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...Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends...
Thru the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee Isaiah 19, 20
What nation has the longest history mentioned in Scripture? If you guessed Egypt, you’re right! Join us in Isaiah chapters 19-20 to find out what prophecies regarding Egypt have already been fulfilled and which ones will one day be accomplished as God’s plan for this world--- and our lives--- continues to unfold.
Thru the Bible - Minute with McGee Dr. J. Vernon McGee
It Only Gets Better
The first word after the crucifixion in Isaiah 53 is “sing,” and it’s a call to Israel to sing. But they’re not singing over there today. In the past, Israel has been a barren wife. But her future is more glorious as there are going to be many children in the future. The Word of God makes it clear that the great days are right down yonder ahead of us. It gets “gooder and gooder” all the way along, if you’re a child of God. Today’s better than yesterday. And you want to know something? Tomorrow’s going to be better than today. Can’t have it any more wonderful than this, friends.
https://www.oneplace.com/ministries/thru-the-bible-minute-with-mcgee/
Daily Promises
Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This [is] the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. (Zechariah 4:6)
Trust not in the power of your own strength nor in the might of your own will to accomplish good, O believer! Your sanctification is not a matter of dominating yourself through discipline! You have no ability of your own to effect righteous works in your life! Trust, rather, in God! Place your faith in the Spirit to work in you for righteousness!
Keep Trusting The Captain
Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people. — Psalm 65:7
Maybe you find yourself in the middle of the storm, surrounded by raging seas today. Keep trusting the Captain!
https://anotherwell.org/2024/04/22/keep-trusting-the-captain/
Casting Pods
PTSD Time To Heal, MK Ultra...Catherine Edwards Podcast
https://youtu.be/zF9B_onWnvI?si=GqjT1cGB2B2o1ced
RFK Jr LOCKS IN Michigan Ballot As Family Backs Biden...Sabby Sabs Podcast
https://youtu.be/5frySB6s42A?si=fBmMJQZJbWSgZrPk
US Passes $61 Billion Ukraine Spending Bill But Lacks Arms/Ammunition to Send in Sufficient Amounts...The New Atlas Podcast
https://youtu.be/VpZO2fbumk?si=-0jRiPtJfhQW81c
NATO TROOPS TO UKRAINE AFTER IRAN CHANGED THE GAME? Garland Nixon Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/live/i8LeS0lf7XQ?si=n738Pf8U999ueQ_a
Tony Blinken stonewalls The Grayzone on Gaza & int'l law...The Grayzone Podcast
https://youtu.be/LuNxsUqDY_0?si=McU4PlCkYSojenCw
Ukraine aid may slow Russian advance. MIC payday and no audit. Lord of the Rings & Axis of Evil...The Duran Podcast
'WORLD WAR III is HERE!' Neal Oliver Podcast
https://youtu.be/MPLYfZUL5O0?si=ZEKevNZsa5nugWcl
Dog Woo
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mohandas Gandhi
Preparedness Notes for Monday — April 22, 2024
https://survivalblog.com/2024/04/22/preparedness-notes-for-monday-april-22-2024/
A collective “common enemy” now stalks mankind
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/04/20/a-collective-common-enemy-now-stalks-mankind/
The Multi-Headed Elites
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-multi-headed-elites/
We’re All Just Free-Range Humans Living on a Tax Farm
https://rumble.com/v4qwzob-were-all-just-free-range-humans-living-on-a-tax-farm.html
James Howard Kunstler - The Bad Faith Olympics...“This is the weirdest era in human history. By far. Nothing else even comes close. Billionaires trying to kill everyone. Civil society unable to form a coherent thought. Institutions lie in smoldering ruins. Poisons handed out like candy. We are Neanderthals with iPhones.”
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-bad-faith-olympics/
Today's Wins
1 Remembering my first bumper sticker
https://truthsocial.com/@Ashlanddog/112318356399129905
2 ‘Conspiracy Theories’ Aren’t Theoretical Anymore
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/04/conspiracy_theories_aren_t_theoretical_anymore.html
3 Judge Declares Mistrial in the Case of a Rancher Accused of Fatally Shooting a Illegal Alien
4 How Do You Solve a Problem Like Mike Johnson?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/04/how_do_you_solve_a_problem_like_mike_johnson.html
5 A Couple of IRS Agents Have Just Become the Corrupt Biden Family’s Worst Nightmare
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jun/26/irs-agents-have-hunter-bidens-iphone-whatsapp-mess/
6 Michigan bishop who called Joe Biden ‘stupid’ has nothing to apologize for
7 Unredacted Documents Reveal How Traitor Joe’s DOJ Colluded With NARA to “Concoct a Case” Against Trump
8 Legal Expert Says Alvin Bragg's First Choice of Witness in Trump Trial Is Very 'Telling'
9 A diesel in the shed
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/a_diesel_in_the_shed.html
10 America’s Fight to Save Handwriting From Extinction as IQs Begin to Fall and Some 20-Year-Olds Can’t Even Sign Checks
https://truthsocial.com/group/unleashed/posts/112318235968394157
11 Another day and another plagiarism story out of academia
https://truthsocial.com/group/unleashed/posts/112318404076687816
12 Why We Should Be Cautious of Jordan Peterson
https://truthsocial.com/group/unleashed/posts/112318540470475650
13 Living in the Modern Dark Ages...Those who are chiefly responsible for the gathering Dark Age work hard to try and keep the rest of us from seeing it.
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/living-in-the-modern-dark-ages
14 The World’s Leaders, Including Biden, Must Learn The Lesson Of Passover
https://truthsocial.com/group/unleashed/posts/112318430528816203
Look What The Dog Dragged In
15 CAITLIN JOHNSTONE - Israel Is Turning Hospitals Into Mass Graves While The West Fixates On 'Antisemitism'
16 72 Types Of Americans That Are Considered “Potential Terrorists” In Official Government Documents- You can now be considered a “potential terrorist” just because of your religious or political beliefs.
https://truthsocial.com/group/unleashed/posts/112318287964599636
17 ‘Dark and Despairing’—How TikTok Exploits the Minds of American Teens
18 “Democrats Got Everything They Wanted”: Hakeem Jeffries Hailed as House “Shadow Speaker” After $95 Billion Ukraine Bill Passes
https://truthsocial.com/group/unleashed/posts/112318251845994041
19 Federal Judge Appears Ready to Reimpose J6 “Disinformation” Monitoring
20 NPR Has a Trigger Warning on the Declaration of Independence
https://x.com/Rando8715401/status/1777715475562008701
21 The Columbia U pogrom, and the Jews’ bad gamble on the Democrats
https://truthsocial.com/group/unleashed/posts/112318413654043912
22 The US is crawling away from Ukraine
23 Black Wars of Liberation Come to America
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/04/black_wars_of_liberation_come_to_america.html
24 Another African state moves to kick out US military
25 U.S. hands over $110m base to Niger junta to release 1,000 U.S. Army hostages, watches helplessly as base goes to Russia
https://truthsocial.com/group/unleashed/posts/112318386266975789
Health Briefs...Unleashed
26 The Forgotten Biochemistry 101 of COVID-19, and Its Critical Consequences
27 Egyptian Physician Asks Why Were COVID-19 Death Rates So Much Higher in the West vs. Africa? He Believes He Has the Answer
https://truthsocial.com/group/unleashed/posts/112318185945861167
28 36 Surveys of Side Effects Following Vaccination Showing Shocking Rates of SEVERE Adverse Events
29 COVID Spike Proteins Help Cancer Cells Survive, Resist Chemotherapy
https://truthsocial.com/group/unleashed/posts/112318450457418022
30 Alcohol Treatment Demand Soars by 50 Percent in Aussie State Following COVID-19
https://truthsocial.com/group/unleashed/posts/112318456980941536
31 Courts Set Precedent for Mass Forced “Vaccination” of All Children
https://discernreport.com/courts-set-precedent-for-mass-forced-vaccination-of-all-children/
32 Here’s How You’ll Die When the SHTF (When it hits the fan…I mean REALLY hits the fan in a permanent kind of way, the most likely outcome is death.)
https://truthsocial.com/group/unleashed/posts/112318303023311417
33 How Wearables Can Impact Your Health
34 3 Peppermint Folk Remedies Aid Digestion, Kill Bacteria, and Fight Cancer
https://truthsocial.com/group/unleashed/posts/112318492244391487
35 Honoring Your Word to Yourself...Some of the most significant promises are those we make to ourselves.
The Best Of American Thinker
36 A wheelchair-bound girl is beaten, and we need to talk about it
37 Gruesome Newsom announces ‘emergency’ bill to license AZ abortionists in California
38 Earth Day’s radical history
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/earth_day_s_radical_history.html
39 How Columbia and America have changed
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/how_columbia_and_america_have_changed.html
40 The losers will lose everything
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/the_losers_will_lose_everything.html
41 Image courtesy of Todd Schowalter Productions.
https://images.americanthinker.com/py/pyslmzonvqs9ogpfv1yx_800.jpg
The Worst Of Babylon Bee
42 America Honors Earth Day By Recycling Used Presidential Candidates
https://babylonbee.com/news/america-honors-earth-day-by-recycling-its-used-presidential-candidates
43 Historians Uncover Hitler’s Hamas Head scarf
https://babylonbee.com/news/historians-uncover-hitlers-hamas-headscarf
44 Columbia University Students Reject A Two-Campus Solution
https://babylonbee.com/news/columbia-university-students-reject-a-two-campus-solution
45 Impressive: 6th-Grade Furry Already Barking At 9th-Grade Level
https://babylonbee.com/news/impressive-6th-grade-furry-already-barking-at-9th-grade-level
46 'The Tortured Poets Department' Review: We Usually Love Taylor Swift, But We Question Her Decision To Release An Album That's Just An Hour-Long Recording Of Her Sobbing In The Shower
PowderRoomPolitics...Presents...Animal Antics
1 Bossy Cat Complains to Owner Non-Stop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OThHl2TYf0
2 Cat Spends Seven Years As Feral Cat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddoi0Z37Rwo
3 Rescued Baby Beaver Finally Finds A Friend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92jKybjAdJI
4 Neglected Pup Gets His Own Shopping Spree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl-5iiVYIPA
5 Clingy Chicken Needs Mom Constantly, So They Travel Together
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZU2evWhzPQ
6 The Drive Through Kitties And Their Mom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXWzRPo7vcg
7 Big Fluffy Dog Loves Little Girl, Would Do Anything For Her
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAdzk2pSl8g
8 Magpie Makes Lady Friend, She Adopts Him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAdzk2pSl8g
9 Adorable Tiny Kittens Show Up On Their Door Step
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJhf80MkxCQ
10 Lonely Cold Cat With Her Kittens Gets Help From Lady and Her Boyfriend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PChK9bOTLjE
Meow Mix With The Missouri Wildcat Taffy333
1 ‘I’m not black, I’m O J’
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/im-not-black-im-o-j/
...Good Night Newshounds...
Head Up...
Eyes Forward...
Hold The Line Patriots....
Keep Calm
And
Howl On
A must listen to episode of X22 Report full updates on Trups cases, his moves, what’s going on currently, and what’s going to come over the summer toward Election. Nothing Can Stop What Is Coming!
A recent post by u/brain_dead (New Hampshire the 2nd state to ban Chem Trail (www.eutimes.net)) provided an opportunity to do a little digging into some interesting sauces, both Bogus (aka clickbait, propaganda or disinfo) and Legit (aka based, patriotic, good practices).
I post the results of the dig here for my favorite frogs, ideally to provide some useful info and also some helpful hints for newbies on digging and tracking sauces.
Note: H/T to u/winn for the tip and inspiration to dig a little deeper. Upon digging into the article/sauce, a few things become immediately apparent.
The Good News
Firstly, the good news is that this content itself appears to be legitimate, even though the clickbait publishers fail in typical manner to give credit to the original source.
However, if one tracks: EU Times (100% copy/paste) >>> The People's Voice (86% copy/paste) >>> Granite Grok (Original - Steve MacDonald) one finds the original source and author, Steve MacDonald
Granite Grok is apparently an alt-media operation focused squarely on New Hampshire:
"Dominating the political bandwidth in New Hampshire"
Steve himself appears to be the key honcho at Granite Grok:
Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, blogger, and a member of the Board of directors of The 603 Alliance. He is the Managing Editor and co-owner of GraniteGrok.com, a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, and a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.
An initial peruse through the website suggest they are every bit as legit as they present themselves to be.
They do not use ads (hence clickbait is not a likely driver) and rely on donations and support (emphasizing that they are interested in quality journalism that readers will wish to support).
Their Monday Memes feature sheds an indication of their tone and focus.
https://granitegrok.com/blog/2024/04/monday-memes-108
They seem pretty based to me. Even a reference to an X tweet by Jon Harold (Patel Patriot) - author of the Devolution theory series. https://substack.com/@patelpatriot
If you are a US, East Coast or New Hampshire anon, they might be a good site to bookmark.
The Bad News #1
Firstly, the European Union Times. These guys do not come off as anywhere even near legit as Granite Grok. Not by a mile.
Strike one: 100% copy/pasting an 'article' by The People's Voice, one of the most disreputable sheister disinfo operations this side of the Pecos.
Note that EU Times doesn't give actual credit to their source, merely adds a completely non-descriptive link [Source] at the bottom of the Copy/Pasta, which immediately obscures the fact that the sauce they are using is TPV. (Something OP appears to have deigned to investigate or research, and no doubt EU Times reason for disguising their source)
Strike two: They love the Ukraine (note flag colors) and come across as very anti-Russian, anti-Putin.
After Fooling the People to Reelect Putin, Russia now announces More Cannon Fodder Mobilizations
- heavily slanted headline + derogatory terms
I don't think people need to necessarily be pro-Putin to be fully based. There is room for some diveristy of opinion in that area. But only the blind fail to recognize that the Globalists are using Ukraine as a proxy state and that the Russian initiatives are justified even from a self-defense posture, let alone from a humanitarian angle (to terminate the genocide happening to ethnic Russians in the Donbas, etc.) Not to mention denazification.
Strike three: Whiney McWhiney whine whine.
EU Times are shutting down. (no great loss, I suspect.) But read their article about the how and why. It's a riot.
We are shutting it down because of various reasons but the primary reason is the financial one. This small but yet grandiose project was ran by a small team which was very underfunded. Lack of funds. We don’t generate enough revenue from advertising anymore, people aren’t donating, they would donate to literally anything and anyone but except to keep their favorite news outlet alive…
I suspect that EU Times isn't anyone's "favorite news outlet".
People think that money come from the sky and that here on this website we don’t need their money because we somehow magically get money from the sky..... $5 a month through Patreon for lifetime… I dont think any of you would have become impoverished by subscribing to our Patreon with $5 a month! 100 such people and we would have received a mere minuscule $500 a month funding! You think that’s enough to keep a website alive? What’s $5 a month? If you are a smoker, you pay more than that on a pack of cigarettes every day, yet sponsoring your favorite news outlet is somehow excluded. We barely got any sponsorship, we all have lives and families to take care of. We can’t live without jobs, dedicating our time to this project while this project doesn’t put bread on the table.
Complaining to your readers that they aren't supporting you seems pretty narcissistic. I mean, if you created good content, people would support you.
Read through the whole article, if you dare, but even a cursory glance shows the myopic mentality of this operation. They think the European Union is a great idea, for Pete's sake.
They may not exactly be clickbait artists, despite their copy/pasting someone as disreputable as TPV, but at the least, they appear to be seriously ill-informed and functioning very much in the Matrix, aka useful idiots, for lack of a better term.
if they are indeed shutting down, then all they really do here is provide an example of Useful Idiocy thinking that they are somehow advancing Christianity and Peace in the world.
The Bad News #2
The other bad news here is The People's Voice (TPV). I mean, anywhere this operation rears its ugly head is bad news. See my other posts on TPV aka NewsPunch aka YourNewsWire (most of them easily found with a "clickbait" search in the GAW 'search community' box) if you need more info.
But as an update on TPV and Sean Adl-Tabatabai, TPV have now upgraded their [Fact Checked] designation that they put on EVERY article they post to [Fact checked by The People's Voice Community].
Sure, that community is going to be totally legit. /sarc/
Also, Mr. Adl-Tabatabai has now listed an intro blurb at the end of his articles, and cites 17674 Articles.
My, that's a few articles, isn't it, Sean? Let's break that down.
Your News Wire (which became NewsPunch which became The People's Voice) started full fledged operations around 2015. So let's give Mr TPV 9 years. 17674 articles in 9 years equals 1963 articles per year. 1963 divided by 52 weeks = 37 articles per week.
So on average, and assuming that Mr. Adl-Tabatabai works 7 days a week, 12 months a year, he's churning out 37 articles per week. If that doesn't tell you about the quality of his work, it should. No serious writer or journalist can produce that many articles unless he is copy/pasting and just churning out low quality tabloid content.
Ok, it's not a massive finding, but I thought it was interesting enough to note.
It's curious that in the case of the current article, the actual content as legitimate enough that TPV didn't have to fabricate sensationalist or disinfo headlines. Nonetheless, any deep dive in to TPV/NP/YNW suggests strongly that they are dubiously funded disinfo operation designed to exploit people beginning to wake up and inject garbage info in to the truth sphere in order to poison the well. At least, to me it does.
Silver Lining
The silver linings in this dig into EU Times / TPV include a) finding Granite Grok, which seems a very legitimate based patriotic alt-media operation, but also
b) final confirmation that Michael Baxter is in fact Baxter Dmitry from TPV, by him publishing a 100% copy paste version of the TPV article under his own name:
https://dainikbidyaloy.com/2024/01/04/new-hampshire-becomes-second-u-s-state-to-ban-chemtrails/
I tracked this down using a simple technique of taking a sample section of text (chosen for relevance and to an appropriate length i.e. between 7 and 15 words long) then searching for it in Google bookended by quote marks: e.g.
"One of the sponsors is a friend, so I’d expect them to offer some follow-up, but if I’m honest"
This forces the search Engine to seek that text strong as a whole unit.
The result can show many instances of where the source text has been copy/pasted or published across the net. In this case, it turned up both legitimate sources (those quoting Granite Grok and which are genuinely journalistic efforts) as well as scum sources (i.e. clickbait, disinfo, tabloid alt-media, etc)
Seeing the parallels and connections between Dmitry Baxter and Michael Baxter over the years (first observed in 2018), I have long held the view that they are one and the same person. This publication of the TPV article under the M. Baxter name all but clinches it.
And that's a nice find.
Conclusion
I suspect that if OP had taken the time to dig a little into the EU Times, he might have thought twice about posting them (and thereby promoting them as a legitimate source) instead of tracking the content to the actual source, which would have been a good find (Steve MacDonald at Grantie Grok). The connection with TPV should have been an instant red flag, but again, this was missed.
All this simply goes to prove the old adage:
All good dishes come with saucy sauce
But note: Saucy sauce is sauce that has been checked, identified, verified and simmered over a low flame for at least 3 or 4 levels of dig.
Carry on.
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THE GREAT AWAKENING. You are the news now. Handle w/ care.
Today I have been up since 6 in the morning, haven't been able to get sleep since I have been vomiting quite a lot. More than four times despite feeling well yesterday, I would greatly appreciate prayers for health and healing. In case you need a name it's Josh, God bless you all!
#BREAKING 🚨 🇹🇼A very Large 6.2 magnitude earthquake strikes #Taiwan this is the 15 earthquake in the last six hours ranging from 5.1 5.4, 5.6, 5.2 6.0 6.0 4.1 5.3 and 4.1
About 5 minutes ago.
This isn’t normal.
They just had some massive ones weeks ago now this.
Something isn’t adding up.
Pray for Taiwan 🇹🇼
40 in the last 24 hours
