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As I mentioned on the podcast last night, at least here in the Mid-Atlantic region and much of the Northeast, Ohio, etc., very, very cold weather the next 24 to 48 hours. So y'all be careful. Look out for one another if you are indeed in the way of this weather. Normally, I keep track of news during the week, and I try to pick and pull and present things that I think that are important that we should talk about. But because of, you know, things are moving so fast, I feel like I'm missing a lot of important things. So if time allots me, and I've tried to do this before, if I have a spare 15 or 20 minutes, I just want to sit down and run through some of these things, give you something to ponder, during the week between our main podcasts. And again, the next one will be Tuesday night, 8 p.m., and we will have an interview for you. It should be a good one. Dr. Jane Ruby put out yesterday, I believe it was, yeah, Trump signs a $5.5 billion package for the next pandemic while at the same time funding new illegal gain-of-function bird flu that is lethal to mammals. And she cites some information from the NIH, stating that the NIAID funds gain-of-function study engineering novel influenza viruses with new mammalian pathogenic and host entry functions. and, you know, the people are still claiming that the United States government is still bankrolling gain-of-function experiments, even though the government claims they have stopped. And listen, I know many people in the audience, you know, even the thought of germs and flus and viruses in itself may be, you know, twisted. But the bigger story is this, you know, H.R. 7148 that funds a lot of government, you know, things that are going on right now, bankrolling the government with the issues they're having with staying open, etc. But the bigger picture is something is wrong when billions of dollars move through Washington under the banner of preparedness, and that's what they always do. And the problem is almost nobody stops to ask, prepared for what, right? And prepared by whom and who benefits. The fact is that H.R. 7148 gets signed and buried inside the machinery of federal spending, and its massive funding is tied to pandemic planning, which we saw, you know, in August, September, and October of 2019, right? The influenza infrastructure, you know, allocating funds to give certain government entities, broader heavy hands, if you will, right? But the big thing in here that if you really break it down, surveillance expansion, and of course, laboratory research pipelines. And as always, like we saw in October 2001, like the Patriot Act, it is sold to you as safety, right? It's packaged as responsibility. It's marketed as learning from the last crisis, but the same system that insists it's protecting you is the system that continues expanding the apparatus that studies, models, and in many cases manipulates the very pathogens used to justify its power. That contradiction should unsettle anyone who still remembers how quickly freedom, movement, worship, and livelihood were stripped away just a few short years ago. Now, let's talk about, quote, the bird flu, right? Because this is where things really take shape, and I have been talking about this for several years, and I do believe this is part of their endgame, although many people argue that will never happen. Now, while it may never formally happen, I do think they want to scare people first into getting away from backyard chickens and things of that nature, right? But it's always under the guise of public health, right? We are told that monitoring and containment are necessary, yet millions upon millions of chickens are culled every single year. Supply chains are centralized. Most fall under BlackRock and Vanguard now, right? And small, independent food resilience becomes harder to maintain. Many people, myself included, most of my friends, look at the pattern and ask whether this isn't simply about disease control, but once again, it's about eliminating decentralized food independence. Backyard chickens represent something that governments cannot regulate, right? Local protein, self-sufficiency, and reduced dependent on the matrix, right? When those flocks disappear under emergency authority, citizens are pushed forward towards resilience on centralized distribution, right? The price of chicken goes up, the price of eggs go up, supply and demand, right? It a big deal and we seen it happen But what should disturb you even more again it the normalization of the phrase the next pandemic. Think about that. They're talking about pandemics now like weather forecasting, right? Oh, another Nor'easter, right? We're going to name pandemics like we do hurricanes. Oh, it's pandemic, Steve, right? That's what they want. And these funding structures are built around it. Bureaucracies have expanded around it. Entire sectors have positioned themselves around it. People made millions off of, you know, sanitizers and masks a few years ago, right? And trust me, the people who know got involved early. They knew how it was going to roll. So now what is it? Crisis becomes expectation, and then expectation becomes part of the infrastructure. And history teaches us that power rarely contracts after emergencies. We've been saying that for years, right? It consolidates. It becomes normal. We just did a podcast on that, how they have normalized those 20 things just in the last few years. And the biggest worry is once centralized control embeds itself into medical authority, into food systems, into travel, into employment. It does not step aside on its own. And listen, Scripture warned us long before modern states ever existed that earthly authority that is detached from God cannot be trusted as a moral compass. Psalm 146.3 says, Again, that's not a call to chaos or rebellion. That's a call to spiritual discernment. Governments are temporal institutions run by people who have fallen, driven by money, incentives, fear, and power, right? That's the biggest thing, power, control. And when policy moves without transparency, when narratives demand compliance without questioning, and when authority positions itself above scrutiny, the believer is not called to blind trust. It is being called to watch. And that's what we're doing here. This is not about panic, but it's also not about being passive. It's about being watchful, asking questions, may be actually taking the time to reading the actual legislation itself. And of course, what do we always say on this program? Follow the money. Protect your independence wherever possible, spiritually, intellectually, and practically, right? Because preparation that flows from wisdom is good, but preparation that concentrates power while diminishing individual agency deserves examination under the brightest light available. Stay awake and listen, stay grounded in truth. Next, I'm going to play a video. I've said for many years, there's a big club at the top. We're not a part of it. And they like to pretend that their mortal enemies, the Trumps and the Clintons and this and that, they're all on the same team. And this NBC News exclusive that aired two days ago has made a lot of people on the quote unquote, right, pretty upset. NBC News broke the story today. I don't know if you saw it, that the Democrats are already saying, if you bring President Bill Clinton and he has to testify, we're bringing President Trump. What do you say to that? I think they might say that, you know, but they've already brought me. See, I've been brought. They had me indicted many, many times, many, many times. And the president had some surprising thoughts about former President Bill Clinton. It bothers me that somebody's going after Bill Clinton. See, I like Bill Clinton. I still like Bill Clinton. What do you like about him? I liked, well, I liked his behavior toward me. I thought he got me, he understood me. You know, he was the one that said very famously that you don't want to run against Trump when there were 18 people. It was 18 people, including me, total. And he kept telling them, you don't want to run against Trump. Run against anyone. Don't run against Trump. And Hillary sort of laughed at him. so interesting there again uh it's a big club at the top and we're not part of it the left and the right belong to the same corrupt bird the lesser evil is still evil and looking at the comments is they're extremely funny everything from MAGA will now have to will now have to like Bill Clinton. And I think this is all a slow process of the Great Awakening. And, you know, it's interesting to see if those who still support Trump will now like Bill Clinton and hate Thomas Massey, right? It's just quite a world we live in. And that's when you, again, I always go to it, but Psalm 118.8 is a big deal. This is a very real interesting story here. If you haven't heard, pardon me, Chuck E. Cheese, right? We all spent time at Chuck E. Cheese, if you've had children, either a child's birthday party or whatever that nature. But the CEO of Chuck E. Cheese, his name is Dave McKillips, N-C-K-I-L-L-I-P-S, formerly of Six Flags Amusement Parks, and recently Chuck E. Cheese, just happened to resign last night amid his name popping up in the Epstein files. Now, no allegations were made, but why, if you're collecting that kind of money, why would you quit? Why would you step down? And, you know, obviously, the worrisome part is you have a guy with ties to Jeffrey Epstein, and that guy is the most important person to a business that caters to children. This story from the International Business Times, Chuck E. Cheese boss Dave McKillips abruptly quits as social media links exit to recent Epstein files. The Chuck E. Cheese community, I didn't know there was a Chuck E. community, is reeling following the sudden departure of its top executive. Dave McKillips has stepped down as CEO, leaving many to wonder about the timing of his departure. As whispers of a connection of the Epstein investigation circulate, the company faces an uncertain future under a cloud of controversy. A post on X by diligent Denizen ignited a wave of debate, pointing to a potential link between McKillips leaving his post at Chuck E. Cheese and his name surfacing in the Epstein files. Highlighting McKillop career at Six Flags and his most recent stint at Chuck E Cheese the ex remarked on the coincidence of his resignation within hours of the Epstein file surfacing asking why someone would walk away so abruptly to such a lucrative job without any official allegations being filed. And listen, when CEOs walk away 99 times out of 100, they walk away with package benefits, stock, that he's going to be all right. But it's very interesting. It is very interesting to see that, you know, here is a guy who was in charge of a Chuck E. Cheese, the CEO, that kind of allegations. It makes you wonder. It really does. We're going to move along. Two more stories to get to. I have, you know, over the last six years, I would say specifically more since 2022, as the scandemic kind of slowed down, I've received several emails from missionaries that have spent time in Israel, and they have documented and told me how they were treated. and there are a lot of missionaries who have their own blogs and websites that are, you know, you don't want to be a missionary and say, hey, you shouldn't go here because their whole mission is to go out into the world, you know, spread the gospel to all nations. But at the same time, they're very, they get the message out when they are treated worse in certain places, kind of a warning. And what a lot of, I guess you could say, evangelical Christians don't really know is how bad that Christians are treated in Israel. And I caught this interview where Tucker Carlson, I forget who sent this, I apologize, but Israel teaches children to spit on Christians, and he talks to this archbishop, and I have been sent dozens of these videos, and this is just a two-minute clip. I could maybe could spat at, for example. Has someone ever spit at you? Yes. Really? Yeah. More than once? More than once. Yeah. Why? I just, I think, you know, I asked this question, why? And in many cases, I have seen that in many schools in the Jewish sector, who have, this is the answer that I receive, who have bad flashes of memories of persecution, the cross reminds them of persecution and expulsion and what have you. So they're teaching their children that the cross is a sign of persecution and they spit on Christians? Yeah. And we know that there are some, not many, but there are some, and these are fringe groups that we have as heads of churches spoke about. When there is vandalism of churches, when there is spitting at clergy, when there is doing nasty things to clergy. What kind of nasty things? I don't know if I'm going to say that on the air. I don't know how to say, but they're doing like really shameful things, you know, in front of church doors. Really? Yeah, yeah. I've been caught on camera many times. Oh, you act like this. Everyone knows this. I don't think many people in America know this. To Christian churches and Christian clergy. Yeah, and again, you know, these are like French group of people who are radicals, you know, who live in Jerusalem. their main mission is to purify Jerusalem from infidels, Christians. That's their mission. And they say it out loud. It's on their website. It's nothing hidden. Are you talking about Al-Qaeda? No, no, I'm talking about Jewish radical groups, settler groups. Do you face vandalism? And it cuts off right around there. But this is something that most evangelical Christians don't understand, right? They reject—number one, there's a huge plethora of atheists, a huge percentage of atheists in Israel. And then there is the Jews who, again, have rejected our Messiah, Jesus Christ, and they are still waiting on theirs. And remember, Jesus didn't say he was one option among many. He said very plainly that I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no man cometh unto the Father but by me. So when you proclaim that in a land shaped by religious identity and national survival, you're not offering a dialogue, right? And it's confrontational to them, right? And this tension, it's out there, but people aren't paying attention. It's in the news. Christian groups have faced visa obstacles and treatment described as hostile enough that officials warned that they might tell believers to reconsider visiting Israel. Reports have documented over 100 incidents of harassment and aggression against Christians in just a single year, including assault, spitting on clergy, vandalism against churches and monasteries. That is just the cases that gets reported. Do you think every single person who gets spits on files an official report? Of course not. Surveys and documentation show intimidation ranging from verbal abuse to physical attacks, often leaving believers feeling threatened in their own communities. So, you know, again, I mentioned this last night, when you hear pray for Ukraine, not Russia, when you hear pray for Israel, not Palestine, there are Christians in every one of those countries. So you should be praying for the safety of those Christians, and then you should be praying that the people who are, you know, wanting harm against those people, that they find God. Not just picking and choosing borders, right? What did Pastor fan and say the other day, you're not saved by your zip code, right? When these missionaries say they're being treated poorly, they're not making up fairy tales, right? You know, the gospel has always, for the last 2,000 years, met resistance when it challenges identity. Try that again. Identity, and especially authority, right? But witnessing not just in Israel, but it's never about comfort or acceptance. It is standing in the claim of Christ, right? Speaking truth where it's not welcomed, and remembering that faithfulness was never measured by applause. So you have to understand when you go out and witness, whether you in Philadelphia St Louis London Paris or Tel Aviv you may not be accepted but you have to stand tall in your you know you have to stand tall I want to close with this last story as I mentioned last night, that we're staring down yet another war. And you would think that this country has war fatigue after the last 100 years? World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, you know, on and on and on, Venezuela. Now we're about to hand over the keys in Iran. And when I was in Iraq and we had a shortage of soldiers, what they started doing was adjusting the waivers, right? Right back in the day, if you had a felony, you couldn't join the military. But then things got so desperate, you know, well, you can have one felony. It just can't be this, this or this, right? They start lowering the moral compass. And eventually, you know, one day those people, now listen, some of them maybe hopefully change their ways, but if you let bad apples in, And eventually those bad apples become leaders and it disintegrates the moral compass of the army. And now it's very interesting to see that obviously mental health is an issue in the military. And approval for waivers for recruits with mental health exemptions is being handled completely differently. And again, I think they understand that something bigger may be coming and they're trying to get as many people in as they can. And they're basically handing it down to the street level to get these waivers going. So this story is the Army is loosening its grip on recruiting waivers for mental health and misconduct and misconduct. misconduct. So again, we're going back to 2006, 2007, putting those decisions in the hands of the commanders who oversee street-level recruiting. Just two weeks ago, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll rescinded a 2020 directive that gave his office the authority to approve and deny waivers for recruits with mental health conditions or misconduct that would bar them from enlisting. So potential soldiers who have medical conditions and or criminal records that would have otherwise disqualified them from joining the Army can submit waiver packets which are reviewed by a case-by-case basis. And they say, while many of those cases need review by two and three star officials, they are now meant to push those final decisions to the recruiting command level. Okay. So the change that they are looking at is permanently returning the approval authority for major misconduct waivers and mental health waivers to the lowest levels of the organization. And as someone who served for 24 years, and I know we have a lot of listeners out there who are veterans, and I'm not saying that, you know, people who make mistakes shouldn't be given second chances. However, the Army has already fairly lenient on that. And I think we have to be very careful. If you're worried more about numbers than moral compass, we're in a lot of trouble. Maybe those people will say, you know, when it comes to martial law, well, it's my paycheck, right? They're not going to question that moral compass. So I wanted to make you abreast of that. And I want to finish with a little anecdote, and then we'll see you next week. And I want to share with you a story about a man who survived the great Johnstown flood back in the 1880s, right? He lived a long life afterward, carried that experience with him, and eventually passed on in the 1930s. Now, when he arrived in heaven, he was being shown around and told that in time, he would have the opportunity to share just one story from his time on earth. but he could only share one. And naturally, he chose the one that defined him, or what he thought defined him, how he survived that catastrophic flood, right? And that evening came, he was all prepared to speak, the hall was filled, anticipation was in the air, and as he stood up, just about to step forward to share his story, how he endured the raging waters, an angel gently tapped him on the shoulder and whispered, before you begin, just remember, Noah is in the audience. Right? That's the moral of the story. Stay humble. Whatever storm we believe, we survived by our own strength. Remember, we didn't survive alone. And we were certainly not the first to face the waters, right? Scripture reminds us plainly that God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. It teaches us, let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth. Proverbs, right? Again, humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, and may he exalts you in due time. Every testimony we carry is real, and all of our trials matter, but the perspective guards the heart. There is always someone who has walked in deeper and darker valleys, who have endured heavier trials and has witnessed greater deliverance. Ultimately, the story is never about human triumph alone. It is about sustaining the hand of God who brings his people through the waters. As Isaiah wrote, when thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee. So the lesson endures. Tell your story with gratitude, not with pride. Speak of survival with reverence, not boasting. And always remember, before you step forward to explain how you made it through the flood, keep your heart steady and your spirit humble, because Noah may be in the audience. Join us on Zello. The group name is The Fact Hunter. Our email address is thefacthunter.com. Let's try that again. Our website is thefacthunter.com. Our email address is thefacthunter at mail.com. And I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. Be safe. God bless you. Keep your head on a swivel and Christ in your heart. And until we meet again, my friends, we will see you. You're listening to the Fact Hunter Radio Network.
