The attempted assassination of Robert Fico reminds me of Archduke Franz Ferdinand--and we all know how that turned out.
"It is a cruel observation but the right to a different opinion has ceased to exist in the EU." Robert Fico, current prime minister of Slovakia. It has ceased to exist anywhere.
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There are three possibilities: The Judeo-Chrisian Way, the Islamic Way, the Secularism/AI-as-God Way. We are now at the crossroads where we must choose which way we will go.
When I heard of the attempted assassination of Robert Fico, I immediately thought of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. One month after his assassination, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia and World War I was launched.
The horror of WWI cannot be overstated. In 1914, no one could ever have anticipated the length of the war or the brutality of what they were about to experience.
Of course, what happened to Ferdinand is not exactly the same as what happened to Fico. For starters, Fico survived. Of course, Ferdinand survived the first time, only to be killed on the second attempt.
Politicians are sweating. Never before have so many world leaders been so despised. They brought it on themselves, we could say that. But leaders are a reflection of the people they serve. Perhaps the populace should take more responsibility for the situation we find ourselves in.
Let’s say you are an honest person who wants to go into politics because you actually want to change things for the better. Are you kidding? How far do you think such a person will get? Nowhere.
Honesty cannot coexist within politics. Beyond, perhaps, the lowest ranks, the “honest politician” is a misnomer. It is impossible to advance in politics without compromising one’s integrity. The higher up a person goes, the more will be demanded of them. And the more that is demanded of them, the more they will compromise their integrity. They will justify it by saying, well, if I give in a little bit, I can go a little higher and I can do a little more good if I have a little more power. Except that never happens. They sell out for money. They have to prove their loyalty by committing humiliating and compromising acts. Before long, they find themselves in positions to be blackmailed. As a result, they become slaves to the corporations that now own them. Like BlackRock, which is called the “Shadow Government”.
After all of that, if a politician suddenly decides to acquire a conscience, they will be done away with in some unpleasant manner, perhaps even assassination.
So, what is this charade we are all playing and why do we continue? Right now, those who make up the vast majority of ordinary working folk across the Western world still cling to some kind of hope that their candidate will bring about a miracle.
Let me tell you something, when it comes to miracles, no politician is going to save the day. Trump becoming president will not save humanity. The corruption and lies that started with Covid, and let’s face it, the warp speed disaster that Trump initiated, and now four years of Biden stirring the pot to ensure that the United Sates is divided against itself from within, the heightening threat of a world war that could possibility destroy all of humanity or at the very least, send us back to the Dark Ages, with AI waiting in the wings to take over (or whoever or whatever is controlling it), if anyone thinks Trump can waltz in and fix it all, you’re living in a fantasy land.
But then, that’s where the tech gods have put us. In a fantasy land. Stark reality offends people. They seem to think they can somehow avoid it like an ostrich. I mean, just look at how Israel’s war against Hamas, Hezbollah and ultimately Iran and then, even deeper, Russia, is being presented to us. Israel is fighting for its very existence. Despite all its flaws, Israel is the last hope for freedom and people cannot see it. The way people are rooting for Israel’s destruction is like something straight out of the Book of Revelation in the Bible. It’s quite incredible.
Israel is not committing a genocide. It is in a war. The people who live there—not those outsiders who criticize it—understand what that means. As I’ve said over and over in numerous essays, until I am blue in the face, when war comes to your doorstep, you will finally understand. You will kill the enemy and if a civilian gets in the way, you will kill them. And if you don’t, you will hide in terror and pray that someone else kills them because you don’t have the courage to do it yourself. This is the reality of war. This is the hell that humans live in.
Yes, I know wars are promoted by those who benefit from them. But here we are, with weak leaders that we, the people allowed to be elected. We cannot say we are not culpable and so we will just sit here and condemn people across the world who are fighting for their existence. This is the height of hypocrisy.
So perhaps we need this reality check. We need a sharp jolt. And it’s going to hurt like hell.
The only way is through the fire. We cannot put the fire out; we cannot find a way around it. We cannot send it into the “cloud” and pretend it doesn’t exist. We must be prepared to walk through the fire. Not everyone is going to make it. If you have children old enough to understand, prepare them. Discuss with your community how to protect the youngest and most vulnerable.
I suppose some will accuse me of fearmongering. Actually, I’m doing the opposite. I just want people to face reality. Then the shock will not be so great when it hits. I don’t think anyone can fully prepare for what is about to happen. But we can do our best, under the circumstances we are afforded.
Let’s talk about the realities of war. After the death of Franz Ferdinand, no one was prepared for what they were about to face. World War I. A young officer named Harold Macmillan (who later became prime minister of Britain) explained what it was like on the Western Front, in a letter home:
Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about the modern battlefield is the desolation and emptiness of it all. . .. Nothing is to be seen of war or soldiers—only the split and shattered trees and the burst of an occasional shell reveal anything of the truth. One can look for miles and see no human being. But in those miles of country lurk (like moles or rats, it seems) thousands, even hundreds of thousands of men, planning against each other perpetually some new device of death. Never showing themselves, they launch at each other bullet, bomb, aerial torpedo, and shell. And somewhere too . . . are the little cylinders of gas, waiting only for the moment to spit forth their nauseous and destroying fumes. And yet the landscape shows nothing of all this—nothing but a few shattered trees and 3 or 4 thin lines of earth and sandbags; these and the ruins of towns and villages are the only signs of war anywhere.
The glamour of red coats—the martial tunes of fife and drum—aide-de-camps scurrying hither and thither on splendid chargers—lances glittering and swords flashing—how different the old wars must have been. The thrill of battle comes now only once or twice in a [year]. We need not so much the gallantry of our fathers; we need (and in our Army at any rate I think you will find it) that indomitable and patient determination which has saved England over and over again.
Fifty years later, this “No Man’s Land” was described by Richard Tobin:
“As soon as you got over the top, fear has left you and it is terror. You don’t look, you see. You don’t hear, you listen. Your nose is filled with fumes and death. You taste the top of your mouth. . .. You’re hunted back to the jungle. The veneer of civilization has dropped away.”
The Eastern Front was a war of “rapid fire”. Civilians were trapped in crossfire and millions were evacuated from their homes. Both sides experienced “mass slaughter”.
A private in the British army explained, “If you go forward, you’ll likely be shot, if you go back, you’ll be court-martialed and shot, so what the hell do you do? What can you do? You just go forward.”
And indeed, we must not forget the Ukraine and Russia. I am sure soldiers on both sides of that front would relate to the description above.
Historian Martin Gilbert details the loss of life:
More than nine million soldiers, sailors and airmen were killed in the First World War. A further five million civilians are estimated to have perished under occupation, bombardment, hunger and disease. The mass murder of Armenians in 1915 [see reading, Genocide Under the Cover of War], and the [Spanish] influenza epidemic that began while the war was still being fought, were two of its destructive by-products.
Ah yes, epidemics. How could I have forgotten that factor? With war comes plague. We can be assured of that happening, too. No one will be theorizing as to whether or not it is “AI generated”, whether it is a “false flag”, if it was “created in a lab”, it will just be one more horror to deal with.
There are such things plagues, you know. Because of Covid, millions of people saw through the lie, and now think everything is a lie. But what if a real plague comes along. No one will know what to think. We still don’t know where the last one came from. Our government can’t even tell us whether it came from a bat or out of a lab, or if it was just the flu. Congress puts on mock show trials, like the latest one to humiliate Fauci in public, but when the curtain descends, away Fauci goes, and it’s all forgotten until the next flair up.
Imagine how unprepared everyone will be for a plague. No one will know what to think. Society will descend into chaos. The disillusionment, the confusion, the fear. Again, what is real and what isn’t?
War is coming to Europe. The United States is paving the way, thinking it can seize more control. These war games are growing ever more dangerous. I wrote about this in Arctic Wars. That was before the war in Gaza exploded. Which, if you read your Bible, shouldn’t be a surprise.
I know many of my readers are not followers of Jesus. I grew up on the Bible. Prophecy was a big part of my life, thanks to my father’s teachings. So, when I see what’s happening now, I cannot help but remember all those times I was warned about it.
Even if you are not a Christian, if you have never read these verses in Revelation, here is a chance for you to see them for yourself. What harm can it do, just to be more informed? You can reject it if you wish. Then again, perhaps, just perhaps, reading these verses might mean you will suffer no surprises.
And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.
And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
Now, all of that can make a person very angry. After all, what kind of a God would do all of that, certainly not a loving one. I’ve said that myself. I’ve cried about it. I don’t understand it. I wish I did. But the fact is, all of our ranting and raving and stomping of our feet doesn’t do any good. This is the reality of our world. Our world is achingly beautiful, and darkly evil. Because of sin. Nobody likes that word, but let’s use it because nothing describes our fallen state better. Let’s face the truth rather than whine about it. This world cannot continue forever in its present state without a reckoning.
If you are a Christian and you know your Bible, you could say that once the wars start in earnest would be perfect time for the antichrist to appear. I’m not going to speculate on who that person could be. I’m not even going to say it will happen, or it won’t. I’m just throwing it out there, because someone will rise up as a leader to “save” humanity, which will be the greatest deception of all.
Our current leaders certainly aren’t the ones to save us. Unless one of them is given a complete makeover, which is always a possibility. But come on, has there ever been a weaker, inepter bunch? Who is actually in control? Honestly, the only leaders we can look to as having a decent level of control and respect within their countries would be Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. No, I don’t think they are nice guys so don’t jump on me for saying that. I’m just stating the fact that they are strong leaders. Joe Biden next to Vladimir Putin? Please, it’s embarrassing.
Who is in charge in the West? If you know, please tell me. The vacuum is waiting to be filled and this is what makes me more worried than anything else. Just as I pointed out in my last essay that the Great Secularization has stripped us of our Judeo-Christian values and left us open for dark forces to enter our minds in the form of AI, so, too, it has left a void in leadership that has allowed dark forces to lead us astray.
Each politician is out for their own good. Greed, corruption, lies, manipulation, it’s all in a day’s work for our politicians. The result is that the people are not only turning on each other, but they are turning on their leaders with a vengeance.
In Germany there have been more than 20 physical attacks on politicians this year alone.
Just weeks ago, Matthias Ecke, 41, a member of Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD), was hit and kicked by a group of four people while putting up posters in Dresden, capital of the eastern state of Saxony, police said. An SPD source said his injuries would require an operation.
Most of the violence is said to be carried out by “far-right extremists”. But as I have warned repeatedly, this is by design. We are being pushed toward extremism. We are being manipulated to turn on one another in order to weaken the West. There is hatred on both sides of what has now become a vast divide. The insane open border policy across Europe, the UK and the United States didn’t happen by accident. It has caused anger and resentment to reach a boiling point. It has been a major factor in the return of fascism, which has always been seething beneath the surface, just waiting for its moment to rise up again.
Benito Mussolini described our present state when he said:
“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”
And in The Doctrine of Fascism: “Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant.”
Is there a better description of the mess we are in today? We have no strong leaders, just a lot of weak, greedy, compromised narcissists looking after their own interests instead of taking care of the people they are supposed to serve. Every single one of them has sold out to corporations: Big Banks, Big Tech, Big Pharma. One could say BlackRock’s Larry Fink is the most powerful person in the world, but I don’t think that’s true. I don’t think any of us knows who that “one” person is, if such a person does, indeed, exist.
Saxony premier Michael Kretschmer, a conservative, said such aggression and attempts at intimidation recalled the darkest era of German history, a reference to Nazi rule.
This is direct response to the growing violence amongst immigration population. According to the European Parliament:
Countries that have received large numbers of migrants, such as Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom, are now seeing an increase in sexual crimes, including rape, against white women and girls.
Significantly, although the number of reports of such crimes is increasing, the number of convictions for them is falling. This is reducing women's sense of security and confidence in the justice system, and it represents of loss of the ability to obtain redress.
There is much to suggest that the reason for this is that the police, who are reasonably afraid of being accused of racism and 'Islamophobia', are discouraged from carrying out investigations involving migrants. As a result, these crimes are going almost unpunished.
For example, Sweden has the second-highest Muslim immigration rate and the second-highest sexual assault rate in Europe. It would be irresponsible to pretend that this is a coincidence.
All of this anger and hatred has been thrown into a pot and now it’s being heated to a boiling point. Destabilization of the West and a third world war looms on the horizon.
Robert Fico was shot four times at close range. Fico called his attacker “an opposition activist”, saying there was no reason to believe the shooting was the act of a "lone lunatic". He said he felt no hatred toward the attacker and would not seek damages.
In his speech, Fico makes some valid points that can apply to any Western nation, most especially the United Sates:
Since the September 2023 elections there is again no one holding up a mirror to the growing and well-fed opposition’s aggressiveness. Neither the media nor the nongovernmental organizations, nor the head of state, nor Brussels, nor NATO. Physical threats against high-ranking government politicians… have become an acceptable standard for aggressive representatives of the opposition. The “Bratislava Cafe” aggressively, often physically, attacks government officials, sends paid provocateurs to national holiday celebrations who grossly insult constitutional officials…and so on.
Depending on which side you stand, you will interpret the “opposition” as being either Trump or Biden. Again, as I said, we are being forced to take a side and there will be no compromise. Whoever gets into power this time will wreak revenge on their opposition, just as Biden is doing now. Except it will be a hundred times worse.
A just released report from U.S. Capitol Police shows 8,008 threats in 2023 against members of Congress and those the USCP protect. It is up 7% from 2022. U.S.
Robert F Kennedy Jr has been denied protection, even though his father and his uncle were assassinated. This doesn’t seem right to me.
Then there’s former president and current presidential candidate, Donald Trump. He has Secret Service security for the rest of his life. Imagine, they are now accompanying him to his trials. And even testifying in those trials. If he is put in prison, will they continue to protect him there? I suppose so.
Back in December 2021, close to the one-year anniversary of the Jan 6 “insurrection,” three retired U.S. generals warned: “We are chilled to our bones at the thought of a coup succeeding next time.”
So, they worry that the military is on Trump’s side. Then there’s the police, who also overwhelmingly support Trump.
As the Huffington Post puts it:
As Donald Trump continues to glorify the accused and convicted criminals who beat and maimed police officers as part of his Jan. 6, 2021, coup attempt, he appears to have unlikely allies: police unions, who thus far have not offered a single word of criticism.
They never point out that after Trump’s conviction, cities weren’t burned, there were no crazed MAGA followers out torching small businesses. In fact, that has never happened. But Trump supporters are certainly being baited and at what point does the dam break. Eventually, it must.
According to “experts” MAGA supporters think “having a strong leader for America is more important than a democracy.”
This is the narrative:
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Rachel Carroll Rivas echoed Wintemute’s work, telling the I-Team, "We know that these groups are organizing."
“There is a hard right, anti-democratic, often white nationalist movement that is laying the groundwork to capture power and control in this country once again, or even for some of them for the first time in a way that I don't even think we fully can understand. They are preparing and ready and on every front,” said Carroll Rivas, who’s studied the anti-government movement for almost 20 years.
“In 2022, it felt like a pause,” she said. “At the second half of 2023, we see sort of a reformation and eyes on building towards 2024 and 2025 and the opportunity for a hard right to recapture the power of government, to push for authoritarian rule or to use violence again.”
We have Newsweek publishing a piece called What a Trump Dictatorship Might Look Like.
We are warned that “we’d constantly be proving our citizenship when in public, restrictions on free speech and press, suspension of elections based on false fraud claims, along with tax audits and economic ruin for enemies of the authoritarian state.”
Wait, but if you are a Trump supporter, that sounds exactly like what’s happening now.
The persecution of Trump supporters is intensifying. Steve Bannon was just told he must go to prison. I’m pretty sure we will see Trump locked up. The fools who cry hurray, have no clue how this will turn against our entire country. This is the plague devouring us from within.
The Trump haters seem to be forgetting that it all started with the left viciously attacking the right, in the form of “anti-vaxers”, which was the first way Trump supporters were identified. Even though Trump was the one who made the deals with Pfizer and Moderna and foisted the vaccine upon the world. If you look deeper than the narrative, there are always contradictions that make it fall apart, but the media makes sure the narrative is repeated so many times that nothing else matters.
As I stated in September of 2022, in The Demonization of MAGA:
In Biden’s inaugural address, he started right off by accusing Trump of giving rise to “political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront, and we will defeat.”
Deplorable, MAGA, insurrectionist, white supremacist, and, ultimately, domestic terrorist. The divisive rhetoric keeps escalating. By the time we reach the presidential elections, the hatred unleashed by Biden will have reached a fever pitch. If Trump is indicted, for surely that is the plan, and Americans watch a former president taken away in chains, the violence we experienced during COVID lockdowns could pale in comparison. Of course, that, too, is part of the plan. Chaos, fear, violence. While Europe potentially explodes in war across all borders, the United States is set to destroy itself from the inside out.
It seems like a century ago, but it was only in June of 2020 that Hawk Newsome, president of Greater New York Black Lives Matter said during a Fox News interview:
If this country doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it. All right? And I could be speaking figuratively. I could be speaking literally. It’s a matter of interpretation.
Was he immediately labeled a domestic terrorist? Was he carted off to prison for inciting violence? Kept in isolation for months without a trial? Not that I recall.
After the death of George Floyd, in Minneapolis alone, “nearly 800 police officers were assaulted throughout the state in a record 667 incidents—an increase of 62 percent from 2019,” and “the state recorded 185 murders in 2020—a dramatic increase of 58 percent from a year earlier.”
Even MSN said that the riots in 140 U.S. cities in 20 states following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis could become the costliest civil disorder ever in the United States.” They quickly backtracked that statement and reduced the riots to “mostly peaceful protests.”
BLM was never identified as dangerous. Quite the contrary. The organization received billions of dollars in donations. Millions of Americans eagerly blacked out their profile pictures on social media in virtue-signaling support. Those daring to question its motivations were labeled as racists. Taught to be silent, just as they want every Trump supporter to be silenced now. How many people who voted for Trump never admitted it to their friends, family, or colleagues, knowing that if they did, they’d be insulted, scorned, defamed, denigrated, ostracized, fired?
Remember when Rand Paul was attacked by BLM rioters:
In 2017, a rifle-wielding attacker opened fire on Republican lawmakers at a congressional baseball practice, wounding House GOP Whip Steve Scalise and several others.
All of this unrest was meant to happen. The hatred was encouraged. The violence, the uncertainty, the fear. And now look where we are.
I have one more word from Mussolini:
“The truth is that men are tired of liberty.”
Are we are so far gone that we cannot even see which side is fighting for our freedoms anymore? I end with this video. Perhaps some of you will watch it. Many will say, oh, that Mosab Hussein Yousef is a paid agent of Israel and the United States. I don’t know if he is, or if he isn’t, but I don’t see a problem for him getting paid if what he is saying has value. I read his book, Son of Hamas, and I believe it is one of the most important books that anyone could read today. His friendship with his Shin Bet counterpart is one of the most inspiring stories I’ve ever heard. An Arab and a Jew working together to stop a common enemy.
Dan Diker, the presenter in the video, turns to Mosab and says, “Instead of the West telling the Middle East what the Middle East should be doing, help us understand from an ideological, religious and strategic point of view of the dangers of another Palestinian state post Oct 7th in the sense that the West is missing something.”
Now, you might wonder, what this has to do with all of the above that I have been talking about. It has everything to do with it. Our division against one another has meant we are not capable of fighting against the real enemy. If we don’t get this right, if we don’t turn around and figure out what’s really happening on the world stage, we will be sorry. We will know what it means to suffer war on our doorstep. We will lament that we allowed ourselves to believe our enemies. The war that Israel is fighting isn’t about Palestine. That is the narrative that the West has bought. But as I said earlier, when you look deeper, the narrative falls apart.
There are three possibilities: The Judeo-Chrisian Way, the Islamic Way, the Secularism/AI-as-God Way. We are now at the crossroads where we must choose which way we will go.
This is a spiritual battle and whether we like it or not, we are a part of it. All the evils of the world are uniting, and we are still asleep, refusing to acknowledge it, simply not interested, in denial, offended if such a suggestion is even made. We must wake up and face reality so that we are prepared and can make the right decisions when the time comes.
And actually, we’ve run out of time. That time is now.
Thank you to reading and for listening. God bless you all. Pray for Israel.
Great essay and insight, Karen. I would add that those choosing the Judeo-Christian way use much discernment as the Christian Nationalists such as Fuentes, Peters, Owens et al are waiting in the wings with a false gospel supporting another Crusade. We must pray for wisdom every day as we remain in this dark and foreboding world. There are so many distractions. The seals are getting ready to be broken to unleash the horses. This is a strong reminder.
Again spot on Karen and again truly the judeo-christian way is the only way and we see Humanity coming to its predetermined end again the Holy Bible speaks about it every prophecy has been fulfilled 100% accurately and will continue to be that way... I am so glad I am born again by the Spirit of God because I believe that Jesus died for me on the cross and rose again three days later and after 40 days ascended to the Father and told his disciples he will be back to get them and that includes all who have believed thank you Jesus for that!! Maranatha!!