Posting on Truth Social on Friday, President Trump issued another one of his warnings to a fellow superpower that it had better mind its manners, or else!
Typically it’s Russia that gets the brunt of public shaming from U.S. officials, but this time it was China.
Trump is worried, as well he should be, about China’s latest behavior and efforts to withhold crucial products from the United States.
Trump wrote:
“Some very strange things are happening in China! They are becoming very hostile, and sending letters to Countries throughout the World, that they want to impose Export Controls on each and every element of production having to do with Rare Earths, and virtually anything else they can think of, even if it’s not manufactured in China. Nobody has ever seen anything like this but, essentially, it would ‘clog’ the Markets, and make life difficult for virtually every Country in the World, especially for China.”
Hmm. In other words, China is acting like … The United States of America! It’s using its economic leverage to bully other countries, just like Trump has been doing in spades since taking office, threatening to hit other countries with massive tariffs, way beyond what they are charging us, if they do not obey Trump’s dictates on decisions that should be left to countries’ state sovereignty.
Trump continued:
“We have been contacted by other Countries who are extremely angry at this great Trade hostility, which came out of nowhere. Our relationship with China over the past six months has been a very good one, thereby making this move on Trade an even more surprising one. I have always felt that they’ve been lying in wait, and now, as usual, I have been proven right! There is no way that China should be allowed to hold the World ‘captive,’ but that seems to have been their plan for quite some time, starting with the ‘Magnets’ and, other Elements that they have quietly amassed into somewhat of a Monopoly position, a rather sinister and hostile move, to say the least. But the U.S. has Monopoly positions also, much stronger and more far reaching than China’s. I have just not chosen to use them, there was never a reason for me to do so — UNTIL NOW! The letter they sent is many pages long, and details, with great specificity, each and every Element that they want to withhold from other Nations. Things that were routine are no longer routine at all.”
Trump says this new more aggressive economic posture from China “came out of nowhere,” but that is just not true. It should have been expected. Why? Because China’s close ally, Russia, has been under intense pressure from the U.S. and NATO to end its border war with Ukraine on terms not acceptable to Russia. This is a matter of Russian sovereignty. It perceives a security threat on its border from Ukraine and decided to deal with it, but the U.S.-led NATO has tried to thwart that effort, going about seizing billions of dollars in Russian assets overseas, banning Russia from the Swift banking system, blowing up Russia’s main gas pipeline into Western Europe, and punishing India and other countries for buying Russian oil, all while arming and funding its vicious enemy, Ukraine.
China has seen enough. It’s now apparently decided to play some economic hardball of its own, but Trump and the neocons are so arrogant that they can’t see the writing on the wall — that their aggressive stance against Russia in its war with Ukraine has backfired tremendously and all the sanctions are now going to blow up in our face. China has us over a barrel, as it supplies the U.S. economy with not only rare-earth minerals critical to our military and technology sectors but also many necessary household goods, antibiotics and other critical medicines.
Sure, there are things the U.S. can do to hurt China back, but in a full-fledged economic war between the U.S. and China, we would not fare well. If you think inflation is bad now, what would it look like if China stopped sending all its goods to the U.S.? Not only would everything go up exponentially in price, but most of what we need to get by in life would not even be available. Trump knows this, so any threats he makes against China amount to mere bluster. In my opinion, Trump is more likely to move toward military conflict with China than he is to engage in a full-fledged and drawn-out economic war.
BOTTOM LINE: The neocons in Washington should have thought about China before they decided to wage military and economic war against China’s ally, Russia. But they were too arrogant, and continue to be too arrogant, to see the forest through the trees. This is another reason why I see us going to World War III with Russia and China at some point, likely before Trump leaves office.
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More than 30 Christians have been beheaded at the hands of Islamic radicals in Mozambique, according to a report.
The Islamic State Mozambique Province, or ISMP, announced that they destroyed at least seven churches, committed acts of arson against Christians and village civilians, and shot and beheaded more than two dozen people in the Cabo Delgado and Nampula provinces in the northern area of Mozambique.
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) screen-captured, translated, and shared the terrorists’ report on their website, which included 20 photos of the brutal attacks on Christians.
According to the organization, the Islamic State of Mozambique is reigning through terror in the region.
Watch report by CBN News below.
The group also claimed responsibility for the beheading of two believers on September 25. The ISMP later took responsibility for a September 26 attack, which left a Christian local shot and killed. Four Christians were then beheaded in the town of Macomia days later. The group posted images of homes and churches burned to the ground in four villages.
You hear a lot about antisemitism and Islamophobia in today’s world, but it’s Christianity that is the most persecuted faith on the planet.
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Trump’s peace deal has been accepted by both the Israelis and the Palestinians. The terror group Hamas is expected to release the remaining 20 hostages late Sunday or possibly Monday and the Israeli Defense Forces have expected to start leaving Gaza soon.
President Trump noted in comments Thursday that 70,000 Gazans have been killed.
Hamas has lost “70,000 people” since the terror group’s October 7, 2023, attack, apparently rounding up the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry’s death toll, which doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants.
“From the Hamas standpoint, they probably lost 70,000 people. That’s big retribution,” Trump said near the beginning of a cabinet meeting at the White House.
“Gaza is going to be slowly redone,” Trump added, highlighting the various Arab and Muslim countries that have committed to assisting in the rebuilding effort.
Trump said he believes he has forged an “everlasting peace” in the Middle East. I do not believe this deal will result in any sort of lasting peace, but at least the hostages are being returned and both the Israelis and Palestinians, both of whom are tired of war, will get a breather before the powers that run both sides in this war decide to pick up the fight back up. Netanyahu is, ironically, much more popular in America than he is in Israel. The Jewish people deserve better leadership, and so do the Palestinians.
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Muslims are now being given prayer rugs to conduct Islamic prayers inside the Vatican Apostolic Library, its Vice-Prefect said Wednesday. As you read the rest of this story, ask yourself: Could you imagine any accommodations being made for Christian prayer to take place inside an Islamic mosque or a Jewish synagogue?
Giacomo Cardinali, vice-prefect of the Vatican Apostolic Library, told the French publication The Republic:
“Of course, some Muslim scholars have asked us for a room with a carpet for praying and we have given it to them.”
Cardinali added that:
“Incredibly old Korans” can be found in the Vatican library and “We are a universal library, there are Arabic, Jewish, Ethiopian collections and unique Chinese items.”
The awe-inspiring collection includes around almost 2 million printed books along with 80,000 manuscripts, 50,000 archive items, 100,000 engravings and prints and 100,000 coins and medals.
The disclosure that Muslims can pray at the Vatican Apostolic Library has sparked an outcry from Catholic commentators, who have suggested that the permission signals religious indifferentism, ambivalence about its own Catholic identity, and ideological surrender to Islam.
Deacon Nick Donnelly, in a post to X, called out the Vatican for its betrayal of Catholic and Christian values, writing:
“Haven’t they read what the Quran says about our most holy doctrines, their insults about the Most Holy Trinity, the Incarnation, Our Lord’s redemptive death on the Cross? Don’t they know about the systematic persecution and martyrdom of Christians in Muslim majority countries? This is what happens when the heresies of religious indifferentism and syncretism are promoted by the hierarchy. A total betrayal of Our Lord Jesus Christ.”
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Medical researcher Nicolas Hulscher, author of the Substack blog Focal Points, notes that during the summer, mass culling of poultry for bird flu came to a complete halt after over 44 million birds were recklessly exterminated from January to May 2025. But that could be about to change.
Some of the largest poultry farms were rendered non-functional for four months, leading to exorbitant egg prices. Many families were priced out of the market and could no longer afford to consume one of the healthiest forms of protein. The simple chicken egg.
The policy of mass slaughtering hens stopped in May and the egg prices have begun recently to come back down to earth.
But don’t get too excited because Hulscher says another round of culling has already started. Since September, over 4 million birds have been culled over single-pooled PCR tests on poultry farms.
Hulscher writes:
“During the summer, mass culling of poultry for H5N1 bird flu came to a complete halt after over 44 million birds were recklessly exterminated from January to May 2025. All of this has contributed to the “Mass Culling Cycle of Devastation”: With H5N1 widespread in migratory waterfowl, farms continue to face reinfection despite repeated culling. Thus, chickens never develop herd immunity leading to a never-ending cycle of food supply chain disruption and chicken-to-human transmission.”
The birds are culled using barbaric methods such as ventilation shutdown and foam suffocation. We could show you the videos, which Hulscher includes in his Substack, but trust me, the images are too brutal for a family network.
Hulscher concludes:
“At the current trajectory, it’s expected that mass culling will continue to ramp up as we head toward the winter months. This will result in a destabilized food supply chain, skyrocketing egg prices, chicken-to-human transmission, and prolonging of the crisis. This also opens a window of opportunity for the vaccine cartel to roll out their long-awaited leaky bird flu vaccines.”
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Unibokk: “The Catholic church has a history of child abuse, second to none”.
Yes, absolutely! I recently saw Spotlight which won the 2015 Oscar for best film. It follows the Boston Globe’s “spotlight” team, the oldest continuously operating newspaper investigate journalist unit in the United States. And its investigation into a decades-long coverup of widespread and systemic child sex abuse by numerous priests of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.
The Spotlight team initially believes that they are following the story of one priest who was repeatedly reassigned to different parishes but deduces that many other priests in Massachusetts have been similarly shuttled from parish to parish, suggesting a broader cover-up. But they soon come to realize this is One Massive Cover-up, involving many other priests, and not just within the Boston area, but worldwide!
There’s a quote in the film, “If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one”. Referring to the complicity of the Boston community—including other priests, lawyers, and Catholic officials—who collectively allowed and covered up the systemic abuse of children by priests.
The film Spotlight ends with a textual epilogue that shows a disturbing list of 105 U.S. communities, and 101 others around the world, where major scandals involving abuse by priests have taken place.
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“The disclosure that Muslims can pray at the Vatican Apostolic Library has sparked an outcry from Catholic commentators, who have suggested that the permission signals religious indifferentism, ambivalence about its own Catholic identity, and ideological surrender to Islam.“
No ambivalence here Leo. The word ‘Catholic’ means ‘Universal’. It is called the ‘Roman Catholic Church. The word ‘Christian’ is omitted because this church is not about Christianity. It is about world governance from Rome. Rome has hijacked Christianity and is using it to further it’s agenda.
This church has been ferocious in the past when it tortured and murdered millions of true Christians who would not bow to the pope. It has a history of child abuse, second to none.
Now, they are spreading their empire further through a policy of ‘inclusion’ towards other religions.
We need to remember that the antichrist ‘man of sin’ will use religion to establish his reign over the world ,when he sits in the temple, posing as God.
There is a demonic age coming where there will be huge spiritual activity with false signs and wonders. This will be a time of great tribulation, primarily of the true Christian church.
I believe that he apostate church is being set up in order to serve the antichrist ‘man of sin’.
So, I believe that the leaders of the major religions are positioning themselves for the revealing of the antichrist ‘man of sin’
So, there it is , according to my understanding.
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Regarding ISIS attacking Christians in Mozambique. They have also been carrying violently against secularists there, too. Africa is a prize for Western elites for their many natural resources. European imperialist powers competed with each other for Africa during the 19th century and this led to WWI. But now proxy armies, like ISIS, are being used. It’s really not about religious competition, but Great Power competition. Historically, Britain was and probably still is the main enabler of radical Islamic movements in the Middle East—the Muslim Brotherhood and the Wahhabists of the Saudis are their main Islamic creations. These were used to sabotage Arab secular nationalist movements for the last 100 years. During WWI and WWII, the German Nazis supported jihadi movements against the English. The US now supplies ISIS in Iraq and Syria to destroy Arab secular governments. The same thing is happening in Africa. Remember the African nations were once colonies of the Europeans. In the 19th century, the Europeans at least sent Christian missions to the African colonies; now they send jihadis to tear apart their independent nations. What happened??
Somewhat related, about those muslim prayer rooms provided at the Vatican. After all, how many years are we into the Vatican II regime with its message of ecumenism?? The Roman Catholic church has long had serious faults, many of which led to the severe fragmentation of Western Christianity. But Vatican II, in some ways, was worse than the fragmentation of the Reformation. It was a nearly complete sabotage of the Catholic church, beginning with the degradation of its liturgy, its infection by freemasonry, and its ever more radical interpretation of what ecumenism should accomplish. Ecumenism dictated the RC Church to hide manifestations of Christianity so as not to offend other religions, as it did at several ecumenical conferences at Assisi during JPII reign. But there is a special point of commonality between Roman Catholicism and Islam. Their ecumenical studies literature identified “Fatima” as that major point of contact. Fatima is a village in Portugal where the famous miracle of the dancing sun occurred in 1917. The Our Lady of Fatima movement was an anti-communist movement, very geopolitical in its 3 prophesies (mostly concerning the conversion of Russia, but also about future wars. It’s a kind of End Time Catholicism, usually appealing to right-wing Catholicism).
But Fatima is also the daughter of Muhammed. Muslims have reverence for Mary, mother of Jesus, and Fatima has a similar reverence. Here’s what Bishop Fulton Sheen said about Fatima: “The Koran, which is the Bible of the Moslems, has many passages concerning the Blessed Virgin. First of all, the Koran believes in her Immaculate Conception, and also, in her Virgin Birth…..The Koran also has verses on the Annunciation, Visitation, and Nativity. Angels are pictured as accompanying the Blessed Mother and saying, Oh Mary, God has chosen you and purified you, and elected you above all the women of the earth. In the 19th chapter of the Koran there are 41 verses on Jesus and Mary. There is such a strong defense of the virginity of Mary here that the Koran in the fourth book, attributes the condemnation of the Jews to their monstrous calumny against the Virgin Mary.”
“Mary, then, is for the Moslems the true Sayyida, or Lady. The only possible serious rival to her in their creed would be Fatima, the daughter of Mohammed himself. But after the death of Fatima, Mohammed wrote: Thou shalt be the most blessed of women in Paradise, after Mary. In a variant of the text Fatima is made to say; I surpass all the women, except Mary.”
“This brings us to our second point; namely, why the Blessed Mother, in this 20th Century should have revealed herself in the significant little village of Fatima, so that to all future generations she would be known as “Our Lady of Fatima.” Since nothing ever happens out of Heaven except with a finesse of all details, I believe that the Blessed Virgin chose to be known as “Our Lady of Fatima” as pledge and a sign of hope to the Moslem people, and as an assurance that they, who show her so much respect, will one day accept her divine Son too.”
“Evidence to support these views is found in the historical fact that the Moslems occupied Portugal for centuries. At the time when they were finally driven out, the last Moslem chief had a beautiful daughter by the name of Fatima. A Catholic boy fell in love with her, and for him she not only stayed behind when the Moslems left, but even embraced the Faith. The young husband was so much in love with her that he changed the name of the town where he lived to Fatima. Thus the very place where our Lady appeared in 1917 bears a historical connection to Fatima, the daughter of Mohammed.”
“Missionaries, in the future will, more and more, see that their apostolate among the Moslems will be successful in the measure that they preach Our Lady of Fatima. Mary is the advent of Christ, bringing Christ to the people before Christ himself is born. In any apologetic endeavor, it is always best to start with that which the people already accept. Because the Moslems have devotion to Mary, our missionaries should be satisfied merely to expand and develop that devotion, with the full realization that our Blessed Lady will carry the Moslems the rest of the way to her divine Son. She is forever a “traitor,” in the sense that she will not accept any devotion for herself, bit will always bring anyone who is devoted to her to her divine Son.”
Of course, none of this Western “ecumenicism” with Islam sits well with the conservative African Catholics who must suffer violent attacks by jihadis. They are, unfortunately, caught in the cross hairs of geopolitical strategy, betrayed by their Western hierarchy and elites.
Once again, it seems as if all our Western elites, religious or secular, have an agenda that is fundamentally anti-Christian. They use anything or anyone to destroy the Christian basis of our civilization.
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“Muslime erhalten jetzt Gebetsteppiche, um islamische Gebete in der Vatikanischen Apostolischen Bibliothek zu verrichten”!!!
West-Europa wird bis 2050 islamisiert und die Christlichen Religionen abgeschafft.
Der Vatikan wird die größte Moschee Europas werden!!!
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