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The Biden administration has suffered a string of defeats in the past few weeks. He was defeated in the courts on his vaccine mandates. He was defeated on his 'voting rights' legislation and failed to get it passed in the Senate. He also has failed to get his Build Back Better agenda passed, and he has been getting killed in the polls. A recent Quinnipiac poll had Biden at 33% approval, with 28% of Hispanics and 25% of independents in approval. To say that Biden has had a rough first year in office would be an understatement to say the least, but it seems he has a plan to change the narrative. All of a sudden our old Cold War enemy is at it again, "threatening democracy"! Just as Democrats did in 2017, Russia seems to be a handy tool that can be used on any occasion to change the direction that the wind is blowing in Washington. How is Biden using Russia to 'Wag the Dog' and change the perception of his administration, and why are some European allies not playing along? Join the conversation and get answers to these questions and more on According2Sam episode #102.
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3) State Department urges U.S. citizens in Ukraine to leave
5) Obama tells Russia's Medvedev more flexibility after election
6) Crimea referendum: Voters 'back Russia union'
7) Trump lashes Germany over gas pipeline deal, calls it Russia's 'captive'
8) UK promises to ‘contribute’ troops to NATO if Russia invades Ukraine
10) Russia-Ukraine: US warns of 'false-flag' operation
11) George Soros: The Future of Europe
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The Bishop of Rome, also known as the Pope, is a position like no other. It is a position that carries prestige and power, not only as the head of the Roman Catholic Church, but as the head of state for Vatican City and all of the territories included in the States of the Church. However, the Pope hasn't always had this prestige and power. Until the late 8th Century the Pope had no lands, and he had to get permission from the Roman Emperors in Constantinople before he could even accept the election to Pope. It was a position that really didn't have much more influence than any other bishop in the Church. That started to change when the Pope made a deal with the Franks and the rich and powerful French family, the Carolingians. Pepin the Short donated what became the Papal States to the Pope, and it would change the Papacy forever. What did the Carolingians get in return for this donation, and how did this alliance kick off what many refer to as the Dark Ages? Join the conversation and get answers to these questions and more on According2Sam episode #101.
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1) South African study suggests Omicron less severe even for unvaccinated
2) Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
5) Iconoclasm
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During a debate in the 2020 campaign for the presidency Donald Trump commented that we have to learn to live with Covid-19, suggesting that it would be apart of our world forever and we had to get on with our lives. To this Joe Biden scoffed and said, "We're learning to die with it"! Biden said that the idea that we would learn to live with the virus was unacceptable, and he promised many times during that campaign to, "shutdown the virus", suggesting he planned on succeeding where President Trump had failed to eliminating it. However, as we approach President Biden's first year in office he has failed to shutdown the virus. He has failed to supply the nation with rapid testing, another criticism that he made of President Trump. Now he and many others are admitting President Trump was right, and we will have to learn to live with the virus. What other ways is President Biden failing to meet the standards that he set for President Trump in response to Covid-19, and how are he and the media trying to change the messaging? Join the conversation and get answers to these questions and more on According2Sam episode #100.
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1) More Americans have died of COVID in 2021 than 2020: Johns Hopkins
2) Biden Blasted Trump for Covid-Testing Failure, Dodges Responsibility for His Own
3) The Funniest 'CDC Recommends' Memes, As Internet Reacts to New COVID-19 Guidance
4) Biden to press: ‘I’m not supposed to be answering all these questions’
5) Biden on Covid: ‘No Federal Solution’
6) California governor praises Trump's efforts to help state amid coronavirus crisis
7) The government is sending free rapid tests, but don’t expect them all before omicron's peak
8) Biden's Former Health Advisers Urge Him to Change COVID Strategy, Accept 'New Normal'
9) CDC director says 75% of COVID-19 deaths 'had 4 or more comorbidities'
10) Almost half of reported NY COVID-19 hospitalizations are not due to COVID-19
11) Medical Examiner's Autopsy Reveals George Floyd Had Positive Test For Coronavirus
12) 25 House Democrats won't seek reelection in 2022
13) Dopesick
14) Moderna CEO warns people may need fourth Covid shot
15) ‘Daily Show’ host Trevor Noah blasted for knocking Moderna CEO’s vaccine push
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After the death of Mohammad in 632 the armies of Islam spilled out of the Arabian Desert and quickly began conquering everything in their path. They first encountered the mighty Romans to their west, and the ferocious Persians to their east, both of these great empires had been in existence for centuries beyond this new religion that was barely as old as a single lifetime. The Muslims took them both on at once, and defeated them both. They seized Byzantine land pushing the Romans back into Anatolia. They conquered all of Persia, expanding the young caliphate to India in the east. They then moved into North Africa taking Islam all the way to the Atlantic Ocean in the west. They even crossed the Mediterranean Sea into Europe, and conquered the Visigoths and nearly all of Iberia. The Muslims seemed invincible at this point, but after crossing the Pyrenees into France they were defeated by the Franks and chased back into Spain. How did this defeat of the Muslims in France potentially save Western Europe, and how would have a Muslim victory in France potentially changed the world as we know it today? Join the conversation and get answers to these questions and more on According2Sam episode #99.
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3) Vandals
4) Visigoths
8) Al-Andalus
9) Brandon Brown post race interview - Talladega Xfinity series 2021
10) Katie Couric’s self-defeating effort to ‘protect’ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
11) Bari Weiss Confronts Brian Stelter
12) Carroll Quigley Quote on Two Parties
14) Vaccine mandates hurting employment, Federal Reserve reports
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The day before Halloween in 1938 a CBS Radio program aired that caused mass hysteria. This was a time before television, before the internet and social media, when everyone got their information and media from news papers, and radio. The CBS series was 'The Mercury Theatre on the Air', and the episode that cause the hysteria on this day was called, 'War of the Worlds'. It was an adaptation of a fictional novel that was being preformed as a Halloween special, but many Americans believed it was real and that they were in danger from an alien invasion from outer space. The scale of the hysteria caused by this broadcast was small. Not everyone was listening, but of those who happened to be listening to the program that day the panic was real and widespread. If this was a social experiment the reaction to this broadcast would have demonstrated how easily media could be used to whip the public into a frenzy of fear, and also how a greater medium, reaching more people, over and over again for a long period of time, could cause a greater, prolonged, mass hysteria. How is the reaction to the pandemic and the unvaccinated like the reaction to 'War of the Worlds', but greater, and how is this hysteria causing the zombie apocalypse? Join the conversation and get answers to these questions and more on According2Sam episode #98.
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1) They Want to EVICT All Unvaccinated People From Their Homes!
2) They Want to Arrest and Jail All Unvaccinated Adults!
3) Picture of German who wouldn't salute Hitler
4) Fauci boss gives Trump administration credit on Operation Warp Speed
5) Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)https://vaers.hhs.gov
6) PHYSICIAN’S ASSISTANT DEBORAH CONRAD: VAERS WHISTLEBLOWER
8) Enes Kanter rips LeBron James over ‘ridiculous’ COVID-19 vaccine stance
9) Why LeBron James' Covid vaccine cop-out is bad for the NBA
10) NBA star Andrew Wiggins on getting vaccinated: 'I guess you don't own your body'
11) VERITAS: Pfizer Scientists: ‘Your Antibodies are Probably Better than the Vaccination’
12) Scientist Nick Karl Confronted By James O'Keefe Over Shocking 'Natural Immunity' Admission
13) Fauci says Americans should get vaccinated even if Merck’s Covid pill cuts deaths.
14) Axios-Ipsos poll: Biden trust takes a blow
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On August 6, 2001, a month before the September 11th attack, the CIA met with then President George W. Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas. They were there to brief the president on an important piece of intelligence about a potential terrorist attack in the United States. The brief was titled, "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US", and it outlined several possible targets for an attack. The most notable target mentioned in the report was the threat that commercial airplanes would be hijacked. The two page report concludes with the sentence, "Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijacking or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York." In the 2006 book, "The One Percent Doctrine", author Ron Suskind writes from an anonymous source that after being brief by the panicked CIA officers the president said, "All right. You've covered your ass, now." What actions did President Bush take to protect the nation after receiving this dire warning, and how did the media help him cover his ass after this secret intelligence report was leaked to the world? Join the conversation and get answers to these questions and more on According2Sam episode #97.
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1) NIH DOCUMENTS PROVIDE NEW EVIDENCE U.S. FUNDED GAIN-OF-FUNCTION RESEARCH IN WUHAN
2) Freedom of Information Act (United States)
5) Kabul International Airport
8) Afghanistan fighting season
9) Excerpts of call between Joe Biden and Ashraf Ghani July 23
10) CIA warned of rapid Afghanistan collapse
11) Afghanistan crisis: UK lawmakers grill PM Johnson, condemn Biden over US withdrawal
12) Obama sending up to 35,000 troops to Afghanistan
14) What If We Paid Off The Debt? The Secret Government Report
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Taliban means 'students', and the organization that NATO forces have been fighting for 20 years in Afghanistan started in madrassas in Pakistan. Madrasa is the Arabic word for a school, or any type of educational institution, secular or religious, and there are thousands of madrassas around the world. However, the madrassas in Pakistan that spawned the Taliban were very religious Islamic fundamentalist seminaries, and these madrassas have been breeding grounds of a steady supply of fighters for the Taliban for 30 years. Pakistan has played a significant role in the war in Afghanistan from the beginning. They not only allow these radical madrassas to exist within their borders, they also allow the Quetta Shura and other ruling councils of the Taliban to exist and operate within their borders. These councils have been the central commands for Taliban forces in the war, directing troop movements, supplies, and missions in Afghanistan from Pakistan. Pakistan has been allowing this to happen for years, despite the fact that we have considered them an ally and give them billions in aid annually. Has Pakistan been an honest ally in the war in Afghanistan, or should we be questioning their motives in allowing our enemies safe haven in their country? Join the conversation and get answers to these questions and more on According2Sam episode #96.
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4) Shura
6) Shia Islam
7) Sharia Law
8) Phoenix Memo
9) Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US
10) Terrorism in Pakistan has declined, but the underlying roots of extremism remain
11) Pakistani Religious Schools Increasingly Linked to Afghan Taliban
12) Al-Qaeda
15) Operation Enduring Freedom
16) Kidney failure may already have killed Bin Laden
17) Quetta Shura
19) Pakistan and state-sponsored terrorism
21) Video appears to show Taliban taking joyride in US Black Hawk helicopter
22) Green on Blue: The allies who attack U.S. troops while their guard is down
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Islam has been at war since the earliest days of the faith. The Prophet and his followers first made war with the tribes of Arabia, uniting them around himself and his new monotheistic faith, but when he died a succession crises developed and Islam has been at was with Islam ever since. Despite waring with itself and creating many divisions and factions within Islam, they also have a long history of making war with non-muslims and conquering them in the name of Islam. In less than two decades after the death of Mohammad the caliphate had conquered the Persians and the mighty Sasanian Empire, expanding as for east as present-day Pakistan. They also defeated the Roman Empire and conquered Byzantine land in the Levant and North Africa. By the end of the Umayyad Caliphate just 120 years after the death of Mohammad, Islam had expanded to India in the east and to the Atlantic Ocean in the west. They had even pushed the caliphate into Europe. During this time a philosophy emerged in the caliphate that is known as the 'House of Islam and the House of War'. The House of Islam is all of the land under control of the caliphate, and the House of War was all of the world yet to be conquered. How was this philosophy used to justify the conquests of Islam, and how did war within the House of Islam prevent them from conquering much more than they did? Join the conversation and get answers to these questions and more on According2Sam episode #95.
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1) Italians protest COVID-19 "Green Pass" proof of vaccination
2) Benito Mussolini on corporatism
3) Old Gwen Berry photo shows her beaming while holding US flag
4) Capitol Police told not to use most aggressive tactics
5) Kissinger resigns as head of 9/11 commission
6) 9/11 families say Biden not welcome at memorial events unless he releases government evidence
8) Albert Pike and Three World Wars Pike's Letter to Mazzini
9) THE MYSTERY OF FREEMASONRY UNVEILED
10) Satan Prince of This World
12) Germanisation
14) The Man Who Predicted Nazi Germany
16) Max Bodenheimer
17) Theodor Herzl
18) HOW ISRAEL WENT FROM HELPING CREATE HAMAS TO BOMBING IT
19) One quote that shows how badly Obama underestimated ISIS
20) How ISIS Got Weapons From the U.S. and Used Them to Take Iraq and Syria
23) Abu Bakr
24) Omar
25) Uthman ibn Affan
26) Mu'awiya I
27) Yaser Abdel Said kills two daughters in what is believed to be honor killing
28) Hadith
29) Jihad
30) DAR AL-HARB
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When news first broke that a vaccine for Covid-19 was around the corner Donald Trump was president and it was a few weeks before the 2020 election. Many people believed President Trump was rushing the vaccine as some sort of "October surprise" to win the election, as if he was the one making the decision about when the vaccine would be ready. There was a lot of distrust and skepticism fed to the public at this time about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine, and many of the people who are currently trying to get the public to trust the vaccine were the very people instilling distrust in the vaccine back then. This includes the current President and Vice President of the United States, and many others in mainstream media. Some of these people who doubted the safety of the same vaccine back then have come so far to say it should be mandated today, despite the fact that the vaccine has only been approved under an emergency use authorization and has not received full FDA approval. They say they have tried the carrot, and now it's time for the stick. How are these people hypocrites for changing their stance on the vaccine based on who is president, and how are they tyrants for now supporting mandates for the same vaccine they previously questioned? Join the conversation and get answers to these questions and more on According2Sam episode #94.
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1) COVID Symptoms May Linger In Some Vaccinated People Who Get Infected, Study Finds
4) Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US
5) Bill Maher Rants About Covid-19 Coronavirus, Here Is What He Got Wrong
6) Bill Maher slams liberals for pushing COVID 'panic porn'
7) CBS News Ben Swann does a "Reality Check" on Pizzagate
8) WHO haunted by old tweet saying China found no human transmission of coronavirus
9) 97% Of People Entering Hospitals For COVID-19 Are Unvaccinated
10) Trump promotes theory suggesting sunlight can kill coronavirus
11) Kamala Harris regrets California truancy law that led to arrest of some parents
12) Biden Approval Drops to 50%, Lowest for Him to Date
13) Psaki says there have been prior breakthrough cases among White House staff
14) Why are some healthcare workers refusing COVID vaccines?
15) Why won’t some health care workers get vaccinated?
16) FDA Aims To Fully Approve COVID Vaccines 'As Quickly As Possible'
17) Revelation 13:17
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Joe Biden is the second Roman Catholic president in American history, and he wears it on his sleeve. He flaunts his faith more than any president since Jimmy Carter. He regularly attends Catholic Mass wearing his deceased son's rosary beads, and he often comments on how his Catholic faith helped him deal with the loss of his first wife and son, Beau. Unlike Kennedy, America's first Catholic president, Biden seeks to highlight how devout he is to the Catholic faith and how it shapes his presidency, so much so that the media has given him titles such as, "The Church Going President" and many others reflecting his piety. This image of the 'pious president' is being threaten right now by Catholic bishops who say Joe Biden and other Catholic politicians are at odds with the teaching of the Church. Bishops in America have decided to make a formal statement clarifying the Catholic Church's beliefs, which will most likely highlight how out of step Biden and other Catholics are with the teachings of the Church. Joe Biden and many others could be denied communion, the most important sacrament in Catholicism. Is there any precedent for something like this in the history of the Catholic Church, and how could this challenge Catholics on key political issues? Join the conversation and get answers to these questions and more on According2Sam episode #93.
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1) U.S. bishops vote to draft Communion statement that may rebuke Biden
2) 60 House Democrats sign letter asking Catholic leaders to reconsider rebuke over abortion
3) Vatican Warns U.S. Bishops About Denying Communion To Supporters Of Abortion Rights
8) Theodosius I
9) Ambrose
10) Pope Damasus I
14) The Meeting of Leo the Great and Attila
15) Odoacer
16) Clovis I
17) Jabal al-Nour
18) Isra and Mi'raj
20) Kaaba
21) Joseph Smith
22) The Truth About The Kaaba - Apostate Prophet
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The game of chess is a competitive board game that developed in Europe in the 15th century. The game evolved from similar and much older games from Asia. However, the main twist on the game of chess is the influence of feudal Europe. The pieces of the chessboard represent the systemic structure of feudalism. The king and queen represent the absolute monarchs of Europe. These monarchs carved out fiefdoms in their kingdoms and established an aristocracy as lords in their realms. These feudal lords are represented by the knights. The rook represents the castles, or castle towers in the kingdom, and the serfs and lowborn in the kingdom are represented by the pawns. The bishop represents the Roman Catholic Church, which played a very significant role in the feudal system. Feudalism never could have existed for as long as it did without the divine right to rule which the church bestowed on European monarchs. It was a business decision for the church, which depended on the monarchs for protection. It was a win/win for everyone except the pawns that suffered under this arrangement. Where did the idea of the bishop originate, and how and why did those early ideas of the bishop change? Join the conversation and get answers to these questions and more on According2Sam episode #92.
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3) The little woman behind a very big war
5) Passover
6) Yom Kippur
7) Human sacrifice in Aztec culture
8) Is St. James Really Buried in Santiago de Compostela, Spain?
9) St James and the Two Faces of Spain
11) Irenaeus
12) Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
13) Matthew 16
15) Has St. Peter returned to Jerusalem? The final resting place of Simon Peter
17) Pope Damasus I
18) Tyndale's Betrayal and Death
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In Joe Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress he said, “We the people are the government. You and I. Not some force in a distant capitol. Not some powerful force that we have no control over. It’s us! It’s ‘We the people’.” This was a profound restatement of the relationship between the American citizen and the American government. Biden was implying the two are synonymous, and that your dreams are the government’s dreams, and your desires are the government’s desires, and that you and the government do the same work and make the same sacrifices to make your dreams and desires a reality. It’s reminiscent of when President Obama said, “You didn’t build that”, implying that the government was there with you making your dreams come true. It’s a far cry from what Ronald Reagan said about the relationship between the individual and the government when he said, “the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’” Who is right about this relationship between the people and the government, Biden or Reagan? How does the idea of the separation of church and state prove Joe Biden is wrong, and how do the Bill of Rights also reinforce the fact that the government and the people are separate? Join the conversation and get answers to these questions and more on According2Sam episode #91.
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1) Princeps
2) Dominate
4) Louis XIV
5) Louis XVI
10) The Revolutionary Dishonesty of the “1619 Project”
11) Titles of Nobility Amendment
12) House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
13) Interdimensional hypothesis
14) Chi Rho
15) Gnosticism
16) Arianism
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In the middle of the Third Century the Roman Empire was in decline and on the verge of collapse. Many issues were contributing to the nadir of the great empire. It was a period of political instability, with many usurpers seizing the title of emperor. There were slave and peasant revolts, and parts of the Empire breaking off to declare their independence, which lead to civil wars. There was high taxation, economic depression, and debasement of the currency. All of this weakened the Roman Empire, and the barbarian tribes from the north seized the opportunity to invade. This only added to the crises. Several men worked to restore the Empire beginning with the Emperor Claudius Gothicus in 268, but it wasn't fully restored until the reign of Diocletian nearly 2 decades later. Diocletian initiated many reforms during his reign and created they largest bureaucracy that the Empire had ever known. One such reform that scholars refer to today as 'tetrarchy', was the most notable. It means the rule of four, and it was Diocletian's plan to share power throughout the massive empire. It also laid out a plan for secession to ensure the peaceful transition of power. How were the Founding Fathers of the United States influenced by Diocletian's reforms, and what impact does this history have on our lives today? Join the conversation and get answers to these questions and more on According2Sam episode #90.
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1) Crisis of the Third Century
5) Occult
7) AMIDST THE CROWDS IN ST PETER’S SQUARE, STANDS ANCIENT EGYPT
8) Sol Invictus
9) Saturnalia
10) Aleister Crowley
11) Aurelian
12) Probus
13) Dacia
14) Diocletian
15) Maximian
17) Galerius
18) Maxentius
20) Licinius
22) Edict of Milan