Today is the anniversary of the Christmas Truce of 1914, a spontaneous soldiers’ truce that broke out on Christmas Eve all along the Western Front in France, lasting in places until the day after Christmas.
French, British and German soldiers, intrigued by the sound of Christmas carols from the enemy trenches, first tentatively refrained from firing on one another. A German boot tossed into the British trenches turned out to be filled with candy and sausage. Soldiers, with increasing confidence, began to venture out into no-man’s land and into each other’s trenches to exchange small presents like coffee and cigarettes, spirits, and newspapers from home. They celebrated Christmas by playing football on no-man’s-land. Soldiers from opposing armies shared rations, sang carols together and posed for group photographs.
You can read the rest @
http://original.antiwar.com/kevin-carson/2015/12/24/remembering-the-christmas-truce-of-1914/
That was probably the last time Christian values triumphed over mankind's lust for war.
There is no just war, unless the armies literally are commanded by Jesus Christ Himself. And that will not happen until the final trumpet blows.
Friday, December 25, 2015
Unfair Treatment Of US POWs
Compensation for American Embassy personnel held hostage for 444 days in Iran more than three decades ago was hailed on Thursday by the former captives and the lawyers who for years fought Tehran and Washington to get a measure of vindication.
A provision buried in a spending bill signed by President Obama last week will give up to $4.4 million to each of the 37 surviving hostages or the estates of 16 others who died in the years since their release. The sum works out to $10,000 for each day of their captivity and will come, in part, from a $9 billion penalty paid by the French bank BNP Paribas for violating sanctions against Iran, Cuba and Sudan.
You can read the rest @
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/americans-held-in-iran-during-444-day-hostage-crisis-finally-get-compensation/2015/12/24/c1054c2e-aa4b-11e5-bff5-905b92f5f94b_story.html
Our prisoners of war, however, receive no such compensation. You can read about what they do receive @
http://myarmybenefits.us.army.mil/Home/Benefit_Library/Federal_Benefits_Page/POW__MIA_Entitlements.html
Many of our POWs were tortured, some died in captivity, and all of them suffered under conditions far worse than did the US hostages in Iran.
There is a basic unfairness here, apparently fueled by our continuing, irrational hatred of Iran.
A provision buried in a spending bill signed by President Obama last week will give up to $4.4 million to each of the 37 surviving hostages or the estates of 16 others who died in the years since their release. The sum works out to $10,000 for each day of their captivity and will come, in part, from a $9 billion penalty paid by the French bank BNP Paribas for violating sanctions against Iran, Cuba and Sudan.
You can read the rest @
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/americans-held-in-iran-during-444-day-hostage-crisis-finally-get-compensation/2015/12/24/c1054c2e-aa4b-11e5-bff5-905b92f5f94b_story.html
Our prisoners of war, however, receive no such compensation. You can read about what they do receive @
http://myarmybenefits.us.army.mil/Home/Benefit_Library/Federal_Benefits_Page/POW__MIA_Entitlements.html
Many of our POWs were tortured, some died in captivity, and all of them suffered under conditions far worse than did the US hostages in Iran.
There is a basic unfairness here, apparently fueled by our continuing, irrational hatred of Iran.
Merry Un-Christian Christmas
Is Christmas "Christian"?
According to this 28:34 minute video, IT IS NOT:
https://youtu.be/_-Wub7A2sno
The Bible itself strongly implies that Jesus could not have been born in December:
A careful analysis of Scripture, however, clearly indicates that Dec. 25 is an unlikely date for Christ’s birth. Here are two primary reasons:
First, we know that shepherds were in the fields watching their flocks at the time of Jesus’ birth (Luke 2:7-8).
Shepherds were not in the fields during December. According to Celebrations: The Complete Book of American Holidays, Luke’s account “suggests that Jesus may have been born in summer or early fall. Since December is cold and rainy in Judea, it is likely the shepherds would have sought shelter for their flocks at night” (p. 309).
Similarly, The Interpreter’s One-Volume Commentary says this passage argues “against the birth [of Christ] occurring on Dec. 25 since the weather would not have permitted” shepherds watching over their flocks in the fields at night.
Second, Jesus’ parents came to Bethlehem to register in a Roman census (Luke 2:1-4).
Such censuses were not taken in winter, when temperatures often dropped below freezing and roads were in poor condition. Taking a census under such conditions would have been self-defeating.
You can read the rest @
http://www.ucg.org/the-good-news/biblical-evidence-shows-jesus-christ-wasnt-born-on-dec-25
And you can order the free booklet "Is Christmas Christian?" here:
http://www.tomorrowsworld.org/
[Note: Booklet may only be available for a short time.]
Yes, Jesus is Lord, but He was not born on December 25.
According to this 28:34 minute video, IT IS NOT:
https://youtu.be/_-Wub7A2sno
The Bible itself strongly implies that Jesus could not have been born in December:
A careful analysis of Scripture, however, clearly indicates that Dec. 25 is an unlikely date for Christ’s birth. Here are two primary reasons:
First, we know that shepherds were in the fields watching their flocks at the time of Jesus’ birth (Luke 2:7-8).
Shepherds were not in the fields during December. According to Celebrations: The Complete Book of American Holidays, Luke’s account “suggests that Jesus may have been born in summer or early fall. Since December is cold and rainy in Judea, it is likely the shepherds would have sought shelter for their flocks at night” (p. 309).
Similarly, The Interpreter’s One-Volume Commentary says this passage argues “against the birth [of Christ] occurring on Dec. 25 since the weather would not have permitted” shepherds watching over their flocks in the fields at night.
Second, Jesus’ parents came to Bethlehem to register in a Roman census (Luke 2:1-4).
Such censuses were not taken in winter, when temperatures often dropped below freezing and roads were in poor condition. Taking a census under such conditions would have been self-defeating.
You can read the rest @
http://www.ucg.org/the-good-news/biblical-evidence-shows-jesus-christ-wasnt-born-on-dec-25
And you can order the free booklet "Is Christmas Christian?" here:
http://www.tomorrowsworld.org/
[Note: Booklet may only be available for a short time.]
Yes, Jesus is Lord, but He was not born on December 25.
Thursday, December 24, 2015
The Only Way To Save US From Financial Collapse
It is a myth that most of that nearly $18 trillion debt is owed to China or the Persian Gulf oil sheiks. The vast majority- around $13 trillion- is owed to the Eight Families Federal Reserve crowd that just bought another $600 billion in Treasury bonds in what will be yet another failed attempt to stave off the massive deflation which their global race to the slave-wage bottom has created. Here’s what Obama and Congress should do.
(1 Introduce a Treasury Department-administered infrastructure investment fund, which workers should be strongly encouraged to opt into from their current 401K plans. This is important because the banker’s stock market casino will crash due to the next eight steps.
(2 De-link the dollar from all currency baskets and IMF special drawing rights. Ban trade in dollars on all global exchanges. Impose currency controls by fixing the dollar at 1:1 euro, Chinese yuan, Canadian dollar and Swiss franc; 100:1 Japanese yen. During the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Malaysian Prime Minister Matahir Mohammed fixed the nation’s currency- the ringit. It was the only currency in the region that did not crash when Rothschild front-man George Soros took aim at the region.
(3 Nationalize the Federal Reserve. Under the Federal Reserve Act there is a provision that allows for the US government to buy back the Fed for $4 billion. Pay this fee, revoke the Fed charter and launch a new US dollar issued by the Treasury Department. With the dollar fixed, the vampires cannot crash it.
(4 Cancel the $13 trillion debt imposed upon us by the Illuminati bankers. Debt obligations to foreign governments and small bond-holders should be honored at par.
(5 Prosecute to the fullest extent of the law all fraudulent transactions involving the financial parasites. Send the FBI to the New York Fed, seize all documents and arrest the perpetrators.
(6 Forget just repealing the Bush tax cuts on the rich. The top tax rate on people who make more than $1 million/ year should be raised to 75%. People making more than $500,000/year should pay 50%. All tax brackets below $125,000/year should see tax cuts. If you get more from government you need to pay for it. The rich get a whole lot more and they should pay for it, instead of billing it to the middle class.
(7 Slash Pentagon spending. Shut down all US bases in Europe, Japan and South Korea. Withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan immediately.
(8 Outlaw off-shore banking by US citizens and corporations. Bring your money home and pay taxes on it or surrender your US passport/corporate charter. The dramatic increase in tax revenue would be enough to pay off the remaining debt to sovereign governments and small bond-holders, while keeping our obligations to the Social Security trust fund.
(9 Introduce single-payer health care and price controls on prescription drugs. The savings attained from eliminating insurance/pharmaceutical company Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security fraud will save the Treasury billions.
Using this methodology the US could wipe out both its deficit and its debt within a year. These measures should be introduced swiftly and in rapid succession. Social security and Medicare will be saved. The middle class will see their tax rates go down. Manufacturing jobs will come home, since the Chinese yuan will have seen a dramatic appreciation. Our national security will be enhanced.
You can read the rest @
https://hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com/2014/09/02/us-should-cancel-federal-reserve-debt/
Amen.
(1 Introduce a Treasury Department-administered infrastructure investment fund, which workers should be strongly encouraged to opt into from their current 401K plans. This is important because the banker’s stock market casino will crash due to the next eight steps.
(2 De-link the dollar from all currency baskets and IMF special drawing rights. Ban trade in dollars on all global exchanges. Impose currency controls by fixing the dollar at 1:1 euro, Chinese yuan, Canadian dollar and Swiss franc; 100:1 Japanese yen. During the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Malaysian Prime Minister Matahir Mohammed fixed the nation’s currency- the ringit. It was the only currency in the region that did not crash when Rothschild front-man George Soros took aim at the region.
(3 Nationalize the Federal Reserve. Under the Federal Reserve Act there is a provision that allows for the US government to buy back the Fed for $4 billion. Pay this fee, revoke the Fed charter and launch a new US dollar issued by the Treasury Department. With the dollar fixed, the vampires cannot crash it.
(4 Cancel the $13 trillion debt imposed upon us by the Illuminati bankers. Debt obligations to foreign governments and small bond-holders should be honored at par.
(5 Prosecute to the fullest extent of the law all fraudulent transactions involving the financial parasites. Send the FBI to the New York Fed, seize all documents and arrest the perpetrators.
(6 Forget just repealing the Bush tax cuts on the rich. The top tax rate on people who make more than $1 million/ year should be raised to 75%. People making more than $500,000/year should pay 50%. All tax brackets below $125,000/year should see tax cuts. If you get more from government you need to pay for it. The rich get a whole lot more and they should pay for it, instead of billing it to the middle class.
(7 Slash Pentagon spending. Shut down all US bases in Europe, Japan and South Korea. Withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan immediately.
(8 Outlaw off-shore banking by US citizens and corporations. Bring your money home and pay taxes on it or surrender your US passport/corporate charter. The dramatic increase in tax revenue would be enough to pay off the remaining debt to sovereign governments and small bond-holders, while keeping our obligations to the Social Security trust fund.
(9 Introduce single-payer health care and price controls on prescription drugs. The savings attained from eliminating insurance/pharmaceutical company Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security fraud will save the Treasury billions.
Using this methodology the US could wipe out both its deficit and its debt within a year. These measures should be introduced swiftly and in rapid succession. Social security and Medicare will be saved. The middle class will see their tax rates go down. Manufacturing jobs will come home, since the Chinese yuan will have seen a dramatic appreciation. Our national security will be enhanced.
You can read the rest @
https://hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com/2014/09/02/us-should-cancel-federal-reserve-debt/
Amen.
58 Facts About The US Economy
We are in the midst of a long-term economic collapse that is beginning to accelerate once again. Our economic infrastructure has been gutted, our middle class is being destroyed, Wall Street has been transformed into the biggest casino in the history of the planet, and our reckless politicians have piled up the biggest mountain of debt the world has ever seen.
Anyone that believes that everything is “perfectly fine” and that we are going to come out of this “stronger than ever” is just being delusional. This generation was handed the keys to the finest economic machine of all time, and we wrecked it. Decades of incredibly foolish decisions have culminated in a crisis that is now reaching a crescendo, and this nation is in for a shaking unlike anything that it has ever seen before.
So enjoy the rest of 2015 while you still can.
2016 is almost here, and it is going to be quite a year.
You can read the 58 facts @
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/58-facts-about-the-u-s-economy-from-2015-that-are-almost-too-crazy-to-believe
Keep them in mind as you listen to the Presidential candidates lie to you to get elected.
Anyone that believes that everything is “perfectly fine” and that we are going to come out of this “stronger than ever” is just being delusional. This generation was handed the keys to the finest economic machine of all time, and we wrecked it. Decades of incredibly foolish decisions have culminated in a crisis that is now reaching a crescendo, and this nation is in for a shaking unlike anything that it has ever seen before.
So enjoy the rest of 2015 while you still can.
2016 is almost here, and it is going to be quite a year.
You can read the 58 facts @
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/58-facts-about-the-u-s-economy-from-2015-that-are-almost-too-crazy-to-believe
Keep them in mind as you listen to the Presidential candidates lie to you to get elected.
Will Electric Cars Kill OPEC ???
OPEC remains defiant. Global reliance on oil and gas will continue unchanged for another quarter century. Fossil fuels will make up 78pc of the world’s energy in 2040, barely less than today.
There will be no meaningful advances in technology. Rivals will sputter and mostly waste money. The old energy order is preserved in aspic.
Emissions of CO2 will carry on rising as if nothing significant had been agreed in a solemn and binding accord by 190 countries at the Paris climate summit.
OPEC’s World Oil Outlook released today is a remarkable document, the apologia of a pre-modern vested interest that refuses to see the writing on the wall.
The underlying message is that the COP21 deal is of no relevance to the oil industry. Pledges by world leaders to drastically alter the trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions before 2040 - let alone to reach total "decarbonisation" by 2070 - are simply ignored.
You can read the rest @
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/12065274/OPEC-faces-a-mortal-threat-from-electric-cars.html
The world's current energy sources are coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, hydro, and solar.
The bigwigs want to end the use of coal, oil, and natural gas. Hydro is more or less maxed out, and nuclear is and will be a disaster no matter what.
That leaves solar as the only "green" alternative, and it will take a MAJOR redirection of monetary resources to convert the world to an energy diet based on solar.
I don't expect this to happen in my lifetime. Do you?
There will be no meaningful advances in technology. Rivals will sputter and mostly waste money. The old energy order is preserved in aspic.
Emissions of CO2 will carry on rising as if nothing significant had been agreed in a solemn and binding accord by 190 countries at the Paris climate summit.
OPEC’s World Oil Outlook released today is a remarkable document, the apologia of a pre-modern vested interest that refuses to see the writing on the wall.
The underlying message is that the COP21 deal is of no relevance to the oil industry. Pledges by world leaders to drastically alter the trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions before 2040 - let alone to reach total "decarbonisation" by 2070 - are simply ignored.
You can read the rest @
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/12065274/OPEC-faces-a-mortal-threat-from-electric-cars.html
The world's current energy sources are coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, hydro, and solar.
The bigwigs want to end the use of coal, oil, and natural gas. Hydro is more or less maxed out, and nuclear is and will be a disaster no matter what.
That leaves solar as the only "green" alternative, and it will take a MAJOR redirection of monetary resources to convert the world to an energy diet based on solar.
I don't expect this to happen in my lifetime. Do you?
China Investing Big In Caribbean
Stretching some 67 km (41.6 miles) north to south across Jamaica, the $600m four-lane highway skirts around a mountain and will eventually be lined with luxury hotels, restaurants and bars.
Nicknamed the “Beijing highway” – after the Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt reportedly turned down a chance for the road to carry his name – the state-of-the-art tolled carriageway is the most striking sign that the Chinese treasure ship has arrived in the Caribbean.
The red and gold flag of the People’s Republic flutters over the construction site, where hundreds of Chinese workers reside in camps and trucks are lined up in military precision.
When completed early next year the tolled highway, paid for by Beijing, will cut driving times from Kingston to the tourist resort of Ocho Rios on the north coast from nearly two hours to 50 minutes.
You can read the rest @
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/24/beijing-highway-600m-road-just-the-start-of-chinas-investments-in-caribbean
Meanwhile Puerto Rico, the US "jewel" of the Caribbean, is going bankrupt. More evidence of China rising while US is falling.
Nicknamed the “Beijing highway” – after the Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt reportedly turned down a chance for the road to carry his name – the state-of-the-art tolled carriageway is the most striking sign that the Chinese treasure ship has arrived in the Caribbean.
The red and gold flag of the People’s Republic flutters over the construction site, where hundreds of Chinese workers reside in camps and trucks are lined up in military precision.
When completed early next year the tolled highway, paid for by Beijing, will cut driving times from Kingston to the tourist resort of Ocho Rios on the north coast from nearly two hours to 50 minutes.
You can read the rest @
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/24/beijing-highway-600m-road-just-the-start-of-chinas-investments-in-caribbean
Meanwhile Puerto Rico, the US "jewel" of the Caribbean, is going bankrupt. More evidence of China rising while US is falling.
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