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The Toxic Fruit of Reformed Theology: Part Two — Two theological Butchers Origen and Tertullian

By Kelleigh Nelson

“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”  ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, on Hitler’s evil.

“The devil is not fighting religion. He’s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it. We are plainly told in the Scriptures that in the last days men will not endure sound doctrine and will depart from the faith and heap to themselves teachers to tickle their ears. We live in an epidemic of this itch, and popular preachers have developed “ear-tickling” into a fine art.” — Vance Havner

“You can’t love God without loving the Jewish people.” —  Corrie Ten Boom


Amen to Corrie Ten Boom who lost her sister and father in the concentration camps, but survived to tell the story of how her family saved Jewish brethren and then ended up in the camps simply for loving God’s people.  She is considered one of the Righteous Among the Nations.”

So many Christians are on a collision course with God.  Many evangelical believers, to their utter shame, are joining ranks with the enemies of Israel in attempting to “lift Jerusalem.”  Surely, the ugliest and most pernicious partnerships ever witnessed in the history of Christianity, is the joining together with, and marching arm in arm with, those of false doctrines, including the likes of liberal protestants, Islamists, humanitarians, secularists, politicians and a host of other ungodly rubble of society.  (Like heretic Rick Warren’s Chrislam.)

Rallying under the banner of “justice for the Palestinian people,” these multifaith crusaders are blissfully unaware that they are on a collision course with the God of Israel.  This is a theologically driven jihad and those who are united in their opposition to the State of Israel will not be held guiltless.  Some join because of their anti-Zionist prejudice; others with a pro-Palestinian axe to grind, likely bent on furthering their careers at the expense of truth.

Jew Hatred has grown tall in the amillennial seedbeds of our churches.  Amillennialism is a laundered system which has bleached out the plain meaning of Scripture; it cannot be deduced from Bible study, but must be taught.  Amillennialism makes no distinction between Israel and the church, wrongly asserting that there is only one people of God and one overarching covenant, the so-called covenant of grace.  They do not believe in the thousand-year reign but that the millennium is symbolic of the church age.  Symbolizing the Word of God, where there is no symbolism, has created some of the most heretical doctrines of both Christianity and cults.

Remember that many uninspired hands have commented on the words in the Bible.  Not all Bible commentaries are of sound doctrine.

In 1867, J.C. Ryle wisely urged his readers to “Cleave to the literal sense of Bible words, and beware of departing from it, except in cases of absolute necessity.  Beware of the system of allegorizing and spiritualizing, and accommodating, which the school of Origen first brought in and which has found such an unfortunate degree of favor in the Church.”

Unfortunately, Ryle’s wise teaching went against the Church of England which was steeped in allegorical methods of Biblical interpretation which can be found in the writings of their most learned and influential theologians.  They believe they must always look beyond the plain literal sense of the text to the “mystical meaning therein.”  Many of the theologians did not agree with the prophecy that Israel would again inhabit the land.  But Ezekiel’s prophecy is true, “And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.  And they shall say, ‘This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced and are inhabited.’”  (Ezekiel 36:34-35)

Scripture teaches us that an escalation of opposition against Israel from the international community will build.  Zechariah speaks of that time of unprecedented pressure when “all the nations of the earth” will rise up against Jerusalem to besiege it.  In that day, when world attention is fixed on God’s beloved city, the Lord declares that He will make Jerusalem “a cup of reeling to all the peoples round about.”  He will give advance warning to would-be meddlers that “all who burden themselves” with Jerusalem, those who attempt to lift it, will be “cut in pieces,” (Zechariah 12:2-3).

Origen and Tertullian

Origen of Alexandria, also known as Origen Adamantius, was an early Christian scholar, ascetic, and theologian who was born and spent the first half of his career in Alexandria, Egypt (c.185 – c.253).  He died in Tyre, Lebanon.

Tertullian of Carthage was born in 160AD and died in Carthage 240AD.  He wrote his main theological works at the turn of the third century, primarily apologetics, mainly targeting Gnostics and Marcionites. But in his Apologies, he includes An Answer to the Jews. As with most early Church fathers, his anti-Judaic works have been largely ignored by scholars but they are, frankly, an embarrassment.

The Jews, with their constant idolatry, writes Tertullian, deserve less than the Christians, who have fled idolatry to worship the true God.

Like Philo of Alexandria before him, Origen believed he had uncovered the doctrines of Plato in the writings of Moses.  (Plato offers a state in which there are justice, good and wisdom, his state was criticized as “anti-democratic, anti-humanitarian, anti-individualistic, and totalitarian.”)

Once again Greek allegorical tools were used to “excavate” the Old Testament text to reveal its true “hidden” or “higher spiritual” meaning.  Like Clement and Philo before them, Origen and Tertullian were able to make the Bible dance to whatever tune they chose to play.  They claimed that faith was also the basis of gnōsis, a spiritual and mystical knowledge.

Origen’s lengthy treatise, Against Celsus, opens a window into Origen’s Greek-Christian mind, revealing just how deeply convinced he was that there was no future for the Jewish nation in the purposes of God.  He therefore set the theological stage upon which Israel’s “irrevocable judgment” would be performed with the church playing the lead role.  As far as the church of Origen’s day was concerned, the Jews had committed the unpardonable sin, deicide (the murder of God), and all they could expect was unrelenting punishment and the harshest condemnation from the Christian.

The same libel against the Jews was uttered and written by Tertullian.  Third century anti-Judaism libel was the accusation of Christ-killing. This is not done by isolated Jews or religious groups according to Tertullian, but “all the synagogue of Israel did slay Him, saying to Pilate, when he was desirous to dismiss Him, ‘His blood be upon us, and upon our children.’”

Reality has it that the Romans murdered Christ.  But if one digs into history, you’ll find that the Jewish leaders did not want Him crucified for fear He would become a martyr.  For Christians, our belief is that our sins were laid upon Him and he was the final and perfect sacrifice, the perfect lamb of God slain for us.  Nevertheless, we should never have been separated from Passover in the earliest church.  How sad the cost to our Jewish brethren, most unforgiveable, and how sad the poisoning of the true church by men filled with demonic hatred.

Origen was a Neo-Platonist, and he immersed himself in Greek philosophy, and was “one of the first to place the authority of tradition on a level with the Bible.”  Link

Origin and Tertullian influenced Augustine and in turn Augustine influenced Calvin.  The lie continues despite the truth being written in the Lord’s Word.  Augustine was the patron saint of the heretical doctrine, “Replacement Theology.”

Can readers see how this false and heretical doctrine from such an early age could turn into the massive hatred and destruction of all things Jewish?  Surely these early men, although having some things right, were accursed of God because of their demonic hatred of His people.  The Lord calls Israel His Wife!  The unconditional Abrahamic Covenant speaks volumes regarding the harsh punishments and curses that will befall those who hate Israel and who have cursed her throughout history.

The anathematizing of the Jewish people had begun.

For Origen, all souls, including the devil himself, will eventually achieve salvation, even if it takes innumerable ages to do so. Origen believed that God’s love is so powerful as to soften even the hardest heart, and that the human intellect – being the image of God – will never freely choose oblivion over proximity.

Tertullian believed that only martyrs go to paradise.  All other Christians (the Theotokos being an exception?) have to wait in Hades for the resurrection.  The Greek word, Theotokos, means to bear God, as in to bear a child, and was used to refer to Mary as the mother of Jesus. Mary is named Christotokos (Christ-bearer) in 431 by the Council of Ephesus in response to this insight.

In the year 400, Theophilus summoned a council in Alexandria, which condemned Origen and all his followers as heretics for having taught that God was incorporeal, which they decreed contradicted the only true and orthodox position, which was that God had a literal, physical body resembling that of a human.

Both Origen and Tertullian profoundly shaped the way Christian minds would interact with the Scriptures, but it later fell to Augustine of Hippo, the unrivaled patron saint of replacement theology to systematize Origen’s allegorical methods.  Augustine’s harsh amillennialism dominated the Reformation and exercised great influence on the theology of John Calvin.  Then too, there is Emperor Constantine who, by legalizing Christianity, declared “open season” on the Jewish people.  And of course, let’s not forget John Chrysostom, called the “golden mouth,” whose virulent anti-Semitic Eight Homilies Against the Jews find their equal with Martin Luther’s treatise, On the Jews and Their Lies (1543).  These men may rant and rail against the Jews all they like, but the God of Israel will have the final word.

Far too many have tried to excoriate the Jews from modern day prophecies, but it will never work for God has decreed for His ancient covenant people, a foundation of truth upon which the doctrine of Israel’s restoration stands.  No Origin, Tertullian or Augustine, Luther or Calvin, or any of their twenty-first counterparts, can halt the progression of God’s prophetic purposes.

The Lord is gathering the Jews to their ancient homeland; He is watching over their flourishing land; He sees Israel’s enemies rising on every side; He hears the Christian Palestinian lies; and He bears witness to the injustice of the anti-Israel boycotts.  The stage is being set for the end of this era, and when it comes, there will be hard times, but our Lord God will set everything righteous for His people.

Thomas Newton had this sober warning to all who would touch the “apple of God’s eye.”  (1 January 1704 – 14 February 1782) Newton was an English cleric, biblical scholar and author. He served as the Bishop of Bristol from 1761 to 1782.

“We see that after so many ages, [the Jews] are still preserved by a miracle of providence a distinct people; and why is such a continual miracle exerted, but for the greater illustration of the divine truth, and the better accomplishment of the divine promises, as well as those which are yet to be, as those which are already fulfilled?  We see that the great empires, which in their turns subdued and oppressed the people of God, are all come to ruin: because though they executed the purposes of God…all that they intended was to satiate their own pride and ambition, their own cruelty and revenge.  And if such hath been the fateful end of the enemies and oppressors of the Jews, let it serve as a warning to all those, who at any time or upon any occasion are for raising a clamor and persecution against them.”

Conclusion

Next up a deep dive into Chrysostom, Ambrose, Augustine and Calvin and the rotten fruit their reform churches are built upon.

©2024. Kelleigh Nelson. All rights reserved.

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Spaanderman and Schuler

By Matthys van Raalten

In the recent past, my country, The Kingdom of The Netherlands, had one big patriarch. He wasn’t very famous among the general public. But he had enormous influence in the well-being of my country.

His name was Maarten Spaanderman. He was a psychologist, who treated women that suffered from hysteria, and men that suffered from compulsive behavior.

Mr. Spaanderman had his office in Bloemendaal, a quiet village to the North of the town of Harlem. People from all over The Netherlands came to visit him for help.

I also got to know him well. And I accepted him as my mentor. He taught me valuable lessons about life. He even confronted me with my own short-comings.

Mr. Spaanderman was a real gentleman. He believed that human beings should accept that they were born with a shadow side. Only by accepting that one is human, and by saying ‘no’ to animal instincts, a person could walk in the light.

Mr. Spaanderman was not religious, but the man that he had most respect for in the history of Mankind, was the Lord Jesus Christ. He called him a great servant of Life.

In your country, the United States, there also lived a great patriarch, who had many things in common with Mr. Spaanderman. His name is Reverend Robert Harold Schuler.

Reverend Schuler was a Man of God, and he preached Christianity in a very humble way. He promoted kindness, and he never hid his tears when he was emotional. The magnificent Crystal Cathedral in Los Angeles was his church.

The world is in need of new patriarchs. Elderly men, with huge knowledge and experience, who serve Mankind.

Mr Spaanderman and Reverend Schuler are often on my mind. I will never forget their difficult lessons.

©2024. Matthys van Raalten. All rights reserved.

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Reject the ‘Red Pill,’ Carry Your Cross

By Family Research Council

Feminism has, for over a century, been playing merry Hell with Western civilization, engendering (pun intended) division and enmity between the sexes and giving rise to a host of moral and societal cancers, such as abortion, transgenderism, and the decline of the family.

The division between the sexes bred by feminism initially targeted women, pressuring them to be more and more like men, especially by leaving their homes and children and joining the workforce. Of course, women cannot, by their very nature as women, be men, and thus feminism spawned a dual bitterness among its female adherents: bitterness towards masculinity for being unattainably masculine and bitterness against femininity for not being attainably masculine.

By the final quarter of the 20th century, after achieving its magnum opus in the Sexual Revolution, feminism had fixed its withering glare on men. Masculinity was soon labeled dangerous and “toxic,” and men were pressured to be more like women, particularly by abandoning or suppressing masculine characteristics like assertiveness or aggression, independence, and providence. Having been told for generations that they are, by their very nature as men, problematic and oppressive, it is little wonder that there has been a decades-long crisis in masculinity.

Many men today strive to avoid the “toxic” label and so cede their God-given role as leader and provider, often allowing women to shape their opinions, lead their relationships, and split their role as breadwinner equally. This weakness has wrought even further civilizational decay and has driven countless men into desperate little psychological corners. Some simply whither away and die there, more terrified of being called a monster than of the sad, shivering husk they instead become; some, disgusted with the horror they are told that men are (a disgust frequently compounded by pornography addictions and neglected psychological conditions), decide it’s better to be women than to be men, and so seek out gender transition drugs and surgeries; and some, sick of the stranglehold that feminism has so long exerted over the culture, take the “Red Pill.”

The ‘Red Pill’

Across the internet, hundreds of thousands of young men partake in the “manosphere,” a community of websites, blogs, video channels, and social media influencers who promote physical fitness, tanned-and-toned body aesthetics, and a ridiculously luxurious lifestyle and claim that feminism has poisoned culture against men, encouraged and entrenched vitriol against men, and proliferated and normalized sexual degeneracy among women. So far, spot on. But despite its largely-correct diagnosis of the social evils plaguing our civilization, the remedy prescribed by the manosphere is just as poisonous: the Red Pill.

What could have been an ordered and even noble response to feminism, a surgical maneuver to excise the cultural cancer, devolved instead into a cesspool of violent misogyny, rampant degeneracy, and nihilistic materialism, with a dash of narcissistic homosexuality for flavor.

The Red Pill does not respond to feminism’s pervasive sexual promiscuity by extolling the virtue of chastity, but instead jealously encourages men to be just as promiscuous, if not more so. The Red Pill does not seek out the forgotten masculine characteristics of courage, endurance, providence, and self-sacrifice, but instead cultivates only aggression and self-seeking. The Red Pill does not remind men that they are to provide for their wives and children, but instead tells them to “rise and grind” so they can afford a bulky luxury watch and a fluorescent luxury sportscar — all the better for cruising for chicks. The Red Pill does not remind men why manhood is good and necessary, but instead conforms masculinity to the terms set by feminism, in the inverse: poisoning culture against women, encouraging and entrenching vitriol against women, and proliferating and normalizing sexual degeneracy among men.

In short, the Red Pill is just vapid internet slang for feminism’s evils practiced by and for the “benefit” of men. Just as feminism is characterized by labelling masculinity “toxic,” so also the Red Pill is characterized by labelling women “sluts.” Misogyny is an essential component of the Red Pill, which in many cases leads to yet another social and sexual evil: narcissistic homosexuality.

‘Men without Chests’

Although there are multitudinous psychological factors that may lead one to identify as homosexual and lead a homosexual lifestyle, there are, at least superficially, two forms of homosexuality. The first is readily familiar and recognizable: the effeminate homosexuality which favors leopard print and limp wrists. This form of homosexuality is prone to a catty love-hatred of women born out of envy. In some ways, effeminate homosexuality feels itself more at home around women, in no small part because it seeks to emulate women.

The other form is less often seen and even more seldomly discussed: hyper-masculine homosexuality. This form of homosexuality rejects femininity altogether, deriding women for not being men, while worshipping the superficial traits of masculinity. I say the superficial traits because such authentically masculine virtues as chastity, temperance, prudence, and self-sacrifice are neither sought nor cultivated. All that is desired is the muscular male form and the personality traits of aggression and pride.

God made male and female for each other (Genesis 1:27). While effeminate homosexuality seeks to play the role of the female, hyper-masculine homosexuality removes her from the equation altogether. Its narcissism and self-absorption is so complete that it worships only itself and whatever has the hubris to resemble it. Even if it does not culminate in homosexuality, the ideology of the Red Pill still reaches these dizzying heights of auto-adulation, worshipping a warped and fractured image of masculinity so fervently, so devotedly that vehement hatred of all that is “other” becomes in itself an act of worship.

This self-adoration, paradoxically, necessitates a fracturing of the self. Man is incomplete in love without woman, just as she is incomplete in love without man. The Red Pill denies this fundamental truth and thus fractures man, carving out of him that which in fact makes him a man: his heart. The Red Pill encourages men to push themselves to the limit, to lift weights, to live adventurously, to earn inordinate amounts of money, but for what? Simply for the sake of making oneself into one’s own idol (as in idolatry) — not for the sake of the other, for the sake of a woman, because the Red Pill preaches that no woman has value as a woman, only as a fleshy instrument for sex.

The end result of the manosphere’s efforts has been to instill in its adherents a distorted and disordered hierarchy of value, prizing wealth and fashion above the human souls they were made to give themselves to in love. The Red Pill encourages (almost goads) men to achieve and perform, but simultaneously denies that there is anything worth achieving and no feat worth performing, no object to either. C.S. Lewis predicted such a dreary, purposeless dystopia in his book “The Abolition of Man.” Lewis wrote, “In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”

What a pitiable and miserable existence the Red Pill renders: sex without soul, achievement without meaning, work without purpose, nothing worth living or fighting or dying for, just one’s own self. Another great Cristian author, G.K. Chesterton, pithily summarized such an existence: “Yourself, yourself, yourself — the only companion that is never satisfied — and never satisfactory.”

The Way of the Cross

Surely the Red Pill’s depressing, stifling conclusions can’t be correct, surely the cancer of feminism hasn’t succeeded in actually killing its host civilization, surely there must be some hope.

There is. The moral and spiritual diseases of both feminism and the Red Pill are both cured by the cross of Christ. That way lies true manhood and masculinity. Where the Red Pill whines that feminism has ruined everything, Christ says, “Behold, I make all things new” (Revelation 21:5). Where the Red Pill suggests that there is no way forward for men or women, Christ says, “Take up your cross and follow me” (Matthew 16:24). Where the Red Pill extols promiscuity and degeneracy, Christ commands, “Be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect” (Matthew 5:48).

And more than this, Christ shows us how to be real men. The flashy images of bodybuilders and Bugattis that populate manosphere websites and social media feeds suddenly pale next to an image of one Man, not clad in designer athleisure but stripped of both his clothes and his flesh, adorned not with a Rolex or a pair of Ray-Bans but with a crown of thorns — one Man, hanging upon a tree, breathing His last.

The 20th century Catholic priest Josemaría Escrivá once explained, “The school of love has a name: it is sacrifice.” Christ’s sacrifice on the cross is the greatest image of manhood that ever existed. On that cross, Christ exemplified and embodied the perfection of every masculine trait: the strength to carry the sins of the world, the courage to submit to His own death, the humility to hang naked, nailed to a tree, the self-sacrifice He made of His life, and the love He poured out upon the entire world as it scorned Him and mocked Him.

Real manhood is not to be found in the Red Pill, nor is the manosphere’s response to the cancer of feminism the right one. Real manhood is to be found in taking up your cross and following Christ, even if it means following Him to death.

AUTHOR

S.A. McCarthy

S.A. McCarthy serves as a news writer at The Washington Stand.

EDITORS NOTE: This Washington Stand column is republished with permission. All rights reserved. ©2024 Family Research Council.


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Muslims Understand Compassion Differently Than We Do

By Harold Rhode

The idea that compassion is between man and man, not just God and man, barely exists.


The origins of Islam are twofold. It was a revealed religion, but grew out of pre-Islamic Arabian tribal—that is, Bedouin—culture. When Bedouin cultural values conflicted with Islam, Bedouin culture almost always won out. Over time, Islam and Bedouin culture melded into one. It is this combination that constitutes today’s Islamic culture.

The problem with Islam today is not a problem with Islam as a religion but rather Islamic culture. If Muslims choose to pray five or even 50 times a day, that is no concern of ours. But regarding Islamic culture and its view of non-Muslims, we do have a say.

Hebrew and Arabic share many common words and roots, but their meanings often diverge. For example, in both Arabic and Hebrew, the root R-Ḥ-M refers to the womb and signifies compassion. But the understanding of compassion in Judaism is very different from that of Islam.

The opening line of the Quran is: “In the name of Allah, the merciful and the compassionate.” We know what “merciful” and “compassionate” mean in English. It relates to the relationship between God and man, and between man and man.

In Islamic culture, by contrast, compassion is only between God and man. Compassion between man and man is almost absent. This does not mean that individual Muslims do not share our Western concept of compassion, but if they do, it is not derived from Islamic culture.

When a Jew asks God for compassion and forgiveness during the 10 days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, he must first approach people he has wronged and ask for forgiveness. The person asked is required to have compassion and forgive. We believe that only by showing compassion to our fellow human beings will God be compassionate and forgiving towards us on Yom Kippur. Islamic culture is quite different.

On Oct. 7, we witnessed the results of this. Among those slaughtered by Gaza Muslims on that day were Bedouin Muslims who were Israeli citizens. They were killed along with Israeli Jews. Unlike the Nazis, who tried to hide their extermination program, the Muslims who slaughtered their fellow human beings—Muslims and non-Muslims—were proud of what they did, as demonstrated by the recordings of phone calls they made to the victims’ parents and friends as the murderers were terrorizing and murdering the recipients’ loved ones.

Why did the murderers also kill other Muslims? Because Muslims care first and foremost about their family, their clan and tribal associations, in that order. This has been true throughout Islamic history. Compassion towards one’s fellow human beings often barely exists.

There are many examples of this phenomenon:

When Hamas, the Iranian regime and Hezbollah send shahids—martyrs—to kill themselves in the name of Allah, they do not choose them from their own families. If they had compassion for others, why would they send other people’s children to their deaths? As we say, put your money where your mouth is.

In Arab culture, blood feuds continue for years without forgiveness or compassion. Perceived “wrongs” must be “righted” by deadly vengeance even if the original insult or crime might have happened generations ago.

Women suspected of dishonoring their families may be killed by family members. In some cases, the woman’s “transgression” is merely talking to a man who is not from the same family. It is not uncommon for fathers and even mothers to tell one of their sons to erase the blot on the family honor by killing his sister. We know of cases in which the son protested and his father told him that if he refused to kill his sister, he would be cast out of the family—which is the only security the son has.

Co-author Harold Rhode once taught a class in the Islamic world about Islamic culture. A female Muslim student wearing a hijab told him that she had to be very careful about talking to a non-relative. At the end of the day, when classes were over, her father personally escorted her home to her village. This student understood very well that if there were any rumors about her, she could end up dead. Moreover, her sisters pleaded with her not to do anything that might dishonor their family and thereby prevent them from being able to marry.

Before the Syrian civil war began in 2011, the country’s population was as high as 22 million. Since then, millions of Syrians have been killed, expelled or displaced to other countries. We have no idea what the population of Syria is today. It could be as little as 6-10 million. We wonder how Syrian dictator Bashar Assad could do this to his “own” people. But Assad doesn’t see most of them as his “own” people. He is a member of the Alawite sect. He is not a Sunni Muslim like approximately 72% of Syria’s pre-war population. To him, these Sunnis are expendable because their existence threatens his regime. Compassion does not enter into the equation.

When Kurdish citizens of Turkey refuse to call themselves “Turks,” the Turkish government has often labeled them “terrorists” to justify imprisoning or killing them. Not for nothing do the Kurds have a proverb: “No friends but the mountains,” expressing their feelings of loneliness, betrayal and abandonment.

When Islam conquers, it conquers by the sword. That is why there is a sword on the Saudi flag. Saudi Arabia’s ruling creed is an extreme form of Sunni Islam. Its flag symbolizes this creed. Beautiful calligraphy on the flag reads: “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger.” This simple statement, called the Shahada, is the central principle of the Islamic creed. The sword symbolizes their prophet’s conquest of pagans. The message: Either convert to Islam or die.

When shahids capture enemies, they do not just kill them. They usually make them suffer. Only then does the shahid kill his victim.

In 1947-1948, when Palestinian Arabs fled then-Palestine, their fellow Arabs responded by putting them into refugee camps, where many of them and their descendants still languish. Their “fellow Arabs” never had compassion on them and assimilated them. By contrast, when Jews fled from the surrounding Arab countries, Israel welcomed them, and the fledgling state helped to establish them as full citizens.

In Persian, the closest equivalent to the English phrase “it doesn’t matter” is “it doesn’t bring shame” (eib na-dareh). This means that what you have done will not shame or humiliate you and your family. We rarely think about shame and humiliation, but Muslims almost always have them in the back of their minds. If someone does something shameful or humiliating, others have no compassion for them.

These are just a few examples of how differently we Westerners and the Muslim world understand compassion. Our concepts of compassion and mercy are very different from those of Islamic culture. This, in short, is why so much of the Muslim world is so violent not only towards others, but towards other Muslims as well.

This article originally appeared in the Jewish News Syndicate.

AUTHORS

HAROLD RHODE

Harold Rhode received in Ph.D. in Islamic history and later served as the Turkish Desk Officer at the U.S. Department of Defense. He is now a distinguished senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute.

BENNETT RUDA

Bennett Ruda is a freelance journalist for The Jewish Press and a contributor to the popular Elder of Ziyon blog.

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CHAPTER 10: Objective Reality Is Required for a Free Society

By Linda Goudsmit

Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier—Reality Is [upcoming release April 2024]


Globalism is a replacement ideology that seeks to reorder the world into one singular, planetary Unistate, ruled by the globalist elite. The globalist war on nation-states cannot succeed without collapsing the United States of America. The long-term strategic attack plan moves America incrementally from constitutional republic to socialism to globalism to feudalism. The tactical attack plan uses asymmetric psychological and informational warfare to destabilize Americans and drive society out of objective reality into the madness of subjective reality. America’s children are the primary target of the globalist predators.

The globalist War on America, documented in the Dodd Report, is a culture war fought without bullets that has targeted America’s children for over 100 years. The classroom is the globalists’ chosen battlefield, because whoever controls the educational curriculum controls the future. Why is this true?

Because children live what they learn. Education is an industry, and like all industries, it produces a product. The goal of America’s enemies is to produce an unaware, compliant citizenry groomed for life in the planned globalist Unistate. The War on America’s Children utilizes both informational and psychological warfare to achieve that goal.

The globalist social engineers are skilled strategists applying subversive wartime psychological tactics to “change the hearts and minds” of American children. The strategic goals are to replace parental authority with governmental authority, and to move society from objective reality, the adult world of facts, to subjective reality, the childish world of feelings.

Interfering with a child’s developing ability to reality-test is a staggering deceit and a monstrous abuse of power. Education reformer Deborah DeGroff’s 2019 handbook Between the Covers: What’s Inside a Children’s Book?[i]exposes the deceit and documents the sad reality of illiteracy in America today.

In the past, when children were told that every student was a butterfly, the children knew it wasn’t true because they could see for themselves that some students were extremely smart and others weren’t–––no matter what the teacher said. At that time, children were still learning to read with phonics. It was a time before sight-words and whole-word instruction became ubiquitous, and well before “hi-lo” reading even existed.

I had never heard of hi-lo reading before reading Deborah DeGroff’s book. Basically, instead of teaching children to actually read, a deceitful system was developed to address and adapt to the alarmingly low reading levels across the country. Hi-lo is a reference to the fact that the book content is considered upper-grade (high school interest), but the actual reading level is lower grade—sometimes as low as second- or third-grade level!!

In a 2012 article directed at the American Library Association, “ALA 2012: What’s Up with Hi-Lo?,”[ii] Publishers Weekly journalist Shannon Maughan wrote:

Many librarians, teachers, parents—and even students—are aware of the grim, oft-cited statistic: only one-third of eighth-grade students in the U.S. read at or above the proficient level (source: the Nation’s Report Card/National Assessment of Educational Progress 2009).[iii] While solutions to the problem are always being debated, those who work with struggling and reluctant readers every day want tools they can use right now. Hi-lo books frequently fit the bill….

Schools, by far, remain the biggest market for hi-lo books, largely because it is the setting where intervention for struggling readers is most likely to occur. In addition to searching for compelling general fiction and nonfiction, publishers are always on the lookout for ways they can create appealing curriculum-related titles. A number of companies offer such ancillary materials as workbooks and teacher guides to support their hi-lo series, as well….

Most encouraging about the hi-lo market is that librarians, educators, and publishers are seeing the books fill an important need. Becky Williams, a literacy consultant in Iowa who works with teachers, notes, “It’s not a silver bullet, but it’s something. They are a wonderful resource for kids that never ‘got it.’ Having these books has truly made a difference for these kids.”

So, instead of improving reading skills by teaching phonics, the education industry dumbed down the books. They moved the goalpost, disingenuously marketing hi-lo in glowing terms as an attempt to encourage “reluctant readers.”

In her book, DeGroff quotes Andrew Wooldridge of Orca Book Publishers, one of the largest suppliers of hi-lo books, saying, “We don’t use the term hi-lo because it has a bad connotation; we call the books fiction for reluctant readers or struggling readers.”

In reality, hi-lo reading is a system that presents great literature as summaries, like Cliffs Notes, or even as comic books deceitfully labeled “graphic novels.” Students today who are functionally illiterate because they never learned to read are offered summaries and comic books to read instead of original text.

For me, the horror of hi-lo reading goes far beyond the deliberate illiteracy it supports. The most devastating impact is that students actually BELIEVE they have read great literature. They feel the pride of achievement without the achievement. They have entered the realm of subjective reality where facts and feelings merge.

Moving the goalpost and changing the name of a thing does not change the objective reality of that thing, but it can change the hearts and minds of individuals responding to that thing. So, telling children they are all butterflies does not change the fact that some students are extremely smart, some are not; some can read, and some cannot. But it can change the children’s response to that fact, which means that in subjective reality it no longer matters whether you can read or not, whether you are reading a classic text or a comic book. In subjective reality, literacy and illiteracy are equivalent.

The American education industry has replaced meritocracy with educational indoctrination, facilitating deliberate dumbing down of our children. The industry’s informational warfare is facilitated by its psychological warfare, because parents and students alike BELIEVE the student has read the novel Moby-Dick, not the dumbed-down comic-book version!

Deborah DeGroff’s exploration of the content of children’s books also exposes the staggering, pervasive, inappropriate, pornographic, and confusing sexual content of books in classrooms K–12 and school libraries. Her research documents how weaponized education targets children’s most primary identity, their sexual identity.

The campaign to destabilize and destroy a child’s sexual identity is a particularly insidious effort to destroy the child’s individual identity. It is catastrophic to the child, and to freedom in a society of ordered liberty.

In every society anywhere in the world, the first words spoken when a baby is born are “It’s a boy!” or “It’s a girl!”

The globalist social engineers are trying to redefine what it means to be human by attacking the biology of maleness and femaleness, and insisting that gender is a choice––a child’s choice. Globalism’s War on Children is a long-term, well-planned, well-funded, well-executed mass-casualty campaign. The attack on a child’s sexual identity is a catastrophic assault on humanity itself.

In schools, libraries, movies, games, churches, and synagogues, transgender role models are presented as normal human beings. The most bizarre aspect of this particular assault on biology and objective reality is that so many parents actually believe that supporting this false, destructive, and confusing sexual narrative is being inclusive and compassionate!

Our nation’s children are being groomed to become compliant, submissive wards of the globalist Unistate, where they will have no individual rights, no freedoms, and no personal or sexual identity. They will be fodder for technocracy and transhumanism without the need of armies or policemen.

America’s weaponized education industry is not teaching Johnny to read or to write. It is teaching Johnny that he is a butterfly—and a boy who can become a girl if he so chooses. Take a moment to try to imagine a society of Johnnys, and then you will understand how destroying a child’s ability to reality-test is a weapon of mass societal destruction.

Without the ability to reality-test, Johnny remains frozen psychologically in the subjective reality of childhood. He never develops into an independent autonomous psychological adult capable of living in the world of objective reality. Freedom is an adult enterprise, and objective reality is the requirement for a free society.

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©2024. Linda Goudsmit. All rights reserved.

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[i] Between the Covers: What’s Inside a Children’s Book?, Deborah DeGroff, 48 Hour Books, 2021; https://www.whatsinsidechildrensbooks.com/about-the-book/

[ii] ALA 2012: What’s Up with Hi-Lo?https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/52124-what-s-up-with-hi-lo-ala-2012.html

[iii] National Assessment of Educational Progresshttps://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/pdf/main2009/2010458.pdf

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Globalism: The Deliberate Quest of Poverty for Us, Riches for Them!

By Karen Schoen

“Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level.” — United Nations Agenda 21


Agenda 21/2030, Green New Deal, Great Reset, Sustainable Development, 15 Minute City aren’t coming soon  They’re here.

Most Americans due to lack of Media reporting don’t know about it. They’ve never heard of it, but it is creeping in the back door right now. So, look behind you. It may already be in your backyard. Is your county taxing rainwater? Do you get fined for cutting down a tree on your property?

What is Agenda 21/2030 and all of its pseudonyms and revisions? It is a United Nation’s program presented and approved by George H.W. Bush in Rio in 1992. At that time American conservatives laughed it off. “This is too crazy,” they said. “Impossible. It will never happen. Not here!” Well, it is happening. It is happening here and it is happening now. Agenda 21 is a totalitarian comprehensive environmental program that, when fully implemented, will direct where you live, how much water you can use, and how and where you can travel your healthcare and what you can eat.

Agenda 21/2030/Great Reset is being marketed as a worldwide effort to ensure that all human beings will have access to adequate housing, health care, water and food. Of course this will require a massive redistribution of wealth from prosperous countries to poorer countries. Predictably, capitalistic countries, like the United States, will suffer lower standards of living. Initially mass migration was not included in the agenda but to speed up the demise of the West is has become the focal point. Why? It works by creating chaos and hostility leading to riots and division. Globalists thrive on chaos and fear. To make it stop the people are willing to give up freedom.

Agenda 21/2030/Great Reset was never ratified because it was called an Agenda not a Treaty. The Globalists tried other ways to get legislation. Other treaties like the BioDiversity Treaty passed in order to get funding to implement Agenda 21/2030/Great Reset. They failed but it’s noteworthy that Presidents George H. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama, through Executive Orders, have signed onto Agenda 21/2030/Great Reset. Hundreds more governors, mayors, and county commissioners have also signed on.

Agenda 21/2030/Great Reset and related programs will eliminate many things we hold dear. These have been declared “unsustainable” and will be abolished. Here are some of them:

  1. All private property rights (property ownership)
  2. All forms of irrigation, pesticides & commercial fertilizer
  3. Livestock production and most meat consumption
  4. Privately owned vehicles and personal travel
  5. Use of fossil fuels for power generation or mechanized travel
  6. Single family homes
  7. Most forms of mineral extraction and timber harvesting
  8. Human population must be reduced to fewer than 1 billion people
  9. Elimination of small business
  10. Control of healthcare and money
  11. All done for the common good to save the planet from human created climate change.

Although many plans start in Washington D.C. or state legislatures most plans seeping in through local city and county governments. Agenda 21/2030/Great Reset brings with it stealthy code words, comforting words such as: “smart growth,” “social justice,” “bio-diversity,” and “sustained development.” DIE aka Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, SEL aka Social Emotional Learning, Wokeness, Critical Race Theory. You will hear them often. Translated these terms effectively mean total environmental dictatorship, the elevation of the pagan practice of the worship of Mother Earth, You will own nothing and be happy. Affirmative Action was the mechanism to disburse this UN Agenda in our public schools. Not a joke.

ICLIE – originally International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives today called Local Governments for Sustainability bring grants and programs to local communities to entice county leaders to buy into their lies making themselves rich while the community loses sovereignty and revenue.  Why the name change for ICLIE? Because in America local communities can not sign contracts with international organizations. Once we exposed that they changed the name

Agenda 21/2030/Great Reset is designed to control every aspect of human life on every square inch of planet earth. As a biblical worldview dims in the world man falls to the bottom of the food chain. Animals and plants are now equal to humans.

Animals will become more important than man as will plants and trees. We can already see ample evidence of this process in motion today. Agenda 21/2030/Great Reset’s real message is: “Man is the problem. Nature must be preserved and take precedence. Mother Earth must not be scratched.“

U.S. Student Textbook  “Prayer to the Earth”:

The earth is not dead matter. She is alive. Now begin to speak to the earth as you walk.

You can speak out loud, or just talk to her in your mind. Send your love into her with your exhalation. Feel your heart touching upon the heart of the planet. Say to her

whatever words come to you: Mother Earth, I love you. Mother Earth, I bless you. May you be healed. May all your creatures be happy. Peace to you, Mother Earth.

On behalf of the human race, I ask forgiveness for having injured you. Forgive us, Mother Earth.”

Agenda 21/2030/Great Reset is just another attempt by man to recreate heaven on earth. David Chilton, in his insightful book Paradise Restored, presents an important historical dynamic. Chilton submits that man, ever since he was expelled from Eden, has tried to get back in. Each time he tries, he creates another hell on earth. Agenda 21/2030/Great Reset will be no different.

Many socialistic, communistic, and liberal organizations and international leaders are behind Agenda 21/2030/Great Reset and its related programs. It will take dedication of time and effort on our part to truly understand all the implications of this pervasive program. The investment of time will be worth it.

I encourage you, no, beg you, to learn of this UN Agenda. Take the time. Think of the world your children will inherit if we don’t stop it and similar assaults on our freedoms.  Do not make the mistake of writing this off as some conspiracy theory. It may or may not be a conspiracy, but it is not a theory. It’s here.

Here are a few examples of the Affirmative Action Graduates at work:

The Klamath Dam project.  I worked with Rosa Koire, Henry Lamb, Dr Michael Coffman and a host of others trying to alert the Affirmative Action Graduate Greenies not to blow the dams affecting hydro electric power, irrigation for farmers and wildlife. After over 10 years of trying to explain consequences to the Greenies they blew the dam. Now instead of having water, power and wildlife, everything, is dead.

The Affirmative Action Graduates in the Army Corp of Engineers had a similar experience.  We said, not to straighten the Kissimmee River in Florida or it will kill Lake Okeechobee and everything around it. But no they wanted more growth. Now at more taxpayer expense, they are re-curving the river.

It was just determined that the Fire, explosion in East Palestine was unnecessary.

How many wild fires are started because of poor management of forests or maintenance?

EV’s are a failure in cold weather and pollute more than gas vehicles.

Raising the minimum wage raises prices and puts companies out of business.

Eliminating CO2 will eliminate all forms of life.

When you lower the standards and don’t teach simple skills like common sense and consequence things fall apart and people lie.

It’s not climate change that is the problem. Its incompetent Affirmative Action Graduates.

Your children are learning this in the Public Indoctrination Clinics masquerading as public schools.

Join me and learn about Microschools and how you can help.

American is being transformed and we are losing our freedoms. The plight of the country in your hands. We can not continue to give them power and money to destroy us. We must vote the bums out.  Join me and learn about the plight of J6ers who are political prisoners and what you can do to help.

Remember: 

All Globalists want is Money Control and Power. They can only get Power if we give it to them. Don’t give them yours. Challenge them with the truth. Doing Nothing is Affirmation.

The Regime will not go quietly. Prepare.  Share with your 5.   So join me today

©2024. Karen Schoen. All rights reserved.

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I never used to believe this kind of stuff… I do now

Brief explanation of Agenda 21, which was agreed and signed by 179 nations. Covid was created and released as a means to further this agenda, so pay attention pic.twitter.com/NIy4k2QiEW

— A Man Of Memes (@RickyDoggin) March 9, 2024

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The Truth About Saint Patrick and Saint Patrick’s Day

By Dr. Rich Swier

Britannica on Saint Patrick Day:

The feast day held on March 17th of Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. Born in Roman Britain in the late 4th century, he was kidnapped at the age of 16 and taken to Ireland as a slave. He escaped but returned about 432 CE to convert the Irish to Christianity.

By the time of his death on March 17, 461, he had established monasterieschurches, and schools. Many legends grew up around him—for example, that he drove the snakes out of Ireland and used the shamrock to explain the Trinity.

Ireland came to celebrate his day with religious services and feasts.

It was emigrants, particularly to the United States, who transformed St. Patrick’s Day into a largely secular holiday of revelry and celebration of things Irish. Cities with large numbers of Irish immigrants, who often wielded political power, staged the most extensive celebrations, which included elaborate parades. Boston held its first St. Patrick’s Day parade in 1737, followed by New York City in 1762. Since 1962 Chicago has coloured its river green to mark the holiday.

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Foregone Conclusion

By The Geller Report

The biggest news story that the media, let alone the Democrat media axis – the most powerful propaganda apparatus in the world, is not covering, has not covered and will not cover is that the 2024 election is a forgone conclusion. The Democrats stole 2020. They stole it right before our eyes. They stopped counting in the battleground states in the middle of the night when Trump was all but declared the winner. Yes, he was that far ahead, and then, when the machines came back online hours later, the coup was complete and what followed was a revolution, an overthrow of we the people culminating in the prosecution and imprisonment of those who protested against the steal on January 6. I don’t think they will be as messy this time. The election system itself in blue/purple states, the infrastructure is a Democrat apparatus. They have a good deal of practice under their belts. There is nothing they love more than the constant drone of nonsensical flapping tongues talk, talk, talking about the election on TV, in social media, anywhere and everywhere. “The polls show…..” As if.

How does anyone believe the Republicans will be able to win in November? It’s not possible. Why is everyone talking about the race like it’s viable or fair or possible? It’s mass delusion. The election machinery is immense, meticulous, tentacles everywhere even in the GOP. And the enemy of the people controls it.  If I’m wrong, tell me what I ain’t seeing.

The reason why they are keeping a rotting, demented corpse who sniffs, fondles little children and walks into walls on the ticket, is because it’s in the bag. It doesn’t matter who they put on the ticket. He’s not running the country anyway.

The Republicans are useless. They have done nothing for four years. Controlled opposition.

The answer is simple. Paper ballots. One day voting. And that will not happen.

‘They Are Miles Ahead’: Despite ‘Election Integrity’ Hype, GOP Could Be Walking Into 2024 Legal Buzzsaw

By: Reagan Reese, Daily Caller, March 14, 2024:

Republicans are walking a tightrope heading into the 2024 election.

They must show their base that they are fighting hard on the issue of election integrity, which many conservatives believe cost former President Donald Trump his 2020 re-election bid.

Simultaneously, they must operate in the reality that they now live in the world of ballot harvesting and drop-boxes.

That dichotomy is why the Republican National Committee (RNC) told the Daily Caller they are committed to prioritizing election integrity efforts between now and November. They are waging lawsuits on issues ranging from ballot access to voting rules. Yet the party is also heavily pushing its “Bank Your Vote” initiative, encouraging Republicans to vote early.

Other elements of the party seem more resigned to playing by Democrats’ rules rather than trying to change them. The Caller also reached out to the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), which the RNC said is helping bankroll the party’s legal fights.

After sending the Daily Caller a link to an Axios article about get out the vote efforts, and then ignoring multiple follow-up requests for an interview about election integrity, NRCC spokesperson Will Reinert sent the Caller the following: “We’ve complained about your coverage several times to editors, so to tell you the truth, we really don’t care to engage on pieces we don’t care about to help you guys out.”

A prominent conservative pundit read the Reinert email and told the Daily Caller, “‘pieces we don’t care about’ is the giveaway. They’re mailing it in on election prep, in other words.”

Election integrity is, however, an issue Republican voters care deeply about: coming out of the last presidential election, nearly two-thirds of Republicans and Trump voters said they had little faith votes were counted accurately, according to one poll.

In 2020, a number of election laws were changed, and others were straight up ignored, in key states due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In swing states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Arizona, voters had expanded access to methods of voting including ballot drop-boxes, mail-in voting and early voting thanks to Democratic Party legal efforts led by Marc Elias. (RELATED: Key Swing State Election Laws Under Fire Over Voter Integrity Provisions)

Elias is a high-powered attorney who has played a leading role in hundreds of lawsuits seeking to make it easier to vote and undo Republican efforts to make elections more secure.

A Daily Caller review of current election laws found that the situation on the ground remains dire for election integrity hawks. A number of key battleground states, including those that delivered Biden the presidency, are still slated to use many of the election procedures in 2024 that outraged Republicans in 2020.

At least seven are slated to deploy ballot drop-boxes. Nearly all are likely to have no-excuse absentee voting. Five are on track to have more than two weeks of early voting, and Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and North Carolina will mail out absentee ballots more than six weeks before election day.

“As we’ve talked about, the damage done by Democrats to change laws during COVID was unprecedented. There’s still a lot of work to do, not everything is where we want to be right now. But that’s why we’re scaling up this massive program and filing all this litigation because we’re actively trying to fix it up,” an RNC official told the Daily Caller. “We understand that there are still issues, especially in swing states with key stuff we need to fix. That’s why this exists.”

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Georgia: In Case You Might Be DISTRACTED

The real Fani Willis case is a case of 2020 election fraud – and the disclosures just adduced at trial are that 148K 2020 mail ballots sailed through without any sig verification.

So they lied and Biden didn’t ‘win’ Georgia in 2020. https://t.co/4AN7gyKptW

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) March 14, 2024

Georgia voting machine trial coming.
Numerous cybersecurity experts have said in and out of court that hackers can alter the outcomes of elections dependent on computers and that election officials may not be able to identify when such hacking takes place.https://t.co/PZoBoT1y6y

— Brink Ovlov (@BrinkOvlov) November 28, 2023

Arizona 2020 Maricopa Forensic Ballot Audit –

2.1M ballots each examined by hand and high rez photographed front and back. 10%+ found to be non-conforming (counterfeit). Legacy media lies about it all, says they found nothing except some extra Biden votes. https://t.co/YAHuyBv9mD pic.twitter.com/D0s6qu0141

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) March 11, 2024

Arizona 2020 Trust Deficit –

200,000+ non-conforming (counterfeit) 2020 Maricopa County ballots with some quantity (per voter volunteers) being seven-to-one for Joe Biden. Based on voter-volunteer forensic audit testimony it looks like a ballot box stuff job to make Joe ‘win.’ https://t.co/5Gjq65Y0q2 pic.twitter.com/BHnreX1NMr

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) March 10, 2024

Arizona 2022 Trust Deficit –

“This is the story of (an election) sabotage.”

Starting at time code 7:00 watch election workers test the machines that would be rolled out into the voting centers for public use. They fail repeatedly with paper jams and rejected ballots. Who would… https://t.co/Qw8BgpzJmq

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) March 10, 2024

Telegram from Michigan:

Signing election certifications with invisible ink a problem?

Not in Michigan, apparently. https://t.co/QGYrcVtSj8

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) December 29, 2023

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A Plea For Help From A Dutch patriot

By Matthys van Raalten

For the most part of my life, I have been obstructed by the Dutch government. The worst that my government did to me, is diagnose me with schizophrenia.

The reason that this raw ordeal happened to me, is that I’m a classical liberal. In the United States, I would be called a conservative.

Some of my strong believes are:

  1. There is a God.
  2. A country has a right to defend itself when attacked by a foreign country.
  3. Feminism is bad.
  4. Homosexuality is a sin.
  5. French culture is awful.
  6. Dutch people can be proud of their History.
  7. Marxism is of the devil.

I have always been outspoken about my beliefs. Most of the Dutch people strongly disagree with me, as they have been brainwashed by the leftist media and leftist political leaders.

Every once in four weeks time, I have to report to a government building. There I’m being questioned and I’m treated with a medicine. This amounts to torture.

I want to sue the Dutch government for the way they obstructed me, during my studies at the University of Amsterdam, during my career as a businessman, during my time as a political dissident.

All help from American citizens is appreciated. You can help me by posting a message of support on your social media accounts. I do not ask for donations.

If you are a lawyer or a legal expert, you should understand that Dutch law is very complicated, and I can thus not be assisted by non-Dutch people in the legal proceedings.

©2024. Matthys van Raalten. All rights reserved.

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Judge Says Fani Willis Must Ditch Nathan Wade Or Step Aside From Trump Case

By The Daily Caller

A judge declined Friday to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the case against former President Donald Trump.

Judge Scott McAfee found that the defendants had “failed to meet their burden of proving that the District Attorney acquired an actual conflict of interest in this case through her personal relationship and recurring travels with her lead prosecutor.” However, he said that the record “highlights a significant appearance of impropriety that infects the current structure of the prosecution team,” stating that Nathan Wade must either withdraw or Willis and her whole office can choose to step aside to solve the problem.

McAfee wrote that disqualifying Willis was not necessary “when a less drastic and sufficiently remedial option is available.”

So, if I have this right, Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee decided to pull a James Comey, Robert Mueller, and Robert Hur:

Write a ruling saying Fani Willis and Nathan Wade are guilty as hell, have no ethics, and aren’t good role models….BUT Fani can stay

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 15, 2024

“The Court therefore concludes that the prosecution of this case cannot proceed until the State selects one of two options,” he wrote. “The District Attorney may choose to step aside, along with the whole of her office, and refer the prosecution to the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council for reassignment. See O.C.G.A. § 15-18-5. Alternatively, SADA Wade can withdraw, allowing the District Attorney, the Defendants, and the public to move forward without his presence or remuneration distracting from and potentially compromising the merits of this case.”

Trump co-defendant Michael Roman alleged in a Jan. 8 motion that Willis financially benefited from awarding her romantic partner Nathan Wade a lucrative contract to work as special prosecutor on the case when he took her on vacations using money earned from his position.

Willis and Wade both denied the relationship began before he was hired, though a long-time friend of Willis, Robin Yeartie, testified that it began in 2019. They claimed the expenses were split roughly equally, with Willis paying him back in cash.

McAfee wrote that an “odor of mendacity remains” about the testimony of Willis and Wade.

“The Court is not under an obligation to ferret out every instance of potential dishonesty from each witness or defendant ever presented in open court,” he wrote. “Yet reasonable questions about whether the District Attorney and her hand-selected lead SADA testified untruthfully about the timing of their relationship further underpin the finding of an appearance of impropriety and the need to make proportional efforts to cure it.”

BREAKING: Judge McAFEE has *rejected* a motion to disqualiy Fani WIllis, saying Trump et al failed to prove an *actual* conflict of interest.

Rather, he said either WIllis or Wade can step down from the probe to eliminate thhe *appearance* of a conflict. https://t.co/21usblJdm0 pic.twitter.com/tavPwWoYPC

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) March 15, 2024

Steve Sadow, Trump’s lead defense counsel, said in a statement that they will “use all legal options available as we continue to fight to end this case, which should never have been brought in the first place.”

“While respecting the Court’s decision, we believe that the Court did not afford appropriate significance to the prosecutorial misconduct of Willis and Wade, including the financial benefits, testifying untruthfully about when their personal relationship began, as well as Willis’ extrajudicial MLK ‘church speech,’ where she played the race card and falsely accused the defendants and their counsel of racism,” Sadow said.

McAfee’s ruling addressed other grounds defendants used to call for disqualification, including Willis’ failure to disclose gifts from Wade on her financial disclosures and a church speech she gave in January blaming the allegations on race.

He called the speech “legally improper,” noting that this kind of public comment “creates dangerous waters for the District Attorney to wade further into.”

“The time may well have arrived for an order preventing the State from mentioning the case in any public forum to prevent prejudicial pretrial publicity, but that is not the motion presently before the Court,” he wrote.

As for witnesses, McAfee found Yeartie’s testimony raised doubts about the testimony of Willis and Wade but “lacked context and detail.” He found that he could not “place any stock in the testimony of Terrance Bradley,” Wade’s former law partner.

Texts revealed Bradley, who said on the witness stand that he “could not recall” details about their relationship, shared many details with defense attorney Ashleigh Merchant, even suggesting witnesses she could subpoena to confirm them.

“His inconsistencies, demeanor, and generally non-responsive answers left far too brittle a foundation upon which to build any conclusions,” McAfee wrote.

McAfee issued a ruling Wednesday dismissing six of the counts in the indictment that did not offer defendants “enough information to prepare their defenses intelligently.”

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Israel’s Ramadan Dilemmas

By NEWSRAEL Telling the Israeli Story

Hamas would like to see Israeli forces storming into the Al-Aqsa mosque, hoping it would lead to a regional conflagration. 

The month of Ramadan is always a sensitive period for security officials. This year it has to be handled with even more care because Israel has to contend with four arenas bubbling up with pressure all at once—the war against Hamas in Gaza; the heightened tension in Judea and Samaria; the attempts to inflame Israeli Arabs; and the ongoing clash with the Biden administration.

The decision not to prevent Arabs who are Israeli citizens and Arab residents of Jerusalem from joining the Temple Mount prayers in a sweeping manner has major importance.

In recent years, riots have typically erupted during Ramadan, especially in the second half of the month, led by Hamas-affiliated radical youth from eastern Jerusalem neighborhoods, as well as “lone-wolf” terrorists mostly coming into the Old City, young people who smuggle fireworks, Molotov cocktails and even pipes filled with explosive powder resembling bombs onto the Temple Mount before Ramadan, sleep in the mosque and barricade themselves inside. This quickly descends into a confrontation with the police.

The main mission of the Israel Police on the Temple Mount is to prevent rioters from throwing stones or other dangerous objects towards the Western Wall, which could lead to the evacuation of Jewish worshippers from the compound. Extreme Islamic elements, certainly Hamas, would love to see this happen, as this could be cast as a “victory image.”

The Israeli Police has extensive experience dealing with events of this type. It is clear to anyone engaged in this task that images and videos of police officers stepping on prayer rugs and confronting those inside Al-Aqsa mosque, broadcast live to the Arab world, would increase tensions and provoke much condemnation.

Hamas would like to see Israeli forces storming into the mosque, hoping this would lead to a regional conflagration; thus, such a move must be an absolute last resort.

Storming the mosque would not be a tactical event; it would have broad strategic political and security implications. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made it clear that such a move would have to be first cleared by him, underscoring the gravity of the matter.

In the current situation, there is no other choice. Events on the Temple Mount have a direct bearing on what happens in the Gaza Strip, with the discourse on a possible IDF operation in Rafah in the background.

Maintaining pressure on Hamas, by destroying both its military and civilian dispositions, while eliminating its political, religious and civilian leadership, requires the IDF to take aggressive action in Rafah. It must conquer and mop up the area, and target hundreds or even thousands of terrorists hiding in buildings, mosques and educational and medical facilities, and deal with the most difficult component—the underground tunnel system.

The main working assumption is that Hamas operatives in Rafah have already shed their identifying marks and are hiding among a supportive population, armed and not hesitating to use civilians as human shields.

IDF soldiers must not be put in harm’s way unnecessarily. Likewise, to minimize harm to Palestinian civilians as much as possible, it is crucial that they be allowed out of combat zones. But it is also worth remembering that with the terrorists being embedded within the population, the inability to definitively distinguish between noncombatants and terrorists adds to the complexity.

Another issue is the pier that the U.S. is establishing on the Gaza coast and the question of who will receive the humanitarian relief that is intended for the civilian population.

The most complex and dangerous way forward would be to allow clans or large families to manage the distribution of food. On the other hand, officials in the Palestinian Authority will also not be able to do so at this stage. Hamas is deeply embedded in the area, and it will threaten and even harm any entity that operates in its place.

Therefore, a combination of forces from Arab countries and Gazan civilians, as well as Israeli military intervention, will be required. This constellation, of course, is not a solution for the “day after” the war, which is the most critical aspect as Israel seeks a stable civilian governing authority to replace Hamas.

Read full article.

Originally published by Israel Hayom.

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Arik Barbing

Arik Barbing, former head of the Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria sector in the Shin Bet.

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REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY: The Toxic Fruit of ‘Reformed Theology’ — Part 1

By Kelleigh Nelson

“Wherever replacement theology has flourished, the Jews have had to run for cover.” — Thomas Ice

“When the Ark of the Covenant was being brought up to Jerusalem, King David could be seen “leaping and dancing before the Lord” with “all his might” (2 Samuel 6:14-16).  This evoked strong displeasure from his wife, Michal, who was left barren for having despised the joy of the Lord in her husband’s heart.  How full the church is today of Michals who despise those who are rejoicing in the nacham (comfort), racham (compassion), and chesed (loyal covenant love) of God toward His people.  How spiritually barren the church is where love for Israel is absent.” — Paul Wilkinson, author, Israel The Inheritance of God

“If God has not spoken in His Word about replacing, fulfilling, retelling, enlarging, redefining, nullifying, reconstituting, universalizing, reinterpreting, incorporating, renewing, or even “Christifying” Israel, then how are the church speak this way!” —  Andrew Robinson, Israel Betrayed Volume I: The History of Replacement Theology.


There is a preciseness in the exegesis of the above-mentioned books, along with Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum’s approach to teaching the scriptures. It is a preciseness that many decades ago resonated with my soul.

As a youngster, I was raised in a Jewish neighborhood, grew up with Jewish friends, dated Jewish men, and always had an affinity for both Israel and her people. It was no surprise then, that a Jewish man led me to the doctrinal truth of scripture so many decades ago.  Yes, Jewish folks can lead gentiles to truth.  The Lord works in mysterious ways, his wonders to perform.

Long before that time, I had studied antisemitism in the Church for a number of years, and was appalled at the “teaching of contempt” which resonated from the false doctrine of “Replacement Theology,” especially in the “reformed” protestant churches.  The study of this lamentable portion of Christian history, and the departure and deviation of its original foundation is anathema to those who know Biblical truth.  As such, we must act against this evil and uphold the original bedrock of faith.  The tragic results of anti-Semitic replacement theology is an indictment against the Church.

This series of articles will hopefully explain the core of the rot found in our churches today.  We must remember that not all who are congregants of these various denominations understand the false doctrine or are even aware.  There can be no blanket condemnation of those who attend these churches, but only a denouncement of the heretical doctrine which has permeated the church and society in a vastly evil and catastrophic way against Israel and the Jewish people.

Replacement Theology

Replacement Theology is a huge subject, one that would take countless historical studies to fully understand. In the first century, the Church was poisoned with rotten fruit that grew into a forest of libel against God’s people, ultimately causing death and destruction throughout history.  It is also known as Supersessionism, from the word supersede, and Fulfillment Theology. In simple terms, it is the belief that the Church has replaced Israel and the Jewish people in the New Testament in terms of God’s calling and His promises.

This means that Israel plays no role in current and future world affairs and where the NT mentions “Israel” it refers to the Church. This belief stems from the idea that due to the Jew’s rejection of Jesus Christ as their Messiah, their place in the Promise has been forfeited to the Church.

Clearly stated, “Replacement Theology” is an unbiblical heretical doctrine and has destroyed the true church proper.  It is a curse laid upon the cornerstone of truth, that the twelve tribes of Israel are no longer of interest to our Creator. The One True God, our Creator, loves His people Israel and will never forsake His promises to them.

The objective is not to trash Christianity, but to reassess and if possible, remove the false tenets which are damaging to Jews, Christians and the rest of humanity.  We have seen that damage throughout history.  In our lifetime, the Shoah, and now the worldwide outpouring of anti-Semitism against Israel and her people while they are at war with terrorists who mercilessly slaughtered men, women, children and babies.

This false doctrine is the decay and effect of ecclesiastical hatred and contempt for the Jews and Jewishness within the early church, by those considered Church Fathers, who were responsible for the evil perpetrated by the church throughout the centuries against God’s people, Israel. Ignorance of this subject is extremely detrimental to all Christian life.

The Lord has an Eternal Plan

In a February, 2024 article by Dr. Tim Sigler, entitled “Israel’s Current Conflict and God’s Eternal Plan,” he tells of being asked to speak to all three services at a church regarding what is happening in Israel.  The pastor told him that he could not preach on these things adequately.  He was right.  There is a lack of clear biblical teaching and preaching about the role of Israel in God’s plan, about how to understand current issues in light of Scripture, and about how to navigate biblically the ethical challenges that receive lots of one-sided coverage in the culture at large.

Dr. Sigler spoke to the congregations about why Israel is special to God and God’s choice of Israel to be the recipient of covenant blessings.  He listed four verses.

  • To be blessed by God and be a blessing to all the families of the earth. (Gen. 12:3)
  • To be the inheritors of the land of promise. (Gen. 28:13)
  • To have God’s special favor from generation to generation. (Deut. 7:7-9)
  • To have a line of kings from which an ultimate righteous ruler would come.

(2 Samuel 7:11-16)

Dr. Sigler went on to explain that even in the Christian New Testament (Romans 11:28-32), God’s promises to the Jewish people, the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, are beloved of the Lord because of God’s covenantal promises given to the fathers, meaning the patriarchs of Israel.  And the Lord’s promises never change.

The pastor of this church is right, few gentile preachers teach in any depth about the Lord’s covenants with His people, Israel.

Early Heresy

Elements of Replacement Theology can be traced as far back as Marcion (A.D. 85 – 160), who carried on a theological crusade to purge the Church of what he perceived to be dangerous Jewish errors and influences.  Later, many of these same anti-Judaic sentiments found their way into the thinking (and writings) of the Early Church fathers. Irenaeus (c.180) wrote, “The Jews have rejected the Son of God and cast Him out of the vineyard when they slew Him.”  Anyone who has read the New Testament words of Christ knows this is a lie, as Jesus himself said in John 10:18, “No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.”

There is much that has happened to the church throughout history, but the Real Great Schism was brought about by the work of the second century Patristic Fathers who took the Church away from the Synagogue and cleansed it of Jewishness.  This is how the Church became different from the Apostolic Church and left the truth of scriptures.

Justin Martyr, in the second century, was one of the first Patristic Fathers who as an intellectual with literary skill was able to pull together the defense of Christian beliefs, refute non-Christian teachings and his numerous anti-Jewish diatribes in a manner that resonated with other elitists within the church.  His focus was on Moses’ Law.  He called it burdensome, that neither Abraham nor other patriarchs lived under the Law, that it was abrogated with Christ, that Christians should not and do not live under the Law of Moses, but under the New Law which is Christ, that the Jews never really understood Scripture given by Moses and the Prophets, but now is understood by Christians which makes the Church the true Israel. Justin provided the Christians with an argument well packed with hateful theological rational.

In the process of defending Christianity, Justin articulated a set of Christian tenets which no other Christian apologist could outdo later. Every single tenet of Christian anti-Jewish theology of the Middle Ages is found in the two works of Justin (Apologies and the Dialogue with Trypho).

Those who followed suit after Justin (Irenaeus, Origen, Tertullian, John Chrysostom, Augustine, Ambrose, and others) honed and polished the tenets Justin himself had already created. None of them added any new tenet to Justin’s anti-Jewish philosophy; they only elaborated upon them and adapted them to the current conditions of their own world.

The Patristic Fathers and their destruction of the true church and their movement away from the synagogue has caused massive evil.  Justin Martyr’s writings reveal not only his hatred for the Jews as a people, but for the Torah.

The Hebrew Bible and America’s Founding Fathers

The political discourse of America’s founding, for one example, is replete with appeals to the Hebrew “republic” as a model for their own political experiment. In an influential 1775 Massachusetts election sermon, Samuel Langdon, the president of Harvard College and later a delegate to New Hampshire’s constitution ratifying convention, opined: “The Jewish government, according to the original constitution which was divinely established, … was a perfect Republic … The civil Polity of Israel is doubtless an excellent general model …; at least some principal laws and orders of it may be copied, to great advantage, in more modern establishments.” Most of what the founders knew about the Hebraic republic they learned from the Bible. The republican model found in the Hebrew Scriptures, however, reassured pious Americans that republicanism was a political system favored by God.

Our once robust society and Godly culture are no longer what our founders envisioned. Our second US President, John Adams said, “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Morality and virtue are the foundation of our republic and necessary for a society to be free.

The believers’ debt to Hebrew Scripture, Jewish exegesis, and divine revelation were evident to all of God’s people. In fact, Jewish-Christian relations, in spite of second and third century Christian elitist assaults upon all things Jewish, continued with good rhythm and solid relationship until the mid-fourth century with the advent of the First Council of Nicaea. At the Council of Nicaea, under Constantine’s oversight, the Church formally disconnected from the Jewish roots of Christian theology and practice by separating the celebration of Easter from the Celebration of Passover.

With time, this theological approach has gained momentum and has been the instigator of many atrocities carried out against the Jews.

The fruits of Replacement Theology have been the foundation of almost two millennia of Jew-hatred known as anti-Semitism. Its doctrine has enabled fallen man’s evil instincts to enjoy unlimited acts of horror, terror and extreme violence towards the Jewish people.

Hundreds, if not thousands, of episodes rooted in historical Jew-hatred have manifested themselves under the guise of this doctrine – for example, the infamous Spanish inquisition when 200,000 Jews were expelled from Spain by the Catholic Church. Tens of thousands were slaughtered, purposely drowned in the sea, or their bodies ripped open after rumors spread that Jews who were fleeing had swallowed their gold and silver items.

Sails of Hope

Sails of Hope by Simon Wiesenthal asks the question, “Was Columbus Jewish?”  That would be a shock to those who believe he was Italian while many claim he was Portuguese.  However, Wiesenthal spent five years researching this completely factual, radical re-interpretation of the events which led to the discovery of the New World and changed the course of history.

From the back of Simon Wiesenthal’s book comes the following:

“We herewith decree that all the Jews living in Our dominions, without distinction of sex and age, must leave Our royal possessions and seigneuries, together with their sons and daughters and their Jewish servants…and let them not presume to set foot again in the land for the purpose of settlement, or to pass through to some other land, or for any purpose whatsoever.”  Royal Edict of Expulsion

By midnight, August 2, 1492, all Jews must leave Spanish soil.

That same night, the three sailing ships which are to carry Christopher Columbus on his voyage of discovery are anchored quietly in Palos harbor, and although they are not scheduled to embark until the following day, Columbus has ordered his crew to be on board by eleven o’clock that night.  A Hebrew translator, Luis de Torres, will accompany the expedition, but strangely enough, not a single priest is included.

The auspicious coincidence of these two events, compounded with the intense mystery which has always surrounded the identity of Columbus, has led to a complete re-examination of all previously accepted theories about the true nature of his mission.

Conclusion

So many have asked, “Where is the Church?”  As Dr. Sigler well knows, today’s church leaders are bereft of the truth regarding the Lord’s eternal promises to the Jewish people and have long ago left the original doctrinal veracity of the Apostolic age.

In upcoming portions of this series, the more famous Church fathers who expounded on Justin’s Replacement theology, will be discussed, including Tertullian, Chrysostom, Augustin, Origen and Constantine, all of this leading to today’s Christian Palestinianism.

©2024. Kelleigh Nelson. All rights reserved.

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Why Conservatives Need to Stop Saying “My Country’s Not Perfect”

By Selwyn Duke

A “Persian flaw” was originally a flaw purposely included in a handmade carpet because, the thinking was, only God could aspire to perfection. ’Tis true, too, that perfection is not a thing of this world. Given this, you may wonder why I write in my title that conservatives must stop issuing disclaimers to the effect of, “We all know our country is not perfect.” Well, consider a little analogy:

Imagine you were giving a speech in honor of your mother and opened with, “Now, we all know my mother’s not perfect.” Might there not be some stunned silence? Is it possible some listeners might view you as a bad child? Moreover, if your mother heard your disclaimer, mightn’t she be hurt?

This reaction to it would not be registered because the impression prevailed that your mother was a Jesus-like figure who walks on water. Rather, because your mother is human, it’s a given that she’s not perfect. Thus, making a point of issuing such a disclaimer implies that your mother isn’t just saddled with the “normal” human imperfections but is uniquely or profoundly flawed, so much so that you’d be embarrassed lauding an aspect of her life without first acknowledging her uniquely defective character.

In other words, such a disclaimer is gratuitous, just a bit like saying, “We all know my mother is not a man” or “We all know my mother is not an extraterrestrial.” Unless she’s got a beard and chest hair or looks like E.T., what’s the point?

Now, the imperfection disclaimer would be appropriate if your mother had knocked over three banks and you were pleading her case before the parole board, but is the U.S. that kind of a country? To what are we comparing her?

America was not the first to practice slavery, our flagellantism obsession, but was one of the first nations to eliminate it (Vermont enacted anti-slavery laws in 1777 already). As for “racism,” a 2020 study found the obvious: The U.S. is one of the least racist countries on Earth.

Consider, too, that China had its brutal wars of unification and, much later in history, a Maoist government that would kill 60 million people. Russia has a history including figures such as Ivan the Terrible, a Ukrainian genocide and Joseph Stalin’s purges. And prior to Western Civilization’s intervention, most parts of the world were ridden with barbarities such as cannibalism and human sacrifice. This, not to mention that slavery was once status quo the world over and that “racism” in many places still is. Yet citizens of other countries never feel compelled to issue an imperfection disclaimer.

So where is this standard of perfection, this utopia, that we’re comparing America to when we do so? Heaven is Heaven; it’s not on Earth.

Speaking of this flawed fold, and the sin making it so, vanity (and perhaps narcissism, too) also sometimes drives the imperfection disclaimer’s issuance. Implicit in the statement may be the message, “I wouldn’t want you to think I’m the kind of person who wouldn’t recognize my country’s flaws; I want you to know that I’m better than my nation — part of the enlightened set.”

None of this, mind you, means our attitude should be, “My country, right or wrong,” which, as G.K. Chesterton pointed out, “is like saying ‘My mother, drunk or sober.’” But this gets at part of the imperfection disclaimer’s silliness: It’s not even motivated by the right concerns.

We’re in the throes of the Sexual Devolution and a cultural revolution, with ne’er-do-wells telling children they can change sexes and have any kind of sex and illegal aliens being advantaged over citizens. Yet too many of us are manipulated into issuing the imperfection disclaimer based on left-wing imperatives (e.g., slavery and racism), which range from being in the past to common to man to exaggerated to imaginary. It’s a testimonial as to how the con-artist Left, with its control of culture-shaping entities such as the media, academia, entertainment and Big Tech, can mold thinking and manage the debates.

Lastly, know that just as an imperfection disclaimer relating to your quite normal mother would cause many to look dimly upon you, so does issuing one about our country lose us respect internationally. This world isn’t exactly replete with desert mystics and “If they don’t respect themselves,” the thinking often is, “why should we respect them?” So as my mother would often say, “Don’t wash your dirty laundry in public.”

Perfection is not a prerequisite for praise. A father will proudly tout his son’s accomplishments without mentioning the boy’s occasional mischievousness. Likewise, talking about our country’s successes doesn’t necessitate disclaimers about her sins.

Stop saying, “We all know our country is not perfect.” It’s not a sign of virtue. It’s a marker of leftist victory.

©2024. Selwyn Duke. All rights reserved.

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ACTION ALERT: West Point Official Mission Statement Eliminating ‘Duty, Honor, Country’

By Royal A. Brown III

”Duty, Honor, Country,” a striking expression of West Point’s time honored ideals, is the motto of the U. S. Military Academy and is embedded in its coat of arms.

Though not as old as the institution they represent, the USMA coat of arms, also referred to as the seal, and motto have a long and interesting history.

According to archival records, the coat of arms and motto were adopted in 1898. Col. Charles W. Larned, professor of drawing headed a committee to design a coat of arms for the Academy and stated several criteria for the design. The committee decided that the design should represent the national character of the Academy, it’s military function, its educational function and its spirit and objectives.

Symbolism in the Coat of Arms

The committee began with the creation of an emblem that consisted of a sword, a universal symbol of war, and the helmet of Pallas Athena, a fully armed mythological goddess, is associated with the arts of war, and her helmet signifies wisdom and learning. The emblem is attached to a shield, bearing the arms of the United States, and on the shield’s crest is a bald eagle, the national symbol. The eagles claws hold 13 arrows representing the 13 original states and oak and olive branches, traditional symbols of peace.

Duty, Honor, Country

The eagle is grasping a scroll bearing the words “West Point, MDCCCII (1802), USMA,” and the motto, “Duty, Honor, Country.” The motto as such was never previously stated, but in writings of early superintendents, professors and graduates, one is struck by the recurrence of the words “duty,” “honor” and “country.” Colonel Larned’s committee believed Duty, Honor, Country represented simply, but eloquently, the ideals of West Point.

The committee did not express an opinion as the relative importance of the three words; however, there is perhaps significance in the fact that “honor” is in the center of the motto. As Maj Gen Bryant Moore noted in a 1951 article in Assembly Magazine, “honor” forms the keystone of the arch of the three ideals on which West Point is founded.

The coat of arms was used without change until 1923, when Captain George Chandler, of the War Department, pointed out to the Superintendent Brig. Gen. Fred Sladen that the eagle and the faced the heraldic sinister side. The helmet, eagle’s head and sword were soon turned to their current position.

Since 1923, the coat of arms has been in regular use at West Point and is carved on many of the older buildings. In 1980, the coat of arms was registered with the Library of Congress as an “identifiable logo” for the Academy.

Another tradition the woke Lieutenant General Steve Gilland, the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point and his Marxist bosses are trying to eliminate the motto Duty, Honor, Country.


This is an “Action Alert”

Col. (Ret.) Bill Prince, President of the MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates, attended the 07 March West Point Board of Visitors meeting, at the Library of Congress in Washington DC.

Early in the meeting, current Superintendent LTG Steven W. Gilland announced a major change to the Academy’s Official Mission Statement. Expunged is the commitment to the approximately 125-year-old motto of Duty, Honor, Country.

LTG Gilland advised that in its place members of the Corps of Cadets would be “…committed to the Army Values…’’’ The seven Army values are not listed in the Mission Statement, but LTG Gilland remarked that Duty, Honor, Country were pretty much subsumed under the seven Army values. (Col. Prince’s comment: Duty and honor are two of the seven; Country does not make the cut.)

Meeting organizers supplied printed 12 page agenda packets to Board members and their staffs, but not the visitors, me being one, so we took the opportunity to grab agenda packets from vacant chairs. LTG Gilland advised, and the agenda packet specifically stated (page 4), that the new verbiage has been validated as an “Army Senior Leader Approved Mission.” Applicable briefing slide.

There is no identification of which Senior Army Leader found fault with Duty, Honor, Country. Not even the GOP members of the committee raised any objections.

Quickly, the briefing slides moved to the impacts of potential short-term and long-term lapses in funding.

Click here to view all briefing slides.

ACTION

If you are concerned, as we in the MacArthur Society certainly are, that there is an element at the Academy, and likely in the chain of command above, which wants to eradicate foundational principles which have stood the test of time, then I’m asking you to join me in sending an email to VP for Alumni Services Terence Sinkfield ’99 at terence.sinkfield@wpaog.org (845-446-1513).

Three questions occur to me:

Who is the “Army Senior Leader” who expunged Duty, Honor, Country from the Mission Statement?

Did this officer receive direction from above in his chain of command to take this action?

Did the AOG (in its mission to represent the members of the Long Grey Line) provide preliminary input to this decision and if so what input.

The MacArthur Society’s Mission is to preserve, defend, and advocate for West Point’s history, purpose, and principles of Duty, Honor, and Country. Clearly our Society must take action on this issue. Donations are of overriding importance in helping us stay in the fight. Join us!

Thank you for your support of the mission.

Col. (Ret.) Bill Prince ’70
President
MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates

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What Business Do Christians Have Being Journalists?

By Family Research Council

Collin Hansen, a Christian journalist, once wrote that “there’s significant overlap between” journalism and Christianity, because both “teach by distilling complicated concepts about how the world works. Both herald news, good and bad.” But he added that one “might not know about the overlap between these callings because journalists and preachers generally don’t like each other.”

Of course, it’s no wonder why. Journalists aren’t famous for their good, trustworthy reputations. Rather, they’re more commonly infamous for their willingness to lie and twist the narrative to accommodate their biases. We scan headlines and notice that left- and right-wing outlets may cover the same news yet tell completely different stories. How do we know who and what to trust?

More importantly, what business does a Christian have in a field notorious for misconduct?

Growing up, I didn’t pay much attention to politics. Partly because I lacked an interest in it, and partly because I saw how it stirred up immense controversy. I didn’t see the point of engaging in what seemed like a constant societal migraine. But here I am, a Christian reporter with my gaze particularly fixed on the political arena. So, what changed? It’s simple.

I used to tell people, “The only political opinions I have are what’s addressed in the Bible.” And while it’s largely still the case, there’s a much different meaning behind that statement now. Back then, if I said that, I was primarily referring to matters of abortion, gender, and marriage — areas I firmly believe Scripture makes abundantly clear. But what changed between then and now is that I see more clearly how the Bible touches on far more than those three significant areas. Indeed, the more I study Scripture (and observe the political landscape), the more I see just how much the Bible applies to nearly everything.

It was during my internship at Family Research Council, shortly after attending Bible college, when this became blatant. Evidently, there are a vast number of political topics to consider when claiming the Bible “nearly” applies to “everything.” But I’ve had the privilege of writing for The Washington Stand about immigration, debanking, socialism, abortion, economics, LGBT activism, education, social media, mental health, and more, and for every single topic, a biblical worldview has applied. Moreover, in each topic, a Christian voice was not only relevant, but needed.

God is not just “some” truth you can choose to adopt in personal and isolated areas of convenience. No, He is the ultimate Truth as it pertains to all things, regardless of how we feel. The truth of God is “the same yesterday, today, and forever” (Hebrews 13:8). It’s completely detached from the roller coaster of human trends and finite perspectives. As such, Christians have an advantage to journalism secular journalists don’t. Christian journalists know objective truth, and it has set us free (John 8:32). And its Christian journalists who then take God and His word into the messy battleground of secular journalism to serve as salt and light to a world in desperate need of it. And really, all Christians who engage in politics are called to do this, too.

I had a conversation with a friend the other day about how hopeless it can feel standing for biblical truth in the public square when it seems to have no impact. And yet, for this very reason, I don’t find it coincidental Galatians 6:9 frequently comes to mind, which says, “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” And really, this is what Christian journalists are called to take on.

I believe it’s a strong and reasonable temptation to give up when swimming against the current — particularly in an ocean as restless as politics. But what I believe Galatians 6:9 is meant to remind us of is that we don’t give up because, while we may not always be able to see how our efforts make a difference, we serve a God who said, “Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear” (Isaiah 65:24). And Jesus said in John 5:17, “My Father is always working, and so am I.”

Feeling like God isn’t working is no reason to give up. Instead, we never have reason to give up because we trust, in His sovereignty, He is working.

2 Corinthians 4:4 says that “the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.” But don’t you see? Journalism is such a wonderful opportunity for Christians to put the light of the gospel back into the public square. We will be criticized and rejected for it, but we will also be glorifying God.

Hansen articulated it well when he shared why Christian journalism matters:

“Journalists that would serve the church will fulfill a catechetical calling. We are teachers who help other Christians understand a world created by God but corrupted by sin. Our investigative work reflects the biblical reality that we live in … [a] time when our ‘adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour’ (1 Peter 5:8). We expose the sin that imperils believers so that they might be prepared to defend themselves in the power of the Holy Spirit.

“Yet, we also live in … [a] time when the Father is working in glorious ways to spread the saving knowledge of His Son, Jesus Christ. This is good news, and journalists have been called to tell it. With a little help from preachers, we just might be able to encourage the church with a new, more edifying approach to media.”

As corrupt and abused as it may be, I don’t believe the realm of media, reporting, and journalism is worth abandoning. Like everything in this fallen world, its frustrating nature is not one we should shy away from. Rather, it should be a wake-up call to what Christians are meant to do in the first place. That is, to proclaim the truth.

Earlier, I said I am a Christian reporter with my gaze fixed on politics. And while that is true as it pertains to what I write about, behind it all is a gaze fixed on Christ. And so, as a Christian journalist, I shall repeat the words of Psalm 146:2, in that “I will praise the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.”

AUTHOR

Sarah Holliday

Sarah Holliday is a reporter at The Washington Stand.

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The Truth about Ramadan

By Matthys van Raalten

The truth about Islam

Ramadan is an Islamic tradition, that prescribes that Muslims must refrain from eating and drinking for a whole month. This is impossible, so Muslims cheat and eat lots of food in the night.

The purpose of Ramadan is to purify oneself. The purpose is to adhere completely to all the laws of Islam, the Shariah.

Palestinian demonstrators have taken over Wellington Street and are setting off smoke grenades.

They have a massive sound system built on scaffolding in the middle of the road and they are calling out @JustinTrudeau, saying that he is complicit in genocide. pic.twitter.com/9Avwt1hwAO

— Dacey Media (@chrisdacey) March 9, 2024

The big problem with this activity is, that one of the laws of Islam is the duty for the Muslim male to wage Jihad. Jihad means Holy War against non-Muslims.

During the past years, I noticed that during Ramadan Muslims cheat a lot. The whole day, Muslim men carry small bottles of water with them. They sip from them in secret when they think that nobody watches them. They also have a few dates (fruits from palm trees) in their pocket, and eat whenever they feel hungry.

I conclude that Ramadan is one big show by Muslims to appear noble. In reality they break their own rules all the time. Also, there are very few Muslims who wage Jihad, as ordered by the Quran. Most Muslim men talk tough and point a finger towards Israel. That’s not real the real deal, that’s not Jihad!

Unfortunately in the West, many people in positions of power, wish the Muslim community, the Ummah, a happy Ramadan. Well, I don’t. I wish for Muslims that they open their heart for the Truth. For it’s not healthy to participate in Ramadan. I wish for Muslims that they eat healthy, live healthy and have heathy ideas.

NOTE: Mosab Hassan Yousef, a.k.a. Son of Hamas, lists the characteristics of a certain people — can you guess who they are?

  1. They sacrifice their own children to ignite rage and hatred against their opponents.
  2. They don’t feel guilty for sacrificing their own children because the children are going to heaven as martyrs.
  3. They use the hospitals as terror hubs then they complain about the collapse of the health system.
  4. They use mosques for indoctrination and terror then they complain about religious freedoms.
  5. They initiate the war, and when they lose they say it was a massacre.
  6. They believe Killing, looting, raping, robbing, child molesting, and honor killing, are justified because of “resistance.”
  7. They believe the genocide of peaceful communities is because of “occupation” and “colonialism.”
  8. They are fighting for “their land”, but they have no proof of any ownership.
  9. They could have developed the land they have, but they prefer to conquer a land that has been already developed.
  10. They are certain that the grass on the other side is greener.
  11. They didn’t achieve anything because they were busy trying to steal their neighbor’s life achievement.
  12. If they don’t have their lamb stew dish while at war they have started, they call it famine and a human rights violation.
  13. They agree on evil then they complain about collective punishment. Their false accusations against their neighbors only reveal who they truly are.

©2024. Matthys van Raalten. All rights reserved.

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Stalin’s Cult of Personality in Biden’s White House

By Simona Pipko

Hitler’s and Stalin’s Cult of Personality is known to the world by the history of the 20th century. It is very familiar to Americans from the Soviet Union/Russia, Cuba, Germany, Venezuela, and some Central American countries. They have lived through the Cult of Personality in their native countries. They didn’t expect to see it in America. But they did. Biden’s State of the Union Address has reminded them about the Cult of Personality. The ideology of National-Socialism has its patterns and Cult of Personality is a major part of ​totalitarian regime. American medicine demonstrated a miracle, by making a senile Joe Biden a Khalif for an hour using a prompter and microphone. Khalif an hour is a Russian-language book containing stories from The Thousand and One Nights.

Yes, American medicine, a prompter and microphone have given Biden the opportunity to deliver that aggressive, arrogant, and divisive State of the Union Address, full of lies and fraud. He presented himself as Abraham Lincoln blaming and fighting others: the GOP, the U.S. Supreme Court and you. Only a confused senile person, without a healthy brain can accuse Republicans of the border crimes and chaos in America. Biden called Republicans “the enemy of the state” like Stalin did. Hyper-partisan, angry, race-fueled State of the Union, skillfully coordinating half-truth, lies and fraud couldn’t be composed by a mentally confused Biden, he just read what his staff had produced for him.

Meanwhile, American servicemen are dying in Afghanistan, Somalia, Syria, and in helicopter’s crashes on the Southern border, where Russian Cartels operate. I have given up on Biden in August 2021, after the U.S. shameful surrender of Afghanistan. I haven’t changed my mind, “Afghanistan has been designed by Vladimir Putin and executed by Biden’s White House.” Yes, I have believed then and I am sure now that the Putin/Biden collusion is a reality and the forces of Putin’s KGB are running Biden’s White House. Trump is an existential threat to both Putin and Biden, and they are both interested in bankrupting and dismantling American capitalism… Remember  a term—Controlled Opposition, it is now Biden’s White House.

By knowing that Stalin’s Soviet Socialism would sooner or later infiltrate American soil, I started writing about it and warning you forty-three years ago. Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism, had been successfully disseminated throughout the world in the 20th century. Time is money, Vladimir Putin, a devoted disciple of the Stalin/Andropov ideology against American capitalism, knows it. This aggressive process has been accelerated in speed and force under Putin, for the last thirty years. You are witnessing its result in 2024: inflation is high, the economy is unstable, crime is rising, and record numbers of illegal migrants are crossing the border on a daily basis—a real American Chaos…

Writing about Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism, I have given you the history of Soviet/Russian terrorism, because the major part of Soviet fascism is Terrorism. “Terrorism is the unlawful use of violence or threats to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or government. It’s intended to coerce or intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological.” Stalin married Soviet Socialism’s ideology with Islam. Read my column to learn about Jihadi and their  “mission to recruit jihadists.”

It should be said that the Terrorism is a major part of Soviet Fascism, which is managed by the KGB’s Mafia/Army—the Evil Doer. That’s why the last part of the term is the Evil Doer—the manager. We are watching a collision of two presidents, Biden and Putin. Putin’s Evil Doer is helping Biden to implement Soviet Socialism in America. The example of events on the Southern border is visual for all: Biden’s open border policy gave the Evil Doer the opportunity to gather millions of illegal migrants from 120-160 countries across the globe. Pay attention to the unaccompanied children, thousands of them of different race, ethnicity and language. What force has organized them? I have been writing about this force and warning you for the last forty-three years. There is more history about children within the world community created by Stalin’s Communist regime. Read  my column:  The Putin/Biden Plot Against America’s Constitutional Republic Part II.

The Spanish Civil War and Spanish Orphans

I have been writing the story of the Spanish orphans for decades, yet, Republicans ignored it and now cannot successfully confront the Dems. The story is real history and explains the origin of the Communist forces of so-called Mexican Cartels in the 21st century Mexico:

In 1937, 2,895 children were sent to the Soviet Union by the Republic of Spain during the Spanish Civil War

(1936–39). In 1936, the Comintern Secretariat asked Stalin to allow Spanish children to enter the USSR, and the Soviet press called for more aid for Spanish orphans from September 15 to early October.

Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937

Nov 5, 2022 — In 1937, in the middle of the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), 2,895 children, mainly from the Basque Country and Asturias, were sent by the Republic to safety in the Soviet Union. In addition, a few hundred more arrived after the end of the conflict. The Soviet Union was not the sole country recipient of Spanish children.

Stalin and the Spanish Civil War: Chapter 5 – Gutenberg-e

In addition, on 22 September 1936, the Comintern Secretariat submitted a letter to Stalin with the request that he allow Spanish children to be admitted to the USSR. At the same time, from 15 September to early October, the Soviet press issued numerous calls for increased assistance to Spanish war orphans.

The Soviet Union’s response to the Spanish Civil War includes:

  • Military support: The Soviet Union provided Spain with modern weaponry, food, and other material aid throughout the war. From October 1936 to June 1937, the Soviet Union sent regular military equipment to Spain, and over a thousand Soviet tank crews and pilots fought alongside the Republic.
  • Refugee care: The Soviet Union built 22 boarding schools specifically for Spanish refugee children, which were better equipped than those for Soviet children. The Soviet Union raised and educated nearly 3,000 child refugees, and also set up boarding schools for Spanish refugee children during World War II. “ Google.

I met one Spanish man, who told me his story and I concluded that all boarding schools had been managed by the KGB, preparing an Army, fighting in Mexico. Knowledge of this history is mandatory to understand the situation in Mexico. There are no Mexican Cartels, those are Russians Cartels: well-trained agents and different criminal gangs like known to you MS-13, attacking America. Stalin’s usage of children continues. Watch crime against children in the 21st century America:

3/5: USBP agents in Santa Teresa, NM & Kingsville, TX arrested 2 child predators with a felony convictions for Sexual Assault/Battery of a Victim 12 years old & Sexual Assault of a Child. pic.twitter.com/KjpNLnTTfW

— Chief Jason Owens (@USBPChief) March 6, 2024

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Over the weekend, USBP agents in the Laredo, Del Rio, El Paso, & Tucson Sectors arrested 6 Sexual Predators who illegally crossed with convictions for Child Molestation, Rape of a Child, & Sexual Assault of a Child.

I have already written about Russia’s human trafficking under the Warsaw Pact, selling blond girls to Arab countries in the 20th century. Narcotic trafficking started by Russia in 1955: “Soviet strategy for revolutionary war is a global strategy… narcotics strategy is a sub-component of this global strategy.” Read my column: WARNING: Evil is Attacking America August 22, 2018.

August 22, 2018

 Socialist Charlatans: Democrat’s Machine the Socialist Mafia 

One of the major Stalin’s Socialist/Communist tasks had been creation of  loyal cadres in the targeted territory. Like Spanish speaking Russian agents in Mexico, the army of Socialist Charlatans had been built in the 20th century America. Coming from Europe, I am using the word Charlatans and think they are reflecting the deeds. “A charlatan is a person who pretends to have knowledge or skills they do not have. Synonyms of charlatan include: Fraud, Sham, Fake, Pretender, Impostor, Deceiver, Quack, Mountebank, Cheat, Con man.” The term Socialist Charlatans shows a double fraud, because Stalin’s Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism, is a fraud, as well. Read my column: How Soviet Fascism is Devouring Our American Dream December 18, 2023.

The army of America’s Socialist Charlatans have continued destruction of America in the 21st century, using the Socialist modus operandi: lies, deceit, fabrications, and fraud. They are managed successfully by the Evil Doer from inside and outside—a Controlled Opposition. Putin’s Evil Doer is helping Biden to implement Soviet Socialism in America. Look at America and see a result of the Evil Doer management: inflation is high, the economy is shaky, crime is rising, and millions of illegal migrants are crossing the border, creating “Migrant Crime” on a daily basis. Yes, this management destroys our American dream with impunity.

You are watching how Socialist Biden and his team use Socialist modus operandi, lying to you and devoid from reality John Kerry forcing fraudulent “climate change” every day. The Biden policy of open border exposes a deliberate agenda and political purpose that directly affects people, causing the death of children and enormous American family’s suffering. Lately, 320.000 migrants have been flown to America in secret to lessen border numbers by Biden’s team. Do you recognize the Evil Doer management, and its international application, I have been writing and warning you for forty-three years? I am not the only one. Look at these:

“Pretty much ever since Joe Biden took over the White House, an international invitation for migrants everywhere has been on full display. It says, ‘Come to America. We welcome you.” And as a result, millions and millions have come. “ Real Loaded News, 3/4/2024

“The Radical Left is doing everything in their power to destroy this great nation. But this has gone too far and crossed every line. The book, written by Swedish professor Andreas Malm, encourages and even calls for terrorism, overthrowing capitalism, and even acknowledges that people will die because of it. Demolish them, burn them, blow them up. Let the capitalists who keep investing in the fire know that their properties will be trashed.” Terrorist plot at a liberal college gets foiled for this shocking reason.Prudent Politics.

The Radical Left is a wrong term. We are dealing with Socialist Charlatans’ Socialist Mafia, a Criminal International Network. “With the Biden family having been caught putting millions of dollars in their pockets from their relationship with Ukraine it’s widely suspected that the corrupt American leaders were using Ukraine to launder American tax-money into their own bank accounts! “ Patriotic News Viral. Isn’t that a Socialist Mafia?

1) Hey Twitter,

It’s me, the biolabs guy. Aka “Clandestine”.

I was banned on 2/25/22, 11 months ago, for writing the viral thread about the US funded biolabs in Ukraine (attached).

In this thread, I am going to administer the biggest “I told you so” in history.#USBiolabs https://t.co/93V28R4wcI

— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) January 27, 2023

“Now that the MSM admit the CIA had bases in Ukraine since 2014, let’s revisit this infamous phone call. Two weeks after Trump was elected in 2016, then VP Biden called then Ukrainian President Poroshenko, nervous about Trump finding out where the money was going in Ukraine.…”

“What was going on in Ukraine that Biden and Obama were so desperate to prevent Trump from figuring out? You decide for yourself, but if it was legal, they wouldn’t be trying to cover it up.”  Clandestine has a map of Americans biolabs in Ukraine. Look at how many of them and nobody is discussing their existence. You see how the FBI, CIA, and ANC have failed us!  I hope now you grasp the Dem’s desire to create Biden’s Cult of Personality, they rehearse his State of the Union address. It is Stalin’s method to cover up the crimes have committed. To survive, the Democrats need it. I don’t know why the House Republicans are so delicately treating Biden. In my opinion, Biden committed a much more serious crime than just bribery.

My fellow Americans!

Educate yourselves by reading my columns. Don’t allow foreign thugs to implement Soviet Fascism in America!

Don’t allow foreign thugs to dismantle our system of checks and balances and the American Constitutional republic designed and left to us by our Founding Fathers!

Freedom’s torch is yours!

To be continued www.simonapipko.com and at

©2024. Simona Pipko. All rights reserved.

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SON OF HAMAS: Who Are These People?

By NEWSRAEL Telling the Israeli Story

Mosab Hassan Yousef, a.k.a. Son of Hamas, lists the characteristics of a certain people — can you guess who they are?

  1. They sacrifice their own children to ignite rage and hatred against their opponents.
  2. They don’t feel guilty for sacrificing their own children because the children are going to heaven as martyrs.
  3. They use the hospitals as terror hubs then they complain about the collapse of the health system.
  4. They use mosques for indoctrination and terror then they complain about religious freedoms.
  5. They initiate the war, and when they lose they say it was a massacre.
  6. They believe Killing, looting, raping, robbing, child molesting, and honor killing, are justified because of “resistance”.
  7. They believe the genocide of peaceful communities is because of “occupation” and “colonialism.”
  8. They are fighting for “their land”, but they have no proof of any ownership.
  9. They could have developed the land they have, but they prefer to conquer a land that has been already developed.
  10. They are certain that the grass on the other side is greener.
  11. They didn’t achieve anything because they were busy trying to steal their neighbor’s life achievement.
  12. If they don’t have their lamb stew dish while at war they have started, they call it famine and a human rights violation.
  13. They agree on evil then they complain about collective punishment. Their false accusations against their neighbors only reveal who they truly are.

Have I forgotten anything?

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Biden’s SOTU: ‘Old Ideas’ Talk Back to an Old Man

By Selwyn Duke

“Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes,” noted G.K. Chesterton a century ago. This is brought to mind by the modern obsession with “new ideas,” typified by Joe Biden’s implicit touting of them during his State of the Union address.

The issue “isn’t how old we are; it’s how old our ideas are,” he said Thursday evening. He’s right, too.

And, usually, the “older” the ideas, the better.

There’s an irony to Biden’s appeal: He doesn’t want to be dismissed out of hand over age.

But he does want ideas dismissed out of hand over age.

(Though there’s a contradiction here. More on that momentarily.)

Neither should be done, of course. When I needed a certain kind of physician some years back, I purposely chose an 81-year-old man still in practice precisely because, good profiling informed, he was more likely to be imbued with “old ideas”; as examples, I was thinking about virtues such as Diligence (which relates to conscientiousness, dutifulness) and Prudence (which meant he was less likely to fancy that you can change sexes at will like some science-fiction shape-shifter). I was not disappointed.

The problem with Biden is not that he’s old. The problem (aside from the lack of cognition) is the same thing that could be an issue with a person of any age or, in fact, an idea of any age: He has repeatedly shown himself to be lacking and to have little relationship to Truth.

Biden proceeded to say in his address, “Hate, anger, revenge, retribution are among the oldest of ideas….”  Well, so are their opposites: Love, Patience and Forgiveness. Should we dispense with those “ideas,” too, because they weren’t disgorged from Berkeley last Thursday?

Ideally, one should have a child’s heart and an old soul; you then have both wisdom and whimsy. It’s those with an old heart and a childish soul who mindlessly tout “new ideas.” Ecclesiastes informs that “there is nothing new under the sun.” With many, many millennia of human civilization and striving behind us, of inventing and innovating and originating, do you really think a political/social-sphere “new idea” (or new mistake) isn’t almost as rare as a unicorn?

In reality, virtually everything, if not everything, we most treasure is old. Pizza, reputedly children’s favorite food, dates back approximately a thousand years. Basketball and bike riding, respectively kids’ favorite sport and activity, both originated in the 19th-century. So did acetaminophen, Americans’ most commonly used pain remedy. (Hey, why not use an untested drug instead? It’ll be new!) Then, do you like refrigeration, indoor plumbing, flush toilets and other basic conveniences? They’re all now fairly old.

In fact, people sometimes grumble when seeing on a product “New and Improved!” as it may just mean different and less palatable. (How did “New Coke” work out?) People are, personally and in practice, creatures of the status quo — otherwise known as “conservatives.”

What’s more, having universally “old” status is far truer of ideas than of products and technology; the latter of which, especially, is often new and sometimes scary. Artificial intelligence is a great example, and we have yet to see if it will write man’s next chapter or his last. And if it does author our demise, it won’t be because it operates based on a new idea, but an old mistake.

In reality, when a would-be leader trumpets “new ideas,” employ an age-old method that can save you from him: rejection. For such a person is either running a con or running his mouth, which is at least one step ahead of his brain.

A case in point is that Biden also insisted Thursday that “you can’t lead America with ancient ideas….” Yet what he has repeatedly vowed to perpetuate and defend, “democracy,” is an ancient idea. It dates back about 2,500 years to ancient Athens and 508 B.C.! Also ancient is being what we actually are, a “republic.”

So the real question for a civilization — and in our upcoming election — is not whether to choose “new” or “old” ideas, especially since new ideas, for the most part, don’t exist. The real question is what old ideas to embrace (just as our choice in candidates involves what old man to elect!) Yet to understand this properly, we must correct our terminology: Men get old, and also wise or just wizened.

Ideas get proven true or discredited and, unlike with people, it’s silly to mainly conceptualize them as “old.” For there are only two types of ideas: good ideas and bad ideas.

Or, we could say, erroneous ideas and eternal ideas.

The Founding Fathers did not say, “We hold these old ideas to be self-evident…” or even “We hold these ideas to be self-evident…,” but, “We hold these truths to be self-evident….”

A truth, properly understood, is an eternal idea. It’s not old or young because it’s not of this age or that age, but is ageless (even if it was just recognized by man 200 years ago). That microscopic organisms can cause disease was only discovered relatively recently in history, but it was always true.

Likewise, that murder (correctly defined as the unjust killing of a human being), rape and theft are wrong — and that a virtuous people’s freedom is better than tyranny — are always and everywhere true.

Speaking of confusion, Biden followed his assertion that you can’t govern a country with “ancient ideas” with the warning that they “only take us back.” Now, if we’re to use these concepts of “backwards” and “forwards” to describe civilizational change, note that “going back” is often beneficial. Just as a sick man wants to go back to his former state of robust health, so did we want to go back to fuller employment after statist governors destroyed millions of jobs with misguided COVID lockdowns. But, of course, Biden was alluding to the notion of “progress” (and its antithesis).

As Chesterton also put it, however, “Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.” That is, progress implies movement toward a goal. Insofar as we’re unsure of the goal (i.e., as confused relativists will be), we’ll be unsure of the progress. Of course, though, only discerning Truth can ensure that the goal is worth progressing toward to begin with, that it involves the actuation of an eternal idea.

So beware anyone who would sell you on destroying the “old” status quo in favor of the “new.” For this idea — tearing down statues, monuments and institutions as the cultural landscape is denuded — is also not new. The French revolutionaries did it, attempting to restart history with their new calendar (1792), just as Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution in 1960s China and the Khmer Rouge had their “Year Zero” in ’70s Cambodia. They all promised a new tomorrow. But all they did was replace old ideas, and often eternal ones, with another old idea: tyranny.

In truth, the Truth never gets old. In November, you’ll be picking an old man and old ideas; just make sure it’s the old man who can endure and the old ideas that are eternal.

For those who disagree, well, don’t vote — for suffrage is now a very, very old idea.

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©2024. Selwyn Duke. All rights reserved.

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My Favorite Part of Biden’s SOTU Speech Is Knowing It’s The Last One He’ll Give

By Karen Schoen

Nothing was more evident than America is slipping away fast. EVERYONE must work on getting out the vote. That is our job. Thank you President Trump. Nothing is more important.

I can’t remember when I watched a speech so full of rage and hatred as the OBiden SOTU. Does OBiden need rage and yelling to be able to speak to an audience? Is there a drug for that? I don’t know about you but all I got from this speech was the Democrats want is to kill babies with abortion, remind blacks that they are to stupid to be able to get a photo ID to vote, castrate children with LGBTQ+ and go to war.  Then he yelled at us for not paying our fair share of taxes. Did he forget about his hidden cash that he never paid taxes on?

Watch Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt’s comments.

He also listed the problems America is facing but he had no solutions except to lay blame at something else. Boy is he out of touch.  High inflation is the fault of the business making the product., High interest rates is the fault of those granting credit.  Millions of people invading us on the border is the fault of congress who won’t give him enough money to process more people and shorten the time to become a citizen and vote. Lastly Climate Change, so give up your beef, stove, air conditioning, and guns. You won’t be comfortable, have energy or be able to protect yourself but that will fix the climate.  Do remember that the economy is doing great if you are an illegal. He lied about cutting the budget and the deficit and added 15 million new jobs and thousands of manufacturing jobs are on the way.  He couldn’t even say Laken Riley’s name correctly. He called her Lincoln. The Democrat/Globalists clapped like seals and I thought my head would explode. Too many lies for one day all at once.

Here is the problem as I see it. The American people are getting sharper. They are  beginning to reject this control and Globalism being pushed upon us. We are learning that their empty irrational words are meaningless and if we fight we win.  Every thing they are trying on us, every trick, every lie, every policy is failing.  Each week we will dissect a few so you can prepare with a plan. Let’s take Obamacare.

Obama’s Health Czar, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel’s Complete Lives System of Universal Healthcare is the blueprint for Obamacare. Complete Lives System of Universal Healthcare rations healthcare by limiting care for those under age (children under 12) and over age 55. We are the useless eaters. Ezekiel is the brother of Rahm, never let a crisis go to waste, Emanuel. Everything is connected.

This rationing is called the Obamacare death panels and was exposed by Betsy McCaughey, LT Gov of NY. The Government in collusion with Bankers and Major corporations determine the type of care through codes. The codes determine what doctors prescribe and get paid and what insurance will cover for your ailment.  This is one size fits all healthcare, Universal Care, no one wants.

When Sarah Palin tried to warn about the “death panels ” in Obamacare, she was vilified. Today we know she was right.

More and more doctors are discussing the truth about the vaccines and the goal of Covid to assist in depopulation.  Dr. Naomi Wolf and her team of 3000 doctors, scientists and researchers, are continuing to find the lies and cover ups of Big Pharma, NIH, Fauci, and FDA.

They have been testifying in front of the House and Senate committees.

Instead of investigating the Big Pharma lies and harm to humanity, Affirmative Action Graduate, DA Letitia James, is investigating the Beef industry because of climate change. The Dem/Globalists want us to eat crickets not beef.

Beef is an important protein necessary to provide energy. Do they want you lethargic?

If getting vaccinated is so crucial and a “national emergency” why is OBiden is flying unvaccinated people all over the country and dropping them off without protection?  Why are unvaxxed Americans the problem and unvaxxed illegals are not?

To add insult to injury OBiden has altered Medicaid which was supposed to be a state run healthcare program for low income Americans. It has now become Healthcare, Food Service, Rental assistance for illegals paid for by the American taxpayer.

The American taxpayer is also paying for LGBTQ surgery on minors promoting the LGBTQ lifestyle.

All of this and more you will find in the 625 earmarks as part of the CR’s continually passed by the RINO, House. These Affirmative Action Graduates RINO/Democrat/ Globalists will not be happy until America and the dollar are gone forever. That is the goal.  We are currently printing $1Trillion every 100 days. How much longer will that last?

In the second part of the show you will hear what started the awakening of America, the Tea Party.  The Tea Party sewed the seeds, the movement evolved and took root. Today the leaves, flowers and new plants are growing. They are spreading in new places and it is beautiful to see. Thank you President Trump for helping us pick out the weeds.

Instead of attacking the symptom, we will help you tackle the problem. Insane spending for one. In a few months I believe America will change forever. Who do you want as your leader :Obiden the lame or Trump the strong? Vet your candidates.

Remember: 

All Globalists want is Money Control and Power. They can only get Power if we give it to them. Don’t give them yours. Challenge them with the truth. Doing Nothing is affirmation. The Regime will not go quietly, Prepare.  Share with your 5.   So join me today.

©2024. Karen Schoen. All rights reserved.