This is a Southern Saturday night singing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVL1xV2wCOQ&t=6m30s

The service is just starting at Providence Baptist Church, Cheltenham, for those without a local fellowship to attend.

https://cheltenham.church/live/

A Gospel chorus for the burdened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGdIOP1dIf4&t=15s

Satan’s device No. 2: to paint sin with virtue’s colours. (Thomas Brooks)

The Apostles’ Creed in the Geneva Psalter setting, Dutch translation of Petrus Datheen (1556). Sung by three young sisters, with the melody in the middle voice. Sorry for the poor quality but this is an exceptional and rare harmonisation, a flowering of the substantial Bible belt that’s still soldiering on over here.

Final piece of Christian encouragement this Lord’s Day:

The obituary of my boss at the Russian Bible Society, who was promoted to glory late last year. What a life lived for Christ!

https://www.grocefuneralhome.com/obits/robert-ray-doom/

Good morning!
Here’s an uplifting thought to start the working week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUtikPtdT-s

I knew that once Elizabeth Holmes was convicted, the men of intelligence and integrity would start unravelling the biofascist aims of her obviously deliberately malfeasant business, Theranos.

The most pitiable moment for me in the Theranos saga was George Shultz' grandson going on camera to say he had pleaded in vain with his grandfather to see through the scam and to leave the board, together with Kissinger and Mattis—plainly the grandson couldn't fathom how evil Shultz (who died a year ago) and his cronies were.

Alex Krainer, a hedgie with a heart (not a contradiction in terms!), is already the author of the definitive unpicking of City of London-weaponised Russophobia (Grand Deception: the Browder Hoax). He has now wrapped up a three-parter on Theranos. His six takeaways are entirely justified and greatly uplifting. They remind me of the blaggers I heard around me at Rugby, Cambridge and Whitehall, whom Krainer has lived with far more intensely than I had to due to his profession, and whose bilge he is able to drain deftly:

1. Do not be intimidated by great power. To succeed, liars must mobilize the creative energies of many people.

2. A handful of courageous, principled individuals committed to justice and truth can defeat even the most powerful networks.

3. Do not be too impressed with their "technology"—it's usually an attempt to hypnotize us into submission and voluntary compliance.

4. They are stupid. They have trouble distinguishing between their delusions of omnipotence and what’s actually achievable in the real world.

5. Resistance is never futile—power plays take time to unravel. Never surrender!

6. Truth is important.


Krainer ends with:

Reject fear!

https://thenakedhedgie.com/2021/10/04/theranos-scandal-the-six-encouraging-lessons-part-3-of-3/

A fine touch in Alex Krainer's writing is that when writing about the Undoubted Experts™ whom the old media dish up to us as the vox Dei on evil régimes or new technologies, he inserts the adverb "supposedly" or "allegedly" before the phrase "fluent in ..." [insert language: Russian, Chinese, Arabic, Farsi or Korean].
There is a perennial shortage of people brought up in the English-speaking world who really are fluent in these languages. Chinese and Korean are rated by the US and UK diplomatic and intelligence services as right at the top of the scale for difficulty.
Always doubt claims that an Anglo globalist is "fluent in" anything foreign, even a Western language. The exceptions are extremely few and far between. A justified and modest claim would be that the person in question understands or is conversant in Chinese or what not.
This is simply the reflex in my specialist field, language, of a more general strategy: to dazzle people with assertions of rare genius that they are unlikely to want to verify or to know how to verify.

A subscriber has posted that he's so burned out that he's getting to the point that he doesn't even trust Alex Thomson. Dear man, I'm not asking for your trust. Things reached this pitch in the abuse of us all because we trusted public figures. Even very minor ones like me are not worthy of blanket trust.

"We ask you not to trust us. Instead, view everything published here with a critical eye. Where possible, primary source material is made available for everything we publish: check it; make up your own mind."

https://www.ukcolumn.org/about-uk-column

A paper, in poor Afrikaans-calqued English, about the Club of Rome and postmodern "Christian" theology's call for a new image of God.

https://www.academia.edu/60117345/The_juxtaposition_of_the_Club_of_Rome_s_search_for_planetary_well_being_and_the_eco_theology_of_J%C3%BCrgen_Moltmann

https://www.spiked-online.com/2017/08/31/tv-ads-why-whites-and-straights-are-out/

"According to a report in The Times on Saturday, advertisers are ‘so worried about being accused of racism or homophobia’ that they are shying away from using images of white people and straight couples. A survey of 500 companies by Shutterstock Inc. reveals that a third of advertisers questioned said they had used fewer white models and heterosexuals over the past year, and they were taking this approach to ‘prevent perceived discrimination’. Marketing departments are even putting diversity above relevance to their target audience, ‘to avoid accusations of bigotry’."

My first podcast of 2022 is now online.

James Delingpole and I chatted about technocracy and what it must feel like being eaten by a Great White shark.

Search for ‘Jerm Warfare’ in your podcast app, or watch the video below.

https://jermwarfare.com/blog/james-delingpole

The definitive journalist on this topic is dilyana.bg — sacked by mainstream Sofia title Trud for her work on the issue in various countries (most notably the Republic of Georgia), after Bulgarian intelligence leaned on the editors.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/kazakhstan-denies-us-funded-military-biological-lab-seized-rioters-after-russia-claims

"I once said in a sermon that the Prince of Darkness was able to rule our lives 100% because we had fallen to him. I got an outraged phone call the next day: 'How did you arrive at that theology? You said not once but twice that we have fallen to the Prince of Darkness and that he rules our lives 100%. No, there's only One Who has power over our lives.'
I replied, 'You'd better not criticize me for things beyond your ken. What I said is in the Bible.' I gave the caller a couple of Scripture references. The caller said, 'I'll go and look them up.' — 'Too late,' I said; 'you should have done that first. You mustn't just shoot your mouth off about things you know nothing about.'"

Rev. A. Schultink, Rhenen, Netherlands

Principle 8 of 286. All legislative power is for Parliament/Congress. Don’t let the courts or executive legislate, including by secret international accord. If necessary, overturn unlawful law from below, by juries and by local assemblies.

For those who don't follow sources in Russian, it's becoming increasingly apparent that the CSTO (largely Russian and Belarusian) forces brought in to Kazakhstan, and (as in this clip) the Kazakhs' own counter-terrorism forces, have real battles on their hands in the east of the country, which the City of London appears to have been planning to use as a "lily pad" stuffed with pan-Turkic head-choppers to penetrate China via Uyghur territory (Xinjiang).

🇰🇿 Operation of the Special Forces Service "A" of the KNB of Kazakhstan to neutralize the cells of the Islamists