AGENDA Weekly Brief Week of July 15-21 of 2023 by Curtis Bowers

Dear Friends,

English social critic Os Guinness observed, “The plain fact is that no free and lasting civilization anywhere in history has so far been built on atheist foundations. A culture with no claims on its members – or curbs on their desires – would be a culture with no future. Freedom requires a firm refusal of what is false, what is bad, what is excessive, what is ugly and, above all, what a person is not and should never try to become. When everything is tolerable, nothing will be true; and when nothing is true, no one will be free.”

1. KAMALA HARRIS CALLS FOR REDUCING “POPULATION”: During a recent speech on green energy, Vice-President Kamala Harris said, “When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of our children can breathe clean air and drink clean water.” Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) asked, “Are you the population she wants to reduce?” The White House website clarified that Harris meant to say “pollution” instead of “population.”However, Dr. Matthew Wielicki suggested that Harris “said the quiet part out loud,” by voicing what leading globalists have long believed.

Ed. Note: UK Television Presenter Sir David Attenborough once said, “We are a plague on the Earth. It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth, or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.” See here for 32 quotes from global elites supporting depopulation.

2. BIDEN FAMILY RECEIVED $17 MILLION IN FOREIGN PAYMENTS: IRS agent Joseph Ziegler, a gay man and a lifelong Democrat, told Congress, “I am risking my career, my reputation, and my casework…No one should be above the law, regardless of your political affiliation.” Ziegler and fellow agent Gary Shapley testified that the Biden family laundered $17 million in foreign payments to avoid taxes, and the IRS covered it up.

From June 8 to July 18, ABC, CBS, and NBC spent 527 minutes exclusively following the Trump indictment, but zero minutes covering the Biden/Burisma bribery claims.

Ed. Note: See more here and here. World Affairs Brief editor Joel Skousen writes, “This is not only a blatant example of a two-tiered justice system, but from a conspiratorial perspective, it is also damning proof of my claim that there is a hidden promise of immunity for the crimes committed by all major participants in corrupt government if they are part of the Deep State.”

3. GEOENGINEERING IN VERMONT? Following a late May frost that cost $10 Million in damages, Vermont farmers are suffering again as roads have been closed and their crops have been swamped with floodwaters. Author Diana West opines, “I think we are victims of a weather engineering program targeting the small farm and other remnants of self-sufficient American life as they exist here to this day. Don’t think that’s possible? Take a look at Operation Popeye, the U.S. military rain-making program deployed to intensify and extend the monsoon season during the Vietnam War. Remember, too, that dictatorships always make war on agriculture, usually killing millions of people, as a means to control independent citizens, as in Stalin’s Ukraine, in Mao’s China, and also in FDR’s New Deal. I think it is perfectly possible (or even likely) that the illegitimate regime in Washington, which hates Americans, is already deploying weather warfare, the perfect crime, against New Englanders as part of their wider strategy to drive Americans into the misery of the new world order/Agenda 2030/socialist paradise.”

Ed. Note: For more, see West’s recent article, The War on Agriculture in Vermont and The Vermont Daily Chronicle’s How Did This Storm Happen?

4. RUSSIA TO LAUNCH CBDC: The Bank of Russia is set to begin testing a digital ruble next month, following legislation from the State Duma. Technocracy expert Patrick Wood writes, “The world headlines stories every day about the evilness of Russia, but when Russia formally releases its Central Bank Digital Currency…crickets. The war in Ukraine aside, Russia is dancing to the globalist music and is fully in line with the Bank for International Settlements.”

In related news, Reclaim the Net reports, “The Brazilian Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is reportedly designed with a feature enabling the government to freeze user funds and adjust balances.”

Ed. Note: The Atlantic Council reports that 130 countries are considering a CBDC, including 11 countries that have already launched one. Visit Cash Friday to learn how to fight CBDCs with cash.

5. TRUMP TARGETED AGAIN BY CORRUPT DOJ: President Donald Trump received a letter from Special Counsel Jack Smith giving him four days to report to a Grand Jury as part of the January 6 “investigation.” Trump replied, “This witch hunt is all about election interference and a complete and total (political) weaponization.”

Journalist Julie Kelly writes, “Smith is likely to seek an obstruction of an official proceeding charge against Trump; more than 300 January 6 defendants face that felony count, which is punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Some D.C. District Court judges have ordered pretrial detention for numerous individuals charged with 1512(c)(2), a statute passed in the post-Enron era to address tampering with evidence in a criminal proceeding. Smith also could pursue seditious conspiracy charges against Trump.” 18 U.S. Code § 2383 says that anyone convicted of inciting a rebellion or insurrection “shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.” Kelly writes, “That is, of course, the Biden regime’s ultimate goal in regard to Trump.”

In related news, Trump advisors, including attorneys Jeffrey Clark and John Eastman, have had their phones seized by federal investigators targeting January 6.

Ed. Note: Baron Montesquieu said, “There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”

6. MICHIGAN AG CHARGES “FAKE” GOP ELECTORS: Democrat Michigan Attorney General Danna Nessel charged 16 Republicans with felony charges for signing up as alternate electors in the rigged 2020 election.

Democrats deployed this same strategy in the close 1960 election between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Democrats called for electors to support Hillary after Trump’s 2016 victory, and John Podesta suggested a similar strategy in the summer of 2020 Transition Integrity Project as a backup plan in case Trump won.

In November 2020, observers were blocked from watching ballot counting, and a van dropped off hundreds of thousands of ballots in Detroit around 3 am without any Republican observers. Attorney Rogan O’Handley noted, “Democrats are trying to criminalize the act of contesting rigged elections.”

7. MR. KENNEDY GOES TO WASHINGTON: Following his suggestion that Covid-19 may be “ethnically targeted,” some Democrats asked that Democratic Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. be disinvited from a Congressional hearing on censorship and even attempted to censor him during the hearing. Kennedy called himself “the first person censored by the Biden administration.” Below are several noteworthy quotes from Kennedy’s excellent testimony:

• “A government that can censor its critics has license for every atrocity. It is the beginning of totalitarianism. There’s never been a time in history when we look back, and the guys who were censoring people were the good guys.”
• “They had to invent a new word called ‘malinformation’ to censor people like me. Malinformation is information that is true, but it is inconvenient to the government, that they don’t want people to hear.”
• “We need to be able to talk. And the First Amendment was not written for easy speech. It was written for the speech that nobody likes you for.”

Ed. Note: Journalist Sharyl Attkisson observes, “The establishment is very worried about RFK Jr. Just like they worry about Trump.” For more, read Dr. Naomi Wolf’s defense of RFK Jr. here and watch Kennedy’s speech here.

8. FBI PLANTS CHILD PORN ON COMPUTERS: Journalist Sharyl Attkisson told Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), “One of the Federal Agents involved said that they intended to plant child porn in my husband’s computer. This is the FBI. There’s been a case that’s currently in litigation unrelated in which an FBI Agent has testified that they did that, they have done that. It was not accomplished in my case. I guess the curtain was drawn on that facet of my case before them doing it, but imagine how you’d ever get out of that.”

9. DEADLY COVID BATCHES CAUSED MAJORITY OF DEATHS: The Exposé reports, “An investigation of official U.S. Government data, provided by the Centers for Disease Control, has revealed that extremely high numbers of adverse reactions and deaths have been reported against specific lot numbers of the Covid-19 vaccines numerous times. This means the deadliest batches of the Covid-19 vaccine have now been identified, but Medicine Regulators have refused to withdraw them, and they are still being administered to the public. The figures reveal that every single death reported as an adverse reaction to the Covid-19 injections has been caused by just 4 to 5% of the batches of Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines produced.”

Ed. Note: For on Covid vaccine dangers, read Over 1M Americans Are Likely Severely Vaccine Injured by the COVID Vaccines, and COVID Vaccines Harm Newborns, Study Proves.

10. EAST PALESTINE, OHIO, FIVE MONTHS LATER: Red State reports, “In East Palestine, the headaches, nosebleeds, eye irritations, and respiratory issues remain…even survey takers for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry became sick during their time in East Palestine. Many families have been uprooted from their homes, and the value of those homes has plummeted. Many small businesses are gone or hanging on by a thread. And needless to say, the people of East Palestine do not have much faith in and do not have much trust in Norfolk Southern or the government. And because they are not in the media spotlight anymore, they feel a sense of being forgotten.”

11. BLUE CITIES CONTINUE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: A Walgreens in San Francisco chained shut freezer doors after looters stole “all the pizza and ice cream every night.” New York City will reward BLM rioters who were arrested in 2020 with $13 million ($10,000 per eligible “protestor”), on top of the already $12 million paid out.

Insider Monkey reveals that the 15 American cities with the highest murder rates are all run by Democrats. Wallet Hub ranks the top 5 most stressed out cities – Cleveland, Detroit, Baltimore, Birmingham, and Philadelphia – all run by Democrats.

12. RFK JR. CALLS OUT FAUCI AND WUHAN FUNDING: In a recent interview with Fox News’ Jesse Watters, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said, “I think [Fauci] caused a lot of injury by withholding early treatment from Americans. We racked up the highest death count in the world. We only have 4.2% of the globe’s population, but we had 16% of the COVID deaths in this country. And that was from bad policy.”

Kennedy also suggested that the $90 million given to China’s Wuhan lab by the U.S. government is the reason why the Biden Administration has not investigated the Wuhan Lab. Kennedy also said, “And we did a very, very big technology transfer of bio weapons technology to the Wuhan lab, bio weapons technology that was developed at NIH expense.”

The Wall Street Journal recently published an article, “Covid Censorship Proved to Be Deadly: Government and social-media companies colluded to stifle dissenters who turned out to be right.”

13. MOHAMMED IS MOST POPULAR NAME AMONG RIOTERS IN FRANCE: The most popular name among arrested “French” rioters is “Mohammed,” followed by another Arabic name, “Yanis.” Former French presidential candidate Éric Zemmour says, “No one can ignore reality anymore…in spite of everything, most of the political class wants to believe that it is a social crisis when the root cause is obvious: immigration.”

14. JIM CAVEZIEL URGES CHRISTIANS TO STAND AGAINST EVIL: In a recent interview, actor Jim Caveziel, who plays agent Tim Ballard in Sound of Freedom, said, “I’m asking Christians…wake up. Stop fearing the devil more than you fear God.  Stop being afraid.” Caveiziel also said, “Your three letter agencies that have gone along with this wickedness, that have torn these children from mother’s wombs…These are the wicked here. But there’s another group of wicked, those that stand in the middle, that do nothing, that allow this to occur.”

15. NOTEWORTHY STORIES AND QUOTES:

• The Blaze reports, “A female passenger aboard a small plane flying from New York to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, managed to land the plane after the pilot passed out behind the controls.”
• Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino says his former colleagues know who brought cocaine into the White House: “They are absolutely furious about this. I got 50 emails, communications, texts from people. ‘This is embarrassing. Humiliating…They know exactly who it was.’”
• America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve stands at its lowest level since 1983, with only 20 days’ supply left.
• A new survey finds that 44% of 25-34 year-olds believe that “referring to someone by the wrong gender pronoun (he/him, she/her) should be a criminal offense.” 31% disagree.
• Pornography viewing among young people below age 17 is at 75%, up from 42% in 2014.
• Former border chief Mark Morgan says the Biden Administration is manipulating numbers to pretend that encounters with illegals have decreased since February 2021. Morgan says, “That is a 350% increase from when they took over 28 months ago.”
• 83 Republicans joined Democrats in voting against reinstating pilots who lost their jobs over Covid vaccine mandates. The Post Millennial reports, “The move comes as the United States’ aviation industry continues to suffer due in large part to a shortage of captains in cockpits.”
• A recent Barna survey finds that the percentage of pastors who report feeling lonely “sometimes” has jumped from 42% in 2015 to 65% today.
• Attorney Josh Hammer writes, “So much for ‘our democracy’—the Left would prefer that the public and private merge together to squash all who dare to dissent from regime orthodoxy. In Political Science 101 class, most freshmen learn that this is a trademark trait not of democracy, but of fascism.”
• Tucker Carlson said, “No one is punished for lying. People are only punished for telling the truth.”
• Glenn Greenwald warns that Intelligence operatives have “infiltrated these Big Tech companies… exactly like they’ve infiltrated corporate news outlets. They’re all over these censorship regimes.”
• Historian Larry Schweikart tweeted, “Anyone talking about ‘moving on’ from 2020 or 2022 wants to ‘move on’ for one reason. They want to do it again in 2024, and they don’t want you fixing it before they do.”

FAITH, FAMILY, & FREEDOM REPORT

1. HOMESCHOOLING CONTINUES TO THRIVE: Maine and many other states continue to have record numbers of homeschoolers after Covid-19 forced students to stay home. The Maine Monitor reports that “some families have pulled their kids with disabilities because they worry their needs aren’t being met. Others have religious or moral objections to material taught in public schools.”

2. KANSAS RULES FOR BIOLOGICAL GENDER: District Judge Teresa Watson ruled that drivers must have their biological gender stated on their license after a lawsuit was brought by Attorney General Kris Kobach (R). Judge Watson clearly stated, “Licenses are used by law enforcement to identify criminal suspects, crime victims, wanted persons, missing persons, and others. Compliance with state legal requirements for identifying license holders is a public safety concern.”

3. LOUISIANA PROTECTS CHILDREN: Louisiana joined 19 other Republican states protecting children from transgender surgeries and treatments after the Republican legislature overrode Governor John Bel Edwards’ (D) veto of the Stop Harming Our Kids Act. The bill was passed in a special session by the state House and Senate 76-23 and 28-11. Speaker of the House Clay Schexnayder commented on the “robust participation from the public today here at the Capitol, and I appreciate how involved average citizens have been in our important discussions this year.”

4. KENTUCKY LIFTS INJUNCTION ON TRANSGENDER LAW: U.S. District Judge David Hale lifted an injunction on a Kentucky law protecting children from transgender madness. Attorney General Daniel Cameron (R), who worked to overturn the injunction, stated in a press release, “Today’s ruling is a win for parents and children. I’m grateful to the district court for doing what the law requires, which is protecting Kentucky kids from the irreversible harms that these experimental drug treatments would cause.”

5. NOBEL PRIZE WINNER SPEAKS AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE: In a speech to Korean scientists, Nobel Prize winner Dr. John Clauser stood against climate change cultism, saying, “I don’t believe there is a climate crisis…Misinformation is being spread by those with political and opportunistic motives.” Clauser also voiced his concern about AI, stating, “In an era of rapid advancement in AI technology, the role of scientists as judges is necessary.”

6. GERMAN POLITICIAN STANDS AGAINST WHO: German politician Christine Anderson called out the World Health Organization (WHO), stating, “We will bring you down, and we will not tire until we have done just that. So brace yourselves. We are here, and the fight is on. So let’s have the fight.” Anderson promised to expose anyone, including those in her government, who are in favor of the WHO.

7. EL SALVADOR IS THE SAFEST LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRY: After previously being referred to as the “world’s murder capital,” President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador declared his country is now the safest in Latin America after cracking down on crime. The Wall Street Journal reported 9 of 10 Salvadorans support the President, with restaurant owner Edwin Avalos adding, “I would vote for Bukele 10 more times. Two years ago, I wouldn’t have opened a business here.”

8. TRANSGENDER MALES BANNED FROM CYCLING RACES: The Union Cycliste Internationale revealed a new policy banning transgender males from competing in women’s cycling races if they “transitioned” after puberty. The policy will require such athletes to compete in the men’s racing only, renamed the Men/Open category. Swimmer Riley Gaines tweeted, “UCI, governing body of cycling, has…prioritized fairness in sport rather than feelings. Cycling has been heavily infiltrated with males competing in the women’s division, so this is huge.”

9. IN-N-OUT CHANGES MASK POLICY: In-N-Out Burger came under fire after announcing they will require employees to show medical documentation if they wear a mask on the job. The company mask policy states, “No masks shall be worn…unless an Associate has a valid medical note exempting him or her from this requirement. Associates who wear masks for medical reasons must wear a company-provided N-95 mask.”

10. REPUBLICAN COUNTY CALLS COVID SHOT “BIOWEAPON”: The Brevard County Republican Executive Committee declared that Covid vaccines are a “bioweapon.” Natural News reports that the committee will mail their new recommendation on the shots to leaders across the state. The letter states in part, “On behalf of the preservation of the human race, the Brevard County Republican Party calls upon Governor DeSantis and the state legislature to prohibit the sale and distribution of COVID-19 injections and all related injections in the state of Florida.”

11. GEN Z IS ENTREPRENEURIALLY MINDED: A new survey from ZenBusiness reveals Generation Z may be more entrepreneurial-minded than other generations, as 93% of Gen Zers have looked into owning a business. The survey finds 84% of respondents prefer entrepreneurship among 12 possible career paths, and 90% said they wanted to make something “new and better for the world.” Yahoo Finance reported, “Gen Z might be more inclined to starting businesses because they see the world differently.”

12. PUBLIC SQUARE IS OFFICIALLY PUBLIC: Conservative company Public Square went public on the stock exchange on July 20, with many supporters shouting “USA!” on the exchange floor. CEO Michael Seifert stated, “The largest network of non-woke businesses in America is officially public.” Public Square has over 1 million users and 55,000 businesses using its site. In related news, Public Square has made a deal with Tucker Carlson, to be an advertiser for his show.

13. BRAZIL’S CHURCH POPULATION BOOMING: A study conducted by the University of Sao Paulo reveals the number of evangelical churches in Brazil has skyrocketed by 543% in just 20 years, with 109,560 churches operating in the nation. According to Evangelical Focus Europe, “Evangelicals, who were a minority in previous decades, could become a majority in the coming years…”

14. BRITISH PRO-LIFER WINS AGAINST GOVERNMENT: The British government dropped its case against Adam Smith-Conner after fining him for silently praying in front of an abortion clinic. Smith-Conner stated, “Nobody should be criminalized for what they believe – especially not when they express their belief silently, in the privacy of their own minds…”

HYMN OF THE WEEK

Who Is On The Lord’s Side by Frances R. Havergal

Who is on the Lord’s side? Who will serve the King?
Who will be His helpers, other lives to bring?
Who will leave the world’s side? Who will face the foe?
Who is on the Lord’s side? Who for Him will go?
By Thy call of mercy, by Thy grace divine,
We are on the Lord’s side! Savior, we are Thine!

Jesus, Thou hast bought us, not with gold or gem,
But with Thine own lifeblood, for Thy diadem!
With Thy blessing filling each who comes to Thee,
Thou hast made us willing, Thou hast made us free.
By Thy grand redemption, by Thy grace divine,
We are on the Lord’s side! Savior, we are Thine!

Fierce may be the conflict, strong may be the foe,
But the King’s own army none can overthrow!
’Round His standard ranging, vict’ry is secure,
For His truth unchanging makes the triumph sure.
Joyfully enlisting, by Thy grace divine,
We are on the Lord’s side! Savior, we are Thine!

Chosen to be soldiers, in an alien land,
Chosen, called, and faithful, for our Captain’s band.
In the service royal, let us not grow cold!
Let us be right loyal, noble, true and bold!
Master, wilt Thou keep us, by Thy grace divine,
Always on the Lord’s side? Savior, always Thine!