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TUCKER CARLSON, JESUITS & ELECTION FRAUD
Today's Show: TUCKER CARLSON, JESUITS & ELECTION FRAUD - 6.5.2024
Chris discusses an interview with Tucker Carlson and Michael Waller where they predict that a cabal of Jesuit lawyers at Georgetown Law School will seek to sabotage the 2024 election -- even if Trump wins. Can this really be the case? We discuss the evidence, and review an earlier claim from back in 2020. Known as "Italy-gate" (which had been debunked by mainstream media fact-checkers) where a former CIA agent argued that the Trump/Biden election had been rigged from the U.S. embassy in Rome. Could there be a connection?
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ROOKE: World Economic Forum Ramps Up Calls For ‘Comprehensive Transformation’ Of Food Supply
OPINION
COMMENTARY AND ANALYSIS WRITER
June 19, 20243:32 PM ET
The World Economic Forum (WEF) continues on its path of decarbonization, with its current focus on the world’s food supply.
The draconian organization founded by German engineer Klaus Swab wants to create a “comprehensive transformation” of how humans eat to combat climate change caused by the world’s growing population. The group says that while the renovation of the industrial food industry is already underway, it’s time for a “radical overhaul of the process,” or “reinvention,” to reach their carbon goals, starting with the type of protein we eat.
“A great example of Reinvention is alternative proteins. These sustainable replacements for dairy, meat, fish and eggs can reduce animal husbandry’s carbon, water and soil intensity, while meeting the growing demand for low-cost, nutrient-rich foods. Some alternative proteins rely on plant-based, cultured and precision fermentation, while other companies have even begun to use synthetic-biology proteins,” the WEF reported. (ROOKE: Horrifying Illegal Migrant Crime Exposes Falsehood Of Left-Wing Narrative)
Even more problematic than the industrialized goop they plan on feeding us in the future is their push to use AI technology to determine an individual’s dietary needs. The WEF calls this initiative “personalized nutrition.” On its face, the WEF seems interested in ensuring we eat foods based on our individual nutritional needs. However, they state that using AI technology to determine how much food someone can consume helps “enabl[e] sustainable new dietary habits.”
“Personalized nutrition can also minimize food waste by matching individuals with meal plans that use ingredients efficiently and effectively, reducing the overall environmental impact of food production and disposal,” the WEF states.
They not only want you to eat industrialized food slop instead of real meat, but their ideal world would allow for an intelligent computer system to determine how much food you eat rather than allowing self-control.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) continues on its path of decarbonization, with its current focus on the world’s food supply.
The draconian organization founded by German engineer Klaus Swab wants to create a “comprehensive transformation” of how humans eat to combat climate change caused by the world’s growing population. The group says that while the renovation of the industrial food industry is already underway, it’s time for a “radical overhaul of the process,” or “reinvention,” to reach their carbon goals, starting with the type of protein we eat.
“A great example of Reinvention is alternative proteins. These sustainable replacements for dairy, meat, fish and eggs can reduce animal husbandry’s carbon, water and soil intensity, while meeting the growing demand for low-cost, nutrient-rich foods. Some alternative proteins rely on plant-based, cultured and precision fermentation, while other companies have even begun to use synthetic-biology proteins,” the WEF reported. (ROOKE: Horrifying Illegal Migrant Crime Exposes Falsehood Of Left-Wing Narrative)
Even more problematic than the industrialized goop they plan on feeding us in the future is their push to use AI technology to determine an individual’s dietary needs. The WEF calls this initiative “personalized nutrition.” On its face, the WEF seems interested in ensuring we eat foods based on our individual nutritional needs. However, they state that using AI technology to determine how much food someone can consume helps “enabl[e] sustainable new dietary habits.”
“Personalized nutrition can also minimize food waste by matching individuals with meal plans that use ingredients efficiently and effectively, reducing the overall environmental impact of food production and disposal,” the WEF states.
They not only want you to eat industrialized food slop instead of real meat, but their ideal world would allow for an intelligent computer system to determine how much food you eat rather than allowing self-control.
New law requires all Louisiana public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments
Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom. (AP produced by Javier Arciga)
BY SARA CLINE
Updated 10:00 PM EDT, June 19, 2024
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom, the latest move from a GOP-dominated Legislature pushing a conservative agenda under a new governor.
The legislation that Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed into law on Wednesday requires a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in “large, easily readable font” in all public classrooms, from kindergarten to state-funded universities.
“If you want to respect the rule of law, you’ve got to start from the original lawgiver, which was Moses” who got the commandments from God, Landry said.
Opponents questioned the law’s constitutionality and vowed to challenge it in court. Proponents said the the measure is not solely religious, but that it has historical significance. In the language of the law, the Ten Commandments are “foundational documents of our state and national government.”
The posters, which will be paired with a four-paragraph “context statement” describing how the Ten Commandments “were a prominent part of American public education for almost three centuries,” must be in place in classrooms by the start of 2025.
Under the law, state funds will not be used to implement the mandate. The posters would be paid for through donations.
The law also “authorizes” but does not require the display of other items in K-12 public schools, including: The Mayflower Compact, which was signed by religious pilgrims aboard the Mayflower in 1620 and is often referred to as America’s “First Constitution"; the Declaration of Independence; and the Northwest Ordinance, which established a government in the Northwest Territory — in the present day Midwest — and created a pathway for admitting new states to the Union.
Not long after the governor signed the bill into law at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic School in Lafayette on Wednesday, civil rights groups and organizations that want to keep religion out of government promised to file a lawsuit challenging it.
The law prevents students from getting an equal education and will keep children who have different beliefs from feeling safe at school, the American Civil Liberties Union, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Freedom from Religion Foundation said in a joint statement Wednesday afternoon.
“Even among those who may believe in some version of the Ten Commandments, the particular text that they adhere to can differ by religious denomination or tradition. The government should not be taking sides in this theological debate,” the groups said.
The controversial law, in a state ensconced in the Bible Belt, comes during a new era of conservative leadership in Louisiana under Landry, who replaced two-term Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards in January. The GOP holds a supermajority in the Legislature, and Republicans hold every statewide elected position, paving the way for lawmakers to push through a conservative agenda.
Similar bills requiring the Ten Commandments be displayed in classrooms have been proposed in other states including Texas, Oklahoma and Utah. However, with threats of legal battles over the constitutionality of such measures, no state besides Louisiana has succeeded in making the bills law.
Legal battles over the display of the Ten Commandments in classrooms are not new.
In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a similar Kentucky law was unconstitutional and violated the establishment clause of the U.S. Constitution, which says Congress can “make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” The high court found that the law had no secular purpose but rather served a plainly religious purpose.
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Associated Press reporter Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, South Carolina, contributed.
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The story has been corrected to clarify that the time for gubernatorial action did not lapse. The governor signed the bill Wednesday.
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
The Tucker Carlson Encounter: J. Michael Waller
The Tucker Carlson Encounter: J. Michael Waller
Qanon76
In the summer of 2020, a group called The Transition Integrity Project met with a goal of determining the very worst outcome of the upcoming presidential election. Their final assessment, printed in the Washington Post, said a Donald Trump victory would be the end of the country. Their message was clear: Don't dare vote for Trump. TNC- J. Michael Waller "If Jan 6 is going to be your biggest case, why would you ignore the attempted pipe bombings on Capitol Hill that day."
Sunday, June 16, 2024
CBDC work advances globally
Embracing diversity, advancing together - results of the 2023 BIS survey on central bank digital currencies and crypto
BIS Papers | No 147 |
14 June 2024
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Ninety-four percent of surveyed central banks are exploring a central bank digital currency (CBDC). The survey suggests that central banks are proceeding at their own speed, taking diverse approaches and considering different design features. Over the course of 2023, there has been a sharp uptick in experiments and pilots with wholesale CBDCs – mainly in advanced economies (AEs), but various emerging market and developing economies (EMDE) also stepped up their wholesale CBDC work. Overall, the likelihood that central banks will issue a wholesale CBDC within the next six years now exceeds the likelihood that they will issue a retail CBDC. Central banks further enhanced their engagement with stakeholders to inform CBDC design. Many CBDC features are still undecided. Yet, interoperability and programmability are often considered for wholesale CBDCs. For retail CBDCs, more than half of central banks are considering holding limits, interoperability, offline options and zero remuneration. Differences exist between AEs and EMDEs, for example with respect to the potential use of a distributed ledger and transaction limits. On crypto, the survey indicates that, to date, stablecoins are rarely used for payments outside the crypto ecosystem. Moreover, about two out of three responding jurisdictions have or are working on a framework to regulate stablecoins and other cryptoassets.
JEL classification: E42, E58, O33
Keywords: central bank digital currencies, CBDC, digital innovation, cryptoassets, stablecoins, cross-border payments, interoperability, financial stability, regulation
The Summit Of The Future | Through The Lens - Episode 6
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Most of the words expressed here are Sound Doctrine, except for "the Seven Year Tribulation", The Rapture (Pretrib), and prophecy regarding the nation of Israel.
Saturday, June 15, 2024
The Renewing of the Mind
June 12, 1888
The natural, selfish mind, if left to follow out its own evil desires, will act without high motives, without reference to the glory of God or the benefit of mankind. The thoughts will be evil, and only evil, continually. The soul can be in a state of peace only by relying upon God, and by partaking of the divine nature through faith in the Son of God. The Spirit of God produces a new life in the soul, bringing the thoughts and desires into obedience to the will of Christ, and the inward man is renewed in the image of Him who works in us to subdue all things unto himself.
We have each of us an individual work to do, to gird up the loins of our minds, to be sober, to watch unto prayer. The mind must be firmly controlled to dwell upon subjects that will strengthen the moral powers. The youth should begin early to cultivate correct habits of thought. We should discipline the mind to think in a healthful channel, and not permit it to dwell upon things that are evil. The psalmist exclaims, “Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.” As God works upon the heart by his Holy Spirit, man must co-operate with him. The thoughts must be bound about, restricted, withdrawn from branching out and contemplating things that will only weaken and defile the soul. The thoughts must be pure, the meditations of the heart must be clean, if the words of the mouth are to be words acceptable to Heaven, and helpful to your associates. Christ said to the Pharisees, “O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.”
In the sermon on the mount, Christ presented before his disciples the far-reaching principles of the law of God. He taught his hearers that the law was transgressed by the thoughts before the evil desire was carried out in actual commission. We are under obligation to control our thoughts, and to bring them into subjection to the law of God. The noble powers of the mind have been given to us by the Lord, that we may employ them in contemplating heavenly things. God has made abundant provision that the soul may make continual progression in the divine life. He has placed on every hand agencies to aid our development in knowledge and virtue; and yet, how little these agencies are appreciated or enjoyed! How often the mind is given to the contemplation of that which is earthly, sensual, and base! We give our time and thought to the trivial and commonplace things of the world, and neglect the great interests that pertain to eternal life. The noble powers of the mind are dwarfed and enfeebled by lack of exercise on themes that are worthy of their concentration. “Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”
Let every one who desires to be a partaker of the divine nature, appreciate the fact that he must escape the corruption that is in the world through lust. There must be a constant, earnest struggling of the soul against the evil imaginings of the mind. There must be a steadfast resistance of temptation to sin in thought or act. The soul must be kept from every stain, through faith in Him who is able to keep you from falling. We should meditate upon the Scriptures, thinking soberly and candidly upon the things that pertain to our eternal salvation. The infinite mercy and love of Jesus, the sacrifice made in our behalf, call for most serious and solemn reflection. We should dwell upon the character of our dear Redeemer and Intercessor. We should seek to comprehend the meaning of the plan of salvation. We should meditate upon the mission of Him who came to save his people from their sins. By constantly contemplating heavenly themes, our faith and love will grow stronger. Our prayers will be more and more acceptable to God, because they will be more and more mixed with faith and love. They will be more intelligent and fervent. There will be more constant confidence in Jesus, and you will have a daily, living experience in the willingness and power of Christ to save unto the uttermost all that come unto God by him.
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Southern Baptists are poised to ban churches with women pastors. Some are urging them to reconsider
FILE - In this Wednesday, June 16, 2021, file photo, people attend the morning session of the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Nashville, Tenn. Southern Baptists gathering at their next annual meeting June 11-12, 2024, in Indianapolis will vote on whether to enact a constitutional ban on churches with women pastors. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
BY PETER SMITH
Updated 8:32 AM EDT, June 6, 2024Share
From its towering white steeple and red-brick facade to its Sunday services filled with rousing gospel hymns and evangelistic sermons, First Baptist Church of Alexandria, Virginia, bears many of the classic hallmarks of a Southern Baptist church.
On a recent Sunday, its pastor for women and children, Kim Eskridge, urged members to invite friends and neighbors to an upcoming vacation Bible school — a perennial Baptist activity — to help “reach families in the community with the gospel.”
But because that pastor is a woman, First Baptist’s days in the Southern Baptist Convention may be numbered.
At the SBC’s annual meeting June 11-12 in Indianapolis, representatives will vote on whether to amend the denomination’s constitution to essentially ban churches with any women pastors — and not just in the top job. That measure received overwhelming approval in a preliminary vote last year.
Leaders of First Baptist – which has given millions to Southern Baptist causes and has been involved with the convention since its 19th century founding — are bracing for a possible expulsion.
“We are grieved at the direction the SBC has taken,” the church said in a statement.
And it’s not alone.
By some estimates, the proposed ban could affect hundreds of congregations and have a disproportionate impact on predominantly Black churches.
The vote is partly the culmination of events set in motion two years ago.
That’s when a Virginia pastor contacted SBC officials to contend that First Baptist and four nearby churches were “out of step” with denominational doctrine that says only men can be pastors. The SBC Credentials Committee launched a formal inquiry in April.
Southern Baptists disagree on which ministry jobs this doctrine refers to. Some say it’s just the senior pastor, others that a pastor is anyone who preaches and exercises spiritual authority.
And in a Baptist tradition that prizes local church autonomy, critics say the convention shouldn’t enshrine a constitutional rule based on one interpretation of its non-binding doctrinal statement.
By some estimates, women are working in pastoral roles in hundreds of SBC-linked churches, a fraction of the nearly 47,000 across the denomination.
But critics say the amendment would amount to a further narrowing in numbers and mindset for the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, which has moved steadily rightward in recent decades.
They also wonder if the SBC has better things to do.
It has struggled to respond to sexual abuse cases in its churches. A former professor at a Southern Baptist seminary in Texas was indicted in May on a charge of falsifying a record about alleged sexual abuse by a student in order to obstruct a federal investigation into sexual misconduct in the convention.
SBC membership has dipped below 13 million, nearly a half-century low. Baptismal rates are in long-term decline.
The amendment, if passed, wouldn’t prompt an immediate purge. But it could keep the denomination’s leaders busy for years, investigating and ousting churches.
Many predominantly Black churches have men as lead pastors but assign pastor titles to women in other areas, such as worship and children’s ministries.
“To disfellowship like-minded churches ... based on a local-church governance decision dishonors the spirit of cooperation and the guiding tenets of our denomination,” wrote Pastor Gregory Perkins, president of the SBC’s National African American Fellowship, to denominational officials.
The controversy complicates the already-choppy efforts by the mostly white denomination to diversify and overcome its legacy of slavery and segregation.
Amendment proponents say the convention needs to reinforce its doctrinal statement, the Baptist Faith and Message, which says the office of pastor is “limited to men as qualified by Scripture.”
“If we won’t stand on this issue and be unapologetically biblical, then we won’t stand on anything,” said amendment proponent Mike Law, pastor of Arlington Baptist Church in Virginia.
Since Baptist churches are independent, the convention can’t tell them what to do or whom to appoint as a pastor.
But the convention can decide which churches are in and which are out. And even without a formal amendment, its Executive Committee has begun telling churches with women pastors that they’re out. That included one of its largest, Saddleback Church of California.
When Saddleback and a small Kentucky church appealed to the annual meeting in 2023, delegates overwhelmingly refused to take them back.
The amendment would give such enforcement actions more teeth.
Some churches with women pastors quit on their own in the past year. They range from Elevation Church, a North Carolina megachurch, to First Baptist of Richmond, Virginia, which had close SBC ties from the convention’s founding.
Law contended the issue has been a “canary in the coalmine” for liberal denominations, several of which began ordaining women and later LGBTQ+ people.
“Southern Baptists are facing a decisive moment,” he said in a video on a pro-amendment website. “Here’s the trajectory of doing nothing: Soon Southern Baptist churches will start openly supporting homosexual clergy, same-sex marriage and eventually transgenderism.”
Others point out that Pentecostal and other denominations have had women pastors for generations and remain theologically conservative.
Some SBC churches with women pastors are heavily involved with the convention, while others have minimal connections and identify more closely with historically Black or other progressive denominations.
Also, some SBC churches interpret the 2000 faith statement as only applying to senior pastors. As long as a the church leader is male, women can serve other pastoral roles, they say.
Such churches may leave if SBC leaders interfere with congregations following “their conscience, biblical convictions, and values by recognizing women can receive a pastoral gift from God in partnership with male leadership,” said Dwight McKissic, a pastor from Arlington, Texas, on the social media platform X.
Other churches say women can be in any role, including senior pastor, and churches can agree to disagree if they embrace most of the SBC faith statement.
That category includes First Baptist of Alexandria. Though its current senior pastor is male, it recognizes “God’s calling to ordain any qualified individual, male or female, for pastoral ministry,” the church said in a statement.
First Baptist leaders declined interview requests, but it has posted extensively about the issue on its website.
It said while it plans to send representatives to the SBC annual meeting, it was warned to expect a motion to deny them voting privileges.
“I do believe we need to be heard and represented,” Senior Pastor Robert Stephens told members in a video-recorded meeting.
The SBC’s top administrative body opposes the amendment. Investigating churches’ compliance would consume an unsustainable amount of time and energy over something that shouldn’t be a litmus test for fellowship, wrote Jeff Iorg, president of the SBC Executive Committee, in a Baptist Press commentary.
Baptist Women in Ministry, which began within the SBC in the 1980s but now works in multiple Baptist denominations, has taken note. The Rev. Meredith Stone, its executive director, said some women pastors within the SBC have reached out for support.
The group plans to release a documentary, “Midwives of a Movement,” about 20th century trailblazers for women in Baptist ministry, on the eve of the SBC meeting.
“As they are saying women have less value to God than men in the church, we want to make sure that women know they do have equal value and that there are no limits to how they follow Christ in the work of the church,” Stone said.
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A Great Foreboding
Volume 43 Issue Six June 2024
Last Trumpet Ministries · PO Box 806 · Beaver Dam, WI 53916
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“For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?”
I Cor. 14:8
A Great Foreboding
“Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.”
A Great Foreboding
“Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.”
Matthew 24:29-30
“Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.”
Revelation 1:7
I remember my father preaching many sermons about the last days and the end of the world when I was a young boy. Indeed, this was one of his chief concerns and is the reason he chose to call his ministry Last Trumpet Ministries. Our ministry’s name was inspired by I Corinthians 15:51-52, which tells us, “Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.” These verses are clarified by Paul’s writings in I Thessalonians 4:16-17, which further exhorts, “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” As such, the day when the last trump will sound has been a point of emphasis for this ministry for the last forty-three years.
Many of my father’s critics would deride him for his focus on the end times and scoff at the notion that the end is near. Yet, in recent years the attitudes of the people have changed. I believe this gradual transformation started in 2001 when the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City collapsed on September 11, 2001. The United States and much of the world would endure further trauma in 2008 with the devastating and demoralizing arrival of the Great Recession. The effects of this economic collapse would be felt for years. Then, just when it seemed as if the country had finally recovered from the recession, the world was blindsided by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. These world-changing events, along with the ongoing wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, plus fears about climate change, and the rapid development of artificial intelligence, have made it socially acceptable to talk about the end of the world. Against the backdrop of so much calamity, it no longer seems far-fetched or difficult to imagine.
This change in attitude is highlighted in a fascinating piece published by Study Finds on May 3, 2024, which declares in its headline, “Apocalypse goes mainstream: The end of the world is becoming normal conversation.” (1) One of the findings of the report is that the use of the word “apocalypse” has become especially common. In fact, the researchers who wrote the piece carefully studied news reports published between January 1, 1980, and December 31, 2023, by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Their research found that these three newspapers published articles about “apocalyptic concerns” 9,380 times within this time period. Interestingly enough, the research found that there are four prominent apocalyptic concerns commonly featured in mainstream news. These concerns are nuclear war, disease, climate change, and artificial intelligence, or AI. (2)
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