Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Musing Leading to ‘We Will Pay the Price’


Musing by John R. Houk, Blog Editor
Original post by Justin O. Smith
© March 31, 2020

“… it perfectly exhibits the first inclination of bureaucrats in any crisis situation leans towards tyranny rather than more liberty.” (Justin O. Smith – this post) 

The thoughts in this post disturbed me. BUT not because I disagree, rather I believe Justin is mostly correct. A new America is arising. Actually a new America has been arising for quite some time. In my humble opinion challenges to the Constitution largely began with Abraham Lincoln. Don’t get me wrong, Lincoln’s challenges to the U.S. Constitution kept America united and more than anything propelled the USA to future powerhouse greatness.

AND YET Lincoln chipped away at Constitution by transferring ultimate authority from the hands of the individual States into the hands of an all-powerful national government.

After the national government became supreme, the concept of Constitutional Checks and Balances became diluted to depending on ONLY the Federal Three Branches (Executive, Legislative and Judiciary) checking and balancing each other. This is when elements of a Federal democracy began to emerge over the power of WE THE PEOPLE in each State envisioned in a Republic.

So Lincoln preserved the Union – good. Ended the disgrace of slavery – good. BUT set the stage for future factionalism to battle for national supremacy – bad.

Today’s Left-Right national division of America’s future is unlikely to be settled in a peaceful manner. On a personal level I cannot see America’s Left or Right ultimately looking to our Founding Documents to achieve a national winner of vision.

The Coronavirus pandemic will tighten the screws of national government authority over the lives of individuals. I for one don’t want to live in a Marxist oriented nation forced to conform to a culture dictated by the State. Even at age 63 I am willing to exchange bullets to stop that. BUT that willingness also means putting American culture into the hands of the American Right who by necessity will also suspend the Founders’ Constitution to fight a Marxist future.

It’s time for a new Constitution. I pray the formers of that new Constitution are NOT Marxists desiring to keep fundamentally transforming America away from the Christian fundamentals original American colonialists sought to preserve.

What is America’s future? Will it be Left? Right? In between? Autocratic either way? The blood of displeased Americans on all levels of the political spectrum is the probable future? I suspect the Coronavirus Pandemic is another nail in the coffin of America’s past. God help the future of Americans

Below is submission of Justin Smith that inspired my musings. Below Justin’s most recent submission is another that I missed from 3/27.

JRH 3/31/20
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We Will Pay the Price

Here a Trillion, There a Trillion

By Justin O. Smith
Sent 3/29/2020 7:41 PM

"If the dream is won though everything is lost, we will pay the price, but we will not count the cost."  ~ Rush

Madmen in America are in charge and they are driving the nation in a direction that forces Americans to pay the cost of whatever the federal government wishes to incur, as they seem to be attempting to further render the people more dependent on the government for financial handouts, medical services and general sustenance and protection, while Americans are embracing their own chains of servitude. Not only are the state and federal governments tearing asunder the fabric of the Constitution and the country, they are wreaking havoc with shutdown mandates that have further exacerbated the economy and attacked individual liberty, in one more vast overreach and expansion of government power.

As Judge Andrew Napolitano noted on March 19th: "Throughout history, free people have been willing to accept the devil's bargain of trading liberty for safety when they are fearful. We supinely accept the shallow and hollow offers of government that somehow less liberty equals more safety."

On February 29th, I observed that the death rate from COVID-19 appeared to be tracking around two percent, but now, it is apparent it is much less at approximately a little over five one-hundredths of one percent, .05 percent, when the numbers of confirmed cases are placed against those deaths occurring from the virus. 

This should illuminate for everyone that there is more behind this than meets the eyes, since our government has never before been too concerned with the human cost, when in pursuit of their agendas and goals. The Civil War killed nearly two percent of the population, and any consideration of human lives to be lost didn't make our leaders shut down everything in any other similar situation, e.g. the Spanish or Swine Flu, or prevent them from waging the Spanish-American War, World Wars I & II, Korea, Vietnam and all the adventures to follow in the Middle East, no matter if the war was necessary or one that could be avoided. Historically, no one in government, any government, has ever really cared about American lives and sacrifices, if it came at a cost to their power.

Does anyone out there really believe that the Trump administration, Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration in New York and 49 other administrations are eliminating what's left of our liberty and destroying our economy to protect us from a virus that represents a minimal risk of .05 percent of the American population possibly being killed?

Curiously and quite troubling, all America should be concerned that our Department of Justice has been seeking Congressional authority to suspend habeas corpus and court proceedings, in the wake of the so-called "crisis", since the middle of March; this also includes "any statutes or rules of procedure otherwise affecting pre-arrest, post-arrest, pre-trial, trial, and post-trial procedures in criminal and juvenile proceedings and all civil process and proceedings". And while it may be unlikely that Congress will grant their wish, it perfectly exhibits the first inclination of bureaucrats in any crisis situation leans towards tyranny rather than more liberty. 

After this is over, will the political response to this minor virus and manufactured COVID crisis be that shutting down the country and the deaths resulting from government actions and mandates and the economic destruction, worse than the virus itself, were all somehow worth it?

Taken in totality, approximately one in five Americans are currently being treated for cancer, lung or heart disease, and diabetes. If a mere one in one-thousand of these people dies due to being unable to acquire their medications, or because hospitals haven't any more room, that equates to seventy-five thousand deaths alone, not to mention those living paycheck to paycheck who may be going hungry, as they wait for the paltry $1200 dollar government "stimulus" checks that are supposed to come their way, maybe by May.

Americans everywhere are under stress and wondering how they will feed their families, pay rent, water and electric bills and other necessities. Some of us may be able to individually step in and assist other family members, but when I hear leaders saying "We have to help everyone", who is the collective "We" they are speaking of? "We" are all in trouble now, due to this shutdown. How long can we feed everybody when nothing is being produced at the moment? Nobody is producing much of anything at the moment, with most of the nation socially distance into unemployment, and shuttered resources aren't just turned back on overnight.

Sadly, these events have unfolded before all America, as the hypnotized Sheeple cower in their homes, peeking from the shadows and staring at their neighbors with suspicion and disdain for not wearing their "protective" masks and standing six feet apart. One would think they were witnessing another episode of The Walking Dead.

And now after $5 trillion simply vanished into thin air in February, along with trillions more on March 16th, President Trump and Congress are utilizing a $2.2 trillion stimulus to supposedly keep the economy afloat, most of which is going to corporations, the largest aid package in U.S. history. The checks going to individuals only account for approximately $4 billion, so once again, companies that have engaged in bad business are being rewarded, just as they were in 2008, and this sort of continued policy smacks of fascism to the Nth degree, as we see a deepening of the convergence between communism and capitalism in America, i.e. a plutocratic led crony-capitalist policy, under a President who just months ago swore, "America will never be a socialist nation". Coulda' fooled me. 

One can almost hear them singing, "Here a trillion, there a trillion, everywhere a trillion ... Old McDonald had a farm, e-i-e-i-o." It's almost as though all they need do is bend over and pull it from their arse. 

Look America! Look at the multi-trillion dollars already spent to "save the economy" and trillions more used to transfer wealth from the lower and middle classes to those who already control the nation's assets. Watch Wall Street, Big Banks, Big Businesses all reap the benefits of this massive money transfer, and then watch all the politicians who will benefit from the payoffs coming their way, since this couldn't happen without them.

In the meantime, small businesses are being given "secured" loans (with what?), that drives them deeper in debt, unless they can turn them into grants by meeting certain criteria. What a deal ... Not! This can only further facilitate consolidation of power through global distribution networks and centralized supply lines, as the remains of Main Street crumbles to dust. 

America was sold out by the Globalists some time ago, and now, either by design or purposeful intent, the psychopaths in power are using COVID-19 here in America, world-wide too, in order to clamp down and expand their powers and authority over their people, while deflecting attention from the largest economic collapse in history, just in time to avoid too much extra scrutiny that would reveal their criminal actions.

A great reset is underway and America and the world is under a lockdown, whether they want to call it that or not, and under the radar, mechanisms are in operation that are much more dangerous to us all than a little "killer virus", that may or may not kill us. All the current legislation, executive orders and mass control measures emanating from this mess will never be rescinded and will persecute Americans for years into the future. This massive theft, a transfer of wealth, that is being largely ignored due to this government and media driven false pandemic, will only add to the nation's economic devastation in the unfolding years ahead, creating more havoc leading to one economic collapse after another with increasing frequency, until there is no return; and, with each successive crisis, the government and politicians will use it as a further excuse to take away our individual liberty, our "permission slips", according to their whims, as they assault our freedom.

Perhaps the resolution will come through the people's own patience, or loss of the same, and their decision to continue their compliance to an orderly self-confinement, even in the face of COVID-19. That moment may be a bit longer away, especially with tightening controls all across the nation and the turmoil in New York at the moment, as the numbers of panicked people and frightening hospital scenes increase. However, whether it's a week or weeks from now, or Easter Sunday, or any time after, one surely must be wondering what scenes will play out once the average, everyday ordinary American people decide en masse to refuse to be herded and confined any longer and return to the streets in one huge roar, for freedom.

One can only hope that from the chaos, the nation finds order and a return of real freedom and liberty. 

By Justin O. Smith
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Lucifer's Proxy, The State

America Needs a Fearless Church

By Justin O. Smith
Sent 3/27/2020 12:22 AM

"In such a fearful world we need a fearless church."  ~ C.S. Lewis

One can only imagine how pleased Lucifer is today, as he takes stock of his handiwork through his minions and subordinate demons and the COVID-19 virus, as Mulciber [Blog Editor: Time to check your literary knowledge – here are Mulciber references: Urban Dictionary; Wikipedia entry - Pandæmonium (Paradise Lost); Reddit entry; Milton’s Pandemonium (PeterNewburysblog – About Melbourne); and The Harry Potter Lexicon], his fourth son, stokes chaos and pandemonium across the globe. See him scream gleefully and happier than he has been since the Nazis murdered six million Jews, and so pleased to see his tactics destroying the nations of the world, from Europe, Asia, and Central America throughout the British Commonwealth and America too, as his government and media lackeys' propaganda and overblown alarm has terrified the world, even though this isn't the Black Death, smallpox or the Spanish Flu. And in its wake, mankind has basically lost its mind to an unreasonable, hyped fear and moved as a herd in panic to do whatever the Government demands of it. 

The Godless have attacked America since Her beginnings and none so hard as the foot soldiers of the Democratic Party, who have cooperated with Lucifer and his command operations under Beelzebub, who perverts reason, Belial [Got Questions and Mythology.net], the embodiment of sloth and inactivity, and Mammon [Got Questions and Mythology.net], who would force all to mine in the depths of hell for hidden wealth. Their combined efforts have laid the groundwork for our nation's demise, advocating "democracy", i.e. mob rule, Marxism and Communism, evolution and nihilism, and the media and bastardized public "education" system has been largely successful in facilitating their plans, as they reaped hefty rewards and privilege over rights along the way.

So many Americans have fallen so far from the God that gave them life and are Christians in name only, filling churches only halfway, most usually on Christmas and Easter, that it isn't any wonder they are floundering about in a sea of hysteria and panic, as the so-called "elites" and "leaders" drive the panic by insisting that death stalks us all at this moment in time. Our nation's long journey into godlessness has resulted in a large segment of the population that sees this one earthly life of theirs as the beginning and the end, with nothing to follow, no afterlife, no Heaven, no Hell, and this has made them willing to sacrifice everything, including their integrity, freedom and liberty and all their God Given Rights, to prolong their lives.  And so, they may not look to Lucifer no more than to God for any salvation, but they will turn to Lucifer's proxy, the State, the Leviathan.

In 1965, Paul Harvey, a wise and profound commentary journalist, noted: "If I were the Devil ... I'd set about however necessary to take over the United States. I'd subvert the churches first -- I'd begin with a campaign of whispers. With the wisdom of a serpent, I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve: 'Do as you please. ..... To the young, I would whisper that 'The Bible is a myth.' I would convince them that man created God instead of the other way around. I would confide that what is bad is good, and what is good is 'square'. And the old, I would teach to pray, after me, 'Our Father, which art in Washington ..."


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Even now, one can certainly imagine Lucifer reveling in delight over his greatest triumph in centuries, the closing of the Church -- churches all across America and across the globe too -- at a time when humanity needs God and His Word most, too. Millions of Americans, in their panic and anguish, have forgotten the comfort and solace that can be found in the Church and the pages of the Bible. Never in my lifetime, not even at the start of the COVID alarm, did I ever believe I'd see the day that the land of my ancestors and more Revivals of the Christian Faith than any decent devil could withstand would lock the doors of its churches voluntarily, as Christians now obediently avoid even the smallest of gatherings, Oh Ye of Little Faith.

Voluntarily closing the Church doors is a victory for Lucifer, or Satan if You prefer, because God gifted us all with Free Will to choose, in the hopes we would abide in His teachings and worship and love Him as Our Creator. He built us for love, but now, on the whole, we have allowed ourselves to cleverly be tricked into using this gift of Free Will against God Himself, in fear rather than in the peace and certainty of our deliverance and salvation through Faith and a belief in His Power over all things. 

Pusillanimous pastors who push a New Age moral relativism and a Marxist liberation theocracy [The Changing Face of Liberation Theology, Liberation Theology and Marxism and Red Pope Francis and the KGB's Liberation Theology] that has bastardized the teachings of Jesus are largely responsible and complicit in this entire mess, because at the start of the "pandemic" they fell over one another to be the first to show just how obedient they were to "the government". During a time of great crisis in America, Church elders, the "leaders", encouraged the sheep to "shelter in place" ... to obey their masters ... to shut down the Church ... because "the government is here to help".

Americans are currently bearing witness to the most mammoth abuse of liberty in all our history as a nation, and all in the name of the government "keeping us safe." Most of us haven't asked the government for any help of any kind. I sure didn't ask them to protect me from this virus, COVID-19.

Now the D.C. Bastards want to return our own money to us through this new "Stimulus" bill, that amounts to some $6 trillion once one combines the bill itself with everything the Fed has pumped into the stock market since October 2019. Better than this, they should cancel all taxation for the time being, until the engines of our economy are churning hard and efficient once more, because the nation is basically broke, for all practical purposes, and our money isn't any better than monopoly money at this moment in time.

This Sunday, many Christians will glorify government during their morning services, in some blasphemous cases, more so than they give all the glory and adoration to Jesus Christ. They will praise our warriors and ask God to bless the Leviathan that now seeks to end liberty in America forever, and they will justify their worship of the State through the vehemently anti-State Declaration of Independence, written over 243 years ago, largely over an erroneous translation of Romans 13.

Yes, even the most illiterate of Lucifer's demons will offer up Romans 13 that tells us to obey our governments, when they are acting righteously and aligned with God's Word and at those times when our elected officials are acting as ministers of God for good for all. But one sees only a band of miscreants in the Congress today, with very few exceptions. Today's leaders have given us baby murder as a societal staple, government theft as taxation, pornography as free speech and deviancy described as "normal" as they forced homosexual marriage on the nation against the will of seventy percent of Americans. [Blog Editor: The part of Romans 13 conveniently forgotten by Marxist Dems – verses 8-14]

More often as not, God admonished his followers against succumbing to the stronghold of the State, as one finds in The Parable of the Trees (Judges 9:7-15) and in Israel Asks for a King (1 Samuel 8) where Samuel says, "When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, but the Lord will not answer you in that day." And, through the recorded conversations between Jesus and Satan, we see Satan offer Jesus dominion over all the governments and the world itself. This also just happened to be a huge error on Satan's part, since one cannot give what one does not own in the first place. [See Matthew 4: 8-10 and Luke 4: 5-8]

And anyway, Jesus readily denounced these governments as cruel, brutal, greedy and corrupt. Ultimately, Satan's bribery attempt elicited the following from Jesus: "Get behind Me, Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.'"

No, I don't reckon we would find Jesus advising his followers to "shelter in place" or "self-quarantine". Neither would he be hiding from danger or obeying a corrupt out-of-control government, regardless of any party or illegitimate authority. 

Let us pay close attention to Hebrews 10:24-25: "And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not for forsaking the assembly of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much more as you see the Day approaching."

But if one dares mention this to their pastor, be prepared for Ol' Lucifer to work his devilment by pumping up the pastor's false sense of pride. After all, he did graduate from the Seminary and who are we to argue the Bible with him? Some pastors have simply said that it's their Church (really???) and they would decide whether the Church would be open for services or not. 

What in the Hell is wrong with You, America? Aren't You sick to death of the government in general and what it has become? Aren't You sick of the compliant and cowardly clergy? Aren't You as sick to death as I am over what has happened to our country? America has the most cowardly Christian leadership in the history of Christendom. 

We should all hope and pray that more churches across America will follow Pastor Rose Banks' example, who has rightfully claimed that Colorado Springs Fellowship Church has the Constitutional right to remain open, despite the State Health Department's ban of gatherings of ten people or more. Speaking to her congregation on March 22nd, Pastor Banks stated: "Now I want you to understand this ... if I'm a Christian, if I'm living for God, if I'm doing the right thing, why would God send a virus to kill me? For us to create this type of fear and paranoia in this country ... is amazing to me."

And now Lucifer rejoices over the COVID shutdown with Easter just about two weeks away, a day he loathes, because even as he rejoices over every lash of the whip upon Jesus Christ's body, every thorn and spike piercing His flesh and every drop of blood and sweat, he is always left with his own terrible defeat, when Jesus rose from the grave on the third day. And so he sows doubt asking, why everyone isn't climbing from the grave, if Jesus is so powerful?

Entranced by the buzz and hum of Beezlebub's soothing assurances in their ears, America's pastors and too many members of the Church will be staying home on Easter, perhaps watching services online or on television, if they aren't sidetracked by more interesting earthly pursuits and focused on chocolate Easter Bunnies and springtime rather than Jesus's victory over death. Fear of penalties has made them ready to abandon their faith.

Unfortunately, this entire COVID event and the miserable moves against liberty have made it all too apparent to our leaders, just how easily churches and the people can be made to comply with State demands. They surely must have rejoiced as they measured the speed at which Christians caved to recommendations, understanding how much swifter such compliance will come when they decide to give orders from the barrel of a rifle. Without the likes of a Richard Wurmbrand, martyred in communist lands for his Christian beliefs, or a Dietrich Bonhoeffer, executed for resisting the Nazis,  apparent within the folds of Christian America today, our preachers fall far short of the Black Robes of the 1700s who stood up to the British and were a driving force behind the revolution, and therefore, they will not be there to help the staunch and devout Christians and American Patriots save the country from Lucifer's godless minions and the communists of the Democratic Party who seek to eventually impose a totalitarian system on us all.  

By Justin O. Smith
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Blog Editor PERSONAL APPEAL:

The Coronavirus Panic seems to have affected giving on this blog. I am on a disability but my wife has done quite well on a sales job and a Network Marketing healthy coffee (healthy as in I’ve lost 82 lbs. in a year) business that also provides vitamin-mineral-anti-oxidant supplements that might be beneficial for your family. I’d love to share the coffee business corporate name, but if you know anything about Network Marketing companies, they get a bit cranky about that practice in their policies and procedures. Suffice it to say my wife’s Network Marketing business provides FREE websites for online marketing. In my wife’s case she has bought several Domain Names linked to her website. My darling wife has told me the company has waved the sign-up fee for buyers during the pandemic crisis. You can access Diana Houk’s coffee network via this domain name: http://www.skinnyoptimumcoffee.com/.

Addressing my revenue issue. Among the many medical I’m overcoming I am only sharing one medical bill issue. I use a CPAP machine/mask in my sleeping hours. I need 10 people to donate $5.00 to my PayPal account to help pay a CPAP supply bill. It is my opinion this Pandemic is temporary and when over, our family revenue issue will self-correct. Until then please consider a onetime donation using the PayPal button on this Blog or this SlantRight 2.0 PayPal embedded link.
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Musing Leading to ‘We Will Pay the Price’
Musing by John R. Houk, Blog Editor
© March 31, 2020
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We Will Pay the Price
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Lucifer's Proxy, The State

Edited by John R. Houk
Text embraced by brackets and embedded links are by the Editor.

© Justin O. Smith


Monday, March 30, 2020

Food for Thought!!

A friend of my wife Diana Houk sent this to her and Diana forwarded it to me with “Post this” in the subject line. If I am anything, I am dutiful husband that believes when Mama is happy, everybody is happy.

😊

JRH 3/30/20
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Food for Thought!!
[Blog Editor: OR Think About Marxist-Dems, RINOs, MSM, Deep State and the Coronavirus!]

Author attribution: Burt Shur
Sent: 3/29/2020 10:41 AM

....Like everyone who is a conservative thinking person, there is more going [on] here than you and I realize. Think about this, our whole world came crashing down a month ago, right after the failed impeachment of our President. The Democrats have been on this hate, get rid of Trump at all cost since before he was even elected. I have completely changed my opinion of the Democrats, I had to take a hard look back in our history and as long as we voted for a Deep State politician everything was OK. 

But, when we as a country started to realize something was drastically wrong and there was really no difference between Democrats and Republicans and that's when things really changed. The last three Presidents (Clinton, Bush, and Obama) were all Globalists (NWO) also not to forget Bush Sr. who really brought the term NEW WORLD ORDER to Americans attention. Like I said once I looked back it really hit me that the Communist party has always been doing very-very bad things to keep their power. They will do whatever it takes to remain in power. So, the coronavirus as we all know started in China. Here's the thing, China is a Communist country, they don't like Trump because they want to call the shots and Trump said, no more. We have been taken advantage of for years. Look at how long we have been losing our manufacturing, were did it go, China. Who supported that? All the Bushes, all the Clinton's, the Obama's, and all their Administrations, all Democrats. Do you see where this is all leading? Democrats have sold their souls to China. Biden and Feinstein are just two of a huge number.

Obama is probably the most corrupt out of all Presidents. He's also been around Communists his whole life. From his mother, to his mentor Frank Marshall Davis and his handler John Brennan. Are you getting it? Obama made a big mistake when he was running, he basically said, he was going to fundamentally change America, well, he really did and we let him do it. Blacks were taken in because here they finally had the first black President. Obama knew they would do that, but where Obamacare made a big mistake is he didn't do anything for the black community. All he did do was divide Americans  when we were moving forward in stopping the racial divide. That all stopped with Obama. He has done so much damage and continues to do huge damage. He spied on Trump and OK'd everything to do with FISA GATE, RUSSIA GATE. There are supposedly a thousand sealed indictments and Obama's name has to be on at least one.

Where am I going with all this? I've really tried very hard to see this emergency as a very bad situation that just happened completely independently and unfortunately right now when things in America were going so good. We have never had this many jobs, and wealth! Well, the last blow to all is this coronavirus. I believe it was loosed on purpose. China really didn't like the idea of manufacturing going back to US and no control over all the money making of our trade imbalance and Trump was fixing (for We The People).

The Commie Democrats are in partnership with China to bring the economy down and shut America completely down. Why? To get Trump out of the Presidency, bring his numbers down below 30%, they want him out. Please, think about this they have thrown everything at Trump and he's weathered all the assaults. No other President could do this. This pandemic is real all right, and it is dangerous and it is killing people. But where and why it started, brings me to only one conclusion.  All this is bigger than any of us can comprehend. Democrats want their power back and to rule our lives, and have the NWO… Trump put a stop to their scheme and they don't like it! Every Deep State person (Democrats and some Republicans) need to be arrested and indicted.

My other question  is where is Durham and Huber and Barr? We have been very patient, but the indictments must come now! Either we have laws or we are truly done. This is America’s only chance to regain our independence and freedom and bring back what Trump has been fighting for - The America that our forefathers set forth in our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. We cannot lose what we have fought and died for since 1776. I'm tired of Congress holding Americans hostages. You work for us and those that don't are out, and I mean out now. All Democrats (including  Pelosi, Schumer, Waters, Omar, Talib, Cortez, Romney). If there is one thing I've learned from Trump is America first "period"!

Now comes the most disappointing part of what I've been saying. The MSM, all must be indicted on treason. That's  CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, PNR. They all have tried to bring Trump down, which means bring us down! They are un-American! This must stop!

-Burt Shur
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Blog Editor PERSONAL APPEAL:

The Coronavirus Panic seems to have affected giving on this blog. I am on a disability but my wife has done quite well on a sales job and a Network Marketing healthy coffee (healthy as in I’ve lost 82 lbs. in a year) business that also provides vitamin-mineral-anti-oxidant supplements that might be beneficial for your family. I’d love to share the coffee business corporate name, but if you know anything about Network Marketing companies, they get a bit cranky about that practice in their policies and procedures. Suffice it to say my wife’s Network Marketing business provides FREE websites for online marketing. In my wife’s case she has bought several Domain Names linked to her website. My darling wife has told me the company has waved the sign-up fee for buyers during the pandemic crisis. You can access Diana Houk’s coffee network via this domain name: http://www.skinnyoptimumcoffee.com/.

Addressing my revenue issue. Among the many medical I’m overcoming I am only sharing one medical bill issue. I use a CPAP machine/mask in my sleeping hours. I need 10 people to donate $5.00 to my PayPal account to help pay a CPAP supply bill. It is my opinion this Pandemic is temporary and when over, our family revenue issue will self-correct. Until then please consider a onetime donation using the PayPal button on this Blog or this SlantRight 2.0 PayPal embedded link.
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Original post edited by John R. Houk (largely with spell check).

In full disclosure, I have no idea who Burt Shur is. I usually double check assertions in a post, but I agree with most in this post and pray it is not a chain email in which Diana would have been a recipient. I did find a “Burt Shur” on Facebook the identity could be one and the same.


Sunday, March 29, 2020

The West Needs to Wake Up to China's Duplicity


Communists lie. It has been a Communist platform to lie to entice hatred of the world’s population toward Capitalistic marketing and Christian influence which actually brings Liberty and free will. The People’s Republic of China (aka Mainland China or Communist China) has developed into a Communist super power that probably has Lenin (more details in The Epoch Times – registration/subscription may be required), Stalin, Khrushchev et al; (SEE ALSO ‘“The Goal of Socialism is Communism” ~Vladimir Lenin – ‘FEAR’ The Bern! And Learn About His Perversions’ By Geri Ungurean) rolling in their Soviet atheist jealous graves.

In full disclosure, America’s Dems have clandestinely adopted Communist ways and repackaged it under Democratic Socialism. ERGO, just like Communists, Dems Lie. Those who support Dems – like the MSM – are liars too.

The Communist liars in China are trying to portray themselves as Coronavirus saviors when the truth is the ChiCom liars are COVID-19 perpetrators. Giulio Meotti writing for the Gatestone Institute exposes Chinese Communist duplicity.

JRH 3/29/20
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The West Needs to Wake Up to China's Duplicity

March 28, 2020 at 5:00 am

§  In an article in Xinhua, one of the Chinese Communist Party's mouthpieces, Beijing threatened to halt pharmaceutical exports, after which America would be "plunged into the mighty sea of coronavirus... — Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health, Council on Foreign Relations, Twitter, March 4, 2020.

§  China's leaders are probably hoping that you cannot challenge a powerhouse that is selling you most of your vital medications.

§  "Hidden behind declarations of solidarity, China plans to buy out our troubled companies and infrastructure" — Bild, March 19, 2020.

§  Italy, a country hit hard by China's coronavirus pandemic, is now at the center of a strategic Chinese propaganda campaign. Beijing has sent doctors and supplies to Italy and is doing the same all over Europe. In Italy you can see posters saying, "Go, China!" China is trying to buy our silence and complicity. Sadly, that is already taking place.

§  China is not helping at this point out of "solidarity". The Chinese regime is now seeking to portray itself as the world's savior. Beijing, at the beginning of the pandemic, did not care about the lives of even its own people: it was busy censoring the news.


§  "The West is so tolerant, passive, accommodating and naive towards Beijing. Westerners... are seduced like an old man in front of a young girl.... Europe shows all its weakness. It does not realize that the Chinese offensive threatens its freedom and values". — Liao Yiwu, Chinese writer exiled in Berlin, Le Point International, April 6, 2019.

China is waging a double information war: one abroad and one for its own public, both led by the Chinese authorities with President Xi Jinping at its head. They apparently see the West as weak and submissive. We have been. (Photo by Naohiko Hatta - Pool/Getty Images)

The Chinese Communist Party is the "central threat of our times", US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo astutely said in January. Back then, coronavirus was already spreading throughout China and over the world; the Communist Party's attempt to hide the epidemic proved that Pompeo was more than right. "My concern is that this cover-up, this disinformation that the Chinese Communist Party is engaged in, is still denying the world the information it needs so that we can prevent further cases or something like this from recurring again", Pompeo added this week.

Had China responded to the outbreak three weeks earlier than it did, cases of coronavirus could have been reduced by 95%, according to a study by the University of Southampton. In those three weeks, China was busy hiding the truth. According to Steve Tsang, director of the University of London's SOAS China Institute, "It is the cover-up of the Communist Party for the first two months or so which created conditions to generate a global pandemic".

Chinese leaders, however, seemed obsessed only with the sustainability of their totalitarian regime, and as eager to silence any criticism as they have been in the past. Since January, the evidence of China's deliberate cover-up of the coronavirus in Wuhan has become a matter of public record. The Chinese government censored and detained brave doctors and whistleblowers who attempted to sound the alarm. One of China's richest entrepreneurs, Jack Ma, recently disclosed that China hid at least one-third of the coronavirus cases.

China has been able to grow into a superpower because it adopted economic practices from the West. No other country ever achieved such rapid economic and social progress for such a sustained period of time. However, hopes placed by the West in the Chinese market also nourished a dangerous mirage. We in the West thought that a modernizing China with a rising GDP would also democratize and come to respect transparency, pluralism and human rights. Instead, the mirage turned into a disaster as we watched China become even more of a "totalitarian state".

The nature of the Chinese regime -- its ban on the free press and all critical voices; the absolute domination of the Communist Party over social, spiritual and economic actors; imprisoning minorities and crushing freedom of conscience -- is also contributing to the emergence of this public health disaster. The cost, in terms of human lives and world's GDP, is immense.
The Chinese government's complicity in the pandemic is now an opportunity for the West to reevaluate its ties to Beijing. According to Guy Sorman, a French-American expert on China:

"Like useful idiots, we have not only helped the Party prosper but, even worse, we have given up on our humanitarian, democratic, and spiritual values in doing so."

"It is time", stated the American columnist, Marc A. Thiessen, "to immunize our economy and national security from our dependence on a deceitful regime".

China is waging a double information war: one abroad and one for its own public, both led by the Chinese authorities with President Xi Jinping at its head. They apparently see the West as weak and submissive. We have been.

China seems to believe that it is rising, while the West is in decline. "We find ourselves in what Germans call a Systemwettbewerb, a 'competition of systems' between liberal democracies and China's authoritarian state capitalism, which is increasingly projecting its absolute claim to power beyond its borders", said Thorsten Benner, co-founder and director of the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin. The Cold War with Russia was clearer.

"We had an ideological and security antagonist who was not an economic competitor. There was a Chinese wall between the economies of the West and the Soviet Union. Today, we are confronted with an opponent who is a powerful economic competitor and intricately involved in the political economy of the West. At the same time, we also depend on cooperation with China on transnational issues such as climate change and pandemics. China's authoritarian state capitalist system with its hegemonic ambitions is by far the most difficult strategic challenge the West has faced to date".

According to historian Niall Ferguson, "China today poses a bigger economic challenge than the Soviet Union ever did". The Soviet Union could never rely on a dynamic private sector, as China is doing. In some markets -- such as technology -- China is already ahead of the United States. Not only that; the Chinese economy, the world's second-largest, is more closely integrated with the West than the Soviet one ever was. China's totalitarian one-party rule allows greater personal freedoms, at least at the moment, than the Soviet Union did. The coronavirus epidemic is, in fact, partly a consequence of the freedom of movement Chinese citizens enjoy.

China has also been able to convince much of the West that it is not an enemy. Beijing's goal has appeared to be to try to draw the West -- and the rest of the world -- into its economic and ideological orbit. China opened markets in the West while it offered to its own people a kind of devil's bargain: give up your ideas and principles and you will enjoy material improvement and societal security. Meanwhile, China became an industrial and technological behemoth, a feat the Soviet Union could only dream about.

Consider, for instance, pharmaceuticals. According to Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, Chinese companies supply the US with more than 90% of its antibiotics, vitamin C and ibuprofen, as well as 70% of acetaminophen and 40-45% of heparin. The US was never dependent on the Soviet Union for that.

In an article in Xinhua, one of the Chinese Communist Party's mouthpieces, Beijing threatened to halt pharmaceutical exports, after which the US would be "plunged into the mighty sea of coronavirus". The Xinhua article was actually entitled, "Be bold: the world owes China a thank you."

Fox News host Tucker Carlson was right to blast members of the American elite for selling out their country to Chinese economic interests.

China's leaders are probably hoping that you cannot challenge a powerhouse that is selling you most of your vital medications.

Italy, a country hit hard by China's coronavirus pandemic, is now at the center of a strategic Chinese propaganda campaign. Beijing has sent doctors and supplies to Italy and is doing the same all over Europe. In Italy, you can see posters saying, "Go, China!" ["Forza China!"] China is trying to buy our silence and complicity. Sadly, that is already taking place. In February, while some Italian officials (on the political right) were urging Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte to quarantine schoolchildren in the north who were just returning from holidays in China, Italy's highest officials were busy trying to please Beijing. Italy's President, Sergio Mattarella; Minister for Culture, Dario Franceschini, and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Luigi Di Maio, hosted a concert in Rome for "Italian-Chinese friendship". China's President Xi Jinping warmly thanked them.

China is not helping at this point out of "solidarity". The Chinese regime is now seeking to portray itself as the world's savior. Beijing, at the beginning of the pandemic, did not care about the lives of even its own people: it was busy censoring the news.

"Hidden behind declarations of solidarity, China plans to buy out our troubled companies and infrastructure", according to Germany's leading newspaper, Bild. Italy was the first G-7 country to sign up for China's global investment program, a deal that rightly raised concerns in the US. China seems to be ready to continue its expansion into the Italy's economy and strategic interests.

China's Communist Party also seems to be at war with the free flow of information internationally. The regime, in the most sweeping media ejection from China since the death of Mao Zedong, recently expelled US journalists. Beijing has also tried to shift the blame for the pandemic to the US by saying that coronavirus originated with US military personnel in Wuhan. Lijian Zhao, spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, posted statements to that effect on Chinese social media and Twitter. The coronavirus crisis is now a battleground for Chinese propaganda.

The paradox is that the Global Times, a media outlet of the Chinese Communist Party, spreads false anti-US propaganda on Twitter, which is banned in China. Twitter, meanwhile, banned the website Zero Hedge, for publishing an article linking a Chinese scientist to the outbreak of coronavirus. Twitter also unfortunately decided that China's Communist Party does not violate the rules of social media by spreading lies against the US.

Already a few years ago, in 2013, a secret Chinese Communist Party directive known as Document No. 9 called for the rejection of seven Western ideas, such as "Western constitutional democracy", "universal values" of human rights, Western-inspired notions of media independence and civic participation, ardently pro-market "neo-liberalism," and "nihilist" criticisms of the Party's questionable past. Targets to combat included "Western embassies, consulates, media operations and nongovernmental organizations". Huang Kunming, the Party's propaganda chief, attacks "some Western countries who use their technological advantages and dominance of discourse that they have accumulated over a long period to peddle so-called 'universal values'". China's Education Minister Yuan Guiren, a former president of Beijing Normal University, threw in: "Never let textbooks promoting Western values appear in our classes".

In speeches and official documents, the President Xi talks about a struggle between "socialism with Chinese characteristics" and "Western anti-China forces" with their "extremely malicious" ideas of freedom, democracy and human rights. The West seems to be their target. According to a new study by the International Republican Institute:

"The Chinese Communist Party... is employing a unique set of tactics in the economic and information domains that undermines many developing countries' democratic institutions and future prosperity as their dependence on China grows."

China evidently understands how to use Western media for its own propaganda. "The Vatican and the Western business elite", wrote Michael Brendan Dougherty, "once instrumental in the West's winning the Cold War, have been brought to heel by the Chinese Communist party". The Chinese regime has succeeded where the Soviet regime failed. Last December, a six-year-old girl in London preparing Christmas cards found a message inside: "We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qingpu Prison China, forced to work against our will", read the handwritten note. "Please help us and notify human rights organization". Western capitalism has even become complicit with Chinese slavery.

Western brands are not alone in caving in out of fear of "offending" the Communist Party. Western culture has been eagerly submitting itself to self-censorship about China. "The West is so tolerant, passive, accommodating and naive towards Beijing," said Liao Yiwu, a Chinese writer exiled in Berlin.

"Westerners look at China with incredulous eyes, they are seduced like an old man in front of a young girl. Everyone trembles before Chinese omnipotence. Europe shows all its weakness. It does not realize that the Chinese offensive threatens its freedom and values".

China's embassy in the Czech Republic is now financing a study course at Charles University, the most prestigious in the country. British universities are today largely dependent on Chinese students; conservative estimates put their combined tuition fees at about $1.75 billion. Australia is now even more reliant, with 200,000 Chinese students. If they go back to China or if Chinese donations stop coming to these faculties, they stand to lose about $4 billion.

The 1,500 branches of the Confucius Institute that China's regime has established in 140 countries offer language and "cultural" programs. However, according to Matt Schrader, a China analyst with the Alliance for Securing Democracy, these institutes are "propaganda tools". Last October, Belgium banned the head of Confucius Institute in Brussels, Xinning Song, after security services accused him of spying for Beijing.

In 2013, when the University of Sydney shut down a talk by Tibet's Dalai Lama on campus, many saw the university's links to Chinese interests as being involved in the lobbying efforts to stop the previously approved event. Topics such as Tibet, Taiwan independence, or the dissident Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, are taboo.

According to a Bloomberg report, China is also infiltrating Europe's political landscape by supporting political parties and inviting politicians to China. President Xi, taking his ideological battle abroad, even donated a statue of Karl Marx to his German hometown Trier on the 200th anniversary of Marx's birth.

Beijing, unsurprisingly, has been using Western multilateral institutions to its own advantage. As Michael Collins detailed in a report for the Council on Foreign Relations, Beijing has expanded its presence in the World Health Organization. "China's WHO contributions have grown by 52% since 2014 to approximately $86 million", Collins states.

"This is largely due to China's increase in assessed contributions which are based on a country's economic development and population. However, China has also slightly increased voluntary contributions from $8.7 million in 2014 to approximately $10.2 million in 2019".

Like the former Soviet Union, China now seems to be building a giant apparatus of control. They call it the "Internet police". Try to imagine the former East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, using the most advanced surveillance system in the world: This is China in 2020.

Communist dictatorships always end up following the same script. The Soviet writer Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature but the communist regime prevented him from receiving it. In China, literary critic, writer, poet, and human rights activist Liu Xiaobo was awarded Nobel Prize for Peace but was never able to receive it: he died under guard in a Chinese hospital. The Soviet Union had forced-labor camps just as China does. Chinese dissident Harry Wu, who endured 19 years in jail, compared the Chinese camps (laogai) to the Soviet gulag and Nazi concentration camps.

In the Soviet Union, writers, politicians, generals and doctors who were silenced and executed under Stalin, were later "rehabilitated" by the Soviet leaders after Stalin's death. The Chinese Communist Party just "exonerated" Dr. Li Wenliang who warned about the coronavirus outbreak. He was accused of "making false comments and disturbing the social order", then forced to recant, and soon after, at the age of 33, died of the disease. It is a shameful attempt by the Chinese officials to whitewash their own image.

In a column last week for the Spanish daily El Pais, the Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa wrote about coronavirus:

"Nobody seems to be warning that none of this could have happened in the world if popular China were a free country and democratic rather than a dictatorship".

Vargas Llosa then likened the epidemic outbreak to Russia's Chernobyl disaster during the Soviet era. Both dictatorships censored and silenced information about the crises. In response, Beijing's regime not only called Vargas Llosa "irresponsible", but also banned his books from Chinese e-book platforms. Vargas Llosa has warned Western "fools" not to believe in China, "the free market with a political dictatorship", and that "what happened with the coronavirus should open the eyes of the blind".

The risk now is that, instead of Chernobyl which led, in part, to Soviet Union's downfall, China's communist regime will enjoy reinforcement -- especially if, due to the coronavirus crisis, the American people in November fail to support the first president in the last 40 years who has openly challenged China.

The Western dream of a "renaissance of the Chinese nation" has now turned into a globalized nightmare. Hundreds of millions across the world are in lockdown; thousands are dead; the economies of Western countries are paralyzed, with some on the verge of collapse. Empty shops and streets are commonplace.

This might be what analysts call "the end of liberal order". China's communists today are more capitalist than Marxist, at least at the state level. President Xi has adopted "market Leninism" -- mixing a state-run economy with a "terrifying form of totalitarianism". The West needs to wake up to China's duplicity.

Giulio Meotti, Cultural Editor for Il Foglio, is an Italian journalist and author.
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Saturday, March 28, 2020

Fox Business Network FIRES Trish Regan for saying coronavirus is another attempt to impeach POTUS

How disappointing! It looks like Fox executives are axing Conservatives for pointing out the obvious about Dems utilizing ANY pretext to get rid of President Trump. In this case Trish Regan was dismissed for sharing obvious Dem tactics incorporating the Coronavirus to dump Trump.

The article insinuates that Kennedy might be in trouble at the Fox Business Network.

JRH 3/28/20
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Fox Business Network FIRES Trish Regan for saying coronavirus is another attempt to impeach POTUS


Posted by Pamela Geller
March 27, 2020

That’s exactly what the Democrat media complex is doing. Fox is dirt. It’s been bad for awhile, but now it’s circling the drain.

Fox Business Network Fires Trish Regan

By Frank Johnson, Liberty Wire, March 27, 2020

Fox Business Network just fired anchor Trish Regan. Fox made the announcement Friday afternoon saying the network has officially “parted ways” with Regan.

“We thank her for her contributions to the network over the years and wish her continued success in her future endeavors,” the network said in a statement.

“We will continue our reduced live primetime schedule for the foreseeable future in an effort to allocate staff resources to continuous breaking news coverage on the Coronavirus crisis.”

“I have enjoyed my time at FOX and now intend to focus on my family during these troubled times,” Regan said in her own statement.

“I am grateful to my incredible team at FOX Business and for the many opportunities, the network has provided me. I’m looking forward to this next chapter in my career.”

Her show on The Fox Business Network had been put on hiatus over some controversial remarks the long-time host made about the coronavirus and the Democrats.

From The Hill:

Fox Business announced this week that the show hosted by Trish Regan will be on “hiatus” following controversial remarks she made about the coronavirus.

“Fox Business’s prime-time programs Trish Regan Primetime and Kennedy will both be on hiatus until further notice,” the network said in a statement, referring to Lisa “Kennedy” Montgomery, who hosts her own show on the network. “Due to the demands of the evolving pandemic crisis coverage, we are deploying all resources from both shows for staffing needs during critical market hours. Fox Business will run long form programming in prime time for the foreseeable future.”

Fox Business added the hiatus for Kennedy was related to staffing.

The announcement from Fox Business came amid fallout from Regan’s claims that the coronavirus is “another attempt to impeach” President Trump.

“We’ve reached a tipping point. The chorus of hate being leveled at the president is nearing a crescendo as Democrats blame him, and only him, for a virus that originated halfway around the world. This is yet another attempt to impeach the president,” she said Monday, adding that Democrats and the “liberal media” were using the coronavirus to “destroy the president.”

Regan’s comments led to an avalanche of criticism, with some saying the host should be permanently fired.

Regan, a reliable supporter of Trump on her show, took a milder tone when discussing the coronavirus Friday night shortly before her hiatus was announced.

“Our path forward right now is together, the left and the right united to fight this crisis,” Regan said on her program. “We’re all in this together, and we need to stay safe.”
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