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Irony Abounds As Woke Starbucks Forced To Close 16 Shops In Democrat-Controlled Liberal Cities Due To Violence Against Workers At Store Locations

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Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said Democratic mayors and city councils have ‘abdicated their responsibility’ in fighting crime and addressing mental illness, which has forced his company to shutter stores due to fears over employee safety.

How ironic is it that Far Left Starbucks is being forced to start shuttering stores in cities across America that are run by Democrats because the streets have become too violent and the safety of Starbucks workers cannot be guaranteed? This is what you get when wokeness is in charge, you get anarchy, violence, poverty and death. But it’s a really good real world illustration of what Socialism can do for you.

“But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.” Isaiah 32:8 (KJB)

If wokeism was a good thing, when people and companies embrace it they should prosper, but they don’t, they collapse and fall into ruin. Cities like Chicago, Portland and Seattle have become literal hellholes, turning once-thriving areas into block after block of burned out and shut down cautionary tales. Starbucks has long been anti-cop, anti-Israel and anti-Christian, on top of that their coffee tastes terrible. If terrorism had a flavor, it’d be Starbucks nasty, burnt-tasting coffee. Wouldn’t bother me a bit if all of their stores closed tomorrow. I’ll take Maxwell House anytime.

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz blames Dem-run cities for store closures

FROM THE NY POST: Schultz made the comments in leaked video that was posted to Twitter over the weekend by Ari Hoffman of KVI-AM talk radio based in Seattle. Last week, Starbucks announced it was closing 16 restaurants in various cities across the country due to what the company said was employee complaints of drug use and violent crime on the premises. Schultz said he believes the Seattle-based coffee chain will have to close “many more” locations.

“This is just the beginning,” said the interim chief executive, who came back to run the company earlier this year following the retirement of his predecessor, Kevin Johnson. “There are gonna be many more store closures.”

The leaked video of Schultz shows him addressing Starbucks employees. He told them that the company was “beginning to close stores that are not unprofitable.” Schultz said he was “shocked” to hear from employees that “one of the primary concerns that our retail partners [baristas] have is their own personal safety.”

“And then we heard about the stories that go along with it about what happens in our bathrooms,” Schultz said.

In 2018, Starbucks implemented an “open bathrooms” policy after a store manager had two black men arrested for not ordering coffee while sitting down in a Philadelphia location. Video of the arrest went viral, and Starbucks apologized following intense backlash. Now the company is giving store managers discretion to alter the policy due to complaints that Starbucks bathrooms are a magnet for drug abusers and homeless people.

In the video leaked over the weekend, Schultz cited the “issues of mental illness, homelessness, and crime.”

“Starbucks is a window into America,” Schultz said. “We are facing things in which the stores were not built for.”

Schultz then took Democrat-run cities to task for not providing solutions.

“In my view, at the local, state, and federal level, these governments across the country and leaders — mayors, governors, and city councils — have abdicated their responsibility in fighting crime and addressing mental illness,” he said. READ MORE

Woke Starbucks Closing 16 Stores As Crazed Liberals Force Shutdowns

People are suggesting there is a “dose of instant karma” as Starbucks is set to close 16 stores across the United States by the end of July due to safety concerns, says Sky News host Rita Panahi.

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READY FOR IT: Is Superstar Taylor Swift About To Use Her Massive Platform And Social Media Influence To Get Michelle Obama Elected President In 2024?

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Taylor Swift posted a short message on Instagram encouraging her 272 million followers to register to vote. Afterward, the website she directed her fans to — the nonpartisan nonprofit Vote.org — recorded more than 35,000 registrations, according to the organization. What about Michelle Obama?

We live in unbelievable times, the end times, a period in which everything is up for grabs and power is being redistributed to an astonishing degree. Pop singer Taylor Swift last week asked her followers to register to vote and they did in record numbers. The 35,252 new registrations on National Voter Registration Day were the most since 2020, the organization said, and a 23% jump over last year. The number of 18-year-olds registered was more than double 2022. 13,000 people signing up every 30 minutes. That’s influence, and a whole lot of power to effect change. How much change? Let’s see.

“For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.” 1 Corinthians 4:20 (KJB)

So what if, and I’m just thinking out loud here, what if someone like Taylor Swift, who I imagine appeals largely to Democrats and Liberals, would connect up with someone like, say, Michelle Obama, and use her stunning social media influence to get her elected president of the United States? Think about this. Taylor Swift attended one football game in support of NFL star Travis Kelce, and sat in the box with his mom. No big deal, right? In 24 hours, Kelce saw 300,000 new followers to his social media, his merch sales up 400%, female viewership of that game up 63%, and now his jersey is the #5 best-selling jersey in all the NFL. Can that power elect Michelle Obama as our next president? You better believe it, in a landslide, and you just might see it. You heard it here first.

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When you contribute to this fundraising effort, you are helping us to do what the Lord called us to do. The money you send in goes primarily to the overall daily operations of this site. When people ask for Bibles, we send them out at no charge. When people write in and say how much they would like gospel tracts but cannot afford them, we send them a box at no cost to them for either the tracts or the shipping, no matter where they are in the world. We have a Gospel Billboard program. We are now broadcasting Bible studies, Podcasts and a Sunday Service 5 times a week, thanks to your generous donations. All this is possible because YOU pray for us, YOU support us, and YOU give so we can continue growing.

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CLOWARD PIVEN: New York City Preparing For A ‘Worst Case Scenario’ As Cost To House Illegal Immigrants To Reach $1Billion Dollars Over The Next 3 Years

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New York City is preparing for the worst — extending its contract with local hotels to help house migrants for up to three more years at a staggering added cost of more than $1 billion. This is the Cloward-Piven Strategy.

Liberals have a utopian vision of all society on the same level – no rich, no poor – and everyone living together in peace and harmony. Klaus Schwab says it like this, “you will own nothing and be happy”. Yes, this has been the dream of Communists, Socialists and Fascists for well over a century now, and in New York City they are finding out just what a nightmare that really is. They promise you a Utopia, but just kidding, you get a Dystopia instead.  That’s not a ‘bait-and-switch’, that’s the plan. Just ask Cloward and Piven to tell you all about it.

While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.” 2 Peter 2:19 (KJB)

What we’re looking at, of course, is the implementation of something called the Cloward-Piven Strategy, created in the 1960’s by Liberal Socialists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven.

The Cloward-Piven Strategy To Collapse America:

  1. Healthcare– Control healthcare and you control the people. HAPPENING NOW
  2. Poverty – Increase the Poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them to live. HAPPENING NOW
  3. Debt – Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty. HAPPENING NOW
  4. Gun Control – Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government. That way you are able to create a police state. HAPPENING NOW
  5. Welfare – Take control of every aspect of their lives. (Food, Housing, and Income) HAPPENING NOW
  6. Education – Take control of what people read and listen to and take control of what children learn in school. ALREADY DONE
  7. Religion – Remove the belief in the God of the Bible from the Government and schools. ALREADY DONE
  8. Class Warfare – Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to take (Tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor. HAPPENING NOW

NYC now preparing to spend staggering extra $1B on hotels alone to shelter migrants for three more years

FROM THE NY POST: And the revised contract’s projected new total $1.365 billion price tag — nearly five times what the original deal called for — would just pay the rental fees to more than 100 hotels converted into emergency migrant shelters.

It doesn’t include the cost of city facilities and other rented sites housing homeless asylum seekers pouring into the Big Apple by the thousands every week. Critics — including even some Democrats — raged that the Adams administration’s contract with the New York City Hotel Association, which is set to be extended from this year through August 2026, reeked of a taxpayer giveaway.

“Why are we extending this contract for three years? It sends the message of not wanting to reduce this migrant population,” said Nicole Gelinas, a senior fellow with The Manhattan Institute.

Gelinas said the city created “one big monopoly” by giving the hotel industry an overarching contract without competing bids that could lower costs.

Red Dawn 2023: The Invasion

Are we looking at a migrant crisis, or any army of immigrants? You tell me. 

Democratic Queens Councilman Robert Holden seethed, “The migrant crisis has evolved into a financial boondoggle, with quietly extended contracts fattening the pockets of a few at the taxpayer’s expense.

“It’s time to halt this fiscal recklessness. Let’s send those [migrant] buses to the White House and remember that ‘Right to Shelter’ shouldn’t be misconstrued as a global entitlement,” he said, referring to New York City’s law guaranteeing shelter to the homeless, including asylum seekers.

A spokeswoman with the city Department Department of Social Services/Homeless Services told The Post on Monday, “For over a year now, the city has worked to address this humanitarian crisis with an all of government approach, and with thousands of asylum seekers arriving each week, we are constantly reassessing our needs.

“This proposal for contract extension is designed to provide capacity as needed, but it also provides the flexibility to scale back or terminate if circumstances on the ground change.” READ MORE

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the state will be deploying an additional 150 National Guard members to assist with the migrant crisis.

Now The End Begins is your front line defense against the rising tide of darkness in the last Days before the Rapture of the Church

Please continue to pray for us, and for wisdom for me especially, as we continue taking steps to print the NTEB branded King James Bible for our free Bible and Bibles Behind Bars program. It is exciting and intimidating at the same time. If the Lord has prospered your financially, we ask you to donate to help us continue to send out free Bibles at this level, and even higher than we are at the moment. It takes a lot of prayer, and a lot of resources to do all this. Praise the Lord we are doing it, all of us together, labouring in the Lord’s harvest field. TO THE FIGHT!!!

When you contribute to this fundraising effort, you are helping us to do what the Lord called us to do. The money you send in goes primarily to the overall daily operations of this site. When people ask for Bibles, we send them out at no charge. When people write in and say how much they would like gospel tracts but cannot afford them, we send them a box at no cost to them for either the tracts or the shipping, no matter where they are in the world. We have a Gospel Billboard program. We are now broadcasting Bible studies, Podcasts and a Sunday Service 5 times a week, thanks to your generous donations. All this is possible because YOU pray for us, YOU support us, and YOU give so we can continue growing.

But whatever you do, don’t do nothing. Time is short and we need your help right now. The Lord has given us an open door with a tremendous ‘course’ for us to fulfill that will create an excellent experience at the Judgement Seat of Christ. Please pray for our efforts, and if the Lord leads you to donate, be as generous as possible. The war is REAL, the battle HOT and the time is SHORTTO THE FIGHT!!!

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The Cultural Affairs Committee In New York City Have Called For The Immediate Removal Of Statues Of George Washington For Reparations Task Force

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Money should be found to remove statues of America’s founding fathers like George Washington in New York City as a ‘Reparations Task Force’ committee is created

America is being hollowed out, eaten away on the inside by forces conspiring against her just as we first told you when Now The End Begins first started back in 2009. We wrote that “for generations the Bible has warned of the coming End of Days, and you are now living in that time. America, a nation raised up by the Hand of God to spread the gospel and to be a beacon of Freedom for people around the world is about to be forever silenced by those sworn to protect her – her leaders.” What we told you was coming then is now almost complete here in 2023.

“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.” Proverbs 29:2 (KJB)

Our Founding Fathers were far from perfect men, they all had their faults and flaws. But God used them to create a nation around the King James Bible that is nearly as unique on Earth as the nation of Israel is. No other nation in modern times has been as lauded and as celebrated as America, and rightly so. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and all the others we remember to this day for the amazing work that they started which is still in effect 247 years later. But this is what the enemies of America hate, they hate our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution and the men who put pen to ink to birth it all.

For 14 years now, we’ve been warning you that America is being removed brick by brick, and right now we are about out of bricks.

New York City threatens statues of Washington, Columbus and Jefferson over slavery links and mulls reparations task force

FROM THE DAILY MAIL UK: The city’s Cultural Affairs Committee has demanded the eviction of George Washington and Christopher Columbus and others from public spaces because of links to slavery, along with the establishment of a reparations task force. The plans before the city council on Tuesday come after Mayor Eric Adams warned that New Yorkers face a ‘financial tsunami’ from the cost of providing for more than 10,000 new migrants a month.

But they have prompted fury as the city scratches around for resources with libraries, meals for senior citizens and childcare all now at risk. ‘This is little more than an attempt by the radical left to rewrite our nation’s history,’ said City Councilor Joann Ariola.

‘The Founding Fathers and the others who worked so hard to establish this great country should be celebrated, not eliminated from memory.’

The Committee plans to remove any public statue or work of art that ‘depicts a person who owned enslaved persons or directly benefited economically from slavery, or who participated in systemic crimes against indigenous peoples or other crimes against humanity’. Dozens of prominent statues across the city are at risk including those depicting Thomas Jefferson and former governor Peter Stuyvesant.

Anti-racism training would be introduced for contractors and city employees, and a task force would ‘consider the impact of slavery and past injustices for African Americans in New York City and reparations for such injustices’.

‘Explanatory plaques’ would be installed next to any statue not removed and on schools named after them.

Meanwhile an injunction was filed overnight against the Mayor’s plans to set up a shelter for migrants at the historic Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. More than 110,000 asylum seekers have arrived in the city since the Spring of 2022 with New Yorkers paying an average of $385 a night per migrant family.

Mayor Adams has pleaded for federal help in footing the bill and lashed out at Greg Abbott as a ‘madman’ after the Texas governor bussed thousands from his state. READ MORE

New York City Wants To Remove Statues of George Washington and Others To Create Reparations Task Force

The city council is advancing a bid to remove statues of controversial historical figures, such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Christopher Columbus.

Now The End Begins is your front line defense against the rising tide of darkness in the last Days before the Rapture of the Church

Please continue to pray for us, and for wisdom for me especially, as we continue taking steps to print the NTEB branded King James Bible for our free Bible and Bibles Behind Bars program. It is exciting and intimidating at the same time. If the Lord has prospered your financially, we ask you to donate to help us continue to send out free Bibles at this level, and even higher than we are at the moment. It takes a lot of prayer, and a lot of resources to do all this. Praise the Lord we are doing it, all of us together, labouring in the Lord’s harvest field. TO THE FIGHT!!!

When you contribute to this fundraising effort, you are helping us to do what the Lord called us to do. The money you send in goes primarily to the overall daily operations of this site. When people ask for Bibles, we send them out at no charge. When people write in and say how much they would like gospel tracts but cannot afford them, we send them a box at no cost to them for either the tracts or the shipping, no matter where they are in the world. We have a Gospel Billboard program. We are now broadcasting Bible studies, Podcasts and a Sunday Service 5 times a week, thanks to your generous donations. All this is possible because YOU pray for us, YOU support us, and YOU give so we can continue growing.

But whatever you do, don’t do nothing. Time is short and we need your help right now. The Lord has given us an open door with a tremendous ‘course’ for us to fulfill that will create an excellent experience at the Judgement Seat of Christ. Please pray for our efforts, and if the Lord leads you to donate, be as generous as possible. The war is REAL, the battle HOT and the time is SHORTTO THE FIGHT!!!

“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;” Titus 2:13 (KJB)

“Thank you very much!” – Geoffrey, editor-in-chief, NTEB

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