Dear Friends,
A new year brings fresh opportunities to steward the most precious resource God has given each of us: time. A young Jonathan Edwards resolved to “never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.” Edwards also said, “Time is so short, and the work which we have to do in it is so great, that we have none of it to spare.”
Those who fret that they do not have enough time should consider Elizabeth Elliot’s wise words “There is time to do anything and everything God wants us to do.” How will you invest your time in 2023?
1. CONSERVATIVES OPPOSE MCCARTHY FOR SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: Like John Boehner and Paul Ryan before him, Kevin McCarthy has undercut and marginalized conservatives at every turn. Up to 21 brave U.S. Reps voted against allowing McCarthy to become Speaker, as McCarthy lost multiple rounds of voting. Matt Gaetz (R-Fl) bluntly stated, “If you want to drain the swamp, you cannot put the biggest alligator in charge of the exercise. I’m a Florida man, and I know of what I speak.”
Russ Vought said, “Conservative Inc. have been completely exposed for the frauds they are in this fight.” Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) called those opposing McCarthy “terrorists.” Newt Gingrich said House Republicans opposing McCarthy are “deranged disrupters” who have a “psychological problem” and want to “sink the whole Republican Party.” RNC head Ronna McDaniel (who only 6% of Republicans want to continue as chair) said Republicans should stop “fighting each other.”
13 House members who had voted firmly against McCarthy voted for him on the 12th ballot, following significant concessions. For continuing developments on this story, see Russ Vought’s Twitter thread. For more on McCarthy, read, Conservatives Call for New House Leadership.
2. ABORTION WAS THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH IN 2022: Over 44 million unborn babies were murdered via abortion in 2022, according to Worldometer statistics, accounting for roughly 40% of all deaths. CVS and Walgreens will now carry abortion pills, following a new rule from the Biden Administration. Pro-life advocates lament that the rule will “transform pharmacies from centers of healing into centers of death.” The South Carolina Supreme Court sadly struck down the state’s six-week abortion ban. A shocking article from The Guardian praised the Satanic Temple’s commitment to abortion: “…the Temple has tackled prayer in classrooms, religious holiday displays, and the distribution of Bibles in schools. Now, it is taking on another fundamental issue: the right to abortion.”
Ed. Note: While it is not possible to avoid every company that is profiting from death, we personally will be avoiding CVS and Walgreens. We encourage you to look for alternatives in your town as well.
3. TRUMP BLAMES PRO-LIFE REPUBLICANS FOR MIDTERM LOSSES: Former President Donald Trump, who has been rightly called the “most pro-life of all recent presidents,” released a statement claiming the “abortion issue was poorly handled by many Republicans” during the 2022 midterms. While abortion certainly impacted the midterm elections, The New American notes that “the GOP’s relatively poor midterm showing was largely attributable to vote fraud.”
4. BRAZIL SWEARS IN MARXIST PRESIDENT: Marxist Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, a former president and convicted criminal, was sworn in as President of Brazil, following a rigged election. In his inauguration speech, Lula proclaimed, “Our message to Brazil is one of hope and reconstruction.” People’s World reports, “The Communist Party backed Lula for the presidency and has vowed its members of parliament will now ‘fight alongside [him] for the reconstruction of the country after the Bolsonarist catastrophe.’” President Bolsonaro said, “I have no support from other institutions to act against Lula.” Ecuador, Uruguay, and Paraguay are now the only three South American countries not led by Marxists.
Ed. Note: In his 2008 book, “Shadow World,” Robert Chandler notes that following Lula’s 2003 election, he “made it clear that he would operate in partnership with his ideological allies, Fidel Castro in Cuba and President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. On his first day in office, Lula had breakfast with Chavez and dinner with Castro.” Before becoming President, Lula organized the Forum of Sao Paulo meetings attended by communists, leftist groups, and terrorists “to help terrorist groups better coordinate their attacks on the United States.”
5. VIRGIN ISLANDS ATTORNEY GENERAL FIRED AFTER FILING EPSTEIN LAWSUIT: Denise George, the Attorney General of the U.S. Virgin Islands, was fired just days after she filed a lawsuit accusing JP Morgan Chase of “turning a blind eye” to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes. The lawsuit accused the bank of “knowingly providing and pulling the levers through which recruiters and victims were paid.” Joe Biden just “happened” to be visiting the Virgin Islands during the same time that George was fired.
6. DR. PETER MCCULLOUGH BELIEVES COVID VACCINE COULD HAVE LED TO NFL PLAYER’S HEART ATTACK: The NFL postponed a game between the Buffalo Bills and the Cincinnati Bengals after Bills’ player Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field with cardiac arrest following a routine tackle. Unsurprisingly, mainstream media have refused to even consider the possibility that the Covid vaccine contributed to Hamlin’s cardiac arrest, calling those who dared to suggest it “far-right,” “vile,” “anti-vaxxer,” and “conspiracy theorists.”
Dr. Peter McCullough said, “If Damar Hamlin indeed took one of the COVID-19 vaccines, then subclinical vaccine-induced myocarditis must be considered in the differential diagnosis.” If the data is accurate, “a million young Americans could have sustained heart damage from COVID-19 vaccination, and some of them will be at risk for cardiac arrest and future heart failure.”
In related news, 38-year-old former NFL player Uche Nwaneri of the Jacksonville Jaguars, who previously said that Covid vaccine refusers should be jailed, died suddenly of a “possible heart attack.” The Epoch Times reports, “Two hundred seventy-nine athletes and former athletes in the United States have died from cardiac arrests after taking COVID-19 vaccines, according to data from a recent peer-reviewed study.”
7. 28% OF AMERICANS THINK THEY KNOW SOMEONE WHO DIED FROM COVID VACCINES: A poll from Rasmussen Reports finds that 28% of Americans think they “personally know someone whose death may have been caused by side effects of the COVID-19 vaccines.” Additionally, “(49%) of American Adults believe it is likely that side effects of COVID-19 vaccines have caused a significant number of unexplained deaths, including 28% who think it’s Very Likely.” For more, read Igor Chudov’s Rasmussen Survey on Covid Vaccine Deaths Proves Antivaxxers Right.
Two ABC producers, Dax Tejera (37) and Erica Gonzalez (28), “died suddenly” in one week. ABC had required employees to receive the Covid shot, with no exemptions. Japanese researchers are now investigating the links between the Covid shot, deaths, and adverse reactions.
For more on Covid vaccines, read Sudden Death: The No. 1 Cause of Death for Under 65s in 2021 and Shocking Lab Investigation of COVID Vaccines, both by Dr. Joseph Mercola.
8. MORE PROOF JANUARY 6 WAS A FALSE FLAG: Just the News reports, “House Republicans gathered a trove of text and email messages showing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office was directly involved in the creation and editing of the Capitol security plan that failed during the January 6, 2021 riot…” According to a just-released transcript of a deposition suspected Fed agent Ray Epps made before the January 6 Committee, Epps (who has yet to be charged or arrested) sent a text to his 28-year-old nephew, Dalin Epps, on January 6, 2021: “I was in the front with a few others. I also orchestrated it.”
Ed. Note: January 6 was clearly a false flag operation designed to discredit all opposed to the fraudulent 2020 election and to fuel the manufactured “domestic terrorism” narrative. For more, see our past two AGENDA Weekly episodes, Reflections on January 6 and What Happened on January 6?
9. MULTIPLE “CONSPIRACY THEORIES” CAME TRUE IN 2022: In reviewing the top stories of 2022, political commentator Kim Iversen observed that many people were labeled conspiracy theorists “simply for saying something that went against the establishment liberal orthodoxy — not because it was quackery rooted in falsehoods.” Iversen continued, “The reality is, so many that they [the mainstream media] claim to be ‘conspiracy theories’ are actually true. Anytime someone’s labeled as a conspiracy theorist, it might just mean it’s time to actually investigate and look a little deeper into whatever it is they’re claiming because so often nowadays conspiracy theorists are not conspiracy theorists at all. They’re truth-tellers — fact-tellers, researchers — and they’re connecting the dots and getting a lot of things right.”
10. GLOBALISTS WANT HARSHER CENSORSHIP OF “CONSPIRACY THEORIES”: Police in Queensland, Australia, have ordered citizens to report neighbors who “are anti-government or believe Covid-19 vaccine conspiracy theories.” New Zealand’s government has declared it will investigate as terrorists any accused of being “conspiracy theorists.” Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said that Congress should amend Section 230 to censor “misinformation” and “disinformation.” Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) said, “If you espouse hate, if you espouse violence, you’re not protected under the First Amendment.”
Ed. Note: The blatant propaganda and censorship of the last three years have confirmed the critical need to always question “experts,” mainstream media, and establishment history, and then seek out reliable sources of truth.
11. US GOVERNMENT DEMANDED TWITTER SUSPEND 250,000 ACCOUNTS: Elon Musk told a podcast host, “To be frank, almost EVERY conspiracy theory that people had about Twitter turned out to be TRUE.” Recent Twitter Files reveal that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security gave Twitter a “list nearly 250,000” names long with accounts to censor, including journalists. Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA) previously asked Twitter to censor Real Clear Investigations reporter Paul Sperry.
For more on Deep State censorship, read, The Twitter Files by Dr. Joseph Mercola, An Unholy Government-Corporate Alliance Implemented a Psy-Op on Americans by Marie Hawthorne, and Elon Musk Slams CISA Censorship Network as ‘Propaganda Platform’ by Kanekoa The Great.
12. EXPERTS PREDICT ECONOMIC OUTLOOK FOR 2023: While inflation skyrocketed and the stock market ended 2022 with its worst year since 2008, more economic pain could be in store for 2023. The IMF predicts, “We expect one-third of the world economy to be in recession, while Bloomberg reports, “Economists say there is a 7-in-10 likelihood that the U.S. economy will sink into a recession next year.” Nouriel Roubini says, “No, this is not going to be a short and shallow recession; it’s going to be deep and protracted.” For more, see 11 Ominous Predictions For 2023 by Michael Snyder and FDIC Bankers Discuss’ Bail-Ins’ To Deal With Impending Market Collapse by Jamie White.
Contrarian investor Doug Casey has picked gold and gold mining stocks as his top speculation for 2023. Robert Kyosaki predicts $3,800 gold and $75 silver by year’s end. However, economist and technocracy expert Patrick Wood says, “Don’t expect gold or silver to buck the market’s trends. There is currently a tight correlation between precious metals and stocks. Thus, if stocks go down, the metals complex will follow right along…” Joel Skousen of World Affairs brief believes, “If this gets bigger than 2008, the stocks are going way down, and because inflation will continue to get worse, bonds will also suffer. The manipulated price of gold and silver will also not be allowed to rise to compensate.”
13. ARE NEW YORK AND CALIFORNIA AMERICA’S FUTURE? A newly-passed New York law makes the state the sixth in the nation to legalize the dehumanizing process of turning deceased human bodies into fertilizer through “human composting.” Nine controversial laws in California just took effect, including the COVID Misinformation Act (AB 2098), which will punish doctors who spread Covid and Covid vaccine “misinformation” and “disinformation.” Both California and New York are mandating that all health insurance plans cover abortion for free.
California lost 343,000 residents between July 1, 2021, and July 1, 2022, while New York lost almost 300,000 residents in the same period. Meanwhile, Florida gained 318,000 residents, and Texas gained 230,000.
Ed. Note: It is encouraging to see hundreds of thousands of Americans vote with their feet to leave blue states. Yet every state is destined to inevitably become a New York or California, unless parents refuse to continue sending their children to be brainwashed and destroyed in the Marxist education camps (government schools).
14. MAINSTREAM MEDIA EMBRACE MORE CLIMATE LUNACY: 60 Minutes featured an interview with Paul Ehrlich, author of the 1968 book “The Population Bomb,” which wrongly predicted environmental catastrophes. In the interview, Ehrlich claimed, “Humanity is not sustainable. To maintain our lifestyle (yours and mine, basically) for the entire planet, you’d need five more Earths. Not clear where they’re gonna come from.” The New York Times released an opinion piece entitled, “There Has Never Been a Better Time to Be Short.”
15. UNITED NATIONS PROCLAIMS 2023 AGENDA: CD Media reports, “The new year is kicking off with a concerted effort at the United Nations to move closer to achieving the U.N.’s 17 sustainable development goals by 2030.” The U.N.’s nine major events for the year include World Social Report, the World Economic Situation and Prospects report, the Third International Forum on Migration Statistics, and the annual High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development.
16. SCOTLAND, LEFTISTS TRY TO GROOM KIDS: Scottish police received well-deserved backlash for calling pedophiles “minor-attracted people” in a report. General Motors (GM) donated to the LGBT Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network’s (GLSEN) “Rainbow Library” program, which distributes pro-transgender children’s books to kindergarten and elementary schools. Sadly, prescriptions for puberty blockers doubled between 2017 and 2021, as leftists feverishly promoted the transgender agenda.
17. ELECTION NEWS: Wisconsin election integrity group Election Watch (EW) has released more proof that the 2020 election was stolen, reporting that over 150,000 Wisconsin votes were not tied to a valid address. The elections director in Pinal County, AZ, received a $25,000 bonus after reporting inaccurate results for the 2022 midterm election. George Soros funded Democrat candidates in the 2022 midterms to the tune of $128,485,971.
18. NOTEWORTHY STORIES:
- Former Rep Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), a member of Nancy Pelosi’s January 6 Committee, is joining CNN.
- Bolivia’s socialist government sentenced Luis Fernando Camacho, opposition leader and Governor of the Santa Cruz region, to four months in “pre-trial detention” ahead of his trial on “terrorism” charges. Camacho’s wife said, “The Governor has been brutally kidnapped.”
- Reclaim The Net reports, “Mobile Driver’s Licenses are now available in the state of Mississippi, the latest state to adopt a form of digital ID in the United States.”
- The Council on Foreign Relations released an article titled, “America Needs More Immigration to Defeat Inflation: Only Foreign Workers Can Alleviate U.S. Labor Shortages.”
- “The House Democratic Caucus is the greatest collection of intellect, integrity, and imagination assembled for the good of the American people,” wrote outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in her final letter as Speaker.
- Apparently, exercise is now racist. Time Magazine released an article entitled, “The White Supremacist Origins of Exercise.”
- The New American notes that now-deceased Pope Benedict openly heralded the “New World Order” and was so dedicated to the environmental agenda that the mainstream media called him the “Green Pope.”
- The College of Psychologists of Ontario has ordered Dr. Jordan Peterson to submit to a “re-education” program over past comments.
- A new study finds that regular social media use changes the brains of teenagers.
- In a recent speech, Biden blamed Republicans for the border crisis (that his administration created).
FAITH, FAMILY, AND FREEDOM REPORT
1. MASSACHUSETTS MOM STANDS UP: After discovering that her city flies an LGBT rainbow “pride” flag in the city park for one week, Jessica Jacobson, an ordinary mother from Fitchburg, Massachusetts asked the city mayor for permission to fly a “nuclear family” flag for one week, in order to be more “inclusive” and avoid violating anti-discrimination laws. Mayor Stephen DeNatale agreed, allowing the flag to fly in the city’s Park from December 21-28. “Equality is what this flag raising is all about,” said Jacobson. Not surprisingly, homosexual activists were enraged.
2. 2023 MUST BE YEAR OF THE FAMILY: In an interview with Jack Posobiec, former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon asserted that the family must be the “centerpiece” in today’s battle. “This is what 2023 has got to be,” Bannon said. “We have to have the family become the tip of the spear strategically. The way that the cultural Marxists are trying to break Western civilization is through the family. The family is the incubator of liberty, right from time immemorial.” Bannon observed that the Nazis, Bolsheviks, Mao’s Communists, and the French revolutionaries all sought to destroy the family.
3. HUNGARY GIVES TAX BREAKS TO MARRIED COUPLES: Hungary’s new tax policy exempts all mothers who have children before 30 from paying personal income tax. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s political director Balázs Orbán tweeted, “Hungary extends its family-friendly policies. From January, women who become mothers before turning 30 will be exempt from paying personal income tax!”
4. 2,500 ATTEND KIRK CAMERON STORY HOUR AT INDIANA LIBRARY: 2500 people thronged the Indianapolis Library to hear Kirk Cameron read, As You Grow, his newly-released children’s book. Attendees crowded the library’s aisles after the booked room filled up. Cameron said, “Yesterday in Indianapolis, a brushfire of faith, family, and freedom was ignited. It has now spread to Scarsdale, New York, and it’s moving across the country uncontained. I am so thrilled.”
5. RESEARCHERS DISCOVER THE “TRUMP BABY BUMP”: A recent study finds that Republican-leaning areas witnessed a “sharp increase” in newborn babies during Trump’s first two years as president. Study co-author Professor Gordan Dahl posits that Republicans had more babies because of a surge in economic optimism, while Democrats had fewer babies due to their belief that the economy was worsening.
6. SWEDEN HALTS TRANSGENDER TREATMENTS FOR MINORS: Sweden has finally acknowledged the harm transgender treatments cause to minors. “Good psychosocial care is fundamental…It is important that children and young people who suffer from gender dysphoria are taken seriously, treated well, and offered adequate care,” said Thomas Lindén of the National Board of Health and Welfare.
7. ALABAMA ALLOWS HANDGUN CONCEALED CARRY WITHOUT PERMIT: Alabama’s Constitutional Carry law has now taken effect, allowing citizens to pack lead without a permit, if they so desire. Rep. Shane Stringer (R) said, “It’s going to be a big step to help the average law-abiding citizen to keep them from having to go through the hoops of getting a permit to carry their weapons.” 25 U.S. states have now adopted constitutional carry.
8. STATES IMPLEMENT TAX REFORMS: The Epoch Times reports, “Tax reform across a range of levies is among front-burner priorities for lawmakers in 2023. During 2022 sessions…at least 38 states adopted ‘noteworthy tax changes’ with most going into effect on January 1, including trims in personal income tax rates in 11 states and flat income tax structures being implemented in three states, Arizona, Idaho, and Mississippi.”
9. TEXAS NATIONAL GUARD ERECTS BARBED WIRE FENCE TO STOP ILLEGALS: The Texas National Guard built a 2-mile barbed wire fence in an attempt to stem the tide of illegal crossings at El Paso. Republican Governor Gregg Abbot, who thus far has been long on talk and short on meaningful action, promised the state will be erecting more of Trump’s border wall in 2023, after negotiations with private landowners.
Ed. Note: For substantive solutions to the border crisis, see Center for Renewing America’s Policy Brief, How States Can Secure the Border.
10. CNN EXECUTIVE CALLS OUT “UNINFORMED VITRIOL” OF THE LEFT: In a recent interview, Chris Licht, who has led CNN for less than one year, said, “The uninformed vitriol, especially from the left, has been stunning, which proves my point: So much of what passes for news is name-calling, half-truths, and desperation.” CNN has struggled with scandals and plummeting viewership over the past two years, as more Americans have awakened to its hypocrisy and propaganda.
11. NEARLY 4,000 ANTI-COMMUNIST PROTESTS IN CUBA IN 2022: Cubans held a total of 3,923 protests against the country’s Communist regime in 2022. The Observatory reports that Cubans “understand ─ even at the cusp of the wave of police-judicial-media terror unleashed after [July 11]─ that they have nothing to lose, and everything to gain.”
12. RON DESANTIS LAYS OUT 2023 AGENDA: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said in his second inaugural address, “Freedom lives here, in our great Sunshine State of Florida. Over the past few years, as so many states in our country grinded their citizens down, we in Florida lifted our people up. When other states consigned their people’s freedom to the dustbin, Florida stood strongly as freedom’s linchpin. When the world lost its mind – when common sense suddenly became an uncommon virtue – Florida was a refuge of sanity, a citadel of freedom for our fellow Americans and even for people around the world.” In related news, DeSantis is investigating recent drag queen shows that were held for children in Fort Lauderdale and Miami.
HYMN OF THE WEEK
Nothing Between My Soul and the Savior By Charles Tindley
Nothing between my soul and the Savior,
Naught of this world’s delusive dream.
I have renounced all sinful pleasure!
Jesus is mine; there’s nothing between!
Nothing between my soul and the Savior,
So that His blessed face may be seen!
Nothing preventing the least of His favor;
Keep the way clear! Let nothing between!
Nothing between, like pride or station;
Self or friends shall not intervene.
Though it may cost me much tribulation:
I am resolved, there’s nothing between!
Nothing between, even many hard trials,
Though the whole world against me convene!
Watching with prayer and much self-denial:
Triumph at last, there’s nothing between!
Nothing between my soul and the Savior,
So that His blessed face may be seen!
Nothing preventing the least of His favor;
Keep the way clear! Let nothing between!
