It is definitely because people that pay attention have awakened to the fact that the world is making that prophesied choice.

Evil is challenged because they have little left except to trumpet atrocities of degeneracy among us, as if they were the future. The time is even now... Some know it perfectly. Most others can sense it. Some relish in it for evil, some for good.

We are there. The "smoke" that obscures the evil is boiling from the bottomless pit, AKA the collective mind of mankind, which is the source of all deception.

As Paul Instructed his charges:

2 Tim 3:1-5
1 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.
2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God--
5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them. (NIV)

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Jim Stone opines on the obfuscation of the present media 'smokescreen'..

WOW, nothing in the news today for anyone who has a memory
Toeay is a classic example of news repeating itself
It is not worth it to go to every example and hunt out where it has been all said before, and it has repeated enough for most people to realize they heard it before. I am going to post a few noteworthy examples -

1. Pelosi wants Trump in prison. Top headline on Drudge. How many times have we heard either that, or another variant?

2. Amazon to deliver with drones. MY GOD, how many times have we heard that?

3. Youtube purges "hate". That's like having a kid announce every time he takes a bite of a candy bar, as if it is a totally unique experience that has never happened before. YES, the Youtube candy bar is vanishing. We all know that.

HERE'S A GOOD ONE: 4. Iran six months away from atomic bomb. HA HA, they have been saying that for 50 years and even since before the internet.

5. Putin and Xi love each other.

6. HBO to "push the envelope" in the realm of sexual depravity yet again. Gee, is that new?

7. Lots of boring political stuff we all know is B.S., like "Bernie is +4 on Trump."

8. Here is the one that set me off because it has been repeated so much: "Balloons to lift surveillance gear high in the sky" to spy on everyone. GEE, when was that a "new tech" headline? 1995, 1996, 7, 8, 9, 2001 etc. What a revelation.

9. Southern border flooded with unprecedented numbers of illegals. Folks, I'm not buying it. I won't disagree that there's major trouble, however, I live on a corridor where they would all have to go through and these stories don't make any sense. I am not seeing this happen. I think a lot of this reporting is to undermine Trump, and make him look ineffective. And it is not Trump if it is true, everyone knows it is corrupted judges and Dem fronted subversion anyway.

10. Gee, there's a repeat on the same page of Drudge: "Press freedom in downward spiral". Yes, Youtube is censoring, Drudge said it already, even today.

I thought I could rip this out real quick before taking Claudia to work, but I can't, there are too many examples, like "Dems putting Trump's mental health state under scrutiny" as if that is something new, they have tried this since 2016, "hackers can know what you are typing by hearing you type" - that's been a headline at least 5 times over the years - and so, with NOTHING in the news that is actually news because it is just a repeat of before, GEE, what am I going to post today?

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