Yesterday Amazon deplatformed Parler from its S3 servers. Parler is a free-speech Twitter alternative that many conservatives have flocked to. The S3 servers are massive and carry much of the Internet’s commerce and data storage, even including much of the government’s data. This gives one man – Jeff Bezos – enormous power. The other Big Tech plutarchs, Zuckerberg, Dorsey, Cooke, the Google guy, etc, aren’t too far behind. Among them they wield unprecedented power over a very centralized world. They also own much of Congress.

When the establishment fights back this hard you can be sure that it is protecting something very important to them. For some reason they are deathly afraid of free speech and the current populism. This is antithetical to American values, including, simply, fair play.

Last night I cancelled all pending Amazon subscriptions for the month, and went to Walmart and Vitacost instead. WM is not great either (China), but they are less dangerous than Bezos. It’s time to stop funding the destruction of our nation. I plan to use Amazon as a research tool, then source the products elsewhere when possible.

It’s also time for conservative investors to step up and start alternatives to Amazon. This has begun for social platforms, but it must happen now for commerce as well. This is freedom’s new frontier, replete with both danger and opportunity. We need to take this seriously.

Wednesday saw a riot at and inside the Capitol Building, followed by strong condemnation of President Trump by Democrats and media. Many Republicans abandoned support for his contesting the electoral vote count, and the President soon after seemed to put a halt to his own efforts. Many of us felt speechless, not knowing how to make any sense of it.

So let me take a stab at it. The far Left infiltrated the crowd and instigated the storming of the Capitol Building. The Capitol Police leadership was in on it, having refused federal help and then sending some men home earlier in the morning, despite knowing that the demonstration would be headed there a bit later, with the police then actually removing barricades and escorting the crowd in. Frustrated unthinking patriots were drawn into the heat of the moment. It was a perfect setup to create a scandal to pin on the President, and yes, his “Wild” rhetoric played right into it.

The Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself), swung right into action, and even most Republicans folded like an accordion. It was an orchestrated hit job, and it worked spectacularly.

Where does this leave us? Pretty much at the end of human ability. The President apparently has resigned himself to a transfer of power. (To be sure, that is distinct from conceding losing the election, which he did not do. This is a critical point legally and spiritually, and we need to keep it in mind.)

It leaves us totally dependent upon the Lord, and upon our prayers, a la 2Chr 7.14. We are at a Lazarus moment: “Lord, if You were here my brother would not have died”. The sisters thought that Jesus had shown up too late. But God never shows up late; He is always on time.

The prophets I listen to all say that Trump won and that he will still prevail. One even looks for a turnaround to come as late as March. For better or worse, I believe them. I don’t understand the details, but I know this battle is worth fighting, and the costs of losing it are unthinkable.

I commend everyone to the “Give Him 15” daily prayer series by Dutch Sheets, on Youtube and some Christian TV networks. It has been excellent.

God bless and be well.

• Today Twitter suspended President Trump’s account again, reportedly permanently.
• They did the same to Sidney Powell and General Mike Flynn today.
• Apple warned Parler that it is in danger of its app being removed.
• Facebook deleted the #Walkaway campaign’s page and banned its principals.
• Gab is under another DDoS attack and cannot be accessed.
• WordPress.com banned Conservative Treehouse.
• And much more.

This amounts to an unprecedented attack on free speech in America by the regressive progressives.

The Land of the Free must now prove itself to also be the Home of the Brave. It is going to take decisive, concerted action to reclaim our civil rights.

The Left will not stop at this. The ravening of the Tolerance crowd will not be sated until all dissent is suppressed, and they will seek to do that by any means necessary.

Conservatism is essentially the political expression of the family and the church, the two bedrock institutions upon which all others are founded. The attack on them continues unabated as well.

The prophets I’ve been listening to are all saying that this isn’t over; that God has some surprises coming for His faithful, even with regard to the election. I believe them.

But at the same time there is no doubt the going is going to get rough. Get prepped – both in food and necessities, and with regard to 2nd Amendment supplies and training if you are so inclined.

Stay informed. I’ve been tuning in to the Victory Channel, the FlashPoint show in particular.

Ween yourself off of Big Tech and find alternatives. Bitchute and Rumble for videos. Gab and Parler for Twitter. MeWe for Facebook. I’m using Vivaldi.net for email now. All are free.

The dominant culture is now opening hostile to us, and isn’t even pretending anymore. We are now a guerrilla operation. Stay safe, stay smart, stay effective

Most of all stay prayed up. It is the prayers of the saints that are going to turn this thing around. The prayer of faith is a powerful thing, and it also will be a protection for your mind.

Because the Left controls the media, it is very adept at misusing words to attack its enemies. Thus it came up with ‘alt-right’ to label extreme fringe white supremacists and separatists and the like – whose numbers are extremely small – and then proceeded to apply it as a very effective smear to anyone on the right that didn’t go along with their narrative.

Now it’s Christian Nationalism’s turn. This is the Left’s response to the populist movement led by President Trump, a movement that is supremely dangerous in their eyes. Nationalism has been in disfavor since the European nations with their alliances failed to exercise self-restraint and fell into what became World War I. Christianity joined in the disfavor when it failed to keep those same nations from repeating their mistakes, in WWII. Desperate, the European intelligentsia looked elsewhere for salvation. Thus the rise of globalism and Marxism and the decline of nationalism and Christianity. It was quite consciously planned and done.

What’s sad today is to see the number of Christians in America who have been deceived by this strategy. I was around years back to see Beth Moore when she first started out on James Robison’s TV show. She was a talented Bible teacher with a close relationship with God; a breath of fresh air. Now she seems to have lost her mind. And similar is true of many once-respected Christian thought leaders.

The core question all need to be asking is: what is God doing? Is He still behind the nation-state? If so, we should be too. Scripture is quite clear that a one-world system is coming, which will persecute the Church mercilessly, and that “He that restrains” is the only thing holding it back at this time. But “He that restrains” – the Holy Spirit – works within the church, and as God’s ambassadors we ought to be aware of what’s going on and we ought to work to oppose the coming godless new world order.

Yet many Christians have in effect aligned themselves with that order, against the very purposes of God. Instead of being beacons of truth they lead many astray.

Why? Because some of Trump’s tweets are unseemly? Because he doesn’t fit the choir boy mold and has had a carnal past? Get a grip. God has always chosen unlikely instruments, and we need to get some perspective as to what’s important. Were Trump not as bold as he is, he never would have gotten as far as he has, nor achieved what he has for the nation.

Just want to say that God can pull out a winning court case at any time. Lin Wood’s case in GA, for instance, just got docketed at SCOTUS.

And SCOTUS’ rejection of the Texas case was strictly on the ground of “no standing”. That means they think TX had no right to bring the case. It doesn’t mean the case had no merit. THEREFORE, other actors with proper standing can bring the same case and it should be heard. Those other actors would be from within the contested states. We still should be praying for the court cases.

Today was a large “Jericho” rally in DC. They marched seven times around Congress and SCOTUS. We need to join in spirit with rallies like this.

Pray also for the president’s health, vision, courage, and wisdom. And for Melania.

I’ve been led lately to pray more for the nation as a whole, because the depth of the manifest corruption has become unbelievably deep and wide.

If the Democrats take the White House it’s hard to see the USA not being over, because they will consolidate one-party rule in many ways. This is not a time to stop praying.

China Is Disintegrating: Steel Demand, Property Sales, Traffic All Approaching Zero

According to the ZeroHedge article linked above, the Chinese economic panda has literally gone into hibernation. All the metrics are horrendous, as if commerce has almost stopped altogether. This is a nation in deep crisis.

Trump was right, going all the way back to 2013 and beyond, when he said that the US is holding all the cards, we only needed someone at the helm who understood business and was willing to lead. We have that person now. In less than a year Trump brought the already flailing Chinese economy to its knees, and the Communists humbly back to the bargaining table.

And that was before the 19nCoV Coronavirus. Now, with almost half the population under quarantine, what is the outlook?

Already there were signs of civil unrest, notably at Hong Kong, as the government had turned up its persecution of minorities, including Christians, drastically in recent years. And on top of all their other sins, the reports of systematic live organ harvesting among some minorities are credible and persistent.

My prayer is that the Lord would use this pervasive crisis to bring to the Chinese people the righteous government they need. And as China goes, so goes North Korea. May President Trump stay strong and have wisdom.

 

Bean was the proverbial “up and outer”, who was living the dream and suddenly found it all meaningless. It’s amazing how simple prayer can be so life-changing. Bean went on to become Andrew Breitbart’s father in law. He led him to conservatism, and I believe to the Lord as well. 

https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2020/02/11/tribute-orson-bean-said-mere-christianity-turned-him-around/ 

Fame did make him happy, for a while. “It got me laid and made me money and it was fun. I wanted more, so I graduated to drugs and booze. They worked, too, for a while (quite a long while, actually),” he said.

Then one day — Bean told Breitbart Radio — “it just stopped working and became nothing.”

He enrolled in a 12-step program and eventually asked a tough-looking member named Bobby: “What should I do?”

“Get down on your knees,” he told me, “and thank God every morning. Then, do it again at night.”

“But I don’t think I believe in God,” Bean retorted.

“It doesn’t matter,” Bobby said. “Just do it.”

“Why do I have to get down on my knees?”

“He likes it,” said Bobby. “And that’s all he said to me. He stood there looking at me for a minute and then I said OK and thanked him and he took off.”

Though he felt a little silly, that very night, Bean got down on his knees and said, “if there’s anybody up there, thank you for the day.” He said he slept like a log and in the morning got down on his knees again and said, “If there’s anybody there, thank you for my night’s sleep.”

“Little by little it stopped feeling foolish. I began to feel if my prayer was being heard… that whatever or whoever loved me,” Bean said.

If you saw President Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast last week, you know he expressed his difficulty in forgiving those who do evil to him and our nation. He said he has a hard time believing that these people pray for him as they say, when at the same time they are doing what they know is wrong.

Predictably, in response many religious leaders condemned his statements. They say he should have made nice with Pelosi, who was sitting only a few seats away, and called for unity.

I think he could have chosen softer words, but there is a problem when people continually try to reign in Trump. He can be hard to take sometimes, but he’s real, which is more than I can say for many. More importantly, the enemy has been able to thrive for decades in this country because we have run from confronting him, or we have confronted him on his terms. We play nice to the media, because we don’t want them to dislike us, and we certainly don’t want them to print anything negative about us. But where did that get us? To the precipice of national perdition.

Trump won the election precisely because of – not in spite of — his willingness to call a spade a spade. Evangelical pharisees are still trying at this point to place a halter on him, which is what they’ve been trying to do all along. Devin Nunes said last week that one of the most important things Trump has taught us is not to be afraid of the media, but to confront them. And, I will add, that goes for pharisaical religionists as well.

I’m looking at the fruit. Trump has the most amazing administration I’ve seen or heard of in terms of accomplishments – particularly, the kind of accomplishments Evangelicals have been praying for for decades.

Yes, I hope Trump does forgive his enemies in his own heart, for his own sake. But on the national stage, he needs to continue to bring the fire to them. Because they and their evil works thrive when we maintain a false peace. And we have done that for far too long.

I hope Christians are not led astray by calls for a counterfeit spirituality based on false peace. When we pray for Trump, among other things we need to pray that his courage to confront evil does not fail.

Please forgive another political post, but I care about what’s going on in this nation.

There’s an interesting Senate race currently taking place in Alabama. It’s taking place to fill the slot left vacant by the ascension of Sen. Jeff Sessions to the Attorney General post.

Luther Strange was selected to fill Session’s seat temporarily. He’s been a good supporter of Trump, and Trump has reciprocated by endorsing him and now actively campaigning for him.

The problem is that Strange has some very solid competition. Judge Roy Moore, he of support for displaying the 10 Commandments in the public square fame, is running for the seat. And Moore has been walloping Strange since Day One. Conservatives love Moore, who has always stood for solid values.

Strange is seen as more of an establishment type. He supports Trump on most of the big issues, but if I may speak for most conservatives, he is not well trusted.

So why then did Trump endorse Strange? Tonight, at a Strange rally, Trump admitted that he did so out of “loyalty”, and he even allowed that he might have made a mistake! Some endorsement. If nothing else, you have to love Trump’s honesty.

The scenario reminds me strongly of Mike Pence’s last minute endorsement of Ted Cruz before the Indiana primary last year. Pence endorsed Cruz, and then spent the rest of the announcement lauding Trump. So why then did Pence endorse Cruz? I can only surmise it was because Cruz ticked all the boxes: pretty good conservative record, open evangelical Christian, etc, whereas Trump was known primarily for his earthy lifestyle.

In other words, Pence went by the scorecard and voted based on loyalty, despite what his heart was telling him, just as Trump is doing today.

The problem is, ladies and gentlemen, the scorecard doesn’t cut it when you are up against the wall and need a hail Mary – if you’ll pardon the metaphor. Cruz would have been destroyed in the general election. He was compromised ideologically, and Hillary’s machine would have eaten him for breakfast. Only the bombastic, new-media-savvy Trump, who offered the electorate a genuinely different choice, had a chance against her, despite what the fake polls and biased prognosticators were trying to tell us.

And now Trump is making the same mistake. He looks at the scorecard. He reasons that he has to play nice with the Senators Club, so they’ll be nice to him. And he votes establishment.

But while Trump’s base still supports him, they are not agreeing with him on this one. They are mature enough to know they can vote against his recommendation and still support him on the national level. This is a very good thing.

Trump said tonight that if Moore wins the runoff, he will support him in the general election come November. That is a good thing, and I hope it will come down to exactly that.