Frightening!-----Did I just Leave a Cult?

Did I just Leave a Cult? - Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning with Sasha Stone

“The modus operandi of every cult is to convince you there's something wrong with you and only they can fix it.” ― Marty Rubin
I grew up in the era of cults. My siblings and I attended a small elementary school in Topanga Canyon back in the 1970s, when it was still a wilderness of hippies and health food stores - not a safe haven for the 1%...

• ...The cult of the Left is ruled by fanatics, zealots, and true believers. 

...The women are bad enough - trading their journey of empowerment for endless self-punishment over their whiteness. 

So now their children are being used as sacred symbols for their path toward salvation...

• Cults separate children from parents. 
• Cults separate mothers from their biological impulse to protect their children. 
• Watching Democrats wear pins to the State of the Union that said “abortion” was yet another sign that the cult seeks to destroy the bond between mother and child.

...Years from now when all of these young people come to us to ask, Where were you? 

• Why didn’t you protect us? 
• What are we going to say?... 

Councilman arrested for alleged voter fraud in connection to 2020 election - TheBlaze

Councilman arrested for alleged voter fraud in connection to 2020 election - TheBlaze: 

A California city councilman has been arrested and may have resigned his seat after officials discovered at his residence dozens of allegedly fraudulent ballots from the 2020 election. Shakir Khan, 33, was first elected to serve on the city council of Lodi, California, about 15 miles north of Stockton, in 2020. Like many city council races, his election was close. The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office estimated that he won the seat by just 282 votes.

My Electricity Bill this Year in Europe!

The death of common sense!-----Stop participating in the delusions of the insane

Stop participating in the delusions of the insane -  Robert Zimmerman

"In a perfect example of the modern madness of our time, when a bearded heavy-set man using the name “Lily” Mestemacher was arrested in Arkansas for making bomb threats against a location in Mississippi, the local news organization reporting the story in Mississippi used female pronouns to describe him because he claimed he was a woman. 

To quote that February 13, 2023 news report:
On February 10th, Mestemacher was transported to Oxford where she was booked on the aforementioned warrant. She was taken before a Lafayette County Justice Court judge for her initial bond hearing and issued a $50,000 bond. 
His arrest mugshot is to the right. 

This is a man...

Lunch video-----Triple Tomcat Launch

Noon-toon

 

Putin issues nuclear warning to US, threatens to resume weapons tests | Fox News

Putin issues nuclear warning to US, threatens to resume weapons tests | Fox News: 

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a stark warning Tuesday that he would be suspending his nation's participation in a nuclear arms treaty, threatening to resume testing of nuclear weapons. Putin made his speech almost exactly a year after the invasion of Ukraine began, accusing the "elites of the West" of escalating international tensions.

The payoff!

 

Did a Government Intel Asset Plant Key Evidence in Proud Boys Case?

Did a Government Intel Asset Plant Key Evidence in Proud Boys Case?

• We should be suspicious of weird coincidences. - By Julie Kelly

"It’s week five of the Justice Department’s most high-profile—and high-stakes—criminal trial related to the events of January 6, 2021. 

Five members of the Proud Boys face the rare “seditious conspiracy” charge. 

Guilty verdicts—almost certain given the government’s near-perfect conviction rate for January 6 defendants—would build legal momentum for a similar indictment against Donald Trump.
...It now appears that one key piece of evidence was not the work of any defendant in this case but rather written by a one-time government intelligence asset with unusual ties to both the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, another group involved in January 6...

As evidence piles up to show how federal assets played an animating role before and on January 6, Armes’ weird account—and background in government intelligence—cannot be dismissed as coincidence.

Leadership! Trump!

 

Birth Rates Plunge in Heavily Vaccinated Countries

Birth Rates Plunge in Heavily Vaccinated Countries - Colleen Huber

• In many countries, births dropped sharply nine months after peak COVID vaccine uptake...

"Since the beginning of COVID, vital statistics as reported by governments around the world, are hard to come by. 

Spotty availability hinders analysis and understanding.

• ...United States, Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, and Washington are four of the states that, as of this writing, have not updated births data since 2019 [1] and 2020. [2] [3] [4]
• ...Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Portugal, Spain, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovenia, as well as Iceland, Northern Ireland, Montenegro, Serbia—all show this pattern. Nine months after peak vaccine uptake—the births decline.
• ...All of the nineteen countries studied saw accelerating declines in births in 2022, beginning at nine months after peak COVID vaccine uptake...

#1 This day 1970-----Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge over Troubled Water (Restored - from The Conc...

We've been WARNED!-----Victor Davis Hanson: The Chinese Spy Balloon, Orwellian Newspeak, and the Top-Down Revolution Engulfing America

Victor Davis Hanson: The Chinese Spy Balloon, Orwellian Newspeak, and the Top-Down Revolution Engulfing America

• “I’m just bewildered that these two evil regimes are so asymmetrically treated as we saw with the balloon … Had Russia done that, we would have shot that down the moment it got near the Aleutians,” says Victor Davis Hanson...“When they were trapped about the balloon, the new Soviet talking point came: ‘Balloons came in during Trump. Trump ignored them. Trump ignored balloons.’...
• Unlike the protests of the 1960s, this current woke revolution “was staged from the top,” Hanson says. “The left was not marching on the Pentagon. The left was not marching on the campus administrator. The left was not marching on Anaconda Copper or I.T.T. as they had been. They were inside the boardroom. They were inside the president’s office. They were inside the FBI. They were inside the CIA. They were inside the Pentagon.”

Ultimately, we are witnessing the unraveling of Western civilization, Hanson says.

• “It’s actually an attack on meritocracy, and the whole empirical system of hiring the most qualified better person for the stability and success of society … Where this ultimately goes … it means that, as you see in Cuba or Venezuela or Colombia, very successful societies start to break down and they can’t deliver the essentials of life because they have a commissariat, a commissar system of ideology trumping empiricism,” Hanson says...

Repeat the lie often enough.....

 

Another train derails in Midwest as Pete Buttigieg announces visit to Ohio crash site | Fox News

Another train derails in Midwest as Pete Buttigieg announces visit to Ohio crash site | Fox News: 

Yet another train derailed in the Midwest late Monday night in Gothenburg, Nebraska. Images from the Nebraska derailment showed roughly a dozen cars strewn across train tracks, but there were no flames or smoke. Union Pacific Railroad says the train was transporting coal, and there is no indication that the crash poses a threat to locals.

Gonna "need" free-money from Uncle Joe?-----Hospital systems brace for ‘crisis level’ pressures

Hospital systems brace for ‘crisis level’ pressures 

"...The COVID-19 pandemic and its resulting toll on an overtaxed workforce, on labor prices, on supply chains and almost every aspect of health care operations has squeezed margins. 

Despite the receding pandemic, however, other issues including overseas conflicts, rising labor costs and disruptions to still-healing supply chains are keeping hospital systems largely in the red.

• Across the U.S., hospital leaders are buckling in for a tight year for margins as costs for labor and supplies rise while compensation on the insurance front no longer meets their needs.

...In October, Trinity Health reported a $1.4 billion loss for that fiscal year, while Beaumont Health, now part of Corewell Health, reportedly lost $100 million in the first half of 2022...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for February 23

History for February 23 - On-This-Day.com 

W.E.B. DuBois 1868

• 1836 - In San Antonio, TX, the siege of the Alamo began.
• 1847 - Santa Anna was defeated at the Battle of Buena Vista in Mexico by U.S. troops under Gen. Zachary.
• 1886 - Charles M. Hall completed his invention of aluminum.
• 1898 - In France, Emile Zola was imprisoned for his letter, "J'accuse," which accused the government of anti-Semitism and wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus.
• 1904 - The U.S. acquired control of the Panama Canal Zone for $10 million.
• 1945 - The 28th Regiment of the Fifth Marine Division of the U.S. Marines reached the top of Mount Surabachi. A photograph of these Marines raising the American flag was taken.
• 1954 - The first mass vaccination of children against polio began in Pittsburgh, PA.
• 1963 - The 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. It prohibited poll taxes in federal elections.

DeSantis suggestion to combat 'accumulation of power' in DC - TheBlaze

DeSantis suggestion to combat 'accumulation of power' in DC - TheBlaze: 

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has suggested that the federal agencies should be spread throughout the nation rather than being concentrated in the nation's capital. "Too much power has accumulated in DC and the result is a detached administrative state that rules over us and imposes its will on us," DeSantis said, according to the New York Post. "While there are a host of things that need to be done to re-constitutionalize government, parceling out federal agencies to other parts of the country could help reduce the negative effects of this accumulation of power."

The way we were-----Albert Göring

"It was difficult to be more of a Nazi than Reichsmarschall Herman Goering. 

Perhaps that is what makes it so surprising that his younger brother Albert was so different."

Oh sh*t, they're actually doing it.

"Racial disparities"

Facebook Dave Agema 

"The Air Force is going to promote based on race, gender etc. 

This ruins morale. 

You should be promoted based on who is most qualified. 

It’s nothing but another quota system promoting less qualified people into leadership positions. 

This not only effects morale, but combat readiness. 

Biden’s and his selected senior officers are ruining our military.

• The Air Force’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion (SAF/DI) found racial disparities in the selection of Air Force airmen and Space Force guardians promoted to leadership positions, the DEIA newsletter, dated February 2023, says. 
• To close those gaps and “support an inclusive culture,” the Air Force is “reporting status of officer promotions, civilian hiring, and force development data from a race, ethnicity and gender standpoint.”

CPS, Biden's new eco-swat team!-----The Biden administration’s junk-science-based plan to mandate coal-powered stoves

The Biden administration’s junk-science-based plan to mandate coal-powered stoves - by Timothy P. Carney, Senior Columnist |

"A member of the Biden administration admitted last year to planning a complete ban on natural gas-powered stoves through the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPS). 

"There is sufficient information available for CPSC to issue a [Notice of Proposed Rulemaking] in FY 2023 proposing to ban gas stoves in homes," Democratic operative and Biden-appointed CPSC Commissioner Richard Trumka wrote in October.
Trumka’s argument for a national gas stove ban was based on indoor air quality. 

Specifically, he leaned on a very low-quality study by a green energy group that was trumpeted as showing that a huge portion of asthma cases are caused by gas stoves...

DeSantis team fires back at Eric Adams after he offers to teach Florida governor about NYC 'values' | Fox News

DeSantis team fires back at Eric Adams after he offers to teach Florida governor about NYC 'values' | Fox News: 

"Nice rhetoric – but here’s reality: More Americans fled NYC than any other metro area last year," Pushaw wrote. "More Americans moved to Florida than any other state."

"You know this, Mayor Adams, and you’ve talked (accurately) about crime pushing people out of NYC," Pushaw said. "Florida’s crime rate meanwhile is at a 50-year low."

"Maybe it’s you who can learn from [DeSantis]?" the governor’s spokesperson said.

Classified—Government’s Dirty Secret

Fascinating!-----The Institutional Pathology That Took Down James O’Keefe

The Institutional Pathology That Took Down James O’Keefe - Robert W Malone MD, MS

"...Originally published by the Epoch Times, they are republished below with permission of the author.

Non-profit founders, beware. Select your board with great caution, as at the moment you succeed in achieving our objectives, you may be at greatest risk from the people behind your back that you thought were fully committed to your cause.
And for the rest of us, please try to resist the urge to “Badjacket”, backbite and gossip.
Bad-jacketing is a term for planting doubt on the authenticity of an individual's bona fides or identity. An example would be creating suspicion through spreading false rumors, manufacturing evidence, etc., that falsely portray someone in a community organization as an informant, or member of law enforcement, or guilty of malfeasance such as skimming organization funds.[1]...

...One might suppose that this would be the perfect time to build on success.
Alas, James has been pushed to resign as head of the organization. 

How is this possible? 

It seems utterly crazy...Read it!!

Lunch video-MUST SEE!-----Viral origins, the stitchup

"Entire Wuhan Institute virus database taken offline on 12 September 2019"

Noon-toon

 

Horowitz: Prosecution or persecution? Arizona rancher charged with first-degree murder for death of illegal alien - TheBlaze

Horowitz: Prosecution or persecution? Arizona rancher charged with first-degree murder for death of illegal alien - TheBlaze: 

Imagine living on the frontier near the Mexican border on a large ranch with cartel traffickers invading every day. You are alone with your cattle day and night with no neighbors in close proximity, and you sometimes have to keep your lights off at night so that the cartels don’t notice you. Now imagine being charged with first-degree murder after finding a dead body on your ranch with no evidence that you killed the guy at all, much less that you wrongly shot him. The story of George Alan Kelly, while still murky and bizarre – whether the prosecution is justified or not on any level – still exemplifies the malfeasance of our government in surrendering our frontier ranches to the cartels.

Sadly, the truth comes out. Too late for so many.