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UPDATE on vaccine mandate for my husband’s job. (A reminder that he is federal contractor.) He spoke with the head of HR today. She said per EO #14042, a person is not considered fully vaccinated until 14 days after their second shot. The deadline for full vaccination is December 8th. He told her that he will not get the vaccine then she immediately said she will email him the medical/religious exemption form to fill out. He didn’t even get a chance to say that’s what he wants to do! So this weekend I will help him work on the verbiage for the exemption. There’s no guarantee it will be granted, but it’s certainly something to try and trust God about. Although I want you to be productive this weekend, I hope you also 👇🏻

• Thousands of Trump supporters lined the streets to greet Joe Biden as he arrived in Howell (MI). Freedom lovers waved ‘F*ck Joe Biden’ flags and gave Biden the middle finger as his presidential motorcade drove by • “FAKE PRESIDENT” trended on Twitter Wednesday • President Asterisk continues to use a Fisher-Price oval office [thanks White Hats!]

• Joy "I Have An Ironic Name" Behar said on The View that black people should not be afraid of coronavirus vaccines because white people already received them as a public experiment [love it when they show their craziness] • Sage Steele from ESPN will no longer be on the air after comments she made about the covid vaccine mandate calling it “sick” and “scary” [we applaud bravery] • MI Rep Rashida Tlaib was caught on video admitting that she is only wearing a mask because she is being filmed by a Republican tracker. In August, Tlaib was captured on video dancing maskless and posing for photos at a wedding • Fight for Schools, a Virginia-based parent organization advocating for the ouster of five Loudoun County School Board members scored a small victory in its bid to remove one member (Beth Barts) after a judge ruled that the group's recall petition could advance to trial • Parents all over the country continue to stand up at school boards meetings, taking over meetings and running to replace corrupt officials • Atty General Merrick Garland's daughter is married to co-founder of education company selling Critical Race Theory materials [exposed] • Republican attorneys general across the country criticized AG Garland for inserting the federal government into protests against school boards that centered on mask mandates and critical race theory. Some AGs vowed to protect the First Amendment rights of parents • Attorney John Howard and Davillier Law Group, with support from America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLDS) filed a lawsuit in US District Court for the Northern District of California against Kaiser Permanente, one of the U.S.’s largest health care organizations. The lawsuit challenges Kaiser’s mandate that all 217,000 employees be vaccinated • State Department senior adviser Harold Koh has resigned, speaking his outrage that the Biden Admin is using the Trump Admin Title 42 (gives the administration the ability to bar people from entering the country during a health crisis) • Director at the National Institutes of Health Dr Francis Collins is stepping down • The CIA sent a cable to its personnel throughout the world informing them that a large number of foreigners recruited as informants have been killed or captured. It covered the numerous problems that the CIA had been experiencing such as miscalculating the capabilities of rival spy networks to inadequate spying techniques. CIA agents would reportedly hire informants without thoroughly investigating them to see how susceptible the latter were to opposing counterintelligence activities • Stanley Young a former EPA official has filed a lawsuit, that the EPA’s actions violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972, which requires federal advisory committees to be “fairly balanced in terms of the points of view represented.” Energy & Environment Legal Institute Senior Policy Fellow Steve Milloy said, “The Biden EPA has turned the law on its head by first deciding what its policy is and then stacking the panel with its cronies. Dr Stan Young and other applicants were rejected by EPA from panel membership not because they are unqualified, but because they have points of view that might jeopardize EPA’s pre-determined policy plans” • According to a Quinnipiac University Poll, 50% disapprove of Biden's coronavirus response; 55% disapprove his handling of the economy; 58% disapprove his job as Commander in Chief of US military; 54% disapprove of his taxes; 58% disapprove of his foreign policy; 67% disapprove of his immigration policies/situation on US-Mexico border; 55% believe the Biden admin is not competent in running the government • The US State Department under President Asterisk publicly disclosed the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal in a reversal from the policy under President Donald Trump to keep the true size of the U.S. arsenal a secret • Thousands of Trump supporters in Elk Grove (IL) greeted Biden. They lined the streets waving “Trump won,” “F*ck Joe Biden” and "Let's Go Brandon" signs

• Vermont, the state with the highest vaccination rate in the US at 69%, is experiencing a CCP virus surge. The four states that follow VT in terms of the highest vaccination rates in the nation are also experiencing alarming spikes: MA, ME, CT, RI. 76% of recent covid deaths in Vermont were fully vaccinated [the deaths are tragic; exposure is good] • Uttar Pradesh, India wiped out an outbreak of covid-19 dropping cases by 99% in three weeks. Citizens were given kits containing Tylenol, Vitamin C, Multivitamin, Zinc, Vitamin D3, Ivermectin 12 mg [10 tablets], Doxycycline 100 mg [10 tablets]. The home kits cost less than $3 per person and brought the number of active cases to below 200 out of a population of 230 million people • Sweden has suspended the use of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine for under 30s following reports of rare side effects, while Denmark has said it will no longer offer the shot to under 18s [good/bad news because the Swedish health agency also said people aged between 12 and 15 would only get the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine] • A German court declared the harsh impositions of the Bavarian state government to lock down and forbid citizens from leaving home in April 2020 were illegal and unnecessary and violated “the prohibition of excess from higher-ranking law” • Israel Update: Double-Jabbed Now Declared Unvaccinated • CDC director Rochelle Walensky now admits that the vaccine cannot prevent transmission • The FDA issued a recall notice with certain lots of Australian company Ellume’s covid-19 Home Test due to false positives • A California study titled “Predominance of antibody-resistant SARS-CoV-2 variants in vaccine breakthrough cases from the San Francisco Bay Area, California” find vaccinated individuals are more susceptible to covid variants than those who are unvaccinated • According to a peer-reviewed study accepted by the European Journal of Immunology The immune systems of the vast majority of people who have been infected with Covid-19 will continue to carry antibodies against the virus for at least 12 months • New Anthony Fauxi emails obtained by The National Pulse reveal that a lab he funded through his National Institutes of Health agency was training researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s biosafety level four facility • A video of Fauxi with HHS officials and other health experts discussing how to enforce a universal flu vaccination for "a new avian flu virus" in a summit in Washington, DC last October 2019 has been released • A recent study in Nigeria shows that using Ivermectin-only to treat covid-19 patients is equally as effective as using the HIA triple therapy (Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin, and Azithromycin Combination) in all inflammatory, virological, and respiratory endpoints • New Yorkers continue to protest vaccine mandates, gathering outside the Department of Education earlier this week • Northwell Health parted ways with 1,400 employees after they refused to comply with New York State’s covid-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers [their bravery is inspiring] • The Wuhan Institute of Science and Technology purchased PCR tests used for covid before the outbreak, spending 8.92 million yuan in 2019, eight times its total from 2018 • Letitia Wright, star of Black Panther 2, is encouraging her co-workers to not get the covid vaccine. She received some backlash for making pro-freedom comments on social media. At the time she replied to her critics, “if you don’t conform to popular opinions, but ask questions and think for yourself… you get cancelled" • Miss World Netherlands has pulled out of the beauty pageant final in December saying, “After I was crowned, we were told that if you want to go to Miss World you must be vaccinated. So I thought about it carefully and considered taking the jab, but … I don’t feel good about it. This was simply the best choice for me. I think I would have regretted more if I had done something that I actually don’t feel comfortable with”

• “The Spanish Ministry of Health does not have SARS-CoV-2 cultures for experiments and does not have a directory of laboratories that have isolation cultures for experiments,” the government stated in response to a public request from critical citizens, including the organizations Asociación Liberum and Biólogos por la Verdad (Biologists for the Truth) • A new University of Colorado Boulder research study published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, is the first to comprehensively analyze the effects of different wavelengths of UV light on SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory viruses, including the only wavelength safer for living beings to be exposed to without protection. The findings, which the authors refer to as a "game changer" for UV light use, could lead to new affordable, safe and highly effective systems for reducing viral spread in crowded public spaces like airports and concert venues • A Department of Defense program called “Project Salus” analyzed data on 5.6 million Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 or older and found that most covid-19 hospitalizations are among fully vaccinated patients. “These data, presented here, shatter the official Biden/Fauxi narrative that falsely claims America is experiencing ‘a pandemic of the unvaccinated’. The data show that the pandemic actually appears to be accelerated by COVID-19 vaccines, while unvaccinated individuals are having far better outcomes than the vaccinated. Furthermore, according to these data, the single best strategy for avoiding post-vaccine infections and hospitalizations is natural immunity derived from a previous COVID infection” • Two employees of Lamar University in Texas, Bruce Hodge and Karen Corwin, were fired after asking gifted high school juniors and seniors taking part in the Texas Academy of Leadership in the Humanities program on campus if they had received a vaccine or were planning to get immunized • Sidney Powell's Defending the Republic has filed a lawsuit on behalf of members of the military who deserve the right to decline the covid vaccine. The suit is brought against Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, III, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, and FDA Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock • The Seattle Police Department announced that 354 Seattle police personnel have yet to submit vaccination records. An officer not complying with the mandate said that on top of potentially losing hundreds of officers due to the mandate, dozens of officers are seeking early retirement to escape the department. "We have no plans of surrendering our rights or going away quietly. This mandate ... weeds out the police officers and medical workers that will not enforce unconstitutional laws, mandates, and orders" • Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva has announced that he will be defying the city council mandate forcing his employees to get vaccinated. Villanueva announced earlier this year that he would not enforce an indoor mask mandate • Lt Gov Janice McGeachin (ID) stepped in to protect children from vaccination mandates by broadening a ban on vaccine passports while the state’s governor, who is a member of the same party, traveled out of state [the governor later reversed the order; McGeachin is expected to face Gov Little in the 2022 GOP gubernatorial primary] • Gov. DeSantis’ press secretary Christina Pushaw released the results from weeks of data that showed schools that obeyed the Florida law and allowed children to attend school without masks on saw no statistically significant difference in outcomes compared to the rogue school districts that imposed mask mandates in defiance of state law • Project Veritas released another video this week showing 3 Pfizer scientists (Rahul Khandke, Chris Croce, Nick Karl) telling undercover journalists that natural antibodies are a better protection against Covid than the vaccine • Project Veritas worked with Pfizer whistleblower who leaked execs emails exposing suppression of covid vaccine info like the use of fetal cells from the public

• Author Dave Eggers just released the hardcover version of his new novel, "The Every," and rather than sell his novel on Amazon, he's making it available at independent bookstores and online through his publishing company. What motivated him to refrain from selling his novel through Amazon is, "kicking sand in the face of independent bookstores for decades now. One of the themes of the book is the power of monopolies to dictate our choices so it seemed a good opportunity to push back a bit against the monopoly, Amazon, that currently rules the book world" • Amazon owned streaming giant Twitch has been hit with a hack and had its source code, internal security tools and data on how much it pays creators leaked online. The person who posted the leak on 4chan wrote that the purpose of the hack was to “foster more disruption and competition in the online video streaming space" [a reminder that these Big Tech companies are fallible] • An Amazon employee has filed a class action lawsuit in a Colorado federal court accusing the employer of violating Colorado state law by failing to pay warehouse workers for time spent undergoing covid-19 screenings before clocking in at work. The proposed class action suit includes more than 10k people at five Colorado warehouses • MTA Bridges and Tunnels was unable to send $56 million in bills for crossings made Sept 2019 to June 2021 thanks to unbillable tolls for which officials cannot find an address to mail the bill • A probe by the city Department of Investigations found that NYC Mayor de Blasio misused his NYPD security detail. The report also accused the head of de Blasio's detail, Inspector Howard Redmond, trying to obstruct the investigation. DOI officials said at a news conference Thursday that they would refer his case to the Manhattan district attorney for possible criminal prosecution • Pro-freedom supporters in London called for Bill Gates to be arrested as they gathered outside the U.K. headquarters of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of a larger protest against covid-19 lockdown measures • 100 year-old Josef S., a member of the Nazi party's paramilitary SS, who contributed to the deaths of 3,518 people at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp by regularly standing guard in the watchtower between 1942 and 1945 is currently standing trial [you are never too old to stand trial for crimes against humanity] • Nautica Turner was charged with arson for setting fire to a 7-11 during the George Floyd riots. She faces up to five years in federal prison and a $250k fine • Saguache County, Colorado had approved measures allowing warrantless entry into households and preventing the sale of guns and ammo per an emergency resolution. Residents showed up at the County Commission’s meeting and got the resolution rescinded • Poland’s highest court sides with the Polish government amid the county’s dispute with the European Union. Parts of EU law are incompatible with the Polish constitution, the court has now determined that national law takes precedence over EU law • The People of South Africa are seeking a ruling to hold their President and Parliament liable for the damages inflected by the Globalist’s Covid/Crime Against Humanity, and are also seeking a ruling that will liquidate their Central Bank in order to pay damages suffered by the people • Essential workers and a teacher are currently challenging Victoria and NSW (AUS) vaccine safety and mandates in court • More than a dozen members of Congress have reported breakthrough infections of covid-19 after getting vaccinations, including Lindsey Graham • Leaked information from confidential agreements that vaccine manufacturer Pfizer colluded with a large number of buyer countries, reveals slave contracts that violate legislation in each and every country. Buyers undertake to break all laws that stand in the way of mass vaccination. The buyers also undertake to bear all costs and all responsibility for the experimental jabs and waive the right to breach the agreement [exposed]

• The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by DC residents seeking a voting member in the House of Representatives. A lower court rejected the argument of 11 residents who earlier this year said DC residents don’t live in a state therefore should not be given a member of Congress • Former Trump Defense Department Chief of Staff Kash Patel said Durham is going after big fish and Peter Strzok and Lisa Page may be working with him [Q drop confirms this]. “And look out for bigger fish like Andy McCabe who is the biggest fraudster next to James Comey. I think you’re going to see these indictments come out on these individuals at the top” • AZ Sen Sinema accosted by activists at ASU who follow her into the bathroom. She was also spotted wearing The Boot [crazy people show their true colors, don’t they?] • TX Gov Greg Abbott released a video of Texas National Guard gearing up at the U.S. southern border in response to a large migrant caravan approaching the U.S. southern border • The so-called “Pandora Papers” (previously known as the “Panama Papers”) is leftwing funded project aimed at deflecting the blame off the real culprits who hide their illegally gained wealth. Folks are aware of these false narratives. Including… • Whistleblower Frances Haugen who has Deep State ties outing herself as a leftwing tool for the oligarch • Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit in Florida against Twitter, and is seeking to have his account reinstated • A North Carolina county school board has passed a policy that will discipline or fire teachers who undermine the U.S. Constitution, tell students that American historical figures weren’t heroes or portray racism as systemic in America. The Johnston County Board of Commissioners had threatened to withhold $7.9 million until the school board enacted the policy • Fed Vice Chair Richard Clarida traded millions in securities on February 27, 2020 just one day before Fed Chair Powell issued an emergency statement hinting at possible policy action as the pandemic worsened [exposed] • Virginia's Hampton Roads Black Caucus has endorsed the campaign of Republican Glenn Youngkin for governor, after having endorsed Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe in his successful 2013 bid for the governorship • Judge Trevor McFadden of the US District Court in Washington DC condemned federal prosecutors for their lack of imposing legal consequences for those who participated in last year's BLM and Antifa riots, yet have imposed large consequences for those who peacefully rallied on January 6 [he does go on to say that the defendant's behavior was not excusable] • House Republican leadership did not include the United States Chamber of Commerce in from their political strategy phone calls. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R) told the media he did not know if “the Chamber’s an ally when they endorsed all the Democrats in the last election” • Maryland Gov Larry Hogan’s former chief of staff, Roy McGrath, was indicted on federal fraud and embezzlement charge • Office of Congressional Ethics calls for an investigation for Rep Susan Lee (D-NV), outlining that the congresswoman failed to adequately disclose over 200 stock transactions on time since early 2020, made by her and her husband, valued up to $3.3 million, and in doing so allegedly violated Federal Law and House ethics rules • The Iowa State Senate rejected a pro-Democrat redistricting map in a 32 to 18 vote • Forbes is reporting that CNN is experiencing the biggest year-over-year drop in prime time, down 57% in the second quarter of 2020. Viewership was 1.5 million last Sept, and this Sept averaged 770k

• Make America Great Again, Again! (MAGA, Again!) announced the formation of the only Trump approved Super PAC, replacing Make America Great Again Action and it will support Trump endorsed candidates across the country who have proven to be fighters of the MAGA movement and President Trump’s many accomplishments • President Donald Trump officially filed a Motion For Preliminary Injunction October 7th in the class-action lawsuit with America First Policy Institute against Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. The motion is “strategically designed” to quickly stop the censorship of the 45th president on Facebook and provide Trump the opportunity to use the platform • More than a week after subpoenaing former aide to President Trump Dan Scavino to cooperate with its investigation into the January 6 peaceful rally at the US Capitol, the House Select Committee has been unable to physically serve the subpoena to him • Special Counsel John Durham is investigating whether cybersecurity experts who held lucrative Pentagon and homeland security contracts and high-level security clearances for potentially abusing their government privileges to aid a 2016 Clinton campaign plot to falsely link Donald Trump to Russia and trigger an FBI investigation of him and his campaign • All four Trump aides targeted by the Jan 6th select committee, Mark Meadows, Dan Scavino, Steve Bannon and Kash Patel are expected to resist the subpoena orders as Trump asserts executive privilege • The US economy added 568k private-sector jobs last month, up from a downwardly revised 340k in August. The unemployment rate dropped to 4.8% (the lowest since Feb 2020). Service-sector added 466k jobs. Goods-producing sector added 102k new workers last month, led by manufacturing with 49k and construction with 46k [ADP was the source for this info and has different numbers than what some others are quoting. Not where we should be, however it was an increase from August] • Up to 3,200 pedophiles worked in French Catholic Church since 1950, independent commission says [horrific. We’re glad it’s being exposed] • Dubbed "Operation Ohio Knows," 161 people are arrested in a sex sting operation, described as the state's largest focused on human trafficking • Dr Danielle Roberts has her medical license revoked by the New York State Department of Health after she branded at least 17 women for Keith Raniere's sex cult NXIVM • Eight House Republicans sent a letter to Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Adam Selipsky, urging the cloud service provider to end its business relationship with OnlyFans over the presence of child pornography on the platform. In it, they pointed to several recent reports of sexually explicit content of minors appearing on OnlyFans, as well as testimony from Homeland Security Investigations agents that between 30-50 instances of child pornography originate on OnlyFans each day [exposed] • A total of six officials have resigned in the span of 3 days following New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s difficult resignation last week, including her Deputy Premier John Barilaro and Transport Minister Andrew Constance • Victoria, Australian Premier Daniel Andrews is under investigation into his dealings with the firefighters’ union • Sigurdur Thordarson, a key witness for the FBI against Julian Assange, has been jailed in Iceland. In a recent interview with Stundin he admitted to fabricating statements to implicate Assange and contradicted what he was quoted as saying in US court documents • PA Rep Christopher Rabb (D) sent out a memorandum to all House members regarding his legislation that will force men to undergo vasectomies within 6 weeks from having their third child or their 40th birthday, whichever comes first. This legislation includes a $10k reward to whoever snitches to the proper authority on those who have failed to submit to forced sterilization within the allotted time [exposed]

Good News October 1st, 2021 – October 8th, 2021 edition. As you scroll through the highlights, ask yourself if the Deep State were in charge, would this be allowed? Or would we even know about it? Also some news may not seem “good,” but it’s on the list because it is utterly fantastic it’s being exposed! • Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai found a number of anomalies when reviewing Maricopa County’s 2020 early mail-in ballot envelopes. He continues to work with the AZ state senate to expose the fraud • Marion County (OR) clerks are getting a new round of calls and emails disputing the 2020 results • Wendy Rogers has been spearheading a new project after the audit report, having 92 legislators from 31 states, authorize a letter that calls for all 50 U.S. states to be audited, and electors to be decertified “where it has been shown the elections were certified prematurely and inaccurately” • Maricopa County admits they deleted and moved the election data to hide it from auditors after they got a subpoena • The Texas Supreme Court on Monday denied Planned Parenthood's request to resume its lawsuit that challenges the state's near-total abortion ban • A lawsuit has been filed by 2020 poll-watchers, alleging that cease and desist letters sent to them by Dominion as part of the company’s defamation lawsuit harmed and damaged the recipients. They allege that Dominion is violating the civil provision of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, engaged in a civil conspiracy, and deprived the litigants of their constitutional rights under the First Amendment and the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment • AuditTheVoteNJ has processed 108k notarized pages and 1140 affidavits from NJ residents demanding a full forensic audit of the 2020 election. In addition to serving Governor Murphy this information, 19 other NJ Elected Officials/Offices were also served • New Jersey now joins nine other states that have authorized a full forensic audit and 14 states that have also served their legislature demanding a full forensic audit of the 2020 general election • According to electionfraud20 dot org, six states have grassroots teams going door-to-door verifying voter information (canvassing): Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Washington, Delaware • Patriot Rally scheduled for October 12th at the capitol in Lansing, MI demanding a forensic audit of the 2020 election • Wendy Rogers (AZ) has withdrawn her endorsement of GA’s Vernon Jones, admitting that Lin Wood was correct • Fortune estimates Facebook lost roughly $60 million in revenue during Monday’s outage. Mark Zuckerberg lost a whopping almost $7 billion in a few hours • Web scrapers claim to possess and sell personal data on 1.5 billion Facebook users on a hacker forum [supposedly unrelated to Monday’s outage. Wakey wakey!] • John Stossel has filed a lawsuit against Facebook seeking at least $2 million in damages, alleging that the company defamed him by adding “fact-check” labels to two videos he posted related to climate change • Polish citizens will have the statutory right to appeal any online ban and content removal, if they can prove their speech is lawful under the constitution. A new Free Speech Board will have the power to order the Big Tech firms to restore accounts and content, or face heavy fines • Hungary has also confirmed it will be moving to stop shadowbans of ‘Christian, conservative, right-wing’ views online • US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer noted a "renaissance in US battery production" for the auto industry thanks to the Trump administration's United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Lighthizer pointed to SK Innovation's new $2.6 billion facility in Georgia and SK and Ford announcing an $11 billion investment in Tennessee and Kentucky

Today is good news Friday. This time around, I will also include a PDF for those who wish to share outside of Telegram. Now I’m off to … read my Kindle! Then I’ll hopefully sleep. Three out of four kids are unwell so Fun Times™ for us. Sounds like a good day to finish watching The Hobbit. It totally counts as world history for homeschooling, in case you’re wondering.

There was a 6.1 magnitude earthquake on October 7th centered in the Chiba prefecture, just east of Tokyo, at a depth of 80 kilometers (48 miles) at 10:41 pm local time (9:41 am EST) according to the AP. Friends living about 30 minutes away from the center reported it to me about an hour later and I immediately hopped online to see what was happening. The only recognizable sources posting about it was RT News. Here are some highlights from my friends: • There were low flying military helicopters over the area minutes after the quake. Though they could be looking for damages, you don’t need as many as what were flying, and you don’t need military jets. • Could not find any breaking news about the earthquake, especially American outlets. • There have been reports about blackouts in certain areas of the city and when people posted about the blackouts the comments were taken down. • One of the major train stations in Tokyo (Shinagawa) was totally black. Tokyo which is known to have earthquakes and may need emergency back up power; but the station had no back up power? • There were two helicopters directly over our area of Tokyo doing circle patterns. You wouldn't need 2 helicopters just to spot fires. There is no damage, no one died, so why the crazy reaction? And these helicopters were going over the city all night, and not just quickly. • Water pipes underground have busted all over the city and the surrounding area outside where the earthquake happened. There are people who have lived here their whole life and this has never happened. • Don't know if we can trust all the reported information. • If it was that deep for it to shake that much… it's not reasonable. • After the one big shake that lasted like four seconds, it reverberated for a very long time like two minutes from where we were. All earthquakes are different, but most of them are longer shakes in waves; this was just one big jolt and then very light long reverberation. A couple of hours ago when I went back online, I saw that AP and Forbes had posted something about the earthquake, but I couldn’t find the RT article I had read earlier. There are a few oddities surrounding this, and I just thought y’all would want to read a patriot’s on the ground perspective.

HOT APPLE CIDER 1 gallon (16 cups) apple cider ½ cup brown sugar 2 tsp ground cinnamon ¼ tsp ground nutmeg (optional: ¼ cup caramel sauce) Pour then mix ingredients into the crockpot. (4 quart crockpot will hold 1 gallon). Refrigerate leftovers. Chef’s Note: I pour desired amount into cup then re-heat in the microwave. PUMPKIN WHITE HOT CHOCOLATE ½ cup International Delight Pumpkin Spice Creamer 3 cups whole milk 1 ½ cups white chocolate chips Heat in 4 quart crockpot for 2-3 hours, until the chips are melted and combined with the milk; then add pumpkin creamer. Refrigerate leftovers. Chef’s note: for 8 qt crockpot: 3 cups creamer, 18 cups milk, 9 cups chocolate chips. Also, I pour desired amount into cup then re-heat in the microwave. HOT CHOCOLATE 2 cups heavy cream 6 cups milk ¾ cup granulated sugar 1 tsp of pure vanilla extract 2 cups chocolate, chopped (real; or your favorite chips) 3 tbsp cocoa powder In an 8 quart crockpot, combine the sugar, cocoa powder, milk, heavy cream and vanilla. Whisk until all of the cocoa powder is dissolved and fully incorporated. Stir in the chopped chocolate. Cover and cook on low, whisking every 20-30 minutes or so until all of the ingredients are melted and well-combined. Refrigerate leftovers. Chef’s Note: I pour desired amount into cup then re-heat in the microwave.

We need to think about how those we love will react to the uncomfortable truths –if you haven’t already. They will be distraught, distressed, maybe unstable, traumatized. Unfortunately we may need to prepare for their anger being directed towards us. We need to ask God to prepare us for this stage of the healing process. For those of you who have family nearby or think your house may become a beacon for the aggrieved, what can you do to welcome them? This is another reason some of us may need to take a break from red pilling; so we can prepare our homes to receive the hurting. We want our homes to be a place for them to receive gentle hugs and reassuring words. We want our friends and family to feel nurtured in our presence, even if our role is to be a quiet listener. I don’t know about you, but one of the ways I take care of others is providing them homemade meals and baked goods. For example, if you bake then freeze some breads and cookies now, you’ll be able to provide little comforts later. Can you picture pouring them a cup of warmth and offering a plate of something delicious? No, it won’t erase the ugly, but it might be a welcome balm.

How can you continue to be devoted to your loved ones without it affecting your peace of mind? If we’re stepping back, taking a break and choosing not to share all the uncomfortable truths, what do we do until they are awakened? We’ve touched on this before: perhaps our time to help is after the storm has passed. So until the time we’re called to step back in, we need to forgive those who have lashed out against us, mocked us, belittled us. We should be dedicated to building a stronger, personal relationship with the Lord. We should be reading the bible, praying earnestly, worshipping Him, seeking Him and knowing Him. Do what it takes to invigorate your courage, rouse your confidence, replenish your faith. Remember, taking a break is not the same as forfeiting the victory.

When Christ was on the cross, He prayed for the people below. He knew they acted out of fear, their deliberate ignorance blinding them to the truth. Their irrational choices did not sway His devotion. His example is for us, too. We can simultaneously forgive those who have hurt and rejected us, and remain devoted to our loved ones even while we run the individual race set before us. Our imperfect example might then be the inspiration they need to join us. As they saying goes, sometimes you can’t tell them, you have to show them. Maybe for you there is no mountain you won’t climb, no river you won’t cross to help others. Maybe for you the load has become too heavy and you cannot take another step. Sometimes we absolutely have to walk away. I’m certainly not suggesting you cut of all communications the way I had to with my non-bio Dad. I am suggesting however, that maybe we need to re-evaluate how involved we are in the process of waking up those around us. Is there a point when God wants us to let go and let Him?

We helplessly watch as those we care about allow themselves to be transformed. We know the media apparatus warps minds, manipulates emotions and ferments disquiet. We know the pharmaceutical elites eschews the populace. We know the military industrial complex rejects peace. We know the educational system wants obedient plebs. All of these wicked conglomerates, though effective, are vaporous tentacles to a darker unseen nucleus. Maybe it’s time for us to quietly step back so we’re not caught in the crosshairs of God obliterating these evil entities. And maybe for some of us that means we need to retreat, focus on preparing our homes. Maybe it means we need to stop waking up those who refuse to be informed, those who trade truth for lies. Each of us has to decide when it’s costing us too much to help others. Maybe that never happens for you. Maybe it has already cost you everything.

For those who are estranged from those they love, it feels some could benefit from this story I shared around Father’s Day… My non-bio Dad hurt me beyond repair. I had to walk away. For roughly 12 years I lived my life free of his physical presence. I never, not once, during this time felt guilt. And God, knowing me so fully, never pushed me, never tugged on my heart. He knew I needed this time to reflect, heal and to grow emotionally and spiritually. As my husband and I struggled to start our family, I focused on being physically healthy. God in His infinite wisdom knew there was little point to a healthy body if one’s mind and spirit are unwell. I began to feel the tug on my heart to forgive my Dad. I didn’t even fight it because I knew I needed to do this for my sake. It was hard in the sense that the unforgiveness was a part of my identity: “The Girl Who Didn’t Speak To Her Father.” It’s all I knew for the last 12 years and it was scary not knowing what lay ahead. I did forgive him, and this opened up the gate for the Holy Spirit to show me who else needed to have that grudge I was carrying dropped. It was most definitely a spiritual matter that had physical repercussions. Within a month of my “letting go and letting God,” I got pregnant with our twins. Nothing will ever change my mind that these events aren’t linked. About a year after connecting with my Dad (no fanfare, no telling him I forgave him) just simply communicating, I felt the desire to meet with him. We lived 1000 miles and years apart for so long, it was nerve-wracking. Shortly after making this decision, we learned that he was dying. We expedited our plans so he could met his grandchildren. Four months later, he passed away.