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Sunday, April 19, 2026

Chinese President Xi Jinping has spent the Iran war doing what he does best " patiently exploiting America's distraction and discord.

Why it matters: The conflict allowed China to bolster its diplomatic leverage, clean-energy muscle and intelligence on the U.S. military " all without firing a shot or spending a dollar.

The implications touch supply chains, energy procurement, geopolitical risk, and the race for superior AI and weaponry.

Even with progress toward a framework for peace between the U.S. and Iran, significant disruptions continue in the Strait of Hormuz. The strategic damage is done.

The military impact is the part that should scare the hell out of Pentagon planners.


Iran rejected taking part in the second round of talks with the United States, the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported on Sunday.

"Iran stated that its absence from the second round of talks stems from what it called Washington's excessive demands, unrealistic expectations, constant shifts in stance, repeated contradictions, and the ongoing naval blockade, which it considers a breach of the ceasefire," the IRNA said.


In this thought-provoking talk, Professor John Lennox explores the intriguing connection between biblical prophecy and modern artificial intelligence.

Focusing on the concept of "the Beast" from the Book of Revelation, Lennox examines whether today's rapidly advancing AI technologies could play a role in shaping systems of control described in Scripture. read more


Saturday, April 18, 2026

Vice President JD Vance appeared to warn Pope Leo XIV to "be careful" when speaking about theology and U.S.'s war: "For over a thousand years, the Catholic Church has taught just war theory and it is that long tradition the Holy Father carefully references in his comments on war," Auxiliary Bishop James Massa of Brooklyn, New York, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Doctrine, said in a statement released April 15. read more


Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf asserted that the US "did not win the war with these lies," adding that "they will certainly not get anywhere in negotiations either." read more


Comments

#30

The number to ID the Beast, 666, matches the name of Nero:

www.google.com

Howsomever... the only reference to that number in the bible other than Revelations, which is associated with an old King Solomon.

www.google.com

Babylon, Rome, and Hitler's Germany are considered by some to be 3 of the predicted Beast empires, with Trump's USA making a strong showing now for being the 4th:

www.google.com

But the term, the "Beast" is symbolic language; there's been more than one, and they symbolize leaders of certain nations.

Today's news headlines fit perfectly into the geopolitical situation we see today in the ME, and involve the same nations... and the leader of the USA is a dead ringer for ALL the descriptions of the AC, the Man of Sin; the final Beast.

Just a coincidence, though... it's only a story.

#9

Not at all... here he is at the Oxford Union in a room of mostly atheists and agnostics briefly addressing the famed Oxford Union:

www.youtube.com

(you can just ff to the end for the standing ovation, as you guys are as unlikely to watch something that questions your preconceived notions... you know, as you did with the thread video)

"The face recognition and CCTV cameras that are used to catch criminals can be used for social control and surveillance.

In England at the moment, there are more closed circuit TV cameras than in the whole of North America.

China is putting 600 million CCTV cameras into its country this year and
they are developing social control. It's already operating in 13 cities.

And the
basic idea, they will probably modify it a little, is that each citizen is given 300 points. And people are tracked.

They're observed. And if they're seen buying something that the authorities think might be a waste of time or going to a questionable place, they lose points.

And then they begin to discover that their credit card won't be accepted or that they can't get onto a train or they can't go to their favorite restaurant or they do things that are regarded as good and their point score goes up and they may be able to buy a new car and there's been a time argument a Time article about it that's makes really scary reading.

It's saying it's setting the stage for the most thorough form of surveillance the world has ever seen. This point system in China is welcomed by people.

The amazing thing is they think it's marvelous and they go around saying to people to their friends, "I've pushed my points up by 50.
How are you doing?"

that's from the reasonably short thread video, here's the Time article with a full description of the Surveillance and Point system.

time.com

Here's the US buying into this kind of system:

time.com

While Australia is removing their Chinese surveillance systems:

time.com

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