Dear Friends,
Jim Elliot once said, “I have prayed for new men, fiery, reckless men, possessed of uncontrollably youthful passion lit by the Spirit of God. I have prayed for new words, explosive, direct, simple words. I have prayed for new miracles…How long dare we go on without tears, without moral passions, hatred and love?”
1. BRAZIL GOES FOR THE GUNS: Last year, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a Marxist and convicted criminal, ousted President Jair Bolsonaro (nicknamed the “Trump of the Tropics”) in a highly suspicious election involving electronic voting machines. In June 2023, Brazil’s leftist Supreme Court ruled that Bolsonaro cannot run again until 2030.
Now Lula is seeking to reverse Bolsonaro’s pro-gun policies with a new decree that bans civilians from owning 9 mm pistols, restricts the number of guns and ammunition civilians can possess, and requires documentation proving the need for self-defense for all weapons. Lula said, “We cannot allow gun arsenals to be in the people’s hands. We will keep on fighting for a disarmed country. Who should be well equipped with guns is the Brazilian police and the federal armed forces.”
Ed. Note: Mao Tse-Tung, who slaughtered 65 million of his own people, said, “All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns; that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.” For more, read A Brief History of Repressive Regimes and Their Gun Laws.
2. CHRISTIAN EVANGELIST SAYS AMERICA NEEDS REPENTANCE BEFORE REVIVAL: Evangelist Nick Vujicic, founder of Life Without Limbs, called on the American church to “repent” and stand for truth. Vujicic said, “I think most churches are delusional. I don’t pray for revival; I pray for repentance. I don’t think America deserves a single more blessing from God; not one. We need to repent. And not only do we need to turn away from things, but we also need to equip and encourage the Church…” Vujicic challenged churches to strengthen families, to teach Christians how to “evangelize and do street evangelism,” to stand against abortion, pornography, and sex trafficking, and to shine Christ’s light in politics, media, and business.
3. BELIEF IN GOD SINKS TO NEW LOW: A new Gallup poll finds that 74% of Americans believe in God (down from 90% in 2001), 69% believe in angels, 67% believe in heaven, 59% believe in hell, and 58% believe in the devil. Sarah Holliday of the Family Research Council comments, “Americans are deprived of truth while constantly being fed lies…If one does not find their purpose in Christ, Ecclesiastes makes it clear that all is vanity. For the one without God, purpose is impossible to find…We can expect the numbers of those who believe in spiritual entities to continue dropping as the heritage of biblical worldview becomes increasingly forgotten.”
Ed. Note: Whitaker Chambers observed, “God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor. External freedom is only an aspect of interior freedom. Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible…”
4. JP MORGAN CANCELS DR. MERCOLA: Dr. Joseph Mercola, who was ranked as the #1 Covid “Disinformation” spreader by the Biden Administration, revealed that JP Morgan Chase closed his business bank accounts, “along with the accounts of my CEO and CFO, as well as their family members (including spouse and child).” The shutdown came just one day before the release of Mercola’s new documentary, “The Truth About Vaccines.” The account closure also comes as JP Morgan is facing yet another lawsuit over its alleged role in facilitating and “actively participating” in pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking enterprise.
Investigative journalist Whitney Webb responded, “A major bank banning Mercola accounts is a sign of what’s to come for any dissident. JP Morgan Chase is organized crime masquerading as a bank, and they backed a child rape operation (Epstein). You want to stop ‘the deep state’? Take your money out of Wall Street now and find a small local bank.”
5. TUCKER CARLSON SLAMS MIKE PENCE: In the new definitive biography of Tucker Carlson by Chadwick Moore, Carlson reveals his feelings about Mike Pence, who was one of Tucker Carlson’s most frequent gusts during Carlson’s time at CNN in the early 2000s. Carlson said, “I’ve been around him a lot and always felt that he was a totally sinister figure, craven and dishonest. Everything about Pence is false.” Tucker believes Pence’s job as Vice President was to “undermine Trump and to keep an eye on him” and that Pence’s sabotage increased during the Covid era, when he persuaded Trump to elevate Dr. Anthony Fauci and to establish the White House Coronavirus Task Force.
Ed. Note: Many conservatives are too easily manipulated by words and even Christian-sounding rhetoric from political leaders. Matthew 7:16 reminds us, “Ye shall know them by their fruits.”
6. FOX SUPPORT FOR RADICAL CHARITIES EXPOSED: The Blaze reports that Fox News donated to Planned Parenthood, the Southern Poverty Law Center, LGBTQ activist group The Trevor Project, and The Satanic Temple. One Fox employee said, “Fox pretends to care about Christians, but some of the stuff they push internally suggests otherwise. Glory holes, trans surgeries for kids, and potential donations to Satan are a huge slap in the face to every Christian at the company, and we resent it. It offends me personally that this company acts like they support Christians, and yet they’re literally willing to match a $1,000 donation to the Satanic Temple.”
Ed Note: If the company you’re working for is obviously supporting radical and destructive groups, it might be time to consider quitting and finding a new position or business, or finding new ways to be a light within that company. Imagine if all of the Christians working at Fox quit or went on strike?
7. ORBAN VS. MELONI: Dutch political commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek criticized Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni for winning election as a strong Christian and conservative but failing to deliver on her “big promises” and “fiery” rhetoric. Vlaardingerbroek said, “From the first day she’s been in power, she’s done nothing but suck up to Zelensky and the EU bureaucrats. She didn’t install any of the ‘sea blockades’ that she promised while campaigning. Instead, she just went to Tunisia to make a fake deal about migration with Mark Rutte and Ursula von der Leyen. It’s all window dressing. It’s a disgrace how spineless she’s been: empty rhetorics, zero results.”
In a recent speech, Hungary’s Christian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said, “At the heart of the conflicts between the European Union and Hungary” is that “the European Union rejects [its] Christian heritage.” The EU is “managing population replacement through migration, and it is waging an LGBTQ offensive against family-friendly European nations.”
8. TWITTER REBANDS, MOVING TOWARDS “EVERYTHING APP”: In April 2023, Elon Musk renamed Twitter Inc. as X. Corp. Now, Musk has officially rebranded Twitter’s bird logo to an X, saying, “Soon we shall bid adieu to the Twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.” Musk reiterated his vision for Twitter to become “the everything app” for messages, video, financial payments, banking, and more, similar to Communist China’s WeChat. Musk promised, “Over time, it would be HALF of the global financial system.”
Greg Reese warns, “They don’t need to chip you to control you. We already have iris scanners and palm scanners. A cashless society will do the job. And for many, Elon’s X will be preferable to Amazon’s palm scanners. The illusion of choice will make your financial enslavement less painful.”
9. LEBRON JAMES’ SON SUFFERS CARDIAC ARREST: Bronny James, the fully vaccinated 18-year-old son of NBA legend LeBron James, suffered cardiac arrest during a recent basketball practice. Dr. William Makis documents numerous young people who have suffered cardiac arrests since the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines. Dr. Makis writes, “The only prospective study ever done for COVID-19 mRNA vaccine induced myocarditis in young men. In the Thailand study (2022, Mansanguan), of 202 boys ages 13-18, from two different schools, 7 of them developed subclinical myocarditis/pericarditis after 2nd Pfizer dose. That’s a ratio of 1 in 30 per Pfizer vaccine dose.”
In related news, 30-year-old singer Tori Kelly has been hospitalized after experiencing blood clots. Dr. Peter McCullough commented on actor Jamie Fox who recently addressed his recovery after a severe health battle: “He’s not telling us the truth. He’s not telling us what he has. First thing he should tell his fans and tell the public: did he take a vaccine? Yes? Or no?”
10. WHY WERE EARLY TREATMENTS DESTROYED AND REMDESIVIR PROMOTED? In a town hall with Sean Hannity, Democratic Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said, “There’s a little-known federal law that says you cannot give an emergency use authorization to a vaccine if an existing therapeutic drug that hasn’t been approved for any purpose proves to be effective against the target disease. So if they had admitted that hydroxychloroquine, which they knew from day one that it worked against COVID, it would have killed” the vaccination campaign.
Remdesivir, nicknamed by some “Run Death Is Near” for its deadliness during Covid-19, has now been approved by the FDA to treat Covid in kidney patients. Joyce Wilson, one of multiple remdesivir victims who spoke out, said, “Morally, how can you do that? It’s a death sentence. They didn’t care if people had kidney issues or not. My husband went into the hospital in kidney distress. They exacerbated it with Remdesivir. Then they ventilated him, and he died.”
11. WHY DO PEDOPHILES AND CORPORATE MEDIA HATE SOUND OF FREEDOM? Bloomberg published an opinion piece by Noah Berlatsky, a former spokesman for “M.A.P.” (Minor Attracted Persons) advocacy group, Prostasia, trashing Sound of Freedom. In 2017, Berlatsky tweeted that “pedophiles are essentially a stigmatized group” and that “people hate them.” A Vox attack piece criticized Sound of Freedom for its “rugged individualism and masculine rogue operatives on display” and asked, “Can such faith-based cultural products even exist at this point, let alone serve their specific malnourished target audience, without also fomenting extremist rhetoric, bigotry, and attacks on progressive ideals?”
The Federalist’s J. Antonio Juarez explains why many leftists hate the film: “To admit that child sex trafficking is objectively wrong would mean that certain sexual preferences and activities are only subjectively right or permissible. Once you start that conversation, you will be calling all of the sexual and social freedoms acquired over the years into question. In short, if you start talking about the horrors of child sex trafficking and the need to do something about it, you will inadvertently build a solid case for re-instituting traditional sexual mores and building stronger families.”
12. HAWLEY EXPLAINS ASSAULT ON FAMILY: In a recent interview, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) explained the motivation behind the Left’s attack on children: “Power. It’s also indoctrination — ideological indoctrination. If you get the parents sidelined, then they can fill the kids’ heads with the nonsense they want. They can…break down those centers of resistance. They don’t like the nuclear family. The left has waged a continuous war on the nuclear family; whether it’s jobs for American men to provide for their families, whether it’s the parent’s right over education, whether it’s faith, they have continuously assaulted the family.”
Ed. Note: “Abolition of the family!” has been a foremost Communist goal since Karl Marx. Deuteronomy 6:6-7 exhorts parents, “And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.”
13. ATTEMPTED NORTH DAKOTA TERROR ATTACK THWARTED: Mohamad Barakat, a North Dakota Muslim, killed one police officer and wounded two in an attempted terror attack in Fargo, North Dakota. Barakat, a Syrian refugee brought to the U.S. in 2012 by Obama, had planned to kill thousands but was first shot dead in a firefight with police officers. Fargo Mayor Tim Mahoney said, “It’s clear to me that this person was out to kill. When you look at the amount of ammunition this shooter had in his car, he was planning on more mayhem in our community.” North Dakota U.S. Attorney Mac Schneider claimed that the terrorist’s motive is still unknown.
14. HUNTER BIDEN PLEA DEAL FALLS APART: Hunter Biden’s “sweetheart” plea deal fell apart after Maryellen Noreika, a Trump-appointed Delaware federal judge, questioned the details of the agreement. Law Professor Jonathan Turley said, “This is a big problem. This was all supposed to be scripted. It was all supposed to be easy. And now it is off script, and it is anything but easy.” World Affairs Brief editor Joel Skousen writes, “I don’t expect this hangup to lead to any real investigation in the many sordid scandals swirling around this corrupt family, but it is becoming harder for the mainstream media to ignore the story and sweep it under the rug.”
Ed. Note: See here for a detailed legal analysis of what happened and why.
15. NOTEWORTHY STORIES:
- Special Counsel Jack Smith, who ignored Biden corruption during the Obama Administration, has hit Donald Trump with three additional charges in the “classified documents” case. Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said, “Every single time that there are new revelations and evidence about Joe Biden’s corrupt international bribery scheme, the Department of Justice moves to indict or add charges against Donald Trump.”
- The Biden Department of Justice has dropped all campaign finance charges against FTX founder and Democratic mega-donor Sam Bankman-Fried.
- Donald Trump called on the Republican Congress to impeach Joe Biden, criticizing the GOP for being too “kind, friendly, and politically correct.”
- Newsmax reports, “‘Squad’ member Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., is making another run at defunding the police all while paying nearly $700,000 for a private blanket of protection.”
- The Washington Stand reports, “A local school board president has been inundated with threats that left-wing activists will dismember her, murder her children, and slaughter her pets. Her crime? Saying that teachers should not keep parents in the dark if their children begin to identify as transgender.”
- A recent Los Angeles Times headline asked, “Would an occasional blackout help solve climate change?” Staff writer Sammy Roth asked, “What’s more important: Keeping the lights on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, or solving the climate crisis?”
- When asked about the Biden Administration’s war on everyday appliances – gas stoves, AC units, refrigerators, water heaters, and more – Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre answered, “It is proposed – what has been put forward and if it is enacted, it would not take it into effect until 2029.”
- Breitbart reports, “A study from the Marriage Foundation suggested that nearly half of children in Britain are no longer living with both of their biological parents by the time they reach 14 years of age.”
- Comedian Dave Smith asked why people are not allowed to discuss political assassinations: “A ridiculous amount of people, very close to the Clintons, have died. And, like, what? You’re just not allowed to bring it up?”
- Police have yet to reveal the identity of the second paddle boarder who was with Obama chef Tafari Campbel when he drowned near Martha’s Vineyard. The police call log for the drowning was also left empty. The Gateway Pundit has documented more inconsistencies in the official narrative.
- In yet another sign of his declining cognitive function, Joe Biden claimed, “We’ve ended cancer as we know it.”
- Dr. Suneel Dhand, MD, said, “I’m a Physician. I kept following The Science, and found the Money. I kept following The Experts, and found the Money. I kept following the Mainstream Media, and found the Money. So I started following The Misinformation, and found The Truth.”
FAITH, FAMILY, & FREEDOM REPORT
1. CHRISTIANS WIN COURT CASE IN IDAHO: The city of Moscow, Idaho, agreed to pay three Christian churchgoers $300,000 after they protested the city mask ordinance by singing psalms outside the city courthouse, for which they were subsequently arrested. Gabriel Rench, a member of Christ Church, stated, “I live in a liberal town, and the liberals had no problem arresting me for practicing my religious rights and my Constitutional rights.”
2. COMMUNITY PROTESTS PRIDE PARADE: Parents and pastors have stepped up to fight against a planned “Pride” parade and “drag” show in Arlington, Washington, by distributing flyers warning against the event and urging children to stay away from it. Former State Senator Val Stevens stated, “Families deserve to be protected from the exploitation of children, and children deserve a wholesome opportunity to be safe from seduction by deviants.”
3. NIGEL FARAGE LAUNCHING NEW CAMPAIGN AGAINST CBDCS: Brexit leader Nigel Farage is launching a new initiative to resist “de-banking,” and Central Bank Digital Currencies after his account was shut down over his political views. Farage wrote, “I’m not just doing this for me, I’m doing it for thousands — maybe tens of thousands of people — all over this country who have had their bank accounts over the past ten years.”
4. TRUMP WANTS DEATH PENALTY FOR TRAFFICKERS: Donald Trump called for the death penalty for child traffickers as part of a new campaign proposal, stating, “I will urge Congress to ensure that anyone caught trafficking children across our border receives the death penalty immediately…we did more than any administration in history to combat human trafficking and to end modern-day slavery.”
5. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES CALL FOR MONETARY FREEDOM: Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis called for ending Central Bank Digital Currencies, calling CBDCs a “huge threat to freedom” and to “privacy.” Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his new plan for backing the US dollar with assets like gold, silver, platinum, and bitcoin, and for exempting Bitcoin from the capital gains tax.
6. ISRAEL REFORMS JUDICIAL SYSTEM: The Israeli Parliament voted to reform its current judicial system, which had given the Supreme Court unlimited power to “strike down laws and cabinet nominees based on ‘unreasonableness.’” Many leftists protested the new reforms, but 300,000 citizens showed up in Tel Aviv to support the measures. Likud government Minister David Amsalem said the huge gathering was a “historic moment in the State of Israel, and another step to ensure the continuation of Israel as a democratic state.”
7. GHANA CRIMINALIZES HOMOSEXUALITY: The Ghana Supreme Court unanimously ruled against placing an injunction on a bill passed to penalize the promotion of homosexuality. The Parliament passed The Promotion of Appropriate Sexual Rights and Family Values by a 275-0 margin, and the bill is expected to be signed into law. Reverend John Ntim Fordjour stated, “We are [not] going to tolerate any media house that provides a platform for advocacy, propaganda, and promotion of LGBTQ+ and its related activities. Such actions are abhorred and frowned upon.”
8. RUSSIA BANS TRANSGENDER MUTILATION: Russian leader Vladimir Putin signed a bill passed by parliament ending sex change surgeries and banning transgenders from adopting or fostering children. American radio Host Wayne Allyn Root stated, “Good luck to the US in war with…countries like Russia and China. We fly ‘Pride flags’ and welcome transgenders into our military…while our enemies laugh at our dysfunction, mental illness, and feminization of our military.”
9. NAMIBIA REJECTS HOMOSEXUALITY: Life Site News reports the Namibian parliament passed a bill banning homosexual “marriages” between its citizens and foreigners. The bill also bans “the promotion, solemnization, participation in, and advertising of such unions.” Breaking the law would carry a sentence of up to 6 years in jail and a maximum fine of $5,500. Elder Philipe of the South West Africa People’s Organization stated, “The family union is between man and woman, and that must be respected.”
10. MORE STATES MAY PULL OUT OF AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: After Montana officially ended its affiliation with the American Library Association, many other conservative states have considered doing the same. The South Carolina Freedom Caucus wrote, “We join other state Freedom Caucuses and call on the [South Carolina] Library Association to leave the NLA. It’s time to stop using taxpayer money to fund Marxist organizations corrupting our kids.”
11. TEXAS WILL OFFICIALLY LEAVE ERIC: Texas will leave the leftist voting system ERIC in October of this year, leaving time to build their own “multistate cross-check program” or invest in one for less than $100,000. The Gateway Pundit stated, “ERIC is not working…and has failed in its purpose. The Democrat party apparatus loves it for some reason.”
12. WASHINGTON POST TAKES SIGNIFICANT LOSSES: The New York Times reports the Washington Post is set to lose over $100 million this year alone. The Times states, “The Post has struggled to increase the number of its paying customers since the 2020 election, when its digital subscriptions peaked at three million.” Many see the Jeff Bezos-owned paper as a tool of the left-wing agenda.
13. RFK JR. CHALLENGES THE NARRATIVE: After being asked why he promoted “conspiracy theories,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said, “My father told me when I was a little boy that people in authority lie and the job in a democracy is to remain skeptical…Show me the evidence and I’ll believe you, but I’m not going to take the word of official narratives…The way you do research is not by asking authoritative figures what they think.”
14. CHRISTIAN SOCCER TEAM IN NEPAL WINS CHAMPIONSHIP: “The Church Boys United” became the first team in 37 years to win their three national divisions three years in a row. Thirty million Nepalese watched the outstanding game. And Pastor Reuben Rye, founder of the team, wrote, “The club will continue to participate in First Division League and Tournaments in Nepal and outside and continue to witness our faith and give glory to God.”
15. ENGLAND TO BUILD ETERNAL WALL OF PRAYER: Plans for building an infinity-shaped prayer wall in England by 2026 consist of 1 million bricks representing 1 million answered prayers. The wall will be longer than a football field and even taller than the Statue of Liberty. The website for the incredible project states, “Every single one of the million bricks in Eternal Wall will represent a story of Jesus answering someone’s prayer.”
HYMN OF THE WEEK
Is My Name Written There by Mary A. Kidder
Lord, I care not for riches, neither silver or gold!
I would make sure of heaven, I would enter the fold.
In the book of Thy kingdom, with its pages so fair,
Tell me, Jesus, my Savior, is my name written there?
Is my name written there,
On the page white and fair?
In the book of Thy kingdom,
Is my name written there?
Lord, my sins they are many, like the sands of the sea,
But Thy blood, O my Savior, is sufficient for me!
For Thy promise is written, in bright letters that glow,
“Though your sins be as scarlet, I will make them like snow.”
Oh! that beautiful city, with its mansions of light,
With its glorified beings, in pure garments of white;
Where no evil thing cometh to despoil what is fair:
Where the angels are watching, yes, my name’s written there!
