Doomsday Clock Get Moved Forward

Scientists started a Doomsday clock decades ago when they realized that nuclear weapons could be used to destroy all civilization.  The clock hands get moved closer or further away from midnight based on the events that are happening on planet earth.

I guess the scientists decided they didn't like Trump's cavalier attitude towards another nuclear arms race OR his comments about man-made global warming being a hoax....because they moved the hands forward, closer to midnight.

Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight on Thursday amid increasing worries over nuclear weapons and climate change.

Each year, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a nonprofit that sets the clock, decides whether the events of the previous year pushed humanity closer or further from destruction. The symbolic clock is now two-and-a-half minutes from midnight, the closest it's been to midnight since 1953, when the hydrogen bomb was first tested.  Scientists blamed a cocktail of threats ranging from dangerous political rhetoric to the potential of nuclear threat as the catalyst for moving the clock closer towards doomsday.

“This year’s Clock deliberations felt more urgent than usual…as trusted sources of information came under attack, fake news was on the rise, and words were used by a President-elect of the United States in cavalier and often reckless ways to address the twin threats of nuclear weapons and climate change,” Rachel Bronson, the executive director and publisher of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, said in a statement.

While many threats played into the decision to move the clock 30 seconds forward from where it was in 2016, one person in particular prompted the scientists to act.

"Never before has the Bulletin decided to advance the clock largely because of the statements of a single person. But when that person is the new president of the United States, his words matter," David Titley and Lawrence M. Krauss of the Bulletin wrote in an New York Times op-ed.

The Bulletin pointed to President Donald Trump's  careless rhetoric on nuclear weapons and other issues as well as his troubling stance on climate change.

Here;  http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/01/26/doomsday-clock-end-world-nuclear-weapons-climate-change-donald-trump/97077736/

Oh yeah, and don't forget those pesky meteors that are hurtling past earth!  If one of them connects, it could be an extinction-level-event. (ELE)

I spend ZERO time worrying about these troublesome events.  For one thing it does no good to worry.  For another thing, I believe that the world is going to carry on pretty much "business as usual" with people eating, drinking, marrying, building, planting...until Jesus comes for His bride at the rapture.  Following that, all hell will break loose and will only end when Jesus returns.

Ex Soviet Leader Says "World is Preparing for War"

Gorbachev is saying that it looks like the world is preparing for war.  No surprise here really.  The world has been at war since Cain killed Abel.

WWII was an incredible bunch of carnage.  The nations had come up with new, modern tools to kill each other with, like planes, bombs and nuclear weapons.  Can you imagine what WWIII is going to look like when the nations pull out their latest, most advanced killing machines?

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned Friday that "it all looks as if the world is preparing for war."

Gorbachev, who was head of the socialist state when it dissolved in 1991, wrote the comments in an opinion piece for Time magazine.

"More troops, tanks and armored personnel carriers are being brought to Europe," the 85-year-old wrote. "NATO and Russian forces and weapons that used to be deployed at a distance are now placed closer to each other, as if to shoot point-blank."

The 1990 Nobel Peace Prize-winner added: "Politicians and military leaders sound increasingly belligerent and defense doctrines more dangerous. Commentators and TV personalities are joining the bellicose chorus. It all looks as if the world is preparing for war."

Thousands of U.S. troops have been sent to eastern Europe in recent weeks, the largest deployment of its kind since the Cold War.

Gorbachev oversaw an agreement with the U.S. to reduce their nuclear arsenals. President Donald Trump, however, has suggested he could bolster the number of such weapons at his disposal, something that would reverse decades of American policy.

Trump has said he would like to expand America's nuclear weapons, telling MSNBC's Morning Joe in December: "Let it be an arms race."

This proposed reversal of decades of U.S. policy was in part what moved a group of scientists Thursday to move the metaphorical Doomsday Clock to two minutes and 30 seconds before midnight — the time that represents when a catastrophic nuclear event can annihilate the earth.

Trump has signaled he may seek a rapprochement with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, including lifting sanctions imposed by Barack Obama over Moscow's annexation of Crimea.

Trump has also called NATO "obsolete", and Russian media said he and Putin were expected to speak on the phone Saturday.

Some expects fear that if Trump undermines NATO and cozies up to Russia, Putin may be emboldened to interfere in other former Soviet countries.

"While state budgets are struggling to fund people's essential social needs, military spending is growing," Gorbachev wrote. "Money is easily found for sophisticated weapons whose destructive power is comparable to that of the weapons of mass destruction; for submarines whose single salvo is capable of devastating half a continent; for missile defense systems that undermine strategic stability."

Gorbachev urged the United Nations Security Council to adopt a resolution stating that "nuclear war is unacceptable and must never be fought," and said the initiative to sign it should come from Trump and Putin.

Here;  http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ex-soviet-leader-mikhail-gorbachev-world-preparing-war-n712891?google_editors_picks=true

No doubt....there is a massive war coming.  Jesus told us that when all the mayhem starts in the Last Days that if HE didn't return to earth to intervene....NO FLESH would survive.

Are we watching the world arm themselves for Armageddon?

Jesus Beckons Muslims in Dreams and

Have you been finding some of your Christian friends who insist that Muslims worship the same God of the Bible as they do?

Yep, so have I.  The stories are all around of the Lutheran/Methodist/Catholic church who brought in a "wonderful imam" to speak at their adult education.

I have asked some of those Christian friends whether or not they need to evangelize their Muslim neighbors and they look at me cross-eyed.  Why would they need to do that when all these different paths lead to heaven, they ask?

It would seem that Jesus would disagree.  He has been calling millions of Muslims to COME OUT of their false religion and come follow Him.  And in many cases these Muslims have never held a Bible or been given the Gospel message, but Jesus is appearing to them in their dreams.

As hundreds of millions of Muslims fast and pray during Ramadan this month, with many seeking to grow closer to Allah, others are finding Jesus.

“God is moving very powerfully using dreams and visions Muslims are having of the Man in white, of Jesus Himself,” author Joel Rosenberg told CBN recently.

He quoted a 19-page study describing an extraordinary move of God among Muslims.

“From 1960 to 2010, the number of Muslims that have converted to faith in Jesus Christ has grown from fewer than 200,000 to some 10 million people” Rosenberg told CBN.

Rosenberg said many Muslims have become disillusioned by turmoil in the Middle East.

“In the last 10-15 years, many Muslims are deeply uncomfortable with the idea that ISIS, or Iran’s leadership, or Assad are the type of people that represent Islam.”

While Christian outreach is difficult and dangerous in many restricted countries in the Middle East, some Muslims have powerful encounters with Jesus through dreams, visions, and even personal visitations.

The God Reports website has featured numerous accounts of Jesus making such appearances:

— Jesus appearing to a Muslim family in the refugee camps

— Jesus appearing to a boat of Muslim refugees crossing a stormy Aegean Sea

— A vision of Jesus that stopped an Islamic fighter attempting to kill a Christian pastor

— Jesus appearing to a bedridden Muslim mom

— A descendant of Muhammad finding Jesus through a dream

— An imam who hated Christians until Jesus appeared in his dreams

These are just a few examples, but even if God is revealing Himself to Muslims in these miraculous ways, Christians must still be involved in completing the Great Commission.

http://blog.godreports.com/2016/06/as-muslims-pray-and-fast-during-ramadan-man-in-white-appears-in-dreams-and-visions/

Joel 2:28
[ The Day of the Lord ] “And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.

The USA Should Get Rid of Cash

The headlines calling the world to a cashless society just keep on coming!

The US should get rid of cash and move to a digital currency, says this Nobel Laureate economist

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already removed 86% of his country's currency from circulation in an attempt to curb tax evasion, tackle corruption and shut down the shadow economy.

Should the US follow suit?

Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist, thinks so. Phasing out currency and moving towards a digital economy would, over the long term, have “benefits that outweigh the cost,” the Columbia University professor said on day one of the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos.

Stiglitz was speaking in the session Ending Corruption alongside Mark Pieth from the Basel Institute of Governance and APCO Worldwide Founder and Executive Chairman Margery Kraus. Stiglitz and Pieth co-authored a report, Overcoming the Shadow Economy, in November last year.

Quantifying the scale of the problem, Stiglitz said: “You can put it into the context of one of the big issues being discussed in Davos this year – the backlash against globalization, the darker side of globalization ... The lack of transparency in global financial markets, the secrecy havens that the Panama Papers exposed, just reinforced what we already knew ... There is a global framework for both corruption and tax evasion and tax avoidance.

“The fact that you can hide ill-gotten gains so easily in these secrecy havens really provides incentives for people to engage in this activity as they can get the economic returns and then enjoy the benefits of those returns. If there were not these secrecy havens then the benefits from engaging in these kinds of illicit activity would be much diminished.”

“I believe very strongly that countries like the United States could and should move to a digital currency,” he said, “so that you would have the ability to trace this kind of corruption. There are important issues of privacy, cyber-security, but it would certainly have big advantages.”

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/01/the-us-should-get-rid-of-cash-and-become-a-digital-economy-says-this-nobel-laureate-economist

We have been blogging about this for some time because the Bible has been saying it would happen all along!

For 2000 years now, people have read the passage in Revelation that told of the coming day when everyone on earth would have to have a mark to buy or sell anything....meaning THEY COULD NOT USE CASH.  And for those same 2000 years people read that passage and said, "That can't ever happen!  The world is too big!  There is no way that the whole world could ever do that!"

But now for the first time in human history we have the technology to make it a reality.

And now, for the first time in human history, the elite folks in Davos are calling for this very thing to start happening.

It will be cheaper, faster, more secure, less dirty, less crime. fight drugs, fight sex trade...it's all good!

But one day the Antichrist will use this cashless system to track down anyone he chooses....

Human-Pig Chimera Embryos Made

Science continues on its course of messing with the building blocks of life.

Embryos that are less than 0.001% human - and the rest pig - have been made and analysed by scientists.

It is the first proof chimeras - named after the mythical lion-goat-serpent monster - can be made by combining material from humans and animals.

However, the scientific report in the journal Cell shows the process is challenging and the aim of growing human organs in animals is distant.

It was described as an "exciting publication" by other researchers.

To create a chimera, human stem cells - the type that can develop into any tissue - are injected into a pig embryo.

The embryo - now a mix of human and pig - is then implanted into a sow for up to one month.

The process appears very inefficient - of the 2,075 embryos implanted only 186 continued to develop up to the 28-day stage.

But crucially there were signs that human cells were functioning - albeit as a tiny fraction of the total tissue - as part of a human-pig chimera.

"This is the first time that human cells are seen growing inside a large animal," Prof Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, from the Salk Institute, told the BBC News website.

Here;  http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38717930

"But Dennis, these are wonderful medical experiments that one day could do great things like grow replacement organs for sick humans!"

That might be a good argument....but what happens if science starts cooking really strange flesh in their labs?

Could they be opening Pandora's box?

North Korea Will "Push the Button" if Kim Jong Dynasty Threatened

The scientists that set the Doomsday Clock are evidently meeting today and are planning on moving the hands forward a second or two.  They might be scared of Donald Trump with his finger on the button AND they might be reading the report from this defector from North Korea.

In explosive new comments, former senior North Korean diplomat Thae Yong Ho urged President Donald Trump not to immediately meet with Kim Jong Un directly and said that Kim's days are numbered.

Thae, Pyongyang's former deputy ambassador to the United Kingdom, defected to South Korea in August.

"I can say that Kim Jong Un's days are numbered," Thae said, speaking in Seoul at a press conference. He charged that the country's elite are "turning their backs" on the current leadership and that "the traditional structures of North Korean systems are crumbling."

[READ: South Korea Moves on Creation of Decapitation Unit for Kim Jong Un]

Thae told the BCC much the same, remarking, "I'm sure that Kim Jong Un's regime one day will collapse by a people's uprising."


Pyongyang has called Thae "human scum" and accused him of financial crimes.

The defector said Kim would potentially be prepared to use the nuclear weapons he is developing.


"Kim Jong Un knows that nuclear weapons are the only guarantee for his rule. And Kim Jong Un, I think, will press the button on these dangerous weapons when he thinks that his rule and his dynasty is threatened," Thae said. Kim is the son of his predecessor, Kim Jong Il, and the grandson of the country's founder and "eternal president," Kim Il Sung.

http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2017-01-25/kim-jong-uns-days-are-numbered-because-north-korean-people-will-revolt-leading-dissident-says

No doubt the world is angry and in turmoil. It always has been but seems quite a bit testier right now.

Do you think we are going to melt the world down in nuclear war?  I believe it might happen during the Great Tribulation...but based on scripture, I don't believe it will happen before that.

Jesus told us the condition of the world when he comes for His bride and it sure appears to be in a "business as usual" mode....with eating, drinking, marrying, building, planting, etc...  NOT people trying to survive a nuclear winter.

Matthew 24
37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

Luke 17
26 “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. 27 People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

28 “It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. 29 But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

Is POTUS Trump a Prophecy Accelerator?

Is the election of Donald Trump to give Christians a reprieve from the godlessness of the liberal-globalist agenda?

Maybe.

But what if Donald Trump was ordained by God for the purpose of accelerating prophecy?

What if world events are really getting ready to rock and roll and Trump is the guy to light the fuse? 

To that thought, many of us would say COME LORE JESUS!

During the past election year, America experienced a very dirty campaign. From the very beginning, the Republican Party was at each other’s throats. Establishment GOP were vehemently against the nomination of billionaire businessman, Donald Trump. He was not a politician, therefore, he was not in the same club as the average Washington D.C. politician. Trump was going against the tide and he stood up against the policies from BOTH sides of our government. Mr. Trump was opposed to this mess with illegal immigration and the open border policies of Barack Obama. He was against the TPP, a trade deal that was intended to sell out American jobs to Asia.

This was another policy by Barack Obama, that hinted at sabotage against the American worker. Repealing Obamacare was another promise made by Donald Trump and he listed one thing after another that he would change in his efforts to “make America great again”. Basically, Mr. Trump made it clear that he intended to undo most everything that Barack Obama and company did during the past eight years of the Obama Administration.

During those eight years, the establishment politicians in both parties rolled out the red carpet and allowed Barack Obama to dismantle and destroy many American traditions. Obama is a radical, there is no doubt, and his flippant rule and egotistical manner proved to MANY that he was no friend of America. It certainly appeared that Obama was bent on the destruction of America and he took the side of many ultra leftist groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood, Black Lives Matter and militant gay and lesbian organizations.

Barack Obama applauded himself as he gave billions of dollars to Iran, thus helping them toward developing a nuclear bomb. Obama flipped his finger at America as he opened the borders, allowed illegal alien criminals to run free in America, while he ordered the release of terrorists from GITMO. When not playing golf, Barack Obama signed one executive order after another, as he overstepped his authority. Under Obama’s watch, the IRS was used as a weapon against Christian conservative groups. With the help of then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Obama brought war to the Middle East, as one country toppled after another, in the so called ARAB SPRING, which was actually a takeover by the violent Muslim Brotherhood. This led to mass persecution of Christians and many of those countries are now hot bed breeding grounds for terrorism.

President Trump’s plans to move the U. S. embassy to Jerusalem, means Trump agrees with God, that Jerusalem belongs to God’s chosen people. The world will disagree, and this move will unleash Satan’s fury not only against Trump, but also against the United States of America. Satan’s minions in the news media, our government, and globalists around the world, have been throwing fits of rage ever since Trump won the election. Could this explain the rabid hatred all these radicals have for Donald Trump?

We have witnessed the hand of God on this election. Christians on bended knee prayed hard and God heard our prayers. God’s will was for Donald Trump to be the 45th President, as all efforts to stop him failed. Is it also God’s desire that Jerusalem become the world’s center of attention now? Are we approaching God’s appointed time?

I believe the election of Donald Trump was allowed to happen, not as a reprieve, but as a PROPHECY ACCELERATOR. While many sit back and think we have been given a reprieve, it might be more correct to say that we have entered a new prophetic time frame.

Indeed, these could be interesting times. If Trump does fulfill his plan to officially acknowledge the capital of Israel to be Jerusalem, then America must expect the backlash from the world to be fierce, especially from Muslim nations. It could cause terrorist acts in America to seriously increase. We would be in perilous times for sure. This is the time to pray harder than we did before the election. We must pray that God’s will be done, and His hand to be upon our nation and President Trump.
Many ‘watchers on the wall’ believe the Rapture, or the calling out of the Body of Christ, will occur around the Jewish Feast of Trumpets, which occurs in the autumn. What if this event were to happen during Trump’s time in office? I have heard that he has chosen many born again Christians for key positions in his administration and some have said that Donald Trump himself became a born again Christian during the Presidential campaign. If this is correct, the Rapture could remove the top people from our government, leaving it in total confusion.

Here;  http://www.raptureready.com/2017/01/23/president-trump-gods-reprieve-america-not-c-lynn-peake/

As we said yesterday in another post, if USA successfully moves their embassy to Jerusalem in a proper attempt to anchor the city into Israel's control....the Muslim world is going to have a fit and so are all the other Western liberal nations and 90% of college campuses in America.  It could lead to major unrest in numerous places.

Let's remember that Trump's election was not a surprise to God and NOTHING Trump does or doesn't do will be a surprise to God.  He knows the beginning from the end.

Prepare for Heaven or Make the World a Better Place?

How many times have I heard people say, "The end times is of no importance to Christians.  It's a waste of time to think about it and it's a waste of time to talk about it."

Hmmmmm......that's interesting because Jesus talked about the end of the age and he also told us to watch the events happening around us.

Knowing what you believe and being able to back it up with scripture is important to all believers, not only so we can share our faith but so we can defend it as well.

Think about it:
"Well Dennis, I'm a Christian and I think our main purpose on earth is to make the world a better place, clean the environment, feed all the poor people, accept and celebrate our brothers and sisters of different faiths and once the world is living in harmony, THEN Jesus will come back and tell us what a great job we have done!"

Do YOU believe that?  No??

OK so I guess our beliefs about SOME end-times discussions CAN be important.

Many young evangelicals in the millennial generation are shifting from their parents' theological emphasis on biblical prophecy to a focus on issues of social justice in this world, such as combating homelessness, economic inequality, racism and violence, the website Religion & Politics reports.

Michael Onifer, director of the Bethlehem Project and author of the book "God, Israel, and You: The Scandalous Story of a Faithful God," said the trend has positive implications.

"I'm very excited to see a generation that's looking to effect change in real-time as opposed to invest time and energy in the speculation of future events; and I think the church will be better by investing more time in engaging the world than we will in trying to understand end time prophecy," Onifer told WND.

Onifer clarified that he believes Christians should prepare for the afterlife, but he thinks they can't prepare without helping to make the world a better place in the process.

"If we're going to say sanctification is synonymous with preparing for the afterlife, then no one can really do that in a biblical sense without benefiting their immediate temporal surroundings," he said.

"So I would say to focus on the afterlife without benefiting your temporal, immediate existence is not biblical. I would say that would be some type of religious invention, but that's not biblical Christianity."

http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=960

Do Christians make the world a better place?  Yes it's a fact that the Holy Spirit restrains evil.

Is the world going to get better or worse as Jesus the return of Christ nears?  Worse.

Should we care for the world and be good stewards of all that God has entrusted us with?  Yes.

Should we care MORE about spreading the Good News that has the power to save eternal souls than we should about saving the planet?  Yes.

You can feed millions of hungry people but if all you do is feed them and them never tell them the Good News....what eternal work have you accomplished?

Jerusalem Mayor Says He is in Talks With Trump About Embassy Move

Here is a good question to ponder....What if God ordained Donald Trump as President to get the world even MORE focused on Jerusalem than it already is?

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat said Monday he has held talks with American officials about moving the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a day after a White House official said discussions of the controversial transfer were only in their early stages.

Barkat, who has hailed Trump for committing to move the embassy to Jerusalem, a move long sought by Israeli officials, said he believes the administration intends to follow through on its promises.

“From the conversations I’ve had with US government officials, I know they are serious in their intentions [to move the embassy],” Barkat told Army Radio.

He said the Americans owned a number of a properties in Jerusalem they could use to house the embassy.

“I definitely don’t think they will move the embassy in a day,” he acknowledged, though.

On Sunday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said talks had begun on moving the embassy, but seemed to indicate an actual move could be a long time away.

“We are at the very beginning stages of even discussing this subject,” Spicer said in a statement.

Here:  http://www.timesofisrael.com/jerusalem-mayor-says-hes-in-talks-with-us-about-embassy-move/

IF this move happens or even if it continues to be talked about...the nations are going to have a hissy fit!

Zechariah
“I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling.

Jesus Warned About Coming Division

I know that many of you have divided families that have divided because of your belief in Jesus as your savior.  I know that mine is.

Recently, I was talking to a cousin and she has 3 siblings along with her mom and dad.  She told me how her mom's brother and sister have refused to talk her mom since the election.  She also told me that her sister and brother are divided against the other sister and her. As we would expect, two of her siblings have rejected the Gospel while the rest of her family has accepted it.

None of this should really surprise us.  It might sadden us but it shouldn't surprise us.

Luke 12:49-53
51 Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. 52 From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three. 53 They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

We all have loved one's who have rejected the Gospel...so keep praying as we simply don't know whether or not they will one day seek the Lord.

Russia, Turkey and Iran

Today I turned on CBS to watch Charlie, Nora and Gayle give the headline news.  As they were talking, they had headlines scrolling across the bottom of the screen.

Here is the one that caught my eye;

Russia leads talks with Turkey and Iran to uphold Syrian cease fire

Hmmmmm....anyone think Ezekiel 38 might be soon coming?

And if Ezekiel 38 is on the horizon....how much closer could the day be when Christ breaks from the sky and calls His bride to come meet him in the clouds?

Again, we have NO IDEA if that event is 1 day away or 100 years away....but we would NOT BE SURPRISED if it happened soon.

SNL Monologue Sneaks in Lie About Allah

Wow folks....this lie is coming at us from all sides!  It's in the liberal-church, it's on Facebook, it's on the radio and now it has even made its way into a Saturday Night Live monologue.

Please notice about 5:47 into the monologue that Aziz claims that Muslims worship the SAME GOD of Abraham that is found in the Bible!

WRONG!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9PpuYTgNQ4

Now ask yourselves, HOW DOES HE KNOW THAT?  He's a comedian!  And yet the atheists and liberals will INSIST that Muslims worship the same god as Jesus...because they heard it on Saturday Night Live?

You simply can't make this stuff up.

This should come as no surprise to any of my readers, but those of us who support Israel, believe the Bible to be the inerrant/inspired word of God, believe that Jesus is part of the trinity and believe He is the ONLY WAY....we are going to be a VERY SMALL CROWD as these last days progress.

Just plan on it.  Then we can better reconcile ourselves for the persecution that will be coming our way if The Lord tarries.

Fake Transgender Crashes Women's March to Ask Why

With all the upside down news happening and all the pain and suffering taking place all over the world....it's good that we can still find some things to laugh about.

Today we find a video by Steven Crowder where he dressed up as a woman (transgender) and then went to the women's march to find out WHY all these women were marching.

Of course, just as you would expect....Crowder finds much confusion in the crowd of women wearing vagina hats on their head.

Here;  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUDtoDAGVE8

I'm pretty sure that most of you will find something to laugh at in this 8 minute video.

But as always, while you are laughing, please remember that many of these folks appear to be lost in their sin....which of course isn't funny.

Hat tip to Guy B.

How Republics End

How long do nations or kingdoms survive?

History shows us a wide berth of answers to that question.

At this blog, we have been asking that question since the economy almost collapsed in 2008 and we watched the rise of Team Obama begin to shake and erode the very foundations of our nation.  We wondered if America would survive Obama.

Today, of course, we now have President Trump.  And now the liberals of the world are asking the very same questions we conservatives have been asking.

We ran across this NYT article by a liberal worldview journalist named Paul Krugman.  Notice what he asks at the very end of the article.

One thing all of this makes clear is that the sickness of American politics didn’t begin with Donald Trump, any more than the sickness of the Roman Republic began with Caesar. The erosion of democratic foundations has been underway for decades, and there’s no guarantee that we will ever be able to recover.

But if there is any hope of redemption, it will have to begin with a clear recognition of how bad things are. American democracy is very much on the edge.

Here;  https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/opinion/how-republics-end.html?WT.mc_id=2016-KWP-AUD_DEV&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=AUDDEVREMARK&kwp_0=299460&kwp_4=1147911&kwp_1=526748&_r=0

We find it interesting that we have posted about the conditions in Rome right before the collapse.  They handed out free bread to everyone, they built stadiums in every town to entertain everyone and they devalued their currency and hoped the people would never find out.

Now look at America.  We have 48,000,000 getting free bread, we have new NBA, NFL, NHL and baseball stadiums going up in every city AND we just devalued our currency by creating massive amounts of QE I, QE II, QE III, etc...

We also find it interesting that Paul Krugman now thinks he should write about the collapse of Rome and question America's foundations only AFTER his party lost.  Why didn't he write the article after Team Obama had been in power a few years and started doing such damage to our foundations?

Carrington Event Solar Storms Could Cost $40 billion Per Day

We have blogged numerous times on The Carrington Event over the past years.  So some of you might know what it is but many of you probably don't.

The Carrington Event was a massive solar storm that blanketed earth back in 1859.  There was very little electrical infrastructure at that time so most people on planet earth kept plowing with their horses and picking eggs from the coop without any knowledge of what was happening.

However, for the few places that had telegraph, the solar storm was disastrous.  It shocked operators and caused fires in the wooden telegraph offices.

So what if a solar storm of the same magnitude happened on planet earth tomorrow, next month or next year?

Below is the headline from a few days ago;

Carrington-Like Solar Storm That Could Hit Earth Within Next Decade May Cost US More Than $40 Billion Daily

Should a powerful solar storm hit Earth, the event could cause blackouts that will likely result in $41.5 billion daily economic losses in the United States alone.

Carrington Event

The most powerful solar flare documented to strike Earth is the Carrington event. The coronal mass ejection, which is produced during solar flares, that struck Earth on September 1859 caused auroras around the world.

Telegraph systems in Europe and North America failed and operators had electric shocks from the devices as a result of the solar event. Some machines also continued to work even after they were disconnected from electricity.

Chances Of A Carrington-Like Event Happening Within The Next Decade

A 2012 paper by space physicist Pete Riley, of Predictive Science in San Diego, California, revealed that the likelihood of another Carrington event happening within the next decade is about 12 percent.
Findings of a new study published in Space Weather revealed the economic impact of such a sufficiently powerful solar storm if it would affect Earth. The event could knock out the transformers needed to transmit electricity throughout the country's power grids which could lead to power blackouts.

Economic Implications Of A Powerful Solar Storm

Earlier studies only looked at the direct economic costs within the blackout zones and did not consider the extreme space weather's indirect impact on domestic and international supply chain.
Now, researchers of the new study said that the direct economic cost that could be incurred from disruption of electricity represents only 49 percent of the possible macroeconomic costs. In most extreme blackout scenario that could affect 66 percent of the population in the United States, domestic economic loss in a day could be $41.5 billion. Loss associated with the international supply chain would be at $7 billion.

"By exploring the sensitivity of the blackout zone, we show that on average the direct economic cost incurred from disruption to electricity represents only 49% of the total potential macroeconomic cost," the researchers wrote in their study.

"Therefore, if indirect supply chain costs are not considered when undertaking cost-benefit analysis of space weather forecasting and mitigation investment, the total potential macroeconomic cost is not correctly represented."

Experts have varied views on the potential severity of blackouts associated with CMEs. Some think that the outages would last only hours or up to a few days. Other think that blackouts would last weeks or even months because transmission networks could be knocked out and would require replacements.

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/193852/20170122/carrington-like-solar-storm-that-could-hit-earth-within-next-decade-may-cost-us-more-than-40-billion-daily.htm

Could this happen?  Absolutely.

POWER OUT FOR MONTHS?????

Wait a second.....we can't survive without power for even a few hours!!  Our freezers!  Our cell phones!  Our laptops!!  Our shopping malls!!  Our heaters!!

Some studies have shown that if power went out for months in America that millions would die.

Of course they would.  Where would they get food?  Where would they get water?  How scared would millions of people stuck in the cities actually become?  How desperate would they become?

Would they be willing to steal food for themselves or their kids?

Yep.

Would they be willing to beat or kill someone to save themselves?

Yep.

You are talking about total societal meltdown.....and according to the article it could happen any day.

So why do we blog about this?

Because I believe it's important to understand how many blessings we take for granted.  Did you have a hot shower today?  Did you have lunch?  Did you sleep in a soft bed last night?  Were you warm under all your blankets on  a cold MN night?  Did you use a flush toilet?  Did you watch the morning news on TV while you ate breakfast?

I also believe it's important to understand just how loose our reality actually is.

I think sometimes we totally forget that we are living on a huge rock spinning around at 1000 mph and hurtling through space at 60,000 mph as the rock makes it's annual pilgrimage around the sun....AND WE DON'T HAVE A STEERING WHEEL!

I believe it's important for us to reflect on, and give praise to God Almighty....who holds the whole world in His hands.  Without Him...we are nothing.