Former newspaper publisher, A. Dru Kristenev, grew up in the publishing industry working every angle of a paper, from ad composition and sales, to personnel management, copy writing, and overseeing all editorial content. During her tenure as a news professional, Kristenev traveled internationally as a representative of the paper and, on separate occasions, non-profit organizations. Since 2007, Kristenev has authored five fact-filled political suspense novels, the Baron Series, and two non-fiction books, all available on Amazon. Carrying an M.S. degree and having taught at premier northwest universities, she is the trustee of Scribes' College of Journalism, which mission is to train a new generation of journalists in biblical standards of reporting. More information about the college and how to support it can be obtained by contacting Kristenev at cw.o@earthlink.net.
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From the start, Kevin McCarthy must have been aware of the deceit. The die was cast at the outset, going through the motions of 15 rounds to make it look like he capitulated to the People. His actions indicate that he didn’t and never planned to follow through with the compromise.
The Biden administration has become the enemy of the People as it ushers illegals (approximately six million since taking office) into the country, hands out free cell phones, feeds, clothes, transports and houses them anywhere they desire to go within the United States.
Secretary Mayorkas is escorting illegal border-crossers to new digs in every state, busing and flying them to ports of entry all across the country. In so doing, along with myriads traveling independently by car or rail, every state has phalanx after phalanx of unvetted, unprocessed, economic aggressors fortifying unassimilated communities covering the map. Reticent Border Patrol agents are coerced by DHS to hand out thousands of free entrance passes – I-862 forms brandishing court appearance dates as much as 10 years in the future.
Common sense constitutionalists recognize a hustle when they see it, and the Biden administration is outdoing itself pulling one gimmick after another and rushing them into operation under the ‘color of law.’
The argument has entered into the realm of the debt ceiling battle between Congress and the president. Laurence Tribe, Harvard professor, has added his over-the-top idea by recommending that the president can somehow hijack the 14th Amendment to allow Biden to ignore Congress’ fiduciary power. This expert has said that the Office of President should implement its “duty” to handle the “faith and credit” of the American People by overriding Congress and raising the debt ceiling on his own. This has no bearing in law but comes under the heading of what would be ‘color of law.’
Governors have stepped up their courage to promote and sign legislation denying abortionists and transgender advocates the ability to indiscriminately kill babies and prey on children.
Restricting access to most procedures that terminate the life of the unborn have been addressed in a number of conservative states. As well, states are taking action to pull the plug on pharmaceutical interests’ fortune-building that indoctrinates youngsters to undergo life-altering, disfiguring medical procedures.
The question is, why are state legislatures and governors willing to take a hard stance on these ethical issues but refuse to do likewise to save their economies?
After practically every “conspiracy theory,” as labeled by the corporatist press, has been vindicated by the same knee-jerk media cabal that deep-sixed facts for years, their modus operandi hasn’t changed one iota.
Forced to eat their words regarding the Russia hoax, Covid origins, J6 “insurrection,” election fraud, mask uselessness and vaccine failure, evidence has proven that we “crazies” actually got it right in the first place and have it right again.
A step too far, climate colluders have released more propaganda disguised as a legalistic “white paper” published by the Harvard Law Review. Professional provocateurs, David Arkush, Director of Public Citizen’s Climate Project, and Donald Braman, Associate Professor of Law at George Washington University, published “research” intended to punish oil companies for doing what green technologies are completely incapable of--providing life-sustaining power.
These are the experts upon whose research the 70-page diatribe is based:
Cueing MAGA to be on the defensive, the Soros-backed Manhattan prosecutor threatening President Trump with bogus charges and arrest is in for a challenge. Speaker McCarthy officially raised the question whether federal funds were being funneled toward building a politically motivated indictment that Trump paid a headline-seeker for silence.
Real though it may be, Trump’s possible detention is one of many distractions from the imminent dissolution of the global banking system into state and billionaire hands that institutionalizes inflation, impoverishing and immobilizing citizens from taking action.
Admissions of having been misled by government and media are becoming more common as individuals have begun to investigate mainstream reports meant to keep citizens compliant and, frankly, comatose.
Thousands upon thousands are waking up to recognize the “woke” agenda embedded in federal financial, educational, energy, foreign and border policy. Even that, however, is not the full story of the banking debacle because investors are wholly interested in return, not ideology. Ideology is a convenient means implemented to increase gain but, to a serious money maven, it’s not the bottom line. Profit is.
In an effort to be transparent – an overused and abused term – be it known that technology is not my wheelhouse but it has become necessary for individuals like myself to become better acquainted with how algorithms are being applied to manipulate human interaction. This means improving understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs) which appellation sounds more benign than it is.
Touted as the next wonder of the world, LLMs are infiltrating education, marketing and religion by compiling intel through program input and collecting universal content to build a knowledge cache developers say will surpass human capacity. From this data repository, LLM “brains” are being credited with the ability to create novel aesthetic and biological products. Chatbots can, and expect to be, used to compose essays, reports, advertising and artworks.
There are two prongs to the election fraud narrative that has engulfed and intertwined two of the largest nations in the western hemisphere – Brazil and the United States.
Both countries are swamped with mirrored behavior by installed heads of state: Lula as a convicted criminal released by a corrupt judiciary for the express purpose of stealing Brazil’s presidency; and Biden whose criminal (arguably treasonous) connections were covered up by the media to march him into the Oval Office.
World Economic Forum's Davos confab spent hours extolling the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) being conjoined with humanity.
Augmenting the human brain utilizing AI was headlined at the 2023 WEF Davos conference. Openly lauded by Klaus Schwab in panel after panel, the expectation of "bettering" humanity by inserting AI into brain activity was put forth as inevitable. Considering the current developments their experts promoted in their presentations, that is the direction WEF is hastening toward in what they've titled "The Great Reset," though they're pivoting the terminology.
Not that the unaccountable Davos elitists would ever cop to it, but their putting pressure to rely on ESG (environmental, social governance) standards for investment is directly responsible for what they claim to be the newest crisis for 2023 – the cost-of-living.
The unprecedented rise in worldwide inflation, and the disappearance of basic necessities from retail shelves is the result of World Economic Forum's decades' long campaign to manage climate, over which, for all who don't know, Man has no control.
Scientists have learned a little something about influencing local weather (seeding rain clouds, etc.) but they haven't any superpower to change the climate. It doesn't matter how much money or artificial intelligence they throw at the nonexistent problem, because it's just that – nonexistent.
January 6, 2023 culminated one battle between a small core of constitutionalists and the entrenched congressional establishment on the anniversary of a million unarmed Americans rallying in D.C., whom corporatist media and political adversaries branded "insurrectionists."
Pressure cooker politics were played out on national television as the "strong six" were inappropriately maligned as "terrorists" by their own party members.
It was a dramatic display of what the representational process is supposed to include – debate and the willingness to stand on one’s principles, which has become a rare occurrence in the Capitol. The legislative process is meant to be exhibited in full view, messy and confrontational at times. Authoritarians negotiating behind closed doors who then force their unvetted, secretive decisions on the body, stripping members of their representational role, is not what the founders intended.
Do social media posts appear to be going nowhere? The likelihood is that’s exactly what’s happening and not just to large accounts or recognized influencers.
Big Tech’s constraint of bona fide facts has fueled citizen disengagement from public affairs. Overwhelming posts by bots, inserted by bad actors like the Chinese, have further driven voters to shelve participation in civic and social discussion, walling off themselves for introspection.
Peace on Earth! Good Will Toward Men Ukraine
Days before we celebrate the birth of Christ, singing “Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Men” the United States Congress turned their back on the true Coming to swoon over Peace’s adversary standing before their joint session – Zelenskyy playing to the hilt the role of the great deceiver.
The irony of the Senate’s willingness to throw another $45 Billion into the Ukraine money pit through the unfunded $1.7 Trillion Omnibus, is their rush to pass 4,155 pages that deepens American involvement in Ukraine’s clash with Russia so they can fly home to celebrate their betrayal of Christmas.
Believers are faced with a challenge to ensure the next generations are set on the path to a fulfilling life based in faith. Family, the Church and education centered in biblical values is the key to what's necessary to help youth successfully navigate the surrounding culture.
Education choices are being whittled down as public schools are focusing more and more on secular social issues instead of core subjects that build character, critical thinking and skills necessary for individual achievement in trade, business or higher education… what used to be called "reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic." The essential three "R's" have evolved into STEM studies that public education has emphasized to the point that learning proper English, unrevised history, geography, civics, etc. is no longer considered crucial to a balanced curriculum.
What? How can behemoth asset manager Vanguard affect everyday homeowners’ ability to heat their household in the face of winter’s onset? By setting themselves up to acquire influential numbers of shares of publicly held utilities around the nation, Vanguard will impose ESG, NetZero carbon practices upon power companies as they have already done with other corporations where they’ve packed the boards.
While Apple aids CCP crackdowns, using their enormous power – shutting down Air Drop on iPhones – to further subjugate China’s slave labor that feeds Apple’s fortune, it distracts from equally huge corporations swallowing power companies to control America’s energy use.
Waving placards and prancing around the dais, the Biden White House is celebrating because the mail-in election machine has managed to deeply wound the America First movement by depleting the victory with a flood of rhetoric.
Delay antics that abound in Arizona, beginning election morning where 20% of polling places in Maricopa County had tabulators rejecting ballots, and harvested votes in Nevada and California, where the practice has been legalized, will not steal the republican wins. Pennsylvania, on the other hand, continued counting ballots with unverified dates, defying the law and court orders.
The subject of this column may land me in the doghouse with some Christians who consider the concept of a 'political ministry' unsavory, or that there is no such thing. Begging to differ, political ministry has been the focus of personal endeavor for more than two decades. Days before a life changing (or threatening, depending on one's perspective) election is the time to make the case for every Christian's role in politics, how it must be recognized that politics is being driven by secular social and cultural pressure.
To take a biblical stance on what role a believer should have in the world, which includes the political process, is to note that Jesus didn't tell His followers to sit back on their haunches and wait for redemption. He pressed them to be vocal about the Kingdom of God and its manifestation in the spirit despite the opposition coming from both the Roman government and His own people comprising the Judean hierarchy.
Watching commercial television these days comes with constant hawking of pharmaceuticals, fast food, insurance and, increasingly, home sales to or through online vendors.
It’s hard not to question the growing number of real estate ads centering on panicked home mortgagees (most folks don’t hold clear title to their residence) racing to buy a bigger house. In truth, how many homeowners can really afford to move up in a recessionary economy that’s artificially inflating real estate values? Why are corporate property peddlers pitching rushed sales in a market beset by rising interest rates due to the devalued dollar that’s shrinking real wages? Throw in the inflation strangled stock market where 401(K)s and retirement plans have lost $4 Trillion in value as of October 18, 2022, and it’s dubious why homeowners are being pressured to upgrade when their savings are being slashed by pernicious economic policies.