The NewsLord Speaks

Via Infowars.com

~ ITEM: The Drudge Report; wiki on the guy

~ ITEM: Matt Drudge Visits the Alex Jones Show: Full Video Interview, Oct 6, 2015

~ ITEM: The Alex Jones Show (VIDEO Commercial Free) Wednesday October 7 2015.. Jones discusses interview for first portion of show.

~ ITEM: Google: “Drudge = Jones“

~ ITEM: MATT DRUDGE BLISTERS CORPORATE MEDIA, HILLARY CLINTON, AND ‘SICK’ AMERICANS IN RARE INTERVIEW

~ ITEM:  Cracked: 7 Insane Conspiracies That Actually Happened

~ MATT DRUDGE is The Internet News-Man, and now, he’s making news.

The other day, Mr. Drudge made a bombshell appearance on the Alex Jones show (technically, he was offscreen with a microphone). The global news-sifter has himself become newsworthy by saying what he thinks, what the U.S. elites don’t want you to know or think about– especially in the current election cycle.

Like any good news aggregator, Drudge scans the web and online newspapers and sniffs out the trends, the buried stories, and whatever the sockpuppet media and their political masters don’t want people to ponder– the news which peeps out and then gets spiked, or lost in the newsalanche which surrounds us 24/7.

Listen to the whole interview yourself– it’s news gold– whether you are interested in the American scene or not, it is very interested in us, and will shape our present and future. For example, the giant still-secret Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement even now being trumpeted by current Prime Minister Harper, and would-be national leader Prince Justin, is a world-sized globalist sovereignty, privacy, copyright & internet control conspiracy, alongside the trade provisions. Shhh.

In any case, the notoriously reclusive Drudge has made national headlines as well as Alex Jones stories galore with this latest interview. The usual Progressive suspects (Salon, HuffPo, Soros’ minions @ Media Matters, and others) immediately started casting aspersions, deflections, and name-calling. Hmm, says Binks (a former [church] news-aggregator)– this must be something worth paying attention to if the Manure-Flinging Hooting Monkey Brigade are hooting and flinging monkey manure.

What Him Say?

Drudge:

* Obama, Hillary, Give Up Your Guns First

* They Are Going To Shut Down Online Free Speech (especially for dissidents)

* The American public is “sick” and easily exploited by homogeneous corporate media

* On the future of digital copyright: “I had a Supreme Court justice tell me to my face it’s over for me. Said, ‘Matt, it’s over for you. They’ve got the votes now to enforce copyright law. You’re out of there. They’re gonna make it so headlines–you can’t even use headlines.’”

* Hillary is old and sick– and the media needs to talk about her lesbian affairs

* Facebook and Twitter are ‘Internet ghettos’ designed to eradicate the open range of independent thought that was once the Internet

* Obama could have easily been impeached following the IRS targeting scandal

If you don’t watch the video, here’s a good summary of the interview.

We Conspire

A postscript on conspiracy theorists: the biggest conspiracy propagated by behemoth-sized government and our politicians, their media servants, and foisted upon a trusting public, is that there are no conspiracies– Truuuust Uuuuus!— and anyone who says that there is must be a nut, an extremist, and off their meds. I’d reply that “It’s a conspiracy to say there are no conspiracies.” Bam.

Humans constantly conspire– it’s there in the Bible. We talk secretly together, manage affairs and events to their benefit, betray one another, set up ways of getting money, power, things, pleasures, whatever the goal is. Some conspiracies may be good, but most are not. History is largely made up of conspiracies– secrets kept secret by those in power, until their goals are reached or until everybody involved is dead and learning what happened doesn’t matter any more.

After all, many conspiracies turn out to be true. If you dismiss them all, you are not paying attention to history, current affairs, reality, or the way people actually are. Further, you will only understand the surface of things as they are presented to you, and not the deeper inner working of yourself, others, history, and our current life. Having said that, some conspiracies are more about being in love with conspiracies, secret ‘insider’ knowledge, and wearing tinfoil hats.

A Little List

Take a deep breath. Here a few devices and desires of men and women down the centuries.

How about– Central banking as a massive fraudulent conspiracy (including The U.S. Federal Reserve) since the founding of The Bank of England in the late 17th century. The Dreyfus Affair in France. The Mafia in America. The Gunpowder Plot. King David Versus Uriah The Hittite. The 1917 Russian Revolution. The current U.S. proxy-war in Syria. The CIA’s MK-ULTRA mind-control testing on people (which also took place in part at McGill University in Montreal, on Canadian mental patients). Facebook/ Twitter censorship programs. The secret Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement. Judas Versus Jesus. Area 51, DARPA, and The NSA. The French Revolution. The U.S. Secret Smuggling Ops in Benghazi.   The ‘Military Industrial Complex‘ (Eisenhower). The international interest rate & inflation conspiracy. Operation Ajax coup in Iran (1953). The American IRS versus conservatives Conspiracy. The Business Plot against FDR in 1933. The terror-supporting Operation Gladio in Europe. The Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiments on Blacks, 1933-1972. Political assassinations in America. The Iran-Contra-Cocaine Affair. The Gulf Of Tonkin fraud. The 1944 Plot Against Hitler. Operation Snow White— Scientology versus Washington DC, 1970s. Most of what Henry Kissinger ever did. Operation Paperclip ( smuggling Nazi scientists into the U.S. after World War 2). Conspiring in the Bible. Those are just the really big ones. I could write a very very large book.

Of course, the best real conspiracies are the ones we won’t know about until Judgement Day, before the Throne of Almighty God, unto who all hearts be open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid. Gulp. ~

So Saith Teh..

Binks

Why, That’s Unpossible!

The HMS Jervis Bay; slightly weaponized Ocean-Liner With An Attitude.

~ ITEM: HMS Jervis Bay, 1922-1940; and Convoy HX 84

~ ITEM: HMS Jervis Bay – Quartermaster Sam Patience video Interview; the HMS Jervis Bay YouTube Page

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkAJDMRd7k2iNapEb_WGqWQ

~ ITEM: Official Site: hmsjervisbay.com; the KMS Admiral Scheer

~ ITEM: The heroism of Captain Fegen and the crew of the Jervis Bay

~ ITEM: Captain Pettigrew and the men of the S.S. Beaverford

~ ITEM: CBC– The fearless, near-forgotten story of HMS Jervis Bay; and Caithness Archives– HMS “Jervis Bay” Armed Merchant Cruiser

~ ITEM: If the Gods Are Good: The Epic Sacrifice of the HMS Jervis Bay (Book Review)

~ ITEM: The church can and will survive persecution. It will not survive faithlessness. This is both a theological and historical truth

~ ITEM: OnePeterFive– What is Liberty?, by CHRISTOPHER J. MALLOY; and Hilary White, No Third Way: The Fundamentals of Rationality

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~ SO WHAT EXACTLY DOES victory look like? Giant Roman triumph, with floats and captives, plunder, and conquering troops? Or an undignified mocking of the defeated, bared butts, raspberries, and ‘Neener! Neener!’? Dignity, and proper respect for the conquered?

Two World War 2 sea captains make me think that in some cases, there’s another way.

Binky’s Departed Loved Ones

My maternal Grandparents are interred in a cemetery overlooking the beautiful Grand Bay in West St. John, New Brunswick. Only a gravestone or two away from them is another stone, recording that the deceased was part of the crew of the HMS Jervis Bay.

That what-now, you say? How very last millennium!

Grand Bay, New Brunswick, Canuckistan

A British Bulldog

The HMS Jervis Bay was a converted British liner off the England-to-Australia circuit, loaded up with some surplus turn of the century 6″ naval popguns and a few machine guns for convoy duty, and called– almost ironically– an ‘Armed Merchant Cruiser’.  She was refitted for military service in the port of Saint John, New Brunswick.

The year 1940 had been a tsunami of defeats and disasters: Belgium, Holland, and France had fallen, followed by the miracle of Dunkirk; Norway & Denmark conquered, and Sweden left ‘free’ if she continued to supply steel and other war matériels to Germany.

All that late Summer, the shattered and almost weaponless British armies rescued from Dunkirk along with civilian militias and the tireless RAF had guarded Britain from a seaborne German invasion– Operation Sealion— which very nearly happened. Britain stood alone. Some counselled surrender to the obvious new order of things: but Winston Churchill, the new Prime Minister, just wouldn’t hear of it.

In fact, Herr Hitler had jumped the German war-plans by 3 years (thank heavens), but still had enough u-boats and commerce-raiding pocket battleships to seriously threaten the survival of Britain. Merchant convoys were the only remaining life-line.

Our Story Begins

Convoy Assembly, Bedford Basin, Nova Scotia

The chilly but ice-free wartime port of Halifax, late October 1940– 37 merchant ships gather in Bedford Basin, and set sail with their single escort, the HMS Jervis Bay, out into the stormy & U-Boat haunted North Atlantic. Bound for Liverpool, England, Convoy HX-84 sails into history.

The whole convoy had to go the speed of the slowest ship, and to stay together despite wind, fogs, night, storms, and sometimes the questionable seaworthiness or antiquity of the merchant vessels, some of which had served likewise in World War One. The HMS Jervis Bay had to herd these cats for the whole 2700+ mile trans-Atlantic voyage.

Worst Possible Day

One late November afternoon, 8 days later later and south-southwest of Iceland, the deep-laden ships of HX-84 struggled eastwards against cold and heavy seas.

Convoy commander Captain Edward Fegen of the Jervis hears from the lookouts: they’ve spotted something even worse than the u-boats: a foreboding silhouette– incoming fire reveals the German pocket-battleship Admiral Scheer, angling in for a leisurely turkey-shoot on Convoy HX-84.

Doom. A very nasty wolf chasing down a parcel of sheep and one semi-sheep-dog. The Admiral Scheer was a  fast heavy cruiser with 6 powerful 11-inch guns, each able to fire every 17 seconds effectively out to 20 000 yards, or 11 miles. 38 juicy targets just ahead.

White flag? Run away? 

Captain Fegen of the Jervis Bay had a decision to make, and little time to make them.

“Here’s our convoy to protect, and we’re it, lads– All hands to battle stations! Signal ‘Scatter the convoy, maximum speed’!”; and then came the surprising orders: “Turn hard to port, and full speed towards that enemy cruiser! Make smoke! All guns, fire as you bear! Let’s see if we can’t draw  her fire.”

Captain of Jervis Bay, Edward Fegen, VC

With her retro-fitted guns roaring more as defiance than damage-dealing weapons, Captain Fegen steered the Jervis between the enemy and the fleeing convoy. The eager German Captain Theodor Krancke needed to hit the convoy before nightfall. A collision or lucky shot could harm the Admiral Scheer: best sink the Jervis right away.

“Our captain knew just what we were going to get, but it didn’t matter”, one crew member later recalled. The Armed Merchant Cruiser drew heavy enemy fire as towering fountains of water exploded around the Jervis Bay, whose own shells mostly fell short of the enemy.

Victory In Defeat: Just A Little Longer!

Behind the ocean-liner turned Armed Merchant Cruiser, her convoy scattered to starboard at various speeds; every minute of distraction and delay meant lives and ships and supplies saved. The Scheer’s 11-inch shells pounded into the Jervis, which was soon crippled, aflame, unable to steer or communicate– but for almost half-an-hour the outgunned 15-thousand ton ship had preoccupied the guns of the German pocket-battleship, as the daylight faded away, and had even managed to damage the German radar & ranging with a very lucky hit.

While the surviving crew abandoned the drifting liner for lifeboats, flotsam, and the bitter North Atlantic water, the pocket-battleship finally sailed past, and began to destroy 5 of the 37 ships of HX-84 in the twilight. But Captain Krancke’s frustration was far from over.

The S.S. Beaverford

A little-known or remembered chapter of this story is the other convoy ship which fought the Germans. Following Fegen’s example, Captain Pettigrew and the men of the S.S. Beaverford, a Canadian freighter, likewise sailed interference against the Admiral Scheer, and bought even more valuable time for the convoy, allowing the other ships to scatter in the darkness. For over four-and-a-half hours, the Beaverford fired her two small guns, until she was sent to the bottom with torpedoes from the Scheer around 10:30pm. All hands were lost.

Sadly enough, there’s no movie, medals, novels, or memorials for the valiant S.S. Beaverford & her lost captain & crew.

The Aftermath

Captain Fegen himself was killed at his station, but received a posthumous Victoria Cross for his actions. Sixty-eight survivors of Jervis Bay‍ ’​s crew of 254 were picked up by the neutral Swedish ship Stureholm (three later died of their wounds). One survivor went on to live his life in St. John New Brunswick, and to be buried near my Grandparents (I believe it may have been “MORROW. Everett. R.C.N.R. Scullion. Saint John, New Brunswick)”.

The Jervis Bay inspired many books, including Alistair MacLean’s novel H.M.S. Ulysses, and a short story in his book “The Lonely Sea”; the poem “The Ballad of Convoy HX84“, amongst others; and the final action of the Jervis Bay was portrayed in the movie San Demetrio London (1943, entire movie online here); and various standing memorials in Bermuda, Wick, London, and Saint John, New Brunswick.

Any Point, At All, Binks?

What does victory, or defeat, look like?  Not always how we expect.

The seemingly captive and defeated Lord Jesus went down to a dreadful and criminal death, surrounded by mockery and the apparent victory of power over goodness. But in truth, it was a universe & heaven-changing sacrifice. God’s spotless Lamb for His flock; the one for the many; the Lord for his people.

It didn’t look like that, on Good Friday, or Holy Saturday, of course. ‘Another rebel rabble-rouser crushed‘, thought Rome; ‘Blasphemer dealt with‘, thought his enemies in the religious establishment. ‘So much for all that‘, thought the fickle crowds. ‘We thought he really was The One, the promised Messiah‘ thought most of the disciples. The came the bright morning after the Sabbath rest.

For surpassing all we could ask or imagine, God has the last word about Good Friday on Easter Morning when the Lord Jesus rose again bodily from death, and then came Pentecost day, and all the days from those days to this. One sacrifice, once, for all mankind forever. Jesus The Lord wins us eternal victory, through– not despite– his own suffering, death, and resurrection.

Victory In Defeat: There’s More Than One Way To Win

Sacrifice, courage, fighting on come death or defeat, not counting the cost– the HMS Jervis Bay and the S.S. Beaverford & their crews did not surrender, and did what seemed to be impossible: they put themselves in the way, at the right place & time to do the maximum good. As Christians, our prayers and plans and efforts neither arise from, nor go forth into emptiness. “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done”– ultimately, it’s all God’s business, and if we strive to be faithful, to speak up and act and pray and not despair in the face of evil’s apparent victories, He will bless and bring forth– even from our weak and wavering and unworthy faith– wonderfully good things.

Those incoming blessings may be elsewhere, and for others, or for future generations; they may be for us, and such a time as this. That’s His business, not ours.

As for me, I sail in the spirit of the HMS Jervis Bay and the S.S. Beaverford; with the angels and archangels, martyrs, saints, apostles, and all the company of heaven, following Jesus, the author and completer of our faith, under the victory-banner of the blessed and glorious Trinity– even the Father, and the Son, and The Holy Ghost, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen. ~

So Preacheth Teh Binks

Christ Pantocrator (“All-Powerful”) Cathedral of Monreale, Palermo, Sicily