Friday, October 09, 2026

Enlighten us, O God, by your Spirit...

Enlighten us, O God, by your Spirit, in the understanding of your Word, and grant us the grace to receive it in true fear and humility, that we may learn to put our trust in you, to fear and honor you, by glorifying your Holy Name in all our life, and to yield you the love and obedience which faithful servants owe to their master and children to their fathers, seeing it has led you to call us to the number of your servants and children. 
-John Calvin Image

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Hurricane Isaias live tracker: Major Category 3 storm strengthening before making landfall along Gulf Coast; evacuations ordered in Alabama and Florida   Hurricane Isaias is expected to bring heavy rain, damaging winds and life-threatening storm surge to the northern Gulf Coast when it makes landfall late Friday or early Saturday.
   According to the National Hurricane Center, Isaias is now Category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph, which forecasters consider a "major hurricane."

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What was most surreal about the charges of "genocide" against Israel — along with all the other slurs of "settler-colonialism," "apartheid," "occupation," "war crimes" — was that they so often came from elite first- and second-generation Middle Eastern immigrants to America. Yet these prominent American accusers have remained silent about whether their lurid accusations might far better reflect the sordid histories of their own homelands.
   Take the Turkish-American anchor baby Hasan Piker, the millionaire podcaster who has dual citizenship and grew up in Turkey. Piker has gained celebrity as the socialist heartthrob who is the brain of the new Democratic/Socialist/Islamist alliance. Besides his antisemitic rants, he has declared that "America deserved 9/11" and "Oh God, I f-ing hate America so much."

In sum: 1) the number of deaths says there was no genocide; 2) there was no intent to commit genocide (quite the contrary); 3) the charge of genocide was used as a propaganda weapon before the war even began, not to mention in previous decades; and 4) much of the reporting from within Gaza was extremely biased, if not completely propagandistic.

It is time to stop the lies about Israel and genocide...

Three Years After Hamas’s October 7 Massacre, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani Hijacks the Day to Attack Israel   On Wednesday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani sparked outrage with a statement that opened with a brief nod to those killed in the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack but devoted most of its length to accusing Israel of genocide.

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The European Warning: Why America Must Choose Sovereignty Over Surrender  Across Britain and France, central governments abandoned the most basic duty of the nation-state: the defense of sovereign borders. Decades of unchecked entry, lax law enforcement, and ideological cowardice fractured their historic urban centers. Public services buckle. Radical factions defy common law. Street violence surges while state bureaucrats police the speech of citizens rather than the crimes of perpetrators.
   American voters face this identical crossroads. The midterm ballot contains one decisive question: Will the United States defend its heritage of constitutional law and borders, or will it follow Europe into irreversible decline?
   Europe offers a real-time post-mortem of a civilization that surrendered its will to govern.

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UK: Beware the thought police...They’re coming to get you…but only if you’re Christian  In recent months, Muslims kneeling down to pray in public – on streets, in the road, at railway stations, and even on the hard shoulder of motorways – have become increasingly evident, and nothing is done to stop them or ask them not to obstruct passers-by (or passing cars) … even when they are posing a clear obstruction. Yet a Christian woman, standing quietly with head bowed and eyes shut outside a closed abortion facility is arrested … because she’s known to hold pro-life views, and MIGHT BE PRAYING! SILENTLY!
   Heaven defend us from such depravity! And well done to the police for their brave, prompt and pre-emptive action, that clearly prevented what might well have turned into a very nasty incident!

New California law forces churches to provide 'hate speech' training  Pro-family advocates in California are warning that Golden State churches have a little more than a year until they will be forced to conduct “hate speech” training for their employees, with the term’s meaning left up to unelected bureaucrats to determine.

Trump Admin Investigating Nine Universities for Alleged Visa Fraud  So something weird is going on at these universities. They’re using these visas way too much. They’re using them to undercut the wages of American grad students and American researchers, and it simply has to stop.

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Perhaps the most revealing aspect of GLP-1 therapy appears when treatment ends. In the STEP 1 extension, participants who discontinued semaglutide regained approximately two-thirds of their previous weight loss during the following year, while many cardiometabolic improvements moved back toward baseline. SURMOUNT-4 demonstrated a similar phenomenon with tirzepatide. After an initial 36-week period during which participants lost an average of 20.9 percent of their body weight, those randomized to discontinue tirzepatide and receive placebo regained substantial weight, whereas those who continued therapy maintained and further increased their weight reduction. Image

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Thursday, October 08, 2026

Guard me, O Lord...

Deliver me, O Lord, from evil men;
preserve me from violent men,
who plan evil things in their heart
and stir up wars continually.
They make their tongue sharp as a serpent's,
and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah
Guard me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked;
preserve me from violent men,
who have planned to trip up my feet.
-Psalm 140:1-4
 
To relinquish any of the Psalms on the excuse that its sentiments are too violent for a Christian is a clear sign that a person has also given up the very battle that a Christian is summoned...to fight. The Psalms are prayers for those who are engaged in an ongoing spiritual conflict. No one else need bother even opening the book. 
-Patrick Henry Reardon

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Trump Tightens SNAP Requirements As Nick Shirley Demonstrates EBT Fraud   “How many people I’ve seen sell food stamps to get their hair done, nails done, their toes done, buy an outfit to go to the club, drugs. A lot.”


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United Suspends Pilot Ibrahim Mossallam Who Praised Oct. 7 ‘Resistance’ After Fellow Pilots Give Up First-Class Seats and Spend Entire Flight in Cockpit Watching Him  United Airlines has just suspended pilot Ibrahim R. Mossallam for a second time in connection with his social media posts praising the Oct. 7 “Resistance,” where Hamas slaughtered over 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped over 250 to boot. He had returned to flying Boeing 757 and 767 aircraft after only a brief removal from service nearly three years ago, and United has now removed him from the airline’s flight schedule through at least the end of October. The head-scratching part is why this guy was allowed to fly after his initial suspension and why he isn’t being fired – the Jihadist is under an ongoing review. United, do better.

Mamdani’s October 7th Anniversary Message Sparks Fury on Left and Right: ‘Shame On You’    Reactions came in from across the political spectrum. Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) replied, “He basically said ‘The Jews that died, sad, but it’s their fault.’ He needs the city’s antisemitism policy for himself. Just an atrocious statement.”


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Speak of the Devil: Marxists in Iowa and Washington City Council Meetings Open with Satanic Prayer - ‘It is done. Hail Satan.’  In Iowa and Washington, two city council meetings opened up with prayers to Satan as if it was a totally normal, non-Hellish occurrence. Leftist Marxists are literally ceding the country to Hell. Remember these blasphemous occurrences when you vote this year – the soul of our nation is at stake. Image

Iowa city council meeting erupts after former member opens meeting with satanic prayer and 'Hail Satan' Pastor Rick Bick interrupts Ottumwa City Council session to demand invocation be reversed, calling it a 'curse'...
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Canada approved woman for MAID euthanasia because she could no longer make Sunday dinners  To understand just how slipshod Canada's euthansia program has gotten, two Canadian psychiatrists, Gary Rodin and Madeline Li, recently exposed some doozy cases.

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“Nurturing Future Activists”: Inside the  Plan to Turn Preschoolers Into Political Organizers  That group has already taken its work inside Philadelphia public schools. Its own records describe classroom coaching, children writing demands to elected officials, and a strategy for changing society by changing how children are raised.

California couple charged with abusing 14 surrogate-born children inside $10M Los Angeles mansion  Security footage recovered by police from the couple's $10 million home revealed widespread, systemic abuse against 14 surrogate-born children ranging in age from 2 months to 13 years old, with the majority between ages 1 and 3.
   Six additional children linked to the couple were later located at other homes, bringing the total number of affected children to 21.

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Wednesday, October 07, 2026

Such is our dependence upon God...

In the path of your judgments,
O Lord, we wait for you;
your name and remembrance
are the desire of our soul.
My soul yearns for you in the night;
my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.
For when your judgments are in the earth,
the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
-Isaiah 26:8-9

Such is our dependence upon God that we are obliged not only to do everything for His sake, but also to seek from Him the very power. This happy necessity of having recourse to Him in all our wants, instead of being grievous to us, should be our greatest consolation. What a happiness is it, that we are allowed to speak to Him with confidence, to open our hearts and hold familiar conversation with him by prayer! He Himself invites us to it.  -François Fénelon  
  
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I documented the crimes of October 7. Too many still believe the lies of Hamas  The myriad atrocities were filmed, and yet the terrorists denied them within hours – why should we now trust they will disarm?

Harrowing new footage shows chaos at Israeli hospital after Oct. 7 attack: ‘Evil beyond what you can comprehend’  They had prepared for the worst — only to discover they didn’t know the meaning of the word.
   Gut-wrenching newly released security footage from inside an Israeli hospital captures the chaos and heroism on Oct. 7, 2023 — as hundreds of traumatized and bloodied victims of Hamas’ sneak attack poured through its doors.
   The footage shows wounded soldiers and civilians rushing through Soroka Medical Center as doctors and nurses scramble to treat the patients, who ranged from babies to elderly Israelis to young revelers shot at the Nova music festival — and even a heavily pregnant mom.

Allison Pearson: The horrors of October 7 are still seared into my mind. Why won’t the West wake up? You want genocide? OK, read the pathologists’ reports. A girl, around five years old, who has been shot through her body from her skull to the soles of her feet. A 12-year-old girl shot in the head and then decapitated. Teenagers who received a video on their phones of their petrified grandmother as she was about to be executed (Hamas got a kick from sharing their work).

'Inspirational': Columbia Senate Member Praised Hamas, Appeared on Panel With Terrorist Financiers  "I think that that's a really interesting dynamic to observe," a keffiyeh-clad Eren said at the event. "Cellular warfare," he continued, has been "implemented to great success throughout Al-Aqsa Flood," the code name Hamas used for its terrorist rampage on Oct. 7, 2023.
"It's … a combination of guerrilla warfare with protracted people's war, which is a Maoist technique," Eren said of Hamas's tactics. "It's inspirational."

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Trump Admin Moves To Strip Citizenship From 40 Foreign-Born Americans "Every single one of these individuals lied their way into U.S. citizenship."    

REVEALED: Inside the Taxpayer-Backed Network Paying Rent for Refugees   The State Department suspended its grant. Separate HHS support kept the landlord-recruitment project operating.

Dead Felons Can Now Vote in Virginia, Thanks to Gov. Spanberger  Deceased Virginians with felony convictions are reportedly among those receiving voting-rights restoration letters under Gov. Abigail Spanberger, who announced in July that she had restored voting rights to 66,000 people with felony convictions.

The Thing That Never Happens Happened Again in Massachusetts    A convicted child rapist is in custody after sexually assaulting multiple women in an "inclusive" female locker room at a Massachusetts Planet Fitness.

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While the propaganda press pretend that this war is merely a “student uprising,” pictures and video tell a different story.  The perpetrators/revolutionary soldiers are young, but most are not white.  They appear Middle Eastern or North African.  They chant, “We are all antifascists!”  They carry Hamas and other foreign flags.  Whether they are French citizens or not, these thugs have nothing but contempt for French authorities. Screenshot

Red/Green Alliance Explodes in France as Nearly a Thousand Arrested While Communist/Muslim Rioters Incite Violence Against Police: ‘In the Name of Allah, We Will Kill Them All!’  What was presented as student unrest in France has quickly been hijacked by Islamic supremacists and communists who are wildly getting their violence on in the streets. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets to protest on Tuesday, demanding educational reform, forcing the reported closure of more than half of the country’s high schools. At least that’s the line the media wants put out there… they don’t talk about Muslims and communists inciting violence against the police and vowing they will call all of them.


'"From the River to the Sea" Isn’t So Fun When It’s the Seine to the Mediterranean, Huh?'  Are we sure this is about education? President Trump said this was about the spread of radical Islam due to lax immigration standards in Europe...

Anarcho-Tyranny in the UK: Why Did Police Lock Down a Town to Import Illegal Migrants? The episode demonstrates the two-tier nature of British policing, in which harsh treatment and overbearing restrictions are imposed on the native British population while illegal migrants are protected and enabled by the authorities.

We should not have Somali gangs in America. Republicans have perhaps realized this too late, but they have realized it. Democrats, both nationally and in Minnesota, continue to defend, excuse, or ignore this issue, and they will gladly make the problem worse if they are put in charge of the immigration system again in 2028.

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America's televangelists were the most brazen. They soaked the gullible, milked the faithful, and brought discredit on the very gospel they said they proclaimed. Their hypocrisy outshone their message. Their falls from grace were ruinous to their marriages and to the faithful they claimed to be saving.
   But the root is the same in the motel room, the General Convention, and the bishop's study. The televangelist hid his sin. The progressive church abolished it. The institution buried it. Three roads, one destination: no one would submit to judgment.

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When cops arrived, they found a 3-year-old girl and a 10-month-old boy with stab wounds to their chests inside the house and rushed them to the hospital, Northlake Police Chief Robert Crawford said at a press conference.

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My own perspective is that the main goal for the “pandemic” in the US was regime change; the destruction of the economy was the main approach used, and the lockdowns were the main actions to enable the destruction.  The lockdowns and associated limits on assembly, and the fear of human proximity they engendered, also changed voting patterns from in-person to mail-in ballots, which could be manipulated much more easily.  The Op-ed goes into detail about the myriad consequences that were generated, and the reader can decide the merits of the argument above, or alternative perspectives. 
   The “pandemic” was the perfect Trojan Horse to accomplish the main goals.

Nurse: Stillbirths Exploded After COVID Shots Hit Maternity Wards  The complaint says one managing nurse told a staff member that nearly all of the stillbirths were in vaccinated mothers, and that fetal deaths in mothers who did not get the shot stayed at the old rate of about one a month. Spencer told The New American: "Healthy moms and healthy babies were suddenly being replaced by babies born dead, and nobody seemed to care. I saw a pattern, clear as day, and I couldn't stay silent."

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Tuesday, October 06, 2026

Continue steadfastly in prayer...

Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.  At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison—that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak.
   Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person. -Colossians 4:2-6

Give me an open ear, O God, that I may hear Thy voice calling me to high endeavor.
Give me an open mind, O God, a mind ready to receive and to welcome such new light of knowledge as it is Thy will to reveal to me.
Give me open eyes, O God, eyes quick to discover Thine indwelling in the world which Thou hast made.
Give me open hands, O God, hands ready to share with all who are in want the blessings with which Thou hast enriched my life.   
-John Baillie

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Details Drip, Drip, Drip Out About Fairford Incident: Intended Drone Attack The United States abruptly withdrew all 12 B-1 Air Force bombers from an air base in southern England based on new information that commanders received about a potential drone attack ordered by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to U.S. and British officials.

...how many wake-up calls will we get?


One step closer to the caliphate? Has the British government been taken over?  It does not take a genius to see from this that the numbers are heavily weighted in favour of those who have come to our country illegally, and who do not share our culture and values. Yet it would seem that the government is actively supporting the interests of these newcomers, many of whom have demonstrated hostile intent, over those of the indigenous population. So what’s really going on here? Does the British Government still represent British interest? Or has it been subverted by those who wish covertly to take over our country, and replace our Christian faith and values with Islam?

Why the French school riots are a taste of the chaos to come  The arson, assaults and violence tearing through the banlieues speak to a society on the brink.

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DOJ: Biden White House Wanted Federal Charges for COVID Protesters, Parents  The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has declassified records showing that the Biden White House was seeking a definitive “hook” to justify bringing federal charges against individuals who protested to school boards about COVID-19 restrictions.

How the Biden Administration tried to silence parents The Biden administration did attempt to prosecute parents federally for the crime of disagreeing with school boards in 2020 and 2021, says a new report from the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DoJ) Weaponization Working Group.

Currently, the Trump government is doing great work cracking down on fraud, but the sad fact is that it’s everywhere, in ways not just big, but quite small.

Report: CA’s ‘Shadow Welfare System’ Offers Illegal Alien Families Up to $100K a Year  It includes “health care, rental assistance, college grants, tax credits, low-cost car insurance, and even smartphones.” And they’ve estimated the cost to California taxpayers to be nearly $11 billion.

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Maricopa County Faceplants Again on Elections As It Admits Huge Ballot 'Mistake'  The failures keep on coming, and on Sunday, the County Recorder’s office revealed that thousands of ballots had been mailed out early...


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Jim Bakker, who built an evangelical media empire with his former wife Tammy Faye during the 1970s, has died at age 86.
   His second wife, Lori Bakker, said the televangelist died on Oct. 5. She did not provide any details about the cause of death.

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Killing Babies and Killing Grannies: Two Sides of the Same Socialist Coin This is what socialism is, America.  There is no other socialism.  It is the killing of babies because selfish socialists with power today are worried there won’t be enough resources for them.  It is about killing the old people who consume resources, because that leaves more resources for selfish socialists with power today. 
   There is nothing more to it than that.

And so, as the conveyor belt moves forward toward continued dehumanization and the devaluation of human life, like it or not, the next in line are not the unborn.  Three billion of them have already been eliminated.  More than likely, it’s us.

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"Identifying as LGB dropped from 27% in 2023 to 22% in 2025 among girls and from 9% to 7% among boys," Twenge wrote. "The previous increase in identifying as LGB was also larger among girls, with a 128% increase (more than doubling) from 2015 to 2021 among girls and a 99% increase (doubling) from 2015 to 2023 among boys."
    That's exactly what you'd expect from a social contagion that mostly hit girls, the one the “experts” dismissed or downplayed.

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Monday, October 05, 2026

You shall fear the Lord your God...

You shall fear the Lord your God. You shall serve him and hold fast to him, and by his name you shall swear. He is your praise. He is your God, who has done for you these great and terrifying things that your eyes have seen. -Deuteronomy 10:20-21

Let God’s distinguishing love to you be a motive to you to fear Him greatly. He hath put His fear in thy heart, and hath not given that blessing to thy neighbour; perhaps not to thy husband, thy wife, thy child, or thy parent. O what an obligation should this consideration lay upon thy heart greatly to fear the Lord! Remember also... that this fear of the Lord is His treasure, a choice jewel, given only to favourites, and to those that are greatly beloved.   -John Bunyan

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We undoubtedly will learn more as we go along to inform the question of whether the Cornell case was actually a crime or not. But what we have heard so far suggests fairly strongly that it took place in a moral wasteland. Image

The Cornell Seven case reflects a deeper cultural collapse   ...where the Sexual Revolution, pornification, and the loss of moral boundaries have made exploitation increasingly commonplace.

American Support for College Education Craters to Record Low  One explanation for the steep decline since 2013 is the exorbitant costs of a college education, the group speculates. Gallup notes a separate poll found that only 12 percent of respondents said that a college degree is affordable.

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US Pulls All 12 B-1 Bombers From British Base After New Iran Threat This move was carried out with alarming alacrity, which would cause one to believe that 1) any threat was deemed credible, and 2) if last week's attempt, for which six men of Iranian descent were arrested and quickly released, was attempting some kind of trial run. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is suspected to be involved in the plot.

We are learning more about the attempted 9/11-style plane hijacking and suicide mission on the flydubai plane heading to Israel. The miraculous outcome of what was intended to be a catastrophic terror attack is still much in the news, and more information is still forthcoming – with more to follow.
   Here is some of the new news. One ominous – but not unexpected – development is the jihadists are calling for more such attacks.

Mom Gave Her Four Daughters One Order As Hijacked Plane Plunged     “I was talking to God nonstop, believing prayer was the only thing that could save us. I told my daughters to pray, too,” she continued. “We needed a miracle, and I couldn’t help but think, ‘Is this how you’re going to die? Is this how your girls are going to die?’”


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Trump Administration Nukes United Nations ‘Pandemic Treaty’   For years, the goblin architects of globo-homo race communism have labored tirelessly behind the scenes, in the shadows where they prefer to operate, to push through a so-called “global pandemic treaty” that would standardize the international response to the impending, much-hyped (probably man-made) pandemic, thereby subverting any national sovereignty that would allow room for individualized decision-making by nation-states.


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Decades Of Refinery Mismanagement Are Behind $6 Per Gallon Diesel  You cannot spend decades discouraging an industry from expanding and then profess astonishment when it stops expanding. You cannot tell investors that an industry is disappearing and then complain when they stop building the infrastructure that industry needs. And you cannot shrink the cushion for years and then blame the next geopolitical crisis because the cushion is gone.
   Before accepting the next political sales pitch about who can fix the six-dollar diesel problem, perhaps we ought to look at the whole receipt.
   The people who gave us $6 per gallon diesel now want to be elected because diesel is $6 per gallon.   There is something almost impressive about that chutzpah.

In light of this, continuing to export fuel at the expense of American citizens, farmers, and truckers -- and their interests -- in favor of ungrateful Europeans can only be described as shortsighted or irrational. Opponents of Trump in Europe should hardly expect to find such qualities on the list of sins they attribute to the American president.

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In a political shockwave heard ’round the world, Flavio Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, won the first round of Brazil’s presidential election and now heads into a runoff against globalist Lula with a political map that looks mighty favorable to the right.
   Bolsonaro’s party also looks poised to become the dominant force in Congress, with huge wins in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies. This fits a new pattern… across Latin America, right-wing candidates have been racking up victories one after another.

Orwellian brutes now govern Europe. Need further proof? The Green Party in the U.K. wants to replace “mother” and “father” with more “inclusive” terms. Meanwhile, the Germans just awarded the Westphalian Peace Prize to NATO’s military alliance.
   Parents are strangers. War is peace. Free speech is violence. Censorship promotes liberty.
   In truth, freedom in Europe is dead.

"First Time In History": Bessent Says Iran Faces Zero Oil Revenue As Tanker Loadings Collapse    The collapse in Iranian crude loadings suggests the US naval blockade is constraining Tehran's export options, while recovering flows from other Gulf producers point to eroded Iranian leverage over the strait. If sustained, Tehran's oil revenues would plunge, pressuring the regime to make a deal.

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Jordan Domingue, a former Marine, was the top security official for Michigan Democratic Party Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed until January 2026, when he resigned due to El-Sayed's dangerous antisemitic views. Then Domingue began to talk.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass Defends Visiting Africa as Wildfires Raged  Bass visited West Africa as part of a U.S. delegation to attend the presidential inauguration even after multiple weather reports indicated fire warnings and dangerously high winds.
   In late 2025, the Los Angeles Times reported that Bass ordered the watering down of the after-action report following the wildfires.


So Many Demons Need Wrangling That We Now Have a Shortage of Exorcists This election season, the American people are confronted with more overt atheistic communist candidates than at any time in memory. Christians or religious-adjacent Americans should ask if they want demons to make decisions on their behalf, or if they should choose people who have a Western moral compass. And if you don't vote, you voted for soulless factotums to make decisions on your behalf. That seems...dumb.

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Islam’s War on Civilization: Destroy the Past, Erase the Culture, Conquer the Future  One of the most important events was when the Islamic State agents broke into a Museum in Syria and destroyed what they believed to be priceless historical statuary and artworks from ancient times. For Islam, all of Civilization’s great historical artistic achievements are merely the highly ironic concept of “Jāhiliyya”, what Islam calls the ‘time of ignorance before the light of islam’ came to free them all from anything decent, compassionate or forward moving. Image

More than 4,200 Christians killed in Nigeria this year - report   It also estimates that over 600 Christian communities have been destroyed or abandoned and over five million Christians displaced by violence and insecurity.

Over 500 million Christians face Bible access restrictions worldwide: report    The report found that Afghanistan has the strongest restrictions on Bible access, followed by Yemen, Somalia, North Korea, Eritrea and Mauritania. The Bible Access Initiative classifies all six countries as having “maximum restrictions” on Bible access.
   Turkmenistan, Libya, Sudan and Iran round out the top 10 countries with the strongest restrictions. Those four countries, along with Comoros and the Maldives, are categorized as having “extreme restrictions.”


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Saturday, October 03, 2026

Holy, Holy, Holy!

Holy, Holy, Holy!
Keith & Kristyn Getty

Verse 1
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee
Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty!
God in three Persons, blessed Trinity!

Verse 2
Holy, holy, holy! all the saints adore Thee
Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea
Cherubim and seraphim, falling down before Thee
Who wert, and art, and evermore shalt be

Verse 3
Holy, holy, holy! though the darkness hide Thee
Though the eye of sinful man Thy glory may not see
Only Thou art holy, there is none beside Thee
Perfect in pow'r, in love and purity

Verse 4
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
All Thy works shall praise Thy name, 
in earth and sky and sea
Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty!
God in three Persons, blessed Trinity!

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Let love be genuine...

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality. 
-Romans 12:9-13

Love—and the unity it attests to—is the mark Christ gave Christians to wear before the world. Only with this mark may the world know that Christians are indeed Christians and that Jesus was sent by the Father.   -Francis A. Schaeffer

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The Fall of Rome and the Future of America: Illegal aliens have little sympathy for Americans, they are the people coming to take your inheritance from you Near its end, Romans were a lazy, self-indulgent people who paid others to do their fighting writes Larry Alex Taunton, speaking from firsthand experience with caravans of illegal aliens from South America. (Larry was the speaker who gave the famous September 11th keynote address: "Muslims have finally cracked the code on the West" — For Islam, "Socialism Is THE Trojan Horse" to power.)

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Christian Mission and Islam...How should Christians deal with the Islamic onslaught?  As I have said so often before, the Christian has a twofold response when it comes to Islam. We are to love Muslims, but we are also to resist Islam. It might seem hard to do, but we must do both simultaneously. Both are imperatives for the believer.
   So we stand up for freedom on the political level and resist stealth jihad, while loving and reaching out to individual Muslims, bringing Christ’s message of salvation to them. To warn about the very real dangers of political Islam and creeping sharia does not mean we don’t seek to reach out to our Muslim neighbours with love and the gospel.

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Supplements for Longevity Are Everywhere, but Do They Actually Work? Experts Break Down the Science   Aging isn't a disease, but a complex, multifaceted cascade involving a decline in your mitochondria—the tiny energy-producing factories inside your cells—and other processes.
   Some supplements aim to address these structures and functions, so your body is working closer to the way it did in your younger years, Dr. Timmons says. But because of the length of a human life, it's often difficult to prove they truly boost lifespan in randomized controlled trials, the gold standard of medical research.

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