Courageous Voices while Fires Rage

As I struggle to breathe in Phoenix, Matt Gaetz makes history in Washington while Mislav Kolakusic & Victor Davis Hanson warn a public who's "mad as hell and not going to take it anymore".

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This morning, I opened the door to my terrace and quickly closed it again. The horrible smell is so strong I dare not go outside. For the past few days, I have had a bad cough and a burning in my throat due to whatever is in the air, thanks to a raging fire.

A landfill fire broke out over the weekend on the Salt River Indian Reservation. Authorities have assured the public there was no “immediate threat”, but we should “take precautions”.

This is darkly funny since today an emergency test alert will sound at 2:20 on all cell phones, TVs and radios throughout the country. To what purpose, you might ask. If an atomic bomb is dropped, will they send us a nice little alert so we can say a last prayer? How thoughtful. Because, of what other help could it be? If a bioterrorism attack has been made throughout a large city, will they alert us so people who’ve bought into the Covid scam can proudly put on their N95 masks? A lot of good that will do.

Oh, the alert just happened as I am writing this.

If we dare say the emergency test is just one more step in the conditioning of the public to respond to government stimuli, we are conspiracy theorists. No, I don’t think the test will activate a substance in everyone who took the Covid shot. But I’m sure they have the technology to do this with the goal being to control everyone on the planet through any means necessary, they are just trying to figure out what the best method will be. There’s too much evidence pointing in this direction, and I’ve written about it extensively (I, ZOMBIE and Skinned Alive are two examples). To think otherwise is sticking your head in the sand.

We don’t know what is in the fire at the Salt River Indian Reservation. We are only told it is “green waste”. Another dark joke? Oh, how they love the word “green”!

"When I was stationed in Iraq – it smelled like living next to the burn pits. It was horrible," said Sonya Brekke, who now lives next to the burn pits in Phoenix.

At the same time, firefighters in eastern Croatia are battling to contain a huge fire in a plastics factory. Authorities asked residents to remain indoors and keep their windows shut. That will work well, I’m sure. I guess an emergency broadcast wouldn’t have done much good there, either.

There are real threats that include natural disasters, and then there are unnatural threats like bioterrorism and nuclear bombs. But there really is no way to protect the general public from any of these disasters. So why the “warning”? We already get warnings of hurricanes, tornadoes, and the like.

The Chernobyl disaster occurred on April 25 and 26, 1986, at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union. It is one of the worst disasters in the history of nuclear power generation. Radiation spread to the UK from Chernobyl due to a radioactive cloud that drifted over Europe after the explosion. I was living in London at the time, but just happened to be in Los Angeles with my four-year-old daughter. I will never forget how thankful I was to be there instead of London. But we are vulnerable wherever we are—as I cough again.

We know we cannot trust the news to tell us the truth about these disasters. They will never let us know what we are exposed to in the air we breathe, the water we drink or the food we eat. Why should we believe what they tell us about anything—about elections, about vaccines. Yes, there could actually be a real bioterrorist attack in the future. The problem is, who will believe it? In some twisted way, is that the plan? To release something that really is deadly and only the compliant will be protected. That would certainly shut down all dissent, wouldn’t it. There is always a modicum of truth in all the lies and that’s what psychologically messes with us all.

We no longer trust our government; we no longer trust even each other. Never before in the history of humanity have we been able to communicate on such a massive scale—a message can reach a billion people in a second—and yet, we no longer understand one another.

Trust between humans has never been at such an all-time low. And that ignites the powder keg.

At the same time, people are standing up and speaking out and what they are saying is important. These people are keepers of the gate, holding back the chaos, violence and hate that threaten to engulf us all. But for how much longer?

There is no more time for niceties. There is no more time to hem and haw and apologize. There is no more time to worry about offending anyone. Now is the time to speak out before it all explodes, and violence replaces words.

Here is MEP for Croatia, Mislav Kolakosic’s recent speech before the European Parliament:

MEDIA AND TRUTH:

In order to return to normal human values, it is necessary that CNN, Reuters, Associated Press, Deutsche Welle and similar media fanatics and media Taliban be declared terrorist organizations because of the enormous amount of fake news and hate they spread. During the so-called pandemics and forced wars, they produced enormous amounts of false information and spread hatred among people and nations resulting in millions of victims throughout Europe and the world. This is not the Law of Freedom of the Media but the Law of Freedom of Spreading Hate and Fake News that leads the world into the Dark Ages of Totalitarian Systems.

And here we have Matt Gaetz making history leading the vote to oust Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy.

And here are all eight Republicans who voted to oust Kevin McCarthy: Matt Gaetz (FL) - Nancy Mace (SC) - Andy Biggs (AZ) - Matt Rosendale (MT) - Eli Crane (AZ) - Ken Buck (CO) - Tim Burchett (TN) - Bob Good (VA)

When a journalist tells Gaetz, “People have called you a narcissist, that it’s to your benefit alone, is it to the benefit of you and to Donald Trump”, here is his response:

“It's to the benefit of this country that we have a better Speaker of the House than Kevin McCarthy. Kevin McCarthy couldn't keep his word. He made an agreement in January regarding the way Washington would work, and he violated that agreement. We are $33 trillion in debt. We are facing $2.2 trillion annual deficits. We face a de-dollarization globally that will crush working class Americans. Kevin McCarthy is a feature of the swamp. He has risen to power by collecting special interest money and redistributing that money in exchange for favors.”

For a measured response to this historic event, here’s Glenn Greenwald’s commentary, Burning Down the Establishment.

Greenwald: What’s amazing to me is not that there’s a difference of opinion on this but that some people—a lot of people—are enraged that Kevin McCarthy is no longer house speaker. Imagine being indignant over the fact that someone has mediocre and banal as Kevin McCarthy can’t get to be house speaker anymore.

Greenwald points out some of the unhinged responses, such as Senator Cornyn who calls it “disgraceful” and that he’s sure “the next speaker will be subjected to the same terrorist attacks.”

Terrorist attacks? A little extreme, no?

Hmm, as a judge hits former President Donald Trump with a gag order in his New York real estate fraud case, could Donald Trump be voted in as the next speaker of the house? If he is, will Senator Cornyn protect Trump from “terrorist attacks”?

Is anyone protecting Trump now? I feel like we are watching a master chess game where the stakes are as high as life and death.

Several Republican lawmakers have said they would support electing former President Donald Trump to be Speaker of the House.

Trump has said previously he is uninterested in the position:

"No, it's not something I want to do. I want to look at what's happening, and then we're going to be doing something else. No, it's not something I would be interested in," Trump said in an interview in March 2022, according to Newsweek.

Of course, a lot has happened since Trump said that, so….

Whatever the next chess moves may be, there is no doubt we are headed for an escalation of chaos, violence, and hatred.

Addressing that worry in the most thoughtful manner is Victor Davis Hanson in his conversation with Tucker Carlson, fittingly titled REVOLUTION.

I have great respect for Victor Davis Hanson. He is not an alarmist. He is a wise, humble man and we should listen.

Hanson points out how the most corrupt president in history, not to mention completely deficient in mental capacity, as well as the most embarrassingly ineffective and just downright odd, vice president in history, retain power. Not from the people, which is what a democracy should be about, but:

“…through the legal system and the administrative state and our institutions—media, entertainment, sports, education K-12, universities. It’s an artificial way of gaining power without popular consent. They don’t believe in democracy, in fact Op-ed writers in the New York Times will say that now, that democracy is a flawed idea. Because it doesn’t any longer ensure the result that they have to have. Like good Bolsheviks and good Jacobians, they eventually always turn on elections. They don’t want them.”

Commenting on what this portends leading up to the elections:

“I hope everybody can keep their head because I think the next 12 to 18 months are going to be the most explosive in our history since the Great Depression.”

Tucker points out that Trump is leading now and asks what Hanson thinks will happen 11 months from now if Trump were still leading.

“You can see where we’re headed. It’s like putting all kinds of explosives into a kind of device and it’s going to blow up. The left wants to destroy the leading Republican candidate psychologically, financially and of course politically. This is the founders’ worst nightmare. 2023-24.”

These trials not only threaten to destroy Trump financially, but by extension, anyone could then be treated in the same manner. Instead of pointing out this disturbing fact, the MSM mocks Trump when listing all the properties he could lose, including his “golden toilet”.

It’s all a joke and there is orchestrated laughter on late time TV to prove it. Propagandist Steven Colbert cracks jokes, like Trump’s lawyer coming to court with a gaming computer so she can play “Grand Theft Mara-Lago” during the trial.

Hanson explains what all of this means:

“What the MSM is telling us is that we are not only fine with, but we promote the idea that government can go into a business—all of the business—and appropriate it and destroy it without cause and we think that’s not only good but funny because we’re going to throw in a little filler about a golden toilet, ha-ha. And the idea is that we now have the power to do this and because we have the power to do it, it’s moral and right and if you don’t like it, what are you going to do about it?”

“And the answer is, what are we going to do about it? And the only thing I can think of is we’re going to have to humiliate and defeat these people at the polls. I don’t think it’s going to work, Tucker, to win the electoral college and one branch of congress. You’re going to have to have a 55% presidential win everywhere to get anything done.”

Do any of us really think there will be fair elections in 2024? And as far as leading up to it, as Hanson says, we are in unchartered territory. We cannot even imagine now what we are about to face as a nation—as a world—in the next 12 months or so.

We can all do what Hanson suggests:

“Everybody according to their stations is going to have to say, you know what, there are two pronouns, I don’t care if you get angry. The date of this country is 1776, got it? That’s what it is. There is a border and we’re going to enforce it. And just say NO to all of these things and then welcome the attacks that accrue accordingly and wear that as a badge of honor. Because what’s the alternative? There is no alternative unless you want to see the United States dissipate before your very eyes.”

No, moving to a Red State won’t save you; living in Naples, Florida without a TV or a smart phone won’t save you. Hiding your head in the sand is not an option. We are all too intertwined with one another. We will all be affected by what happens at the elections and by the outcome of Trump’s trials. If he is convicted and sent to prison, I don’t care who you are, left or right, it will be the worst possible outcome for everyone. If he is elected, will the outcome be better? Because there are no other choices. Biden (or whoever might take his place at the last minute) and Trump.

Is it already too late to turn back the tide of violence and hate? No matter which side wins, will the intent be to punish the other side so severely that the country disintegrates anyway?

That is my worst fear. And when I say “fear” I don’t mean shaking in my boots. I mean this is a really bad situation and I only see it getting worse.

What really frustrates me is that at least 50% of the population will not see any of what I’ve shared with my readers and listeners today. And if they do, it will be from the lying perspective that Mislav Kolakosic talks about, from the real terrorists, the Biden Totalitarian Regime and its media puppets.

It is these terrorists who control everything. It is the common people who have had enough. History tells us what happens in situations like this.

Revolution.

I might be coughing from who knows what in the air, but that won’t stop me from writing or speaking. Get ready. The powder keg about to explode.