This video is 10 months old. While “wokeness” has only increased so has the number of deaths due to COVID-19 “vaccines”. Unfortunately, there is no cure for the Death Vaxx.

David DeGerolamo

America’s billions in aid to Ukraine isn’t charity, but it can’t be wasted

Since the war began more than a year ago, the United States has given Ukraine more than $113 billion in aid. We know it is a lot of money. Some say we are investing too much in Ukraine. Others say it is not enough. But we believe it is worth it.

Our aid to Ukraine isn’t charity. It’s in our national security interest.

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That is a lot of money to kill Ukrainians. The current population of Ukraine is 36,744,634. That means $3048 was sent for every man, woman and child. If we assume 3 people per family, that is $9144 per family.

Since the Obama/Nuland overthrow of Democracy in Ukraine in 2014, the population has decreased 18.3%:

Population of Ukraine (2023 and historical)

Some of the decrease is due to immigration. I am assuming that Western sources are including the population of Crimea and the Donbas in that number (17.7%) of the Ukrainian number which has stabilized under the protection of Russia against US sponsored terrorism. The only portion of that money sent to those areas was on the receiving end of Western weapons.

It is an indictment against our illegal Deep State government to have sponsored genocide for military and personal profit. What else would anyone sapient person call a culling of almost 20% of a country’s population? And still people drink the Kool-aid as money and weapons are sent and redistributed around the world with no oversight.

How could a righteous nation become the leading sponsor of death and destruction? Consider this article from the liberal Washington Post:

Between 1947 and 1989, the United States tried to change other nations’ governments 72 times

That’s a remarkable number. It includes 66 covert operations and six overt ones.

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I keep thinking about this portion of the lyrics of Rich Men North of Richmond:

Livin’ in the new world These rich men north of Richmond

Lord knows they all just wanna have total control

Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do

And they don’t think you know, but I know that you do

‘Cause your dollar ain’t shit and it’s taxed to no end

‘Cause of rich men north of Richmond.

Mainly, I think about the value of our dollar. I have come to the conclusion that we now live in a two-tiered payroll system. Those of us who valued the American Dream have seen it become the basis of our destruction. We fund an illegal government with excessive taxation that devalues our wealth by endless printing of a failing world currency. It is disgraceful that people who valued Liberty are funding tyranny and genocide here and around the world.

David DeGerolamo

I was sent the following Rockford Files episode to watch by Dan Morgan concerning the Grand Jury process.

https://archive.org/details/RockfordFilesSeries/Rockford_Files_Season_03/Rockford_Files-S03xE07-So_Help_Me_God.avi

I already knew about the Grand Jury process and how it works. The show is worth watching and the ending is appropriate. It is strange watching a show filmed 43 years ago in Southern California. A good message, no wokeness and an actual story. There were no tents for the homeless, bright sunny days and a look back into the past where Southern California was actually a place where people wanted to live.

As for how our justice system has changed in 43 years, I will only state that it has been even further corrupted into a two-tiered system where politics decide what is legal and use it as a weapon against the people.

David DeGerolamo

In the first three months of 2023, 183 major companies announced bankruptcies, S&P Global said, which is the greatest total for the period in the past dozen years.

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German bankrupcties:

Bankruptcies in Germany increased to 1478 Companies in May from 1428 Companies in April of 2023.

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Adding the first quarter months for 2023 of Germany’s bankruptcies gives us 4117 or 22.5 times more bankruptcies than in the US. If we compare the two countries’ GDP, the US GDP is 6.25 times Germany’s GDP. If we weight the percentage of bankruptcies based on GDP, this would be 22.5 times 6.25 or 140 times more German bankruptcies than the US.

Now consider:

Germany Reverses Course On Pledge To Meet NATO Military Spending Target

“From now on, we will invest more than 2 percent of the GDP into our defense year after year,” Chancellor Olaf Scholz declared in February 2022 when he announced the Zeitenwende, a sea change in German foreign policy.

This came after the Kremlin launched its war with Kiev, a de facto NATO member on Russia’s doorstep. In order to “weaken” Russia, the conflict quickly morphed into a proxy war against Moscow led by the Washington-led alliance.

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Germany is bankrupt but so is the US: both are dead countries walking. In Germany’s case, it is dead country running as its strings are pulled by the US Deep State.

Consider:

Israel’s Arrow 3 missile-defense sale to Germany gets US nod

The Israeli government has announced that it will sell the Arrow 3 missile-defense system to Germany, a $3.5 billion deal, marking it as Israel’s largest defense export ever.

The sale was made possible after U.S. Department of State officials notified senior defense leaders here of the approval. The step is necessary because the system is a co-development between Washington’s Missile Defense Agency and the Israel Missile Defense Organization, led by local contractor Israel Aerospace Industries.

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Why is the US co-developing missile systems with Israel? I wonder if the big guy gets 10% for “approving” this sale.

Now consider:

Nord Stream gas pipeline destruction an ‘act of war on Germany’

Mr Creighton said there was no gas running through the pipelines at the time of the explosion but the act itself was an “act of war” on Germany.

“It’s severely curtailed Germany’s ability – if it wanted to – to get certain energy supplies,” he said.

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Since the US was responsible for this act of terrorism, I think Germany is reconsidering its options:

The US is collapsing; people just do not know it. The government and media do a great cover-up and people want to believe that nothing is wrong. It does not hurt that the US dollar is the world’s reserve currency but that may change on Tuesday at the BRICS+ conference.

Our national debt is current $32,711 trillion. Our credit card debt just broke $1 trillion:

How much credit card debt do Americans have?

This is the first time credit card debt has topped $1 trillion in this country. The $45 billion second-quarter increase comes on the heels of a first quarter in which the credit card debt level remained unchanged. That lack of movement was noteworthy since it bucked decades-long historical trends, marking the first time since 2001 in which credit card debt didn’t fall in the first quarter. In fact, the only times card debt didn’t fall in the first quarter of the year since the New York Fed report began were 2000 and 2001. Every year since, card debt fell at least a little bit — until this year. That lack of a decrease may not bode well for Americans’ credit card debt numbers for the rest of the year.

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But that was last week, according to USdebtclock.org, US credit card debt one week later is $1.335 trillion. That would be an increase of credit card debt of 33% in one week. Someone’s information is off: do you trust the government figures or US debt clock? If the average credit card holder is carrying$7,822 at 22.6% interest, that is $1,768 per year just for interest. We can see the writing on the wall:

via WRSA

Remember the number of US bankruptcies earlier (183 for the first quarter). Let’s consider the first half of 2023 :

US bankruptcy filings surge in first half of 2023

“The first six months of 2023 saw a nearly 70 percent increase of total commercial Chapter 11 bankruptcies,” said Gregg Morin, Vice President of Business Development and Revenue at Epiq Bankruptcy. “This trend points to the economic trials businesses are facing right now, which are impacted by rising interest rates, inflation, and increased borrowing costs, to name a few.”

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If you want to see Germany’s future, look to Venezuela. If you want to see our future, look to Germany. The time frame for this collapse is yesterday as China has already realized. War solves all economic issues but this only applies to those countries who can fight and win a war. What do you think our odds are of winning a war when the whole world is against us?

David DeGerolamo

h/t WRSA

Sugar cane

I live on Maui
You want to know the main reason Lahaina burned,
NAFTA
Pure and simple,
That area was a sugar plantation, since NAFTA the plantations in Hawaii died because they couldnt compete with foreign sugar primarily from South America.
Real easy, plantations died, cane went away, replaced by fast growing grasses that burn easy.
Add to that typical storm related winds and you have the recipe for this disaster.
Old old old wood framed structures mixed in with other stuff, lots of old shake roofs, and 80 mph winds, WTF else would you expect

Tommyboy

So I did some more research and found this article from 2014:

20 Years In, NAFTA Finally Sours the US Sugar Program

Although the 2002 FSRI Act reinstated domestic sugar production restrictions, recent trade negotiations have complicated the USDA’s ability to control total US sugar supplies. NAFTA slowly relaxed restrictions on Mexico’s access to the US market. In 2008, Mexico’s domestic sugar industry was granted unrestricted access. Although the TRQs negotiated in the 1994 WTO agreement set soft but essentially binding limits on the amount of sugar imported from many countries, they have not applied to Mexico since 2008.

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Woke Hawaiian Official Stalled Release Of ‘Revered Water’ Until It Was Too Late To Save Maui

How detrimental is it to allow far-left ideologues into bureaucratic public works positions?  The state of Hawaii just found out this week with a blaze that engulfed the Island of Maui and killed at least 110 people.  A series of management blunders are being blamed for the deadly wildfire, but one incident in particular has frightening implications.  

With wildfires ripping across West Maui on Aug. 8, a state water official delayed the release of water that landowners requested to help protect their property from damage and stop the spread. The water standoff played out over much of the day and the water didn’t come until too late.  The dispute involved the Department of Land and Natural Resources’ water resource management division and West Maui Land Co., which manages agricultural and residential subdivisions in West Maui.

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Exclusive: Is The Government of Hawaii Lying About The Missing and Dead on Maui?

I received information tonight from a highly reliable source who is on Maui and is involved with the emergency response. The source is a person of high integrity and shared this information with a mutual friend, who passed it on to me. The source says the situation on Maui is far worse than what is being reported.

Our mutual friend checked on the source last week and the source said the Maui government is covering up the deaths.

The source had just returned from a big meeting on Oahu convened to coordinate the response to the disaster. The source said that there are 2000 people missing and that FEMA estimates at least 1-2000 dead on Maui, especially Lahaina. It was essentially burned to the ground and the residents were told to shelter in place. Many are probably dead.

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Another crisis manufactured by the government coupled with another coverup. Let’s see how long they can contain the truth.

David DeGerolamo

h/t Hans

h/t The Tactical Hermit

THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED SAXON
by Rudyard Kipling

It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.

They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.

Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.

It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.

It was not suddenly bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.

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Christians are taught to love God with all our heart, soul and mind:

https://biblehub.com/matthew/22-37.htm

But the Bible is also clear about the Lord’s judgment on those who do evil:

God has given us all a conscience and we are all responsible for our actions but the most grievous thing you and I could ever do wrong is by not doing something! What I mean is that for all who reject Jesus Christ, they really reject the Father. Jesus said that “Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters” (Matt 12:30). There is no neutrality with Jesus. Those on the fence and all the others will be cast into the fire (John 3:18, 36b) but God’s love is displayed on the cross and right now, at this very moment, a time of salvation is open for all who would believe and for all who believe, they have their sins taken away (2nd Cor 5:21) and they have received eternal life (John 3:16).

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War is coming. Will we continue to be pushed until our hate fills our souls and we destroy continents? It is time to temper our souls, be vigilant and trust in the Lord.

David DeGerolamo