I think this coverup of Charlie’s death will haunt America. The FBI, Congress and Trump should be held accountable for assassinating Charlie and covering for Israel.

I do not write much about my personal life for operational security reasons and privacy. Also, I find it just provides details for people to attack and marginalize me.

Personal guidance from above for me has been consistent: food production. To, that end, I have been planting more trees, fertilizing and planting more food crops.

But the tradeoff has taken a toll on my health which has sidelined me for the past three and half weeks. I have not written as much lately due to being sick which included a brain fog. While I am mostly back on my feet, I will hopefully be writing more and be able to complete the fence around my expanded garden.

Greater Israel is the goal. Everything and everyone else is just collateral damage. Trump was the perfect fall guy: arrogant, unskilled in diplomacy, and put into line with assassination attempts and blackmail.

I read Jane’s comment concerning Roth’s posts on Appalachian Renegade and wanted to respond. For some perspective, this is not the first time that Jane has “left” this site. I had to moderate all of her comments in the past but only recently removed that restriction. As most of you should already know, personal attacks in comments are not allowed. Reasoned arguments help us grow, learn and hopefully survive in the future.

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I met Roth in 2010. He had graduated from the seminary at that time and pastored his church on his farm on Sunday. While I am a Christian who believes that the Lord will guide us if we ask Him humbly, I also know that God’s ways are not our ways. In other words, we do not dictate terms to God.

Roth is still Pastor Bob to me and you can see a sparkle in his eyes. Have any of you gone out and put your freedom on the line to protest abortion in the manner he has? Have you had the courage to ask a valid question of church doctrine which was not answered and caused him to be defrocked?

There is much misinformation and downright arrogance in our country. I see it here where people attack anyone who does not believe in what they believe. It may be freedom, religion or just intransigence that people are limiting what others can say or do, but we still have the freedom (but not Liberty) to have free speech and freedom of religion.

I may not believe in Pagan gods but I believe the Great Commission does not include abandoning good people. And I believe that God watches over all of us. If He didn’t, what would be the point of wasting souls?

As you see, Roth is a passionate man who will absolutely fight the evil that has overtaken this country. You may cast the first stone but God will still have the last word on Judgment Day. Roth is looking for a few good people to fight evil, what are you looking for?

As for me, I am looking for the return of Jesus Christ. What are you looking forward to?

From DD Geopolitics
Iran’s negotiating team has halted all dialogue and text exchanges via mediators, citing continued IDF operations in Lebanon as a violation of ceasefire conditions Tehran considers binding on all fronts.

Iranian officials have demanded an immediate halt to IDF operations in Gaza and Lebanon and full withdrawal from occupied Lebanese territory. Tehran states there will be no talks until these conditions are met.

The Resistance and Iranian armed forces have also placed on the agenda a full closure of the Strait of Hormuz and activation of additional fronts — including the Bab al-Mandeb strait — as punitive measures against the Zionist regime and its backers.

Awaiting confirmation from other sources …

A Roman Catholic perspective …

The Destruction of The Temple of Jerusalem (La distruzione del tempio di Gerusalemme) by Francesco Hayez (1867)

Is Judaism the ultimate source of Western civilisation? Such views have seen a revival in 2026: the Levant is supposed to have been the Cradle of Civilisation (12,000 BC) and the Hebrews gave the West its foundations, that is, “ethical monotheism”, human dignity (for those made in the image of God), an objective moral law, justice for the weak, and linear and redemptive history. Since Israel has lost support among the Western youth, chief scholars from the Tikvah Fund and others have been out in force to remind the West how much it owes to Judaism (e.g. here). I assumed this would spark a debate about the nature and heritage of Western civilisation, but there has been silence. Why?

We are individuals adrift, no crew or course, overboard with memory loss; the erosion of our grounding in Greece, the withering of our Roman roots, and our distraction from the divine have ensured it. In short, we have forgotten our own story, the one about our shared Romanitas, about who and what we truly are in the world. Not knowing our past, we are at risk of having our future written for us, even with us typecast as the villain. Click here for the Roman version of our story, the one we must tell again.

A dissenting voice: Hanseatic Nordlandia has nothing in common with the invading Judeo-Latin collusion. We go back to our Solar Polytheist Roots. More on www.Nordlandia.nl … Andre-Hans von Bremen.

The Metaphysics of Power in the Digital Age

The World After Television:
We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us. — John Culkin, paraphrasing Marshall McLuhan

For most of the twentieth century, a nation could be addressed all at once. At a fixed hour, the citizen sat before a single glowing rectangle and received, along with millions of strangers he would never meet, the same images, the same voices, the same authorised account of what had happened that day. The evening news was a civic liturgy. It not only reported on the world, but it also manufactured the very surface on which a shared world could exist. Whatever one thought of the men who spoke from that rectangle, one thought it together. Disagreement itself had a common object.

That world is ending now, and the manner of its ending is the subject of this essay. This essay attempts an answer in ten movements. It begins with the long history of persuasion, because almost nothing about the present is unprecedented, except for its speed and scale. It ends with the suggestion that we are circling back, by the most modern means imaginable, towards something very old — The future will awaken the ancient.

Read the essay …

Excerpt: The influencer was a political actor who had not yet found a politics, a loaded instrument waiting for a hand.

And the hands arrived. The migration happened along a path so gradual that each step seemed unremarkable. A fitness creator begins to speak about discipline, then about the kind of society that rewards or punishes discipline. A gaming streamer, holding the attention of millions of young men for hours at a stretch, drifts from commentary on games to commentary on the world. A podcaster who began by interviewing comedians finds that the same long, intimate, unedited format is extraordinarily well suited to political persuasion, and that audiences trust the voice in their ears far more than they trust the institutions that voice increasingly mocks. Somewhere along this path the content creator quietly becomes a narrative authority: a person whose following turns to them for an account of what is true, who is friend and who is enemy, and what is to be done.

The structural fact is what matters here: the medium has produced a new kind of political actor who needs no party to nominate him, no broadcaster to platform him, and no institution to vouch for him. He is authorised directly by an audience, and he can be deplatformed by the institutions only at the cost of confirming, to that audience, the very story he has been telling them about those institutions all along. This is a genuinely novel position in the architecture of power, and the broadcast-era state has no settled idea what to do about it.

The internet reorganises people tribally, and then it keeps the tribes warm.

This video provides a different view of what it’s like to live in China from a Canadian ex-pat who does.

Over ten years ago I turned the American flag on the pole on our farm upside down to indicate the nation in distress. Then I took it down entirely. I used to sing the Star Spangled Banner at the top of my lungs at football games and felt that tingle of pride run up my spine. Then I gave up football games and singing the Anthem.

As the waste, fraud, corruption, the endless and meaningless wars of aggression became ever more visible, I lost all pride in the United States. As it became apparent that We the People were actually considered the enemy by our own government, that our freedoms were being abused and the Constitution ignored, voting an exercise in futility, I came to despise that government. Last year I attended a community celebration and sang a patriotic song. This year, a year that should be momentous, I’m not in the mood to celebrate. And won’t.

It’s not that I’m not patriotic, it’s that that thing that should attract my patriotism is dead and has been replaced by something that’s un-American.