AGENDA Weekly Brief Week of August 3-9 of 2024 – by Curtis Bowers

Dear Friends,

Charles Spurgeon once said, “Praise is the rehearsal of our eternal song. By grace we learn to sing, and in glory we continue to sing. What will some of you do when you get to heaven, if you go on grumbling all the way? Begin NOW to bless the name of the Lord.”

1. KAMALA PICKS RADICAL MARXIST WITH CHINA TIES FOR VP: Newly-selected Democratic nominee Kamala Harris picked Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for VP, passing over popular Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, likely to avoid uproar from the pro-Hamas wing of the DNC over Shapiro’s Jewish identity.

Both The Communist Party USA and The Democratic Socialists of America praised the selection of Walz. Walz recently said, “One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”

Governor Walz has traveled to China over 30 times, most often with a company he and his wife founded to take American students on Chinese government-funded exchange trips. Walz and his wife married on the 5th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre and honeymooned in China.

CIA/NSA Contractor/Whistleblower Tony Seruga said that Walz is “absolutely a national security risk. He failed his White House security clearance to work in the Biden White House, citing ‘Foreign Influence’… Walz’s relationships with the Chinese Communist Party, along with radical Islamists and Sharia supremacists, should disqualify him. He also has questionable relationships with cartels and NGOs linked to radical groups.”

Communism expert Trevor Loudon warned, “Kamala Harris is a Marxist with extensive ties to pro-China Communists…Tim Walz is a Marxist with…40 years of ties directly to the Chinese Communist Party…You couldn’t have picked a more pro-China, pro-Mao politician in the country than Tim Walz.”

For more, read Seven Troubling Tim Walz Connections to Communist China by Seamus Bruner.

2. OTHER DISTURBING FACTS ABOUT WALZ:

• BLM riots: As Governor, Walz openly sympathized with the BLM/Antifa rioters and allowed them to destroy Minneapolis by delaying sending in the National Guard.
• Stolen valor: In 2005, Walz retired from the National Guard to avoid deployment to Iraq. He later falsely claimed that he had deployed to a combat zone.
• COVID tyrant: During COVID-19, Walz ordered a draconian lockdown, and set up a hotline for people to snitch on noncompliant neighbors.
• DEI warrior: Christopher Rufo revealed, “Tim Walz says ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ are his ‘core values,’ and he hired a chief diversity officer to embed left-wing racialism into every part of his government. Kamala-Walz is the DEI ticket.”
• Open borders advocate: Charlie Kirk stated, “Walz supports sanctuary cities, driver’s licenses for illegals, free college for illegals, and free health care for illegals. He cares more about invaders than Americans.”
• Radical abortion: Walz made Minnesota one of the most pro-abortion states in America. The Daily Signal reports, “Data from the Minnesota Department of Health shows that at least eight babies who survived abortions in the state were left to die.”
• Censorship proponent: In 2022, Walz said, “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, especially around our democracy.”
• Radical LGBTQ: Walz has been vocally pro-LGBTQ since the 90s. The Washington Stand reports, “[Walz] has signed bills that would remove children from their parents’ custody if the parents refused to carry out transgender procedures.”
• Woke “Christian”: The Daily Caller reports that Walz’s church, Pilgrim Lutheran Church, “instructed parishioners not to refer to God using male pronouns, pushed congregants to support reparation funds, encouraged them to celebrate Ramadan and included a modified gender-neutral version of the Lord’s Prayer, among other liberal practices.”
• Radical wife: Info Wars reports, “Minnesota First Lady Gwen Walz, in an interview, said she relished in the caustic smells of burning tires emanating from the destructive BLM riots.”
• A pervert? Laura Loomer warned, “There’s a reason why he shakes his wife’s hand and panders to the gay community, and it’s not because he’s awkward…It will all come out.”

Journalist Jordan Schachtel summarized, “Tim Walz is a communist who loves China and wants America to be systematically destroyed from within. Other than that, he’s Midwestern Nice!” Ben Shapiro wrote, “The mask is off. Harris has been attempting to present herself as a moderate…She has opened herself up wide to every attack on her radicalism by picking Walz.” President Donald Trump warned, “There’s never been a ticket like this. This is a ticket that would want this country to go communist immediately, if not sooner.”

3. U.K. CRACKS DOWN ON CITIZENS OPPOSED TO MASS ISLAMIC MIGRATION: Protests and riots have exploded across the U.K. following a mass stabbing by the son of immigrants that killed three children and injured ten others.

Hundreds of protestors have been arrested. Newly-elected Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer promised “a standing army of public duty officers” and vowed to “establish a national capability, across police forces…shared intelligence…wider deployment of facial recognition technology.” By contrast, in 2020, then-opposition leader Starmer vocally supported the often-violent Black Lives Matter protests.

4. BRITISH AUTHORITIES IGNORE ISLAMIC VIOLENCE: Info Wars reports, “Videos have been circulating widely on social media of roving Muslim gangs armed with weapons in northern towns and cities, including a group calling itself the ‘Muslim Defence League.’ The British police have been accused of ‘turning a blind eye’ to the violence of these groups, while viciously attacking protestors.”

Glenn Beck wrote, “The police haven’t investigated Muslim sex rings that kidnap young girls and cover up the crimes. They’ve ignored street violence mainly committed by illegal immigrants. There are ‘no-go zones’ in predominantly Muslim and illegal immigrant neighborhoods. If you criticize crimes by illegal immigrants, you’re labeled a racist and can be jailed for Facebook posts. This is a two-tier justice system…”

Elon Musk asked PM Starmer, “Why aren’t all communities protected in Britain?” Musk warned, “Civil war is inevitable.” British elites have accused Musk of stoking violence and have called for X to be shut down in the U.K. British political writer Brendan O’Neill said elites are horrified that X has broken their “monopoly” on “information and ideas.”

5. NATIONAL DEBT HITS $35 TRILLION: The U.S. National debt hit $35 trillion, just seven months after reaching $34 trillion. Dr. Ron Paul commented, “To put this in perspective, the national debt first reached one trillion dollars in October of 1981, almost 200 years after the Constitution’s ratification! The fact that the government was adding one trillion dollars in debt in little over half a year was not deemed worthy of comment by President Biden, Vice President Harris, and most other U.S. politicians. This is not surprising since the national debt has not been a central issue in D.C. since the days of the Tea Party movement.”

Blockonomi reported, “Interest payments on the debt are expected to exceed $1.14 trillion this fiscal year. In June, interest payments consumed 76% of all personal income taxes collected.” Elon Musk recently warned, “America is going bankrupt.”

The Epoch Times reports, “Based on data from a U.S. Treasury report, the federal government has amassed $142 trillion in debts, liabilities, and unfunded obligations. This staggering figure equals 93 percent of all the wealth Americans have accumulated since the nation’s founding, estimated by the Federal Reserve to be $152 trillion.”

6. STOCKS TUMBLE: The Guardian reports, “Wall Street suffered its worst day in almost two years after a global stock market sell-off sparked by fears of recession in the US…The S&P finished down 3%, its biggest daily drop since September 2022, at 5,186.33. The Dow closed down 2.6% at 38,704.06, having shed more than 1,000 points. The Nasdaq ended down 3.4% at 16,200.08.”

Former Trump economic advisor Peter Navarro noted the market worsened after Biden was pushed out, and attributed the crash to Kamala Harris’s bump in the polls, as Harris is viewed as much worse for the economy than Trump. Navarro said, “The bubble is bursting in the stock market” and it “couldn’t come for a better time for the Trump campaign, or worse time for Kamala.”

7. NEW BODY CAM FOOTAGE FROM TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT: The Wall Street Journal reports, “Local Pennsylvania police complained in the moments after last month’s attempted assassination of Donald Trump that they warned the U.S. Secret Service days in advance that the warehouse where the shooter was positioned needed protection, according to new videos obtained by The Wall Street Journal.” Secret Service assured a local police officer that they would post agents on the warehouse used by shooter Thomas Crooks, but inexplicably failed to do so.

The Post Millennial reports that journalist Benny Johnson’s new documentary covers “five main security failures that created the conditions for Trump to get shot: Rooftop kill zones, security dead zones, overwatch, the sniper’s nest, and communications collapse.”

Journalist Kyle Becker asked, “Remember way back THREE WEEKS AGO when a sniper tried to kill the leading presidential candidate? And we never found out the shooter’s motivation for why he did it? Then the media stopped reporting on it, because it’s Donald Trump? Whatever happened to that story?”

8. FBI ARRESTS POTENTIAL ASSASSIN: Just The News reports, “The FBI allowed Asif Raza Merchant, the Pakistani man charged with plotting with Tehran to assassinate Donald Trump and others, to enter the U.S. in April with special permission known as ‘significant public benefit parole’ even though he was flagged on a terrorism watchlist and recently traveled to Iran…” FBI whistleblower Steve Friend responded, “The FBI ‘playbook’ on terrorism is simple: 1. Identify a vulnerable person. 2. Establish fake friendships with undercover agents and informants. 3. Encourage him to agree to commit a terrorist act he is otherwise incapable of committing. 4. Arrest him.”

9. IS THE DEEP STATE PREPARING MORE ELECTION INTERFERENCE? On July 31, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a joint statement warning that DDoS cyberattacks “on election infrastructure, or adjacent infrastructure that supports election operations, could hinder public access to election information, but would not impact the security or integrity of election processes.”

Journalist Doug Mainwaring asked, “Is it an attempt to provide camouflage – a strategy known as ‘pre-bunking‘ – for future election interference sanctioned by the Democrat-powered Washington political machine – a.k.a., the Deep State – that wants to maintain control of the White House and Congress at any cost?”

Conservative commentator Emerald Robinson wrote, “These same agencies told you: America’s voting machines were never connected to the Internet.” Last month, The Federalist’s Logan Washburn noted, “CISA has worked with Big Tech corporations to silence Americans since 2020.”

10. ARE DEMS PLANNING TO BLOCK TRUMP FROM TAKING POWER IF HE WINS? Conservative media published February comments from Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) urging that Congress “disqualify” Donald Trump from taking office on January 6, 2025, via the 14th Amendment, leading to “civil war conditions.”

In a CBS interview released on Wednesday, Joe Biden said, “If Trump wins, no, I’m not confident at all. I mean, if Trump loses, I’m not confident at all. He means what he says… All the stuff about ‘If we lose, there’ll be a bloodbath, it’ll have been a stolen [election].’” Biden continued, ”Look what they’re trying to do now in the local election districts where people count the votes. You can’t love your country only when you win.”

Attorney Rogan O’Handley wrote, “Dems are openly announcing their planned insurrection.”

11. DEMS TRY TO BOOT RFK JR. FROM THE BALLOT: The Biden-aligned Clear Choice PAC has taken Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the New York Supreme Court, accusing him of lying about his New York residency to get on the ballot in the state.

Kennedy supporter Holden Culotta wrote, “RFK Jr. is being forced to spend this week in court in New York instead of the campaign trail, thanks to a Democrat super PAC lawsuit.” Kennedy said, “The DNC is trying to get me off the ballot in New York and all the other states… We have enough signatures now to get on the ballot in every state, something everybody said we couldn’t do.”

12. PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES AND KAMALA’S BASEMENT CAMPAIGN: President Donald Trump has agreed to three debates with Kamala Harris: Fox News on September 4, ABC on September 10, and NBC on September 25. But Harris has only agreed to the September 10 ABC debate. X user Clandestine explained that Harris is unlikely to debate Trump on Fox, as Fox would not leak the questions, there would be a full audience, and the hosts might ask her some tough questions.

Republican VP nominee J.D. Vance said of Harris, “I think it’s really disgraceful…to have a person who’s been the presumptive nominee of the Democrat Party for 17 days and refuses to take a single question from the American media….” Charlie Kirk observed, “Trump just took open questions for an hour straight. Kamala is deathly afraid of speaking to anyone. Kamala and her campaign staff know she’s a fraud.”

The Harris campaign has been exposed for bribing popular social media users to promote Harris-Walz online, luring people to her events with free concerts from popular musicians, and paying influencers and celebrities $20,000 to attend the Chicago DNC convention.

13. THE MORALS OF HARRIS AND EMHOFF: Kamala Harris’s political rise was jumpstarted at age 29, when she had an affair with 60-year-old California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, who was married at the time. Following recent reporting from The Daily Mail, Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, acknowledged an affair and a child from 15 years ago with Najen Naylor, his first wife’s nanny. Conservative commentator Liz Wheeler noted, “We don’t know if she aborted the baby, which would be horrible, we don’t know if she kept the baby, and Doug Emhoff just abandoned her and didn’t recognize her as the daughter or son that he or she was, which would also be awful.”

Breitbart’s Joel Pollak wrote, “Democrats want to put Trump in prison for ‘hush money,’ but Kamala Harris’s office paid out $1.1 million in sexual harassment settlements, and that’s before getting to the Doug Emhoff story, which they’ve covered up for years…”

Ed. Note: Sadly, these high-profile examples reflect the larger decline in American morality, as detailed by Gallup. Thomas Jefferson once said, “Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act. And never suppose, that in any possible situation, or under any circumstance, it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing…”

14. FAMILY NEWS: The Epoch Times reports, “The number of marriage registrations in China in the first half of the year has fallen to the lowest level since 2013 amid deteriorating economic and political conditions…”

Zero Hedge reports, “A systematic review reveals that internet addiction impacts adolescent brain function, impairing mental health and cognitive development. U.S. teens average 4.8 hours daily on social media, heightening addiction concerns.” Fair Health reports that diagnoses of sexually transmitted diseases in the U.S. increased by 4.8% between 2020 and 2023.

15. NOTEWORTHY STORIES:

• In a recent interview, Donald Trump said, “But religion – it gives you some hope. ‘Gee, if I’m good, I am going to heaven!’… If I’m bad, I’m going to someplace else.” Trump 2020 campaign staffer Lizzie Marbach responded, “Like so many, Trump unfortunately does not understand the good news. Our own works can never save us, it is only through faith in Jesus that saves us.”
• The New American reports, “President Joe Biden and border czar Vice President Kamala Harris have released at least 99 illegal aliens on the FBI’s terror watchlist into the United States since 2021.”
• Slay News reports, “Newly released CDC data shows that death rates for American babies spiked massively in 2022. The surge marks the first jump in infant mortality rates in twenty years. The surge in deaths for children under the age of 1 started in 2022, the year after Covid mRNA shots were rolled out for public use.”
• The Children’s Health Defense reports, “Health New Zealand last month announced an interim update of its Pandemic Plan, which…includes giving the government new powers to mandate vaccines – through the use of force where necessary – in the event the World Health Organization (WHO) accounces another pandemic.”
• The New American reports, “The National Football League (NFL) is implementing facial recognition technology across all 32 stadiums in a major move to ostensibly enhance event security and streamline entry processes for credential-holders.”
• The Federalist reports, “The Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), which increased Democratic turnout in 2020 by shuttling ‘Zuckbucks’ to public election offices, will be issuing another round of grants to rural areas ahead of November’s election.”
• J. Michael Waller of the Center for Security Policy reports, “[The] President of Smartmatic is among four indicted today by federal grand jury for bribery and fraud related to electronic voting systems.”

16. NOTEWORTHY QUOTES:

• “Most Florida Republicans are awfully muted in the campaign against Amendment 4, which will establish a right to murder up until birth. Very bizarre.” –Daniel Horowitz
• “I just spent four days in Hungary, a conservative country criticised by elites across the West. I saw no crime. No homeless people. No riots. No unrest. No drugs. No mass immigration. No broken borders. No self-loathing. No chaos. And now I’ve just landed back in the U.K.” –British political analyst Matt Goodwin
• “The deception by choice of narrative is a big thing in the media. That’s why I really want 𝕏 to be a place where the narratives bubble up organically from the people.” –Elon Musk
• “I increasingly don’t think that the public school in any way, shape, or form can be retaken, despite the fact that I am cheering on those parental rights movements, the parental rights protesters.” –Canadian family activist Jonathon Van Maren
• “I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution that does not unceasingly pursue the study of God’s Word becomes corrupt… I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.” –Martin Luther
• “Those make themselves an easy prey to Satan who make it their business to please men.” –Matthew Henry
• “Marriage is intended to bring joy. The married life is meant to be the happiest, fullest, purest, richest life. It is God’s own ideal of completeness.” –J.R. Miller
• “The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. The LORD is known by the judgment which He executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.” –Psalm 9:15-16
• “But let all those that put their trust in Thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because Thou defendest them: let them also that love Thy name be joyful in Thee.” –Psalm 5:11

FAITH, FAMILY, & FREEDOM REPORT

1. TENNESSEE CITY ADOPTS RESOLUTION HONORING GOD: The City of Mount Juliet, Tennessee, passed a resolution declaring, “We recognize that God, as the Creator and King of all Glory, has the authority to judge and to bless nations or states.” Commissioner Ray Justice said, “I think prayer is something that is important every day, several times a day, and when you are living in as divisive of a world that we are living in, you should do it as often as possible.”

2. DJOKOVIC WINS GOLD AT OLYMPICS: Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic praised God after winning the gold medal at the Paris Olympics over Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz. Djokovic explained, “I was so blessed to win everything pretty much there is to win in my sport, but this is something different. This supersedes everything that I’ve ever felt on the tennis court after winning big trophies. It’s just incredible joy.”

3. TEXAS DEFEATS GOOGLE: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) celebrated another win for Texas, reporting, “Today, a federal court ruled that Google illegally maintained a monopoly by exploiting its dominance to squash competition and hamper innovation. Google engaged in anticompetitive trade practices to monopolize internet search engines and advertisements. I’m proud to lead this case and deliver another major win against Big Tech.”

4. X SUES ILLEGAL BOYCOTTERS: X filed a lawsuit against the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) after the group encouraged an illegal boycott of the platform. X CEO Linda Yaccarino explained, “People are hurt when the marketplace of ideas is constricted. No small group of people should be able to monopolize what gets monetized.” 48 hours after the lawsuit was filed, GARM was shut down by the World Federation of Advertisers.

5. BIDEN ADMINISTRATION STOPPED FROM EXPANDING INTERNET TYRANNY: The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Biden Administration, blocking their attempt to further regulate the internet through Title II. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr reported, “Title II style ‘net neutrality’ rules have always been the wolf in sheep’s clothing – an innocent-sounding branding that masks the government’s attempt to gain greater control over the Internet.”

6. VIRGINIA GOVERNOR ANNOUNCES CRITICAL ELECTION INTEGRITY MEASURES: Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) issued an executive order to safeguard the 2024 elections. The governor said Virginia has “100% paper ballots with a strict chain of custody,” clean voter rolls, and other critical safeguards. Youngkin stated, “The Virginia model for Election Security works… Every legal vote deserves to be counted without being watered down by illegal votes or inaccurate machines.”

7. ELECTION INTEGRITY WINS IN GEORGIA, NEVADA, AND MICHIGAN: The State Election Board of Georgia voted 3-1 to allow poll watchers into tabulation centers to better observe the vote count. RNC Chairman Michael Whatley revealed that “90,000 inactive voters have been removed from the rolls in Clark County, Nevada as a result of our efforts to Protect The Vote.” Michigan Judge Christopher Yates ruled against Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D), who had directed election officials to presume that signatures on absentee ballots were automatically correct.

8. JUDGE  STRIKES DOWN ILLEGAL ELECTION MANUAL IN ARIZONA: X user George reported, “A judge in Arizona just ruled that portions of the Democrat Secretary of State’s election procedure manual for the 2024 election are UNCONSTITUTIONAL for silencing election integrity activists who sound the alarm on fraud. According to the judge, certain provisions in the manual are ‘troubling’ and blatantly violate the 1st Amendment.”

9. ACTBLUE INVESTIGATIONS INCREASE: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) scored a legal win against Democratic fundraising giant ActBlue after it was accused of illegal money laundering for processing thousands of donations registered to the wrong names. ActBlue is now forced to require card security codes for all donations. Paxton said, “But it is most important that we enforce the law and protect the integrity of our elections.” Multiple states are currently investigating ActBlue.

10. FREEDOM CAUCUS MEMBER WINS IN MISSOURI: Missouri State Senator Denny Hoskins, the founding member of Missouri’s Freedom Caucus, won the Republican Primary for Secretary of State. Hoskins stated, “I couldn’t have won without the strong grassroots support! Thank you!!! No city was too big or town too small to visit on my campaign.”

11. FREE SPEECH VICTORY IN GEORGIA: The City of Alpharetta, Georgia, agreed to pay $55,000 in damages to Jeff Gray after arresting him in 2022 for holding up a “God Bless the Homeless Vets” sign outside of City Hall. The Foundation for Individual Rights, which represented Gray, wrote, “As part of the settlement, Alpharetta will…train its police officers on citizens’ First Amendment rights, discipline officers who violate the First Amendment, and pay damages and attorneys’ fees.”

12. VICTORIES FOR THE UNVACCINATED: A court ruled in favor of a Philadelphia woman who had been fired for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine for religious reasons. In Connecticut, the State Supreme Court sent a case against school religious vaccination exemptions back to a lower court. Children’s Health Defense announced, “Since May, at least ten appellate courts have issued decisions in favor of employees who sued their employers over COVID-19 religious or moral exemptions actions or policies.”

13. OHIO SAFE ACT TAKES EFFECT: Franklin County Judge Michael J. Holbrook ruled that the Ohio SAFE Act could take effect after it was placed on hold in April. The Washington Stand reported, “The SAFE Act overwhelmingly passed both legislative chambers, was vetoed after Christmas by Republican Governor Mike DeWine, and was legislatively ratified again over the governor’s veto.”

14. CHINESE MAN SAVES OTHERS: Chen Si, also known as the Angel of Nanjing, has made it his mission to rescue those attempting suicide on the world-famous Yangtze River Bridge. Chen Si said in a documentary, “I understand these people, I know they are tired of living here. They’ve had difficulties. They have no one to help. They carry this burden by themselves. There’s a saying in China, ‘The prosperity of a nation is everyone’s responsibility.’ How can we avoid this responsibility?”

15. CHIEFS’ KICKER REFUSES TO BACK DOWN FROM PRO-FAMILY BELIEFS: At a recent press conference, Chiefs’ kicker Harrison defended his viral pro-family commencement speech from May. Butker said, “I stand behind what I said… I love my wife… She has sacrificed so much for me… I see how happy and excited she is day to day to wake up and embrace that life. She pushes me to be a better husband and a better father and focus on my three children and focus on her over maybe trying to be the best kicker I can be out on that field.”

HYMN OF THE WEEK

Come, Let Us Join Our Cheerful Songs by Isaac Watts

Come, let us join our cheerful songs
With angels round the throne!
Ten thousand thousand are their tongues,
But all their joys are one.

“Worthy the Lamb that died,” they cry,
“To be exalted thus!”
“Worthy the Lamb,” our hearts reply,
“For He was slain for us!”

Jesus is worthy to receive
Honor and pow’r divine,
And blessings more than we can give
Be, Lord, forever Thine!

Let all that dwell above the sky,
And air and earth and seas,
Conspire to lift Thy glories high,
And speak Thine endless praise!

The whole creation joins in one,
To bless the sacred name
Of Him who sits upon the throne,
And to adore the Lamb!