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Generally, conspiracy theories are a waste of time. But, with this report, one has to wonder if the government sat down and said; let’s gin up a grand conspiracy and make it public.

A Uvalde, Texas, police officer armed with a rifle spotted the gunman outside of Robb Elementary School before he entered the building and asked his supervisor for permission to shoot, but the supervisor either didn’t hear the request or didn’t respond in time, allowing the suspect to enter the school, according to a report released Wednesday by the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center (ALERRT).

So wait, the cops were already there? Having seen a few timelines around the web, carefully considered, I thought, that can’t be what happened! But, maybe it can be?

The gunman would go on to murder 19 children and two teachers before a Border Patrol tactical team eventually breached the classroom and took him out over 70 minutes later, a delay that has been sharply criticized by lawmakers, state law enforcement officials, and the Uvalde community.

Why didn’t he take the shot?

It’s unclear why the initial Uvalde police officer did not immediately fire at the gunman, who had already started shooting into classrooms as he walked along the perimeter of the school.

Again, what were police doing there, and why didn’t the officer take the shot?

Romans 3:10-26 (Psalm 10:6-7, Isaiah 59:7-8)

I went to a Buc-ee’s. It’s quite an operation. One leaves trying to wrap their mind around what is or is not America and wondering what will become of us. The gas was 10 cents higher than the other stations on the Interstate, but nobody seemed to care or notice; it’s a Buc-ee’s, so presumably, that makes it worth it. Without exaggeration, this one must have more than 100 gas pumps, every lane full; cars, SUVs, or pickups with boomers dragging a fifth wheel.

I’m not sure what the attraction is. The people seem to be there only to be there. Everything was slightly overpriced, and although the food looked pretty good, it was only gas station food. But Buc-ee’s is more than a gas station; it’s a relationship. The BBQ sam’mich was going as fast as they could make them by the dozen.

The lady at the checkout, local as they come, said it’s flat out, non-stop; there must be thousands of people coming and going every day. They’ll pay you $20 an hour to work the overnight shift. She seemed a little slow, but professing Christ, she’s my sister and probably has a more faithful love for the Saviour than I’ll ever know. All some need is a crumb from the Master’s table (Matthew 15:27). God rarely calls those from the high lofts – if that’s you, salvation is no small gift; don’t waste it (Luke 12:47-48).

It’s hard to know if the people going there don’t care about inflation and the state of things in the world, or perhaps that’s the point of stopping at a Buc-ee’s on your road trip; to forget the world. There was no sense at all of the death of America or the irony of the place as a symbol and type of the commoditization of the consumer being a nail in the coffin of the West by ending the tangible work of making and building things. The country’s going to hell, actual, but hey, let’s head to the Buc-ee’s out by the Interstate!?!

There’s a section for T-shirts and hats and Buc-ee’s gear. No, I didn’t get a Buc-ee’s T-shirt. Maybe a twinge of regret since I’m not against self-deprecating humor. An area with very overpriced “local” stuff with a State or nearby tourist attraction theme to it. Many self-serve soda dispensers with Buc-ee’s brand of cola, root beer, orange, and the like. They make their own dessert fudge right there and have other areas with things like that. And, of course, a section of regular snacks like Cheeto’s and Coke in a can for those who need a known degree of danger to their health delivered in a familiar size, shape, and color.

On private property, which sole purpose is to make money, it’s often a tricky business, pretending to browse while not angering a money spender. I was quite the novelty among those from far-flung midwestern and northeastern states. A real live Christian, openly discussing salvation in Christ Jesus and handing out literature about the human soul’s condition and relationship to its Creator. A real oddity, curious looks of wonder all around. Christians really exist, rare, but we saw one at the Buc’ee’s, didn’t we, honey, and it asked me about heaven.

“There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.” – Romans 3:11

There is none righteous, no, not one. Nobody understands; none seek God, for it’s the Almighty that calls to them and draws them and makes the previously unaware begin to see His purposes; nobody seeks God but that God reveals Himself. You can talk at the Buc-ee’s to a midwestern tourist all day long about Christ, but they can’t hear you until God speaks to them.

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.” – Romans 3:18

Holy God stands before all men, observing their every thought and deed, but neither can they see Him.  So few now care for the things of the Almighty or ever consider His ways. How does a civilization turn Godless and survive?

And so America tells itself what is said by all those about to suffer a fall: “He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.” – Psalm 10:6. A fitting verse for an afternoon at the Buc-ee’s, overwhelmed with abundance.

“Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness” – Romans 3:14. Compare with: “His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.” – Psalm 10:7

Is that you, a sinner, dead in your trespasses, self-assured yet utterly self-deceived, blind to God? A man can curse God without ever speaking a word.

“15 Their feet are swift to shed blood: 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways: 17 And the way of peace have they not known” – Romans 3:15-17 (see Isaiah 59:7-8). It is an apt description of the American leadership we’ve come to know, realizing they are taking us where almost none but the hopelessly useful idiot dare go.

The place was packed with people, but there was still room to move and browse. Are they conscience, wandering through life, or simply taking a break from the soon-coming and man-made wreckage?

But I did meet a brother in Christ who was missing several front teeth. I know this because I asked him about his eternal station and saw the biggest unashamed smile light up half complex; that man knows Christ, and from what he’s been saved. It never gets old, that smile of the true believer, the blessing of the almighty by His Spirit living in their heart, the wonderfully fearful, and nowadays ever more rare called of God, appointed unto salvation to service of Him. He moved here from England as a child, an Air Force vet, and a good guy. ‘Round these parts, missing teeth don’t mean dumb; that’s just Hollywood.

His Church is a large one, down to about 50 core people as they search for a new Pastor. As hard as that sounds, it appears to be a good thing: find out who’s committed, purge the chaff, gather the dead branches and burn them up, get new leadership, reset, and serve with purpose. He was there just for the spectacle of it all. Neither of us was disappointed.

We talked by a display of beef jerky, a prominent item, being both road food and guy food. It caught my stomach’s attention. I told him we had about forty; that is the core where I go, serving the Lord with consistent purpose. I’m blessed beyond measure to be among folks who love the Lord, seek the lost with the Gospel, work for Christ with purpose of heart and mind, and are training the young. It’s a rare thing where I go, having been to dozens of Churches, many just like the Buc-ee’s, full of tourists who, for the life of their eternal soul, couldn’t explain the purpose or meaning of what their Church exists to accomplish and why they are there or who profits.

Departing from my new friend and heading for the Beef Jerky counter, I got $15, half a pound worth by weight, of the “sweet and spicy,” which was neither sweet nor spicy. And it got eatin’ in the vehicle on the freeway after leaving; this is what one dutifully does with beef jerky on the road. Not dry, somehow, although under spiced, it was pretty tasty. Since they said we couldn’t eat cows anymore, I ate it all ’till I felt a little gurgly in the belly. I still eat dead cows; price is no object if it means one more good ol’ methane-loaded cow fart to make a liberal cry.

I don’t know if America will make it. I suspect not. But my new toothless Buc-ee’s friend and I, we’ll make it. The rest may burn like a roman candle, but we’d like you to know; that you can make it too.

“24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God” – Romans 3:24-25

70,000 trucker contractors to be forced off the roads in California (which also affects the balance of the U.S.).

Did you know this was happening?

As I’ve said so many times before.  Droughts are natural.  All famines are man-made.

Readers are well aware of the typical things I recommend when going hiking, even for a day hike with no plans to spend the night.  You make plans to spend the night anyway.

A large bore handgun, redundant fire starter, poncho, parka, paracord, knife, light, compass, energy food, and plenty of water (or a water filtration device), and minimalistic IFAK.  This simple kit, while fairly light, gives you water, food energy, means to find your way out if you can navigate, cover for the night by use of the poncho and paracord, warmth for the night with the parka, and means to have fire.

Unprepared hikers rarely thing about these things, and often have to be rescued.  Take for example these native Texans who went hiking in Colorado.

Hikers left the Texas heat to a camp on a cold, rainy Colorado trail, officials said. The duo hiked up Lake Como Road and into Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo range on Monday, June 27, the Alamosa Volunteer Search And Rescue team said. They never made it to Lake Como and set up camp about a quarter-mile from the lake.

Lake Como is an 8.3-mile out-and-back trail near Blanca, about 210 miles south of Denver. It’s considered a challenging route, according to AllTrails. After some time, they started experiencing hypothermia. They called for help and said they were cold. One of the hikers started throwing up and was severely dehydrated with a headache.

Rescuers brought the hikers hot water bottles and sugary drinks to help them warm up and rehydrate. They were brought down the road and checked by medical professionals. Nearly six hours after the call for help, the rescue was complete. Officials said it was a difficult operation because of the rain making the road rocky. “Lake Como Rd was exceptionally dangerous this trip due to heavy rain, high chance for rockfall and extremely slippery rock,” officials said in a news release. “On the descent down, there was a river running down the entire road.”

The hikers weren’t prepared for their trek. They didn’t pack extra clothing to stay dry, and their tent had no rain fly, officials said. The hikers also didn’t have extra food or water, and they didn’t have layers to survive the night temperatures. “These hikers said they did not understand why it was so cold and rainy in Colorado, because it has been ‘so hot in Texas’ where they hike all the time,” rescuers said. “They never checked any weather forecasts.”

I’ve hiked in Colorado in the middle of summer near snow covered peaks.  Their actions were very dumb, and could have cost them their lives.

Perhaps worse still was this hiker who tried to brave a swamp in the Adirondacks.

NORTH HUDSON — It’s known by forest rangers as the Dix Pond Swamp, and may be one of the more miserable and foreboding places to find oneself in the Adirondack High Peaks backcountry.

Created by a “blowdown” — a mass knockdown of trees — 50 years ago and characterized by knee-deep muck, jungle-thick new-growth trees and voracious black flies, a solo hiker from Singapore earlier this month was rescued after wandering desperately and aimlessly in the swamp for three days after leaving a marked trail and becoming disoriented.

 

“He told his wife that he was never going to hike that mountain range again,” Forest Ranger Jamison Martin said during an interview with fellow Ranger Andrew Lewis about the Wednesday, June 22, search-and-rescue effort.

Great lessons learned.  Know your season.  Know your terrain.  Have maps.  Be able to navigate.  Have various foods.  Have clean drinking water or filtration.  If you can’t rest, you begin to hallucinate and make awful decisions.

And if you’re in a swamp, retrace your steps and get out.

“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” – Galatians 6:7

Independence Day? America isn’t independent; it’s a primary component of the Global Order. The US has sown its seeds for a century, creating problems all around the world, and it’s going to come back home, all of it. America can’t fight Russia; the proposition is absurd. The US Military isn’t fit. I don’t mean physically fit, although that’s probably true, it’s not fit in any respect; knowledge, equipment, leadership, capabilities. It’s pathetically led, full of soft perverts and freaks at all levels. America is way over its head in UKR.

The continued promotion of the idea of East-West conflict is ruinous. The threat the northern peoples face is from the south, yet our leadership insists that Europe and America be overrun with heathens having no regard for European history or culture. The European peoples are in a deep crisis, and making total war on each other will have disastrous consequences. It’s all being done on purpose and probably can’t be stopped at this point. If not war with Russia, it’ll be something equally destructive and hollowing to civilization.

“37 But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him: 38 That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? 39 Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again, 40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them. 41 These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him. 42 Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: 43 For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.” – John 12:37-43

In this section of Scripture, we see several prophecies by Isaiah referenced in speaking of the first century Jews being blinded to Christ. Verse 38 of John 12 refers to Isaiah 53:1 and verse 39 to Isaiah 6:9. Verse 42 refers to Isaiah seeing the glory of the Lord; that’s likely Isaiah 6:1.

God has at times blinded the eyes of those under judgment. This is an interesting topic today because so many claim to see, but they can’t, or won’t, discern causality as though they are blind to the sin of America and God’s judgment. Part of the problem is the “end times” prophecy business, and it is a business that has so coopted the topic of God’s judgment that Christians rarely consider that what’s coming upon America is simply a regular judgment of God for our disobedience to Him. The determinations of God for disobedience are horrible and involve pestilences, wars, famines, and the like, often over several generations. The problem in understanding the occasion of judgment is that there are similar features in Scripture when God brings it.

The devil-possessed people running the world aren’t the problem or the cause of the looming judgment of God. God uses human instrumentation to carry out His determinations. Throughout Scripture, God uses the enemies of good to bring wrath upon those He is correcting.

A component of the arriving takeover by those filled with evil is society’s inability to recognize that sin has bloomed both because they allowed it and deserve the consequent corruption. You are perhaps intensely aware of the growing wickedness, but God blinds the eyes of those under His judgment, lest they repent and be saved.

“The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.” – Proverbs 16:4

Those used by God in judgment are later the worse recipient of His wrath for it. Though evil may have its day, there will be recompense. Nobody will tell you this stuff. God looses the forces of evil to judge His people, and when He has satisfied His wrath against them, He destroys those evil ones with even greater power.

God blinds the eyes of those upon which He will bring His manifest judgments. The problem in America is Americans! You are the problem. You want everybody else to stop sinning while you maintain yours! The New Religion in the American Church won’t tell you this lest they lose the mortgage money they pay to the Global Banking Cartel, the same people Jesus scourged. The New Religion would empty the “Churches” if they started telling the truth; nobody would believe it. This message, and it’s true, has never been popular. Nobody wants to acknowledge it. Blinded to the reality of the power of the Gospel, they stoned the prophets of old and hanged Jesus Christ on a cross for telling the truth.

God holds back the spirit of antichrist, and that’s the only way an upright civilization exists. God in His mercy sometimes waits for several generations. Still, eventually, God blinds even His own that have warranted the forces of darkness to come upon them that they may reap the whirlwind of their own creation.

So what can Christ’s men do? Plant seeds that later generations will nurture and grow. God’s word indicates that He will always have a people. We must prepare as many who will listen to lead the people back to God. If you know these facts, leave a pure remnant, trained, organized, and equipped to rebuild upon a blessed day that Holy God stays His hand, allowing the wrath and reign of evil no more.

Be the remnant planning, preparing, and training the young so that God may use your children’s children to re-institute just law under God. Perhaps they’ll hear of you, those crazy few who believed the promises of God and refused to let the teaching of Christ die on the vine. Be of those that made a covenant with God to never back down in the face of evil, purposing in your heart never to deny the Lord who bought you. Plant a seed, water, and nurture the next generation teaching them how to build a civil, just, and functioning nation under God. Be the solution, willing never to see the harvest reaped that you’re sowing in this life.

The devil would have no power except that which Christ allows, which means several things. The first is that Christ defeated the devil (John 12:31). Therefore, this must mean that the evil now growing manifest on a global scale is the will of God. And, thirdly if God has loosed evil upon us, it must mean that we deserve it. God is not a petty tyrant. He exacts that measure necessary to work His plan. Here’s the part that you will take the most exception to, since it appears that the judgment of God is upon us through human instrumentation, which is His most often chosen means, then we can correct the course that we’ve taken; to end the judgment. Christians ignore the solution because analyzing the problem is much easier than doing the hard work that Christ commands. “If ye love me, keep my commandments.” – John 14:15

Christians don’t even know what our weapon is and God’s chosen manner to employ it, nor do they know the person who accomplishes the work. Christians in America deny the power of the Word of God and deny that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the power of God unto salvation; they deny the power of the Holy Spirit as anything other than that annoyance to keeps telling them to stop watching porn, and always they seek to escape the Holy Spirit quenching Him all the day long and living no differently from the lost sinners all around them. They must; we can only recon, be blinded to the Gospel. Saved and blinded, is that even possible? Something is desperately wrong with American Christians.

The Pharisees were blinded, so they rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ when He would have personally delivered them! And for denying Him, Christ destroyed their religion, country, and entire way of life and scattered them to the wind. And America is doing the same thing, rejecting the word of God, the Gospel as the power of salvation, and the ultimate ally, God Almighty. If only the American Churches would teach this lesson.

Judgment, it would seem, is arriving, and Christians blame the devil by his human agents, or democrats, or anybody else when it’s their fault for unbelief. America is awake to the problem and blind to the cause.

“For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.” – Hosea 8:7

We’ve long held that reliance on government is a religion. This piece with video explains it well.

Since the birth of totalitarianism in the 20th century much has been written about this form of rule and millions have read George Orwell’s depiction of it in the classic novel 1984. But what is often overlooked is that totalitarianism is more than just a political system, it is a fanatical religion, and this religion is spreading across the globe with a ferocity not seen since the mid-20th century. In this video we are going to investigate the religious nature of totalitarianism in the recognition that we must know our enemy if we are to defeat it. Shortly after fleeing Nazi Germany, the political scientist Waldemar Gurian wrote the following:

“The totalitarian movements that have arisen after the First World War are basically religious movements. Their aim is not only to change political and social institutions, but also to remodel the nature of man and society.”

Waldemar Gurian, The Totalitarian State

Note: The linked site has videos about religion. This post does not constitute agreement with their theology.

It’s not called the Visual Capitalist for nothing. Go see the charts and graphs.

To understand how interest rates influence inflation, we need to understand how inflation works. Inflation is the result of too much money chasing too few goods. Over the last several months, this has occurred amid a surge in demand and supply chain disruptions worsened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

With inflation rates hitting multi-decade highs in some countries, many central banks have announced interest rate hikes. Below, we show how the inflation rate and policy interest rate have changed for select countries and regions since January 2022. The jurisdictions are ordered from highest to lowest current inflation rate.

Raising interest rates is a fine balancing act. If central banks raise rates too quickly, it’s like slamming the brakes on that car speeding downhill: the economy could come to a standstill. This occurred in the U.S. in the 1980’s when the Federal Reserve, led by Chair Paul Volcker, raised the policy rate to 20%. The economy went into a recession, though the aggressive monetary policy did eventually tame double digit inflation.

However, if rates are raised too slowly, inflation could gather enough momentum that it becomes difficult to stop. The longer high price increases linger, the more future inflation expectations build. This can result in people buying more in anticipation of prices rising further, perpetuating high demand.

Allow me to translate. We always mess this up, which is what we’ll do again this time.

Input costs are always a problem for farmers. Via WRSA, the solution becomes much more difficult when the economy destabilizes with inflationary pressure.

This is far from the first farmer to offer a dire warning. Three weeks ago John Boyd Jr., the President of the National Black Farmers Association, said “We are in a crisis right now as far as the food chain goes with the farmer in this country,” adding “We’re going to see a lot of empty shelves and a lot more high food prices.”

Food shortages are coming; plan accordingly.

A Beef Cattle operation that runs between 2300-2600 head to market each year got a phone call from the FDA and were told to kill and bury all the cattle on site. If I understood it correctly, this isn’t a one-time deal. They were told not to bring their cattle to market anymore. This is no small operation and has been in service for years; several dozen breeding bulls, husbandry hand-raising calves, with pasture and hay-fed animals. There are no disease or potential risk factors involved. The subject came up when farm land for sale was being discussed. The government is going to pay what presumably is a fair price per head, but that’s not the point.

The internet indicates 500 plus pounds of consumable meat per animal; somebody knows more precisely how much, but it’s a lot.

Via WRSA, a well researched and thorough article with linked references. Some of this is review but it’s good to have it in one place, with proof research supplied. Some details appear to be new. It’s a recommended weekend read.

The designers of this pandemic anticipated a pushback by the public and that major embarrassing questions would be asked. To prevent this, the controllers fed the media a number of tactics, one of the most commonly used was and is the “fact check” scam. With each confrontation with carefully documented evidence, the media “fact checkers” countered with the charge of “misinformation”, and an unfounded “conspiracy theory” charge that was, in their lexicon, “debunked”.

In the case of all other drugs and previous conventional vaccines under review by the FDA, the otherwise unexplained deaths of 50 or less individuals would result in a halt in further distribution of the product, as happened on 1976 with the swine flu vaccine. With over 18,000 deaths being reported by the VAERS system for the period December 14, 2020 and December 31^st, 2021 as well as 139,126 serious injuries (including deaths) for the same period there is still no interest in stopping this deadly vaccine program.

A new study has now surfaced, the results of which are terrifying.[25] A researcher at Kingston University in London, has completed an extensive analysis of the VAERs data (a subdepartment of the CDC which collects voluntary vaccine complication data), in which he grouped reported deaths following the vaccines according to the manufacturer’s lot numbers of the vaccines. Vaccines are manufactured in large batches called lots. What he discovered was that the vaccines are divided into over 20,000 lots and that one out of every 200 of these batches (lots) is demonstrably deadly to anyone who receives a vaccine from that lot, which includes thousands of vaccine doses.

Money, or the love of money, is behind much of the “pandemic.” It’s important to note that it was not a pandemic. It never attained the threshold numbers of a real pandemic, not even close. The boundary of the minimum number of deaths required was changed, along with most other knowledge and facts about how to handle flu(like) infection. Power and control are also primary drivers of those self-appointed rulers that have the blood of millions on their heads.