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Thursday, March 23, 2023

Judgment Begins At The House Of GOD!

 Why Fox News Needs to Free Tucker. And Then a Word about the Gospel of Sovereign Grace by Douglas Wilson

Political Diseases, Gospel Solutions

There are some who believe that our political diseases can be healed through bringing them into contact with other, more exotic diseases from other points on the political spectrum. They think that the godless left can somehow be improved if they somehow could get infected by the Christless right. Just get the leper to come and place his hand on the cancerous lesion. Maybe the cure for cancer lies in the pus from some other disease.

But then there are the “gospel only” types who have decided, in a world riddled with diseases, to protect the purity of their medicinal gospel by locking it up in a theological cabinet. The cry goes up, “Protect our medicine from all the sick people! They might use it!” You never want your pure medicine to get cooties.

So the political half of this post and the gospel portion of it actually belong together because, as I am fond of saying, dualism is bad juju. Let the reader understand.

Introduction



No, posting a meme like this doesn’t mean approval of it. Posting a meme like this is yet one more attempt to warn some people about the levels of dark disillusionment they have been assiduously cultivating for some years now.

So Kevin McCarthy released some 40K hours of surveillance tape of J6 to Tucker Carlson, for him to release to the public—much to the consternation and dismay of Official Washington. We will have more to say about Official Washington anon.

Tucker released his first batch from that trove a week ago last Monday [03/06/23], thereby proving that certain established narratives about J6 were, to use a quaint and old-fashioned term, a lie.

The day after Tucker released his first volley, Sen. Chuck Schumer called upon Rupert Murdoch to squelch this threatened outbreak of journalism at his network. Sen. McConnell also registered his opposition to any release of this footage, quoting T.S. Eliot who once said that “humankind cannot bear very much reality.” Okay, he actually didn’t quote Eliot, but he might as well have.

Since that call went out to Murdoch, the expected conga-line of explosive footage drops that we were all anticipating from Tucker has somehow failed to materialize. The conclusion should be obvious, which is that Fox News is censoring Tucker—Fox News has teamed up with Official Washington.

Good old Fox News is spiking the story.

They are the only ones in a position to censor him, and it is quite clear that they are doing so. Does anybody really think that Tucker is in possession 40K hours of footage, and all he came up with was Buffalo Man rambling into the Senate with a police escort? Although that was damning enough, by-the-by. You shouldn’t get four years in the slammer for something like that.

Two Questions

Someone with journalistic chops—and I nominate Matt Taibbi—should ask two basic questions of the appropriate people and at just the right time. And by “right time,” I mean now. The first set of questions should be directed to the official spokesman of Fox News, and, depending on the response, the second set of questions should be posed to Kevin McCarthy.

The first set of questions to be asked should be these: “Has Fox News corporate placed any restrictions whatever on Tucker’s use of the J6 footage? And if so, what are those restrictions? And what is the rationale for placing these restrictions?”

If the answer is no, no restrictions, then the follow up should be “Tucker has the green light to proceed then?” But if the answer is “yes, there are restrictions, ahem, civic responsibility, important senatorial voices, social fabric, and, uh, we must not undermine faith in our hallowed institutions,” then Matt Taibbi (or somebody just like him) should head over to Kevin McCarthy’s office to ask him the second set of questions.

Something like this:

“Given that Fox News has acknowledged memory-holing the material that you just released in order that it might be made public, would you consider releasing the footage again? This time would you release it into the wild, out into the public domain, raw and unedited? We believe it would be received with more than a little interest.”

Now it is quite possible that Official Washington will succeed in bottling this story up. But if they do bottle it up, we should at least have the privilege of seeing them sweat on camera while they do it.

Brazen, I Call It


On the basis of what has come out so far, we now know that Ray Epps lied to the J6 Committee, and is still running around as free as you might think a tenured FBI agent would be able to, and Buffalo Man committed no felonies at all and is serving a four-year term. We know that cops escorted Buffalo Man to the Senate Chamber. We know that the J6 committee added dramatic audio sound effects to the video, a practice known in honest venues as tampering with evidence. We know that Brian Sicknick was not murdered by rioters at the Capitol, but died of a stroke the next day. We know that exculpatory evidence was withheld from attorneys for charged protesters.

We also know that a small fraction of the protesters were rioters, and were guilty of offenses that should bring charges against them. Let us call them thugs, idiots, and FBI men. This is the difference between those who oppose the Official J6 Narrative and those who support it. Those who oppose it have no trouble with guilty rioters being indicted, charged, and convicted. Those who support the Official J6 Narrative have no trouble with the indefinite detention of people who had nothing to do with anything.

Why Assuming the Worst Makes Sense

If the powers that be successfully put the screws to Rupert Murdoch, and the story has been spiked, then here is what the watching public should assume. They should assume that the unreleased footage is a hundred times more damning than anybody previously thought. What has been released thus far has proven that the official line about the events of J6 has been one, long unrelenting lie. They didn’t want you to see what you have seen thus far, and they certainly don’t want you to see the rest of it. The reason in both cases is the same one. As I said once in another setting, “liars hate being caught. It throws them off their rhythm.”

Leftists don’t want to look at the proof of their mendacity because it shows how corrupt they are. Erstwhile conservatives don’t want to look at the proof of all the lying because they want the people to continue having faith in our public institutions—thus proving how corrupted our conservatives leadership has become. We are living in a hellworld where Naomi Wolfe acknowledged the truth about J6 before Jonah Goldberg did.

Why on earth should anybody want people to have faith in bankrupt institutions? The Conservative Inc. line seems to be that all of our public institutions have completely rotted out, but it would be troublesome if the people knew about it.

But here is some measure of good news. It is now undeniable that we are being governed by liars, thieves, whores and perverts. This means that it is also now undeniable that we are in desperate need of salvation—and that the arm of man cannot do it. We are in the grip of a radical respiratory disease, and Elon buying Twitter won’t fix it. We struggle for each successive breath, and the Republicans taking the House back didn’t deliver any air. We were suffocating under all the lies, but Tucker getting all the J6 tapes brought no relief.

Whether the tapes are ever seen by the public or not, the tapes have already revealed that our condition is beyond the reach of any political solution. If we don’t see the tapes, our republic dies of our cancerous lies. If we see the tapes, we are like a surgeon who opens a patient up, sees the wall-to-wall cancer for himself, and then immediately sews the patient back up again. Then the patient dies. There is no political solution.

This is because as a people we are getting exactly the kind of leadership we deserve. We tolerated the little lies for a long time, and now they are big lies, and we don’t know what to do.

As Our Nation Descends into a Sinkhole of Wickedness

The world has always been a sinful place, and there has always been hypocrisy and palace intrigues that swirl around centers of power. That part is nothing new. What is new is the nickel-plated effrontery—the telling of obvious lies in the bright light of day, with everybody watching and knowing and seeing, and yet nothing happening as a consequence. The political world has always had scamps and miscreants who told lies that people believed, and they got away with their deception. But that is not where we are. We are being told lies that virtually no one believes, and yet the liars continue to get away with their . . . I almost said deception, but that is not what this is anymore. We cannot call it deception when the lie is seen for what it is. But there is a higher level of deception that is still in play, which is the idea that you can somehow go along with lies that you know to be lies and not have to answer to God for it.

So we have gotten to the place where the wickedness is open and manifest, but there appears to be some sort of operational truce—and the whole thing seems more than a little ominous to me.

“Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.”

Proverbs 14:34 (NKJV)

Is the first part of that proverb a description of us? No, it is not. Righteousness exalts and unrighteousness humiliates. Unrighteousness means that decent citizens don’t know where to look. The second half applies to us though. The reproaches are richly deserved.

“If a ruler pays attention to lies, all his servants become wicked.”

Proverbs 29:12 (NKJV)

It might be something of a challenge to find a lie that our current ruler hasn’t paid attention to. The consequence has followed on, that the Scriptures might be fulfilled. The lies have simply multiplied, like the frogs of Egypt. Remember that this J6 impudence has been only one ring in a three-ring circus of lies—we are also being lied to about vaccines, about climate change, about viruses, about election integrity. Our rulers, having discovered what they can get away with, are like a two-year-old with a new toy.

“It is an abomination for kings to commit wickedness, for a throne is established by righteousness.

Proverbs 16:12 (NKJV)

Not only so, but this kind of public unrighteousness destabilizes everything. Righteousness establishes a throne. Lies don’t. All the conservatives who smother the truth about these stories because they want the public to retain its trust in our public institutions are the very worst enemies of our public institutions. Name one institution in our public life that has not been destabilized by all the lying. Are you a conservative who wants people to trust our institutions again? Then stop lying. Then stop defending the liars. Tell the truth.

But this means that If you live anywhere near the Beltway, telling the truth will have a cost. In order to tell the truth, you will have break with the herd. Might take some courage.

““You shall appoint judges and officers in all your gates, which the Lord your God gives you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with just judgment. You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality, nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.”

Deuteronomy 16:18–19 (NKJV)

And if thou makest big money out of Ukraine and China, thou shalt not leave your laptop in the repair shop unclaimed.

“‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty. In righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.”

Leviticus 19:15 (NKJV)

Scripture tells us again and again that in public affairs, integrity must matter. The truth matters. You must not have your thumb on the scales, whether it is for the rich or on behalf of the downtrodden. Stop lying for the rich and powerful, and stop lying for your idea of the marginalized voices. Just stop lying.

“Moreover you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.”

Exodus 18:21 (NKJV)

Is that what we did? Did we select men who fear God? Did we vote in men of truth? Did we appoint men to positions of influence because they hated covetousness? The idea is enough to make a cat laugh.

“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan.”

Proverbs 29:2 (NKJV)

The people do groan, but not just because of the sins of others. It not just because of the sins of those people in Washington. The people who groan under the weight of all the lies are a people who are themselves complicit. We get the government we deserve.

We thought we could have honesty and integrity and good government without having to confess the name of Christ. In all of this, secularism has been the foundational lie. We have been unwilling to bring our Christian faith to bear on public affairs in any direct manner. And because of this, we are now dwelling in clown world. We don’t like it, but the only way out is repentance, and we don’t much like that either.

Kuyper put it well:

“You cannot be a human of one piece, a person of character and intelligence, and still allow yourself to be tempted to split your conscience in two, professing your God in one half and in the other half bowing before laws that have nothing to do with Him.”

Abraham Kuyper, Our Program

The Judgment Is Upon Us

Let the great Richard Sibbes explain why the situation we are in is so dire.

“When sin grows ripe, and abounds in a land or nation, at such a time as this a man may know there is some fearful judgment approaching. But when is sin ripe? When it is impudent, when men grow bold in sin, making it there whole course and trade of life. When men’s wicked courses are their common lifestyle, and they don’t even know how to do otherwise . . . The more sin, the more danger. When men are secure in their sinning, it is as if they are daring the God of heaven to do his worst.”

Richard Sibbes, Refreshment for the Soul, p. 76.

Consistent believers are not in that position. We do not want God to do His worst. We do, however, want God to do what it takes. Our prayer should be that God would do what it takes to bring us to the point of humble repentance. To want Him to do more than it takes would be vindictive, and we don’t want to be that. But we should want Him to do whatever it takes. As we watch the walls disintegrate around us, our prayer should be that this is judgment driving toward mercy, and not judgment as a harbinger of more judgment.

America will not repent when America decides to. America will repent when God has humbled her, and it does look as though we have a ways to go yet. If God turns us (Ps. 80;3), then we will be turned—but only then. We cannot turn ourselves, unless it is in circles, and which we have already mastered.

Scripture teaches that God judges nations, and that He judges nations for doing the very things we are in the middle of doing, and with a high hand. If we don’t want a devastating blow to fall on us, then we should stop inviting it.

Only Two Possibilities

The fierce judgment that America so richly deserves is a blow that must land somewhere in history. We have been storing up wrath for ourselves in a demeanor of high insolence, and at some point in human history that wrath will be delivered. This is because God is altogether holy and just, and it is not possible that justice will fail to be meted out. Justice will be served.

Now Scripture teaches us that there are only two possible places for this blow to land. God’s hatred of sin must be expressed; God’s detestation of wickedness must be made manifest—otherwise God would no longer be holy. So either the stroke of justice will fall on the perpetrators—on the justices, on the congressmen, on the voters, on the lobbyists, on the media personalities, on the false teachers, on the manipulators at Big Tech—or the stroke will have fallen on the shoulders of the Lord Jesus Christ at the cross. Those are the only two options. Either the kings and princes and presidents and moguls will call out for the rocks of the mountains to fall on them in order to save them from the wrath of the Lamb, which cannot work, or the Lamb Himself will call out that it is finished—a propitiation that does work, and which brings sweet forgiveness.

These are the only two options. If the wrath falls outside of Christ, then the future of the American republic is Ozymandian dust. But if the wrath for our sins falls on Christ the substitute, reckoned as our substitute by faith alone, then the way of repentance lies open.

And if we take that way of repentance, then it is necessary to begin by repenting of believing lies, and of telling lies. The way of Christ means that we don’t have a right to our lies. We must turn back to the one who is the Truth, after all. And whatever else the separation of church and state means, it does not mean you get to tell lies so long as the content of the lies was political. Repentance is a summons that covers every aspect of our lives, especially the areas where we did a lot of our sinning.

So start with the lies. That means starting with politics.

https://dougwils.com/books-and-culture/s7-engaging-the-culture/j6.html

bionic mosquito: Woe to the Bloody City


The political world has always had scamps and miscreants who told lies that people believed, and they got away with their deception.

Why Fox News Needs to Free Tucker, Douglas Wilson

It’s different this time, best captured in the following:

We know they are lying.

They know they are lying.

They know that we know they are lying.

We know that they know we know they are lying.

And still they continue to lie.

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn (or not)

No one is getting away with the deception – at least not getting away with keeping the deception hidden.  They don’t even care about hiding it. 

Of course, those who lie know that they are lying; the elite who go along with the lies know that these are lies; the government officials that go along with the lies know that these are lies; even many of the riff-raff go along with the lies, knowing that these are lies.  The worst is that Christians go along with the lies, knowing that these are lies.

Wilson lists a few of the more recent lies: vaccines, climate change, viruses, and election integrity.  One could identify a dozen in the last ten years, and a hundred in the last century.  If one measures corruption based on the number of lies (and murders) committed by a state actor, the United States government – given the size, scope and international reach of this hydra – is clearly the most corrupt state on earth.

This is because as a people we are getting exactly the kind of leadership we deserve. We tolerated the little lies for a long time, and now they are big lies, and we don’t know what to do.

What lies did we tolerate?  Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction, Assad gassing his own citizens, three buildings with two planes and a few box cutters, they hate us for our freedom, the one democracy in the Middle East, peaceful Ukraine was the ideal democracy.  That’s just a sampling from the last couple of decades.  Go a little further back: USS Liberty, Gulf of Tonkin, the atomic bombs were necessary to end the war, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor without provocation, Remember the Maine.  For a longer list, try this.

So we have gotten to the place where the wickedness is open and manifest, but there appears to be some sort of operational truce—and the whole thing seems more than a little ominous to me.

The truce?  Per Wilson, the liberals know they are lying, and are fine with it.  The conservatives may not be fine with the lying, but don’t want to destroy faith in the state by exposing it.  I don’t see the lines drawn so clearly, but I fully understand his point.  And it is ominous, as no one in a position to do anything about any of it is speaking up.  (Has it come to looking to Elon Musk to save us from ourselves?)

Name one institution in our public life that has not been destabilized by all the lying.

Wilson offers no examples.  Neither do I.  Can you?  Government at every level, law enforcement of all stripes, universities, charitable institutions, think tanks.  Even many Christian churches. 

To better understand our current condition, Wilson cites Richard Sibbes:

“When sin grows ripe, and abounds in a land or nation, at such a time as this a man may know there is some fearful judgment approaching. But when is sin ripe? When it is impudent, when men grow bold in sin, making it their whole course and trade of life. When men’s wicked courses are their common lifestyle, and they don’t even know how to do otherwise . . . The more sin, the more danger.”

Isn’t this our world?  Everything around us is based on lies, from our cultural hierarchies to our money to our economy to our overseas purposes to our history.  Continuing with Sibbes:

“When men are secure in their sinning, it is as if they are daring the God of heaven to do his worst.”

It is exactly the picture I see.  It is the pictures of the many satanic events and images now publicly flouted by those in the highest seats of human authority.

Conclusion

John 8: 44 You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

How did we get here?  Wilson answers:

We thought we could have honesty and integrity and good government without having to confess the name of Christ. In all of this, secularism has been the foundational lie. We have been unwilling to bring our Christian faith to bear on public affairs in any direct manner. And because of this, we are now dwelling in clown world.

And this points to the institution that carries the largest weight in this fall.  It isn’t even that we have been unwilling to bring our faith to bear, it is that many churches are on the side of the lying team – from gender confusion to Scofield’s dream for supporting the chosen people.

… whatever else the separation of church and state means, it does not mean you get to tell lies so long as the content of the lies was political.

Epilogue

From the book of Nahum, regarding Nineveh:

Behold, I am against you, declares the Lord of hosts, and I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no longer be heard.

Woe to the bloody city,

all full of lies and plunder—

no end to the prey!

 

Behold, I am against you,

declares the Lord of hosts,

and will lift up your skirts over your face;

and I will make nations look at your nakedness

and kingdoms at your shame.

https://bionicmosquito.blogspot.com/2023/03/woe-to-bloody-city.html?m=0

Why Baby Boomers Are The Real Snowflakes

 The combination of the boob tube and youth culture created a generation of idealists who never doubted their own intrinsic goodness — even if they were the ones doing the exploitation, censorship, and systemic abuse. It’s no coincidence that most Boomers, especially on the left, tend to view themselves as the heroes of any conflicts while casting all opposition as deplorable villains.


Full text:

https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/23/why-baby-boomers-are-the-real-snowflakes/ 

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Ireland: Emerald Isle, Tragic Isle, by Jared Taylor - The Unz Review

 (An example of the suicide of a nation and all of Western Civilization - CL)


Ireland is a sickening example of a people that can go from healthy, even armed nationalism to capitulation in just one generation. Such is the power of the poisons the United States spreads everywhere. May the spirit of their ancestors guide those good people in Finglas, Ballymun, Mullingar and wherever the Irish are fighting for their heritage and way of life. Capitulation is death.

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Tuesday, March 21, 2023

The Wages of Clown World - Vox Popoli

 Is disease, bankruptcy, deindustrialization, and death. A German institution dating back to 1380 survived many challenges over the centuries, but it didn’t survive Clown World.

The deindustrialization of Germany is in full swing. Eisenwerk Verlag GmbH has filed a claim to declare itself bankrupt The reason for bankruptcy is standard for our time – energy resources risen in price. This Saxon metallurgical enterprise traces its history back to 1380. For 600 years it has survived the Hanseatic League, two orders of knighthood – the Teutonic and Livonian, the Reformation, the First and Second World Wars, the Cold War and the Global Economic Crisis, but didn’t survive Olaf Scholz.

Clown World kills. It kills people, it kills business enterprises, and it kills nations.

DISCUSS ON SG

https://voxday.net/2023/03/21/the-wages-of-clown-world/

Monday, March 20, 2023

Never Going to be the Same - Vox Popoli

 An English gentleman concludes that he, and many others, are never going to be the same in the aftermath of the Covid vaccination scam:

I know I will never view governments in the same way again as I did pre-covid. Any residual trust has gone completely.

I will never again trust the BBC and the rest of the mainstream media, and, as a former journalist, that is a deep gash.

I will never quite trust doctors or nurses who fell into line and stayed silent – and still do.

Or so-called scientists and academics who, again, stayed silent, or were prepared to fudge the truth to protect their grants and jobs.

Or police who turned so easily from community-supporting crime fighters to unthinking, ruthless, masked-up, tooled-up government enforcers, breaking up peaceful protests and political meetings.

Or hysterical teachers and their unions who gave away their great lie that ‘the children must come first’.

Or most churches, temples and mosques for their complicit silence and hate-inspiring statements, such as ‘Jesus would want everyone to be vaccinated and to do otherwise is an act of selfishness’.

And then there are the neighbours, friends, family members and strangers who displayed a total lack of critical thinking; who put me, and my like, at risk with their compliance. They still do. What jeopardies do they hold for us in the future with their weak, blind and unnecessary obedience?

They were complicit in the theft of more than two years of my life.

My worldview has changed forever.

I can’t say that my basic worldview has changed at all. I always believed that most people were blithering idiots barely capable of expressing a coherent thought. I always believed that science was corrupt. I never had any faith whatsoever in politicians or bureaucrats. And it never troubled me in the slightest to hold an opinion that was contradicted by the majority and by the mainstream narrative; one of the few benefits of being an elitist intellectual is that you assume the vast majority of the programmed quasi-minds that surround you will not only disagree with you, but are not even capable of understanding your position if it was explained to them very slowly and with small words.

But I was a little stunned to discover that I had somehow given the average individual too much benefit of the doubt. I did not see that coming. I’ve been told my entire life that I was too arrogant, too harsh, too dismissive of the intellectual capabilities of others, and yet, when push came to shove, it turned out that in the end, I had erred on the side of generosity! I truly did not see that coming.

I don’t see how it can be a good thing, but now I have absolutely no regard whatsoever for the opinions of others, unless and until they are observably proven worthy of consideration.

In God we trust, for there is no one else worthy of it.

DISCUSS ON SG

https://voxday.net/2023/03/20/never-going-to-be-the-same/

Sunday, March 19, 2023

That Will Not Shock the World - Vox Popoli

 It’s being reported that Donald Trump will be arrested next week.

Fox News reports that New York City D.A. Alvin Bragg is preparing to arrest Donald Trump complete with fingerprinting and “normal processing” all under a felony charge federal prosecutors refused to pursue.

That won’t shock anyone. What would shock everyone at this point is if Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden were arrested. Wait, strike that, it would be even more shocking if Vladimir Putin were arrested on the basis of the ICC warrant.

But it’s no wonder they’re suddenly determined to try to shut him up, as if that were possible. If only he’d been perceptive enough, and courageous enough, to speak like this in 2016.

“There must also be a complete commitment to dismantling the entire globalist neo-con establishment that is perpetually dragging us into endless wars, pretending to fight for freedom and democracy abroad, while they turn us into a third-world country and a third-world dictatorship right here at home,” Trump said. “The State Department, the defense bureaucracy, the intelligence services, and all the rest need to be completely overhauled and reconstituted to fire the Deep Staters and put America First. The greatest threat to Western Civilization today is not Russia. It’s probably, more than anything else, ourselves and some of the horrible, USA-hating people that represent us. It’s the abolition of our national borders. It’s the failure to police our own cities. It’s the destruction of the rule of law from within.”

That’s getting pretty… specific. But if you read between the lines, it’s very clear that President Trump is now fully aware that the USA is ruled by an imperialist foreign elite that does not have American interests at heart.

UPDATE: Trump himself confirms the coming arrest.

Donald Trump says he will be arrested on TUESDAY, as New York prosecutors move to indict him over $130,000 hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels

His statement is more than a little interesting in light of this observation from September 2022:

In any event, we’ll know this particular hopium is nonsense if Donald Trump is not arrested and China does not invade Taiwan before the end of March 2023.

DISCUSS ON SG

https://voxday.net/2023/03/18/that-will-not-shock-the-world/

Friday, March 17, 2023

Secular Blindness and Post-Ideology - Vox Popoli

 This post by Z-Man usefully illustrates why he, and all the other secular commentators of the Right, are now past their use dates. Because they are totally blind to the moral and religious elements of the observable globalism vs nationalism conflict, which is far less the philosophical Aristotle vs Plato than Satanic imperialism aka The Empire of Lies vs truth, anything they say is only going to be tangentially relevant to the present situation at best, and usually by sheer accident.

The old language is either inadequate or loaded with moral connotations. Calling the Biden people fascist is not entirely wrong, but not entirely accurate either. That and the word fascist comes with so much baggage that its descriptive value is completely lost.

The same can be said for words like communist and authoritarian. Even the term managerialism has been abused to the point where it often just means “bad” rather than a specific sort of organizational outlook. One of the weird parts about being trapped in the 20th century, as is the case with the West, is we are left to use moral language that no longer works in this century.

The term “Biological Leninism” is a good example. While the NRx people have accurately described some aspects of the current system, this is mostly an accident of trying to jam the current system into old models. The term itself is just a way to anathematize the current ideology by associating it with an ideology of the last century which is universally reviled.

What needs doing is a fresh look at the 20th century from an objective, historical perspective that avoids the old moral language.

To the contrary, we don’t need a fresh, objective, historical secular perspective. That’s the very outdated sort of thinking that has placed humanity in its current peril. We need to return to the old moral language, and specifically, the historical Christian perspective upon which Western civilization was built and by which humanity advanced intellectually, morally, and technologically to heights it had never seen before.

All ideology is deception. Whether it is an ideology of the Right, such as free trade, free speech, libertarianism, Objectivism, or conservatism, or an ideology of the Left, such as socialism, communism, feminism, anti-racialism, or social justice, it is a deception and a distraction from the true and ancient conflict.

Satan is real. He rules this fallen world. And he is determined to root out every last vestige of the truth, because the truth inevitably leads to the Truth, which is Jesus Christ. That’s why the satanic imperialists lie about everything from economics to race, from science to sex, and from math to phonics. It is the essence of the truth they fear, not the specific fact in question.

We are living in a post-ideological time in a manner that exceeds mere identity politics, because every single identifiable ideology is poisoned with falsehoods in its core axioms. None of them are built on the truth, indeed, they are literally designed to deflect their adherents from the truth. And all of them observably lead to the exact same evil destination, as we are seeing take place in real time with “capitalism”, “democracy”, and “free market economies”.

Here is a specific example of how a secular perspective literally prevents the analyst from recognizing an observable and reliable historical pattern.

Throughout history whenever a society has accepted women leadership (matriarchy), or worshipped a female Deity, this has been followed by the acceptance of homosexuality and transgenderism. Without fail. It is a remarkable convergence, especially considering that this is observed in cultures that had nothing to do with each other and could not have influenced each other, because they were separated by centuries and continents. What people, including Mark, commonly call the Jezebel spirit is really the goddess Astarte, Ashtoreth, Ishtar, Aphrodite, Artemis, etc. In other words an active demon or demons that shows up in a consistent pattern throughout history, in every continent, in unconnected cultures, but always with the same tricks.

How can the secularist account for the repetitive historical consequences of demonic activity? He simply can’t. He can’t even take the historical facts into consideration. His intellectual framework specifically excludes the causal factor, and therefore he is forced to resort to obvious and increasingly ridiculous falsehoods in an inept attempt to explain away the observable truth.

DISCUSS ON SG

https://voxday.net/2023/03/17/secular-blindness-and-post-ideology/

Related: http://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-gap-in-understanding-world-affairs.html

Rev. Matt's Writings: The Jezebel Spirit

 


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Throughout history whenever a society has accepted women leadership (matriarchy), or worshipped a female Deity, this has been followed by the acceptance of homosexuality and transgenderism. Without fail. It is a remarkable convergence, especially considering that this is observed in cultures that had nothing to do with each other and could not have influenced each other, because they were separated by centuries and continents.

I have been writing and preaching on this for years, in various contexts. And at times, it feels like hardly anyone else is speaking about these consistent issues.  

So it is pretty awesome to see someone like Mark Driscoll (yes I know of his past probably better than you if you just watched that podcast, no I'm not going to explain why, yes I think he did some bad stuff and lead his old church poorly, no I'm not going to discuss it, I'm just sharing this sermon) come to precisely the same conclusions, and clearly from different historical sources.

What people, including Mark, commonly call the Jezebel spirit is really the goddess Astarte, Ashtoreth, Ishtar, Aphrodite, Artemis, etc. In other words an active demon or demons that shows up in a consistent pattern throughout history, in every continent, in unconnected cultures, but always with the same tricks. Mark notices this too, but a key difference is that I call it the Ashtoreth Spirit. If you read my works you'll see why.

Our society is under the sway of these same demonic influences today. Whenever culture accepts feminine leadership it invariably follows that homosexuality and transgenderism rise up. Hate me for saying, call me fundy Matt, I don't care. It's true, and I am excited to see other pastors, especially prominent ones, being led to the same conclusions. It is awesome. It is encouraging, because this evidence is there for anyone who wants to look for it.

If you are sceptical. I encourage you, read these two articles:

Satanic Feminism Part 3: Was Feminism A Christian Idea?

Satanic Feminism Part 4: The Transgender Origins of Feminism

Then listen to the Mark Driscoll’s sermon

Or vice versa. And note that Mark and I don't know each other, and he uses different history books than I did. But both of our collected sources teach the same truths.

Feminine leadership, especially in faith and the home, requires the emasculation of men and is only accepted when men are weak enough to not gently and wisely oppose it. It is a foundational assault on male headship and it always follows the same pattern.

Exciting days are ahead for those who stand against such evil. And challenging days. Our society has been captured by many lies, and they are lies that hurt people in profound ways. More pastors and more Christian men need to speak up about this evil, so that more people can be delivered from its clutches.

http://younggospelminister.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-jezebel-spirit.html

Don't Fear the Reaper - by Julian Macfarlane - Maybe the US should

 

Should the world fear American military technology?

In my last article, I explored why the US cannot hope to win a war against Russia or China.

I mostly focused on China. But much of what I wrote applies to Russia as well—especially a style of thinking that is “existential”, focusing on practical realities, as opposed to the virtual reality bubble that Americans live in.

Russia that gave us Dostoevsky and the Underground Man; America gives us the Disney Channel and Desperate Housewives.

The Russians recently downed a Reaper Drone off Crimea. This much-in-the news, electronic bird is one of those overpriced, over-rated, examples of technological redundancy that the US is regards as a symbol of military superiority—the kind of much-ado-about-nothing wunderwaffethat is bankrupting the US economy.

When it went down, the drone was in a restricted area just 60 kilometers off Crimea with its transponder off. A transponder allows ground-based radars to identify intruders as friend or foe and, given the rules of engagement and their declaration that this area was off-limits, the Russians would have been justified in shooting the drone down.

The US has shot down civilian aircraft such as Iran Flight 655 with a lot less excuse.

However, instead, the Russians scrambled two Su27s to first identify it. The drone did go down but was not shot down.

Naturally, the Western media mob rushed to lynch the Russkies.

CNBC: Russian jet collides with, downs U.S. drone over Black Sea

Russian fighter jet forces down US drone over Black Sea

Russian Jet Dumps Fuel On US Drone, Then Collides With It Over Black Sea

The Su-27 rammed the American MQ-9 drone

How exactly did Russians bring the drone down?

While the Americans most likely have video of the entire incident, they haven’t released full footage, just a few seconds of one of the Su27s approaching in a climb from behind and appearing to jettison unneeded fuel - -which is standard military practice to lighten an aircraft before engagement.

This video is a segment and a teaser — pointedly repeated over and over again, apparently to get the mob excited and howling for blood.

Ramming?

The Media really like the image of desperate Russians ramming their Yak into a Heinkel.

Although the Russians did do some air-to-air ramming in WWII as the Japanese did, along with Brits and even Americans, this tactic often resulted in the loss of both aircraft and crew.

It is unlikely that an Su27 would attempt to “clip” the tail rotor of the drone since to do that it would have to use its nose, which is full of delicate electronics or wings which contain fuel. Either maneuver could result in the loss of a very expensive aircraft and its even more expensive pilot. You can rule ramming out.

Nor did the Su27 accidentally collide with the drone.

The Su27 was designed for supermaneuvrability.

Dumping fuel?

The Media have a thing about golden showers, as we saw with the Steele Dossier on Trump. And the Pentagon

Dumping fuel on an aerial opponent would be the military equivalent — a kind of kinky aviation fun—rarely dangerous.

It is not used in fighter-to-fighter combat as a tactic. As I have said that the Su27’s appears to be jettisoning fuel on approach, not to somehow damage the drone. In any case, the dump was well behind the drone and dissipates quickly— as you can see clearly from the video, Its purpose would be to improve their maneuverability in the case of a low speed target and enable a safe interception.

Although this drone can carry missiles and bombs for combat operations, its primary role is ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance). It is therefore designed for endurance, and loitering at long range. Obviously, there are tradeoffs for this performance profile — slow speed, long wings like a glider, a lot of fuel storage. The Reaper is not exactly a dogfight aircraft — and not built for hi-G maneuvers.

If the Reaper were carrying on-board ordinance, the Su27s would have been justified in shooting it down. But it wasn’t— and they didn’t.

Had it been a Russian drone with its transponder off doing ISR in an area that the Americans had designated as combat zone off limits to regular air traffic, and close to an important military base, the USAF would have destroyed it without nary a by-your-leave.

In this case, the Su27s first priority was to drive the drone off. f they could get rid of it by forcing it into maneuvers it wasn’t built for, all the better.

They therefore likely engaged the aircraft— getting into firing position behind or approaching head-on — and the operator of the drone tried to avoid and evade.

This is not something that drone operators practice. They are not pilots trained for air-to-air combat; they are video gamers.

Wedding parties in Afghanistan don’t fight back.

The Russians say the drone attempted a sharp maneuver and fell out of the sky—meaning it stalled and spun out.

Given the fact that the they now that Americans undoubtedly have a lot more video than the few seconds shown, there is no incentive for the Russians to lie. In fact, the Americans not releasing the full video supports not only Russian truthiness but the thesis that the Pentagon is egging the media mob on into Alex Jones mode.

Russian pilots are trained to a very high standard to exploit the full capabilities of their aircraft. And could easily get an inexperienced drone operator to over-react. I think the Russians knew what they were doing.

At the very least this was a very, very happy “accident”—for the Russians.

The US can no longer dictate the rules.

It is also— ipso facto— a warning to the Americans.

As a Judo and Combat Sambo expert, Putin understands strategic leverage very well.

In such martial arts, advantage comes from using your opponent’s weight and momentum against him. In other words, with a little help from your opponent, you render him helpless.

With the slo-mo destruction of the Zelensky regime, the failure of Western sanctions, a progressive military advantage in weaponry, committed public support at home intensified by attacks on Russian territory using American resources, and American economic failures, Russia now has the upper hand — or perhaps we should say, paw. It is saying: “Beware: this Bear can bite.”

Too expensive to use, too expensive to lose

In my last article, I pointed out that the US produces weaponry that is literally too expensive to lose.

This is a good example. You will see various costs for the Reaper Drone

The usually stated figure of $32 million is considered by many to be too much since it is at least twice as expensive as an F16.

In April 2021, the US defense department quoted the Australian government an estimated figure of $1.651 billion, when they enquired about buying 12 MQ-9 Reapers, along with the relevant equipment and supplies.

Ouch! $1.651 billion! How many wedding parties does that blow up?

Too expensive to lose indeed.

What the Russians have demonstrated is that ISR vehicles like the Reaper are useful only against enemies without resources. Yes, they can loiter for long hours at fairly high altitudes, but they are slow and easily detectable by radar. Yes, they can blow up kids — but a peer level adversary can take them down anytime.

With drone operators, quitting in droves, The RAF is reportedly recruiting video gamers as Reaper Operators. Get’m while they’re young.

The Independent

War for the US is a game. But a dehumanizing one. When virtual reality becomes real, it is a shock. For the Russians and Chinese, it is real from the start, which is why they do everything they can to avoid it.

Dumpster Diving in the Black Sea

As I have said, the Reaper drone is very expensive kit with all the latest add-ons.

So, if the Russians can salvage the drone, it’s a multi-million-dollar gift from Uncle Sam salvage the drone. Of course, it’s down at the bottom of the Black Sea. That’s going to require deeper diving than blowing up Nordstream.

Yes, that’s a bit like dumpster diving for computer parts that people throw away. The good stuff is always at the bottom covered by fish heads. But if you have incentive, you can get some goodies. How do you think I built this computer?

General Mark Milley, Head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has gone on the record doubting that the Russians can retrieve anything. It’s 5000 feet down says Milley who was responsible for the US Afghan withdrawal debacle and is not the brightest bulb in the collection of dim bulbs that make up the Joint Chiefs. Trump went so far as to call him an idiot. Takes one to know one.

According to Russian sources which may or may not be correct— the Russians have already detected the drone in two pieces at a depth of 850 to 900 meters with a robosub.

For the Russians — it’s the nose section that matters. It’s a separate, one-piece unit housing those super-advanced electronics — normally well-sealed and insulated to withstand weather, stress, changes in atmospheric pressure, and …umm… birds, sharks and of course golden showers.

How to actually recover it in deep water? There are ways….

It should be noted that the ARS-600 submersible is designed for searching, examining and lifting various underwater objects from the seabed, sustaining life activity of crews in distressed submarines, as well as docking other rescue facilities with distressed submarines. The ARS-600 submersible has a double-hulled design and can be controlled from any of the hulls. Sonar systems are used for navigation and communication.

Even if the Russians don’t get what they want from the Black Sea, they are still ahead — just as they are in Ukraine and the larger war against the US and NATO.

Don’t fear the reaper?

Maybe the US should.

Update - https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/reaper-drone-update?utm_medium=email

https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/dont-fear-the-reaper?utm_medium=email