ISRAEL - Beware of terrorists bearing gifts. Compassionate goals and unrelenting war make for a complex mix. While freeing Hamas’s October 7 victims is laudable, there are right and wrong ways to do so. There are costs as well as benefits. Here, Hamas has won a significant victory. Whether the deal sets a definitively negative precedent for Israel remains unclear, but it casts doubt on whether it will attain its legitimate goal of eliminating Hamas’s terrorist threat.
ANTARCTICA - One of the world’s largest icebergs is drifting beyond Antarctic waters, after being grounded for more than three decades, according to the British Antarctic Survey. The iceberg, known as A23a, split from the Antarctic’s Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986. But it became stuck to the ocean floor and had remained for many years in the Weddell Sea. Not any more. Recent satellite images reveal that the iceberg, weighing nearly a trillion metric tonnes, is now drifting quickly past the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, aided by strong winds and currents. The iceberg is about three times the size of New York City and more than twice the size of Greater London, measuring about 4,000 sq km (1,500 square miles).
UNITED NATIONS - Rules for thee, but not for me! Every year, the UN hosts a climate conference where they discuss how to fight climate change. Of course, they lecture us on how we need to be more green… But here’s the ironic part: The most recent UN climate conference may have caused the most pollution ever! Over 400 private jets were used to fly to this conference. Private jets, especially that many, pollute far more than commercial airlines. Also, why are these people flying in private jets? Are they too good to sit and fly with the rest of us? Shouldn’t they practice what they preach? By flying private, they’re adding more to their carbon footprint than if they had flown commercial. The hypocrisy! Here’s the reality: If these folks were truly concerned about the climate, they would be practising what they’re preaching. The fact that they’re being hypocrites should raise a lot of questions!
NEW ZEALAND - New Zealand’s Conservative PM Christopher Luxon vows to cut taxes, roll back citizen’s gun restrictions, revert oil and gas exploration ban. The world is starting to get it ‘right’. In another relevant development in the worldwide realignment to the right, the Conservative New Zealand’s National Party finally sealed agreement on a new three-party coalition government. This took drawn-out negotiations over ministerial roles and policies – including Indigenous rights, tax cuts and changes at the central bank. The centre-right Nationals, led by incoming Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, will return to power alongside the populist New Zealand First party and libertarian ACT New Zealand. This comes after six long years of rule by governments led by the left-leaning, fiercely Globalist Labour Party.
THE FAROE ISLANDS - Historically, it was overfishing that hurt the much-prized fish – but now rising ocean temperatures are inhibiting the fish’s ability to produce codlings at all. Guðrún Bjarnadóttir Bech sings to herself while she sorts through baby fish with a pair of tweezers. “Ding! Ding! Ding!” she suddenly bursts out. “That’s a plaice,” she says – her reaction testament to how few she sees. It is 2021 and Bech is working onboard the Jákup Sverri, a Faroese marine research ship that’s trawling for juvenile fish around the Faroe Islands in the north Atlantic to assess the state of populations including haddock, sand eel and Norwegian pout.
EUROPE - Starting in 2015, most European countries began implementing frankly suicidal immigration policies. In the deluge that followed, millions of people flocked unchecked to European countries – and less than a decade later, their societies find themselves in a situation of unmitigated disaster. It is, therefore, no surprise that we are now witnessing a string of recent political victories that have led rightwing populist and nationalist parties to power or preeminence across Europe.
RUSSIA - Western sanctions have so far failed to halt Russia’s economic growth, which is now projected to outpace that of the Eurozone, the Guardian reported on Thursday, citing investment firm Amundi. According to the company’s forecast, Russia’s gross domestic product (GDP) will grow by 1.5% in 2024. In contrast, the Eurozone economy is set to expand by mere 0.5% next year, according to Amundi, Europe’s largest fund manager in terms of assets. “It means that the United States, Europe, Japan, Australia – the major developed countries – are unable to sanction a country effectively… We can deplore it, but it’s a reality,” Amundi CIO Vincent Mortier said at a news conference in Paris.
USA - The Disney Grooming Syndicate’s annual SEC report tried to bury its foundational problems in the word salad of all word salads. Thankfully, That Park Place saw right through it. The key takeaway from the report is that Disney, as required by law in these filings, is warning investors that its social goals are more important than profits. “There is in such things a statement of the various ‘Risk factors’ the company may encounter,” explains That Park Place, “all in the obligatory legal way to avoid people later saying ‘You never warned us about this!!’” In other words, in this annual report, Disney must warn stockholders and potential stockholders of the risks these investors are accepting if they hold or choose to purchase Disney’s ailing stock.
AUSTRALIA - Rats have taken over the fishing village in Queensland in northeastern Australia, climbing on boats, chewing through cars and homes, and devouring crops, according to the reports in the local media. Thousands of dead rodents have also been filmed washed ashore on the beaches in the area. The endemic long-haired rats have been arriving in Karumba in huge numbers from the south using waterways for “a few weeks” now, local resident Jon Jensen told broadcaster Nine News on Wednesday. The residents of the village of some 500 have been using bait and traps in an attempt to get the infestation under control. They’ve been also helped by predators, including wedge-tailed eagles and the whistling kites, who have been feasting on the rats so that “they can barely get off the ground because they've got their guts full,” Jensen said.
USA – They get government to pay them to suck co2 out of the air, turn around and sell it back to people so they can grow crops. BlackRock invests $550 Million in world's largest direct air capture plant, that absorbs 500,000 tons of CO2 per year. A full grown tree absorbs around 20kg/yr, so for 500k tons, we’d need 25 million trees, which would need a forest space of 250 square km (1000 trees/hectare). Knowing that the cost of tree planting is around 20 cents, a 250 sq km forestation would cost $5 million. All this while producing 2.7 million tons of oxygen. So why again are they building those [direct air capture plants]?
USA - House Speaker Mike Johnson says his favorite Bible passage is a psalm. During an interview last month with The Daily Signal, Johnson, who was elected Speaker on October 25, discussed how his Christian faith shapes his politics. He also spoke about the importance of treating opponents with dignity and respect while holding to the truth.
USA - Biblical cycle timing expert and geopolitical/financial analyst Bo Polny contends we are close to some very big financial events that will happen by the end of this year and into the next. A stock market crash will happen by the end of 2023 followed by a bond market crash and dollar crash that will be “horrifying and historic.”
NETHERLANDS - Right wing nationalist Geert Wilders has won a 'monster victory' in the general election in the Netherlands sending shockwaves around the nation and the rest of Europe. The 60-year-old heads up the Party for Freedom (PVV), which ran on an anti-immigration and anti-Islam platform, taking 37 seats in the election - more than any other party. The result, which more than doubled his party's previous share, puts Wilders - described as the 'Dutch Trump' - in a favourable position for upcoming coalition talks with the roughly half-dozen other parties that hold a significant number of seats.
USA - There’s a popular meme that originates with an episode of “SpongeBob SquarePants” in which a previously beaten-up individual once again is surrounded by angry townsfolk. As they close in, one attacker shakes his fist and shouts, “How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?” Target Corp, the popular American department store chain, may be in for another round of lessons in the consequences of annoying its consumers with “Pride” merchandising. With the Christmas season approaching quickly, Target has a special gift for Americans: a woke Christmas. Shoppers can expect to see “gay Santas and LGBTQ-themed nutcrackers” on Target’s shelves of this season, the Washington Examiner reported.
USA - James Tour, PhD, is a synthetic organic chemist at Rice University. He has about 650 research publications and over 200 patents. In 2015, he was inducted into the National Academy of Inventors. In 2014, he was named among the 50 most influential scientists in the world, as well as “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds.” In 2013, he was named “Scientist of the Year” by R&D Magazine. Recently, Dr Tour issued a 60-day public challenge to the 10 top origin-of-life researchers, by name. His challenge was that he would take down all of his public material, which exposed the fallacies of the origins-of-life explanations used by evolutionists, if they could answer just one of the five questions presented, just one. Now, why was this 60-day challenge a significant event, which should have been covered by the national media?
“Just what is an APOSTLE?”
Today we find the Church of God in a “wilderness of religious confusion!”
The confusion is not merely around the Church – within the religions of the world outside – but WITHIN the very heart of The True Church itself!
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