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1. I live in Kentucky, not quite Massie’s district, but getting all the ads. I hate to say this but I think Gallrein is going to pull it off. (I’m sort of dubious that the election is even going to be real in the first place to be clear, I think of it more in terms of “manufacturing consent”, can they pacify the populace enough.)
   A big factor is the evangelical churches. These are very well attended in that part of the state and are generally pretty important for communities. Israel puts an incredible amount of effort into manipulating them by sending their pastors on all expenses paid trips etc.
   https://x.com/IAPolls2022/status/2055419227188744326?s=20 Not sure how trustworthy this is but the general vibe is dead on. The youth absolutely cannot stand all this stuff, they completely see right through it. The manipulation stuff just does not reach Gen Z. I’m 23 and have been really blown away at how universal this is. Going to be a heck of a week either way.

   1. Peter:

      I really appreciate your post. I have seen the evangelical churches in action. IMO it has turned completely demonic. “Christians” promoting the slaughter of innocents to make way for profitable real estate developments by billionaires who use neurowarfare and paid excursions (and you can imagine what else) to buy pastors.

      1. As I predicted… sigh.

2. Amazon blocked my account until I accepted Amazon’s verification code thru WhatsApp.( I use WhatsApp to keep in touch with relatives in Europe.) In the past Amazon texted verification codes to my cell number but this time I was not given any choice at all. Verification code was sent without my acceptance to WhatsApp.

   1. Gruesome. Thanks for letting us know.

3. My previous reading said SPAN was supplying solar and battery backup to the home and power would be free for the homeowner. I understand these units don’t need as much cooling as a giant datacenter.

4. So now I understand why short youtube videos are algorithmically on our feed! Crisis with Corpus Christi water. Problem…Reaction…Solution

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P27HRf39vJY&pp=ygUmY29ycHVzIGNocmlzdGkgdHggcnVubmluZyBvdXQgb2Ygd2F0ZXI%3D

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QAARB4bNTE&pp=ygUmY29ycHVzIGNocmlzdGkgdHggcnVubmluZyBvdXQgb2Ygd2F0ZXI%3D

5. Is there a transcript of this segment?

6. Dear Catherine and John

   This is my first comment, in response to your call, it’s time to start a garden.

   In a nutshell, my parents brought me to Australia a few years after the end of WWll, for ‘a better life’.

   Both parents worked extremely hard in paid employment, saving every penny until they could afford a block of land (hard clay) and start a small farm. My father hacked at that clay with basic tools, no car in the early days, and my mother continued to earn the pennies to tide us over, while cooking the most beautiful food which my father ‘grew’, over time incorporating lambs, chickens, calves in addition to the kitchen garden/fruit trees.

   My great grandparents were mainly farmers, so growing food and raising animals is in our blood.

   Over time, the income became less than the outgoings and my father reluctantly surrendered to the inevitable reality that he would have to take on factory work to support his family, as by then they had another child.

   Then followed decades of ‘unprecedented wealth’, as their families of origin had only ever been of the peasant class, with my parents’ education being aborted in primary school by the events leading up to WWll.
   Just by working hard, without any formal education, but with truckloads of talent, enthusiasm and stubborn determination.

   Seventy years later I am back here, planting more fruit trees and replanting a kitchen garden for at least some food security, while to me it is totally unconscionable that tent cities are being confiscated by Councils, without offering any alternatives, mortgage stress is unbearable for too many and worst of all, there is a proliferation of lines of people at food banks, springing up all over this wealthy country.

   People of my generation, especially in countries that have experienced war, committed to Never Again, alarmingly find ourselves Here Again.

   I love the work you do Catherine, and all in this expansive, gracious community. We can’t do any more, than to uphold each other in prayer, and education and all sorts of courageous activism.

   I’m also thrilled to be close to you in Friesland in Spirit, as I have deep roots, eternally tended, to my beloved Aunt (RIP) in Friesland. She was present at my birth on board my grandfather’s cargo boat, and we remain close, years after her passing.

   All of which is to say a resounding Thank You
   In Christ
   Anita

   1. What a wonderful post to read. Thank you so much for posting. Just came back from a campfire in the Canadian woods with the Young Builders discussing ancient spiritual roots. we grow up on the land, leave the land, return to the land. God is good. Catherine

7. Help me understand one thing: why is there even an oil shortage when so many other places in the world have oil – not everything comes through Iran.

   1. Take a look at the energy timeline – we have been shutting off trade or facilities around the Middle East and around the world, along with trade bottlenecks. I hope to update the timeline this week.

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