beginning of the creation of man. We are just living in an information age so it gets exaggerated…” Baloney. We’re living in heightened times of lies and propaganda. To pretend otherwise is NOT helpful, but contributes to the problem of having discussion rooted in accurate assessments of our times. This isn’t the usual been-around-since-creation environment of misinformation in which we live. The brilliant and insightful contemporary writers of our times, Charlie among them, who are serious experts in history and who assess our current status in this country and world have been sounding the alarm that we’re in a state such as societies in history have been as they enter collapse.

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                1. “𝐵𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑦. 𝑊𝑒’𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎.”

                  I also agree with this. There is an increase in “disinformation”. Disinformation would be the “lies and propaganda” side of things. It can be true that there is an increase in disinformation *and* misinformation at the same time.

                  There is a natural increase in “misinformation” because of the information age we are living in and there are those that a taking advantage of that to purposely spread “disinformation” for plurality of purposes.

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          3. Philip, as polite as you are, I suspect if half the people who got the shot keeled over dead you would continue to shout that correlation is not causation – without noting how critical correlation is, in early stages, to leading us to causation. It is like you learned one thing in statistics class, nothing else, and repeat it endlessly. What about Waterford, Ireland – perhaps the most heavily vaxxed town in the world at 99.7 percent, which is now the top Covid hotspot in Ireland. I know, correlation is not causation. Since a 30,000 % increase in adverse events does not alarm you, what number would? A 60,000 % increase? Is there any number at which you would say we should take a much harder look at all this?

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      2. Thanks Charlie for the response!

        I too find concerning much of what you mention above. Actually, I find the censorship of the discussion of ideas and of a person’s concerns, and the coerced “vaccinations” the 2 most concerning general threads of what is going on.

        With that all said, those 2 concerns–the censorship and coercion–are slightly separate questions from whether the COVID mRNA medical treatment is extremely dangerous or effective.

        In regards to it being extremely dangerous, it is clear that the toughest part in medical practice is separating correlation vs. causation. That is what makes doing true randomized controlled trials so important to control for our personal biases. (I really wish they had done a true RMC in regards to community wearing of masks, because so much of it began to feel like superstition. Though a good cluster RMC was just released from Bangladesh that was actually informative.)

        But since I don’t personally have the access or expertise to what would be needed to separate correlation vs. causation at this point in regards to health concerns connected to the mRNA treatments, that is why I am looking for an uprising from the neighborhood doctors and nurses saying, “hey, I am seeing all these healthy people dying for no reason and above the rates that we should expect.” That to me would be the biggest clear evidence of something that is extremely dangerous.

        Now, it is possible that when this is all said and done, the signal of healthy people that died in direct relation to getting the COVID mRNA medical treatment will be just slightly above expected deaths due to random chance in a community. That would be a big enough tragedy and one that could “slip through the radar.” (Some will, of course, seek to justify that slightly higher death rate as being ok since it will be claimed it was lower than the total death rate would have been from COVID alone if we did not administer these medical treatments. But given that the ends cannot justify the means, and proportionalism/consequentialism are not ethical theories to be supported…)

        That for me is my biggest concern in forcing people into a medical treatment. I 100% stand behind the necessity for true informed consent and agree with the CDF stating that “vaccinations” must be voluntary.

        But do I see strong direct evidence that the mRNA medical treatments are causing a pandemic of deaths due to direct causation? Not yet. But that could change; only time will tell!

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        [Side note – It is 100% true that this is a new technology different from previous forms of vaccination. In a draft of my initial comment I actually put “vaccination” in quotes to denote that it was simply the word I was using for that medical technology, more referencing what was its purpose rather than how it accomplished that purpose. I ended up taking out the quotes around “vaccination,” in my final version of the comment, which was maybe a mistake.]

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        1. And thanks for your thoughtful reply, Philip. I appreciate you trying to get solid factual info and details about the program. My major difference with you, I think, is that I won’t even begin to consider an “expert’s” arguments so long as they visibly lie, censor, and punish any who disagree with them instead of just answering the bloody questions. Yeah, I’ve done a lot of raw research over the last year, but so long as the left feels like lying, bullying and punishing people, I will defy them and am not much interested in what they have to say, period. A good, honest program does not need such vicious tactics – and if the left is so stupid that it had a good program and doesn’t know that bullying tactics tank it rather than cementing it, then good riddance to them.

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          1. I couldn’t agree more that the elites and “experts that visibly lie, censor, and punish any who disagree with them instead of just answering the bloody questions” is quite disturbing. I find especially disturbing the “noble lies” that some have purported to tell. Credibility and trust goes out the window so quickly, and apparently some didn’t learn when they were young that trust is easily lost and hard to recover.

            I guess when it comes down to it, I currently see the COVID mRNA treatment as not extremely dangerous not based primarily on what “experts and elites” have said but trying to look at as much of the direct data and evidence we have and weighing it based upon its methods (e.g., observations vs. observational studies vs. randomized controlled studies).

            Of course, this doesn’t mean someone couldn’t make up data if they wanted, but apart from some evidence that that has actually happened, I’ll leave that hypothesis on the shelf for now.

            I am heartened to see there is not a small amount that are standing up and saying ‘no’ to being coerced to take the medical treatment. I respect the personal decision to decline the medical treatment and that ought be respected.

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            1. Wow, Philip. Not sure what direct data and evidence you’ve been reading or how long you’ve been reading here, but if you read the archives of Charlie’s writing and the ensuing comments, there is an abundance of direct data and evidence which clearly shows that the mRNA jab has brought death and great physical harm to thousands – in this country alone – and it’s delivering ongoing misery and potential death as the proliferation of spike proteins continues within the bodies that have been vaxxed… and all this when cheap and effective medicines, such as Ivermectin, bring a swift end to covid.

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              1. Hi Beckita!

                The data I’ve relied primarily upon is that from the randomized controlled trials done with these medical interventions in multiple countries. As I mentioned to Charlie above, the toughest part in medical treatments is separating correlation from causation (as well as the fact that placebos actually do have an effect on our physical health, which makes perfect sense as we are unity of body, soul, and spirit, not simply a physical body or a ghost in a machine; “mind over matter” has some truth to it).

                Randomized controlled trials do give us the best shot of figuring out if a certain medical treatment is causing anything to appear that is beyond what we’d expect to see in the population just randomly from chance or beyond the normal. Thankfully, the trials and data did tease out that there was a safety signal in regards to myocarditis in men, primarily aged 14-30 (as well as a few other things that were even more rare). That we picked up that safety signal and others even more rare gives me some confidence that if there were other incredibly fatal safety signals, we ought to have picked them up in the data.

                Now, could this end up being wrong and a safety signal could start appearing, absolutely. Science is a *process* of coming to a deeper understanding of physical reality and not a group of eternal dogmatic truths, as some who propose we need to simply “follow The Science” seem to insinuate.

                And could they have faked the data? Sure, but without some evidence of that I wouldn’t propose that hypothesis. That is why I’m relying a lot upon the neighborhood doctors and nurses in our area to alert us if they see any onslaught of seemingly healthy people suddenly dying or falling ill.
                (My wife does work in one of the largest hospital systems in the U.S. and there are lots of health providers and nurses in there at the grassroots who are not impressed by the current forced narrative that leaves out nuance. But this helps us keep a pulse on what is really going on at the grassroots.)

                Anyways, again, these are just my beliefs at this point! But as Charlie says, I’m primarily interested in being true, not in being right. I love the adventure of trying to discover the truth of reality, which is hard and keeps you humble!

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                1. I think it’s valuable to listen to the whistleblower reports, the personal testimonies of real people who are suffering or who have lost loved ones to the jab and to listen, as well, to the reports coming from docs and scientists warning of the dangers, Phil, such as Dr. Robert Malone who invented the mRNA tech and is on record saying that it was never intended for young adults let alone the children who are now at risk. I think questioning and wondering about the “why” for the fiercely demanded and pushed mandate of the jab brings about a powerful pause, especially when weighed – as I mentioned – with the cheap, effective medicines that could stop covid in its tracks, without ever even needing a vaccine. Onward we go…

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                  1. I couldn’t agree more about listening to whistleblowers and personal stories. That all must be taken into consideration and weighed properly when seeking the truth of reality. This is challenging, and humbling, because there is great nuance when seeking the truth of reality, including multiple truths that may appear on the surface to contradict each other, but when we dig we find out that they do not.

                    To use an example, I have heard the tragic story of a family losing a young child due to COVID. This is tragic and nothing should be done to minimize the suffering the family is going through. That truth is solid.
                    But we should also not conclude off of this personal testimony that therefore there is a pandemic of children dying from COVID which means we must close down the schools, put masks on our children 24/7, etc.

                    When we zoom out from this personal testimony we find that less than 500 children under age 18 have died due to COVID in the US. This means that children have a greater risk of dying in a car accident in the next year than they do from COVID. Praise God for that!

                    Now notice how both of these things are true, the tragedy for the families of those 500 children, but also the fact that COVID is not a high risk for children and it would be unreasonable to treat it as such in our public health policy.

                    The same now goes for stories in regards to medical interventions. We don’t ignore the personal stories and tragedy, but we also should not commit any fallacies of composition or generalization. That is why randomized controlled studies are so important because they do all we can to control for our own biases and flaws in thinking, including informal fallacies like I mentioned above.
                    It is important to listen to Dr. Malone’s concern and then find others that both agree with his concerns and those that don’t and listen to why they don’t. That helps to give us the most balanced perspective of all in searching for the truth.

                    All this being said, I 100% agree that media, government, and tech elites creating “preferred narratives” is completely inappropriate. Forcing people into new medical treatments is inappropriate.
                    Censorship and coercion should have little to no part of our public discussion of these ideas and treatments. That only helps to erode trust, and trust is easily lost and hard to gain back.

                    Thanks for the discussion! It is always refreshing to have respectful, insightful, truth-seeking discussions in this day and age. I tried to bring some of this to some of the larger social media platforms, and have had little luck…

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                    1. I see what you’re trying to do, Philip, and it’s admirable! But, sigh, I fear may not be possible with this virus/pandemic/vaccine. There are way too many voices, variables and lies to deceminate. I mean, Pfizer ruined their study by telling the control group that they didn’t receive the “real” vax, just so they could choose to take it! Crazy! Also, the numbers of people dying “with Covid” and “from Covid” are so skewed!

                      Anyway, I wish you luck.

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                    2. Amen, Jewel.

                      Philip, I would add an easy way to look at the summation of two professional researchers, right here in our midst – it takes a LOT of time to look in depth at valid and honst reports and data – is to read the archives of Charlie’s writing here. You can readily scan-read Charlie’s pieces, pausing at pertinent information concerning covid vaxxes to help you discern. Then be sure to read the ensuing comments looking for comments posted by SteveBC (on whom Charlie has relied for research results) and, I think, you will not hesitate to admit you and I, and most people who read here, are out of our league for forming opinions without reading the reporting of the in-depth look Steve has undertaken and accomplished, coupled with his vast knowledge of covid itself. IMO, it’s not to be missed for anyone who is seriously looking for answers to questions about covid and the vaxxes.

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                    3. Hear, hear jewelsword13. I have an acquaintance online that is a literal neighbors. Our paths have crossed, yet we have not yet been to be met face-to-face. She is a scientist and works for the largest hospital in Chicago. She is in the process of creating an independent lab in order to be a credible voice of reason in these twisted times. I pointed her to SteveBC’s research when she spoke about her desire to purchase a HBOT. She thanked me and said that she would check out his work. ❤

                      I am a professed dot connector and this is just one such unsolicited dot on my radar from God-fearing people sharing their life experiences for the sake of others on SM. Here is what she has recently shared on my timeline.

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        2. Philip, I can tell you from personal experience that many if not most of the doctors out there are toeing the government stance that everyone should get the shot, no questions asked. If you try to dialog with them, you are labeled as an anti-vaxxer nut. In April I was diagnosed with a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that in 85% of the cases hangs out in the skin but in 15% of the cases, something kicks it into a highly aggressive form. I have seen more doctors since April than I have in decades. I have not run into one doctor who is willing to have a thoughtful discussion on the shot. My primary doctor believes everyone should get the vaxx without any exceptions. I asked my lymphoma doctor last week at a routine appointment for a medical exemption should that be required for work. I work as an secondary educator in NYS (not City) and right now we are allowed to test weekly. I am not willing right now to do anything that has the possibility of kicking this lymphoma into the aggressive form and I told this doctor my reasoning. He gave me the same line as all of the other doctors. When I pointed out the outright fallacies in some of his statements, he pushed harder for the vaxx. He tried to tell me that there are no known side effects to the shots. I work in a large building with a large staff. The number of co-workers who have come down suddenly with shingles, eye problems, odd skin issues including cancerous spots, and heart problems have been startling and the common denominator is the second vaxx within 1-4 weeks of symptoms. It is startling because I’ve been in this building for over 20 years and have not seen anything like it before. When you try to get people to connect the dots, they can’t do it. There truly is some type of disconnect/psychosis between their ability to see what is going on around them and come up with a reasonable conclusion. If you mention any possibility that it could be the shot, they shut down even further. The latest excuse for the sudden spike in health issues that I’ve heard in my building is that all of these problems are popping up because people delayed routine doctor visits since the start of Covid a little more than 18 months ago (in NY that would be toward the end of March 2020 when things were shut down). This doctor then told me that the ICU’s are filled entirely with only non-vaxxed individuals. I asked him how that can be true when all of the students currently out at my building with active Covid are fully vaxxed and, if that were true, we would have non-vaxxed students ill as well. When I talk with colleagues, they claim that the breakthrough cases that are happening are normal for all vaccines. When you ask these same colleagues when was the last time they had a student out with chicken pox, measles, mumps, or any of the traditional vaccines, etc. you are met with blank stares. The last piece of ridiculousness from the lymphoma doctor came when he told me that there is absolutely no correlation between vitamin D levels in the blood and Covid. The only thing he was willing to concede was that he had colleagues whose patients have had very serious side effects after the second shot but he continued to say that they have enough data now to know that there will not be issues long-term with these shots. I do know that healthcare providers in NY face the potential loss of their license if they provide misinformation regarding the shot. Misinformation is basically defined as anything not in line with the CDC or FDA. I have an appointment with yet another specialist in one month for an autoimmune issue that popped up over the summer and I would bet you a box of western NY’s finest chocolate covered sponge candy that he will push the vaxx as well and not be willing to dialog about it. So in the meantime, I am trying to figure out if I need to switch treatment to the next closest CTCL-MF center and I continue to research all I can on the vaxx. I am also exploring the homeopathy course that CORAC mentions as an alternative as well.

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          3. Sometimes I wonder if every Dr’s office is bugged.
            Actually, if they said anything, it would be repeated and they would be fired with no place to go.
            It is really totally insane, unbelievable and every other word you can think of when we live under the
            program for new world order, without God.

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            1. It is actually worse and more disturbing–they “powers that be” have done such a good job with the fear-mongering that patients report their doctors for not complying!! I heard from a relative who works for a doctor that he suggested not taking the shot to his patient. She went to the press and told them what he “said” and the next thing he knows, he has reporters in his face and the health board on his back. And last year with the mask mandates, it was the same–patients reporting docs to the health board and putting it out on social media. Who is a doctor to trust?! Horrid!

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              1. Well, and to the doctor’s defense, (the one you describe in the story and how many more in this country and world who are willing to research and speak truth) how many patients can they trust?

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            2. I’m wondering when the unvaxxed drs & nurses are going to band together and open clinics for unvaxxed, using tinctures etc.

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          5. CM Bookmark, I take many medications due to autommune disease. I took a very strong new medication last year and this year because nothing else was working. This year I re-read the literature that came with the drug before I took it in the late winter of 2021. It listed a long list of vaccines that I was not to have while on this new medication and this list included MRNA vaccines, vector vaccines, and others. However, my neurologist, who apparently did not read this same literature, had told me that I should take the injection. I was shocked that he was so ill informed….If find that doctors really do not know every single thing and many of them make mistakes. You always have to do you own due diligence when making a decision and one certainly has to ask a lot of questions…..None of what you said about your doctors and colleagues surprises me. It is all the same in my neck of the woods. …..I feel that many people who took the MRNA inj will probably find that they will one day have autoimmune disease. (It may be true of the vector inj. as well) Of course, autoimmune disease is skyrocketing right now in western countries. So the drug companies will just dismiss the illnesses with “that would have happened anyway” whether the person took the inj. or not……I am extremely concerned that the government and drug companies are now pushing this on children. It makes me feel ill when I think of all the suffering that may be injected into these children who are at really at low risk for death.

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    2. There is data coming from respected physicians everywhere. The fact that people are being forced into submission is a clear red flag that something is very amiss. The police state type tactics and passport ideas ring true to the Old Iron Curtain eastern state programs. As I posted previously, here is data. https://odysee.com/@WanderingCitizen:7/Winning-the-War-Against-Therapeutic-Nihilism—Trusted-Treat:d?r=Gow5wV5Bp66pAqbk7ZiGk4HHdnfNHuir&fbclid=IwAR1WqpqnXXaicKjadr00Pjjptl52DPcaca2jhO7FEdckWHpgNHr_D4i5GS4

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      1. People who have had this C flu now have natural immunity. Yet they are still being told that they have to get the inj. This is not based on science. Nurses and doctors who have worked tirelessly since the beginning of 2020 are being fired if they will not comply with mandates to get the inj., yet most or all of them have been exposed and probably all have some sort of natural immunity by this time. And we should reward them by firing them? There is no common sense to this. Hospitals will not be able to treat people for very troubling conditions. More people will die from this than the new flu. We have already seen this! Now it will be worse!! How can anyone with any shred of common sense fire doctors and nurses at a time when the gov. says that there is a huge, severe pandemic??? (Let impatient Joe have a tantrum; he is a feeble and foolish puppet.) No hospital can afford to lose these people!

        There is something greater than an illness going on here. Nothing fits the common sense test.

        This C flu produces a relatively low death rate and yet the paranoia factor has been raised to such as level that much of the world population is held hostage to unreasonable fear in order to induce submission to any government whim: Let’s wear a mask. NO, let’s wear 2 masks!!!! Let’s get the inj. for protection. Oh, wait…even the vaccinated must wear masks. If you have the inj., you still must fear the people who have not had the inj., but you got the inj. for PROTECTION. How can this be true? (Has someone redefined ‘protection’?) Oh, wait, now you have to get the inj. bi-annually for the same (nebulous) protection. Meanwhile, the new wealthiest people list include Mdrna executives, and NOW the price is going up for this ever more sketchy protection!!!! And the money trains rolls on.
        .
        We are looking at a plan hatched about 10 years ago to curtail freedoms, increase division and create police states. This includes CRT being forced onto businesses, schools, the military and other organizations, regardless of the fact that Martin Luther King said that people should be judged by their charater and not by their ski color.
        (Yes, it was common sense then and it is still so.) This is meant to cause division among peoples. If you keep the emotions running high, then it is easier to control people to do your bidding.

        Then we have the very troubling fact that schools cannot tell parents certain things about their children, even though every parent would want to know about certain confusions. The state wants control of your children! The state wants to replace the family and teach values that the state deems appropriate. Parents’ rights are being taken away.

        We are really fighting the powers and principalities. They are manifesting themselves in ways we have not really seen before due to mass media communication and a plan hatched about 10 years ago which is almost operating in lock step around the world. It is the Great Reset. The movers and shakers always come up with a catch phrase that they make seem like a wonderful thing. It is propaganda and conditioning. Even Francis is saying that people do not necessarily have to own anything…. plus a whole lot of other surprises. He talks about the Great Reset.

        We are moving ever closer to control at every level, Yes, it certainly is a rest.

        May God bless you all. Let’s pray for strength, discernment and God’s mercy for us all.

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      1. Katey . . . Your question is a very nice way to ask my question (which I let my better judgement not ask until now) . . . Sir, are you dense?

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  34. https://rumble.com/vnbv86-winning-the-war-against-therapeutic-nihilism-and-trusted-treatments-vs-unte.html

    (this is too long for the 30 min cut-off, but I am so grateful for Steve bc posting it on his blog. It is from Oct. 2, 2021) I am sharing it.

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    2. This is a must watch. A game changer. Damning. And most of it done with the CDC’s own data, Hah. (that’s what the doctor said in the vid)

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  35. Charlie, re Mayberry. Do you think people will not be living in urban centers any longer or at least not after the Triumph? Also, would you say the 26 million you thought that would die in the “war” includes the people who have died and are dying from covid and the fake vaccine? Like Steve, I am concerned about two of my children who have taken both shots. They did not have any side effects and it has been months. I concentrated them, as children, to the Immaculate Heart and am praying every day that She honors her promise to care for them. Thank you.

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    1. Oh, I think there probably will be people in urban centers – but a LOT fewer of them. And yes, I thought that number (or greater) would die in the Storm, not necessarily a conventional war. As for your kids, prayer and consecration are the most effective prophylactics.

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    2. Patricia, Desmond has a section in his book, “Trial, Tribulation and Triumph” where he discusses the prophecies of Pere Lamy in France just before and during WW1. Lamy reported that the Virgin Mary told him that the new world would have most or all of what we now have but that everything would be smaller. Cities, factories, offices, all will be smaller. In other words, more of a human scale than the often non-human scales we so often live within now.

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      1. SteveBC and Patricia, a couple of decades ago, I bought a fascinating book about Pere Lamy. Written by Comte Paul Biver, it is currently out of print. But if you can find a copy, it is a great read. He was one amazing priest.

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  36. Philip, If you are not convinced by Charlie’s words and references nor by the leads many other commenters here provided, consider this: Do you honestly think that anything generated from the dissecting of an innocent baby for the purpose of extracting “useful” organs, while that innocent baby is ALIVE, can result in any good? Think again. All of this pandemic and spike protein injections can be summarized in three words: THE GREAT DECEIT!

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  37. You said, “If it were the case that a large amount of people who were perfectly healthy were dropping dead due to it, would not a large amount of doctors be sounding the alarm?” Some fearless and moral doctors ARE! Are you under the impression that the MEDIA would make any effort at all to report these happenings, and if so, why on earth would you think they would report about fatal and injuries outcomes when the single, incessant bleat is: GET VACCINATED? I don’t understand this thinking.

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    1. A “shall be nameless” airline upwing manager told me today that the word at the “nameless” airport was that the Southwest vax deadline was approaching and many of their unvaxed employees decided they better take their accrued vacation time before they are terminated.
      And since everyone has the same deadline……

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        1. One of the corollaries to my missing the actual timelines because of being ahead of the curve is that I am actually…ahead of the curve. I stopped flying two years ago, so the threats and the cancellations mean nothing to me. Ha! I became homeless before the gov’t had a chance to try to force me to; I spit on the very idea of gov’t benefits long ago so they can’t take them away from me. I guess you could say I resigned from this corrupt system before they got the opportunity to fire me. 🙂

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            2. Not to worry, Jewel. I do not recommend most of those things to others. I am in a position where I can. My children are grown, I am on my own and so I can. In fact, I recommend to people who have children, particularly, that they stay where they are while they can.

              A large part of my choice is that, believing that we were headed for disaster, I could not head off a lot of the disaster, but I could help rally people in the aftermath of it. It seemed to me that if I voluntarily relinquished a lot of protections when it was not necessary, I would be able to better assure people after it had become widespread. The benefit would be twofold: first, assurances come easier to people when they are coming from someone who has shared in the disruption they are facing. I won’t be one who, from a silver spoon, lectures others about what he has never lived. Second, having adapted and managed anyway, it will be better at giving people hope that they can, indeed, do the same.

              Everyone of you should take care of yourselves and your loved ones the best way you can. But when so much collapses around you, I assure you God does have a plan – and I assure you with some credibility that it can work because, long before it was necessary, I lived it – and am living it. I tell you, I get excited because I know people will not be left bereft. Right now, the left’s draconian rules are NOT forcing everyone to bend the knee to their false god; rather, people are starting to do what we should have begun doing over a decade ago – forming a parallel economy and culture. Ours will thrive and grow while theirs continues to die. I have been very reticent to discuss how deep my radicalism on the subject actually goes because I feared people who were not in my situation would try to imitate it. Hold on, do what you must – and help IS coming even as we speak.

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              2. Thank you, Charlie! So much hope in this! We have felt the Lord saying, “Status quo!” as much as our hearts are saying, “Flee out of the city!”

                But there is a peace in the status quo, especially as we attend daily Mass and receive the Sacraments. God will provide, I believe this. We are being prudent in our “preparation” but leaning on Him completely.

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              3. “…and help IS coming even as we speak.”
                Charlie, I know I asked you before what Our Lady’s title is for the future Mt. Meeker shrine. Forgive me for not remembering what you told me, but could you tell me again? Thank you. 🙂

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          3. Ha! In other words, you completely rely on God. And in the case of those of us living on Social Security and/or pensions, our turn to detach from corrupt systems is right around the bend. Can hardly wait to see how God tends to us… and I’m not in Pollyanna zone. We’re gunna’ suffer, man, and suffering for something good is valuable beyond measure… while every NRS is golden.

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              1. Yes! I am very grateful to God for this bit of encouragement today! A timely reminder here of Who is in charge and what my puny efforts can do when given over to Him with trust and love. +TYG+ 😉

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  40. JESUS = GOOD NEWS! 😉

    https://www.crisismagazine.com/2021/church-teaching-is-not-up-for-vote

    https://blog.adw.org/2021/10/what-does-heaven-cost-a-homily-for-the-28th-sunday-of-the-year-2/

    Anybody betting it’s Trump Voters?
    https://www.9news.com/article/news/crime/denvers-cathedral-basilica-vandalized-graffiti/73-f54f4a90-39da-493a-8254-7b25c7173b94

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/10/why_columbus_day_is_worth_defending_.html

    https://swprs.org/the-wef-and-the-pandemic/?amp&__twitter_impression=true

    https://summit.news/2021/10/07/doctor-says-physicians-are-being-hunted-for-speaking-out-by-press-medical-boards/

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/10/11/joe-biden-unable-to-meet-major-challenges-on-clogged-ports-and-snarled-supply-chains/

    https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/southwest-cancels-hundreds-more-flights-monday-ron-paul-opines-great-rebellion-over

    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/oct/10/revolt-of-the-masses-the-left-has-overplayed-its-h/

    https://www.wnd.com/2021/10/new-virus-poses-existential-threat-life-know-planet/

    https://stream.org/category/us/
    https://amgreatness.com/
    https://spectator.org/
    https://www.americanthinker.com/

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!

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      2. Right, Mick! God bless this pilot and others who hold fast! I would not be surprised if this guy is former military. Back in my husband’s day, that was the case, as some of his pilot buddies went with the airlines rather than a career in the Navy, as my hubby chose. Stand strong everyone!!!

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  42. Neat post from Michael Yon , I put separated out the relevant part from the post below –>like this When I was younger, old CIA and Green Beret guys would say things like, “Go to the missionaries. The REAL Christians In Action. They know everything. Everybody.” Missionaries know everything. Am just passing that along…this was known centuries ago. Not something CIA or SF somehow cracked the code on. Am saying with full authority of experience — as we go to war, you should go to Church. These are the people who get things done. Know things. Are far more trustworthy.<—

    As individuals, we all are weak. But as large teams and networks, we are Amazing. Build your networks. Get to know more people. The only thing good about wars is you do make a lot of new, lifelong friends. We could have gotten Fox on target. At this point, Fox’s best chance is with missionaries but they don’t have time. Can’t just snap fingers and do it."

    I thought that was kind of cool; and thought you would think so too.

    cheers.

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    1. Get a load of this nonsense at an eatery in Illinois posted by a friend and neighbor who works in the industry.

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      1. I actually get it, Jen. The restaurant business is suffering miserably with many places needing to raise wages in order to procure employees and they really do have extra cleaning supplies to purchase and use in response to local health department requests.

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    2. Sad, Beckita. We’ve seen pictures on the news here in SoCal of lines and lines of those cargo vessels lined up waiting for ages, and running out of supplies themselves! As a matter of fact, it may have been the anchor of one of those ships that broke the pipeline and spilled all the oil in the area.

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  44. JOURNEY HOME – 2021-10-11 – NIKKI KINGSLEY
    Marcus Grodi’s guest shows the lengths God will go to and His patience.
    Go to YouTube and search Journey Home EWTN.
    She was a former Muslim, and wanted to get to know Allah better and watch what happened over time.
    She has written a book: Thirst for Truth: From Mohammad to Jesus.
    This is her website: https://www.nikkikingsley.com/

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  45. JESUS = GOOD NEWS! 😉

    Ain’t this nice! Another Democrat “Voter Outreach” Photo Op for Election 22.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/10/12/pope-francis-expected-to-meet-joe-biden-this-month/

    https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/pelosis-roman-holiday

    Does anyone here believe that UN/WHO or ANY Feral Gubermint Alphabet Agency have YOUR Health, Wealth and Well Being as a priority!?
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fda-responds-nordic-countries-suspending-moderna-covid-vaccine-usage

    I’m sure glad I was able to visit Seattle and a bunch of other USA Cities before they became Crazed Democrat Ruled ****Holes
    https://zububrothers.com/2021/10/12/seattle-small-businesses-forced-to-hire-private-security-over-reduced-police-presence/

    Judge Jennine

    https://finance.townhall.com/columnists/scottshepard/2021/10/11/35-billion-55-15-at-any-cost-bidens-stealthsocialism-bill-must-fail-n2597261

    Trump & Covid Control Hysteria is ALL THEY got! THEY can point to NO positive achievements!
    https://afn.net/politics-govt/2021/10/11/even-out-of-office-trump-remains-left-s-punching-bag/

    https://www.floppingaces.net/2021/10/10/lets-go-brandon/

    https://patriotpost.us/humor/83347-extremists-2021-10-11

    https://www.zerohedge.com/
    https://townhall.com/
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/
    https://justthenews.com/
    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/

    GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!

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    1. CD, I almost tossed my cookies yesterday when I saw the pic of Pelosi and PF walking together, each with a disgusting grin or smirk. Dear God, stop me from saying any more than that!

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  47. Everyone finally caught up to where I was at a few months back? Harsh words of calling me negative & doom…

    I needed no crystal ball to know that we were going to end up here in this situation. The United Nations, the Globalists, liberals, fake news media, and social media label the things they don’t want the public to know “conspiracy theories”, so people won’t follow up & verify that path of information.

    Anyone seen K.S.’s book “Covid 19: the great reset” for sale on amazon.com? Interesting it was published so soon after the supposed pandemic started in 2020, how long does it take to write and publish a book? These Globalist stooges like to brag about their plans, anybody seen Fauci’s c-span videos?

    People should mindful that the Globalists & leftist media has kept the majority of the world blind & ignorant by labelling the truths out there “conspiracy theories”… Always verify the facts & evidence of what’s being called a “conspiracy theory”, but please stop trusting those who say to not look there for facts & truth…

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    1. No harsh words, Al. Hard words came to you after months of an abundance of words trying to calm and soothe you while validating that we see what you see because we’re ALL living it. Granted, Canada, and Australia beyond Canada, have been further along the continuum into tyrannical pressure and abuse.

      Please, don’t come back to lecture. It’s not what friends do after being away for a long while. Every person who remains in this community sees the globalists with the upper hand at the moment, Al. Don’t talk down to us of what we already know. Of course, your insights and observations spoken in terms of what you see and feel are welcome when spoken in terms of “I see… I think… I read…” Might you also have a word of encouragement? Perhaps a sign of hope to express about what your next right steps involve?

      Honestly, Al, we all have a mission to build each other up here. Sure there’s room for lamenting… but having an unending series of poor me posts is not what we’re about in this community.

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      1. No worries Beckita, Charlie pointed out deficiency in my comment.

        While we were on different pages, it was just better for me to take a leave from commenting, because we weren’t dealing with same issues. I always kept up with Charlie’s articles, I just didn’t read the comments below, but I can see we’re on the same page once again.

        Encouraging? You can always drink pine needle tea which is full of vitamins like A, B, & C. If a train is derailing off the tracks, the only things left to do is focus on the actions while the train is derailing and after the train has derailed. The Church has to go through it’s Good Friday before it can see it’s Easter Sunday.

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    2. You said nothing different from what I have said for over 30 years – except to argue that there was no hope and we should just crawl in the corner and die in misery and despair. I – and most people here – saw just as clearly, but chose to do something positive to help people through this growing crisis. I am, at least, glad you finally have found a ray of joy in thinking you told people something they didn’t already knew, but were and are not willing to despair over.

      So are you now prepared to be part of the solution and help instead of just being a doomsayer?

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      1. That’s pretty harsh, you do not understand.

        Peace be with you Charlie. I do pray things will happen as you say.

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        1. I suppose it is, Al, but the tenor of your comment was along the lines of, “Finally, all you stupid people understand what I was talking about.” That flew all over me and raised my ire bigtime. If you are willing, we can set that aside and start fresh. The thing is that people who busy themselves preparing the lifeboats are NOT unaware that the ship is going down.

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          1. “If you are willing, we can set that aside and start fresh. The thing is that people who busy themselves preparing the lifeboats are NOT unaware that the ship is going down.”

            Charlie? I would like that, in my time of quiet I’ve been trying to move forward despite the coming train wreck…

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  48. I am currently helping a friend of mine clean her house. She is unwell. But she has a friend here from Columbia who is having bleeding from his nose I think he just recently took jab. There’s a language barrier but luckily I had a st Raphael holy oil n prayer card in my car which I gave him. Not sure he will be able to read it but the host willl be able to. Anyhow he looked so scared n his wife too. Bad enough to be sick but even worse in a foreign land. I ask of you my Saintly friends of God here and all prayer warriors to pray for him. I cannot pronounce his name. Columbian names are very different from ours. Thank you all and God bless you all🥰🙏😇

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      1. Thanks Timothy!!! Last I heard it had stopped bleeding 🥰😂🙏😇 God bless you too😇. Did you know Columbia is 90% Catholic?!?! They are really nice people and told me, if I come to Columbia (which ain’t gonna happen😂😂😂) their homes are mine too!!! Such beautiful people 🥰 I saw Jesus in all their eyes…There were a total of 5 people from Columbia 😇😇😇😇😇

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      1. Hey Sansan thank you so much dearest 🥰 He’s doing better currently but if you can remember him in a few days when they all fly back to Columbia I know he’d be so grateful 😇 😘😘😘

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    1. AH! Instead of quotes, I used bracket AND discovered they are programming code that hides what’s ever inside the brackets!!!! This makes me feel like a smart/cool kid, LOL (not).

      As promised, here are the two quotes:

      “The word “faith” can be defined by the acronym “Forsaking All I Trust Him.” ”

      and

      “As C.S. Lewis says, “[The devil’s] cause is never more in danger than when a human … looks round upon a universe from which every trace of [God] seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.””

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  50. Got bad news that one of the kids has C***d. I went to bed remembering what Katey (I believe) said, that she prayed the “flying novena” of Mother Teresa; so that’s what I did before falling asleep! Thank you, Katey! Good news today that there is great improvement and she knows what “meds” to take.

    I love all the assistance we get from the Saints and all the angels! I’ve never felt closer to all of them than in these days. Anne (DFOT) had some wonderful words about the angels in this week’s emails. I’ve always said that I don’t know how people can live without the Lord and all His helpers in their lives! Praise you, Jesus; glory to God!!

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Charlie Johnston is a former newspaper editor, radio talk show host and political consultant. From Feb. 11, 2011 to Aug. 21, 2012, he walked 3,200 miles across the country, sleeping in the woods, meeting people and praying as he went. He writes on cultural, global and political issues from an orthodox Catholic perspective. He emphasizes that we find God most surely through the ordinary, doing the little things we should with faith and fidelity. His constant refrain is that, to live real joy, we must acknowledge God, take the next right step, and be a sign of hope to those around us. He lives in the Archdiocese of Denver in the United States.