Stories from Ukrainian Soldiers at Bakhmut
- By Mike Scruggs
Excerpts from March 17 Kyiv Independent et al.
Ukrainian soldier, age 51, at Bakhmut medical stabilization point.
I have subscribed to the Kyiv Independent Ukraine Daily for a little more than a year as a source of news on political, economic, military, and foreign policy issues in Ukraine. This has, of course, been largely war news since March 2022. Shortly after the war began, all news on the war had to be approved by the Ukrainian Army General Staff. There is no longer unfettered free speech or a free press in Ukraine, and political parties and media opposed to President Volodymyr Zelensky have been closed down. Nevertheless, carefully read, the Kyiv Independent Daily, despite its obvious restrictions, understandable pro-Ukrainian bias, and ultra-strong anti-Russian slant, can sometimes be a source of truth unavailable elsewhere. Sometimes you have to read between the lines, and sometimes someone slips in something you know the Ukrainian General Staff and Internal Security Police would not approve unless they had some circuitous special objective. One possible motive is the desperate need for more financial and political support from the West against impending Russian victory. However, sometimes journalists insist on slipping some uncomfortable truths in their work despite pressures to conform to propaganda objectives.
I’m A Conspiracy “FACTIST”! Are You? - Part 1
- By W.H. Lamb
“In politics, nothing happens by accident; if it happens you can bet it was planned that way.” (Attributed- probably incorrectly- to President Franklin Roosevelt.)
I assume that most of us are aware of the concept of “conspiracies” throughout world history, and we’ve probably heard that term used for much of our lives. Even today we hear the uninformed among us ridiculing the thought of “political conspiracies”, said ridicule usually emanating from popular but ill-informed “talking head pundits” or globalist-controlled MSM outlets all over the political spectrum who love to attack and disparage “conspiracy theorists” (people who areconvinced that there are genuine conspiracies among us at this very time, based on evidence they feel is compelling), and to whom the mouth breathing masses pay homage, like a horde of ignorant lemmings following the “wisdom” of a vacuous script reader or pretend “expert” who is standing on the edge of a precipice, doing his best to entice his fellow lemmings into jumping over the cliff of chaos. The more politically astute and educated among us are fully aware that “conspiracies”—political or otherwise—have existed in the past or exist now, and what has been the affect upon history of such activities. I suggest that the first order of investigation into “conspiracies” is to define the word:
South Carolina Rolling Out ‘Woke-come’ Mat
- By Diane Hardy
“We’re not living in 1992 anymore …”
Most South Carolinians are unaware of the $1.3 billion incentive package aimed at inducing VW to manufacture Scout electric vehicles in the Palmetto State. With promises of up to 4,000 jobs, we at the Mom and Pop Alliance of South Carolina saw this deal sail through the S.C. House by a huge majority with little to no time for debate – or for legislators to hear from their constituents. Now it’s on to the S.C. Senate which we feel sure will be pressured to rubber stamp the deal asap.
The President's Budget Reveals the Real Priority: Tax Hikes
- By Veronique de Rugy
Budgets are about priorities. In the Biden administration's new budget, its apparent priorities are marred by problems. Here's the cheat-sheet version: Rather than containing explosive growth in spending, it would use a bunch of new taxes to wage class warfare.
While this budget is dead on arrival in Congress, it's worth reviewing some reasons why this is so. The president aspires to spend around $6.9 trillion next year, a 55% increase over pre-pandemic levels, and $10 trillion by 2033. While Biden hopes to raise an extra $4.7 trillion over 10 years in taxes, the debt would nevertheless grow over the next decade by $19 trillion as the debt-to-GDP ratio increases from 98% to 110%. All this debt in a high-interest rate environment would have Uncle Sam fork over $10.2 trillion in interest payments alone over that time.
Why is China Buying Texas?
- By Sid Miller, Texas Agriculture Commissioner via Eagle Forum
Our federal government has given the green light to allow a Chinese company, owned by a former communist government general, to purchase 180,000 acres of Texas land near the Rio Grande, just north of Laughlin Air Force Base, in order to build more wind turbines.
The project includes a 30,000-square-foot lodge and private runway, allowing the Chinese to move people and equipment free from federal oversight. Experts warn the Chinese will be able to monitor and potentially interfere with air traffic at America’s largest pilot training facility at Laughlin.
Dr. David Jones For Ward 4 Councilman in Easley, SC
- By Press Release
Ron DeSantis Joins the Fight for Sanity Against the Foreign Policy Blob
- By Josh Hammer
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' written statement to Tucker Carlson heard around the world earlier this week on the Russia-Ukraine war has caused nothing short of a full-scale meltdown from the arrogant, consistently wrong-thinking, military-industrial complex-addled band of bipartisan dunderheads who collectively comprise the American ruling class's foreign policy "blob." The reality is that the governor, also a likely 2024 presidential candidate, should wear the blob's dripping scorn as a badge of honor.
Nullify the World Health Organization
- By The John Birch Society
URGENT; ACT NOW:The WHO, working in conjunction with the Biden administration, has published a draft of its planned global pandemic treaty, the “Zero Draft of the International Instrument on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response.”This agreement, if implemented, would dramatically increase the WHO’s power, making its edicts (including in response to “pandemics”) legally binding on its member states, putting Americans under the control of its authoritarian bureaucrats.
Bi-Annual GOP Precinct Reorganization Next Monday
- By Terry M. Thacker
It's re-org time again. Every two years, Republican activists in Greenville County reorganize their precincts in March and hold their county convention in April. A lucky few go on to represent Greenville County as delegates to the state convention, which is held in May.
Those individuals who self-identify as Republicans (whether by conviction or convenience) will meet this coming Monday evening, March 27, to select new precinct leadership and to select delegates to attend April's county convention.
In the past, these precinct meetings took place at the individual polling places. However, the state party recently felt compelled to take over the process from the county GOP. Because of this compressed time schedule a fewer number of central meeting places have been hastily arranged to accommodate re-org. A listing of these meeting places is provided at the end of this article.
10 Things to Know about the Silicon Valley Bank Collapse
- By Joshua Arnold - The Washington Stand
This weekend was the most tumultuous for the banking sector since 2008, as an apparently prosperous, mid-sized bank completely collapsed. When the dust settled, federal regulators had taken over management of two banks while several others teetered on the brink.
Needless to say, the incident has deeply shaken Americans’ confidence in the banking industry. To complicate matters, most Americans are busy shuttling their kids to school and earning an honest day’s living (as they should be) — too busy to keep up with the cacophony of opinions firing around industry jargon amid rapidly developing facts. So, for those too gainfully employed to dig through the noise themselves, here are 10 things to know about the mini-crisis in the banking sector that occurred over the weekend.
President Biden Releases Disastrous Budget Proposal
- By Eagle Forum
As families across the nation are pinching pennies to pay for gas and groceries, the White House is finding more ways to spend our taxpayer dollars. Every year, the President releases a proposed federal budget. Congress has no obligation to pass these policies, but it gives us an idea of what the Biden administration will be pushing in Congress and through various agencies. President Biden released his budget last week, and it was bad enough for Republicans to declare the $6.9 trillion proposal “dead on arrival.”
The Chromosome 2 Fusion Myth
- By Charles Creager, Jr.
One of the many genetic differences between humans and apes is that all of the apes have 24 pairs of chromosomes while humans have only 23. As a result, in order for humans to have a common ancestor with apes two smaller ape chromosomes would have to fuse to form our chromosome 2. As result Evolutionists are desperate to try to prove human chromosome 2 fusion theory because without it, their entire world view collapses.
In labeling these chromosomes, you have human chromosome 2 and the corresponding chromosomes of the three great apes are labeled chromosomes 2a and 2b by evolutionists. This this is done based entirely on the presupposition of fusion theory. This also makes good propaganda to convince the unsuspecting not only of human chromosome 2 fusion theory but that we must have a common ancestor with chimpanzees other apes.
Pastor Greg Locke's Riveting New Film, 'Come Out In Jesus Name,' Opened Last Night - Topped Charts as 4th Highest Grossing Film and No. 1 in Per-Screen Average in North America
- By Locke Media
Due to Overwhelming Response to the One-Night Only Showing and Live-Streamed Mass Deliverance Service -Film Returns to Theaters April 10 and 11
NASHVILLE -- In theaters last night, thousands of movie-goers flocked to see the riveting new feature documentary, Come Out In Jesus Name, from Pastor Greg Locke. The movie topped the charts as the 4th highest grossing film and scored the highest per-screen average in North America.
Due to this overwhelming response, the film is returning to theaters for encore showings on April 10 and 11. Exhibitors are gearing up for these showings and hundreds have already added the movie to their schedules. For tickets and more information, visit ComeOutInJesusName.com.
Silicon Valley Bank -- More Government, Less Reality
- By Star Parker
President Ronald Reagan once said, "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.'"
Shock waves are rippling through the country after the announcement of the second largest bank failure in the country's history last week -- Silicon Valley Bank.
This just 15 years after the largest bank failure in the country's history -- Washington Mutual.
RI School District Sued for Discriminating Against Good News Club
- By Christian Newswire
WARRENTON, Mo. -- Liberty Counsel has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island against Providence Public School District and its superintendent, Dr. Javier Montanez, for discriminating against Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) by not allowing its Good News Clubs on campuses while allowing other clubs to meet. Liberty Counsel seeks preliminary and permanent injunctions against the school district's enforcement of the unconstitutional policies that prohibit the Good News Clubs to meet on equal terms as secular clubs.
For nearly two years, the Providence Public School District has blocked CEF Rhode Island from hosting its elementary school Good News Clubs on district school facilities. However, other organizations such as Boys and Girls Clubs, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, YMCA, and Girls on the Run are given free use of school facilities for after school programs.
Slave New World: Genocide of Critical Thinking
- By Catching Fire News
Patrick Wood, researcher, author, and writer shares with Catching Fire News the global impact of Technocracy and its origins.
Technocracy was designed as an economic system rather than a political one. With its social structure and social engineering, it attempts to transform all aspects of human society into property of the state.
The name “Technocracy” dates back to the 1930’s. Scientists and its influential backers sought to recreate mankind through the combination of science and technology. Removing God and critical thinking, this humanistic approach transforms natural behavior into a controlled social psyop.
The Troll Sagas
- By Mike Scruggs
Chapter 10 - The Battle of Flatmark
North Flatmark 2020
The first night at Flatmark, after Ketel, Ivar, and Flicka departed to search for Marja, went smoothly. The wolves and reindeer took turns patrolling the perimeter of the farm. The reindeer, who with their huge antlers could not have easily gotten through the door of the longhouse, slept in the barn with Barki, when they were not on patrol duty. Trude and Valda found that although the reindeer were very large, they were quite tame and enjoyed giving the girls a ride on their backs. Besides, it was a safe place for them. The wolves had also become inseparable from the twins. They stayed close to them during the day and watched their every move. During the night they snuggled close to the girls and did not seem to mind them pulling their fur and ears.
Police Officer Smeared by 'Religious Bigotry' Garners Support from Faith Leaders
- By K.D. Hastings - The Washington Stand
Keeping the focus on a Georgia police officer who was the object of “religious bigotry,” a contingent from the Family Research Council traveled to Port Wentworth, Ga., to present a petition in support of the former officer to the town’s city manager.
The petition, which contained nearly 35,000 signatures, called for the city to apologize to Jacob Kersey, the 19-year-old who was threatened with dismissal from the Port Wentworth Police Department for referencing the biblical definition of marriage on his personal Facebook page.
The offending January 2 social media post? “God designed marriage. Marriage refers to Christ and the church. That’s why there is no such thing as homosexual marriage.”
Death Taxes Are Immoral. Even Worse, They Don't Work.
- By Stephen Moore
"I have no respect for the passion of equality," Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., one of America's great jurists, once declared, "which seems to me merely idealizing envy."
But envy, and its sister vice, greed, are very much back in fashion today when it comes to the progressive Left. Just listen to President Joe Biden, who wants $2 trillion of new taxes, mostly paid by millionaires, so that the rich will "pay their fair share." In seven blue states, including California, Illinois and New York, new wealth taxes and higher income tax rates on people such as Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Taylor Swift have been proposed by liberal lawmakers.
Recent Article In The Herald Journal
- By Jim S. Brooks - Roebuck, SC
The credibility of the Good News of God in the cross of Jesus Christ has been attacked since the days Jesus walked the earth. Such attacks have even intensified since the message was first revealed, entrusted to and recorded for posterity by Jesus’ personally chosen Apostles until this day. The larger the audience, the more widespread and varied the attacks. The most recent one is in an article by Chris Highland in the Herald Journal, Spartanburg, S.C., March 10, 2023. Chris raised the issue of a possible contradiction in messages between Jesus and Jesus’ personally chosen Apostle to the Gentiles, Paul. The article is subtly offered in a supposed attempt to better understand and appreciate Jesus, despite Paul! It is alluded in the article that Christianity and the Christian life might be better if there was no message from a self-appointed Apostle Paul, who it is claimed, never met Jesus and actually appointed himself.
Vietnam Lessons from a Two-Front War
- By Mike Scruggs
Media Bias, KGB Funding of Antiwar Groups, and Powder Puff Air-Warfare
Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Pres. Lyndon Johnson, Defense Sec. Robert McNamara.
The Vietnam War was a Two-Front war in this sense: There was a military front and a political and propaganda front. The military front was Vietnam, but also Laos, and Cambodia. The political and propaganda front was the American home front and an intense battle for American public .opinion.
The leaders of North Vietnam were strong believers in the wisdom of studying history. They remembered that the French did not abandon Indochina after eight years because they lost the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in May 1954, where 14,000 French Union and Foreign Legion troops in an isolated mountain valley were defeated by 80,000 unexpectedly mobile and well-equipped North Vietnamese. The North Vietnamese had put their primary focus on undermining the will of the French people by propaganda and political agitation. Dien Bien Phu was a tragic but recoverable loss, but in a two-front war, it was the propaganda and agitation in France, which was ultimately decisive and had worn out the French Parliament and lost Indochina. Between 1959 and 1963, the Soviet Union began sowing seeds of propaganda and agitation in the U.S. through Communist front organizations and sympathetic academic and media organizations. Hence the media reporting on the war typically reflected a leftist, anti-war bias.
UK Punishes 'Thought Crime' of Praying Silently at Abortion Facilities
- By Ben Johnson - The Washington Stand
British police will continue to arrest Christians for the crime of praying within hundreds of feet of an abortion facility, after the U.K. Parliament voted down an amendment that would have legalized “silent prayer” — a situation Christians have described as a “dystopian” ban on pro-life “thoughtcrime.”
On Tuesday, Members of Parliament rejected an amendment to prevent police from arresting anyone “engaged in consensual communication or in silent prayer” within 164 yards of an abortion facility in England or Wales. The amendment, offered by Conservative MP Andrew Lewer, failed 116-299.
Even If You Lose, You Can Still Be Victorious
- By W.H. Lamb
She was tall, had tawny (perhaps reddish) hair that hung down to her waist. She had a harsh, commanding voice and a quite piercing gaze when she looked at someone. She always wore a necklace of gold (probably what we today call a ‘torc’), a very colorful tunic, and usually she wore a heavy cloak fastened at the neck by a broach. So she was described by the ancient Roman historian, Cassius Dio (c. 155 A.D.--c. 235 A.D.), long after her death. A queen of the Celtic Iceni people in eastern Britain, she led a rebellion—an uprising against the brutal and oppressive Roman occupiers of her homeland-- that almost resulted in her ejecting those Roman military forces and a large Roman populationfrom Britain. She was described by her people as a ‘freedom fighter’, and they loved her. The Romans, however, looked at her as a ‘violent insurgent’, and they both feared and hated her. She was BOTH, for she was dedicated to her own people’s freedom and way of life and survival, but was quite brutal to her enemies, seeking revenge for what they had done to her, her family, and her people.
BJU to Host Allen Jacobs Memorial Prayer Breakfast
- By Randy Page - BJU
Bob Jones University will host the seventh annual Allen Jacobs Memorial Prayer Breakfast Thursday, March 16, to honor the memory of Officer Allen Jacobs and recognize law enforcement professionals across Greenville County.
The breakfast will begin at 7 a.m. in the Davis Room of the Dixon-McKenzie Dining Common on the BJU campus.
Amy Wood, WSPA News 7 anchor, will serve as the emcee. The keynote address will be given by Greenville County Council Chairman Dan Tripp. During the breakfast, several awards including the Allen Jacobs Award of Valor will be presented.
Student Eagle Leadership Conference 2023
- By Eagle Forum
Eagle Forum and Leadership Institute are proud to announce the Third Annual STUDENT EAGLE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE in Washington D.C. on June 6-11, 2023.
We will be gathering in person at the Leadership Institute for four days of unparalleled political activist training during the evenings, and touring our beautiful national capital during the day.
Because we are staying in the dormitory at Leadership Institute, we are limited on the number of students who will be allowed to attend this year. We will only have space for 20 young men, and 20 young women. In order to determine who will get to join us for this very exclusive event, students will need to submit a qualifying project (see below for details).
Cancel Culture Coming to a Conclusion?
- By Kathleen Marquardt - American Policy Center
TAKE SOME ESG + DEIB, AND ADD CBDC AND FINISH OFF WITH 15-MINUTE CITY
Let me start off defining the latest – and some of the most dangerous acronyms today:
ESG – Environment, Social, and (corporate) Governance is the made-up (faux, false, lying, scheming) Newspeak nonsensical acronym. I guess when you have a piece of nonsensical science called Climate Change, nee Global Warming, the tools you use to “achieve” you goal must also be fake. Although much, if not most, of today’s science is fake. It is making me feel like I live in an alternate universe – oops, that’s exactly what the Power Elite (PE) are aiming for.
North Greenville University and Tri-County Technical College Announce Partnership
- By Billy Cannada - NGU
Tri-County Technical College and North Greenville University (NGU) officials signed a first-of-its-kind articulation agreement this week that enables the transfer of Tri-County students to NGU’s Educational Studies online bachelor’s degree program.
Destroy the Mexican Drug Cartels
- By Josh Hammer
The tragic killing of two U.S. citizens this week in the border town of Matamoros, Mexico, should, in a just world, refocus American attention on the glaring problem of transnational drug cartels' de facto control of large swaths of our perilously porous southern border. That the two Americans killed may have been mistaken by warring cartel clans for Haitian drug smugglers, as The Dallas Morning News reported, hardly ameliorates the awful situation or lessens our imperative to recalibrate attention away from faraway proxy wars of dubious national interest, and toward the very monsters in our own backyard who run the Western hemisphere's worst human trafficking rings and flood the U.S. interior with the most lethal drugs known to man.
The Truth About Jan. 6
- By Neil Patel
The events of Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol have been so highly politicized that it's almost impossible for anyone to get to the truth anymore. We don't know all the facts, even after months of investigations and hearings; nobody does for sure. What I do know for sure is if the situation were reversed, everyone's opinions on it would be reversed, too. That's sad and says a lot about where America is today. Americans are more dug into partisan bubbles and tribalism than at any time in recent history. It's so bad that many people can't even see the truth. Or don't want to look for it.
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