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Oct. 22, 2022 - Just Informed Talk - Craig James
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Xi Jinping PURGES Communist Party After Becoming SUPREME LEADER? | JustInformed News #221
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Hi, and welcome to another episode of Just Informed News.
I'm your host, Craig.
Thanks for joining me.
We have a lot to cover here today.
You guys probably see in the title, we're going to be talking about this major party purge that just happened at the Communist Party meeting.
This only happens twice a decade.
They have this major meeting where they all come together and they basically re-solidify their never-ending devotion to Xi Jinping at this point.
And this is a big deal, though, because this public display of humiliation has taken effect.
And it has gone against the former leader of the Communist Party, a man named Hu Jintao, was basically forcefully pulled away from the meeting in front of the whole world.
And they're going to try to sell it as one thing, but we know what it is.
I'm going to give you some insight on that and how that party purge took place, which is effectively making Xi Jinping into the next Mao Zedong, the supreme leader of China, which is dangerous.
This is very dangerous, dangerous times, guys, because now that there is no real check or balance to his authority and his power, it's only going to get worse.
So I'm going to give you kind of the history of the Communist Party, everything that happened up till this point, from Mao Zedong all the way to where we're at today with Xi Jinping.
Just a brief history, and I'll give you some other resources and links to get more information on that.
But we're going to talk about what happened at that party the other day and how that's going to affect the world as we know it.
Plus, we're going to get into a bunch of other news stories, many different fascinating topics that the fake news doesn't want you to have any access to or to even understand is happening.
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Okay, guys, let's get into it.
We have a lot to cover here.
We're going to just jump right into this story.
This is the major story here.
Purge, China's former president forcibly removed from seat next to successor Xi Jinping at televised CCP Congress and dragged out of the room.
So you have to know a few things in order to get the context of what happened here.
And I'll try to explain them to the best of my ability.
But at this point, I think it would be worth noting that there is so much more to this that we can cover.
So I'm going to play this clip real quick, and then we'll give you the context to the clip itself.
Here's a picture of it happening.
But you can see for yourself...
This is not somebody being let out for any other reason than what it looks like.
Let's go ahead and watch this clip right now.
For context, before we watch the clip, I should say that if you guys don't know what's happening here, Xi Jinping is seated on the far left of the screen here, if you're watching it.
And he is seated in the middle of the room.
He is the leader of the Communist Party, the president, if you will, but really the dictator.
The man sitting here who is being removed is named Hu Jintao.
Now Hu Jintao is the former leader of the Communist Party of China.
He is also a leader of the Youth League of China.
This is a more rule-based party.
It basically went up against something called the Shanghai Gang, which was led by a man named Zhang Zemin.
Now, Zhang Zemin and Hu Jintao worked together before Xi Jinping took over.
And essentially purged the Communist Party of millions through this anti-corruption campaign and essentially took full control of the Communist Party by placing his own minions in the places where Jiang Zemin's men were and where Hu Jintao's men were.
Now you've got to remember, Li...
A guy named Li Chao Chong, these names are tough to pronounce for an American, but I'm trying my best, is the vice president, essentially, if you want to look at it, like the vice premier.
He's essentially what you would look at as the vice president of the Communist Party.
He's actually seated, and you may see him in this video well, he's seated to the left of Xi Jinping.
So if you're looking at the screen like I am, Xi Jinping's on the far left as we open up here, but then when you see him removed, Hu Jintao, on the left is the vice premier.
Li Zhao Zhang.
I'm butchering these names, probably.
But he is the vice premier, and he is also from the Youth League, which was a part of Hu Jintao's party, which is an opposition party to Xi Jinping.
So, that's kind of the full context for this particular video, but I'll let you watch, and then we'll tell you what the official story is coming out of the Communist Party, but then we're going to tell you what this most likely is in reality, as it kind of speaks for itself when you watch this video.
So let's go ahead and watch this right now.
Thank you.
Thank you.
So I'm going to stop it here and kind of replay this.
So, this guy right here is named Li Xi Jinping.
I can't pronounce his name.
I'm sorry.
I don't know why it's leaving me right now.
But anyway, he's like the vice premier here.
And this is a part of his Youth League Reform Party that is opposition to Xi Jinping.
And you can see here, as he's being pulled out, that you can see first he stops...
and tries to say something to Xi Jinping, and then he taps on the shoulder this guy as he's leaving.
Yeah, so you can see they're actually doing this video so you can see they're actually doing this video where they're highlighting how he's being forcefully pulled out of here.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And he tries to reach over for this booklet in front of Xi Jinping, trying to take this booklet.
Thank you.
And that's the video.
So let's try to unpack what this is.
For everybody who's watching on the outside, a lot of people have no idea what this means.
A lot of people do.
Simply put, as I was saying, the man you saw in this video, and we'll try to keep this, we'll pull it up like this.
So you can see me and you can see this video.
Here it is.
You see Hu Jintao, right?
The former leader, he's part of the Youth League Reform Party, which is an opposition party to Xi Jinping.
He worked before with a man named Jiang Zemin, who was the former leader before him, and they essentially had two parts of the party established.
Now, what were those two parts of the party?
The two parts of the party were, simply put, you had the A party that was what they called the Shanghai Gang, which is where Xi Jinping actually comes from.
He's not necessarily directly a part of the gang itself.
This was Jiang Zemin's faction.
But the Shanghai Gang was essentially a part of the party that was focused on Shanghai, obviously, as the name would let you hear.
And they were...
focused on business.
Now, what they did during their tenure, during Jiang Zemin's tenure, was focus on the more, the coastal cities.
So they would be kind of like the equivalent of the coastal elites here in America, but not really.
It's like the communist version, if you will.
And what they did is they basically focused on cities like Shanghai and other cities, coastal cities, built up their economies and totally neglected the inner parts of China, the inner parts of the country.
And that's where a guy like this Hu Jintao steps in.
He starts this Youth League Reform Party.
And the Youth League Reform Party focuses on bringing wealth and prosperity to the inner parts of China.
And in a lot of ways, during Zhang Zemin's rule and Hu Jintao's rule, as they ruled one after the other, Zhang Zemin first, then Hu Jintao, they brought reform, especially Zhang Zemin.
He was the one who essentially helped open, after the first...
The first ruler after Mao Zedong, which was Deng Xiaoping.
And guys, I'm butchering these names, so forgive me.
But Deng Xiaoping was the first after Mao Zedong ruler who essentially kind of opened up to the West.
Then it really went in hyper speed after Jiang Zemin took over.
He opened up to the West with the Shanghai Gang, opened up the coastal cities, making huge amounts of money for the Communist Party.
Then what you saw was Hu Jintao come into power and he kind of continued the policies of Jiang Zemin to opening up to the West, but also leading to reform to, like I said, helping enrich the inner parts of China and helping uplift some of the more rural inner parts of China, the poverty that helping enrich the inner parts of China and helping uplift some of the more rural inner parts
And they worked together to actually form a pretty good balance, not really like checks and balance like you would see in the West, in America or anywhere else, but the best form or semblance of...
Check and balance you could get inside of the Communist Party at that time.
Now, like I said before, what happened here?
Xi Jinping, who was kind of an ancillary guy to the Shanghai gang, which was a part of Jiang Zemin's faction, he ends up being groomed to be the next leader by Jiang Zemin.
And when he's placed into power, they underestimate his abilities.
Because essentially as soon as Xi Jinping gets placed into power, he starts this anti-corruption purge of the whole Communist Party, which in effect was him purging both factions, but more overly purging a lot of Jiang Zemin's most important factions and allies within the Communist Party, kicking them all out.
Now he does this over a period of time to a point now where he's surrounded in the party by, and this is a part of what happened at this year's, this, whatever, it's twice a decade.
So once every five years, they have this communist party meeting.
And essentially, he's basically finished overthrowing the structures and norms that were a part of the reform that was made by Deng Xiaoping, Excuse me, these names are going to kill me if I'm going to try to keep doing them all day, but I'll try my best.
And essentially what Deng did after Mao was decide that they don't want another Mao.
So they wanted term limits, and they wanted competing factions within the party, and they wanted things.
They didn't want this unilateral dictatorship that they saw under Mao Zedong because tens of millions of people were killed, and they didn't want to see that again.
So Deng Xiaoping and Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin all were a part of this new reform system whereby you had competing factions inside the Communist Party all fighting for power, which was sort of a check and balance unto itself.
Well, Xi Jinping's taking care of all of that.
There is no more competing faction inside of the actual party itself because it's been purged of all competing factions and Xi Jinping has surrounded himself with essentially yes-men.
And this is what you're seeing, the final step of his takeover being taking the former leader who's seated at his left side, right at his left hand, his right hand man is the Hu Jintao's apprentice, you know, if you will, and...
On his left is Hu Jintao.
Xi Jinping has him forcibly removed, as you see in this video.
I mean, it could not be more obvious.
Has him forcibly removed, pulled out of his chair during this meeting.
I mean, you can see they're literally ripping this guy out of his chair.
And this is all in public.
You got to remember...
These meetings are highly coordinated, right?
They're highly, highly, because they know the whole world's watching.
If you look at, like, a vote in these meetings, it's like, does anyone object?
Silence.
Does anybody, you know, abstain?
Silence.
So everyone agrees and it's approved.
You couldn't be more of a dictatorship than they are right now.
It's not democracy like you see in the West.
It's the appearance of democracy where everybody votes in lockstep with the party.
And if you don't vote in lockstep with the party, then you're kicked out of the party.
And it's not like the people choose who represents them in the party.
The party picks who represents the party.
It's kind of like one of those closed systems.
So, all of that being said, I say all of that to show you that Xi Jinping, in this very orchestrated, very public, and very pronounced public humiliation of Hu Jintao, pulls him up and pulls him away out of the meeting.
Now, what's the official story?
Well, let's see what the official story is coming out of Western outlets that are reporting what the Chinese Communist Party is saying.
It says here that China's ex-leader was not feeling well as he was let out of the party congress.
The 79-year-old Hu Jintao seemed reluctant to leave with two men who approached him while he was seated next to President Xi Jinping.
Well, you think?
Well, he was unexpectedly escorted out after he said the official story that's been taken over all of Weibo, which is Chinese Twitter, I think, one of the Chinese social media, is that he was sick.
He wasn't feeling well, so they took him to a side room where he sat for 30 minutes, and then they kind of let him out.
And he's better now.
He's better now.
Don't worry.
No, but the real story is that this has been a part of the Communist Party for a long time.
Public humiliation and showing basically as an example to everybody else in the party that if you mess with Xi Jinping or if you oppose him in any way, shape, or form, as Hu Jintao did on a lot of things, You'll be removed.
You'll be taken care of.
You'll be disappeared even.
And this is the final step in the in his ascension, I would say, to the role of supreme leader, which is as close as you get to Mao Zedong was today that you'll ever see with Xi Jinping right now.
And that's where we're at, guys.
So the official story is that Hu Jintao wasn't feeling well.
But for a man who wasn't feeling well, he sure looked reluctant to want to leave.
And I only can tell you what it is.
It is what it is at this point.
So if I'm not coming in on some of the live streams, I'm sorry.
You guys are going to catch on the other end because everything's good on my end.
So that's on Rumble, not me.
So, this is really an important point that we have to make here, is that this was a public humiliation.
This seems like it was on purpose.
This is a part of the full purge of the Communist Party.
And remember, Jiang Zemin overthrew Or Xi Jinping, I should say, after he was ascended by Jiang Zemin's faction, the Shanghai gang, has taken revenge on the Shanghai gang in retrospect.
If we look at what happened in Shanghai with these COVID lockdowns, I mean, that had to be seen as recourse for Jiang Zemin's actions that were taken against Xi Jinping after he realized that Xi Jinping had the power and authority to overtake him.
So I don't know what to tell you guys other than that's what they're saying.
An interesting thread here kind of goes through what it means.
I'll leave a link to it if you want.
But essentially what it says is we just saw the making of an all-G's men team, the breaking of decade-long rules, and the birth of an unlimited supreme leader.
These are not entirely surprising, but G's grab of power is still beyond our expectation.
Here it is.
No successor.
Xi is too young to pick up a successor.
His ministers have no interest in suggesting one.
Potential candidates dare not imply it.
Xi's future successor is now a nobody who is not even in the Central Committee this time.
Succession may not be an issue until 2027.
The rule of age limit is gone completely.
All 67, Li Keqing, Wang Yang, and Chen Quango retired while Wang Huning stayed in the PSTP. Moreover, Wang Yi, 69, Zhang Yuzhi, 72, will be in Politburo.
And this kind of goes through the inside baseball of it all.
I'm not going to read it all because it's kind of boring for you guys who don't follow this stuff like I try to.
And again, I'm not an expert on it.
I just try to keep abreast, attuned, if you will, to what's happening in China because I think it's massively important to what's happening here in the United States.
But that, I'll leave a link to it if you want to read through it.
It tells you about all the inner workings of the Communist Party.
But essentially what's happened, to break it down for you in simple terms, is that in this term of the Communist Party's Congress, the CCP Party Congress, was it the 20th meeting?
I don't know which meeting it is.
That they've essentially removed all...
Whatever was left of the opposition to Xi Jinping's rule.
Which makes him a dictator at this point.
So...
And why would they want to do that?
Well, first of all, I think one of the important things to note is people are speculating online that the person who removed Hu Jintao, who we can see here in this clip, let's see, this guy right here, let's see if I can get a good picture of him, right here.
The guy here, you guys can see his face, he's wearing a face mask, who's pulling on the arm of Hu Jintao and trying to remove him from this room.
The speculation online now is that this was one of Xi Jinping's own bodyguards.
And why is that important?
Well, it's massively important because Hu Jintao has his own bodyguards and he has his own attendants and he has his own servants and he has his own entire faction of individuals who serve him.
So if Hu Jintao really was sick and he was being led away for his own health and safety, you would imagine it would be one of Hu Jintao's own people who are doing it, not...
The bodyguard of Xi Jinping pulling this guy out of the live party Congress and basically forcefully removing him in front of everyone.
Nope.
I think it's fairly obvious at this point, guys, it was all a part of the public humiliation that was being orchestrated with this whole thing.
And in the midst of all of this, we have our own government coming out, and our woke general, Mark Milley, this is what he has to say.
And I don't know if this is directly necessarily related to China, because obviously it's referring to NATO and Ukraine and everything happening there.
But I think this is a sign of the times that are about to come.
This is going to be crazy, and I'm going to show you what General Milley just said, and then we'll talk about it.
Watch this.
This fight is not just in Ukraine's interest.
It is in the global interest to protect, as the Secretary pointed out, the rules-based international order.
And that is our purpose that has been given to us, the uniformed military, from our civilian leadership, which is to uphold the rules-based international order that was established some 80 years ago at the conclusion of World War II. Okay, so what do we take away from that?
This is our woke General Mark Milley telling us that the civilian leadership has given him the principled mission of upholding the rules-based order that is in the world today that we got from World War II. Huh.
Well, I think it's a sign to everyone out there that they're fighting this war for other reasons.
This is not to protect the American Republic.
No.
He said it right there.
He said it plainly.
He said this is to protect the rules-based global order that was established after World War II. So remember, when you think the military is actually fighting for you, they're not.
I mean, yes.
The men and women, the brave men and women who sign up and go actually fight the battles, yes, they go into it with the, I believe, altruistic, for the most part, purpose of wanting to protect their country, wanting to protect their families and friends and everybody and our rights as citizens.
I'm not saying those people, but I'm saying the top brass, excuse me, they obviously have other motivations.
The civilian leadership, who we know is corrupt, who are infiltrated, who are basically a part of the New World Order, if you will, the globalist society that wants to implode all countries' sovereignty into a global sovereign, they want the rules-based order upheld because it solidifies their globalist rule and their cartels.
So at this point, it would seem as though this may be not just a message to the American people and those in NATO and everything.
We have to fight for Ukraine to uphold rules-based order so that Russia doesn't think they can get away with whatever they want.
because I think essentially what they're saying is, without directly saying it, that they're terrified, and rightfully so probably at this point, that if they don't actually hold Russia responsible for what they're doing in Ukraine, then it would stand to reason that China, now that it's that if they don't actually hold Russia responsible for what they're doing in Ukraine, then it would stand to reason that China, now that it's run like Mao Zedong ran it back in the 1950s after the Great Revolution, the Great
They're going to take Taiwan first, and then it's going to be who knows what's next after that.
They've already had their debt trap diplomacy being set out across the Asian Pacific and other countries in Africa and elsewhere, where they are essentially giving massive loans to these underdeveloped countries, and then when the countries can't pay it back, they just seize land and property, and then they're making military bases, and that's they just seize land and property, and then they're making military bases, and that's a part of their
So The only thing holding them back, I think, right now from moving on Taiwan is essentially the fact that Taiwan has this massive industry where they create a huge amount of technology and everything else that they can't afford to jeopardize.
A lot of that technology now is in different sanction levels where it's not necessarily being shared with China and China's, but China, at the end of the day, realizes that we see Taiwan as a strategic So strategically important that if they do move on it, then we have to move against them and then that could be the catalyst.
They're waiting to see what happens in Ukraine, I think, and they're going to see what we end up doing.
If we lose another war, as we seem to have lost all the wars we've tried to start and failed to finish for so long, which is really sad but true.
So I don't know, but that's pretty much the whole macro look at everything if you want to get the 40,000 foot view down on what's going on.
And I'll leave links to all the sources and stuff that I had for that story.
And there's even a video I'll put in the description from a channel I watch called The China Show with a couple of good commentators on China that you'll probably find interesting if you're interested in finding out more information on that.
So I hope you guys watch that.
Let's get into some other news here.
Breaking the Eighth Circuit prohibits Biden from canceling student debt loans.
Yeah, judges finally ruled that Joe Biden's decision to cancel student debt loans just with using taxpayer money is not allowed.
This is an emergency motion for an administrative stay prohibiting this from happening, and it's been granted.
So we'll see.
This is probably going to be obviously contended up to an appeals court, probably up to the Supreme Court.
Who knows?
But it's good news for now that they can't just unilaterally steal our taxpayer money to pay off people's debts that we never even signed on to in the first place and that are worthless debt notes anyway.
Yeah, so that's interesting.
But don't worry, because although we took care of that, we still have blank checks for Ukraine, apparently.
Biden is warning that the blank check to Ukraine will continue even if the GOP retakes Congress because it's about NATO, guys.
Yeah, don't you get it?
It's about NATO. It's not about NATO. You know, protecting American sovereignty or our borders or our...
It's rules-based order protection, guys.
So essentially we're the mob and this is the protection money that they pay.
And now we're having to put up some money to protect the people who are, you know, bribing us for the protection in the first place or that we were extorting for the protection money through NATO and other things.
And using, obviously, in Ukraine's case, as a vassal state for money laundering and funneling corrupt bribes to politicians inside our own country, i.e.
Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, who are taking massive amounts of money from Ukrainian oligarchs, etc., etc.
You guys know that story, right?
All right, so there's that.
And then let's see what else.
That's good to know.
We have a blank check.
Even at the GOP? Well, of course, because the rhinos and Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy, they are the ones wearing the Ukraine flag pins.
They're all for rules-based order, right?
Oh, let's see some other stories here.
This one's interesting.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky is infected with COVID after being quintuple boosted.
This is not made up.
This is real.
Apparently, last night, CDC Director Dr.
Rochelle Walensky tested positive for COVID-19.
She's up to date with her vaccines.
Dr.
Walensky is experiencing mild symptoms consistent with CDC guidelines.
She's isolating at home.
We'll participate in her planned meetings virtually.
Oh, yeah.
Great.
Perfect.
So they just passed this vaccine for the kids to take, right?
The CDC signed off on it.
And this person is quintuple vaxxed.
What's crazy to me Is that all these people who are like super vaxxed, who have like all their boosted and everything, they're the ones who keep getting COVID. But it seems like people that I know, I mean, this is anecdotally speaking, myself included, you know, don't seem to be getting COVID at all.
And there are no vaccines, huh?
In us.
Hmm.
Interesting how that works.
I wonder if it's possibly because the mRNA vaccine was experimental and it decimated most people's immune system and then caused spike protein imbalances and also caused all types of internal damage.
I'm not a doctor.
It's not medical advice.
It's just my opinion.
But maybe it's because of that.
Maybe it's because it destroys your immune system and then basically sets it up for failure so that you have to be addicted and always on these never-ending immunization shots.
But hey.
As we have this story, a COVID origin whistleblower details how the government was stalking and harassing him.
I want to play the first one minute of this clip here.
Well, this guy talks about how he was being harassed by the FBI, and this is a COVID origin whistleblower, right?
The first minute here gives you a good idea of what this is.
It's on the point where a FBI agent that I recognized got out of a Michigan State police car dressed as a Michigan State police officer and pretended to be one.
And my attorney, Tom Renz, was present.
My neighbor was present.
My wife was present.
And after these guys left, I started laughing.
I called Tom up.
I'm like, Tom, this is that guy that was pretending to be a Michigan State police officer.
He called himself Trooper Miller.
You know, his real name is probably Agent Miller.
And I told Tom, like, that guy was an FBI agent.
And they were probably trying to test to see if I recognized him from a previous report.
The previous altercation where he was in the room above me at the Kempton Gray Hotel, room 502, with a camera being controlled above it.
Do you know how I found it?
It's so creepy.
But since I've been trained in some of this stuff, Chicago is like New York, but we were fairly close to each other.
It had a plate glass window across my room, and they had their blinds wide open in the room above me, and I could see them set up with all their surveillance equipment, drinking beers, eavesdropping on the room below, which was me.
Yeah, so I'll leave a link if you want to watch that full interview.
That's with one of the Hoff brothers from Gateway Pundit.
But yeah, that's a fascinating story about how the FBI was stalking and harassing this guy after he basically blew it up, the whole origin of COVID, and was exposing it for what it was.
So there's that.
Another story here, Tucker Carlson interviewed Steve Bannon, which I thought was pretty awesome.
And let's just play a little clip from it where...
Well, I'll leave a link if you want to watch it.
Just for time's sake, what we're going to do is we'll leave a link to that.
This interview where Steve Bannon got his first interview from Tucker Carlson.
It's worth watching.
It's five minutes, and just for time reasons, I'll actually leave the link below if you want to go watch this video.
So, yeah, you can go check that out.
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And today we're going into Mark chapter 3 for our God's Grace is Greater segment.
And I hope you guys are ready for that.
We're already in chapter 3 of Mark.
We've done the whole Gospel of Matthew from chapter 1 to chapter 28.
Now we're in Mark.
We're in chapter 3.
We're going through the whole Gospel of Mark.
Today we're going to talk about some powerful stories about Jesus healing and what that really meant and what that looks like.
So I hope you guys are ready for it.
With that being said, let's get into some other news stories.
First of all, here's an important story to understand.
Enemy of the people, Mitch McConnell, has pulled money from GOP Senate candidate in close race and given it to Murkowski.
Apparently the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with Mitch McConnell, is pulling money from New Hampshire's Senate race.
This is despite the fact polling shows the race close.
Beginning October 25th, And what they're going to end up doing is shifting it over to, you know it, good old rhino fake loser, Lisa Murkowski.
Yeah, you can't make this stuff up.
These people are criminals.
Mitch McConnell is a part of the Deep State Uniparty establishment.
He is not on the conservative side.
He's definitely not on the MAGA side.
And he has nothing but contempt for us as he enriches himself with his Chinese wife, Elaine Chao.
I think that's her name.
And they enrich themselves making deals with foreign companies and stock investments.
And that's how they make their money.
So these traders who pretend to be conservative Republicans who basically run a mafia on that side...
If there was ever some kind of old South Dixie mafia, Mitch McConnell's probably one of the kingpins of it, let's be honest.
Being that I think he's from Kentucky, right?
Who knows what he's getting into over there.
And he's the one running that.
And then, of course, the Democrats are cutting ads for John Fetterman.
This is one from Obama.
Pretty hilarious.
Watch this.
In Pennsylvania, you've got some important choices to make this year, including who represents you in the U.S. Senate.
That's why I'm asking you to vote for John Fetterman this election day, November 8th.
So when the fate of our democracy and a woman's right to choose are on the line, I know John will fight for Pennsylvanians.
You can count on John Fetterman.
Make sure he can count on you.
Vote Democrat on November 8th.
Not vote Fetterman.
Vote Democrat.
And John Fetterman, he can barely utter a sentence, but he is a puppet.
So if you ever need to know who's a puppet, there you go.
John Fetterman is just another Obama lackey puppet, just like Joe Biden was and the rest.
So that's interesting.
Now, in another story that kind of goes to the death of free speech in America, this is kind of laughable.
It's almost like a joke.
Sandy Hook families are seeking $2.75 trillion, yeah, trillion with a T, trillion dollars in damages from Alex Jones.
Not making that up.
That's what they asked the judge to award them in this case.
They've already been awarded $965 million.
So they've already been given a billion dollars, right?
And now they've asked the judge to award them $2.75 trillion.
Now, I've watched other shows where it talks about how $2.75 trillion, get this, that's roughly, roughly close to the GDP of France.
Yeah, you heard that right.
They want in damages for Alex Jones saying some mean things that were taken out of context and were used to have a bunch of crazy people say a bunch of crazy things or whatever.
I don't even know because they're talking about people peeing on graves and stuff.
Just insane stuff that how could you even attribute that to Alex?
That makes no sense.
Regardless, they're saying that they deserve the GDP of France in compensation.
Now again, for reference, Purdue Pharma, right, I believe, that after they were sued for making opioids and poisoning and killing thousands, if not tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of Americans with their addictive drugs, they were fined somewhere in the realm of, I think it was $300 million or $400 million, right?
That's for murdering, killing, murdering, Tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands...
Of innocent Americans.
They were only fined a few hundred million dollars.
Alex Jones has already been found to owe, according to a jury of his peers, almost a billion dollars.
And they're seeking the GDP of France in compensation.
2.75 trillion.
Excuse me, I can't even say the number.
It's too big.
2.75 trillion dollars.
Somewhere between France and Russia's GDP. Why don't they just ask for a gajillion, bajillion, bajillion dollars?
Because that's essentially what they're asking for.
And how they got the number is insane.
They used some obscure law in the Connecticut Penal Code and then they multiplied the number of damages by the amount of views that he got on Facebook or something.
It's just an absurd number.
But that's the world we live in.
We live in the world of absurdity.
The realm of absurdity.
And speaking of absurdity, I told you guys yesterday about how basically the Biden administration, you know, they used their financial goons to try to shut down the lawfare, to try to shut down the deal for Elon Musk to take over Twitter.
Now, I'm not a big fan of Elon Musk.
I've made that very clear in the past.
I think he's a globalist.
I think he's a transhumanist.
I think he's in the pocket of the Chinese communists.
There's a lot of things I don't like about him, but at times he does say it like it is, at least, which is more than we can say for most of our leaders.
And what I find interesting is now they're going to try to use the SEC to essentially shut down the deal of him taking over Twitter and because of national security purposes, which I guess if you think of it in the sense that Twitter is a propagandist which I guess if you think of it in the sense that Twitter is a propagandist outlet for the party regime here in this country, the Democrat regime, the uniparty regime to control the narrative and force the narrative into the box that
and then they delete any dissidents to it, then that would make sense.
But here Paul Joseph Watson gives a good take on it, so let's watch.
It's on again, off again, on again, off again.
The Elon Musk Twitter deal has seen more back and forth than a tennis ball at Wimbledon.
And now the regime strikes back.
You think they'd just let someone make one social media platform a level playing field once again?
Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
Now the Biden administration is mulling whether to block Musk's Twitter purchase based on national security grounds.
Aside from the fact that this would completely crater Twitter's stock to oblivion, why are they threatening to do this?
Because, as Bloomberg reveals, Musk dared question the current thing.
We can't allow that.
US officials have grown uncomfortable over Musk's recent threat to stop supplying the Starlink satellite service to Ukraine.
He said it would cost him $80 million so far.
And what they see is his increasingly Russia-friendly stance following a series of tweets that outline peace proposals favourable to President Vladimir Putin.
Right, so because Elon...
And how dare he actually try to tentatively suggest a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia because he had the temerity to think both sides could come to the table to stop nuclear annihilation.
Now he's not allowed to buy Twitter.
Peace?
Peace?
We can't have that.
The military-industrial complex needs to prolong this war to infinity.
They've got weapons to sell and shit.
Remember, Musk is supplying Starlink to Ukraine at a cost to himself of $20 million a month.
No, that's not enough.
Any hint that suggesting expanding NATO to the borders of Russia might not be the best idea cannot be tolerated.
The regime is also concerned by Musk's plans to buy Twitter with a group of foreign investors.
What?
Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal already owns a significant chunk of Twitter.
It's already got foreign investors, so why is that a problem now?
Did Elon expect this all along?
Was he hoping to get out of paying $44 billion for a company that's worth less than $10 billion by having the US government step in and block the deal?
His response to a Twitter user who asked it would be hysterical if the government stopped Elon from overpaying for Twitter suggests that might just be the case.
Yep.
So that's kind of the other side of the coin there.
If you want to look at it from a different perspective, it seems as though Elon might want it to actually happen.
So who knows?
We'll see how that goes.
Another story here that's really disturbing.
The prosecutor's office here is not going to pursue charges against this woman who shot this firefighter in the head while he was trying to subdue a person who tried to harm him.
Now...
I'll give you the full context of the story.
It's a pretty crazy story.
Watch this and then we'll talk about it.
Cell phone video captured some of that fight between 41-year-old Anthony Santee and 23-year-old Javon Taylor.
Witnesses tell KNBC the fight may have lasted as long as 10 minutes.
Javon Taylor's girlfriend pulled out a gun.
And ultimately killed Anthony Santee.
So this is what happened.
Now, I don't know.
You guys let me know what you think.
I think this is just a gross misjustice here.
But what's ended up happening is the guy here on the ground who's fighting, who's being, you know, tackled down by this other guy, he was a felon, I guess, who's not allowed to be in possession of a firearm in the first place.
He was inside of a gas station arguing with the gas attendant or the cashier about them not having, you know, a certain type of cigar that he wanted because assumedly he was going to go be rolling blunts and smoking marijuana with it.
But who knows, right?
Just saying as a felon.
And essentially the firefighter comes in and they ask him, the cashier is asking this guy to leave the store so the guy won't leave the store.
So then he gets in an altercation, kind of a yelling match with this firefighter dude.
So then he runs out to his car, the felon, this guy who's being held in this headlock right now, to retrieve a firearm, which he is not allowed, according to the reports I've read, to be in possession of as a felon, or an ex-felon, whatever you want to call it.
And he, I guess, threatens the guy with the gun.
And so the guy basically tackles him to basically in self-defense, you would imagine.
And then he hands the felon, or ex-felon, hands the gun to the girlfriend, who then, I guess, shoots the firefighter, killing him after he tried to subdue the guy, I guess, assumedly to wait for law enforcement to come or something, because this felon just pulled a gun on him and tried to...
essentially, whatever, threatened to murder him, which a brandishing weapon, at minimum, is a crime or felony.
This is insane.
This is just the degradation of society.
I mean, you can see here, she pulled the gun.
He handed her the gun and she shot him.
They're saying that it was self-defense, but I don't see that for one second.
I think it's disgusting.
Speaking of the disgusting fallen world, though, finally here, Portland Antifa has vowed to silence a women's rights activist and raise money for weapons.
A trans-identified male Antifa member is organizing a counter-protest and fundraising to buy weapons to shut down a women's rights event scheduled to take place in Portland.
Now, I'm sure you can guess who's who in this picture.
Who is the Antifa and who is the women's rights activist?
What?
Oh gosh, you cannot make this up.
His name is Isabel R. Araujo, trans-Antifa leader in Portland.
Yeah, that's what we're up against here, guys.
Anyway, I just thought I'd wrap it up with those stories.
Today's Saturday, so I hope you guys go out and have a good rest of your Saturday.
We'll wrap it up with our God's Grace is Greater segment, and then we'll just go from there.
Today, we are in...
Essentially, we are in the book of Mark, the gospel of Mark, and we've talked about the context of Mark, and we've gone through the first two chapters.
Today, we're just going to do the first section of the third chapter.
Now, this is talking about Jesus healing a man with a paralyzed hand.
So let's just read this.
It's only the first six verses, and then we'll talk about it.
It says...
Now he entered the synagogue again, and a man was there who had a paralyzed hand.
In order to accuse him, they were watching him closely to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath.
He told the man with the paralyzed hand, Stand before us.
Then he said to them, Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do what is good or to do what is evil, to save a life or to kill?
But they were silent after looking around at them with anger and sorrow at the hardness of their hearts.
He told the man, stretch out your hand.
So he stretched out and the hand was restored.
Immediately the Pharisees went out and started plotting with the Herodians against him how they might destroy him.
So this is almost kind of the first point at which you see The plotting against Jesus begin.
Before this, we went through how the scribes of the Pharisees were following Jesus.
They saw him perform the miracle of healing the paralytic They saw him do these things.
They saw his disciples eat grain on the Sabbath.
And Jesus tells them in our last section that we left in Mark 2, the last part there where we're picking up kind of here, he tells them, he says, the Sabbath was created for man.
Man was not created for the Sabbath.
What Jesus was saying is that God gave us the Sabbath as a blessing, as a way to heal, as a way to rest, as a way to recover, as a way to meditate and fellowship toward God, as a way to clear our minds once a week at minimum, that we should be doing it every day, and go to God in prayer.
Go to God with humility and look to Him to give us the rejuvenation that we know He can deliver.
And I feel that Jesus, in the same way here, is going on in that same vein.
After his disciples were eating the grain on the Sabbath and they were accused of violating the Sabbath, I mean, essentially Jesus says the Sabbath was made for man.
It's a day of rest.
It's a day of healing.
It's a day of fellowship and worship.
It's not a day where we're supposed to be going through all these human traditions and all these things that Jesus came to break.
I mean, that's what he did was he broke the human traditions that were being passed from generation to generation through the Sanhedrin, through the Pharisees, through this organization of men who had decided that their wisdom was beyond that of God, that their commands were on the same level with God's commands.
And God and Jesus coming essentially was to say, that's not the case.
That is not the case.
The case is simple.
The case is that the Sabbath is a day where, as Jesus says here, it's a day to do good.
Because he's saying in the question as he asked the people there in the synagogue, the chief priests who were sitting there, the Pharisees, right?
He says to them, is it lawful on the Sabbath to do what is good or to do what is evil?
To save a life or to kill?
So why is he asking these questions?
He's asking these questions because he knows what's in their hearts.
He knows that they're just waiting for him to do something wrong so that they can call him a heretic and they can accuse him and that they can do what?
Keep their power.
Because the Sabbath to them wasn't about a day of rest and fellowship and worship.
It was about a day to re-solidify their power over the people.
Not God's power over us all, God's omnipotence.
No, no, no, no.
It was about solidifying for them their power.
And Jesus saw right through it.
So Jesus did what he knew they were terrified of, which is show them to be as powerless as they were and to show Jesus to be as powerful as he was, as the Son of God.
And in that way, in this story, we see Jesus reaffirm to us, I believe, that the Sabbath is a day that is not meant to be...
In my opinion, and according to what we learned from Jesus, the Sabbath is a day made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
And I think that's the message here.
So today, whatever day you celebrate the Sabbath, because a lot of people get really upset about what day you celebrate it, I'm not sure as much that that matters, as much as what matters more overly is that we honor God and that we take that gift God gives us in the Sabbath to rest and recover, rejuvenate ourselves, to share in fellowship, to go to God in prayer, to meditate on the Scripture, to find just rejuvenation through God and His great creation that He's given us.
He wants us to have a day of rest, I believe.
And I think that in this way, Jesus is telling us that the traditions and the customs that get established and built all around these things, that they are what they are.
They're a construct of man.
But Jesus came to break through all of that.
That's what this whole gospel is telling us and teaching us, I believe.
So I hope that whatever you do...
I'd like to do what I like to do, which is be a part of a church family, share in fellowship, even if I'm not necessarily able to be there every single Sunday.
You know, I'm always listening to the pastors and getting a good message of fellowship so that I can revive myself because, you know, every day I'd share the gospel every day.
And in the same way, I have to take a day to meditate on my own scripture, to look at, you know, not just what I'm sharing, but what other people can share, because you can always learn from others, and I think that's the importance of sharing and fellowship.
And so I hope you guys have a blessed Sabbath, and that's where we're going to go ahead and leave it.
We'll shut it down with a prayer, and then we'll wrap it up.
So let's go ahead and say a prayer.
Dear Lord and Heavenly Father, thank you so much for this incredible gift of all of the Sabbaths that you've given us, Lord, to this day, and all the Sabbaths we will get in the future according to your will.
Lord, we pray that we take rest and comfort in your Son's message, our Lord Jesus, his message of forgiveness, of love, of grace, of kindness, of mercy.
But also of righteous judgment.
And Lord, we pray that we honor you with our lives every day, no matter what.
And that we share in the teachings of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, in every way we can to help others find the salvation that comes through knowing your Son and His sacrifice made on the cross, which is so great and powerful.
Lord, we thank you and we pray for discernment.
We pray for guidance and wisdom All according to your will Most of all we pray in thanks for our eternal salvation Through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ In Jesus name, Amen Alright guys Um...
Here we go.
We have a lot to cover in the upcoming week, so I hope I see you guys again on Monday.
Tomorrow is my Sabbath day.
I take it off every Sunday, so I take a day of rest, and I hope you guys do the same and just get ready for the week ahead.
We'll see you back on Monday, same time, same place.
Until then, my name is Craig.
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