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-Land of the Free
Charl Van Wyk speaks out - Short video at the end.
[WND] Charl Van Wyk was just an ordinary Christian man until July 25, 1993 - the day that would become known as the St. James Massacre.
An attack on the St James Church of England in Cape Town, South Africa, by four members of the Azanian People's Liberation Army. Eleven members of the congregation were killed and 58 wounded. In 1998 the attackers were granted amnesty for their acts by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
On this date Van Wyk shot back at the terrorists who were attacking an innocent congregation gathered in prayer, and saved many lives in the process. More than just a remarkable story of courage under fire, "Shooting Back" deals forthrightly with the consequences of his actions that day, while addressing the concerns that plague so many God-fearing people in these lawless times:

  • Should we carry arms?
  • When is it appropriate to defend ourselves and our families?
  • What can we do when our God-given right to self-defense is legislated away from us?

    In "Shooting Back," Van Wyk tackles these difficult questions, using the light of Scripture and insights from his own experience to make the case for self-defense.

    In this completely updated video, Charl Van Wyk tells his remarkable story with new footage, images, and timely warnings about ISIS and active-shooter attacks. The documentary also features an interview with Gun Owners of America Executive Director Emeritus, Larry Pratt.

    Includes Bonus Extra: Van Wyk Preaches at the Pulpit in America

    Spanish Subtitles, English Closed Caption
  • Posted by: Besoeker || 12/27/2023 07:18 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Van Wyk tackles these difficult questions

    Perhaps difficult for some of the short branches of the evolutionary tree.
    Posted by: Skidmark || 12/27/2023 7:33 Comments || Top||

    #2  /\ My thoughts as well.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 12/27/2023 7:34 Comments || Top||

    #3  “But now,” he said, “take your money and a traveler's bag. And if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one! For the time has come for this prophecy about me to be fulfilled: 'He was counted among the rebels. Luke 22:36-38
    Posted by: Super Hose || 12/27/2023 11:45 Comments || Top||


    Donald Trump's son says he'll go to 'great lengths' to make sure dad doesn't pick 'puppet' Nikki Haley as running mate: 'She's the new favorite candidate of the billionaire class because they want control'
    [Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
    Posted by: Skidmark || 12/27/2023 02:08 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  I vote for Don Jr as VP
    Posted by: BrerRabbit || 12/27/2023 6:43 Comments || Top||

    #2  /\ We could do much worse than Don Jr.

    We are doing much worse than Don Jr.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 12/27/2023 6:49 Comments || Top||

    #3  She needs a weeks stay at the health facility Fetterman emerged from.
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/27/2023 8:40 Comments || Top||

    #4  Michigan Supreme Court rejects attempt to remove Trump from ballot
    Posted by: Skidmark || 12/27/2023 10:17 Comments || Top||

    #5  He should choose Kamala Harris. He could implement any policy and no one will want to remove him from office.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 12/27/2023 11:42 Comments || Top||

    #6  That is actually bloody genius Super Hose. Kinda like Bush when he had Quail as his VP.
    Posted by: DarthVader || 12/27/2023 13:49 Comments || Top||

    #7  There is no Constitutional limit to how long she can serve in that office. She could serve as long as Feinstein as more of a threat than a candidate.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 12/27/2023 14:20 Comments || Top||


    Home Front: Politix
    Not the Bee - Satanic Terrorist Cult Makes 2024 Endorsement: 'Only Biden-Harris Can Bring About End of History'
    [WesternJournal] Most individuals and organizations endorse presidential candidates because they think the country will improve in some way if the candidate is elected, right?

    What happens when a group endorses a candidate because its members believe the candidate will herald in a new Dark Age filled with fear, trembling and gnashing of teeth?

    The Order of Nine Angles, a Satanic cult founded in the United Kingdom in the 1970s, according to a BBC report from 2020, has endorsed the Biden-Harris ticket for the 2024 presidential election. Not surprisingly, when Satanists endorse political candidates, they do it for all the wrong reasons.

    In what could be written off as a brazen attempt at gaining some cheap notoriety, O9A manages to paint itself as the kind of fools who utter a prophetic phrase or two before falling into the abyss of eternal fire.

    On Wednesday, O9A stated on its website that “democracy is failing; worldwide nations are going broke, preparing for war, inundated with refugees, beset by internal refugees, ruled by careerist psychopaths, and perhaps most ominously, electing leaders who are associated with foreign powers.”

    There’s more than a little truth in O9A’s observation. The world does appear to be on the brink.

    Any Americans in their right mind would presumably want a president who protected democracy, thwarted corruption, avoided war by a show of strength, and controlled the country’s orders. In other words, they would back a presidential ticket that put America first.

    Not O9A.

    ARE YOU SURPRISED BY THE ENDORSEMENT?
    “We want to rush into the abyss so that the ‘end of history‘ can come to its natural terminus and a new Dark Age will be visited upon the Earth.”

    “In this new era,” the endorsement continued “might will make right, the claw and tooth will always be red, and blood will cross the land like an ever-flowing stream. The strong will oppress the weak, the weak will die, and natural selection will resume.”

    “This can only happen through weak humanist leadership that will stumble its way into war, famine, recession, terrorism, corruption, and human misery. The suicides will leave before the battles commence …

    “Only Biden-Harris can bring about this advancement of history, and therefore, we endorse the Biden-Harris campaign in 2024.”

    Posted by: BrerRabbit || 12/27/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  “We want to rush into the abyss so that the ‘end of history‘ can come to its natural terminus and a new Dark Age will be visited upon the Earth.”

    Someone's not paying attention.
    Posted by: Skidmark || 12/27/2023 6:58 Comments || Top||

    #2  'Satan Club' approved at Kansas high school
    Posted by: Skidmark || 12/27/2023 7:00 Comments || Top||

    #3 

    Given the anti-Christian practices and Immoral agendas we see coming out of various levels of Government & Politics.

    It makes me wonder if there is a Bigger Order of the Nine Fallen Angles here?
    Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/27/2023 7:17 Comments || Top||

    #4  Let me know of any Moroni sightings.
    Posted by: Skidmark || 12/27/2023 9:06 Comments || Top||

    #5  When they're right, they're right
    Posted by: Mercutio || 12/27/2023 11:07 Comments || Top||

    #6  Obama was endorsed by Honey Boo Boo. Joe took it to the next level.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 12/27/2023 11:23 Comments || Top||

    #7  I don't know that Biden-Harris are the only ones that can do it. They certainly seem to have a head start, though.
    Posted by: ed in texas || 12/27/2023 12:39 Comments || Top||

    #8  In this new era ... might will make right

    Get help from the good guys. See Rosary of the Angels
    Posted by: Thusosh Ulaigum6736 || 12/27/2023 12:48 Comments || Top||

    #9 
    Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/27/2023 13:32 Comments || Top||


    Home Front: WoT
    Washington Post: Federal Migration Policy Enables Pro-Hamas, Islamic Protests
    [Breitbart] The federal government’s pro-migration policy has enabled a national wave of pro-Hamas, anti-Jewish, and anti-Israel demonstrations and riots, according to the Washington Post.

    “Children of refugees from Muslim nations organized many of the demonstrations, evidence of a political awakening among a new generation of young Americans who are helping to shape U.S. public opinion in support of a cease-fire in the Middle East,” the Washington Post reported on Christmas Day.
    The Washington Post carefully ignores the role played by the usual suspects from the Jew-hating Black Bloc/Antifa far left, who’ve been pushing the protests even farther than the Moslems themselves would have thought to do.
    The Islamic population in the United States is rapidly heading past five million, roughly double from a 2007 estimate of 2.35 million. The population includes hundreds of thousands of American blacks, as well as many immigrants who have walked away from the 1,400-year-old Islamic religion that has paralyzed their home countries.
    ...and who therefore ought not be counted as Moslems at all.
    But it also includes an increasing share of younger and alienated migrants who are pushing their ethnic and Islamic homeland politics into Americans’ already-chaotic streets and communities.
    Continued on Page 49
    Posted by: Skidmark || 12/27/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

    #1  “I thought, ‘Wow, there are a lot more Muslims than I previously thought,’ and that made me want to become more active,” Abualya said.

    Just peachy.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 12/27/2023 11:25 Comments || Top||

    #2  You can sooner roll steamrollers back
    And restore what was crushed from its lack,
    Or cancel conversion
    To "trans" sans a surgeon,
    Than rescue one Muslim or "Black".
    Posted by: Dopey Bumble9921 || 12/27/2023 21:08 Comments || Top||

    #3  Embracing his holiday anger,
    A Moslem Somali of Bangor
    ["Wow, what are the odds?"]
    Was moved by the Spirit
    Of Kwanzaa -- "Ya hear it?" --
    And dressed as the dread Ron Karenga...
    Posted by: Dopey Bumble9921 || 12/27/2023 21:29 Comments || Top||


    Israel-Palestine-Jordan
    Houthi attacks indicate increasing Iranian concern
    [Jpost] The Houthi militia’s threats to target commercial ships in the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab Strait are no longer mere propaganda or empty statements, after they were actually implemented, and became a reality amid a global response of silence, hesitation, and verbal condemnations.

    What the movement’s leader Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi and his supporters realize is that there is a state of international inability to confront these practices, which do not affect the interests of a specific party, but rather represent an actual threat that is increasing at an accelerating pace to damage the global trade movement – which is still suffering from the consequences of the Corona epidemic and the Ukraine crisis.

    There is no shortage of threats to target trade movement in the Red Sea, where between 10% and 15% of global trade passes, in addition to the importance of the sea corridor for transporting more than five million barrels of oil per day heading to European countries and the United States of America.

    This opens the door to a bad scenario, such as a shortage of supplies and related severe negative effects, such as high energy prices and other cascading economic consequences.

    The threat to maritime transport movement through Bab al-Mandab to the Suez Canal is an extremely dangerous issue because it negatively affects transport, trade and the broader global economy, given the negative repercussions of these threats on the cost of shipping and ship insurance.

    In addition to the impact on the economies of countries such as Egypt, whose revenues from the Suez Canal represent an important portion of its economy, we are dealing with a multilateral issue, and we cannot claim that these multidimensional impacts are absent or hidden from the awareness of the Houthi militias and their regional supporters and financiers. Rather, they are completely at the heart of their strategic calculations.

    HOUTHIS WANT TO CHANGE THE RULES OF THE MIDDLE EAST GAME
    AS AN OBSERVER, I can confirm that one of the most prominent goals of Al-Houthi and his enablers, the policy planners in Tehran, is to exert maximum pressure on the parties concerned, whether Western or regional countries, for geopolitical motives – some of which are declared, such as sending aid to Gaza.

    Others – and this is the most important – are hidden and relate to pressure on the West to enhance Iran’s position and its regional and international role as an indispensable player in the equations of security and stability.

    Consequently, an attempt is made to change the rules of the game in the Middle East, and to end peace-building projects and normalize relations between Arabs and Israel once and for all in the later stages of the Gaza War.

    There is no doubt that Iran is becoming increasingly concerned due to growing talk about the future of the Gaza Strip. This dialogue, whether officially circulating or being revealed through Western and Israeli media leaks – centers around new perceptions of the future of the Strip without the terrorist Hamas movement, which means the loss of Iran’s strategic dream of seizing control of the Palestinians and controlling their destiny through the terrorist Hamas movement.

    Also, without a doubt, what also worries Iran is that the scenarios circulating in this regard are in parallel with continuing the normalization of relations between the Arab countries and Israel, and limiting the treatment of the Palestinian issue to what could be called the Arab-Israeli normalization box.

    This means returning to the situation before the bloody attack on October 7, which was launched by the terrorist Hamas organization in coordination with, at the behest of, or under instructions from Iran.

    Say whatever you want about it and call it whatever you want, but the facts have become clear to everyone with reason and insight.

    LOSING CONTROL OF THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE IS TERRIFYING FOR IRAN
    THIS TERRIFYING scenario for Iran represents an imminent danger to its overall investment and strategic planning, which began decades ago through what it calls the “Axis of Resistance,” especially since there is talk circulating about the fate of Lebanese-based Hezbollah, and a focus on confronting and putting an end to the party’s threat to Israel’s security.

    Which means dismantling the network of Iranian arms, which is something that Tehran views with great seriousness and concern. This explains the change in the behavior of Iran regarding these arms by escalating their threats, whether in northern Israel or in Bab al-Mandab, and claiming that they are there to support Gaza, even though what is happening in the Strip did not begin last week, but rather more than two months ago.

    Let us remember a very important fact, in my opinion, which is that the Houthi militias never resorted to threatening maritime navigation in the Red Sea during the height of the Yemeni crisis, and were content with targeting ships belonging to the Arab coalition countries led by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. They did not target the ships of any other country, even if they were headed to ports of the coalition countries.

    This was when Al-Houthi wanted to attract international sympathy by claiming that he was a “victim” at a time when everyone realized that he was the one who ignited the war in Yemen, just as the terrorist Hamas ignited it in Gaza.

    Therefore, the Houthi trend towards expanding the circle of conflict and increasing pressure on the international community is in itself a qualitatively different step and a strong indicator of an actual carrying out of Iran’s threats since the beginning of the conflict in Gaza, with the danger of expanding its scope to being a regional conflict.

    Tehran realizes that compromising the interests of regional and international parties could drag them into conflict on other fronts, such as Yemen and Lebanon, which is a disastrous scenario whose paths and consequences cannot be predicted.

    What is happening now is that the Houthi militia has raised its level of threats in a deliberate manner, after it targeted Israeli ships and was not sufficiently deterred since the United States restrained Israel, preventing it from responding so that the circle of war does not expand.

    This is something that Israel may not want as well, for many reasons and considerations that there is no room to explain in detail here.

    The Houthi militia has tended to target commercial ships belonging to other countries, and announced the targeting of any commercial ships heading to Israeli ports, regardless of their nationality, which in reality means an attempt to impose a partial naval blockade on Israel.

    This also means that there is a complex test facing regional and international powers who are seeking to achieve security and stability in order to confront these practices, but could send wrong messages that might result in more and more chaos and unrest.

    What confirms this is that the Pentagon demonstrated that the targeting of a commercial ship near Yemen was carried out by Somali militants, not Houthis, and there may be specific Houthi arrangements to use pirates to expand the targeting circle and spread chaos in this vital maritime region. This is the most dangerous point that should be taken into consideration – and it should be addressed strictly and firmly.

    The writer is a UAE political analyst and former Federal National Council candidate.
    A UAE political analyst writing for the Jerusalem Post. Miraculous, no?
    Posted by: Skidmark || 12/27/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

    #1  Is it desperation or the understanding that Biden has no balls.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 12/27/2023 11:36 Comments || Top||

    #2  Sooner or later the US will have to actually attack a target (or many such targets) in Yemen.

    At which time, many civilian casualties will be claimed.

    Maybe it will be during the Democratic Presidential Convention. That would be fun.
    Posted by: lord garth || 12/27/2023 12:38 Comments || Top||



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      US troops hit three Kataib Hezbollah targets in Iraq
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      Hamas rejects two-state solution
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      Merry Christmas!
    Sun 2023-12-24
      Safieddine: We're the ones who decide the fate of the South
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      IDF has reported the first confirmed case of a Hamas suicide bomber in Gaza
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      Israel orders evacuation of UNRWA facilities
    Thu 2023-12-21
      IDF uncovers Hamas 'nerve center' below opulent Gaza neighborhood
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      60 anti-Israel protesters arrested inside the Capitol Rotunda
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      Massive explosion at Iran's aviation and space force headquarters in Tehran
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      Yemen has reportedly struck a US destroyer near the port of Berbera, Somaliland
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      15 attack drones launched from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen shot down by US, UK warships: officials
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      President Abbas terms Gaza 'integral part' of Palestinian state
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      Suspected Hamas members arrested in Germany, Netherlands and Denmark for planning terrorist attacks
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      Army says hundreds arrested in ongoing Jenin raid
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