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Thursday, July 31, 2025
CSW.
Psalm 12 - Not Too Dissimilar To Our World Today.
Psalm 12.
For the director of music. According to sheminith.[b] A psalm of David.
1 Help, Lord, for no one is faithful anymore;
those who are loyal have vanished from the human race.
2 Everyone lies to their neighbor;
they flatter with their lips
but harbor deception in their hearts.
3 May the Lord silence all flattering lips
and every boastful tongue—
4 those who say,
“By our tongues we will prevail;
our own lips will defend us—who is lord over us?”
5 “Because the poor are plundered and the needy groan,
I will now arise,” says the Lord.
“I will protect them from those who malign them.”
6 And the words of the Lord are flawless,
like silver purified in a crucible,
like gold[c] refined seven times.
7 You, Lord, will keep the needy safe
and will protect us forever from the wicked,
8 who freely strut about
when what is vile is honored by the human race.
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A Sublimely Accurate Assessment of Our Farcical, Leftist Police Force.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: The Epping migrant fiasco has revealed a troubling truth about our country. I have warned about this for years... now it can no longer be denied.
Correct.
Dr David Musgrove said the 230-foot long artefact was most likely woven in Kent rather than France and was created using an embroidery technique, meaning it is not a tapestry.
I Make No Comment.
Half of Britons Say Islam Incompatible With National Values, Plurality Say Muslim Migration Has Negative Impact.
Getty ImagesLess than a quarter of Britons think Muslim migration is a net positive to the United Kingdom and a clear majority say Islam is not compatible with British values, a study finds.
Britons are sceptical on the contribution of Muslim-faith migrants to the United Kingdom compared to arrivals from other faith groups, a survey conducted by major pollster YouGov finds. Among the key findings are that 41 per cent of respondents say Muslim immigrants have a negative impact on the United Kingdom while only 24 per cent say they have an overall positive effect.
While no faith-based migrant group was said to be positive overall, there are some major differentials. Just seven per cent called Christian migrants negative, while Jewish, Sikh, and Hindu arrivals enjoyed a rough parity on also low figures between 13 and 15 per cent.
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
EU Alert.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2084973/eu-make-britain-pay-130bn-military-pact?int_source=nba
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Why So Much Silence From Muslim Clerics Over This Widespread Butchery?
'Systematically slaughtered': Oklahoma student lost 34 family members in a Christian massacre; pregnant woman's stomach cut open.
This image grab made from an AFPTV video taken in Maiyanga village, in Bokkos local government, on December 27, 2023, shows families burying in a mass grave their relatives killed in deadly attacks conducted by armed groups in Nigeria's central Plateau State. The death toll from a series of attacks on villages in central Nigeria has climbed to almost 200, local authorities said on December 27, 2023, as survivors began to bury the dead. Armed groups launched attacks between December 23, 2023, and December 26, 2023, in Nigeria's Plateau State, a region plagued for several years by religious and ethnic tensions. | KIM MASARA/AFPTV/AFP via Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — Barr Franc Utoo, a native of Nigeria's Benue state and a graduate student at the University of Central Oklahoma, awoke to several missed calls one morning last month.
Fulani terrorists murdered 34 members of his immediate family during the June 13-14 Yelewata Massacre, including his pregnant aunt, by slicing open her belly and removing her twin unborn children.
The extremists who carried out the massacre "butchered" his aunt, he said, who had been pregnant with twins at the time of her death. The radicals pierced her belly and removed the twins, killing Utoo's aunt and her unborn children.
The Nigerian, who comes from a family of Catholics, also said his sister was killed during the massacre. Utoo said his sister, a devout Catholic and an altar server, had her brain "peeled out."
One of Utoo's friends, who had just graduated after studying pharmacy for seven years, arrived at the village on the same day that the killing began. The Fulani terrorists killed Utoo's friend by burning him to death in his room during their rampage, where they torched buildings and burned people alive.
As Utoo noted, the village is "sandwiched" by two state capitals and is located near several military bases. However, the attack lasted around four hours without interruption. The Yelewata native believes this is a sign of what he calls the Nigerian government's complicity in Christian persecution.
A May intelligence memo from Nigeria's Department of State Security reportedly even foreshadowed a planned assault by Fulani militias in Benue communities such as Yelewata. However, the Nigerian military provided no defense to Yelewata.
"The Nigerian government, despite its pronouncement, has demonstrably failed to defend us," Utoo said. "Time and again, when our villages are attacked, help is either non-existent or deliberately arrives too late."
"Worse, when our young men, driven by desperation to protect their families, organize themselves in self-defense, they are often met not with support, but with arrest and detention by the very authorities who should be protecting them, leaving our communities even more vulnerable."
"This is not just neglect," Utoo asserted. "It is an active disarming of the victims."
Advocates have spoken out for years on the rising trend of what they say are genocide-like attacks on predominantly Christian farming communities in Nigeria's Middle Belt states carried out by armed and radicalized Fulani militias. Thousands have been killed in recent years, and many more have been displaced from their communities and farms.
Christian persecution watchdog organizations like Open Doors and ADF International note that more Christians are being killed in Nigeria each year than in all other countries combined.
Local leaders have pushed back on the Nigerian government's narrative that increasing attacks are part of decades-old farmer-herder clashes and not sectarian violence.
Last month, James Ortese Iorzua Ayatse, paramount ruler of the Tiv tribe, said during an event attended by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu that attacks like the one in Yelwata are not communal conflicts.
"It's not herders-farmers clashes, not communal clashes or reprisal attacks," Ayatse said, according to outlet TruthNigeria. "It is a calculated, well-planned, full-scale genocidal invasion and land-grabbing campaign by herder terrorists and bandits."
Pope Leo XIV acknowledged the Yelwata attack, saying in an Angelus message he is praying for those killed in "a terrible massacre," most of whom were "sheltered by the local Catholic mission." Leo prayed for "rural Christian communities of the Benue State who have been relentless victims of violence."
In 2020, the U.S. government added Nigeria to the Countries of Particular Concern list during the final year of President Donald Trump's first term. During the first year of the Biden administration, the State Department removed Nigeria's CPC label to the dismay of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. There is some hope that Nigeria could be re-added to the CPC list with Trump back in the White House.
Utoo shared several recommendations that he believes will protect Nigerian Christians from persecution and genocide. He called on the U.S State Department to redesignate Nigeria as a CPC and called for the prosecution of terrorist sponsors through the International Criminal Court "for crimes against humanity." The sponsors of Fulani extremists, according to Utoo, are well-known to the United States and Nigeria.
"This is not merely about justice for the past; it is also about dismantling the machinery of terror that continues to threaten our existence," Utoo said.
"My people are resilient, we are resourceful, but we are also systematically slaughtered," he added. "We are not asking for an army to fight our battles, but for the right to protect our lives, our families and our faith in the face of an existential threat."
"The price of continued inaction, of polite diplomacy that ignores the brutal reality on the ground, will be paid in Christian blood," the Yelewata native warned. CP.
One More ISIS Atrocity!
ISIS horror as 43 Christians slaughtered in savage attack on church - nine children dead.
The attackers wielded machetes and guns, as they ran amok and mowed down the defenceless worshippers.
ISIS has claimed responsibility for a horror attack on worshippers at a Catholic church on Sunday. The attack left at least 43 people dead, including 19 women, 15 men and nine children.
The worshippers were taking part in a night vigil at a church in the town of Komanda, in north-easternDemocratic Republic of Congo. The attackers wielded machetes and guns, as they ran amok and mowed down the defenceless worshippers. Several houses and shops were set alight, and many people were unaccounted for following the terrifying ordeal.
Who Are The Blob?
Who are ‘the blob’?
Liz Truss calls them the ‘deep state’, Dominic Cummings ‘the blob’ and for Sue Gray they are simply former colleagues. But most of the public – and indeed, most of the political class – know very little about them at all.
Permanent secretaries and directors general, the two most senior rungs of the civil service, wield substantial power and influence. This is not shadowy or improper, but their job. When ministers make a decision, they usually do so on the basis of advice shaped by their department’s top officials. When civil servants have concerns about the propriety of a task, it is senior officials who guide them. And permanent secretaries are directly accountable to parliament for the money departments spend.
Too few top officials are hired directly from outside government.
But who are these people? How did they rise to the top of the civil service? How do they affect how government works? At the Institute for Government, with Korn Ferry, a consultancy, we’ve been researching these questions.
Some of our findings confirm stereotypes about Whitehall. Twenty-three per cent of top officials studied a Stem subject at undergraduate level, compared to 44 per cent of total UK graduates. Ministers (and Stem-educated officials) are often critical of the poor quantitative capability at the top of the civil service; someone we interviewed for this project, who was recruited into the civil service from business, even said they ‘came from a numerate industry into one which is not’.
Over half (52 per cent) of top officials went to Oxbridge. Oxford and Cambridge are two of the world’s elite universities and it is in many ways reassuring that lots of the people helping to run the country went there. But we also found evidence that the civil service values ‘accents not achievements’, with recruitment processes and office politics easier to navigate for officials from more privileged backgrounds. If officials are promoted because of their background, not their performance, that is a problem.
The leaked email that blows apart the BBC’s impartiality claims over Gaza
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Too few top officials are hired directly from outside government. It makes sense for most permanent secretaries to be promoted from within – they are at the crucible of the unusual civil service-ministerial relationship and need to understand parliament and how policymaking in Whitehall works. Appointments made directly to these jobs have often failed. But more directors general should be externally recruited. At a recent event we hosted at the Institute for Government, Gareth Davies, the permanent secretary at the Department for Business and Trade, described external recruits as ‘higher risk, higher reward’. Perhaps the civil service should take the risk.
Ministers and the country deserve the very best senior officials. Much of the present cohort is effective and the way they are managed has improved over the last decade. John Glen, minister for the Cabinet Office, recently announced further welcome reforms such as establishing senior specialist roles, which don’t require experts to have management responsibility to hold senior posts. More of these reforms are needed.
For one, the civil service has a cautious and outdated interpretation of its legal obligation of ‘open, fair and meritocratic’ recruitment. The appointment process is too formal and light-touch, the centrepiece being a single panel interview. That diverges sharply from the private sector, where candidates might have 15 interviews – some informal – so the organisation properly gets to know candidates and has a deep understanding of their strengths and weaknesses.
Second, ministers should get more involved in the recruitment of senior officials. Under the current rules they have more opportunities to shape recruitment decisions than many of them realise, including being able to ask a selection panel to change their mind at the conclusion of a process. But too often they miss their chance to be involved, only to complain about the candidate who is hired.
Finally, as a country we need a stronger culture of contributing to government. Ministers publicly denigrating the civil service is not helpful. But neither is the civil service’s reluctance to make a compelling case for why it should be a destination for the country’s best talent. A full-throated communications campaign, impartially explaining why a stint in the civil service is valuable, would be welcome.
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Franklin Graham preached in Glasgow, launches new fund to defend religious freedom in the UK. Staff writer Franklin Graham preaching at ...
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8729962/Quango-bosses-double-their-pay.html Good work, 'Dave'!
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