Dakota Beacon

We hear it so often that we no longer believe it or take it seriously, but if we do not confront the evil now - recognize it and confront it and defeat it NOW we will lose forever what we thought was our birthright - freedom.  The Australians have already lost this - long ago, one must believe - and now they will lose everything else.  Even their children.  This is knocking on our door right now.  If we don't put an absolute stop to it now, it will be kicking in our door.  And I am not being figurative here but literal.

Suddenly the picture has changed.  Throughout the past year we have seen our basic rights as American citizens, even just as human beings, eroded by governments, acting on behalf of greedy pharmaceutical companies and their accomplices.  The pharmaceutical companies are the real government in the shadows.  If it sounds evil and you are apprehensive,  you would be right to feel this.  We are under immediate threat of losing everything we built over nearly 250 years - a quarter of a millenium.  In a matter of a few months this has been stripped away.  We will inevitably lose the ability to restore freedom  if we do not recognize the threat and act accordingly.  It really IS up to us!  We GIVE these people the authority they use to oppress us.  I have linked two items - please don't fail to look at them.  One comes from the CDC's own website.  It is CHILLING.  The other is a man who thinks he has the solution (he doesn't) and has single-handedly taken it upon himself to re-write the Constitution.  Sounds like a plan, right?  A plan to destroy our last hope of restoring our freedom.  And I use the term "restore" advisedly, for we have already lost our freedom - we must now wrest it back from the fist of those "authorities" who have seized it.   

Cancer! The very word evokes dread. By qualifying the word with an adjective, the seriousness of the disease seems less severe. “Skin cancer” sounds much less threatening. Maybe the fact that skin cancer is visible and not hidden within the body makes it seem less threatening.

I speak with familiarity on this topic, so let me offer words of encouragement to would-be skin cancer casualties by recounting my own experiences. I have had many basal cells, some squamous, and one pre-melanoma cancers removed by excisional and micrographic surgery. Additionally I have had many pre-cancerous skin treatments in an attempt to remove the damaged skin before becoming cancerous. These treatments included chemical eradication as well as photodynamic therapy, freezing, and electrodessication.

Observing today’s power-mad politicians, increasingly above the law and having no respect for it, it could occur to one that maybe, just perhaps, their behavior might be a tad better if they believed there was accountability in the next world that no amount of political clout could forestall.

As for Christianity’s critics, know that faith will certainly seem like a snake-handler’s domain when you have a snake-handler’s understanding of it.  

Robert Burns referred to such a "parcel o' rogues in a nation", who had bought and sold Scotland out for English gold.  It's hard to imagine what he would think of leadership which has either engineered or stood by idly and watched the decimation of America's next generation and our future.  There are hardly words for it.

Last week Labor strongman Richard Trumka died unexpectedly at age 72 of a heart attack.  It leaves a lot of us with many unanswered questions.

There was too much to discuss today for one story, so here are three.  They are inter-connected, of course, but each provides evidence of how far down the drain we have gone and how greed and evil catch up to the evil and greedy.  Perhaps it will be instructive.  Those who might benefit know who they are.  Common sense is increasingly uncommon.  North Dakota is not immune either - North Dakotans have prided themselves on their grasp of essential common sense and yet look at the creature that is representing the state in the U.S. Senate.  What a joke.  We don't wish him ill, we wish him a return to good.  Sadly, it appears he will not find that in Washington.  Right now he is doing harm.  As to the other items, they, like everything, are also tiresomely related to "COVID".  The CDC has usurped the U.S. Congress and Senate in its growing totalitarianism.  Oh, and Richard Trumka has succumbed to his own advice apparently.  It will happen to all who have acceded to the poison injection eventually.  Maybe the weekend will bring some relief.  

"The important thing is to never stop questioning."  Thus said Albert Einstein, whose questioning brought about a great deal of light in the world of science.  America should be down with that.  America is a nation which was founded on the freedom to question, to take a dissenting view, to express an opinion with which others may disagree.  Today's America bears more resemblance to the old Soviet Union, where Pasternak's Nobel Prize winning novel, Dr. Zhivago, was banned in his home country and had to be smuggled out to the West.  Pasternak had a family, so he was vulnerable.  He was forced to reject his Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958.  Today we look a lot like the Soviet Union of 1958, which was about five years after the death of Stalin - Nikita Kruschev's Russia.  Yesterday Dr. Joseph Mercola announced that following a purge conducted by the New York Times, no less, he would be forced to delete 25 years' worth of articles, interviews, discussion panels - information on natural health and natural medicine.  Unfortunately for Mercola and 11 others similarly singled out by the New York Times article, the First Amendment is no longer in force.  We have allowed our freedom to slip through our fingers.  We have been so weak minded that we allowed the ruse of a virus "pandemic" to destroy our Constitution and subvert our institutions.  Our medical profession is a shambles now, with robotic practitioners doing Big Pharma's evil deeds for them, the New York Times and virtually all other media, commercial and social, is censoring us and the experts.  The first thing we need to do is to recognize where we are and begin the long trek back to freedom.  Denial gets us nowhere.

Anyone monitoring the Congressional sausage factory? Probably not. Probably no more so than monitoring the national debt. Who can fathom these leviathans? One may as well ignore them because the majority in the House and Senate who we the people elected certainly ignore them.

Otherwise, in case you are a wee bit curious, there are two – count them – two infrastructure bills moving through Congress. Strange. Why two? Well, first let’s talk about what’s in them. That might shed light as to why two bills.

Such pork. Such unbelievable pork. Pork as far as the eye can see. How can Bernie Sanders and The Squad support such pork?

Sharpen up, folks. Rebuilding America is double-speak for reshaping America from what it used to be into something quite, well – alien. If you get my drift.

It’s amazing how many people are trying to tear down present glories in the name of a past none of them have any interest in going back to. Bringing this to mind is the underreported story of the Canadian church burnings, acts inspired by the claim that Christian-run “residential schools” abused, brutalized and murdered American Indian children.

I investigated this story recently, and it won’t surprise many readers that the Enemedia have completely misrepresented it. And while I covered it here and will have a long magazine essay on the topic go to print this week, the shorter version is this: Insofar as Indian children were forcibly taken to the schools, it was the result of Canadian government policy; many (in fact most, it appears) Indian parents of school pupils wanted their children to attend; and some ex-students describe their years at the institutions as their lives’ best.

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America and the world are descending into a tyranny by Big Pharma.  This is not hyperbole.  This is cold, hard fact.  The pharmaceutical giants control our governments, they control our employers and through them, they control our lives.  They demand the very power of life and death over each of us.  If we do not bend our knee, if we do not submit to a violation of our body, if we do not accept unacceptable risks in order to obey them we are denied our livelihoods, our careers, our education, our bread, our recreation and now even life-saving medical treatment.  It must be stopped.  Big Pharma must be ended.  Nothing they have given us has been worth it.

There is a lot wrong with the world today.  There are a lot of issues screaming for our attention.  But none is as crucial to our survival as the matter of these "vaccines".  We need to stop the madness.  When a government goes totally off the rails it is imperative that its people stop the damn train.  This is the case here now.  It's not unique - it's happened before - but it might be unique in scope.  Never has such a massive attack on the human race itself ever been launched.  Every employer who is demanding an unconscionable deed by an employee, every governmental official that is backing it up and promoting it, every "health official" who is lying to us, every two-bit profiteer who is hauling in the profits from the misery being wreaked upon us all, they all need to be held to account.  The price for their behavior on our end has been horrendous.  It must be equally meted out to them.  The hour is late  Many have already died or been grievously harmed by these rotten, nasty injections of nanobots.  The whole virus gag was imposed on us so that they could then promote, coerce and then finally attempt to force these "vaccines" on us - the actual motive for the whole thing.  Now it is time for them to pay their bill.

What kind of leader in a free country tells the people they have no right to know the truth?  Who tells us that he's satisfied with the outcome and we don't need to be heard?  What kind of person thinks it's ok to shoot and kill an unarmed American citizen, a veteran, in fact, and that there need be no hearing on the matter?  What kind of person represents North Dakota in the United States Senate?  What a shame.

More than a year ago I predicted that there would need to be an alternative to ham-handed punishment of landlords as part of the response to "Covid-19".  Back then we all still believed that this was, in fact, a real virus and a real threat.  It's been shown to be more like the phantom, the monster under the bed that isn't there, but has been used to control us and modify our behavior.  Unfortunately the Svengalis who are attempting to control everything and everybody, haven't got the solution worked out to have people living indoors this winter.  Evictions, we are told, are now imminent as government giveaway plans are due to run out.  This government - whether under Trump or Biden - deals in human misery and control.  Some are wondering why, with increasing evidence of the harm done by his "warp speed" "vaccine", Trump continues to tout it.  Maybe the obvious answer is the correct one - he has never been anything other than just another big government hack.  Maybe you have another answer.  In the meantime, the suffering and dying continues and the villain is not "Covid-19".  It is our government, our "leaders", the developers and profiteers of a corrupt "vaccine" program.  As a gentleman from Serbia observed once, "Ve are de sheeps."

Slavery as an ancient despicable practice and racial branding as an equally despicable and flippant epithet (racism) are not equivalent. Throughout history Africans enslaved Africans; Europeans enslaved Europeans; Asians enslaved Asians; American Indians enslaved American Indians. If one person does not accept another person by choice for whatever reason, chalk it up to malignant individual choice via human nature. Attitudes can only change from the inside out. Compulsory change from the outside in by political force only leads to despotic re-education and domestic cold war. Using slavery to redress individual racial grievances will not end well

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While MLB officials have been vocal about moving the All-Star Game out of Atlanta to Denver for the 2021 season over Georgia's new election laws, they have been extremely quiet about "the abuses in nations like Cuba and China." Paul Kengor writes, "In the case of Cuba, the hypocrisy is even worse. Not only does Cuba obviously have far more stringent voting restrictions than Georgia or anywhere in America or the entire Western Hemisphere—being a communist dictatorship—but baseball players in Cuba have no wage and labor rights."

As the time approaches when we will be learning the truth about the "vaccines" there is an increasingly frantic push to get as many Americans vaccinated as possible before that happens.  The pro-vaccination contingent is under siege at the moment - there are criminal cases being built against them on an international scale, so even though there is no civil recourse in our courts there may be a new Nuremberg trial in the offing.  Dr. Fauci, the author of our woes and its major beneficiary so far is on the verge of being indicted for his part in the nefarious and murderous plot, while the vaccines themselves are doing their job of killing their victims.  As these matters build to a head, Americans are being prodded, bribed, pushed and coerced into forfeiting their health and futures just to get along.  Because if they resist long enough they may be spared a terrible consequence - for when the truth is out in plain sight the pro-vaccination element will have much to fear.

Suspected widespread voter fraud during the 2020 election thrives. Deniers are either misinformed or willfully engage in cover-up. Those recognizing election fraud are shamed as kooks and conspiracy theorists. Boiled down for brevity, a wide population distrusts the election process. The reasons for this distrust must be investigated. Demeaning half the voters is no solution.

To agree or disagree about massive election fraud in 2020 matters not at this point. We must be concerned when half the voters believe large-scale fraud handed the election to Biden and Harris.

If there is one dramatic difference between America of 2019 and America of 2021, it must certainly be the censorship.  This kind of thinking is so foreign to the American spirit and experience that we are somewhat in shock.  It needs to be ended now - there is simply no excuse or pretext compelling enough that we answer it by dissolving our Constitution and surrendering our rights.

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Is the public becoming addicted to fear?  We have to wonder, when people already "vaccinated" still cling to their masks, when they rail against anyone who wishes to avoid the "vaccine", when they panic at news of a "Delta Variant".   Fear can be a good thing.  It can help us to avoid danger.  But when we allow it to steer us without reason, when we abandon rational thought in deference to it we are becoming dysfunctional.  Our society seems to be taking this path now.  The sensationalism of the initial "pandemic" pronoucement has morphed into a chronic state of dread.  I know of people who are withdrawing entirely from society because they are so afraid.  We should be afraid of those things, however, which reason tells us are dangerous, which available data warns us away from.  But in our currently upside-down world, those who are issuing grave warnings in the interest of public safety and survival are being suppressed, ignored, in some cases ridiculed and even persecuted.  Those who don't believe the "vaccines" are safe are losing jobs, friends, income, the pleasures of life and society - they are being at best shunned.  Something has to give, and soon.

Envision Speaker of the House Donald J. Trump sitting behind President Joseph Robinette Biden as Biden delivers the 2023 State of the Union speech to a joint session of Congress. Imagine further Trump’s facial expressions each time Biden utters one of his incredulous remarks, commits a faux pas, or whispers untruths fed him by his staff. Unbecoming? No more so than Speaker Pelosi tearing up President Trump’s State of the Union remarks on the House dais.

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hat is our primary calling in life? Is it work? A family? Success? In this article, Dr. James Thrasher, coordinator of the IFF working group on calling, details a visit to his parents’ gravesite and the many thoughts that have swirled in his mind since that day. Thrasher asks, “If the dead could speak, what would they say? No, actually, what piercing shout of absolute wisdom would come forth from beneath the marble headstones?”

The debt is currently so large that if the entire wealth of the upper 50% of income earners were confiscated the debt still could not be paid. Soaking the rich in a liberal socialist way is not the solution and certainly has unintended consequences. Carcasses of nations who tried this approach in the 20^th century and failed litter the historical landscape. Too bad millennials can’t see the old Soviet Union as an example of such failure.

As fewer and fewer people carry more and more of the burden, reality will force a correction. Those few who carry the greatest burden will escape paying taxes through tax-free investments or moving money into investments overseas. The remaining citizens will have to suffer through the correction. By default, that correction will have to cut Social Security, Medicare, and probably government pensions. Even now demographics argue that a reality check will come sooner than later.

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Today, a consuming awareness of the here and now without regard for our Christian heritage yields an incomplete appreciation of liberty. Attack and remove the premise of an argument, and the argument cannot stand. In today’s American culture, marginalizing Christianity and replacing the Biblical premise of liberty with a secular premise of socialism or Critical Race Theory may well result in reverting once again to imposing external government.

Every generation must determine for itself the precepts by which it will live. Some generations are up to the challenge. Some are not.

Is the U.S. economy set for slow growth for the rest of this decade? According to President Biden’s team, the answer is yes. In this article, economist Dr. Mark Hendrickson examines a recent announcement from the Biden administration and argues that many challenges are coming down the road.