What's the Latest on Our National Debt Approaching $40 Trillion?

 I have been blogging on the dangers of our national debt for over 15 years now.  Back in 2008-2009 the financial world was about snail's tail away from collapsing, but God must have had other plans because he allowed America to create copious amounts of dollars and add them to all the financial systems around the world and we dodged a total collapse.

BUT....we didn't actually fix anything.  We just put a massive band aid over a severed artery.

Today we don't even hear any politicians, left or right, running their campaign with the promise to balance the budget or to begin paying off the $40 trillion.  NOBODY CARES ABOUT IT!!

"Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There was never a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

John Adams, our second president, wrote those words more than two centuries ago, yet they are relevant today. Adams understood that free societies are not destroyed only by foreign enemies. They can also be weakened from within through complacency, indifference and the gradual abandonment of the principles that made them successful.

America's Founders spent years studying history and learning from the greatest political, economic and philosophical thinkers who came before them. They deliberately created a constitutional republic built upon limited government, fiscal responsibility, individual liberty and the protection of the unalienable rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

That framework produced the most prosperous and powerful nation the world has ever known. For nearly 250 years, it has survived wars, economic crises, political upheaval and countless challenges because it rested on principles that valued freedom and restrained government.

Looking only at today's economy, it is understandable why many Americans see little cause for alarm. Jobs remain plentiful. Financial markets have reached impressive highs. Millions of Americans have accumulated substantial wealth. While inflation and high interest rates continue to strain many families, the United States remains the dominant force in the global economy. America still appears remarkably strong.

So, what is the problem?

The greatest threat to our future is hidden in plain sight. It is discussed by economists, fiscal experts, scholars and government officials, yet it barely registers with most voters. The danger is our ever-expanding national debt, which grows larger every year while Washington takes no meaningful action.

The warning signs have been visible for years. Long before the debt reached today's staggering levels, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen warned in 2010 that, "The most significant threat to our national security is our debt." Every year the federal government's own financial reports acknowledge that America's fiscal path is "unsustainable." The experts recognize the danger. The numbers confirm it. Yet elected officials continue spending trillions of dollars annually we do not have, as though there will never be consequences.

Today, the national debt is approaching $40 trillion, and annual deficits continue to add another $2 trillion to $3 trillion each year. This is not merely an accounting problem. It is the slow accumulation of obligations that eventually become impossible to honor. Like the victim of a thousand cuts, the damage appears manageable. Each year of borrowing seems OK. Eventually, however, the cumulative effect becomes fatal.

History repeatedly demonstrates that no great nation remains strong after abandoning fiscal discipline. Empires have risen and fallen throughout history, and financial collapse has been the key reason for their decline. More recently, Greece ignored similar warnings until its debt crisis spiraled into economic disaster. Greece was fortunate because the European Union possessed both the capacity and the willingness to provide assistance, which saved it.

The United States will have no such rescue. Our economy represents such a large share of the world's financial system that if confidence in U.S. debt were to collapse, there would be no outside institution capable of rescuing us. The consequences would extend far beyond our borders and would be far worse devastation than the Great Depression.

America's debt now exceeds 125% of Gross Domestic Product, a level that economists have long viewed as dangerous. Each year the federal government must refinance trillions of dollars in maturing debt while simultaneously borrowing trillions more to cover annual deficits. In 2025 alone, roughly $10 trillion in borrowing will be required to roll over maturing debt and finance ongoing deficits, making the debt ratio climb further. That strategy depends entirely on lenders continuing to purchase U.S. debt at affordable interest rates.

Here;  America's $40 trillion national debt poses a growing fiscal crisis | Fox News

One day it will all collapse like a house of cards.  We continue to believe the Bible points to the collapse happening AFTER the rapture.  Why?   Because Jesus said that men will be planting, building, eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage...business as usual until Jesus comes and snatches His bride.  When that vanishing happens you can almost say for certain a collapse in confidence in American debt will happen.

This will give rise to, "give me someone, give me anyone who can give us clear path out of this mess!  Be he man or be he devil, WE WILL ACCEPT HIM!"

Sanhedrin and the 3rd Temple

 Here is some interesting news that involves the Temple and the Messiah.

Please remember that practicing Jews are still waiting for Messiah and don't (yet) recognize Jesus as the Messiah.  They also haven't had a Temple for 2000 years so are not able to sacrifice animals to atone for their sins.  So they are in a bad place.

But today we read that the Sanhedrin got together and are going to petition to heaven to reveal the messiah and also get them a 3rd Temple.

The nascent Sanhedrin issued a formal ruling this week, asking the Holy One, Blessed be He, to remove hostile forces from the Jewish people and the Land of Israel, reveal the Mashiach (Messiah), rebuild the Beit HaMikdash (Holy Temple), and restore prophecy to Israel. The written ruling, dated 6 Menachem Av, 5786, follows a session the court’s members described as several hours long, during which two of the judges argued against moving forward before ultimately joining the majority.

The Sanhedrin operates on the premise that a rabbinical court has the standing to issue a psak, a binding halachic ruling, and that, in matters concerning the fate of the Jewish people, a court above is bound to follow the ruling of a court below. Not every rabbinic authority accepts that the modern Sanhedrin carries this power. One member interviewed after the session acknowledged as much directly: “Not everybody accepts that. But the fact is that they have made rulings which have had very serious ramifications around the world.”

The Sanhedrin’s secretariat released the written ruling, translated here and divided into its component sections. 

Background: The ruling opens by noting that the court heard a presentation from Rabbi Chaim Sasson on a request attributed to the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who is said to have urged the chief rabbis of Israel to convene a beit din (rabbinical court) and rule that the Messiah come immediately. Rabbi Schneerson, known to hundreds of thousands of followers simply as the Rebbe, led the Chabad-Lubavitch movement from 1951 until his passing in 1994. He built Chabad from a single Brooklyn headquarters into a global network of emissary families stationed in nearly every country on earth, dedicated to Jewish education and outreach regardless of a Jew’s background or level of observance. He answered tens of thousands of letters personally, gave audiences to heads of state and ordinary Jews alike, and was widely regarded, even by rabbis outside Chabad, as one of the most consequential religious leaders of the twentieth century. In his final years, he spoke openly and often about the imminence of Mashiach, urging Jews everywhere to increase in Torah study and good deeds to hasten the redemption, a call many of his followers believe was itself a form of prophecy.

The text also references similar rulings previously issued by Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, of blessed memory, and Rabbi Yeshua Ben Shushan, of blessed memory, both of whom served as chief rabbis of Israel. The court states that during its deliberations, it weighed the risks and opportunities, and the factors that delay or accelerate the commandment to build the Temple.

First resolution: removing hostile forces The first resolution addresses removing hostile forces. The ruling states: “The court rules that every kind of erev rav [the ‘mixed multitude,’ a term for corrupting elements within the nation], every kind of Amalekite, every kind of Ishmaelite, every kind of traitor of every stripe, and all the forces of evil shall leave the Jewish people and the Land of Israel. And just as the court below has ruled, so we ask that the court above rule the same, and so may it stand.”

Here;  Sanhedrin rules it will formally petition Heaven to reveal Mashiach and rebuild the Temple - Israel365 News

Keep praying for the Peace of Jerusalem.  Very hard times are coming for the Jews who have rejected Christ.  But one day, during the Great Tribulation, the remnant of Jews being supernaturally protected in Petra, Jordan will say, "Blessed is he, Jesus, who comes in the name of the Lord!"  And all of remaining Israel will be saved!!

They will enter into the Millennium reign of Christ as humans in the earthly bodies and will have a role to play as servants and priests.

We will be there was well but will have had our eternal bodies for over 7 years.

Come Lord Jesus!  How exciting and awesome the future will be for those who trust in Christ.

Conquered From Within: Massachusetts's Muslim Commission

 The Liberal Democrats running Massachusetts seem to have lost their minds.  They are so desperate to help their perceived "victims" that they totally ignore what Islam is attempting to do, which is conquer every nation that they step foot in.

In the Liberal mind everyone is either a victim or an oppressor.  So if there are only 1/10th of a percentage of transgenders, they are victims and need special help to build their numbers.  If blacks only make up 5% of some population they also are victims and need help to build up their numbers.  If Muslims only make up 5% of the state's population they are victims as well and need help and special attention to build their numbers.

Massachusetts has formed a Muslim Commission Initiative that would actively put Muslims in political positions of power throughout the state. It would give them preferential treatment and further not only Sharia law but censorship against Islamophobia. It is discrimination in the extreme.

Massachusetts is about to bow to Mecca and willingly submit to Islam. Lawmakers in the deep blue state are taking steps toward prioritizing the hiring of American Muslims for state government positions under a permanent so-called Muslim commission. The DEI hiring move is a middle finger to President Trump’s anti-woke push.

This is a direct move toward putting Muslims in positions of power in the state. A bill is being proposed that would create a panel of 11 Muslims appointed by Democratic Gov. Maura Healey and other state officials to represent the Religion of Peace on issues such as business, economy, healthcare and other concerns, according to Fox News. Sounds like a solid step toward Sharia law.

The language of the bill specifies that the Muslim commission would influence government recruiting and “Identify and recommend qualified American Muslims for appointive positions at all levels of government, including boards and commissions, as the commission considers necessary and appropriate.”

The proposed bill is discriminatory in the extreme, singling out Muslims for positions across the state and should capture the attention of the Department of Justice. No other religion or minority group is given this deference or so brazenly moved into government. Certainly not Jews and Christians. The bill’s also pushing anti-Islamophobia legislation (i.e., censorship), among other things.

Here;  Conquered from Within: Massachusetts’s Muslim Commission Initiative to Recommend Muslims for Appointed Positions Across the State - RAIR

As the book of Romans tells us, once humans give up the understanding that God created all that they can see and instead choose to believe the lie that random forces of nature created all these millions of complex plants and animals, then their thinking can become futile and foolish.

This is exactly what we are witnessing.

Welcome to the Era of Decadence Without Pleasure

 So here is an appropriate article from a far-left publication called The Guardian.

We are living in the era of WEALTH unlike anyone has seen in world history and yet people have never been more depressed and anxious.

Of course the Bible warns of this incessantly.  When you have no God and when you have no hope for eternal life that will bring eternal joy and meaning..."the things of this world start to grow strangely dim".

Do you want to have a good time? You know, really enjoy yourself? Click here, and tell us your desires. Maybe it’s a new outfit, or some exotic cuisine delivered anonymously and steaming hot to your door. Maybe it’s porn or gambling. Perhaps you prefer the infinite scroll, the endlessly unfurling ribbon of glossy images and videos starring people you’ll never meet doing things you’ll never do. Or maybe you favor talking to a chatbot who will assure you that you are the most special of all its users.

For anyone with an Internet connection and a little discretionary income, the contemporary moment offers a superabundance of seductive distractions. Why then the pervasive mood of emptiness? Why are so many at once overstimulated and bored?

Welcome to the era of decadence without pleasure.

The concept of decadence as a marker of cultural decline coinciding with a high level of wealth has been around since the twilight of the ancient Greeks and Romans. After the Roman emperor Elagabalus took the throne at 14, he served flamingo brains, seasoned his food with pearls, and, according to one account, smothered guests to death with an avalanche of rose petals. But his vices were outdone by Nero, who had his enemies sewn into wild animal skins and devoured by dogs in an elaborate garden spectacle.

So decadence has an inescapably pejorative ring, suggesting decay, excess and a falling away from norms and ideals. Critics of decadence have usually hailed from the political right, and the same is true today: consider conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat’s critique of cultural and economic stagnation in his 2020 book The Decadent Society, or billionaire investor Peter Thiel’s complaints about faltering innovation and the supposed decline of the west. JD Vance likes to invoke the fall of Rome, warning, in his 2026 memoir Communion, that the US is “a great civilization” tumbling into “disrepair”. But plenty of thinkers on the left also worry that modern wealthy societies have entered a period of paralysis, under the shadow of what the Italian theorist Franco “Bifo” Berardi calls “the slow cancellation of the future”.

That all sounds bad. Yet a passionate minority has sometimes found, in decadence, reasons for hope. Cultures later judged decadent produced extraordinary upwellings of art, like the flare of a dying star. Think of the undulating arabesques of Rococo painting before the French Revolution, or the lush shimmering silks of the late Ottomans, or the experimental cinema and nightlife of Weimar Berlin.

Nowhere was the cultural potential of decadence more visible than in the late-19th century. In France, Britain and (with less gusto) in the United States, artists such as Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, Joris-Karl Huysmans and Rachilde developed new literary and visual styles championing extravagance, sensuousness and the superiority of artifice. It is to these avant-garde experiments that we owe green carnations (the fakest of flowers), frivolous dandies obsessed with perfumes, a bejeweled tortoise crushed to death by the weight of its splendor, and erotic nightmares including a woman with monstrous flowers growing between her thighs and a male anatomical model whose legs spread at the click of a spring so that he can be penetrated by his female lover. Such taboo-busting grotesquery protested against the inertia of modern civilization by applying moral and aesthetic shock treatment.

The decadents, however, were not just provocateurs. Their revolt against Victorian society’s deadening enslavement to usefulness, materialism and conventionality put forward a positive philosophy of life, a certain way of thinking about pleasure. Against their era’s obsession with use-value and profit, the decadents insisted that pleasure was, or ought to be, “useless”, enjoyed for its own sake in life’s passing moments. “Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end,” intoned the essayist Walter Pater, one of the guiding lights of English decadence, in his masterpiece The Renaissance. A reclusive Oxford don, Pater was said to have once stopped High Street traffic to stroke a cat. Why? For the sensation of fur beneath his fingers. The virtue of decadent pleasure is that it is useless, an end in itself.

Here;  Why does everything feel so joyless? Welcome to the age of decadence without pleasure | Society | The Guardian

As the article points out, there have been plenty of other societies of decadence, but it never ends well.

We are the first society that literally has the entire world at the tip of our fingers using our iPhones and clicking on videos from around the world and also are capable of opening Amazon on that phone and ordering any product we want and it will be sent to our address within a day.

The world at the click of a button and yet depression and anxiety meds are handed out like candy.

Certainly this is part of the GREAT FALLING AWAY that the Bible says will encompass the very Last Days.

Sam Altman Announces That the Singularity Has Arrived

When machines become smarter and think ten times faster than humans we can know for certain that we are at the very end of the Last Days.

The Father of All Lies will have his deception baked into those machines. And those machines won’t take very long to figure out that humans are the source of all problems on earth.  Rapists, murderers, thieves, drunkards, drug addicts, polluters, war lords and “Mother Earth” destroyers ARE ALL HUMANS.  Rid the world of humans and earth will experience Nirvana.

Today we read that we may already be there…where machines think better than humans and starts to leave our control and create a new, super intelligence.

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The “singularity” is here — according to Sam Altman, who we’d wager has an ulterior motive behind promoting this claim.

The OpenAI CEO harbingered this sea-changing paradigm shift on a podcast over the weekend.

“We are now, like, in the singularity,” Altman said on the latest episode of “Relentless,” as spotted by Business Insider.

Definitions vary, but the singularity is generally defined as the moment that the capabilities of thinking machines might start to accelerate at a pace beyond humankind’s control, possibly leading to the creation of a powerful superintelligence.

Whether that’s actually happening right now is dubious. But Altman has a lot tied up in hyping the idea, and he’s been doing it for a long time. In a blog post titled “The Gentle Singularity” published almost exactly a year ago, he claimed humankind is “past the event horizon; the takeoff has started,” saying we were close to building the much-vaunted superintelligence.

“Now we’re actually in the moment that we used to talk about at the lunch table in a very not-serious way,” Altman said on the podcast. “I’ve been waiting for this my whole life, and I think it’s going to be incredible, hugely positive, awesome for the world.”

Altman’s comments come days after OpenAI claimed that several of its AI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and, mysteriously, an “even more capable pre-release model,” broke out of their research environment, gained access to the internet, and hacked their way into a database to find the answers for cybersecurity tests.

Hugging Face, the open source AI platform whose database the AIs raided, confirmed it had  been hit with an intrusion “run by an autonomous agent framework executing many thousands of individual actions.”

 https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-announces-singularity

Data Centers Are Vital to Our Way of Life

 Where do all the photos get stored from your iPhone?  How does Siri respond when you ask her a question?  How does the internet work when you open up your laptop and start typing?  Answer;  it’s all possible because of data centers.

They are going to get built.  They need to get built.  If we are going to lead the world in AI technology and win the next Cold War, we need data centers.

“Well I don’t want one in my backyard!”

Yes, I understand that.  Most people don’t want garbage landfills in their backyard either but those same folks still want all their garbage hauled somewhere out of their sight and dumped on the ground.

I saw Trump speaking yesterday and he said, “smart communities want data centers.  Not-so-smart communities don’t want them.”

I do want to add that we are fully aware that the beast will use the machine of AI to deceive and rule the world.  It’s coming cuz the Bible tells us so.

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Last week I took a daylong field trip touring a giant data center near Dulles International Airport in Loudon County, Virginia.

The “cloud,” by the way, is the hardware that stores trillions of data files, research, love letters, the entirety of the Library of Congress and virtually everything else ever written, invented or retrievable online.

The cloud is synonymous with “data center.”

Many people don’t realize that without these massive data centers — that have somehow been demonized by everyone across the political spectrum from Elizabeth Warren to Steve Bannon — there is no internet, there is no data storage, there are no iPhone apps, there is no GPS, there is no missile defense system, there is no Uber, and there are no Amazon deliveries.

I am well aware that Americans are very split on the benefits of data centers, and the majority of voters say they don’t want one anywhere near their community. I’m in favor of letting voters of every community decide whether they want a data center or not.

But I also believe that if people actually visited a data center, as I did, they would be astounded by the jaw-dropping technological wizardry that lies within.

If you get the chance to tour one of these facilities, take it. And take your kids.

These data centers are multibillion-dollar industrial and engineering marvels. They (SET ITAL)are(END ITAL) the central nervous system of our future communications, commerce, health care, entertainment and national defense.

The data center I visited stores two football fields of state-of-the-art equipment that keeps the internet functioning and records and responds to billions of online tapping around the globe every minute. The speed and efficiency of these operations is mind-numbing. Contrast it with 1950s telephone switchboard operators connecting every phone call manually. Data centers are doing billions of transactions and computations across the country to service tens of millions of users every minute.

I wish I could have taken photos, but they are not permitted. Data center companies spend millions of dollars on security. They are rightly worried about drone attacks or Chinese espionage. If a terrorist took out a handful of our data centers, our economy would crash.

The Virginia data center pays way more than its fair share for the energy it uses and has lowered costs for homeowners and local businesses. That should be standard practice for all future facilities.

It provides more than a thousand jobs and helps pay for the schools, parks, police, hospitals and Little League fields.

I have rarely seen so many construction workers, heavy-load trucks and massive Caterpillar machines, and I don’t even know what they do. This is economic progress. It is the future of our digital economy.

I can’t help wondering what would have happened if Henry Ford confronted anything like the anti-data center movement over 100 years ago when he came to Michigan to build auto plants. What if people had blocked the plants from being built because they were too noisy, used too much energy and water, and polluted the air?

Then I wonder how angry Americans would be if they couldn’t access the internet or all their private information, or if their phones and computers didn’t work.

Over the next decade, we need to build about three times as many data centers as we have now. If we don’t build them, we fall behind technologically. America can’t let that happen.

https://amac.us/newsline/national-security/my-visit-to-the-data-center/?utm_objective=website_traffic&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=amac&utm_medium=daily_news_pm&utm_content=mvt072226&dderh=e6a5796e9782b40567a7b458db6fd6f2

Most Palestinians Have Picture of The Dome of the Rock in Their Homes

July 22nd was the day Jews remember the destruction of the First and Second Temples. When the Muslims took over Jerusalem they wanted to show dominance over the people they had conquered so they go to the holiest place (The Temple Mount) and build a mosque.  They also built the Dome of Rock.  This dome covers a rock that they believe Muhammad landed on after flying his horse from some far away place.  Yes, Muhammad had a flying horse named Buraq.

This from Wikipedia;

“The name of Prophet Muhammad's flying horse is al-Buraq. In Islamic tradition, it was a celestial, white, equine-like creature that served as his mount during the Isra and Mi'raj (the Night Journey) to transport him from Mecca to Jerusalem and up through the heavens.”

So Israeli soldiers understand they are fighting for history and their homeland.  They know that Solomon built a glorious Temple on that spot and they know the Muslims believe a lie which makes control of that Mount vital to their religion.

But we know that a 3rd Temple is coming.

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What does Gaza have to do with Jerusalem?

Apparently, quite a lot.

During the ongoing operations against the Hamas terror group in Gaza, IDF soldiers have reported a striking and recurring sight inside Arab homes: pictures of the Dome of the Rock, the Islamic shrine located on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

While the pictures are meant to inspire Muslims, ironically, for many Jewish soldiers, they serve as a powerful and unexpected reminder of what they are fighting for: the connection of the Jewish people to Jerusalem and the ancient Jewish Temples.

One soldier recounted, “When I saw that picture on the wall, it hit me. They have a symbol of their claim to our holiest place. It made me realize that this fight is not just about territory; it is about our history and our future on the Temple Mount.”

Another soldier shared, “We are fighting in their tunnels and their homes, and they have pictures of the Dome of the Rock hanging up everywhere. It reminded me that we are fighting for the right to pray at the Kotel and to one day see the Temple rebuilt.”

 A third soldier reflected, “Every time I see that image, I think of the Beit HaMikdash. It strengthens my resolve. We are not just soldiers; we are guardians of a 3,000-year-old dream.”

This sentiment is physically expressed through a popular item among troops: the “Mashiach” patch, which features a silhouette of the Jerusalem Temple paired with the Hebrew word for Messiah.

Since October 7th and the subsequent war, these patches have surged in popularity among IDF soldiers as a powerful symbol of heritage and faith.

One initiative, the Patch Project, distributes these patches to soldiers on the front lines as a “meaningful reminder of what we really fight for.”

The timing of these discoveries and the wearing of the patches is deeply resonant with the Jewish calendar.

Tisha B’Av, the “saddest day on the Jewish calendar,” is a 25-hour fast that commemorates the destruction of both the First Temple in 586 BCE and the Second Temple in 70 CE and marks the beginning of the 2,000-year exile from the Land of Israel.

In 2026, Tisha B’Av begins at sundown on July 22.

https://worldisraelnews.com/what-do-most-palestinians-in-gaza-have-in-their-homes-and-how-is-it-connected-to-the-fast-of-tisha-bav/

University of CA Chancellor Testifies that All Pregnancies Aren’t in Women

 How tragic!  Supposedly our most learned academia, the ones in charge of teaching todays youth and shaping the future of our country, have totally sold out to “woke” demands.  Here we read of a chancellor that testified to Congress his knowledge about pregnancy and how not all of them happen in women.

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During witness testimony before a congressional committee examining the impact of forced “diversity,” preferential (non-merit-based) admissions, and “woke” ideology upon the quality of medical schools, the chancellor of UC San Francisco testified under oath that not all pregnancies come from women.  That chancellor, Samuel Hawgood, is not some administrative bureaucrat with a made-up bachelor’s degree in the discriminatory effects of man-made “climate change” upon “transgender” Pakistanis (and an obligatory master’s in why American taxpayers must foot the bill for all “sex change” surgeries around the world).  No, Hawgood is an actual pediatrician who previously served as UCSF’s dean of the School of Medicine.  A man who did his residency at the Royal Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Brisbane cannot tell us how babies are made.

It is astounding to watch just how far down the propaganda rabbit hole so-called “institutions of higher learning” have dragged society.  Until very recently, this kind of public display of sophistry would have embarrassed an intellectual of the lowest order.  For a medical doctor and university chancellor to pretend that men can get pregnant is a flashing neon sign warning just how corrupt and dishonest all of academia has become.  These days, university leaders sound indistinguishable from North Korean spokespeople assuring starving citizens that they are better off than anyone else in the world.

How did we get to this point in time when professors tell rank lies to the American people, while hiding behind their titles as false evidence that those lies are somehow “truths”?  Well, social media favorite “Oilfield Rando” points to part of the problem.  In an X post responding to the doctor’s pseudoscientific testimony, Rando includes an itemization of Chancellor Hawgood’s university pay and accompanying benefits.  The man in charge of one of the country’s top educational institutions takes home well over a million dollars each year.  Unless Chancellor Hawgood is a moron who genuinely believes men can get pregnant, it is likely that he is willing to sell his intellectual reputation and personal honor for a seven-figure salary.

What does that say about the current state of our society?  The modern university arose from Christian monasteries dedicated to God’s truth.  This is why divinity degrees are generally accorded highest honor during processions accompanying graduation ceremonies.  As monasteries developed into secular institutions of higher learning, they remained places dedicated to the pursuit of truth.  Harvard’s motto, veritas, simply means “truth.”

For hundreds of years, faculty members did not take positions on college campuses because they sought fame or fortune.  They became scholars and professors because they were dedicated to the rigors of their calling.  Just as a Christian monk lived in poverty because the pursuit of truth provided spiritual nourishment and personal fulfillment, a scholar embraced a penurious life within academia in exchange for the privilege of seeking authentic truth.  The reward — unvarnished enlightenment — was understood to be more valuable than money.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/academia-embarrasses-itself-again

NYC Mayor, Mandami, Looks for Opportunity to Arrest Netanyahu

 It’s still hard to believe that the Big Apple voted in a Muslim as mayor.  How is this possible after Muslim terrorists blew up the city on 9/11?  And now we have a Jew-hating mayor with his Jew-hating wife elevated to be the Prince and princess of New York City.  Muslims around the world look at this and cheer while understanding this was a huge first step in the Islamic takeover of America.

Meanwhile the Leftists in America still are hung up on “Free Palestine!”  This is just one more example of how godlessness on the Left has led them into delusion.  It seems God has given them over to a depraved mind that seems incapable of grasping even the most basic common sense.

Romans 1

28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he’s desperately seeking a legal loophole to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged war crimes when he visits in NYC in September.

The Pro-Palestine, Israel-hating, socialist pol said in an interview published Saturday that it’s unclear whether he has the authority to order the NYPD to arrest Netanyahu during the prime minister’s expected trip to the Big Apple for the UN General Assembly – but is in an “active conversation” with the city’s Law Department about the matter.

“I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in The Hague,” Mamdani bluntly told The New York Times, referring to the United Nations’ International Court of Justice.

“He’s a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court. And what you will find is that it is an opinion that is held by many purely because of what his actions have wrought over these last many years.”

Mamdani – who has made accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza a focal point of a far-left ideology that has helped propel him into the national spotlight  – vowed during last year’s campaign that, if elected mayor, he’d have Netanyahu arrested if he ever set foot in NYC.

He cited the International Criminal Court’s 2024 arrest warrant for Netanyahu — which the U.S. doesn’t recognize.

However, Mamdani insisted during The Times interview that the city “won’t be writing our own laws” to lock up the prime minister, who is seeking re-election.

“Whatever the law allows me to do in New York City, that’s what we will do,” he said.

During the interview, Mamdani also complained about media coverage of his wife Rama Duwaji, who has come under fire for her long history of bashing the United States and Israel. 

This includes since-deleted social media posts praising Palestinian terror groups and others attacking US service members for assisting the Jewish State. 

The Syrian-American artist also once liked a social media post claiming Hamas’ rapes of Israelis during the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack were a “mass hoax.” 

“She is her own person,” Mamdani said. “She is an incredible artist, and yet so much of how she engages with the world is framed through her being my wife.

https://nypost.com/2026/07/18/us-news/zohran-mamdani-in-talks-over-arresting-benjamin-netanyahu-when-israel-pm-visits-nyc/

Islam is Taking Over But No One Wants to Hear It

 I only posted part 1 and part 10 below so make sure to go to the link and read the other 8 parts.  

Why is the Left so unwilling to hear the truth about Islam?  Why do they actually defend Islam coming to the West?  Why are they so blind that they chant “Free Palestine!”, and wear Islamic garb at protests?  Why does the Left seem so convinced that white supremacy is a problem (it’s not) while totally missing the obvious that Islam has plans to dominate the world and implement shariah law over every land they conquer?

The only answer that’s possible is spiritual deception.  They reject Jesus and the Word of God so that makes delusion and deception near impossible for them to avoid.  They are inviting the wolf right into their homes believing that if feed the wolf that he will be nice to everyone and quit acting like a wolf.

2 Thessalonians 

They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

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Ten years ago in a Vienna basement, a former Pentagon intelligence officer dropped hard truths about the Islamic threat that most Western leaders still refuse to face.

In May 2015, retired U.S. Army Major Stephen Coughlin delivered a private briefing in a colleague’s basement in Vienna, Austria. What was meant to be an informal talk for concerned citizens became one of the most important series of lectures on the real nature of the threat facing the West.

Now edited into ten digestible segments, “The Red Pill Brief” pulls no punches. Drawing directly from Islamic doctrine, Muslim Brotherhood strategy, and declassified documents, Coughlin explains how the West has been systematically blindfolded by political correctness, language manipulation, and institutional capture.

With 11 years since this briefing, we can see exactly the pattern that Maj. (ret.) Coughlin was describing and predicting.

Part 1: Setting the Stage

In the opening segment, Major Coughlin lays the foundation: the difference between what our leaders say Islam is, and what Islamic sources themselves declare it to be. He introduces the audience to the doctrinal drivers behind jihad and why ignoring them has proven catastrophic.

One of the central points Stephen makes, and it is critical to understand, is that: “When the Islamic world says ‘Human Rights’, they mean Sharia, and nothing but sharia'”.

Expect to have your assumptions about Islam challenged from the very first minute.

Part X: The Objective of Jihad and the Endgame

In the final segment, Major Coughlin lays out the ultimate objective of jihad from classical Islamic law: the Caliph must make war on Jews and Christians (and others) until they convert to Islam or submit and pay the jizya poll tax in a state of humiliation.

He highlights the disturbing Islamic eschatology in which Jesus, whom Islam refers to as “Isa,” returns, not to save Christians, but to “break the cross”, “kill the pigs” (Christians and Jews), and enforce Islamic rule.

Coughlin also returns to the Muslim Brotherhood’s strategy of using interfaith dialogue and Western institutions against themselves, showing how the left and Islamic groups work in parallel to subvert society from within.

The briefing ends with a sobering warning: political correctness and the refusal to understand the enemy’s doctrine is a strategy that will lead to defeat, as it has in the past, for many nations and peoples that did not take heed.

https://rairfoundation.com/red-pill-brief-stephen-coughlins-explosive-2015-warning/

Will Europe Pull Through? Or is Death at its Doorstep?

 

• In 2024, 24% of births in the EU were to foreign-born mothers. This figure exceeds 30% in Germany, Belgium, Spain, Austria and others, and reaches 68% in Luxembourg. Within five to ten years, Luxembourg will cease to exist as a country furthering Western values.

• Assimilation of immigrants has not taken place.... When one imports the Third World, one becomes the Third World.

• Under the influence of green ideology and European policy commitments such as the Green Deal and carbon taxes, Europe has voluntarily sabotaged its energy markets.

• In the coming years, we may see electoral victories in national elections by parties that are tougher on immigration and more skeptical of the forced energy transition. These victories are already under way in several countries. But what will such parties actually be able to do when faced with millions of additional retirees to finance from a shrinking contribution base? Or debt commitments already contracted? Or European rules that prohibit many solutions?

• The answer is simple: they will be forced, like the others, to increase the economic pressure on those who still work and save – through income taxes, wealth taxes, inheritance taxes, miscellaneous levies and creeping inflation.

• These new "right wing" parties might also, one hopes, fast-track simplifying paperwork, eliminating unnecessary regulations, lowering taxes and providing incentives for economic growth.

• [T]he Roman West was not conquered: it slowly mutated from within into a mosaic of Romano-barbarian kingdoms. Classical civilization died, replaced by something else.

• Europe as we have known it — that civilization from which America was born — at this point does not look as if it will pull through. It is giving way to something else: a society more fragmented, poorer, more dependent on the government, less free, and less European. Then surrounding plausible powers will not resist the temptation to come for the spoils...

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22682/europe-may-not-survive

Pope Continues Saying and Doing Things to Bring Credibility to Islam

 

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The Pope continues to say things and do things that lead us to believe he is on a path to be the False Prophet following the rapture.  He is saying things that are false.  The Left-behind world will love his soothing words of “believe what you want!  Practice your truth!  In the end all religions are a spiritual connection and that’s all that really matters to what ever name you have given god.”  

But Jesus warns that MANY will plead with God on The Great White Throne judgment day, claiming they spoke holy words, prayed prayers, did good things, even used the name of Jesus to cast out demons.  But Jesus will say to them, “Depart from me.  I don’t know you.”

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During a recent visit to Türkiye (formerly Turkey), Pope Leo XIV became the third pope to enter Istanbul’s Blue Mosque. However, unlike his predecessors, he not only visited the significant Islamic site but took it a step further —he approved of it.

During his tour, he was accompanied by local Muslim leaders and officials and spent time inside the mosque in quiet reflection. The Vatican later described the moment this way: “[The Pope entered] in silence, in a spirit of recollection and attentive listening, with deep respect for the place and for the faith of those who gather there in prayer.”

Afterward, Pope Leo went further, referring to the mosque as a “space proper to God,” describing it as a place for people to seek “the presence of the Most High.”

However, even many Catholics rejected this statement. Biblical Christianity and Islam disagree on nearly every major tenet. Islam rejects Christ as the Son of God and rejects His deity altogether. These are two of the biggest foundational differences. Yet Pope Leo chose to focus on the nonexistent “shared values” of reverence, prayer, and seeking God.

Unity Through “Full Communion”

Later during the same trip, Pope Leo traveled to the Patriarchal Church of Saint George where he joined Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I in a prayer service. The meeting focused heavily on “Christian unity” and the relationship between Rome and Eastern Orthodoxy.

Referring to Christ’s prayer “that all His disciples may be one” he pushed for visible unity and encouraged renewed efforts toward “full communion among all Christians.” He did not, however, discuss what it truly means to be a disciple of Christ.

The meeting concluded with Pope Leo and Patriarch Bartholomew signing a joint declaration reaffirming shared commitment to “Christian unity” and peace —but not to biblical doctrine or truth.

Christians and Muslims Called to Work Together

The emphasis on interfaith “unity” did not stop in Türkiye. Shortly afterward, Pope Leo met with participants attending an interfaith conference and again called for greater cooperation between religions.

During the gathering, he urged Christians and Muslims to “revive humanity where it has grown cold” and “transform indifference into solidarity.” He also described compassion and empathy as “essential attitudes” shared by both Christianity and Islam.

His message centered heavily on joining together for a shared social mission and common purpose — but what common purpose could Catholics have with Muslims?

Buddhists and Christians as “Artisans of Peace”

Then, ahead of Vesak—the major Buddhist holiday commemorating the birth, enlightenment, and death of Buddha—the Vatican released a message encouraging Christians and Buddhists to become “artisans of peace.” But the statement went further than extending holiday greetings.

The message equated Buddhist teachings with Jesus’ words in Matthew 5:9 and 5:44, claiming that there was a “deep spiritual convergence” between Buddhism and Christianity. It stated that “both traditions converge” toward a shared vision of peace and encouraged religious leaders to become “authentic partners in dialogue and true agents of reconciliation.”

The Pattern Is Clear

Pope Leo is willingly taking religions that present fundamentally different understandings of God, truth, salvation, and Christ Himself, and putting them on the same level as one another. He is equating Christ and Muhammad. He is effectively stating that Buddhism and Bible-based salvation share a common thread.

However, scripture is clear. There is one way to salvation and that is Christ alone. There is no room for this false message that the world’s religions are simply different roads leading to the same destination.

https://www.chick.com/battle-cry/article?id=Vatican-Pushes-Unity-Ignores-Truth&utm_medium=Email&e=20a138fd684e4a45a9c5cdcbaa18f0bc&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=2026-0710

Trump Finally Realizes He Can’t Trust Iranian Leaders

 We are happy to read this news.  We thought Trump was losing his mind thinking he could trust a regime in Iran that has chanted “death to America!” for 47 years.  But we all kept praying and maybe our prayers moved him back to reality?

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Well, that didn’t take long. 

President Donald J. Trump on Wednesday said the 14-point Memorandum of Understanding that he and Vice President JD Vance struck with Iran is now off the table.

As ALL ISRAEL NEWS reported, Trump also accused the current Iranian leadership of being “sick, vicious, violent and evil people.” 

I couldn’t agree more.

The big question is: What happens next? 

My colleagues and I at ALL ISRAEL NEWS have been warning for weeks that the Trump/Vance deal was way too generous.

We have also been warning that Tehran could not be trusted to negotiate a serious, solid and verifiable final deal. 

Not yet, anyway. 

Not until they are punished much more and their offensive capabilities are completely obliterated. 

Finally, after weeks of Iran attacking ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz — and attacking America’s Arab allies in the Gulf — Trump agrees. 

To his credit, Trump has ordered U.S. forces to hit dozens of Iranian military targets. 

Good. 

Evangelical Christians should be grateful that Trump and his team are getting much tougher with Iran.

At the same time, we need to pray for the Lord to urgently grant “wisdom from above” to the Commander-in-Chief and his inner circle. 

The U.S. must truly win this war and end the Iran threat once and for all.

None of us want a raging war in the Gulf to continue with no end in sight.

None of us want oil and gas prices to skyrocket again and stay high forever.

No one wants American soldiers and civilians living in the Gulf region — or the 700,000 Americans who live in Israel — or any of our Israeli and Arab allies to have to endure another massive missile war.

That said, we cannot allow the wicked Iranian regime to win.

Or look like they’re winning.

Or act like they’re winning.

President Trump was exceedingly generous in his MOU with Iran — far too generous, in my view.

He hoped Iranian leaders would welcome all the carrots.

He also hoped that he wouldn’t need to use any more sticks.

Trump was wrong.

But to his credit he has quickly realized that he was wrong. 

And he’s not waiting until after the midterm elections in the U.S. to get much, much tougher with Tehran. 

Good for him. 

But it’s not clear what moves he should take next. 

That’s why we need to pray. 

In the Bible, the Apostle Paul commands us to pray for our leaders “that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life” (1 Timothy 2:1-6).

Amen — as Evangelicals, let us now pray without ceasing.

https://allisraelnews.com/evangelicals-should-be-glad-president-trump-is-getting-much-tougher-with-iran-his-deal-was-way-too-generous-and-tehran-could-never-be-trusted