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On August 27, 2021, the geopolitical site http://www.theduran.com, was taken off the net by an attack from Big Tech providers, presumably Paypal and others.
The site is currently offline for regular use, though it has launched a new more limited, Twitter-like portal called http://www.theduran.locals.com. We encourage people who want to keep up with the Duran’s efforts to join this site to be able to monitor developments.
For the time being I will post news and information pieces to this site, and hopefully, if interest exists, I will incorporate the site and start running as a new independent news and information source… at least until Big Tech finds me.
Then, I will start again.
Free speech is extremely important. I do not lie in any of my news reports. I may be wrong about the understanding I have on certain topics, but I never lie about anything, nor do I seek to slander or badmouth anybody. However, my opinions are blunt, direct and honest, and there are many people in the world that seem to be offended by this.
However, if we do not have the ability to be a bit offensive, then we are all lost.
Consider Jesus Christ, who offended the religious establishment of His time, but rightly so, since they had formalized the relationship with God into a set of rituals that only inflated their own personal sense of pride. They nailed Him to the Cross for it, and he defeated Death and Hades by simply being who He is – God incarnate – without showing anything but love and truth to everyone.
He is the ultimate free speaker. The Truth is what sets us free, and with God’s help, this site will become an outpost for those who wish to know the truth about what is going on, even if it is just honestly expressed opinion.
Two interpretations of the Amendment indicate Pence could legally pick Trump, risking Civil War
A big event is planned for January 6th. It might be the closing gathering of massive numbers of Trump supporters, or the vanguard of troops for the Second American Civil War. We know rather little about the actual nature of the gathering, only that January 6th is the day that the Electoral College vote gets read and approved by Congress. Presumably at the very least, the expected enormous gathering of Trump supporters is supposed to send a message to Congress to rethink their decision to bring Joe Biden into official recognition as the President-Elect to take the oath of office on January 20th, 2021.
However, Roman Balmakov, The Epoch Times’ correspondent, brings up some interesting possibilities. Two different readings of the US Constitution’s 12th Amendment seem to indicate that it is possible that the Vice President and the Vice President alone, as President of the Senate, could declare President Trump the actual victor through the acknowledgement of the “dueling electors” submitted by several of the states in which fraud is shown to have occurred in the November matchup.
This could happen, but in my own estimation, as well as Mr. Balmakov’s, it is unlikely and perhaps even dangerous. He notes that 96% of Democrat voters believe their guy and gal won legitimately. Because of this, it is exceedingly unlikely that they would be amenable to the challenge going this far.
This brings up a very interesting and tragic question:
There absolutely was massive fraud in this election. President Trump has every logical argument showing that this is true. The cases made by his team are convincing and very compelling. Yet, every court, including the US Supreme Court, made up incidentally of a strong 5-4 or even 6-3 conservative majority, has dismissed the lawsuits. While Rudy Giuliani strongly believes that the batch of lawsuits this week should work, there is no reason to expect that they will since other very firm arguments with loads of evidence have been dismissed out of hand.
It is clear that the Deep State is striking back, solidly and with great power to get President Trump out of office. What is more, the financial markets seem just fine with Biden coming in, and they continue to climb, with the Dow Jones at its highest levels of the year, and climbing.
Miracles can happen, and certainly as a Trump supporter, I wish one would. However, the Trump team can be credited with one thing that will absolutely last, no matter what – it ran an honest campaign and an honest challenge to a dishonest election. In every possible way, the Trump campaign and its candidate have done the right thing in terms of running fairly, and refusing to concede.
Where does this leave us? What happens next?
Honestly, it is too early to say anything that is not wildly speculative, no matter how tame it is. But, it is the end of the year, the end of a very crazy pandemic and election year, and the most dishonest managed presidential election in American history. So, with all that weirdness, let’s add a few speculative predictions of what we might see in coming days and weeks:
President Trump will leave office, but without conceding the election. – There is no requirement that a candidate concede. This practice has always been the gentlemanly act to do, and most outgoing presidents have done it, but there is no requirement to do so.
The refusal to concede will cast long-lasting aspersions on the legitimacy of the Biden Presidency. – The last time a president stepped down without giving his concession was a very long time ago, apparently John Adams never conceded, simply leaving Washington, DC and not staying for the inauguration of the new President. However, President Trump’s refusal to concede is ostensibly going to be interpreted as an assessment of the fraudulent status of the 2020 election itself. To concede would mean to admit “you are the legitimate winner and I am not, God bless you and let’s move ahead.” The key factor is the word legitimate. Trump cannot betray his principles or those of his supporters by admitting something false; this fact is made all the more evident by all the times in his term he scandalized everyone with the truth.
There will be no civil war, nor will there be civil unrest instigated by Trump supporters. – While it is true that maybe a few particularly disgruntled Trump fans might act out in their anger, this is extremely unlikely, and virtually impossible to expect that the whole crowd of supporters will galvanize into a rebellion or civil conflict. One of the primary reasons is that conservatives and Trump supporters see themselves as aligned with God – God himself is important, and there are better ways to deal with your brothers and sisters who disagree with you than to attack, injure or kill them. The Left does not see it this way at all; they made that abundantly clear with the killing of a Trump supporter and a Patriot Prayer member in Portland this past summer, saying that killing him was basically cleaning the streets of the trash. However, this is not a case of the Trump supporters “taking the high road.” If anything, the Trump movement has awakened in millions of Americans a deeper and more sincere look at life beyond political platitudes. The greater likelihood is that these men and women will find ways to stand strong for what they believe and defy the leftist pressure without acceding to violence.
The real issue will be how to prepare for every contingency so as to be able to win upcoming elections. – The election of 2020 proved the existence of a massively well-organized Democrat fraud machine. The fraud may well succeed at putting Mr. Biden and Mrs. Harris into the White House, but after that point all bets are off.
This is where the danger of civil war will truly begin, however. – The true damage of fraud is like that of any lie. It may get you what you want right now, but it will fall apart. What that might look like is the sharpest and most acute period of accountability the American government has ever faced, from the President down through Congress. It will be slow to start, owing to the tendency of conservatives to just tolerate mistreatment, but should they continue to be abused by dishonest leaders and draconian policies (a very real factor in the likelihood of a lengthy nationwide COVID-19 shutdown), and should our still-existing Constitutional rights continue to be trampled on as they were this year and worse (also a strong possibility), this is the point where the conservative / Trumpists may finally get to the breaking point. The pressure brought to bear on private American citizens by a truly illegitimate leadership bent on its own goals is a factor that Biden / Harris adminstration must consider if the country is to stay together.
This whole election has been a massive lie carried out by very powerful people. They seem to be succeeding and in the short run, I personally expect that they will continue to succeed. But their success is based on falsehood and lies. The Trump supporters already know this and they will be watching the Biden / Harris cabal like a hawk. The civil war may indeed come, or secessions may come, unless the usurpers to power are very careful not to poke them too hard. Conversely, a light touch from them may encourage complacency in conservatives, but it will also slow the progress of Marxism in the country.
It looks like 2021 will be very, very interesting.
Author’s NOTE: To my regret, I am unaware of a good Orthodox Christian perspective on this situation in English. The video clip supplied is a first attempt. If an Orthodox source appears, I will move the current video to be embedded in the story and highlight the Orthodox one, since that reflects my own personal faith. – ASH
There is a coup d’etat on in the United States. Dark forces are trying to seize control of the country and its people.
This kind of line has been used in the US for decades, usually by conspiracy theorists and severely introverted left- and right- wing nutters that often get in very heated discussions about this… only to eventually fizzle away into the vast static noise that marks the frothy American free press environment. While such thought was often discussed, it was never taken seriously because overall we seemed to witness a relatively free,if somewhat biased, press.
This began to erode very rapidly in 2015-2016 as government insiders met and conspired about what to do to prevent Donald J. Trump from winning the election. His accession to the White House was definitely not in their plans. Somebody more malleable, like Jeb Bush, or Hillary Clinton (who is both more and less of a power broker than many of us want to believe, but IS on the inside track of THE PLAN). They did not want a populist who would actually carry out the will of the Deplorables and the Great Unwashed who just were too stupid, really, to see the things that really needed to be done to the world.
Compared to now, though, the 2015-2016 mainstream media bias looks like a free press unrivaled in the world. Now we have blatant moves by big companies and known people and faces: Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Jack Dorsey (Twitter), the great search engine Google and its subsidiary YouTube. CNN, MSNBC, CBS, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and so many more, all united in their efforts to do one thing and one thing only:
Stop Donald Trump from doing what he promised to do, and, by any means necessary, to prevent his re-election.
The American people have been brought to this “normal”, and many of them do not even know it happened. Those that make CNN and MSNBC their news world probably have no idea what the issue with Hunter Biden and China even is, or why it is being brought up. How can this be? Easy. Those news sites have not breathed a word about it. Neither a whisper nor a hint. They did try to float the idea that President Trump has a Chinese bank account, (this was even put forward by VP Joe Biden in the final Presidential debate), but that story seemed to die from lack of interest… falling out of sight like a lead balloon. So, what? said the American public, but many still may have no idea that this is a block against the GOP’s October Surprise.
Since we have more ability to express thoughts and stories freely here (not total, but more), I wish to directly make a bit of speculation for those who may have interest in reading it. As in all speculation of this type, I may be wrong, for it IS but speculation, though arrived at by careful analysis of what I see taking place in this election fight. There appear to be several points and possibilities:
The outcome of this election is not knowable by any attempt to follow trends. The polling is too partisan and political to be taken seriously by anybody on either side.
Trump supporters who are rejoicing in their great numbers in rallies should not discount the tiny and spotty rallies and public performance by Kamala and Joe. Most of their supporters are afraid of COVID and would never gather in great public masses. This reflects a massive psychological and spiritual difference between the two camps. They do not exist in one another’s context and someone in one camp should not try to evaluate the other side according to his or her own context.
Reports keep coming in of astonishingly large amounts of money to keep Biden’s campaign going. The sources of that money are not reported in any obvious sense on the sources that I follow. That can mean (a) it is Soros money, which is quite likely – Soros has a good ability to hide when doing things like this. (b) Everybody on the Left is desperate to shore up their frontsmen – er, candidates and this money may be used effectively enough to swing the election their way.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, if elected, will not last the first year. The powers behind them are desperate and very likely to be sloppy and quite abrupt in their seizure of control of the country. Since neither candidate has any ability to actually lead the nation, I do not expect either of these two candidates to survive if they win office. The current fear over COVID may provide perfect cover for what looks like a tragic demise, but will in fact be a pair of assassinations. These will be carried out by LEFT-wing sources – the Radicalized Democrats and the powers behind them. Those powers have the following objectives:
The abolition of Christianity in the US. – The secularists know that the Right’s strength springs from belief in God. The early attacks against Christian churches that really try to “walk the walk” will increase in a way not seen since 1917 Russia, and it will be worse – and well-tuned to be adopted by the American way of thinking.
The marginalization of anybody with conservative viewpoints. – Say goodbye to more people in the alternate media – Steve Turley, Tucker Carlson, Fox News as a whole perhaps, Breitbart – anybody holding traditional conservative views will be cut out of the mainstream of communications and commerce. This is already underway and will increase if the Democrats win.
After that, I cannot see what comes next. But with these events, the United States, while perhaps remaining intact in name, will no longer exist. The Democrat radicals seek to punish those who oppose them, and many conservatives will simply comply, just as almost all of our Church leaders worldwide all complied with the secular authorities on COVID-19. To shut down prayer services in the time when logically they are needed the most would have been unconscionable even five years ago. But almost everybody, and tragically, even from the oldest and most traditional Christian communions worldwide, and especially in the US and the West, hardly even bothered to explain what or why we were shutting down. In fact, it seems like they welcomed the break. Think about that for a moment.
Even our Russian hierarchs demonstrated a tragic lack of resolve in many significant cases, and their refusal to either stand up for Christ no matter what, or (if the virus really is that serious) to pastorally and seriously explain to the people that rely on their positions as overseers of the Church why these measures, never taken before in the history of Christianity, are being done now…
You get the idea, I am sure.
It may seem like I am hyper-focused on something that ought not mean that much – religious faith. But the lack of reliance upon the God of the Christians* and obedience to his will is at the center of all of this.
Such is the state we are all suffering from due to decades of luxury and comfortable living, where praying to the Lord for a better job or a nice car was all most of us ever really did. We created much of a secular paradise with our technology and distractions and we continue to do so. This is not likely to change, but all of our fantastic technology and luxury has come with a price – the softening and erosion of the kind of faith in God that actually sustains our existence, more than food and more than drink.
Reliance upon God is what gives people the courage to stand up to tyranny and oppose it, because they know that there was something better that should be pursued. Faith kept generations of Americans free because we understood that liberty is a gift from our Creator, and not something we deserve, but nevertheless, cherish, even to giving our lives to defend it.
Faith gave Mahatma Gandhi (while not a Christian, nevertheless followed Christian teachings very closely) the resolve to face off and defeat the British Empire without firing a shot. The faith of Christian believers facing the lions in the Collisseum led to the Roman Empire becoming Christian, and the longest-lasting empire on earth (until they forsook true Christianity). The ending of slavery came about because of people of faith like Abraham Lincoln and the fulfillment of freedom for all came through the faith followed by Dr. Martin Luther King.
Now, our faith is so soft that people are afraid to go to a church to pray. Now, the pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church cannot even defend the teachings of St Paul or Christ himself, upon which the 2000 year history of the Church rests, and instead insists on taking steps to normalize the “abomination” of homosexual relations. Within the Roman Church, this ought to have never passed the first syllable. But the Catholic News Service offered nary a whimper of protest.
The struggle going on in the United States is not the only front in this war, but at this time, I believe it is the pivot point of the conflict. Of all the things the US brags about being “first and best” at, this is not something worthy of pride – our rejection of how we came to be a great nation, and our abandonment of the principles that made America truly the most amazing nation on earth through most of its short history.
The world will certainly go on without the United States as a force for good, but it may suffer if the powers that want to control America decide to deploy her vast power for their purposes.
Donald Trump probably looks remarkably frail in light of all that you have read. But he stands for the country as it was founded, and despite many errors and secularist ways he himself has, I have never seen an American leader stand in defense of Christianity like he does, nor of life, nor of those things that are good, beautiful, honest, holy, pure and true.
He ain’t perfect, as many would say, but he is who God has given us, and he is on the right side.
* – This may seem an unpleasant and sectarian comment to say that Christianity is the faith that actually matters in terms of keeping the world safe. However, history bears this out. The Christian Age was the brightest in the history of the world, whether people living in it were Christian or not. Examine history for yourself, and you will see that this is undeniable.
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