<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Tom’s Takes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Personal takes on current critical matters from a Biblical perspective. ]]></description><link>https://www.tomstakes.org</link><image><url>https://www.tomstakes.org/img/substack.png</url><title>Tom’s Takes</title><link>https://www.tomstakes.org</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 11:19:31 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.tomstakes.org/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Tom Terry]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[tomterry7@pm.me]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[tomterry7@pm.me]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Tom Terry]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Tom Terry]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[tomterry7@pm.me]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[tomterry7@pm.me]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Tom Terry]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Revisiting the Assassination Attempt]]></title><description><![CDATA[One who hates disguises it with his lips,]]></description><link>https://www.tomstakes.org/p/revisiting-the-assassination-attempt</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tomstakes.org/p/revisiting-the-assassination-attempt</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Terry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 14:29:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/rq2QFvWFUC0" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>One who hates disguises it with his lips,<br>But he harbors deceit in his heart.<br>When he speaks graciously, do not believe him,<br>Because there are seven abominations in his heart.<br>Though his hatred covers itself with deception,<br>His wickedness will be revealed in the assembly. </strong></em><strong>Proverbs 26:24-26</strong></p><p></p><p>&#8220;Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.&#8221; - Mark Twain</p><div id="youtube2-rq2QFvWFUC0" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;rq2QFvWFUC0&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/rq2QFvWFUC0?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food and Trash: 2 Previously Unknown, Startlingly Immediate Issues of Concern, and the Conspiracies to Hide Them...]]></title><description><![CDATA[And God said, &#8220;Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit.]]></description><link>https://www.tomstakes.org/p/food-and-trash-2-previously-unknown</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tomstakes.org/p/food-and-trash-2-previously-unknown</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Terry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2024 12:21:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CORc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33e21295-6136-444a-9222-c85c85a8f137_388x580.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>And God said, &#8220;Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.&#8221; </strong></em><strong>Genesis 1:29 </strong></p><p><em><strong>Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence. And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.</strong></em><strong> Genesis 6:11-12</strong></p><p><em><strong>But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.</strong></em><strong> 1 Timothy 6:9-10</strong></p><p>Oftentimes we receive from a friend or from a known blog site info with which we were completely unfamiliar with little or no prior knowledge. The two topics in this post are in that category for most if not all readers. The blog post with videos by &#8220;Agent 131711&#8221; with the title, &#8220;FAKE FOOD Doesn't ROT! GMOs? Lab Printed? Or Something Even More Sinister?&#8221;, and the Netflix documentary, &#8220;Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy&#8221; present two issues that are shocking for the reasons most of us would agree. Questions immediately to mind. &#8220;What is going on?&#8221; &#8220;Where are those whose job it is to be aware of this and are doing something about it?&#8221; &#8220;Why is this happening, has been allowed to happen, and why have &#8216;the authorities&#8217; been clueless to have let this occur and have done nothing about it?&#8221; We all know that there will not only be no answers to these questions coming from &#8216;the authorities,&#8217; the questions themselves will not hasten into the public square by government authorities. Thankfully, Netflix has made the attempt to bring the immediate problem of Western commodity waste to &#8220;the public square,&#8221; though the waste issue inevitably will probably lay in the mental and emotional recesses of inattention since it has come to us as &#8220;entertainment.&#8221; </p><p>Check out below the first part of Agent 131711&#8217;s post on the present state of U.S. industrial food as exposed by one single blogger, or simply click the link <strong><a href="https://chemtrails.substack.com/p/fake-food-fruit-vegetables-meat-does?utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;triedRedirect=true">here</a></strong> to get the entire post. And tune into Netflix&#8217;s documentary, &#8220;Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy&#8221; on the over-production and piling up of the excessive commodity &#8220;fruits&#8221; from our consumer goods production machine, and the conspiracy to keep this issue muted from public knowledge and scrutiny. Click <strong><a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/81554996">here</a></strong> to watch the trailer on Netflix&#8217;s website. </p><h1><strong><a href="https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=1865725&amp;post_id=144512060&amp;utm_source=post-email-title&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=nns9n&amp;token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozOTc0MDg5MSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTQ0NTEyMDYwLCJpYXQiOjE3MzM5MjIwMTUsImV4cCI6MTczNjUxNDAxNSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTE4NjU3MjUiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.BoSQ-USF0m7UJVHh0ItGhrTnUmN6VRv4aoDuwuOTX5E">FAKE FOOD Doesn't ROT! GMOs? Lab Printed? Or Something Even More Sinister?</a> (From Substack&#8217;s Agent 131711 - <a href="https://chemtrails.substack.com/about">https://chemtrails.substack.com/about</a>)</strong></h1><h3>Revealing the results of my 2024 experiment...</h3><p><strong><a href="https://substack.com/@chemtrails">AGENT131711</a></strong></p><p><strong>DEC 11</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HnF6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76be3815-f09c-47ee-892c-d92e0b7f70ca_36x36.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HnF6!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76be3815-f09c-47ee-892c-d92e0b7f70ca_36x36.png 424w, 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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HnF6!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76be3815-f09c-47ee-892c-d92e0b7f70ca_36x36.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HnF6!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76be3815-f09c-47ee-892c-d92e0b7f70ca_36x36.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HnF6!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76be3815-f09c-47ee-892c-d92e0b7f70ca_36x36.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/chemtrails/p/fake-food-fruit-vegetables-meat-does?utm_source=email&amp;redirect=app-store&amp;utm_campaign=email-read-in-app">READ IN APP</a></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CsjI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc03f697e-aa18-4602-911f-b5dd9bc21464_36x36.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CsjI!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc03f697e-aa18-4602-911f-b5dd9bc21464_36x36.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CsjI!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc03f697e-aa18-4602-911f-b5dd9bc21464_36x36.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CsjI!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc03f697e-aa18-4602-911f-b5dd9bc21464_36x36.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CsjI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc03f697e-aa18-4602-911f-b5dd9bc21464_36x36.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CsjI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc03f697e-aa18-4602-911f-b5dd9bc21464_36x36.png" width="36" height="36" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c03f697e-aa18-4602-911f-b5dd9bc21464_36x36.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:36,&quot;width&quot;:36,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CsjI!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc03f697e-aa18-4602-911f-b5dd9bc21464_36x36.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CsjI!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc03f697e-aa18-4602-911f-b5dd9bc21464_36x36.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CsjI!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc03f697e-aa18-4602-911f-b5dd9bc21464_36x36.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CsjI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc03f697e-aa18-4602-911f-b5dd9bc21464_36x36.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I started a garden compost area around 8 years ago. As one would expect, I had nothing exciting to report about my compost&#8230; until this past spring&#8230; when something utterly puzzling happened. I had thrown this tomato in there and weeks later it looked like this! I couldn&#8217;t believe my eyes.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CORc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33e21295-6136-444a-9222-c85c85a8f137_388x580.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CORc!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33e21295-6136-444a-9222-c85c85a8f137_388x580.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CORc!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33e21295-6136-444a-9222-c85c85a8f137_388x580.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CORc!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33e21295-6136-444a-9222-c85c85a8f137_388x580.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CORc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33e21295-6136-444a-9222-c85c85a8f137_388x580.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CORc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33e21295-6136-444a-9222-c85c85a8f137_388x580.jpeg" width="388" height="580" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/33e21295-6136-444a-9222-c85c85a8f137_388x580.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:580,&quot;width&quot;:388,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CORc!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33e21295-6136-444a-9222-c85c85a8f137_388x580.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CORc!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33e21295-6136-444a-9222-c85c85a8f137_388x580.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CORc!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33e21295-6136-444a-9222-c85c85a8f137_388x580.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CORc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33e21295-6136-444a-9222-c85c85a8f137_388x580.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I chalked it up to fluke and forgot about it. Then I tossed this corn in there and it laid there, week after week. Although being slightly discolored, it still had complete kernels. I was shocked that this corn was fully exposed to the elements, sat through multiple rains and still held up. Not only did it hold up, but no rats, mice or raccoons came to enjoy a free meal. In early May 2024, this slug came along to check it out.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8gNv!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b552882-38cc-4254-a9b3-89984023f54e_862x473.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8gNv!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b552882-38cc-4254-a9b3-89984023f54e_862x473.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8gNv!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b552882-38cc-4254-a9b3-89984023f54e_862x473.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8gNv!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b552882-38cc-4254-a9b3-89984023f54e_862x473.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8gNv!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b552882-38cc-4254-a9b3-89984023f54e_862x473.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8gNv!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b552882-38cc-4254-a9b3-89984023f54e_862x473.jpeg" width="862" height="473" 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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8gNv!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b552882-38cc-4254-a9b3-89984023f54e_862x473.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8gNv!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b552882-38cc-4254-a9b3-89984023f54e_862x473.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8gNv!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6b552882-38cc-4254-a9b3-89984023f54e_862x473.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" 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x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Then I began seeing these crazy videos on social media which show (what people claim is) fake, GMO and <strong>3D printed food being sold to us as real, fresh food</strong>:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ikGI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1320e017-a5e0-4fc4-9391-b5ed22bb5c62_1100x1100.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ikGI!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1320e017-a5e0-4fc4-9391-b5ed22bb5c62_1100x1100.png 424w, 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When it was time for his wife, Rachel, to cook them up, she opened the first individually sealed fillet, slid the fish out, and described it as &#8220;rubber&#8221;. The cod flexed, could be twisted back and fourth, could be rolled into a tube-shape and even folded in half, but it wouldn&#8217;t break, tear or flake. She checked the expiration date on the package and saw it was not expired. Rachel threw the strange fish in her cat&#8217;s bowl, but the cat didn&#8217;t want it. It turned out that all of the fillets in the pack were exactly like this. Gary, my only Truther friend in real life, has seen the same videos I just showed you, so he walked the whole pack out to the trash and sent me a text message warning not to buy frozen fish from that store.</p><p>I then told him about my strange tomato and corn and we agreed, <em>something </em>is going on, <em>something </em>that we have never seen until now, but how much food is impacted by this <em>something</em>? And what is the <em>something</em>? GMOs have been around <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/e3a00f73-f6c6-4032-8e7a-f016f624a6de?j=eyJ1Ijoibm5zOW4ifQ._bKCyphCRDKNsv0TKUMv1PFA7S-YoL0g5WNb6kus-vc">since the 1980s </a>but we haven&#8217;t see this until now. Is it new GMOs? Or is it much darker than that? More research was required&#8230;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4D4j!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87372d94-88f8-4930-b7c7-fc0f7e41fe64_1200x864.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4D4j!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87372d94-88f8-4930-b7c7-fc0f7e41fe64_1200x864.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4D4j!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87372d94-88f8-4930-b7c7-fc0f7e41fe64_1200x864.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4D4j!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87372d94-88f8-4930-b7c7-fc0f7e41fe64_1200x864.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4D4j!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87372d94-88f8-4930-b7c7-fc0f7e41fe64_1200x864.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4D4j!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87372d94-88f8-4930-b7c7-fc0f7e41fe64_1200x864.jpeg" width="1200" height="864" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/87372d94-88f8-4930-b7c7-fc0f7e41fe64_1200x864.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:864,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4D4j!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87372d94-88f8-4930-b7c7-fc0f7e41fe64_1200x864.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4D4j!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87372d94-88f8-4930-b7c7-fc0f7e41fe64_1200x864.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4D4j!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87372d94-88f8-4930-b7c7-fc0f7e41fe64_1200x864.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4D4j!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87372d94-88f8-4930-b7c7-fc0f7e41fe64_1200x864.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Read the remainder of the article and watch the short videos of others&#8217; discovery of the fake food they brought home for grocers like Whole Foods, Walmart, Kroger, and others -<strong> <a href="https://chemtrails.substack.com/p/fake-food-fruit-vegetables-meat-does?utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;triedRedirect=true">https://chemtrails.substack.com/p/fake-food-fruit-vegetables-meat-does?utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;triedRedirect=true</a></strong></p><p></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/81554996">Watch Netflix's documentary: BUY NOW: THE SHOPPING CONSPIRACY</a></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Julian Assange is free...the Exposure of the Great Prostitute... Judgment is coming...]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#8220;Come with me,&#8221; he said, &#8220;and I will show you the judgment that is going to come on the great prostitute, who rules over many waters.]]></description><link>https://www.tomstakes.org/p/julian-assange-is-freethe-exposure</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tomstakes.org/p/julian-assange-is-freethe-exposure</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Terry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2024 12:44:35 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>&#8220;Come with me,&#8221; he said, &#8220;and I will show you the judgment that is going to come on the great prostitute, who rules over many waters. The kings of the world have committed adultery with her, and the people who belong to this world have been made drunk by the wine of her immorality.&#8221; </strong></em><strong>Revelation 17: 1(b)-2</strong></p><p><em><strong>So that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.      </strong></em>     1 <strong>Corinthians 2:5</strong></p><p>The release of Julian Assange is the answer to prayer of many Christians who have followed the intense efforts by the regime of the United States through three administrations seeking to use global empire&#8217;s legal apparatuses to permanently silence him. Due to the great reception by leading governments and VIP leaders around the world of Wikileaks&#8217; public release of classified documents and videos, the world was left to make very different assessments about the U.S. regime&#8217;s moral justification of its &#8220;war on terrorism.&#8221; </p><p>After the Wikileaks&#8217; exposure, an overriding major assessment was that the U.S. regime&#8217;s goals were not so much a &#8220;war <em>on</em> terrorism,&#8221; but more, a &#8220;war <em>of</em> terrorism.&#8221; The regime&#8217;s moral justification to unleash its powerful technological wizardly military-killing machine was simply but effectively undermined throughout the world. What seemed to be a war against extreme terrorists in Muslim lands was undermined to reveal another, updated version of Empire&#8217;s war of imperialism for a good number of plausible reasons: geostrategic - surrounding the vast lands and their in-ground natural wealth held by the communist governments in China and Russia; the control and extraction of natural resources in weak, vulnerable countries without strong military defense systems by Western commercial interests; the re-assertion of Empire&#8217;s weakening hegemonic control over unwieldy and uncooperative governments put off by U.S. and Western European strict economic and political requirements; and of course, having the extra-judicial legal &#8220;freedom&#8221; to conduct unregulated, unaccountable, criminal, and long-running and well-funded programs (by U.S. dollars belonging to the American public via theft of the U.S. Treasury) of imprisonment, torture, development of weapons of chemical warfare, immoral and unethical bioengineering labs, and other programs that are exceptionally evil, wicked, and anti-human. For Christians, it is not an overstatement that the U.S. regime&#8217;s actions at home and abroad are anti-Christ in their nature and their purposes.    </p><p>Since the false flag of 9/11, the U.S. regime&#8217;s war of terror against Muslims and others has enabled it to attack and conquer populations, attempt to remake governments and ways of life beholding to the U.S. regime and its interests, and generally to expand the full U.S. panoply of controls throughout the world, just as foretold in Scripture that such a global spiritual whoredom would arise and entice the leaders of the world. The most profitable sector of the U.S. regime is, of course - the U.S. military-industrial complex. Since the fall of the Twin Towers, the U.S. regime&#8217;s military-industrial complex has benefited to the sum of $18 Trillion in its wars and conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan. Somalia, Yemen, Libya, East Africa, the Philippines, and its ongoing proxy wars in the Ukraine and Gaza. All signs now point to the regime&#8217;s next foray to be Iran and NATO&#8217;s military expansion on Russia&#8217;s western border. Having no security threat to the United States, these wars have been and are being waged for the primary benefit of the shareholders and elite members of the political, corporate business, and financial class. Their sovereign god which they worship is Capital and all military action is designed ultimately to serve their interests and their financial desire for more capital. In this respect, the global elite class have become history&#8217;s ultimate materialists.  See <a href="https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar">https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar</a></p><p>Christians born-from-above understand that evil despises and hates the Light. The ferocity with which the regime of the government of the United States pursued Assange and his act of the exposure of the regime&#8217;s true goals cannot and will not stand in the Light. The regime&#8217;s assault on Assange demonstrates the degree of darkness that is part and parcel of the U.S. regime.  </p><p>Check out the links and info below: the actual military video on YouTube of the U.S. regime&#8217;s banality of murder; the written address by Julian Assange at the Council of Europe last week and comments by Paul Craig Roberts; and the YouTube video of Assange&#8217;s presentation:</p><p><strong>*YouTube released by Wikileaks on banality of murder by U.S. military on July 12, 2007: </strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfvFpT-iypw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfvFpT-iypw</a></p><p><strong>*Written address by Julian Assange before the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and comments by Paul Craig Roberts:</strong><a href="https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/10/06/julian-assanges-address-to-the-parliamentary-assembly-of-the-council-of-europe-on-october-1-2024-with-comment-by-paul-craig-roberts/">https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/10/06/julian-assanges-address-to-the-parliamentary-assembly-of-the-council-of-europe-on-october-1-2024-with-comment-by-paul-craig-roberts/</a></p><p><strong>*YouTube: Julian Assange addresses the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe: Assange speaks beginning at video marks 29:25 - 51:36:</strong> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idphGmY3QRM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idphGmY3QRM</a></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Weather Genocide of the American people...to benefit U.S. global corporations - aka, the global elite: Murder in Appalchia: "Something evil is going on in the North Carolina mountains."]]></title><description><![CDATA[But you, President Joe Biden, and you, agency heads of FEMA, FBI, CIA, NSA, DoD, DARPA, ONI, and you, N.C.]]></description><link>https://www.tomstakes.org/p/us-weather-genocide-of-the-american</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tomstakes.org/p/us-weather-genocide-of-the-american</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Terry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2024 00:52:40 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>But you, President Joe Biden, and you, agency heads of FEMA, FBI, CIA, NSA, DoD, DARPA, ONI, and you, N.C. Governor Roy Cooper, and you, Blackrock CEO Larry Fink, and you, major news media presstitutes ! You have eyes only for greed and dishonesty! You all murder the innocent, oppress the poor, and reign ruthlessly.</strong></em> <strong>Jeremiah 22:17 (TEPT -Tom&#8217;s English Paraphrase for Today)</strong></p><p></p><p>My Scriptural paraphrase applies succinctly and appropriately to U.S. government and investment corporate leaders, and the presstitute heads. Of course there&#8217;s no evidence and of course no federal agency will conduct a meaningful investigation to gather and present the evidence in managed courts making sure that justice is unblinded. The evidence of the hurricane-for-corporate-profits conspiracy by the elite class, the names of those responsible - easily found and holding government or corporate positions, is clearly seen by connecting the dots by following the money. The reports and posts below do not require the elite-created and elite-protected deceptive label of &#8220;conspiracy theory.&#8221; The simple truth of the facts bleeds into and through the deceptive maze of "managed &#8220;fact-checkers&#8221; that will appear if the story gets traction - a tactic of subterfuge at which the elite class and their erudite shills excel. </p><p>I hope that readers will have made and are making the effort to read and develop the relevant worldview to know and connect the dots. But most importantly, Christians and those who love the truth must develop and ask for the discernment to understand the times in which we live and the complete fearlessness of God that the elite leaders demonstrate by their recalcitrance in correcting the daily and weekly criminal abuses over which they in their offices are charged to investigate, arrive at the truth, and prosecute the criminal offenders.   </p><p>The question gaining more gravity and relevance today is not the presence and the extent of corruption and wickedness in all levels of government and the global corporate leaders who have accumulated global sovereign authority above state actors due to their positions in the global political economy as the captains of industry and either producers of capital or the instruments for the increased accumulation of capital. The question is what form or forms of resistance will lovers of truth derive in the months and years ahead as this Empire of Domination shows itself more brazenly. The reports and posts below give much grist for the mill of elite conspiracy in the once-in-a-thousand-year hurricane Helene:</p><p>Dr. Peter &amp; Ginger Breggin - &#8220;Something evil is going on in the N.C. mountains&#8221; &#8230;it may be easier to see the connections between Helene and corporate profits than you think. <a href="https://substack.com/home/post/p-149853099">https://substack.com/home/post/p-149853099</a></p><p>Control of Helene on Geoengineering Watch - <a href="https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/hurricane-helene-and-frequency-transmissions-90-second-alert/">https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/hurricane-helene-and-frequency-transmissions-90-second-alert/</a></p><p>Local News reports on FEMA blocking aid to disaster victims - <a href="https://local21news.com/news/nation-world/spacex-engineer-claims-fema-actively-blocking-shipments-and-goods-musk-hurricane-helene-extreme-weather-storm-wind-rain-flooding-death-toll-rescue-recovery-north-carolina-joe-biden-kamala-harris-donald-trump">https://local21news.com/news/nation-world/spacex-engineer-claims-fema-actively-blocking-shipments-and-goods-musk-hurricane-helene-extreme-weather-storm-wind-rain-flooding-death-toll-rescue-recovery-north-carolina-joe-biden-kamala-harris-donald-trump</a></p><p>Paul Craig Roberts - &#8220;Could Helene have been a DARPA creation?&#8221; - https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/09/29/could-helene-have-been-a-darpa-creation/</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Letter to the Kroger Board of Directors...]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paul speaking: &#8220;So I always take pains to have a clear conscience toward both God and man.&#8221; Acts 24:16]]></description><link>https://www.tomstakes.org/p/a-letter-to-the-kroger-board-of-directors</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tomstakes.org/p/a-letter-to-the-kroger-board-of-directors</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Terry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2024 20:46:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2JJK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec5cb0d1-6cf3-4b2e-8a34-7c11d62cc3f6_640x480.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Paul speaking: &#8220;So I always take pains to have a clear conscience toward both God and man.&#8221; </em>Acts 24:16</p><p>I repeatedly and successfully ignored the sign below in my somewhat regular visits to our local Kroger store. One day, for some reason, I decided that I would look directly at its message. A  couple of days later, my conscience refused to allow me to employ what usually worked: &#8220;out of sight, out of mind.&#8221; Unlike Paul, my modus operandi was the opposite of what Paul testified to be his m.o. While I seek avoidance, Paul sought direct opportunities to be ruffled by the world and its ways, and for any to whom he could share that which God loves: truth. With a nudge of conscience, I sent this letter below to the individual members on the Kroger Board of Directors. What was the cost to me? some hours of writing and rewriting, and a slight cost for postage, but not much else. Will my letter have an impact? If I was a betting man, I wouldn&#8217;t. But&#8230;? </p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2JJK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec5cb0d1-6cf3-4b2e-8a34-7c11d62cc3f6_640x480.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2JJK!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec5cb0d1-6cf3-4b2e-8a34-7c11d62cc3f6_640x480.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2JJK!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec5cb0d1-6cf3-4b2e-8a34-7c11d62cc3f6_640x480.jpeg 848w, 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We have been generally very satisfied with the quality and selection of food items, produce, meats and poultry at our Kroger stores.</p><p>As a long time Kroger customer I am writing to the Kroger Board to voice my concern of conscience regarding its corporate relationship to its individual customers in the communities Kroger serves. To my thinking, Kroger has typically not only publicly stated its intention to be a corporate good neighbor but has commendably followed through to make this corporate goal a reality in the communities it serves as a reliable grocer. One of Kroger&#8217;s stated goals is to &#8220;Advance Equitable Communities.&#8221; Additionally, Kroger publicly states: <em>Since our earliest days, the Kroger family of companies has been a good neighbor and trusted local partner to the communities we serve from coast to coast. Our commitment includes charitable giving, service and outreach that supports and strengthens neighborhoods and helps families live healthier lives.</em> (Accessed 9/16/2024)</p><p>I am challenging the Kroger Board to continue to exhibit its intention to be a good neighbor by recovering the relationship of honesty and trustworthiness to its communities and the individuals in those communities it serves. A good neighbor would eagerly share any news that would directly bear on her neighbor&#8217;s health and quality of life. For Kroger to be a genuine &#8220;good neighbor&#8221; in its communities, it would seek in its corporate policies to ensure that each of its stores in all of its communities presented the same standard of &#8220;good neighborliness&#8221; that Mr. Barney Kroger, Founder, intended in his motto: &#8220;Never sell anything you would not want yourself.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Due to the preponderance of evidence from mainline scientific journals, major public voices demonstrating reasonableness and veracity in reporting on legitimate sources, credentialed research scientists, doctors, and independent labs, there is absolutely no excuse for Kroger or any corporate entity with a strong community-based, moral ethic to ignore the over-whelming evidence of the dangers and risks associated with the Covid-19 &#8220;vaccine.&#8221; The Board can easily arrange to have full and complete access to this growing body of evidence in order to verify for itself the extreme necessity to question the official narrative regarding the safe use to human long and short-term health, and to what health benefits, if any, the Covid-19 &#8220;vaccine&#8221; has, based on the evidence. The dangers to human health, the ingredients which are undisclosed but proven to be present in the &#8220;vaccine&#8221; by worldwide medical researchers and labs, and the poisonous nature of the mRNA injection and its trial-studies lab results should all be sufficient to cause the Board to stop, question, study, examine, and revise its policy of offering the Covid-19 &#8220;vaccine&#8221; &#8211; carte blanche or otherwise.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>I should not need to recount for the Board the many examples in history by which by honest oversight, ignorance by absence of knowledge, as well as by willful ignorance by avoidance of the awful truth and subsequent necessary compensatory corporate actions, individual and group corporate insouciance, corporate&nbsp; insincerity of true moral concern for its customers&#8217; well-being, American businesses have had the burden of determining corporate policy when much is at stake, including of course, corporate and shareholder financial concerns. But the question concerning the mRNA Covid-19 &#8220;vaccine&#8221; is relatively easy for those who have taken the time and made the effort to gather, consider, and weigh the evidence from independent as well as official sources, when such businesses and retailers serve as a principal pipeline between supplier of the mRNA &#8220;vaccine&#8221; and the results from its use that are documented around the world of the poisonous and deadly effects of this &#8220;vaccine&#8221;, packaged without past regulated scientific trials and standards and anecdotal assurances from Big Pharma, a political and social media censorship by Big Tech, and incomplete and exceptionally deficient scientific evidence of human safety by the governmental health agencies captured by Big Pharma as the agencies&#8217; monopoly funding source.</p><p>By continuing to offer the Covid-19 injection, Kroger continues to ignore the substantial and increasingly scientifically published and available evidence worldwide by independent biomedical researchers and scientists including Pharma and health agency whistleblowers. These independent scientists, sans funding from Big Pharma, have found substantial causative injurious results from the Covid-19 &#8220;vaccine&#8221; far exceeding previous thresholds for halting or withdrawing such vaccines from the public. This is inarguable and prompts, &#8220;Why is this?&#8221; It is inexcusable to me and a growing number of citizens with this pressing and serious concern that like other corporations pledged to the common good, Kroger&#8217;s Board is failing to accept the political, social, and financial challenge orchestrated by governmental and transnational pharmaceuticals. which have so far successfully propagandized the public with the Covid-19 injection. But with private, independent, and well-intentioned means and responsibilities, Kroger&#8217;s social responsibility to its customers must be actualized by its commitment to exhaust resources to determine the safety and healthiness of the Covid-19 &#8220;vaccine.&#8221; When serious scientific opposition and scientific results around the world provide the counter-narrative to financially incentivized pharmaceuticals, Pharma-funded agencies and executives, a much different scenario exists. Will Kroger continue to choose the revenue and profits from a corrupted, immoral, and unethical &#8220;vaccine&#8221; or choose its customers&#8217; protection and human rights? Or, will Kroger take a position in a cautious but unflinching regard for its customers and their short and long term health to lead other corporations to join in the growing outcry against the mRNA &#8220;vaccine&#8221; and corrupted medical authorities? It is time for the individuals responsible for corporate action to question, conduct their own independent research, examine, study and choose the moral and ethical course in regard to the health products they offer to the public. This is the meaning of social responsibility. For the Board to fail to do this is to assign Mr. Barney Kroger&#8217;s motto and its own corporate ethic to the wastebin of triviality.</p><p>Kroger&#8217;s resolve to examine all the scientific evidence in reviewing its offering the controversial &#8220;vaccine&#8221; may require a sober re-thinking of its corporate responsibility to act in support of individuals&#8217; human rights. The universal moral law, the Nuremberg Laws, established by the world of nations from the atrocities of World War II, and the historic major religions all command private and public organizations to act in their financial and social practices to uphold the respect and dignity and the human rights of the individual person. In considering the possibility of a poisonous &#8220;vaccine&#8221; injection, all Kroger&#8217;s efforts to enact and sustain human rights attest to the demand that Kroger stop the ongoing provision and distribution of the mRNA jab. There is no historical difference in Kroger&#8217;s ongoing compliance with health authorities in its offering the poisonous mRNA jab to unsuspecting individuals than the German Nazis&#8217; bureaucrats&#8217; and industrial corporations&#8217; compliance in the 1930s and 1940s with the sending unsuspecting Jews and knowing resisters to their degradations and murder in the concentration camps. Were it to continue in its present practice regarding the Covid-19 &#8220;vaccine,&#8221; the Kroger Corporation and its Board of Directors willingly &#8220;go along to get along&#8221; in history&#8217;s present governmental and business episode filled with &#8220;banalities of evil.&#8221;</p><p>Kroger should withhold the distribution and the provision of the mRNA &#8220;vaccine&#8221; injection amidst the medically informed fog that surrounds the jab. Short of stopping the offer of the jab, minimally Kroger should put public, in-store signage at its pharmacy counters and in its corporate advertising and its publicly stated policy, the warning - scientifically attributable to valid independent and mainline research, that &#8220;the Covid-19 injection can be hazardous to your health possibly leading to serious health and immune disfunction or death.&#8221; Kroger needs to act to restore confidence in its communities that the Kroger Corporation intends to transparently fulfill its corporate social and humane responsibility for the benefit and human rights of its customers in those communities it serves. Now is the time for Kroger to demonstrate in pragmatic terms the meaning of a corporate &#8220;good neighbor&#8221;, and in a much needed affirmation of its founder to &#8220;only sell what you, in your fuller understanding of what&#8217;s in the Covid-19 &#8220;vaccine&#8221;, would want for yourself and loved ones.&#8221;</p><p>Sincerely,</p><p>Bryan Terry/s</p><p>Bryan Terry, PhD-History ABD</p><p>PS &#8211; In today&#8217;s climate, this letter and its message can be easily ignored. I suspect that the time is approaching that the American public will demand the moral accountability from those businesses who avoided any responsibility for their failure to know and act for the common good in respect to the dangerous aftereffects of the Covid-19 &#8220;vaccine.&#8221; Today, these moral forces may not be bearing on the Kroger Corporation. However, Kroger&#8217;s Board of Directors, as individuals, cannot escape the crucial moral consequences by disregarding positive action for the common good that is always revealed in history.</p><p>Cc: [All other Kroger Board members by name.]</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Scam that Binds: The Ties between Big Pharma, Big Chem, the American Medical Establishment, Big Government, and Overly-Trusting Americans to America's Deplorable Health ]]></title><description><![CDATA[And God said, &#8220;Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit.]]></description><link>https://www.tomstakes.org/p/the-scam-that-binds-the-ties-between</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tomstakes.org/p/the-scam-that-binds-the-ties-between</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Terry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2024 02:30:23 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>And God said, &#8220;Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.&#8221; </em>Genesis 1:29</p><p>The link below opens to a 2-hour interview and discussion by Tucker Carlson with Dr. Casey Means and her brother Callie Means. You must join Tucker&#8217;s network to watch it but to me, it is the best presentation on the corrupted and poisonous U.S. food system I&#8217;ve watched. It is worth the $ 75 annual membership fee to join Tucker&#8217;s paid network for this and other presentations.  </p><p>&#8220;America is in an epidemic and no one is talking about it&#8221; - Tucker Carlson with Dr. Casey Means and brother Callie Means on the corrupt U.S. food system </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thought and a prayer for today... ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Let me stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils.]]></description><link>https://www.tomstakes.org/p/a-thought-and-a-prayer-for-today</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tomstakes.org/p/a-thought-and-a-prayer-for-today</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Terry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Aug 2024 08:50:35 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Let me stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils. For in what should he be esteemed?</em> Isaiah 2:22 </p><p></p><p>How can it be expected that my mind, which is propagandized, and my personal will, which desires to be obedient unto death to the Lover of my soul but which is distracted, persuaded, buffeted, and enticed by the things of the world and by own sinful lusts and greed,  can be counted on to faithfully live and overcome the Devil and his authority on earth?  It is, must, and can only be by the will and through the power of Him who gave Himself for me. &#8220;Who will save me from this body of death&#8221; that surrounds me daily, that seeks to undermine my hope and desire to live and serve my Creator God, my true Father - He Who has assured that yes, I too, will be counted among the faithful obedient ones who will have the final victory? It is Christ Jesus, the Lord, who loved me and gave Himself for me.</p><p>I and we must find and firmly hold onto the holy ordinances by which we receive the means of grace, untouched by the fallen world of men and women, and by which the Body and Blood of Jesus becomes real to us, and by the partaking of His Body and His Blood we receive the power from on High from our heavenly Father through His Son, Christ Jesus, to overcome the world in all its effects and threats. For the ruler of this world, Satan - the prince of the air and the airwaves, shall not have the victory. Only by the Cross and the Perfect Sacrifice made by the Son of God Himself shall we receive and be given His triumph over the denizens of darkness. Our only hope, our only glory, our only redemption is through Jesus Christ the Merciful, the Victor, the Elder Brother to those who come to the fount of redemption and take unto themselves the sacrifice, made once for all for each and for all who come, the meal that gives life, hope, charity, meaning, and the sound and secure future. Amen. Amen. Amen.</p><p>&#8220;Let me stop trusting in men,&#8221; &#8230;in men&#8217;s currency, in men&#8217;s promises, in men&#8217;s persuasion, in men&#8217;s caution, in men&#8217;s wisdom, in men&#8217;s provision, in men&#8217;s assurances, in men&#8217;s security, in men&#8217;s means of life and in any of their proffered ways of finding fulfillment in life,  &#8230;&#8220;whose breath is in his nostrils. For in what&#8221; &#8230;accomplishment, wisdom, suggestion, guarantee, force, mechanism, program, plan, scheme, idea, finding, research, philosophy, ideation, or psychological profile&#8230;&#8221;should [a man or even the whole of  humankind] be esteemed?&#8221; &#8220;For God if for us; who is against us? He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave Him up for all of us, will He not with Him also give us everything else? Who will bring a charge against God&#8217;s elect? It is God Who justifies. Who is to condemn? It is Christ Jesus, who died, yes, Who was raised, Who is at the right hand of God, Who indeed intercedes for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?  &#8230;No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him Who loved us&#8221;&#8230;He Who really loved us as no other has loved us, loves us in this present moment, or will ever fully love us in the future. &#8230;&#8220;For let us be convinced&#8221; &#8230;and stand on the promise of God through His Son, Christ Jesus, &#8230;&#8220;that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present&#8221; here today, &#8220;nor things to come&#8221; tomorrow, this weekend, next week, next month, this coming Fall or Winter, or next year and all the years ahead of me,&#8230; &#8220;not powers&#8221; - neither the powers and principalities in the heavenlies made and under the Sovereign and Mighty Hand of God, &#8230;&#8220;nor the powers&#8221; of evil, wicked, debased and corrupt men headed to hell and their eternal damnation,&#8230; &#8220;neither the heights&#8221; in the world, &#8220;nor its depths," nor anything else in all creation&#8221; under the control of men, women, the Devil and his minions, not anything at all in whatever is made&#8230; nothing of all that I can conceive and conjure in my limited knowledge and understanding &#8230;&#8220;will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord&#8221; and only Savior.  Amen.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Several significant reports you shouldn't miss...]]></title><description><![CDATA[You are the Lord, You alone.]]></description><link>https://www.tomstakes.org/p/several-significant-reports-you-shouldnt</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tomstakes.org/p/several-significant-reports-you-shouldnt</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Terry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2024 10:17:55 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>You are the Lord, You alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and You preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships You.</em> Nehemiah 9:6</p><p></p><p>Many of you have been inundated I&#8217;m sure with blog posts, reports, newscasts - truthfully accurate and censored, of recent, quickly unfolding events. Not intending to just add more analysis, I thought a few posts that came my way are noteworthy and stand out for filling in what may be missing in your reviews and consideration. In the dizzying rapidity of recent major happenings, the Scripture verse above reminds that regardless of the seeming impact of what&#8217;s going on in the world and in our minds, our peace and our security is ultimately and moment by moment found in relationship to the Sovereign God and the Lord Christ Jesus. See below these several pieces on the assassination attempt of President Trump and the background and relationships of J.D. Vance.</p><p><em>The Assassination Attempt -</em></p><p>&#183;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A U.S. military, top-level, trained sniper explains that the assassination attempt was a conspiracy..</p><p><a href="https://greatgameindia.com/trump-shooter-had-insider-agency-help-veteran-sniper-dallas-alexanders-shocking-theory/">https://greatgameindia.com/trump-shooter-had-insider-agency-help-veteran-sniper-dallas-alexanders-shocking-theory/</a></p><p>&#183;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Report on the expected financial pay-off of a successful assassination for Blackrock, the organization holding most of the world&#8217;s financial riches and its political power  -</p><p><a href="https://www.brighteon.com/74a4eecc-671d-4649-8f00-1e0730e16f26">https://www.brighteon.com/74a4eecc-671d-4649-8f00-1e0730e16f26</a></p><p></p><p><em>J.D. Vance &#8211;</em></p><p>&#183;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Who is J.D. Vance? &#8230; a quick ten and a half minute introduction to the 39 year old, quickly rising, presumptive next-in-line most powerful person in the world -</p><p><a href="https://www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2024/07/17/who-is-j-d-vance">https://www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2024/07/17/who-is-j-d-vance</a></p><p>&#183;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Whitney Webb&#8217;s investigative deep research into Vance, Thiel, and the globalists&#8217; deep state connections: the entrenched, combined political/corporate power at work- </p><p><a href="https://unlimitedhangout.com/2024/07/investigative-reports/the-man-behind-trumps-vp-pick-its-worse-than-you-think/">https://unlimitedhangout.com/2024/07/investigative-reports/the-man-behind-trumps-vp-pick-its-worse-than-you-think/</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Genius and the Character of the AntiChrist by Arthur W. Pink]]></title><description><![CDATA[The]]></description><link>https://www.tomstakes.org/p/the-genius-and-the-character-of-the</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tomstakes.org/p/the-genius-and-the-character-of-the</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Terry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2024 11:00:47 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority. One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast. And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, &#8220;Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?&#8221; And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months.</em> Revelation 13:1-18</p><p>I decided to post A.W. Pink&#8217;s fourth chapter on the genius and character of the AntiChrist from his biblical study, <em>The Antichrist. (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Anti-Christ-Arthur-W-Pink/dp/1478137614/ref=sr_1_2?crid=28CZRIT3HH4ZT&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.mLYgadKOUOjFZM97lcDTVZQrIt0h3wJh8VLiGkxAfZUJ14EOpqwYZDpjeX23AnXVoxhuNmTCCwqQnlGAtVfnIw.wcu6-ytvyzH5luyJx9LmXqVBAQNw9dk5EqKgdSEvgeI&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=the+antichrist+by+aw+pink&amp;qid=1719349824&amp;sprefix=the+antichrist+by+aw+pink%2Caps%2C81&amp;sr=8-2">"The Antichrist" </a></em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Anti-Christ-Arthur-W-Pink/dp/1478137614/ref=sr_1_2?crid=28CZRIT3HH4ZT&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.mLYgadKOUOjFZM97lcDTVZQrIt0h3wJh8VLiGkxAfZUJ14EOpqwYZDpjeX23AnXVoxhuNmTCCwqQnlGAtVfnIw.wcu6-ytvyzH5luyJx9LmXqVBAQNw9dk5EqKgdSEvgeI&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=the+antichrist+by+aw+pink&amp;qid=1719349824&amp;sprefix=the+antichrist+by+aw+pink%2Caps%2C81&amp;sr=8-2">on Amazon</a>). The third chapter was posted prior to this one. The following is taken from the website <a href="https://biblehub.com/library/pink/the_antichrist/the_genius_and_character_of.htm">&#8220;The Bible Hub&#8221;</a>.</p><p><strong>The Genius and the Character of the AntiChrist by Arthur W. Pink</strong></p><p><em><strong>The AntiChrist -</strong></em></p><p>For six thousand years Satan has had full opportunity afforded him to study fallen human nature to discover its weakest points and to learn how best to make men do his bidding. The Devil knows full well how to dazzle men by the attraction of power, and how to make them quail before its terrors. He knows how to gratify the craving for knowledge and how to satisfy the taste for refinement and culture, he can delight the ear with melodious music and the eye with entrancing beauty. If he could transport the Saviour from the wilderness to a mountain, in a moment of time, and show Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory, he is no novice in the art of presenting alluring objects before his victims today. He knows how to stimulate energy and direct inquiry, and how to appease the craving for the occult. He knows how to exalt men to dizzy heights of worldly greatness and fame, and how to control that greatness when attained, so that it may be employed against God and his people.</p><p>It is true that up to now Satan's power has been restrained, and his activities have been checked and often counteracted by the Spirit of God. The brightest fires of the Devil's kindling can burn but dimly whilever God sheds around them the power of heavenly light. They require the full darkness of night in order to shine in the full strength of their deceiving brightness; and that time is coming. The Word of God reveals the fact that a day is not far distant when Divine restraint will be removed; the light of God will be withdrawn; and then shall "darkness cover the earth and gross darkness the people" (Isa.60:2). Not only will that which has hindered the full development of the Mystery of Iniquity be removed, but God will "send them strong delusion that they should believe the Lie" (2 Thess.2:13), and Satan will take advantage of this; he will then make full use of all the knowledge which he has acquired during the last six thousand years.</p><p>Satan will become incarnate and appear on earth in human form. As we have shown in previous chapters, the Antichrist will not only be the Man of Sin, but also "the Son of Perdition," the Seed of the Serpent. The Antichrist will be the Devil's masterpiece. In him shall dwell all the fulness of the Devil bodily. He will be the culmination and consummation of Satan's workings. The world is now talking of and looking for the Superman; and the Devil is soon to supply him. The Antichrist will be no ordinary person, but one possessed of extraordinary talents. He will be endowed with superhuman powers. With the one exception of the God-man he will be the most remarkable personage who has ever appeared upon the stage of human history. But to particularize:</p><p><em><strong>He Will be an Intellectual Genius -</strong></em></p><p>He will be possessed of extraordinary intelligence. He will be the Devil's imitation of that blessed One "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge" (Col.2:3). This Son of Perdition will surpass Solomon in wisdom. In Dan.7:20 he is represented as "A horn that had eyes." It is a double symbol. The "horn" prefigures strength; "eyes" speak of intelligence. Again, in Dan.8:23 he is referred to as "A King of fierce countenance." who shall "understand dark sentences." That which baffles others shall be simple to him. The Hebrew word here translated "dark sentences" is the same as the one rendered "hard questions" in 1 Kings 10:1, where we read of the Queen of Sheba coming to Solomon with her "hard questions" in order to test his wisdom. It is also the word that is used in Samson's riddle in Judges 14. It indicates that the Antichrist will be master of all the secrets of occult science. Ezek.28:3 declares of him "Beholding, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee." This will be one of his most alluring attractions. His master mind will captivate the educated world. His marvelous store of knowledge, his acquaintance with the secrets of nature, his superhuman powers of perception, will stamp him as an intellectual genius of the first magnitude.</p><p><em><strong>He Will be an Oratorical Genius -</strong></em></p><p>In Dan.7:20 we are told that he has "a mouth that spake very great things." As a wizard of words he will surpass Demosthenes. Here also will the Devil imitate that One "who spake as never man spake." The people were "astonished" at Christ's doctrine (Matt.7:28), and said "Whence hath this man this wisdom?" (Matt.13:54). So will it be with this daring counterfeiter: he will have a mouth speaking very great things. He will have a perfect command and flow of language. His oratory will not only gain attention but command respect. Rev.13:2 declares that his mouth is "as the mouth of a lion" which is a symbolic expression telling of the majesty and awe producing effects of his voice. The voice of the lion excels that of any other beast. So the Antichrist will out rival orators ancient and modern.</p><p><em><strong>He Will be a Political Genius -</strong></em></p><p>He will emerge from obscurity, but by dint of his diplomatic skill he will win the admiration and compel the cooperation of the political world. In the early stages of his career he appears as "a little horn" (or power), but it is not long before he climbs the ladder of fame, and by means of brilliant statesmanship, ascends its topmost rung. Like the majority of politicians, he will not scruple to employ questionable methods; in fact it will be by diplomatic chicanery and intrigue that he will win his early successes. Dan.11:21 tells us that at first they will not give to him the honor of the kingdom, but "he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries." Once he gains the ascendancy none will dare to challenge his authority. Kings will be his pawns and princes his playthings.</p><p><em><strong>He Will be a Commercial Genius &#8211;</strong></em></p><p>"And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand" (Dan.8:25). Under his regime everything will be nationalized, and none will be able to buy or sell without his permission (Rev.13:17). All commerce will be under his personal control, and this will be used for his own aggrandizement. The wealth of the world will be at his disposal. There are several scriptures which call attention to this. For example in Psa.52:7 we read, "Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches; and strengthened himself in his substance." Again, in Dan.11:38 we are told, "But in his estate shall he honor the god of forces (Satan): and a god whom his fathers knew not shall be honor with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things." Even plainer is Dan.11:43, "But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt." In the last verse of Dan.11 mention is made of his "palace." He will be wealthier than Croesus. Ezak.28:4, 5 speaks of him thus, "With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches." Thus will he be able to wield the sceptre of financial power and outdo Solomon in all his glory.</p><p><em><strong>He Will be a Military Genius -</strong></em></p><p>He will be endowed with the most extraordinary powers, so that "he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practice, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people" (Dan.8:24). Before his exploits the fame of Alexander and Napoleon will be forgotten. None will be able to stand before him. He will go "forth conquering and to conquer" (Rev.6:2). He will sweep everything before him so that the world will exclaim, "Who is like unto the Beast? who is able to make war with him?" (Rev.13:4). His military exploits will not be confined to a corner, but carried out on a vast scale. He is spoken of as the man who will "shake kingdoms" and "make the earth to tremble" (Isa.14:16).</p><p><em><strong>He Will be a Government Genius -</strong></em></p><p>He will weld together opposing forces. He will unify conflicting agencies. Under the compelling power of his skill the world Powers will be united. The dream of a League of Nations will then be realized. The Orient and the Occident shall no longer be divided. A marvelous symbolic picture of this is given us in Rev.13:1, 2: "And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a Beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. And the Beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the Dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority." Here we find the forces of the Roman, the Grecian, the Medo-Persian, and the Babylonian empires coalesced. He will be the personal embodiment of the world's political authority in its final form. So completely will the world be swayed by the hypnotic spell cast over it by the Beast that the ten kings of the Roman empire in its ultimate form shall "give their kingdoms unto him" (Rev.17:17). He will be the last great Caesar.</p><p><em><strong>He Will be a Religious Genius -</strong></em></p><p>He will proclaim himself God, demanding that Divine honors should be rendered to him and sitting in the Temple shall show himself forth that he is God (2 Thess.2:4). Such wonders will he perform, such prodigious marvels will he work, the very elect would be deceived by him did not God directly protect them. The Man of Sin will combine in himself all the varied genius of the human race, and what is more, he will be invested with all the wisdom and power of Satan. He will be a master of science, acquainted with all of nature's forces, compelling her to give up for him her long held secrets. "In this master-piece of Satan," says one, "will be concentrated intellectual greatness, sovereign power and human glory, combined with every species of iniquity, pride, tyranny, wilfulness, deceit, and blasphemy, such as Antiochus Epiphanes, Mohammed, the whole line of popes, atheists, and deists of every age of the world have failed to unite in any individual person."</p><p>"All the world wondered after the Beast" (Rev.13:3). His final triumph shall be that, wounded by a sword, he shall live again (Rev.13:3). He shall raise himself from the dead, and so wonder-struck will men be at this stupendous marvel they will readily pay him Divine homage, yea, so great will be his dazzling power over men, they will worship his very image (Rev.13:14, 15).</p><p>Having contemplated something of the genius of Satan's prodigy, let us now consider his character. In doing so we shall view him in the light of the Character of the Lord Jesus. Christ is the Divine plumb-line and standard of measurement by which all character must be tested.</p><p>In our last chapter we pointed out how that the distinguishing title of the coming Super-man -- the Antichrist -- has a double significance, inasmuch as it points to him as the imitator of Christ and the opponent of Christ. Hence, in studying his character, we find a series of comparisons and a series of contrasts drawn between the false christ and the true Christ; and these we now propose to set before the reader.</p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israeli and American Zionism, the tell-tale sign of Palestinian Genocide, and the AntiChrist.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.]]></description><link>https://www.tomstakes.org/p/israeli-and-american-zionism-the</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tomstakes.org/p/israeli-and-american-zionism-the</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Terry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2024 13:03:21 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.&#8221; </strong></em>Psalm 82:3-4<strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p></p><p>Thinking recently of Israel, the contentiousness among Christians over the impact of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians,  the historical appearance and meaning of Zionism, and the Zionist control of U.S. foreign affairs and the negative consequences to American society, its domestic affairs, and to the world&#8217;s peoples, I&#8217;ve been caused again in my ongoing curiosity to think again about the AntiChrist as a historical figure. The confluence of U.S. power as the world&#8217;s greatest empire in history, having risen as the most impactful democracy in world history, with the modern state of Israel in its historical and religious meanings, seems more than coincidental. Think about this:  the world&#8217;s most powerful nation-state in history with an almost 250 year legacy and a population of 333 million has now come under the extraordinary control of a small nation that has existed a mere 76 years with a population of 52,000. This is a ratio of 6400 people to 1 and a national heritage as a nation-state in the modern period which began in the year 1500 that is 3 times longer. The entire United States&#8217; regime of legislative, judicial, executive, military, and police power at the federal and state levels is now pro-Israeli Zionist. </p><p>This raises again the specter of the emergence and appearance of the historical figure with Jewish connections who will rise to the globally embracing identity of influence and power coupled with a charisma unequaled by the most commanding personality and celebrity. He will be the figure to whom all the world&#8217;s political, civil, economic, social, governmental, business, MSM, religious, academic, and entertainment forces will welcome and applaud&#8230; the figure with a solid connection to the nation of Israel and its history and meaning&#8230; the person who will successfully defend the rightness, lawfulness, and expert rationales for the Zionist cause and the strong alignment and alliance of the welfare of the United States to the welfare of Israel. </p><p>From a socio-religio-political perspective, this leads me back to a further, ongoing examination of the identity of the AntiChrist. Since I believe that the most trustworthy, truthful, and accurate identification of this individual is the one presented in the Scriptures, I quickly searched and found the following piece by Arthur W. Pink on thirty of the Bible&#8217;s identifiers of the AntiChrist, with Pink&#8217;s written explanations for the first twenty-five. This has been duplicated from &#8220;The Bible Hub&#8221; website - <a href="https://biblehub.com/library/pink/the_antichrist/1_the_antichrist.htm">https://biblehub.com/library/pink/the_antichrist/ 1_the_antichrist.htm</a>.</p><p><em><strong>The AntiChrist &#8211;</strong></em></p><p>"Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is Antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son" (1 John 2:22). This name introduces to us one of the most solemn and foreboding subjects in the Word of God. It brings before us one of the persons in the Trinity of Evil. At every point he is the antithesis of Christ. The word "Antichrist" has a double significance. Its primary meaning is one who is opposed to Christ; but its secondary meaning is one who is instead of Christ. Let not this be thought strange, for it accords with the two stages in his career. At first he will pose as the true Christ, masquerading in the livery of religion. But, later, he will throw off his disguise, stand forth in his true character, and set himself up as one who is against God and His Christ.</p><p>Not only does anti-christ denote the antagonist of Christ, but it tells of one who is instead of Christ. The word signifies another Christ, a pro-Christ, an alter christus, a pretender to the name of Christ. He will seem to be and will set himself up as the true Christ. He will be the Devil's counterfeit. Just as the Devil is an Anti-theos -- not only the adversary of God, but the usurper of the place and prerogatives of God, demanding worship; so the Son of Perdition will be anti-christ -- not only the antagonist and opponent of Christ, but His reval: assuming the very position and prerogatives of Christ; passing himself off as the rightful claimant to all the rights and honors of the Son of God.</p><p><em><strong>The Man of Sin: The Son of Perdition -</strong></em></p><p>"Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that Man of Sin be revealed, the Son of Perdition" (2 Thess.2:3). This double appellation is probably the most awful, the most important, and the most revealing title given to the Antichrist in all the Bible. It diagnoses his personality and exposes his awful character. It tells us he will be possessed of a twofold nature: he will be a man, and yet more than a man. He will be Satan's parody of the God-Man. He will be an incarnation of the Devil. The world today is talking of and looking for the Super-man. This is exactly what the Antichrist will be. He will be the Serpent's masterpiece.</p><p>"That Man of Sin." What a frightful name! The sin of man will culminate in the Man of Sin. The Christ of God was sinless; the Christ of Satan will not only be sinful, but the Man of Sin. "Man of Sin" intimates that he will be the living and active embodiment of every form and character of evil. "Man of Sin" signifies that he will be sin itself personified. "Man of Sin" denotes there will be no lengths of wickedness to which he will not go, no forms of evil to which he will be a stranger, no depths of corruption that he will not bottom.</p><p>"The Son of Perdition." And again we are forced to exclaim, what a frightful name! Not only a human degenerate, but the offspring of the Dragon. Not only the worst of human kind, but the incarnation of the Devil. Not only the most depraved of all sinners, but an emanation from the Pit itself. "Son of Perdition" denotes that he will be the culmination and consummation of satanic craft and power. All the evil, malignity, cunning, and power of the Serpent will be embodied in this terrible monster.</p><p><em><strong>The Lawless One -</strong></em></p><p>"And then shall be revealed the Lawless One, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of His mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of His coming" (2 Thess.2:8 R. V.). This is another name of the Antichrist which makes manifest his awful character. Each of his names exhibits him as the antithesis of the true Christ. The Lord Jesus was the Righteous One; the Man of Sin will be the Lawless One. The Lord Jesus was "made under the law" (Gal.4:4); the Antichrist will oppose all law, being a law unto himself. When the Saviour entered this world, He came saying, "Lo I come to do Thy will, O God" (Heb.10:9); but of the Antichrist it is written "And the king shall do according to his will" (Dan.11:36). The Antichrist will set himself up in direct opposition to all authority, both Divine and human.</p><p><em><strong>The Beast -</strong></em></p><p>"And when they shall have finished their testimony the Beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them" (Rev.11:7). This is another name which reveals the terrible nature and character of the Antichrist and which places him in sharp antithesis from the true Christ. "The Beast" is the title by which he is most frequently designated in the Revelation: there are at least thirty references to him under this name in the last book of the Bible. The Greek word signifies a wild beast. This name "the Beast" contrasts the Antichrist from the true Christ as "the Lamb;" and it is a significant fact that by far the great majority of passages where the Lord Jesus is so designated are also found here in the Apocalypse. The "Lamb" is the Saviour of sinners; the "Beast" is the persecutor and slayer of the saints. The "Lamb" calls attention to the gentleness of Christ; the "Beast" tells of the ferocity of the Antichrist. The "Lamb" reveals Christ as the "harmless" One (Heb.7:26); the "Beast" manifests the Antichrist as the cruel and heartless one. Under the Law lambs were ceremonially clean and used in sacrifice, but beasts were unclean and unfit for sacrifices.</p><p>It is a point of interest to note that there is one other very striking contrast between the persons in the Holy Trinity, and the persons in the trinity of evil. At our Lord's baptism the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in the form of a dove, and the first mention of the Holy Spirit in Scripture represents Him as "brooding" like a dove over the waters which covered the pre-Adamic earth (Gen.1:2). How remarkable are those symbols -- a "Lamb" and a "Dove!" A Dove, not a hawk or an eagle. The gentle, harmless, cooing "dove." Over against this the Devil is termed "the Dragon." What a contrast -- the Dove and the Lamb, the Dragon and the Beast!</p><p><em><strong>The Bloody and Deceitful Man -</strong></em></p><p>"Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the Lord will abhor the Bloody and Deceitful Man" (Psa.5:6). The Psalm from which this verse is quoted contains a prayer of the godly Jewish remnant, offered during the Tribulation period. In proof of this assertion observe that in v.2 God is owned and addressed as "King." In v.7 intimation is given that the Temple has been rebuild in Jerusalem, for turning away from it when it has been defiled by "the Abomination of Desolation," the remnant say, "But as for me I will come into Thy house in the multitude of Thy mercy: and in Thy fear will I worship toward Thy Holy Temple." While in v.10 we find them praying for the destruction of their enemies, which is parallel with Rev.6:10. It is during that time the faithful remnant will exclaim, "Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the Lord will abhor the Bloody and Deceitful Man."</p><p>The Bloody and Deceitful Man views the Antichrist in relation to the Jews. In the earlier stages of his public career he poses as their friend and benefactor. He recognizes their rights as a separate State and appears anxious to protect their autonomy. He makes a formal covenant with them (Dan.9:27) and their peace and security seem assured. But a few years later he comes out in his true character. His fair speeches and professions of friendship are seen to be false. He breaks his covenant (Psa.55:20) and turns upon the Jews in fury. Their benefactor is now their worst enemy. The protector of their interests now aims to cut them off from being a nation in the earth (Psa.83:4). Thus is he rightfully denominated by them "the Bloody and Deceitful Man."</p><p><em><strong>The Wicked One -</strong></em></p><p>"The Wicked (One) in his pride doth persecute the poor: the Wicked (One), through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God" (Psa.10:2, 4). This entire Psalm is about the Wicked One. The opening verse gives the key to its dispensational scope. It contains the cry of the Jewish remnant during the Tribulation period, here denominated "Times of Trouble" (cf. Jer.30:7). So desperate is the situation of the true Israel, it seems as though Jehovah must have deserted them -- "Why standeth Thou afar off, O Lord? Why hidest Thou Thyself in times of trouble?" (v.1). Then follows a remarkably full description of their arch-enemy, the Wicked One. His pride (v.2), his depravity: "He abhorreth the Lord" (v.3 margin); his blasphemy: "All his thoughts are, There is no God" (v.4 margin); his grievous ways, (v.5); his consuming egotism, (v.6); his deceitfulness, (v.7); his treachery, (v.8); his cruelty, (vv.9, 10); his complacent pride, (v.11), is each described. Then the Remnant cry, "Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up Thine hand: forget not the humble. Break Thou the arm of the Wicked and Evil One" (vv.12 and 15). The whole Psalm should be carefully studied.</p><p><em><strong>The Man of the Earth -</strong></em></p><p>"To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the Man of the Earth may no more oppress" (Psa.10:18). The "Wicked One" describes his character; the "Man of the Earth" defines his position. The one speaks of his awful depths of depravity; the other of his vast dominions. The sphere of his operations will be no mere local one, He will become World-emperor. He will be a king of kings and lord of lords, (Rev.13:7). When the true Christ appeared on earth Satan offered Him "all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them" if He would fall down and worship him. When the false Christ appears, this offer will be repeated, the conditions will be met, and the tempting gift will be bestowed (Rev.13:2). In consequence of this he shall be "the Man of the Earth;" just as later, Christ shall be "King over all the earth" (Zech.14:7).</p><p><em><strong>The Mighty Man -</strong></em></p><p>"Why boasteth thou thyself in mischief, O Mighty Man" (Psa.52:1). This is another Psalm which is devoted to a description of this fearful character. Here again we have mention of his boastfulness (v.1), his deceitfulness (v.2), his depravity (v.3), his egotism (v.4), his riches (v.7). His doom is also announced (v.5). This title, the Mighty Man, refers to his immense wealth and possessions, and the power which they confer upon their possessor. It also points a striking contrast: Christ was the Lowly Man, not having where to lay His head; the Antichrist will be the Mighty Man, of whom it is said, "Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his substance" (Psa.52:7).</p><p><em><strong>The Enemy -</strong></em></p><p>"Because of the voice of the Enemy, because of the oppression of the Wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me" (Psa.55:3). This is another title used of the Antichrist in connection with Israel, a title which recurs several times both in the Psalms and the Prophets. It points a designed contrast from that Friend that "sticketh closer than a brother." This Enemy of Israel oppresses them sorely. His duplicity and treachery are here referred to. Concerning him Israel shall exclaim, "The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords" (Psa.55:21). Let the student be on the lookout for passages in the Old Testament which make mention of the Enemy.</p><p><em><strong>The Adversary -</strong></em></p><p>"They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land. We see not our signs: there is no more any profit: neither is there any among us that knoweth how long. O God, how long shall the Adversary reproach? Shall the Enemy blaspheme Thy name forever?" (Psa.74:8-10). This title occurs in several important passages. In Isa.59:19 we read, "So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun. When the Adversary shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him." Lam.4:11, 12 is another scripture which obviously speaks of the End-time. "The Lord hath accomplished His fury; He hath poured out His fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof. The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the Adversary and the Enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem." In Amos 3:11 we read, "Therefore thus saith the Lord God; an Adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled." This is a title which intimates his satanic origin, for the Greek word for Devil means adversary.</p><p><em><strong>The Head of Many Countries -</strong></em></p><p>"He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the Head over many countries" (Psa.110:6). The context here shows that it must be the Antichrist which is in view. The Psalm opens by the Father inviting the Son to sit at His right hand until His enemies shall be made His footstool. Then follows the affirmation that Jehovah will display His strength out of Jerusalem, and make His people Israel willing in the day of His power. Then, following Jehovah's oath that Christ is a Priest forever after the order of Melchizedek (which contemplates the exercise of His millennial and royal priesthood), we read, "The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of His wrath. He shall judge among the heathen, He shall fill the places with the dead bodies; He shall wound the Head over many countries." The "Day of His wrath" is the closing portion of the Tribulation period, and in the Day of His wrath. He wounds this Head over many countries. The Head over many countries refers to the Man of Sin as the Caesar of the last world-empire, prior to the establishment of the Messianic Kingdom.</p><p><em><strong>The Violent Man -</strong></em></p><p>"Deliver me, O Lord, from the Evil Man: preserve me from the Violent Man" (Ps.140:1). This is another Psalm which expresses the plaintive supplications of the godly remnant in the "time of Jacob's trouble." Three times over the Antichrist is denominated the Violent Man. In v.1 the remnant pray to be delivered from him. In v.4 the petition is repeated. In v.11 his doom is foretold. Cry is made for God to take vengeance upon this bloody persecutor: "Let the burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again. Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the Violent Man to overthrow him" (Psa.140:10, 11). The Violent Man is a name which fully accords with his Beast-like character. It tells of his ferocity and rapacity.</p><p><em><strong>The Assyrian -</strong></em></p><p>"O Assyrian, the rod of Mine anger, and the staff in their hand in Mine indignation[hellip]Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed His whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the King of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks" (Isa.10:5, 12). We cannot here attempt an exposition of the important passage in which these verses occur -- that, in subsequent chapters, we shall treat in detail of the Antichrist in the Psalms, and the Antichrist in the Prophets -- suffice it now to point out that it treats of the End-time (see vv.12, 20), and that the leading characteristics of the Man of Sin can be clearly discerned in what is here said of the Assyrian. Almost all pre-millennial students of prophecy are agreed that the "King" of Isa.30:33 is the Antichrist, and yet in the two verses which precede, this "King" is identified with "the Assyrian."</p><p><em><strong>The King of Babylon -</strong></em></p><p>"Thou shalt take up this proverb against the King of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!" (Isa.14:4). We do not wish to anticipate what we shall discuss at length in our future studies, enough now to state it is our firm conviction that Scripture plainly teaches that there will be another Babylon which will eclipse the importance and glories of the one of the past, and that Babylon will be one of the headquarters of the Antichrist. He will have three: Jerusalem will be his religious headquarters, Rome his political, and Babylon his commercial. For those who desire to anticipate our future expositions, we recommend them to make a minute study of Isa.10, 11, 13, 14; Jer.49:51; Zech.5, and Rev.18.</p><p><em><strong>The Son of the Morning -</strong></em></p><p>"How art thou fallen from heaven O Lucifer, son of the Morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations" (Isa.14:12). "Lucifer" is a Latin word which signifies the "morning star." "All the ancient versions and all the Rabbins make the word a noun denoting the bright one, or, more specifically, bright star, or according to the ancients more specifically still, the Morning Star or harbinger of daylight" (Dr. J. A. Alexander). This term "Lucifer" has been commonly regarded as one of the names of Satan, and what is here said of the Morning Star is viewed as describing his apostasy. Against this interpretation we have nothing to say, except to remark that we are satisfied it does not exhaust this remarkable scripture. A detailed exposition must be reserved for a later chapter. Sufficient now to point out that however Isa.14 may look back to the distant past when, through pride, Satan fell from his original estate, it most evidently looks forward to a coming day and gives another picture of the Antichrist. In this same passage "Lucifer" is termed "the Man that did make the earth to tremble" (v.16), and in his blasphemous boast "I will be like the Most High" (v.14), we have no difficulty in identifying him with the Man of Sin of 2 Thess.2:3, 4. The force of this particular title "Morning Star" is seen by comparing it with Rev.22:16, where we learn that this is one of the titles of the God-man. The "Morning Star" speaks of Christ coming to usher in the great Day of rest for the earth. In blasphemous travesty of this Satan will send forth the mock messiah to usher in a false millennium.</p><p><em><strong>The Spoiler -</strong></em></p><p>"Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the Spoiler: for the Extortioner is at an end, the Spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land. And in mercy shall the throne be established: and He shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness" (Isa.16:4, 5). It will be observed that the verse in which the Antichrist is spoken of as the Spoiler comes immediately before the one where we read of the throne being established, a reference, of course, to the setting up of the Messianic Kingdom. These two things synchronize: the destruction of Antichrist, and the beginning of the real Messiah's reign; hence we read here "the Spoiler ceaseth." A further reference to the Man of Sin under this title of the Spoiler is found in Jer.6:26: "O daughter of My people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mournings, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the Spoiler shall suddenly come upon thee." This is another title which views the Antichrist in connection with Israel. After the return of many of the Jews to Palestine, and after their rights have been owned by the Powers, and their security and success seem assured; their enemy, filled with satanic malice, will seek their extermination. "The Spoiler" contrasts him with the Lord Jesus who is the great Restorer (see Psa.69:4).</p><p><em><strong>The Nail -</strong></em></p><p>"In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the Nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the Lord hath spoken it" (Isa.22:25). The last ten verses of this chapter should be read carefully. They furnish a striking foreshadowment of the End-time. Shebna was holding some office over (note "government" in v.21) Israel. Apparently he was a usurper. God announced that he should be set aside in shame, and the man of His choice -- Eliakim -- should take his place. These historical figures merge into prophetic characters. In v.22 we read that God says, "And the key of the house of David will lay upon His shoulder, so He shall open, and none shall shut; and He shall shut, and none shall open." As we know from Rev.3:7 this refers to none other than the Lord Jesus, and of Him it is here said, "And I will fasten Him as a Nail in a sure place; and He shall be for a glorious throne to His father's house" (v.23). Then, in the closing verse of the chapter we read, "In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the Nail that is fastened in a sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall." Just as Eliakim foreshadowed Christ, so Shebna pointed forward to the Antichrist; and just as in v.23 we have a prophecy announcing the establishment of Messiah's Kingdom, so in v.25 we have foretold the overthrow of the false messiah's kingdom.</p><p><em><strong>The Branch of the Terrible Ones -</strong></em></p><p>"Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud; the Branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low" (Isa.25:5). The first five verses of this chapter contemplate the Enemy's stronghold -- Babylon -- and the remainder of the chapter pictures the blessedness of the millennial era. In the fifth verse the Antichrist's overthrow is announced: "The Branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low." With this should be compared Isa.14:19, where of Lucifer it is said, "Thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable Branch." This points another contrast. The "Branch" is one of the Messianic names: "Behold, I will bring forth My Servant, the Branch" (Zech.3:8); "Behold the man whose name is the Branch" (Zech.6:12). By placing together Isa.4:2 and Isa.14:19 the antithesis will be more evident. Of Christ it is said, "The Branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious." Antichrist is called "an abominable Branch": Christ is "the Branch of the Lord;" Antichrist is "the Branch of the terrible ones."</p><p><em><strong>The Profane and Wicked Prince of Israel -</strong></em></p><p>"And thou, profane wicked Prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end, thus saith the Lord God; remove the diadem, and take off the crown; this shall not be the same; exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: and it shall be no more, until He come whose right it is; and I will give it Him" (Ezek.21:25-27). The Profane and Wicked Prince of Israel here can be none other than the Antichrist, for we are expressly told that "his day shall be when iniquity shall have an end." The reference is, of course, to Israel's "iniquity," and their iniquity shall end at the appearing of the Messiah (see Dan.9:24) when "He shall be a priest upon His throne" (Zech.6:13). Here in Ezekiel we see how the Son of Perdition shall ape the Christ of God, for he, too, will be a priest-king: "Remove the diadem" refers to the insignia of his priesthood (in every other place in the O. T. where this occurs the Hebrew word here translated "diadem" it is rendered "mitre" -- worn only by the high priest of Israel); "take off the crown" is the symbol of his kingship.</p><p><em><strong>The Little Horn -</strong></em></p><p>"I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another Little Horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this Horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things" (Dan.7:8). For a full description of the Antichrist under this title see Dan.7:8-11, 21-26; 8:9-12, 23-25. We must reserve our comments on these verses till a later chapter. "Little Horn" refers to the lowly political origin of the Antichrist, and describes him as he is before he attains governmental supremacy.</p><p><em><strong>The Prince that shall Come -</strong></em></p><p>"And after three score and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for Himself: and the people of the Prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary" (Dan.9:26). This title connects the Antichrist with the Roman Empire in its final form, and presents him as the last of the Ceasars.</p><p><em><strong>The Vile Person -</strong></em></p><p>"And in his estate shall stand up a Vile Person, to whom they shall not give the honor of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries" (Dan.11:21). This contrasts the Antichrist from "the Holy One of Israel." His identity is established by noting what is predicted of him.</p><p><em><strong>The Willful King -</strong></em></p><p>"And the King shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done" (Dan.11:36). The Antichrist will not only be the High Priest of the world's religion, but he will be King supreme at the head of its government.</p><p><em><strong>The Idol Shepherd -</strong></em></p><p>"For, lo, I will raise up a Shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young ones, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces. Woe to the Idol Shepherd that leaveth the flock! The sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened" (Zech.11:16, 17). This is in evident contrast from the Good Shepherd who gave His life for His sheep. The Idol Shepherd of deluded Israel will prove himself the monster Desolator, who shall bring upon that people the severest tribulations ever experiences by that race.</p><p><em><strong>The Angel of the Bottomless Pit -</strong></em></p><p>"And they had a king over them, which is the Angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon" (Rev.9:11). "Abaddon" and "Apollyon" mean Destroyer. It is the "Spoiler" of Isa.16:4 rendered "Destroyer" in Jer.4:7. That his name is here given in the Hebrew and the Greek shows that he will be connected with both the Jews and the Gentiles.</p><p>Other names of the Antichrist which the student may look up are, "The Rod of God's anger" (Isa.10:12); "The Unclean Spirit" (Matt.12:43); "The Lie" (2 Thess.2:11); "A Star" (Rev.8:10 and 9:1); and "The Vine of the Earth" (Rev.14:18).</p><div><hr></div><p><a href="#_ftnref1">[1]</a> For a bio, see &#8220;Arthur W. Pink&#8221;, <em>Wikipedia,</em> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Pink">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Pink</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israel's 10/7... From the same 'false flag playbook' as America's 9/11?]]></title><description><![CDATA[They shall not live in your land, otherwise they will make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, it is certain to be a snare to you. Exodus 23:33 - A verse given to those whose trust resides in the Lord God and His fullest revelation in Christ Jesus.]]></description><link>https://www.tomstakes.org/p/israels-107-from-the-same-false-flag</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tomstakes.org/p/israels-107-from-the-same-false-flag</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Terry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2024 12:38:37 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><sup>&nbsp;</sup>They shall not live in your land, otherwise they will make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, it is certain to be a snare to you</em>. Exodus 23:33 - A verse given to those whose  trust resides in the Lord God and His fullest revelation in Christ Jesus.</p><p>Following is a slightly modified version of the online report by Ben Swann on &#8220;Truth in Media.&#8221; See <a href="https://truthinmedia.com/episode/how-did-october-7th-happen/">here</a> for the Truth in Media online version. Though somewhat long, I encourage you to carefully read the entire article which presents a body of inconsistencies that point in sum to a planned false flag, similar in nature and kind to the inconsistencies that surround and have only grown in importance to the 9/11 false flag.</p><p>On October 7th, Hamas managed to breach the Gaza fence slaughtering and capturing hundreds of Israeli soldiers and civilians in southern Israel &#8212; they called it Operation Al Aqsa Flood. See<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/detailed-hamas-secretly-crossed-israel/story?id=103917182">&nbsp;AK-47s and motorcycles</a>.</p><p>Hamas was able to carry out its shocking terror attack against Israel,&nbsp; despite Israel&#8217;s intelligence, military and security apparatus commonly considered the best in the world.&nbsp;</p><p>Bearing in mind Israel&#8217;s incredibly sophisticated and capable defenses and brigades of&nbsp;trained IDF soldiers stationed near the Gaza border, the scale and operational success of the Al Aqsa Flood attack surprised even Hamas.&nbsp;</p><p>Hamas representative Ali Barakeh explained to the<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/16/hamas-attack-israel/"> Washington Post</a> the ease with which Israel&#8217;s entire security apparatus disintegrated: &#8220;We were expecting to get a smaller number of hostages and return [to Gaza], but the [Israeli] army collapsed in front of us, what were we to do?&#8221;&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;In response to the&nbsp; Al Aqsa Flood attack, the Israeli military&#8217;s retaliatory efforts, code named Operation Swords of Iron, has resulted in the deaths of <a href="https://cpj.org/2024/05/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict/#:~:text=As%20of%20May%2020,%202024,and%201,200%20deaths%20in%20Israel.">&nbsp;over 100 journalists</a>,<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/13/un-worker-killed-rafah-israel-gaza/"> 190 United Nations staff</a>,<a href="https://time.com/6979208/israel-gaza-death-toll/"> thirty four thousand Palestinians</a>, including 13,000 children, displaced nearly the entire Gaza population of 2 million people and cost the United States almost $50 billion.&nbsp;</p><p>So how did October 7th happen? The entire controlled mainstream media was quick to call it an &#8220;intelligence failure&#8221;.&nbsp;See <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/05/07/broad-agreement-in-u-s-even-among-partisans-on-which-news-outlets-are-part-of-the-mainstream-media/">here</a> for how a majority of Americans see most news outlets as part of the MSM, generally considered as unreliable.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/07/hamas-stealth-attack-will-be-remembered-as-israeli-intelligence-failure-for-the-ages">The Guardian</a> told its readers on the afternoon of October 7th that &#8220;Hamas&#8217;s murderous attack will be remembered as Israeli intelligence failure for the ages.&#8221;</p><p>While the attack was still technically ongoing, on October 7th,<a href="https://archive.ph/Rm69R"> Politico quoted</a> Israel&#8217;s former deputy National Security Adviser David Frielich as saying, &#8220;It&#8217;s a failure in terms of intelligence, operationally. It&#8217;s clear we were caught totally unprepared by this.&#8221;&nbsp;</p><p>And on October 8th, Jonathan Panikoff, former U.S. deputy national intelligence officer on the Middle East, who&#8217;s now at NATO&#8217;s think tank, the Atlantic Council, attempted to <a href="https://archive.ph/bBls8">control the public narrative of the attack</a>: &#8220;This was an intelligence failure; it could not be otherwise.&#8221; This control of the narrative was similar to the U.S. response to 9/11 when within a half hour after the plane flew into the South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York, the CIA Director, George Tenet <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_for_the_September_11_attacks">publicly identified</a> Osama bin Laden as the mastermind terrorist behind the attack.</p><p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself<a href="https://archive.ph/ax3Tg"> tweeted and quickly deleted</a> a statement denying any foreknowledge of the October 7th attack.&nbsp;&#8220;Under no circumstances and at no stage was Prime Minister Netanyahu warned of war intentions on the part of Hamas&#8230;&#8221; the tweet said, before it was promptly deleted.&nbsp;</p><p>Why did Netanyahu&#8217;s team delete that tweet? Did he in fact have intelligence that there would be an attack by Hamas? Well, the evidence seems to point to &#8220;yes&#8221;, he and Israel intelligence did the intelligence to have been on high alert for what occurred on 10/7. &nbsp;</p><p>Foreign security services, Israeli security services and the Israeli public all knew that Hamas was planning a violent, cross-border incursion where they would attempt to over-run and attack the kibbutz communities in southern Israel and take prisoners back to Gaza. And they also knew when. But it happened anyway.&nbsp;Again, this replayed <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/attacks-will-be-spectacular-cia-war-on-terror-bush-bin-laden/">the same disregard</a> by the U.S. in serious warnings of the impending disaster about to unfold on 9/11.</p><p>Ten days before the attack, and then again<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67082047"> three days</a> before the attack,<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/egypt-intelligence-official-says-israel-ignored-repeated-warnings-of-something-big/"> Egypt intelligence</a> officials passed &#8220;repeated warnings&#8221; to the highest levels of Israel&#8217;s government.&nbsp;This mimicked the repeated warnings given to the U.S. by intel agencies of several countries before 9/11.</p><p>In one of these warnings, Egypt&#8217;s premiere intelligence minister General Abbas Kamel personally called Netanyahu and warned that Hamas was about to do &#8220;something unusual, a terrible operation..&#8221;</p><p>Unnamed Egyptian<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/egypt-intelligence-official-says-israel-ignored-repeated-warnings-of-something-big/"> officials told</a> YNET News that they were shocked by Netanyahu&#8217;s &#8220;indifference to the news.&#8221; This seemed like a replay of the scene when a cool and collected President George Bush displayed, some critics have charged, an indifference to news of the second plane attack on the Twin Towers was given to him on 9/11. &nbsp;</p><p>But Israel didn&#8217;t have to trust or believe Egypt, because actually, most of the warnings of the October 7th attack came from Israeli civilians and the Israeli military itself.&nbsp;The is similar to the <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2021/09/10/former-fbi-agent-ken-williams-who-wrote-key-9-11-memo-helps-victims-families/5758911001/">repeatedly disregarded warnings</a> by an FBI agent in Arizona, Ken Williams. No alerts were put in place before 9/11 from Williams&#8217; warnings to his chiefs about the flight training going on by Middle Eastern foreign men.</p><p>The civilians and soldiers who brought these emergency warnings to the military were ignored and in some cases, strangely enough, threatened with legal action.&nbsp;</p><p>Going back, in 2022 and moving forward to the days before October 7 the IDF, through confidential sources, or spies, in Gaza,<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-attack-intelligence.html"> actually obtained</a> the detailed Hamas Al Aqsa Flood attack plans.</p><p>Code named &#8220;Jericho Wall&#8221; by Israel, the excursion plan called for a barrage of rockets to begin the attack and for gunmen to pour into Israel en masse via paragliders, on motorcycles and on foot and take hostages back into Gaza &#8212; all of which happened on October 7th.&nbsp;</p><p>Hamas followed the blueprint that Israel already had &#8212; with shocking precision.</p><p>So Israel had the attack blueprints, but were they taken seriously by the IDF? Yes.</p><p>The plans were diligently studied. A presentation on the planned attack was given to senior officers in the IDF&#8217;S Gaza division. The<a href="https://archive.ph/qxnH4"> presentation concluded</a> with this sentence: &#8220;This invasion constitutes the gravest threat that IDF forces are facing in the defense [of Israel]&#8221;</p><p>So in response to this, did Israel&#8217;s security establishment beef up and enhance their surveillance of Hamas militants on the other side of the border? No, stunningly, they actually did the exact opposite.&nbsp;</p><p>They decided to entirely<a href="https://archive.ph/DEY3c"> stop monitoring</a> Hamas&#8217;s handheld radio traffic. Because they saw it &#8220;as a waste of effort&#8221; &#8212; even though during that same time in 2022, Israelis living in the kibbutz communities near the Gaza border, most of whom have some type of military training due to Israel&#8217;s mandatory IDF service laws, were, according to Israeli media, picking up<a href="https://archive.ph/EC0TO"> clear evidence</a> that Hamas was &#8220;practicing the breaching of the fence and conquering kibbutzim and seizing hostages and destroying everything in their path.&#8221;</p><p>Then, In April 2023, 6 months before the attack, again according to Israeli media, the IDF &#8220;<a href="https://archive.ph/EC0TO">restricted the ability</a>&#8221; of Israelis living near the border &#8220;to monitor Hamas&#8217; wireless traffic.&#8221;</p><p>In September 2023, less than a month<a href="https://archive.ph/dt3oU"> before the attack</a>,&nbsp; the&nbsp; head of the IDF&#8217;s &#8220;Devil&#8217;s Advocate&#8221; intelligence unit, which challenges prevailing narratives within Israel&#8217;s military, twice alerted senior decision-makers in both the army and political spheres about Hamas&#8217; plans for a large-scale cross-border military operation.&nbsp;</p><p>He reiterated these warnings in person at Intelligence Branch strategic assessment sessions on September 26th and 27th. Just days before the attack.</p><p>During this period, just days before Al-Aqsa-Flood, Israeli civilians residing in the kibbutzim near the Gaza border were witnessing with their own eyes and ears constant and enormous Hamas training exercises. The army reportedly turned a blind eye.&nbsp;</p><p>One of these Israelis,<a href="https://archive.is/wZ2Lh"> Ben Shoshan</a>, worked as a tour guide in the south eastern Israeli region surrounding Gaza.&nbsp;</p><p>In a radio interview just days before October 7th, she remarked, &#8220;[Hamas has] been training for weeks right up against the border, sometimes in massive numbers. I tried to warn the officers, but they told me I didn&#8217;t know anything and that I was safe.&#8221;</p><p>On October 3rd, a journalist for Israeli Public Radio<a href="https://x.com/pozailov1/status/1709097381529022687"> tweeted</a> and made it crystal clear that the bizarre and violent Hamas drills on the Gaza side of the border were evident to all Israelis who live there, let alone the military.&nbsp;</p><p>&#8220;The Islamic Jihad organization started noisy exercises very close to the border [with] missile launches, [simulating] breaking into Israel and kidnapping soldiers&#8230;Dedi Fuld, a resident of Netiv HaTara [said] `It was significantly closer than previous times. The children wake up and ask what&#8217;s going on, there are explosions, booms. It is not similar to previous exercises.&#8221;</p><p>So it was clear to everyone that Hamas wasn&#8217;t only planning to do something horrible, but it was also clear *what* that &#8220;horrible and evil&#8221; thing was.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12767619/amp/Israeli-troops-warned-Hamas-attacks-Female-soldiers-reported-suspicious-activity-border-Gaza-weeks-leading-October-7-attack-threatened-court-martial.html">According to</a> a female IDF soldier who spoke on Israel&#8217;s channel 12 news program, she was constantly trying to warn her superiors about the gravity of Hamas training exercises. She was threatened with legal action.</p><p>&#8220;We were told that if we continue to harass on this issue, you will stand trial.&#8221;</p><p>So, Egypt knew, the Israeli military knew, and the Israeli civilians knew.&nbsp;</p><p>Yet, two days before October 7th, the Israeli military took<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240122092404/https:/www.timesofisrael.com/2-commando-companies-said-diverted-from-gaza-border-to-west-bank-days-before-oct-7/"> two entire commando brigades</a>, or around 100 soldiers, away from the the soon-to-be breached locations of the Gaza border and sent them to the other side of the country, to the West Bank village of Huwara despite no Hamas presence being in Huwara and despite there being giant Israeli dance parties taking place&nbsp; right along the same border fence where violent, escalating and obvious Hamas drills of breaching and kidnapping were taking place.&nbsp;</p><p>Does that make any sense?</p><p>Have you heard about these dance parties?&nbsp; It turns out there&#8217;s bizarre and inexplicable narratives surrounding the planning of these now infamous dance parties in Israel along the Gaza border.&nbsp;</p><p>What has not been widely reported is the fact that there were<a href="https://archive.ph/9msVK#selection-1184.0-1184.1"> actually two, back to back</a> dance parties at Kibbutz Re&#8217;Im, which is also the location of the IDF&#8217;s Gaza division and only 3 miles from the Gaza border.&nbsp;</p><p>The first party, planned months in advance, was a party called the &#8220;Unity Festival&#8221; which took place on October 5th and 6th.&nbsp;</p><p>The Nova Festival, the October 7th party, was actually added last minute,<a href="https://archive.ph/9msVK#selection-1184.0-1184.1"> only a few days</a> in advance of the event.</p><p>For obvious reasons, any significantly large gatherings near the Gaza border require Israeli military approval.&nbsp;</p><p>Again, this is a part of the story that virtually no American media network will talk about.&nbsp; According to Israeli media reports, Lt. Col. Sahar Fogel, an operations officer at the IDF&#8217;s Gaza Division,<a href="https://archive.ph/9msVK"> opposed the approval</a> of the Nova Party based on the last minute nature of its event application and the intensifying Hamas drills at the border and because if something were to happen, more soldiers were on holiday. It was the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.&nbsp;</p><p>The Lt. Col. explained his opposition to the party&#8217;s approval to his superiors. He was instructed to allow the event.&nbsp;</p><p>Israeli Newspaper <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-12-25/ty-article/.premium/idf-allowed-rave-later-attacked-by-hamas-despite-key-officers-concern/0000018c-9d78-ddc3-a1bf-bf7edca30000">Haaretz</a> reported that other Gaza division officers privately &#8220;told of irregular conduct and pressure surrounding the approval of the party.&#8221;&nbsp;</p><p>In February 2024, Elkana Federman, the head of security for the Nova festival<a href="https://archive.ph/q4n3Q"> gave an interview</a> to Israel&#8217;s Channel 14 where he made a statement that hasn&#8217;t been reported on by any American media.&nbsp;</p><p>&#8220;I had a guard at the festival who had served in the Re&#8217;im Division [near Gaza border], and a week before the festival he sent me a voice message &#8230; basically warning me, saying, &#8216;Elkana, something is going to happen over Sukkot. I just wanted to let you know, there are a lot of warnings..I passed the voice message on [to local IDF officials], and they told me everything was all right.&#8221;</p><p>After the attack, Federman called his friend in the IDF to ask him exactly what he knew.&nbsp;</p><p>&#8220;You were speaking in code. Tell me exactly what they showed you. He told me &#8216;Elkana, they told me there was going to be an invasion, and that they were planning to take over settlements. I just wasn&#8217;t allowed to tell you that.&#8217; And that&#8217;s what happened. If he knew what he knew, a driver on the Gaza border&#8230;what did those above him know? Because he&#8217;s a small screw in the system.&#8221;</p><p>The Hamas attacks were violent and brutal. They have been likened to tragic events such as September 11th and the Holocaust, so it comes as a surprise that Benjamin Netanyahu and members of his Likud party have at times described the attacks as somewhat of a political gift.</p><p>Nissim Vaturi, a member of Netanyahu&#8217;s Likud party in the Knesset,<a href="https://archive.ph/1ytuu"> referred to the attack</a> as sort of gift from God because they are being used to justify the current ongoing war, stating:&nbsp;</p><p>&#8220;We were meant to fight this war against Hamas, as is happening now, and luckily for us it came from the heavens.&#8221;</p><p>Back in January, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=VpsqUTZmD6W-lMCW&amp;t=1592&amp;v=F57xdV_mIsA&amp;feature=youtu.be"> explained</a> that Israel didn&#8217;t have domestic or international support to invade or destroy Gaza. He said the October 7th Hamas attack solved both of those problems for him. Listen to this.&nbsp;</p><p>&#8220;We couldn&#8217;t get the domestic consensus to make&#8230;a definitive solution to the problem of Hamas. That is, no one would agree across the Israeli public to go in and basically destroy Hamas&#8212;go throughout Gaza and destroy Hamas. We didn&#8217;t have the international consensus either; nobody would understand why we are doing it. Both conditions were created because of the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7th.&#8221;</p><p>All of this information, which has been reported in isolation and without context, until now, in no way excuses the brutal and sadistic October 7th Hamas attack that took the lives of so many innocent people but It does raise an important question, a question that brave people have to consider.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;Did the Israeli military, the Israeli intelligence community, and the political leadership of Israel allow this ghastly attack to happen to justify wiping out the population of Gaza?&nbsp; And it raises big questions for us.&nbsp; What type of war is the Biden Administration and U.S. taxpayer supporting? A war of self-defense?&nbsp; Or is it genocide justified by an attack that Israel likely could have stopped had they wanted to.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>These are heavy questions. But rather than simply dismissing what we are saying, prove us wrong.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>If you haven&#8217;t already, you can follow Truth in Media on X @truth_inmedia or you can follow this series by signing up to see each episode as it comes out at </p><p>https://truthinmedia.com</p><p>.&nbsp; At Truth in Media you will find the transcript of this story along with the source articles.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Technology, the Sin of Concupisence, and Invoking the Wrath of God by the Joining of the Domains of Fallen Human and Fallen Angelic Creatures. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[And God blessed them.]]></description><link>https://www.tomstakes.org/p/strange-findingsreverse-engineered</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tomstakes.org/p/strange-findingsreverse-engineered</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Terry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:52:34 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>And God blessed them. And God said to them, &#8220;Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.&#8221;</em> Genesis 1:28</p><p><em>The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of mankind, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. </em>Genesis 6:4</p><p><em>And angels who did not keep their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling place, these He has kept in eternal restraints under darkness for the judgment of the great day. </em>&#8230;<em>But these people disparage all the things that they do not understand; and all the things that they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed. Woe to them! For they walk in the way of Cain, and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam&#8217;s error, and perish in Korah&#8217;s rebellion</em>. Jude 6, 10 &amp; 11</p><p><em>They turned the truth of God into a lie - and worshipped and served the creature&#8212;forsaking the Creator, Who is blessed forever. Amen. &#8230;For as they decided not to acknowledge God, so God delivered them up to a reprobate mind&#8212;to do those things which are not proper. </em>Romans 1:25 &amp; 28</p><h4>&#8220;Concupiscence is among our choicest words to be recovered. Because of the great influence of Augustine, it has traditionally been associated closely with sexual desire, even within marriage. Its range of meaning, however, is broader. Derived from the verb Latin <em>concupisco</em>, &#8220;to lust for worldly things,&#8221; the noun <em>concupiscentia</em> is a word found many times in the Latin Bible (Vulgate). From there, it entered English in the early 14th century, but has fallen out of use as the Authorized Version (1611) has lost its influence on the language&#8230; Tertullian (c.160&#8211;c.225) argued that the root of concupiscence is idolatry.&#8221; R. Scott Clark, &#8220;Concupiscence: Sin and the Mother of Sin,&#8221; Recovering the Reformed Confession, 1/10/2015 at https://heidelblog.net/2015/01/concupiscence-sin-and-the-mother-of-sin/</h4><p>Below is a YouTube link to an episode of the online journal &#8220;Redacted News with Natalie and Clayton Morris.&#8221;  It features a formerly little known researcher, Ashton Forbes, who now has attracted a large following on X. Forbes spent a decade in pursuit of gathering, analyzing, and by a seeming professional level of analysis put together an astounding report with video evidence of what happened to the 2014 Malaysian Airlines flight MH 370 which has never been found. The plane with 227 passengers and 12 crew members went missing over the South Indian Ocean and the mysterious disappearance has never been adequately explained.</p><p>Forbes research reveals several things of note for Christians, all of which are significant if the seeming technology exists. As you read further, the fantastical technology brings to the fore for Christians an expression of sin whose usage lies more in the theology of the past than today, but a sin that is not retired from earthly expression and its deadly consequences, individually and collectively. The sins of Sodom and Gomorrah caused God in His righteous wrath to extinguish whole cities of people, without a Biblical note of whether all in those societies bore individual guilt or not. So, the sin of concupiscence, or by its clearest term used by the church father Tertullian , the sin of idolatry, can be hung, again, on the U.S. government and its rogue or authorized contractors, its individual leaders, agents, and the permissible U.S. society, for the development and nefarious use of a technology not intended for this world, today or forever. The short article by R. Scott Clark, as referenced above on the Christian understanding of concupiscence through Christian history, is worth the read. It can be accessed <a href="https://heidelblog.net/2015/01/concupiscence-sin-and-the-mother-of-sin/">here</a>.   </p><p>It is said that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Well, the conversation with video evidence and logical scientific explanation on the link below provides extraordinary evidence for the extraordinary claim by Forbes. The video and scientific and technological explanation by Forbes is persuasive. If he is correct, American defense contractors with or without the oversight of the U.S. military or another of governmental research agencies have now developed the technology to make matter disappear. As astounding as it sounds, the military-grade satellite and drone video evidence shows three orbs of some sophisticated technology that encircle the plane in flight and the subsequent instantaneous implosion - disappearance, into empty space. The plane with all its 239 human souls physically vanished! Forbes gives expert explanation though to an uninformed observer, the scientific references are unfamiliar. He explains why the video evidence cannot be computer generated. Forbes claims that the technology was reverse-engineered from alien technology in recovered UFOs.</p><p>Added to the mystery is the American motive to eliminate certain passengers of interest. Aboard MH 370 that took off from Kuala Lumpur and headed to Beijing were perhaps as many as twenty engineers, many Chinese-born, along with their entire families in some cases, who were employed by a U.S. technology company - Freescale Semiconductor, which was on the cutting edge of developing high grade microcontrollers or microprocessors used in military radar and perhaps other applications. Forbes theorized that the Chinese engineers could have been fleeing to China (Freescale had a Chinese manufacturing facility) with the sophisticated computer technology in an act of espionage to take the technology out of American control. Four of the missing Chinese passengers were holders of the patent for the microprocessor chip- a patent with the proviso that if individual holders of the patent died, their shares of the patent reverted to the surviving patent holders. The only remaining patent holder still living after the disappearance of the plane and its passengers was one Jacob Rothschild of the European Rothschild financial empire - see <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/coincidence-rothschild-inherits-freescale-patent-bryan/">here</a>, <a href="https://www.ibtimes.com.au/mh370-how-fatal-chip-rothschild-reportedly-acquired-1337851">here</a>, and <a href="https://accmag.com/rothschild-inherits-patent-after-4-co-owners-disappear-on-mh-370/">here</a>. If you are a Netflix subscriber, a well done <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/81307163">Netflix documentary</a> presents the puzzling case of the missing plane, but without any of the evidence generated and analyzed by Forbes.  </p><p>You should be warned that this video and discussion can be potentially unsettling. To hear and see a technology that can produce such results challenges our assumptions about the universe of stable and consistent natural laws. Children, teens, and even some adults will not find the implications of this technology reaffirming of their worldviews, and in fact may disrupt one&#8217;s worldview.  Forbes&#8217; conclusion is that alien UFO-technology was reversed-engineered by American defense contractors, so that the technology now exists to make matter vanish. Forbes makes the comment that most of the UFO sightings today - now referred to by the government as UAPs - <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-are-uaps-unexplained-aerial-phenomenon-ufos-new-name/">Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena</a>, are of human, not alien origin. Here are a few sites to check further on the UFO or UAP phenomenon - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNgoul4vyDM">Full video of House hearings on UFOs and Govt transparency</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidentified_flying_object">Wikipedia on UFOs</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reported_UFO_sightings">Wiki list of UFO sightings</a>, and <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/whats-the-deal-with-ufos-the-historical-context-of-recent-whistleblower-claims">PBS &amp; the context of UFO whistleblowers </a>. <a href="https://shepherd.com/bookshelf/ufo">Here</a> is one of many book lists on UFOs.</p><p>There has always been a theological component to UFO-logy. The existence of alien creatures not of this world is provocative to some Christians who hold to the authority of the Scriptures which doesn&#8217;t mention alien creatures except for fallen angelic beings. Some Biblical Christians, such as the now deceased, internationally-recognized Bible teacher, <a href="https://chuckmissler.com/">Chuck Missler</a>, accepted the present reality of UFOs and pointed to the Genesis 6 and Jude passages for reference and verification. Missler and others say that the aliens in UFOs are the fallen angels in material form and travel in materialized craft. The Scriptural passages in Genesis 6 and Jude refer to physically materialized, fallen angelic beings, which are quite different in form from the evil spirits cast out of possessed persons by Jesus. Other than those two passages, most if not all other references to Satan and the fallen angelic creatures who joined in Lucifer&#8217;s heavenly rebellion were referred to in the Bible as spiritualized entities not as creatures with a material, physical form. This technology, if it exists, challenges our understanding of science and technology, or, the application of science by human control for purposes good or bad. It also raises the question of whether humanity can morally control such technology. Another issue from the de-materialization technology is the possibility of achieving &#8220;<a href="https://unearthed00.substack.com/p/the-nexus-of-zero-point-energy-and">zero-point energy</a>,&#8221; which would be a dire threat to the present global political-economy. Also see <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-use-quantum-mechanics-to-pull-energy-out-of-nothing-20230222/">here</a> and here.</p><p>Such technology as this has theological ramifications. It inevitably presents another challenge to the historically orthodox, Christian Biblical understanding of the universe under the sovereign control of the Benevolent Creator God for His creatures and His creation. If this technology is now in the hands of humanity under the control of people with or without qualms about its efficacious use in the world, the world owned by the sovereign Creator God, Christians and theists will and should have the sobering thought about the response by the Almighty God to this human discovery and its implementation. Like the nuclear bomb, this kind of technology in the hands of fallen humanity has grievous consequences and ramifications in the fallen world. Though there would be beneficial uses of such technology under absolute moral control, say for example in human health and welfare, Christians familiar with the parable of the wheat and tares understand that such technology eventually can be categorized as fully susceptible to &#8220;the auspices of the tares.&#8221; If this technology now exists, though you will certainly not hear any mention of it in the MSM or from government agencies, it more than begs the question, certainly for discerning Christians, &#8220;Has humankind, in its God-given created glory as described in Psalm 8 and throughout Scripture, now moved further beyond its proper dominion over the living things of the earth and the earth itself in its explicit stewardship of natural materialism, given by the Good Creator God, and entered a domain of existence for which we are not equipped, nor qualified,  nor created for? </p><p>To get a fuller understanding, you can refresh what you may remember about the missing flight at this Wikipedia site <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370">here</a> and watch the entire YouTube presentation. Clayton and Ashton&#8217;s dialogue about the evil consequences of such technology at the end of the video are starkly foreboding and acknowledge the evil portent for humanity if such technology exists and if King Jesus tarries. </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uC1PA2PVbE">Video: Ashton Forbes on Redacted with Clayton Morris and the Missing Malaysian Flight MH370 in 2014</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[War, War, and more War... It's good business.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#8220;Listen to me, &#8230;: the Lord is with you when you are with Him.]]></description><link>https://www.tomstakes.org/p/war-war-and-more-war-its-good-business</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tomstakes.org/p/war-war-and-more-war-its-good-business</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Terry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2024 14:48:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oGQc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff19c2471-952d-49ff-bade-e34a0f4321ea_1080x908.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>&#8220;Listen to me, &#8230;: the Lord is with you when you are with Him. And if you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you abandon Him, He will abandon you.&#8221; &#8230;.&#8221;For the eyes of the Lord roam throughout the earth, so that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His. You have acted foolishly in this. Indeed, from now on you will have wars.&#8221;</em> 2 Chronicles 15:2(b), and 16:9</p><p><em><sup>&nbsp;</sup>And Jesus answered and said to them, &#8220;See to it that no one misleads you. For many will come in My name, saying, &#8216;I am the messiah,&#8217; and they will mislead many people. And you will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end.&#8221;</em> Matthew 24:4-6</p><p>News headline&#8230; &#8220;Under Pressure, Biden Allows Ukraine to Use U.S. Weapons to Strike Inside Russia&#8221;, <em>NY Times</em>, 5/30/24.</p><p>Several thoughts have come to mind as I follow the West&#8217;s resolute push by Western elite globalists for war in Ukraine (and in Gaza and who knows where else they are planning it): a few thoughts explain their wanton and evil business solidarity which rests on a number of ideas that seem obvious to an observer:</p><p><strong>a. War is not only good for business, war has become a main segment of U.S. business enterprise;</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oGQc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff19c2471-952d-49ff-bade-e34a0f4321ea_1080x908.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oGQc!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff19c2471-952d-49ff-bade-e34a0f4321ea_1080x908.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oGQc!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff19c2471-952d-49ff-bade-e34a0f4321ea_1080x908.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oGQc!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff19c2471-952d-49ff-bade-e34a0f4321ea_1080x908.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oGQc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff19c2471-952d-49ff-bade-e34a0f4321ea_1080x908.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oGQc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff19c2471-952d-49ff-bade-e34a0f4321ea_1080x908.png" width="1080" height="908" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f19c2471-952d-49ff-bade-e34a0f4321ea_1080x908.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:908,&quot;width&quot;:1080,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:197817,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oGQc!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff19c2471-952d-49ff-bade-e34a0f4321ea_1080x908.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oGQc!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff19c2471-952d-49ff-bade-e34a0f4321ea_1080x908.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oGQc!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff19c2471-952d-49ff-bade-e34a0f4321ea_1080x908.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oGQc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff19c2471-952d-49ff-bade-e34a0f4321ea_1080x908.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>b. Today&#8217;s war business system is no longer fueled by a past American ideology now withered during my generation&#8217;s coming of age in the Sixties</strong>. Before, the shared American ideology  was accurately defined by commitment to  &#8220;individual liberties,&#8221; &#8220;rule of law,&#8221; and &#8220;democratic republicanism.&#8221; Since then and the anti-God take over of the White House and U.S. government agencies by the neocons and market fundamentalism, their implementation of the 9/11 false flag jump-started 21st century U.S. war business. By neocon Bush Junior&#8217;s idiotic rationale for the new era (viz. error)  of U.S. war business in the combat of global terror, that is - &#8220;they hate us for our freedoms,&#8221;  today&#8217;s U.S. war business has evolved to become a lucrative segment of the global market. Check out Blackrock&#8217;s iShares U.S. Aerospace and Defense ETF fund - <a href="https://www.blackrock.com/us/individual/products/239502/ishares-us-aerospace-defense-etf">https://www.blackrock.com/us/individual/products/239502/ishares-us-aerospace-defense-etf</a>. Investors today can expect a hefty 15% plus return. And if you have the stomach and the time, this explanation of the <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3326875/department-of-defense-releases-the-presidents-fiscal-year-2024-defense-budget/">2024 Dept. of Defense budget</a>. Here&#8217;s a piece on <a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/more-blackrock-than-you-might-imagine/5748159">Blackrock&#8217;s globally-financial dominance</a>.  </p><p><strong>c. U.S. war business is augmented by highly refined technological sophistication.  Blackrock&#8217;s iShare uses highly sophisticated algorithms. </strong></p><p>Question to ChatGPT - &#8216;What algorithms does Blackrock use for defense related investment decisions?&#8217; </p><p>ChatGPT -</p><p>&#8220;BlackRock, being one of the world's largest asset management firms, likely employs a variety of algorithms and quantitative models for investment decisions across all sectors, including defense-related investments. However, the specific algorithms they use are proprietary and not publicly disclosed.</p><p>Here are some key types of algorithms and technologies they use:</p><p><strong>1. Quantitative Algorithms</strong></p><p>Quantitative or "quant" algorithms are used to make trading decisions based on mathematical and statistical models and analyze historical data and identify patterns to predict future market movements. Quantitative strategies can include:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Statistical Arbitrage</strong>: Identifying and exploiting price inefficiencies between related financial instruments.</p></li><li><p><strong>Factor Investing</strong>: Using factors like value, momentum, and volatility to select securities that are expected to perform well.</p></li></ul><p><strong>2. Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence</strong></p><p>Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly being integrated into financial algorithms to enhance predictive accuracy and adapt to new data. Key applications include:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Natural Language Processing (NLP)</strong>: Analyzing news articles, social media, and other text sources to gauge market sentiment.</p></li><li><p><strong>Reinforcement Learning</strong>: Algorithms that improve their trading strategies based on feedback from the market.</p></li><li><p><strong>Predictive Analytics</strong>: Forecasting market trends and asset prices using large datasets.</p></li></ul><p><strong>3. Algorithmic Trading</strong></p><p>Algorithmic trading involves executing orders using automated pre-programmed trading instructions accounting for variables such as time, price, and volume. These can include:</p><ul><li><p><strong>High-Frequency Trading (HFT)</strong>: Executing a large number of orders at extremely high speeds, often in fractions of a second.</p></li><li><p><strong>Execution Algorithms</strong>: Algorithms designed to minimize market impact, such as VWAP (Volume Weighted Average Price) and TWAP (Time Weighted Average Price).</p></li></ul><p><strong>4. Risk Management Algorithms</strong></p><p>These algorithms are used to assess and manage the risk associated with investment portfolios. They can help in:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Portfolio Optimization</strong>: Balancing risk and return to find the optimal asset allocation.</p></li><li><p><strong>Stress Testing</strong>: Simulating extreme market conditions to see how portfolios would perform.</p></li></ul><p><strong>5. BlackRock&#8217;s Aladdin Platform</strong></p><p>BlackRock's Aladdin (Asset, Liability, Debt, and Derivative Investment Network) is a comprehensive risk management system that integrates various algorithms and data analytics tools. Aladdin helps in:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Risk Analytics</strong>: Providing insights into portfolio risks and performance.</p></li><li><p><strong>Order Management</strong>: Streamlining the investment process from order generation to execution.</p></li><li><p><strong>Compliance Monitoring</strong>: Ensuring portfolios adhere to regulatory and client-specific guidelines.</p></li></ul><p><strong>6. Sentiment Analysis</strong></p><p>Sentiment analysis algorithms use NLP to analyze text data from various sources to gauge market sentiment. This can inform trading strategies and risk management practices by understanding how market participants feel about particular assets or the market as a whole.</p><p><strong>d. Today&#8217;s U.S. war business has a business strategy. </strong>The article below is copied verbatim from &#8220;The NeoCons&#8217; Proxy War &#8220;Against Ukraine&#8221;: Nuclear War is On the Table. The Privatization of Ukraine&#8221; by <a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/author/michel-chossudovsky">Prof. Michel Chossudovsky</a> at Global Research, 5/30/24 (<a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-neocons-proxy-war-against-ukraine-nuclear-war-is-on-the-table-the-privatization-of-ukraine/5823896">https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-neocons-proxy-war-against-ukraine-nuclear-war-is-on-the-table-the-privatization-of-ukraine/5823896</a>). </p><h1><strong>The NeoCon Agenda:</strong></h1><h1><strong>The Project for the New American Century&nbsp;</strong></h1><p><em>The NeoCons are firmly behind the Ukraine agenda.&nbsp;</em></p><p><em>The <strong><a href="https://cryptome.org/rad.htm">Project for the New American&nbsp;Century (PNAC)</a></strong>&nbsp;dominates US foreign policy on behalf of powerful financial interests.&nbsp;</em></p><p><em>The PNAC dispels the planning of &#8220;consecutive&#8221; military operations:&nbsp;it describes:</em></p><p><em>America&#8217;s &#8220;<strong>Long War&#8221; as follows:&nbsp;</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>&#8220;fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theater wars&#8221;</strong></em></p><p>The conduct of &nbsp;&#8220;<strong>Simultaneous theater Wars&#8221;</strong> is the backbone of America&#8217;s hegemonic Agenda.</p><p>It&#8217;s a project of global warfare.&nbsp;The PNAC controlled by the NeoCons also dispels the holding of real peace negotiations.&nbsp;</p><h1><strong>The Nuclear Agenda and Global Warfare</strong></h1><p>The PNAC was published at the height of the presidential election campaign in September 2000, barely 2 months prior to the November 2001 elections. &nbsp;It has become the backbone of US foreign policy. It is the basis for the carrying out a hegemonic global warfare agenda, coupled with the imposition of a &#8220;Unipolar World Order&#8221;.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Victoria Nuland</strong> who sits in the State Department, currently advising President Biden is the spouse of &nbsp;PNAC&#8217;s <strong>Robert&nbsp;Kagan.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!26aU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4aea8925-eff8-4135-b383-d64c1dc01be6_240x182.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!26aU!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4aea8925-eff8-4135-b383-d64c1dc01be6_240x182.jpeg 424w, 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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!26aU!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4aea8925-eff8-4135-b383-d64c1dc01be6_240x182.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!26aU!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4aea8925-eff8-4135-b383-d64c1dc01be6_240x182.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!26aU!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4aea8925-eff8-4135-b383-d64c1dc01be6_240x182.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Why Does the Biden administration require <strong>a $1.3 trillion nuclear weapons program which is slated to increase to $2.0 trillion in 2030?</strong></p><p><strong>Superiority in Nuclear War</strong> is the backbone of the NeoCon agenda as expounded in the PNAC.</p><p>The objective is to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130817122719/http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf">&#8220;Maintain Nuclear Superiority&#8221;</a>, specifically in relation to the US-Russia balance.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5GzR!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8a73a1f-89e6-426d-a0e6-fd96d7abdc1d_3226x1360.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5GzR!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8a73a1f-89e6-426d-a0e6-fd96d7abdc1d_3226x1360.png 424w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h2><strong>The Post War Era&nbsp;</strong></h2><p>The US has&nbsp;conducted numerous wars since the end of what is euphemistically called the post war era:</p><p>Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Iraq,&nbsp;Libya, Syria, Yemen&#8230; and now Ukraine.&nbsp;</p><p>The unspoken objective is <strong>not to &#8220;win the war&#8221;&nbsp;</strong>but to <strong>engineer the destruction of entire countries</strong>, create political and social chaos, with a view to ultimately &#8220;picking up the pieces&#8221; and taking control of the national economies of sovereign nation states.</p><p>This agenda is also conducted through &#8220;regime change&#8221;, &#8220;color revolutions&#8221; and the concurrent demise and criminalization of the state apparatus coupled with &#8220;strong economic medicine&#8221; and the imposition of a soaring dollar denominated debt.</p><p><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/who-won-the-vietnam-war-2/172">That is what happened in Vietnam.</a>&nbsp;The Destruction of an entire country which was then &#8220;privatized&#8221; in the early 1990s:&nbsp;</p><p>&#8220;Vietnam never received war reparations payments from the U.S. for the massive loss of life and destruction, yet an agreement reached in Paris in 1993 required Hanoi to recognize the debts of the defunct Saigon regime of General Thieu. This agreement is in many regards tantamount to obliging Vietnam to compensate Washington for the costs of war.&#8221;</p><p>And now what is ongoing in Ukraine is <strong>the outright privatization of an entire country. &nbsp;</strong></p><h1><strong>The Privatization of Ukraine</strong></h1><p>BlackRock, which is the World&#8217;s largest portfolio investment company together with JPMorgan&nbsp;have &nbsp;come to the rescue of Ukraine.&nbsp;They are slated to set up the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/3d6041fb-5747-4564-9874-691742aa52a2">Ukraine Reconstruction Bank</a>.</p><p>The stated objective is &#8220;to attract billions of dollars in private investment to assist rebuilding projects in a war-torn country&#8221;. (<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/3d6041fb-5747-4564-9874-691742aa52a2">FT</a>, June 19, 2023)</p><p>&#8220;&#8230; BlackRock, JP Morgan and private investors, aim <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/3d6041fb-5747-4564-9874-691742aa52a2">to profit from the country&#8217;s reconstruction</a> along with 400 global companies, including Citi, Sanofi and Philips. &#8230;&nbsp;JP Morgan&#8217;s Stefan Weiler sees a <strong>&#8220;tremendous opportunity&#8221; for private investors.</strong> (Colin Todhunter, Global Research June 28, 2023)</p><p>The Kiev Neo-Nazi regime is a partner in this endeavour. <strong>War is Good for Business.&nbsp;The greater the destruction, the greater the stranglehold on Ukraine </strong>by &#8220;private investors&#8221;:</p><p>&#8220;BlackRock and JPMorgan Chase are helping the Ukrainian government set up a reconstruction bank to steer public seed capital into rebuilding projects that can attract hundreds of billions of dollars in private investment.&#8221; (FT, op cit)</p><p><strong>The Privatization of Ukraine</strong> was launched in November 2022 in liaison &nbsp;with BlackRock&#8217;s &nbsp;consulting company &nbsp;<strong>McKinsey,</strong>&nbsp;a public relations firm which has largely been responsible for co-opting corrupt politicians and officials Worldwide not to mention scientists and intellectuals on behalf of powerful financial interests.&nbsp;</p><p>&#8220;The Kyiv government engaged BlackRock&#8217;s consulting arm in November to determine how best to attract that kind of capital, and then <strong>added JPMorgan in February.</strong> <a href="https://archive.is/o/lrfjL/https://www.ft.com/ukraine">Ukraine</a> president Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced last month that the country was working with the two financial groups and consultants at McKinsey.</p><p>BlackRock and Ukraine&#8217;s Ministry of Economy signed a Memorandum of Understanding in November 2023.</p><p>In late December 2022, <strong>president Zelensky</strong> and BlackRock&#8217;s CEO <strong>Larry Fink</strong> agreed on an investment strategy.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ggoB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffcdfdea4-a81d-4ed1-8213-7955f737caa7_1554x1682.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ggoB!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffcdfdea4-a81d-4ed1-8213-7955f737caa7_1554x1682.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ggoB!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffcdfdea4-a81d-4ed1-8213-7955f737caa7_1554x1682.png 848w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h2><strong>Ukraine Reconstruction:&nbsp;The London Conference Venue</strong></h2><p>Careful Timing (See Timeline Below). <strong>The Prigozhin-Wagner &#8220;Failed Coup&#8221;</strong> (June 23-24, 2023) was initiated on the day following the Ukraine Reconstruction Conference in London hosted&nbsp;by the Kiev Regime and <a href="https://www.royal.uk/news-and-activity/2023-06-21/the-king-hosts-a-reception-ahead-of-the-ukraine-recovery-conference">His Majesty&#8217;s Government on June 21-22, 2023.</a>&nbsp;Is it a coincidence?</p><p>&#8220;The Ukraine Development Fund remains in the planning stages and is not expected to fully launch until the end of <a href="https://archive.is/o/lrfjL/https://www.ft.com/war-in-ukraine">hostilities with Russia</a>. But investors will <strong>have a preview this week at a London conference co-hosted by the British and Ukrainian governments.</strong></p><p>The World Bank <a href="https://archive.is/o/lrfjL/https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2023/03/23/updated-ukraine-recovery-and-reconstruction-needs-assessment">estimated in March</a>&nbsp;that <strong>Ukraine would need $411bn to rebuild after the war,</strong> and recent Russian attacks have driven that figure higher.</p><p>No formal fundraising target has been set but people familiar with the discussions say the fund is seeking to raise low-cost capital from governments, donors and international financial institutions and leverage it to attract between five and 10 times as much private investment.</p><p>BlackRock and JPMorgan are donating their services, although the work will give them an early <strong>look at possible investments in the country</strong>. The assignment also deepens JPMorgan&#8217;s relationship with a longstanding client.</p><p>What Ukraine needed, BlackRock advised, was a development finance bank to find investment opportunities in sectors such as infrastructure, climate and agriculture and make them attractive to pension funds and other long-term investors and lenders. JPMorgan was brought in partly for its debt expertise.</p><p>&#8230;&nbsp;<strong>most investors want to wait for the end of hostilities</strong>. &#8220;The important part is that Ukraine is already thinking ahead,&#8221; Weiler said. &#8220;<strong>When the war is over, they&#8217;re going to want to be ready and start the rebuilding process immediately.</strong>&#8221; (FT, 19 June, 2023, emphasis added)</p><p><strong>King Charles V</strong> hosted a reception at St James&#8217;s Palace on the eve of the Ukraine Recovery Conference. See below.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-M7t!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97399bf8-57e8-4089-a8b9-0ace4a560af2_920x613.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-M7t!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97399bf8-57e8-4089-a8b9-0ace4a560af2_920x613.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-M7t!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97399bf8-57e8-4089-a8b9-0ace4a560af2_920x613.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-M7t!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97399bf8-57e8-4089-a8b9-0ace4a560af2_920x613.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-M7t!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97399bf8-57e8-4089-a8b9-0ace4a560af2_920x613.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-M7t!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97399bf8-57e8-4089-a8b9-0ace4a560af2_920x613.jpeg" width="920" height="613" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/97399bf8-57e8-4089-a8b9-0ace4a560af2_920x613.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:613,&quot;width&quot;:920,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:578307,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-M7t!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97399bf8-57e8-4089-a8b9-0ace4a560af2_920x613.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-M7t!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97399bf8-57e8-4089-a8b9-0ace4a560af2_920x613.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-M7t!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97399bf8-57e8-4089-a8b9-0ace4a560af2_920x613.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-M7t!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97399bf8-57e8-4089-a8b9-0ace4a560af2_920x613.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Guests included&nbsp;the Prime Minister of Ukraine, Mr. Denys Shmyhal; President of European Commission, Dr. Ursula Von der Leyen and&nbsp;His Majesty&#8217;s Ambassador to Ukraine, Dame Melinda Simmons, who presented.&nbsp;Ukrainian civil society leaders. These leaders included Mr. Masi Nayyem [involved in the Neo-Nazi sponsored 2014 EuroMaidan], a decorated Ukrainian veteran and lawyer who received shrapnel wounds to the head on a combat mission during the invasion and now campaigns for veterans rights and support.</p><h1><strong>The Ukraine Privatization Chronology&nbsp;</strong></h1><p>November 2022. Contract with BlackRock and McKinsey, Ukraine Ministry of Economy</p><p>December 2022. Agreement between BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and President Zelensky</p><p>February 2023. JPMorgan Joins the BlackRock Reconstruction Bank Project</p><p>June 18, 2023. Africa Peace Initiative in Saint Petersburg, Statement by President&nbsp;Putin with regard the foiled peace negotiations of March 2022.</p><p>June 21-22, 2023.&nbsp;London conference pertaining to Ukraine Reconstruction Bank co-hosted by the British and Ukrainian governments.</p><p>June 23-24, 2023. The Prigozhin Wagner &#8220;Rebellion&#8221;</p><h2><strong>Concluding Remarks</strong></h2><p>All the major financial and political actors were in attendance at the Ukraine Reconstruction Conference in London.&nbsp;</p><p>Ukraine is in the stranglehold of Big Money. BlackRock and JPMorgan.</p><p>Destruction is the Driving Force behind &#8220;Reconstruction&#8221;.&nbsp;</p><p>Peace as well as &#8220;Cease Fires&#8221; are not &#8220;Good for Business&#8221;.</p><p>&#8220;Ukraine&#8217;s people desperately need a future based on welfare and peace, but in reality Ukraine is being driven towards the kind of huge indebtedness that leads to subservience and dominance.&#8221; (Bharat Dogra, <a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraine-being-pushed-towards-long-term-indebtedness-subservience/5824021">Global Research</a>, June 28, 2023)</p><p>The outcome is mass poverty and social devastation of an entire country, under the guise of &#8220;reconstruction&#8221;.&nbsp;</p><h2>Update:&nbsp;<strong>January 2024</strong></h2><p>In recent developments, slated for early 2024: &nbsp;<strong>the State Property Fund of Ukraine plans to put up about 1,000 assets for privatization</strong></p><p>The plan was outlined at the Six National Forum of SMB entitled</p><p>&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Development of SMB 2023: opportunities, sustainability and recovery&#8221;</strong>&nbsp;(December 2023)</p><p>There are no opportunities: &nbsp;the mechanisms described suggest that these 1000 assets (or more) will be taken over. The small and medium sized businesses including agricultural and industrial SME will be wiped out. <strong>Many of these assets will be bought out at a negative price.&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Vitaliy Koval, Chairman of the State Property Fund of Ukraine, presented the 2024 SPFU plan. <strong>He emphasized that small and medium-sized business will be main beneficiary of this process.</strong></p><p>&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;We think that small and medium-sized business should be in the center of privatization process</strong>.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AYvz!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F54679dcc-74f7-4bda-846a-98b7c3845e5c_1280x960.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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The Forum was held with the support of Switzerland and the Project &#8220;Strengthening of member business associations of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in Ukraine&#8221;, implemented by UNDP in Ukraine.</p><p>According to Vitaliy Koval, in 2024 the Fund plans put up for <strong>privatization about a thousand objects that open</strong> <strong>up new opportunities for business. These assets will be auctioned, ensuring a fair and transparent process.</strong></p><p>The transparent procedure coupled with rigged auctions are wrought with fraud and corruption. It&#8217;s akin to highway robbery:&nbsp;</p><p><strong>He invited business to cooperate in searching for assets for privatization.</strong></p><p><strong>&#8220;We invite you to become Ambassadors in searching for assets for privatization.</strong></p><p><strong>Many cities, towns and villages have dormant assets during 10-15 years. We wait your proposals for privatization and do the best that the way to transparent auction will be the shortest,&#8221; </strong>said Vitaliy Koval. (<a href="https://www.spfu.gov.ua/en/news/10176.html">State Property Fund of Ukraine</a> &nbsp;emphasis added)</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oxymoronic Christian Zionism]]></title><description><![CDATA[13 &#8220;Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.]]></description><link>https://www.tomstakes.org/p/oxymoronic-christian-zionism</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tomstakes.org/p/oxymoronic-christian-zionism</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Terry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2024 10:05:15 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><sup>13&nbsp;</sup>&#8220;Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. <sup>14&nbsp;</sup>For the gate is narrow and the way is constricted that leads to life, and there are few who find it. </em>Matthew 7:13-14</p><p></p><p><strong>Oxymoron - (noun): </strong>a combination of <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contradictory#h1">contradictory</a> or incongruous words (such as <em>cruel kindness</em>); broadly<strong>: </strong>something (such as a concept) that is made up of contradictory or incongruous elements. (Merriam Webster Dictionary - <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oxymoron">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oxymoron</a>). </p><p><a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Zionism">Zionism</a> in its modern usage is not a concept to which the Bible testifies. By testify, I mean what 2 Timothy 3:16-17 clarifies: <em>&#8220;All Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man or woman of God may be fully capable, equipped for every good work.&#8221; </em>The Bible indisputably is the Word of God for the people of God. Who are the people of God? The Bible tells us in the same 2 Timothy passage: the woman or man of God is the person whose life is centered in and seeks to be characterized fully by the truths and promises given in the Holy Scriptures. This is the sine qua non of historical Christianity among the many variants and claims of peoples&#8217; responses to the Gospel of God revealed in Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Jesus was/is a first century Jew who over the centuries Christians affirm was/is the God-Man sent by God the Father and followed in world history by God the Holy Spirit. Jesus, the Messiah, was/is the historical and present spiritual Presence of &#8220;Immanuel&#8221; - &#8220;God With Us,&#8221; as foretold by the Jewish prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 7:14) seven hundred years before the appearance of the God-Man in earth&#8217;s history. Jesus, according to the Bible, is the exclusive fulfillment of the covenantal  promises of God given to historical patriarchs of the God-elected Hebrew tribal group for individuals throughout the world. According to the Holy Scriptures, one&#8217;s acceptance of Jesus, His gospel (&#8220;good news&#8221;), and personal belief by faith,  acceptance, and true confessional following as disciples of Jesus as provided above in Matthew 7 and in Ephesians 2:8 <sup>- </sup><em><sup>&#8220;</sup>For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God,&#8221;</em> is the sole way that is given for salvation from the fallen world, the fallen self, and the fallen life of all who enter into world history. Jesus said: <em>&#8220;I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.&#8221;</em> (John 14:6).</p><p>The exclusivity of Christian discipleship and the simple but sublime truth of what it means to be a disciple of Christ Jesus includes the warning given clarification by the God-Man Himself: the Way to life with Christ Jesus and the Triune God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit is in the narrow way untraveled by the crowds. This doesn&#8217;t mean, of course, that any way of living that is obscure, traveled by few, or with wanton, immoral, or a self-created protocol meets the criteria of discipleship of Jesus. But the Way to the Triune God as a true and faithful disciple of Jesus will be narrow and difficult, completely impossible without faith, to live out by human effort, human means, human identity, human understanding, human affinities, or human wishes. </p><p>This is to say that &#8220;Christian <em>Zionism</em>&#8221; is an oxymoron and a Christian Zionist is a thing that doesn&#8217;t exist. At least in the Holy Scriptures, the Word of God. A Zionist by meaning is a Jew who affirms the desire for a modern Jewish state (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism</a>). It is inconceivable that a man or woman could be both an orthodox Jew in rejection of Jesus as the Messiah and a follower of Christ. If anyone thinks there is a compatibility between being a Christ Jesus-rejecting Jew and a disciple of Jesus Christ, that person needs to spend time contemplating and reading about the Cross - both the history of the crucifixion, the theology of the Cross, and the social and political impact in history of the Cross of Christ. This is to say that the moniker, &#8220;Messianic Jew,&#8221; is also an oxymoron that elevates and separates Jewishness from the <em>goyim</em>, or "Gentiles&#8221; - those who are not a Jew. The early disciples of Christ were mainly Jews. They were not referred to as Messianic Jews; they came to be known as Christians. Is this just a debate over semantics? Yes and more, when one understands that values - social and political, are formed and become a part of, if not constitutive, of social and political practice through time by the &#8216;normalization&#8217; of words and their meaning. This Jewish website, &#8220;Heyalma,&#8221; calls attention to the Cold War emergent myth of a Judeo-Christianity - <a href="https://www.heyalma.com/the-myth-of-judeo-christianity-explained/">https://www.heyalma.com/the-myth-of-judeo-christianity-explained/</a>.</p><p>All of this matters as the genocide of Palestinians continues by Israel under the support and endorsement of the ravenous U.S. Military Industrial Complex and all of the U.S. lettered agencies that are in on the post-WW2 scam of the complete, &#8220;full-spectrum&#8221; institutionalization of the &#8220;free market POP&#8221; - &#8220;Profits Over People.&#8221; POP is the ideology and practices of &#8220;market fundamentalism&#8221;, which was introduced and cheered on in becoming institutionalized in America and the world by the Christian Right, who became the &#8220;Christian Zionists&#8221; who backed Reagan. The Reagan Revolution in the 1980s has undermined and continues to destroy any republicanism still alive in what used to be an American &#8220;democracy.&#8221; For those who aren&#8217;t knowledgeable, &#8220;market fundamentalism&#8221; is another, dressed-up phrase meaning &#8220;legal theft of wealth by central banksters and Wall Street financial crap shooters.&#8221; It&#8217;s not that &#8220;free market&#8221; ideology was never not a part of an American consternation between &#8220;captains of capitalism&#8221; and those committed to more caring communities of economic justice since the nation&#8217;s founding. I think&#8230;I hope Reader, that you have awakened to the fact not just that our government and big business - Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big (fill-in-the blank) has become increasingly corrupt since 9/11. It has and is. But since the &#8220;Reagan Revolution&#8221; and the takeover of American institutions by the Christian and Jewish Zionist neoliberals under the careful and attentive George Bush Sr and his cohorts who migrated to the Bush Jr. administration (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism</a>), American government and big business have made legal, unregulated theft by neoliberalism the lodestar of American ideology, domestically and internationally. Due to the internet, we now have access to sound, accurate, and documented analyses by quite skilled researchers to share the results of their research independent of the controls of the ruling elite so that increasingly, we are finding increasing exposure to true, accurate history and how American government and business leaders have used &#8220;the system&#8221; to enhance and increase their schemes for nationally and internationally stealing wealth, not to mention undermining and essentially destroying any semblance of enforcement of constitutional powers for and by common folk.</p><p>Back to &#8220;Christian Zionism&#8221;&#8230; As a group Christian Zionists, I think, are travelers on the broad way - not on the narrow way described by Jesus in the Scriptures. By championing Israel in its recent and ongoing genocidal rage against others - specifically the non Jews - in this case the Christian and Arabic Palestinians, such would-be disciples of Jesus are denying that for over two millennia the Jews have been and are today anti-Jesus and anti-Christ. The modern state of Israel is not the &#8220;New Israel&#8221; referred to in the New Testament. Modern Israel is not the fulfillment of a restored, promised land of God. The promise of a future, restored land of the New Israel remains to be fulfilled. Christian Zionists will not hasten the Almighty God of Jacob to send Jesus in His second coming to Israel by departing from the narrow way of the Gospel of God by giving a moral pass to Israeli genocide. It is disgusting to witness the Israeli genocide and the meaning of &#8220;Christian&#8221; is bastardized in &#8220;Christian Zionism&#8221; which supports the Jewish genocide of the non-Jewish, Palestinian people. It is ultimate stupidity demonstrated by those who confess allegiance to Christ Jesus by ignoring the moral and theological significance, as well as the clear Biblical teaching of the exclusiveness of the Jesus Way of discipleship, in Israel&#8217;s high crimes against humanity. The Israeli genocide is little different in its moral outrageousness from the Nazis&#8217; holocaust of the Jews. It is a truism for right-believing and right-thinking, intelligible Biblical followers of Christ Jesus, that &#8220;Christian Zionists&#8221; are displaying a great &#8220;falling away&#8221; from historical Christian orthodoxy. By this falling away from historical Christian orthodoxy, they have gone ga-ga and joined &#8220;lock, stock, and barrel&#8221; the world&#8217;s political, elite globalists in their embrace of an Israeli-justified &#8220;moralism&#8221; unhitched to normal, human standards of moral conduct, and tied to the fantasy of a Judeo-Christian&#8220; theologism, functioning surreptitiously to give moral cover to the great crimes against humanity perpetrated by Israel for one or more nefarious aims. Judaism, like Judeo-Christianity, is anti-Christ, and the probability is high, based on a basic understanding of world history since WW2 and in this present generation, that a more powerful regime of those opposed to Christ Jesus can emerge with the support and advocacy of this oxymoronic &#8220;Christian Zionism.&#8221;  My disobedience is that I cannot leave alone reprimanding and disparaging &#8220;Christian Zionists.&#8221; Disregarding Jesus&#8217; admonition to his disciples in Matthew 15, I have troubled myself to criticize and demean the blindness and waywardness of &#8220;Christian Zionist&#8221; from the straight and narrow path of Jesus&#8217; Way.  This is the relevant passage: Matthew 15:12-14 - <em>&#8220;Then the disciples came and said to Him, &#8216;Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this statement?&#8217; But He answered and said, &#8216;Every plant which My heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted. Leave them alone; they are blind guides of blind people. And if a person who is blind guides another who is blind, both will fall into a pit.&#8217;&#8221;</em></p><p>If you are a &#8220;Christian Zionist,&#8221; I implore you to seek and ask for deliverance from your spiritual, theological, social, political, and historical malady and to seek the narrow Way of Christ Jesus. The Israeli genocide is a continuing moral outrage. There is no good thing or theological gloss to what the Israeli state is doing. Criticizing Israeli genocide does not endorse nor negate the moral wrong and evil of Hamas terrorism. Remaining silent to Israeli crimes against Palestinian humanity endorses the evil that showcases itself under some kind of theological and Biblical immunity from God&#8217;s judgement of the Jews&#8217; in their rejection of their Messiah and their consequential spiritual and moral blindness. Conflating some moral high standing to the Israeli crimes against humanity by an equally oxymoronic &#8220;Christian Zionism&#8221; is itself oxymoronic. Amen.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Powers and Change…]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.]]></description><link>https://www.tomstakes.org/p/the-powers-and-change</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tomstakes.org/p/the-powers-and-change</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Terry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 12:19:16 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 1 John 4:1</em></p><p></p><p>My my&#8230; the spotlight of intensive spiritual illumination has been turned onto Meister Trump, the democracy-loving,  anti-globalist, MAGA leading, &#8216;for-the-people&#8217; entrepreneurial politician, who, notwithstanding the 180-degree &#8220;reversals&#8221; against those ideological positions, carries the hopes of so many to rescue American and Western civilization from the subsuming archives of history. Can any one person fulfill such an historical role? </p><p><a href="https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/trump-sold-out-his-base-to-shovel-95-billion-to-ukraine-and-israel/">https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/trump-sold-out-his-base-to-shovel-95-billion-to-ukraine-and-israel/</a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI technology fit for Antichrist...]]></title><description><![CDATA[3 I saw that one of his heads seemed wounded beyond recovery&#8212;but the fatal wound was healed!]]></description><link>https://www.tomstakes.org/p/ai-technology-fit-for-antichrist</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tomstakes.org/p/ai-technology-fit-for-antichrist</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Terry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 21:30:28 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><sup>3&nbsp;</sup>I saw that one of his heads seemed wounded beyond recovery&#8212;but the fatal wound was healed! All the world marveled at this miracle and followed the Creature in awe. </em>Revelation 13:3<em> (The Living Bible </em>trans.<em>)</em></p><p><em><sup>3-4&nbsp;</sup>One of the Beast&#8217;s heads looked as if it had been struck a deathblow, and then healed. The whole earth was agog, gaping at the Beast. They worshiped the Dragon who gave the Beast authority, and they worshiped the Beast, exclaiming, &#8220;There&#8217;s never been anything like the Beast! No one would dare go to war with the Beast!&#8221; </em>Revelation 13:3-4 (<em>The Message</em> trans.)</p><p><em><sup>3&nbsp;</sup>And one of his heads seemed to have a deadly wound. But his death stroke was healed; and the whole earth went after the beast in amazement and admiration. </em>Revelation 13:3 (<em>The Amplified Bible</em>, Classic edition trans.)</p><p><a href="https://www.brighteon.com/cc6fcf48-eb0a-4207-a372-76caf459a468">Mike Adams, aka Health Ranger, on Brighteon and Microsoft's AI technology</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grasping Zionism more firmly while shorning charges of antisemitism...]]></title><description><![CDATA[You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.]]></description><link>https://www.tomstakes.org/p/grasping-zionism-more-firmly-while</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tomstakes.org/p/grasping-zionism-more-firmly-while</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Terry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2024 12:17:31 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><em>You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. </em>John 8:32</p><p></p><p>How has Zionism of the modern state of Israel been an influence in America and World History in the last 60 years? </p><p>Watch the documentary:  <a href="https://rumble.com/v4n9nmk-israels-second-911-how-zionism-conquered-jfk-america-and-palestine.html">"Israel's Second 9/11: How Zionism Conquered JFK, America, and Palestine</a>&#8221;</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another Piece of the Beast System Revealed… in Your Face…on Netflix]]></title><description><![CDATA[Be sober-minded; be watchful.]]></description><link>https://www.tomstakes.org/p/another-piece-of-the-beast-system</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tomstakes.org/p/another-piece-of-the-beast-system</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Terry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2024 01:59:34 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 1 Peter 5:8</em></p><p></p><p>Watch &#8220;American Conspiracies: The Octopus Murders&#8221; on Netflix. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gift and Grace of the Sole Metanarrative for Followers of Christ Jesus]]></title><description><![CDATA[A revision to an earlier post...]]></description><link>https://www.tomstakes.org/p/the-gift-and-grace-of-the-sole-metanarrative</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tomstakes.org/p/the-gift-and-grace-of-the-sole-metanarrative</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Terry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:32:29 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><sup>4&nbsp;</sup>&#8220;Hear, Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one! <sup>5&nbsp;</sup>And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. <sup>6&nbsp;</sup>These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. <sup>7&nbsp;</sup>And you shall repeat them diligently to your sons and speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk on the road, when you lie down, and when you get up. <sup>8&nbsp;</sup>You shall also tie them as a sign to your hand, and they shall be as frontlets on your forehead. <sup>9&nbsp;</sup>You shall also write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. </em>Deuteronomy 6:4-9</p><p></p><p>Note: My previous post with this title has been removed and revised in this post. The previous post was hurriedly published in an unfinished condition and did not present my views clearly or accurately. My apology to readers.    </p><p>This article got my attention (click link): <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-american-capitalism-mutate-into-american-corporatism/">&#8220;How Did American Capitalism Mutate Into American Corporatism?&#8221;</a> The article gives a very accurate explanation of the main force behind the American flocking to the European-based World Economic Forum (though Harvard University was its place of origin), to the United Nations, and to the World Health Organization &#8211; all based in Geneva. The American flock includes the U.S. elite political class, U.S. corporations, U.S. banks, Wall Street and U.S. financial organizations, U.S. manufacturing organizations, Big Tech, Big Pharma, etc., all by the their CEOs and Boards of Directors with their institutional and wealthy elite stockholders in tow. As a &#8220;narrative,&#8221; the article offers an explanation of the transition from one form of American political-economy to another so as to better understand the world we live in today.</p><p>What has this to do with the topic of &#8220;metanarrative&#8221;? &nbsp;What&#8217;s more, what&#8217;s this about gift and grace in regard to the preeminent metanarrative given to Christ-followers in the Deuteronomy passage?</p><p>The go-to site for quick and to-the-point definitions, Wikipedia <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metanarrative">defines</a> metanarrative as &#8220;a grand narrative&#8230; about historical meaning, experience, or knowledge, which offers a society legitimation through anticipated completion of a (as yet unrealized) master idea.&#8221; Of course, there are exceptions that lead to any number of rabbit holes of more refined delineation of terms, meaning, context, and specialization. An enticing first step away from the meaning of the article about the American political-economy and about why Americans who determine the political-economy for all of us &#8211; the elite political class and the elite class of corporate leaders, is to consider the article&#8217;s explanation as having to do with different modes of perception of reality, such as delineation between modernism and post-modernism. But, here is where discretion is the better part of valor. Colossians 2:8 becomes an important warning when thinking about the meaning of the term &#8220;metanarrative.&#8221; The Biblical warning is this: <em>See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits<sup>[</sup><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians%202&amp;version=ESV#fen-ESV-29486a"><sup>a</sup></a><sup>]</sup> of the world, and not according to Christ.</em></p><p>The metanarrative for the Christ-follower is essentialized in the <a href="https://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/the-nicene-creed">Nicene Creed</a>. This early Church creed of the Christian faith gives the essentials of the sole metanarrative about the Christian&#8217;s identity, the Christ-follower&#8217;s place and position in the world, and the sole framework by which Christ-followers discern all things including truth from error. Does this mean that a discussion about political-economy and decisions and actions by leaders are unimportant? No, but as followers of the Lord Jesus, we must be cautious and discerning about how and why we discuss the things of the world. That caution and discernment should make a thoughtful Christian wary of discussing the things we observe and seek to understand without reference to our sole metanarrative.</p><p>Hence, what are some reasons why American political and business leaders have flocked to the World Economic Forum - an organization based in Europe that embraces those extreme leftist notions that are contestable and debatable by scholars, scientists, and other intellectuals worldwide? There are many and varied. A few are these:</p><p>&#183;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Climate change &#8211; the WEF embraces climate change as caused by humankind&#8217;s industrial and technical progress &#8211; the very means which have delivered the benefits of global liberal-capitalism to more people in the world than ever before. The problems and contradictions of global capitalism lie not in the moral use of its world ordering, but in the ignored corruption and refusal to address the contradictions for the benefit of all, if not the many and to regulate and restrain the few who take unfaird and illegal advantage of the contradictions.</p><p>&#183;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Social control of the global population through Central Banks &#8211; the WEF advocates and participates in supporting the development of various social-financial models to institutionalize new controls based on a social credit system similar if not equivalent to the Chinese social credit system. The Chinese social credit system operates by requiring single individual compliance to the establishment&#8217;s requirements &#8211; political, economic, and social, in order to be able to legally have access to currency to transact for good and services for survival and entertainment. The political-economic entity of the state becomes the final authority and arbiter of an individual&#8217;s life in her private and public existence. In this new world order, the global population can be controlled and the number of people allowed to exist globally and in what degree of luxury or deprivation can be managed by a central power. Individual autonomy will be reduced to individual willingness to comply or to not comply and suffer the consequences. The extreme leftist WEF-ers have determined it is better to defend and protect their privileges than work to improve and correct the global system. Because the means of technocratic control seem apparently at hand, it is much easier to do that which insures their privileges than work to solve looming issues. </p><p>&#183;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The New Political-Economic order &#8211; the WEF seeks to influence and bring about a new world order by the agreement and compliance of the leading political and business leaders in all nations throughout the world. Why do the global political and business leaders want this system? What is the incentive for them? It seems clear that the incentive for elite political and business leaders is that they have accepted the extreme left&#8217;s beliefs that the world &#8211; every aspect of the connected world, must be managed by elite leaders who have been elevated to their positions of rank and privilege by &#8220;fate&#8221; to use technology and political science to determine what inputs will derive the best outputs to protect their privileges while construction new classes in the population&#8230; classes that protects and insures their privileges while allowing the parsing out sparingly certain minimal privileges to others as neccessary.</p><p>&#183;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Utopian philosophy as the foundation of the new world order &#8211; Due to the imagined and partially successful use and implementation of technocracy over the last 30 years combined with a philosophy of positivist utopianism, which asserts that humans can create and sustain a near perfect existence for &#8220;some&#8221; and a marginally acceptable existence for the remaining &#8220;many&#8221; on spaceship &#8220;Earth,&#8221; the exploitation of the planet&#8217;s natural resources and the exponentially increasing human population demand that the new world order be established and operational by 2030. The alternative is that we, the human species on Earth, will find that by our inaction we have put the entire planet in a diminishing point of no return &#8211; the problems we, as a species, face will grow beyond our ability to manage with the result that we as a species face extermination from want and incapacities and the entire world will face a slow but unimagined turmoil of degradation and destabilization.</p><p>This is one interpretation of why the political and business elite are clamoring for the changed world order of the WEF. The big caveat of this is that individually, each self-promoted and entrepreneurial elite leader coveting the rising hegemony of the WEF has determined that she or he will be included in the small group of the privileged class &#8211; they will be the new aristocrats in new world feudalism of technocracy.</p><p>The WEF narrative will continue to grow in influence, though some rhetorical tweaks can be expected in order to marginalize serious objections that have to be enfolded into the grand narrative of the new world order. In the crucial stages of disbursement and acceptance, and while the mass population still has the power to prevent the implementation from being established, the WEF grand narrative will be streamlined to obfuscate, confuse, deceive, and outright lie as is being done today to make the WEF metanarrative established as the new world order. &nbsp;</p><p>Our sole grand narrative &#8211; our only metanarrative is the Old Testament <em><a href="https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/705353/jewish/The-Shema.htm">shema</a> </em>coupled with the<em> </em>New Testament testimony that Israel&#8217;s and the world&#8217;s Messiah has come and will come again, as it is written in John 3:16 - <em>For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life</em>. This sole metanarrative is the gift and grace for the believer and follower of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.</p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch Tucker-Benz interview on X]]></title><description><![CDATA[Since Google-owned YouTube removed the Tucker-Mike Benz interview I posted earlier, here is the link to the interview on X.]]></description><link>https://www.tomstakes.org/p/watch-tucker-benz-interview-on-x</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tomstakes.org/p/watch-tucker-benz-interview-on-x</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Terry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2024 21:30:48 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since Google-owned YouTube removed the Tucker-Mike Benz interview I posted earlier, here is the link to the interview on X. </p><p><a href="https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1758529993280205039?s=20">https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1758529993280205039?s=20</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>