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The Transformation of Once Free Countries into Horrible Dystopias Is at Hand

The West is succumbing to tyranny, and Canada is leading the way. Justin Trudeau, the tyrant who rules Canada, has introduced a bill that will create the most hideous kind of dystopia. On the basis of anonymous accusation a Canadian can be sentenced to life in prison for expressing “hate words.” This bill, likely to become law as legislators usually support increases in state power as the US House of Representatives recently did, means that in Canada no one will say anything. The reason is that in a tower of babel, which is what every Western country is, almost anything can be said to be offensive by someone among the disparate elements that no longer comprise a nation. Many innocuous expressions of speech are considered offensive to blacks, such as “call a spade a spade.” With our limited experience with Muslims, we have no idea what might be considered hate speech by them. The same for Asians. I thought Jap was just shorthand for Japanese, like Yank for American, but apparently it is a hate term.

Matt Taibbi explains Trudeau’s proposed law:

https://www.racket.news/p/blame-canada-justin-trudeau-creates?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1042&post_id=144465224&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=10r3uc&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Elon Musk Warns 2024 Election Will Be ‘The Last’ Decided By US Citizens

https://headlineusa.com/musk-2024-election-last-us-citizens/

Actually, the last election decided by American citizens was 2016.

Can a Country as Far Gone as America Recover?

Paul Craig Roberts

The Epoch Times has acquired official documents that reveal that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in 2021 had definite evidence that Covid-19 mRNA “vaccines” caused multiple deaths. Despite the conclusive evidence in CDC’s hands, the “health agency” continued to lie for the next two years that there were no adverse effects from the emergency use “vaccines” that were for tens of millions of Americans illegally and unconstitutionally mandated as a condition of employment. https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/robert-malone-live-qa-cdc-internal-documents-reveal-covid-vaccine-related-deaths-fallout-5646991?utm_source=Enews&src_src=Enews&utm_campaign=etv1-2024-05-11&src_cmp=etv1-2024-05-11&utm_medium=email&est=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAceE5JjMFys3H%2BbdAvWpUcQzPZ0WlGLZbDFlFfmdQNQ%3D%3D

We were told by the CDC, FDA, NIH, the monster Tony Fauci, the White House Fool, the presstitutes, corrupt medical boards and university administrators, and our doctors that the “vaccine” was effective and safe. We were told this blatant lie, which every scrap of evidence refuted, over and over and over. And a trusting population trusted the “authorities” and paid for it in droves with their lives and their health. Many independent experts, scientists not dependent on federal or Big Pharma money, believe that the deaths and infertility from the “vaccines” are only beginning.

Additionally, a just published peer-reviewed scientific article has linked the Covid “vaccines” with psychosis. The prestigious Cleveland Clinic reports that the current Covid booster shots, still widely recommended by your local friendly Publix pharmacy and your indoctrinated doctor, provide practically no protection from SARS-CoV-2, but do significantly raise the likelihood that you will be infected with the disease.

The record is perfectly clear: The “vaccines” are entirely downside. Yet, Big Pharma made billions of dollars on the marketing of death and permanent health injuries. And “our” government issued Big Pharma immunity from all liability!

We are not over orchestrated health threats. Bill Gates has promised us a decade of them. Already two new ones are gearing up. Already we are hearing about the pending danger of H5N1, a highly pathogenic avian influenza. We are informed by CNN that cows have human flu receptors. From cows it will come to us. We haven’t yet been fed the narrative how a bird flue was adopted by our taxpayer money to infect cows in order to infect us.

We are also in line for another deadly threat. A report that failed to be suppressed arrived that the lab in Wuhan China, a lab funded by Tony Fauci at NIH for the development of the Covid virus, has now weaponized ebola.

There are reports that “vaccines” are already being made for these threats, and many other pending threats in advance of knowledge of their existence.

To be sure you understand, there are many avenues for fear to be used to panic the poorly educated, insouciant populations of the Western world to accept whatever “rescue” the powers-that-be have in place for them. Clearly, tyranny will be the result.

In the US, by suppressing the known cures–HCQ and Ivermectin–the untested deadly “vaccines” were released under emergency use. To be released under emergency use, the requirement is that there are no cures. This is the reason for the presstitute campaign demonizing HCQ and Ivermectin. The few doctors capable of thinking for themselves with their patients well being in mind, used the cures to save lives and most were punished for doing so.

This is America today: A country run by lies. Americans celebrate that they are run by lies with their mantra, “USA, USA, USA.”

If you tell the truth in America, you are classified as a “conspiracy theorist,” “a Russian agent,” “a Putin dupe,” “a white supremacist,” “a Jew-hater and Holocaust denier,” “an enemy of democracy,” “a domestic terrorist,” “a Hamas supporter.” The list of demonizations goes on and on.

Do you understand? The mind of the official world, the world represented in the official narratives upheld by the whore media and the growing coercive power of the government, is totally closed to truth. In America today you cannot tell the truth and have a career or an important position in American society.

On other fronts, I have emphasized for 8 years that Putin’s response to Washington’s overthrow of the Ukrainian government in 2014 was totally lacking in appropriateness. Consequently, Russia has found itself locked in a never-ending conflict that has permitted increasing Western participation in the conflict. Due to Putin’s unwillingness to use sufficient force to bring the conflict to a close, the conflict is spinning out of control and is leading to nuclear war. Already Putin has been forced into conducting exercises in the use against Europe of tactical nuclear weapons. The situation will worsen. There is no intelligence, neither in the West nor in Russia. Illusions and delusions reign in governments with world-ending nuclear armaments.

Long range missiles are being supplied to Ukraine that reach deep into Russia, as are F-15 nuclear capable aircraft. French Foreign Legion troops are now in the front lines confronting Russian soldiers. Yet Putin, instead of seeing the threat, continues to emphasize how open he is to negotiation with Washington.

In Palestine we see a true final solution in process. Palestine is being exterminated. The White House Fool sends meaningless and disregarded (and unmeant) warnings to Netanyahu while the US Government, a supporter of the genocide of the Palestinians, sends the weapons and money for the genocide. It is totally clear that without the Biden Regime’s support the genocide of Palestine could not be accomplished. As the Israel Lobby has purchased every US university administration, media outlet, and members of the US government, the students who protest the organized Israeli/Washington intended extinction of Palestinians are raided by police, arrested, punished, and thrown out of the universities.

This is America today. Its foreign policy is totally under the thumb of the Israel Lobby.

On the Trump front, we have learned that the Justice (sic) department prosecutor sent in the FBI to Trump’s residence with media props, marked “top secret” which they mixed into the files, took photos of, and showed to the whore American media as evidence that Trump had stolen national security documents.

In other words, the United States Department of Justice does not have the integrity of a Mafia Godfather. If we placed the old Mafia in charge of the Justice (sic) department, we would have MORE JUSTICE.

This is America today.

Go wave the flag. 
Chant “USA, USA, USA.”
Wave the flag some more.

We are losing our country. Is it possible for Americans to wake up?

The Ascension of our Lord and Savior is an event ever to be commemorated with joy and thanksgiving, for St. Paul tells us in the text that He ascended to the right hand of God, and there makes intercession for us. Hence it is our comfort to know, that “if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, and He is the propitiation for our sins.” (1 John ii. 1, 2) As the Jewish High Priest, after the solemn sacrifice for the people on the great day of Atonement, went into the Holy of Holies with the blood of the victim, and sprinkled it upon the Mercy-Seat, so Christ has entered into Heaven itself, to present (as it were) before the Throne that sacred Tabernacle which was the instrument of His passion – His pierced hands and wounded side – in token of the atonement which He has effected for the sins of the world.

Wonder and awe must always mingle with the thankfulness which the revealed dispensation of mercy raises in our minds. And this, indeed, is an additional cause of thankfulness, that Almighty God has disclosed to us enough of His high Providence to raise such sacred and reverent feelings. Had He merely told us that He had pardoned us, we should have had overabundant cause for blessing and praising Him; but in showing us somewhat of the means, in vouchsafing to tell what cannot wholly be told, in condescending to abase heavenly things to the weak and stammering tongues of earth, He has enlarged our gratitude, yet sobered it with fear.

We are allowed with the Angels to obtain a glimpse of the mysteries of Heaven, “to rejoice with trembling.” Therefore, so far from considering the Truths of the Gospel as a burden, because they are beyond our understanding, we shall rather welcome them and exult in them, nay, and feel an antecedent stirring of heart towards them, for the very reason that they are above us. . . .

First, Christ’s Ascension to the right hand of God is marvelous, because it is a sure token that heaven is a certain fixed place, and not a mere state. That bodily presence of the Savior which the Apostles handled is not here; it is elsewhere – it is in heaven. This contradicts the notions of cultivated and speculative minds, and humbles the reason. Philosophy considers it more rational to suppose that Almighty God, as being a Spirit, is in every place; and in no one place more than another. It would teach, if it dare, that heaven is a mere state of blessedness; but, to be consistent, it ought to go on to deny, with the ancient heretics, referred to by St. John, that “Jesus Christ is come in the flesh,” and maintain that His presence on earth was a mere vision; for, certain it is, He who appeared on earth went up from the earth, and a cloud received Him out of His Apostles’ sight.

And here again an additional difficulty occurs, on minutely considering the subject. Whither did He go? beyond the sun? beyond the fixed stars? Did He traverse the immeasurable space which extends beyond them all? Again, what is meant by ascending? Philosophers will say there is no difference between down and up, as regards the sky; yet, whatever difficulties the word may occasion, we can hardly take upon us to decide that it is a mere popular expression, consistently with the reverence due to the Sacred Record.

And thus we are led on to consider, how different are the character and effect of the Scripture notices of the structure of the physical world, from those which philosophers deliver. I am not deciding whether or not the one and the other are reconcilable; I merely say their respective effect is different. And when we have deduced what we deduce by our reason from the study of visible nature, and then read what we read in His inspired word, and find the two apparently discordant, this is the feeling I think we ought to have on our minds – not an impatience to do what is beyond our powers, to weigh evidence, sum up, balance, decide, and reconcile, to arbitrate between the two voices of God – but a sense of the utter nothingness of worms such as we are. . .”until the day-break and the shadows flee away,” useful in such a way that both the one and the other representation may at once be used, as two languages, as two separate approximations towards the Awful Unknown Truth, such as will not mislead us in their respective provinces.

And thus while we use the language of science, without jealousy, for scientific purposes, we may confine it to these; and repel and reprove its upholders, should they attempt to exalt it and to “stretch it beyond its measure.” In its own limited round it has its use, nay, may be made to fill a higher ministry, and stand as a proselyte under the shadow of the temple; but it must not dare profane the inner courts, in which the ladder of Angels is fixed forever, reaching even to the Throne of God, and “Jesus standing on the right hand of God.”

I will but remind you on this part of the subject, that our Lord is to come from heaven “in like manner” as He went; that He is to come “in clouds,” that “every eye shall see Him,” and “all tribes of the earth wail because of Him.” Attempt to solve this prediction, according to the received theories of science, and you will discover their shallowness. They are unequal to the depth of the problem. . . .

Further still, consider our Savior’s words: “It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you.” He does not tell us, why it was that His absence was the condition of the Holy Spirit’s presence. “If I depart,” He says, “I will send Him unto you.” “I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever.” (John xvi. 7; xiv. 16). . . .

Now, proud and curious reason might seek to know why He could not “pray the Father,” without going to Him; why He must depart in order to send the Spirit. But faith, without asking for one ray of light more than is given, muses over the wonderful system of Providence, as seen in this world, which is ever connecting events, between which man sees no necessary bond.

The whole system of what is called cause and effect, is one of mystery; and this instance, if it may be called one, supplies abundant matter of praise and adoration to a pious mind. It suggests to us, equally with the topics which have already come before us, how very much our knowledge of God’s ways is but on the surface. What are those deep hidden reasons why Christ went, and the Spirit came? Marvelous and glorious, beyond our understanding! Let us worship in silence; meanwhile, let us jealously maintain this, and every other portion of our Creed, lest, by dropping jot or tittle, we suffer the truths concealed therein to escape from us.

Moreover, this departure of Christ, and coming of the Holy Ghost, leads our minds with great comfort to the thought of many lower dispensations of Providence towards us. He, who, according to His inscrutable will, sent first His Co-equal Son, and then His Eternal Spirit, acts with deep counsel, which we may surely trust, when He sends from place to place those earthly instruments which carry on His purposes. This is a thought which is particularly soothing as regards the loss of friends; or of especially gifted men, who seem in their day the earthly support of the Church. For what we know, their removal hence is as necessary for the furtherance of the very objects we have at heart, as was the departure of our Savior. . . .

What has been now said about the Ascension of our Lord comes to this; that we are in a world of mystery, with one bright Light before us, sufficient for our proceeding forward through all difficulties. Take away this Light, and we are utterly wretched – we know not where we are, how we are sustained, what will become of us, and of all that is dear to us, what we are to believe, and why we are in being. But with it we have all and abound. Not to mention the duty and wisdom of implicit faith in the love of Him who made and redeemed us, what is nobler, what is more elevating and transporting, than the generosity of heart which risks everything on God’s word, dares the powers of evil to their worst efforts, and repels the illusions of sense and the artifices of reason, by confidence in the Truth of Him who has ascended to the right hand of the Majesty on high?

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Naturalism for kids…

A ‘Garden of Encounter’: Vatican Releases Idiotic Children’s Declaration on Fraternity

Children wearing laurels alternate reading a declaration on human fraternity…

The second annual so-called World Meeting on Human Fraternity ended today in Vatican City.

The two-day event, sponsored by the Fratelli Tutti Foundation, was a follow-up to last year’s single-day event by that name, which was a complete bust as practically no one showed up and pictures of St. Peter’s Square showed lots of empty chairs (ha!):

• Vatican’s Human Fraternity Extravaganza ‘Not Alone’ Flops as No One Shows Up

Whereas last year’s meeting bore the title ‘Not Alone’, this year’s edition was labeled ‘Be Human’.… READ MORE

 Instead of Aunt Pittypat Hamilton of Gone with the Wind exclaiming “Yankees in Georgia! How did they ever get in?" This morning she is exclaiming “Northern Lights in Georgia! How did they ever get in?”

The Aurora Borealis made it to Richmond Hill and the Hilton Head area!

I give You thanks, O Lord God, from the depths of my heart, because you condescended, for love of us unworthy creatures, to take upon Yourself our human nature. Born of a Virgin, You were nourished by her milk, cradled in her bosom; You were submissive to her, You who preserve and direct everything that exists. And You have deigned to enlighten me, a miserable creature, so that I might know that You have a Mother; You permit me, unworthy as I am, to be able and to dare to address her… Oh! With what devotion should I not give my heart to you, O Virgin Mary! My mouth should be filled with wonderful sweetness when I speak to you, sweet and gentle Lady, and when I bless the fruit of your womb. Oh! When I address you, how is it that I am not filled with delight that I forget everything but you and the fruit of your womb? What greeting is more welcome than the one which recognizes you as the Mother of God? You wish men to rejoice in you, so that their love will always reach your divine Son; therefore you wish to be called and recognized as the Mother of God. Hail, then, O Mary, and truly hail! O wonderful Ave, that drives demons away, frees sinners, and makes your children rejoice… Every creature sings an endless Ave to you!”

The Novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe continues…

Boeing mishaps multiplying

Boeing has been accused of letting safety lapse as it obsesses over ‘woke’ diversity targets in staffing, as well as over-paying executives working from home.

Offshored production has destroyed quality control.

It is difficult to comprehend the stupidity of American executives. They can’t see further than the next quarter’s bonus. Everything is sacrificed to raising short term profits.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13403389/boeing-737-passenger-forced-emergency-landing-safety-issue.html