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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p>In my study of Bitcoin I recently discovered this young man on YouTube.  He&#8217;s producing helpful educational content.  I&#8217;ve no doubt that you&#8217;d not waste your money paying him to help you with self-custody.  And that&#8217;s THE ONLY way you should proceed with Bitcoin.  Learn how to own everything related to your Bitcoin savings.</p>
<p>Selah.</p></div>
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		<title>Mask Off:  The Republic Just Went Full Empire</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p>I&#8217;ve mentioned Truthstream Media many times over the years.  They do great work on political news in video.  In the vid below they present a compilation of Trump video clips that will blow your mind if you&#8217;re anything like me.  The hypocrisy in American media and politics is rising to new satanic highs.</p></div>
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		<title>Time Will Tell &#8212; And Probably Not As Much Time As You Think</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 08:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p>Hear the opinion of a Tech futurist, former employee of Google.  It&#8217;s interesting.  He hints that he&#8217;s not a fan of borders and favors free trade.  In past videos he&#8217;s offered advice on using a screen to make a million bucks.  He&#8217;s much better informed on current economics than am I.  I&#8217;m very self consciously not a money guy choosing to simply take Jesus at his word &#8212; money is the root of all evil.</p>
<p>America&#8217;s economy is collapsing because we&#8217;ve loved the dollar more than life (think abortion) itself.  Every successful nation builds economic power.  They don&#8217;t hoard metals or weaponize their currency.  And they don&#8217;t create a banking system built on debt/usury.</p>
<p>This YouTuber is right about America collapsing into poverty.  I see that as inevitable.  He thinks in twenty year chunks of time when discussing the future for America.  If we survive what&#8217;s coming as a nation I suspect that is optimistic.  I hope and pray it only takes twenty years to get back on our feet.</p>
<p>Time, and God&#8217;s Grace, will tell.</p>
<p>Amen.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p>Tomorrow <em><strong>IS</strong></em> the world&#8217;s Liberation Day.  But not the one Trump&#8217;s MAGA is anticipating.  Tomorrow is the day when America&#8217;s death rattle &#8230; stops. </p>
<p>The bombing, the over-the-top &#8220;marketing,&#8221; the bravado, the unhinged hate, the insanity, the sexual orientation &#8230; it will all start stopping.  I wish it would just stop, like when the near dead person simply stops rattling.  But that&#8217;s not how empire&#8217;s die.  It takes awhile.</p>
<p>How long will it take?  Short of a zombie apocalypse scenario I&#8217;d say at least decades.</p>
<p>The YouTuber in the video above suggests America will take decades to repair the damage it has done to education.  I&#8217;m going to go with that, and not imagine that Israel is going to build the Third Jewish Temple from which the Anti-Christ will rise. </p>
<p>I have eight grandchildren.  For some crazy reason I don&#8217;t want a demented-rap-booming-tattooed-white-pagan future for them.</p>
<p>So, Musk returns to business.  The government starts picking up the pieces scattered by his autistic DOGE fever dream, and Trump recalibrates into the remainder of his four years. </p>
<p>Time might be on our side?</p>
<p>Amen</p></div>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 10:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p>Israel, and therefore America, is soooo over.</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t believe me just take fifteen minutes to watch this video about the sodomy loving and tolerant &#8220;leaders&#8221; of America.</p>
<p>Amen.</p></div>
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		<title>Trillionaire to Quadrillionaire:  Trump&#8217;s Grand Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 08:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p>This British economist makes a compelling argument in this video that Trump&#8217;s grand plan is to secure ultimate global power for the TechBros.  It makes sense of the chaos we are all feeling.</p>
<p>He reminds Americans of the last time the government was forced to confront monopoly power.  One man is credited with standing up to that power.  Theodore Roosevelt, the President who earned the title &#8220;Trust Buster.&#8221;  Back then it was oil, steel and transportation that were coming under the control of monopolists.</p>
<p>This economist points out that data &#8212; especially the detailed, private and personal kind the government has the power to collect &#8212; is today&#8217;s oil.  Musk has the portable hard drives.  Trump has the power of the pardon if the Left&#8217;s push back goes too far and gets some of Musk&#8217;s geeks tied up in criminal trials over stealing our data.</p>
<p>Biden&#8217;s liberalism, while unhinged from nature and reality on nearly all things cultural, has demonstrated a weak willingness to confront Big Tech.  At least more of a willingness than the &#8220;pro business&#8221; Republicans.  Neither right nor left in America is truly pro business.  To be so would be to put the government on the side of protecting <em>the</em> essential economic principle &#8212; labor is the source of all value. </p>
<p>Nobody ever becomes truly rich by hoarding any kind of money.  Nations and individuals become rich by creating, and maintaining, economic power.  This cannot be done if institutions choose to ignore the moral law.</p>
<p>America as I knew it growing up will never exist again.  That hegemonic post WWII system, is dead and buried.</p>
<p>Christianity still delivers the most potent religious influence to the nation.  The only question of consequence we face at the moment is will America go full French and/or Soviet revolution and eliminate Christianity in favor of satanism or will Christianity maintain and strengthen her cultural influence.</p>
<p>As I like to tell my wife almost everyday now, &#8220;Time will tell.&#8221;</p>
<p>Amen.</p></div>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 15:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p>The greatest force for peace is the power that content creators like Judge Napolitano have to distribute narratives/perspectives/insights from respected leaders like Jeffery Sachs.  I deplore the idea of nuclear war.  It makes no sense to me that humanity existed for nearly eighty years spending trillions on Mutually Assured Destruction.</p>
<p>This must end.  It should never have become a reality for humanity.</p>
<p>America is the major reason it happened.  We are the only nation on earth to use Nukes.  We obliterated the most Christian city in Japan to end World War II.  Can we please stop already?</p>
<p>The world wants peace.  They want us to bring all our <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-John-Perkins/dp/0452287081">economic hit men</a> home.  The world wants to trade with us.  How about we stop with all the moral absolutist insanity, the &#8220;City on a Hill&#8221; utopianism, and prayerfully open our hearts and minds to the rest of humanity?</p>
<p>Amen.</p></div>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 13:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p>This video illustrates something I faced as I wrapped up my career in institutional public life a couple decades ago.  In the closing years of that career I employed an expert ghost writer.  He made it possible by basically providing his services for free.  The awareness and information in his narrative exceeded my own.</p>
<p>I remember one particular media interview that was based on his writing.  While I read everything he wrote before it was published I didn&#8217;t always fully understand the concepts.  This led to me bungling this one particular interview. </p>
<p>He also successfully pursued a strategy that unearthed an image of Maine&#8217;s governor with the infamous Communist, Fidel Castro.  While I was ill prepared to talk &#8220;communism&#8221; on a global stage I mostly managed to avoid &#8220;stepping in it&#8221; while that played itself out in the media.</p>
<p>I see Tucker Carlson making a similar mistake in this interview of Sam Bankman Fried.  Tucker has gone from being a talking head on FoxNews to being the CEO of one of the world&#8217;s most influential alternative media platforms.  That&#8217;s no excuse for his mistake here.  It&#8217;s just my guess as to what&#8217;s going on.</p>
<p>Amen.</p></div>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 12:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p>The West turned away from the idea of religion centuries ago.  A religion cannot exist for long, by definition, absent widespread agreement and unity.  The Soviet Union gave up on the Godless experiment two decades ago.  Russia is Christian once again.  It persecuted the ancient faith for over seventy years in the name of Left wing economics.  We know that persecutor by the name Communism.</p>
<p>English Capitalism is an economic scourge from the right, or conservative side, of European Church hatred.  While communism is rooted in an unnatural worship of material equality, capitalism is state sponsored usury.  It&#8217;s real purpose is to exist, as did communism, to enrich the few at the expense of the many.  Capitalism has nothing to do with creating, and maintaining, a free market.  It uses the power of the government to give ultimate control over everything to the rich.</p>
<p>Jesus Christ put it this way, &#8220;No one can serve two masters.  Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other.  You cannot serve both God and money.&#8221;</p>
<p>The video starts providing proof of American Big Tech collapse by citing Google, the business that started with the motto, &#8220;Do No Evil.&#8221;  The internet has wheedled it&#8217;s way into our human existence by wrapping itself in righteousness.  From the beginning, however, it was a weapon.  Invented and funded by the American military it remains fundamentally weaponized in the West by the greed upon which English capitalism (Adam Smith&#8217;s &#8220;Theory of Moral Sentiments&#8221;) depends.</p>
<p>Amen.</p></div>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 10:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p>While the genocidal leader of Israel enjoyed nearly fifty bipartisan standing ovations from &#8220;our&#8221; American Congress &#8220;our&#8221; President couldn&#8217;t muster even one last night.  Order, in fact, was forced on the body by Speaker Mike Johnson.</p>
<p>Near the beginning of the speech Trump highlighted the divide challenging Democrats to practice some of that tolerance and diversity they preach.  His appeal fell on deaf ears.  He&#8217;s not gay enough for them.</p>
<p>Zelensky is gay enough for much of Congress, though Trump&#8217;s recent moves to force peace on Eastern Europe is nudging the shyster Republicans to move to the darkened corners of the Military industrial Complex to strike their deals.</p>
<p>Putin is outrageously not gay enough for the equity obsessed Christ hating Western Left.  His government is proud of their historic Christian religion.  American&#8217;s worship the dollar.  We don&#8217;t have time for God, especially His son Jesus Christ.  We, like Israel&#8217;s leader, only have time to mimic violent Old Testament stories, careful to neglect two millennia of theological work based on the preaching of God&#8217;s Son.</p>
<p>Were we to heed the gospel, news stories about war wouldn&#8217;t be published without careful consideration given to the moral law and Augustine&#8217;s Just War Doctrine.  The love taught and modeled by Christ and his disciples was smothered under an avalanche of speculation, mostly economic, in recent centuries.</p>
<p>Amen</p></div>
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