Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
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✝️ BRIDGE-TO-KINGDOM!
Kingdom Joy!
Amen
Amen
God’s Word does not change
Anyone seeing issues on X (formerly known as twitter?). I can’t see my, or anyone else’s, posts.
Same..
Try this
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then add the name you have on X after that
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Ignore what comes after what I posted -I cant get rid of it
Learn Christmas Song ‘Los Peces en el Río’ in Spanish and EnglishPopular carol is seasonal tradition in Spanish-speaking countries
Always appreciate Mannheim Steamroller. They were just here in my hometown last week with their traditional Christmas concert. Sold out. They always visit here and we appreciate it.
Such a classic synth sound with groovy drums and outstanding all-around accompaniment. I first heard them on a record album called Fresh Aire back in the late 70s. Stunning material.
They come through Spokane on the regular but I don’t get out much.
😢
I don’t either. Health issues are a drag; but, you keep us moving forward here. I certainly appreciate your heavy-duty dedication and mighty strength, my brother.
That’s what keeps me going too. 👊
Jealous of rubber ducky
cursday ..
white swiss shepard
and hey, jwoo ..
i have been meaning to post this tractor supply link too.. it’s a very awesome dog blanket. it looks so good, no one would mind it laying around ! for the quality, the $29 was great, but it’s on sale now for $14.99 !! i have several ♥️
https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/muttnation-fueled-by-miranda-lambert-water-resistant-pet-throw-blanket-cloudy-print-50×60
God morning, Annie,
Love the blanket for the pups! I had to go back by there to get another beanie hat and I found the cutest youth hats and mittens for the Littles visit next week. They were embroidered with horses and tractors (coming and going) which were the cutest.
It is such a great little store. The clothes there are quite sturdy and with proper care will last a long time. They have great sales and you can get good quality sturdy jeans for less than $20/pair.
Wish I knew about them when kiddo was growing up. Terrific for frugal Moms and Dads.
well, shepherd .. 😔
Thanks, Garrison… I really enjoyed listening to Townes and his stylings
That’s a really touching video—from 50 years ago. It is part of the “Heartworn Highways” documentary. Highly recommended. 🙂
Songbird ~ Christine McVie
“El Condor Pasa (If I Could)” – Paul Simon & Garfunkel
I’d rather be a sparrow than a snail
Yes, I would
If I could
I surely would
I’d rather be a hammer than a nail
Yes, I would
If I only could
I surely would
Away, I’d rather sail away
Like a swan that’s here and gone
A man gets tied up to the ground
He gives the world its saddest sound
It’s saddest sound
I’d rather be a forest than a street
Yes, I would
If I could
I surely would
I’d rather feel the earth beneath my feet
Yes, I would
If I only could
I surely would
https://www.cslewis.com/jesus-begotten-not-created/
Posted on December 25, 2019 by zachkincaid
Jesus: Begotten Not Created
In the first chapter of Mere Christianity, Lewis gets right to the crux of Christianity. “One of the creeds says that Christ is the Son of God ‘begotten, not created’; and it adds ‘begotten by his Father before all worlds’.” And, even though this sounds like a Christmas message, Lewis correctly points us to the before the beginning. Though the virgin birth of Jesus is the onset of a whole new revelation of God to his creation, “We are thinking about something that happened before Nature was created at all,” Lewis says, “before time began. ‘Before all worlds’ Christ is begotten, not created.”
Lewis explains begetting in the next turn, that it is of the same being with the Father, as the creed affirms. “When you beget, you beget something of the same kind as yourself,” Lewis explains. “A man begets human babies, a beaver begets little beavers and a bird begets eggs which turn into little birds. But when you make, you make something of a different kind from yourself. A bird makes a nest, a beaver builds a dam, a man makes a wireless set—or he may make something more like himself than a wireless set: say, a statue. If he is a clever enough carver he may make a statue which is very like a man indeed. But, of course, it is not a real man; it only looks like one. It cannot breathe or think. It is not alive.”
And in this, we have the beauty of Christmas, the merry myth that marries all myth – as it is a foreshadow – to the Truth that is revealed that Christmas morning. “What God begets is God; just as what man begets is man. What God creates is not God; just as what man makes is not man. That is why men are not Sons of God in the sense that Christ is. They may be like God in certain ways, but they are not things of the same kind. They are more like statues or pictures of God.”
And so it is, that the giving God sings out his revelation through the very creatures that he is coming to save. So, the Christmas story is always and only about Jesus, the incarnate deity, as the hymn reminds us, but we are the shepherds, the wise men, the innkeepers, the townspeople… the ones either hovering around the hallelujahs or plugging up our ears. If we go and see, as the shepherds go and see, we will look into what the angels announce yet still long to find full meaning in (I Peter 1:12), that is the redemption brought down to earth. That makes the Christmas story very much about us, about our response to it.
“A statue has the shape of a man but is not alive,” Lewis says. “In the same way, man has… the ‘shape’ or likeness of God, but he has not got the kind of life God has.” We are made in God’s image but we are lacking the stuff that really brings us into life, that is without Jesus. “And that is precisely what Christianity is about,” he says. “This world is a great sculptor’s shop. We are the statues and there is a rumour going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.”
Did Lewis elaborate on becoming God’s adopted children?
https://www.eph320foundation.org/verses.htm
Abandoned pup
And is anyone truly surprised? I hope someone takes him in….
Looks like a keeper!
Playing phone game
Good morning all.
History. The “Silent Service” during WW II.
From the beginning of the war US submarines were the only arm that could consistently hit the enemy in his backyard. From the beginning of the war until VJ day they relentlessly carried the war to the enemy without pause. Theirs was, with few exceptions, an offensive war.
The subs would come back for three weeks of rest and refit and then go out again for up to two months on patrols in assigned sectors or one of the 300 plus “special missions” they carried out during the war.
Imperial Japan was a maritime nation. Japan lacked the natural resources to drive its peacetime economy, let alone a war time one. It relied on its merchant fleet to bring in the resources from the conquered countries of its empire and then carry the weapons and supplies back out to the fronts.
US submarines sank over 5 million tons of Japan’s merchant shipping during the war. That was 1 1/2 x more merchant ship tonnage than the combined total destroyed by all other services, both US and allied.
In the post war interviews of Japanese Admirals and Generals they consistently put the losses to US submarines at the top of the list of reasons why they thought Imperial Japan lost the war.
US subs also sank over 600,000 tons of the empire’s warships. From small patrol boats taken out using the deck gun to the super carrier Shinano, the largest aircraft carrier to take to the sea until the USS Forrestal was launched. Shinano was sunk by 6 torpedoes from the USS Archerfish. Not until 1945 was the total Japanese warship tonnage sunk by submarines surpassed by the tonnage sunk by allied airpower.
All of this was accomplished by a force manned by less than 2% of the total of US Naval personnel. A force whose losses were proportionally the highest of any US service.
It was also accomplished despite severe problems with torpedoes. A torpedo is a precision instrument. The failure of any component means the failure of the weapon. The initial problems were due to poor design of the impact trigger mechanism and magnetic exploder and improper response of the depth keeping system. This was exacerbated by the stubborn denial by the Admirals that there was a problem. Then after those problems had finally been identified and fixed other problems cropped up. As the number of subs increased the demand for torpedoes required they be mass produced with components being made by large numbers of subcontractors that sometimes proved to be substandard. It has been estimated in post war analysis that during the first two years of the war sinkings were reduced by about 1/3rd due to poor torpedo performance.
There were 288 US submarines that saw wartime service. Over 250 US submarines made at least one antishipping patrol or carried out a special mission. At least 185 of the submarines sank 1 or more Japanese ships. Out of 52 US submarines lost during the war, there were no survivors from 37 of them. Four submarines that had ran aground had their crews rescued. Others took part of their crews to the bottom with them in war or in training accidents. At the end of the war only 168 US submariners that had been Japanese prisoners were repatriated. 3,505 WWII submariners remained on eternal patrol after the war ended.
I cannot find it right now but there is a Navy concept amongst the sailors, about the “Eternal Patrol” of those who did not return from their patrols.
Was a young submariner’s wife in the early 80’s….every time the phone rang when they were out on patrol…my heart stopped…this was before caller ID. In those days, they just ‘played’ cat and mouse with the ‘ruskies’…following them…ah some old memories of way back…
The torpedo problem was, I believe, exasperated by the ineptness of the naval hierarchy at the Melville, Rhode Island naval facility in charge of torpedo development. That and the inherent nature of the Navy never admitting “error” – right up to and including the railroading of Captain McVeigh (sp?) of the USS Indianapolis……..
It was the Naval Bureau of Ordinance that stood in the way of fixing the problems.
The problems were rooted in the failure to allot enough money for new torpedo development during the depression in the 1920s. Lack of funds meant lack of live fire tests. The Mk 14 was the torpedo developed during the depression. It was over 10 knots faster than the Mk 10 it was intended to replace and added a magnetic initiator to the contact trigger.
The problem of the contact exploder was that it was exactly the same as used in the Mk 10 but the since the Mk 14 was faster and thus contacted with more kinetic energy when an ideal shot was made where the torpedo impacted at about a 90 degree angle the firing pin would be bent and fail to initiate the warhead. When a torpedo impacted the target at a more oblique angle the contact exploder tended to work. The problem was solved by strengthening the firing pin by making it out of the same aluminum used to make aircraft propellers.
The problem with the magnetic exploder was they did not account for the variances in the earths magnetic field. The exploder tended to activate before it reached the target scaring the heck out of those on the targeted ship but not causing any appreciable damage. The idea of the magnetic exploder was that the torpedo would run under the hull of the target and explode, breaking the target ships back and there by decreasing sinking time. The US, like every other combatant gave up on the mechanism and concept and relied only on the contact exploder.
And then there was the depth control. The issue was finally resolved after it was found that the torpedoes were running 10 deeper than the depth they were set to run at.
It was Admiral Lockwood, with the backing of Nimitz that experimented with the Mk 14, found the defects, and took the Bureau of Naval Ordinance to task and got the design problems fixed. But failure to properly plan for the production of enough of the complex and expensive weapons caused problems with failures through out the war.
There was also a problem with the horizontal guidance that plagued the submariners right up through the end of the war. USS Tang, which ended up 2nd in total tonnage sunk was sunk of all US subs by the last torpedo if had to fire when the torp made circular run. It is suspected that at least two other US subs were sunk by their own torpedoes though none of the crews of the other two boats survived the report what had happened.
For those interested I highly recommend this book. Clear the Bridge!: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang by Richard H. O’Kane | Goodreads. Dick O’Kane was the #1 submarine ace of the war when one adds to his total those he got as the Executive Officer of Wahoo.
nice……………
keep’m coming
And the delay in fixing the torpedoes was due to the total arrogance of the Ordinance people. They blamed the user for all failures. As rah points out it took major heavyweights and experimental proof to get change.
The Japanese actually had markedly superior torpedoes throughout the war. Of especial merit was their famous “Long Lance” torpedo which was larger, faster, and had an exceptionally long range. Although they had a respectable sub fleet, the Japanese never deployed them with the skill of the American navy.
Yes they did. Not only the Long Lance but also their aerial torpedoes were superior to anything the US fielded.
The Japanese I class boats were excellent but their deployment and tactics much less so. Emphases was put on targeting exclusively US men o war and not supporting ships. And unlike US submarines, virtually every attack was made submerged, while for the US subs the boats that compiled the greatest scores often operated more like torpedo boats attacking on the surface at night and only diving when absolutely necessary.
In short, the best US sub skippers were far more aggressive than their Japanese counterparts.
As the war ran on and the Japanese lost more and more of their merchant fleet, the proportion of escorts to merchant ship continued to grow until by 1944 a convoy of Japanese ships often had twice as many escorts as merchant ships.
Focusing on the perceived Japanese weaknesses, tankers stood just under enemy capital war ships on the list of priority targets for US subs.
Excellent write up.
I recall being in eighth grade and finding a book in the school library about WW2 submarines and the men who fought in them.
It was beyond fascinating.
I can’t TELL you how many times I checked that book out.
Such history actually needs to be taught in schools today.
My dad was in the Navy during WWII. He was a motor machinist in charge of diesel engines of his destroyer. I loved hearing his stories of what they encountered during the war. My sister has all his correspondence with my mom and they had a code in the letters where the first letter from the first word of the first paragraph followed by the second letter of the second paragraph etc spelled out where he was in the pacific. It was a delight to reconstruct where he was during the war –all over the pacific.
They would have reunions every so often and one of the officers on his ship, Pierre Salinger, would never attend. Salnger was a California Senator and Press secretary to Kennedy. He would never attend the renions, despite being all quartered together very closely. He always laughed, “I never liked that democrat!”
God bless our WWII, Korean, Vietnam etc vets who saved out country.
Great history lesson Rah, as a youngster grew up watching B/W movies of Subs..DESTINATION TOKYO.. saw several times🤣👍
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Jim, so good to hear from you yesterday – and, that you’re on the mend!
Health issues can become a challenge as we age.
Have acquired a few myself and this week saw my primary care doc for routine visit.
He’s been my doc for 25 years and love him so much.
He’ll be 85 years old in Feb and has two practices!
I really admire him; he went to medical school “first” and then joined the military, serving in the Vietnam war as physician.
His final words to me this week:
> Every morning when I wake up, my back hurts terribly. Also, my knee.
But I just say, Thank You, Lord, for another day.
Help me go do some good for someone this day and make the world a better place.
I love his mindset – which also is mine!
Mr. Jim, I pray you enjoy your family and the Christmas season in a special way.
Blessings on you.
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Sounds like me in the am 😂🤣👍
Same back at you .. 😀👍🙏
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Israel Update:
-The main news today is the escalation of the war at the Lebanon area with Hezbollah.
After an increase in the attacks from the north, Israel has been pounding them very intensively and also deeper into Lebanon. I saw things that look like tunnels exploding and massive relentless bombings. Israel promised its citizens of the North to secure that border so they can return to their homes. How to fulfill that promise is a complex problem. We will see. The whole area is on edge. One successful attack on Israel with too many casualties can trigger a full war. In the past a kidnapping of a couple of Israeli soldiers triggered a war.
-3 IDF soldiers died in North Gaza. 8 badly injured. May God bless their souls and heal the wounded and the hearts of the friends and families. Amen.
-The IDF revealed a full presentation of the main underground command and control of Hamas in central Gaza City. Many many tunnels which are accessible from mosques and schools and around hospitals. A direct elevator from the house of Sinwar into tunnels. The whole area is called “The Senior District” (Senior Hamas leadership). The IDF is making very good progress with the underground war in the North.
-An incident was revealed that about a month ago a terrorist who was in an Israeli prison died and his friends complained that the Israeli wardens killed him. An investigation followed and some 19 wardens were investigated put under home arrest for 5 days and prohibited from talking to each other for a month. Also suspended from work. This has brought about fury in many right wing people. In one of my social media groups the owner of the account posted: “We have over 1,400 dead and many kidnapped and raped and the responsible people are let go on with their lives and we are arresting and punishing people who maybe killed a terrorist when dealing with suppressing violence in prison?”
Note: This is a symptom of the Judicial issues that Israel have and a reminder of the conflict in the nation regarding judicial reform. The Higher Courts and the Prosecution Office are Liberals and causing issues. In this case in my opinion it should have been kept under censorship because it can serve as a justification for killing hostages by Hamas.
In a wartime things are managed differently and the success of the war is above all.
Also the Supreme Court was against the death penalty so again we have kidnapped Israelis to save terrorists and we have problems related to terrorists who should be dead or expelled but we can’t pass those kind of laws. Maybe and hopefully things will change after the war.
-Hamas rejected a deal offer of ceasefire etc.. for releasing Israelis.
-Bibi: “We are going all the way till we achieve all the goals of the war, anyone thinking otherwise is disconnected from the reality of it”.
-The 10/7 horror movie was shown to MIT leadership. The Chairman woman who was a disgrace in the Congress Hearing watched it all. At a few points removed her eyes.
Note: Most humans are not able to watch more than a few minutes. How was she able to watch the whole 40 plus minutes? As a note she is Jewish which makes it even worse.
After it there was pressure for her to resign or act but we don’t see anything done yet.
The Chairman of the UN also watched. He said that what he saw is “The Dark side of the human race”. He also met representatives of the families of the kidnapped. He was attacked by the families by questions like :”Why didn’t we hear you say anything about the kidnapped”? Etc…. He defended himself and said that he did say things. They said he should come to Israel and watch the actual places. He evaded and said:”Netanyahu doesn’t answer my phone calls.”
-One of the released hostages, a lady, is using an Israeli organization which is legally active against terror, to sue the Red Cross. She is saying that they did nothing to make contact with her despite pleadings from her family to deliver her vital medications. Now she is suffering a health condition as a result. Her husband is still captive. She is showing a mail from the Red Cross telling her family “Good luck making contact with your family”. The claim is that they have a duty and they go see Palestinians terrorists in Israeli prisons but did nothing of their duties in this case. Note: I don’t know the power of this litigation which is filed in Israel. I know the lawyer is very good and has won cases against terror in the past. For sure it has a symbolic meaning of pointing them out!
-People who left their homes in the North are sure that Hezbollah too have massive terror tunnel network. Note: I remember in previous years they complained of hearing sounds of digging. Israel did operate against tunnels but tunnels that reach the border and don’t cross are likely to be there.
-The Defense Establishment is pushing finances towards the Iron Beam System. This is a system that will intercept missiles, rockets and drones by a strong laser. Israel has made a breakthrough in this field and the system proved itself in tests. A single interception will cost about $5.00 compared to some $60,000 of the Iron Dome. It will solve the dependency on the US with regard to financial aide for Iron Dome. It will also change the balance of forces world wide. It’s a game changer and will later be used for offense too. There is a dispute inside the Israeli establishment if we want to share this project with the US which can flow money and other advantages into the project or keep it fully Israeli. Note: I don’t know when it can be operational. I am sure they are working days and nights on this. It can be a game changer against Hezbollah. Its only downside is that it will not function in rainy days. So it will be complementary to Iron Dome. I will post a video in case you want to see it in action.
A real space age. I also said earlier that this can be a great contribution of Israel for the US because it can put the US at an advantage over China and Russia and can save American soldiers and cities if ever needed.
-The party of Macron in France was pressured by the right and passed serious restrictions on immigration. They will have quotas for immigration and make it harder for kids of immigrants to get citizenship and also make it slower for immigrants to get social services and money. The Health Minister resigned in protest. La Pen from the right is leading in poles to be the next leader of France. This is a part of a greater trend in Europe whereby the liberals are losing support of the voters and are pressured to limit immigration in an effort to keep support of the voters. The legislation will also make it easier to deport illegals.
In a half a year there are elections for the European Union and Le Pen is leading the poles.
The Speaker of Macron said that a Legal Comity will inspect this legislation and some more extreme parts could change if are illegal. In 1946 immigration was 5%. In 1975 it was 8.5% and in 2010 it was 10% that is 2.t millions. In 2022 a half of them got citizenship. The war in Israel made the debate about immigration hotter after a terror attack in France and other places. In Netherlands they just had an anti massive immigration elected for Leaderships. In the UK there are strong debates in the ruling party about immigration.
Note: In my opinion the UK and France are in deeper trouble than they know. What we see above is only a prefix for much bigger war of cultures in Europe. Those are long processes.
The US has similar problems which I don’t need to tell you about.
I hope the European issues are not too much of a detour. I think Israel is at the center of a war of cultures that is world wide which is a bad place to be. We must win for the sake of everyone.
Love and God Bless you my friends.
Thanks for this David
I think Israel should NOT announce when they use the Iron Beam/laser
They should keep its use quiet and zap the swines whenever they shoot missiles/rockets.
Use it as leverage over the US for the US to totally support Israel, stop funding UNRWA and the Palestinians and help Israel to get rid of Hamas totally with NO 2 state solution.
Of course eventually Israel will give it to the US but the concessions re Hamas have to be made first.
For too long the lefty US govts and evil State Department have been working together to destroy Israel.
Yes the left have made a mess of the EU and Europe and now the USA
And sickening of the Red Cross to say that to a woman whose family has been kidnapped. She KNOWS itis impossibel to make contact with the kidnapped. And she also previously said “think of the poor Palestinians”
Disgusting.
I hope Shurat Ha Din sues the Red Cross for depraved indifference leading to loss of life and liberty.
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner is wonderful
I have been following her cases.
The EU is sickening.
They see what Islam and terrorists have done in the EU and in the US and yet they persist in the false belief of “coexistence” Just about every few days in France a Muslim beheads or kills a French person. A kid tried to do it to a teacher last week.
UN chairman Guterrez is a nasty nasty Jew hating commie.
As for Kornbluth who couldnt bear to watch that atrocity film–disgusting. No empathy for the murder of her own people. Even the imams in Israel who watched it were more shocked than she was.
I am sad for the soldiers who lost their lives.
As for Hezbollah Israel has to threaten Beirut maybe then they will stop. As for Unifil–USELESS because tunnels and built under their noses. Thats why there cannot be a “Palestinian ” state with UN troops.
Anyway stay safe
AM Israel Chai!
I will post some stuff on how the EU was a Nazi construct further down
Arab report – The United States, Great Britain, France and Germany are asking their citizens to leave Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Yemen immediately.
A short video of the Iron beam laser system. It’s a good one and is real. Almost operational.
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Impressive!
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Howthe EU was a Nazi construct:
The Germans were very clever about this.
First they established the EEC-European Economic Community, then came the EU
The EEC was thought about during the last days of Hitler’s 3rd Reich
Some say its the rise of the 4th Reich
Here’s something to sink your teeth into:
The EU was planned by the Nazis in 1942.
Read the original document here:
Nazi Germany wanted a 4th Reich- a powerful economic and military bulwark against American hegemony and superiority in the then world.
This is a complete English translation of Germany’s plan for an EEC back in 1942. All the top German Bankers wrote this document, many of whom became leading builders of the EU post-war. A must read for anyone who thinks the EU is a free trade area, or designed to benefit nations.
Original Title:German design of the EEC – 1942
Available FormatsDownload as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
The Seeds of the EU’s Crisis Were Sown 60 Years Ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-23/the-seeds-of-the-eu-s-crisis-were-sown-60-years-ago.html
Unfortunately its behind a paywall Maybe someon knows how to retrieve it.
The Nazis and Fascistswho founded the EU:
Based on Rodney Atkinson’s speech in UK Parliament on 26th Feb 2008, updated in 2010
The Nazis drew up the “basic plan” for the European Union decades before it was actually established, a Ukip MEP has claimed.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/eu-referendum-nazis-created-basic-plan-for-the-european-union-ukip-mep-gerard-batten-says-a7032221.html
Dear David,
Here is a piece I wrote from sources about the atrocious behaviour of the Red Cross for years
I will add the latest from Israel
PLEASE copy and translate into Hebrew and get any friends to post it on a blog or Facebook page, YNET News, Times of Israel, Wallah etc so it goes viral.
If you think there are any mistakes please correct.
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Dear ICRC in Israel & worldwide:
Your latest behaviour in Israel is absolutely disgusting and vile.
It shows what callous criminal psychopaths you are.
You:
1. made excuses not to see the kidnapped victims in Hamas custody.
2. Told grieving families “think of the Palestinians”
3 ” I hope you contact your family soon”–when you know thats not possible
Let me tell you that this behaviour from the Red Cross is not new.
You have a long sordid history going back to World War 2.
We remember and have not forgotten the following:
1. We have not forgotten how you turned a blind eye to the suffering at TheresienStadt Nazi concentration camp when you visited there.
It’s a moral failure which goes back to the Holocaust. The Red Cross knew about the Nazi massacres of Jews on the Eastern Front during World War II as early as 1941.
A booklet published by the Red Cross in 1947 argued that “aid to the Jews, like that to the civilian deportees, rested on no juridical basis” in international law, in contrast to aid to prisoners of war. Therefore the Red Cross did not have “the shadow of a pretext to intervene” for the Jews during the war.
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2. We have not forgotten how you sat on the Nazi death camps’ records at Bad Arolsen in Germany for nearly 70 years denying Holocaust survivors and their families the ability to trace their loved ones and you only opened them in 2006 to the public when many survivors had died and their loved ones could have contacted them if they were still alive or could have confirmed their deaths
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3. We have not forgotten how you boycotted Magen Dovid Adom for 50 years while ICRC in Israel would not let Israel display the Magen Dovid Adom Star of David on its Israel Red Cross emblem, but you let Muslim countries display the crescent moon and star symbol on their emblems in their countries And how you granted full membership to “benefactors of humanity” such as North Korea, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Questioned for having denied entry to the organization to the Jewish state for half a century, in 1996 then head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Cornelio Sommaruga, answered: “If we’re going to have the Star of David, why would we not have to accept the Swastika?”.
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4. We have not forgotten the fat salaries your CEOS get from out donations while not handing out the majority of donations which you collected on behalf of the sufferers of natural disasters -for example the devastating fires in Australia. You kept millions for yourselves.
Australian Bush fires
$242m raised.
Australian Red Cross defends spending 10% of bushfire donations on office costs
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jan/24/australian-red-cross-defends-spending-10-of-bushfire-donations-on-office-costs
Charity faces criticism from an MP who nearly lost his home in a fire for taking too long to distribute $115m in donations
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What is the salary of the CEO of the Red Cross?
6 Sept 2022 — The salary of the CEO of the Red Cross is $737,971 per year
However, as scrutiny increased, more details about executive compensation at the Red Cross were revealed. It was discovered that in addition to her base salary, McGovern received significant bonuses and other benefits such as housing allowances and first-class travel expenses. This only added fuel to the fire and further fueled accusations of excessive spending within the organization.
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5. We have not forgotten the tainted blood scandals where you let HIV and Hepatitis C infected blood be SOLD to countries and where the recipients of this tainted blood became ill with those diseases
Dumping scandal: The export of bad blood
Canadian victims to file lawsuit over bad blood exports from U.S.
https://www.salon.com/1999/02/25/news_185/
The Canadians are now focusing on those who made money on the blood exports. “The billion-dollar players clearly knew the blood was unsafe,” said Judith Reitman, a journalist who wrote “Bad Blood: Crisis in the American Red Cross.” “There was, and is, a mind-set that profits are more important than public health and safety. This is a grave public concern and accountability must occur.”
Bad Blood: Crisis in the American Red Cross
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6. In 1991 during Desert Storm, Jewish US soldiers in Saudi Arabia had to keep their own personal Star of David hidden beneath their uniforms.
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7. A “Memorandum of Understanding between Magen David Adom in Israel and Palestine Red Crescent Society”, obtained by Arutz Sheva, includes having Israel called an “occupier”.
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8 The blood libel of the 2002 battle in the Jenin refugee camp that the Red Cross described as a “massacre” (independent investigators subsequently found that NO massacre was committed, rather 11 Israeli soldiers died in house to house fighting with terrorists because the IDF refrained from having the area strafed – this to avoid civilian casualties despite having warned residents to leave
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9. During the Second Intifada, Red Crescent ambulances commonly served as “Trojan horses” to transport terrorists and weaponry through the “West Bank” and Gaza, although Article 44 of the First Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field (1949) clearly states, “… the emblem of the Red Cross on a white ground … may not be employed, either in time of peace or in time of war, except to indicate or to protect the medical units and establishments…”.
That year E Jerusalem office of the Red Cross became the de facto headquarters of Hamas terrorists.
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10. In the more than 5 years that Gilad Shalit was held prisoner in Gaza, the Red Cross filed only one request to see him.
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11. After WW2 the Red Cross was a major conduit for Nazis to escape Europe, including Adolf Eichmann. The Red Cross provided passports, for example, to the commandants of Treblinka and Sobibor concentration camps, and enabled Alois Brunner, Eichmann’s assistant, to escape to Damascus.
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What the World Knew: How the Red Cross Failed Europe’s Jews & American POW’s
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/how-the-red-cross-failed-europe-s-jews-and-american-pow-s
An excerpt:
Morality aside, it is simply false to say the ICRC was “ill-informed” about the “horrifying reality of the camps.”
The American Red Cross files contain a collection of newspaper clippings that indicate it was well aware of events in Europe. Here are a few of the headlines of those stories:
The Red Cross knew about the Nazi atrocities as early as August 1942. In February 1945, the President of the Red Cross wrote to a U.S. official: “Concerning the Jewish problem in Germany we are in close and continual contact with the German authorities.” The fact that the head of the Red Cross would use the Nazi phraseology — “the Jewish problem” — may also be an indication of the organization’s attitude that Jews were more of a problem than a people who were being annihilated.
The Red Cross also knew about crimes against POWs, but did little to publicize them. One might have thought the U.S. government would have an interest in fomenting anger toward the Germans, and would have broadcast stories of mistreatment of soldiers, but officials took the opposite tack.
Virtually all the information made public about POWs emphasized their welfare. For example, a December 17, 1944, Washington Post headline was reassuring: “Nazis Play Fair in Prison Camps, Families Told.” This news came from the director of POW relief of the ICRC. He told the Post the Germans “have endeavored to accord the same standards of treatment to American and British prisoners that were set up in the Geneva Convention.”
The ICRC maintained that there was no inequality of treatment of Jewish prisoners, for example, though the organization did acknowledge that Jewish POWs were sometimes segregated.
The ICRC visited Stalag VII-A on January 27, 1945, for example, and reported that 110 American Jewish POWs had been segregated but said they were not otherwise mistreated. The Red Cross accepted the Nazi contention that such actions were permissible under Article 9 of the Geneva Convention, which provides that belligerents shall not house prisoners of different races or nationalities together.
A representative of the International Red Cross who visited Stalag IX-B briefly mentioned that the Germans selected American POWs they thought were Jews and put them in a separate barracks. The report said “no other discrimination was made against them.”
In fact, perhaps as many as 120 Jews — along with about 330 non-Jews — were sent to a slave labor camp associated with Buchenwald.That camp, Berga had the highest fatality rate of any camp where American POWs were held during the war (20 percent).
The American Red Cross, meanwhile, adopted the attitude that it should not do anything to upset families; therefore, its Prisoner of War Bulletin was filled with glowing reports of POW camps, letters from cheerful prisoners and photos of happy Americans. But those who returned home came back with a different account of life in a POW camp.
THIS IS WHO YOU WERE AND WHO YOU STILL ARE.
Disgusting MORAL COWARDS AND LIARS
SHAME ON YOU.
RED CROSS SCUM
I have mentioned this many times before here, but I am O-, universal donor, I no longer donate to the Red Cross because of these policies. I would love to find a place where I can donate directly to Israel. Still have not found a place.
I believe you can go back to pre Ww1 and find evidence of RC being used as a front for intelligence ops. Long ago read a bio on wild Bill Donovan (OSS ww2) which had him operating in Eastern Europe on behalf of Jp Morgan. This was before US entry to war in 1917. His cover was some sort of humanitarian effort in Bulgaria. If I remember correctly.
People in Australia talk about their grandfathers fighting a horrible war at Gallipoli. The Red Cross would come and offer mugs of tea to the soldiers. Then ask for a penny when the soldier had taken the tea. In contrast the Salvation Army gave out mugs of tea for free
Thats the kind of organisation the Red Cross is
Can we get one of those for our southern border ??
Our local Secret Santa is wrapping things up this week with surprise gifts for those in great need. In this segment today, you’ll learn about Commander Willie Parris of Lava Hot Springs…a deserving United States Veteran.
https://www.eastidahonews.com/2023/12/a-stunned-veteran-who-has-given-tirelessly-to-his-community-gets-the-surprise-of-a-lifetime-from-a-secret-santa/
Corps tests new camo the enemy won’t be able to spot
“Since the 1990s, anybody can purchase a Sony camcorder, put an appropriate filter on it and see UV or near IR,” said Reed F. Curry, the president of UVR Defense Tech, Ltd., which produces products to conceal UV signatures.
That sort of technology is even being used by academics to map archaeological sites from unsophisticated kites, Reed added, putting the capability well within the reach of insurgents and non-state actors.
“We have been using UV sensors ourselves from drones to detect real-time enemy movements,” he said. “However, we haven’t done the same in terms of protecting our own troops from that.”
Gore’s latest line of multispectral concealment materials are now being used, evaluated and researched by the Marine Corps, Army and SOCOM. The company that has worked for decades to keep troops and campers warm and dry with breathable waterproofing is now hoping to save lives with next-generation camouflage.
Their products include an individual concealment over garment that looks like a ghillie suit, small tarps and large reversible tarps to conceal sizable equipment like vehicles.
All offer traditional visual concealment while also dispersing thermal signatures and scattering electro-optical and electromagnetic signatures. In layman’s terms, that means they are difficult to see at night or day by an observer whether using the naked eye, thermal sensors, or one of many kinds of infrared sensors.
THis is great! Just dont let the arabs get hold of it!
We used emergency blankets to try and make a profile that looked like deer bedding down when AC-130s using FLIR were looking for us.
You reminded me of this:
Wonderful!
Disgusting. WTH, Nim?
I believe that’s Senator Ben(dover) Cardin’s aide, Aiden Maese Czeropski, who filmed himself having g @ y s e x in a Senate office, then got fired, very recently.
Would have been happy to never see the FOOL again. Disgusting evil creatures. No one should give these fools air time.
yeah, it’s the House hearing room frolicker
Rump Ranger, 2nd Class
I’ll buy him a one way ticket to Gaza.
Shejaiya is the City in Gaza which had one of the strongest Hamas Brigade. It is by the border and on 10/7 the nearby Kibutz Nahal Oz was invaded and many families were murdered and some kidnapped including a family with three children. The IDF had a base nearby which was surprised in beds and almost all were killed. Shejaiya was the city in which we accidentally killed the three hostages. It was the city in which we lost the amazing commander of the Golani Battalion along with some other 8 soldiers and commanders. In Shejaiya in 2014 Golani had a personnel carrier hit by a missile and lost some 7 soldiers, Hadar Goldin’s body was then kidnapped and has not been properly buried till now, yes it was also in Shejaiya.
Shejaiya will no longer be a problem as you can see in the following two videos. The soldier in the end saying “closing a circle”. That means ending an open bill. See both very short videos below.
https://youtube.com/shorts/YPl2EdkX9ck?si=3D2UFo6bqvovVqPU
what is actually being blown up?
a tunnel network?
or key buildings with charges in each?
is it known?
21 December 2020 K. T. Oslin, American country singer (80’s Ladies), dies at 78
K.T. Oslin – Do Ya’
21 December 2017 Roswell Rudd ,American free-jazz trombonist (Archie Shepp), and avant-garde composer (New York Art Quartet), dies of prostate cancer at 82
Roswell Rudd with Sonic Youth – Dry Bones Live at the Harry Smith Project.mp4
21 December 2012 Lee Dorman, American rock bassist (Iron Butterfly; Captain Beyond), dies at 70
IRON BUTTERFLY – IN A GADDA DA VIDA – 1968 (ORIGINAL FULL VERSION) CD SOUND & 3D VIDEO
21 December 1992 Albert King [Nelson], American blues guitarist and singer (BB King & Friends; Blues Alive), dies of a heart attack at 69
Albert King – I’ll Play the Blues for You, Pts. 1-2 (extended version)
His stuff is great….
21 December
George S. Patton
(1885-1945)
American WWII general (Sicily, Italy and Normandy) known as “Old Blood & Guts”, dies of congestive heart failure at 60
“The George S Patton Story” – Narrated by Ronald Reagan – REEL History
21 December
Al Gross
(1918-2000)
American inventor (invented the walkie-talkie), dies at 82
I believe I have read every biography of Patton plus his own writings and those of his staff and those of his peers and superiors in the Allied command structure. There is no doubt in my mind that Patton was the greatest Allied Army commander of WW II.
Eccentric, yes! Sometimes volatile, yes! A diplomat, NO! But he was a commander with real feelings for the warriors that served under him.
The slapping incidents were almost his undoing, though they should not have been. The only real action for which he deserved censure was for sending Task Force Baum to try and rescue his son in law from a German prison camp. That one time his feelings over rode his duty and with disastrous results.
Millei’s speech.
There are subtitles
This is an awesome speech. I am experiencing Argentine envy. Can we trade Milei for Biden until Trump’s reelection?
EXPERIENCE OR REVELATION
“We have received…the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.” 1 Cor. ii. 12
Reality is Redemption, not my experience of Redemption; but Redemption has no meaning for me until it speaks the language of my conscious life. When I am born again, the Spirit of God takes me right out of myself and my experiences, and identifies me with Jesus Christ. If I am left with my experiences, my experiences have not been produced by Redemption. The proof that they are produced by Redemption is that I am led out of myself all the time, I no longer pay any attention to my experiences as the ground of Reality, but only to the Reality which produced the experiences. My experiences are not worth anything unless they keep me at the Source, Jesus Christ.
If you try to dam up the Holy Spirit in you to produce subjective experiences, you will find that He will burst all bounds and take you back again to the historic Christ. Never nourish an experience which has not God as its Source and faith in God as its result. If you do, your experience is anti-Christian, no matter what visions you may have had. Is Jesus Christ Lord of your experiences, or do you try to lord it over Him? Is any experience dearer to you than your Lord? He must be Lord over you, and you must not pay attention to any experience over which He is not Lord. There comes a time when God will make you impatient with your own experience – I do not care what I experience; I am sure of Him.
Be ruthless with yourself if you are given to talking about the experiences you have had. Faith that is sure of itself is not faith; faith that is sure of God is the only faith there is.
Oswald Chambers
December 21st Devotional
Thank you for bringing an OC reading today. Hope this holiday season finds you well. May His Blessings be with you.
You are welcome! 🤗 And yes, I’m going to try to post this daily devotional again for the few that have asked! May the Joy and Peace that only He can bring to us, be your constant companion in the days ahead! 💝✝🙏
oswald chambers is my favorite.
Christmas pups…🎄🐶🎄🤗
Good morning to my 🌳🏠 friends!
Although I do not celebrate the pagan holiday of the winter solstice, today I begin celebrating summer LOL…the days will start their long trek of extending their hours until Spring shows her fair face! Be Blessed friends!
Mornin’ all!
One of the cleanest popular music groups out there, and the music is both well-constructed and fun!
And they have a decent singing talent, i.e. they are usually on the notes, rather than torturing and squalling them!
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing –
A Cappella Hymn
Lyrics – Charles Wesley (~1739)
O Holy Night (3 Verses) –
A Cappella Hymn
Lyrics – Placide Cappeau (1847)
Translation – John S. Dwight (1892)
Good morning blessings to you and peace abound.
December 21
MORNING
The days of thy mourning shall be ended. Isa. 60:20
In the world ye shall have tribulation. John 16:33
The whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. Rom. 8:22, 23
We that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. II Cor. 5:4
These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb, Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters; and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. Rev. 7:14-17
EVENING
Master, carest thou not that we perish? Mark 4:38
The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works. Psa. 145:9
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. Gen. 9:3
While the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease. Gen. 8:22
The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. Nah. 1:7
God heard the voice of the lad: and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. Gen. 21:17, 19
Take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, what shall we drink? for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. Matt. 6:31, 32
Trust … in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy. I Tim. 6:17
Bagster
https://www.dailylightdevotional.org/12/1221.html
When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, “Rejoice with me.” – Luke 15:9
Did you ever consider how money affects people’s emotions? When you earn it, you feel accomplishment. When you win it, you get excited. When you run low on finances, it may stir up conflict with a family member. When it is stolen, you become angry. When you lose it, you look for it diligently as in Jesus’ parable of the lost coin.
A woman practically turns her house upside down looking for a coin, which was worth a considerable amount in that day. When she finds it, she tells her friends so they can celebrate with her (Luke 15:8-9). Money is important because it buys what is needed to maintain life.
In this parable, and others in Luke 15, Jesus describes the value of a lost soul. It is so important that when one repents, the angels in Heaven rejoice (Luke 15:10). Christ’s followers should have more concern for lost souls than they would if they lost something valuable, such as a diamond ring, a cell phone, or a thousand dollars.
Believers show that they value souls in the way they respectfully share the gospel and live in faith and obedience to the Lord.
Pray that God will guide you in showing compassion for the lost. Pray for citizens and officials of the United States that they will receive Jesus as their Savior. It is tempting to become angry with people in leadership who appear to be fighting against faith in God and the Lord Jesus. With the same intensity that the woman looked for her lost coin, pray for their eternal souls.
https://www.presidentialprayerteam.org/daily-prayer-briefing?utm_source=daily_briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_briefing&utm_content=daily_briefing#devotional
Another Staged Photo by AFP:
Times of Israel uses photo in story:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-says-its-nearing-end-of-ground-offensive-in-north-gaza-is-fighting-in-new-areas/
Hamas and the AFP need to layoff the cheap theatrics. If you look at the photo you will see the “rubble” barely covers the street pavement. The photo shows hammerheads looking at a street curb.
I realize this photo has an effect on low IQ people but is viewed as cheap theatrics by anyone with a modicum of common sense.
Concerning Endless War…
From England, a Christmas anti-war song from some years ago, using World War I imagery, and others:
Hey, Mr. Churchill comes over here to say we’re doing splendidly,
But it’s very cold out here in the snow marching to and from the enemy,
Oh I say it’s tough I have had enough can you stop the cavalry?
I have had to fight almost every night down throughout these centuries,
That is when I say, oh yes yet again can you stop the cavalry?
Mary Bradley waits at home in the nuclear fall-out zone
Wish I could be dancing now In the arms of the girl I love
Wish I was at home for Christmas.*
Bang! That’s another bomb on another the town
While the Tzar and Jim have tea.
If I get home, live to tell the tale,
I’ll run for all presidencies,
If I get elected, I will stop,
I will stop the cavalry.
Wish I was at home for Christmas,
Wish I could be dancing now in the arms of the girl I love,
Mary Bradley waits at home,
She has been waiting two years long,
Wish I was at home for Christmas.
*(Such songs with easily corrected grammar drive me crazy! “I wish I WERE…” (Subjunctive Mood, Present Tense) 😉
Nuclear fall out zone? WWI and Tzar don’t mix with nukes, unless it is the Soviet Tzarbombe. But still no WWI.
The song needs some history police too.
To be sure, the images and lyrics are not restricted in Time. 🙂
In a war that’s far from over, renewed infighting is a luxury Israel cannot afford
https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-a-war-thats-far-from-over-renewed-infighting-is-a-luxury-israel-cannot-afford/
I think the infighting is a little early, but expected. We will get to see who has the greater “herding cats” skills. I’m putting my money on Bibi.
AbortionKey facts
Abortion is a common health intervention. It is safe when carried out using a method recommended by WHO, appropriate to the pregnancy duration and by someone with the necessary skills.Six out of 10 of all unintended pregnancies end in an induced abortion.Around 45% of all abortions are unsafe, of which 97% take place in developing countries.Unsafe abortion is a leading – but preventable – cause of maternal deaths and morbidities. It can lead to physical and mental health complications and social and financial burdens for women, communities and health systems.Lack of access to safe, timely, affordable and respectful abortion care is a critical public health and human rights issue.
Overview Around 73 million induced abortions take place worldwide each year. Six out of 10 (61%) of all unintended pregnancies, and 3 out of 10 (29%) of all pregnancies, end in induced abortion (1).
Comprehensive abortion care is included in the list of essential health care services published by WHO in 2020. Abortion is a simple health care intervention that can be effectively managed by a wide range of health workers using medication or a surgical procedure. In the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, a medical abortion can also be safely self-managed by the pregnant person outside of a health care facility (e.g., at home), in whole or in part. This requires that the woman has access to accurate information, quality medicines and support from a trained health worker (if she needs or wants it during the process).
Comprehensive abortion care includes the provision of information, abortion management and post-abortion care. It encompasses care related to miscarriage (spontaneous abortion and missed abortion), induced abortion (the deliberate interruption of an ongoing pregnancy by medical or surgical means), incomplete abortion as well as fetal death (intrauterine fetal demise). The information in this fact sheet focuses on care related to induced abortion.
Scope of the problemWhen carried out using a method recommended by WHO appropriate to the pregnancy duration, and by someone with the necessary skills, abortion is a safe health care intervention.
However, when people with unintended pregnancies face barriers to attaining safe, timely, affordable, geographically reachable, respectful and non-discriminatory abortion, they often resort to unsafe abortion.
Global estimates from 2010–2014 demonstrate that 45% of all induced abortions are unsafe. Of all unsafe abortions, one third were performed under the least safe conditions, i.e., by untrained persons using dangerous and invasive methods.
Developing countries bear the burden of 97% of all unsafe abortions. More than half of all unsafe abortions occur in Asia, most of them in south and central Asia. In Latin American and Africa, the majority (approximately 3 out of 4) of all abortions are unsafe. In Africa, nearly half of all abortions occur under the least safe circumstances (2).
Consequences of inaccessible quality abortion care Lack of access to safe, affordable, timely and respectful abortion care, and the stigma associated with abortion, pose risks to women’s physical and mental well-being throughout the life-course.
Inaccessibility of quality abortion care risks violating a range of human rights of women and girls, including the right to life; the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health; the right to benefit from scientific progress and its realization; the right to decide freely and responsibly on the number, spacing and timing of children; and the right to be free from torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment.
Each year, 4.7–13.2% of maternal deaths can be attributed to unsafe abortion (3). In developed regions, it is estimated that 30 women die for every 100 000 unsafe abortions. In developing regions, that number rises to 220 deaths per 100 000 unsafe abortions (2). Estimates from 2012 indicate that in developing countries alone, 7 million women per year were treated in hospital facilities for complications of unsafe abortion (4).
Physical health risks associated with unsafe abortion include:
incomplete abortion (failure to remove or expel all pregnancy tissue from the uterus);haemorrhage (heavy bleeding);infection;uterine perforation (caused when the uterus is pierced by a sharp object); anddamage to the genital tract and internal organs as a consequence of inserting dangerous objects into the vagina or anus.Restrictive abortion regulation can cause distress and stigma, and risk constituting a violation of human rights of women and girls, including the right to privacy and the right to non-discrimination and equality, while also imposing financial burdens on women and girls. Regulations that force women to travel to attain legal care, or require mandatory counselling or waiting periods, lead to loss of income and other financial costs, and can make abortion inaccessible to women with low resources (5, 6).
Estimates from 2006 show that complications of unsafe abortions cost health systems in developing countries US$ 553 million per year for post-abortion treatments. In addition, households experienced US$ 922 million in loss of income due to long-term disability related to unsafe abortion (8). Countries and health systems could make substantial monetary savings by providing greater access to modern contraception and quality induced abortion (6, 7).
A set of scoping reviews from 2021 indicate that abortion regulations – by being linked to fertility – affect women’s education, participation on the labour market and positive contribution to GDP growth. The legal status of abortion can also affect children’s educational outcomes, and their earnings on the labour market later in life. For example, legalization of abortion – by reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies and thus increasing the likelihood that children are born wanted – can be linked to greater parental investments in children, including in girls’ schooling (7).
Expanding quality abortion careEvidence shows that restricting access to abortions does not reduce the number of abortions (1); however, it does affect whether the abortions that women and girls attain are safe and dignified. The proportion of unsafe abortions are significantly higher in countries with highly restrictive abortion laws than in countries with less restrictive laws (2).
Barriers to accessing safe and respectful abortion include high costs, stigma for those seeking abortions and health care workers, and the refusal of health workers to provide an abortion based on personal conscience or religious belief. Access is further impeded by restrictive laws and requirements that are not medically justified, including criminalization of abortion, mandatory waiting periods, provision of biased information or counselling, third-party authorization and restrictions regarding the type of health care providers or facilities that can provide abortion services.
Multiple actions are needed at the legal, health system and community levels so that everyone who needs abortion care has access to it. The three cornerstones of an enabling environment for quality comprehensive abortion care are:
respect for human rights, including a supportive framework of law and policy;the availability and accessibility of information; and a supportive, universally accessible, affordable and well functioning health system. A well functioning health system implies many factors, including:
evidence-based policies; universal health coverage; the reliable supply of quality, affordable medical products and equipment; that an adequate number of health workers, of different types, provide abortion care at a reachable distance to patients; the delivery of abortion care through a variety of approaches, e.g., care in health facilities, digital interventions and self-care approaches, allowing for choices depending on the values and preferences of the pregnant person, available resources, and the national and local context;that health workers are trained to provide safe and respectful abortion care, to support informed decision-making and to interpret laws and policies regulating abortion; that health workers are supported and protected from stigma; andprovision of contraception to prevent unintended pregnancies. Availability and accessibility of information implies:
provision of evidence-based comprehensive sexuality education; andaccurate, non-biased and evidence-based information on abortion and contraceptive methods.WHO responseWHO provides global technical and policy guidance on the use of contraception to prevent unintended pregnancy, provision of information on abortion care, abortion management (including miscarriage, induced abortion, incomplete abortion and fetal death) and post-abortion care. In 2021, WHO published an updated, consolidated guideline on abortion care, including all WHO recommendations and best practice statements across three domains essential to the provision of abortion care: law and policy, clinical services and service delivery.
WHO also maintains the Global Abortion Policies Database. This interactive online database contains comprehensive information on the abortion laws, policies, health standards and guidelines for all countries.
Upon request, WHO provides technical support to countries to adapt sexual and reproductive health guidelines to specific contexts and strengthen national policies and programmes related to contraception and safe abortion care. A quality abortion care monitoring and evaluation framework is also in development.
WHO is a cosponsor of the HRP (UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction), which carries out research on clinical care, abortion regulation, abortion stigma, as well as implementation research on community and health systems approaches to quality abortion care. It also monitors the global burden of unsafe abortion and its consequences.
This is what they teach young women around the world; abortion is necessary, good, and helpful.
Nothing about the 73 MILLION lives taken, human babies………just how good it is for the mothers and society!
Wish I could have filled the site with baby pictures for real joy at Christmas…….(I don’t know how to post pictures.)
Every post should have a picture of a baby in reverence for all the lost souls to abortion. God’s gifts to the world, the future. Not one was buried that I know of.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/abortion
https://genius.com/Iris-dement-workin-on-a-world-lyrics
I got so down and troubled
I nearly lost my head
I started wakin’ every morning
Filled with sadness, fear and dread
The world I took for granted
Was crashing to the ground
And I realized I might not live long enough
To ever see it turn around
[Verse 2]
Oh, but then I got to thinkin’
Of the ones who came before
Of all the sacrifices that they made
To open up so many doors
Doors I got to walk through
On streets paved for me
By people who were workin’ on a world
They never got to see
[Chorus]
Now I’m workin’ on a world I may never see
I’m joinin’ forces with thе warriors of love
Who came beforе and will follow you and me
I get up in the mornin’ knowing I’m privileged just to be
Workin’ on a world I may never see
[Verse 3]
I don’t have all the answers
To the troubles of the day
But neither did all our ancestors
And they persevered anyway
When I see a little baby
Reaching out its arms to me
I remember why I’m workin’ on a world
I may never see
[Chorus]
I’m workin’ on a world I may never see
Joinin’ forces with the warriors of love
Who came before and will follow you and me
I get up in the mornin’ knowing I’m privileged just to be
Workin’ on a world I may never see
I’m workin’ on a world I may never see
Takes your breath away; solid marble sculpted to be sheer.
Do you know the name of the sculptor and this statue?
Whether modern or not, the artist is a genius, as opposed to the “geniuses” who glue or nail junk to a board, call it a sculpture, and are lionized for “brilliantly” criticizing the throw-away society.
<Giovanni Strazza >
with hand tools in the 1800’s
Ran into a Utube of lost arts from pre-modern times that included this statuary.
Many thanks for the information!
The Veiled Virgin Mary:
https://mymodernmet.com/the-veiled-virgin-sculpture/
Your reaction was like mine when I saw it years and years ago; after looking at modern art, out of curiosity, my teeth clinched and I literally had a headache so it was back to the masters.
Architecture and Art are my loves; neither includes any ‘modern’ works. I drive into big cities and see the juxtaposition of the modern with the classical and like I said my jaw automatically clinches.
Verse of the Day for Thursday, December 21, 2023
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“And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.”
Ephesians 5:2 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!
PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD
Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.
I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.
Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.
With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.
Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me.
Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.
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JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN
CHILD NOT CHOICE
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen.
The most beautiful post! Thank you and Amen.
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
HOLY SPIRIT POWER
Whoever values the world – is not of God;
The Spirit cannot dwell in him – he is flawed;
Seek ye first the kingdom of God – in His Word;
All will be added too – have you not heard?
The Power of the Spirit is immense;
Indwelled with the Spirit is intense;
There is no comparison – none at all;
To anything worldly – the world is too small!
His Spirit within you empowers – protects;
He convicts you of sin – and He corrects;
No power in the universe – can compare;
Anytime – anyplace – or anywhere!
Trust in God – keep close contact – let Him in;
Pray He will send His Spirit to dwell within;
When the Spirit indwells – He guides your way;
Whatever you do – whatever you say!
All bad feelings – all hurt – attendant pain;
He will dispel – till you are free again;
He will guide your heart – so free you will stay;
The demons that pursue you – He’ll keep at bay!
All turmoil – torment – they seek to create;
He will disable – and surely abate;
Keep in obedience – and He’ll bless you;
With His gifts and fruits – that’s what He will do!
When you are tempted – by the evil one;
Think not twice – ask Him – and it will be done;
Take this thought from me – please take it away;
In Jesus’ Name – it has no power to stay!
In all that you do – what you encounter;
He will assist – and put it asunder;
Fear not the evil one – his power fades;
With the Spirit inside – His power aids!
In the supernatural war – we fight each day;
There’s no greater power – to keep them away;
Than His Spirit inside you – strengthening;
Protecting – their distance He’s lengthening!
Come – Holy Spirit – within me – I pray;
Keep all evil from me – keep it at bay;
Keep my heart – and my thoughts – pure with Your grace;
Indwell in my heart – shine Your light on my face!
D01: 12/02/2013
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Oh, the joy, can’t stop laughing and crying…….remembering my children’s antics.