Monday, September 30, 2024
Why Are Evangelicals and Bible Believers Silent on Trump's Actions?
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Donald Trump pays tribute to Saint John Paul II:
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Sunday, September 29, 2024
Saturday, September 28, 2024
Unveiling Dark History: Adventist Past, Nazi Era and the Eugenics Movement | Dr. Gerhard Erbes
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Can history teach us lessons for the 2020s? In this compelling presentation, we dive deep into Germany's Adventist past during the Nazi era, uncovering the troubling intersections between religion, eugenics, and Darwinian secular ideology. How did the Adventist community respond to the rise of eugenics and the influences of Darwin's theories to justify horrific acts? What lessons can we draw for today’s world? Do we recognize the repeating history patterns? How doe the Adventist community respond to the rise of eugenics in the world today?
Friday, September 27, 2024
In Belgium, pope apologizes for clergy abuse; prime minister says words alone are insufficient
Seated between Belgium's Queen Mathilde and King Philippe, Pope Francis addresses government and civic leaders and members of the diplomatic corps in the Grand Gallery of the Castle of Laeken in Brussels Sept. 2. Francis will spend three days in Belgium. (CNS/Lola Gomez)
by Christopher White
Vatican Correspondent
Brussels — September 27, 2024
Pope Francis on Sept. 27 kicked off a three-day trip to Belgium by asking forgiveness for the church's shameful record on clergy abuse, but was met with a challenge by the country's prime minister that "words alone do not suffice."
"We also need concrete steps," said Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo. "Victims need to be heard. They need to be at the center. They have a right to truth. Misdeeds need to be recognized."
The prime minister's unusually sharp remarks spotlighted an issue that has loomed large over the pope's visit here ever since it was first announced and where the local church is reeling from the fallout of a damning 2023 documentary on clergy abuse.
The documentary has prompted the Belgian Federal Parliament and the regional Flemish assembly to launch investigations into the church's handling of cases and to revisit how the country's law enforcement potentially botched an earlier abuse inquiry some 15 years ago.
'Victims need to be heard. They need to be at the center. They have a right to truth. Misdeeds need to be recognized.'
—Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo
"When something goes wrong we cannot accept cover-ups," the prime minister told the pope, in front of an audience of the country's royal family and other government officials. "To be able to look into the future, the church needs to come clean on its past."
Also offering a sharp condemnation of the church's record on abuse was King Philippe, who said that it has taken "far too long" for the cries of victims to be heard and acknowledged by the church.
The church in Belgium, said the king, "must continue resolutely and relentlessly" to root out abuse and provide care for survivors.
Loma Linda University Encourages Learning From Roman Catholicism in Upcoming Meeting
September 26, 2024 Gerry Wagoner
Somebody got the memo.
Two weeks ago, Ganoune Diop said this:
The Roman Catholic church changed in 1965, and now they are champions of religious liberty.
Dignitatis humanae (1965 Roman Catholic document) is a beautiful text on religious liberty. Adventists have to be educated in what is happening in the world so that we will not uh slander people you know.
Jesus was uh has a ecumenical mission.
Diop has given himself the task of forging ecumenical alliances under the guise of public affairs. So enamored is he with the United Nations, that he even held a meeting in 2019 to encourage other churches to support the UN Agenda 2030 sustainable development initiative. Unbelievable.
Following the lead of the General Conference PARL department, the Loma Linda University Religion Department is hosting a meeting on October 12, to heal the ‘turbulent relationship’ between Adventism and Catholicism. Details:
Date: October 12, 2024
Time: 3:00pm
Location: Damazo Amphitheater (Centennial Complex, 24760 Stewart Street)
Speakers:
Reinder Bruinsma, PhD
Denis Fortin, PhD
Mr. Romanus Ike
The Seventh-day Adventist and Roman Catholic Churches have had a turbulent relationship through the years. But in today’s world many people see them as having much more in common than what separates them. The panel will explore the intriguing question of what the two churches can learn from each other and what that might imply for the future. Reinder Bruinsma will premier his new book on the topic at the close of the program.
Sponsored by Loma Linda University Center for Understanding World Religions and Humanities Program [another word for this is ecumenism].
Somebody got the memo.
Two weeks ago, Ganoune Diop said this:
The Roman Catholic church changed in 1965, and now they are champions of religious liberty.
Dignitatis humanae (1965 Roman Catholic document) is a beautiful text on religious liberty. Adventists have to be educated in what is happening in the world so that we will not uh slander people you know.
Jesus was uh has a ecumenical mission.
Diop has given himself the task of forging ecumenical alliances under the guise of public affairs. So enamored is he with the United Nations, that he even held a meeting in 2019 to encourage other churches to support the UN Agenda 2030 sustainable development initiative. Unbelievable.
Following the lead of the General Conference PARL department, the Loma Linda University Religion Department is hosting a meeting on October 12, to heal the ‘turbulent relationship’ between Adventism and Catholicism. Details:
Date: October 12, 2024
Time: 3:00pm
Location: Damazo Amphitheater (Centennial Complex, 24760 Stewart Street)
Speakers:
Reinder Bruinsma, PhD
Denis Fortin, PhD
Mr. Romanus Ike
The Seventh-day Adventist and Roman Catholic Churches have had a turbulent relationship through the years. But in today’s world many people see them as having much more in common than what separates them. The panel will explore the intriguing question of what the two churches can learn from each other and what that might imply for the future. Reinder Bruinsma will premier his new book on the topic at the close of the program.
Sponsored by Loma Linda University Center for Understanding World Religions and Humanities Program [another word for this is ecumenism].
East Coast port strike looms for first time since 1977
Here's what to know.
By Kate Gibson
Edited By Alain Sherter
Updated on: September 26, 2024 / 11:41 PM EDT / CBS News
Thousands of dockworkers at every major East and Gulf coast port are girding to strike starting early next week, threatening to close trade gateways that handle about half of all goods shipped in containers in and out of the U.S.
Negotiations between the union representing dockworkers and a shipping industry group representing terminal operators and ocean carriers have been stalled for months, with both sides this week issuing conflicting statements about their willingness to bargain.
The United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) has filed an unfair labor practice with the National Labor Relations Board requesting "immediate injunctive relief — requiring the union to resume bargaining — so we can negotiate a deal," the alliance said Thursday.
The NLRB confirmed it had received the unfair labor practice charge, which is being docketed by its regional office in Newark, New Jersey. The charge will appear on the agency's website in the next few days, after which an investigation would begin.
Experts say a shutdown could severely hamper the flow of goods and raise shipping costs. Any spike in such expenses could be passed on to consumers just as U.S. inflation normalizes, and even potentially hinder the Federal Reserve as it finally pivots to lowering interest rates.
Here's what to know about the labor fight, which would be the first mass work stoppage at eastern ports in nearly half a century.
What are the key issues in the labor dispute?
The union representing 45,000 dockworkers, the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), is threatening to strike at ports from Massachusetts to Texas if a new labor deal with the USMX isn't reached before the current contract expires at midnight on September 30. A walkout would be the first East Coast dock strike since 1977.
A total of 14 ports involving some 25,000 workers could be affected by the strike, according to USMX: Baltimore; Boston; Charleston, South Carolina; Jacksonville, Florida; Miami; Houston; Mobile, Alabama; New Orleans; New York/New Jersey; Norfolk, Virginia; Philadelphia; Savannah, Georgia; Tampa, Florida; and Wilmington, Delaware.
Thursday, September 26, 2024
What America’s history can teach us about debates on religious freedom and its importance for democracy
The decline in church attendance has not resulted in a diminished Christian presence in American public life. selimaksan/E+ via Getty images.
Published: September 25, 2024 8:27am EDT
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Supporters of both major U.S. political parties tend to claim their presidential candidate is the “real” Christian or the “better” Christian or just the “true” Christian.
For a majority of white evangelical protestants, Trump is the good Christian. Christians for Kamala, a newly created group of self-identified Christians who support the Democratic nominee, say that her campaign embodies the “compassionate heart of Jesus and his teachings.”
Yet, most American adults agree that religion should be separate from government. This widely shared belief is a cornerstone of religious freedom. As a scholar of religious freedom, I have studied the complex and ever-evolving role of religion in American politics. I argue that this election year, while the Christian character of each candidate is discussed everywhere, religious freedom, one of the core freedoms of American democracy, is not.
The case of Ezra Stiles Ely
America’s history of religious freedom is filled with stories that are instructive for our current moment. One such instructive lesson comes from the early 19th century.
Is not the Church of Rome the Babylon of the Book of Revelation?
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Union with Rome
By Christopher Wordsworth (bp. of Lincoln.) · 1866
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Security State Endorses Kamala; Zelensky & Shapiro Campaign in PA; New Israel/U.S. War...
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About Ganoune Diop's Claim that The GC Never Promoted the C-19 Jab . . .
September 23, 2024 Fulcrum7 Staff
In June of this year, Ganoune Diop (Religious Liberty Director of the General Conference) experienced a sudden attack of myocarditis while in Europe.
He was flown back to the US where he spent over 50-days in Johns Hopkins hospital. He was placed in a coma and near death. After 8 weeks he was released from the hospital. Two weeks ago he was in Nairobi, where he spoke at the Newlife SDA church there.
After the church service, there was a religious liberty panel discussion, of which Diop was one of four participants. During the panel discussion, Diop stated that the General Conference / SDA Church never promoted the C-19 vaccine. See it for yourself at 40:36.
“The GC (Seventh-day Adventist Church General Conference) Never Promoted the Vaccine.”
True or false witness?
In this video, Mark Finley said that Seventh-day Adventist members who prefer natural immunity could be doing so for selfish reasons. 20:30
“Peace today is the real battle”, says French president at Sant'Egidio meeting
Sant'Egidio held its annual “Meeting for Peace” in Paris. “Peace is only possible in coexistence,” French President Emmanuel Macron told delegates.
September 24th, 2024 at 08:55 am (Europe\Rome). Updated September 24th, 2024 at 10:51 am (Europe\Rome)
France's President Emmanuel Macron (C-R) and founder of the catholic charity Sant'Egidio community Andrea Riccardi (C-L) pose for a photo at the International Meeting for Peace in Paris, France, 22 September 2024. (Photo by EPA/MAXPPP)
Thousands gathered in Paris for two days of reflection for Sant'Egidio's annual “Meeting for Peace” centered on the theme “Imagining Peace.” The idea to host the 2024 edition in Paris originated two years ago, when French President Emmanuel Macron was invited as a speaker at the meeting.
The event opened with several speeches. Andrea Riccardi, founder of the Community of Sant'Egidio, sounded the alarm: “For decades, the culture of peace was a powerful reference. But now, it has evaporated.” Sant’Egidio now tracks 59 conflicts globally. In Europe, the memory of the tragedies of the 20th century is fading, and many political leaders are confined to a narrow realism.
After listening to the Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury, Catholic Archbishop Laurent Ulrich of Paris, and France’s Chief Rabbi, Haïm Korsia, Emmanuel Macron spoke for 25 minutes. He mentioned current tragedies but did not offer any concrete proposals.
Thousands gathered in Paris for two days of reflection for Sant'Egidio's annual “Meeting for Peace” centered on the theme “Imagining Peace.” The idea to host the 2024 edition in Paris originated two years ago, when French President Emmanuel Macron was invited as a speaker at the meeting.
The event opened with several speeches. Andrea Riccardi, founder of the Community of Sant'Egidio, sounded the alarm: “For decades, the culture of peace was a powerful reference. But now, it has evaporated.” Sant’Egidio now tracks 59 conflicts globally. In Europe, the memory of the tragedies of the 20th century is fading, and many political leaders are confined to a narrow realism.
After listening to the Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury, Catholic Archbishop Laurent Ulrich of Paris, and France’s Chief Rabbi, Haïm Korsia, Emmanuel Macron spoke for 25 minutes. He mentioned current tragedies but did not offer any concrete proposals.
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
What Is Climate Week?
The annual convening of Climate Week in New York has become one of the largest globally for climate reform, but can the events shore up meaningful commitments amid the worsening effects of global warming?
Expert Brief by Alice C. Hill
September 20, 2024 11:40 am (EST)
What is UN Climate Week?
Climate Week, which will be held from September 22 to September 29, was first launched in 2009 at New York’s Morgan Library to prepare negotiators for the annual UN-sponsored climate convening, the Conference of the Parties (COP). The event lacks the UNGA’s formality, insistence on protocol, and entrenched bureaucracy, offering instead some six hundred events and activities aimed at climate action.
Expert Brief by Alice C. Hill
September 20, 2024 11:40 am (EST)
Youth protest in New York City as part of climate week. Erik McGregor/LightRocket/Getty Images
This September, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) will gridlock New York City. So will Climate Week. Claiming to be the largest of its kind, the annual convocation of climate activists, scientists, academics, and business and political leaders is scheduled to coincide with the meeting of world leaders. Their goal is to spur greater action on climate change, despite mixed results.
This September, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) will gridlock New York City. So will Climate Week. Claiming to be the largest of its kind, the annual convocation of climate activists, scientists, academics, and business and political leaders is scheduled to coincide with the meeting of world leaders. Their goal is to spur greater action on climate change, despite mixed results.
What is UN Climate Week?
Climate Week, which will be held from September 22 to September 29, was first launched in 2009 at New York’s Morgan Library to prepare negotiators for the annual UN-sponsored climate convening, the Conference of the Parties (COP). The event lacks the UNGA’s formality, insistence on protocol, and entrenched bureaucracy, offering instead some six hundred events and activities aimed at climate action.
What did Pope Francis say in Singapore about religions as paths to God?
Image: Long Thiên from Wikimedia Commons
Pastor Hal MayerSpeaker / Director
Tuesday September 24th, 2024
The Catholic World Report, by Christopher R. Altieri: There’s a meme—or a class of them—been making the rounds on the innerwebz a good while now, riffing on a prompt: “You know you’re too [X] when …” etc. Someone needs to do one for last week’s Catholic Internet Kerfuffle over Pope Francis’s remarks to young people in Singapore.
Crikey, what did he say that was so awful?
Well, that is a reasonable question, it turns out.
It is two reasonable questions, as a matter of fact.
“What did he really say?” is one, and that wasn’t immediately clear to anyone who didn’t hear him say what he said and understand it.
“Was it really so awful?” is another, but the two got jumbled together and generated a whole lot of heat, including several accusations of heresy and even apostasy from people who ought to know better.
The crux of the matter, ahem, is the question of whether there is more than one path that actually leads to God. The answer to that is—or may be—a simple “No.” Still, the issue behind the question is the relationship of Christianity to other religions, and that’s … complicated.
Basically, Christianity is true: All salvation is through Christ, alone, and the Church that Christ founded teaches everything necessary for salvation; other religions attain at best a partial and distorted understanding of God and the universe.
What Francis said was: Tutte le religioni sono un cammino per arrivare a Dio. “All religions are path[way]s to reach God.” Msgr. Christopher Washington of the Secretariat of State’s English Section did an admirable job rendering the off-the-cuff remark in the moment, offering: “Every religion is a way to arrive at God.”
Notate bene: He did not say they all get a fellow where he’s meant to go, not on their own. His use of an extended comparison likening religions to “languages” or “idioms” may have suggested something like the idea that it is a matter of indifference which path one takes or happens to be taking just now. Accounting for that as a misimpression is fairly straightforward, even if Francis will bear all the responsibility and some of the blame for it.
Pastor Hal MayerSpeaker / Director
Tuesday September 24th, 2024
The Catholic World Report, by Christopher R. Altieri: There’s a meme—or a class of them—been making the rounds on the innerwebz a good while now, riffing on a prompt: “You know you’re too [X] when …” etc. Someone needs to do one for last week’s Catholic Internet Kerfuffle over Pope Francis’s remarks to young people in Singapore.
Crikey, what did he say that was so awful?
Well, that is a reasonable question, it turns out.
It is two reasonable questions, as a matter of fact.
“What did he really say?” is one, and that wasn’t immediately clear to anyone who didn’t hear him say what he said and understand it.
“Was it really so awful?” is another, but the two got jumbled together and generated a whole lot of heat, including several accusations of heresy and even apostasy from people who ought to know better.
The crux of the matter, ahem, is the question of whether there is more than one path that actually leads to God. The answer to that is—or may be—a simple “No.” Still, the issue behind the question is the relationship of Christianity to other religions, and that’s … complicated.
Basically, Christianity is true: All salvation is through Christ, alone, and the Church that Christ founded teaches everything necessary for salvation; other religions attain at best a partial and distorted understanding of God and the universe.
What Francis said was: Tutte le religioni sono un cammino per arrivare a Dio. “All religions are path[way]s to reach God.” Msgr. Christopher Washington of the Secretariat of State’s English Section did an admirable job rendering the off-the-cuff remark in the moment, offering: “Every religion is a way to arrive at God.”
Notate bene: He did not say they all get a fellow where he’s meant to go, not on their own. His use of an extended comparison likening religions to “languages” or “idioms” may have suggested something like the idea that it is a matter of indifference which path one takes or happens to be taking just now. Accounting for that as a misimpression is fairly straightforward, even if Francis will bear all the responsibility and some of the blame for it.
Monday, September 23, 2024
SDA Church board issues a statement about Conrad Vine
The whole sermon quoted above:
Unthinkable ll - Conrad Vine
Sandpoint SDA
Streamed live on Sep 11, 2021
'We are here to bring multilateralism back from the brink' - UN chief
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More Agenda 2030 Multilateralism
John Adams's letter to Thomas Jefferson regarding the Jesuits
President John Adams wrote to his successor Thomas Jefferson, in 1816:
"Swarms of them will present themselves under more disguises ever taken by even a chief of the Bohemians, as printers, writers, publishers, school teachers, etc. If ever an association of people deserved eternal damnation, on this earth and in hell, it is this Society of Loyola. Yet, with our system of religious liberty, we can but offer them a refuge..."
President Thomas Jefferson answered his predecessor: "Like you, I object to the Jesuits' reestablishment which makes light give way to darkness".
NOTE: They both died on 4th of July, 1826, as America celebrated 50 years of independence.
Sunday, September 22, 2024
Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance Between the Vatican, the CIA, and ...
Note: Video contains Vulgar Language (in one sentence)
Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance Between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia (Full Audiobook)
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Dec 24, 2023In this disturbing exposé, journalist Paul L. Williams describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, the Sicilian and US mafias, and the Vatican to thwart the possibility of a Communist invasion of Europe...
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Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance Between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia (Full Audiobook)
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Dec 24, 2023In this disturbing exposé, journalist Paul L. Williams describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, the Sicilian and US mafias, and the Vatican to thwart the possibility of a Communist invasion of Europe...
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Global Digital Compact
Global Digital Compact
An Open, Free & Secure Digital Future for All
Background
The Global Digital Compact was introduced in the Secretary-General’s Our Common Agenda report in response to Member States’ Declaration on the Commemoration of the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the United Nations (A/RES/75/1). The Common Agenda proposed a Global Digital Compact to be agreed at the Summit of the Future in September 2024 involving all stakeholders. Building on his recommendations in the Common Agenda report, the Secretary-General published a policy brief on the Global Digital CompactPDF. This brief is designed to support the preparation and negotiation process leading up to the Summit of the Future, where the Compact will be a key focus.
The General Assembly, through decision 77/568, has outlined commitments to lead open, transparent and inclusive intergovernmental consultations on a Global Digital Compact. The Compact, if intergovernmentally agreed, will form one of the main outcomes of the Summit of the Future and will be annexed to the Pact for the Future. The Co-facilitators leading the intergovernmental negotiations are Sweden and Zambia.
Catholic Comedian Jim Gaffigan to Host Al Smith Dinner; Trump, Harris to Attend
The Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, first held in 1945, is organized to raise money for charitable causes in the Archdiocese of New York.
Comedian Jim Gaffigan arrives at a June 24, 2023 comedy performance. (photo: Neil Grabowsky / Montclair Film, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons)
Tyler Arnold/CNANews
September 9, 2024
Six-time Grammy-nominated Catholic comedian Jim Gaffigan will host the 2024 Al Smith Dinner on Oct. 17, an annual event organized by the Archdiocese of New York that the two major presidential candidates — former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris — are expected to attend.
Gaffigan posted a copy of an invitation on X that lists Trump and Harris as guests along with the stand-up comedian listed as master of ceremonies. In his post, Gaffigan joked that he was unfamiliar with the names of the two presidential candidates.
“I’m so honored to be MC-ing this year’s Al Smith Memorial Dinner on Oct. 17,” Gaffigan said. “Too bad I don’t recognize those two names in the middle of the invitation. Anyone ever heard of them?”
The Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, first held in 1945, is organized to raise money for charitable causes in the archdiocese. In 2023, the archdiocese raised $7.1 million for people in need. The black-tie affair is named after the first Catholic to be nominated for president by a major party — four-term New York Gov. Al Smith, who was the Democratic Party’s 1928 presidential nominee.
Six-time Grammy-nominated Catholic comedian Jim Gaffigan will host the 2024 Al Smith Dinner on Oct. 17, an annual event organized by the Archdiocese of New York that the two major presidential candidates — former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris — are expected to attend.
Gaffigan posted a copy of an invitation on X that lists Trump and Harris as guests along with the stand-up comedian listed as master of ceremonies. In his post, Gaffigan joked that he was unfamiliar with the names of the two presidential candidates.
“I’m so honored to be MC-ing this year’s Al Smith Memorial Dinner on Oct. 17,” Gaffigan said. “Too bad I don’t recognize those two names in the middle of the invitation. Anyone ever heard of them?”
The Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, first held in 1945, is organized to raise money for charitable causes in the archdiocese. In 2023, the archdiocese raised $7.1 million for people in need. The black-tie affair is named after the first Catholic to be nominated for president by a major party — four-term New York Gov. Al Smith, who was the Democratic Party’s 1928 presidential nominee.
Gaffigan, who has acted in dozens of movies and has performed numerous stand-up comedy specials, has been a staunch critic of Trump.
The Progressive Suicide Cult Is Rolling Out The Welcome Mat For The Third World
The Progressive Suicide Cult Is Rolling Out The Welcome Mat For The Third World
by Tyler Durden
Sunday, Sep 15, 2024 - 07:15 PM
There's no way around it, the open borders issue has become the key social issue of the 2024 election cycle and perhaps the most concerning problem of our era. Nearly every election poll shows the economy and immigration as the deciding factors in who Americans will vote for.
Foreign policy has recently become a close third on the list with fear of escalating war with Russia, and Democrats have tried to distract by adding abortion to the mix but the public isn't taking the bait (Note to Democrats: Parking a mobile abortion clinic outside your convention is a bad look no matter how you spin it). The immigration debate continues to dominate US discourse and the vast majority of conservatives and independents want the flood of illegals to stop.
Most Democrats, on the other hand, still consider immigration to be a non-issue and continue to support making it easier for illegal migrants to become citizens.
In cities like New York, Washington DC and Chicago the dangers of open immigration are readily apparent. Democrat sanctuary cities are cesspools with rising crime, rising homelessness, crippled welfare programs and fleeing businesses. Things are so bad that NYC is paying migrants up to $5000 a pop just to get out of the packed homeless shelters and find permanent housing elsewhere. This is, of course, after Mayor Eric Adams warned that New York cannot take in more migrants.
So, leftist politicians admit the migrant crisis is destroying their cities, yet they offer even greater incentives for migrants to illegally enter the country? The political left refuses to change course in the face of overwhelming evidence that immigration is a net negative.
Sunday, September 15, 2024
Ryan Wesley Routh, Would-be Trump Assassin, Fought in Ukraine, Supports War
Published Sep 15, 2024 at 5:42 PM EDTUpdated Sep 15, 2024 at 7:04 PM EDT
By Barney Henderson AND Kaitlin Lewis
A suspect is in custody after an apparent assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida.
The suspect was identified as Ryan Wesley Routh, aged 58, officials told The Associated Press.
Routh's support for Ukraine, past criminal offenses
CNN chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst John Miller reported Sunday afternoon that Routh's social media accounts have focused on his "self-proclaimed involvement" in the war in Ukraine, including his supposed effort to recruit soldiers to fight in the conflict. Routh also claimed to have fought in Ukraine as it continues to hold off Russia's invasion.
Miller said that Routh has been living in Hawaii and was formerly a construction worker in North Carolina. The suspect has also reportedly been previously arrested eight times, mostly for minor offenses.
Routh appears to have previously spoken with The New York Times about his effort to recruit Afghan soldiers who fled the Taliban to fight in Ukraine. At the time of the report, which was published on March 25, 2023, Routh told the Times that he had spent several months in Ukraine in 2022.
A Semafor report published on March 10, 2023, cited Routh as the head of the International Volunteer Center (IVC) in Ukraine, a private organization that works to "empower volunteers" and other non-profit groups that work to "enhance the distribution of humanitarian aid throughout Ukraine," according to the IVC's website.
The Associated Press (AP) reported that Routh was convicted in 2002 of possessing a weapon of mass destruction, per online North Carolina Department of Adult Correction records. While the documents reviewed by AP did not provide details about the case, a December 2002 story by News & Record in Greensboro, North Carolina, said that a man with the same name was arrested after a three-hour standoff with police. That report said that Routh was charged with carrying a concealed weapon and possessing a weapon of mass destruction, "referring to a fully automatic machine gun."
Ryan Wesley Routh speaking about the Russia-Ukraine War in 2022
AK-47 pointed into golf course
AK-47 pointed into golf course
Saturday, September 14, 2024
Pope: Both US presidential candidates hold anti-life views
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Both candidates hold anti-life views?
That one candidate in particular believes that Abortion is Health Care is more accurate .
Friday, September 13, 2024
Thursday, September 12, 2024
Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us!
Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us!
THE-PROTESTANT-TRUTH-SOCIETY
14. Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.
15. And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
16. O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
"yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might (turn from our iniquities*), and (understand thy truth^)."
The answer to this problem; "for from the first day that thou didst (set thine heart to understand^), and to (chasten thyself before thy God*), thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words." "I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth"
Daniel 14-16 of Chapter 9 are referencing the times of the destruction of Jerusalem at the end of the first century A.D, although, its relevance to us in the 21st century is not to be underestimated!
Protesters Clash With Police After Storming Mexico’s Senate Over ...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Illegal migrants are ‘disappearing’ into America: Brad Coe
Illegal migrants are ‘disappearing’ into America: Brad Coe
Former NY Homeland Security Adviser Michael Balboni and Kinney County, TX Sheriff Brad Coe discuss the border crisis as migrant crime continues to impact multiple U.S. cities.
Behind the Catholic Right’s Celebrity-Conversion Industrial Complex
Bad Faith
From Russell Brand to JD Vance to Candace Owens, what happens when the Catholic Church chases influencers—and their legions of followers—down the rabbit hole of the right?
By Illustration by September 10, 2024
Illustration by MARC BURCKHARDT.
On Thursday, May 30, 593 years after Joan of Arc was burned at the stake, Candace Owens came to Scottsdale to take up her sword. It was the feast day of St. Joan, and there was an evening Mass at Phoenix’s Joan of Arc Church, then a trek to the suburban Hilton, where an upstart group named Catholics for Catholics was throwing a party to welcome Owens “home.” The group, founded in 2022 to declare non-Catholic Republicans “more Catholic” than their Democratic opponents, was presenting Owens its Joan of Arc Award for “giving Christ the King his proper due.”
It was a month out from Owens’s April announcement that she’d joined the Catholic Church and two months since she’d been fired by the right-wing Daily Wire. The events weren’t unrelated.
As a pundit and livestream host with an audience of millions, Owens has built a career premised on outrage. Before 2016 she’d been one among many writers peddling women’s-interest hot takes. But when she leapt right that year—after liberals criticized her plan to create a registry of online trolls—she found new support on the alt-right. She made videos declaring she didn’t care about Charlottesville and urged fellow Black voters to wage a “Blexit” from the Democratic “plantation.” She wore matching “White Lives Matter” T-shirts with Kanye West just before he began praising Hitler, then stayed largely silent when he did.
It only followed that Owens’s conversion would come wrapped in controversy too, namely her very public split with the Daily Wire. The controversy centered on her repeated use of the phrase “Christ is king,” a mantra with a contested legacy among Catholics but which in recent years has become associated with the young men who shout it the loudest—the far-right “groyper” movement that follows white nationalist livestreamer Nick Fuentes. Owens denounced the comparison as guilt by association, but her other recent comments—about WWII Germans being the victims of a “Christian Holocaust,” “gangs” of Hollywood Jews, and her taunt that the Daily Wire’s Jewish cofounder Ben Shapiro couldn’t “serve both God and money”—didn’t help her insistence that she was just making a statement of faith. In late March, the company announced it had parted ways with Owens, with one former colleague, Andrew Klavan, a Jewish convert to Christianity, suggesting she’d been fired for antisemitism, including her “Christ is King” tweets. (The Daily Wire did not respond to a request for comment.)
A bonanza of speculation arose about who might be next: Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, Trump himself?
From Russell Brand to JD Vance to Candace Owens, what happens when the Catholic Church chases influencers—and their legions of followers—down the rabbit hole of the right?
By Illustration by September 10, 2024
Illustration by MARC BURCKHARDT.
On Thursday, May 30, 593 years after Joan of Arc was burned at the stake, Candace Owens came to Scottsdale to take up her sword. It was the feast day of St. Joan, and there was an evening Mass at Phoenix’s Joan of Arc Church, then a trek to the suburban Hilton, where an upstart group named Catholics for Catholics was throwing a party to welcome Owens “home.” The group, founded in 2022 to declare non-Catholic Republicans “more Catholic” than their Democratic opponents, was presenting Owens its Joan of Arc Award for “giving Christ the King his proper due.”
It was a month out from Owens’s April announcement that she’d joined the Catholic Church and two months since she’d been fired by the right-wing Daily Wire. The events weren’t unrelated.
As a pundit and livestream host with an audience of millions, Owens has built a career premised on outrage. Before 2016 she’d been one among many writers peddling women’s-interest hot takes. But when she leapt right that year—after liberals criticized her plan to create a registry of online trolls—she found new support on the alt-right. She made videos declaring she didn’t care about Charlottesville and urged fellow Black voters to wage a “Blexit” from the Democratic “plantation.” She wore matching “White Lives Matter” T-shirts with Kanye West just before he began praising Hitler, then stayed largely silent when he did.
It only followed that Owens’s conversion would come wrapped in controversy too, namely her very public split with the Daily Wire. The controversy centered on her repeated use of the phrase “Christ is king,” a mantra with a contested legacy among Catholics but which in recent years has become associated with the young men who shout it the loudest—the far-right “groyper” movement that follows white nationalist livestreamer Nick Fuentes. Owens denounced the comparison as guilt by association, but her other recent comments—about WWII Germans being the victims of a “Christian Holocaust,” “gangs” of Hollywood Jews, and her taunt that the Daily Wire’s Jewish cofounder Ben Shapiro couldn’t “serve both God and money”—didn’t help her insistence that she was just making a statement of faith. In late March, the company announced it had parted ways with Owens, with one former colleague, Andrew Klavan, a Jewish convert to Christianity, suggesting she’d been fired for antisemitism, including her “Christ is King” tweets. (The Daily Wire did not respond to a request for comment.)
A bonanza of speculation arose about who might be next: Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, Trump himself?
Monday, September 09, 2024
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KAMALA, WALZ & ISLAM - 9.5.24 - Noise Of Thunder Radio
Thursday, September 5, 2024 at 7:53PM
Today's Show: KAMALA, WALZ & ISLAM - 9.5.2024
Chris discusses the current drive to make Kamala Harris the next president of the United States. Will the deep state allow Donald Trump to win? We also discuss the choice of Tim Walz as the vice presidential candidate. Vice President Harris announced a program to combat "Islamophobia" across America, while Governor Walz oversaw the change of the flag of Minnesota to give it the appearance of the flag of Jubaland, Somalia -- where Islam is the official religion. Have they been chosen by the deep state to advance Islam in the United States?
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Saturday, September 07, 2024
The Testimonies Slighted
Chapter 5—The Testimonies Slighted
Healdsburg, California,
June 20, 1882
Dear Brethren and Sisters in Battle Creek,
I understand that the testimony [Reference is here made to the preceding article.] which I sent to Brother -----, with the request that it be read to the church, was withheld from you for several weeks after it was received by him. Before sending that testimony my mind was so impressed by the Spirit of God that I had no rest day or night until I wrote to you. It was not a work that I would have chosen for myself. Before my husband's death I decided that it was not my duty to bear testimony to anyone in reproof of wrong or in vindication of right, because advantage was taken of my words to deal harshly with the erring and to unwisely exalt others whose course I had not in any degree sustained. Many explained the testimonies to suit themselves. The truth of God is not in harmony with the traditions of men, nor does it conform to their opinions. Like its divine Author, it is unchangeable, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Those who separate from God will call darkness light, and error truth. But darkness will never prove itself to be light, nor will error become truth. 5T 62.1
The minds of many have been so darkened and confused by worldly customs, worldly practices, and worldly influences that all power to discriminate between light and darkness, truth and error, seems destroyed. I had little hope that my words would be understood; but when the Lord moved upon me so decidedly, I could not resist His Spirit. Knowing that you were involving yourselves in the snares of Satan, I felt that the danger was too great for me to keep silent. 5T 62.2
For years the Lord has been presenting the situation of the church before you. Again and again reproofs and warnings have been given. October 23, 1879, the Lord gave me a most impressive testimony in regard to the church in Battle Creek. During the last months I was with you I carried a heavy burden for the church, while those who should have felt to the very depths of their souls were comparatively easy and unconcerned. I knew not what to do or what to say. I had no confidence in the course which many were pursuing, for they were doing the very things which the Lord had warned them not to do. 5T 63.1
That God who knows their spiritual condition declares: They have cherished evil and separated from Me. They have gone astray, every one of them. Not one is guiltless. They have forsaken Me, the Fountain of living waters, and have hewed out to them broken cisterns that can hold no water. Many have corrupted their ways before Me. Envy, hatred of one another, jealousy, evil surmising, emulation, strife, bitterness, is the fruit that they bear. And they will not heed the testimony that I send them. They will not see their perverse ways and be converted, that I should heal them. 5T 63.2
Many are looking with self-complacency upon the long years during which they have advocated the truth. They now feel that they are entitled to a reward for their past trials and obedience. But this genuine experience in the things of God in the past makes them more guilty before Him for not preserving their integrity and going forward to perfection. The faithfulness for the past year will never atone for the neglect of the present year. A man's truthfulness yesterday will not atone for his falsehood today. 5T 63.3
Many excused their disregard of the testimonies by saying: “Sister White is influenced by her husband; the testimonies are molded by his spirit and judgment.” Others were seeking to gain something from me which they could construe to justify their course or to give them influence. It was then I decided that nothing more should go from my pen until the converting power of God was seen in the church. But the Lord placed the burden upon my soul. I labored for you earnestly. How much this cost both my husband and myself, eternity will tell. Have I not a knowledge of the state of the church, when the Lord has presented their case before me again and again for years? Repeated warnings have been given, yet there has been no decided change. 5T 63.4
Healdsburg, California,
June 20, 1882
Dear Brethren and Sisters in Battle Creek,
I understand that the testimony [Reference is here made to the preceding article.] which I sent to Brother -----, with the request that it be read to the church, was withheld from you for several weeks after it was received by him. Before sending that testimony my mind was so impressed by the Spirit of God that I had no rest day or night until I wrote to you. It was not a work that I would have chosen for myself. Before my husband's death I decided that it was not my duty to bear testimony to anyone in reproof of wrong or in vindication of right, because advantage was taken of my words to deal harshly with the erring and to unwisely exalt others whose course I had not in any degree sustained. Many explained the testimonies to suit themselves. The truth of God is not in harmony with the traditions of men, nor does it conform to their opinions. Like its divine Author, it is unchangeable, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Those who separate from God will call darkness light, and error truth. But darkness will never prove itself to be light, nor will error become truth. 5T 62.1
The minds of many have been so darkened and confused by worldly customs, worldly practices, and worldly influences that all power to discriminate between light and darkness, truth and error, seems destroyed. I had little hope that my words would be understood; but when the Lord moved upon me so decidedly, I could not resist His Spirit. Knowing that you were involving yourselves in the snares of Satan, I felt that the danger was too great for me to keep silent. 5T 62.2
For years the Lord has been presenting the situation of the church before you. Again and again reproofs and warnings have been given. October 23, 1879, the Lord gave me a most impressive testimony in regard to the church in Battle Creek. During the last months I was with you I carried a heavy burden for the church, while those who should have felt to the very depths of their souls were comparatively easy and unconcerned. I knew not what to do or what to say. I had no confidence in the course which many were pursuing, for they were doing the very things which the Lord had warned them not to do. 5T 63.1
That God who knows their spiritual condition declares: They have cherished evil and separated from Me. They have gone astray, every one of them. Not one is guiltless. They have forsaken Me, the Fountain of living waters, and have hewed out to them broken cisterns that can hold no water. Many have corrupted their ways before Me. Envy, hatred of one another, jealousy, evil surmising, emulation, strife, bitterness, is the fruit that they bear. And they will not heed the testimony that I send them. They will not see their perverse ways and be converted, that I should heal them. 5T 63.2
Many are looking with self-complacency upon the long years during which they have advocated the truth. They now feel that they are entitled to a reward for their past trials and obedience. But this genuine experience in the things of God in the past makes them more guilty before Him for not preserving their integrity and going forward to perfection. The faithfulness for the past year will never atone for the neglect of the present year. A man's truthfulness yesterday will not atone for his falsehood today. 5T 63.3
Many excused their disregard of the testimonies by saying: “Sister White is influenced by her husband; the testimonies are molded by his spirit and judgment.” Others were seeking to gain something from me which they could construe to justify their course or to give them influence. It was then I decided that nothing more should go from my pen until the converting power of God was seen in the church. But the Lord placed the burden upon my soul. I labored for you earnestly. How much this cost both my husband and myself, eternity will tell. Have I not a knowledge of the state of the church, when the Lord has presented their case before me again and again for years? Repeated warnings have been given, yet there has been no decided change. 5T 63.4
Friday, September 06, 2024
Thursday, September 05, 2024
An Era Of Shocking Events
Volume 43 Issue Nine September 2024
Last Trumpet Ministries · PO Box 806 · Beaver Dam, WI 53916
Phone: 920-887-2626 Internet: http://www.lasttrumpetministries.org
“For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?” I Cor. 14:8
An Era Of Shocking Events
“Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.”
Mark 13:35-37
On August 19, 2024, the elitist World Economic Forum published an article on its website warning of the danger and volatility in our world today. The list of threats runs the gamut from the ongoing outbreak of mpox, global wars, climate change, and technological disruptions with the potential to upend our everyday lives. The article contends that we could soon see “an era of shock events.” (1) One could argue, however, that we have already seen our fair share of shocking events in recent years. The Covid-19 pandemic, lockdowns, and vaccine mandates were all shocking. The ensuing supply chain disruptions were shocking. The inflation crisis, which made groceries, automobiles, and housing unaffordable, was shocking. We’ve seen the shocking brutality of war on full display in Ukraine, Sudan, and the Middle East. We have just watched the Hollywood elite collude and conspire with the news media to steal a presidential nomination from Joe Biden and bestow it upon Kamala Harris. Someone tried to assassinate presidential candidate Donald Trump and nearly succeeded. Can we infer from the aforementioned article that what is coming will be worse than the shocks we’ve already seen? It’s hard to imagine.
The Apostle Paul warns in II Timothy 3:13, “But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.” Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ also warned that shocking events would come upon the earth. In Luke 21:25-26, we read, “And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.” This indeed sounds very much like an “era of shock events.” The most shocking event of all, however, is described in Luke 21:27, which declares, “And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.” No one knows the day or the hour of our Savior’s coming, but we should always be ready to meet Him. In Luke 12:40, Jesus admonishes, “Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.” He further instructs us to watch and pray as we await His return. Mark 13:35-37 tells us, “Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.” If we follow His instructions, He will give us the strength to endure to the end, even as shocking events unfold all around us.
Pope says battling climate change and religious extremism a common cause
Pope Francis (C) and Grand Imam of Istiqlal Mosque Nasaruddin Umar (center, L) pose with religious leaders at the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta on September 5. Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images
On visit to Southeast Asia’s largest mosque, Pope says battling climate change and religious extremism a common cause
Updated 2:32 AM EDT, Thu September 5, 2024
Jakarta, IndonesiaCNN —
Since his papacy began in 2013, Pope Francis has signaled his intention to build bridges with other faiths. The global growth of Islam, and the rise of extremism across religions, also made this an urgent priority.
On Thursday, in the biggest mosque in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, the pontiff used a joint statement with Indonesia’s Grand Imam Nasaruddin Umar to pinpoint “two serious crises” facing the world: dehumanization and climate change.
“The global phenomenon of dehumanization is marked especially by widespread violence and conflict, frequently leading to an alarming number of victims,” said the statement, signed in the sprawling capital Jakarta.
“It is particularly worrying that religion is often instrumentalized in this regard, causing suffering to many, especially women, children and the elderly,” it continued. “The role of religion, however, should include promoting and safeguarding the dignity of every human life.”
On climate change, the declaration stated that “human exploitation of creation” had led to “various destructive consequences such as natural disasters, global warming and unpredictable weather patterns,” and an “obstacle to the harmonious coexistence of peoples.”
On visit to Southeast Asia’s largest mosque, Pope says battling climate change and religious extremism a common cause
Updated 2:32 AM EDT, Thu September 5, 2024
Jakarta, IndonesiaCNN —
Since his papacy began in 2013, Pope Francis has signaled his intention to build bridges with other faiths. The global growth of Islam, and the rise of extremism across religions, also made this an urgent priority.
On Thursday, in the biggest mosque in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, the pontiff used a joint statement with Indonesia’s Grand Imam Nasaruddin Umar to pinpoint “two serious crises” facing the world: dehumanization and climate change.
“The global phenomenon of dehumanization is marked especially by widespread violence and conflict, frequently leading to an alarming number of victims,” said the statement, signed in the sprawling capital Jakarta.
“It is particularly worrying that religion is often instrumentalized in this regard, causing suffering to many, especially women, children and the elderly,” it continued. “The role of religion, however, should include promoting and safeguarding the dignity of every human life.”
On climate change, the declaration stated that “human exploitation of creation” had led to “various destructive consequences such as natural disasters, global warming and unpredictable weather patterns,” and an “obstacle to the harmonious coexistence of peoples.”
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