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Sunday, December 13, 2020

President Trump thanks God for sending His son to redeem the world


Sidney Powell: Trump Could Trigger 2018 Executive Order on Foreign Election Interference

https://www.theepochtimes.com/sidney-powell-trump-could-trigger-2018-executive-order-on-foreign-interference_3616680.html

Yes, the Vaccine Contains Fragments of HIV and More

 By Anna Von Reitz

If you research the virology and genetic manipulation involved in the development and patenting and copyrighting of the "functional gain" that was the object of developing the Covid-19 virus, it is apparent that the increase in infection rates was accomplished by using the same sequences that promote infection via HIV.   

That was Anthony Fauci's exact area of study and expertise.  And via his position at NIH he funded the research in Wuhan, China.  Oh, my.  

The monsters among us took a Common Cold Virus and "souped it up" by adding fragments of HIV, to make it more infectious.   And then, of course, any vaccine also has to have fragments of HIV in it, to sensitize the immune system of the victim.  

The craziness of vaccines is that you inject yourself with "dead" copies of a bacteria or virus to provoke an immune response, that will then be ready to pounce on the real thing.  However, as a virus is already dead, any vaccine for a virus is actually a pre-infection by a dummy copy of the same virus. 

You are actually infecting yourself in hopes of building up a stronger immune reaction--- and in this case, the vaccine virus contains HIV sequences.  Even the Dumb Bunnies acting as UN Administrators of AUSTRALIA had sense enough to draw back and consider the liability of forced vaccination of millions of people with a vaccine containing HIV.  

The known and public danger of such idiocy is self-evident and needs no further explanation.  It's a free-standing disaster in the making, but wait, the genetic engineers responsible for the development of these heinous new patented inventions are squealing like pigs.  There's more.  

Not only will people naturally "test positive" for HIV after being vaccinated, there are other "goodies" built into this cocktail of poisons and gene fragments, and those are designed to interfere with the coding of proteins necessary to develop a healthy placenta.  

Women injected with this will no longer be able to bear children.  They will undergo miscarriage after miscarriage after miscarriage, as the placenta fails to fully form.   

Now, you may be asking, as I am, how these clearly criminal Patents have been allowed, and why, exactly, are people like Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates still walking around?  It's a great question, and one that deserves an answer.  

The answer is that they are being protected by the United Nations Organization and the UN CORP --- the hypocrites who are supposed to be all about "peace", are instead waging war against their favorite targets --- babies and ignorant women.  

Just as it says in the Bible about the End Times, the United Nations is standing there saying, "peace, peace" but there is no peace, because these madmen are hypocrites as well as being greedy and criminally insane.  

We, Americans, and the American State Assemblies, have business with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) ---- Big Business.  Nasty business.  It's our right to pull the Patents and destroy the corporations that have done this to profit themselves, and it's ours to punish the Patent Officials and Clerks and SERCO Agents responsible for this outrage against humanity.  

And the rest of the world has business to do, too.  

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IT’S WAR: Communist China successfully infiltrated vaccine giants Pfizer, AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline as part of “unrestricted warfare” to defeat the US military and conquer North America

https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-12-13-communist-china-infiltrated-vaccine-giants-pfizer-astrazeneca-glaxosmithkline.html

Freedom is as Close, or as Far, as Original Jurisdiction

 By Anna Von Reitz

Yesterday, I exposed the yawning gap between the sovereign governments of the world --- and the living people --- and the corporate "governments" of the "Confederate States" which are in fact for-profit business organizations operating as "States-of-States".
For example, here in America, we have Wisconsin, the Territorial State of Wisconsin, and the Municipal STATE OF WISCONSIN, all operating at once.
One of these three entities is the actual State--- Wisconsin, owned and operated by the sovereign and independent government of the people who live in Wisconsin. This State is physically defined. It has borders.
The other two entities, the State of Wisconsin and the STATE OF WISCONSIN, both, are foreign incorporated businesses. They are "Confederate States" --- not actual States. As business organizations, they don't have borders or any physical attributes at all.
The people of Wisconsin hold the national soil jurisdiction of Wisconsin as a population of living men and women, but when they choose to enter international jurisdiction, these same people function as People. People are Lawful Persons standing on the international land jurisdiction of their State--Wisconsin.
In international jurisdiction, the Government of Wisconsin, is provided by State Citizens, people functioning as People --- Lawful Persons who have a singular political allegiance to their State of the Union.
When people talk about "Original Jurisdiction" they are talking about your actual State and its plenary powers as a sovereign entity and your standing on the land and soil of Wisconsin. The only things abridging the sovereign powers of Wisconsin are: (1) the Federal Constitutions and their associated delegations of power; (2) whatever provisions the People of Wisconsin have made and published as Wisconsin Public Laws.
As a Wisconsinite, you are free except for those few constraints.
And the same is true of every other State.
As a Wisconsinite standing in Original Jurisdiction, you are not subject to the corporate policies, statutes, regulations, and codes of any State of State organization, rather, they are subject to your Public Laws and to the Federal Constitutions.
You are their Employer and they are your Employees.
So when a State of State Governor, for example, Governor Jay Inslee, of the State of Washington, makes a "proclamation" or issues a "mask mandate" or a "mandatory vaccination order" or "business lockdown" ---- it only applies to you, if you are operating as a State of State Employee or Dependent, or are operating your business as an incorporated business "in" the State of Washington.
If you are a Washingtonian operating your own business as an unincorporated entity in Washington (the actual State), they don't have a word to say to you. Why? Because you are in Original Jurisdiction. And they're not.
This was not always true in the Western States, but it is, now, because the pre-Civil War State Assemblies have finally enrolled all the States as States of the Union as of midnight September 30 - October 1, 2020.
"Residing" in a State of State status is a big problem for people who have foolishly incorporated their businesses without full disclosure being provided to them, but not a problem for you or your State Assembly.
You can, for example, simply issue a new Washington Public Law offering Amnesty to all Foreign Corporations, provided that they contract to function lawfully and cause no injury to living people or private property in your State of the Union.
This allows the good corporations to migrate and lawfully convert their assets and charters back to the actual State of the Union, and to come under the protection of Original Jurisdiction. This is called "lawful conversion" and should be made available in every State of the Union.
You can help everyone else resolve everything about this present situation, simply by joining your State Assembly and issuing such much-needed Public Laws for your State of the Union.
For example, your State Assembly can outlaw forced vaccinations on your State soil. You don't "legislate" this, the State Assembly composed of State Citizens, declares it as Wisconsin Public Law (or whichever State) and publishes it, so that all the foreigners, including their foreign State-of-State corporations are given Notice.
You can join with the other State Assemblies, and if the State Assemblies support the initiative, you can use your Federation of States, The United States of America, to issue a true "Federal" Law outlawing forced vaccinations anywhere in America.
Your Federation of States is the source of the adjective "Federal".
Your Federation existed and was "Federal" long before any of the Federal Subcontractors even existed. That's why it is "original".
In Original Jurisdiction, a "Federal Law" means that the actual States and People of this country joined together to issue a Federal Public Law, in international jurisdiction.
It does not refer to any United States Statute-at-Large, which is legislative law. It doesn't refer to any "Federal" Policy or Code issued by the Municipal or Territorial Governments, either.
A Federal Law issued in Original Jurisdiction is a true "Organic Law" -- a form of Treaty Law among the States of the Federation.
We can do this today just as our Great-Grandfathers did, but it is ours to do. Nobody can do it for us.
So instead of sitting around and being worried and not knowing what to do----- go to: www.TheAmericanStatesAssembly,net---and get organized to take such meaningful actions.
The American States that are organized under this heading have their proper declarations recorded and have the standing to take such actions as outlawing forced vaccinations within their State borders.
These, the actual States, also have the power to liquidate any corporation operating "unlawfully" in their State of the Union --- which includes any corporation (of any kind) that is causing injury to people, animals, or the Earth resources of the actual State.
This is your power over the Territorial Government and over the Municipal GOVERNMENT, too, which you have not been exercising, and which needs to be exercised to prevent these business organizations from pillaging, plundering, and waging "mercenary war" on our shores.
Simply by recognizing the fact that you are not a public employee nor a public dependent, and taking the simple steps to record your correct political identity and joining your State Assembly, you protect yourself, your family, and your country.
Do it now, and know that all the drama taking place about the elections, is not our problem. Those are all private corporate elections masquerading as Public Elections (for which "Public"?) and the corporations responsible will have to sort out their differences without harming us.
You, meanwhile, are needed to sort out the rampant criminality of the corporations that have been running things in your purported absence.


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Sidney Powel Names Four Co-Conspirators, Prepares Massive Rico Case Against Smartmatic, Dominion


Situation Update, Dec. 13th – Trump readies evidence to leverage against Biden,

 Gen. Perna announces “vaccine D-Day… the beginning of the end”


CIA assassination squads ACTIVE. “Key witnesses are being taken out. Fourth one this morning. MSM hiding everything.”

https://www.bitchute.com/video/XS0iMDsylnML/

Can Anyone Verify - Fighter jet F16 downed by [Chinese Troops] in Canada

 From one of our readers:

Listen to the story about armed soldiers entering from Canada reported by Locals. Scroll to 15 minutes to hear about the F-16 from Madison Wisconsin, fully armed, and downed iby an energy weapon leaving a radioactive trace in the Upper Peninsula, Pilot missing and thought captured, armed Chinese Soldiers seen in area as reported by Locals

The story continues, 4-5 Kilometers WNW of Robinston, Maine a 3.2 Magnitude Earthquake was reported this morning. It was the underground site of a Chinese facility upon which is believed housed 50,000 Chinese troops. A 30,000# Bunker Buster bomb was dropped into the underground facility and detonated killing the invaders.

This was first reported by Hal Turner's radio program and his program was immediately shut down. Thus the reason Trump is preparing America for invasion from without and within.

Bob J

Fighter jet F16 downed by [Chinese Troops] in Canada #Invasion to Honduran Carvan, China Flooding

Third Sunday in Advent

 Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's

The Church's Year
On this Sunday again, the Church calls on us to rejoice in the Advent of the Redeemer, and at the Introit sings:

INTROIT Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice. Let your modesty be known to all men: for the Lord is nigh. Be nothing solicitous; but in every thing by prayer let your requests be made known to God (Phil. 4). Lord, thou hast blessed thy land; thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob (Ps. 84). Glory be to the Father and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
COLLECT Incline Thine ear, O Lord, we beseech Thee, unto our prayers: and enlighten the darkness of our mind by the grace of thy visitation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the Unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end, Amen.
EPISTLE (Phil. 4:4-7). Brethren, rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice. Let your modesty be known to all men. The Lord is nigh. Be nothing solicitous; but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasseth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus our Lord.
What is meant by "rejoicing in the Lord"?
By "rejoicing in the Lord" is meant rejoicing in the grace of the true faith we have received, in the hope of obtaining eternal happiness; rejoicing in the protection of the most High under which we stand; and in the persecution for justice's sake in which Christ Himself exhorts us to rejoice, and in which the Apostle Paul gloried (II Cor. 7:4).
What else does St. Paul teach in this epistle?
He exhorts us to give all a good example by a modest and edifying life, to which we should be directed by the remembrance of God's presence and His coming to judgment (Chrysostom. 33, in Joann.); he warns us against solicitude about temporal affairs, advising us to cast our care on God, who will never abandon us in our needs, if we entreat Him with confidence and humility.
In what does "the Peace of God" consist?
It consists in a good conscience (Ambrose), in which St. Paul gloried and rejoiced beyond measure (II Cor. 1:12). This peace of the soul sustained all the martyrs, and consoled many others who suffered for justice's sake. Thus St. Tibertius said to the tyrant: "We count all pain as naught, for our conscience is at peace." There cannot be imagined a greater joy than that which proceeds from the peace of a good conscience. It must be experienced to be understood.
ASPIRATION The peace of God, that surpasseth all understanding, preserve our hearts in Christ Jesus. Amen.

COMFORT AND RELIEF IN SORROW

“Is any one troubled, let him pray" (Jas. 5:13).
There is no greater or more powerful comfort in sorrow than in humble and confiding prayer, to complain to God of our wants and cares, as did the sorrowful Anna, mother of the prophet Samuel, (I Kings 10) and the chaste Susanna when she was falsely accused of adultery and sentenced to death (Dan. 13:35). So the pious King Ezechias complained in prayer of the severe oppression with which he was threatened by Senacherib (IV Kings 19:14). So also King Josaphat made his trouble known to God only, saying: But as we know not what to do, we can only turn our eyes on Thee (11 Para. 20:12). They all received aid and comfort from God. Are you sad and in trouble? Lift up your soul with David and say: To Thee I have lifted up my eyes, who dwellest in heaven. Behold as the eyes of servants are on the hands of their masters, as the eyes of the handmaid are on the hands of her mistress: so are our eyes unto the Lord our God, until He shall have mercy on us (Ps. 122:1-3). Give joy to the soul of Thy servant, for to Thee, O Lord, I have lifted up my soul (Ps. 85:4).
GOSPEL (Jn. 1:19-28). At that time the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites to John, to ask him, Who art thou? And he confessed, and did not deny; and he confessed: I am not the Christ. And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he said: I am not. Art thou the prophet? And he answered, No. They said therefore unto him, Who art thou, that we may give an answer to them that sent us? what sayst thou of thyself? He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaias. And they that were sent were of the Pharisees. And they asked him, and said to him: Why then dost thou baptize, if thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet? John answered them, saying: I baptize with water: but there hath stood one in the midst of you, whom you know not: the same is he that shall come after me, who is preferred before me, the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to loose. These things were done in Bethania beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
Why did the Jews send messengers to St. John to ask him who he was?
Partly because of their curiosity, when they saw St. John leading such a pure, angelic and penitential life; partly, as St. Chrysostom says, out of envy, because St. John preached with such spiritual force, baptized and exhorted the people to penance, that the inhabitants of Jerusalem came to him in great numbers; partly, and principally, they were impelled by the providence of God to demand publicly of St. John, if he were the Messiah, and thus be directed to Christ that they might be compelled to acknowledge Him as the Messiah, or have no excuse for rejecting Him.
Why did the Jews ask St. John, if he were not Elias or the prophet?
The Jews falsely believed that the Redeemer was to come into this world but once, then with great glory, and that Elias or one of the old prophets would come before Him, to prepare His way, as Malachias (4:5) had prophesied of St. John; so when St. John said of himself that he was not the Messiah, they asked him, if he were not then Elias or one of the prophets. But Elias, who was taken alive from this world in a fiery chariot, will not reappear until just before the second coming of Christ.
Why did St. John say, he was not Elias or the Prophet?
Because he was not Elias, and, in reality, not a prophet in the Jewish sense of the word, but more than a prophet, because he announced that Christ had come, and pointed Him out.
Why does St. John call himself "the voice of one crying in the wilderness"?
Because in his humility, he desired to acknowledge that he was only an instrument through which the Redeemer announced to the abandoned and hopeless Jews the consolation of the Messiah, exhorting them to bear worthy fruits of penance.
How do we bear worthy fruits of penance?
We bear fruits of penance, when after our conversion, we serve God and justice with the same zeal with which we previously served the devil and iniquity; when we love God as fervently as we once loved the flesh-that is, the desires of the flesh-and the pleasures of the world; when we give our members to justice as we once gave them to malice and impurity (Rom. 6:19), when the mouth that formerly uttered improprieties, when the ears that listened to detraction or evil speech, when the eyes that looked curiously upon improper objects, now rejoice in the utterance of words pleasing to God, to hear and to see things dear to Him; when the appetite that was given to the luxury of eating and drinking, now abstains; when the hands give back what they have stolen; in a word, when we put off the old man, who was corrupted, and put on the new man, who is created in justice and holiness of truth (Eph. 4:22-24).
What was the baptism administered by St. John, and what were its effects?
The baptism administered by John was only a baptism of penance for forgiveness of sins (Lk. 3:3). The ignorant Jews not considering the greatness of their transgressions, St. John came exhorting them to acknowledge their sins, and do penance for them; that being converted, and truly contrite, they might seek their Redeemer, and thus obtain remission of their offences. We must then conclude, that St. John's baptism was only a ceremony or initiation, by which the Jews enrolled themselves as his disciples to do penance, as a preparation for the remission of sin by means of the second baptism, viz., of Jesus Christ.
What else can be learned from this gospel?
We learn from it to be always sincere, especially at the tribunal of penance, and to practice the necessary virtue of humility, by which, in reply to the questions of the Jews, St. John confessed the truth openly and without reserve, as shown by the words: The latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to loose, as the lowest of Christ's servants, giving us an example of humility and sincerity, which should induce us always to speak the truth, and not only not to seek honor, but to give to God all the honor shown us by man. Have you not far more reason than John, who was such a great saint, to esteem yourself but little, and to humble yourself before God and man? "My son," says Tobias (4:14), "never suffer pride to reign in thy mind, or in thy words: for from it all perdition took its beginning."
ASPIRATION O Lord, banish from my heart all envy, jealousy and pride. Grant me instead, to know myself and Thee, that by the knowledge of my nothingness, misery and vices, I may always remain unworthy in my own eyes, and that by the contemplation of Thy infinite perfections, I may seek to prize Thee above all, to love and to glorify Thee, and practice charity towards my neighbor. Amen.

EMBER WEDNESDAY IN ADVENT
EPISTLE (Is. 7:10-15). And the Lord spoke again to Achaz, saying: Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God, either unto the depth of hell or unto the height above. And Achaz said: I will not ask, and I will not tempt the Lord. And he said: Hear ye, therefore, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to be grievous to men, that you are grievous to my God also? Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and his name shall be called Emmanuel. He shall eat butter and honey, that he may know to refuse the evil, and to choose the good.'
EXPLANATION In this Epistle is contained the important prophecy of the Savior's birth from a virgin. War was declared by the kings of Israel and Syria against Achaz, king of Juda, who at their approach was overpowered with fear, and thought of seeking aid from the Assyrians instead of looking to Almighty God for help; and for this lack of confidence in God, the prophet Isaiah was sent to announce to him the destruction of both kings, and his own preservation. The prophet, wishing Achaz to prove his assertion, requested the king to demand a sign from God; but he being given to idolatry, did not wish to ask a sign from heaven, for he had more faith in the assistance of the demons and of the Assyrians. He offended God by his refusal and the prophet rebuked him, saying: The Lord himself will give you (that is, your posterity) a sign, for the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and he shall be called Emmanuel, that is-God with us. By these words Isaias desired to impress upon the king, that as surely as he should be preserved from his enemies, so surely this Emmanuel, the Son of the Virgin, would appear to redeem the world from Satan's power. Let us learn from this lesson always to trust in God, who can deliver us from all danger, and let us also be grateful to Him, who seven hundred and forty-three years before the time, permitted, for our consolation, the announcement of the coming of His Son, our Savior.
The gospel (Lk. 1:26-28) of this day will be found in the second part of this book on the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin.
ASPIRATION O Emmanuel, powerful, holy God! Our Savior and our Redeemer! be with us always in life and death: for, if Thou art with us who can be against us?
COLLECT Grant, we beseech Thee, Almighty God, that the approaching celebration of our redemption may bring us the necessary graces for the present life, and bestow upon us the rewards of eternal happiness. Through our Lord.

EMBER FRIDAY IN ADVENT

EPISTLE (Is. 11:1-5). And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root. And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: the spirit of wisdom, and of understanding, the spirit of counsel, and of fortitude, the spirit of knowledge, and of godliness, and he shall be filled with the spirit of the fear of the Lord. He shall not judge according to the sight of the eyes, nor reprove according to the hearing of the ears. But he shall judge the poor with justice, and shall reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked. And justice shall be the girdle of his loins: and faith the girdle of his reins.
EXPLANATION In this epistle the Lord announced to the Jews, through the prophet, the consoling promise that when they were sufficiently punished, and had come to the consciousness of their own misery, the Savior would come and bring all things to order. The rod spoken of by the prophet, is the Blessed Virgin who would proceed from the root of Jesse, that is, from the stem of David, and give birth to the flower, viz., to the Savior upon whom the Holy Ghost, with His sevenfold gifts, would descend, that is, dwell in Him. As a reader of the heart He would judge man, not according to his outward appearance, but according to his intentions. He would not flatter the sinner, but with severe words punish his sinful life, and because just and faithful, He would reward every man without respect to person. Let us be always mindful in all our omissions and commissions, that our Lord sees into our hearts, and judges not only according to our works, but principally according to our intentions, and let us strive ever to have pure motives in all our actions.
ASPIRATION O Fragrant Flower of the Virgin, Jesus our Savior, come and draw us to Thee, that we may walk in the perfume of Thy ointments, and obtain a merciful judgment from Thee.
COLLECT Show forth, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy power, and come, that we who confidently trust in Thy love, may be the sooner delivered from all adversities. Through our Lord.

EMBER SATURDAY IN ADVENT

EPISTLE (II Thess 2:1-8). Brethren, we beseech you, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of our gathering together unto him: that you be not easily moved from your mind, nor be frighted, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by epistle, as sent from us, as if the day of the Lord were at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposeth, and is lifted up above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself as if he were God. Remember you not, that when I was yet with you I told you these things? And now you know what withholdeth, that he may be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity already worketh: only that he who now holdeth, do hold, until he be taken out of the way, and then that wicked one shall be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming.
EXPLANATION At the time when St. Paul wrote this epistle, the false report was circulated that the Last Day was at hand, and Christ was coming to judge all men. The Apostle warns the faithful against trusting this, telling them they should not permit themselves to be misled; for first, the greater part of mankind would fall away from God, and Antichrist, the son of perdition appear, but not until the gospel was everywhere preached. The great falling off would be gradual, caused by the heresies which would arise from time to time, and would be completed by Antichrist, whom our Lord, at last, on the Day of Judgment would kill with the breath of his mouth. Let us learn from this epistle not to be curious concerning the Last Day, and the Advent of Christ, but to prepare, rather for the coming of Jesus into our hearts, that He may be merciful to us in death, and at judgment.
ASPIRATION The gospel of this day will be found in the instruction on the Fourth Sunday of Advent.
COLLECT O God, who seest us afflicted on account of our own wickedness; mercifully grant, that by Thy coming we may be comforted. Through our Lord.