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Presentation: Dr. Mercola: The [Bill] Gates of Hell Lays Out Plan for Global Takeover. If this is approved, health remedies may be the same for everyone everywhere… eliminating individualized medicine by providing blanket rulings from an inept and corrupt institution for how a given threat is to be addressed, and how decisions about when to suspend civil liberties to "prevent spread" of an illness are made.
The World Health Organization is attempting to seize control over global pandemic monitoring and response and, ultimately, all health care decisions. Bill Gates intends to play a key part in this takeover. He's building a pandemic response team for the WHO, dubbed the "Global Epidemic Response & Mobilization" or GERM Team, which will have the authority to monitor nations and make pandemic response decisions, such as when to suspend civil liberties to prevent spread of an illness
The globalist cabal plans to seize control through biosecurity governance, and they're attempting to do this using two different avenues. If we fail to fight off both attacks, we'll end up under totalitarian governance.
*The first attack comes in the form of amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR), which are currently being voted on by the World Health Assembly. These amendments will strip member nations of their sovereignty and give the WHO unprecedented power to restrict your medical freedoms and civil liberties in the name of biosecurity. Unless rejected by membership vote scheduled for May 28th, and/or during a following 6 month "grace period," they will become binding law in November 2022 for member countries.
*The second attack comes through a new international Pandemic Treaty with the WHO. They intend to eliminate individualized medicine and provide blanket rulings for how a given threat is to be addressed, and this can only result in needless suffering…not to mention the absolute loss of individual freedom.
Gates GERM Team
Gates is building a pandemic response team for the WHO, dubbed the "Global Epidemic Response & Mobilization" or GERM Team. This team will be made up of thousands of "disease experts" under [the corrupt] WHO's purview, and will monitor nations and make decisions about when to suspend civil liberties to prevent spread of an illness [in accordance with their agenda to usher in a one-world government].
Gates' Destructive Greed
Once again, we see Gates is basically paying the WHO to dictate what the world must do to make him a ton of money, because he's always heavily invested in the very "solutions" he presents to the world. During COVID, we basically traded false protection against one thing for a multitude of other ills that are far worse in the long run. Now, Gates and the WHO want to make this disastrous strategy the norm.
The Globalists' Double-Prong Attack on National Sovereignty
1] In summary, the IHR amendments establish "a globalist architecture of worldwide health surveillance, reporting and management," Robert Malone, Ph.D., warns, and we the public have no say whatsoever in the matter.
2] The second attempt to gain global control is through an international Pandemic Treaty with the WHO. In summary, the WHO wants to make its pandemic leadership permanent. It can then extend its power into the health care systems of every nation, and eventually implement a universal or "socialist-like" health care system as part of The Great Reset.
Are You Ready to Cede All Authority to the Gates of Hell-Led Group?
In closing, Gates' GERM team would be the ones with the authority to declare pandemics and coordinate global response. Are you ready to cede all authority over your life, health and livelihood to the likes of Gates? I hope not. https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2022/05/25/gates-who-global-takeover.aspx?ui=af0bbbc50b29ff2b92fa2ce0b86d9a54940ff9b06ef3774a859e9cb7ecd7de08&sd=20210830&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20220525&mid=DM1177629&rid=1500862248
Brethren…The following 2 articles are so critical, so important, in understanding where we are headed and how to prepare for it.
WHAT I HAVE BEEN DILIGENTLY AND URGENTLY WARNING ABOUT AS A WATCHMAN OF THE LORD FOR THE PAST 20 MONTHS IS NOW BEING LAUNCHED. YOU NEED TO BE FULLY AWARE OF THIS, AND AVOID IT LIKE THE PLAGUE. IF YOU FAIL TO HEED THIS WARNING AND GIVE IN TO THIS… YOU WILL BE IMPRISONED IN THEIR SYSTEM, AND YOU WILL HAVE LOST YOUR FREEDOM FOREVER. IT WILL BE IRREVERSIBLE.
Presentation: Dr. Mercola: The Great Reset's 5G Cyborg Ecosystem. Is Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Part of 'The Plan?' The Great Reset is moving forward at lightning speed, and along with it, two new threats: war and storms. The storms have already started, and so has war. The heated rhetoric, threats, and terror all make sense when you see how they fit into 'The Plan.' Once you realize what their plan is, it is easy to see what is going to happen next. Remember: the COVID fraud was just the beginning. The conspirators have only just started their campaign to take total global control.
The Great Reset is a globalist plan that is moving forward at lighting speed. The COVID-19 pandemic was part and parcel of that plan, but to really fulfill the technocrats' ambitions, a war of some kind was likely needed. They need chaos, mass casualties and financial chaos in order to create the desperation necessary for people to give up their freedoms and give in to tyrannical control. The World Economic Forum (WEF) has for years promoted the implementation of digital identification, and ensuring that everyone on the planet has a legal, "digital identity" is part of the United Nations' 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. There's a big difference, however, between "identity" and "identification." "Identification" refers to documents that prove you are who you say you are. A "digital identity" is NOT merely a form of identification. Your "identity" is who you actually are in every facet of the expression of your everyday life…what you think, what you say, what you do…and a Digital Identity system will keep a permanent record of ALL your choices and behaviors, 24/7. These data can then be used against you. The WEF has clearly stated that our digital identity will determine "what products, services and information we are "permitted" to access… or conversely, what is closed off to us." YOU NEED TO READ THAT AGAIN…our digital identity will determine "what products, services and information we are permitted to access… or conversely, what is closed off to us." THEY DECIDE.
The recent weather storms in the UK led to immediate closures of schools and railways ("just in case a tree fell down and hurt someone"…or maybe the sky is falling) and the halting of supermarket deliveries. All this was patently and intentional overkill to purposefully do more damage to society and the economy. We have to remember that population control is one of the purposes of EVERYTHING that is happening.
Wars are coming too…as they threatened some time ago. We're clearly heading for another long Cold War with Russia and China on one side and America and Europe on the other.
It is difficult to avoid the feeling that Schwab is behind the scenes pulling strings and if, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the West does decide to intervene militarily, it will be because the conspirators WANT it to happen and see it as a way to further damage the global economy and cause a few million deaths.
Remember that RUINING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY is an essential step on the route to the Great Reset. The rhetoric coming from Washington and London certainly suggest that both Biden and Johnson are desperate to exacerbate the situation, cause more terror, push up energy prices, and terrify everyone.
Total Control Through Digital IDs
"Convenience" is a key incentive the Technocrats are using for their promotion of digital IDs. With a central digital ID on your phone (and eventually an implanted chip), you'd be able to do everything from checking into a doctor's office to securing a mortgage…[for the price, of course, of surrendering all your rights and freedoms and becoming their slave]. They also claim nearly a billion people have no legal identity and therefore cannot open a bank account, get a loan or vote. But is that really justification enough to foist digital IDs on everyone, whether you have a real need for it or not? No, it's not about need. It's about coercing the public through "convenience." It's about them getting absolute control over us.
Financial Transparency…Who's It Really For?
Anyone who has looked into the WEF's plans for mankind knows that their propaganda rhetoric is pure hogwash. A system of financial transparency is NEVER going to be used to give regular folk insight into an organization's financial dealings. It will be used to give the ruling technocracy insight into our own financial transactions…yours and mine…but most assuredly NOT THEIRS.
The Canadian Freedom Convoy and prime minister Justin Trudeau's invocation of the Emergencies Act offered a rare glimpse into the power they want…and intend to exercise…over your finances. They want to be able to single out every single person that contributes to an anti-establishment cause, even if it's just a few measly dollars, and then seize everything you have in retribution. Trudeau had to invoke extraordinary emergency powers to do that. In the future, however, the ruling cabal want to be able to do it automatically and continuously. Make no mistake, the digitization of your identity and finances means they'll have the power to throttle your finances if you "misbehave." In a worst-case scenario, they'll have the power to turn you into a non-entity, locking you out of your identity credentials altogether as well as every penny you have to your name.
I really cannot overstate the danger of digitizing and linking together all of your personal records. As noted by the WEF itself, our digital identity "determines what products, services and information we are permitted to access…or conversely, what is closed off to us." They, as a despot, unilaterally decide. Doesn't that clearly tell you everything you need to know?
Understanding the Scope of 'Digital Identity'
Your digital identity can [and will] be used against you in the implementation of a Great Reset. Their intended use by authoritarian governments is to profile and police citizen behavior under a social credit system…as China already does. The idea behind digital identities is simple enough. All the data collected from every online interaction you make with the private and public sectors goes into forming your digital identity. This data can include your personal:
*Search history;
*Social media interactions;
*Online profiles;
*Device location;
*Medical records;
*Financial ledgers;
*Legal documents;
*And much more…literally unlimited.
By connecting your every online/offline interaction, the WEF envisions your digital identity being linked to:
*Every click, comment, and share you make on social media;
*Every financial transaction you record;
*Your location and where you travel;
*What you buy and sell;
Your personal health data and medical records;
The websites that you visit;
*Your participation in civic functions (voting, taxes, benefits, etc.);
*How much energy you consume;
Thus, your digital identity becomes a microscopically detailed account of your social behavior, which can then be policed. There will be a class system where people are given access to privileged information, products, and/or services based on the data recorded in their digital identities."
Every last thing you can think of is to be connected to your digital identity…and your behavior, beliefs and opinions will dictate what you can and cannot do within society. It will unlock doors where someone like you is welcome, and lock the ones where you're not welcome. If you think the idea of vaccine passports is insane, wait until your access to critical infrastructure and services is dependent not just on your vaccination status, but also what books you've bought, what ideas you've shared, and who you've given money or emotional support to.
The Difference Between Identification and Digital Identity
There's a big difference between "identity" and "identification." "Identification" refers to documents that prove you are who you say you are. A "digital identity" is NOT merely a form of identification. As you can see from the short-lists presented above, it's much, much more. Your "identity" is who you actually are, and a "digital identity" will keep a permanent record of your choices and behaviors…EVERYTHING you do and say…24/7. Step out of line, and every social media interaction in which you partake, every penny you trade, and every move you make can [and will] be used against you." Indeed, having access to everyone's digital identity is the key to successful manipulation and control of the global population.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution
People aren't merely confused about what digital identity actually entails. Most also don't understand the intended scope of the "Fourth Industrial Revolution." Schwab and his technocratic allies dream of turning mankind into cyborgs with limited or no capacity to free will. FREE WILL IS OVER. The inability to comprehend or accept just how twisted and power hungry these individuals are is a psychological hurdle we need to overcome. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is really just another name for transhumanism. Schwab himself has stated that "the Fourth Industrial Revolution will lead to a fusion of our physical, our digital, and our biological identities." Beyond your own "enhanced" 5G cloud-connected self, the WEF foresees a near future in which everyone's digital identity is connected to each other through an "Internet of Bodies" (IoB).
The Internet of Bodies
In its 2020 briefing document on the IoB, the WEF describes the IoB as an ecosystem of "an unprecedented number of sensors," including emotional sensors, "attached to, implanted within, or ingested into human bodies to monitor, analyze and even modify human bodies and behavior." Every new technology, every new surveillance opportunity they bring forward, is to further this aim… to enable a surveillance state of unprecedented intrusion and consequence.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has taken the notion of the IoB to create an Orwellian surveillance state that pegs the digital identities of its 'netizens' to a social crediting system. From 'deadbeat debtor' contact tracing apps that alert citizens with a warning whenever they come with 500 meters of someone who is in debt…to the DNA phenotyping of over 1 million Uyghurs sent to 're-education camps'…the CCP is a living example of some of the horrible ways in which digital identities can be exploited.
We've Been Played Like Fiddles
The shocking reality is that the COVID pandemic was not an "act of God." It was part of the plan, like everything else. In 2018 and 2019, this global cabal planned, practiced and coordinated their responses during pandemic tabletop exercises. The solutions concocted during these pandemic scenarios "were in lockstep with The Great Reset." In other words, all of the pandemic countermeasures we've all lived through for the past two years had one goal, and it had nothing to do with saving lives. It had to do with furthering The Great Reset goals, which require top-down governance.
The only way this makes sense is by accepting that the technocratic cabal, which for decades has been secretly pulling levers behind the curtain like the Wizard of Oz, WANT economies to fail. They WANT them to fail so they can replace them with a new all-digital system where they have access to your wallet and can control your behavior through financial penalties for "undesired behaviors"…behaviors contrary to their agenda.
They want small businesses out of the way, so their monopolies are all that's left.
They want mass deaths, because robots and artificial intelligence are taking over the bulk of currently available jobs.
The plan is to institute a universal wage, so the fewer people there are, the better.
They want frightened, uneducated and socially inept children because they're easier to mold into obedient non-thinkers who will accept things like emotional trackers and AI that tells you when to take a pill.
They don't care about what you want, because to them you're not even human. They are human; you're just a commodity, and they've figured out how to profit from every move you make, and then some.
All this talk about the "common good, fairness and equity," that's just PR. Technocrats' idea of fairness and equity is everyone being at the same level of destitute. As declared by the WEF, "by 2030, you will own nothing." Who then will own everything? They will.
Is a Cyber Attack Next?
We all know, but still pay insufficient attention to, the frightening scenario of a comprehensive cyber attack, which would bring a complete halt to the power supply, transportation, hospital services, our society as a whole. The COVID-19 crisis would be seen as a small disturbance in comparison to a major cyber attack." It's not unreasonable to suspect that a major cyberattack is being planned by the very same people who claim they want to prevent it.
Way Of Escape
I believe the answer is to refuse any and all "solutions" coming from this global cabal, en masse, and to build our own parallel societies and industries…a "reset," but one that we actually want and not the one they've planned for us: https://youtu.be/wJr7awWGWAo It won't be easy, but the alternative is the destruction of humanity. https://www.dropbox.com/s/fjp7p2y8vf0voxx/15-08-5g-cyborg-ecosystem-pdf.pdf?dl=0
Presentation: Dr. Mercola: Catherine Austin Fitts: THE PLAN FOR A GLOBAL SYSTEM OF SLAVERY. The transhumanist agenda is part and parcel of technocracy. The basic idea is to insert biosensors into everyone, which Fitts says can be equated to an operating system, which is then connected to the cloud and other digitized systems, such as the health care and financial systems.
A slavery system, steeped in the ideologies of transhumanism and technocracy, is being created right before our eyes…and the redefinition of "normal" are all part of a planned global governance system that will end sovereignty and individual rights.
How do you market and implement a financial system that nobody would want if they understood its full ramifications…a change so huge that it not only would mean the end of currency as we know it, but a total revision of sovereignty and individual rights? Catherine Austin Fitts describes the complicated, "messy" plan to use the current health care "crisis" and contrived "global warming" to engineer a total remake of world currencies and our entire way of life. Comparing the move to herding sheep to a slaughterhouse, Fitts explains how the pandemic is lining people up to depend on their governments for protection from an invisible enemy (COVID-19) and then using fear to keep people from living what once was considered a normal life.
The End of Currencies
The central banks are currently working to bring a new economic transaction system online. This would be CBDCs, aka Central Bank Digital Currencies.
The pandemic also allows for the implementation of new, more invasive surveillance systems. If you can get people to do their work and education online, you can listen to everything they're saying. Already, pandemic measures have severely limited people's ability to congregate and share information face-to-face. Internet censorship by Big Tech has decimated information sharing even further. Ultimately, what they're trying to do is get people to buy into a solution before they understand the full ramifications of doing so.
The Central Bank Digital Currency
So, what is this new system? Importantly, it's a transaction system that is not based on currency in the way we know it. It's a social control system. By removing paper currency and replacing it with an all-digital central bank digital currency (CBDC), your ability to engage in transactions can be turned on and off at their own discretion. There's general agreement among experts that most major countries will implement CBDCs within the next two to four years. Many assume these new CBDCs will be very similar to existing cryptocurrencies, but that's not the case.
Everything you buy and sell will be monitored, and "punishment" can be meted out if a transaction, your behavior, or even your thoughts are deemed "undesirable" [contrary to their agenda]…as is already being done in China. The transhumanist agenda is also part of this. Through the use of injections or some other means of getting biosensors into you, your actual physical body will be connected, literally, to the financial system.
What Have the Lockdowns Achieved?
The purpose behind the lockdowns were to dramatically centralize economic and political control. In short, the aim of the lockdowns was to make people dependent on government aid by destroying their ability to earn an independent income.
A War Like No Other
Without doubt, this is an economic war on the working class. Since the beginning of the pandemic around March 2020, the greatest transfer of wealth EVER in the history of mankind has taken place, from the middle class to the wealthiest among us. "Never before has America seen such an accumulation of wealth in so few hands."
"I would describe COVID-19 as…the institution of the control necessary to convert the planet from democratic processes to technocracy," Fitts says. "What we're watching is a change in control, and the engineering of new control systems. Think of this as a coup d'état." Essentially, the virus will be blamed for all our economic devastation, from the erosion of our social security funds to the empty coffers in the treasury, and the "answer" [that will be foisted on citizens worldwide] will be to transition into this technocratic control system disguised as "a new, more convenient financial transaction system."
Riots as a Real Estate Acquisition Plan
In her interview, Fitts also explains research done by her team that shows the rioting that occurred in 2020 primarily occurred in "opportunity zones" in cities that have a central bank location. "When I first saw how all the buildings and businesses destroyed were right at the bottom of the "opportunity zone," I started to laugh and I said, I was assistant secretary of housing. That's not a riot pattern, that's a real estate acquisition plan." Essentially, by shutting down private businesses in the "opportunity zones," and then looting and literally burning them to the ground in some cases, those businesses and buildings can be bought up for next to nothing. "It's called disaster capitalism," Fitts says. 34 of the 37 U.S. cities that have a federal reserve bank branch were destroyed by riots. Why is this important? Because now that real estate can be bought on the cheap, and be rebuilt with smart technology…a necessity for a well-functioning technocratic system…built in.
From Freedom to Digital Slavery
The transhumanist agenda is part and parcel of technocracy. The basic idea is to insert biosensors into everyone whereby you have 24/7 surveillance, which Fitts says can be equated to an operating system, which is then connected to the cloud and other digitized systems, such as the health care and financial systems. "You're basically talking about being able to digitally identify and track people in connection with their financial transactions. So, it's a world of zero privacy. But more importantly…if you then institute one or more central bank "cryptos" [CBDCs], you're now talking about a system where every central bank in the world can shut you off individually from transacting if they don't like the way you're "behaving" [actively opposing their agenda]. So, transhumanism and technocracy go hand-in-hand. I would describe this as a slavery system. We're talking about shifting out of freedom where we have freedom to roam and say what we want, to a complete control system 24/7."
The technocratic view of humanity is very different from the view most of us have of what it means to be human. Most of us believe humans are sovereign beings who are free by Divine Authority. This is the view enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. Technocracy, on the other hand, views humans as a natural resource, no different from an oil deposit or livestock, and they are to be used as such. Humans may be more or less efficient than a robot, for example, depending on the job at hand, and efficiency trumps humanity. The technocrats don't even think of themselves as being part of humanity anymore. They see themselves as separate and superior to the rest of us.
We're talking about a world where most people are under 24/7 surveillance, and then their financial incentives and their financial power are related to how "well-behaved" they are [China already functions in this manner]. For the most part, once fully implemented, the control system will be fully automated. If you miss your vaccination date, for example, the system will know and access to banking can easily be cut off until it registers that you got your shot.
Transparency Is the Answer
If enough people end up understanding what's really going on and what the goal of this "Great Reset" is, they won't be able to implement it. The technocratic elite need us all to passively acquiesce…and that's what the pandemic measures are achieving. We're growing to accept work and travel restrictions. We're growing to accept government telling us where and how we can celebrate holidays, and with whom. All of this would have been unthinkable a mere year ago. But we cannot let this acceptance continue to grow. It's crucial to realize that we are actually the ones financing and helping build the very control system that is meant to enslave us.
We work for companies that are building the system.
We buy products from them, which allows them to generate the needed revenue. "The solution is for everyone to come clean," Fitts says. "You're either for the transhumanist slavery system, or you're for a human system. If you're for a human system, then you're going to have to find a way to make money, and engage socially, in the human system, and stop building a transhuman system.
Don't help the government build Operation Warp Speed.
Don't help [Big Tech] figure out how to inject nanoparticles into your body and hook them up to the cloud.
Don't help Big Ag make and grow GMO foods that are poisoning America.
Don't help the government institute corrupt health crises regulations that are really disaster capitalism, and making billionaires even richer.
Don't help Big Pharma make injections that are poisoning American children to death.
If we want to live free, we now have to act on that wish, carefully reconstructing how we live and interact in order to minimize our contribution to the transhumanist technocratic control system. https://www.dropbox.com/s/nqo61kht349jt6z/11-2-slavery-system-pdf.pdf?dl=0
Following is a powerful message from the pulpit…6th part of a new weekly 10 sermon series by Dr. David Jeremiah…proving that we are currently living in the End Times prophesied in Scripture. I will be posting all the messages in this series as they are presented. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND watching these video presentations.
Sunday 10/24: End Times People…A Biological Prophesy: Dr. David Jeremiah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_lylW-GAH4
The Bible warns there will be the Anti-christ…a man who proclaims to be God…who will unite the world in a one world government, with a one world financial system, and establish a one world religion.
While we cannot predict "the day or the hour," when you put all these components together, it's starting to look even now a lot like the beginnings of the End Times.
He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead as a visible badge to show their allegiance to their infernal lord, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the Beast or the number of his name! [Revelation 13:16-17]
The vaccine mandate with its "VACCINE PASSPORT/DIGITAL ID," without which you won't be able to buy or sell…your kids won't be able to attend school, you will not be allowed to go to work, or go into any store or facility open to the public, or travel anywhere, or attend any sporting events or live entertainment, or to enter movie theaters, or do anything…is the forerunner of, and preparation for, the mark of the Beast.
The GLOBAL RESET with its one world government and one world financial system…now being ushered in through the on-going destruction of the Constitutional Republic of America which stood in the way of the principles and dictates of the Anti-christ…is the preparation of the way for the coming rule and reign of the Anti-christ.
1] Destruction of America: Preparation of the Way For the Anti-christ
There were 5 chilling prophetic dreams posted by Pastor Dana Cornerstone that portrayed the utter destruction of America. I have been writing about this nearly every day for 18 months already, and so the dreams are not really prophesy, they are a confirmation of the Holy Spirit of what is already taking place!
I am going to post one dream each day for the next 5 days; following is the 2nd one. I urge you to watch them and consider them in light of how events have unfolded even to this very hour.
Franklin Dream: Ben Franklin, speaking to God the Father: "I guess we are no longer a Republic." God the Father replied, "No, it's Mine now, as is the whole Earth."
Great Reset. If you don't get a vaccine, you can't work. That is the spirit of Anti-christ in our Country right now. https://youtu.be/RaElA7f9bWw
Lord God Almighty, when Your judgments come upon the Earth…as they are even now…the people of the world learn righteousness. Though God shows grace to the wicked, even so, they still do not learn righteousness; even in a land of uprightness they continue going on doing evil, and regard not the Majesty of the Lord. [Luke 21:26; Isa 26:10]
God has determined by Divine decree that our Nation will be destroyed. "Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat! Those whom God is determined to destroy, He first infatuates." God has Personally stricken the minds of our Nation's leaders with idiocy, so that professing to be wise, they have become fools…utter morons! [Rom 1:22] He has caused their thinking to become utterly confused…just as He had warned…so that they actually believe they are acting in wisdom while they are in reality literally destroying the Nation! You see it unfolding before your very eyes every day! The Lord will cause you to lose your mind in idiocy, and strike you with wild and helpless fear and panic; He will make you become blind and cause your minds and hearts to be confused. [Deut 28:28]
Destruction of America
Brethren…you need to watch this Pastor Dana prophetic dream concerning ominous events that will take place during December, and January. We see all of these things being foreshadowed even now in our everyday news…
Baltic Dry Index dead…no movement of goods, no global trade; ships anchored in ports, nothing moving at sea;
people standing for hours on long food lines;
Nationwide power outages;
people being housed in shelters;
market crashes and yields lost;
Great sadness throughout the land; people seemed very dazed and very confused;
Depression as a creature, choking people, pushing them down;
God's holy remnant shining like little beacons of light and hope in neighborhoods throughout the Nation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPR1cchbkAE&feature=youtu.be
Perhaps God is now forewarning of something worse yet to come, even Nationwide…a cyber attack shutting down our electric grid, or severe food shortages resulting from cargo ships stranded unloaded in our harbors…I don't know; I can't answer that. Even so…This is where I continue to stand. I don't know why God has been exhorting me to continually warn the brethren to be prepared with a supply of food and necessities…but I am not giving up my own provisions at this point in time. I am holding on, and I will wait and see what takes place.
And so I continue to encourage you…Make provision for the physical sustenance of your family and yourself [refer to
https://preservechristianfamily.org/2017/02/26/brace-yourself-prepare/
A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep on going, and suffer for it. [Proverbs 22:3]
The Lord always warns His holy remnant beforehand, so that they will always be prepared and never taken by surprise like the unbelievers and the lukewarm. Make provision for yourself and your family materially, spiritually, and emotionally NOW for what the Lord is warning will take placeso as to not be overwhelmed by a severe scarcity of goods, and thereby spiral into debilitating emotional depression!
Here comes the initial launchings of the Great Reset technocratic enslavement system. DON'T TAKE THE BAIT; THIS IS A TRAP. AVOID THIS LIKE THE PLAGUE. News article: Bank of America: New Zelle QR codes! Scan and pay an easier way. Tap the QR code icon next to the search bar to open your device's camera. Scan their QR code to find them and send money in minutes. It's easy. Plus, you can also share your unique QR code if someone is paying you back.
Beloved…I still hold to these words of warning from the Holy Spirit: "Brace yourself, and tell others that I have warned them to brace themselves, for they are about to see even more shocking things. Ready or not, Nation, here it comes! Brace yourself on My Word and on My promises, and do not rely on your own strength. Do not stop bracing yourselves, and don't look back; the storm will not pass until I, the Lord, stop the storm! Those who refuse to get ready will be wanting in the end."
[Ezekiel 14:12-23: excerpts from Matthew Henry's Commentary] National sins bring National judgments. When virtue is ruined and laid waste every thing else will soon be ruined and laid waste too: When the land sins against Me, when vice and wickedness become epidemical, when the land sins by trespassing grievously, when the sinners have become very numerous and their sins very heinous, when gross impieties and immoralities universally prevail [as has long since been the case now in our own Nation; we have way out-sinned Sodom and Gomorrah], then will I stretch forth My hand upon it, for the punishment of it. The Divine Power shall be vigorously and openly exerted; the judgments shall be extended and stretched forth to all the corners of the land, to all the concerns and interests of the nation. Grievous sins bring grievous plagues.
God has a variety of sore judgments wherewith to punish sinful nations, and He has them all at command and inflicts which He pleases. Pestilence, a dreadful disease, which has sometimes depopulated cities…by it God pours out His fury in blood (that is, in death); the pestilence kills as effectually as if the blood were shed by the sword, for it is poisoned by the disease, the sickness we call it. See how miserable the case of mankind is that lies thus exposed to deaths in various shapes. See how dangerous the case of sinners is against whom God has so many ways of fighting, so that, though they escape one judgment, God has another waiting for them.
Even so, in the places that are most corrupt, and in the ages that are most degenerate, there is a remnant which God reserves to Himself, and which still hold fast their integrity and stand fair for the honour of delivering the land, as the innocent are said to do [Job 22:30] However, when the sin of a people has come to its height, and the Divine decree has gone forth for their ruin, the piety and prayers of the best men shall not prevail with God to end the controversy. We are encouraged, though, to keep our own integrity in times of common apostasy, that, if we do so, we shall be hidden in the day of the Lord's anger.
Son of man, when a land sins against Me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out My hand against it and break its staff of bread and send famine upon it and cut off from it man and beast…or suppose I were to pour out my fury by sending a plague into the land, and the disease killed people and animals alike. As surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were there, they wouldn't be able to save their own sons or daughters! They alone would be saved by their own righteousness. When My judgments come upon the Earth…when I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or when I command locusts to devour the land [as happened last year in Kenya] or when I send a plague among my people [as is happening even now worldwide]…the people of the world learn righteousness. [Ezek 14:13, 19, 20; Isa 26:10]
In that glorious coming Day of the Lord I will proclaim, Surely You are my God; I trusted in You, and You saved me! You are my Lord; I trust You with an unwavering child-like trust! I rejoice and am filled with gladness in Your salvation! Come, children of God…let us sing joyously to our Lord; let us shout aloud to the mighty Rock of our salvation! [Isa 25:9; Ps 95:1]
When our God shall come, even Christ, to set up His Kingdom on the Earth…a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness. Only the redeemed will walk there, and the ransomed of the Lord will return. We will enter Zion with singing, our heads crowned with everlasting joy! Gladness and joy will overtake me, forever free from sorrow and grief! [Isa 35:8-10]
then I counsel you to get alone with God, read the solemn marriage vows you must make to become the bride of Christ and thereby be born-again, https://preservechristianfamily.org/2019/01/21/bride-of-christ/ and with sincerity of heart from within the depths of your being, acknowledge before God, "I DO."
He walks with me and He talks with me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZGa_GQR_PQ
Revelation 11:1-19 [NIV; amplification in italics]
Now was to begin the processes of the actual taking possession of the Earth by our triumphant Redeemer, and the active participation of the now glorified saints in these forthcoming administrations: "Do you not know that the saints will judge the world?" I was given a reed…like a judicial measuring rod, but also like a rod of chastisement…and was told by the Angel of Yahweh, "Go (as the representative of what each and every raptured and glorified saint now in Heaven is likewise commanded) into the Holy City Jerusalem and apply the rod in measure of the temple of God and the altar, and measure ("count" in the NIV) the worshipers there, purging them according to a new canon of regulations, laws, and boundaries. These People, the Jewish Nation, I once again acknowledge and claim as My possession, and they shall be set apart once again and marked off as My chosen people. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. But exclude the outer court…the court of the Gentiles. Do not measure it, because I have rejected it; it has been given over to the Gentiles. They will then be used as an instrument of God's chastisement and purging of His chosen people, and will trample on the Holy City for 42 months, persecuting the measured worshipers there, desecrating the measured altar, and setting up an idol in the very marked place of Yahweh! And so shall it be that I will then give great and extraordinary power to My two witnesses, chosen from among the raptured and glorified saints now in Heaven…Enoch and Elijah, the Tishbite: "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful Day of the Lord." And they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth befitting those terrible judgment times when they shall torment them that dwell upon the Earth…times of relentless calamity and unimaginable burdens of woe! These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands…they themselves both the oil and the source of light, the sole lightbearers to a world on the eve of that Day of Judgment in which the Earth will burn as an oven. They are the ones that had been translated to the presence of Jesus in the heavenly spaces without the intervention of death, and thereby are the anointed who stand before the Lord of the Earth in the present administration of His role and reign as the King of kings, and the Lord of lords. For it is 'not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit', says the Lord of Hosts, working through My two witnesses, that the final restitution of Jerusalem, its temple, its worship, and its system of ordinances will be accomplished, according as I have measured." If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die. These men have power to shut up the sky so that it will not rain during the entire 42 months time they are prophesying; and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the Earth with every kind of plague as often as they want. Thus were they given power to exercise judgment wrath against the great prevailing sin of idol worship, trust in false gods, and sacrilegious desecration of God's temple, and to rebuke the blasphemies of unprincipled government, attesting by the nature of their afflictions the near coming of the Almighty to overwhelm forever these bloody tyrants and all their hosts. To smite the Earth with every plague, as often as they will, and to devour by fire from the breath of their mouth, is the entrusted prerogative of these two witnesses, giving proof to the doomed world by the very breath of their mouth that the devouring wrath of the Almighty is fully kindled, ready to break forth in fiery destruction to all who stand out against His messengers, and is even now ready to be turned into enginery of irresistible destruction to those who still persist in their impieties.
Now when they have finished their assigned period of testimony to the Truth of God and His purposes, resisting the gigantic blasphemies of the final Antichrist, giving to the infatuated world its last awful warning for repentance before the oncoming avalanche of destruction, and maintaining righteousness over and against apostasy and abounding wickedness, the Beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them. Their bodies will lie in the street of the great City, which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. For three and a half days men from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial, in an extraordinary display of fiendishness and resentment so monstrous and unrelenting that it could not be placated even by their death. The inhabitants of the Earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had so tormented those who live on the Earth with the revolting and distressing judgment plagues they were licensed to inflict upon these worshipers of the Beast.
But after the three and a half days of death, a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, resurrected by the power of God, and overwhelming terror struck those who saw them. Then they heard a loud voice from Heaven saying to them, "Come up here." And they went up to Heaven in a cloud, in the same manner as the ascension of their Lord before them, while their enemies looked on in horror and dismay. At that very hour there was a severe earthquake, and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the stunned and deeply convicted survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of Heaven. The second woe has passed; the third woe is coming very soon!
The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in Heaven, a tumultuous outcry of adoring rapture ringing out from the inhabitants of glory, which said: "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign for ever and ever!" And the twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces in overwhelming praise and adoration as their soul-dissolving joy breaks like a sea of thankfulness against the Throne, and they worshiped God, saying: "We give thanks to You, Lord God Almighty, the One Who is and Who was, and Who is now come, because You have taken Your great Power and have now begun to reign, and your kingdom shall never end! The nations were angry; and Your wrath has come. The time has come for judging each and every one of the dead, and for rewarding Your servants the prophets and Your saints and those who reverence Your Holy Name, both small and great…and for destroying those who destroy the Earth." As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will weed out of His Kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Then God's Temple in Heaven was opened, and within His Temple was seen the ark of His covenant, all the covenants of God with His people and all His solemn promises to them treasured away there, setting forth still further the glory of this momentous occasion. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a great hailstorm, heralding the impending breaking forth upon the wicked dwellers of the Earth terrible days of sore scourgings, and afflictions, and unutterable sorrows without end. [Revelation 11:1-19]
He [the False Prophet] was given power to give breath to the image of the first Beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead as a visible badge to show their allegiance to their infernal lord, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark.The mark of the Beast consisted of the two Greek characters that stand for the name of Christ, with a third, the figure of a crooked serpent, put between them (CHXS)…the very name of God's Messiah transformed into a devil sacrament, which is the name of the Beast or the number of his name!
A third angel followed them…preaching and crying a most intense and solemn warning with all the power and eloquence of angels…and said in a loud voice: "If anyone worships the Beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead or on the hand, he, too, will drink of the wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of His wrath!He will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb! And the smoke of their torment rises for ever and ever! There is no rest day or night for those who worship the Beast and his image, or for anyone who receives the mark of his name!"This calls for patient endurance on the part of the saints who obey God's commandments and remain faithful to Jesus, refusing to worship the Beast or to accept his mark upon themselves.
Another Angel came out of the Temple, the Temple in Heaven, this being the Angel of Yahweh Himself, and in His capacity as the Angel of the Temple…the Great High Priest…He too had a sharp sickle. Still another angel, who had charge of the altar-fire…that fire of Divine justice which ever burns against sin and sinners…came forth from the altar of Yahweh's temple on the Earth, and he also called in a loud voice to Him who had the sharp sickle, likewise crying out for vengeance against the Anti-christ as did the first angel from the temple,"Take Your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the Earth's vine, because its grapes of wickedness are ripe to the full for judgment." The Angel swung His sickle on the Earth, gathered the vine of the Earth rooted in the Anti-christ that stands in opposition to the vine of Christ, laden with its grapes that are the children of wickedness, and threw them into the great winepress of God's wrath. They were trampled in the winepress outside the now consecrated and Holy City Jerusalem, in the Valley of Megiddo… Armageddon. The kings of the Earth and of the whole world, and their armies, are utterly consumed…and a river of human blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses' bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia (180 miles)! Thus was brought to a conclusion the great and terrible Day of the Lord, in which God fulfilled His intention to consume all opposition and to take vengeance upon the enemies and usurpers who occupy the Earth…a more detailed account of which is now to follow.
"Mystery Babylon" in the Book of Revelation is America [Rev 17:5], and the prophesy written by John is the utter destruction of America. We are the End Times Nation, the 7th and last of the great world powers throughout history that God has determined to utterly destroy. Six have already been destroyed: Greece, Persia, Babylon, Assyria, Egypt, and Rome. The destruction of America will now usher in the Great Tribulation and the Anti-christ. America has stood in the way of the Anti-christ, and now God, by His Own Divine Decree, has removed and destroyed our Nation…for obvious good reason…and to usher in the End Times of Biblical prophecy.
God is calling a holy remnant to Himself…to personal revival…a holy remnant of His children who will not bow down, who will not shrink back, who will not compromise, who will remain steadfast and immovable in their commitment to follow the Lamb whithersoever He goes. God's holy remnant is called to a life of obedience and suffering, self-sacrifice and self-denial…to walk along the path that Christ Jesus dedicated for us, and to follow in His footsteps as our Forerunner. You cannot become part of My holy remnant without being willing to sacrifice your desire for anyone & all others, and for anything & all else this world has to offer. Obedience is what characterizes the life of My child…obedience continually and unceasingly day and night. You are called to a life of obedience. Obedience is better than sacrifice; rebellion is as sinful as witchcraft, and stubbornness as evil as worshiping idols. [1 Sam 15:22,23]
Then the angel said to me, "Write this down: Blessed are those summoned to the marriage banquet of the Lamb…all true believers who are members of His Universal Church. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with Power and great Glory. And He will send His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect…God's holy people…from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other." And he said to me further, "These are the True Words of God." [Rev 19:9]
Behold, I am coming quickly. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will deprive you of your crown. Everyone who overcomes by means of their faith…I will make a pillar in the Sanctuary of My God. Never again will you leave it. I will write on you the name of My God and you will be a citizen in the city of My God…the new Jerusalem…which will come down out of Heaven from My God; I will also write on you My Own new name.
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SPECIAL DISPLAY CARD – GRAF ZEPPELIN (LZ-127) POSTAGE STAMP – NIGER
This is an interesting display card showing the Graf Zeppelin (LZ-127) flying over a mountain. The large-format postage stamp measures 4 1/8″ x 5." It is for 500 Francs from the République du Niger. The stamp has a special cancellation, dated 1976. The display card measures 1 1/2″ x 2 1/2." It shows the many cities the Graf Zeppelin visited on her world voyages. Included are Rio de Janeiro, Cairo, London, Séville, Spain, Rome, Berlin, New York, and Tokyo.
U.S. / GERMANY – ENVELOPE – STAMPED – FLOWN ON FIRST USA-TO-GERMANY ZEPPELIN FLIGHT
This is an envelope that was flown on the Graf Zeppelin's first U.S. to Germany flight. The Graf Zeppelin entered service in 1928. It was a major effort for the company, which struggled financially after theGraf Zeppelin's death in 1917 and the war's end. Hugo Eckner assumed the company's control after the Graf's death and navigated the company through a difficult period. He convinced the German government to include building a zeppelin to count toward German war reparations. Thus, the LZ-124 was constructed. Eckner personally commanded it in an historic 1924 flight and, with a great deal of publicity, turned it over to the U.S. Navy to become the U.S.S. Los Angeles. The historic flight began in Friedrichshafen, and ended in Lakehurst, NJ, a U.S. Navy station. Lakehurst was the East Coast base for zeppelin operations. The Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg landed there. The Hindenburglanded for the last time as a fireball at Lakehurst in 1937. The U.S.S. Los Angeles continued in service until 1940, partly because it used the much safer helium (German zeppelins were forced to use highly flammable hydrogen due to the USA's embargo).
Today we are offering a very special zeppelin-flown envelope. It was flown aboard the LZ-127, Graf Zeppelin, on its FIRST flight from the U.S. to Germany. It is an envelope that was a part of Joel E. Fischer, 40 Wall Street, New York's personal stationery. The envelope's upper right corner sports a one dollar U.S. stamp and a five-cent U.S. Air Mail stamp. It cost a total of $1.05 to send the envelope. [The equivalent cost in 2013 U. S. dollars is more than $14.00]! To the two stamps' left is a cancellation for New York, NY on 27 October 1928 at 5:00 PM.
The envelope was mailed to a Mrs. Charles Robinson at a hotel in Paris, France. Directly below Mr. Fisher's address is a special large, oval, hand stamp that contains the various information listed below.
"First Flight Air Mail"
"Via Graf Zeppelin"
A profile of the Graf Zeppelin
"United States ± Germany"
Two globes depicting North America and Europe
A date stamp of 28 October 1928
The lower left corner displays the following in black ink, "Via Zeppelin C/O Postmaster New York." The reverse displays an inbound cancellation for Friedrichshafen dated 1 November 1928. The Graf Zeppelin carried a small post office on board. Mail was forwarded accordingly, based on its final destination.
This is a lovely envelope from a historic flight. It would make a fine addition to a zeppelin collection.
TABLE MEDAL – GRAF ZEPPELIN
This is an interesting early table medal for the Graf Zeppelin. The table medal is gilt-colored and measures 1″ in diameter. The obverse features the Graf Zeppelin in profile, along with the date 1928 and "Graf Zeppelin." On the reverse we see something most interesting, the symbol for Shell Oil Co. Within the shell we also see the word "Shell." I would expect that this is some kind of sponsorship deal that the Zeppelin Company had with Shell Oil.
GERMANY / U.S. – ENVELOPE – STAMPED – FLOWN ON FIRST ZEPPELIN FLIGHT FROM GERMANY TO USA
This is an envelope that was flown on the first flight of the Graf Zeppelin from Germany to the U.S. The Graf Zeppelin entered service in 1928. It was a major effort for the company, which struggled financially after the Graf Zeppelin's death in 1917 and the war's end. Hugo Eckner assumed the company's control after the Graf's death and navigated the company through a difficult period. He convinced the German government to include building a zeppelin to count toward German war reparations. Thus, theLZ-124 was constructed. Eckner personally commanded it in an historic 1924 flight and, with a great deal of publicity, turned it over to the U.S. Navy to become the U.S.S. Los Angeles. The historic flight began in Friedrichshafen, and ended in Lakehurst, NJ, a U.S. Navy station. Lakehurst was the East Coast base for zeppelin operations. The Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg landed there. The Hindenburg landed for the last time as a fireball at Lakehurst in 1937. The U.S.S. Los Angeles continued in service until 1940, partly because it ran on the much safer helium, while the German zeppelins were forced to use highly flammable hydrogen due to the U.S.'s embargo.
Today we are offering a very special zeppelin-flown envelope. It was flown aboard the LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin on its FIRST flight from Germany to the U.S. It is a deluxe envelope prepared just for the event. A yellow zeppelin that covers most of its top width is preprinted on the envelope. A special blue German stamp that was specially produced for mail flown aboard the Graf Zeppelin appears in the envelope's upper right corner. It sports a zeppelin circling the globe, and proclaims "Deutsche Luftpost." It mentions "Amerika" on the left and "Europa" on the right. The cost of the stamp was two Reichsmarks. The stamp is cancelled twice: once with "Friedrichshafen Bodensee Luftpost," then with the normal postal cancellation.
Below it, a large, very elaborate, hand-stamped cancellation shows the New York skyline, including the Statue of Liberty. Within the hand cancellation we also see "Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin 1. Amerikafahrt 1929." In the lower left corner we see the more traditional blue "Mit Luftpost – Par Avion." To the right we see the hand-stamped cancellation where the envelope was received in New York on 5 August 1929. In the center is the large legend, "Zeppelin Mail," which was pre printed on the envelope like the yellowzeppelin. The envelope was prepared for the collector firm of A.b.s. Roessler in East Orange, NJ. The envelope was prepared for postage stamp and first-day-cover collectors. It is a fine example of a first-day-cover. It would make a fine addition to a zeppelin collection.

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Now this is a thrilling combination of nouns: Amazon Studios has snatched up Lucy and Desi, an upcoming biopic written by Aaron Sorkin and starring Cate Blanchett as TV icon Lucille Ball. A masterful actress playing a masterful comedian in a film scripted by a masterful screenwriter is quite a catch, to say the least — all that's missing is Desi himself, and given the talent involved so far, you have to imagine it'll be someone great.
Blanchett first signed on to play Lucille Ball in the Sorkin-scripted biopic back in 2015, but the project seems to have taken a backseat to the acclaimed screenwriter's directorial debut, Molly's Game. According to Deadline, Lucy and Desi is now officially moving forward as Amazon Studios has landed the distribution rights to the film, which traces the tumultuous romantic and professional relationship between groundbreaking TV star and comedian Lucille Ball and her husband on and off screen, Desi Arnaz. Together, the duo produced and starred in the classic sitcom I Love Lucy and launched Desilu Productions, the company behind Star Trek.
Sorkin's biopic, based on Ball and Arnaz's respective memoirs, has the full authorization and involvement of the couple's children, Lucie Luckinbill and Desi Arnaz Jr.
Several key roles still need to be filled, including Desi Arnaz himself (obviously), as well as Vivian Vance and William Frawley — the actors who played Fred and Ethel on I Love Lucy, which ran from 1951 to 1957. Amazon is reportedly looking for big name actors to round out the cast, and Javier Bardem is said to be one of the candidates under consideration for the role of Desi.
Lucy and Desi is also in need of a director, and it's unclear if Sorkin is interested in (or being considered for) the task.


The Salzmann pine (Pinus nigra ssp. salzmannii) is an endemic subspecies of black pine native to the Western Mediterranean basin. In Spain, Salzmann pine covers extensive areas (approx. 350 000 ha), while in France where few scattered populations subsist, its distribution area is estimated at approx. 3 000 ha.
We used a dendroecological approach to understand the impact of climate fluctuations on Salzmann pine from France. Spatial and temporal variability of radial growth response was compared in three ecologically different populations (Conflent, Gorges du Tarn, Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert).
The Conflent population showed a strong sensitivity to spring precipitation deficits (March to June), while at Gorges du Tarn and Saint-Guilhem sites, autumn (October) of the previous year and winter (February) temperatures explained more variance than precipitations and were, respectively, negatively and positively correlated to radial growth.
Although covering a limited distribution range in France, Salzmann pine demonstrated large differences in radial growth response to climate and soil variations.
We submit this article within the framework of special MedPine4 conference (Avignon, 6–10 June 2011).
We gratefully acknowledge Norbert Turion, Olivier Gilg, and Franck Rei (INRA UEFM, Avignon) for the field work and the "Programme global de conservation des populations françaises de pin de Salzmann" funded by the French National Forest Service (ONF) for the financial support. We also thank Mélanie Saulnier and Élodie Brisset (UMR IMBE, Aix-Marseille University) for the technical advice.


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[Sorcerer]Sorcerers in Casablanca - AP
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Sorcerers in Casablanca<Sorcerers in Casablanca<Thanks to Ry for providing some of the in-line analysis<<The doctor telephoned the French hotel La Ville de Cloche, where the night concierge was a (prescription-drug abusing) patient of his. The concierge was able to reveal that a new group of Nazi officers had stayed at the hotel recently, then moved to a rented house in town. There was also a new team of soldiers camping in the desert to the south, where a digging operation was under way. Serge sent his demon Tack out on the town to snoop out further info. Eventually it was decided that it wouldn't be safe for Jacques to return home. Serge walked over to Jacques' apartment to get the NGF book of sorcery from under his bed, then back to his in-laws' bookstore to await the others. Jacques and von Braun killed time at the doctor's apartment a while, then walked across town to the Jewish quarter where the bookstore lay.
It was night time now and most of the town was quiet, but downtown near La Ville de Cloche the streets were well-lit and busy with night life. As Jacques and von Braun walked past La Ville de Cloche, (BANG) they crossed paths with a horribly scarred German officer wobbling to his car. Too late, Jacques recognized the officer as one of the NGF agents whom he had left for dead back in Paris! Apparently the agent had lost an eye and an arm in that struggle, but not his life. Thinking quickly, Jacques stepped to the door of the officer's car and opened the door, saying "mein herr."
<The NGF agent looked up as he was stepping into the car, and recognition bloomed on his face. He yelled "YOU! Istvan, kill him!" Jacques slammed the door on the agent's hand, struck him in the face, and shoved him into the back seat of the car, all while the agent tried to disentangle his pistol from his belt.
<The two men briefly struggled over the car door before the agent suddenly disappeared. Jacques fired his pistol blindly into the car, and a yelp of pain was heard. An invisible figure escaped out the door on the other side, delayed briefly by the good doctor who managed to quite get in the way.
<BANG) a squealing sound was heard from the ground floor. Serge climbed the steps and peeked into the darkened bookstore to see the rope demon coiled across the front window, its iron hooks scratching across the glass like fingernails on a blackboard. Serge steeled himself, and went outside to talk to it.
<<After a few rounds, the rope demon broke free and was retreating out the door when Serge yelled "DEAL!" He agreed to Bind the rope demon. He and the demon arranged to meet in an empty warehouse on the waterfront the following night to perform the ritual.
Ry: It was nice that Pete had a scene to himself after being left out of the multi-character fight with the rope demon.
On their way back to his apartment, again she had doubts that this was really her husband. Pete had his demon strike her down with a sudden fever! (Special Damage: disease) Elsa briefly lost consciousness in the cab; Dr. von Braun took her home and put her to bed. With much talk of the exhausting effect of travel, and mention of many details of their life together in Germany, the good doctor convinced her that everything was alright. Once she was asleep again, he went through her luggage and replaced all pictures of her real husband with pictures of himself. But the deception weighed on his conscience (he failed a Humanity check).
<Also in her bags, he found a letter: (BANG)
"LSA, BWARE THE SEVEN BLESSINGS
MEYER WILL HELP
CASEBALNCA
BWARE DARLING."
Von Braun memorized it, and burned it!
John, of
Gamers on The Hill
Re: [Sorcerer]Sorcerers in Casablanca - AP
Hi John and Ry!
Thanks for the detailed writeup. This is turning into a fine portrait of encountering the game, working through it, prepping for it, and playing it. I'll focus here on what your thread title describes as "imperfect," as far as I can tell from your account.
I was too fixated on making sure a fight broke out.
Well, you've stated the issue fairly, because making sure anything happens in terms of achieving results or implementing specific "do this" player-character decisions is something to abandon for this game. That's distinct, however, from playing an NPC who starts a fight by attacking, which is perfectly within your sphere of action as a GM. Still, in this session and scene, it doesn't appear to me that you strayed far into unwanted territory as a GM, nor with any un-fun effects.
Thanks for the excellent write-up, John. I have some questions about the characters:
What were their initial Binding and Humanity results for their starter demons?
When was the last time each of them met the Need of their respective demons? How did they do so?
In a mental lapse, I failed to realize that there's some good reasons why John might not want to publicly publish the Binding results.
If you want to message me with that information, or disregard that part of the question entirely, please feel free.
Quote from: Roger on February 12, 2010, 11:49:25 AM
*LOL* I was just thinking "I'm not sure I want to post that yet..." when I read your second reply ;-) I've messaged you the info (Ron too).
I didn't play up Need and feeding of the PCs' demons very much, though the PCs did feed their demons after combat without me having to bring it up. It's a weighty issue for Jacques in particular: if there's no incapacitated opponent from which Skar can drink some blood, then Jacques has to feed him from his own arm (1 long-term penalty die).
Oh yes, we started the evening with the initial Humanity checks from the Bindings - all three PCs failed!
Ron, thanks for the feedback. Regarding "imperfect": I meant it as the mildest of criticisms. The night was successful over-all and we're all anxious to continue the game next week (curse real life and this bi-weekly gaming schedule!). We're still on the learning curve, and some aspects will go better next time. With any new game, one expects pauses while rules are looked up. It's more the hallmarks of Sorcerer and story-gaming that I want to be sure that I pay more attention to: the GM role-playing the PCs' demons, Need, letting the players tell the story, and putting pressure on Humanity.
Another question: we're playing with d10s. I was expecting more opposed rolls to result in 2,3,4 or more victories. But almost all our rolls that night were +/- 1, even when the rope demon rolled 17 dice (!!). Does that align with others' experiences? Or did we have a shockingly "average" night? ;-)
Thanks guys,
Boy, you are a really velvet-gloved guy ... if I'm reading you right, you're saying you spent a lot of time looking stuff up during play.
If that's so, then I suggest writing out all the demons' powers onto a sheet, organized by name, as well as their Needs and anything else you want to write down. Desire is good for characterization purposes.
You can also write down the complex conflict ("combat") rules in your own words, even by numbers, and use that as your guide during play. You might even write down an instruction to say, "That's the order, now let's see what happens" right after the roll, or something like that.
The sorcery rituals and the damage tables are in the back of the book, so they can probably be used from there.
As far as GMing prep and play are concerned, the only real job you have now, and from now on, is to decide which if any NPCs (including demons) are at some kind of breaking-point, and what they do about it. I find it's useful to note the non-demon NPCs in two columns on a single page, each one represented by only a couple or three lines, summarizing their scores and a couple of adjectives to remind me where their heads are at this point.
Oh yeah - those were pretty narrow degrees of victory in my experience, especially since it seems like you (the group) rolled quite a bit. I typically use d10s and am accustomed to seeing a range of degrees of success in which 1 is most common, but 2's are seen a lot, and 3's and 4's do crop up every so often in a given session. The news, though, is that whatever the dice do, sets a kind of "consequence profile" for your particular story, which is especially important in the first session for structural reasons. In your case, since, the margins were close in the first session, when the time comes and someone does blow off the top with 5 victories, you all will really know and feel it as something distinct - "not like how it all started."
Quote from: Ron Edwards on February 12, 2010, 05:31:59 PM
*LOL* Okay, sometimes I am pretty diplomatic, but in this case my critical comments about our session are very light-handed because, really, it was a great session over-all, and nothing really stood out as a serious problem. If not for my wish to make this thread more than a "hey come look at my cool gaming" thread, I wouldn't raise these issues at all! I think the only question that caused a significant pause for consulting the rulebook was whether a Contain or Banish ritual can be performed before the demon shows up (which you and The Dragon Master ably answered in this thread - thank-you).
Still, thanks for the pointers, good ideas all. I have actually done #1 and #4 already (PC demons all on one sheet, NPCs all on one sheet). And I'll photocopy the page of tables from the back of the book, for next time.
SESSION-2: Sorcerers in Casablanca - AP
Ok, here's the post-game analysis for session 2, delivered a week after the fact. Time has not been on my side lately...
Coming into the second session, the PCs had a plan to deal with Anaconda the rope demon, and there was a good chance that they were going to deal with Ry's kicker for good. I was a little stressed about this, because I wasn't finished introducing the consequences of said kicker! I still had a whole lot of Bangs that I wanted to put into play before Big Things started getting resolved. So I thought about interrupting the PCs' plans with a lot of "Oh, but first!" scenes. But too much of that could frustrate the players, who had a course of action in mind that they were jazzed about. And really, I should let the players drive the story as much as possible. So, aside from a couple of brief scenes with new NPCs whom I really wanted to introduce, I let things unfold according to the players' plans.
If a gaming session is an episode, then this was a well structured one. The characters made preparations, encountered a couple of unexpected twists, the side-plots each advanced a step, and then we ended with a battle royale.
Serge (Ry) ran into his little brother-in-law Denis, a promising 14-year-old lad who wanted some manly advice. "How do you know when you're a man?" he asked. The conversation that followed was kinda fun; I hadn't really decided beforehand where it would go. Ry and I each played the roles of big brother with big problems and little brother with big questions, and it was a good scene. I see the relationship with Denis becoming consequential for Serge on a personal level.
Dr. von Braun (Pete) received the summons that he was expecting, to attend to the Nazi camp outside of town (he had sent Bacillus there the night before to spread food poisoning). He treated the sick men, gathered some intel, got a good look at the digging operations, and had a drink with the commanding officer, who turned out to be the head of the NGF, Oberst Baer! The men recognized each others' telltales, but both played it cool. It was the classic subverbal pissing contest disguised as polite conversation, between two men who will become bitter enemies. Well played, Pete Baer asked some very pointed questions though, and von Braun was quite evasive (while Bacillus hysterically urged a hasty retreat). A third man with a telltale joined them in the tent, a massive bald German who didn't speak a word. Von Braun finally excused himself, and was almost surprised when the Nazis let him leave. Baer promised to come visit him soon, as they "have a lot to talk about."
Now, the big battle that we'd all looked forward to for two weeks. Serge "condemned" an old warehouse by the docks, and packed it with accelerants. The PCs converged there in the late afternoon to prepare. A Contain ritual was completed sans demon, creating a general Contain that could be triggered at any moment. At the time, the PCs weren't even sure which demon they'd end up springing it on. Then the PCs prepared to Bind the rope demon, which was expected to arrive at sundown. Serge, whose grip on reality was strained by thoughts of what he was about to do, suddenly turned on Dr. von Braun and attacked his maimed leg cruelly! The unexpected betrayal (and blood for the ritual) netted him 3 victories to roll into the imminent Binding, but nearly tore the group apart. Pete succeeded at a Humanity roll, so von Braun got ahold of himself before ordering Bacillus to attack. Serge wasn't so lucky with his Humanity check; the betrayal cost him a point of Humanity. Well played, Ry!
Mike took this as a cue to have Jacques lecture Serge on the horrors of being bound to a demon that he can barely control. It was a great monologue - well played, Mike! - but Serge was determined to go through with their plan. He couldn't rest, knowing that a powerful demon which Needed murder was loose in the city because of him.
The murderous rope demon arrived at sundown, as arranged. Ry added lots of description to the Binding ritual (bonus dice), and cut off two of his fingers for good measure (bonus dice!). It was group sorcery with Serge as the principal versus a Power-9 demon, and the final Binding roll was +2 in the demon's favour. Serge lost another point of Humanity on the check. Meanwhile, Jacques had tipped off the NGF* about the sorcerous gathering, and they arrived right on cue (Nazi Occult Research Team... don't make me look up the German translation that forms the acronym). Two NGF sorcerer/officers and two armed soldiers walked into one nasty ambush. There turned out to be three inconspicuous demons with the Nazi sorcerers, but the PCs had the freshly-bound rope demon on their side and it was in Need of some murdering. The combat was vicious and... difficult, for me. I had 10 NPCs and demons to manage! I farmed out the PCs' demons back to them, to help me with the rolling (I maintained role-playing control), and spread out the sheets of the remaining chrs/demons in front of me. The only way I could keep track of currency dice was to have a pile of dice on top of each sheet, and to apply victories and penalties as they happened. The first couple of rounds of combat must have taken 15 minutes each, but by the halfway point we'd found a rhythm (and half the combatants were disabled), so things picked up. The Nazis were defeated, and the rope demon satisfied its Need on the fallen.
The rope demon was wounded in the fight, so the PCs seized the moment and sprang the Contain on it. The rope demon threw itself against the barrier. The roll was close! This time, von Braun was the principal sorcerer. The damaged demon rolled just two dice, getting a 10,9! Von Braun received just 1 bonus die from the supporting sorcerers, and rolled... 10,9,7,2. I'd thought that any sorcerous ritual triggered a Humanity check, but we looked it up: it's only Contacts, Summonings and Bindings. Then, to the Banishing. The PCs actually failed in their first attempt! It was now midnight, and they tried again, suffering the -1 penalty for a repeated action. At 3am, the second attempt at Banishing... succeeded.
As we packed up, someone commented that the Contain and Banish rolls were very tense moments, with players standing to hover over the table, in contrast to the less-thrilling combat. The battle was just less exciting, perhaps because we were still stumbling over mechanics.
Ry opined that his kicker seemed resolved with the destruction of the rope demon. I reflexively disagreed, because I had so much more that I wanted to do with his kicker; but then realized that we'd just experienced a great dramatic climax, that the player should really have more say in this matter, and the Bangs left stranded in my bandolier were not his problem after all. So, we haven't decided what to do with the character Serge. Should we re-write him now? And if so, should we kick off a new kicker for him? The other two PCs' kickers have barely gotten rolling yet, and I'd like to give their stories more focus in the coming session. But on the other hand, I don't want the rest of the sessions to be anticlimactic for Ry. Suggestions?
Another rockin' night of Sorcerer. T-minus 2 hours til session-3!
That was a hell of a session, and session 3 was a hell of a session too.
Quote from: Paiku on February 25, 2010, 01:16:54 PM
Then the PCs prepared to Bind the rope demon, which was expected to arrive at sundown. Serge, whose grip on reality was strained by thoughts of what he was about to do, suddenly turned on Dr. von Braun and attacked his maimed leg cruelly! The unexpected betrayal (and blood for the ritual) netted him 3 victories to roll into the imminent Binding, but nearly tore the group apart. Pete succeeded at a Humanity roll, so von Braun got ahold of himself before ordering Bacillus to attack. Serge wasn't so lucky with his Humanity check; the betrayal cost him a point of Humanity. Well played, Ry!
This exchange was the best and worst part of the game so far. I could tell that Mike and Pete were actually a little bit pissed at me for violating the party-as-a-unit compact, but I really felt like it worked in the fiction and in the game. But I know it was really shocking, and I made a point not to apologize for it (because otherwise it wasn't a 'real' betrayal, which was what I was doing). Anyway, both Pete and Mike thought it was cool within about half an hour, so I'm not concerned.
I want to focus on the Kicker resolution. From the blog for the game prep:
Hey Ron, I think John lumped some of my other backstory into the Kicker on his site. At the table the backstory for Serge was this big list of connections, including Anna and some of Serge's firefighter friends. But the kicker itself began with "A few weeks after binding..." The idea of the kicker was Serge's trucking with demons leading to negative consequences. Anna-Michelle is in the background to that (and a likely victim in the long run). The Catholic conversion was a line of tension through Serge's backstory because I didn't want Serge to be one-dimensional kid-saving control-freak firefighter.
I sent John some other stuff about Serge's perspective... John, do you want to comment?
Doesn't matter to me. The story components are there to be used, and if you have chosen for there to be no connection between (a) getting set up for something not-too-good by one's in-laws, and (b) getting attacked by this rope demon, then I think you're missing the GMing opportunities that the prep handed you.
"Resolving the Kicker" does not mean merely dusting it up with whatever immediate threat hopped into the character's field of vision.
Ninjas attack! I escape out the window.
My dog dies mysteriously! I bury him.
My wife has returned from the dead! I get her to sign the divorce papers (finally) and walk out the door.
All of these conduct a conflict with the most immediate elements of the Kicker. None of them resolve it, as far as I'm concerned.
My apologies for the brevity of the post. Its terse qualities should not be translated into a verbal tone and I am definitely not dismissing your prep and play. I'm simply in a rush.
I think I get what you're saying - you're saying that the reason the rope demon was grabby as a Kicker is because it hit -both- "Serge needs control" -and- "Serge has a religious faultline running through his marriage". So we got an end of the knot, but we haven't really untied it ... which is a much higher bar.
When I wrote the character, and we started the prep as a group, I wanted the plight of Jews in Vichy France to be part of the game (i.e. as ignored in "Casablanca") without making the game or my character pedantic.
I can see that we could continue down that road because it's more broadly about family, trust, and religious convictions, and there's no clear moral this story is shooting for.
John, are you good to go there? I'm asking both in regards to subject matter and in terms of the PCs' stories drifting apart. I feel like Jacques (Mike) headed for murdering Nazis while Von Braun (Peter)'s spousal abuse will eventually catch up with him... These could be very divergent paths and I don't think anyone wants you to be responsible for forcing them back together.
Hi guys, sorry for not getting back to this thread sooner. Time, ack...
Ron, thanks for weighing in on this. We haven't done anything irrevocable yet like re-writing Ry's character or kicking off a new kicker.
I too thought that Serge's kicker brought more than just the rope demon into play. I was also looking forward to playing on Serge's feeling of responsibility towards his in-laws regarding helping them illegally adding to the basement, the better to conduct illegal business (which I started to do in the 3rd session). But then we had that great climax vs the rope demon, and you/Ryan opined that the scene made a great kicker resolution, and I decided to let you make the call. To do otherwise felt like it would be akin to telling you how to play your character. Your kicker, your resolution to call, you know? But yeah, if the kicker was a stone dropped into a pond, then we called the first wave to reach the shore a resolution, when really there's a tsunami coming...
So Ry, as you saw in the third session, the kicker has set a larger sorcerous situation in motion. In the most general terms, there's something under the bookstore which the NGF would really like to get their hands on. And it's going to be really hard, from this point forward, to keep it a secret. This ties Serge's story to Jacques'. And, given Oberst Baer's interest in the good doctor, von Braun can't be far behind.
As for Serge's family and religious issues, I'm good to go there... You gave us lots of great detail to work with, and I do want to use it. I just haven't figured out what to do with it all yet. Family dynamics in an RPG-SIS is very new to me. I'll read your original kicker/backstory again tonight and brainstorm on some bangs. If I get stuck, then I'll tap you for an offline discussion of where you think we could take this.
And yes, diverging stories is beginning to be a problem with this game. I'm about to bring Serge and Jacques back together pretty neatly I think (see above), if briefly, but the thread with von Braun and his wife has the potential to turn into a one-player arc. I'll have to pay more attention to making that situation relevant to the other two PCs. And then there's tying in Serge's family issues... yeah.
Ry, in other news, I found the rules on advancement again (pg42). We could celebrate the End of the rope demon with some improvement rolls instead of a complete re-write.


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Деревня находится в юго-восточной части Тверской области на расстоянии приблизительно 7 км на юг от города Тверь к востоку от деревни Бурашево.

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