Friday, December 31, 2021
From Right To Life.
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Mark of The Beast?
Franklin Graham doesn't believe vaccine COVID-19 passport microchips are the 'mark of the beast'.
A man reacts as he gets a chip implant in his hand during a chip implant event in Epicenter, a technological hub in Stockholm on January 18, 2018. An electronic implant inserted under the skin to replace keys, business cards and train tickets: in Sweden, it is a reality for some thousands who are indifferent to the potential dangers of the intrusion of technology. | JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty ImagesEvangelist Franklin Graham doesn’t believe that the “vaccine passport” chip implant developed by a Swedish company is the mark of the beast described in the Bible but warns of what such technology could lead to in the future.
The 69-year-old son of the late evangelist Billy Graham posted a statement on Facebook Tuesday, commenting on the recent news that many Swedes are having microchips the size of a grain of rice implanted under their skin, storing COVID019 vaccine passport information and other files.
Some have speculated online whether such microchips could be the “mark of the beast” described in the book of Revelation.
“The Bible tells us that in the end times there will be a one world system,” Graham, who heads the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, wrote. “Revelation 13:16-17 says, ‘Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark…’”
“Right now, a Swedish company has developed a ‘vaccine passport’ chip that is implanted under the skin and can be scanned. It could be required to enter restaurants or businesses, fly commercially, etc,” he continued. “I personally do not think this particular chip is the mark the Bible talks about, but it does make you think how close we may be.”
Graham is not opposed to vaccinations and believes getting vaccinated is “important and helps save lives.” But he believes political leaders have used the coronavirus pandemic “as an excuse to exert more and more control” since “many world leaders are still using COVID ... to lock down their countries.”
“Christians around the world are wondering if COVID-19 is being used as a way to condition the world population to accept a mark like this, whatever form it may take,” Graham added.
“If a scannable chip under the skin can contain vaccine information, adding other personal information and financial data could be a short step away. This may sound frightening; but people who have put their faith in God and His Son, Jesus Christ, don’t need to be afraid. We should not live in fear. God told us what was coming in His Word. Make sure that your name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life by repenting of your sins and putting your faith and trust in Jesus Christ.”
The microchip, created by tech firm Dsruptive Subdermals, can store various data accessible through smartphones and other devices.
Thousands of people in Sweden have had chips implanted into their hands.
The chips are usually installed just above the thumb through a procedure that costs as low as about 100 euros (roughly $113).
However, concerns have been raised about privacy and what kind of personal health data will be stored on the chips.
Hannes Sjoblad, Managing Director of Dsruptive Subdermals, told AFP that chips allow people to communicate effortlessly with their devices. He contends that people should see chips as a form of identification rather than a “surveillance technology.”
This is not the first time that some have speculated if microchip implants could be related to the beast’s mark. After similar speculation was raised in 2017 after a Wisconsin-based company let employees get microchips implanted in their hands, Jerry Newcombe from D. James Kennedy Ministries warned about such conclusions.
“World leaders from Mikhail Gorbachev to Ronald Reagan have been falsely accused of being the Antichrist,” he wrote in an op-ed for The Christian Post. “And microchip fears have stoked prophetic speculations for years — but many biblical scholars note that Revelation is not pointing to some inadvertently-adopted technology, but is speaking symbolically of those who cast their lot with the opponents of Christ for societal approval.” CP.
“World leaders from Mikhail Gorbachev to Ronald Reagan have been falsely accused of being the Antichrist,” he wrote in an op-ed for The Christian Post. “And microchip fears have stoked prophetic speculations for years — but many biblical scholars note that Revelation is not pointing to some inadvertently-adopted technology, but is speaking symbolically of those who cast their lot with the opponents of Christ for societal approval.” CP.
Thank Heaven!
Christian women's shelter won't be forced to admit trans-identified males, federal judge rules.
This Blogger Has Constantly Attacked The Vile Post-Execution Pardon of Psychopathic Killer, Timothy Evans. Here's Why:
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company (23 Jun 1994). 'The Two Killers of Rillington Place'. Definitive. Conclusive. Recommended! *****
ISBN-10: 0316909467
ISBN-13: 978-0316909464
ISBN-13: 978-0316909464
John Eddowes, an independent investigator, has done his homework and discovered that Evans was an extremely violent character who tried to kill his wife not long before the murder [in 1951.] He cites medical evidence to show that Evans was, technically speaking, a psychopath who was always losing control.
But, above all, he performs a ruthless dissection of Ludovic Kennedy’s book, highlighting its ‘errors, omissions and alterations’ and producing a brilliant and totally damning account of Kennedy’s arguments. He points out that when Kennedy was asked, at the Brabin inquiry of 1968, about some particularly misleading attack on the police, he admitted: “Yes, that is wrong.” Yet in a paperback edition of 10 Rillington Place, 20 years later, the same incorrect statement has been left unchanged.
But there is one enormous obstacle to believing that Evans was innocent: at Notting Hill police station, he confessed to the murder of his wife and baby, not once but three times. It was only after talking to the murderer Donald Hume in jail — who advised him to change his story then stick to it — that Evans accused Christie of the murders.
If Evans was innocent, why did he confess in such circumstantial detail to the murders? According to Kennedy, because he was virtually ‘brainwashed’ by shock, and said whatever the police wanted to hear. But anyone who reads Evans’s confessions can see that this is just not on. No one could sound so precise and circumstantial if he was innocent.
Christie had no reason whatever to kill the baby even if he had murdered Beryl Evans. And if he hadn’t killed her then it would have been sheer madness to kill the baby.
But the case he presents is nevertheless, quite overwhelming. After this book, it should be impossible for any sensible person to believe in the innocence of Timothy Evans.
Colin Wilson.
Evening Standard.
Blogger: Hume also later admitted that Evans had confessed the crimes to him.
The question is begged as to why this absurd 'pardon' ever came about at all. The answer is simple. Abolitionists have always desperately presented 'innocent people executed' as being 'the most heinous thing imaginable' - and ironically, however feeble that argument may be (accidents happen in cars, hospitals etc, but nobody suggests banning those) it is the only thing which has truly resonated with some members of the public.
Abolitionists had the power to grant this nauseating 'pardon' - and were all too happy and delighted so to do.
John Eddowes was, however, rather less 'independent' than Wilson supposed. He had actually witnessed his own father working, hand-in-glove, with Ludovic Kennedy to manufacture this alleged innocence of Evans. Disgusted by what this dubious pair had conspired to achieve - he possessed the inside knowledge to publicise and destroy their shameful actions.
Evans, Hanratty, Ellis and Bentley - all guilty as charged! - Wrongful use of the death penalty? - Worthless arguments with no honest foundation whatsoever. Yet - still the films and dishonest, abolitionist documentaries are rolled out ad nauseam.
Thursday, December 30, 2021
Persecution - Nothing Less!
India blocks foreign donations to Mother Teresa's Christian charity.
A nun, belonging to the global Missionaries of Charity, carries a relic of Mother Teresa of Calcutta before a mass celebrated by Pope Francis for her canonisation in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican. | (Photo: Reuters/Stefano Rellandini)India’s federal government has announced it will block foreign donations to a Christian missionary group founded by Mother Teresa amid a rise in attacks on religious minorities in the country.
On Christmas Day, India’s Ministry of Home Affairs said they found “adverse inputs” when reviewing the Missionaries of Charity’s renewal application. As a result, the faith-based nonprofit no longer meets eligibility requirements under the Foreign Contributions Regulation Act.
Founded by the famed Roman Catholic nun in 1950 in Calcutta, the charity runs orphanages, schools for abandoned children as well as soup kitchens and other charitable operations. The organization is dedicated to the “service of the poorest of the poor, irrespective of social class, creed or colour.” CP.
Franklin Graham, Satan & Christmas.
Franklin Graham: Satan has been trying to destroy Christmas for 2,000 years.
Ruth Ellis - A Cold-Blooded Murderess Who Carefully Planned The Death of David Blakeley and Showed Zero Remorse.
Cause célèbre for abolitionists: in 1955, Ellis was in fact a wicked and brutal, cold-blooded killer and a long way from being the tragic victim of 'a wicked miscarriage of justice'.
This article rather brings into question all of the accusations made by Ellis alleging her mistreatment by Blakeley in order to justify her callous actions. (Was he really responsible for the loss of her unborn child?)
Her sourcing a gun from another lover rather changes all the criteria on which the hand-wringing opposition to her hanging was based. All the usual abolitionist suspects who virtually made a martyr out of her; the vile Timothy Evans; the Derek Bentley who acted in cold blood sourcing bullets for the handgun which killed a Police Officer and ordered the death as well as the guilty as hell, James Hanratty.
Four frauds which led to abolition of the death penalty in the UK and saw homicide rates rocket. I wonder if these people were able to sleep at night - protecting the guilty and removing protection from future innocent victims. Capital murders increased by 127% immediately after abolition.
The Daily Mail has recently become an abolitionist rag and irrationally reinterprets the new information from the death cell which has recently been released. It actually suggests that, had this information been known to the Home Secretary, it might have resulted in a reprieve.
What ignorance! - This extra information proved 'Joint enterprise' with a third party which actually enhances the seriousness of the offence. This was never a crime passionnel but nothing less than a calculated hit.
(The only injustice is that Desmond Cousins could not later be charged with supply of the murder weapon and also with 'Joint enterprise' as the evidence was insufficient.)
Wednesday, December 29, 2021
So, Greta. EXPLAIN THIS!!!! - YOUR HOMETOWN Sea Levels.
Mean Sea Level at Stockholm,
Sweden (NOAA 050-141, PSMSL 78)
The plot shows the monthly mean sea level without the regular seasonal fluctuations due to coastal ocean temperatures, salinities, winds, atmospheric pressures, and ocean currents. By default, the long-term linear trend is also shown, in red, along with its 95% confidence interval. The plotted values are relative to the most recent Mean Sea Level datum established by NOAA CO-OPS.
Read more clearly: https://sealevel.info/MSL_graph.php?id=Stockholm&boxcar=1&boxwidth=3
England May Excel In One Day Cricket BUT This Is Totally At The Expense of Test Cricket. (That is much too big a price to pay.)
Ashes: Five stages of grief for the England Test team.
By Stephan ShemiltChief cricket writer
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/59808298
Not So Clean Cut, Huh?
Desmond Tutu did some great things. But he had a monstrous side too
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The revelations that have surfaced in a small number of outlets about the profound antisemitism of Archbishop Desmond Tutu have come as an unpleasant shock for a number of people who have read them. For many have had absolutely no knowledge of this whatsoever.
Since his death two days ago, Tutu has been almost universally eulogised as one of the greatest men of the age. And indeed, there is no denying the vital part he played with Nelson Mandela in helping rid South Africa of the obscenity of apartheid and liberate black South Africans to take control of their own destiny in their own land.
There was, however, another side to Tutu — a shocking side. And just as one should respect the dead and pay tribute to their achievements, it is also incumbent upon us to tell the truth about that person if that truth is important enough, however distasteful this may be. And it undoubtedly is that important.
It’s not merely that Tutu demonised Israel with libellous falsehoods. Worse still, he explicitly and repeatedly demonised the Jewish people. His occasional claims that he identified with the Jews and his acknowledgement that they had been allies in the great fight against South African apartheid generally morphed into his grotesque and incomprehensible accusation that the Jews of Israel had done to the Palestinian Arabs what the apartheid regime had done to the black population of South Africa.
On the Gatestone site, Alan Dershowitz has reprised the condemnation of Tutu that he wrote back in January 2011. He writes:
He minimised the suffering of those murdered in the Holocaust, asserting that “the gas chambers” made for “a neater death” than did Apartheid. In other words, the Palestinians, who in his incorrect view are the victims of “Israeli Apartheid,” have suffered more than the victims of the Nazi Holocaust. He complained of “the Jewish Monopoly of the Holocaust,” and demanded that its victims must “forgive the Nazis for the Holocaust,” while refusing to forgive the “Jewish people” for “persecute[ing] others”.
Tutu asserted that Zionism has “very many parallels with racism,” thus echoing the notorious and discredited “Zionism equals racism” resolution passed by the General Assembly of the United Nations and subsequently rescinded. He accused the Jews of Israel of doing “things that even Apartheid South Africa had not done”. He said that “the Jews thought they had a monopoly of God: Jesus was angry that they could shut out other human beings”. He said that Jews have been “fighting against” and being “opposed to” his God. He has “compared the features of the ancient Holy Temple in Jerusalem to the features of the apartheid system in South Africa”. He complained that “the Jewish people with their traditions, religion and long history of persecution sometimes appear to have caused a refugee problem among others”. He implied that Israel might someday consider as an option “to perpetrate genocide and exterminate all Palestinians”.
He complained that Americans “are scared...to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful—very powerful”. He accused Jews — not Israelis — of exhibiting “an arrogance — the arrogance of power because Jews are a powerful lobby in this land and all kinds of people woo their support”. While attacking Israel for its “collective punishment”of Palestinians — which he claims is worse than what Apartheid South Africa did — he himself called for the collective punishment of Jewish academics and businesses in Israel by demanding boycotts of all Jewish (but not Muslim or Christian) Israelis. (This call for an anti-Jewish boycott finds its roots in the Nazi "Kauft Nicht beim Juden" campaign of the 1930s.)
When confronted with his double standard against Jews, he justified it on phoney theological grounds: “Whether Jews like it or not, they are a peculiar people. They can't ever hope to be judged by the same standards which are used for other people”. There is a name for non-Jews who hold Jews to a double standard: It is called antisemitism.
Tutu acknowledged having been frequently accused of being antisemitic, to which he has offered two responses: “Tough luck;” and “my dentist's name is Dr. Cohen”.
I have quoted this at length for a reason. First, there is the extraordinary extent and depth of Tutu’s hatred, lies and demonisation directed at Israel and the Jewish people. How does this square with the good that he did in fighting South African apartheid?
Part of the reason for his animus is the doctrine of “intersectionality”, which holds that all “powerless” peoples or groups are linked by victimisation and are therefore by definition incapable of doing bad things, while all “powerful” people are linked by their abuses of power and are therefore by definition incapable of doing good things.
Thus the “apartheid” libel against Israel, a commonplace today in so-called “progressive” circles. It is, of course, mind-blowing that Tutu, of all people, could hold that Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East and where all its citizens patently enjoy equal civic and religious rights, practised apartheid.
But the idea that his belief was the result of intersectionality has surely got that the wrong way round. For he helped put rocket fuel behind the “apartheid” lie. As Jay Nordlinger, author of a history of the Nobel Peace Prize, wrote in 2014 about the prize’s winners:
The most harmful of them is Desmond Tutu: because he is a South African hero who, for decades, has peddled the lie that Israel is an “apartheid state”. Coming from him, it is more harmful than from (the countless) others.
The more likely explanation for Tutu’s antisemitism is theological. He was close to the “supersessionists” of the Sabeel centre in Jerusalem, which has virtually single-handedly poisoned much of the Anglican church against Israel and the Jews.
For Sabeel and its founder, Canon Naim Ateek — who has long been warmly embraced by the Church of England establishment — have taken an ancient antisemitic calumny and weaponised it against Israel.
As I wrote here a few days ago this calumny, called “replacement theology” or “supersessionism” and which dates back to the early church fathers, held that because the Jews denied the divinity of Jesus, the Christians inherited all the promises made by God to the Jewish people who became instead the party of the devil.
Ateek fused this doctrine, which was responsible for the persecution and murder of countless numbers of Jews in medieval times, with Palestinianism. As a result, he claimed that the divine promise of the land of Israel had been inherited by the Palestinians.
Thus at a stroke the Jews were monstrously transformed from the indigenous people of the land of Israel — for whom alone it was ever their national kingdom, hundreds of years before either Jesus or Mohammed — into its oppressive colonisers. The Palestinian Arabs became explicitly identified with Jesus (the Jew from Judea who was suddenly and ludicrously transformed into a Palestinian) and were described in terms as being “crucified” by the Jews — who had thus merely substituted another set of victims for the original.
This shocking and implicitly murderous set of lies was embraced by Anglicans and other liberal Christian churches because they had become heavily influenced by the “liberation theology” adopted by the World Council of Churches from the 1970s onwards and which fed Sabeel’s politicised theological revisionism.
“Liberation theology”, which sought to turn the church into a radical movement by representing the “oppressed” of the world, was Marxist dogma. And so although most Anglican clerics may think of themselves as soggy liberals — and in the case of Tutu, actually inveighed against communism — the doctrine they have adopted is straight out of the Karl Marx anti-capitalism and antisemitism playbook.
So this is almost certainly why Tutu turned truth and lies about Israel and the Jews inside out. He has been regarded as a saintly figure because he led the process of “truth and reconciliation” that eschewed retribution against the perpetrators of the apartheid regime. And it was indeed a noble achievement to emerge from enslavement without engaging in violent revenge.
But reconciliation without retribution is also a negation of justice. And where justice is denied as being irrelevant or even harmful, injustice invariably follows.
So it proved with Archbishop Tutu. For while he demonised and delegitimised Israel with falsehoods and distortions, he was muted in his criticism of atrocities in the developing world. After 9/11, he soft-pedalled criticism of Islamic extremism while unleashing ferocious attacks instead against George W Bush and Tony Blair for attempting to defend the west against it in Iraq and Syria.
In 2012, he even refused to to sit down with Blair at a conference because of the war in Iraq. So no forgiveness and reconciliation for some people, then. As Wayne K Spear observed in Canada’s National Post after that histrionic gesture, Tutu didn’t blame Iran’s Revolutionary Guards or President Assad’s “Alawite thugs” for the current state of Syria and Iran: this too was instead the fault of Bush and Blair. Wrote Spear about Tutu’s denunciation:
“You are a member of our family, God’s family. You are made for goodness, for honesty, for morality, for love; so are our brothers and sisters in Iraq, in the US, in Syria, in Israel and Iran,” he oozes to an absent Blair. But what on earth is this to mean if military action against the world’s theocratic fascists and dictators earns one condemnation while at the same time the crimes of these same theocrats and dictators are cleansed from the public record?
All this is terrible and depressing. More terrible still, though, is the silence with which Tutu’s bigotry against the Jewish people has been received.
Despite its scale, it has simply been ignored by all who have continued to lionise Tutu as a moral beacon for the world. Dershowitz first assembled his forensic charge sheet against Tutu almost eleven years ago.
And yet, after his death CNN called him “the voice of justice;” the Associated Press said he was a “moral conscience;” the UN Secretary-General António Guterres said he was “a towering global figure for peace and inspiration to generations across the world;” the Economist said he was “the best kind of troublemaker;” and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, called him “a healer and apostle of peace”.
Not one of these or any of the innumerable others whose similar tributes have poured forth in an unstoppable geyser of hero-worship uttered a single word about his antisemitism.
Maybe they just didn’t know? Maybe they did know but allowed his South African legacy to erase it from their minds as just too complicated and contradictory to process? Or maybe they think that Israel deserves what Tutu said about it and that the Jews really aren’t worth bothering about? That antisemitism is so marginal it just doesn’t matter — and the Jews should simply shut up about it?
Whatever the reason, this near-universal airbrushing of Tutu’s bigotry as he is all but canonised as a modern saint throws into the sharpest relief the devastating moral confusion of our era.
Blogger: some thirty-five years ago, this Blogger was informed about Tutu and his observable lack of compassion to the poor whenever there was a lack of cameras around, by some S. African Christians who knew him personally.
They were white but very solidly anti-apartheid and were dismayed by the non-stop positive propaganda surrounding the man.
Being clearly true men of God, I had no reason to disbelieve their claim.
Prejudice Against The Hard of Hearing By The Hard of Thinking!
Mumbling' by actors in TV shows is deliberate to make scenes more realistic, technicians say
Film technicians say inaudible dialogue on TV shows like Happy Valley (pictured) is a deliberate choice by directors who take the idea from cinema for a more 'realistic' performance. Mail.
Do NOT ...
Do NOT ... Feed grey squirrels.
Do Not ... Feed magpies, crows, jackdaws.
Do Not ... Feed urban foxes.
These are destructive species and incredibly dangerous to UK wildlife.
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