Monday, July 31, 2017
Who is the last world power? Is it the bankers, secret societies, Islam or the United States?
EU Proposes Freezing Bank Accounts to Bailout Megabanks
After nervous customers panicked and
drained their accounts, ultimately causing the collapse of Spanish bank,
Banco Popular, equally jittery European Union officials are debating
the merits of freezing access — preventing anyone from withdrawing any
money — at the first sign of a bank run.
Proponents claim measures to halt a
rush of withdrawals would prevent the downfall of floundering financial
institutions at their most vulnerable point — in hopes of staving off a
catastrophe at least as harrowing as that of 2008 — while detractors
admonish the move might have precisely the opposite effect, with
investors rushing to yank funds at the slightest indication of trouble.
“The desire is to prevent a bank run, so that when a bank is in a critical situation it is not pushed over the edge,” ‘a person familiar with German government’s thinking’ told Reuters.
“Giving supervisors the power to
temporarily block bank accounts at ailing lenders is ‘a feasible
option,’ a paper prepared by the Estonian presidency of the EU said,
acknowledging that member states were divided on the issue,” Reuters reports.
“EU countries which already allow a
moratorium on bank payouts in insolvency procedures at national level,
like Germany, support the measure, officials said.” More
Disease, ageing and even death are all human realities that super intelligence seek to end.
By Alexander Thomas, July 31, 2017
The rapid development of so-called NBIC technologies –
nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive
science – are giving rise to possibilities that have long been the
domain of science fiction. Disease, ageing and even death are all human
realities that these technologies seek to end.
They may enable us to enjoy greater “morphological freedom” – we
could take on new forms through prosthetics or genetic engineering. Or
advance our cognitive capacities. We could use brain-computer interfaces to link us to advanced artificial intelligence (AI).
Nanobots
could roam our bloodstream to monitor our health and enhance our
emotional propensities for joy, love or other emotions. Advances in one
area often raise new possibilities in others, and this “convergence” may
bring about radical changes to our world in the near-future.
“Transhumanism” is the idea that humans should transcend their
current natural state and limitations through the use of technology –
that we should embrace self-directed human evolution. If the history of
technological progress can be seen as humankind’s attempt to tame nature
to better serve its needs, transhumanism is the logical continuation:
the revision of humankind’s nature to better serve its fantasies. More
More than 37 percent of California households have so little cash saved that they couldn’t live at the poverty level for even three months
More than 37 percent of California households have so little cash
saved that they couldn’t live at the poverty level for even three
months if they lost a job or suffered another significant loss of
income.
That’s the grim assessment of the 2017 Prosperity Now Scorecard. The report was compiled by Prosperity Now, a Washington, D.C.-based organization seeking to help people — particularly people of color and those with limited income — achieve financial security and prosperity.
That’s the grim assessment of the 2017 Prosperity Now Scorecard. The report was compiled by Prosperity Now, a Washington, D.C.-based organization seeking to help people — particularly people of color and those with limited income — achieve financial security and prosperity.
The
scorecard also shows that 46 percent of households in the Golden State
didn’t set aside any savings for emergencies over the past year, a
higher percentage than the national rate of 43.7 percent.
It doesn’t help that 21.1 percent of California jobs are in
low-wage occupations. The scorecard found that 21.4 percent of
Californians experienced income volatility over the past year, a
situation that most often results from irregular job schedules.
It
gets worse for households of color. They are nearly twice as likely to
live below the poverty line as white households — 18.2 percent compared
to 9.7 percent — and they are much less likely to own a home or other
assets that could help boost their long-term financial stability.
Less than half of California’s households of color (43.9 percent)
own homes, compared to 62.5 percent of white, non-Hispanic households.
Moreover, 60.7 percent of Latino households and 56.7 percent of black
households have virtually no savings and are considered “liquid asset
poor,” compared to 28.2 percent of white households fitting that
category.
“Beyond providing a cushion to get families through
emergencies, increased savings and wealth allow families to invest in
their futures and gain ground for future generations,” Prosperity Now
President Andrea Levere said in a statement. “It’s clear that far too
many people are stuck in economic limbo.” More
One mystery trader has made an extremely large bet that the stock market is going to crash by October
By Michael Snyder, on July 23rd, 2017
One mystery trader has made an extremely large bet that the stock
market is going to crash by October, and if he is right he could
potentially make up to 262 million dollars on the deal. Fortunes were
made and lost during the great financial crisis of 2008, and the same
thing will happen again the next time we see a major stock market
crash. But will that stock market crash take place before 2017 is
over? Without a doubt, we are in the midst of one of the largest stock
market bubbles in U.S. history, and many prominent investors are loudly warning
of an imminent stock market collapse. It doesn’t take a genius to see
that this stock market bubble is going to end very badly just like all
of the other stock market bubbles throughout history have, but if you
could know the precise timing that it will end you could set yourself up
financially for the rest of your life.
I want to be very clear about the fact that I do not know what will
or will not happen by the end of October. But one mystery investor is
extremely convinced that market volatility is going to increase over the
next few months, and if he is correct he will make an astounding amount
of money. According to Business Insider, the following is how the trade was set up…
- To fund it, the investor sold 262,000 VIX puts expiring in October, with a strike price of 12.
- The trader then used those proceeds to buy a VIX 1×2 call spread, which involves buying 262,000 October contracts with a strike price of 15 and selling 524,000 October contracts with a strike price of 25.
- For reference, bullish call spreads are used when a moderate rise in the underlying asset is expected. Traders buy call options at a specific strike price while selling the same number of calls of the same asset and expiration date at a higher strike.
- In a perfect scenario, where the VIX hits but doesn’t exceed 25 before October expiration, the trader would see a whopping $262 million payout.
I will be watching to see what happens. If this mystery investor is correct, it will essentially be like winning the lottery.
But just because he has made this wager does not mean that he has some special knowledge about what is going to happen.
For example, just look at what Ruffer LLP has been doing. They are a
$20 billion investment fund based in London, and they have been betting
tens of millions of dollars on a stock market crash which has failed to
materialize so far. But even though they have lost so much money
already, they continue to make extremely large bearish bets… More
A team of scientists find evidence of ancient Canaanites
28 July 2017, 6:07 am EDT By Luan Chan Tech Times
A team of scientists from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and its
collaborators successfully sequenced the genes of five Bronze Age
Canaanite remains found in an archaeological site in the Near East and
made a remarkable discovery.
After comparing the ancient DNA with the DNA of modern-day people,
researchers learned that present-day Lebanese had actually descended
from Canaanites, who were supposedly annihilated after being subjected
to divine judgment.
Who Are The Canaanites?
Canaanites were a mysterious race of people that was effectively
driven out of their land and annihilated by Israelites after the Exodus,
according to the Old Testament; however, the DNA evidence uncovered by archaeologists offers proof that the ancient race did not actually meet its end.
"We know about ancient Egyptians and ancient Greeks, but we know very
little about the ancient Canaanites because their records didn't
survive. What is known about the Canaanites is that they lived and
traded along the eastern coast of the present-day Mediterranean," lead
author of the study Marc Haber explains.
So when Haber's team of researchers extracted and sequenced DNA from the five remains from the Sidon excavation site, they compared it with various ancient populations throughout
history. Then they further narrowed it down and compared the ancient
DNA with DNA samples extracted from a sample of 99 people — Christians,
Druze, and Muslims — currently living in Lebanon. To their surprise, the
results showed that the present-day Lebanese and the remains in Sidon
share 93 percent of their ancestry.
"We can see the present-day Lebanese can trace most of their ancestry
to the Canaanites or a genetically equivalent population. They derive
just over 90 percent of their ancestry from the Canaanites," geneticist
and co-author of the study Chris Tyler-Smith confirms.
The remaining 7 percent is actually derived from ancient people who migrated from the Steppes.
Did The Bible Get It Wrong?
For a long time, researchers could only look through ancient Greek
and Egyptian texts, as well as accounts from the Bible, to learn about
the mysterious Canaanites, but the new evidence seems to suggest that
the Bible has made a mistake.
Then again, the contents of the Bible were translated mostly from
dead languages so there is a big probability that the translation was
either wrong or the meaning of the words have changed over time — the
same way that what we consider finite numbers now seemed infinite for
ancient people.
Even with the strong connection between ancient Canaanites and
modern-day Lebanese, the fact that no "pure" Canaanite individual seems
to survive today could be considered as "killing off" the ancestry.
Still the implication of the discovery is huge for modern-day
Lebanese, especially since the different religions argue over their
ancestry, where Christians and Muslims debate whether they descended
from Phoenicians or Arabs. As the DNA evidence suggests, they are
actually all Canaanites.
"We all belong to the same people. We have always had a difficult
past ... but we have a shared heritage we have to preserve," excavation
director Claude Doumet-Serhal said.
The team's findings have been published in The American Journal of Human Genetics. Techtimes
What happened to a day of rest?
Driving on Cuming Street this past
Sunday, I observed hundreds of lightbulbs brightly burning on various
levels of the new Creighton University College of Dentistry, under
construction.
About noon, I passed by again, returning home from
Holy Family Catholic Church. Men were working high on the north façade
of the Creighton structure. As on the east exterior wall, where their
work is done, their attention now is focused on the details of the large
‘IHS’ on the northern exterior.
It
might appear somewhat of an irony that even on “the Lord’s Day,” work
is nonstop, even on the symbol “IHS,” letters representing (from the
Greek) the name of Jesus.
Jews have for centuries kept holy the
Sabbath, and Christians have been more or less keen on keeping Sunday
holy, in part by abstaining from unnecessary work.
Apparently, those operating Creighton University and
thereby the soon-to-open dentistry school have decided that work cannot
stop on this new building, even on “the Lord’s Day.”
It’s
commonplace for workers to break “the Sunday rest.” It would appear even
Jesuits — or their surrogates — have joined in these “necessary”
pursuits.
The Rev. Don Stortz, Omaha Omaha Herald
Analyzing Pope Francis
In Pope Francis’ encyclical, “Laudato Si’, mi’ Signore” (“Praise be to you, my Lord”): On The Common Care Of Our Home,[1] the
Pope identifies himself as “the Holy Father,” and as a Christian.
Nevertheless, Francis teaches the following in this encyclical,
“In
the words of this beautiful canticle, Saint Francis of Assisi reminds
us that our common home is like a sister with whom we share our life and
a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us. ‘Praise be to
you, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs
us, and who produces various fruit with colored flowers and herbs.’”
Is
Francis endorsing the idea that the earth “governs us” rather than the
Lord? Nowhere in the Bible is the earth called “Mother” or “sister.”
This is demonic theology rooted in the “mystery religion” of Babylon.
Anthropomorphizing the earth, especially as female, has always been a
mark of pagan and Satanic worship. As Alexander Hislop points out,
“It
has been known all along that Popery was baptized Paganism; but God is
now making it manifest, that the Paganism which Rome has baptized is, in
all its essential elements, the very Paganism which prevailed in the
ancient literal Babylon...”[2]
Pope
Francis is first and foremost a Jesuit. As a Jesuit, he is known to be
cunning as a fox. In the third paragraph of the encyclical, he clearly
specifies a crisis and targets his intended audience. “Now, faced as
we are with global environmental deterioration, I wish to address every
person living on this planet…about our common home.”[3]
It remains to be seen, then, why Pope Francis has so early in his reign
come forth with a statement of gross paganism as part of his supposedly
Christian world view.
Biblical Truth
The truth is that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. As the Bible states, “And
the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of
the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”[4]
These foundational words aside, Francis has chosen instead to quote
twelfth century Catholic St. Francis’s pagan understanding of the
issue. Therefore, it cannot be by accident that Pope Francis has chosen
to cover his papacy in the supposedly benign robes of Francis of
Assisi.
Basic Untruth
A major fact to be
considered is that Pope Francis believes in his absolute authority. As
his own Roman Church teaching proclaims that the Supreme Pontiff, in
virtue of his office possesses infallible teaching authority.[5] However, the reality is that Jesus Christ alone possesses all power and teaching authority, as Christ Himself proclaimed, “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.”[6]
Thus does Jesuit Francis, having first covered himself in the pagan
mantel of Francis of Assisi, attempt to usurp divine authority in a
claim that is totally counterfeit. Another example of this Roman
Catholic counterfeited authority by Pope Francis is seen in the
following. Francis professes to impart Christ by Masses and the Holy
Spirit by Sacraments, including his current idea that “As Christians, we
are also called ‘to accept the world as a sacrament of communion, as a
way of sharing with God and our neighbors on a global scale.’”[7]
Where is there any evidence of scriptural truth and the Gospel in this
spiritually blind papal teaching? The Scripture commands each man to
repent and believe the Gospel, but no man can do this without the
conviction of the Holy Spirit. Yet these elementary facts are silently
set aside as the Pope expands his argument by stating that the Papacy’s
worldview is relevant for today. However, his teaching ends up in
totalitarianism.
Francis starts with our supposed sin against “sister earth,” as the encyclical states, and moves in an entirely unbiblical direction,
“‘This
sister’ (the earth) ‘now cries out to us because of the harm we have
inflicted on her by our irresponsible use and abuse of the goods with
which God has endowed her. We have come to see ourselves as her lords
and masters, entitled to plunder her at will. The violence present in
our hearts, wounded by sin, is also reflected in the symptoms of
sickness evident in the soil, in the water, in the air and in all forms
of life.”
Francis’s stated view is utterly pantheistic. The Bible states,
“God,
who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke in time past unto the
fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken unto us by his
Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the
worlds; who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of
his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he
had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the
Majesty on high.”[8]
The
Bible states the facts. Contrarily, Francis teaches that the heaven
and earth are parts of the Lord God. This is utter pagan philosophy.
Pope Francis’s Cunning Conjectures
What
must be understood is that Francis’ encyclical, with its elevated and
inspiring tone in pursuit of ethical excellence, is heavily laden with
all the classical assumptions of the Papacy. Principally, what is being
presented in the encyclical is an idealized plan for the world. It is
based on the Vatican’s view of both what the world presently is, and
what it could be, as if the Pope were the temporal “lord-director” of
all things spiritual, political, and economic. The whole argument of
the encyclical hangs upon the veracity of its alleged self-evident
axioms. However, the assumptions are false. If Pope Francis wants to
be a prophetic voice in the modern world, allegedly speaking on Christ’s
behalf, then his assumptions must be evaluated according to the measure
given in the Word of God, namely, “To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.”[9] The Lord Jesus Christ was emphatic that Scripture is absolute truth, that it cannot be refuted. As Scripture states, “Jesus came and spoke unto them, saying; ‘All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.’” Thus, from the outset, it becomes clear that Pope Francis is an impostor with an objective.
What Francis does not make explicit in this encyclical is that since
the Council of Trent in the mid-sixteenth century, the Roman Church has
held that there is no salvation outside the Roman Catholic Church, and
formally denied the Gospel. Rome formally went apostate at the Council
of Trent. It has never revoked the Council of Trent. Thus rather than
the Gospel to make one right before Holy God, Rome has only sacraments
to offer. These do not deliver salvation, for it is only “the gospel of Christ: it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth….”[10]
Therefore the Papacy must take in hand another tool, it must find
another route by which to snare people into the folds of Modern
Babylon. Dialogue on environmental issues is the current mode. Near
the end of the encyclical, there is much religious talk about God and
the duty of Christians. But this is in fact only a post-script to the
encyclical. The real thrust of the encyclical is promotion of a
political agenda couched in pagan terms. It cannot be otherwise because
in its conception, objective and method, it stands contrary to
Scripture.
In face of this the Lord Jesus Christ’s message to those who are His own is totally different. He proclaims,
“All
power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and
teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto
the end of the world.”[11]
Following
on this message is the assurance that those who by grace alone believe
on Christ alone through faith alone, i.e., the true spiritual family of
people across the globe, are the real family of God. “But as many
as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even
to them that believe on his name: which were born, not of blood, nor of
the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”[12]
As presented in the Gospel, those who by God’s grace alone through
faith alone believe on the Lord Jesus Christ alone, have been declared
“sons of God” through the Lord Jesus Christ’s perfect life and
sacrifice. As the Apostle Paul proclaimed, “…you have received the
Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself
bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.”[13]
Pope Francis’s Agenda
Throughout
the encyclical Francis’s environmental theme cannot be ignored. With
over one hundred seventy references to global warming, climate change,
environment and environmental issues, it is clear this is the means to
his end. While we are rightly concerned with what Francis is saying, it is also imperative to grasp why he
is saying it. Francis’s encyclical is not in any sense a labor of
original thought. Both his analytical style and argumentative form are
firmly grounded in the Vatican’s preeminent sense of its own
self-importance and presumed lordship over every aspect of human life.
Francis exhaustively demonstrates that his views truly represent the
historical essence of Rome’s religious and social teaching. However,
that teaching is not the teaching of the Bible. Thus, Francis shows
himself again to be a cunning fox. His objective is to firmly ground
his institution’s own welfare and future in terms of an “integral human
development” that acknowledges his primacy as the sole arbiter of ethics
and moral order. It is quite clear that Francis is writing his
encyclical to assert once again the Papacy’s autocratic claims. The aim
of Francis in this encyclical is to propound and promote a type of
world government.
Specifically, he envisions a
renewed and rejuvenated “globalized society” over which the Roman Church
rules as the principal ethical entity. And what better way to gain
moral authority but by weaving together environmental activism based
upon global warming and climate change synthesized by modern “science falsely so called.”[14] Truly
it is a cunning plan to solidify a political base with the
non-religious left, thereby creating a harmonious Church and Global
State. The ecumenical activity since the early days of Vatican II has
been extremely successful in unifying the religious right under Papal
dominance. If this continues, it is just a matter of time before all
are ushered in to another chapter of the Dark Ages.
The term “globalize” is used forty-six times in this document. In the
terms of the argument, it is meant to reinforce not merely the concept
of an inevitable necessary global synthesis but to generate in his words
a “just and sustainable economic order.” Part of Francis’s agenda is
the development of an increasingly globalized society by the nations
seeking for “the common good” of all. But because “there is none righteous, no not one…there is none that doeth good, no not one”[15] and “all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,”[16]
there is no such thing as “the common good” on a collective basis such
as the Pope is promoting. Rather in the Bible, the ultimate end of man
is to glorify God through the appreciation and adoration of His Son
Jesus Christ to the complete satisfaction of our souls. In the Bible,
it is on an individual basis that through the commitment to the whole
counsel of God we glory and find our good. Therefore His revealed will
in His Word is the only standard of good for rational creatures. “There is none holy as the Lord: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.”[17]
The emphasis on economics is such that Pope Francis mentions the
concept one hundred thirty-three times. This is the same Francis and
his Vatican system which teach that private property is not personal as
such, but belongs to all people.[18]
A Vatican Council II document upholds the same principle of the
“universal ownership of all goods” and emphatically teaches, “If one is
in extreme necessity, he has the right to procure for himself what he
needs out of the riches of others.”[19]
Pope Francis’s philosophy is simply a justification for theft, whether
on an individual level or a governmental level. The Bible states, “Thou shall not steal…. Thou shall not covet… any thing that is thy neighbor’s.”[20]
Instead, people should be looking to the Father in heaven and His Word
to learn biblical stewardship of their money and property. Catholics,
and now nations across the world, are being exhorted to look to Pope
Francis and his encyclical as a sure path for resuscitation of the
international economy. Biblical principles of divine justice,
creaturely property rights, and equivalent value exchange economics
needed for stability and well being of nations, are negated by Francis’s
economic policies.
Real Legal Power to Implement the Pope’s Agenda
Francis’s
predecessor, Benedict XVI, called for “a reform of the United Nations
Organization, and likewise of economic institutions and international
finance, so that the concept of the family of nations can acquire real
teeth.”[21]
Social and religious dominance, upheld and maintained by means of civil
law throughout the European nations, is what the Catholic Church
enjoyed and thrived on throughout the Dark Ages and Middle Ages. It is
to that same end which Francis now moves. Listing global warming,
pollution, poverty, global inequality, over-consumption by first world
nations and like issues, he states,
“These
situations have caused sister earth, along with all the abandoned of
our world, to cry out, pleading that we take another course. Never have
we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last two
hundred years. Yet we are called to be instruments of God our Father,
so that our planet might be what he desired when he created it and
correspond with his plan for peace, beauty and fullness. The problem is
that we still lack the culture needed to confront this crisis.”
After
personifying the earth, Francis moves smoothly to state, “[To commit]
crime against the natural world is a sin against ourselves and a sin
against God.”[22]
He then calls for “[t]he establishment of a legal framework[,] which
can set clear boundaries and ensure the protection of ecosystems[,] has
become indispensable….”[23]
His solution of changing the culture by his enforced legal
prescriptions rather than evangelizing the world with the true Gospel of
grace is absolutely unbiblical̶ but it fits seamlessly into the
ongoing papal agenda.
Moreover, the Roman Catholic
Church has much influence in the formulation and implementation of
national and international laws, particularly in the nations in which
she has papal nuncios as ambassadors. At present, she maintains
diplomatic relations with one hundred seventy-four countries at embassy
level. Expediency, deceit, and cunning have always been defining
elements of the Roman Church’s geo-political pronouncements. Pope
Francis and his Vatican desire to maintain official diplomatic
relationships. Their understanding is that political civil power is
subordinate to the spiritual control of apostate Rome. Pope Francis,
the present necessary and willing instrument, is seeking to fulfill
these aspirations and objectives.
Conclusion
That
Francis and his encyclical are intent on ruling religious, political
and economic activities worldwide should not be surprising. Papal
arrogance tallies well with Scripture’s prediction for such claims, “I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.”[24]
There can be but one Vicar of Christ who is infinite, supreme,
omnipotent, and all sufficient; namely, the Holy Spirit. The Papacy is a
demonically energized apostate system that will be judged and utterly
condemned by the Lord.[25] Biblical insight apprehends that “the whole world lies in wickedness”[26] and, “the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand.”[27] The Papal program is wicked and willful, and its genius in means and method, satanic.[28] From the beginning, the Lord God purposed to glorify Himself “in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without endAmen.”[29]
He created the world and formed man for this purpose. His all-wise
design was not defeated when Adam and mankind fell, for Jesus Christ the
Lord was the Lamb “slain from the foundation of the world.”[30]
Almighty God’s will is from eternity, and reigns supreme in time. He
sovereignly orders, directs and controls all events. He it is “who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will.”[31] Satan and his present neo-Babylonian empire cannot resist Him. It is written, “The Lord reigns; let the people tremble.”[32]
Please join us in prayer that many people will understand this, and
that they also would be drawn by God’s Spirit to seek His grace. Grace
is unmerited, divine favor. By mercy alone, He saves hell-deserving
sinners, demonstrating that all the glory of redeeming power is His
alone. Since God works all things after the counsel of His own
will, Papal Rome’s modern manipulation of civil power, false ecumenism,
and unbiblical economic policies are merely instruments that God for
His sovereign purposes has allowed.
We can be
sincerely thankful that Almighty God in His supreme wisdom has set
limits to the intrigues of Rome. Pope Francis and the Roman Church will
be punished for their willful rejection of the Lordship of Christ. The
Lord’s people will not be deceived by the powerful delusion that has
descended on the world.[33] Rather they “should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.”[34]
True believers are those who adhere only to God and His written Word:
these know that they are saved by grace alone through faith alone in
Christ alone, and that to God solely is due all glory and praise. ♦
[1]
http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclicalaudato-
si.htmlPara. 1. 4/20/17See also Para. 87 where an hymn of Francis of
Assisi is quoted mentioning Sir Brother Sun, Brother Wind, Sister Moon,
Sister Water, etc.
[2] Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylons (Delmarva Publications, 2013 First Printing, Introduction)
[3] “Laudato Si,” Para. 3.
[4] Genesis 1:2
[5]
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104 Can. 749 §1. By virtue of his
office, the Supreme Pontiff possesses infallibility in teaching when as
the supreme pastor and teacher of all the Christian faithful, who
strengthens his brothers and sisters in the faith, he proclaims by
definitive act that a doctrine of faith or morals is to be held.
[6] Matthew 28:18
[7] “Laudato Si,” Para. 9
[8] Hebrews 1:1-2
[9] Isaiah 8:20
[10] Romans 1:16
[11] Matthew 28:18 - 20
[12] John 1:12-13
[13] Romans 8:15 - 16
[14] I Timothy 6:20
[15] Romans 3:10 - 12
[16] Romans 3:23
[17] I Samuel 2:2
[18]
Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the [Roman Catholic] Church, Sect.
176 - 178
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/justpeace/documents/rc_pc_justpeace_doc_20060526_compendio-dott-soc_en.html#The
universal destination of goods and private property05/20/2017.
[19]
Vatican Council II No. 64,“Gaudium et Spes” Austin Flannery, General
Ed. (Vatican Council II: The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Doocuments,
Para. 69.) Text also here: http://www.osjspm.org/cst/gs_cos2.htm
[20] Exodus 20: 15, 17
[21]
http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate.htmlSect.
67. 4/28/17
[22] “Laudato Si,” Para. 8
[23] Laudato Si, Para. 53
[24] Isaiah 14:14
[25] Revelation 18:8 “Therefore
shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and
she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who
judges her.”
[26] I John 5:19
[27] Daniel 12:10
[28] II Corinthians 4:3 - 4
[29] Ephesians 3:21
[30] Revelation 13:8
[31] Ephesians 1:11
[32] Psalm 99:1
[33] II Thessalonians 2:8-12, cp. Mark 13:22: For
false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and
wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect. In context, “If it were possible,” means that it is not possible because they have received a love of the truth, which the world has not received.
[34] Jude 3 Berean Beacon
People of all faiths are unified globally to beat climate change
Two years after Pope Francis launched Laudato Si, the Vatican's plea to
save the Earth, Trump rejected its tenets and the Paris Agreement. But
people of all faiths are unified globally to beat climate change.
On May 24th, a grim-faced Pope Francis handed a signed copy of Laudato Si
to President Donald Trump during his visit to Rome. The United States
president, who has called climate change "a hoax," promised to read the
papal encyclical, a spiritual and secular plea to save the Earth from
environmental destruction.
A week later, Trump announced plans to yank the U.S. out of the 2015 Paris Agreement, whose prologue was influenced by the principles embodied in Laudato Si.
In doing so, Trump repudiated 195 nations' pledges to reduce their
carbon footprint to mitigate the worst effects of climate change; he
repudiated Pope Francis and his encyclical as well. More
Friday, July 28, 2017
They have one God and one Saviour; and one Spirit—the Spirit of Christ
I approve of the efforts
that have been made to establish our German and Scandinavian publishing
work at College View. I hope that plans will be devised for the
encouragement and strengthening of this work.
The
whole burden of the work must not be left with our foreign brethren.
Nor should our brethren throughout the field leave too heavy a load on
the conferences near College View. The members of these conferences
should lead out and do their best, and all should come to their
assistance. The truth is to be proclaimed to all nations and kindreds
and tongues and peoples.
Our
German and Danish and Swedish brethren have no good reason for not
being able to act in harmony in the publishing work. Those who believe
the truth should remember that they are God's little children, that they
are under His training. Let them be thankful to God for His manifold
mercies and be kind to one another. They have one God and one Saviour;
and one Spirit—the Spirit of Christ—is to bring unity into their ranks.
Are we hoping to see the whole church revived? That time will never come.
The old standard bearers knew what it was to wrestle with God in prayer, and to enjoy the outpouring of His Spirit. But these are passing off from the stage of action; and who are coming up to fill their places? How is it with the rising generation? Are they converted to God? Are we awake to the work that is going on in the heavenly sanctuary, or are we waiting for some compelling power to come upon the church before we shall arouse? Are we hoping to see the whole church revived? That time will never come.
There are persons in the church who are not converted, and who will not unite in earnest, prevailing prayer. We must enter upon the work individually. We must pray more, and talk less. Iniquity abounds, and the people must be taught not to be satisfied with a form of godliness without the spirit and power. If we are intent upon searching our own hearts, putting away our sins, and correcting our evil tendencies, our souls will not be lifted up unto vanity; we shall be distrustful of ourselves, having an abiding sense that our sufficiency is of God.
We have far more to fear from within than from without. The hindrances to strength and success are far greater from the church itself than from the world. Unbelievers have a right to expect that those who profess to be keeping the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, will do more than any other class to promote and honor, by their consistent lives, by their godly example and their active influence, the cause which they represent. But how often have the professed advocates of the truth proved the greatest obstacle to its advancement! The unbelief indulged, the doubts expressed, the darkness cherished, encourage the presence of evil angels, and open the way for the accomplishment of Satan's devices. 1 Selected Messages p. 122
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
In the last days difficult times shall come
1This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Now
as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the
truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.
10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,
11 Persecutions,
afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what
persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
15 And
that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able
to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16 All
scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. 2 Timothy 3
The truth about lies
Dr. Mark Sircus, June 30, 2017
Lying seems to be the foundation of human intelligence and
civilization. Robert Fisk writes, “We do not live in a “post-truth”
world, neither in the Middle East nor in the West – nor in Russia, for
that matter. We live in a world of lies. And we always have lived in a world of lies.”
Anyone alive today that believes we are living in a world of truth,
justice and love needs to have their heads examined. We live in a world
of lies and half-truths, which are really the same or worse than
outright lies, because they confuse the human mind. Lies cause
unmeasurable amounts of human suffering and lead people to early graves.
We lie and we never stop lying, even to ourselves. Governments lie
and they want us to believe in their lies. The press lies pretending to
represent the truth but that is understandable because they are wholly
owned by elite masters who tell them what to publish. Historians lie but
not all of them. Egyptologists lie because they do not want to know
anything besides what they have already thought of as the truth of
Egypt’s ancient past.
Certainly, bankers lie about their honesty and doctor’s lie about the dangers of their drugs and surgery done without supplementing with magnesium. They even lie about heart attacks never saying people who go into cardiac arrest are actually dying of magnesium deficiencies. Dentists of course lie about fluoride and their use of the highly toxic neurological poison mercury.
Therefore, we lie and our institutions are built on pyramids of
lies. So why do we trust liars? How can anyone be arrogant about
realities of lies when there is no truth left? What is truth if we have
nothing but lies?
What is amazing is that these past years they have even been lying
about the weather. Imagine the weatherman telling people in New York
that it is sunny and warm but when you step outside it is cold and
raining. It is that bad.
I have written for nine years on global cooling probably publishing over 70 essays on the subject.
Do a Google search on, Record high temperature and Record low
temperature and see what comes up. I just got 9,460,000 results (0.55
seconds) for high temperatures and 78,100,000 results (0.58 seconds) for
cold temperatures. Not that the google search means much but it does
suggest one start reading about what is going down on our planet if one
is interested in surviving the future.
We have become accustomed to white lies in our everyday lives and
have become accustomed to not believing everything we hear. Whether it
is someone’s description on a dating app or a resume for work, we take
what we listen to with a grain of salt. Some people fiercely filter
information for fabrications, exaggerations, plagiarism, white lies, and
most of all: deception. However, as one study suggests, we are on
average only able to catch 54% of lies.
Strikingly, in the same study, trained police officers, judges, and FBI
agents were not that much better than the average person was.
All forms of information have lost their integrity. All institutions
— from the academy to commerce to governance to non-profits — have lost
their integrity. Worse perhaps, than secret agencies telling lies with
no evidence and the mainstream media telling lies on command from its
financial masters, is an all-out war on truth.
“There are facts, there are opinions, and there are lies,” says
historian Deborah Lipstadt who encourages us all to go on the offensive
against those who assault the truth and facts. “Truth is not relative,”
she says. Therefore, we really have no choice but to question and
challenge everything.
What is the truth of the liberal mind? What is their greatest wet
dream? They want the whole world to be one big happy family, where
borders are meaningless, people can freely move from one country to the
next, and no society is inherently better than another is. They preach
diversity, but they want the world to be blended into one drab
monoculture that falls in line with their beliefs and violently oppose
others, who believe in quaint ideas of nationalism for example.
Today nationalists and patriots are evil people in the eyes of
liberals and progressives who forget the truth of what these words mean.
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, nationalism simply means “love for or devotion to one’s country.” According to thefreedictionary.com, a patriot is “a person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country and its interests.”
So for sure they lied about 9-11, what started the Second World War and about how the world is doing with global debt now hitting $217 trillion, which is 327% Of GDP.
We could go on forever listing lies. Religions lie. We know that
because if that were not the truth then only one religion is a true one
and the rest bull because they all contradict each other. In a world of
lies one has to wonder the truth about everything, even what happened in
Germany during WWII?
Come on, they even lie about iodine in salt, as if it would do
anyone any good because once put on the table the iodine evaporates
quickly. Most people have no idea what truth is or the process of
finding it. The truth is as unpopular today as it has always been. If
you are a person of truth and you hear the truth, it rather excites you.
The truth, if we are not living it, is almost unbearable to hear.
In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
The sounds of silence are the sounds of lies, omissions of fact and
reality so large it is more than manipulation. Did you know that one’s
silence could be deadly? One can actually do mass murder with silence by
deliberately holding back information that can be lifesaving. Tell that
to your doctor for he is the one who most needs to know this. What is going on in Fukushima is perhaps the greatest silent lie. Things are so bad there we hear nothing about it.
Perhaps the most dangerous lies today center around Russia. Sick
politicians in both American and Europe are risking all of our lives in a
nuclear war with their lies. Crimea is Russian. All the people there
speak Russian. Almost every one of them voted to rejoin Russia.
The West is completely irrational, not only about Islam but also
about just about everything. It is inviting its own destruction. They
have even convinced the Russian high command, which has already
announced its conclusion, that Washington is preparing a surprise nuclear attack on Russia. The West is completely separated from reality says Paul Craig Roberts.
Conclusion – A little bit of Truth
The heart can only stand the truth but our minds can wonder all over
the universe of lies without problem. We said in the beginning that
lies hurt people. Powerful people everywhere routinely make decisions
that hurt others. The old saying is right: Power really does corrupt. No
one is honest about their corruption so they have to lie. Therefore,
the lies that permeate civilization start at the top among the most
powerful.
Recent psychological research
suggests that powerful people behave remarkably like traumatic brain
injury victims. Controlled experiments show that, given power over
others, people often become impulsive and less sensitive to risk. Most
important, test subjects often lose empathy, that is, the
ability to understand and share the feelings of others. Said another way
they lose their hearts, the intelligence of the heart, their own organs
of truth so in a sense they become stupid.
Rich in money and possessions but without hearts leaves the most powerful without the kind of vulnerability
that leads to love so actually they are poor in spirit, poor in their
ability to feel but strong in their ability to abuse. They also lose their capacity to mirror and listen to others. Drsircus
The first Satanic monument on public property in United States history
July 11, 2017 6:36 PM
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A small Minnesota town is getting a lot of attention for a Satanic monument coming to their veterans park.
The monument going up for The Satanic Temple — which features an
upturned helmet atop a black cube — will soon be at the site of the
Veterans Memorial Park in Belle Plaine.
It is being built by a group of Satanists out of Massachusetts, and
it will be the first Satanic monument on public property in United
States history.
The city is allowing the monument to be built after a religious
freedom group threatened to sue over another statue, which features a
soldier praying over a grave marked with a cross. More
Visa Now Paying Businesses to go cashless
According to the most recent data, Visa — which is mostly owned by
banks–accounts for over 50 percent of all credit card transactions and
70 percent of all debit card transactions in the world. Hundreds of
billions in transactions process through Visa’s databases every year and
this number continues to grow.
Despite their overwhelming increase in market share, cards issued,
and overall total volume, Visa has made a recent move that shows they
intend to completely snub out their most unaccountable, untraceable, and
most liberty-associated competitor and means of payment–cash.
In a news release, ostensibly
written as an attempt to “help small businesses,” Visa announced that
they are launching “a major effort to encourage businesses to go
cashless. Aiming to create a culture where cash is no longer king, the program will give merchants increased ability to accept all forms of global digital payments.”
“At Visa, we believe you can be everywhere you want to be, and that
it should be easy to pay and be paid in more ways than ever — whether
it’s a phone, card, wearable or other device,” Jack Forestell, Visa’s
head of global merchant solutions, said in a statement. “We have an
incredible opportunity to educate merchants and consumers alike on the
effectiveness of going cashless.”
Laughably, Visa claims that companies who stop accepting cash — a
major form of payment for people around the globe — that they could
increase profits.
Apparently, they want business owners to forget that they take upwards of five percent of every single transaction.
“The important thing to realize is that going with ‘fast and easy’ is
not always the best and most cost effective,” Marco Carabjo, a credit
expert, wrote in a 2013 U.S. Small Business Administration blog post.
“Typical merchant account companies can charge up to 5 percent of
everything a company earns with prices consisting of merchant processing
costs, gateway fees, interchange costs, Visa, MasterCard, American
Express charges, statement fees and so on.”
Outside of the obvious reason of convincing businesses to go cashless
so they can tax their sales into oblivion by creating a monopoly on
accepting payments, the implications for control and surveillance are
far more insidious.Visa — just like government — wants to monitor your spending habits and use that data to exploit humanity. This is why governments and banks across the world have almost simultaneously launched a war on cash.
Earlier this year, the European Commission proposed enforcing “restrictions on payments in cash” under an all-too-familiar premise — terrorism.
“Payments in cash are widely used in the financing of terrorist activities,” the Commission’s proposal states. “In this context, the relevance of potential upper limits to cash payments could also be explored. Several Member States have in place prohibitions for cash payments above a specific threshold.” The free thought project
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
John Knox and the Scottish Reformation
French president Emmanuel Macron has declared he will govern France like Jupiter, the Roman king of the gods
4 Jul 2017
Summoning over 900 politicians from both houses of the French parliament
to a rare Congress at the palace of Louis XIV – the ‘Sun King’ – in
Versailles, he threatened
to overrule lawmakers with a referendum if they try to frustrate the
“reforms” he wishes to impose on the legislature. Such assemblies are
usually reserved for times of national crisis.
Reuters reports him as saying he desires to reign as a “Jupiterian” president – “a remote, dignified figure, like the Roman god of gods, who weighs his rare pronouncements carefully".
This bizarre statement of intent comes just days after Macron
scrapped the president’s traditional Bastille Day press conference, with
an Elysée Palace official claiming the 39-year-old’s thoughts are “too complex” for journalists.
Macron’s “complex thought process lends itself badly to the game of
question-and-answer with journalists”, the spokesman explained –
prompting much mockery in the French press.
It has been speculated that Macron is keen to cultivate an aloof, almost
imperial aura after being derided as a placeman for the unpopular
socialist François Hollande, in whose government he served as economy
minister, or as a poodle for Angela Merkel, the German chancellor widely
regarded as the European Union’s driving force.
“You are the heir of François Hollande,” scoffed nationalist rival
Marine Le Pen during their head-to-head election debate. “We now call
you Baby Hollande; Hollande Junior!”
She added that, whatever the outcome of the election, “France will be led by a woman: either me or Mrs. Merkel.”
Much of the commentary on Macron’s alleged natural submissiveness
hints at his relationship with his wife – twenty-five years his senior –
with Italy’s larger-than-life former president Silvio Berlusconi teasing that he is “a nice lad with a good-looking mum”.
Efforts by the EU loyalist to strengthen his public standing by picking fights with the governments of Central Europe, who have been resolutely defiant in the face of attempts by Brussels to impose compulsory migrant quotas on them, have been less than successful.
Hungarian premier Viktor Orbán gently dismissed him as “a new boy” who had yet to find his feet.
“Macron’s entrance wasn’t too encouraging, as he thought the best way
to show friendship was to immediately kick Central European countries.
This isn’t how we do things around here, but he’ll soon get to know his
way around,” he added.
Posing as the EU’s champion against President Donald Trump has also
backfired, with a pointed, public snub of the U.S. leader in favour of
Angela Merkel and other Europeans at a NATO summit ending in
embarrassment when the 70-year-old manhandled him with a powerful
handshake.
Macron was clearly rattled by the exchange, granting a brief
interview with journalists in order to emphasise that another handshake
with President Trump – in which the Frenchman clung on
for dear life – was a “moment of truth” in which he supposedly
demonstrated that he “would not make small concessions, not even
symbolic ones”. Breitbart
Vatican police have raided a cardinal's apartment where a drug-fuelled homosexual orgy was taking place.
5 Jul, 2017 1:35pm
Vatican police have raided a cardinal's apartment where a drug-fuelled homosexual orgy was taking place.
Police entered an apartment at the former palace of the Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith (or Holy Office) last month, not far from
the Vatican City.
The occupant
of the apartment is alleged to be a priest who serves as a secretary to
cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, the head of the Pontifical Council
for Legislative Texts and a personal adviser to the Pope.
The allegations of the orgy were first published by newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano.
According to the paper, neighbours became suspicious before complaining
about irregular behaviour of those coming and going at the apartment.
When police showed up at the apartment, they reportedly found drugs and a group of men engaged in sexual activity.
The priest was then arrested and taken for questioning.
Il Fatto Quotidiano suggested that Pope Francis was infuriated by the news and may force Coccopalmerio into retirement.
The alleged orgy is symptomatic of a difficult period for the Pope.
Four years into his papacy the Catholic Church appears racked by
conflict and scandal.
Critics
blame the Pope's choice of personnel: cardinal George Pell, appointed to
clean up the Vatican's murky finances, has taken a leave of absence to
defend himself against sex abuse charges in Australia. nzherald
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