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referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">Fengyou Wan</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/s/photos/magicians?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText">Unsplash</a></figcaption></figure><p id="a859">Their news has now become sheer entertainment and illusion with little basis of fact. Truly, whatever China wants us to believe, they will gladly promote. Newscasters (no longer reporters) are told what to say and what not to, and do not investigate anything.</p><p id="2dd8">There was an old movie with the late and great Sean Connery which had predicted long before exactly where we are in the world right now (note that we will not even see this movie played anywhere anymore). It is called <b><i>Wrong is Right</i></b>.</p><p id="6333">From IMDb.com: <i>A satire of American news reporting, covert agencies, and political system. The theft of two suitcase-sized nuclear weapons, and their sale to a terrorist group, leads television newsman Patrick Hale on an international chase to track them down, and uncover the twisting maze of apparent involvement of U.S. Government agencies.</i></p><div id="553b" class="link-block"> <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084920/"> <div> <div> <h2>Wrong Is Right (1982) - IMDb</h2> <div><h3>Directed by Richard Brooks. With Sean Connery, George Grizzard, Robert Conrad, Katharine Ross. A TV reporter finds…</h3></div> <div><p>www.imdb.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*QZtvWJZCGNaUYL1K)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="8736">Do yourself a favor and watch it — laugh at it, <i>but also fear it.</i> <b>It is no longer just satire.</b> I believe that mainstream does not want you to see this movie, and that is why it is difficult to find on any airwaves. They realize the movie’s message might give them away and reveal what they have become.</p><p id="13a8">We who are in business to survive and keep America a free nation, we who want our people to regain the fundamental beliefs which made us who we are because it is truly what works when all else falters, simply stand by and shake our heads, befuddled that so many have been blinded.</p><p id="b126">Like in the movie, things get more ridiculous every day. Its conclusion (spoiler alert!): <i>We must ignore mainstream media at all costs. They are in it for the money and the glory of their careers and have lost all scruples! They are inexplicably tied to forces that only want to destroy us, and yet most of them are being paid to turn away and not know this truth at the expense of expulsion from their careers.</i></p><p id="1607">Here is the first cotangent: if someone were to tell you that they can provide you with the ability to access all information about everything quickly and easily at all times within seconds, but the price to pay would be that we as a nation would have to be bombarded with endless propaganda from another nation’s Communist and Godless viewpoints on our lives, <b>would we have taken this elixir?</b></p><p id="fbdd">It is probably too late now for us to make this choice.</p><blockquote id="83be"><p>So now, this begs the question: would our lives have been better now with or without our technology having been given to us as a panacea for all that is wrong with humanity?</p></blockquote><p id="c624"><i>Or would we, having known the price we would be paying ahead of time, give them an emphatic, “No Thanks!”</i></p><p id="5d04"><i>N<b>obody had asked this question of us ahead of time, and so none of us knew that they would dazzle us with their charms and expect us to forgo our fundamental principles and strengths!</b></i></p><h2 id="0f24">The Temptation was just too great for us.</h2><p id="566c">Half of us our now blinded by the blue light of social media. The fair and balanced reporting we once knew has been <b>snake-oiled to death</b>, and we now only have reporting which seeks to blame, find fault, destroy God, ignore the real problems, and divert attention away from where it truly arises.</p><blockquote id="521d"><p>At the same time, they became ever more powerful because they learned how to create and then use hysteria to destroy our very way of life, belief in ourselves and our inherent goodness, and to completely remove trust in any of our departments— exactly what China has been wishing for — <b><i>The Grand Illusion!</i></b></p></blockquote><p id="f14e">Off the record, officials within the state department and homeland security had been trying to inform us (on Fox News and Newsmax, the only channels seemingly somewhat devoid of foreign invasion) that China only released the virus because they knew they could count on mainstream media to convince their audiences it was accidental.</p><p id="6b3a"><b><i>Nobody listened.</i></b></p><p id="e118">Of course, many of us suspected already (from paying attention to the ludicrous reports of malfeasance and obfuscation) what these officials tried telling us next — that it was created in their labs. Even mainstream media had reports early on of Chinese scientists trying to inform the world about the virus a month before it had gone global. <b><i>Remember? </i></b>They all died and mainstream suddenly dropped all stories about this in order to focus on how poorly Trump was handling the pandemic.</p><blockquote id="079f"><p>And now? No consequences will come to them because China is so happy and they are firmly in control of everything that is happening in our nation. <b>This sounds dangerous to me. <i>How many more viruses do they have in their pipeline ready to go, perhaps more lethal? What happens when they are not happy with our new administration?</i></b></p></blockquote><p id="10a2">Math is amazing. Its laws are perfect and resonate truth much like a pure philosophy. If China is a country whose leaders are obsessed with their own agendas, and who seem <b>not to </b>adhere to any Godly principles that I can find written down from eons ago, and if mainstream media, big tech, and now Democratic leadership, along with <i>all of their business interests</i>, have fallen under their influence, <b><i>what is next?</i></b></p><p id="7b15">When our reporters now bow down to corporate interests before our national interests, are they not being <b><i>paid by the devil himself? Each of their

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subjects, their viewers, will do anything they say.</i></b> The equation is actually <i>quite simple. <b>Too many of us have listened to the snake oil salesmen.</b> We have gotten what we wanted and we have become absolutely comprised!</i></p><blockquote id="ddd2"><p>Our nation as we have known it, and as we have cherished it, is now in big trouble.</p></blockquote><p id="88cb">Technology has been playing Eve to our Adam. Now we know how far China’s Communist leaders will go to get their way with us, and that our own God-forsaken media will support them. It becomes clear that there is nothing more and nothing less at stake — <b><i>the snake oil salesmen have found a new way to reach millions upon millions on a highly advanced level.</i></b></p><p id="cc75">Time has come for each of us turn away from these devil-inspired personalities (and should I say even the entire entertainment system) until they atone for and reveal the truth of their mission, <b><i>and for their misguided calls to action on almost every front possible at all times.</i></b></p><p id="3d8f">Destroying cities and statues, and defunding police departments … <b><i>really? What a stroke of genius that was for China!</i></b></p><blockquote id="f584"><p>We are at a time in history when the heretics and shaman of old, who took to the stage in the name of their own greed, <b><i>and with not a God-fearing soul in sight, </i></b>have claimed a stake into the heart of our country. They have a powerful Asian ally whose Godless leaders are tied to everything we use today which we believe will make our lives easier.</p></blockquote><p id="42de"><b><i>Our glut for technology has made us vulnerable and this has no bottom.</i></b> The worst is yet to come unless we can make fundamental changes. It has been foretold of old (again, read your Bible — even if you have no faith, it tells the wondrous stories about country after country who had followed similar paths and, in turn, similarly dismal fates).</p><p id="632e">We have already paid a hefty price. The battle is now full on … <b><i>between God and the devil through each of us and through the actions we each now choose to take.</i></b></p><p id="6c31"><i>Who do you think will win? </i>And what do you think will happen to the followers on the side of the loser? <b>Or to that one big country of Godless leaders who continue to use disease, dissatisfaction, and mistruth to peddle their agendas throughout the world, (and who have purchased mainstream media, along with political advocates favorable to them every step of the way)?</b></p><p id="f346">Thank you for reading and for your time, which I know is valuable. If you enjoyed this, please share and applaud (up to 50 times!). Also, please follow me to see more of my new articles and stories.</p><p id="4142">If you are not already a member, join Medium for other extremely insightful articles and stories. 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The Grand Illusion has just taken an Evil Twist!

We are Painfully Stuck — Is there any Hope of Getting Out?

Photo by Jeet Dhanoa on Unsplash

This time, the consequences are real.

We have been cast upon a delusion — our nation, our culture, and the greater world beyond us, and we did not even know it had finally started. More importantly, we did not know how horrible would be its consequences. Half of our country, and more than half of our media outlets, do not see that they have fallen under the spell of the master of illusion, the snake oil salesman from old.

From Wikipedia: Snake oil is a euphemism for deceptive marketing and health care fraud. It refers to the petroleum-based mineral oil or “snake oil” that used to be sold as a cure-all elixir for many kinds of physiological problems. Many 19th-century United States and 18th-century European entrepreneurs advertised and sold mineral oil (often mixed with various active and inactive household herbs, spices, and compounds, but containing no snake-derived substances whatsoever) as “snake oil liniment”, making frivolous claims about its efficacy as a panacea.

At this time, the salesmen are mainstream media interests, and they are peddling fear and division and their supposed remedy is to keep on promoting hysteria and dissatisfaction so that we keep on demanding changes until we don’t even recognize ourselves anymore. Despite any evidence contrary to this opinion, it pains me to say it is true. How far will they now go?

Media stars blame the politicians for our divisiveness and unrest, but it is clearly they who are at fault, and this is what I will hope to persuade you to believe in this article — for the good of our nation, our people, and in pursuit of retaining our freedom.

Math can help me to do so:

(Exhibit A.) Technology companies need Asian workers to compete to make their products cheaply and then to sell their products both here and in the huge Asian market.

(Exhibit B.) They (technology conglomerates)are beholden to China’s leaders who can make or deny policies favorable for their interests in obtaining fairly cheap workers, efficient factories, and a plethora of consumers.

(Exhibit C.) Mainstream media (including and especially the major networks, some cable channels, and Hollywood) require technology (A) to keep and build their audiences through followers and likes. If A=B, and C=A, then B=C (mainstream media is beholden to China).

But what does this have to do with our current political climate? You might ask. And it is a good question.

The answer lies within the follow-up equation: (D.) Democratic Party leaders had aligned themselves early on in the technological revolution with big money interests and investments in both the tech companies and within China’s corporate structure.

When Trump became elected, they found they were suddenly compromised due to their ties to Chinese business interests who were very unhappy with Trump’s pro-American corporate policies. They found they could use and manipulate their constituents easily because they controlled mainstream media and were aligned already with big tech.

Side note: Religion had always been a secondary concern for Dems since it tied their hands when it came to promoting a liberal agenda. In order to help to promote their liberal principles and ideology, they turned to their friends in big tech and by aligning with Godless Chinese leaders.

It became easy then to sway mainstream media since they could now use technology to push their “No God” policies (E.), and also to create policies favorable to get more financial support and many more followers.

Who else took a bite out of the Apple? This imagery was a symbol long before any tech company incorporated a similar theme. Humans have had this thought on their consciences since the written word was first put on paper! Genesis, the first book of the Bible, had foretold this temptation eons ago.

Now, let me take my mathematical equation even a bit further.

Conservatives trust and believe in God (F) because they truly see that He has blessed America as a beacon of light to guide the entire world through turmoil, evil, and nefarious events. They hold that the nation’s only hope forward is and has always been a fundamental America built upon His principles.

(D Democratic and Liberal/Progressive Party) does not equal (F Republican and Conservative/Adherence to God Party)= Divisive Country.

So now, when we have a majority of networks, along with Hollywood and almost the entire entertainment system (except for a few stars with wisdom who are unafraid to go against their peers), promote the sales-pitch of big tech, liberal media, Democratic leaders (all with their ties beholden to Chinese legislation), how does the remainder of the nation who sees just what is going on, move forward and make-believe this does not negatively affect every aspect of all of our lives?

Photo by Fengyou Wan on Unsplash

Their news has now become sheer entertainment and illusion with little basis of fact. Truly, whatever China wants us to believe, they will gladly promote. Newscasters (no longer reporters) are told what to say and what not to, and do not investigate anything.

There was an old movie with the late and great Sean Connery which had predicted long before exactly where we are in the world right now (note that we will not even see this movie played anywhere anymore). It is called Wrong is Right.

From IMDb.com: A satire of American news reporting, covert agencies, and political system. The theft of two suitcase-sized nuclear weapons, and their sale to a terrorist group, leads television newsman Patrick Hale on an international chase to track them down, and uncover the twisting maze of apparent involvement of U.S. Government agencies.

Do yourself a favor and watch it — laugh at it, but also fear it. It is no longer just satire. I believe that mainstream does not want you to see this movie, and that is why it is difficult to find on any airwaves. They realize the movie’s message might give them away and reveal what they have become.

We who are in business to survive and keep America a free nation, we who want our people to regain the fundamental beliefs which made us who we are because it is truly what works when all else falters, simply stand by and shake our heads, befuddled that so many have been blinded.

Like in the movie, things get more ridiculous every day. Its conclusion (spoiler alert!): We must ignore mainstream media at all costs. They are in it for the money and the glory of their careers and have lost all scruples! They are inexplicably tied to forces that only want to destroy us, and yet most of them are being paid to turn away and not know this truth at the expense of expulsion from their careers.

Here is the first cotangent: if someone were to tell you that they can provide you with the ability to access all information about everything quickly and easily at all times within seconds, but the price to pay would be that we as a nation would have to be bombarded with endless propaganda from another nation’s Communist and Godless viewpoints on our lives, would we have taken this elixir?

It is probably too late now for us to make this choice.

So now, this begs the question: would our lives have been better now with or without our technology having been given to us as a panacea for all that is wrong with humanity?

Or would we, having known the price we would be paying ahead of time, give them an emphatic, “No Thanks!”

Nobody had asked this question of us ahead of time, and so none of us knew that they would dazzle us with their charms and expect us to forgo our fundamental principles and strengths!

The Temptation was just too great for us.

Half of us our now blinded by the blue light of social media. The fair and balanced reporting we once knew has been snake-oiled to death, and we now only have reporting which seeks to blame, find fault, destroy God, ignore the real problems, and divert attention away from where it truly arises.

At the same time, they became ever more powerful because they learned how to create and then use hysteria to destroy our very way of life, belief in ourselves and our inherent goodness, and to completely remove trust in any of our departments— exactly what China has been wishing for — The Grand Illusion!

Off the record, officials within the state department and homeland security had been trying to inform us (on Fox News and Newsmax, the only channels seemingly somewhat devoid of foreign invasion) that China only released the virus because they knew they could count on mainstream media to convince their audiences it was accidental.

Nobody listened.

Of course, many of us suspected already (from paying attention to the ludicrous reports of malfeasance and obfuscation) what these officials tried telling us next — that it was created in their labs. Even mainstream media had reports early on of Chinese scientists trying to inform the world about the virus a month before it had gone global. Remember? They all died and mainstream suddenly dropped all stories about this in order to focus on how poorly Trump was handling the pandemic.

And now? No consequences will come to them because China is so happy and they are firmly in control of everything that is happening in our nation. This sounds dangerous to me. How many more viruses do they have in their pipeline ready to go, perhaps more lethal? What happens when they are not happy with our new administration?

Math is amazing. Its laws are perfect and resonate truth much like a pure philosophy. If China is a country whose leaders are obsessed with their own agendas, and who seem not to adhere to any Godly principles that I can find written down from eons ago, and if mainstream media, big tech, and now Democratic leadership, along with all of their business interests, have fallen under their influence, what is next?

When our reporters now bow down to corporate interests before our national interests, are they not being paid by the devil himself? Each of their subjects, their viewers, will do anything they say. The equation is actually quite simple. Too many of us have listened to the snake oil salesmen. We have gotten what we wanted and we have become absolutely comprised!

Our nation as we have known it, and as we have cherished it, is now in big trouble.

Technology has been playing Eve to our Adam. Now we know how far China’s Communist leaders will go to get their way with us, and that our own God-forsaken media will support them. It becomes clear that there is nothing more and nothing less at stake — the snake oil salesmen have found a new way to reach millions upon millions on a highly advanced level.

Time has come for each of us turn away from these devil-inspired personalities (and should I say even the entire entertainment system) until they atone for and reveal the truth of their mission, and for their misguided calls to action on almost every front possible at all times.

Destroying cities and statues, and defunding police departments … really? What a stroke of genius that was for China!

We are at a time in history when the heretics and shaman of old, who took to the stage in the name of their own greed, and with not a God-fearing soul in sight, have claimed a stake into the heart of our country. They have a powerful Asian ally whose Godless leaders are tied to everything we use today which we believe will make our lives easier.

Our glut for technology has made us vulnerable and this has no bottom. The worst is yet to come unless we can make fundamental changes. It has been foretold of old (again, read your Bible — even if you have no faith, it tells the wondrous stories about country after country who had followed similar paths and, in turn, similarly dismal fates).

We have already paid a hefty price. The battle is now full on … between God and the devil through each of us and through the actions we each now choose to take.

Who do you think will win? And what do you think will happen to the followers on the side of the loser? Or to that one big country of Godless leaders who continue to use disease, dissatisfaction, and mistruth to peddle their agendas throughout the world, (and who have purchased mainstream media, along with political advocates favorable to them every step of the way)?

Thank you for reading and for your time, which I know is valuable. If you enjoyed this, please share and applaud (up to 50 times!). Also, please follow me to see more of my new articles and stories.

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