AGENDA Weekly Brief Week of June 17-23 of 2023 – By Curtis Bowers

Dear Friends,

In The Still Hour, Austin Phelps observes, “It has been said that no great work of literature or science has ever been produced by someone who did not love solitude. It is also a fundamental principle of faith that no tremendous growth in holiness has ever been achieved by anyone who has not taken time frequently, and for long periods, to be alone with God.”

1. HUNTER BIDEN GETS SLAP ON THE WRIST: Hunter Biden pled guilty to “two counts of willful failure to pay federal income tax” and “one count of possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance.”  The charges came from 2018 and 2019, but Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss sat on them before the 2020 election. Thanks to a pretrial agreement, Hunter will face no jail time, although any ordinary American facing the same crimes would be facing “decades in a federal prison,” according to Attorney Brett Tolman. Bribery allegations were ignored, and Hunter was not prosecuted for failing to register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA).

Sean Davis of The Federalist writes, “Make no mistake: DOJ had no intention of even giving Hunter Biden a slap on the wrist until the whistleblower evidence of Biden bribery was revealed. They sat on those charges (which they watered down to nothing) for years. The bribery evidence must be overwhelming.”

Two weeks before, Trump predicted, “They’ll hit Hunter with something small, to make their strike on me look ‘fair.’” Vivek Ramaswamy responded, “It’s no accident that the farcical Hunter Biden ‘plea deal’ comes right after the Trump indictment: it’s the perfect fig leaf to pretend that ‘no one is above the law,’ while absolutely putting certain people above the law.” Tucker Carlson explained, “As in most of the developing world, it’s safer to be the president’s son than his opponent.”

Ed. Note: Luke 12:12 says, “For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.” David Marcus writes, “Do not get distracted. There is only one major, earth-shattering story in American politics today; it is the Biden bribery scandal. The dam is breaking, and sooner rather than later, as always, the truth will come out.”

2. IRS WHISTLEBLOWERS REVEAL MORE BIDEN CORRUPTION: On Thursday, IRS whistleblower transcripts released by House Republicans revealed that “federal agencies abandoned standard procedures to slow-walk investigations into Hunter Biden, ignored agents who pushed for the investigation to move forward properly, retaliated against those agents, and — crucially — interfered even further in the 2020 election by making sure not to go public with details of their investigation until Donald Trump was on his way out the door,” reports The Federalist.

New York Post reporter Miranda Devine writes, “The Biden administration knew the Titan submarine imploded Sunday, but waited until today to make it public. Convenient smokescreen for today’s [Thursday’s] House Ways & Means release of IRS whistleblower testimony of DOJ sabotage of the Hunter Biden investigation.”

For more, read Scammer in Chief and Top 10 Hunter Biden bombshells from IRS whistleblower testimonies.

3. BILL GATES MEETS XI JINPING: Bill Gates traveled to China for the first time since 2019 to meet with Communist leader Xi Jinping. Xi called Gates an “old friend,” while Gates said, “We’ve always had great conversations, and we’ll have a lot of important topics to discuss today… it’s very exciting to be back.” Gates also announced a $50 million grant to fund lab and research projects at the CCP-controlled Tsinghua University.

U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) responded to Gates’ visit, saying, “Bill Gates is the largest funder of trying to find these viruses in remote caves and bring them to big cities…” Paul noted that Gates “funds the WHO more than most countries do” and, “This is up there with the danger of nuclear war. But this is much more insidious.”

4. HALDERMAN REPORT CONFIRMS VOTER FRAUD IN GEORGIA IN 2020: In July 2021, cybersecurity analyst Professor J. Alex Halderman completed his report on Dominion Voting machines. The report has finally been unsealed, along with an opposing MITRE report commissioned by Dominion. The report alleges the machines have “critical vulnerabilities that can be exploited to subvert all of its security mechanisms.” Halderman tweeted, “Despite our responsible disclosure efforts, the flaws remain unpatched in GA.”

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger attempted to dismiss the Halderman report in favor of the MITRE report and claimed, “Georgia’s Election System is secure.” Even CNN reports, “Georgia election officials have been aware of existing vulnerabilities in the state’s voting software for more than two years but continue to insist the system is safe and won’t be updated until after 2024…”

Attorney Rogan O’Handley responded, “This is criminal & it must be stopped. Georgians need to fight hard.”

5. JOHN DURHAM’S COVERUP: “Durham ran cover for a whole slew of high ranking officials running from President Obama on down to Strzok and extending to the Hillary Clinton campaign and characters for hire with deep media connections,” notes former Assistant Attorney General Jeff Clark. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) grilled Special Counsel John Durham on his whitewash of the Russiagate hoax and said, “When you are part of the COVER-UP, Mr. Durham, then it makes our job harder.”

6. COVID VACCINE PROMOTER DUCKS DEBATE WITH RFK JR.: The LA Times claimed, “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a threat to your health — and our democracy,” while the Communist Party USA asserted, “RFK Jr.’s campaign against Biden promotes right-wing conspiracies, boosting Republicans’ election chances.”

Google took down Dr. Jordan Peterson’s YouTube video interview with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for “violating YouTube’s general vaccine misinformation policy.” After Covid vaccine promoter Dr. Peter Hotez accused podcast host Joe Rogan and RFK Jr. of spreading “vaccine information,” Rogan offered Hotez $100,000 to his favorite charity to debate RFK Jr. on the topic. The pot reportedly surged to over $1.52 million, but Hotez refused, declaring, “In science, we don’t typically do debates. What we do is we write scientific papers…one doesn’t typically debate science.” Dr. Pierre Kory notes that Hotez helped secure funding for “Gain-of-Function” research before Covid-19 and helped censor the truth the lab origin of SARS-CoV-2. RFK Jr. said, “I do not think that he will debate. I don’t think that he can survive a debate.”

Ed. Note: For more, watch Tucker Carlson’s latest video, Bobby Kennedy Is Winning.

7. NEWLY RELEASED PFIZER DOCUMENTS SHOW 1.6 MILLION ADVERSE EVENTS! Pfizer documents released to the European Medicines Agency report nearly 1.6 million adverse events following Covid vaccinations, with one-third classified as serious. The reports include the following, as summarized by Daniel Horowitz:

• 73,542 cases of 264 categories of vascular disorders from the shots.
• Roughly 190,000 cases of respiratory disorders.
• Over 178,000 cases of reproductive or breast disorders.
• Over 100,000 blood and lymphatic disorders.

Meanwhile, American pathologist Dr. Ryan Cole reports that cancers are taking off “like wildfire,” based on reports from multiple doctors. Dr. Cole notes, “The raw numbers are going up…the trend line is consistently going up.” In related news, a new report finds that Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Dr. Francis Collins, and Dr. Anthony Fauci all knew the Covid mRNA vaccines were not stopping infections back in January 2021, but failed to tell the public.

8. IS THE FED DELIBERATELY CRASHING BANKS AND THE STOCK MARKET? Mike Holly of the Mises Institute writes, “The conditions have now aligned for a repeat of the major stock market crashes that have occurred since the founding of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) in 1913. Considering their vast experience and resources, the Fed has to know that their plan to control inflation by raising interest rates rapidly and significantly since 2022, and also tightening credit this year, will likely result in another major crash. Although the Fed has issued vague warnings about the impending pain on the stock market and economy, they have not explained how and why they will again wipe out trillions of dollars of wealth of unsuspecting investors.”

In a separate Mises article, Is the Banking Crisis Being Orchestrated? banker and financial analyst Steven Cinelli suggests the agenda behind the banking crisis could be the centralization of finance via a proposed Central Bank Digital Currency.

9. NEW FILM EXPOSES CHILD TRAFFICKING: “Sound of Freedom” follows the real-life story of Operation Underground Railroad founder and former CIA agent Tim Ballard. Actor Jim Caveziel, who stars in the film, said, “Epstein Island isn’t the only island out there where they have… children.” Tim Ballard warns that the sexualization of children, gender mutilation, and Biden’s “open border” policies are normalizing pedophilia and accelerating child trafficking.

10. SCHOOL KIDS IDENTIFY AS DINOSAURS, CATS, AND NONBINARY: The U.K. Daily Mail reports, “At a state secondary school in Wales, one student is said to ‘meow’ when asked questions by a teacher, rather than answering in English…In other schools, one apparently insists on being addressed as a dinosaur, one claims to identify as a horse, while another is said to wear a cape and demands to be acknowledged as a moon.” Pupils have accused teachers of being “discriminatory” if they try to stop these behaviors.

The New York State Education Department released 42 pages of guidance instructing students and teachers on how to keep “gender transitions” secret from their parents. In New Jersey, the number of “nonbinary” students in public schools skyrocketed from 16 to 675 in four years.

11. STUDIES CONFIRM CRITICAL ROLE OF FATHERS: After analyzing dozens of studies from 1987 to 2022, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) found “clear correlations between children raised in fatherless homes and developmental challenges ranging from bad grades, anxiety, and suicide to violent behavior, drug use, and criminality.” 18.3 million (or 1 in 4 U.S. children) live without a father in the home. AFPI reports, “In a study of 56 school shootings, only 10 of the shooters (18%) were raised in a stable home with both biological parents.”

Joseph Backholm of the Family Research Council responded, “Fatherlessness creates a deficit of love and a crisis of identity. The violence, substance abuse, crime, and educational failures seem to be the result of what happens when children look for love and identity in the wrong places.”

Ed. Note: Dr. David Martyn Lloyd-Jones observed, “In the Old Testament, it is quite clear that the father was a kind of priest in his household and family: he represented God. He was responsible not only for the morals and the behavior but for the instruction of his children. The Bible’s emphasis everywhere is that this is the primary duty and task of the parents. And it remains so to this day. If we are Christians at all, we must realize that this great emphasis is based upon those fundamental units ordained by God-marriage, family, and home. You cannot play fast and loose with them.”

12. CONSERVATIVE LEADER URGES PUBLIC SCHOOL EXODUS: David Lane of the American Renewal Project writes, “If America is to make it through as ‘one Nation under God,’ the only way forward will require a mass exodus from public education, equivalent to God leading the Israelites out of Egypt. Nothing less than the evil emissary of Satan’s spiritual revolution, public schooling has become the principal tool for sordid purveyors of cultural wickedness to contort and corrupt the lives of multiple generations of America’s future: its youth.”

Ed. Note: Shortly after the founding of America’s new government, Founding Father Fisher Ames lamented, “We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We’re starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We’ve become accustomed of late of putting little books into the hands of children, containing fables and moral lessons. We’re spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text in our schools. The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any other man-made book.”

13. BLACKROCK RECRUITER SAYS YOU CAN “BUY A SENATOR” FOR $10K: A citizen journalist with O’Keefe Media Group caught BlackRock recruiter Serge Varlay bragging, “I work for a company called BlackRock…It’s not who is the president; it’s who is controlling the wallet of the president. You could buy your candidates.” Varclay said U.S. Senators are “cheap,” and “you got 10 grand, you can buy a senator.” Varclay also said the Ukraine war is “good for business” and “creates opportunity for profit…”

14. PRIDE MONTH NEWS: Both conservative and leftist political leaders in Canada released statements celebrating “Pride Month.” 21 U.S. agencies are using taxpayer money to promote Pride Month.

Pixar’s first film with a “non-binary” character made a record as Pixar’s lowest opening weekend in its history, taking in only $30 million at the box office.

15. NOTEWORTHY STORIES:

• The People’s Voice reports, “The chief accountant at Ukraine’s Burisma Energy, who offered to provide US authorities with damning evidence regarding financial crimes involving Joe and Hunter Biden, has been found dead before she could testify.”
• Just The News reports, “The American Medical Association (AMA) has issued new guidance declaring it is ‘racist’ to use Body Mass Index as a measurement in medicine.”
• A new Harris poll reports that 77% of Americans between 35 and 54 years of age “would prefer to live in a simpler era before everyone was obsessed with screens and social media” and society was “plugged in.”
• The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition reports Canada saw 13,500 government-assisted suicides in 2022, up 35% from 10,064 in 2021. The Daily Signal’s Jarrett Stepman writes, “The suicide of the West is becoming reality.”
• IRS and ATF agents raided and temporarily shut down a gun shop in Great Falls, Montana.
• The USDA has approved three companies – Upside Foods, Good Meat, and Good Meat’s manufacturing partner, Joinn Biologics – to manufacture and sell lab-grown meat.
• Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who recently met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, said, “We do not support Taiwan independence. We remain opposed to any unilateral changes to the status quo by either side.”
• International Monetary Head Kristalina Georgievahe announced the IMF is “working hard on the concept of a global CBDC platform.”
• The world still stands, despite Greta Thunberg’s now-deleted prediction from five years ago that it would cease to exist on June 21, 2023, due to climate change.

FAITH, FAMILY, & FREEDOM REPORT

1. PUBLIC SQUARE TAKES PRO-FAMILY STAND: PublicSq, a conservative alternative to Amazon, is now offering $5,000 bonuses to employees who adopt or have a child. CEO Michael Seifert stated, “We think that ultimately a company is only as strong as the families that built it…we’re a pro-family company. We’re unashamed about that. And we’re actually the largest marketplace in the country of pro-family businesses.”

Ed. Note: To find out more about PublicSq, visit publicsq.com.

2. LGBTQ AGENDA CONTINUES TO LOSE SUPPORT: A Gallup poll shows homosexuality is becoming less popular among Americans, with a 7% decrease in support from last year. Meg Kilgannon of the Family Research Council stated that the homosexual agenda “…is about them having power over our children to direct their thinking and their upbringing in a way that only parents are authorized to do.”

3. AMERICANS OPPOSE UNLIMITED ABORTION: A new Gallup poll reveals that 44% of citizens identify as pro-life, while 41% say abortion is morally wrong. Focus on the Family also released a new ad titled, “It’s A Baby,” stating they are “…always looking for compelling and even unexpected ways to get the country talking about life.”

Ed Note: Sadly, a large majority of Americans still support abortion during the first trimester. 

4. THOUSANDS OF BABIES SAVED SINCE OVERTURN OF ROE: 30,000 babies’ lives have been saved since Roe v. Wade was overturned one year ago. According to LifeSiteNews, abortion is mostly illegal in 11 states, while other states have strict pro-life laws that have been blocked in the courts. Pro-life activist Jonathan Van Maren writes, “More than 25 states have already taken enormous steps towards protecting the pre-born, and at a very minimum, tens of thousands of children are alive today because Roe v. Wade was overturned.”

5. DODGERS PROTEST SUCCESSFUL: The Los Angeles Dodgers hosted an awards ceremony for drag queen “nuns” flaunting perverted lifestyles, with almost nobody in attendance, while thousands of Catholics peacefully protested outside the stadium. Jack Posobiec addressed the crowd, stating, “You are about to activate every single Catholic, every single Christian, every single religious believer in this entire country.”

6. ALABAMA COUNTERS DIGITAL CURRENCY: Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) signed a bill banning government agencies from receiving Central Bank Digital Currency payments and outlawing Alabama from participating in a potential CBDC trial run led by the Federal Reserve. The state House and Senate passed SB 330 unanimously. Economist Thorsten Polleit stated that if a digital currency is implemented, “the path to becoming a surveillance state regime will accelerate considerably.”

7. TEXAS WINS OVER BIDEN ADMINISTRATION: Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) won a victory over the Biden Administration after the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the Texas National Guard cannot be forced to take the Covid shot. Judge Andrew Oldham stated the Constitution does not allow Biden’s administration to “retain the power to punish militia members who refused to get the shots.”

8. NFL PLAYER SHARES HIS VIEW ON LIFE, FATHERHOOD: Former NFL player Ben Watson shared his new book titled, The New Fight for Life: Roe, Race & A Pro-Life Commitment to Justice. Watson encouraged men to assume their responsibility as fathers and care for their families, stating men need to fill the roles of “priest, prophet, provider, and protector…Many men today regrettably do not live by that creed. Unless men embrace their call to take charge and defend their family, abortion will not end.”

9. SCHOOL STUDENTS PROTEST GENDER IDEOLOGY: Students from Longfields-Davidson Heights Secondary School in Ottawa, Canada, walked out over the gender ideology being imposed on them. An anonymous organizer of the protest stated, “This is not an ethnic or a religious protest; this is a protest for the students who just…want to not be indoctrinated. We just want to have our beliefs that differ from other people.”

10. DETRANSITIONER SUES KAISER FOUNDATION: The Daily Signal reports detransitioner Kayla Lovdahl is suing Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Permanente Medical Group, and her doctors for their facilitating and pressuring her transition as a minor. A lawsuit filed by the Center for American Liberty states that the “Defendants were horribly and inexcusably wrong, as Kayla was not transgender and was not a person that any reasonable physician could ascertain would permanently maintain a transgender identity.”

11. FINLAND MOVES TOWARDS THE RIGHT: The New American reports Finland has one of the most right-leaning governments in modern history, following other countries such as Spain, Belgium, Italy, and the Netherlands in pulling away from the globalist agenda. Leftist Ville Niinistö lamented, “The new government is very much leaning towards the conservative right and takes Finland backwards…”

12. CHRISTIANITY GROWING IN IRAN: A new poll by GAMAAN reports that Christianity has exploded in Iran, with hundreds of thousands of new believers, while Islam is in decline. David Yeghnazar of Elam Ministries stated, “Iranians are attracted to Christianity because they think it is part and parcel of the free, secular, and democratic West. It is important for Christian agencies to pry Christianity away from that mold.”

13. PRO-LIFE CENTER REPLACES ABORTION FACILITY: After Texas abortion clinic Whole Woman’s Health closed its doors last year, a new pro-life center opened in its place to help parents and their babies. Yolanda Chapa, the founder of McAllen Pregnancy Center, praised God, saying, “This is a huge victory for the Lord. Because we did nothing, He did it all. It will be a place of resurrection.”

14. WOKE COMPANIES LOSE BILLIONS: Woke companies are feeling the sting of poor marketing decisions as their losses continue to mount. Axios reports Anheuser-Busch, Target, Kohl’s, and other corporations have lost a combined $28 billion, with Bud Light and Kohl’s losing 20% in share price and Target losing over $15 billion. Referencing Target’s stock, Citibank analyst Paul Lejuez stated, “Despite the recent stock pressure, we cannot recommend investors buy the stock given these dynamics…”

15. MARCH FOR JESUS HELD IN FRANCE: Thousands of people attended the March for Jesus in France, with events held in 6 different cities. Gilbert Leonian, president of the march, stated, “We want to have an impact on society by showing that evangelical churches are not a threat, but rather positive players in rebuilding our country in unity, harmony, and respect for differences.”

HYMN OF THE WEEK

Open My Eyes, That I May See by Clara H. Scott

Open my eyes, that I may see
Glimpses of truth Thou hast for me!
Place in my hands the wonderful key
That shall unclasp and set me free.
Silently now I wait for Thee,
Ready my God, Thy will to see!
Open my eyes, illumine me,
Spirit divine!

Open my ears, that I may hear
Voices of truth Thou sendest clear,
And while the wave notes fall on my ear,
Everything false will disappear!
Silently now I wait for Thee,
Ready my God, Thy will to see!
Open my ears, illumine me,
Spirit divine!

Open my mind, that I may read
More of Thy love in word and deed.
What shall I fear while yet Thou dost lead?
Only for light from Thee I plead!
Silently now I wait for Thee,
Ready my God, Thy will to see!
Open my mind, illumine me,
Spirit divine!

Open my mouth, and let me bear,
Gladly the warm truth everywhere!
Open my heart and let me prepare
Love with Thy children thus to share.
Silently now I wait for Thee,
Ready my God, Thy will to see!
Open my heart, illumine me,
Spirit divine!