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1. We in Romania, are stuck at 4th wave while the rest of Europe is at 5th wave and preparing for 6th wave.
   It looks like we need at least 50% vaccination rate to advance to 5th wave. But the problem is that people do not trust the government or the doctors. While we pay 10% from salary as ‘health tax”, we get nothing for it. If somebody is sick it has to pay almost everything; legal or as a bribe to doctors.

   Also doctors had 3x salary increase few months before COVID.

2. 1. Simulation of a cyberattack on markets. A cyberattack could shut down all markets, banks, and methods of transactions for months. To rescue starving people a new world digital currency will allow people to exchange their old currency for the new and buy food.
   2. I have been told that all banks stopped doing legal title insurance searches around 2004. Banks are required by law to hire a third-party title insurance company to verify the title. But banks stopped paying for the service, did it themselves(maybe), and still charged the title search fees to escrow. Therefore, any person who bought a house after 2004 does not have legal title to the house.
   3. The covid mandates are a smash and grab mentality. Either it is an act of desperation or they are certain that the 2022 elections will never happen.

3. Cartsens looking Mexican John? He looks like the Pillsbury doughboy and he clearly has no Aztec blood in his body. Agustin Guillermo Cartsens-Cartsens is a Mexican national yes, but he is Jewish, its not a coincidence while in the Chicago school days he married a Jewish woman. The man has an interesting background that goes beyond just the Mexican passport he owns, I encourage people to look into him.

   1. Luis, I found that his parents’ names are Paulina and Guillermo, and also this amusing blog.

      https://therealslog.com/2021/09/23/agustin-carstens-would-you-buy-a-dieting-regime-from-this-man/

      1. Hahaha, this was awesome Nancy, thank you for sharing.

   2. I bought a house in Ohio in 2008. A third party title search was done and I was offered an owner’s title insurance policy, which is a required offer in Ohio for residential real estate transactions. I’ve never heard of a bank doing its own title searches, and I’ve closed many millions of dollars of real estate transactions going back to the 1980s. It is the bank more than the homeowner who suffers from defects in title, because the bank is usually financing a greater portion of the purchase price and has only the house as security for the loan. As for good or bad title, if the buyer purchases title insurance, the title insurance company (regulated by the state) stands by the title and a claim can be made if it’s defective. I have a hard time believing that this general system isn’t in place in a majority of other states, too. There are ways one can be defrauded in real estate transactions, particularly for newly-built properties (which involve cross- liens on all the properties in a development), but I don’t think banks not getting assurances of good title is one of them. Not legal advice — just my opinion.

4. RE: minute 58:00 where CAF talks @ Britain proposing to “make car ownership illegal.”

   I had to giggle. Sounds to me less like something political and more like something rational… Such as the British hierarchy throwing in the towel in realizing that, try as they may, the country still cannot create a quality vehicle for the life of itself. So maybe they’re doing the public a favor by saying…. don’t buy British vehicles…. save yourself the headache. Many years ago while working at a Ford dealership in Los Angeles, I would hear the Ford mechanics joke that the Brits drank warm beer not because they liked it but because their refrigerators are probably made by Moss Electric Co. Moss Electric was the company that made the electrical systems in the Britain manufactured & historically unreliable MG’s and Jensen Healey’s, and electrical systems always failed due to Moss Electric being an extremely unreliable product. That’s was the running joke of why the British drink warm beer… it’s Moss Electric Co refrigerators. LOL! So if the Brits now want to outlaw driving cars, they’re doing their public a favor if they specifically outlaw British-manufactured cars. :)~ Commend them for their rationality.

5. Hi Catherine i thought of you immediately when the news of the Kentucky tornado popped up. Since then there has been another tornado through the mid west. Obviously they are going to blame this on climate emergency, but I am beginning to really think that this is a contrived plan to wipe out the rest of the middle class as places like mayfield will not be able to rebuild candle factory or town for that matter (population 10000 average income 60K). Also the entire town was flattened with a FNB federal reserve bank in the town. As did Waukesha. I thought it strange all the out of character things about the tornados in both the Kentucky and now the most current mid west string. Such as they are hitting at night, staying on ground longer and travelling greater distances with higher hurricane velocity winds. I can only tell you of my experience with a tornado coming from Alberta Canada and remember july 31st 1987 Vividly F4- F5. Heat and humid air mixing wit cold dry air along with a jet stream are needed. even in the movie twister the occurrence of night time tornados is almost never heard of. Wiki(I know but its a weather search no big deal with accuracy) says average Kentucky temperature between Fall and January is 2-7 degrees. What is the likelihood that this is the method in which they are going to down size the small banks to consolidate and centralize the Fed? heat domes, extreme flooding, polar vortex, earthquakes, volcanos erupting for months, dams in china bursting…seem like mother nature is really pissed at us or could it all be intentional?

6. A vague general question: These tornadoes are very expensive for insurance companies. Is there a connection between the insurance companies and the weather workers?

7. I converted to the Antiochian Eastern Orthodox church. This the message on the website concerning COVID.

   Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America
   Friday, January 22, 2021

   PDF Version

   Christ “came not to heal the healthy, but the sick; not to save the righteous, but sinners” (Mark 2:17)

   As the world continues to battle COVID-19, we are ever grateful to the frontline workers – including medical professionals, emergency responders, and scientists – for their unwavering dedication to making the world a better place.

   In light of the same, given our clergy and lay faithful are seeking archpastoral guidance regarding developments in medicine, such as COVID-19 vaccines and immunizations, we offer the following guidance:

   Scripture encourages us to respect and protect the body as the temple of God (1 Cor. 6:19). At the same time, it discourages us from either tempting or testing the Lord (Matt. 4:7). And as your spiritual shepherds, we affirm and assure you that it is neither wrong nor sinful to seek medical attention and advice. In fact, we welcome interventions that provide us more time for spiritual renewal and repentance.

   We therefore encourage all of you – the clergy and lay faithful of our Church – to consult your physicians in order to determine the appropriate course of action for you, just as you do for surgeries, medications, and vaccinations, in cancer treatments and other ailments. Indeed, while your own bishop, priest, or spiritual father remains prepared to assist you with spiritual matters, your personal doctor will guide your individual medical decisions.

   We trust that whatever course of action you and your doctor decide upon will also benefit the rest of the community. If we work together – in a spirit of sincere compassion and care for one another – we will soon be able to gather together as a full community in our churches once again. We miss you very much and eagerly await the day when we can all exchange the kiss of peace in the Divine Liturgy!

   Conveying our paternal blessings with love in the Lord,

   Archbishop Elpidophoros, Chairman
   Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America

   Metropolitan Joseph, Vice-Chairman
   Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America

   Archbishop Michael, Treasurer
   Orthodox Church in America

   Metropolitan Gregory, Secretary
   American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the USA

   Bishop Irinej
   Serbian Orthodox Church in North, Central and South America

   Metropolitan Nicolae
   Romanian Orthodox Metropolia of the Americas

   Metropolitan Joseph
   Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese of the USA, Canada, and Australia

   Bishop Saba
   Georgian Apostolic Orthodox Church in North America

   Metropolitan Tikhon
   Orthodox Church in America​

   1. That is reasonable! If my Orthodox diocese had only taken a neutral stance, that would be something! And I see Metropolitan Tikhon’s signature there. Unfortunately, the Archbishop and Bishop here in Northern California wouldn’t allow parishioners to worship outside without wearing a mask, even with asthma and other medical conditions. The Bishop described the vaccine as “the light at the end of the tunnel.” I wrote him to say, surely a false & Luciferean light. Even if a Church takes a neutral stance, at this point it’s like being neither hot nor cold, but lukewarm. It’s losing one’s salt, not to apprehend the great evil behind the mandates. And it breaks my heart, because God will spit the Church out if it continues in this manner.

      1. What can I say you live in California and tyranny. Is it possible they were threatened? Here in Phoenix they were told to follow the law or leave the priesthood. Our Priest always stated he hates masks and he is not politically correct and vaccinations were ones personal choice. I am involved locally with the issues of mandates and other issues. I attend meetings at churches that are politically involved. Orthodoxy is consistent liturgy. Personally it is an escape from the realities that I am involved with in the community. Also many people who are friends are of high integrity.

         1. Because Orthodoxy is hierarchical in nature, my Priest says he cannot go against the Bishop, who is his spiritual father. Yes, those at the top of the hierarchy threatened priests that they would be personally responsible for any Covid deaths if they spoke against the vaccine. But what about vaccine-related deaths? I agree that none of this takes away from the Liturgy, which is timeless and brings heaven to earth. However, some of us in my parish have decided we will no longer wear masks, and we have to stay outside during Liturgy. So I am thinking of leaving for the Russian parish.

            1. The best to you! I am grateful I converted and we no longer have any restrictions or masks. If I were in a similar situation I would also attended another Orthodox church.

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