Hezbollah targets Nazareth in rocket attacks; fires break out: 'Threatening countless holy places'.
Friday, October 04, 2024
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Truly Appalling! Heroin Dealer Escapes Prison.
NEW A heroin dealer caught brazenly selling drugs and dancing with cash under a CCTV camera dodged prison after a judge told him 'you were not very good at it'. Entison Dimitri, 35, was captured dealing cocaine and heroin out the back of his black Volkswagen Polo in February by a casino's security camera in Peterborough. The footage showed Dimitri skipping and jiving after making sales to users and collecting more wraps from his motor. But despite the clear flouting of the law, a judge at Cambridge Crown Court handed him a suspended sentence, saying: 'Having watched the CCTV you were somewhat naïve given the fact that you were dealing drugs in full view of the CCTV. DM.
I Sincerely Doubt It!
The Hamas Broadcasting Corporation.
Another report lays out the BBC's malevolence towards Israel. Will it ever listen?
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The First Evangelicals.
The story of England's first evangelical movement.
(Photo: Getty/iStock)The Lollards were England's first evangelicals. This is the story ...
John Wycliffe
In the mid-fourteenth century John Wycliffe (c1324-1384), who was a dean at Oxford University, protested against the abuses of the Established Church.
Wycliffe protested against many of the abuses and corruption of the organised Church. At that time the Catholic Church used Latin for the services and used the Latin Bible. It was basically a good translation but few people, including many of the priests, knew Latin well.
The Church was a series of rituals and ceremonies which most people did out of duty. The gospel was there but often lost under layers of tradition, corrupt practices, complications and superstitions, mixed up with politics. Instead John Wycliffe emphasised personal faith and a simpler form of religion, with priests living in poverty.
Wycliffe was himself a priest who wanted to see the Church radically reformed, and he believed that they should use English instead of Latin. His quarrel was not with faith itself. He was a strong Christian who emphasised personal faith based upon the Bible, but he was opposed to the errors of man-made organised religion.
In 1368, Wycliffe moved from Oxford to Bucks when he became rector of Ludgershall, near Aylesbury. He was there until 1374, when he became a priest at Lutterworth, in Leicestershire, where he stayed until he died in 1384.
Wycliffe Bible
Wycliffe and his followers translated the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English, which was completed about 1382, and went through various revisions. This was the first complete Bible in English, and it opened up the Scriptures to ordinary people. This was before the printing press came to England, and parts were copied by hand and distributed widely.
The Lollards
Many people supported Wycliffe's ideas which spread across England. Some people became itinerant preachers. They went in pairs to towns and villages, telling people the good news (gospel) about Jesus, and doing so in English. These were known as the Lollards. They were particularly numerous in the West Country, the Chilterns, the East Midlands and East Anglia. They were mainly in England, but there were also some in Scotland.
Lollards met without a priest and were mainly a lay movement although some priests were also Lollards. They prayed in English and read the Bible in English instead of Latin, and held meetings outside a consecrated building. People gathered in each other's homes, to pray and read the Bible in English. They were educated and peaceful people. CT.
Sexual Guidance and Marriage.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%207&version=NIV
Thursday, October 03, 2024
We Must Never Forget The Wonders Done By The Disciples. Where Are Those Wonders In Our Churches, Today?
4) Those [disciples] who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went. 5) Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Messiah there. 6) When the crowds heard Philip and saw the signs he performed, they all paid close attention to what he said. 7) For with shrieks, impure spirits came out of many, and many who were paralyzed or lame were healed. 8) So there was great joy in that city. Acts 8.
Funny - I Have Zero Police Experience and Yet, I Knew All of This At The Time!
Police Were too Slow to Arrest ‘Jihad’ Protesters at Weekly Palestine Rallies, Says Top Cop
Police admitted being too slow to arrest at Palestine protests that followed the October terror attacks on Israel and would act quicker now.
Leftists and Tory 'Wets' Have Done This. The Left Malevolently: Tories By Being Dopey!
Young people will not fight to save a country they’ve been taught to hate.
The collapse in pride in our history will have serious consequences.
SIMON HEFFER8 September 2024 • 2:00pm
The British Social Attitudes Survey has reported that we are less proud to be British than we were a decade ago. In one or two respects, the decline is alarmingly steep, with only 64 per cent of respondents being proud of our history now compared with 86 per cent a decade ago.
Sir John Curtice, the renowned psephologist who is also connected to the Survey, said with his customary air of infallibility on the BBC last Tuesday that this was because we are now more aware of slavery. Perhaps we also ought to be more aware that we abolished it some time before other great nations, and that one struggles to find any Briton who wants to bring it back.
Sadly, a combination of some of our more politically motivated universities and the BBC, which talks of little else, appears to have left the public thinking that we have the most loathsome past imaginable. It is a shame that no-one is left who fought on the Somme, and hardly anyone who saw Belsen at first hand when we liberated it, to put them right on what our past and its values really were like.
That, too, raises a serious question. We must all hope that we are not called upon again to fight a total war against a vicious enemy posing an existentialist threat to us and our way of life. But when one notes the malevolence and proximity of Vladimir Putin, the interference of Iran across the Middle East, the opportunism of China in imposing its values on much of the world, and our signal inability to prepare for it by increasing our defence budget to a sensible level, who would like to put money on our people not being called upon again, as twice in the 20th century, to save our country?
And what is the chance of their willingly doing that if they have been brought up to despise it?
Labour Has Conned Pensioners.
Labour has conned pensioners.
The Chancellor’s suggestion that retirees are better off is a straight up lie
BEN WILKINSONHEAD OF MONEY10 September 2024 • 9:36am
The state pension will rise by less than £9 a week next year.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is keen to stress that this more than makes up for her ill-judged decision to pull winter fuel payments from millions of elderly people.
Sir Keir Starmer will surely do the same when he attempts to defend off a rebellion from his uneasy MPs in a showdown in Parliament today.
Yet this is a straight-up lie that Labour cannot be allowed to get away with. The triple lock is in place purely to ensure that those who rely solely on the state pension can keep up with the rising standard of living.
It’s nonsense for the Chancellor to suggest that pensioners will be £1,700 better off under Labour because in real terms they have already lost as much as £300.
Labour’s move to restrict winter fuel payments to those in receipt of pension credit has now been exposed for what it is – a rash and ruthless decision that could kill thousands of pensioners.
The party’s election commitment to the triple lock was always meaningless – and Labour knew it. After two years of sky-high inflation, the damage caused by the triple lock was largely done.
The increase to come in April only reflects earnings catching up with inflation, and the triple lock is unlikely to cause the Treasury much trouble over the next four years.
- Labour claims it has to make “tough decisions” but you’ve got to agree with its former leader Jeremy Corbyn when he says this is a lie. Pensioners will be poorer under Labour and there’s no twisting the truth about that.
Let’s not forget the erosive impact of Labour’s “retirement tax” which will mean that pensioners living solely on the state pension will be paying tax on it within this Parliament.
Sure, it’s the fault of the Tories who set the deep freeze on income thresholds, but Labour has refused to spare the state pension from income tax.
There has been lots of noise about wealthy pensioners not needing a £300 bump every winter, as if this excuses taking it away from some of the poorest. Labour’s benefits grab means anyone earning as little as £11,343 loses hundreds of pounds.
Let’s not forget that energy bills are now significantly higher than they were when Corbyn’s shadow cabinet was bleating about a Tory plot to take away winter fuel payments, and will rise another 10pc this winter. DT.
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N. Korea.
North Korea flagrantly disregarding international human and religious rights standards - report.
North Korea flagrantly disregarding international human and religious ri...
A new report by Christian Solidarity Worldwide has condemned North Korea's ongoing repression of civil and relig...
A new report by Christian Solidarity Worldwide has condemned North Korea's ongoing repression of civil and religious liberties.
Balm of Gilead, Perhaps?
Scientists grow Biblical 'lost tree' from mysterious 1,000 year old seed.
Resin from a tree grown from a seed found in caves in the late 1980s could be the Bibical "Balm of Judea", a study suggests.
21:25, Tue, Sep 24, 2024.
Scientists have grown a "lost tree" from a 1,000-year-old seed found in the desert which may produce the "Balm of Judea" from Biblical times.
The seed measures about 2cm in length and was found during a survey of caves near Jerusalem led by the Archaeology Department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the mid-to-late 1980s. Radiocarbon dating found the seed dates back to between 993AD and 1202AD.
An Article To Provoke Deep Thoughts.
Why Israel's war with Hezbollah and Hamas could spell the end for the EU.
09:55, Tue, Oct 1, 2024 .
The news over the last 24 hours that the Hard Right won the recent election in Austria, and that Israel was preparing for boots on the ground in Lebanon following days of strikes, might seem at first glance unconnected. Yet, connected they are.
Without years of failed border controls in the EU, especially in Western Europe - stretching all the way back to the 2015 Syrian migrant crisis - parties like the Austrian Freedom Party would have gained no traction.
Ditto Marine Le Pen in France, Giorgia Meloni in Italy, Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, Viktor Orbán in Hungary (or Nigel Farage in pre- and post-Brexit Britain), all of which are at various stages of attaining power, winning power or upending the current political system.
As with the rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement Stateside, this is largely a consequence of the failure to cope with mass immigration.
Now, a new migrant crisis threatens to upend an EU already struggling to get a grip on the last one, with its latest migration pact in the bloc already disavowed by Hungary and Poland, and perhaps soon the Netherlands. Even former Brexit negotiator and new French PM, Michel Barnier, has had a Damascene conversion on immigration controls.
As you read this, masses of refugees are making their way from Lebanon to Syria, reversing a journey made a few years ago when Syrians decamped en masse to their next-door neighbour.
If Lebanese estimates are to be believed, at least one million people have already been displaced within Lebanon by the current conflict, which has seen Hezbollah's leadership decapacitated. This includes many Syrians who made Lebanon home.
As in 2015 it is eminently conceivable that many of these people will make their way to Europe, either through Syria and Turkey, or via the Mediterranean. To what extent Damascus and Ankara will find it in their hearts to help Europe given the latter's support for Israel remains to be seen.
At the very least, Europe - already poorer than 9 years ago - may find itself having to bankroll Syria and Turkey in exchange for keeping migrants at bay. This financial blackmail or bribery - depending on your vantage point - is mirrored right now in North Africa where EU states are essentially paying countries to hold immigrants back.
But, as is allegedly the case with Belarus, countries bordering the EU are hardly averse to weaponising migration. This will be especially so if they believe there is a few extra quid to be made out of it.
Truth be told, Europe can neither financially afford a re-run of 2015, nor politically afford it. This is a continent already reeling from higher energy costs, as well as the surge of the Hard Right, and an ongoing east-by-west split which means even centrists like Polish PM Donald Tusk remain committed to the toughest of immigration controls.
Israel would turn around, no doubt, and say Europe has no obligation to take in said refugees. This is technically true, although - whether European peoples like it or not - EU elites will almost certainly feel duty-bound to do so.
Meanwhile, we all know the wealthy Gulf Arab states will never accept mass immigration of their Muslim brothers and sisters, whatever ersatz protests they make in support of the Palestinian cause.
Therefore, the Israeli conflict in Lebanon (and Gaza for that matter), and the victory of the nationalists in Austria, as well as the ongoing financial misappropriation trial of Marine Le Pen and her colleagues, are all intimately connected.
On the latter point, Le Pen leads polls for the next French presidential vote. No doubt millions of fence-sitting French voters see the trial as an attempt to disbar her from contesting the election at all.
A new migration crisis therefore looms over Europe, whatever Israel's intentions may be, and - just as with the imminent US election - the mass immigration crisis will be a defining feature of future EU-wide and national level elections.
Europe is totally ill-equipped - either financially or politically - for a new migrant crisis, and hand-wringing European politicians have neither the will to seriously stop this nor the will to protest what Israel is doing on the grounds of the burden Europe may have to shoulder (not that Israel would care since, so far as the latter is concerned, the EU should just say no to said migrants).
What future though for the EU and Europe as they likely face the next great migrant crisis? And how much longer can the likes of Viktor Orbán play along with this game and pretend like the EU can seriously be reformed from within? Express.
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