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Year-End 2025Writing this column for this Special Year-End Edition of Wisconsin Christian News has been my most difficult piece yet. In my review and deep reflection of the many significant events that occurred and continue to play out as we embrace the start of yet another year, I found a deeply disturbing consistency that involves every major news report we see, hear, and read. I became so alarmed at my discovery as I prepared my column that I completely abandoned my intended topic, which does not comport well with allocated print space and submission deadlines. I’m sure that my insistence to change topics caused WCN editor Rob Pue more problems than he deserves, but it’s that important.
Broadly, this alarming consistency can best be described as “weaponized programming,” and it’s one of the most dangerous and destructive weapons being used against Christians and conservatives right now. It not only explains nearly everything we’ve experienced in our lives but has become exceedingly more dangerous and deadlier in 2025. Once you see it, you won’t be able to unsee it.
Please follow along with me as I first present you with a few basic questions. Your honest answers will not only illustrate my findings and help you identify what’s really happening, but provide you with the tools to overcome these insidious assaults by demonically driven enemies.
Have you looked at headlines and news reports that left you feeling that something is wrong or “off” about things? Have the reports left you with a feeling that you are powerless, even within your own life, or perhaps left you feeling a sense of despair, or even dread? Except for God, do you feel a sense of hopelessness, perhaps loneliness, or even a lack of control over things in your own life? I suspect that if you answered honestly, you have felt this way or perhaps are feeling this way now. If so, I’ve got good news for you. You’re not alone in these feelings and emotions, and you’re not crazy or paranoid in your thoughts.
You — we — are the intended targets of a very specific program of control over our minds and the thoughts that guide our beliefs and actions. The most important battlefield this year has not been at some location you can find on a map, but it exists within each of us. It’s a war for our minds, our attention, our focus, and even our beliefs. Ultimately, it is a battle for our very souls.
This battle is certainly not new, and you’ve been aware of it if you’ve been paying attention. However, I found that the war that is being waged today is much different than ever before. It’s been newly refined, is being more aggressively implemented, and more strategically deployed, especially since President Trump’s January 2025 inauguration. Architects of the globalist, demonically driven agenda consider his second term a formal declaration of war against those who are responsible for his return.
From Pills to Pixels
Have you noticed the dramatic increase in the militant hostility of certain people within our population, especially this year? Some flippantly dismiss this modification of behavior colloquially as TDS, or “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” Others use memes that describe or depict certain behaviors, such as “liberalism is a mental disorder.” Some are humorous, but all are superficial and dangerously dismissive of the behavior modification and mental programming by the global power structure pushing a demonic ideology.
One troubling example can be seen in the aftermath of the assassination of Christian conservative influencer Charlie Kirk on September 10, 2025. You’ve noticed the spiritual bankruptcy on display by those who laugh at his murder, celebrate the carnage, and promote the same or similar fates upon others. Many hold positions of authority, including teachers, lawyers, and even some politicians. Others hold positions of influence, such as social media influencers, actors, and even members of the clergy.
Have you noticed, however, a more subtle example that is arguably far more dangerous if it’s not recognized for what it is? There is a push to blame his murder on Israel, Jews, or Zionists. If you’ve been watching, two “camps” have emerged across social media and within society — those who embrace and promote antisemitism, and those who don’t. The former group is firmly “dug in” and is viciously attacking the latter. This polarization involves many recognizable names such as Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson and has been relentlessly dominating social media and podcasts. The debate has already exceeded its borders and has grown into a much broader polarization between Christians and Jews. What people don’t realize, however, is that this is all being done by design.
Most readers are familiar with the Tavistock Institute, an organization founded in 1921. Its “official” objective was to help WWI soldiers recover from shell shock, now known as PTSD. When they found that trauma doesn’t merely break people, but makes them mentally suggestable, they began to use trauma as a means of control over people. They ran war psychology (PSYOPS) on civilians and learned that they could control large segments of the population via such manipulation.
Enter the CIA, successor to the OSS, and the development of MK-ULTRA, a trauma-based mind control program used against American citizens. In the cold war era, they added the use of drugs such as LSD as a tool of mind and behavior control. Then came Operation Mockingbird, a CIA program that took control of newsrooms, newspapers, and television stations across the nation. We’re told these programs ended, but they continue today under different names and methods. Instead of drugs or pills, they use pixels. Instead of direct infiltration into newsrooms, they use algorithms to control your social media news feed, controlling what you watch, and even how you react.
Today, their “pharmacy” is in your brain; they use your own neurochemicals and neurotransmitters against you, to control how you feel. They control the “dosage” by controlling the number and type of headlines, hashtags, notifications, and videos you see. We are being programmed to chase validation, followers, and status in a virtual world.
With each “swipe,” each pause, every time your eyes linger on an image, text, or video on your device, your nervous system is being mapped out by an algorithm. The algorithms don’t merely make recommendations, they condition us. They learn what spikes your cortisol and stress chemicals in your brain. They also control your dopamine levels and continue to learn and adjust until they completely capture your nervous system, controlling how you respond to the information and stimuli they provide to you. Through this process, you’re being taught what to like, what to hate, and what to fear, and how to respond. They have now succeeded in controlling your behavior.
It’s not TDS or liberal bias. The mental health crisis is not accidental; it’s the intended byproduct of the programming to which we are subjected. Their goal is to control you, because a distracted, exhausted, and divided population is one that cannot resist tyranny. Don’t fall for the manipulation.
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