Ignorance Breeds Complacency. Complacency Breeds Tyranny

Time and Truth Are on the Same Side, and Conspiracies Are Real 

By Rich Kozlovich  

 

Biden is out, Kamala is the Democrat Massiah, and here's an excellent thought for the day.  I don’t remember who said this, but it’s a goodie. 

"Anyone who believes that politicians and bureaucrats who can't define what a woman is, who can't control the border, can't tell the truth about COVID, who can't teach children to read and do math at grade level, and who lied continuously about Obamacare, can control temperatures, sea levels, and storm activity should make sure they never have to debate a five-year-old."

Well, Biden proved that to be true, and when Kamala officially becomes to the Democrat nominee and has to debate Trump, that statement will be carved into stone.

I've been a history buff for all of my life, and I concluded decades ago, everything is cyclical!  I read George Friedman's book,  "Storm Before Calm", which deals with this very well.   I've read, "The Fourth Turning", which also deals with historical cycles.  Complicated book, complicated verbiage, entirely too long, way too wordy, which seem to me is a failure in “coherence through connectives”, a fundamental when it comes to writing and speaking if you really want people to understand what you’re saying.  

At this point it seems to be as much mystical as historical in its projections, yet, the book has some interesting insights claiming among other things, we're in what he calls the Fourth Turning of the current cycle.  Actually, I agree with that.  While I do question his time lines, which seems to do some cherry picking.  However, in his analyses every cycle has what he calls a Fourth Turning, and each of those “turnings” were crisis periods, and historically, his fourth turnings have always been conclusively violent.  I fear this is going to happen with or in America within the next ten years.   Reading it is a challenge, but I recommend it anyway because there's some good stuff there. 

China's military buildup has been financed by American trade, and now as a result, there are ten ways the US is falling behind China in national security. That build up is intended to destroy America.  Hypersonic missiles, fleet size, air defense, manufacturing, technology, much of which they've stolen, mining for rare earths, gray zone altercations.  Gray zone altercations are non-shooting military intimidation tactics they regularly play with their neighbors.  In short, they're bullies, and don't care if anyone likes it or not. Then there’s their excursions into space, cyber operations, and artificial intelligence. 

But America's military is not to be outdone.  No sir, we have a Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, who is a man of incredible vision and clarity of thought, and he has clearly identified the American military's real problems.  Problem totally undermining America's military readiness and capability.   

"The twin crises of white supremacy and gender." 

We can't keep our subs repaired, recruitment is in the toilet, many combat aircraft are permanently on the ground, the generals and admirals are all members of the Church of Wokeness, but hey, we gotta have our priorities.  Right?

The unending political persecution of Donald Trump,  the J6 protestors, and Trump supporters by the corrupt Deep State and the Democrat party is a blatantly Stalinist.  While I can acknowledge the contributions of Thomas Jefferson, I'm not a big fan.  But he was brilliant as he once observed:

All the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judiciary, result to the legislative body. The concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. 173 despots would surely be as oppressive as one. 

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one which should not only be founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits, without being effectually checked and restrained by the others. Nor should our assembly be deluded by the integrity of their own purposes, and conclude that these unlimited powers will never be abused, because themselves are not disposed to abuse them.

They should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people…. Jefferson warned that relatively soon, “corruption” will have seized the heads of government” and “spread by them” through the “body of the people” — also known as…Congress.

How was Jefferson able to see this so clearly?   He read a history book or two, and there's nothing new under the sun.  People will always be people, and the patterns of life repeat over and over again.  

The fact is, what he warned about started happening not too long after the Constitution was ratified with the Whiskey Tax of 1791.  A tax which was clearly unequal, unfair, violated states’ rights, culminating with a greater violation of states’ rights with Washington leading an army into Pennsylvania to put down the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794.   It all merely expanded to what we're seeing. We now call it Crony Capitalism. 

This tax was promoted by then Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, and was directly beneficial to the whiskey distillers in the major metropolitan areas.  The Constitution had just been ratified in 1787, a mere four years before, and Hamilton wanted to solidify support for the Constitution from the business community.   Hamilton was strong advocate of strong centralized federal power over republicanism and states’ rights, and Washington never made any effort to thwart this.  Washington was lauded by Congress for this action, and those who supported his venture claimed he once again saved the nation, and this time from a challenge to federal authority by the people. 

Jefferson rightly recognized if for what it was.  Washington's call for troops to put down this rebellion was in point of fact an abuse of Presidential power and authority, a veiled threat to the citizens of the nation, and a threat to republican ideals. While I do think Washington deserves praise as the Father of Our Nation because of his personal courage, amazing leadership skills, and his willingness to walk away from power after two terms, I also think he's overrated, most certainly as a general, but also as a President.

Jefferson's administration repealed the Whiskey Tax.

Banks are cancelling the accounts of people who hold political views they don't like, investment companies are ignoring their fiduciary responsibilities to their investors in order to support ESG and DEI conceptualized companies, many of which are either under performing or outright failing.  But they have no problem with the insane leftist radicals that are destroying western culture and ultimately civilization.  

Heresy is rampant at the highest levels of "Christian" churches. Biden couldn't afford to build a border wall, yet he really wanted to give Ukraine another unaccountable, untraceable 20 billion dollars, to one of, if not the most, corrupt governments in Europe. The Deep State, the Democrats, leftists, along with an international elite are creating what's being called "a new normal", which would be an international tyrannous form of governance where you will have nothing, and you will like it, or else.  A conspiracy determined to destroy all Constitutional guarantees in order to destroy America.

All of that has now become obvious, and Kamala Harris, who is foundationally stunningly radical, is totally on board with that, which I will be addressing in an article this week. 

In years gone by there was a lot of laughing and friendly banter between me and my friends over my claims about conspiracies.  Well, whaddayaknow. There really is such a thing as a conspiracy after all, and they're not laughing any longer.  

Just like Jefferson, I read a history book or two, and there's nothing new under the sun. 

Billy Graham’s Christianity Today has been taken over by the radical Left

By Anthony J. Sadar October 4, 2023

The climate catastrophe crusade has been joined by a new regiment of converts: the religious left wing. The troop strength has been building over recent decades; the last few years, however, have seen a surge in the power of this cohort.

The religious contingent is imbued with a spiritual fervor. Unfortunately for the Christian faithful, the spirit consists of the spirit of this age, or, as the apostle Paul might put it, “this present evil age.” And unlike Paul, who announced that his job was to preach “Jesus Christ and Him crucified,” the climate crusader’s job is to preach the word of Jesus and his calling for climate action.

Background on some of the most recent efforts of what appears to be an alignment with the religious left can be found in a book by Kyle Meyaard-Schaap, vice president of the Evangelical Environmental Network. The book is “Following Jesus in a Warming World: A Christian Call to Climate Action” (IVP, Downers Grove, Illinois, February 2023).

The urgency expressed in the book is based on the standard left-wing mantra of weather disasters that supposedly represent proof of a present and future climate danger brought about by culpable humans living comfortably via fossil fuels.................To Read More.....

You’re not imagining it: neo-paganism is on the rise in America

April 28, 2023 By Andrea Widburg

America’s political scene is dismal, but what’s most disturbing is the cultural scene and the speed with which it is changing. America was once a country that looked to the Bible for its values. Now, and with ever-increasing speed, it’s returning to paganism. That’s something that should terrify us because, contrary to the leftist vision of paganism as a non-judgmental time of love and flowers, the pagan world was judgmental, random, and remarkably cruel.

The Bible introduced ethical monotheism. Before the Bible, religion in every society revolved around animist gods tied to the earth. Pre-modern people created a pantheon of gods they believed were responsible for the mysteries surrounding them—crops, harvests, rain, storms, volcanoes, etc.

Because the natural phenomena people experienced were capricious, the gods were, too. Read the mythology from any pre-Biblical society, and you find gods that are immature, selfish, narcissistic, and vindictive. One did not placate these amoral gods with moral behavior; one placated them with sacrifices. These ranged from simple food offerings to live animal sacrifices to brutal human sacrifices. Their capriciousness made fixed rules of justice and morality impossible.............To Read More.....

Even Christian summer camps have embraced gender madness - By Andrea Widburg April 29, 2023 - When leftists use the phrase “safe space,” they mean a place where they won’t be forced to hear challenging ideas. When I use the phrase “safe space,” I mean a place in which parents need not worry that their children will be exposed to so-called “gender identity” theory or that their prepubescent daughter will be sleeping in the same cabin as an 18-year-old man who “identifies” as a girl. Once, Church-run camps were that kind of safe space, but one family’s experience shows that you can no longer assume that’s true. One of my favorite sites is Not the Bee, a real-news page for America’s most brilliant satire site, The Babylon Bee. Usually, the site has short news stories, tweets, or videos highlighting wacky leftism and good-guy regular Americans. Yesterday, though, there was something different: A detailed post about the author’s shocked dismay to learn that the wholesome church-affiliated summer camp he and his wife thought would be great for their 8-year-old daughter’s sleep-away camp experience was, in fact, a haven for so-called “gender identity.”..........

 

 Shocker! More than half of Christians don't believe Jesus lived a sinless life -  By Joseph Farah April 27, 2023 = Farah laments the decline in faith, abandonment of a biblical worldview, Well, now I've heard everything. More than half of born-again Christians don't believe Jesus lived a sinless life. That is what the respected George Barna survey tells us. >Many people want to blame this sorry state all on COVID-19, when 15 million people stopped attending church in America. The prohibition was all meant to "stop the spread" for a little while, but for Anthony Fauci and Joe Biden, the "little while" became years.............

Green Apostacy

By Rich Kozlovich

Below is a well written article by Marita Noon entitled, Greens “smuggle” climate policy into the church to tip climate politics .This will be a shocker to most, but we shouldn't think of this as an action of the "green" movement.  Think of it as an action of the "left/green" movement, since the left infiltrated American churches in the late 1800's as part of what became the progressive movement's "progressive gospel".

European socialism is fundamentally atheistic going back to the French Revolution and this gave it very little traction in the United States 100 plus years ago. So they called themselves "progressives", who later became "liberals" and have now once again metamorphosed into progressives. Here's the kick in the pants. The binding force for this movement in the late 1800's and early 1900's was religion, hence - the "progressive gospel".

They viewed socialism as the practical application of Christian ethic with enormous influence on public policy until WWII. After WWII the true socialists within that movement kicked the religionists to the curb and the binding force became "psychology", i.e., if you disagree with us you're insane. Groups like the National Council of Churches (the NCC spends over 19 million dollars a year on leftist programs) have been leftists for over 100 years, many of which were probably leftists before there were leftists.

After the fall of the Soviet Union Environmentalism became the cause célèbre of the world’s so-called progressives. Environmentalism was now the only real force of influence that remains to them. Everything else they've promoted has proven to be abject failures, leaving environmentalism as the spear point of worldwide socialism. That's why the left has thrown everything they have into these insane global warming, climate change initiatives.

However, long before this many of the churches were already contaminated and apostate, and since they were tossed aside after WWII they view this as their last opportunity to become a player in the socialist movement once again and get into the good graces of their atheist masters.

They lost their minds, they lost their integrity and they lost their credibility over 100 years ago by embracing any and every leftist philosophical flavor of the day. Views they embraced irrespective of what the Bible - the book that's supposed to be foundational to everything they believe, practice and preach - may say that's contrary to the moral relativism of the left. They're as corrupt as the rest of the left! Is it any wonder people stopped going to church. Paraphrasing Ronald Reagan: They didn't leave the churches - the churches left them!