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We are in tumultuous times. Right now there seems to be a lull in the action, but I assure you that the Great Reset is far from complete. There is bumpy road ahead. Heading into fall time, it would be wise to prepare yourself and your family as best as possible for the worst case scenario.
Hope for the best. Plan for the worst. Nobody knows how this will all play out!
May you all find peace in these perilous times!
Sincerely,
Luke Throop
TheTorchReport.com
Looking at the disturbing trend of federal agents violating 2nd Amendment rights.
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What's more likely: An alien invasion or corrupt governments deliberately injecting people with a harmful substance?
I find it absolutely fascinating that the Chinese have now approved HIV medication to fight the coronavirus.
Early in my research I recall learning about how mRNA vaccines could potentially destroy the body's natural immune response. The scientific community debated about warning vaccine recipients of this risk as a matter of informed consent, despite the Emergency Use Authorization. How serious is this issue? Consider these excerpts from the National Library of Medicine:
"Results of the study: COVID-19 vaccines designed to elicit neutralizing antibodies may sensitize vaccine recipients to more severe disease than if they were not vaccinated."
Vaccines may "sensitize" recipients to more severe disease than if they were not vaccinated. That would mean that the unvaccinated natural immune system, unhampered by genetic modifications, would provide greater protection against disease. Conversely, it would indicated that the vaccines were at the very least damaging the immune system, if not out right destroying it.
Laughing at myself and looking at the world through the eyes of an ignorant peasant.
Recent polling indicates that almost 98 MILLION people still believe that Joe Biden is doing a great job!
(For the math lovers, that's 37.5% of the ~290 million adults in the country.)
I'd like to laugh at these morons, but first I need to laugh at myself.
Let me tell you story:
I have a book on my shelf titled The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy. I've never read it. Sure, I've flipped through it a few times, but I've never actually read it. It was published in 1988 and covers everything from idioms and fine art, to literature and world history. Tucked in between "ivory towers" and "Iwo Jima" there is an entry on the “Ivy League” institutions that comprise the heart of America's academic elite.
If only I'd read about that yesterday! Last night, as my wife and I were debriefing the day, she happened to pull up the Banks, Tanks, & Biden's Blunder article.... she paused with a look of amusement on her face. She looked directly at me, with love in her eyes, and said: "It's Ivy League, not Ivory League."
Growing up in a plywood shack in the Alaskan wilderness, I knew I was culturally challenged. We didn't have running water or electricity, let alone a TV...
Connecting the dots between Central Bank Digital Coins, Global Digital Currency, and the violent riots that are erupting all around the globe.
As the global socialists continue trying to take over the world, they often tip their cards. Though they may boast Ivory League credentials, they are not as smart as they think they are. Their arrogance is based on their ignorance. They *may* be smarter than half the people out there, but as George Carlin famously said:
"Think about how stupid the average person is, then realize half of them are stupider than that."
This the crowd the politicians play to. This is the audience the media plays to. They soup up their spoon-fed narrative with a few fancy words so it sounds good, but underneath the fluff there is no logical substance. Not realizing that intelligent people can see straight through their lies, the Left just keeps on lying, hoping enough useful idiots will buy the hype and sign on to their utopian fantasies.
They might be right. When confronted with reality, liberals are baffled. I don't expect they would follow what I'm about to say, but I do believe that you will appreciate the perspective I’m about to present.
What do Homeland Security, the Climate Crisis, Hillary Clinton, and global vaccinations all have in common?
Some of the recent comments made by officials from the Biden administration are so outrageous, it seems impossible that those officials actually believe what they are saying or that they could say it with a straight face. Consider these whoppers:
It seems laughable that any of these officials actually believe what they are saying. In reality, I suspect they know that they are lying and continue to do so to further their agenda. Not only is this common political chicanery, it has become the commonplace tactic to lead the sheep ever closer to the slaughter. It's simple and effective.
They can just keep lying, because people keep believing.
Dodging some dicey conspiracies to expose the disturbing truth about what's really going on.
Two of the critical components in this global takeover are weaponized surveillance and censorship enhanced by artificial intelligence. While the threat of an invisible enemy induces panic and short-circuits critically thinking, the supposed climate crisis provides supreme justification for selfless preening and self-destructive public policy. Thus, the good humans of the world go along to get along and simply comply out of impulse. The reason these useful idiots are incapable of comprehending the bigger picture is precisely because their attention has been trained to focus on an illusion.
Some wise individual once said, "Life is about 10% of what happens to you, and 90% what you do about it." It's a timeless adage that cuts straight to the heart of daily living. In any given moment, anything can happen. Unexpected things crop up all the time, often in the least convenient moments, and things very seldom work out exactly as we have planned. But, they always work out, one way or another.
This is a comforting perspective, isn't it? There are so many things that are beyond our control, so many things that we cannot do much about, that it really doesn't do us much good to worry about them, right? There is a certain element of acceptance that is a prerequisite for peace of mind. Life in this moment cannot be any way other than the way that it is. Right here, right now, it is what it is.
Grounding in gratitude, reflecting on current reality, we can then chart a path forward. Everything is always in motion. Change is inevitable. We can resist it, we can embrace it, or we can even accelerate it. Ultimately, we can chose to use change. We can use change to our own personal advantage, and we should, and we can choose to use change in a way that benefits our families, friends, communities, counties, etc.
By extending this concept to its natural endpoint, we find the whole of humanity choosing to use change for the good of all. However plausible this may seem, such a stretch quickly becomes detached from reality. The premise is sound, the conclusion is not. It is inconceivable to coordinate the actions of 8 billion distinctly different individuals. Not everyone will agree to play along. It's just that simple.
That is why global agendas are ultimately rooted in control.
Exploring the circumstances that shape wildly different political perspectives and how this is impacting our current political discourse.
A Philosophical Exposition on Political Circumstance
There is a particularly interesting dichotomy in political perspectives that falls along the line between rural small town living and the hustle and bustle of big city metropolitan life. I'm sure that this is obvious to everyone on both sides and there is certainly no shortage of stereotypes slung both ways. It's the classic us versus them, as "ignorant hicks" square off with the "academic elites" in every political cycle.
Country folk scoff at the educated idiots who "don't know their ass from a hole in the ground," while the city folk causally dismiss the inbred deplorables who "cling to their guns and bibles."
But I want to step beyond this bickering banter and examine why people on each side think so differently. I'd like to think it might stimulate some conversation between the two sides, but I'm not that naive. People caught up in the big city bustle are simply too busy to listen to a peasant like me, precisely because I lack the pedigree that signals to them the need to pay attention.
But it would be foolish not to listen...
How our benevolent masters are using global surveillance to take control of humanity.
I know "we shouldn't read into this too much" is a common refrain, but just this once, let's make an exception. While the world is distracted with dog 'n' pony shows, kangaroo courts and massive riots all around the world, what is the scheming global cabal actually up to? Let's take a look.
This week the World Health Organization released a statement with current updates about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. It is an illumanitive exposition, full of keen insights and global strategies that are intented to keep humanity safe from the invisible enemy, forever. This is a sample of their high-level thinking:
"Given the general public's perception that the pandemic may be over... the Committee acknowledged that any risk communication and community engagement effort should hinge on consistent and synchronized political will, policies, and a concert of community influencers to shift the course of risk perception."
The Committee unanimously agreed that the COVID-19 pandemic is not over and that the current situation still meets all the criteria of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Citing data that indicate cases COVID-19 have increased by 30% in just the last two weeks, the WHO laments the lifting of "public health and social measures" (PHSM) such as masking. So what's the world to do?
All of this translates to greater pressures on health systems, which in turn bolsters their responsibility to take decisive action and further exercise their emergency powers in an effort to manipulate human behavior and control the global population—because we're all in this together!
Let's not take this out of context. Consider this simple line of logic:
Sorry there wasn’t more of a build up for that emotional outburst. I realize that's not new news for most of you—but what if I were to tell you that the degree and depth of electoral corruption exceeded your wildest imagination? What if I told you that Communists have been running on the Democrat ticket, stealing elections, and "fundamentally transforming" America for longer than most of us have been alive?
That was the article I was writing. I will expound upon those points in the podcast, but in order to keep this succinct and stay on schedule, I'm going to simply outline the points here:
Now about those midterms!
Recent public announcements stir grave concern that a nuclear war may be imminent.
Yesterday NYC issued a Public Service Announcement telling New Yorkers what to do in the case of a nuclear attack. While stating there was no specific reason for concern, they offer these comforting words: “As the threat landscape continues to evolve, it is important that New Yorkers know we are preparing for any imminent threats and are providing them with the resources they need to stay safe and informed.”
What is one to do in the case of a nuclear strike?
Listen to the media. They'll message your phone.
Keep in mind this comes on the heels of months of mental seeding, as the media has spun up the threat that the Evil Russian Tyrant was preparing to nuke us all. More recently, some reasonably credible analysts have made the bold claim that nuclear war is 100% guaranteed. Others have pointed to the recent G7 meeting that authorized sending hundreds of thousands of NATO troops and heavy military equipment into Ukraine and other Eastern European countries, as well as the July 5th acceptance of Sweden and Finland into the NATO alliance.
Whether it is intentional or not, or whether it is defensive or not, all of this is highly provoking to Russia. Perhaps most alarming, on June 27 the NATO Secretary General says that peace talks are no longer on the table, and told the world we are now faced with "confrontation instead of dialogue." Hence the boosting of troops from 40,000 to 300,000 and having them train on "local terrain" with NATO's new "pre-positioned" stockpile of high-speed U.S. military equipment, which includes but is not limited to:
Thus, the "threat" of nuclear war is very real. That said, some pundits are pointing out that perhaps this is all just another ploy to keep people scared out of their wits, glued to the tube, and hanging on every word spilling out of the government propaganda machine.
How politicians are preying upon the unsuspecting masses using tactics straight out of the Communist Manifesto.
"Seeing the failures and fault lines in the cruel light of day cast by the corona crisis may compel us to act faster by replacing failed ideas, institutions, processes and rules with new ones better suited to current and future needs. This is the essence of the Great Reset." -Klaus Schwab, author of COVID-19: The Great Reset
Let's just break that down a bit:
Now then, does any of this sound familiar?
How about this quote from the Communist Manifesto:
"The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions." -Karl Marx & Friedrich Engles, The Communist Manifesto
The forcible overthrow of all existing conditions—got it.
Sounds like a Great Reset, right?
Marx was a genius in his own right. He figured out how to use language with a "hidden, higher meaning" to convince the useful idiots they were fighting for justice and equality, when in reality, they were simply consolidating power in the hands of a few power hungry elites. By using the peasants to do their bidding, communists try to come off as the champion of the little guy, all while conditioning them into servitude.
And it works. Why? Because a certain percentage of the human population is content to be slaves. They appreciate the protection and the provisions. They're given food and shelter, and all they have to do is do what they're told. Then they are praised for being good humans, and that means they won't have to suffer at the hands of their masters (get beaten like slaves). It's husbandry, pure and simple.
Taking a positive approach to serious issues in our globally connected world.
As you know, that statement can be interpreted many different ways. As in, we are not alone in the universe, we are not alone in faith, we are not alone in how we feel, we are not alone in our political concerns, or we are not alone in the world. Obviously context matters, so today, when I say "we are not alone" what I'm referring to is our interconnected world.
I read a book recently titled Our Global Neighborhood, that pitches "a convincing path towards a better world." It has all the hallmarks of a classic intellectual read: It was published by Oxford University Press, endorsed by Nelson Mandela, and chock full of inspiring ideas that were destined to take root in the fertile soil of aspiring young minds.
The book was published in 1995. Do you remember the world in 1995? Imagine being in college, perhaps in a master's or doctoral program at an Ivory Institution. In your mid-twenties your felt on top of the world, like your altruistic intent could conquer anything, eradicate hunger and poverty, end violence and usher in an era of world peace. All you needed was a plan and a team to build the dream. Twenty-five ambitious years later, you've nearly pulled it off.
The first chapter of Our Global Neighborhood is titled "The Concept of Global Governance", which opens with globalization and the need for a vision, saunters through social and environmental changes, discusses agents of change in civil society, and concludes with Enlightened Leadership.
Here's the last paragraph of the first chapter:
"The challenges facing the world today are vastly more complicated than those that confronted the delegates in San Francisco. They demand co-operative efforts to put in place a system of global governance better suited to present circumstances--a system informed by an understanding of the important transformations of the past half-century and guided by enlightened leadership."
World leaders met in San Francisco in 1945 to sign the United Nations Charter, "a document expressing the universal hope that a new era in international behavior and governance was about to begin." Thus, just like that, a bunch of communists partnered with the Royal Crown and liberal democrats to create a new global order that came complete with an international court that enforce international law with international peace keeping troops.
That's a crude crash course in history, but it's true just the same.
There is something critically important happening behind the scenes in Camp Biden. It will absolutely affect every American, and most will never have seen it coming. It's not going to be fun and We The People are going to feel the pain. It's all part of this "incredible transition" —but before we get into the serious, let's start with the strange:
It seems strange doesn't it? That just yesterday we were talking about the process of normalization, and how the government uses this process to institute tyrannical rule? Now when communities are told they are at "high risk" for a virus that still has over a 99% survival rate, they immediately lose their right to breathe freely. Or, more accurately, people forfeit this basic human right for the illusion of safety.
All that said, and setting it aside, let's get real practical.
Total global control requires direct currency control. Along with controlling the flow of information, the means of production and the amount of consumption, they need to control your money. How might they do that?
It's coming. The next wave is on the way. It won't be long before COVID strikes again!
Of course, there aren't a lot of people talking about that just yet. Not many people realize that the number of daily cases is now over 5X higher than the exact same time last year, or that the average number of deaths per day has jumped from 197 to 312 in the last twelve months.
Another way to look at this is to realize that last 4th of July there were 735,549 people infected with covid, and this 4th of July there were 3,356,278 people infected with covid. You don't have to dork out on math to catch the fact that this is a shocking increase that would have easily consumed the headlines and prompted calls for good humans to mask-up, get tested, steer clear of large crowds, and cancel social events... and yet now there's hardly a peep in the media.
That's because the entire shamdemic was never about covid. It was never about keeping people safe. From its seedy start in a government funded laboratory, to the peak hysteria and panic that normalized medical tyranny, COVID-19 has been about one thing: Control. Even now, as the media ignores the explosion in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths among vaccinated, fresh research indicates that we are still at least two years away from the end of the pandemic.
That would imply they are not done using this tool to control the masses.
Though it's tempting to believe otherwise, the pandemic is not over. We are simply in a lull of propaganda, as politicians temporarily restrain their authoritarian impulses just long enough to allow the public to adjust and forget about the two years of abuse we've just endured. That's how normalization works. It is a tried and true method of tyrants, and make no mistake, they know exactly what they are doing.
Society has been conditioned to believe that violence is never the answer, but history and nature tell a different story.
Yesterday was Independence Day, and I started writing an article about why freedom is important. Building off a recent poll that shows 2 out of 3 people do not know why Americans declared their independence from the crown, I became frustrated by the insanity of having to even address the issue — how could we have come to this? How could Americans not know why we celebrate the 4th of July?
It struck a melancholy note in me and rather than dwell on the matter, I decided to lift the mood by gathering with friends to reflect on the state of life in general. Sipping whiskey, strumming guitars out by the pool, enjoying fellowship under the pines, rolling into town to feast on BBQ chicken, burgers and blue ribbon beers, savoring the world's best sweet mustard sauce, homemade salsa and guac, watching the kids play with explosives, laughing and having fun, talking about goats, guns, and plans for the future... all of this was good for the soul.
This is the America I know and love. People respect the stars and bars. We respect each other. It's a free country. Our flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away. I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free—and I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me—and I'll gladly stand up, next to you, and defend her still today, 'cause there ain't no doubt I love this land, God Bless the USA! I am proud to be an American, and so are my family and friends, and so are you, my friends reading this letter and those in the listening audience.
We love our country, and for the most part, we like it just the way that it is. Sure, we can fix some things—but then again, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. The Constitution of the United States was established to secure the blessings of liberty for future generations, and it's worked remarkably, undeniably well. Look at the prosperity, the innovation, the charity, the inspiration that America has brought into the world. Are we wrong to feel like we are the greatest nation on earth? The proof is in the pudding, isn’t it? It isn’t bragging if it's true, right?
I believe we can say those things and speak about American exceptionalism without diminishing other countries. In fact, I believe plenty of people feel that very same way about their own hometowns, tucked into every nook and cranny and corner of the earth. People love their communities, their hamlets, their villages and cities. Or they don't, and they leave. How many people have migrated to America because they believed in the American Dream? Are we not known as the melting pot of the world? The point is this: We should be proud to be Americans, just as others should be proud patriots of their own homeland, because it's the most natural thing in the world.
I kid you not, liberals are now blasting Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as "Black White Supremacist". The lunacy at this point is nearly unfathomable. But, as hilarious as it seems, this level of psychosis is really no laughing matter. While it's tempting to dismiss such ridiculous assertions as petty annoyance, the bigger issue is that people actually believe it—and that's a HUGE problem.
Keep in mind, this degree of insanity is not confined to only one issue, nor is it only cropping up in commentary and pop culture. This psychosis, this utter disconnect from reality, this progressive mental disease has infected a great number of politicians. Though these people are completely unhinged, they have their own government websites and they wield a great deal of influence over our everyday lives.
Which brings me to the issue of the day. The hot news is that the Supreme Court made a decision to restrict the EPA's authority to implement their radical climate agenda without congressional oversight. Democrats are flipping out in a predictable fashion, trumpeting their insanity with statements like this:
"Fascists SCOTUS guts the EPA's ability to regulate carbon emissions [and] fight climate change."
When a significant portion of society collectively rejects reality, what happens? I'm speaking of the famed "mass formation psychosis" that seems to have gripped the masses. Plenty of people see it--in fact, most of the people I talk to agree that something strange is going on.
Any honest evaluation of humanity must acknowledge the fact that people are crazy. Not just a few people. Not just some people. A lot of people are crazy, and if we're honest with ourselves, we must admit we are probably all a little crazy from time to time. After all, going crazy is glorified in music and pop culture. It's seen as an escape from inhibition. It's acceptable to cut-loose, let-down, and just be a human from time to time. But this is different.
If acting a little crazy is normal behavior, there still has to be a line somewhere that indicates when a person is a little too crazy, like off-their-rocker crazy, lock them up crazy, or just good old fashioned bat-shit crazy. I suggest that this kind of crazy, the bad kind of crazy, the we should be concerned kind of crazy, the dangerous kind of crazy, has a distinguishing behavioral trait. People who are this kind of crazy reject reality in exchange for their own delusions.
While we all get a little crazy sometimes, we ultimately come back to reality and engage life in a somewhat "normal" fashion. But the real crazies, they never make it back. Sometimes it's drugs, sometimes it's mental collapse, and sometimes people are just born that way--but sometimes, sometimes, it's due to emotional assault, covert conditioning, and psychological warfare.
Whenever we're faced with a decision that offers multiple options and various ways to move forward, it's always wise to take the time to weigh out the pros and cons of different potentialities. (I just like that word, BTW)
Other times we need to just flip a coin and take action.
But, when it comes to evaluating different perspectives and news sources, the preferred approach is to compare and contrast the different stories, seeking out discrepancies and diametrically opposed opinions that might offer some insight into the truth that's lurking somewhere in between the extremes.
On that note, let's take a look at the cover stories of today, moving from Left to Right: