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One common Israeli tactic to get information about Israel's adversaries is to leak news out to elicit a denial of the leaked story... This week Israel's "Ynet News" claimed that France had backed away from plans to recognize a Palestinian state. But the Elysee Palace denied the content of the story... This week three Serbian nationals charged with paint vandalism of five Jewish sites in Paris last Friday. The judge in the case alleging the Serbs acted on behalf of a foreign power... And a story getting a lot of attention in the French media in the last 24 hours....

Let's start the music this with sounds that go back 50 years or so the early sounds of Contemporary Christian Music the "Jesus Music" sound that came into contact with around 1980... Welcome to this week's attempt at media excellence your currently sober "Male Lesbian Host" at the keyboard... "Surrendering-Unconditionally give up my life, my right to lust and sex, my sexuality, my badge of 'orientation', and my relationships over to the care of God"-"Lust Virus" (Ron J-Roy Kuljian) Page 217... It takes minerals for computer chips and cryptocurrency and minerals are used in smartphones. Congo has 24 trillion dollars'...

This week the first song from the 1980's "Starship" which evolved from "Jefferson Airplane" released a hit song in the 1980's and the iconic Grace Slick one of the lead singers... lets go the "January 6th Prisoner Update"... a Trump Putin Update will the two leaders meet but one asks where the location should be for their meeting. Maybe they should meet at... How does Russia see the Ukraine War waged against it and its interests ending?... "On June 14, 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with the leadership of the Foreign Ministry outlined the conditions for a...

A New Year and I got out of bed and went to work on New Year's Day at 7am. Normal routine was a good thing that day getting out of normal routine this time of year does things that are negative IMHO... Four Years Since January 6th An Event That Started On 9/11/2001 It was in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks that government intelligence and law enforcement power was ratcheted up first to fight International Terrorism International Extremism Eventually this power would be expanded into realms of alleged Domestic Terrorism Domestic Extremism... Newsdump Update: Russia Warns Of Response...

As America witnessed inflation and expanding government spending in the 1970's along with political scandal in the form of Watergate a new face came onto the political scene. The new face created a notion of someone who was a different kind of Democrat who looked like he was from the outside of politics... Early on in the 1976 Presidential Campaign the media would seize on the religious aspect of Jimmy Carter's life with description: "Born-Again Christian" Jimmy Carter won a narrow victory in 1976... Some watershed moments would certainly be Iran where Carter would pull the rug out from under...

A missile fired by Houthi forces in Yemen intercepted...Israel says the interception... A US military convoy moved into the northern Syrian city of Kobani on the Turkish border... A least three killed in an attack on a hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti... Explosions late tonight in Kiev... In Afghanistan the Taliban say Pakistani forces conducted deadly airstrikes... At least 21 killed in protests in the African nation of Mozambique... The Israeli military releasing details of an investigation into the death of six hostages... Lawyers for the former Abercrombie and Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries say he has dementia and...facing federal sex trafficking...

"Because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven, to shine on those living in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace" Luke 1:78-79 NIV Bible The first song today is from Sir Cliff Richard... Russia-Ukraine the warmup for the main event and how will Donald Trump impact the trajectory... 1. I get the impression that Luigi Mangione may beat all these charges... 2. The United States is pushing, prodding and provoking nations... A brief China Update we are moving from...

"We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time" Romans 8:22... Corporate Media Corporate Drama Corporate Murder This week the arrest of Luigi Mangione in the murder of United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson. It looks like this young man was obsessed with some injustices real or imagined felt the need to 'change society'. I reflected on my own youth a little bit and there was this obsession in my childish youth I mean in my 20's back in the 1980's to "change society"... I read some folks saying...

In the past efforts to bring down President Macron's governments that lacked a legislative majority were shot down by division between the Left and the so-called "Far Right" National Rally. But this week just weeks after Donald J. Trump's victory in the US presidential election that division fell by the wayside... Another political shockwave in France on Friday with the announcement of a free trade deal between the European Union and the MERCOSUR countries of South America... Much attention focused on Paris today for the reopening ceremony of the Notre Dame Cathedral devastated by a 2019 fire. Foreign dignitaries including...

It's December and seems the right time to play music related to Christmas back in the 1970's Boney M... "I'm praying for you China" Those lyrics in that song wow! We were all praying for China when it opened up opening up opportunities for evangelism in my youth. Well, the situation with China today is... It seems to me listening to folks like Gordon Chang a decade before COVID that China was in the crosshairs to become 'the enemy'... COVID was more than its 'origin' it was lockdowns, masks and vaccines... As I reflect on March of 2020 I was...

Premier Michel Barnier appeared on TF 1 television's 8 pm news this week to say any censure of his government would... But on Thursday the National Rally won on policy as Mr. Barnier backed away from the electricity taxation proposal. In addition, Barnier... Meanwhile another question broached in opinion polling and the mainstream media is the notion of President Emmanuel Macron putting in his resignation to trigger early Presidential elections... Chad becoming the fifth former French colony in Africa to cut its defense ties with France. The decision means that one thousand French soldiers will be pulling out... On Friday...

Support Free Republic Many of our posts get reposted on "Free Republic" a premier conservative website often used by Rush Limbaugh for his show prep. El Rushbo referenced one of my posts... We will start with three hits on the radio 50 years ago today... "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body is full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!" Matthew 6:22-23... "God's grace for us in Christ...

The first song this week I have memories of hearing on the radio even back when it was first on the radio in 1965... It's time for a Kim Jong-Un Update Sir Elton John sings "Rocket Man"... Israel never joined the arms supply orgy in Ukraine even when it wasn't at war. Ukrainian nationalism was a Handmaiden of the Holocaust. How does the modern Western World resemble Nazi Germany? "Nazi art drew from two themes, and two alone; Pornography and Militarism" Journalist Howard K. Smith "Last Train From Berlin"... one should not make the mistake and I don't think many...

The first song this week I surely wanted to be a disc jockey when I was a teenager and I loved country music. Rush Limbaugh had a vision of being a disc jockey... Darrell Mansfield singing "Higher Power" I've been in places where the "Higher Power" is often referred to in the last 16 plus going on 17 years. "Keep Coming Back"... But before I intoxicated myself I experienced pain in my life last Sunday in church I heard this message... The Hitchens Brothers the late Christopher known as the "Atheist" Peter know as the "Christian" both expressed Pro-Life opinion...

The first song one that is a "Sanity Test Song" and when I first heard it... An "Escaping Reality Update" The Beatles "Strawberry Fields Forever" is the theme song... "What is most irresistible is the image-ingestion aspect of our relation to photos. Eye-candy. They taste so good! They feed an appetite. They feed the appetite they create. Both the appetite and food are pseudo. Have we become more prone to ingest image reality than experience real reality (whatever that is)?..."... The Late Ron J (Roy Kuljian) Writes Of Image Junkies Decades Ago In His Book "Lust Virus" Considering Mere Photographs......

Nothing but the blood of Jesus saves me from my wickedness. Christ is Coming every time the Middle East heats up I go back to the preaching and messaging of my teenage years about a Second Coming of Jesus.... Well it's time for a Benjamin Netanyahu Update the pride of Cheltenham High School Class of 1967 Bibi went to high school on the doorstep of Philadelphia... And how does Israel deal with the United Kingdom and its new "Soviet" leader? Tommy Robinson has openly identified himself as Pro-Israel while Sir Keir Starmer tries to steer a less friendly course purging...

Well, here we are its vacation week your host on the road thankful and grateful to the Lord giving me another day to keep the road trip moving forward some of the geography I've visited reflected in the music above. Gasoline Prices In The USA At the start of the week gasoline in Somerset, Pennsylvania 375.9 a gallon. At the week's end gasoline on west side of Knoxville, Tennessee 275.9 a gallon. In Taxylvania our gasoline tax can be bumped up by a decline in wholesale gasoline prices... On a brighter note I visited this place during the week... RFK...

Welcome again your host here remembering Rush Limbaugh who played songs like those back in 1974... That Top 10 song the Lord's Prayer back in those days..."Deliver us from evil" indeed I am thankful for deliverance from evil today Jesus gave that to me... On to a Money Update ABBA with our theme... And one of the great tech centers of the world is Taiwan and around Taiwan the South China Sea... "A key Marine Corps role is to 'serve as the inside force' in the first island chain-from the Ryukyus to Australia-to curb China's ambitions, Commandant of the Marine...

The US Central Command reporting two Houthi radar sites destroyed... A senior Hezbollah commander killed in an Israeli strike... Security at some US military bases in Europe adjusted after the raised level of alert in recent days... The Commandant of the United States Marine Corps General Eric Smith says the Marines aim to shut down the sea lanes coming out of China... Two injured, one missing in an explosion at a munitions factory in Camden, Arkansas... Plenty of talk this afternoon about Joe Biden and whether her will continue to run for re-election... The British Election tomorrow a poll...Reform leader...

Support Free Republic Some of the blog's posts are reposted to "Free Republic"... Another weekly excursion your host the hypocrite and sinner feeing months of prompting that signifies real change more progress towards better things in my life. The internet filled with incitement against personalities either side of the political divide. I've been an online character assassin what good is that kind of stuff. That Moment I Dumped Fox News... Hating Other Folks Isn't The Answer Wanting What's Best For Them And Cleaning Up My Own Act Is?... Meanwhile on the Russian Front the sanctions heating up US economic warfare...