Let Me Put You on Hold

There’s a moment in The Avengers, when we first meet the Black Widow. She is tied to a chair, leaning out over a pit, being tortured by bad guys, when a phonecall comes in—on the bad guy’s phone—and she's annoyed by the interruption—because she had them right where she wanted them and “this moron is giving me everything.” But she is told of the important mission, so she says, “Let me put you on hold.”

Then of course she miraculously breaks free, because she has such amazing skills. And then casually picks up her shoes and the phone and walks away.

We, the good citizens of the United States, seem to be tied to a chair, leaning out over a pit, being tortured, figuratively speaking. Under the circumstances it might take a shift in perspective to believe we have the bad guys right where we want them—information coming out, takedown about to happen.

The bad guys only think they’re in control.

I am not one who believes that some version of a SHIELD team has a long, elaborate plan that they are allowing to play out. I am, however, one who believes that, particularly for our day, we have our God in Heaven who has a plan to take down the bad guys. And His skills are way better than the fictional Black Widow’s. I don’t know which moment it will be when He answers our prayers by saying, “Let me put you on hold,” and then destroys the wicked. But He has told His prophets through the centuries that such a moment is coming.

So I have hope. Even when the loss of our freedoms is more apparent with every news cycle.

In the meantime, I am trying to understand the enemy, and what the enemy is doing.

This past week someone on that side, not one I had thought of as an enemy, said the quiet part out loud. This was Sam Harris, noted mainly for being an atheist, but an atheist with morals. He was on the TRIGGERnometry podcast. We learned from him that he doesn’t care about morals. As he put it, “Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement. I would not have cared.” Whatever is on that laptop—including Joe Biden’s corruption, “and understand they’re getting kickbacks from Biden’s deals in Ukraine and wherever else, right? Or China.” Doesn’t matter. “It is infinitesimal compared to the corruption we know Trump is involved in. It’s like, it’s like a firefly to the sun.”

Sam Harris, on TRIGGERnometry podcast
screenshot from here

What does he enumerate of Trump’s sun hot sins? Trump University, for one. Worse than everything on that laptop? Trump University was a class action case, brought in 2013, settled for $25 million, fully compensating all claimants plus $1 million in punitive damages. It likely would have gone to trial and been fought and appealed on the merits of the law, but for the timing, which put it right after the 2016 presidential election, during the busy inaugural season. So they settled for convenience. That is apparently gazillions of times worse than Biden kickbacks in exchange for access to the VP, for multiple millions of dollars, putting our nation at risk. Not to mention the drugs and sex and possible sex trafficking on the Biden laptop, which was withheld from the public for a year by the FBI, and then quashed in media just prior to the 2020 election.

Does Harris mention anything else? Yes, Trump said mean things on Twitter. He actually claimed Trump doxed people “again and again and again.” I’m unaware of any accusations of Trump ever doxing anyone. Trump followers, however, have been doxed, and persecuted, and targeted by the IRS, taken down from not only Twitter but Facebook, YouTube, and wherever else.

But self-proclaimed moralist Sam Harris thinks an outright conspiracy to prevent Trump from regaining the White House was absolutely justified. Who cares about democracy when an asteroid that is hurtling toward earth in the form of a seventy-something businessman could be stopped by any means necessary?

We have to wonder, why really does Sam Harris fear another Trump presidency? A long-past settled lawsuit and nonexistent doxing claims can’t be it. Is it because Trump moved us to the verge of a Hitlerian nightmare in his first term? No. In fact, he deregulated, freed us up, moved the economy out of the Obama malaise and into full recovery, particularly lowering unemployment for blacks. He stopped the majority of the border crisis with a “remain in Mexico” policy. He practically achieved lasting peace in the Middle East. He was, refreshingly, not authoritarian.

What are we supposed to be scared of? White supremacy—a miniscule issue without any connection to Trump. Racism—a dwindling issue without any connection to Trump. COVID—not caused by Trump and would have been nearly immediately solved with low-cost medicines given as early treatment, which Trump touted—if that normal action hadn’t been halted by Deep State actors here and across the world.

So what is there to fear?

Maybe loss of power to the ruling class. Trump, despite the money, despite the education at an Ivy League institution, is not considered elite. He is too much like the working class people the elites need to rule over.

And, let’s be clear, Sam Harris the intellectual is an elite. Apparently nothing emotionally upturns him more than someone in power who is not an elite—democracy be damned; that must be stopped!

People who believe they have the right to rule over others will always be the enemy of the people.

Will Cain discussed the Sam Harris clip with Gad Saad, a one-time friend of Sam Harris, who called him out for this immoral and unreasonable assertion. Cain summed up Harris’s viewpoint, I think accurately, as, “He said it’s perfectly fine to lie, steal, and cheat in order to accomplish ‘victory.’” In other words, Sam Harris has no principle, beyond winning, that he’s willing to stand on.

Will Cain (left) and Gad Saad discuss Sam Harris's moral relativism
screenshot from here

As Cain and Saad continued the conversation, Cain commented that, while “Sam’s not a Nobody, Sam’s not that big a deal; the problem is, Sam said out loud what many others believe.” He then reminds us that former CIA Director Michael Hayden said something similar recently, painting with an even broader brush, that there is nothing in his life more threatening that the modern-day Republican Party. Cain continues, “Worse than Boko Haram and Al-Qaeda and Isis. If that is their belief, they will break any rule. They will break any principle. Because the existence of humanity is at stake.” That’s what they seem to have convinced themselves to believe—because the supremacy of elitism doesn’t sell well among the masses.

Wednesday, Viva & Barnes did a Sidebar discussion with Michael Millerman, political philosopher and Aleksandr Dugin expert (he translated some of Dugin’s writings). Dugin is an anti-West and anti-modernity philosopher who has Putin’s ear; his daughter was assassinated this week, and there is speculation that the car bomb was meant for him. That’s all a discussion for some other day. But Dugin has been called a Neo-Nazi. And Viva Frei, who is ethnically Jewish, got called a Nazi this week as well. So they asked Millerman about the use of this term. Millerman answers:

I think everybody knows who’s watching this, on one level, everybody gets called a fascist today. Everybody gets called a Nazi today, if you veer a millimeter to the right, probably, of the ideological consensus.

He mentions an article in IM1776.com, by the online magazine's editor Daniel Miller about the history of that anti-fascist accusation of the left. Within that article the author makes this connection that might be relevant to our discussion today:

For the same reason the 2016 election victory of President Trump and populist dissident movements in Europe are repeatedly connected to Putin. The objective is to refuse democratic legitimacy to what would otherwise register as democratic movements, operating in nominally democratic societies, to suppress them as issues of national security.

Millerman continues about the Nazi epithet:

This is just automatically to discredit your enemies. And by the way, if you can legitimate calling all of your enemies fascists, and you can legitimate, you know, fascists are so much the scum of the earth that they should be cancelled—or killed—well, you’re not very far from legitimating the killing of your political enemies.

We’ve seen that you can cancel your political enemies. That happens all the time now. But, you know, we’re not too many steps away from car bombing your political enemies, in the West, I think, if you follow out the logic of delegitimating with this title.

Robert Barnes (top left) and Viva Frei (below) talk with Michael Millerman
screenshot from here

All this sounds like things are getting more dire. I don’t dispute that.

But there’s also something else going on. Truth is more powerful than raw assertion of power. The enemies of freedom are revealing everything they’re doing, and people are starting to see what was hidden:

§      There is no way they had the right to raid former President Trump’s residence with a general warrant—illegal for criminal investigations. They have tried to frame him, and have tried to cover up their crimes. The truth is going to be seen.

§      When the DOJ let it slip that they were targeting parents who spoke up at school board meetings, and investigating them as domestic terrorists, the truth got out, and perfectly normal and peaceful parents woke up. They now see the enemy.

§      Fauci has announced he is stepping down by the end of the year—which ought to have happened a decade or more ago for the octogenarian who has called himself “the science.” No matter how many times lately he’s tried to push for mask wearing and vaccination for children, people aren’t heeding him anymore. And there are threats of investigation into his corruption related to COVID origins, vaccine kickbacks, medicine kickbacks, and a whole lot of other crimes he’s committed. Personally, I think he should be prosecuted for every COVID-19 death that resulted from prevention of early treatment and by vaccine or Remdesivir adverse reactions.

§      More truth continues to come out about election fraud.

§      This week Biden announced he is forgiving student loan debt for vast swaths of that demographic—to be paid for by people saved, scrimped, paid off their debts, or had to forego the education for lack of money. And his answer to whether that’s fair is to mumble something unintelligible. It appears to be a brazen attempt to buy votes. And even Nancy Pelosi has pointed out that he doesn’t have the power to do it.

If history and recent primaries are an indicator, this November election could mean a switch of power in the legislature. And that could lead to some good things, like clearing out some of the swamp, even without Trump in office.

I can’t say whether November 8^th is going to be the “Let me put you on hold” moment, when the enemy suddenly and decisively gets taken down. I’d like that moment to be soon—for everyone’s sake. But if not then, the tension is mounting, and it will be coming.

And we know the outcome. Truth wins.

Power Mongering

The word monger means to sell, or to make deals. It’s an older word, used only in certain circumstances today, more of them nefarious than on the up-and-up.

Power monger means dealing in power, as a commodity. It implies an insatiable hunger for getting it. I introduced the term in one of my earliest blog series, back in 2011. Grammatically, I debate still on whether to attach the words, or hyphenate. Words move from separate to hyphenated to attached, usually gradually, based on continuous frequency of connection. I’ve made an editorial decision for now to keep them separate, to make it clear what is being mongered.

 

Definition and note both from Merriam-Webster's online dictionary.
It can also be a verb, transitive, meaning peddle

This definition from the online American Heritage Dictionary, which pops up
at the top of the search, gives additional shades of meaning.

This week I’ve been watching “Who Is Hunter Biden?” the Part II second season of which came out last week. (It’s behind the paywall at Fox Nation.) There are an additional five episodes. It’s a lot to stomach. Don’t watch with children in the room—although actual graphic imagery is brief and blurred. The subject matter is the utter depravity of a man and his family who sell their influence for money and power.

Jeanine Pirro in the Who Is Hunter Biden? series,
screenshot from the series

While there is more detail, I didn’t see anything new. The Fox Nation series, led by Judge Jeanine Pirro, lays out what we’ve known, and what has been corroborated by the infamous laptop. A fair amount of commentary comes from Miranda Devine, author of The Laptop from Hell, as well as investigative journalist Mollie Hemingway and others. You can read their writings if you can’t get to the series. (You'd do well to read them in addition to watching the series.)

The shocking thing is that this much can be known, and yet nothing has been done about it.

The short version is Joe Biden, his son Hunter, his brother Jim, and the rest of the family have been making quid pro quo deals for many years—the entire time Joe Biden has been an elected public official (we won’t call it public service in his case).

Hunter has been the main deal maker, it appears, at least since his father became vice president in 2009. He is a crack addict and whoremonger and self-made pornographer. He has no marketable skills beyond selling his father's name. He is not a person to be trusted. And yet Joe Biden trusts him. They are liars and cheaters all.

One of the recovered texts, screenshot from the series

Another of the recovered texts, screenshot from the series

Deals have been done around the world, most notably in Ukraine and China. When you look at foreign policy today, with Joe Biden in the White House, there isn’t a more logical reason for the pouring of our resources into Ukraine and the kowtowing to China—which, by the way, recently included drawing down our strategic oil reserves, purportedly to help assuage the soaring gas prices here in the US after Biden shut down drilling and the Keystone pipeline, and then selling the reserves to China so that they could do nothing for struggling US citizens.

I won’t go into all the details of the series. There are too many today. What I will say is that these details are corroborated and known. If you’re unaware of them, that has been your choice. They were known before the 2020 election—although at that time you were told by biased media that it was Russian disinformation, until half a year later when they did a half-hearted mea culpa.

One of the things that struck me as I listened to the series was a quote of what Hunter Biden told his longtime friend and business partner Devon Archer after Archer’s incarceration for defrauding an American Indian tribe (as punctuated in the original): 

“Every great family is persecuted in the US-you are part of a great family-not a side show not deserted by them even in your darkest moments. That’s the way Biden’s are different and you are a Biden. It’s the price of power. And the people questioning you truly have none whereas you do through the perseverance and poise.”

Hunter Biden defines “great family” very differently from the way I do. After years of infidelity and betrayal to his first wife, he had a drug-binge-based affair with his brother’s widow shortly after his brother’s death. And then he went on to have an affair with the widow’s sister. There were tens of thousands of dollars spent on multiple occasions—subsidized by his father—for high priced hookers. Joe and Jill, by the way, didn’t meet on a blind date; they met at a campaign event and started their affair while she was still married. The lying and cheating are part of being a “great family,” according to Hunter.

But here he has a friend, in prison for a crime they both committed, that Hunter got off scot-free from. He tells him it’s part of being in their great family. The Bidens, however, get the benefit of the name; the extras, who are only like family apparently do not.

Then Hunter says it’s the “price of power.” All that persecution and prosecution is what he means. But prosecution for crimes isn’t, as he says, because you have power and “the people questioning you truly have none”; when you’ve committed crimes, the prosecution is for the crimes. Unless the prosecutor is corrupt. Maybe Hunter assumes everyone is corrupt, because that is the world he knows.

What does he know of power? He knows how to monger it—to sell influence in exchange for money, which allows him a lavish and self-indulgent lifestyle, at the expense of his country.

Worldly power is a temporary and fleeting thing. He doesn’t know real power. He doesn’t have the power to say no to drugs, or lying, or cheating, or debauchery beneath the tolerance of the vast majority of people in the world. He is too weak to say no to himself. He has relinquished his power to a lower authority—the source of evil, the source of all power mongering.

In the end, when those who have mastered themselves are given “all that the Father hath,” this so-called great family will be forever powerless.

No, We Haven’t Evolved Beyond Our Constitution

This past week the Constitution turned 234 years old, signed September 17, 1787. I’d like to take a look at how well it is aging.

"Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States" by Howard Chandler Christy
image found on Wikipedia

Back in the day, there were some things our founders probably couldn’t have imagined: cars, subways, trains, airplanes, rockets to space, satellites, electricity, lightbulbs, radio, telephones, television, computers, cell phones, internet. I was alive for the landing on the moon. I went through college doing term papers with the footnotes at the bottom of the page—where I had to roll the paper down to the right location on the typewriter to type the note, then roll back up to type the rest of the page, and hope it all fit. If it didn’t, I’d have to type the whole page over, correcting any errors with white out (a little bottle of white paint you brushed on over the typo). When we got really advanced, we used erasable bond paper, which smeared badly, so you had to be really careful, and then you had to get a Xerox copy to turn in, because teachers didn’t like the thin texture of the paper or the smearing.

Computers were around, even when I was in high school (or before), but they were large, room-sized devices that you fed programming cards into. Personal computers came out, in rudimentary forms, shortly after college.

illustration of technological progress found here

I remember one person with a mobile phone during college. It was connected to his car and was the size of a large brick, required a large antenna, and also did not have a very clear sound. I didn’t see a need for a cell phone until we moved to Houston in 1998. I didn’t have a “smart phone” until two phones ago (phone life is longer for me than for most at 3-5 years).

So all this technology surrounding us has changed. But have humans changed?

There’s a prejudice against older generations, a feeling of self-importance current generations have, where we think those people back then were primitive—not just technologically, but in their thinking as well. I think there’s a word for it, but I can’t come up with it right now. Presentism is close, the assumption that past generations are bad for not holding the same cultural morals as are held in present culture. But that’s not quite it.

Anyway, while we may think we’re better for all our technological advances, there have been tradeoffs. We’ve mostly let go of basics, like how to sustain ourselves during a famine, or how to treat ourselves in the absence of a hospital, or how to dispose of waste. Maybe even how to make cheese. Specialization has meant letting go of general knowledge, much of which was widely known by past generations but has been lost to us. Think about something as simple as going to the bathroom, where we find easy access to toilet paper and soap and water. I’ve experienced camping, but I bring along comforts of home, plus maybe some hand sanitizer.

The point is, technology doesn’t equal human advancement. Humans are still human. Even evolutionists talk in time lengths of millions of years, not the mere handful of millennia of recorded history. Humans today are flawed in the same ways as our ancestors—but maybe with the technology to spread the harm further.

So, here’s what our founding fathers—and all wise people throughout history—knew about human nature: Humans are imperfect. Among the imperfections are:

·         Pride

·         Selfishness

·         Deceitfulness

·         Manipulation

·         Cheating

·         Greed

·         Thievery

·         Prejudice

·         Short-temperedness

·         Impatience

·         Laziness

·         Tendency toward violence

·         Lust

·         Power mongering

I haven’t covered them all, of course. But they include the problems brought up in the Ten Commandments. They include the 7 Deadly Sins. They include human weakness depicted in stories, and from life over the centuries—regardless of what technology the people may have had. Ancient Greeks and Romans faced the same human weaknesses. So did people through the Dark Ages and the Renaissance. And in Ancient Israel, Ancient China, Ancient India, or Ancient anywhere.  

portraits of Greek philosophers Sokrates, Antisthenes, Chrissipos, and Epikouros
in the British Museum

The last one on that list, power mongering, is particularly important when we’re talking about government. There’s a scripture used in my faith to warn against abuse of power:

We have learned by sad experience that it is the nature and disposition of almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority, as they suppose, they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion. (Doctrine & Covenants 121:39)

James Madison put it this way in Federalist No. 51,

If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government that is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Mark Twain said it this way, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Chapter 10, “Beginnings of Civilization”:

Unlimited power is the ideal thing when it is in safe hands. The despotism of heaven is the one absolutely perfect government. An earthly despotism would be the absolutely perfect earthly government, if the conditions were the same, namely, the despot the perfectest individual of the human race, and his lease of life perpetual. But as a perishable perfect man must die, and leave his despotism in the hands of an imperfect successor, an earthly despotism is not merely a bad form of government, it is the worst form that is possible.

Humans are flawed. Even (especially) in 2021. If you’re looking at some human evolution since 1787, you’re probably not going to find any measurable progress. At all.

People are not angels. Until they are, there needs to be limits placed on the authority anyone is granted.

The question is, then, is there any reason to think the Constitution is outdated? Insofar as it addresses ways to protect us from human flaws like lust for power, then, no; it is definitely not outdated.

The Constitution, which we’re celebrating, is an instrument for limiting government in a way intended to give individuals as much freedom as possible while limiting their ability to harm one another—which is what government is instituted to do.

The Preamble is the mission statement. As opposed to the loosely governing Articles of Confederation, which weren’t doing their necessary governing job, the Constitution was set up by “We the People of the United States”:

In Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity….

Constitution detail, image from Wikipedia

The first purpose is to get the separate states more unified, to do the things a nation needs to be able to do—things like make treaties with other nations, establish trade with other nations, keep the peace among the member states, etc.

General Welfare does not mean a national-level charity giveaway program. It means promoting what is in the best interest of the nation as a whole, rather than favoring one state or region over another.

Does every nation have to have an identical constitution to this one in order to flourish? Not necessarily. But what they would have to do is meet the principles—the ways of dividing and balancing power so that the good could be done that needs doing by a federal government, while leaving freedom to the people and the local jurisdictions.

Our three branches of government separate the lawmaking duties, the executive duties (i.e., the carrying out of the laws), and the judicial duties (i.e., the judging according to the laws). And the lawmaking duties are further divided into state representation in the upper chamber and population representation in the lower chamber, which have to deliberate and come to agreement on any laws enacted. It's not meant to be easy.

Around this time of year last year, I wrote a 4-part series on the Constitution, with an introduction and then covering the first three articles:

·       Try Reading the Constitution, Part I 

·       Part II: Article I—Legislative Branch 

·       Part III: Article II—Executive Branch 

·       Part IV: Article III—Judicial Branch 

The point here was that the Constitution is readable and understandable—no lawyer or judge needed to interpret it. And we ought to be reading it and understanding it.

It’s hard to know at this point whether We the People will be able to take corrective action so that our country will once again be governed by our basic law, the Constitution. There are so many egregious violations right now. And the laws are only good for a people that respect them and adhere to them. Otherwise we just have tyranny of the most powerful—as most of historical mankind has had to deal with.

As with the treatments available for a certain virus, treatments for our beloved Constitution on life support are denied, as though they don’t exist. We may have to start small—at our school board races, and our local government. Stop tyranny there by our constant vigilance. And then work with others to stop tyranny at every level all the way up.

We’re going to have to be better, to overcome our human flaws, so we merit the help I hope God is willing to give. I believe He’s willing to give it, because He gave the help to our founders back in 1787 to come up with this Constitution. It’s a miraculous governmental instrument that leads to freedom, prosperity, and civilization—every time good people try it.

For Hate of Country

Imagine a fictional scenario:

Caesar's murder enactment
image found here

A person gets into the potentate position in a fictional country that he loathes. He has loathed this country all his life, all while working his way up the power hierarchy, with the sole intention of bringing this country down. So now, with that power in his hands, he has to do all the damage he can before enough people catch on and call him out, leading to his removal—by exile or execution, whichever. That is how these stories go, historically.

There has been some planning along the way up. He has maneuvered to weaken the country’s international power at every opportunity. Remarkably, the country-hating power monger has been able to propagandize his weakening maneuvers as “I have the most experience in international relations.”

Not alone in his hatred of his home country, there’s a wealth of propagandists willing to aid and abet. These people misinform the public about daily events and their meaning. And more of these people misinform students, so they grow up naturally hating their country, feeling ashamed of it.

On the first day in power, this fictional person sets out to open the border, weakening the nation’s sovereignty. He frames it—with help from the propagandists—as compassion.

a similar real-life scenario in Roma, TX
image from Reuters/Go Nakamura, found here

And he hikes up spending—on what, it doesn’t matter. Just spending, spending, spending—money created out of thin air, never expected to be repaid. It would have to be dealt with by some future generation anyway, so not a concern. The purpose is to collapse the money system, to make it so people aren’t willing to trade with this money that isn’t based on work, but is based on an imaginary promissory note. Devaluing the money will significantly weaken the country in international trade.

Meanwhile, he wants to reduce the natural freedoms the people in the nation have heretofore enjoyed. He must stop them from being able to speak freely, or worship freely, or meet together freely. He might have to have an excuse, something he can fearmonger—like maybe a virus. That’s a good one. It will keep them locked up at home, losing jobs, losing income, becoming ever more dependent on government to take care of them. That means he must squelch any possibility of treatments, because that would interfere with the overall plan. So he censors—and uses propaganda to call the censoring “protecting the public from misinformation.” The “misinformation” scam works well on any topic he chooses, actually.

a similar real-life scenario, SARS-COV-2
image from Wikipedia

This medical crisis is a really useful tool. What if they came up with some kind of injection—not something that actually gets rid of the virus, because that isn’t what he wants, but something that would never pass muster in a less fearful environment? Something that maybe helps a little bit, but not enough, so the fearmongering can continue endlessly? (And danger from the injection—yet another thing to censor. That’s a bonus.) But, what about lives lost from his efforts to prevent treatment? No problem. Higher death count means more fear to monger.

Now, he’s got to reduce the power of actual nation-sustaining forces: military and police. Start with the military. He must label and divide. He implements screening to weed out the patriotic and loyal. He praises and trains toward useless things like racial diversity, sexual deviance, and an alternative history that the country has been morally wrong from its inception—while allowing the propagandists to call this “strengthening our military.” And anyone who disagrees with this new dogma is labeled a dissident and loses their rank and standing. He promotes power seekers while demoting or eliminating strategists, clear thinkers, and especially lovers of country.

Then he puts the military in an untenable position. He takes a place where they have been maintaining peace, with a minimal force and no recent loss of life, against a backwater medieval rabble of terrorist guerrilla fighters. A place where women are now free to work, and are kept safe from marauding males, and children are allowed to be educated as others in the world. OK, he gets that pinpointed. So, next step is to propagandize this as an “endless war” with no purpose. And he announces a date to leave, encouraging the rabble forces to gather and threaten, in reaction to which he shrugs and claims he is “keeping his word,” disregarding the enemy’s failure to keep theirs.

similar real-life scenario
image found here

Then he closes down the military base in the middle of the night, without announcement, and without even removing military equipment. This is an excellent way to arm the enemy. When things go catastrophically wrong, he claims it’s all because of the arrangements made by his predecessor, which tied his hands. And he claims he was misinformed by intelligence and military—all of which had warned and forewarned but were ignored, of course.

Having things go wrong is part of the plan. It causes people to get all upset and insist he send in forces to rescue the people, both military and civilians—plus that place’s people who had helped us against the rabble enemy. So much chaos. So much emotion. All useful, whatever the outcome.

Then he suddenly turns and says the guerilla terrorists are our allies—despite the fact that they’ve been killing and beating this nation's countrymen and preventing their evacuation.  Also, behind the scenes, he prevents evacuation by private individuals—by simply telling other countries not to take them in, even to land their planes temporarily (similar nonfiction scenarios here  and here).  Yes, all this is ideal—for weakening the country he hates.

What a delight that, just days before the final deadline for removing citizens, a terrorist bomb kills soldiers and civilians around the airport they’re using!  More emotion is a great tool. And fewer people—did he mention that lowering the population is a personal preference? So, no problem.

similar real-life scenario in Minneapolis
image found here

About the police—he has spent some time lying in wait for an episode that can be exploited. It didn’t have to be actual evidence of police wrongdoing; something that looks bad would do. Once he finds such an incident, he claims that it is a systemic problem; it can’t be solved by a little training or discipline. The whole system must be shut down. He foments anger and protests, claiming it’s righteous indignation when riots erupt and people and property are damaged. All for the ultimate goal of weakening the country.

Weakening all existing institutions is part of the plan. For example, in order to get into the potentate position, he violated the election process so badly that both sides—his supporters and his opponents—lost faith in elections. When his supporters were saying (intending to support him) that all was well, he convinced them that all efforts to shore up election security were meant to limit his supporters’ right to vote.

He corrupts the judicial system. This has been underway for many decades in preparation. He makes it so “the law” becomes simply the political outcome he wants. He manages to release true, dangerous offenders, saying this is necessary because of overincarceration or perhaps racial unfairness, whatever he wants to call it. He incarcerates non-offenders who are political opponents, such as anyone who participates in a patriotic rally, and keeps them imprisoned as terrorists or insurrectionists, without bothering to charge them. Both sides lose faith in the law and in the process, which is the goal there.

Media is so corrupt, he hardly has to do a thing. He puts out the word on a particular topic, and they propagate it. He’ll simply silence any alternative source. Starting with his predecessor.

Family is a challenging institution to destroy, but that work has been going on for decades as well, and progressing nicely. He removes parental authority, empowering “child protective services,” schools, and some corrupt judges to destroy the very concept of marriage as bigoted, and parental authority as a “danger to the child.” The propagandists’ willingness to help in this effort is something he would praise, if he wanted the plan to be known.

Yes, within months of becoming the potentate, he has caused his country to lose the trust of its allies, lose its status on the world stage, suffer military humiliations, and cause ever-increasing division at home. Complete collapse is foreseeable, if not inevitable. Oppressive efforts of surveillance, control, and censorship must continue, but he’s feeling satisfied.

_____

You thought I must be referring to Joe Biden? No, I’m not. Joe Biden is, as a mother of a soldier slain last week put it, a “feckless,dementia-ridden piece of crap.” No, I’m not referring to the guy who can barely read a few sentences on a teleprompter before saying, “I’m not supposed to take questions.”

Joe Biden checks his watch during ceremony to
receive bodies of fallen troops
screenshot from Fox News video, found here

I’m referring to whoever it is—someone behind the scenes—who tells the president of the United States when he can take questions, which reporters he should allow to ask questions, and what his answers should be. I’m referring to the puppetmaster who is actually making the decisions that are doing so much damage.

I’m sure there’s speculation on who this is—Obama, the Clintons, some multi-billionaire, Emperor Palpatine. I don’t know who it is. Biden is clearly one of the most evil, corrupt individuals to ever occupy the office. And he will deserve whatever judgment God gives him for the evil he has wrought. But right now, he’s just a tool, being wielded by someone we absolutely did not elect. And I’d sure like to have the curtain pulled back to reveal who that is.

Whoever this essence of evil is, this power monger hates America, and more—hates freedom, hates prosperity, hates civilization. Whoever it is, they are the enemy.

Until the revelation and extirpation of this power monger, I will keep resisting, working to do good in my small circle, to reinforce our beloved Constitution—to work toward freedom, prosperity, and civilization. Because, if enough of us do that, his eventual demise is inevitable.

Misdirection from the Larger Story, Part II

This is the second part of Misdirection from the Larger Story. Part I is here.

The impeachment hearings are purportedly about our president’s interest in corruption by Joe Biden and his son in Ukraine from when Joe Biden was the Vice President—interest that is supposedly off limits, regardless of accuracy, because Joe Biden is a presidential candidate.

But that corruption story is only a small piece of the larger Ukraine picture—which, in turn, is a small piece in a larger worldwide picture, which we'll get to today.

Focus on that small piece is not only fruitless, because there was no wrongdoing by President Trump, but also because it misdirects us from the larger stories. So I don’t want to get too distracted, but since former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch testified on Friday, I want to add just a bit of her part.

If we recall what we know about her, upon her appointment as Ambassador to Ukraine by the Obama administration, she held a meeting with the new prosecutor general, Lutsenko. Despite her denial that she “handed him a list,” multiple sources verify that she listed for Lutsenko those entities his investigations should not touch—including anything related to a George Soros NGO or Burisma. He pulled out a piece of paper to write the list, and she said, no, he misunderstood. And he answered that, yes, he understood very clearly. It was how Ukraine, in all its corruption, had always worked, but now he could see that the US worked this way as well.

That’s the former ambassador Yovanovich, who testified for five hours on Friday. She was removed from her ambassador post (but remains a State Department employee) months earlier and had no knowledge of the July phonecall at the center of the impeachment inquiry. When asked directly whether she knew anything about the President making a bribe, she had to answer no. When then asked whether she was aware of any illegal act by the President, she again had to answer no.

She not only had no firsthand knowledge surrounding the question, she knew nothing secondhand. But for five hours she was allowed to make the case that the President was interfering with State Department ongoing programs.

That’s pertinent to what we want to talk about. Not her opinions on these things, but that the State Department thinks its duty is to disregard the President’s policies and to enact its own program—and he’s interfering! How dare he! He must be stopped!

The bigger picture in Ukraine goes back some years, to when the then-President of Ukraine decided to side with Russia rather than the European Union. There has always been, and continues to be, a separation between ethnic Russians and Ukrainians within Ukraine. This moment was a catalyst for revolution. And such a moment was what the Obama administration’s State Department was looking for.

It was their policy to support the revolutionaries. Any revolutionaries. Glenn Beck lays it out in four steps:

·         Step One: US State Department identifies, trains, and funds “Civil Society” groups to mobilize.

·         Step Two: When opportunity emerges US trained activists go into action.

·         Step Three: The State Department, and their proxies, actively support the opposition.

·         Step Four: Infiltrate the new government with hand-picked “Civil Society” leaders.

So the revolution—at Step Two in the plan—was the ousting of the previous president Victor Yanukovych. Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasian Affairs, Victoria Nuland, traveled to Ukraine three separate times during that uprising. Glenn Beck shows a photo of her from December 2013 handing out cookies to the revolutionary activists in the streets.

Glenn Beck lays out what he can prove about what he calls the Democrats' Hydra.
screenshot from here

In his Part III of the Ukrainian corruption series, called "The Democrats' Hydra," Glenn Beck mentions a leaked phone conversation, which he has in his possession, in which Nuland was

discussing how to manipulate who would become the next Ukrainian prime minister. And, surprise! Surprise! That man ended up getting the job.

There’s more:

But even though they’d been publicly outed, manipulating the affairs of a sovereign nation, they didn’t stop. They doubled down.

If you’ll recall, from November 2014, the Obama administration and State Department colluded—probably the right word—to form, connect with, and protect a George Soros-funded NGO inaccurately named the Anti-Corruption Action Center. And Glenn Beck’s researchers found further coordination:

Newly released emails obtained by Freedom of Information Act request, shows near weekly communication between Nuland and Soros. This [he’s showing] is an email chain from June 1, 2016, and it shows Soros setting up a call with Nuland for one of their scheduled updates.

Another email chain, between Nuland and George Soros’s Open Society Foundation happens to include the whistleblower, Eric Ciaramella. Interesting the many places he shows up.

If you look at the four steps, you can see that the plan was to disrupt, foment chaos, and then overthrow an existing regime and put in a replacement government with hand-picked leaders. Done and done.

What is the evidence? Glenn Beck holds up documentation—which he has shared online to make sure it doesn’t disappear, written by George Soros personally and signed by him. Glenn Beck explains:

He actually says “a self-appointed advocate of the new Ukraine.” This is his comprehensive strategy for the new Ukraine. In this paper, Soros identifies the institutions that need to be either set up or targeted by his group and the US State Department.

The first one is the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, that needed to be established. Well, they got this one done right away. Right away. They got that done in the beginning. It’s also relevant to point out that this relationship bore fruit for the Obama administration as they pressured the bureau to investigate Manafort. They later hit a home run when they illegally released information implicating Manafort in the Black Ledger. It doesn’t mean Manafort isn’t guilty of something; it just means illegally released that information, which kicks the Russian investigation into overdrive. 

Now why did I say illegally release the information? Because a Ukrainian court convicted the head of the Anti-Corruption Bureau—you know, the first thing that Soros said they had to do. They were convicted for doing it, and interfering in the US 2016 election. 

It’s interesting that the establishment of the bureau was part of Soros’s plan, and they were directly coordinating with the Obama administration. It is the head of this organization that is caught on tape bragging about how he worked to discredit Trump on behalf of Hillary Clinton. [In Episode I of this series, called "Ukraine Scandal Explained."]

By the way, convicted in a court of law for interfering in a US election. But our media has absolutely no interest.

This looks like it’s about Ukraine. But it’s bigger than that. George Soros has a long history of creating chaos, often economic collapse, in order to take out a regime and start anew. He’s done that pattern.

Why was Obama, along with the Clinton-run State Department, and currently the embedded Deep State plan not only supporting Soros’s plans, but taking them on as their own?

Power.

Alec Ross, an appointee to the State Department as a senior advisor on innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, spoke to embassy insiders at the Ukrainian Embassy, revealing some truths they wouldn’t normally say openly—at least not to the rest of us. He has three things on the screen behind him showing "infrastructure, mass media, and communication," with the word "INTERNET" underneath. He says,

Ross: And the force and effect of all three of these paradigm shifts taking place at once creates a moment of remarkably disruptive change. And, for those of us that work in foreign policy, the change that I would argue is actually most significant goes to this issue: power.

Alec Ross at the Ukrainian Embassy in 2011.
screenshot from here

People like George Soros have money enough, and experience enough. What he has left to crave is power, which he relishes. There’s a clip Glenn Beck shows from a piece he did on Fox, called “The Puppetmaster.” This is Soros in his own words:

Soros: When you try to, say, improve society, you affect different people and their different interests differently. And they’re not actually commensurate. So you very often have all kinds of unintended adverse consequences. So I had to experiment. And it was a learning process. The first part was this subversive activity, disrupting an oppressive regime. That was a lot of fun, and that’s what actually got me hooked on this whole enterprise.

George Soros clip from "The Puppetmaster" on Fox News
screenshot from here

Collapsing entire countries is fun for him. Compare this to a time, during the Arab Spring, when Gaddafi was beaten and dragged to death in the streets, and Hillary Clinton says, “We came. We saw. He died.” Followed by raucous laughter. Oh what fun it is to wield power! She’s practically giddy.

Did the State Department have a hand in causing the Arab Spring?

We said things were bigger than Ukraine; Ukraine was just an example story of the larger global picture.

Here’s what Alec Ross said about their efforts—in that four-step plan we mentioned above:

Ross: Some of the things that I spoke about when I came to the department—things like leaderless revolution or virtual organizations—might have been really edgy or a little off-center, but after Tunisia and Egypt, nobody is questioning the abstraction of leaderless revolutions, and after Wikileaks, certainly everybody understands the power of virtual, globally distributed organizations.

And which step was taking place when the Ambassador to Libya was in Benghazi in 2012, probably arranging arm sales to Syria? Was it really an "spontaneous, indigenous, popular uprising," or was it yet another trained-by-us, timed-by-us fomented uprising for the purpose of power mongering?

Let me remind you of one more thing: power mongers use chaos as an opportunity to gain power. I wrote this on the Spherical Model website in the article “The Political World is Round”:

People tend to be afraid of the chaos of anarchy. Lenin saw this. One way to gain totalitarian power is to create chaos and then promise to solve the problems of chaos (crime, poverty, lack of safety on all levels) by offering government solutions, until the revolutionaries have managed to get themselves installed as dictators. This was the purpose of Trotsky’s idea of perpetual revolution: Place power in our hands, and we will see that you are fed and housed and protected—that is, if the dictator was so minded once the power was achieved. Everywhere that communism has been tried, it took hold because people gave in to this desire for government to provide protection and food and shelter. It works on a people who do not trust their own ability to provide, and it works especially well when chaos reigns to make it difficult for people to provide for themselves. Revolutionaries therefore cause anarchy so that they can implement their own totalitarian tyranny.

Anywhere that you see revolutionaries using terrorism, they are creating chaos for the purpose of seeking their own power—always. Their claim of doing it for the people and their rights is always a lie—even to themselves.

Here’s one more quote from Alec Ross, so that you see how this relates to Yovanovitch’s testimony on Friday:

Alec Ross quote
screenshot from here

Ross: Instead of trying to create a new bureau, what we wanted to do was build a long-term institutional capacity. I leave feeling that the work has been fully institutionalized and that the programs will live on.”

The proof is long, detailed, and complex. But the trail is there. We’re seeing what was hidden, because that July 25^th phonecall set off alarms among the entrenched Deep State; they had to stop investigations, because they would be discovered. And then, because of their explosive reaction, we’re actually seeing what they planned to keep hidden.

That’s a good thing. But only if we Americans take action to root out the corruption.

Let me use a phrase a few of you will recognize: secret combinations. [See Ether 8:18-25.] These are what bring the downfall of any civilization that does not root them out.

Our former president and secretary of state were in a secret combination with George Soros. There are others with them: Alec Ross, Victoria Nuland, Marie Yovanovitch, Eric Ciaramella, Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi—and many names we don’t know. They are imbedded in our State Department, our CIA, our National Security. They will not give up power easily, because power is what they crave most. And once they get it, they wield it tyrannically.

How do we root them out? As a single citizen here, typing at my computer, I don’t know. But I know it’s important for me to know what’s going on, and let that inform my vote, and my voice as I speak with others. 

If there are enough of us who do that, God will make up for our limitations and help us save this, the greatest experiment in freedom, prosperity, and civilization the world has ever known.